The Nature of Possession

433 – EP.16 Unlucky Endgame

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The condition of what appeared to be Imina was not very good.

Parts of his face flowed down like a snowman melting in the spring sun, and black mucus like tears dripped onto the ground.

As if the prairies of a perfect world were rejecting the impurities from the outside, the by-products of the invaders wriggled pitifully on the green pastures.

It stood like a barrier between Kang In-ho and Alpha.

Kang In-ho rubbed his eyes because it seemed like Im-ina’s eyes were looking at him and Alpha at the same time.

Knock knock

It tried to lift its melting face. As if both hands were not enough, dozens of black arms shot out from its back and grabbed the flowing face.

After much effort, he managed to hold up his face, but it ended up looking grotesque. The face resembled a childish, squinty CG from a B-grade horror movie.

“An unclean being has arrived.”

Alpha, who saw the writhing intruder, had a dark expression on his face at the intrusion into his space that should not have been there.

“Mr. Inho. Hey, why are you making that face?”

Even in Alpha’s words, the figure that had already taken on the form of Imina was only interested in Kang In-ho.

Kang In-ho instinctively distanced himself from it.

It was because he felt fear at the strange movements that approached him, neither walking nor crawling.

Now, the question ‘Why is Lee Min-a here?’ was no longer in Kang In-ho’s mind.

All I could think about was, ‘What on earth is that?’

“Why….”

At the sight of Kang In-ho trying to move away, Im Na’s face melted even more.

The sound coming out of Yimina’s mouth was a mixture of many voices.

A noisy voice. Scratchy, clear, muddy, neutral, unspoken….

A mishmash of voices called out to him plaintively.

Kang In-ho felt goosebumps coming out at the voice he had heard somewhere.

“Forgotten Name. I am the perfect mortal Alpha.”

Even at Alpha’s introduction, its eyes were only turned towards Kang In-ho.

“Are you consumed by obsession?”

Alpha clicked his tongue and shook his hand, causing a huge gust of wind to rise.

The wind swept at a fierce speed and blew away Imina’s upper body.

Iron Buck.

The black body collapsed like mud hitting the ground.

Imina, who fell to the ground in two, did not scream. However, she moved her empty eyes that had been fixed on Kang In-ho to Alpha.

And then the other eyes that had been closed began to open one by one.

“How many souls have you eaten?”

Alpha muttered, looking at the pupils opening all over the black body, like the patterns of a peacock.

With his murderous intent growing, it was time for Alpha to raise his fist.

The intruder’s actions were faster.

A spear emerged from the black mucus scattered across the ground, extending towards Alpha’s chest.

However, the black spear’s energy that had pierced the tree bounced off Alpha’s skin.

“The person you held in your heart and the soul over there are different. Why do you want to exclude me?”

Alpha laughed as he blocked Imina’s body slam with one hand, her spear sticking out like a hedgehog.

“Inho, you need to talk to me.”

A woman with a drooping face and pupils that had lost their light muttered.

The densely packed spear blades repeatedly stabbed Alpha’s body, but it was the spears that broke.

“The ability to embody what you eat is quite interesting, but it’s not something to be wary of.”

Alpha’s fist struck Yimina’s head, and Yimina was knocked to the ground in a mess.

Alpha continued to trample the ground without stopping, the ground was torn apart, and Yimina’s byproducts flew into the sky.

The sticky black mud was attracted to each other like magnets and stuck together, regaining its original shape.

“If I destroy Inho… I won’t be able to ask.”

“Is that why? Unfortunately, you and that soul must perish here. Your two existences are a stain on this perfect world.”

“I have to ask… whether you love me… or whether you are not happy with me…”

Yimina grabbed her head and staggered. Her back bulged, revealing the jaws of a giant dinosaur.

A dinosaur with only its head exposed gaped its mouth and rushed towards Alpha, followed by beasts such as bears, snakes, and tigers.

“You’re gradually losing control. You probably don’t even know what you are anymore.”

Alpha said, baring all his vicious teeth.

“The more I draw out my strength, the more you disappear. Why are you doing this when you weren’t even the person I loved in the first place?”

“You have to ask. You have to ask. You have to ask.”

The voice gradually fades away.

Black tears flowed down from Yimina’s dark pupils.

“Tch, it’s too late already. Poor thing.”

Alpha clicked his tongue as he tore off the necks of all the black beasts.

Alpha quickly approached, grabbed Imina by the collar, and threw her far away.

The tangled Yimina passed Kang In-ho’s head and fell to the ground.

“…….”

Yimina pulsed unstably, taking shape and collapsing repeatedly.

“The fun is over. Perish, imperfect souls.”

Alpha’s fist, which had been fighting hand-to-hand combat, began to glow.

Kang In-ho, who realized that the energy gathered in that fist was unusual, crawled on his feet, but it was impossible to run away as he was already exhausted.

***

Ah… there was something I had to do.

There was something I needed to check.

I don’t remember.

My head is complicated. It’s like a jumble.

Oh, I remembered.

I have to ask.

To the person who took something precious from me.

I have to ask.

To the person who replaced the being we originally had in mind.

we.

we?

What are we?

What am I?

Who am I?

Who am I?

Tell me.

What am I?

I see eyes. So many pupils.

Everyone is shouting for a seat.

It’s a precious position.

It’s a position I’ve always held.

I’m tired now.

Wouldn’t it be okay to just give it to anyone?

***

“You gave up the initiative…”

Alpha lowered his fist and looked at Yimina.

There was a black puddle where Yimina had fallen.

In the center of the pool stood a woman dyed entirely in black.

The woman had the form of Yimina, but was different from Yimina.

A hollow face, pupils that lose their light and shed black tears.

Numerous black shadows stretched behind the back.

“…….”

As she let out a scream that could not be put into words, the black tentacles that had been stretching out behind Imina rose into the sky.

thud

The atmosphere rang.

***

A crack appeared in the clear sky, as if a crack had appeared in the sky.

Five cracks, like a glass window on the verge of breaking.

The air falls like broken glass.

The sky grows darker and darker, and the white craters in the cracks become darker.

As the gap widened, something began to appear.

Alpha muttered.

The perfect mortal speaks in a thick, coarse yet thin, sonorous voice.

“The jealousy of someone who gives everything and gets nothing in return.”

A black woman who dyes the grassland black and pulses unsteadily.

Someone appears through the gap that has formed in front of Yimina.

“The pride of one who is drunk on his own power and has lost someone precious.”

A woman in black attire and with blood-red eyes.

Someone carrying something huge appears to Yimina’s left.

“The lust of one who has not hesitated to offer up the purity of soul and body.”

A blonde, greatsword-wielding diviner with blue and green eyes.

Above the nun’s head, someone appears like a star.

“The stinginess of a child who does not want to lose something precious.”

A woman wearing clothes filled with starlight and with mysterious purple eyes.

Something flies next to the woman with the power of the stars.

“A body of steel, swayed by emotions, an endless greed of desire.

A woman with an emotionless face, gray hair and eyes.

And to Yimina’s right, the grasses of the meadow begin to grow long.

The trees that had sprouted have grown into giant trees and blocked out the sunlight, and the flowers that had been sleeping have overcome the seasons and are now displaying their colors.

“In the ceaseless flow of time, the lethargy of those who are not self-reliant.

A long-eared woman appeared, her golden eyes gleaming.

Alpha said as he looked at the six women who appeared behind Kang In-ho.

“In this perfect world, an unacceptable sin has arrived.”

– Bingyi’s Constitution Part 2 (End) –