Bell

Bell is an ancient returner, former prince of Arunheim, and the long-term teacher and manipulator of Jin Sahyuk. He guides her growth while arranging for her eventually to kill him, because the devil Baal has used his Magic Power Body as an incarnation vessel for centuries. Bell's alternate names—Yeokma, Rebé, Krisbell, and later King Terhun—all refer to the same person. Baal is a separate being: first the consciousness and survival instinct lodged within Bell, then a separately manifested devil, and finally a diminished remnant that Bell voluntarily contains. (Chapters 131, 216, 278, 321, 329, 337, and 378)

Biography

Shaping Jin Sahyuk

Bell first appears in Pandemonium as Sahyuk's older companion and self-appointed trainer. After she loses to Kim Hajin, he rebukes her habit of overestimating herself and claims that he could kill her with a flick of his finger, yet retreats when she challenges him to prove it. He is disturbed that Chae Jinyoon has died despite being “supposed” to live, evidence that he knows the story is moving away from an expected course. He nevertheless prevents Sahyuk from immediately pursuing Hajin or Kim Suho, regarding both men as pieces whose future pressure can “perfect” her. (Chapter 131)

His instruction works through provocation as often as protection. Bell hopes the Thousand Demon Arena will teach Sahyuk humility, only to watch her dominate its Demon rank instead; he then identifies Fenrir as the man who defeated her with a coin and treats the rage this produces as fuel for further growth. His earlier partnership with Yi Byul, when both belonged to the Chameleon Troupe, shows the same method in harsher form. During the Kwang-Oh massacre he frightened the child assassin into obeying under the pretense of training, but when she spared an unexpected baby, he emphasized that the order covered only ninety-six lives and left the final choice to her. Bell thus engineers extreme tests while preserving just enough room for his subject's decision to remain her own. (Chapters 150 and 182)

The Tower, Yeokma, and divided bodies

Inside the Tower of Wish, Bell conceals himself under a robe and confronts Byul, whose memories identify him as the former Black seat and former partner she believes betrayed the Troupe. His Magic Power Body lets him vaporize into blue magic power and fight beyond the reach of ordinary physical blows. Hajin's anti-magic ammunition forces him back into physical form and kills that Tower life, although Bell remains calm because the Tower has granted him several lives. The encounter also demonstrates how his intentions can be obscured by his violent methods: the captive Kedrick explains afterward that Bell had been trying to break his shackle, not strangle him. (Chapters 183 and 185–187)

Bell continues caring for Sahyuk while hiding the extent of his presence. He brings an incomplete counteragent from the eighth floor to weaken the banshee's curse consuming her, advises her to stay concealed, and avoids mocking the humiliation she has endured. He later manifests remotely as a cat assembled from the sensory and speaking portions of his Magic Power Body. The Book of Truth confirms that the tournament participant Yeokma is Bell himself, not another fighter. His disguise fails to prevent a second conflict with Byul, but it confirms that an alternate player name and a constructed animal body do not create separate identities. (Chapters 200, 207–208, and 216–217)

Bell's reconnaissance outside the Tower shows the Gift's full-body application. He converts his entire body into magic power, swims through clouds, and uses magic-power eyes to see through obstructions around Genghis Khan's excavation site. He tells Sahyuk not to attack until Hajin makes his move, then appears as another cat after Hajin defeats her. Hajin permits Bell to take her away, although Bell warns that sparing her may be regretted. Two weeks later, when Hajin's Genkelope Vessel arrests Sahyuk, Bell avoids being seized with her, infiltrates the ship, and later helps Rumi free her. (Chapters 218, 220, 225, and 231)

Guidance, surveillance, and the road to Baal

After the rescue, Bell tells Sahyuk that her defeat is punishment for the lives she has taken and repeats the bargain on which their relationship rests: she will receive his Gift only by killing him. He can be cruel even when pursuing that goal, worsening her trauma by pretending Hajin is nearby, but he apologizes when her physical reaction reveals how deep the fear has become. His advice then changes from demanding strength alone to urging patience, emotional control, and continued growth. The result is a more reflective Sahyuk who can wait, reconsider, and recover instead of answering every injury immediately with violence. (Chapter 231)

Bell also watches the threats around her with both Skills and objects. His Tracking warns him when the cat-shaped bell he gave Sahyuk reports Hajin's apparent death, while Forced Transmission allows him to speak into her ears from elsewhere. He tells her about Byul and Orden, monitors her interest in Hajin, and sometimes withdraws when he senses that she needs privacy. Yet concealment remains part of his control: he records Sahyuk's nightmares without her knowledge, follows her proposed Orden mission, and frustrates her attempt to use the Time Barrier by placing himself where his presence will interfere. When her Reality Manipulation finally wounds his transformed body, Bell greets the pain as proof that she is approaching the power required to kill him. (Chapters 236, 243, 252, and 256–258)

