The Gentleman at the End
Chapter 381 - Chapter 381 Chapter 380 Galon

Chapter 381: Chapter 380 Galon Chapter 381: Chapter 380 Galon Located on the highest floor of the Gentleman Hall is a document storage room, which also contains a special secret chamber.

Even department heads have to submit an application to higher-ups and gain approval with stamps from at least three departments before they can enter the secret chamber to access specific documents.

The chamber is an independent space created using special space technology, less than ten square meters in size,

and it contains only a filing cabinet,

Inside which all the documents are wrapped in black folders made from Gentleman’s Skin and marked with the deep red word ‘Top Secret’ on their surface.

These documents are associated with key individuals in the organization,

The label on the first drawer reads ‘First Gentleman’, which pertains to the information regarding the individuals who have served as the First Gentleman of the organization to date; all seven files are kept here.

The second drawer is labeled ‘Founder’ and houses early records of significant figures such as the Archbishop and the First Doctor, including some unknown events from the nascent stages of the organization.

The third drawer is labeled ‘Prophet’ and contains information on the top ten Prophets as ranked by the organization.

The fourth drawer is labeled ‘Special Record Combat Power*’,

Over centuries of development, the organization found that, under extremely rare circumstances, some gentlemen exhibited strength far beyond their peers and could not be assessed through conventional metrics.

Even so-called ‘geniuses’ couldn’t hold a candle to these individuals. However, they often proved to be somewhat unstable and could potentially bring disaster to the organization.

The organization categorized these highly capable yet uncontrollable individuals as ‘Special Record Combat Power’ and managed them using special measures.

When facing significant threats, the organization would release and recall this group of special combat powers to resolve crises.

For example, the Living Dead – Hogni Zede, currently supervised by the top-rated Prophet Daislin Baldivia, is sealed deep beneath the academy.

And among the newly added documents, a label attached on the back reads – ‘Insomniac’.

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[Yodesapen Galon]

He was born in a rather famous mental asylum located in Flumouth, the former prime city under the organization’s control. This mental asylum differed from the conventional definitions of such institutions.

After all, in such a world, it’s quite common for humans’ fragile nerves to suffer from prolonged and irreconcilable disturbances; most mental illnesses did not even necessitate hospitalization – or rather, most people suffered from mental disorders to some degree.

During the decades of gentleman selection, the organization slowly discovered that humans with severe mental conditions who passed the gentleman’s evaluations tended to receive rare communications and were more likely to become Elite Gentlemen.

However, they required much stricter stability control and regular checks than others.

Consequently,

the organization turned the Flumouth mental asylum into a trial site, allocating substantial funds and personnel while declaring that the asylum would provide services free of charge to all, including free food and round-the-clock care.

Of course, one would have to undergo comprehensive mental tests and be diagnosed with a mental disorder to be admitted.

As the project progressed, the Flumouth mental asylum delivered a special group of gentlemen to the organization every year.

Thirty-seven years ago, something unusual happened at the asylum.

A woman named Essena Galon, afflicted with severe hysteria, often fantasized about being pregnant. She claimed to be expecting whenever she met someone and built elaborate fantasies about her future.

One day, during a mass physical examination of all patients, she was found to be actually pregnant.

The asylum’s security was stringent, and such incidents should have been impossible.

Security personnel were immediately ordered to review all recent surveillance footage, but it showed that, for months, Essena Galon had never had direct contact with any man, nor had she ever left her designated area without authorization.

The asylum continued to monitor her closely,

yet each physical examination confirmed that the fetus inside her was perfectly normal without showing any sign of illness.

Nine months passed.

Essena Galon went to the restroom as usual, and shortly afterward, she was found to have hanged herself,

A baby who had already cut the umbilical cord was left on the washbasin counter, quiet and calm,

This baby could miraculously control the faucet from a distance, directing the water to rinse over his body and wash away the blood of his mother.

The asylum named him Yodesapen Galon and immediately treated him as a subject of significant research, assigning gentlemen proficient in spiritual power to oversee his development.

