Ch.151Season 2 – My Future Self is Evil!

# “No, You Can’t.”

“Mother…”

“No matter what, this isn’t right.”

It was the moment when Queen Lia’s trembling hands finally chose her ‘husband’ who embraced her, rather than the son standing before her.

With that, Queen Lia pushed away the chest where she had felt her son’s heartbeat.

“…!”

Soon after, realizing what she had done, she wore an extremely pained expression.

But even as she briefly closed her eyes, Queen Lia’s demeanor quickly became dignified as she opened them wide again.

“Crown Prince Leon. If you continue like this, I’ll have no choice but to take you by force!”

“I don’t want to fight with you, Mother.”

“Neither do I. But you’re the one trying to do something foolish first!”

“I’m doing this because I want to save you, Mother.”

“What’s the point of living that way! I’d rather die than live in a world without His Majesty!!”

“…Am I not enough to fill His Majesty’s absence?”

“T-That’s…!”

Her lips quivered.

The composure she had just managed to gather was wavering again.

Queen Lia, not wanting to be swayed by her son anymore, finally shook her head and decided to block out all sound.

She slapped both hands against her ears and…

Tears streamed down.

“M-Mom?!”

“Your Majesty!”

“…I can’t hear very well now.”

“…Mother.”

“Leon, I’m taking you back to the Empire. And I’ll make you kneel before your brother. Then we can return to those happy times again.”

“Have you started dreaming of something that can no longer come true?”

The Queen who had given up her hearing.

And the Crown Prince preparing to resist.

A battle between mother and brother.

Cartina and Cria, watching this scene, were frozen in place, not knowing whose side to take.

“Kyokushin Karate – Seiken Zuki!”

The first to move was none other than Queen Lia.

As she threw a punch toward Leon through the air, the air broke the sound barrier and flew toward him.

“An invincible shield blocks my path.”

Seeing this, Leon immediately created a shield like a fortress wall in front of him.

CRASH!

“Kyaaa?!”

“Ugh!”

“What impossible energy…!”

After just one exchange, the surrounding ruins were turning into a wasteland.

As a sandstorm raged and the terrain changed in real-time, Lightree broke into a cold sweat, wondering if these two were really from the same Han family.

And then.

“That first.”

“…!”

The place Queen Lia pointed to as soon as the verbally manifested invincible shield disappeared.

It was the time machine behind Leon, currently boarded by Riverine and Yujin.

“Are you targeting the time machine?!”

“If I destroy that first, there won’t be any more troublesome issues.”

From the beginning, that was the source of all problems.

If it hadn’t existed, Leon would have remained a good child.

Everything was because of… those objects from the past.

The only thing needed from the past was Sister Sophia.

As if nothing else mattered, not even if another child of Brother Shinwoo was inside, Lia summoned a ring of light in the air to destroy the time machine…

“Break…!”

“No! Lia!!”

She was about to destroy it, but…

CRASH!

“…! Father!”

“…Brother?”

The figure that entered Lia’s vision at that moment.

It was the man she loved from the time before the war with humans.

The ideal version of the current Emperor that Lia so desperately wanted to return to—when he could still smile properly, sometimes show foolish sides, but remain dependable.

It was Han Shinwoo from the past, before he was broken.

“We can’t go home without this! So please don’t destroy it! Lia!!”

***

The one who contacted us from the time machine was none other than Yurian.

“Father, can you hear me?”

“Yes, Yurian. I hear you clearly! What’s this about Lia suddenly appearing?”

“I don’t know either. She suddenly rose from Cria’s shadow and started fighting with Brother Leon!”

“Lia is… fighting her own son?”

“Huh? My son? What are you talking about, Brother?”

I was running toward the time machine after going out to the ground.

As I ran, I turned to look at little Lia right beside me in disbelief.

Lia was a child who lost her mother at birth.

Having learned parental love through us, she had such deep maternal instincts that she tried to cherish rather than kill even a sister who threatened her life.

For such a Lia to fight with Leon, her firstborn son?

I could immediately understand this wasn’t good news.

“Damn it… please let nothing happen!”

“Brother! What do you mean my son?! Was my child in the time machine all along?”

“Huh? Oh, that…”

Meanwhile, our little Lia still had no idea that Leon was her son.

As we nearly reached the time machine, she kept persistently asking me to please tell her.

“Leon is your son! Lia.”

“Le-on…? …?! You mean that annoying guy with half white, half black hair?!”

“Yes, that’s him!”

“Eek?! That guy was my son?”

I didn’t have time to explain, so I just told her the result.

