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45. This is your grave. (2)

As I walked out of the memorial hall and headed towards where Choi Si-woo was, the scenery I saw was so bleak and ominous that it was incomparable to anything I had seen before.

The sky is as red as blood, the trees are completely rotten and their outer layers have fallen off, revealing their discolored flesh, and the sour smell of rotting corpses fills the nostrils.

A landscape that makes you think that the nature and city appearances that we have seen so far are somewhat better than the devastation caused by the tower.

A previously invisible ‘black thread’ stretched out from the tower and stuck to everything. As I headed towards the guy, I touched the thread near me and felt the divinity of Thanatos.

In light of this, it is now clear that while people had previously assumed that the clock-shaped design carved into the tower indicated the time when the demons would emerge from the tower or when devastation would occur.

That’s not it, it’s that the godhood of Thanatos completely… puts the tower under his control.

‘ Desolation… was taking the life force out of everything living and created by civilization around us and making it our own. ‘

I stopped in place, took out my sword, charged it with divine power, and cut all the black threads around me, and then the surroundings began to change slightly.

Hyunseok oppa was surprised by the change in the surrounding scenery and asked me about my sudden action of stopping while walking towards Choi Siwoo.

” Charlotte, did you do it? ”

” Yeah. Now… I saw it. The black thread extending from the tower. That thread was taking away the life of everything around it. That’s why the surroundings were gradually becoming desolate. ”

” Indeed… I’d like to hear a little more, but I have other things to do right now, so let’s talk later. I have to quickly take that guy down and go to Yeonseo and my brother. ”

” Okay. I’ll definitely tell you next time. Sorry for making you wait. ”

” It’s okay. Let’s go soon. ”

My brother seemed quite amazed by the scenery that gradually changed after cutting the black thread. My brother turned his head to look at the place that had changed while moving.

” Are you that worried? ”

” Huh? Oh, no. So… Yeah. To be honest, I thought I’d have to clear the top to get back… So everyone’s been trying to clear the top, right?

But, if… I just cut the black thread and come back without having to attack the tower… I thought there wouldn’t be any more sacrifices… ”

” My brother is kind. ”

” Really? ”

” Yeah. I didn’t think about that because of what you just said. I just thought about cutting the black thread to weaken the tower. ”

” But I think it’s the same because it reduces other people’s sacrifices. ”

As expected, my brother is a kind person. Well, that’s why I fell for him so much…♡

” Thanks for saying that, Oppa. Come on, let’s go! ”

The road we walk with him is a bleak landscape now, but the road we walk together later will definitely be… a happy road dyed in pink.

*****

Not long after, the two of us arrived at where Choi Siwoo was.

And Choi Si-woo, sitting on a giant crystal throne in front of us, began to speak, resting his chin on his hand.

” Hahaha! Only the two of you came. The rest of you ran away because you were scared? Oh~ No. Are you unable to come because you are protecting your dying sister? Yoo Ji-seong, I really don’t know that guy.

I knew you’d come for revenge, so I prepared a lot for you. But still… Don’t you think it’s a bit much to bring that punk along?

Charlotte~ I may not be a vessel of God like you, but I can use the power of God to some extent. But not that damn guy, right? Right? ”

” Shut up! Oppa is different from you. And everyone else has already gone to the top. The two of us are enough to deal with you! ”

” Hahahaha! You went to the top first? Wow~ This is really a masterpiece. Too bad that’s not the right answer. The others should have come here too! ”

” What does that mean? ”

When Hyunseok asked what was going on at the top, the boy answered obediently.

‘What the… I don’t think that guy is the type to talk about things like this easily…’

” Haha! I’m feeling good because I’m stronger now than before, so I’ll tell you specifically. I’ve already put all the fragments of divinity I received from the leader into the tower. In other words, the tower’s guardian can come out like the tower in Gyeongbokgung Palace that you guys conquered last time! ”

” What…?! ”

I was astonished at the story that the tower’s guardian could come out.

If what he said was true, Yeonseo, her brother, and her unconscious sister were in danger. However, he seemed to like the look on my face.

” Wow~ That expression is really something to see. After all, you should be mine. Not that bastard’s! ”

” Don’t make me laugh! Charlotte is too good of a woman to give to you. ”

” Hey~ You’re really funny too. You still haven’t told that punk and are hiding it? Come to think of it, didn’t you say it earlier? That you didn’t mind telling him. ”

” What… are you talking about? What does Charlotte have to hide from me…! ”

When I realized what he was going to say, goosebumps ran down my back. One day… I tried to say it myself, but he looked at Hyunseok oppa as if it was none of his business.

