The Foreigner on the Periphery

Minjun frowned. "What nonsense. Because of you, that woman became successful? Are you a priest? No, not even the Pope can make a living person holy. It is not an absolute statement."  

If that was possible, Ha Eun-seong soon became the number one killer in the universe. You could take the soul out of the body of a living person and kill it if one preferred to do so. "No, it's true."  

Ha Eun-seong explained what had happened with a bewildered face, but Minjun did not believe it easily. "It looks like he was thrown into the depths of his consciousness while fighting over his body."  

Then, Ha Eun-seong also made a stern look. Even thinking about it himself, it would indeed seem that his argument made no sense. "Oh, is that so?"  

“Okay. It must have been an illusion that something was missing from the body."  

He even tied Ha Eun-seong’s limbs. "Okay, now that it's done, throw away that body and come out. Then the frightened and hidden soul will crawl up."  

“Ah! There was such a simple way." Ha Eun-seong nodded his head and concentrated his mind. However…

"…"

"…"

Silence soon flowed. “Uh? why not? Yap!” Minjun said bluntly.  

"What are you doing?" Ha Eun-seong broke out in a cold sweat. "Why is this…?"

"Hey, we don't have time right now."  

“Wait! I’m nervous, so let’s go Agent, I’m sorry, but can I have a look at something else for a second? The more I look at it, the more scared I get…"

"…"  

While muttering various things and looking away, Ha Eun-seong whimpered and tried again and again. It was something he had been accustomed to.  

He seemed to get out of the borrowed body for a while. However, the feeling that followed was completely different. As of now, if he made up his mind to leave, he was easily thrown away as if a living body was pushing the back of a spirit body. It was because of the reaction force acting as if he was waiting.  

However, now it was the other way around. To compare, it felt like Ji Seon-kyung’s body doesn’t hold onto him tightly.  

"Agent." Ha Eun-seong said, twisting his face. “What should I do? I… I'm ruined."  

"What?” By this time, Minjun also noticed the abnormality.  

"Are you saying you can't get out of there?" The head then moved quietly up and down.  

"I'm going crazy and I'm going crazy. Why all of a sudden…?"

At that moment, a thought flashed through Minjun’s head like a lightning bolt. The reason the body pushed out the possessed soul is that basically two souls could not exist in one body. Of course, the body wrapped around the real owner of the two and rejected the other.  

However, even if it was not the original, how would the body react if there was only one soul left in it? If even that escaped, the body would eventually die. The nature of living things could allow that.  

Minjun muttered as if it was ridiculous. "Hey… are you sure that story is true? Did you really kick that woman’s soul out of her body? A stone studded with a rolled stone?"  

If true, it was a historical event that would turn the whole world upside down. Ha Eun-seong said in tears, "Because it's real!"  

"Wait a minute!" Minjun knew that, as Ha Eun-seong’s testimony, there were no living or dead in this room except for them. Then, where did Ji Seon-kyung’s soul go? Whoops!  

"Hey!"  

A white flame lit up in Minjun’s eyes. He just looked for the traces. Just as when a talent evaporates into the spirit world, a hole in which the boundary was broken remains, something similar must occur when the soul attained enlightenment. However…  

‘No!'  

There was no soul that had attained enlightenment. At least in this area, lately.  

‘If that’s the case…’  

Minjun was able to come up with an answer quickly. His face darkened very much.  

‘It seems that he didn't drive the woman's soul out… but he destroyed the soul.'  

As far as Minjun knew, any ghost could interfere with each other, but could not annihilate it. The only way was to consume space currency according to a usage known only by the committee. Talents.  

What Ha Eun-seong claimed to have absorbed. "What were you thinking when you pushed her away?"  

"What do you think?"  

"I hate it, I hate it. When I think about how hard I suffered because of this woman and how dangerous her younger sisters are, it seems that blood is gushing upside down… I’m annoyed when I keep yelling at me and telling me to turn off…”  

"Would you like to get rid of it?"  

"It was."  

"Now, what is the body's rejection reaction?"  

"This body? There’s not much like that… Almost 100% synchro? To be honest, it’s similar to when I was alive. I can feel all the senses of the stars. even pain."  

Then, he frowned and grabbed his waist. The next words muttered inwardly. Why does my back hurt so much from before? Was this woman a disc patient…?  

"Okay?”  

Minjun’s expression hardened. “Then, contrary to what you said, you are not ruined…”  

"?"  

"Isn't he actually resurrected?"  

“Yes? What is that…"  

Only then did Ha Eun-seong realize the meaning of this phenomenon.  

"!"  

He murmured while shaking his body as if he had been electrocuted.

"Resurrection?"  

