Ch.198198. Certain Emotions

The atmosphere changed due to the witnesses. They testified with praise for me and gratitude for my actions.

I was genuinely moved.

Thanks to them, today’s trial felt incredibly comfortable.

Just as I was feeling confident that the verdict would be favorable, suddenly an alarm began to sound.

“No!”

In an instant, the courtroom fell into panic. A monster breach had begun.

I reflexively grabbed my card.

I had some doubts. If I handled this well, public opinion would surely become more favorable.

But why? Why would the enemy create a situation that benefits me when they clearly know better?

But what does that matter now?

I need to protect those who helped me.

“Your Honor. It seems we’ll have to continue this later.”

“Please get behind me for now.”

The situation had changed. A new court was in session, and here I was the judge.

While protecting people, I pulled out my card.

As other Jaegers evacuated people from the area, someone shouted:

“SS-class! It’s a Red Ceratops species!”

“Then…”

I turned to the judge.

“I’ll have to show you the transformation I couldn’t show you earlier.”

With that, I pulled out my evolution card.

*

[After I saved a homeless kid, you dare rebel?]

[You should obey adults. Who do you think feeds you? Stay put!]

‘Disgusting.’

Morgan was already waiting outside. There was no reason or need to enter the heavily guarded interior.

The Jaeger side wasn’t stupid either, conducting thorough checks on everyone entering.

Morgan had no reason to go there.

Her objective was what came next anyway.

Morgan remembered her orders precisely.

[Target Do Jong-hyun’s transformed state. Especially aim for that dinosaur form.]

But some might wonder about this.

Among Do Jong-hyun’s transformation states, the dinosaur form is particularly powerful.

[It’s not an attack. You might die. But your mission is to make Do Jong-hyun go berserk. That’s your duty.]

The Flowing Galaxy had given her a potentially fatal order.

The purpose was simple.

Deliberately make Do Jong-hyun transform. Specifically targeting the dinosaur entity.

[Based on past characteristics, the dinosaur entity emerges when facing something massive. Make that entity appear and let the opponent ‘win.’]

They had clearly understood the information about Do Jong-hyun rampaging when controlled by the caterpillar previously.

The Monster Terror Group and their observers had no intention of winning.

Rather, they hoped Do Jong-hyun would win.

What they wanted was something else entirely.

[Morgan, it’s after the fight. Throw everything you have.]

Their real plan was to trigger a rampage from the dinosaur monster that had previously shown violent tendencies.

The moment chaos ensues from the rampage, Do Jong-hyun would be separated from human forces, making things much easier for them.

Morgan looked at the broadcast cameras scattered everywhere.

She would kill someone in front of everyone while all eyes were watching.

‘I can do this. I absolutely…’

Only the Monster Terror Group had accepted her and truly seen her. She would act one last time for them.

As the breach began, they deployed a monster as planned.

This monster was literally meant to draw out the dinosaur.

‘It needs to be land-based, with size and strength.’

Do Jong-hyun transforms according to his opponent. Especially against large monsters, he usually becomes a dinosaur, and if the opponent flies, he transforms into a flying entity.

A beast with a lion’s face, easily over five stories tall, roared, and soon a powerful light poured down before them.

“Here it comes.”

And before their eyes, an armored dinosaur began to howl ferociously.

“Perfect!”

Morgan saw her opportunity. Soon, this place would become a battlefield.

As the two entities clashed and shockwaves spread, all the surrounding windows began to shatter.

Morgan had no intention of approaching the brutal scene.

She would wait for the moment of vulnerability after one was defeated.

‘I can do this.’

She felt overwhelmed by that fearsome dinosaur with its flowing mane.

‘I’m scared. So scared.’

Morgan wasn’t a professional combat agent. Her emotion amplification ability was different from brainwashing, which is why the Monster Terror Group had positioned her to work from behind the scenes.

But now she had to step forward.

Without doing so, she couldn’t break the connection between that powerful enemy and humanity.

