This was the doubt that a powerful exorcist named Nyaki had at this time. He never thought that as a human being who exorcises monsters, one day he would turn into the monster he hated most.
Originally, when he discovered that he had turned into a monster, his dignity as a human being and the glory of being an exorcist made him choose to commit suicide at the first opportunity, preserving the last dignity of the exorcist named Niach.
However, he discovered an extremely desperate thing. With his current means, he simply could not complete suicide. His vitality, or life state, had completely broken away from the scope of human beings.
"Niachi, are you thinking about committing suicide again? What's going on? The great exorcist is actually troubled all day long by such boring issues as his own life form!"
And at this moment, facing the humid sea breeze, a sharp sound like a knife blade rubbing against the glass sounded in Niaqi's ears, which was full of ridicule.
Niach, who was sitting on the beach and looking at the blue-black sea, stood up and looked at the direction from which the unpleasant sound came, and then he saw an ugly humanoid monster.
Before he was exiled on this unknown desert island, when he saw this kind of monster, as an exorcist, he would immediately think of how to solve it in the fastest, most reasonable way and with the least harm to the surrounding area.
This monster.
But now, Niach just shook his head and sat down again, not even having the strength to respond, because he knew what this ugly humanoid monster was transformed into.
They were the same human exorcists who were like him before, and then encountered misfortunes at the same time as him. They were brothers and sisters, the same kind as him now.
"Why don't you answer me? You were not so rude before." Niaqi did not respond, but instead aroused the monster's interest. He walked next to the former great exorcist, then sat down, planning to follow him
Let's have a good chat, help him relieve his stress, and also kill his own boring time. After all, there is nothing to do on this small island.
"I don't want to discuss with you any more boring questions like 'are we human beings?'" Niaqi glanced at the humanoid monster that looked like a mummy with its bandages removed.
Different from the shriveled mummy, this monster's eyes are still as vivid as human beings, filled with the breath of life that only living creatures can have. This is extremely contradictory to the breath exuding from his body, but it is also strangely and inexplicably coordinated.
"I think we need to discuss it. After all, our ideas are completely opposite. You always insist on the idea that we are monsters, and you also think that monsters like us should commit suicide."
"Do you think we are not monsters now? Can we still be called humans?"
Niaqi raised his palm and let his companions see clearly what this palm looked like under the dim moonlight - the shriveled flesh and blood were tightly attached to the withered bones, without any vitality at all.
Wrapped with gray-black death energy.
"Why are we not human beings? Have you and I experienced any fluctuations or changes in our thoughts or memories because we have become the ghosts we are now? Have you ever had the urge to eat human flesh and blood? No!"
The monster stood up with his eyes still as vivid and bright as when he was an exorcist. He opened his arms and made a gesture of embracing the ocean in front of him.
"We all retain all the memories of being human beings and exorcists. We still have the noble will to protect human beings from being invaded by monsters. Why can't we be called human beings? It's just physical.
Change, will we become monsters?"
"Aren't the physical changes enough?" Niaqi looked at his impassioned companion who became a little excited and stood up from the beach.
"You have already experienced the weirdness of our current body. We have indeed retained all our memories, and our thoughts have not been distorted, but you can really guarantee that when we face real humans, we can overcome the physical
The bloodthirsty instinct emerges from the body.”
"Of course!" the inhuman monster replied without hesitation, "Even if I become a monster, I am still a human being. In the future, I will live as a human being and continue to be an exorcist.
, guarding humanity.”
"In our current form, our family and friends will no longer accept us. We will be regarded as monsters." Niaqi, whose eyes were still fresh, looked up at the dark sky. This was what he was really struggling with.
"Then what?" The friend looked at Niach with strange eyes, "Just because our family and our friends can't accept our current attitude, are we going to regard ourselves as monsters and then commit suicide? How ridiculous and stupid, you
Have you never thought about how much convenience we will have when expelling those demons and evil spirits that harm mankind with our current posture?"
