The Shaman Wants Transcendence

6 – What You Need to Recover

He smiled contentedly and sat cross-legged in his seat. And he focused on the movement he felt in his stomach.

“ॐ-“

After concentrating his spiritual power and wrapping it around his index finger, he placed his index finger on the stomach skin where his stomach was, and began to draw a pattern.

Blunt lines. The line draws a vertical line, draws a curve similar to a circle, and draws a horizontal line again. Horizontal lines again vertical lines, then horizontal lines again. In this way, a square infinitely similar to a circle was completed, and its shape resembled the mouth written in cursive script.

Jinseong did not stop there, but put his finger inside the square and drew a smaller square again. Thus, a pattern that looked like a circle within a circle and a square within a square was drawn with spiritual power and emitted a bluish light.

Mouth in the mouth.

A fence within a caged fence.

It was a labyrinth drawn in Chinese characters, and as a symbol, it was a character that had the meaning of endlessly continuing.

The pattern glowed bluish and began to seep into the camouflage.

The stomach became a prison, and the acid in the stomach boiled furiously, going against logic and coiling around the walls. The gastric juice turned into a sphere made of acid, and the snake meat that flowed into the stomach could not overcome the gastric juice and began to melt. And the small something in the melting meat was melted by the spiritual power that permeated the stomach, not gastric juice, and became a meaning.

“I collected one.”

Jinseong started running around the mountain after eating a snake. He closed his eyes and started walking around, battling the air, collecting various creatures, some nasty caterpillars and some overgrown mushrooms. He roughly groomed the things he gathered and put them in his mouth while shooting around the mountain, eventually arriving at a small valley deep in the mountain.

“ॐ.”

As soon as he reached the valley, he took off his shoes, stepped into the water, and clasped his hands in the air.

With a splash!

Every time he held the air, the fish and crayfish hidden in the crevices of the rocks were dragged in one after another, and Jinseong tore off only their necks and then put them into his mouth without hesitation.

Kwadeuk! Kwadeuk!

The crayfish’s carapace was mercilessly crushed by Jinseong’s teeth, and the sharp-shattered fragments melted into Jinseong’s stomach without hurting anywhere in Jinseong’s mouth. All fish, except for the head, went into Jinseong’s stomach, and were quickly melted by stomach acid that turned into slime as soon as they entered.

Jinseong repeated such work for a long time, and eventually, when most of the fish and crayfish in the valley were caught, he stopped the work and muttered.

“One, two, and three.”

Jinseong sat cross-legged on a rock and burned incense. The incense seemed to bloom normally, but flowed towards Jinseong as if the wind was blowing.

“One.”

Jinseong, concentrating on the wall of smoke, erased the pattern of time drawn on the ship and started drawing another pattern. It was similar to the pattern I drew earlier, but it had a different look. If what he drew earlier was a square infinitely resembling a circle, what he is drawing now is a circle infinitely resembling a square.

It was a pattern that was only a figure and did not have a single meaning.

“A snake within a snake, one and many.”

The drawn circle stimulates the skin, protrudes blood vessels, andShowed up As if blood vessels were stimulated only in the part where the pattern was drawn, red and blue protruded, and the color changed to purple, revealing the shape as if it were a bruise. Even though it looked like an ordinary figure, it was like a snake crawling through blood vessels and drawing a shape, and it reminded me of some more primitive and small creature other than a snake.

Shaaak-!

The veins were wriggling as if they were alive, and they were bulging as if something was about to pop out. The movement was so violent that it even gave the illusion that the snake he had eaten was reborn and moved in his stomach, but Jinseong calmly moved his fingers behind his neck.

He drew a vertical line down his neck along his spine.

The place where his fingers ran turned gray this time. As if his flesh had rotted away, or as if something unclean had adhered to his skin, only the part he touched had turned a gray color reminiscent of a corpse. In that gray light, powders that were different from dead skin cells came out, and soon, as if it was an illusion, the powders melted in an instant and made the skin smooth again.

