I'm the Only One With a Different Genre - Chapter 84

Chapter 84
And the World Collapsed?
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Noah stared at Jeolmi being moved to the infirmary before following him out of the meeting room.

“Wait, I’m going to check on Jeolmi’s condition. Everyone, continue introducing yourselves.”

After Noah left, the people in the meeting room finished their introductions and dispersed to their various tasks.

‘Now that I think about it, Pia isn’t here?’

As I walked through a hallway without windows, I thought about Pia’s absence, and ‘that scene’ came to mind.

‘Ugh… I’m embarrassed just thinking about it. I need to apologize to her the next time we meet. Could she be avoiding me because of that incident?’

While I was pondering Pia’s mishap in the hallway, the subject of my concerns, Pia, was in a dark room with all the lights off.

“Lian, Lord Lian has returned. He really came back.”

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She knelt on the floor with her hands clasped as if in prayer, mumbling in a voice filled with rapture.

Her eyes glittered dangerously.
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“Ah, finally, my salvation…”

Due to past traumas and the cruel magic of the dark sorcerer, Pia’s shattered mind had latched onto the existence of ‘Lian,’ leading her to have blind devotion towards him.

Feelings that went beyond the usual bounds of affection or love.

‘Worship’

‘Devotion’

‘Reverence’

Lian had become a god-like figure to Pia. Her faith, verging on madness, was directly influencing Lian.

The mark on Lian’s left hand, the one he barely remembered, began to glow faintly, etching geometric patterns like roots spreading. The change was slow but definite.

However, Lian had yet to notice this.

“Lian, Lord Lian…”

As Pia’s fanaticism deepened, it was only a matter of time before the issue would come to light. For now, though, it remained hidden, meaning no one could stop her growing obsession.

Thus, the seed of a ‘religion’ was planted without Lian’s knowledge.

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‘Wow, a traitor!’

After spending a calm, almost too peaceful day, it was revealed the next day that the man who slipped on the banana peel was indeed a traitor.

Nest was in an uproar. The revelation that a traitor had occupied a highly trusted executive position was shocking.

A thorough purge began within the organization.

While it wasn’t difficult to weed out ordinary members, finding traitors among the executives was a challenging task.

I was roped into helping with the traitor hunt due to my intuitive discovery. Fortunately, no more traitors were found among the executives.

‘This isn’t foolproof.’

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Since it only activated when someone tried to threaten me, there could still be hidden traitors. Noah said it was sufficient, but I still felt uneasy.

‘If it’s a threat that could collapse the organization, the power should activate then.’

Pushing aside my anxiety with thoughts of the hellish Leviathan, I focused on the present.

Once the traitor issue was resolved, a peaceful routine awaited me. Although everyone seemed busy coming and going, no one returned injured.

‘If I ever need to go to a shrine, I’ll get some holy water first.’

While I was rolling around in the arena, the kids had sustained various small and large injuries. Some had lost fingers, and others had injuries that caused them to limp for life.

Luckily, these weren’t irreversible injuries, so with the miracle power of holy water, they could be restored. I started saving money for that day.

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…Honestly, I didn’t have much to spend money on since I rarely left the headquarters building.

Although I could go out, I needed to take at least 10 members of the organization with me to get permission.

Dragging around 10 Nest members who had secured the western region was uncomfortable for me, so I stayed within the headquarters.

In short… I was bored!

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‘Grr… The knight to pick up Iris hasn’t arrived in Cardishian yet.’

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Even though I wanted to shout and leave Cardishian, Nest was steadily settling in. This might be the safest situation. My boredom was evidence of that.

Jess was away for similar education with kids her age, and Iris was learning swordsmanship from Noah.

There was no one to play with!

‘Isn’t there something to do… hmm?’

Lying on the sofa, staring blankly around the room, something shiny caught my eye. I got up from the sofa and approached the sparkling object. It was a piece of black gemstone lying on the floor.

“Oh? This is…”

It was a fragment of the gemstone I had seen in the underground storage of the Nest dining hall.

‘I thought it was in my bag?’

Picking up the gemstone and turning it around in my hand,

Ouch.

“Ack.”

