TO BE or NOT TO BE: The Inevitable Choice
Solutions in the unconscious
시온🏞
Wow~ So this is how a curse came to be?
루시퍼
Yes. And on the day the curse began, I asked you to make a choice.
루시퍼
Now...would you like to play a more fun game?
시온🏞
Ugh-!!
Zion grimaced as a powerful pain coursed through his body.
시온🏞
What is this...!!
루시퍼
Ah, I have shared my strength with you.
루시퍼
How is it? I feel like I've gained the power of the Demon King.
시온🏞
Oh~! I feel a surge of energy...
루시퍼
I don't particularly like magic, but your powers have become so powerful that they rival those of a warlock.
루시퍼
Should I go back and start now?
시온🏞
Hahaha! Are you feeling good?
Zion's eyes flashed fiercely.
시온🏞
Okay... let's get started.
레이븐🔥
You...aren't you Zion...?
시온🏞
Hmm~~ Well?
Vampire Zion smiled faintly.
시온🏞
Okay, now-
bang!!
시온🏞
what?
The door slammed open, and Ido and Hwanung stood in front of Raven and Zion, gasping for breath.
이도🌑
Haa...haa...I never thought you'd be a vampire.
환웅✨
Raven, step back from Zion.
레이븐🔥
what...?
환웅✨
This isn't the Zion we knew.
환웅✨
Every night, my brother changed into a vampire.
시온🏞
Tsk! The timing is incredible.
Seoho and Geonhee arrived soon after.
환웅✨
Let's move the space first.
Exactly-
Hwanung snapped his fingers.
건희🌪
First of all, I have something to tell you.
환웅✨
What is it?
건희🌪
The reason the moon didn't rise and the moon's barrier was broken...
건희🌪
It was because there was an evil spirit within the empire.
이도🌑
Evil aura?
서호💧
I think the evil spirit means a curse.
시온🏞
Hahaha! You seem confident? Leisurely-
Zion flew in front of Raven's eyes in an instant, holding the bloody sword.
시온🏞
-I see you're chatting away!!
레이븐🔥
Ugh-!
Raven quickly turned his body to avoid the blade and summoned his sword.
레이븐🔥
But... to lift the curse, I have to kill Zion?
건희🌪
Kill...you say?
이도🌑
For now, let's focus on defending each other!
시온🏞
“Everything on earth • will fly away sharply, containing evil”!!
When Zion chanted, the rocks flew into the air.
It turned sharp and fell on five sabers.
이도🌑
“Black shadow that nothing can penetrate • Escort!”
As Ido shouted urgently, a protective shield appeared just in the nick of time.
서호💧
Phew - that was a close call.
Tsk tsk-
레이븐🔥
what?
건희🌪
The dark shield has been cracked?
이도🌑
This is...nonsense.
이도🌑
I've never seen anything like this.
환웅✨
Everyone wake up!
환웅✨
That means Zion's power has grown stronger.
환웅✨
It's said that he has as much power as a black magician!
시온🏞
Maybe because you're a white magician, your head works pretty well?
시온🏞
Well then... should I start with you?
Zion smiled dangerously.
환웅✨
what-?!
시온🏞
"Land of Evil • I will create a deep place • and make it fall asleep"
Before Hwanung could finish speaking, Zion quickly let out a chant.
Kugugung-!
The land where Hwanung stood split into two.
환웅✨
Eww!!
Before Hwanung could even chant
The darkness within the split earth pulled Hwanung towards it.
건희🌪
Hwanung!
이도🌑
Ugh-!
Ido spread his black wings and tried to descend into the ground,
시온🏞
"Stop it"
Kukukuku-!
Sharp rock fragments flew from all directions.
이도🌑
Ugh-!
이도🌑
If it's like this...I can't go..!!
Ido looked at his wings, torn by rock fragments.
시온🏞
Hahaha! So there are only four left now?
서호💧
...I think the first priority would be to weaken Zion's power.
레이븐🔥
Hwanung is a white magician...so let's believe him.
서호💧
Hey~! Vampire over there! It's time to play with us.
환웅✨
'Am I going to die now?'
[You are not dead.]
환웅✨
Uh...huh?
Hwanung carefully opened his eyes.
환웅✨
Where is this...?!
A familiar landscape unfolded before Hwanung's eyes.
환웅✨
Unconscious...was it a lie?
[Wow, you have a good memory.]
환웅✨
Who are you? Isn't it time you told me?
[Hmm... okay.]
[Now, let me introduce myself formally.]
A bright, soft light appeared and a woman appeared before my eyes.
시아🌙
I am Sia, the goddess of the moon who existed in your subconscious.
환웅✨
Sir... Sir?!
시아🌙
There was a reason I existed in your subconscious.
시아🌙
As you know, not many people know about curses.
시아🌙
It's a curse known only to four people: Helios, the god of the sun; Beelzebuth, the former king of the underworld; Lucifer, his son and current king of the underworld; and me.
환웅✨
So can you tell me about the curse?
시아🌙
Since we don't have much time, I'll keep it brief.
시아🌙
There was a battle between gods in the past.
시아🌙
When Helios and Beelzebuth were in a one-on-one fight, my brother told Beelzebuth to stop.
시아🌙
Beelzebuth's specialty was curses, which disrupted the order of this world.
환웅✨
ah...
시아🌙
But Beelzebuth took his own life.
환웅✨
By yourself?
시아🌙
...she traded her life for the most powerful curse. That curse was -
환웅✨
-It's a curse that's been placed on us.
시아🌙
Yes. So, I was in the subconscious of a white wizard for generations, trying to escape that curse.
시아🌙
Your subconscious found me sooner than I thought.
환웅✨
So how can we break the curse?
시아🌙
That... I haven't heard of it either.
시아🌙
But seeing as he told Lucifer to kill the wizards before he died, it seems like the curse will be lifted only if Lucifer is killed.
환웅✨
...I see. That's good.
시아🌙
What's so fortunate about that?
환웅✨
The way to break the curse...is not to kill Zion.
시아🌙
You're the first white wizard I've seen as kind as this... Go ahead. The other wizards will be waiting.
시아🌙
Don't forget, I'm watching over you-
As Sia's words faded away, Hwanung's vision became blurry.
환웅✨
That's... fortunately...