As I slept, I felt something pressing down on my body.
When I opened my eyes, I could hear a pounding breath coming from nearby, and a strangely sweet smell stung my nostrils.
“Uh… .”
Jin Ye-seul.
She fell asleep, almost leaning against my body.
“what?”
As soon as I pushed her aside, I could smell something fishy.
It smelled like blood.
When she shook her head and looked closely, she could see bloodstains all over her clothes.
As soon as I came to my senses, I got up.
“yes… .”
For a moment, Jin Ye-seul frowned as if it was bothering her nerves, and then started to breathe even more.
I carefully laid her down where I had been lying and looked at her carefully.
The dusky dawn light came down the window and lit her face brightly.
I already knew that Jin Ye-seul left to hunt the remnants of the Big Watch.
If so, the drop of blood spattered on my body or the reason I felt exhausted may be because of that.
I cautiously reached out towards her body.
The branches of the world tree came out and burrowed into her skin.
“eww.”
For a moment, Jin Ye-seul flinched and trembled.
Then he opened his eyes and looked at me with sleepy eyes.
It was as if he was thinking hard to decide whether this was his ally or his enemy.
The eyes that quietly looked at this place were cold, as if they contained a will to attack as they moved.
As if reacting to that, her feet wiggled up and down as she got out of bed.
People who see it for the first time may find it cute, but it didn’t look cute at all to me, knowing that her main specialty is kicking and that it’s a habit before attacking.
after a while.
As if she had figured out the identity of this place, she quickly relaxed her eyes.
Then he murmured in a tired voice full of sleepiness.
“Jihyuk… ?”
“Yeah, it’s me. Rather, what the hell are you doing to Yeseul at this hour… .”
“Sleepy.”
Jin Ye-seul muttered like that, and buried her head in the duvet softly.
It was the first time I had seen her like this, so I reflexively put a blanket over her body.
Then, Jin Ye-seul roared with a smile that seemed to have melted away, which was also shown to me for the first time.
“Warm… .”
“… … .”
I covered my eyes with my hand that did not pluck the branches of the world tree without saying a word.
Then, while crouching on the bed, energy flowed through the branches of the World Tree so that she could regain her energy.
As expected, she was now very tired.
Just as animals fall into a deep sleep to heal their wounds, she slept with her body curled up and unknowingly.
First, I took off her shoes and coat to let the energy flow.
“Now is the time… .”
After finishing some work, I checked the time, and the clock hand was pointing to 4 in the morning.
It was like the bed had been taken away from the ice, but it was clear to me how much trouble Jin Ye-seul had to go through, so I didn’t even think that it was bothersome.
[…] My brother is very rude.]
I was startled by the sound of flapping wings and voices.
When I turned my head, Jin-jeong’s paper crane, who had not responded for a while, was looking at me cautiously, as if I was sorry.
[Yesul isn’t such a careless kid, but it’s also the patient’s bed… I’m just going to sleep here, so no matter what happens, I’ll be by your side… .]
“it’s okay. He’s in good shape, and he doesn’t really care.”
I said, carefully placing the paper crane on the palm of my hand.
“Because I don’t even know what Yeseul was doing there.”
She had come to finish my work for me.
And if she’s worn out like that, having acquired all of the Shadow Walker’s legacy… It must have been such a dangerous and difficult task.
[Thank you so much for saying that.]
Jin-jeong muttered like that as if she was lucky.
Then he looked at me and trembled and fluttered his wings.
[More than that, it is now connected.]
Looking at the paper crane that said it was fortunate, I asked quietly.
“… Didn’t Jin-jeong cut off contact with something urgent?”
[yes? Could it be? I guess I thought that Yoo Ji-hyuk had an urgent business and cut off contact.]
Jin Jeong-eun said so, as always, added in a very business-like and rational voice.
[Now that I think about it, I think I felt something like a wave that interrupted the connection of magical powers… Is there anything wrong with it?]
“I do not know.”
It wasn’t a slurred word, nothing really caught on.
After thinking for a moment, I came up with a hypothesis that was at least possible.
“Maybe Ahn Joo-hyuk or other ten members took action? After all, people from the association came to me and warned me to be careful.”
[ah… It might be.]
Jin Jeong-eun quietly gave a voice of agreement.
In line with the beat, the paper crane shook her head.
“So, do you have anything else you want to tell me?”
[yes.]
When I first talked to her, Ye-seul Jin had left to deal with the remnants of the Big Watch and was disconnected as soon as she was told that she was returning from a successful finish.
You don’t know how frustrating it was.
“If possible, could you explain Yesul’s work?”
[yes.]
Paper crane nodded and nodded.
Then, looking at Jin Ye-seul, who was sleeping soundly, once again, he turned his head.
[First, I will explain the work of Yesul.]
Jinjeong began to explain quietly.
[I’ve been following the Big Watch ever since that day happened. As you know, they would always seek my life, and above all, because their purpose was to liberate the Seven Evil Species, so I couldn’t leave it alone. but… After becoming a body like this.]