My finger got cut on the gemstone’s edge, and blood began to ooze out. As my blood touched the gemstone,

“…Huh?”

My vision blurred, and my ears felt muffled. Just as I felt my body sway, my vision went black.

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“Ugh…”

Holding my throbbing head, I opened my eyes.

“Where am I…”

Surrounded by thick white mist and a pitch-black ground of unknown composition, I found myself lying down in an unrecognizable place.

I stumbled up and looked around, but the fog obscured everything.

“Noah? Iris? Jess?”

I called out their names, but there was no response.
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‘Did the gemstone transport me?’

Scratching the back of my head, I thought.

‘Hmm, first of all… Gargandoa.’

As I muttered internally, crimson blood gushed from the mark on my hand, and with a brilliant impact, the demonic sword was summoned.

[Where is the enemy!?]

‘Oh, there’s no enemy, but it seemed like a dangerous place, so I called you.’

[Dangerous place, huh… Sounds like my kind of place!]

The sword rambled on about how a dangerous place meant terrifying foes, but I only half-listened as I began to move forward.

***
Someone was quietly watching Lian. The figure, like a mass of pitch-black darkness, spoke in a thin female voice.

“Kehehe, foolish Asterias. Who would have thought you’d lose your only messenger like this.”

Asterias, the god of the dark fantasy world and the white-eyed finch coexisting with the god of the gag world. The black mass believed Lian to be the last remaining messenger of the collapsing world.

This assumption was due to the divine mark on Lian’s left hand. The mark, left by a god from a shrine, had inadvertently attracted an outer deity, who naturally assumed Lian was a saint or divine messenger.

“Walk and walk through the infinite mist until you eventually go mad. Kuheheh!”

Imagining Lian driving his sword through his own neck brought such ecstasy that the figure trembled.

Thus, a day passed.

“…As expected of a divine messenger. Others would’ve gone mad long ago.”

Seeing Lian’s sanity intact after a day, the figure gave a small sigh of admiration.

And another day passed.

“Hmm, if he had such strong mental fortitude, I should’ve taken him. Tch, what a waste.”

Watching Lian walk the same space for two days, the figure was greatly impressed.

And another day passed.

“Could he be a dragon? Is he a polymorphed dragon? No, no. A dragon wouldn’t be carrying a demonic sword…”

After three days of watching Lian walk the same space, the figure began to deny reality.

And another day passed.

“What is he? Why hasn’t he gone mad yet? Why? How come?”

Confused by the unbelievable reality, the figure felt disoriented.

And another day passed.

“….”

Watching the same scene endlessly repeat, the figure stared blankly, unable to speak.

Another day passed.

“…? …? …?”

Countless hooks appeared in the figure’s mind. It began to refer to Lian as ‘something’ rather than human.

And yet another day passed.

“…Huh?”

Staring blankly at Lian, the figure finally felt its vision shatter and realized its own existence was distorting.

The grave of mist, meant to break a sentient being’s mind, had never held anyone for this long. Normally, no sentient being could last a day without going mad.

“Gah, no…”

Being a sentient entity itself, the figure was also susceptible to having its mind broken, as evidenced now.

It desperately tried to close the space to escape this hellish place, but it couldn’t.

“Why…?”

Only then did it realize that control over this space had passed to someone else.

“Oh.”

The figure realized that a T-rex, a bipedal elephant, and a flyer-distributing lady couldn’t exist in this misty grave.

From the moment Lian entered this space, the misty grave had started to be eroded by the gag filter, becoming Lian’s world.

Because of this, even the bizarre entities (like the flyer-distributing lady) seemed like they had always been part of the misty grave. The world itself had twisted.

“No, no!”

Feeling a sense of crisis, the figure flew towards Lian. Lian looked up at it.

The ominously dark mass had transformed into a meteor, crashing to the ground.

Boom!

And the world collapsed? It was a perfect gag-world ending.
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And Lian woke up from his dream.

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“…It’s been a while since I had a gag dream… Ahem.”

Lifting my heavy eyelids, I muttered, feeling a sharp pain in my throat. Coughing, I looked around to find myself on a bed.

End of Chapter.
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