“Okay. The body does not expel the soul, nor can it spring out of the body on its own. Like her own body, she took full control of her senses and control. If that’s the case, she’s just alive.”  

"…"

Ha Eun-seong soon fell into a panic and Minjun soon fell into deeper thoughts. ‘I thought this was only possible when the body of the prisoner was replaced by the committee. It's about transplanting souls.'  

In terms of the result, it was no different from Ha Eun-seong's current state. ‘I expected the talents to be consumed, but was it possible with such a primitive method? Then, even without any special skills, if only the real talent is in my hands…’  

Just thinking about it made me shudder. ‘Is this the reason why the inmates never let the talents flow into the hands of the prisoners?'

She soon denied her own thoughts. ‘No, it depends on individual goals.'  

What if the prisoner gave up his original body and memories? It would soon be possible to escape by jumping with another body as it was.

‘Wait a minute. There is something more important than that.'  

With that, he made the mistake of trying to interpret the phenomenon only from his own situation, just because his eyes could only see something. Ha Eun-seong was already dead and came back to life.  

Life and death, life again. Knowing that this was possible, there would be no need to insert death in the middle of the process. Before he died, he just jumped over to another body and that was it. Truly…  

It was the moment when he realized that the secret behind his talents was far deeper and more dangerous than he expected.  

‘By the way, what?'  

Ha Eun-seong insisted that he couldn't come out of a woman's body. Considering his situation, it was hard to dismiss it as a lie.  

‘If this happens, there is a way to recover a million talents…’ Said Ha Eun-seong, looking at him.  

"Then what? I don’t want to live like this. Should I just go up on the roof and fall to death? So are you going to bounce back?"

It was an unexpected word. “What?”  

"I guess this body really thought of me as the owner. Normally, you can’t access things like memories while possessing. Now, scenes like this come to mind."  

It meant that one could browse the memories left in the biological brain of Ji Seon-kyung.  

Ha Eun-seong then spoke with disgust. "This person … is a great criminal. No, why did you kill so many people?"  

A lot of things seemed to have come to mind while Minjun was immersed in thought. Ha Eun-seong’s face then became very happy. "Is this woman… arrested? Should I stay in prison like this for the rest of my life? Should she be tortured?"  

"That's a bit of a thorny problem."  

There was no law that assumed this situation. The body, including the brain, remained the same, and the memory of committing a crime remained. However, the soul that entered it belonged to a third person. Aside from how to prove it, could these criminals be exonerated?  

If the human mind was dismissed as a simple neuroprocessing phenomenon, the continuity of existence would be recognized as Ji Seon-kyung was physically the same as 10 minutes ago.  

However, the soul eventually caught the ankle. Perhaps her soul was judged to be annihilated. If so, was the body that lived and breathed here innocent? Conceptually, it should be.  

But legally?

"I'm going crazy."  

As he tied his hair, Ha Eun-seong’s expression worsened even more. "What… why so many?"  

Victims who were either directly killed at the hands of Seon-Kyung Ji or were removed by reason. The more memories were recalled, the more similar scenes floated up from deep layers because of associations in the brain.  

" · · · · · · · · · ·!"  

Many eyes then passed by in his memory. Most of them were unrelated to Red Star activities. Also, most of them were of an extraterrestrial race. There were also eyes full of resentment.  

Then, there was a scream so eerie that his bones became numb. Distortion at the moment when life was dying. Ji Seon-kyung then looked at him with satisfaction. the excitement she felt. Her senses and emotions were intertwined, and she strangled him. She then made Ha Eun-seong disgusted.  

Orcs, there were too many dead orcs. An Orc killed to display her ideas, an Orc sacrificed as a means to achieve her goals, an Orc slain just out of anger, an Orc shredded to prove her qualifications.  

Ha Eun-seong paid attention to the last or first memory. There was a magic circle. A young orc tied over it. The wizards were standing beside the trembling sacrifice, blindfolded.  

Ji Seon-kyung then grabbed her sword. Her eyes met. The sensation of piercing the thick thing at the tip of her hand. moist and hot Weakening writhing.  

Then, that scene overlapped with Ha Eun-seong’s own memories. He hurriedly ran away. A sharp blade pierced his neck at the last moment.  

"Wow!" Ha Eun-seong vomited through Ji Seon-kyung’s body. All-day long, only sour stomach juices were coming up as if nothing had been eaten.  

However, he desperately tried to empty his stomach, which had nothing to fill. As if trying to empty out all the terrible memories, the madness he felt in that scene.  

“Black… huh!” Minjun looked down at him without saying a word. Ha Eun-seong lifted her head, barely stopping the seizure-like vomiting. The opponent’s face looked blurry beyond the shimmering field of vision.  

