“What is this! Are you telling me to put this low-level garbage in my mouth right now?!”
There was a clattering noise as the glass shattered.
The little girl was giggling with her eyes raised, and at her feet five or six people knelt and bowed their heads. Shattered shards of glass were scattered around the woman who was closest to the girl among them.
Natalia Milited clenched her teeth and clenched her teeth, feeling the pain as if her hands were being ripped apart, rather than the person’s head bursting even though she had hit the human head with a glass as much as she could.
“I hate to see you, get out of here right now! To disappear from my sight! Before I kill them all!”
Those who had lost their mind at Natalia’s evil cry, knelt down and crawled out of the room. Without even looking at it, she filled her glass with wine and drank it at once, as if trying to calm her anger.
“Woah, whoa! Cologne, Colloc!”
I can only feel the astringent taste lingering in my mouth and the numbness of my tongue.
In addition, she immediately vomited the wine as if in blood, at the unique scent of alcohol that intensely stimulates her nose and throat.
Rubbing her lips with her hand, she looked at the label of the wine with a bewildered gaze.
It was clear that the wine he liked to drink.
Still, I couldn’t pass a single sip, let alone a bottle.
It wasn’t that the wine had gone bad or his taste had changed.
What had changed was his body.
“Ah ah ah ah ah!!! Alice, Alice!”
The girl swung her hand over the wine and glass once more.
The sound of glass shattering, wine bottles tumbling on the floor, and red wine seeping onto the carpet. In the meantime, the back of her hand that had hit the bottle of wine was throbbing, and she couldn’t stand it.
“How dare you do this to your parents! This ungrateful b*tch, even if I tore it to death, it wouldn’t be worth it, I dare you… !”
She couldn’t even guess where it was going wrong.
She was deceived by the shallow number of a girl named Jin Ye-seul and lost her ankle and suffered the humiliation of losing her body.
At Gracius’ request, he went to bind the Ten Rivers, and met the abominable Alice Blesbuck.
And she, her daughter, who would not be able to tear it apart and kill her, used her ankle as a medium to cast a spell.
Thanks to this, he lost his strength and was weakened, and he met an opponent of the supreme character called the Paladin and was captured as it is.
The body of a young girl who is so weak and insignificant by tearing her own soul out of her body… It was also settled in the disgusting body called the homunculus.
Everything was ugly, impossible, and unbelievable.
Who are you?
Natalia Milited, herself the only remaining clan of the Jinjo in this world, and a noble bloodline that deserves to lead all vampires.
It was the sound of someone who would never suffer such humiliation.
She couldn’t admit that even her daughter, Alice Blesssbuck, who was mongrel and embarrassed to be called a vampire, was the one who gave it all.
“Ahhh!!!”
Natalia Milited wished, if she could, to go back in time and tear herself into the brains of everyone who helped make her here.
No, I swore I would definitely do it.
“How dare you, a filthy bastard like you, dare to humiliate me like this… ! I won’t let you go, I’ll cut off your limbs and put you in a pigsty, and I’ll make you wallow in your own blood and filth for the rest of your life! You’re so cheap, and so is that disgusting homunculus!”
As she was pouring curses into the air, someone slowly walked into the room.
He picked up a bottle of wine lying on the carpet and carefully placed it on the shelf.
“Be in moderation, Natalia. It’s shameful.”
At the gentle voice of the man she could hear, she raised her eyes ferociously.
“Shut your mouth, Randsch! After all, it’s your fault that I’ve become like this!”
Despite her shouting, stricken with evil, Randsch casually started cleaning the messy room.
Natalia clenched her teeth once more at his unpretentious appearance.
Even in her original form, she could not be a threat to him at all.
There was nothing more to say about the way it is now.
“If your bastard had moved a little bit faster, if you had done things right in the first place, I wouldn’t have been able to go out! And I wouldn’t have suffered such humiliation! How the hell are you going to handle this, Randsch!”
“… When He wakes up, everything is settled. So, just wait.”
Randsch let out a sigh, and Natalia trembled as if she had been struck by lightning.
And she quickly nodded and muttered in a voice full of joy.
“That, yes… ! If the master wakes up… If so, would you be willing to have mercy on me… ! My, how could I have forgotten such a natural thing… ?”
She quickly clenched her nails with a look of impatience.
‘It seems that it has been assimilated because it has settled in the body of a homunculus mixed with young human blood, which is weak in spirit and soul.’
Even though she was so unstable in spirit, Randsch just said so.
“My dear, even though I have been filthy, he will never forsake me… That’s right! How much service I have served him, how faithful I have served him! Surely you will be willing to show me mercy and grant me favors. then… !”
She immediately asked Randsch.
It was as if he was dealing with a subordinate, but neither of them cared.
“Hey, Randsch! How are the preparations going? Have you collected all the offerings? What is the date? Is everything going well? Tell me everything about how your plans are going now!”
