Usually, a person's body housed an angel and a demon. This demon was commonly known as the inner demon.
An inner demon could also be understood as a flaw within one's heart.
Overcoming the flaws in one's heart meant overcoming the inner demon.
Dilos had once believed that this was what he needed to do. He more or less possessed all of the traits mentioned above, so as long as he steadily tempered his mind, he could resolve the issue.
But only now did he realize he had been wrong—wildly wrong.
The explanation above was not wrong, but it was only one part of what an inner demon meant.
Dilos discovered this after coming down with a high fever, which threw the true essence within his body into disorder and, by sheer coincidence, sent him into his own spiritual world.
They said that the spiritual world reflected one's inner world, and that was indeed true.
The moment he entered his spiritual world, he discovered that his inner world looked like some cheap patchwork pieced together from utterly unrelated paintings.
It was his first time seeing flames coated in ice, or pure, beautiful landscapes interspersed with poisonous substances that corroded life...
Contradictory scenes where two completely opposing things coexisted were almost everywhere.
Since Dilos had no idea how to leave this world, he could only walk through it step by step. Then, after what felt like an entire day, he encountered a man—a man who looked exactly like him.
The only difference was that this man's expression was utterly disgusting. With that lecherous face and the way he kept looking around, he seemed like the kind of person who would pounce on any beautiful woman he saw.
If this guy had not been bound by layer after layer of chains, Dilos