We Are All Our Hostages
What qualities should a hostage have?
Is it important or symbolic to the opponent, or can it be used as a card to pressurize the fact that it was taken hostage? There are many things like this, but first you have to be a little weak. A hostage that you can’t spend when you need it is as vague as money that you can’t get back when you want it back.
In that sense, Historia is in many ways ineligible as a hostage. The moment he arrests Historia, who is nicknamed ‘the daughter of the military,’ the morale of the military will fall, and above all else, it is too strong. Now that the fertile placenta has broken out, how much damage must it take to arrest or kill Historia?
Historia, who was pointed out, sat silently and was deeply immersed in thought. The returnee answered puzzledly.
“… Are you going to take the gunman hostage? is that okay? why not?”
“different. A hostage is not a historia.”
Hilde pulled a smile from her lips. Hilde jumped from my lap and climbed onto the round table, pressing down on the biometric device on her wrist. The sagging clothes quickly shrunk to fit her body.
“A hostage is an army. As the last bulwark for this poor country that is about to crumble, we need Historia. There are no sergeant Maximilian, no Siegkhlund, and no Eimeder, or he has left. Without Musketeer Historia, it might collapse at any moment.”
Surprisingly, the military has the virtues of hostage. If it collapses, chaos will come to the world, and if you leave it alone, it will become my strong ally, and depending on how you handle it, it may collapse or resurrect quickly.
A country is a hostage. Although this scale is difficult to adapt to. Why do you nod your head when you think about the durability?
“Of course, having Historia doesn’t mean it won’t collapse! Only if there is no power available when the General Command wants it. The General Command has zero influence! Father’s signalman will soon reach its limit! How about you, will you accept it, Father?”
But know something. I shrugged.
“It doesn’t make any sense to ask me about that part. You should ask Leah. Leah, are you willing to take hostage?”
“… .”
“I need time to think. It would be.”
Instead of the silent Historia, I said so. Hilde asked again.
“What if the military is destroyed?”
“Do you know what I said the most while living in the military? This country is going to be destroyed. The day has finally come to make the wish that has been only repeated in words come true.”
“awesome! I don’t even blink an eye when it comes to the rise and fall of a country. Also, father!”
Hilde chuckled and lifted me up. Tyr, watching the skit, shut his mouth again and began to misunderstand even more.
‘From the name of this natural father to the perfect match between the two of them… ! Looking at it here, doesn’t it look pretty similar? ! Are you really a child? Then, at what age did you get married? !’
No. Rather, Hilde is older than me, so I should go back to before I was born and have a child.
But shoveling alone is a little fun, so let’s just leave it alone. Anyway, the one who misunderstood is the worst, and the one who gets misunderstood is Hilde, so I guess I’ll just have to watch.
“ruler. Anyway, we’ll talk about this after we’ve relaxed for a while. More than.”
As I declared, Tyr cautiously approached Hilde and greeted her gracefully, holding her skirt with one arm.
“Nice to meet you, kid. My name is Tirkanjaka. Don’t be alarmed because you’ve received a lot of help from Hugh in the abyss, though he has an insensitive body that is called the progenitor of vampires in the world. Don’t declare it in my blood. I will not covet your blood.”
‘what? Why is he suddenly like this?’
Ah, Hilde rolled her eyes and panicked. That person seems to be confused too.
However, Hilde, who was an excellent performer before becoming a transformationalist, handled the situation flexibly.
“Nice to meet you, Tirkanzaka. I heard that your father lost a lot.”
“It’s small compared to what I received, but we are still mutually reliant on each other. You can rely on me too.”
“Wow! It’s reassuring, it’s really good!”
… I’m sure you’ll handle it well, Hilde. Don’t call me mother by mistake.
Leaving the two of them in the process of reproducing the misunderstanding, I headed to the regressor.
“Well, let’s put this part aside. Mr Shay. Will you admit it now? how hard i worked Even if you work really hard, they don’t even notice.”
The returner looked at me dissatisfied, then turned his head and said.
“… okay! thank you! I’m so glad you’re here!”
“what the. Get down and take me. If possible, in the future, please express your gratitude before I rush.”
“Even if I say thank you, there are a lot of small talk! I wouldn’t have been relieved if you had told me a little earlier!”
The guy who farted is angry. Of course, even if you ask for what you should get, what do you say?
And you didn’t tell me either.
“Mr Shay. When me and Leah confront Maximilian. I was just trying to talk to you to pass the time.”
“Oh, you said you had a fight with him?”
‘Because that kid likes to talk. I’m sure he’s the type to get one shot after being vigilant.’
“yes. Then, when I brought up the story of the King of Sins, Maximilian said something like this. There is no such thing as a king of evil. I heard that he may have spoken differently about the king of men.”
