149 – Adam (1)
-Kang!!
I flew backwards, blocking Krund’s blow.
My hands vibrate from the vibration felt from the sword.
It was a vibration that caused pain as if the bones in my hand were breaking.
Krund had just struck me and was looking up at the sky.
I stood there blankly for a long time, as if smelling the changed air.
I got up from the ground and ran towards Krund again.
Krund also stopped thinking at my interruption and continued fighting with me.
Again, there was an exchange of attacks aimed only at each other’s lives.
I felt like I was back in my childhood.
I used to feel this way every time I fought against other strong races in the slums.
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The feeling of an insurmountable difference.
But even so, I couldn’t back down.
Krund opened the distance again with his back kick.
In that short gap, Krund’s expression began to distort as he looked up at the sky again.
“…Ah…Ah…”
I observed Krund like that while roughly wiping the blood from my forehead.
A drop of red tear fell from Krund’s eyes.
“…The Demon King…”
I also looked at the sky only then.
I didn’t know because the battle was so hectic.
Silprien’s hawk was crying.
…The Demon King seemed to have been successfully subdued.
I realize that the long war has finally come to an end.
The moment when such a big change has come is now.
As a gust of wind passed through my chest, I rolled my head in the immediate hopeless situation.
“Baran, prepare to retreat!”
“Vice-captain…I can’t see the path…”
I bit my lip as I watched Baran give a desperate answer from behind my head.
“…Find a way somehow, hopefully-“
“You can’t go out.”
At that time, Krund whispered with his eyes overflowing with hatred and murder.
The mood of Krund, who was shedding tears, changes.
“I’ve been saving my strength to get closer to the Demon King, but now there’s no need to do that.”
– Kwak Kwa Kwak!
Krund’s physical condition also began to change.
His body, which looked slim, gradually became thicker and larger.
“I will kill at least you and sacrifice it for the Demon Lord…”
– Boom!
Krund stepped on the ground and rushed forward.
I barely took out the sheath and took a defensive stance with the sword.
-Boom!
But still, my body flew up again due to the shock.
I soon find myself rolling on the floor roughly.
I felt like all the air was leaving my body.
I couldn’t breathe.
For a moment, the body does not even enter power.
I forced myself to stagger to the ground and try to stand up.
But Krund didn’t wait.
Standing in front of me before I knew it, he lifted his arm and whispered.
“…Give my regards to the Demon King.”
-Boom!!
As Krund lowered his arm and spit, a cool breeze swept through my hair.
A shadow placed in front of me with a roar.
I felt alive with the breath barely passing through my throat.
I tried to figure out the identity of the shadow that appeared in front of me.
“……..Are you okay, Berg?”
I looked up at the familiar voice.
Adam stood with his sword blocking Krund’s blow.
“…Hyung?”
-Oh my!
Soon after, Gale wielding a sword appears at Krund’s side.
“Stand up, Berg!”
Krund got into a fight with Gale and moved away for a while.
Meanwhile, Adam held out his arm and lifted me up.
I grabbed his arm and stood up from his seat.
My brother looked at me and smiled.
I looked around and tried to figure out the situation.
“…Why are you here… Retreating-“
“-Ha.”
Brother Adam started laughing at those words.
“…It sounds like you wouldn’t have resented me even if I had abandoned you.”
“….”
My brother patted my shoulder.
“…But where should I leave you?”
“….”
“…Take a breath, Berg. “Let’s escape together.”
Brother Adam said that and turned towards Krund.
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Adam made a habit of deviating from the moment his memory remained.
I lived like that even though I had a house with my parents.
In fact, in some way, the human race thought this might be natural.
Being born to healthy parents could be seen as a blessing among blessings.
At least Adam thought so.
Even if you look around, it is very rare to find a human being who is kind to their children.
The majority abandon their children.
There were more than one human being who died while living in the slums.
Even if they survived, there were many cases where they were broken and lived as their desires led them.
Adam’s father was the same.
Adam’s father, who had been involved in a criminal organization, returned one day with his left leg broken.
He had been a good parent before, but after his left leg was damaged, he only drank alcohol and became violent towards his family.
In a way, it was natural for Adam to leave home.
My mother left home because she could not endure her father’s violence.
Nevertheless, Adam stopped by the house from time to time, and the only reason for that was my younger siblings.
One younger brother and two younger sisters.
