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In the present, he confronts the god-eating monster with the Art of Original Sin, wounds it and binds it with the third movement of sealing, and follows the smell of rotting flesh to find its host.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Jakyeong recalls a memory in which he questions his master about why monster hunters seal instead of killing; it is explained not as mercy, but as the thin line between gods and monsters and the rule to protect the gods. In the present, he confronts the god-eating monster with the Art of Original Sin, wounds it and binds it with the third movement of sealing, and follows the smell of rotting flesh to find its host.","key_events":["Jakyeong notes the monster screams like a child and seems weaker than expected for a god-eater.","Jakyeong recalls his master's lesson that hunters seal monsters instead of killing them.","Jakyeong strikes the monster twice and binds it with the Third Movement of Sealing.","Jakyeong judges the god-eating monster with Art of Original Sin and finds it vile and malicious.","The wounded monster flees leaving energy behind and Jakyeong tracks it to its host."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"JAKYEONG.\nWHY DO YOU SUPPOSE BEAST HUNTERS CHOOSE NOT TO KILL BEASTS,\nBUT TO MERELY SEAL THEM AWAY?\n\nBECAUSE THEY PITY THEM?\nDID YOU PITY THE BEAST THAT DEVOURED YOUR MOTHER?\nNO.\nTHEN WHY ANSWER SO?\nBECAUSE HOWEVER DREADFUL A BEAST MAY APPEAR,\nIF IT CRIES SORROWFULLY AND PLEADS FOR ITS LIFE,\nBEGGING NOT TO BE KILLED...\n\nONE CANNOT HELP BUT HESITATE.\nTHAT'S JUST HUMAN NATURE, IS IT NOT?\nSO YOU BELIEVE HUMAN COMPASSION IS WHAT SPARES A BEAST FROM DEATH?\nIS IT NOT?\nNO.\nHUMANS ARE FAR LESS MERCIFUL THAN YOU IMAGINE.\n\nTHERE ARE PLENTY WHO WOULD TEAR THE CLAWS FROM EVEN THE SMALLEST OF BEAST CUBS,\nSLIT ITS THROAT,\nAND LEAVE THE REMAINS SCATTERED BEFORE ITS MOTHER.\nWAS THE RESTRICTION TO ONLY USE SEALING PUT IN PLACE\n\nTO PROTECT BEASTS FROM SUCH EVIL HUMANS?\nTHAT SEEMS TERRIBLY STRANGE...\nJAKYEONG.\nTO KILL A BEAST MEANS ACCEPTING\nTHAT A GOD, TOO, CAN BE KILLED.\n\nAFTER ALL, THERE IS ONLY A FINE LINE BETWEEN A GOD AND A BEAST.\nULTIMATELY, RESTRICTION IS IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE GODS.\nI DO NOT UNDERSTAND.\nYOU WILL, IN TIME.\n\nMASTER.\nI STILL FIND THOSE WORDS DIFFICULT TO GRASP,\nAND THE WEIGHT THEY CARRY GROWS HEAVIER WITH EACH PASSING DAY.\nIF THE GODS ARE HEAVEN'S GIFT TO MANKIND,\n\nTHEN BEASTS ARE ITS CURSE.\nTHE HEAVENS DO NO MORE\nTHAN SOW THE SEEDS UPON THIS LAND,\n\nAND WHATEVER THEY MAY GROW INTO\nIS FOR HUMANKIND ALONE TO BEAR.\nTHE SAME POWER THAT CAN DESTROY A BEAST\nCAN ALSO DESTROY A GOD.\n\nIN THE END, EVERYTHING...\nDEPENDS UPON THE HEART.\n\nTHE ART OF ORIGINAL SIN.\n\nIT SHOULD BE ABLE TO HEAR AND SENSE THE DIVINE TONGUE,\nYET FOR A CREATURE THAT DEVOURS GODS,\nIT SEEMS TO BE STRANGELY DULL...\n\nTHE ART OF ORIGINAL SIN\nANSWERS IN PROPORTION TO A BEAST'S TRANSGRESSIONS.\nTHE HEAVIER THE SINS IT CARRIES,\nTHE DEEPER ITS COLOR BECOMES.\nAND FOR IT TO APPEAR LIKE THIS...\n\nJUST AS I THOUGHT,\nIT IS AS VILE AND WICKED AS THEY COME.\nTHERE IS NO NEED TO HESITATE ANY LONGER.\n\nAH?\nMY PLAN DEPENDED UPON THE ODDS FALLING IN MY FAVOR.\nTHE ART OF ORIGINAL SIN\nWOULD ONLY WORK IF I PROVED STRONGER THAN THE BEAST.\n\nTYPICALLY, WHEN A NOCTURNAL BEAST FEEDS UPON A GOD,\nIT DOES SO TO RECOVER ITS STRENGTH RATHER THAN AMASS MORE OF IT.\n\nTHAT MEANT IT WOULD LIKELY RETREAT TO ITS HOST THE MOMENT IT WAS INJURED.\nAND THAT\n\nWAS PRECISELY WHAT I WANTED.\nTHAT WAS EMBARRASSINGLY INEFFECTIVE.\nDID I STRIKE THE WRONG PLACE?\n\nIN THAT CASE...!\n?!\n\nSURELY,\nI HAVE NOT MISSED THE MARK AGAIN—\n\nI HAVEN'T!\nAAHHH!\n\nHA...\nAAAHHH\nIT IS SLOW-WITTED,\nAAAHHHHH!\nAND IT BAWLS LIKE A CHILD. IT MUST BE A BEAST CUB...\n!!!\nAAHHH\nIS THAT HOW IT INTENDS\nAHH...\n\nTO DULL THE PAIN?\nTHEN I SHALL BIND IT WITH SOMETHING STRONGER.\nTHE THIRD MOVEMENT OF SEALING...\nAHH\n\n!!\nOW OW OW OW!\nIT WORKED!\n\nIT IS TRAILING ITS ENERGY BEHIND IT, SO TRACKING IT WILL BE EASY ENOUGH...\nSTILL, THIS IS PECULIAR.\nFOR A BEAST AUDACIOUS ENOUGH TO DEVOUR A DEITY,\nIT SEEMS RATHER WEAK—\nUGH!\n\nWHERE...\n\nIS THAT IMPOSSIBLE STENCH COMING FROM?!\nIT IS A STENCH I'VE ENCOUNTERED MANY TIMES BEFORE.\n\nTHE PUTRID ODOR OF FESTERING, ROTTING FLESH —\nTHE FOUL STENCH OF A CORPSE.\nAT LAST...\n\nI HAVE FOUND THE BEAST'S HOST.","bubble_count":99,"pages_count":29,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Jakyeong recalls a memory in which he questions his master about why monster hunters seal instead of killing; it is explained not as mercy, but as the thin line between gods and monsters and the rule to protect the gods.","spoiler_summary":"Jakyeong recalls a memory in which he questions his master about why monster hunters seal instead of killing; it is explained not as mercy, but as the thin line between gods and monsters and the rule to protect the gods. In the present, he confronts the god-eating monster with the Art of Original Sin, wounds it and binds it with the third movement of sealing, and follows the smell of rotting flesh to find its host."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/a-tree-beyond-the-years-3ei9eo8y/chapter-10-5greev","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — A Tree Beyond the Years #10","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-17T01:36:45.533Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/a-tree-beyond-the-years-3ei9eo8y"}}