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Chapter 264

Editor: Tide, Rektsatan,



 

 

[Lee Hochi]

 

Although something terrible had happened in the evening, Yong-yong fell asleep peacefully at bedtime, although I forgot to sing a lullaby to him . As I stared at Yong-yong, his sleeping figure began to remind me of an angel .

 

[Our Yong-yong is far better than an angel . Have you ever seen an angel?] Ho-jae commented .

 

No, it’s just a feeling, and I was using that feeling as a reference . What are you talking about?

 

I got up from the bed and walked to the window . Sitting in a small chair in front of the window, I could see people on the street . Even though it was late at night, people still roamed around, and the city was bustling with life . The number of people remaining in the Tutorial had reduced . I thought that this tournament was a massive comfort festival for people .

 

Attacking a stage with a small number of people made you feel like you were getting closer to the outside world . I could sense the feeling of leaving home for the first time and facing the world . There were many good things, but there were also bad ones . In that sense, today had been a very mentally exhausting day .

 

“So, what the hell is Cause?”

 

[Yong-yong explained it to you earlier . ]

 

But I hadn’t understood Yong-yong had gently explained Cause and Effect . Even though I couldn’t understand the concept at all, I didn’t mention it to Yong-yong, who had taught it for a long time . I just pretended I understood everything and moved on .

 

[That’s what I keep telling you to study . ] Ho-jae had been nagging me for the whole day . [My explanation is not that different anyway . Who did Yong-yong learn from in the first place?]

 

“Sure… but explain it to me in an easier way . Does it make sense that I don’t know much about myself? I should know better . ”

 

Ho-jae laughed at my words and said, [What do you know? How many people in the world know about themselves? You don’t need to think much . I know you don’t care much about Cause and Effect . If you did, you would have studied that earlier . You care because everyone has it, but in reality, you’re not the only one who isn’t bound by Cause and Effect . ]

 

What a rotten fellow .  He just spat out whatever he wanted in a roundabout manner .

 

“Yes, but why am I the only one who isn’t affected by Cause and Effect? I asked because I was curious about that!”

 

I was angry . Yong-yong might hear it and wake up, so I quieted my voice . The understanding of Cause and Effect was an essential problem to me, so Ho-jae’s nonchalant attitude infuriated me .



 

[Hold on, it’s not great that everyone else has it . It’s great that you aren’t bound by it . And to be exact, it’s not that you’re completely excluded . ]

 

“Is that a good thing, then?”

 

[Of course, some gods would go crazy if they knew . Do you think that the gods invested their power into you for nothing?]

 

I was glad that it wasn’t bad . However, the desire to know more about Cause and Effect remained unchanged .

 

“Please explain it in detail . ”

 

[Easy enough for you to understand?]

 

“Yes . ”

 

[If you need to solve a problem, it’s necessary to look at its Cause and Effect . It would be easier to look at the result of the Cause . Let me elaborate; for example,] Ho-jae began to explain . [Your friend Seok-hyeon . The result, which was you meeting him today, required you both to have a conversation and get closer, which in other words could be considered a cause . ]

 

That’s right .

 

[Of course, this fundamental Cause applies to you . If it didn’t apply, you wouldn’t be able to be on the same level as the others in the first place . The important thing is that Cause exists as a law . ]

 

“A law?”

 

[Yes . The Cause is one of the laws of the universe, like time . Time cannot be rewound in 100 seconds or 100 million seconds . In the same way, the Cause and Effect applied in that way to Yong-yong’s magic… . ]

 

“I don’t understand . ”

 

Ho-jae told me to shut up . After a while, he growled out, [You’ll be forced to study when you return . Anyway, I’ll give you another example of this . People usually don’t exist in two spaces at the same time . Likewise, a person cannot walk outside the house while washing dishes inside the house at the same time . Because they only have one body . ]

 

No, it was possible to do that like Lee Yeon-hee, who had come to the tent this evening . It was possible if she had divided herself and made a clone, and rumour had it that Lee Yeon-hee’s body had already gone beyond the Earth’s zone to an alien server . Earlier, Park Jung-ah that Lee Yeon-hee left her clone here before moving on .

 



[I’m explaining it with a simple example that makes it easier for you to understand . Don’t think any further . And Lee Yeon-hee’s clone is no different than her taking a clump of her hair and sending it elsewhere . Ultimately, there’s only one existence . ]

 

As Ho-jae spoke, I decided to keep my mouth shut .

 

[A man’s consciousness cannot exist in both the future and the past . Consciousness can’t exist at two different times at the same time . The basic premise of this problem is Cause . It tells why the awareness of one from the future and the past must be different . ]

 

Hearing what Ho-jae said, I was silent for a moment . I needed time to check if what I understood was right .

