Chapter 23: A-XX The Portrait of a Dismantled God (2)

An instant.

Manager Myeon looked at the Portrait of a Dismantled God.

The Portrait of a Dismantled God looked at Manager Myeon.

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In the beginning there was the abyss.

Or perhaps an extremely long silence.

And then, it broke it.

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No.

The entire space.

My ears.

The air stopped.

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My mind.

I felt as though everything had been sealed inside a silence on the verge of exploding.

No.

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The light consumed itself to give birth to darkness, and the darkness devoured its mother to become a god.

That was not a voice.

A voice.

No.

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From the deepest part of my brain.

It came from somewhere.

From within.

It was not something that could be heard with ears.

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No.

You are clay molded by my fingers, my seventh failure.

From some hidden corner of the space called the soul.

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Every capillary in my body trembled.

My eyes dried out.

I could not swallow.

My tongue curled up.

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It was not words.

It was not a sound.

Pain itself flowed into me transformed into meaning.

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I will tear you apart to complete myself.

Your eyes are my holes.

Crack.

Your suffering is my curve.

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An unbearable heat surged behind my forehead.

The world split apart.

Something sounded inside my head.

My knees gave way.

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Denial.

The world has not yet been born.

Therefore, listen.

And life is the sum of false transactions.

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Those were not words.

Denial.

Denial.

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Not through my ears.

Each sentence drove itself into me.

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But through the cracks in my existence.

The Relics of the Smiling Martyr squeezed my wrist so tightly it felt as though they were going to break my bones.

My fountain pen throbbed.

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I am the rotten shepherd.

But the god’s sentences were infecting even those numbed nerves.

They were trying to forcibly inject calmness into me.

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“Ugh…”

And I distributed their lives as though they were meat.

I covered my mouth.

My sheep were hungry mouths.

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But it was already too late.

My vision blurred.

My thoughts began to fragment.

My tongue stopped obeying me.

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Behold the black book that opens with my breath.

Meaning disappeared.

A black book?

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I heard something turning pages.

A hallucination of red flesh flipping over like sheets of paper.

That was not a metaphor.

No.

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A beheaded saint transformed into the tip of a pen describing pain.

It is written.

Your name is written in the third column, twelfth row, seventh line.

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It is.

You have already died.

Where?

Until I forget that fact, I will return you to life again and again.

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What… are you saying…?

What are you saying…?

What…?

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M… m… mmmmmmmmm…

What…?

Wh…?

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My thoughts began repeating themselves.

Images.

Words were being cut apart.

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Images.

I am who.

The images were melting.

My mind crumbled like sand.

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I am.

I am Jeong Hae.

I am Jeo.

I am Jeong.

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Jeong Hae.

I am Jeong Haeil.

Jeong.

Jeong Hae.

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My tongue could not stick to the roof of my mouth.

My jaw trembled.

The sentences piled up in my throat like phlegm.

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No.

I am your father.

Black light.

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A visual form without color.

My hearing.

That covered my vision.

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My sense of touch.

Can you hear me, my child made of clay?

My existence.

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Pray through the cracks in my joints.

I call to you with a mouth without a mouth.

Kneel before the glory of my corruption.

Believe through the cavities of my eyes.

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.

·

……

……

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You…

…to me…

You…

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The outer wall of the heart.

■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

I—––––––––

Inside the light.

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A structure without meaning.

Words.

Words.

I am the record of everything I have devoured.

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Thoughts become fragments.

Wordswordswordswordswordswords.

The bones of a language sunk into my ears.

Words.

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No.

The concept of “I am.”

Fragments vomit blood.

I…

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There was light.

Following a black trajectory.

And that light was the fanaticism that sprang from my eyes.

I swallowed that light.

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It is smiling.

JeongJeongHaeJeongHaeJeongJeongJeongJeongJeong.

Whatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhat.

And the darkness opened its belly.

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And you are the flesh placed upon me.

It is crawling inside.

It is tearing apart.

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Swallow.

Meaning disappears.

Be saved.

Chew.

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Meaning disappears and becomes meaning.