Ha Eun-seong barely clenched his voice. And then, he said what he saw. "This woman is the Human Rights Solidarity!"  

***  

It was surprisingly not easy for an extreme human supremacist group to expand its power. In this society, the idea was perceived as ‘wrong’ and ‘shameful.'  

There were very few people who dared to say that they were discriminatory in front of the company or acquaintances.  

Moreover, secretly sympathizing with the idea and joining indiscriminate acts of terrorism were two different things. Thus, the Human Rights Solidarity used a method of operating a variety of seemingly unrelated sub-organizations.  

In order to overcome the limitation of the discriminatory group, the weakness of only a small number of people joining and working. It was not difficult to fuse the hostility towards the dragon, the final target of extermination, with the resistance of the poor. Even those who disagreed with the idea of ​​killing the Orcs were willing to join the movement for an equitable redistribution of wealth.  

Even those who would fiercely reject the hand of the Solidarity for Human Rights, the 21st-century version of the righteous aid was gratefully accepted and, rather, wanted to be a strength.  

The biggest strength of Red Star was that extraterrestrial races could join as well. In particular, the proportion of Orcs was high due to the nature of their roots in slum areas.  

Without imagining who was behind the Red Star, they stole as directed, and most of the loot went to the Vault of the Human Rights Solidarity. The Orcs working for the Red Star never dreamed.  

That the results of their bloody and sweaty efforts would be used as financial resources to massacre their people. The Solidarity for Human Rights regarded this irony as a refreshing comedy. Ji Seon-kyung did the same.  

***  

"The pressure continues to come in from the Changcheon side. It’s good to implement justice for the ‘insignificant race,' but how are you handling the quests you entrusted to you?”  

One day, Minjun and Jenkinson sat facing each other as the confrontation between the Red Star and the Orc gang was intensifying day by day. The ghost’s statements through Ji Seon-kyung’s memory were reported to the immigration office, and based on that, Jenkinson was preparing to completely annihilate Red Star.  

The next order would be the Orc gang led by Kim Kwang-woo. This was because Jenkinson also held the full dog over there. However, it was also important for him to decide how to deal with Changcheon, as he was responsible for managing the dragons in this area.  

Minjun then told him, "Once a million talents were blown away, it must have been an accident. There is no need to dig further."  

He then wondered if Ji Seon-kyung and the gang knew something and plotted using Ha Eun-seong as a tool. It meant ‘to bring your talents'. However, looking through her memories, he found that it wasn’t like that. "They didn't know anything about talent."  

And so, no matter how much you try to get a red star or a human rights solidarity, the talent would not come back. To be precise, the key to retrieving it lay with a ghost named Ha Eun-seong, but it couldn't even return to the spirit form in its present state.  

The person in charge declared that they would commit suicide as it was with an innocent face, but Minjun soon stopped him. There was a reason. If the body had only one soul, then he was just a living man.  

If he put his own plans into action, Ha Eun-seong would suffer his second death. If so, would his spirit body be thrown out as cleanly as before? There was no guarantee that the second death would be easier than the first

Worst case… What if you become successful in the spirit world? He was a phenomenon that had never been experienced before, so no one could say for sure. Minjun was collecting his data in various ways.

"There is no need to inform Changcheon of the current situation."  

"No."  

There was one more problem to solve before exposing Ha Eun-seong to Changcheon. Jenkinson wanted to confirm the dragon ghost that was trapped inside. Contrary to the expectations of the old Orc, Jenkinson was wary of slashing the dragon’s head with that statement alone.  

Destroying the Red Star and attacking the Changcheon were different. He also hoped that someone more reliable would confirm it. Meanwhile, Minjun wanted to know what Changcheon was trying to do with the ghost.  

"Are you going to catch and torture your ex-husband's ghost just for your own satisfaction and happiness? Just think about how much it would cost to maintain that exorcism. A famous old man who is famous for his handicrafts wastes such money? I don’t see it that way."  

It was unusual that the magic circle resonated with Ha Eun-seong’s talents, and it was strange that the large-scale exorcism circle was installed in two places, the bank’s main branch and the rare.  

"Why didn't you keep the talent in the rare?"  

Was it because they were bank assets, not personal assets? This was because it was an old dragon who could mobilize any number of tricks like that. "I knew what would happen if I kept the ghost and the talent close."  

His eyes then deepened. "Changcheon knows something."  

At this point, the Red Dragon’s and the alien’s objectives coincided. Before revealing Ha Eun-seong’s existence to Changcheon, they needed to check what the insidious Old Dragon was doing in Rare.