“Ji, Jihyuk! Jihyuk… !”
Yesul tried to get up from her seat in a hurry, but her body was so weak that anyone could tell.
… Jin-Jeong’s words that she spends most of the day lying down as if she’s dead were literally meaningless without the slightest exaggeration.
“ah… !”
In fact, as she tried to get up, her arms lost strength and she fell from the bed.
If it hadn’t been blown away, he might have been seriously injured.
“Yesul, are you okay?”
“Jihyuk… Jihyuk? Is it Jihyeok? yes?”
She leaned over me, waving her arms, rubbing my face or fiddling around with my body.
Her eyes were trembling unbelievably thin, but they couldn’t even focus properly.
The way he looked at me blankly was as if he was trying to remember who he was, an enemy or an ally while accepting that I was a face that was not at all unfamiliar.
For her, this moment was neither a reality nor a dream.
It was just now.
[…] Are you hiding a dagger in your arms? If you do this wrong, won’t it be locked in your neck?]
“I do not care.”
Sbengali, who was strangely reluctant to see her, muttered as if it had nothing to do with her, but I hugged her right away.
Startled and startled, she jerked away from me, but I tightened the arm that embraced her once more.
“Ah, uh… !”
She showed a strange reluctance and tried to get away from me.
Maybe it’s because I can’t believe this situation.
Then my eyes met her, who was struggling, and her eyes, which had been constantly shaking, as beautiful as amethyst, slowly regained stability.
Her eyes return to focus.
“ah.”
She stopped moving and buried her head in me.
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Only then did she start to tremble, and she relaxed her body and surrendered herself completely to me.
If I had given the belief that it was a fake or a fantasy, the dagger that would have pounded my neck without hesitation fell, and a loud metal noise was heard.
“It’s true… .”
she started to whimper.
The sniffling soon turned into a fever.
“It’s really Jihyuk… .”
At the end of those words, she just muttered something she couldn’t understand, like a howl.
All I could do was pat her on the back and caress her as if to comfort her.
“Khuh… whoops… .”
After crying for a long time, she calmed down to some extent and began to breathe quietly.
I wanted to do this right now, so I took out the small root that Raune had handed me separately from my arms.
“Yesul, eat this.”
She didn’t even ask what it was.
Without hesitation, I opened my mouth like a young bird feeding on a mother bird, and I carefully put it into her mouth.
“Chew, swallow.”
“Yeah, uh… Aww, sir… huh.”
She gnawed and panted intermittently, but as I said, she gurgled quietly, chewing on the roots of the raune.
As if the saying that the roots of Mandragora resurrect the dead is not for nothing, I could feel her energy recovering in an instant.
“… how have you been doing?”
“… … .”
As I smiled and spoke to her, who had regained some energy, Jin Ye-seul, who looked down at me blankly, muttered after a while.
“… Jihyuk will kill you and I will die too.”
“What?”
“Then it will never happen again.”
She was looking down at me with unfocused eyes.
“… So let’s die together.”
At the end of those words, she rushed to me in embarrassment.
* * *
“… So that’s how it happened.”
In the end, I had to explain in a reasonable way what had happened to calm her down.
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Originally, I was going to talk in front of other children as well… .
‘By now, Sooyoung must have explained this to Yuna and Ivan as well.’
Ye-seul, who was sitting right next to me, clutching one hand and fiddling with me, murmured in a gloomy voice.
“… So, while me and the others were having a hard month for a month, Jihyeok, you and Han Sooyoung, were getting along well.”
In addition to Milited, Minerva and even Venus and Juno were told about the grueling battle with the four Seven Evils, but it seemed that all that remained in her mind was the content.
“Then, are you going to go find Choi Hyun-woo now?”
“No, I have somewhere to go before that.”
“Uh… .”
Even when she heard about Hyeonu, she wasn’t surprised at all.
She shook her head and muttered, thinking that maybe she had heard the story from Jin-jeong.
“He knew that one day he would. A kid who looks like he is without flaws on the outside is going to go completely wrong once he loses his mind.”
Having said that, she let out a small sigh.
“Jihyuk, don’t you know because you’re not there? Ji-hyeok and you are caught in a strange light and flies away, and Choi Hyeon-woo completely turns around, so he was a Milited or something, and the fragments and clones left behind by the Seven Evil Bells… !”
Jin Ye-seul, who was saying something, immediately stiffened and then just rolled her eyes and looked at me.