” Listen carefully, you punk. You said earlier, right? That Charlotte was a ‘woman’ that was too good to give to me. But that’s not true. In fact, that woman… ”

” Shut up…!!! ”

I quickly summoned my sword and swung it behind him, but as if he had expected me to do that, he created a black crystal to prevent my sword from reaching him, and instead increased the distance between us.

As he slowly approached Hyunseok oppa, he opened his disgusting mouth that had deceived and hurt many people.

” That guy is not as good a ‘woman’ as you think. I’ll say it only once! Listen carefully~ According to the memories I gained when I acquired this body. Choi Young-wol’s body… Yoo Ji-seong only has ‘one’ younger sister. ”

” What? What the…! Another lie…! ”

” Why would I lie about something like this? And Yuji Sung and Yuji Ah had another ‘brother’. ”

” Man… Brother…? ”

” That’s right! That stupid girl you love was originally a ‘man’! She became a woman in another world! How is it? When did you like a woman who was a man? Hehe. ”

After hearing the guy’s words, Hyunseok oppa just blankly looked back and forth between me and the guy, then lowered his head and clenched his fists, shaking his body.

Clearly… he is trembling with a sense of betrayal towards me.

Because I… deceived… him…

*****

” Oh~ How is it? I said what you said? Well, as you can see from your boyfriend’s reaction… You get it? This is all because you lied to him. No! It’s weird that you like guys when you’re a guy! ”

” Shut… up…! ”

I swung my sword at him, melting the black crystal blocking me, but he quickly created a portal and escaped from me.

” Hahahaha! Why are you so serious? You said it, right? I said it was okay to tell you. But judging from this reaction… It seems like it was all a bluff. ”

” I told you to shut up! ”

With a shout of ‘Chae-Ang! ‘, the sword I swung was blocked by a sword made of black crystal that the guy had created, and he whispered as he brought his face close to me.

” But I’m different from that guy. It doesn’t matter if you’re a guy or not. That’s why I don’t understand you and I’m shaking like that… ”

At that moment, the arm of the guy holding the sword was torn off by the wind. Then, I heard my brother’s voice.

” Who doesn’t understand? ”

” Kwaaak! You little guy, just a moment ago…! ”

My brother grabbed my shoulder and hugged me as he looked at me with a distorted expression of pain, holding my right arm that was cut off by the wind and spurting blood like a fountain, and swore at me.

” Of course, what you just showed me was an act. Like you said, I don’t care if Charlotte is a man or not! Just stay by my side. I like her because she’s Charlotte. ”

” What are you talking about! That guy was a man! How can a man…! ”

My brother, who had been listening to the guy screaming, immediately grabbed my face and started kissing me passionately.

‘Choo, choop, choop.’

Let’s make that vulgar sound that comes with the sound of our tongues mixing together.

” Dirty… guys… How…! ”

At those words, my brother took his lips off the kiss

” As expected, you’re just a guy who keeps telling lies. You think you understand her? You can’t. I already knew a while ago that Charlotte was a guy. Someone similar to me told me. ”

” What… are you saying…? Even though you knew…? ”

My brother threw the guy far away with the wind, as if he didn’t want to talk to him anymore.

” Oh, since when… you know…? ”

” Huh? Oh, that’s right? Before leaving Nodeul Island, Ms. Elina came to me. She asked what I would do if I met someone like her. So I said it didn’t really matter.

Honestly, if someone as pretty as Elina were a guy, I’d be surprised, but now she’s a girl, right? Right? ”

” That’s… but loving… is different… ”

” But I don’t care. You were a ‘man’ before? So what? You’re a ‘woman’ now? In the first place, there are people who change their gender when they die and are reborn. So what’s that? ”

” Then… What I wasn’t saying…? Don’t you think I lied to you? ”

” Hmm, well, that’s okay, I was going to ask later or just let it go. ”

” Really…? ”

I was lowering my head and shedding tears, afraid that he really thought that or that he was lying to me on purpose, when I felt a warm embrace.

” Oh…brother…? ”

” Listen until the end. I don’t regret liking you. Even now, just holding you like this makes my heart beat fast. ”

The sound of his heartbeat that I could hear as I was being held by my brother… was telling me that his words were not lies.

As I held him, my heart beat so fast that it felt like it was going to burst, and his heart also held me, beating loudly like a drum.

” And it was also quite… enjoyable to see you, a man, fall for me and gradually become a woman. ”

” What…? Hey, wait a minute…! Ugh…! ”

As his tongue began to enter my lips again and his hands began to touch my butt and breasts… I was just there… trembling as I held onto him.

If he hadn’t been holding me… I would have collapsed right there, my legs shaking.