“Everything is going smoothly. So calm down, Natalia.”
To her who asked in an urgent voice, Randsch didn’t blink an eye and spouted a lie.
“The preparation of the sacrifice goes smoothly.”
It was a lie.
All that was prepared was Isaac McDowell.
Even if they offer themselves as a sacrifice, both of them.
The crystal he was trying to obtain for use as a sacrifice was taken away, Gracius was destroyed, and the chunk of meat that had been prepared for hundreds of years ago, the heart of a dragon, was very unstable.
… At least Natalia Milited had the slightest chance, but now that she has become like that, there is no way she can be fully used as a sacrifice.
“… … .”
Meanwhile, his gaze faintly passed over Natalia.
Her gaze was filled with deep thought, but she was caught up in impatience and paranoia, and she didn’t notice it at all.
He nodded his head, immediately erasing the smile that appeared as if passing by.
“It is also smooth to weaken their forces, including Yoo Ji-hyuk.”
This was also a lie.
Yoo Ji-hyuk.
His power, which was thought to be the biggest stumbling block, did not diminish at all.
Rather, how did they find out? As the days passed, those who could be the limbs of this place were disappearing.
Unlike himself, he probably has a capable colleague or subordinate.
Randsch nodded slightly, accusing him.
Gracius is dead, and Natalia is now only a piece of luggage. Belluna left, and she was the only one left.
When did the children of Milited, who were famous in those days, decline so much? He smirked at the pitiful reality.
Nile. Yoon-Sung Lee. Ender Freeman. Ichinose Kohei.
All those who had hoped for them either died or disappeared, or else they lost all their foundations and strength and became useless.
He also knew that most of the trivial things that Rogers Nal, Lee Eun-kyung, and Choi Jun-hyung were proud of because his intelligence was at this level, were cut off from contact.
Junhyung Choi.
Fortunately, there was only one thing left.
‘… This Landsh’s plight would be so miserable.’
Nevertheless, he was not at all discouraged or discouraged.
“However, there is not much left now.”
Really, really, as he said, because there wasn’t much left.
It was soon.
It was the only fact that made him move without any hesitation.
“… then.”
Randsch pulled out a few pictures from his arms and laid them out.
In the photo, not Yoo Ji-hyeok, but people around him.
Han Soo-young. Hyunwoo Choi. Yeeun Lee. Jin Ye-seul. the reason And Ivan Hunt.
They were the people who he thought were Yoo Ji-hyuk’s closest aides and could be called the closest people.
After looking at the picture for a long time, he nodded as if he had finally made a decision.
The best way to destroy a group is to make them collapse themselves.
And he was well aware that doubts and distrust, once established, tended to build up on their own.
* * *
“At first, Jihyuk did what you said… . I still don’t know if this is really true.”
Cass Lyle, who returned to the academy after a long vacation, muttered as she looked at me.
He had a bandage wrapped around one of his forearms, and I knew that it was a show-off.
“In what way?”
“I also shouldn’t have let her go. I should have killed him.”
He said so and sighed a little.
“Ji-hyeok knows you well, but it’s actually harder to lose narrowly than to win. You call it hospitality play, right? Anyway… How hard it was to act without them noticing.”
I had warned Alice Blesbuck that there was an almost 100% chance that her facility would be attacked.
It took four alchemists to unlock Milited’s seal, and they were unable to obtain the required number of sacrifices. However, in such a situation, there was no way to let the alchemist who taught Alice Blesbuck be alone.
Attacking a place guarded by the World Tree’s clan is literally an act of suicide, so I was able to find out that it would naturally attack her facility, considering the method of extinction.
‘Isn’t it possible to attack only when it’s a seven-eight class?’
With that thought in mind, Cass Lyle took a sip of the bottled water.
“I created a blur of the boundary so that I could figure out the location of this side, and I made Sipgang empty on the pretext that something urgent happened… To be honest, I didn’t know it would run so straight forward. It was a trap for anyone to see.”
“It must be so urgent. Did you say Randsch, from his point of view, waiting for hundreds of years could be disintegrated right in front of your eyes. Is your senior or professor okay? It was said that quite a number of people broke in.”
“yes. Professor is fine. me too To put it bluntly, it hurts even more that the research facility was messed up.”
He smiled a little and nodded his head.
“Anyway, for a while, Jihyuk decided to help you by your side as you requested. If you ever need anything, just tell me… .”
He took a small box from his arms and held it to me.
“Here is the thing you asked the professor for.”
I took it and put it in my arms.
Instead, he took out a ring and held it to him.
“ring? The aura I feel is not an ordinary thing… Why is this?”
“It’s senior. Take it.”
Cass Lyle gave me a strange expression and took the ring from me.
Then, holding it, he looked around for a while and shrugged his shoulders at me.
“If I had known this would happen, would I have come to you as a woman?”