I carefully played my luck. However, the returner firmly shook his head.
“no. The king of evil is the king of evil.”
“But you said that sin is not a beast? The only beast with sin is man, and the king of sin cannot but be the king of men.”
“no. The king of sin is not the king of men. They are two different beings… . Just do it.”
hoo.
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For some reason, the regressor, who was not good at lying, declared without a blink of an eye, and that’s how it happened.
The king of sin is different from the king of men. The returnee didn’t believe that. It was something I wanted to believe.
In other words, I didn’t believe it at all.
He knows quite a bit about the king of the beasts and the secrets of the world. However, he desperately turns away from the conclusion that the king of sin must be the king of men. He is shouting so persistently, even to the point of deceiving himself. because… .
‘The being I have to deal with. He is the king of humans… I don’t want to think of him as the king representing all humans. then… It means that humans are abandoned by the same humans. including me… .’
If she didn’t believe that, it seemed that her will would be broken.
It was purely a matter of his mood. Well, you can. Motivation is incredibly important.
“Hmm. I see. If so.”
“Do you believe me?”
“Trust me and sleep. You can’t not follow it in the first place. that the world perishes It’s hard to believe, but… That’s why I know too much more than just any saint. I can’t explain it well.”
“Ah, that, that.”
“And if you follow me, you will get something to eat. Just looking at it this time, I even put a line to the Military Headquarters in the midst of chaos and hunchbacks. A crisis is an opportunity. A feat that was impossible in the back alleys.”
“Did that matter?”
“Maybe Mr. Shay is a very bad con artist. But that’s fine. What if that’s a world-class scam? It’s an advantage if you can get something out of it. In the original scam, rather than revealing it, you have to piggyback a lot to lose a lot of food.”
“… On the contrary, I started to worry about whether I could trust you.”
The returnee shook his head. Then, suddenly, when he saw me, he fell into a certain thought.
‘By the way, Maximilien looked at Hughes and said, “Is he the king of men?” It’s a stupid conclusion I made just because Aji was nearby, but in case… .’
waited for this time. I can finally check it out.
It’s true anyway, I’m the king of men, and I’ve noticed it in quite a few ways. However, the returnee, who should have known this secret first, did not notice at all. Ever since I first met her, I haven’t even thought of that possibility for a moment.
I wondered about that too, but soon came up with a hypothesis. With this hypothesis, the reason why the regressor did not know me is understandable.
However, to confirm this hypothesis, I had to walk a bit of a tightrope. Above all, I had to extract the keyword ‘the king of humans’ from the regressor’s memory. Without revealing my identity as much as possible.
‘The King of Man… No, I can’t.’
After a bit of a comeback, I got a chance to test my hypothesis. The returner began to faintly fall into those memories.
‘Because I am the king of men… No, because I saw the king of evil with these two eyes.’
And the recall of the returner continued.
***
The king of sin has appeared. And in less than a day, a country was destroyed.
Seonghwangcheong was the first to notice this fact and made it known to the world. Humans, devastated by the war that killed and killed each other, joined forces to stop the war and defeat the king of evil.
Perhaps they were just waiting for an opportunity to stop the war. If it goes on like this, it was on the verge of extinction from its own country before mankind was annihilated.
After all, the king of sin is a very powerful being. Not only that, but sinful humans even gave themselves to the king of sin, knowing that they would die. The King of Sins himself executed them, and was walking around, chewing on their hearts.
What a terrible creature this is. He is said to be the king of evil, and it is an evil deed worthy of his name.
All men were outraged at the evil done by the King of Sin. The anger was applied retroactively, and even the various disasters and tragedies that occurred in the war they fought were attributed to the king of sin. Man turned to the king of sin to be held accountable for all the sins that have ever happened.
But.
The sin that humans have been neglecting so far… It was too big.
“You longed for the soul to be immortal, and to be judged after death according to good and evil. It is the most terrible lie.”
that’s not human A sin and a disaster in human form. It was the personification of death.
“There is neither heaven nor hell in this world. The god you cry out to does not exist in the sky.”
Lightning strikes like rain from the sky. The earth refuses to support humans. A person who has never fallen in his life stumbles on a flat ground and stabs his comrade while swinging a sword at a virtual image. The beasts born from the fruit are flocked by wild beasts like waves. The technology developed to kill the beast is twisted in the wrong direction.
Blood and flames gushing out. Screams and thunder echo. The burnt flesh rises with black smoke. Electrocution, Sosa, Loss of Blood, Loss of Death, Depression, Explosion. Deaths of all kinds are displayed on the battlefield in the form of corpses.
In the midst of it, the king of sin walked with death as a footstep.
“The hall of tens of thousands of warriors who died fighting with honor, the paradise prepared only for those who suffered hardship, and the shelter above the clouds. There is nothing after death.”