The subject who understands that I am not I disappears.

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A denied womb.

You are my collapsed memories.

I dismantled a god following the shape of a man.

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I simply remained.

That absence replaces me.

And that replacement replaces me again—

I was not created.

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No screams.

Crunch!!!

No explosions.

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I forgot that I was suffocating.

Only the sensation of a blade piercing through my eardrums.

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Crack!!!

I forgot that my tongue was twisting.

The very concept of pain brought me back to myself.

I snapped my eyes open and turned my head.

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A tentacle.

To the left.

Something extending behind my head was piercing my ear.

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Cold.

Sticky.

Slippery.

Hot.

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A flesh tentacle.

And then I saw Manager Batori.

That thing lodged in my ear began to withdraw slowly.

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With a faint smile on her pale lips.

She was standing there.

As if nothing had happened.

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Only one hand remained extended directly in front of my face.

Her long white index finger moved toward my eyes.

The tip brushed the bridge of my nose.

Swoosh.

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Shh.

And then—

Do not listen.

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Do not become infected by the words.

My heart was beating.

Remain silent.

I opened my eyes.

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Crack—

Little by little, my brain began to function again.

As the tentacle left my ear, I felt as though something inside my eardrum had been torn apart.

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His tongue was numb, as if it had been paralyzed, and cold sweat ran down his forehead.

Instinctively, I inhaled.

“…Ngh… haa… haaah… haaah…”

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Sounds crackled like interrupted signals.

Colors cut out abruptly and then returned.

He felt as though something deep within his brain had been stirred up, mixing the very surface of his senses.

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‘…It’s calming down.’

As if his entire body were filled with interference, reality trembled.

The confusion did not last long.

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As if a medicine were taking effect, his senses gradually returned.

The ringing in his ears diminished.

His vision stabilized.

“Mr. avalanche Haeil, are you alright?”

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It was Assistant Manager Son.

The fist-head tilted slightly as he asked.

Perfectly aligned folds.

A red tie.

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Beside him, Supervisor Shik gently wrapped one of his heavy arms around him.

“Grrr… Sniff…”

He heard something inhaling like a beast.

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Supported by his two superiors, he slowly raised his head again.

His lips were so dry that they had cracked, but he still nodded firmly.

“Thank you…”

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Beyond the glass of the containment chamber.

It was something that could not even be compared to the dimensional entities he had seen so far.

‘What’s in there…’

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Tracing circles around the Portrait of a Dismantled God, he murmured something with his seven faces.

The cracks in the sculpture.

And standing before that overwhelming existence was Manager Myeon.

Or rather, he was slowly walking around it.

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The viscous eyes.

Truly as if nothing were happening.

The exposed flesh.

He observed all of it with absolute calm.

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It was reverence.

His body trembled.

Not only from fear.

‘…Facing something like that and still behaving that way…’

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‘…With Manager Myeon, I’d better always be extremely respectful.’

And understanding.

Etching that into his heart, he took another deep breath.

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Kneel.

Then Manager Myeon looked up toward the sculpture’s head.

He could still feel residual heat somewhere inside his head.

But he was alive.

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Worship.

The Portrait of a Dismantled God spoke again.

Yet Manager Myeon simply continued observing the sculpture.

Once again, the proclamation of the Portrait of a Dismantled God echoed inside his eardrums.

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It was not a declaration.

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It was not an order.

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He did not kneel.

But Manager Myeon continued gazing at the sculpture.

It resonated like an absolute truth that was merely being reaffirmed.

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At that instant, something twisted.

He did not bow his head.

On the contrary, he uncrossed his arms and took another step closer.

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Instinctively, he focused all his attention on Manager Myeon.

At first, he thought the wrinkles in his suit looked strange.

‘His body…?’

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The collar of his shirt rose in an impossible direction.

His shoes bent in unnatural ways.

The cuffs of his sleeves began to swell. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

Crack.

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His back arched upward.

Creak…

His shoulder tilted at an impossible angle.

Then came the sound of a bone breaking.

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His neck bent once.

Twice.