She might die, but she had to make sure.

Powerful lasers and missiles began to directly hit their monster. Following that, with a body slam, Morgan’s monster was about to collapse.

Like a walking battleship, it pressed the opponent with tremendous destructive power.

Morgan had brought her emotional slaves with her. The slaves she had carefully collected would rush in as soon as the fight ended.

A massive rumble was heard.

The moment the dinosaur monster finally knocked down its opponent, Morgan deployed her slaves.

“The monster must retreat!”

“Get out, monster!”

She sent those who opposed him to face Do Jong-hyun, who was trying to protect humanity.

In front of the dinosaur whose every movement was cautious.

But he couldn’t release his transformation either. Because a second monster would be deployed.

It was a cocoon.

A massive cocoon was making cracking sounds as something inside tried to emerge.

At this moment when Do Jong-hyun couldn’t move because of the protesters and couldn’t release his transformation because of the monster, Morgan made her move.

In her fox monster form, she had infiltrated numerous places like a mist.

Scattering like powder, she targeted Do Jong-hyun’s mind.

‘I need to control that. I can do it.’

She now leaped in, staking everything.

Amplification.

She amplified emotions.

People criticizing him despite his protection of humanity, and the presence of monsters.

Morgan was different from before. It wouldn’t be easy to amplify emotions against Do Jong-hyun in monster form.

That’s why she directly infiltrated, throwing her body in.

The moment Morgan’s mist-like body seemed to seep into Do Jong-hyun’s head, an unprecedented darkness arrived.

Like trying to find a needle in a sandpit with closed eyes.

She made every situation irritating and amplified emotions.

“…”

Morgan felt her entire body momentarily shatter.

As if being decomposed in a whirlwind of emotions.

Morgan endured that whirlwind with sheer determination.

“Grrrr!”

And seeing Do Jong-hyun becoming increasingly ferocious, she was certain of her success.

*

Aerial had been driven out and was waiting anxiously.

‘Damn him. Making me worry for nothing.’

She had come to see Do Jong-hyun. Though not emotionally certain yet, she couldn’t just sit still.

‘It’s because I wasn’t clear enough.’

If she had confessed her feelings earlier, this wouldn’t have been necessary.

In the end, it was Aerial’s mistake for not closing the distance with Do Jong-hyun while joking around.

So she came here to make things clear.

But with the monster breach, she had no choice but to join the fight.

Her evolved and powerful blade danced sharply.

With magic that instantly sliced through an S-class monster and soared sky-high, even the Devil in the air seemed to melt.

‘I’m getting used to it now.’

She was now naturally handling the output of the sword that she had previously failed to control and gone berserk with.

It was the result of both effort and talent.

She quickly calculated in her mind while looking at the other Jaegers.

Just like Do Jong-hyun, prioritizing efficient movement.

The most urgent situations and the next moves.

With this in mind, she deliberately kicked someone who was being attacked.

The moment she thrust her sword into the ground, she instantly neutralized a worm monster’s attack with an explosion.

As she swiftly cut down the monster futilely struggling on the exposed ground, the main event began.

A series of thunderous rumbles were heard.

‘Here it comes.’

A massive shadow suddenly appeared, blocking her view.

The mechanical dinosaur she had seen during Yu Deok-min’s time was roaring on all fours.

‘But why that one? It seems to get excited easily.’

Of all forms, it was the monster with the anger she had witnessed, at a time when there was suspicion about Do Jong-hyun.

Aerial watched worriedly while dealing with monsters.

Still, the outcome was quickly decided. Do Jong-hyun pushed forward and destroyed the opponent.

‘That’s a relief. Getting excited unnecessarily would be bad.’

Aerial was just feeling deeply relieved when she was shocked by the sudden influx of protesters.

“What madness is this?”

Anger surged within her. How could they treat her Do Jong-hyun like this when they should be grateful?

But then Aerial saw what happened next. That fox-eared girl who had tormented her was rushing toward Do Jong-hyun.