At just three years old, he could perform telekinesis for extended periods, and once, he even managed to undress a gentleman playing with him, speaking in his childish voice:

“Uncle Otes, don’t wear clothes like these. They’re like a monster that could clasp its mouth shut and swallow you alive at any moment.”

When Yodesapen Galon celebrated his fifth birthday, his increasingly powerful spiritual power also brought with it an illness called “Insomnia.”

His innate spiritual power severely restricted the production of melatonin, and at most Galon could only manage to sleep for two to three hours a day. By the age of six, he was completely unable to sleep.

After examinations at the hospital, it was found that Galon’s pineal gland had been transformed into a storage area for spiritual power, incapable of secreting melatonin anymore, and all other sleep-related hormones ceased production. His right to sleep had been completely stripped away.

Yet, he desperately wanted to sleep, displaying an intense desire to do so every night.

As time went on, he entered a state of ‘eyes open sleep,’ where he did not actually fall asleep, but rather slipped into a ‘slit’ between dreams and reality.

In fact, everyone passes through this ‘slit’ when they fall asleep, their thoughts becoming chaotically jumbled, with no clue what they are thinking, a haphazard assembly of their subconscious mess.

But they do not linger long, and usually, within a few seconds, they sink into true sleep.

Because Galon’s right to sleep was erased, the closest he could get was to this slit, where he’d feign sleep amid its blurry and tumultuous confines, seeking mental comfort.

As he visited this chaotic and entirely unknown ‘slit’ every night, Galon began to try and explore this place.

His ever-strengthening spiritual power acted like a lighthouse, its strong light dispersing the chaotic fog, shining a pathway akin to a maze, allowing him to delve deeper between the slits of reality and dreams.

Every night he managed to go a certain distance, leaving a marker where he was before waking up, similar to a ‘game save,’ so the next time he went to sleep, he could start right from there.

Delving deeper, continuously moving within the slit,

As he grew older, Galon became more obsessed with this endeavor, eventually spending over twelve hours a day in the slit.

Even after being handed over to the organization by the psychiatric hospital and officially becoming a gentleman, he still maintained this habit.

He even began to harness the power of the “Gentlemen’s Skin” to move faster and more efficiently in the slit.

At the age of twenty-one,

And on the thirteenth year of his journey through the slit,

After a long run, he finally reached the ‘end’ of the slit between reality and dreams, where there stood a door glowing with a deceptive gleam, a single-leaf door.

As he gently pushed the door open and stepped through to the other side,

Some sort of invisible [connection] was thus established.

He stood on the prairie, watching a group of ‘people’ gathering around a campfire to eat.

When they smelled his scent and turned their heads, what they held in their hands were their own arms, and the next instant their bodies intertwined with each other, contorting into an indescribable monster.

Galon immediately killed the monster with his spiritual power and forced himself to wake up.

The moment he returned to reality, a nauseous feeling surged within him.

He rushed to the bathroom and vomited wildly. However, what came out of his body and fell into the sink were the limbs of the monster he had killed in the dream slit.

When he lifted his head and looked at himself in the mirror, his pupils reflected the world of the slit.

With his strong understanding and acceptance, Galon quickly realized that he had established a connection with an unknown world.

To ensure he did not lose control, to not be possessed by the monster,

he underwent relentless Gentlemen training day and night, and even honed his killing intent by slaughtering patients, using his thread-like spiritual power to try to seal the ‘door of the slit’ as much as possible,

Under the institute’s suggestion, he put himself in a perpetual negative state to weaken the connection with that mysterious world.

Later, when he left Zion and moved to a mundane life in a peripheral town, Galon slowly found a [balance], trying to communicate and interact with the monsters on the other side.

He quickly realized that the nature of the creatures living in that world was absolutely chaotic and completely unrelated to humans.

Since the connection was already formed, Galon could never escape it.

Mere containment was not a sustainable solution,

Galon began to make use of the power of his illness, creating a temporary skin conduit through his own “Restriction Removal,”

allowing the creatures to come out for a while, permitting them to hunt patients around the town and bring back a certain amount of spoil.

Through such a balanced adjustment, the monsters became somewhat more stable and even gradually reached a ‘peaceful coexistence’ with the other world.