 

When the number of people on the street decreased one by one, and the bustling street became quiet, I finally concluded: if ten years ago, when Seok-hyeon had not yet entered the Tutorial, and he had been a little baby, could he and I meet? That was impossible . Not only was I not born then, but I also had no connection with Seok-hyun .

 

If I went back in time now, it was possible to find Seok-hyeon and get to know his past version . That would create a Cause .

 

But I could not meet Seok-hyeon from 10 years ago when I had never met him, gotten close to him, or even been born yet . It was just, of course, impossible . But was I not saying the same? I asked Ho-jae .

 

[You can’t make the impossible possible by creating a Cause and Effect when you were not even born . Well, maybe you could if you were above my level, but I doubt it . It’s just that when Cause and Effect are tampered with, you are unaffected . ]


 

Now I thought about space, not time . Earlier, Ho-jae said that people could not exist in two places at the same time .

 

Lee Yeon-hee broke this law by cloning herself . Ho-jae had said it was no different from pulling out a lock of her hair and sending it elsewhere . If you added flesh, and ability to a lock of hair, you could make a clone . As a result, Lee Yeon-hee did not exist in two places as two beings . Instead, she had divided herself and occupied two areas at the same time .

 

That didn’t seem to break the law . It was challenging to organize my thoughts because of the variable magic . It was rather a hindrance to grasp the concept at my level because it was a type of magic meant to defy the law in the first place .

 

Let’s think of space differently .

 

If there were Heaven and Hell, man would not exist in two places at the same time . Whether divided by magic or not, his existence would be only one, and it would be sent to only one place .

 

There was one more place besides Heaven and Hell . When Ho-jae was on the 61st floor, Ho-jae had to exist at the same time in two places . His consciousness in one place would not be the same as the other .

 

“You’re there, but you are also here . ” 

 

[Huh?]

 



“If your body is my body, and you and I are the same, then this shouldn’t be possible . ”

 

It might have sounded somewhat out of the blue, but instead of asking what it meant, Ho-jae remained silent . The silence made me feel worse .

 

“In the end, the Cause needed to meet Seok-hyeon was something added on its own when I was made . ”

 

I lowered the curtain on the window, which only reflected the empty streets, and went to bed .

 

[Uh- well . That-]

 

“Too noisy, I’m going to bed . ”

 

Ho-jae apologized profusely, but I covered myself in a blanket and pretended to be asleep, but sleep didn’t come to me . I resented the fact that Ho-jae knew I was not sleeping and was listening to his apology . It was the worst day ever .

 

* * * * * *

 

Today, I decided not to go out and instead, rested at the dorm . Yong-yong went out a few times . After lunch, when I was eating the apple Baek Sung-woong had peeled for me, Park Jung-ah came to the room .

 

“A face-to-face talk?” Park Jung-ah nodded .

 

Everyone had been busy and distracted for the past few days . If I remembered right, Park Jung-ah had been hiding somewhere in the corner and spending time alone, but others must have been busy .

 

“I’ve been playing around in the market . I had been blocking the requests for a long time, but now I’ve got so many requests, I’m a little burdened . ”

 

It seemed that she hadn’t gone to the market today . Who wanted to meet me? I asked Park Jung-ah about that .

 

“There’s a lot of people . The national government, a corporation, a guild, a mercenary group, religious people, and more . Not only from Korea but from all over the world . Funnily enough, Korea has the least number of requests . ”

 

Perhaps the reason why Koreans had the least requests was because of Ho-jae . Koreans would have heard more stories about Ho-jae than people from other countries .

 

“Well, what should I do?” I asked .

 

“Do as you please . I don’t care . ”

 

“I’ll come with you then . ”

 

I wondered what kind of story the Order of Vigilance would tell and what kind of proposal they would come up with . Of course, Ho-jae wouldn’t mind what they suggested, but I was different . It was like a chance to get a glimpse of Earth’s situation, so I was interested .

 

“Uh… will you?”

 

“Yes . Yong-yong, will you play with Baek Sung-woong?”

 

“No, I want to go too!”

 

I didn’t think it was something to be so happy about . Somehow I felt like only middle-aged office workers would come to meet me there—no offence to Baek Sung-woong .

 

“Then we’ll help you with the interview or something . There are quite a few things to help out with,” Park Jung-ah said .

 

“Yes, please . ”

 

Park Jeong-ah briefly asked for understanding and sent a message to the Order of Vigilance . I kind of felt that she was excited .

 

“So you’re not thinking of going over to another server?” Park Jung-ah asked with sparkling eyes .

 

I think she liked the fact that she had work to do . Somehow, I couldn’t match the memory of her complaining to Ho-jae about not helping her with work every time .

 

“Other zones?”

 

“Yes . We are in the Earth zone . There are conferences on a global scale, and people come from alien servers . ”

 

“I want to go!” Before I could answer, Yong-yong raised his hand and shouted .

 

<Tournament Chapter (11)> End





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