She stuttered for a moment, as if embarrassed.
[Yes, because Yesul was in control of my daily life… It was very difficult to do. In the end, I found out that Ye Seul was secretly conducting an investigation. However, on the contrary, Yesul expressed her will to help clear the Big Watch.]
The paper crane flapped its wings helplessly as if it had fallen into a bit of a strange feeling.
[Originally, I didn’t want to attract Yesul, but… Unbeknownst to me, Yesul has become very strong. I can’t even compare it to before. … So, even though I knew it was irresponsible and pathetic, I asked the child for a favor.]
“So it seems that Ye-seul left immediately after receiving a call from Jeong-jeong Jin. Finding their location.”
[Yes, it is.]
Jinyoung nodded her head.
[And yes, Seul finished her work to the point of being perfect. Except for Isaac McDowell, he slaughtered all the remaining executives of the Big Watch, and killed the main characters. He even mortally wounded one of Milited’s children’s officers.]
Jinjeong quietly killed the main gang members along with the two remaining Big Watch executives, and added that he could obtain the ankles of vampires belonging to Milited’s children.
[In addition, this ankle is currently under investigation. … Jelly in the near future, no. I plan to investigate with Evangeline and ask Laura Hartmann to clean it up.]
“Huh… .”
As she nodded her head in admiration for her words, she let out a small sigh.
[Also, the fact that the Big Watch was effectively absorbed into the children of Milited, their purpose, their plans, etc… I was able to get important information.]
At her words, I pulled up the blanket that Jin Ye-seul was covering up a little more and covered her neck meticulously.
Jin Ye-seul mumbled something softly, then hugged the blanket that I had covered, and let out a sound of breathing again.
[Can you explain?]
“Yes, I will listen.”
[then… .]
She calmly began explaining things about the Big Watch and Milited’s children.
Some of her explanations were things I knew, but there were also stories I had never heard of.
In a nutshell, ‘The Big Watch’ and ‘Children of Milited’ faced conflict and confronted each other, but it was dramatically absorbed as Isaac McDowell became a new executive of ‘Children of Milited’.
In the meantime, the intelligent monsters that accounted for the majority of the Big Watch revolted, and there was a commotion to clean up and subdue it on a large scale.
Meanwhile, Jin Ye-seul broke in, and took advantage of the chaos to wipe out even the few forces that had followed Isaac McDowell.
Because of this, Isaac, who lost his power, was blown away, and because of this, his relationship with Milited’s children became more subtle.
[…] Also, do you remember the noisy disappearance of academy graduates a few days ago?]
“Is that case targeting wizards with unusual skills or talents?”
[Yes.]
“no way… .”
[The culprit in the case is also Milited’s children.]
Jinyoung continued speaking in a calm voice.
[…] As a result of examining the memories that Yeseul shared, Milited’s children only picked and killed such wizards and removed their hearts.]
“You mean the heart?”
[Because the heart of wizards is the source of magic and everything. It is now considered nonsense, but until a few hundred years ago, there was a widespread folk belief that if you eat the heart of a wizard raw, you can obtain the full power and magic of the wizard.]
“… … .”
Her words reminded me of what Belluna had warned me, and I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut.
That day, I ate Minerva’s heart and covered my body with Minerva’s blood.
And Belluna said that Milited had long longed for Minerva’s heart.
“… What the hell do they want?”
Jin-jeong showed a sign of contemplation for a moment at the bluntly thrown words.
[I do not know… Actually, this is a story I heard as if passing by.]
She said to me with a trembling look.
[Isaac McDowell, he was obsessed with immortality.]
“Is it immortal?”
[yes.]
Jinyoung muttered quietly.
In the first place, the purpose of alchemy is to make the imperfect perfect, and to lead humans into beings like gods.
[And the aforementioned ‘perfect the imperfect’… At the end of the road there is immortality along with the wise man’s stone.]
“… … .”
Gradually, I could feel the back and forth of her words fit together.
In the original original, Isaac McDowell tried to wake Milited with the half-hearted purpose of seeing the end of alchemy.
However, if his original purpose was to be immortal, then the reason he had joined hands with Milited’s children was understandable to some extent.
Milited was also close to immortality, and he was the best in alchemy in the ‘cloud of the horizon’.
Also, unlike the original, the power was reduced and various plans were thwarted, so I thought that he must have found a more moderate method.
In the case of Milited’s children, I possessed both the pendant and Minerva’s heart that Milited wanted, so there were more than enough reasons to target me.
“First of all, it sounds like Isaac McDowell and Milited’s children are all after me.”
[…] Yes. Perhaps because she noticed that, Yesul wanted to defeat their power as soon as possible.]
Jeongjeong Jin carefully agreed to my words and nodded her head.
I looked at Jin Ye-seul, who was quietly exhausted and fell asleep.
She was still sleeping with an even breath, and for some reason she looked particularly haggard today.
“Mr. Jin-Jeong.”
[yes.]