Bell's promises about Baal give Sahyuk a destination as well as a target. He tells her that killing him will let her bargain with Baal for passage back to Akatrina and says that the devil can open dimensional gates. He knows Baal will descend but remains deliberately vague about when and where, joking that Baal could already be beside her. His shifting, water-like body and ability to leave at will reinforce his evasiveness, while his repeated insistence that the “end” is near turns Sahyuk's desire to return home into the central pressure behind her training. (Chapter 268)

Rebé and the Orden operation

Bell deliberately provokes Sahyuk into approaching the Chameleon Troupe, partly to introduce her to its members and partly to check renewed arrogance. He assures Rumi that Byul and Hajin will not kill her, judging that adversity will strengthen her and planning to intervene only if she faces genuine death. At the same time, his assessment of Orden differs from public fear: Bell believes the Monster King admires humans too much to eradicate them. That judgment does not make him Orden's ally; instead, it helps him decide that a controlled infiltration can advance his own plan without surrendering humanity to the monsters. (Chapter 276)

Under the name Rebé—also rendered Rebe—Bell joins the government task force as its transporter and guide. He accepts contracts, an Oath and Vow, and Aileen's Spirit Speech Seal, putting his life at risk if he betrays the mission. He uses Mass Teleport to move a team into Orden's territory, stays in the underground fortress as a janitor after his assigned role is complete, and later guides a reconnaissance party with Rumi. When Sahyuk finds him, he persuades her to conceal their connection by exploiting her questions about Hajin and Chae Nayun's memories. His help is genuine, but it remains inseparable from manipulation. (Chapters 278–279 and 284–287)

Bell finally turns on Hajin's group inside Orden's territory. He makes an explosion from a separated portion of his own body, incapacitates Byul and Jain, and abducts Hajin, while expressly saying that he does not intend to kill him. In private, Bell reveals that Demon Realm Transformation is already spreading and asks Hajin to help Sahyuk kill him. Ordinary destruction cannot end Bell because nature reconstructs his all-magic existence; only Sahyuk can threaten annihilation strongly enough to provoke the Baal-derived survival instinct in his mind. By sharing Sahyuk's history, pain, and path on Earth, Bell persuades Hajin to take over her training, changing himself from sole handler into an architect willing to entrust her future to someone she once hated. (Chapters 290–293)

Krisbell and the incarnation bargain

After Orden's defeat, Bell works uneasily beside former Chameleon Troupe leader Yi Yeonjun while secretly protecting Hajin from him. Bell orders Sahyuk to remove Hajin from danger and remain near him, even though he withholds Yi Yeonjun's survival and plans until that concealment becomes another source of distrust. He also continues appearing to Sahyuk through condensed magic power and needles her about wanting Hajin as a companion. The joking covers a more personal concern: Bell says he does not want her to be lonely after he is gone, revealing that his preparations are no longer only about producing a weapon against himself. (Chapters 299 and 301–309)

Within the Demon Realm Gate, Bell's oldest identity is exposed. The prince Krisbell of Arunheim is not a look-alike or a separate host; Bell calls that royal past his own. He explains that he became a returner because he wanted to see someone again and sold his soul to Baal in exchange for going back in time. The bargain made him Baal's incarnation body for 693 years. He nevertheless describes their relationship as one between long-associated individuals rather than simple possession, while later warning that Yi Yeonjun's attempt to inherit the incarnation position would make Yeonjun Baal's slave rather than reproduce Bell's unusual, comparatively equal relationship with the devil. (Chapters 321 and 329)

Bell's knowledge of devils comes from this centuries-long association. He explains that Baal collects worlds, that the Demon Realm Gate reenacts the first world Baal entered, and that the reconstructed world serves as a self-imposed condition allowing a transcendent being to descend despite reality's restraint. If the defenders stop Baal within that gate, the descent to Earth can be prevented. Bell also clarifies that Akatrina's fall was not caused by Baal, refusing to flatter Sahyuk with a convenient external culprit. His plan is to hasten the descent by one day and make his own death the controlled opening, because otherwise Baal will tear him apart and descend on less favorable terms. (Chapters 323–324 and 329–334)