The warriors who stood out in the war, the heroes who led the impossible battle to victory, the recluses who retreated from the phone. Armed with treasures and relics, the strong men rushed forward with the blessings of wisdom on their way to the king of evil.
all died
not even an opponent. The king of sin sneered at the masterpieces of the human species and destroyed them one by one. Each time the scythe flashed, someone’s neck fell to the ground.
Shay was the same.
Jizan is broken. chinen was broken There is no sensation in the crushed legs, and blood is flowing from the body with holes.
Unlike others, Shay is still alive, but that was only ‘yet’.
“There is only one abandoned ossuary.”
The king of sin drew his sickle. Blood gushed out of someone’s body. Tock, tock. The catastrophic footsteps of finding the next victim head towards Shay. Shay grabbed the broken Jizan hilt, and desperately raised her head as she continued to descend.
It was in front of Shay’s eyes.
The calamity created by man, the king of sin.
“I am the smallest ossuary in the world. A library dedicated to the forgotten. A funeral director who picked up and buried you when you made a check that you could never pay back.”
Messy hair scattered everywhere. Jet-black eyes that seemed to have glimpsed the abyss of a human being. A blood tattoo was drawn on his face, and someone’s skull was covered. The wildness like the child of a beast stands out.
However, even that figure is eerily beautiful.
head is trying to go down Tired? No, the instinct facing the majesty and majesty commands him to bow his head. They can’t win, so they cry out to bow down and beg for their lives.
He wanted to get down on his knees now, but Shay clenched his teeth and resisted the command. A rebel from birth, she rejected her instincts and faced the king of evil.
This life is not over. You have to see one more thing, you have to see even a little bit more. Even for the next round.
-But.
“Even if there is a next time for you, I will be back.”
As if he was thinking of returning, Shay had no choice but to lose his composure and harden. A moan escapes from the gaping mouth.
“… Ah, uh… .”
“Go and tell him. Your justice is bankrupt, and soon I will go to collect it. Justice and morality, which cried out for the future and fate as collateral, eventually ran out.”
Even death cannot be an escape. The world beyond that is not safe either. Only then did the returner realize her fate.
Her return… That it will continue as long as the King of Sin is not defeated.
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Fear creeps in Even death is an unavoidable threat. A wall that must be crossed.
The destination I found at the end of a tiring, exhausting, and even lonely return… It was so far and high. Not for the rest of my life, even if I walked for eternity, I never thought I would ever reach it.
But.
nevertheless.
Instead of giving up, instead of weeping in exhaustion, Shay looked at the King of Sin.
“huh… . You say a lot of things you don’t understand… .”
Because it’s so stupid that you can’t even predict the obvious results. His insight was so shallow that he couldn’t even see the difference between him and the other person. Even if there is a wall, he is so stupid that he doesn’t know how hard it is until he hits it.
Shay clenched the broken cherry tree with her bare fist.
“I’m going to shut that mouth someday… . leave… look.”
The king of sin was silent briefly. Is it a ridicule for foolishness, or is it an homage to humans?
At the end of the silence, the king of sin smiled faintly.
“How long.”
Immediately afterward, the sickle moved. That episode, that was the last thing Shay saw.
***
Well. okay.
As I expected, that’s definitely the king of humans. It looks a bit too strong, but there must be something. First of all, the king of men is right.
But no matter how you look at it, I am not. My face, my physique, and my gender are opposites.
Hmm.
‘… not the king of men I can’t. It didn’t look like that at all.’
When the King of the Beasts dies, another King of the Beasts arises from somewhere in the world. The newly born king of the beast is separate from the previous king. They will carry the same promise, but apart from that, their memories, appearance, and personality are different.
So… In other words.
It must mean that I in the previous episode is dead.
when? where? how? I don’t know. But if you think about what the lord of all things do and what Seonghwangcheong does, it is not strange how he died.
One year later, I die. 10 years later, the world will be destroyed. life spoiled
Of course, the fact that I will die a year later has not been confirmed. But I was sure. Man, if the king of sin destroys the world in 10 years. I must die before then.
I escaped from the abyss thanks to the appearance of the returner… Because of that, I was deeply involved in a very large current. I can no longer live a normal life.
Damn, I told you to live a normal life, but you can’t be normal if you want to live. I can’t help it though.
I don’t want the world to perish. So is the extinction of mankind. I don’t know what the heck caused the King of Humans to launch an act of racial self-destruction, but I have no intention of doing so yet.
Some people, including Nevida and Seonghwangcheong, may think differently, but… That’s their case.
Like the regressor, I have no choice but to struggle to survive.
The longer you survive, the longer you can tease regressor. Sounds like a fair deal.