54 Lesson 53: The Truth (1/2)

I was flabbergasted for a moment by the words Lumi told me.

Spirit contractors and great spirits are the same thing? What does that mean? Though thought-provoking, I don't give answers.... No, maybe it's right that you don't want to admit it.

Still, we have to be sure. Otherwise, we cannot move forward or leave. Pandora's box is already open. Then I just have to peek into the bottom.

”... to say that the Spirit Contractor is the same as the Great Spirit, isn't the Spirit Contractor human?

”Right? Shall I be more precise? Spirit contractors are” spirits with human vessels. ”You are also right to come together and call a” willing spirit ”with an entity the Great Spirit. But if you trace its origins, you'll say,” Originally the result of the Spirit Contractor. ”

”... no exceptions?

”At least I've never seen you.”

”So, what about God? Are you saying that God is human too?

”Come on? I don't know that either. But sometimes the Great Spirit, who became the Spirit Contractor, becomes like God. Paradoxically, I can't tell you that the activity of the Great Spirit was communicated to future generations, and it's not possible that he became known as God. I wonder if that's what a great spirits older than me would know? If you're still in the world, though.”

A rhumi with a distorted smile that caught the edge of his mouth tells him to mock it.

”The Spirit covenant makes you lose everything because the price of the Spirit covenant... is your own soul?

”Correct”

I accidentally bit my teeth enough to get a toothpick.

This is why the spiritual covenant did not remain a record until future generations? Yeah, maybe I am. I don't even think the price is close to such an evil law of my soul.

”That's just not an accurate interpretation. In the old days, anyway, there's a different interpretation of losing everything in this day and age. 'Cause the spiritual contractor makes a pact, and the spirits are” themselves. ”

”... what do you mean?

”I told you, didn't I? You are a” rare man. ”A rare child with no spirit in his soul. But people in this world are big and small, and they have spirits in their souls. And the Spirit greatly influences the formation of self. I mean, like half a body.”

”... a spiritual covenant means a covenant with its inner spirits?

”I will offer you my soul as a human being for what it cost you, but the spirits that I give you will not change who you are again.”

”... if that's all you ask, I feel like it's just a good thing, but isn't it?

I ask as I look at the Rhumi. Lyumi then leans her little neck with a full ripped grin.

”Isn't that obvious? But the degree of difference varies from person to person. If you are a soul close to the Spirit, you will have less influence. Like the lady there, for example?

Uffi, with his gaze pointed at him, makes him jump on his shoulder to shrug. But it was also in an instant that I showed upset that I immediately asked Lhumi back.

”... Am I close to the Spirit?

”Right. It's my view, isn't it” critical ”? You're so weak as a person.”

Yufi is breathtaking at Lumi's point. Step straight on the dance and step back. I pull such a Uffi hand, try to shelter it on my back and attract it.

I noticed that Yufi's hand was shaking a little and gripped him hard.

”... Yufi is a human being.”

”Yeah, I'm myself like thin ice. Sounds more like a miracle.... Oh, maybe it's ancestral.”

”Ancestry?”

”Does the Duke of Magenta draw royal blood, too? Then it is impeccable as the flesh that becomes the vessel of the Spirit. Strange kids. I can't believe you have a royal child even though you don't have one, and a child even though you're not royal. What a chigu.”

”... you're familiar with it.”

”Right? Because this is still a living witness from the founding years.”

”... what?

”This is a fact that Orphans doesn't even know.“ Distant descendants ”?”

Descendants, I accidentally stared at the appearance of Rhumi when I was told. The color of that hair is platinum. The color is very similar to mine, and this color is said to be a testament to the royal family.

You noticed the change in my appearance, with a garlic grin, Lyumi tells her with her hands on her chest.

”My name is Lumiel René Palettia. The kingdom of Palletia, its first king, its daughter, and the“ first queen ”erased by history.”

”... daughter of the first king...!?”

”And the first queen...!? There's no such thing as a queen in the Kingdom of Palettia!?”

With an incredible name, me and Uffi give a voice of surprise. And I just laughed at Llumi for not saying I was happy...... Llumiel goes on with the words.

”Ah. That's what I forbid to keep in history. It must have been weathered and forgotten.”

”How could you do that?

”That would be a long story. I'll welcome you, stay with me. You can't just go home, can you?

Lumiel turns his back and goes to the back of the woods. Before we lose sight of it, me and Uffi go into the back of the woods like we're going after that back, too.

Keep heading to the Oz and you'll get to the wooden cabin. I have some pretty old signs, but it doesn't look like it's going to decay in wonder.

Llumiel goes in first and the lights light up inside the room when he rings his fingers. It looked like a lamp, but if you look closely, there's a spirit inside that was shown earlier, and if you look at it, you're laughed at as a jerk.

”... it's like a witch's house.”

”Witch! There were times when they called me that. I miss you.”

”... can Master Llumiel really be revealed as the son of the first king?

”I don't need a word of respect. I stopped being royal a long time ago. I'm just your distant grandmother.”

There are no chairs or desks in the house. pointing straight over the rug, Llumiel lowers his hips to the floor. Me and Uffi also mimic Llumiel and lower their hips.

”Well, what can I tell you from?

”There are so many things I'd like to ask... is it true that you were the daughter of the first king and the first queen?

”There's nothing I can prove. I didn't erase the trace of me.”

”... how could you do that?

Rhumiel shut his mouth once to Yufi's inquiry. If Lümiel waved his fingers, the Spirit carried the vessel with flutter. Hand it to us, and Llumiel waves his finger again.

Then water born in the air is poured into the vessel. Llumiel likewise takes the vessel and drinks it with water inside.

”As you can see, you've been doing the Great Spirit for a long time. This can be a hassle.”

