CH 40

Chapter 40 - Codependent System

The pilgrimage ended without any special mention.

The result was nay, when I heard about the special certification method …… I broke out in a terrible cold sweat.

My face was fine, but the part hidden by my clothes was covered in sweat, a skillful trick for me.

It would be funny to see what kind of certification method they use.

I was bowled over by the meticulousness behind it.

I was a man, so this is how I heard it.

During the pilgrimage, you helped a woman who was being tangled up with a man with overwhelming force, and you became friends.

The man who is entangled is an idiot with no common sense.

You become intimate with several women along the way.

Powerful monsters that normally wouldn’t show up, show up, and you fight them off with overwhelming force.

If it fits the cliché, then yes, it’s certified.

I don’t know if I’d go that far.

In my case, I’m getting close to Mil.

But the mourning woman Silvana, made a fuss, and she thought that we were conscious of each other too much.

It’s not too far from the truth.

It gave me a better opinion of the teacher for a moment.

He was doing his job well.

No force was used at all.

He said that I had only been intimate with one woman, so it did not apply.

How many people of the opposite sex does the apostle have in his life?

I wonder …… what does this indicate?

I think it is very important.

I can hear the mourning woman Silvana’s astonished voice in the distance.

“He has frozen up …… again. He really likes to think, doesn’t he? I think they can even make a statue of him.”

Like the noise flowing around me, the voice faded from my consciousness.

It is true that there was an unbelievable idiot in the encounter with Mil.

It’s true that she’s usually an idiot, but I don’t think she’s …… that bad.

The desires of those who receive the power are realized, affecting them mentally rather than physically.

And those that are susceptible to the influence are attracted to it.

Furthermore, reason is temporarily greatly diminished and becomes instinctive.

If you think about it, it explains a lot.

In Mil’s case, it was a specific request, but …… can it can be attracted with such precision.

I’ll leave that for now.

The other condition.

A powerful monster that shouldn’t show up, shows up, and you repel it, huh.

Is it a desire to use some power to show off your strength?

If he is unaware or doesn’t want to stand out, the monster will appear in front of him like a receptionist.

Or maybe ……

I’m strong, but I don’t want to use my powers.

I never want to stand out.

It’s so hard.

Is it like …… Misawa from hell?

The fact that you don’t want to stand out is just a pretext, but the truth is that you’re itching to stand out.

Will there be a monster or an underdog as an excuse or motive to use their power?

In my case, the monsters didn’t come out because I didn’t really want to use it.

If I want to fight, I can attract monsters outside of their habitat range.

It’s like a special kind of scattering bait.

Because they are strong, they can move outside their territory.

So Mil’s case is that I’m actually an elf lover.

So she fits the criteria of the people I wanted.

After all, if he wants to use his power in the deep mind, will the world adapt and treat him in a way that makes it easy for him to do so?

If he wants to build a harem in his deep mind, will women be attracted to him?

He is ostensibly pretending to be troubled by why so many women are attracted to him.

When your instincts are thriving…

I wonder if it’s possible to attract women with something like pheromones.

Wait a minute …… When in trouble, go back to the main source.

In other words, God and the like have a certain type of soul that they pull in.

There is a so-called need for approval, but it is not satisfied before reincarnation.

But I don’t want to push my desires to the point of committing a crime.

I! I! I’m not the type of person who would actively do anything about it …… but I will do it if I’m asked.

He says he likes to be alone, but he actually wants to be pampered by everyone.

And he yearns for a harem, which he never had before his reincarnation.

I can’t categorize them simply, but I guess they tend to be like that?

I wonder if I’m that kind of person ……

I feel a little self-conscious, but I’m me and I can’t help it.

I’ve been in the same kind of fish tank, apparently.

So, God can intervene in spiritual things.

However, since white cannot be changed to black, it is easy to interfere if you choose one that has the former background.

It might be able to turn white into light gray.

If I could turn white into black, I’d have used my powers long ago.

So far, so good …… I’m starting to see the good side of this.

And the ones who are chosen usually use their power for good.

The need for approval is satisfied, and everyone around them is happy.

And they’re happy with the unconditional admiration and love they get.

Even when they kill people out of personal anger, they are somehow praised and happy.

Bring in over-technology, and the people around you will be blessed.

If you can get along with the apostles, you will be favored in many ways.

If you commit a crime, you will be acquitted.

If you don’t like someone, the apostle will take care of them or somehow they will destroy themselves.

When such a beneficent apostle dies, a disaster will occur.

It drops from positive to negative at once.

Then, the dependence of the people around them will increase.

Then the church, which originally had spiritual authority, gets on top of it.

And all the world will be incorporated into this cycle.

However, even if they have power, apostles are imperfect people.

Naturally, they will make mistakes.

But when they are integrated into this cycle, failure itself becomes an inconvenience.

Even before his reincarnation, the dictator’s inconvenient past had been altered.

The troubling thing is that the called soul is not the type to face up to its own failures.

If forced to do so, they pretend to be remorseful, thinking they are right.

But inwardly, they either pretend it never happened, or they end up justifying themselves.

They will let it go if the people around them are considerate enough to cover up their mistakes.

The bigger the failure, the better.

It seems like the opposite, but it is.

If you can handle it in your own mind, you can face it as much as you want.

In fact, you want to face it.

It’s because they don’t want to admit to themselves that they are the ones who turn a blind eye to their failures.

It’s a blunt thing to say, though.

The type of person who likes to think that they are admirable for accepting failure.

A person who blames others for every little mistake.

That’s why psychopaths are not called psychopaths.

But if the failures seem to exceed their processing capacity …… they’ll pretend that they don’t know.

The fifth apostle’s screw-up would be a good example.

The fifth apostle was probably the most psychopathic psychopath I’ve ever seen.

Maybe the fifth apostle really did believe she was right, though.

The church would take care of the inconvenient mistakes they didn’t want to see.

So that you can excuse yourself that they did it on their own, even though you didn’t want to.

Ostensibly, the apostle will be unhappy, but inwardly he will be relieved.

The result is a system where the apostle and the church are co-dependent.

In a sense, once you have a hold of a reincarnated person who is easy to manipulate, you can make the whole world conform to your intentions.

Wait! Wait! Wait! That dirty aquarium he showed me at the beginning!

I recognize that any soul that doesn’t believe in me or doesn’t conform to my intentions …… is unclean.

I was truly horrified when he said that.

But God’s ethics are completely different from those of humans.

This explains why they let us use our powers to purify them.

I was chosen to be an outrageous cleaning tool.

If that’s the case, then it must have been a terrible mistake to pick me.

Or maybe he thought I’d use it anyway.

It makes me even angrier.

I’m definitely not going to use it.

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Oops, my thoughts went elsewhere.

When I was thinking that I should reconsider Mil’s case …… I was surprised to see the face of the mourning woman, Silvana, right in front of me.

“Whoa, what’s the matter?”

The pouty face of the mourning woman, Silvana.

“What’s the matter my ass. It’s just that no matter how many times I call out that we’re at the inn town, Al remains frozen.”

It was frustrating, but I couldn’t argue.

“We decided to dismiss at the first place we met, but you’ve been silent. Seriously …… It’s really troubling. We don’t have much time left together, you know.”

I was getting tired of it too.