I wondered why she had to be here again, and when we met her eyes, her lower lip trembled, and I could feel her nervous enough that you could tell just by looking at it.
“I, uh… Is it okay if I ask you just one thing?”
Suddenly she asked me politely with respect.
“Ugh, I was so in a hurry at the time, so I just passed… There must have been an alter ego of Shadow Walker back then… ?”
“… It did.”
“Boo, you must see Shadow Walker… Gina, you said… what the hell… .”
“… … .”
“and… That, Shadow Walker’s alter ego is obviously his brother… .”
She faltered in her words and looked at me as if to confirm.
She nodded slowly and closed her eyes.
“Sorry, I’m sorry… !”
Immediately after, she quickly got up and fell flat on my face as if bowing to me.
“I didn’t think they were descendants of Shadow Walker, but they were family… ! I really didn’t know! I don’t even know, I dare… !”
She was lying on the floor, shaking more than before.
As I looked at her, everything from the first time I met her in the past to the conflicts she had in the past passed like a lantern.
… If you look at it this way, I don’t think there is anyone who has more complicated entanglements with me than Yesul.
“Yesul, you have no reason to feel sorry for me, so get up.”
I tried to get her up from the floor, but she, who had been struggling until recently, didn’t even know where the strength came from.
“It could be… .”
“After all, I didn’t even know until then, did I? Yesul, there is nothing wrong with you. So come on… .”
“Well, if you look at the result, I dare you, Master, no. Ah… !”
Not knowing what to do, Yesul shook her head with her head down, and immediately used the shadow to bring something and put it in front of me.
It was the legacy of Shadow Walker.
“Hey, from the fact that I dared to go over this… ! We will return it now… !”
“No, Yesul.”
She even giggled and shook her head.
“Also, the sins I have committed are not enough, but I pay the price with my life… !”
“ha.”
Without realizing it, I let out a deep sigh.
I didn’t know there would be an argument like this, but as I was thinking about it, I remembered the words that Jin-jeong had just whispered in my ear.
Sbengali murmured suggestively, as if he had penetrated my mind, wondering if I should really say such a thing.
[By the way, was there any more twisted relationship left? Now, why are you hesitating more?]
… It was definitely what he said.
I decided to eat my heart out.
Just like when I first met Yesul.
“hey.”
When I called her in a low voice, Jin Ye-seul flinched and shook her body.
“Jin Ye-seul.”
“… … .”
“Answer me.”
“Yes Yes. Please speak… .”
“Look into my eyes and answer me.”
Then she crouched and carefully lifted her head.
Jinyoung’s voice was ringing in her ear.
― Yesul tried to kill herself.
― I couldn’t stop him on my own, so I had to make myself not to do it. While I was looking for such a way, Yeeun Lee gave me an unexpected help.
― He said to Yesul.
– Yoo Ji-hyuk didn’t say anything, but who wants to die?
– Did you not say that you are Jihyuk’s own, or that you will become his sword and dagger? But who wants to take his own life without the master’s orders?
― At least if you want to die, get his permission and then die… .
– That’s what I’m saying, but maybe… If Yoo Ji-hyeok treats the child with high pressure, maybe he will obey him… .
Hearing those words, I couldn’t believe it, and Sbangali and Minerva only uttered one word at a time.
[It’s also jingling.]
[Um, I understand.]
At first, I was nervous, but seeing Ye Seul like this now is enough… seemed likely.
“Who are you going to die right now, and who will give you back your inheritance?”
“That, that… .”
“I said I was fine. Do you hate me that much?”
“… … .”
He looked at her and squealed once more.
“answer.”
“yes… Oh no! no!”
“Don’t say respect. Surely you didn’t promise me not to do it last time, did you?”
“Ah, that… Oh, okay. No, I understand… .”
Jin Ye-seul quickly nodded, fearing that she would be annoyed again.
She made eye contact with me and tried to avoid her gaze, but I wouldn’t allow it.
He made eye contact with her in embarrassment and opened his mouth quietly.
“Then get ready now. Because I really don’t have much time.”
“yes? no, huh? what to prepare… ?”
“Yesul, you asked. Are you going to find Hyeonu? And I said I had to stop by before that.”
“yes.”
“I’m going to the tomb of Shadow Walker, where you first got your inheritance.”
“uh… ?”
At that, she looked up at me with a blank expression on her face.
“There are people waiting for me.”
He grabbed her, who was still sitting there, and raised her slowly.