”... that's amazing”

”You think it's awesome? Yeah, that's why.”

”So...?

”I am the daughter of the first king. Now, I live like that because I've turned into a great spirit. So, what about the first king?

”... the first king was also a spiritual contractor”

I also drink the water in the vessel and moisten my throat, which I was thirsty for. I can only imagine nasty in the back of my brain.

”Llumiel, you... you didn't take the throne, did you?

”Huh?”

Uffi's face as if he had been poked in the void in my inquiry, and Llumiel, in contrast, remains smiling.

Nothing Llumiel hasn't answered. I just laugh like I say that's the answer. Ask as Uffi has ceased.

”How could you rob me...”

”Think about it, Uffi. If Llumiel's story is true, the Spirit Contractor can go well beyond human life expectancy.... Then why does the first king have to replace him?

”!? Well that's...... but isn't it necessary to change generations......?

”What do you think? Wouldn't that be Llumiel telling us the answer?

”Right. It's probably a hit. I'm the one who killed the first king.”

Llumiel laughs as she puts her hands on her chest and makes her look proud. I look at Llumiel like Uffi says he doesn't understand.

”... there was only abstract content in examining the history of nation-building. I was unhappy to leave you, but you didn't allow me to leave you?

”Right. I can say yes, and I can say no. I'm sure it wasn't me who did it first and my kids who did it afterwards.”

”... did you kill your own father? That's the king too...?

Unbelievable, Yufi shakes her head.... be taught that the First King is a great being for the nobility of the Kingdom of Palettia. But I don't know who that person is or life is. It's just that great trajectory is told.

I can't believe the first king of honor was murdered by his real daughter. And it's really hard to believe that her daughter is the first queen to be erased from history and now she's right in front of us like this.

”Believe it or not, you're on your own.”

”... assuming that's true, you killed the first king because you were” immortal, ”unlimited?

”You've been very calm, haven't you?... Yes. First king, your father was perfect. He had the spirituality to cast himself aside for men, and obeyed the Spirit, and God prepared him as he did. He was an ideal king, just like the one he painted. But the king was only the king.”

Llumiel changes his mocking look and tells him to stare away somewhere. That also resembles a gaze at someone who's no longer there, and there's no disdain there.

Rather, I was able to read warm emotions that could even be described as dear. It's really important and still makes me feel like I've let go of it.

If that's meant to be directed at the other person who killed him with his own hands... it must be a story told in the name of tragedy.

”Father gave up all his soul in a spiritual covenant. And obeyed the Spirit, and became a signpost for those who suffered in their plight, and were worshipped as kings. Just to save people, to protect the country. I admired myself and kept reaching out to those who believed. And that's what it's become.”

... You can't call me human if you've gone that far already. It's a “king”. I can only say how “king” works.

A ”king” who abandoned men to save them. A selfless savior who reigned with immense power. Good if that's the existence of the story. But that selfless king of salvation has certainly become real in the person who made his name in history.

”My father made a proper inheritance, didn't he? Because it is the King who does so. But my father is not old, he does not fade, he does not change. He continued to reign as just the immutable, the supreme king he wanted.... eventually even the people will be so fanatical. Eventually, it changed as much as it wanted to rule the world.”

”... so you killed the first king”

”Yep. It was then that Father was not“ the king who saves the plight of the people ”, but only” the king who fulfills the desires of the people ”. The good king, whom he desired for his people, was turned into a tyrant by the desire of a people like no other.... What do you think if you put this in history? Should I call him the Demon King?”

hold his stomach, rhumiel says, laughing in a queasy manner. It also looked like a madman, but it only seemed to me that I could keep myself by behaving that way.

The covenant of the Spirit made him the good king that the people desired, and it turned him into the evil king by the desire of the people. Give me my soul as a man until I do it for my people. And at the end of the day it became the receptacle to the desires of the people, and it was the existence and the fruit to be discussed.

It was my daughter who took it. Oh, it's a tragedy that's not really rocky.

”In terms of results alone, I killed my father and took my country and became queen. And my father, me, and the Spirit disappeared by promising not to make matters in history about the covenant. I haven't been queen in less than a year. That's not even history.”

”... and your child is our ancestor.”

”You will. I'm glad you didn't let the kid have the spiritual contract. I lost the way, too. It will affect your soul, but eventually it will fade by staying in touch with people. You didn't have to make a deal with the Spirit. You still had the power to be a nation. And the kingdom of Palettia began to walk in the true sense”

”You had a partner when you had kids, didn't you? Is that person...?

To my inquiry Lümiel shook his head quietly beside him. Give me a pale smile, not a sarcastic look.

She seems very loving, but hung up. You look careless, but proud. With such a complex look to remember, she says.

”It was he who inherited the country as the” son ”of the first king.... that's what I'm talking about. I don't know how my kids grew up either, by the way. It's the last thing I held when I was a baby.”

”Oh no...”

Yufi is biting her lips with an unspeakable look. If this were true, we would have found out behind the glorious history of the founding of the Kingdom of Palettia. What a headache.

”You didn't even reveal it to your father, did you? Why did you reveal yourself to us?

”Because the child was about to reach a spiritual covenant. I wonder if I'd be interested in you later. So we're still gonna make it, right? What kind of spiritual covenant is a man so chopped up that he inadvertently returns to his ancestors in our descendants and is born near the spirits to stop people? That's the only thing.”

”... Could there have been more“ rare people ”like me back in the day?

”No, rare people are rare people. A rare one who can live without being sheltered from this world. It doesn't stand out in the Kingdom of Palettia, but there were a lot of kids in other countries who took names as greats.”

”... isn't it true that all civilians are rare?

”That's not why...?

Oh, no. Then why isn't there a spirit soul in me...!