“It’s not like that, so don’t say anything nonsense, senpai.”
“… So, how do you like it now?”
“Shall I tell the professor that seniors have the same taste?”
He chuckled at my words and burst out laughing.
Then he tucked it into his finger.
“uh?”
For a moment, he trembled and looked at me with a startled look.
“… Dragon, World Tree, Spirit. There should be… ?”
“After seeing the reaction, I don’t need to explain.”
He fiddled with it over and over, as if in disbelief.
“… I made a separate request to Evangeline. By now, the ring must have arrived at the professor or Jin Jeong-jeong.”
“I don’t know anything else, but I can see why Ji-hyuk told you to let her go.”
He nodded quietly.
“Thanks to you, all my worries and doubts in my mind have disappeared… . Except for one thing.”
“What is it?”
“traitor.”
As Cas Lyle said so, he waved his hand as if not to be misunderstood.
“Don’t get me wrong. Jihyuk isn’t suspicious of the kids around you. So what I want to say is… .”
“I know, senpai.”
I knew very well what he was worried about.
betrayal.
To be precise, to sow mistrust and suspicion between the parties.
There were only two people in the original who committed such behavior, one Sbangali and the other Milited.
A few days ago, Jin Ye-seul said something like that to me.
― You better check your surroundings, Jihyuk-ah.
― Lee Eun a while ago… was it your brother? Anyway, I’ve been looking through the memories of a human being that I’m my fiancée, and I think Choi Jun-hyung only met people related to the people around you.
― And there are definitely Milited’s children behind them.
– What did you say? Anyway, after seeing that man, Jihyuk said that he would make a connection with me after he took care of you. Well, he said that Randsch has the ability to steal and subdue people’s intelligence… Probably not just me, but other kids as well.
― In the case of Sooyoung and Hyeonu, the master, in the case of Yuna, the orphanage and children, and in the case of Yeeun Lee and Ivan, the people of the clan and family to protect… There are plenty of things that could be a weakness.
― Their methods are so tenacious that it is disgusting.
– So be careful.
“… You don’t have to worry. Because I was already prepared.”
In fact, the reason he gave out rings to everyone was also to prepare for such a case.
There was also a conversation where everyone gathered that day.
“Then I’m glad… .”
He nodded.
“It’s good to be careful though. I mean, I could suddenly betray you, right? Never let your guard down.”
I replied with a smile to his worried advice.
“Professor Alice is on the same side as me, but you say you betrayed me?”
He was the one who could be called an Alice Blesbuck lover.
Perhaps she would throw herself into the lava without hesitation if she wanted to.
The opposite would also be the case.
“… No, that story is not important now.”
He blushed slightly, as if embarrassed.
“Anyway, I won’t say more because you know… But there’s nothing wrong with being really careful.”
he muttered quietly.
“There is nothing more fatal than the betrayal of the person closest to you.”
* * *
“Ugh, that bastard… ! Hey, let go of this, you bastard… !”
A blond boy was struggling with his arms bent back.
A boy who had his knee pressed against his back looked down at him with cold eyes and pulled out a short cutlery from his arms.
“… Please repeat what I said before.”
“Wow, what is this crazy… Hey!?”
The cold and sharp feeling that touched his neck instantly made the blond male student, Rogers Nal, shiver and tremble. With the cutlery in his hand, Hyeon-Woo Choi moved his hand gently, cutting his neck and muttering mutteringly.
“You said Sooyoung. What are you going to do with Sooyoung?”
Choi Hyun-woo, trying to suppress his anger, cooks once more and stabs him in the neck.
He remembered clearly what he had just said while talking to someone on the phone.
Do you really just have to do what you’re told?
Then, are you really passing that Han Soo-young over to me?
I can’t believe you, show me how you suppressed her mind right now.
And make me follow my orders… .
When he woke up, he had already defeated Rogers Nal and held a knife to his neck.
But there was no regret or embarrassment at all.
I just wanted to know what kind of cowardly cubs dared to say such things to their precious family members and siblings.
“Dare you, Sooyoung, what, what are you going to do?”
As if to represent his feelings, he spit and spit out the cut words.
Even in his oldest memories, the person he was with was Han Soo-young.
He spit out such a reckless remark towards such a person.
Even more so, Rogers Nal, who is now under him, was suspicious in many ways.
There was nothing left to make him hesitate.
“Aren’t you talking?”
He did not respond to Choi Hyun-woo’s threats.
It was when he nodded knowingly and without hesitation he was about to cut off his neck a little with the cutlery in his hand.
“He won’t say anything now.”
A low voice came from somewhere.
“Because I crushed his mind.”
Choi Hyun-woo quietly turned his head at the serious tone of voice he heard.
There, a giant man was looking over here.
“Can we talk for a moment?”
He grinned and gave an ominous smile.
“My name is Randsch.”