“from now on… If something like this happens, can you tell me in advance?”
In the words mixed with anger, Jin Jeong-jeong quietly said that she would know, and once again said that she was sorry.
I looked at the sleeping Jin Ye-seul’s face.
“why… .”
What the hell are you doing for me?
I quietly looked at her, swallowing the words I couldn’t put out in my mouth.
So I couldn’t figure it out.
[…] … .]
The shadow of Henir beneath my feet was quietly, very quietly, boiling like boiling water.
* * *
The glass shattered with a loud noise.
Despite the fact that the white wallpaper was being dyed with an amber liquid, Junhyung Choi laid his body on the sofa roughly.
“I am a fool who believed in fools.”
He hadn’t even taken off his clothes properly, and his face was flushed as if he was already drunk.
As he recalled what had happened in the morning, he clenched his teeth as if unable to bear his anger.
“Nursing up is shit, you have to work hard if you take the stuff you starve from the street and give it a decent name. !”
At best, Hailey was beaten by an academy student and collapsed unbelievably even after launching a surprise attack.
And Xiaojie, who struggled with not being able to heal a single wound on her arm.
The more he remembered, the more he couldn’t control his anger, so he gasped and tilted the bottle.
“Ahhh!”
In the meantime, unable to hold back his anger, he did not tilt the bottle and threw it away.
Another sharp noise rang out, and he murmured quietly, grabbing his fiery hair.
“No no… If you go like this… … .”
Even in the pain as if his throat was burning, his concern was only one.
To secure new recruits for Yoo Ji-hyuk.
And you have to hand him over to that terrible bastard… .
“You must have failed because you were confident.”
At the sound of the voice, Choi Junhyung could feel his drinking spirit running away in an instant.
Right next to him, who got up in surprise, sat a man with an old and worn-out robe covering his entire body.
“How the hell are you here? ?”
“Why did you even come to a place I couldn’t come?”
He raised his hand and shook it slowly.
Thanks to this, part of the robe that was covering his body flew down, revealing his bare hands, which were as good as white bones.
He picked up a glass of wine on the table.
Then he swished it in a funny, indifferent manner and tossed it behind his back.
“No way. I just… .”
Instead of making excuses, Choi Junhyung spit out a small swear word.
It was because he realized too late that he would already know everything if he had come this far.
“… I’m going to change my plans a little bit.”
“Oh, how?”
“I think it will be a little difficult with the Jeonggong method because there are a lot of powers that are fighting him than I thought.”
It was a reflexive remark, but to some extent it was true.
In fact, the forces protecting Yoo Ji-hyeok were beyond his imagination.
ten ten.
world tree clan.
The Hunt family, who emerged as a new aristocrat, and some influential figures.
Abel Grossman, famous even within the association.
And I don’t know why, but even Lee Won’s group was secretly circling around him.
In a situation where he was shattered after attempting a clumsy public opinion battle, Choi Jun-hyung took action quickly, but even that was stopped as if ridiculed.
“Are you thinking of something interesting?”
“okay. If the fangs don’t work, you’ll have to use the molars.”
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On Choi Jun-hyung’s table, several documents were scattered, and on the top was a document about Ni Il-sung, Na Il-jun’s father.
It wasn’t just that.
Lee Yun-seong once dreamed of becoming the head of the World Tree clan, but lost all power after being dismissed.
An academy student who is known to have had a conflict with Yoo Ji-hyuk over political issues… .
All information of people who had a bad relationship with Yoo Ji-hyuk in any way was gathered.
Choi Jun-hyung, who glanced at the document, opened his eyes as if bluffing towards Rob’s man.
“Somehow secure a new recruit for him. Then hand it over to you and take care of it, and you’re done. That’s all our contract is, isn’t it?”
“right… As long as you do the job you’ve been given, the contract is over.”
He nodded and stood up.
“I came to you just in case you were wondering, but I guess I miss you too much… I think it looked bad. I don’t know how you’re going to handle it, but good luck.”
Seeing him getting up from his seat as if it was good, Choi Junhyung shouted in an urgent voice, as if the appearance he had just before was a lie.
“Come on, wait!”
“… Why, maybe you need my help?”
“No, it’s not like that. I just… .”
He took a breath and asked.
“Really, really, if I just catch him and hand him over, will he keep his promise?”
“… ha.”
At Choi Junhyung’s question, the man sighed.
Then he rolled up his robe and said, revealing a terrible figure with only a hundred bones left.
“My master… You made me so immortal with just your insecure power.”
Choi Junhyung quietly nodded his head.
“On the day the Master wakes up after regaining all strength, we will receive the true meaning of grace… .”
The monster, also known as the king of the undead, Lich, slowly pointed at Junhyung with his bare fingers and said.
“He will gladly reward you for your cooperation in carrying out his will. He is very merciful.”
“That means… .”
“okay… .”
Richie nodded in an empty voice.
“You too will be immortal, just like us.”
At those words, a big smile was etched on Choi Junhyung’s lips.