“Three.”

Jinseong murmured one last time and put his finger on his stomach again.

His fingers moved through the lungs, liver, intestines, and back to the lungs, drawing a triangle. The area where his fingers touched was dented as if there was no flesh inside, revealing a sense of heterogeneity, but it was restored as if it were filled with something again. However, only traces of it remained, and anyone with an observant mind would know that the skin in that area had lost its elasticity severely.

“From one to two, from two to three. All the numbers together make six. Since what started has found balance, it wouldn’t be strange if it had wings.”

Along with the words of Jinseong, the traces engraved on his body began to disappear.

The protruding circle disappeared, the gray color on the back of the neck dissipated like smoke, and the skin that had lost its elasticity began to come alive again.

Eventually, when the incense burned out and the ashes went into Jinseong’s nose as if being sucked in, he was able to open his eyes and smile.

“The foundation has been laid.”

Nope – Tea.

Jinseong made a sound like an old man and got up from his seat and used the paper.

Bite – ripe.

With the sound of the air twisting, Jinseong returned to the mansion in an instant.

* * *

“Strange.”

“Yeah, that’s strange.”

A room in the corner of the mansion.

The sisters were talking in whispers there.

Se-rin Lee fluttered her crow-printed pajamas and said.

“My older brother is so strange these days.”

Her usual gloomy look had changed to a sleepy and tired look, perhaps because of the animal pajamas, and perhaps thanks to that, the act of flapping her arms was not the image of a witch performing some suspicious ritual, but a crow exhausted from being drowned in water. It looked like a gesture of joy from coming up.

“It’s strange. It was strange from the beginning.”

Opposite her, this Arin had her hair untied and all her decorations removed, so she looked like an ordinary girl, but perhaps because of her yellow pajamas, she had an aspect that reminded me of a lioness.

“That, when? IThere was a time when you brought a bunch of strange bugs, saying you were going to become the number one in witchcraft.”

“Huh.”

“At that time, there was a cockroach among the bugs, so there was an uproar. Do you remember that time?”

“I hate to remember…”

The two animals sat on a soft bed and chatted.

However, when the topic of the story suddenly changed to something repulsive, Se-rin Lee put on a puzzled expression, as if she was in a bad mood.

hahahaha, the little boy’s wildness was really cute at that time. It was really like a young boy to curse the insects I brought with me while not being able to control them. ]

“Ugh.”

“What the hell did they do to the bugs? Ah~ It gives me goosebumps just thinking about that time? What kind of cockroach resists medicine and stays fine even after being hit with an electric fly swatter? They say that if they had left it as it was, they would have almost made a horror movie. What is that? My friend says there are a lot of weird horror movies with cockroaches.”

[Is there a case where a cat boasts of its prey and misses it? It was just like that. Isn’t it really fierce and cute? In particular, it is said that he often caught bugs and the like, so the little boy was a cat himself. ]

In particular, when the devil who signed a contract with her mentioned other insects, Se-rin Lee naturally recalled the numerous insects that Jin-seong had brought back then. And he contorted his face even more as he thought of those terrifyingly many legs, or worse, no legs at all.

Iarin’s flashbacks that followed also helped her vividly recall the terrible image, so it was even more horrifying.

“Aside from that, the other bugs were also disgusting~ Ah, that’s not what I’m talking about. It’s just that they’re so weird these days, you know? Huh?”

“Know…”

Rather, I know better than you.

This Serene managed to get the words he was about to say to his twin into his throat. However, even if she could put her words in, she couldn’t stop her complicated expression from coming up. When she saw her face, Arin’s face changed strangely.

[ Contractor, my contract. You will have seen The scene of the shamanistic ceremony, which was so low-level and lacking in fundamentals and dignity. ]

This serine she sighed at the whispers of the demons she had contracted with herself.

‘Yeah, I saw…’