Taking advantage of his inability to move properly, she launched something at him.

‘No!’

While Aerial was in shock, Do Jong-hyun’s demeanor became ominous.

‘If he rampages in that state…’

Aerial swallowed hard.

Public opinion would be at its worst, and he might even be hunted down.

“Everyone back off, you idiots!”

Aerial concentrated all the magic she could muster and rushed forward.

But with her skills, it would be difficult to defeat even a previous stage entity.

After breaking free from emotional amplification, Aerial recalled a rough analysis of this ability.

‘If he receives a severe mental shock, it diminishes.’

Just as Aerial herself had realized after being scolded by Do Jong-hyun, either give a mental shock or physically defeat him.

The problem was that with Aerial’s skills, there was almost no way to give a significant shock to that body.

Beyond SS-class, even surpassing SSS-class in strength.

What she could do was deliver a mental shock.

Aerial took a deep breath. If she couldn’t do it now, Do Jong-hyun might never recover.

But what mattered was that another monster stood before him.

Those two monsters would fight, not brainwashing but emotional amplification.

‘He’ll probably cause massive damage around him.’

The gun batteries on the back of Do Jong-hyun’s transformed monster began to move, but where would they aim?

And what emerged from the pupa wasn’t the butterfly she had seen before.

‘A mantis?’

It was an insect-type monster with a thin mantis-like body and six powerful arms.

It was incomparably larger than a lower-class mantis monster, with its entire body covered in armor like a machine.

The battle began.

At this moment, if the surroundings became chaotic, it could lead to misunderstandings.

She had to stop it. For the sake of the person she loved.

Aerial ran. Toward the scene where two terrifying monsters were clashing.

The enemy monster was agile and fast. It was inflicting wounds on Do Jong-hyun’s mechanical body.

Do Jong-hyun’s gun batteries were now firing toward the sky.

The fact that they weren’t even focused was evidence that he couldn’t control them now.

It was fortunate they weren’t aimed at the ground.

The emotionally charging Do Jong-hyun was being hit and evaded, with the opponent even managing to inflict deep wounds.

Aerial needed to break through the gap in their fight.

But it was frightening.

Right before her eyes, vacuum was shattering buildings and Do Jong-hyun’s batteries were causing explosions.

“!”

Aerial paused momentarily and looked at her sword.

“Sigurd hunted a dragon… can you help me?”

She spoke as if making a request to her summoned spirit.

“Yes, I need courage. The courage I should have had to confess my feelings, and the courage to step forward now!”

Aerial ran.

Toward the scene where death was close at hand.

Her sword was glowing faintly at this moment. Magic concentrated in Do Jong-hyun’s arms, and his batteries’ aim was disrupted by the enemy’s attack.

The target was now the people nearby.

Without hesitation, Aerial pointed her sword forward. She would block it. Could she really block it with her own power?

Amidst all these concerns, she now pointed her sword forward.

Gram absorbed magic more ferociously than before and charged toward the being that was like a legendary dragon.

Just as the batteries were about to fire, Aerial’s magic, along with her sword, pierced into Do Jong-hyun.

At that moment, Do Jong-hyun shook as if electrocuted.

Simultaneously, the enemy’s attack was pushed back.

Aerial, who was swaying in mid-air and barely holding onto her sword, used this opportunity to leap close to Do Jong-hyun’s face again.

And in front of the monster, she shouted louder than ever before:

“Do Jong-hyun! I’m sorry I didn’t say this earlier!”

Aerial took a deep breath and shouted loudly.

“I like you! I love you! You idiot! So snap out of it!”

It was truly a love confession in the midst of war.

The dinosaur’s movement momentarily stopped.

“Doo Jong-hyun, no, Do Jong-hyun! I’m serious! Understand? I like you. So please come to your senses.”

As that tender pleading voice was heard, something strange began happening to the dinosaur’s body.

[Form Conversion]

Do Jong-hyun’s sub-card was activating.