Death, Baal's descent, and Bell's return

Sahyuk eventually recognizes that Reality Manipulation can alter Bell as material, even though he is no longer conventionally human. Their twenty-five years together make the required act painful: she thanks him for raising her, and he thanks her in return before asking her to proceed. Her Authority penetrates his heart and dismantles the Magic Power Body engraved there until the human shell disappears. Bell does not resist. The annihilation breaks the vessel, but it also releases Baal, who manifests separately with a horn and crimson eyes. Baal calls Bell his friend and honors Bell's promise by giving Sahyuk a dimensional stone, confirming both their long connection and their distinct identities. (Chapter 337)

Bell returns because Baal's rushed descent leaves the reconstructed first world intact. The collapsed castle deprives Baal of his intended route, while Shimurin completes dimensional travel and creates a path out of the void within Baal. Bell emerges as Arunheim's prince with Airun and the world's forces. He is no longer automatically immortal: he rejoices that he has recovered a finite life that can reach a genuine end. His survival is therefore a contingent result of Baal's failed plan, Shimurin's magic, and Hajin's intervention, not a routine resurrection supplied by Magic Power Body. (Chapters 355 and 357–358)

During the final battle, Bell provides analysis rather than attempting to command every fighter. He recognizes that Baal's hurried incarnation is incomplete, judges the devil emotionally destabilized by memories learned through Bell, and puts his confidence in Suho as the person the world is structured to support. He reads changes in Baal's true body, advises the coalition inside the labyrinth, and chooses to remain after briefly considering escape with his newly finite life. When Baal is fatally weakened, Bell approaches his separate former host, then runs out and disappears with him. Their departure prevents a simple corpse confirmation and leads to Bell's final role as the person willing to contain what remains. (Chapters 358–364)

King Terhun and the remnant

Bell uses the aftermath of Baal's defeat to preserve the first world that the devil reconstructed. Sahyuk later understands him to be trying to return there and believes that he used Baal to revive what Baal had once destroyed, although she cannot tell how much was design and how much was fortunate circumstance. By taking responsibility for that restored society, Bell moves beyond preparing Sahyuk and arranging his death. He accepts a future defined by the people his old royal failure left behind. (Chapter 375)

At his coronation, Bell takes the name King Terhun. Inside him remains a piece of Baal's consciousness, reduced to an ordinary human soul after the devil's true self is annihilated. Baal can still speak, send a message connected to the Regression Stone, and influence Bell's lifespan, but he no longer possesses his former body or Authorities. Bell voluntarily serves as his custodian because an uncontained fragment could threaten a world. He walks toward the throne promising not to betray his citizens or repeat his former mistake and tells the diminished Baal that mortal life is more beautiful and fulfilling than the devil imagines. (Chapter 378)

Appearance and personality

Bell is an adult man whose stable appearance is described more through impression than measurements. Hajin can see a handsome face beneath his robe, and even while imprisoned by Bell regards his tired expression as attractive. In Arunheim, the royal identity Krisbell wears a gold-embroidered gown, enchanted bracelets, and rings among the palace's treasures. Baal's manifested body looks almost identical to Bell, but Baal is distinguished by a horn, crimson eyes, a demonic presence, and later a fluid, dragon-like true form. That resemblance reflects the incarnation bond; it does not make the two the same person. (Chapters 185, 291, 321, 337, and 355)

He presents himself as lazy, playful, and hard to unsettle, often yawning, smiling, teasing Sahyuk, or acting cute in situations where others expect solemnity. Beneath that manner he is patient, observant, and ruthlessly willing to engineer pain. He exposes Sahyuk to enemies and humiliation because he believes adversity will perfect her, conceals information to keep people moving along his chosen route, and uses other people's memories as leverage. Yet his choices increasingly reveal attachment: he cures and rescues Sahyuk, wants her protected from loneliness, risks death under Aileen's seal, entrusts his end to the woman he raised, and finally gives up freedom from Baal to keep the remnant safely contained. (Chapters 131, 207, 231, 276–292, 305, 337, and 378)

Gifts and abilities

Bell's defining Authority is Magic Power Body, which makes magic power the substance of his physical existence. His centuries with Baal also give him unusual knowledge of devils, dimensional descent, and Demon Realm Transformation. Within the Tower he acquires additional Skills, including Sea of Memories, Tracking, Forced Transmission, Summoning, Mass Teleport, and mental communication, but these learned functions remain distinct from the underlying Authority. (Chapters 186, 216, 236, 243, 278, 292, and 321–337)