As if every vertebra were rearranging itself in reverse.

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Three times.

Smoothly.

Strangely.

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But those curves no longer belonged to a human being.

The smiles remained on the lips of his countless faces.

And yet in a repulsive way.

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They were smiles pasted onto skin.

Only fixed shapes.

Not expressions born from emotions or muscles.

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Something began moving beneath his skin.

Tap.

Predetermined designs.

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It was not flesh.

Near the abdomen.

Under the suit.

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He muttered.

It was something harder.

“…Is it moving?”

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Manager Myeon’s abdomen began to swell slowly.

As if something were trying to come out from inside.

The buttons of his suit creaked.

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From his shoulders.

From his back.

From his chest.

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Something resembling faces.

Or more precisely.

The flesh inflated like airbags.

Something inside it was inflating.

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Like a tactile sensation.

‘…It’s coming out from inside.’

Bulging outlines pushed against the outside of the suit.

He could sense them even where he could not see them directly.

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The impression that countless expressions were writhing beneath the flesh in a crowded mass.

Bile rose into his throat.

Like a presence.

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An explosion.

Boom!!

And then—

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Inside the containment chamber, Manager Myeon shattered apart.

“…Hng!”

Without any warning.

He inhaled sharply.

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Suit.

An explosion so sudden that he did not even perceive the sound.

Without any prior sign.

Blood.

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They were flung in every direction.

And a multitude of faces.

Flesh.

‘…Ha… ha… did… did he…?’

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The faces fell.

Fragments of the suit rolled across the floor.

Thick red blood splattered across the walls.

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Jumped.

Crawled.

Wrinkled.

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It was the feeling that it could not possibly be real.

“…Manager Myeon…?”

Faced with something so absurd, the first thing he felt was not surprise.

He was speechless.

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A violent explosion.

He muttered it simply because he could not believe it.

And afterward, those faces covering everything.

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Confusion.

Contempt.

Joy.

Indifference.

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And smiles.

“…This…”

Affection.

Sadness.

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But.

But.

He slowly exhaled and turned his head.

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Why?

Assistant Manager Son slightly tilted his fist-head.

“…Why is no one…?”

Why was no one surprised?

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Supervisor Shik was practically lying down in the hallway.

Manager Batori calmly drank blood through a straw.

Director Mok continued taking notes while adjusting his roots.

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They moved.

Then it happened.

Everyone acted completely normal.

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‘…They’re writhing…?’

Those things attached to chunks of flesh and stuck to the walls.

The faces scattered throughout the containment chamber.

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Two.

The expressions began moving toward one another.

One.

Three…

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Splatter.

Thud.

Squirm.

Squish.

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The fragments of the suit.

The flesh.

The blood.

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The skin of the faces.

Joined together.

All of it.

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Coiled.

Entangled.

Unfolded.

Embedded.

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Merged.

Contracted.

Dozens.

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The fragments of the suit.

The flesh.

No.

Hundreds of chunks of flesh mixed around those faces as if trying to devour one another.

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The blood.

The expressions.

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Once again.

All of it formed the shape of a human being.

The form reconstructed itself.

It was Manager Myeon.

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The hands regained their smoothness.

The shoes became immaculate.

The wrinkles of the suit settled into place.

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He exhaled.

“Ha…”

And one of those familiar faces, with its eternal gentle smile, opened its eyes before him.

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Bewildered.

Unable to comprehend it.

Horrified.

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“I like it.”

Manager Myeon was standing before him once again.

In the same soft and orderly voice he had before exploding.

He said.

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“It seems to have a very clear understanding of what it wants.”

The seven faces.

An existence constructed by combining the materiality of faces with the very concept of expressions.

Those small faces he had always seen blooming between the openings of his suit.

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It was grotesque.

“We will now proceed with the extraction.”

And now he was standing before him again with the same appearance as always.

He barely managed to cling to his sanity as their gazes met when Manager Myeon turned his head toward the other side of the glass.

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Composedly.

Manager Myeon spoke as though absolutely nothing had happened.

Calmly.

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And… in a terrifying manner.

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