Chapter 86: Was this the key, then?
The shaman looked at me as I trembled. Then, she attempted to strike the bowl again but paused.
"Have you thought of the answer?" She asked, but I did not respond. "Does it scare you that much?"
She had no idea. Just thinking of what had happened and realizing I had actually passed through it and they weren’t just pages I read in a book made my bones cry out.
"If the reality scares you, why don’t you live in your own imagination?" She said and something about that piqued my interest.
She spoke the words like they were from a book.
"Hwang Jo-Pil, I don’t know what you went through in that other world or why you fear so much to return, but my advice is that you throw out reality and live like it’s all fake." She said. "If you imagine it’s not real, you’ll be able to take any action you see fit. You see, it’s the actions that you process with your brain that count."
Okay, she was losing me there. What did that mean?
"It’s a simple thought process." She said. "For example, if you convince yourself that when you’re harmed, you’ll heal immediately like a superhero, then would you hesitate to walk through danger?"
"Well, no."
"Why is that?"
"Because I believe I’ll heal immediately." I said.