Abandoned Priest at the Hero’s Party

Body and Mind

“Now… what are you doing now!”

The child, now awakened, cried out. But did you hear the voice?

As if shouting into vain, the cry had no repercussion. Soon, the girl realized that she could not hear her own voice.

silence. Through the still silence, a voice was heard. Of course, it wasn’t his own voice, but an unfeeling voice.

“All I can do now is just roll around. No, there is one more. This time, I will take your mouth off.

Loca now has no mouth. I can’t speak because I don’t have a mouth.

Neither the sound nor the screams can go beyond the ridge of the neck, but only echoes around. Rocca looked at the blue light with poisonous eyes. And soon, my vision darkened.

“This time I crushed your eyes. hey Do you still not know?”

darkness. Silence. still. A world unknown to those who have been able to see the light since birth.

Those who were blind from the beginning were not afraid, the child was afraid. Everything she had built up collapsed like a sand castle in front of a swordsman without a teacher.

A voice whispered to the child who could not even see his eyes now.

“Everything you thought was yours was, in fact, not yours.”

‘What… that’s bullshit…!’

No mouth to protest, no eyes to shoot.

And now, there was no sound at all. silence. Just absolute silence approached Rocca. The stillness was more terrifying than threatening with any dreadful words.

– Heron? Heron?

The almost terrified child eagerly searched for the voice that had shaped him into this shape. I couldn’t open my mouth to sing, so I cried out with my heart.

– Hey.

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My heart, my heart, answered. As if another ego whispered in her mind, the answer came back.

– I took everything from you. But you still have one thing left.

-What’s left of me…?

-okay. only your own. No one can take that away. If you still don’t know, think about it.

The voice was silent again. Knowing yourself and giving the answer.

Although these two seem to yield the same results at first glance, they are not. Enlightenment has its power only when it is completely one’s own. Enlightenment given by others cannot be.

-Rocca… I don’t know.

Awkward, Roca struggled. Exactly, I tried to do that.

I couldn’t tell if my body was actually wriggling or not. I just hope so.

– Get me back quickly. I have to go protect my master!

-…Do you think your own body is yours?

But time is never infinite, and even at this moment, Roka is slowly dying. What should I do if I am not looking at this opportunity for enlightenment that I have made so far? All you have to do is give hints and guide them.

The voice continued quietly. In Roka’s head, the two selves seemed to be asking each other questions. The child responded while feeling dizzy.

-no. It’s the master’s.

-Whoever’s it is, it’s just borrowed. No one owns it I just borrowed it from the world. hey You received a body from the world when you were born, and when you die, you must leave that body behind. it’s not yours it’s passing by

what kind of bullshit is this?

Loca frowned at the sweet talk. Of course, that’s a personal opinion. There was no way to know if his body was really making that kind of expression.

-The magic you are dealing with is, after all, the power of the universe. Borrowing from the universe while you are alive, and putting it back down when you die. Can you say that it is your strength?

-……

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My magic isn’t my power? So, is it someone else’s power?

What are you talking about? Rocca didn’t understand at all.

-So you’re saying that neither my body nor my magic power is mine?

-okay. I just think it’s yours. There is only one thing in life that a man can claim to be mine.

-what is that?

-The only thing left for you now.

what’s left of me what do i have now?

The last thing left of me, no eyes, no arms, no legs. It wasn’t difficult to find the answer. Unknowingly, Loka muttered.

-mind.

-okay. In this wide world, the mind is the only thing you can call your own.

To build things up by yourself, not anyone else, and not to return to the world when you die, but to perish with me. It is only the mind.

– Hey. Refine your magic with your heart. If magic is water, the mind is a vessel. Water also changes according to the shape of the vessel called the heart. Even if you don’t have to mobilize a magic circuit, you have to be able to move magic with your mind alone.

Suddenly, Rocca’s eyes opened. He saw himself lying on the burning earth.

He could also see his own charred body. I tried to move my body, but there was no force. His body’s magic circuit was also terribly broken.