Is it because they endured violence together with their father, or is it because their blood is connected?
Even though I didn’t have much affection for them, I went back home from time to time to check on their condition out of concern.
But maybe he didn’t know that it was a mistake.
When Adam went home for the first time at the age of 14, he couldn’t find the presence of his father, whom he hated to see.
And instead of his younger brothers, strange dragons were living inside.
“What are you…!”
Adam was surprised to ask, but the dragon people only answered Adam’s figure.
“…Are you the son of a human who lived here?”
“…”
“…I’m sorry, but your father sold us this house.”
“…What?”
“This is no longer your home, so don’t come this way.”
For some reason, I understood the shocking story of selling the house.
Adam’s father was a man who would remain like that.
With this, the relationship with the father was severed… But that wasn’t what Adam was worried about.
“……My younger siblings?”
The Yongin man shrugged his shoulders.
“…I don’t know. The boy took two girls and left.”
Adam started searching all over the city at those words.
I wondered if I had this much affection for him, but for some reason, I ended up like this.
No matter what, it’s probably because they are my younger brothers.
The blood must have been thicker than I thought.
After wandering around like that, Adam was finally able to find his younger brothers in a corner of the slum.
The three younger brothers are curled up like small animals and asleep.
Adam ran to them with a trembling heart and grabbed his younger brother by the shoulder.
“Vergo! Wake up!”
My brother, who is two years younger than me, slowly opened his eyes only after being shaken roughly.
The young eyes that found Adam with blinking eyes asked.
“…Hyung?”
“…Why…Here…”
“…Hannah and…Is?”
“…”
Her younger brother, Vergo, takes care of her younger siblings more than herself.
At those words, Adam looked at his sisters who were next to him.
When I touched their cheeks, they still felt warm.
He was still breathing evenly.
Adam asked Vergo with his growing doubts.
“…What happened…This.”
Vergo just blinked her eyes and answered quietly.
“…Father…Abandoned us…And sold the house.”
“…”
“…They told me to leave…I had no choice but to leave because I was scared.”
“…You… Your body…”
“…I’m hungry…Brother.”
Adam then looked more closely at his younger brothers.
They are so thin that their bones seem to be exposed. Gaunt face.
I didn’t know how many days I’d been sitting on the street like this.
Adam had been coming home for a very long time.
Seeing that, Adam felt ashamed of himself.
Even such a young brother takes care of his younger siblings… After all, Adam was busy taking care of himself.
I was just about to fill my stomach with the bread I had stolen by stealing.
With a full stomach, he faced his younger siblings who were starving to death.
Of course, all of this was their father’s fault, but Adam, who ignored the problem, realized that he was becoming the same person.
…Should I say that my personality has been inherited?
It’s understandable that people get scolded for being human here and there.
Adam looked at his younger brothers … And immediately got up and ran out.
He secretly drew water from a nearby well and drenched his younger brothers in their mouths.
Hannah and Is finally opened their eyes.
She is 4 years younger, Hannah is 10 years old.
Is 5 years younger, 9 years old.
Hanna put a smile on Adam’s face, which she hadn’t seen in a long time.
There was no hint of resentment.
“…Big…Oppa…”
Ess also welcomed Adam in the same way.
“…Oppa…I missed you…”
“…”
“…Don’t leave…I don’t have a father to beat us anymore…Stay with me.”
Adam gritted his teeth and nodded at the words that made him feel sorry for himself and his emotions began to fluctuate.
Then he took her in her arms and apologized.
“…I’m sorry, Is.”
.
.
.
East Rock, Adam’s hometown, was not a good place for Humans to live.
Adam could understand the reason.
In the first place, there weren’t many people living there, and even if they did, they were related to criminal organizations or lived in slums.
The human race in East Rock was particularly vicious.
Adam has been stealing in his own way, so he could understand.
But now that he’s in charge of his younger siblings, he couldn’t be more concerned.
Since the whole city is looking at the Humans negatively.
Eastrak was a werewolf-centered city.
Werewolves were the most common, followed by lizardmen, then dragons, and then humans.
In the first place, it was a problem just because they were weak humans, but all the races around them were physically superior.
It was a structure that was too good to be beaten.
“…”
“…”
But Adam could not instill such anxiety in his sisters, who were holding both of his hands tightly and looking at him with bright eyes.
I realized it only after they almost starved to death.