Magic Power Body

Magic Power Body supports both partial and whole conversion. Bell can turn his complete body into blue magic power, vapor, fog, or a wisp, allowing him to rise into the sky, flow on the wind, swim through clouds, and let ordinary attacks pass through him. He can also convert and reshape only selected parts. His cat-shaped remote body is constructed from his eyes and mouth, and he later makes a disabling explosion from a separated portion of himself. Because his substance is magic power, he can condense back into a human figure after traveling in an apparently formless state. (Chapters 186, 216, 218, 268, 290, 305, and 309)

The Authority offers strong defense but not absolute intangibility. Hajin's anti-magic bullet disrupts Bell's transformed substance, forces him back into physical form, and destroys one of his Tower lives. Sahyuk's growing Reality Manipulation can wound him even while her spear passes through his magic state, and ultimately reaches the Authority engraved in his heart to dismantle it. These counters act on magic or material reality itself, rather than trying to strike a conventional body. Bell also expends power in combat and can be overwhelmed after sustained pressure from opponents such as Byul and Hajin. (Chapters 186, 256, and 337)

Reconstruction and mortality

Bell tells Hajin that the world has recognized his all-magic existence as part of nature. When his body is destroyed, nature rearranges that existence, explaining why an anti-magic death does not permanently end him outside the Tower's ordinary life mechanics. The process is stronger than bodily regeneration: it restores the pattern that constitutes Bell. However, the narration explicitly questions whether resurrection belongs to Magic Power Body alone, and Bell later identifies Baal's embedded instinct as the force that reacts when his existence faces true annihilation. His apparent immortality is therefore a combined condition, not proof that every Magic Power Body user must return forever. (Chapters 186–187 and 291–292)

Complete Reality Manipulation is the clearest counter because it can erase the Authority at Bell's core and annihilate the material vessel instead of merely dispersing it. Once Sahyuk does so, Baal escapes and Bell survives only through the exceptional preservation of the reconstructed world and Shimurin's dimensional route out of the void. He returns without the old automatic immortality and values his now-finite lifespan. In the epilogue, Baal's remnant can extend that lifespan as a curse or wager, but this is a surviving power of Baal, not a restored function of Magic Power Body. (Chapters 292, 337, 355–358, and 378)

Remote senses, flight, and perception

Partial conversion allows Bell to deploy an animal-shaped sensory body at a distance. His cat combines converted eyes and mouth, sees Sahyuk, speaks to her, and disappears when the exchange ends. He chooses that form because cats are the only animals she does not hate. A second cat appears after Hajin defeats her, identifying itself through speech and the distinctive versatility of Magic Power Body. These forms are extensions of Bell's senses and voice, not familiars, offspring, alternate selves, or evidence that the cat-shaped tracking item is alive. (Chapters 216 and 220)

In whole-body magic form, Bell can fly without wings and maneuver through the sky like a current. His magic-power eyes see through obstructions and let him survey an excavation site from within the clouds, while Tracking and mental transmissions extend his awareness beyond immediate sight. Later he senses the quickening of death in Baal's heart even when other combatants do not. The corpus demonstrates exceptional magical perception and reconnaissance, but it does not give an exact range, duration, or independent number of remote bodies. (Chapters 218, 236, 243, and 361)

Memory, movement, and Demon Realm knowledge

Bell's Tower-acquired Sea of Memories lets him enter or inspect the memories of sleeping or unconscious people. He uses it on Hajin and Chae Nayun, learning secrets that inform how he manipulates Sahyuk and how he plans the final conflict. Forced Transmission and related mental communication let him speak into Sahyuk's hearing across distance, while Mass Teleport moves an entire government team into Orden's territory. Tracking alerts him to marked conditions, and his ability to shape magic power supports concealment, remote observation, and a controlled area explosion. These abilities make Bell primarily an information broker and director even when he is strong enough to fight directly. (Chapters 236, 243, 278, and 290–292)

His deepest expertise concerns Baal and dimensional rules. Bell understands Demon Realm Transformation before humans can detect its spread, knows the contractual function of the Demon Realm Gate, explains how a transcendent devil can weaken the world's deterrence, and anticipates what happens when an incarnation vessel is annihilated. This knowledge is extensive but not infallible. He cannot precisely predict every consequence of Baal's decisions, and his own return depends on a chain of events involving Hajin, Shimurin, and the failed castle rather than a mechanism he is shown controlling alone. (Chapters 292, 321–324, 334, and 357–358)