A healthy body resides in a healthy mind. If you live in a sick body, your mind will also get sick.

Just as a person living in a damp, moldy basement unknowingly becomes depressed, when the body is tired, the mind is also tired. When the body dies, the mind also dies.

It is first-class to go against that natural principle and reverse the relationship. In any case, Heron’s idea is that the real me is the mind, and that this body is only a part of it.

Even if the body dies, if the mind is alive, it is not dead, and the body can be revived thanks to the mind. Even an unhealthy body can be brought back to life with a healthy mind.

If the body can influence the mind, the reverse is also possible.

Whether your body is burned or torn by a blade, you must be able to stand on your own with a pure heart to be first-class.

The reason I passed this realization to Roka, which could have gone from second-class to first-class if I realized it myself, was because I hoped that I would survive and learn even a part of it properly.

– Can you draw magic from your mind and reconstruct your body?

Although Roka’s heart has not yet become independent from her body, there is a possibility of repairing the house called the body. Even if the body dies, the soul does not die, and the body can be reconstructed with the help of magical powers.

Reconstructing the body with only one’s own mind is still a long way from Roca’s state that what I think of myself becomes my body.

So now, a large amount of magical power is indispensable for body reconstruction. In any case, such a big job requires that kind of driving force.

“Oh, isn’t it?”

Rocca groaned. There was a voice, but it was the sound of dying. I could feel the life of my whole body waning.

-Don’t intentionally try to draw magic power, put yourself at the lowest level. Just as all rivers flow into the sea, when I become the sea, my magic will naturally flow toward you.

“So… no.”

– If that’s the case, there’s nothing I can do about it. That’s it.

Somehow, it sounded like a sigh.

It wasn’t like that, it was just a sigh.

– Huh, too. The realization that others give you will only give you direction, but it will not make you leap at once. what to do I didn’t get the chance even though I was given the opportunity.

“Heron…?”

– I’m sorry, kid. I’m just a thought If I had the main body, I could have helped somehow, but I’m already running out of strength, as I’m only thinking about it. Now I’ll never see you again

“I, don’t give up on me…”

Loka groaned and shouted. I thought it was making a loud noise, but the sound I heard was as small as a rat squeak. He doesn’t even have the energy to make a sound in his body.

No answer was heard. Heron’s remnants in the mother’s womb used up all her strength and was lost.

In the first place, when Roca reached a turning point, it was the intention to raise the status quo. It wasn’t that big. The direct attack against Phoenix was unexpected.

After creating a space for the mind and giving him a chance to realize, he could no longer survive.

‘Are you going to die like this? Like the sisters?’

The mind, which had been awakened at the most, became confused again. Death, which had been distant for a while, came again. So I had a lot of regrets, and now I was afraid of death.

You can charge for a while without fear of death. But when facing death for such a long time, it was natural for anyone to fear death. Anyone who lives has a fear of death.

You can turn away from madness for a while, or resign altogether.

However, when the time to face is so long, the desire to live again springs up as a human being. So man is like a reed.

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At that moment, something flowed into the child’s mouth, which he had closed because he had no strength to open his eyes. Something like cold liquid ran down my throat. The moment it touched her tongue, Roka opened her eyes without realizing it.

It’s the first time I’ve ever tasted it. It is neither salty nor spicy. It is also far from the umami of the meat. Sour taste? Absolutely not. This is the first taste for a girl.

‘tasty.’

Like a baby sucking its mother’s milk, it instinctively took what came in and passed it on. The tongue piercing sweetness bombarded the taste buds. For a child who didn’t like sweets because they didn’t feel sweet, it was like a whole new world. It was the first sweet taste of my life.

The firefly crystal fruit was crushed and entered without leaving even the last drop of juice.

Kyle took a deep breath and looked at the child in his arms.

“Don’t ever do something so dangerous again.”

Seriously, this kid wouldn’t know how surprised he was.