039. An imminent situation
This is non-hyung… It was the story of an enemy that Ha Jin and Endymion would not remember.
A night of thunder.
“Keep it off!”
The mother’s moans resonated widely.
Shoot ah-
It was around the time when the sound of the pouring rain flowed like a melody.
Ah- Ae- Ae-!
A baby’s cry broke out.
A middle-aged man came in impatiently as soon as the tightly closed door opened.
“…….”
As soon as he entered, the heavy sinking air made him feel uneasy.
The middle-aged man looked at the midwife standing stiff and asked.
“What happened?”
“That’s…”
At that time, the midwife could not easily bring up the story even after opening her mouth several times.
“Mmm- Mm-!”
“Oh, boy…”
“…The child seems to be all right.”
“Yes… your son. Both of you.”
“Then what about the mother? Is my wife all right?”
“Well, that’s…”
“…….”
The middle-aged man no longer waited for the midwife to speak. As if he wanted to see it with his own eyes, he walked towards the spot where his wife was lying.
“You…”
The middle-aged man contorted his face.
“…Even though I said to get rid of it, I did something foolish.”
It was the result of not being able to stop it even though I knew it would turn out like this.
The middle-aged woman, who had waited for the birth of a child with a tiny bit of hope, had no patience left.
“A child, give a child to me…”
“Yes?”
A midwife would normally have obeyed the middle-aged man’s words, but now she had no choice but to ask back without even realizing it.
The atmosphere flowing from the middle-aged man was unusual.
The midwife hugged the child even more as if rebelling against the air current that seemed to explode at any moment.
“Didn’t I tell you to come here?”
However, that only angered the middle-aged man.
He glared at the midwife, and the midwife stiffened as if facing a tiger on a mountain.
“I feel like…”
In the end, the middle-aged man moved himself.
“I want to twist your neck too, but I’m struggling to bear it.”
In front of the trembling midwife, the middle-aged man gave a stern warning.
“Don’t test my patience.”
“…….”
He took the first child out of the midwife who trembled like an aspen. Then, for a while, I admired the innocent face surrounded by a cloth.
“Only you… If only it weren’t for you.”
I didn’t mean to say it to a newborn baby, but in the middle-aged man’s eyes, the baby was just a murderer who killed his wife.
Hold the baby high.
The midwife, who had a sense of what she was trying to do, wanted to stop the middle-aged man right away, but she was still in a position where she couldn’t even move her finger properly, let alone speak.
“You shouldn’t have been born.”
The middle-aged man, who continued his verbal abuse to the end, threw the baby on the floor with all his might-
Koo-Goo-Gung-!
-It was the moment I was about to throw it.
“…Thunderbolt?”
A momentary roar and shock stopped the movement.
“Mmm-! Mmm-!”
“Oh, boy…”
The baby in the arms of the midwife cried out in sorrow as if she was surprised, while the baby who was almost beaten by a middle-aged man slept quietly in the world.
“What are you going to do with that poor baby?”
“…Who are you?”
“Who are you? It’s not like you’re old enough to hear that from you.”
An old man with graying eyebrows was standing in front of the door.
There was no sign of him entering the room at all.
“When is that person…?”
The midwife also kept her eyes wide open, as if surprised by the sudden appearance of the uninvited guest, while the middle-aged man showed open hostility towards the suspiciously unmarried old man.
“Heh heh. I haven’t had a job since I’ve been away for a while… It’s going to be difficult when that child ends his life.”
“You speak incomprehensible words.”
The middle-aged man removed his right hand from the one holding his baby.
“I don’t know how you got here, but blame your stupidity.”
Susut-
A red aura that climbs up your hand at the blink of an eye. It was red like blood and was a muddy color. The baby kicked the ground straight away without even thinking about it.
Kwakwang-!
The area around the door was smashed.
The rain seeped in from outside, but the middle-aged man didn’t care and looked down at my left hand.
“…What are you doing?”
“Okay.”
When did you move? The old man took the baby from the middle-aged man’s hand and stood right next to the midwife.
“Egg-money!”
“Oh no, I’m going to miss the baby then.”