Baal-linked incarnation

As Baal's incarnation body, Bell contains the devil's consciousness and a survival instinct that can seize control when annihilation threatens. The bond permits extraordinary persistence and makes Bell the material route through which Baal can descend, but it does not erase Bell's will. Bell can plan against Baal, ask Sahyuk to destroy the vessel, and describe the devil as a long-time companion. Baal likewise calls him a friend after manifesting separately. Their 693-year association is unusually equal compared with Yi Yeonjun's proposed succession, yet Baal can still force a descent by tearing the vessel apart if Bell does nothing. (Chapters 292, 321, 329, 334, and 337)

The incarnation also imposes strict conditions. Baal must use the Demon Realm Gate and a reconstructed world to overcome cosmic deterrence; Bell can accelerate the schedule but cannot simply summon him without that process. Destroying Magic Power Body releases Baal rather than killing him, and Baal's fully descended form must be fought as a separate target. After annihilation, only a piece of consciousness remains within Bell. That remnant retains speech, memory, limited demonic energy, cross-dimensional messaging through its own Regression Stone, and influence over lifespan, but lacks Baal's body and Authorities. Bell is then a voluntary jailer carrying a distinct diminished soul, not Baal under a new name. (Chapters 323–324, 334, 337, 358–364, and 378)

Power progression

Relationships

• Jin Sahyuk: Bell finds Sahyuk as a young reincarnate, becomes her teacher and caretaker, and spends twenty-five years provoking, rescuing, observing, and directing her. He raises her specifically to annihilate him, but the relationship grows beyond that purpose. Sahyuk's final thanks, Bell's pride in her, and his concern that she not be lonely reveal a familial attachment neither expresses directly. (Chapters 131, 150, 200–231, 256–268, 292, 305, and 337)
• Kim Hajin: Bell first treats Hajin as an unexpected piece useful to Sahyuk's growth. Hajin's anti-magic kills a Tower body and later challenges Bell's claim to immortality. Bell then abducts him to disclose Demon Realm Transformation and entrust Sahyuk's training to him. Hajin's actions help create the dimensional conditions through which Bell returns with a finite life. (Chapters 131, 185–187, 218–231, 290–293, 337, and 355–358)
• Yi Byul: Bell was Byul's partner and the Chameleon Troupe's former Black seat. His coercive training shaped her during the Kwang-Oh massacre, while her belief that he killed Yi Yeonjun turns him into the object of years of hatred. Their Tower and Orden clashes are genuine, but she later learns that Bell did not kill Yeonjun and replaces hatred with pity as his planned death approaches. (Chapters 116, 182–187, 216–217, 256–258, 276, 290–293, and 337)
• Yi Yeonjun: Bell once served under Yi Yeonjun and later works beside the returned former boss despite distrusting his greed. He warns Sahyuk to protect Hajin from Yeonjun and understands that Yeonjun wants to succeed him as Baal's incarnation. Bell's concealment of Yeonjun damages his credibility, but his larger plan opposes the succession because it would give Baal a far more destructive servant. (Chapters 299–309 and 329–337)
• Baal: Baal is Bell's contractual possessor, old companion, and eventual prisoner, not an alias. Their bargain makes Bell a returner and incarnation body; centuries together make their relationship closer to unwilling friendship than ordinary enslavement. After Baal manifests and is annihilated, Bell voluntarily absorbs a surviving consciousness fragment, containing its danger while trying to teach the now-mortal remnant the value of finite life. (Chapters 292, 321–337, 355–364, and 378)
• Kim Suho: Bell originally considers Suho the principal opponent needed to perfect Sahyuk. During the final battle he instead trusts Suho as the person whose role and power are naturally aligned against Baal, analyzes the fight around him, and accepts that Suho—not Bell—must carry the direct victory. (Chapters 131, 329, and 358–364)
• Rumi: Rumi travels with Bell and Sahyuk, helps free Sahyuk from Genkelope's prison, and serves beside Bell as a guide in Orden's territory. She regularly challenges his callous treatment of Sahyuk, making her one of the few companions who openly voices the moral cost of his schemes. (Chapters 231, 276, 284–293, and 299)
• Shimurin: Shimurin's dimensional magic turns Baal's hasty decision into Bell's escape route. Her work lets him return from the void inside Baal and brings the people of the reconstructed first world into the final coalition. Bell's finite second life therefore depends substantially on her intervention rather than on his old Authority alone. (Chapters 324, 355, and 357–358)

Items

Bell has no separately scoped notable item in the supplied manifest. The most consequential unscoped object associated with him is the Lv. 6 Cat Bell, a transparent tracking device he gives Sahyuk so she can monitor Hajin's condition. Its change to black triggers the false belief that Hajin has died. It is a separate tracking device despite its name and must not be confused with the cat-shaped remote sensory bodies Bell creates from Magic Power Body. (Chapter 236)