"..." Niaqi tugged at his withered mouth, showing a strange expression that wanted to laugh but also wanted to cry. For his friend, even if he turned into a monster, he would immediately think about how to use this ability.
The strength to defend the human spirit was shocked, "Ying Jiaer, I am not as good as you."
"Look at our current posture. Although it is too ugly to look directly at, we cannot deny his power no matter what."
"That's true." Niaqi, who has never worried about food and drinking water since the disaster, nodded, "Just the fact that he is neither hungry nor thirsty is amazing enough."
"Not only do we not need to eat or drink, but we also no longer have vital points in the conventional sense for ordinary humans. Most physical methods have lost their effect on us. Our bodies will regenerate after being injured. Once these abilities are used to exorcise demons
After the cause, we can shelter more humans than before."
"What you said makes sense, but there is a question, how do we return to human society?"
Niach looked at his friend who was getting more and more excited as he talked, and then asked softly.
Upon hearing this question, Yingjia, who became more and more excited as she spoke, suddenly stopped, and then sat down like a frosted eggplant, looking a little downcast.
"Yes, how should we return to the human world? If we can only stay in this shabby corner, then I might as well think about suicide with you?"
"There will be a way." Seeing his friend who had been full of energy before turning into a dejected friend now, Niach couldn't help but comforted him.
"What method? We don't even know how we got here? Because we got on the boat to clean up a resentful spirit, and then encountered an inexplicable wave, and finally ended up living on this damn deserted island, where we became like this ghost.
"
"Yeah, it's inexplicable from beginning to end." Great exorcist Niach also lamented. He never dreamed that a simple exorcism operation would turn out like this.
Just as these two people were constantly testing the surrounding ocean, trying to cross the sea and return to human society, they were somewhat surprised to find that in the endless distance, there was a strange movement that had never happened before.
"What is that?" Exorcist Ying Jiaer was particularly excited when a bright green spot appeared on the sea level in the distance.
Because this barren island was too quiet with almost nothing, as was the surrounding sea area, so he was so happy when a third movable object appeared within the visible range.
"Are you too happy now? There is no way that anything that can move on this ocean is related to us humans." Niaqi reminded his friend, looking solemnly into the distance.
A gradually expanding light spot.
"So what if it has nothing to do with us humans? As long as we can move on this ocean, we are not humans anymore anyway. Even if we encounter those evil creatures, it is absolutely fine to get along with them for a while."
"Not human? You still insisted that we are human before."
"That's at the ideological level. On the material level, our current state has nothing to do with human beings." Yingjiaer spread his hands to let Niaqi, who no longer had suicidal thoughts, recognize the reality.
"Oh, no matter what you say, you have a point."
"Of course, but now is not the time for us to argue. Can you see if my eyesight is dazzled? There are double images. Why are there so many light spots all of a sudden?"
"It's not a double image, there are indeed more. There is not just one unknown object moving on the sea, but a cluster."
The exorcist who maintained the body of a monster but the heart of a human looked seriously at the unknown group that was gradually moving towards the island where they were. When the distance gradually narrowed, these two exorcists who thought they had experienced strong winds and waves
, their eyes, which were no different from humans, suddenly widened.
"Holy shit!" After seeing clearly what was moving on the sea, the two of them subconsciously exclaimed at the same time, "What a big ship!"
"How come there is such a big ship? You're kidding! It's totally against common sense. It's just cheating!"
Ying Jiaer's eyes widened, looking at the huge ghost battleship like a city floating on the sea. Such a huge ship was beyond the scope of his cognition.
"Also, why are there so many ships like this that can destroy an entire harbor?"
"What kind of common sense do you talk about in a place like this?" Compared to his friends whose emotions and anger were completely exposed on the outside, Niach's expression became much more serious after he saw clearly what the unknown object coming from the distance was, and even
It's fear!
Because this fleet, which was growing in number and almost completely covering the sea in front of them, contained so many meanings that it was terrifying to think about it.