“At the same time, the people who Ye-seul is waiting for you.”
* * *
Han Su-young, Choi Hyeon-woo, Lee Ye-eun, Jin Ye-seul, Lee Yu-na, Ivan Hunt.
In addition, Ahn Do-hoon and Cass Lyle.
In the original work, these eight people face an event called awakening, in which they realize their own abilities and powers.
This was the case when Yeeun Lee would experience the final ordeal by the World Tree, or Ivan Hunt would sign a contract with the Spirit King.
And in the case of Jin Ye-seul, after obtaining all the inheritances, he does not wake up until he undergoes the final test to be recognized as a shadow worker.
So, it was always a question.
Because the moment of awakening that occurred in the original work and the moment of awakening that I saw in this world were subtly similar but different.
At first, I just moved on thinking that there was a variable like the country, and that the original was just the original, and it was completely different from the world.
No, as of right now, that kind of thing was a good thing.
If there was one thing I could be sure of, it was that I had to head to the tomb of the Shadow Walker with Jin Ye-seul.
We headed straight to the place where the Shadow Walker’s tomb and the ‘flowing snake’, the legacy that Ye-seul Jin first acquired, was hidden.
It was also the place where Suyeong and I met Leto, a half ogre, and found Gina trapped in Juno’s lens, and also received items that were Venus and Juno’s weak points.
“Here.”
Jin Ye-seul, who found the hidden tomb of Shadow Walker without difficulty, led us inside.
Inside the tomb, there was a musty musty smell, dust and cobwebs all over the place.
Inside, there was an altar made of huge stone, and there were smashed or cracked traces of the battle left unfiltered.
Seeing this again was a new sight to behold.
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Obviously, here we talked with Leto, and Yesul must have fought Leto and won and took the information about the inheritance along with the inheritance.
“You are finally here.”
A giant man was waiting for us in front of the altar.
His body was bigger than he remembered, and he had a familiar face.
It was a half ogre, Leto.
“… He’s really alive.”
Seeing that, Jin Ye-seul quietly muttered.
Along with the bloody words, ‘I must have ripped off the neck and put an iron needle in my head’.
“I have been waiting since that day, old man.”
The gravekeeper of the grave bowed his head broadly toward this side.
Slowly raising his head, he looked at Jin Ye-seul and murmured.
“And there are robbers who dared to claim their master’s successor.”
Jin Ye-seul snorted at his words.
Standing in front of the party, I looked at him and asked.
“It’s been a while, Leto.”
“Yeah, it’s been a really long time. old man. To see you again like this, I am truly happy.”
“I am happy too. Leto, come to think of it, you look bigger than when I first saw you?”
“Because my body grows so fast… .”
“okay.”
I nodded once and looked at him.
“I came as promised. To meet you and your colleagues.”
He bowed his head once more, as if in embarrassment.
“That promise is still in effect. And also to say that I am worthy of the service of myself and my colleagues.”
However… .
He slowly looked at Jin Ye-seul.
“Before that, the author must first take a test.”
“exam?”
“Yes, test.”
The half ogre exhaled quietly.
“The one who has gathered all the inheritance of the master. It’s a test to see if he really deserves the Shadow Walker name.”
“… That, Leto. We are very busy. Do we have to do it now?”
“I’m sorry, old man. Please understand that this cannot be compromised.”
He bowed his head deeply, as if apologizing to me.
“If the elder takes the inheritance, the younger has no complaints. However… .”
“okay.”
Jin Ye-seul, who cut off Leto’s words, took a step forward and looked at him.
“You can do it, that test.”
She said, looking at Leto with regret.
“And Jihyuk… It’s busy, so if you’re going to do it, do it quickly.”
“… You are very arrogant.”
Leto, who had always been polite to Sooyoung and I, looked at Yeseul with a look of regret.
He raised his hand and pointed to one.
It was sealed off with a thick chain along with a huge stone gate.
“Go inside.”
Yesul had a mysterious expression on whether there was such a door, but as soon as I saw where the stone gate was blocked, I could tell.
It was the place where Gina’s lens was.
It was the moment I discovered it.
tyring.
A notification window appeared in front of me with a small mechanical sound.
[You can feel the great evil within you writhe… .]
[Deep inside your body, some energy remaining in a part of your soul is stimulated and begins to move!]
seven kinds of evil.
It was a reminder that one of their powers I ate was slowly starting to open my eyes.