Upon learning that Leon, who once played a major role in Sophia’s kidnapping incident, was her son, Lia was shocked…

“Our son is awesome, Brother! Isn’t he stronger than Jaewon?!”

…or rather, she seemed pleased about it.

“Ahem, even if that’s true, saying it so openly with the person right beside you is a bit…”

“But you got beaten up by my son back then!”

“Gah?!”

“You were knocked down until Sophia was taken away, so why are you talking so much!”

“S-Still, I did more than you who showed up at the very end, you useless baby monster!”

“What?! Hmph! You still got beaten by future Brother! If we’re comparing records, mine is better than yours!”

…Kids, is this really the time for an argument when the situation is so serious?

Jaewon and Lia were shouting at each other fiercely as we ran together.

Then I saw golden energy gathering around the time machine.

“What is that…?”

“Could it be Queen Lia’s ring of light?”

“I can’t use anything like that.”

“Jaewon, do you know what that is?”

“Yes! To put it simply, she’s planning to destroy the time machine with it!”

“””WHAT?!?!?!”””

At the sudden news that the time machine we needed to return to the past would be destroyed, all of us from the past who were running together were shocked.

And then.

Right after that.

“Brother! Throw me to my future self!”

“What?!”

“With your partial kaijufication, you should have enough strength for that, right?!”

Lia asked me to throw her toward her future self.

“I don’t know what’s happening, but I’ll protect my son!”

Lia…

Honestly, I think you’ll end up being the one protected if you go in there…

But I couldn’t refuse after meeting those ruby-like shining eyes.

“I’ll buy us some time at least.”

The person who could most confuse the current Lia.

Among us from the past, only little Lia could do that.

“Okay. I’ll throw you roughly in that direction. Be careful, alright?”

“Okay! Leave it to me.”

Remembering when I fought with the dragon daughter Karune, I partially kaijufied both my feet and one hand.

Then after pausing briefly.

“Go!!”

As I threw Lia.

“Liaaaa-! Don’t do iiiiit-!”

I jumped toward the time machine that was increasingly surrounded by light and kicked away the gathering golden energy.

***

Future Lia froze in place as she saw her brother from the past, still intact.

“B-Brother…!”

A sight she thought she’d never see again.

Seeing her brother from the past appear exactly as she remembered, she felt almost the same emotion and sorrow as when she met Sophia again.

And taking advantage of that moment, something else descended rapidly toward future Lia, shocking her even more.

“Kyokushin Karate!”

“?! You!”

“Aerial Strike!”

CRASH!

A white kick coming straight down toward the crown of her head.

Even in that situation, future Lia managed to block the surprise attack by raising both hands.

However, in her shocked state, that was all she could do.

“And next…”

“!!”

“Seiken Zuki!”

CRACK.

Past Lia, immediately after landing on the ground, threw a straight punch at her future self.

That attack definitely connected, successfully driving the future Queen back into the building behind her.

“I won’t stop! Punch-punch-punch-punch-punch-!!”

“N-No! M-Mother, wait a moment!”

“Shut up! I’m hitting my own body, so I don’t need my son’s permission for this!”

“!! T-That’s…!”

Leon, who was just as confused as future Lia, wondered if he should intervene, but remained still when past Lia spoke so decisively.

Meanwhile, Lia’s two remaining daughters.

Cria and Cartina were still trying to figure out what to do in this chaotic situation.

“S-Shouldn’t we side with the future?”

“Hmm… but we can’t just hurt our mother from the past either…”

“B-But! We used to play dress-up with our mother from the past!”

“Do you think this is the same situation as back then? That time she only came briefly due to the Ring of the Future’s influence! This time we clearly need to choose one side!”

During the past Gojillia incident.

When the positions of future and past were reversed due to the Ring of the Future worn by Sophia, they had briefly encountered past Lia.

At that time, all the daughters gathered together and freely undressed their miniaturized mother to play various doll games with her.

The shame their mother felt from that incident… well, it was in the past, so who cares?

But now they couldn’t just stand by anymore.

“S-Still, we should side with our future mother!”

“…! Yes. After all, the one who gave birth to us and raised us is our current mother.”

Future Lia was still being beaten by her past self while caught off guard.

To save their mother, Cartina and Cria tried to run toward the two.

But.

“Stop…!”

“Don’t move.”

Figures descended in front of them.

“Brother!”

“And… His Majesty the Emperor?”

“H-Hi there, girls… How about we try to resolve this peacefully through conversation?”

“Father, don’t waste time and prepare to fight.”

Past Shinwoo and Leon.

These two took defensive stances, as if telling them not to go near their sister or daughter.