After responding to the midwife’s fuss with a carefree expression, the old man stroked the baby’s head while he was sleeping soundly.
“I made a promise to this child. For that promise to come true, this child is destined not to die here like this.”
“Promise…? Are you talking about an oath?”
There are some special beings in the world.
The beings who inherit the power of the ‘Oath’.
All of them are born with formidable power worthy of being praised as geniuses of the century.
“You guys say so.”
“Covenant…? Then, you can’t…”
If you make a promise, there will always be someone who fulfills it. The middle-aged man seemed to guess the existence of the old man as soon as the clue was solved.
“Heh heh.”
The old man only smiled lightheartedly.
‘If you knew what this guy risked for an infinitely simple wish… I’ll probably be surprised.’
But there was no obligation to tell you that. The old man was only here to fulfill his oath.
* * *
Dark clouds hang over the blue sky. It seemed like this was the first time. That would be the case, since this world was under Selene’s control, and even the weather was her heart.
It was unclear whether the dark clouds that radiated bleak energy, as if thunder would strike at any moment, were due to the instability caused by Cosmos’ attack, or whether they were really reacting to Selene’s mood.
However, Selene just pushed open her front door and went outside.
Kureureung-Kureung-
“…….”
Selene looks up at the sky with her lively eyes and then she gently closes her eyes that way. She then released mana widely and spread it out.
Originally, it’s correct to know where the intruder is, but now the barrier is unstable… Above all, the intruder was threatening outside the barrier, so I had to resort to other means.
“…I found it.”
And it wasn’t that difficult. Selene, who identified the location of the guy she could easily hit and kill, collected the coordinates there and deployed teleportation magic.
Swiik—
“Hmm?”
At that moment, a panicked sound was heard, and Selene, convinced that she had come to the right place, looked straight ahead with fierce eyes.
There was a thunder-naked creature that was startled. The appearance of my feet numb, as if I knew what I had done, was no different.
“Is that you?”
“…….”
“I asked if it was you. Are you the one who dared to provoke me?”
“Whoa… It ended up like this.”
Cosmos let out a low sigh at the terrifying momentum. As a result, Selene was able to complete the confirmation task.
No questions and answers, what more do I need to say? She unfolded her magic without wasting time.
The place where the two are standing is the gap between time and space. It was an incomplete place called the world of nothingness. Because of that, it was as if the two were standing in midair.
“Keugh-!”
Cosmos groaned out of nowhere. Judging from the ruthless frown between his brows, it was clear that Selene had done something to her.
‘Atmospheric magic?’
Because the atmosphere was manipulated and weighed down heavily, the whole body suddenly felt heavy. Cosmos, which I did not know before actually experiencing it, realized one thing.
‘That witch’s magical power is one step higher than mine.’
But that didn’t mean there was no way out of this situation. Cosmos chose the easiest method, which was done by removing a little more of the scabbard from the dagger he was holding.
“…You have a strange object.”
Selene recognized it at once.
When her own magic was neutralized, it was the effect of the dagger she carried.
In addition, it was concluded that the aura that vaguely flowed from her dagger was unusual because of her excellent spirit.
“I see… There’s no way you could have performed such a passenger skill with only your skills, did you use that magic tool?”
“Heh heh, even you, who are infinitely arrogant, must be afraid of this?”
Since the other party pretended to know first, Cosmos became more energetic at this time. He let out a sly smile, then continued his words with more strength in his hand holding the dagger.
“Madogura… So misleading, anyway- I’m here to negotiate with you, not to attack you indiscriminately…”
“You don’t sound the same. What’s wrong with your head?”
Before Selene could finish her words, she growled ferociously.
“Isn’t this an attack? Then, what I just did and what I’m going to do now should all be considered an attack.”
“…Well, even if it couldn’t be helped, I wouldn’t believe it.”
Cosmos, who roughly predicted this situation, did not refute it. He simply touched the sheath of the dagger so that it could always be pulled out.
‘No matter how strong the author is, as long as he has this dagger, it’s worth fighting.’
Even at this moment, he didn’t notice. He knew that the dagger was anxiously waiting for its owner.