Chapter 18 (2/2)
In front of him, the macaque with the stomach ripped open was dead with its tongue hanging out.
“I…..”
More serious than the fact that he had killed the mutants with cruelty was that he had lost his senses. He had gotten to this point after feeling strange when seeing blood.
He did not know the cause. Was it that he naturally fell into slaughter as he started killing living things? Or could this be post-traumatic stress disorder?
“No. I would have shown symptoms if it were PTSD. This happened suddenly.”
What could the problem be? He would figure it out no matter what.
If he went crazy while working in a party, nothing said that they would not mistake him for a mutant. If he had been as he just was, he would kill everyone.
“Body modification?”
The only change that had happened to him was the body modification. The equipment was inanimate. It could not shake a person’s sanity. He had no doubt it was the body modification.
“Odin.”
Cha Jun Sung called Odin.
There was no response. The helper does not communicate with their Lifer during a mission.
“I’ll just let it go since I’ll hear it once I return to the briefing room anyway. I don’t want to hear it while I’m in this mood.”
-[What do you think body modification is?]
Odin replied. But instead of a response, he turned it into a question.
“It’s strengthening a person’s body to make it possible for them to fight against mutants.”
-[That is correct. Then I will ask, won’t there be a price to this power?]
“Price?”
-[Each person has a different depth to their talent. People who are born with a talent are often called geniuses.]
Cha Jun Sung just listened. Odin’s explanation had not ended.
-[But genius or not, people are just another object, and there is an obvious limit when looking at the strain.]
Body modification breaks through the limits of each person and their strain. It is taking the skin off of the existing being and giving rebirth as a new being.
Evolution into a superhuman. Body modification was the process of making an unhumanly human by injecting a special transcendencecell.
“There is no price. I’m losing as much as I gain. So in other words, you’re saying it’s a side effect?”
-[I will not deny it.]
“That’s weird. Didn’t you say there would be no side effects until the 4th stage?”
-[This is not a side effect. It is something that naturally follows once you go through body modification. The side effects you will experience in the 5th stage have a direct impact on your life.]
“Why didn’t you tell me in advance? If I had known, I would have at least been expecting it.”
-[All we can do is answer your questions at a standard we are allowed to. We do not amicably solve your curiosity.]
Cha Jun Sung had an expression of giving up. It was just like an emotionless artificial intelligence to answer in this way.
This meant that he must now preemptively ask every possible question. Odin was saying that it was all the fault of the person who purchased the item without looking into everything.
“What’s the solution? If I get like this every time I see blood, I’ll have to keep doing solo missions forever.”
-[You can only focus so you don’t lose your sanity.]
“That’s…..”
-[Control your sanity with your will. If you are swayed by just body modification, you will not be able to advance as a Lifer.]
“You’re playing on my pride. I was eaten up whole this time, but it won’t happen again. You think I’ll lose to a cell?”
-[You could lose…..]
“What? Tell me honestly. You’re a person or artificial intelligence with emotions, right? When I think about it, you taunt people. You’re cunning.”
-[Since you have resolved your curiosity, please return if you would like to ask further questions. Would you like to return to the briefing room or reality?]
“Send me home.”
Only he would suffer if he kept arguing with Odin. He was satisfied with finding out the cause. He would need to learn to try to control himself while going through solo missions.