The fact that Adam only had family.
The fact that he is the existence he needs to take care of.
So he smiled and reassured them.
Of course, it was not without difficulties.
“No…! “I’m telling you not to do it, oppa…!”
“Iss, let go of this.”
“Even the younger brother stops the older brother! It’s dangerous!”
“…Hannah.”
The sisters hoped Adam would stop stealing.
After months of living, this was their reaction when they realized that Adam was making a living by stealing.
Bergo also looked at Adam with a frown.
I want to stop it, but it seems that I can’t stop it like his sisters because I know Adam’s difficulties in reality.
Vergo speaks on Adam’s side.
“…Stop it bro. “I’m doing this for you.”
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“I hate it…! What are you going to do if you get caught by the adults? Then, if something goes wrong and you don’t come back, what are you going to do!”
“I won’t eat anything my brother has been stealing…! Even if I starve to death, I won’t eat!”
“Is!”
Adam unknowingly expressed his anger when he said that he would not eat even if he starved to death.
“… Urgent…”
However, the younger brother burst into tears.
The girl who didn’t cry even when her father beat her, cries loudly.
“Hwaaaaa…! Aaaaa…!”
Adam finally nodded his head as he hugged his unbeatable brothers.
He didn’t know how to live… But he was determined to take responsibility for his younger siblings.
“…Okay.”
“Geugeukeuuuuut As M as we as Young master…!”
“Okay, stop crying, Isu. Even Hannah stopped.”
Adam spoke at last to comfort them.
“…I won’t do anything bad anymore.”
But just because I made up my mind, things did not work out the way I wanted.
Due to the human race’s perception, it was especially difficult for Adam to find his way in East Rock.
“You are a member of some criminal organization. Go away, leave the work to some human! “I was robbed of money by the human bastards last time too!”
“Now are they even mobilizing children? “The human race is also punished.”
“…What, aren’t you the guy who stole last time?”
No matter who I asked to do the work, I only got a negative response.
Probably many human beings had no choice but to go through the same experience as Adam.
His younger brother Verdo also wandered around here and there, but there was nothing he could do.
“….It’s hard, bro.”
This was the story Vergo told before returning to the corner of the slum where her sisters were resting.
“…Why were we born as humans?”
“…”
“…Why is it that no matter what I do, I am always met with suspicion?”
Seeing Bergo showing his weakness to himself, Adam became more determined.
“Don’t say such a weak thing. You can’t change it.”
“…But…”
“I will be arriving soon. “Since you heard about Hanna and Is, act strong.”
“…”
Then Adam turned to his brother and said,
“…Bergo. Do not forget.”
“…What?”
“If I ever disappear, you have to protect your younger siblings.”
“…Where are you going?”
“Where are we going? “You said if something happens to me.”
“…Yes. Okay, bro.”
Adam eventually left his younger siblings in the care of Vergo and attempted more challenging tasks.
They say you have to be smart, so I secretly broke into the city library.
I followed people who seemed to have a lot of money and overheard their stories.
I always tried so hard to see if anything would fall out of the Congo.
Aside from that, I wandered around the shops, spread stories asking people to find help if they needed anything, and if there was someone who really needed help, I earned coins by working for a day.
I worked hard every day.
Surprisingly, I didn’t have any dissatisfied thoughts.
He thought that if his younger brothers got rich in return for his efforts, that would be enough.
I lived like that for several years.
Adam gradually developed a reputation within the city, and Bergo also made money of his own.
And through their efforts, Is and Hanna grew up beautifully.
As much as he hoped that his younger siblings would not have a difficult life, he occasionally found teachers who could teach his younger siblings skills.
So Hannah learned to sing occasionally from the village bard, and Ys learned dance from the village dancer only occasionally.
As a result, they were two younger sisters who raised dreams that Adam would have never dreamed of.
“Oppa, have I talked to Hannah?”
This was a story told when Is was 11 and Adam was 16.
“But then we had a dream.”
Bergo and Adam listened closely to the stories of their younger brothers.
“What is it?”
As Hannah continued her story, she spoke with a pure smile.
“…We will create a world where the human race is not ignored.”
Yep there we go, Adam is officially dying.
Stop please, my homie Adam cant die
Oh no, flashbacks
Red flag keeps rising
Dont do it writer please dont do it
It’s hard to readnwhen u know something tragic will happen in the end!