episode_0091

The place where the crow of compassion led me was the main house, which was separated by a separate building and a hallway.

A place where no one except those directly related to the Red Army can enter or leave without permission.

I hid myself among the garden trees and shrubs and looked around.

Private soldiers were lined up on both sides of the passage leading to the main house, keeping a tight guard over the surroundings.

He wears a helmet covered with a visor and is even equipped with a heavily armed anti-violent suit. In addition, there is an alarm magic surrounding the surrounding area and a physical intruder detection device.

No one would jump into the middle of it unless they were crazy.

A crow sitting on a high tree branch doesn’t move and looks at me with eyes as if asking what I’m doing.

Then, it spreads its wings without a sound and flies over the steep cliff in the opposite direction where the soldiers are standing, disappearing.

Above that is the area of the main building connected to the passage.

I’m sure you’re not asking me to come up there. Do you think I am some kind of bird?

“… ”

But it was also true that I couldn’t think of any other clever way. There wasn’t much time either.

Although I had not yet recovered, I was experiencing a backlash from overexerting my body. My limbs feel very heavy and dull, as if they were weighted.

In addition, poison was spreading throughout the body through wounds inflicted by the demon’s fingernails.

It’s still not healed, blood is flowing, and my whole body feels flushed and feverish. It feels like it’s going to turn limp and melt to the floor at any moment.

I had no choice but to move my body and stand at the bottom of the cliff where the crow had disappeared.

Even if several adult men built the tower, it was so high that they could not reach the end, and the angle was almost a right angle.

I sigh, but now I have no choice but to move. My goal is to first take Companion Haman out of this den of evil.

This may be better than escalating the situation by causing unnecessary conflict with the soldiers.

“Phew… ”

I climbed up the cliff, holding on to the roots of old trees and protruding rocks sticking out through the cracks.

After struggling for a long time, I finally stepped into Jeokhwa’s main house, and an open landscape unfolded before my eyes, as if it were another world cut off from the outside world.

Where I was was in the middle of a well-maintained garden. Unidentifiable flowers glowing with blue light bloomed on the hills everywhere, creating a dreamy atmosphere.

I hid among exotic garden trees with spiky leaves and cracked shells like turtles’ backs.

Then, he moved deeper and searched for the crow and Yan Yanha.

At first, I thought that Yeon Myeong-ha might have dragged me in on purpose, but this did not make sense logically at all.

It was after she left her home for treatment that the demons infiltrated her as a servant, and judging from the form of the magic formula from before, it still seemed like it would take some time to complete.

In the meantime, she is not stupid enough to risk being discovered and invite an outsider.

Meanwhile, I hear a woman’s voice nearby, as if she is talking loudly about something.

It’s a voice that sounds quite familiar even from afar. I immediately narrowed the distance towards the source.

-father… ! Just a moment, just a moment… !

Soon, on the path next to the garden of the main house, the head of the family, who seemed to be about to go somewhere, and Yeon Myeong-ha, who was holding on to him, began to be seen.

Compared to his extremely desperate attitude, his eyes seemed empty and empty. There are even small teardrops forming around the eyes.

“I just heard something strange from my mother… It’s obvious that you were so drunk that you made a mistake… ”

She was desperately appealing to her father for something. I feel quite embarrassed.

What on earth happened in that moment?

Because I was hiding between the trees in a foreign garden and the crevices of the night, they didn’t seem to have noticed my presence here yet.

However, before I could decide my next move due to the sudden meeting.

My thoughts suddenly stiffened at the words that suddenly came out of Compassionate’s mouth.

“Well, they say I am the child of my father and aunt… ?”

***

A faint sense of immorality, as if he had violated a taboo, seeped into his mind. I felt like I wanted to wash my ears because I felt like I heard something I shouldn’t have heard.

Also, he reflexively thought of the woman in the photo he saw yesterday. A woman who is the twin sister of the current head of the Jeokhwa family, and whose appearance is eerily similar to Yeon Myeong-ha, except for the color of her eyes.

“For some reason, I couldn’t calm down… I just wanted your father to check once… ”

Yeon Myeong-ha pleaded with her father again in a desperate and sorrowful voice.

However, he only maintained a dry expression the entire time and showed no particular reaction. As if he couldn’t hear his daughter’s voice at all.

He just stood there in silence for a while and then indifferently kissed his lips as if he had no interest in anything.

“Did she finally say it? ”

“Yes… ?”

The man’s answer was closer to an affirmation than a denial. Hearing this, Yeon-sik’s pupils widen vertically.

She stumbled wildly and barely managed to support herself as she almost fell.

Regardless, the man continued talking casually.

“Tsk. It has been done. Still, you need to know the truth. I didn’t think I could hide it forever. The timing was just right… ”

“Ah, father… What do you mean by that… Even though… The expression “that woman” to my mother… ”

“Why are you so embarrassed? I said I just heard about it. Judging from your attitude, it seems like you were almost convinced. No matter how you look at it, I guess there was something wrong with what she said, right?”

The landlady of Jeokhwa, whose appearance bore no resemblance to her daughter. Her attitude toward her daughter was so indifferent that it almost felt hostile to a mother.

The circumstances so far made his words even more persuasive.

It’s just that I couldn’t guess the background, which was so unusual.

“I am your father, but she is not your mother.”

“Father… ”

The man’s mouth, still open in a dry and indifferent manner, plunges Companion Ha into hell.

“You… This is a child that my beloved younger brother gave birth to in pain in his stomach.”

“Ah, ah… ”

Unable to hold out any longer, Yeon Myeong-ha sat down on the spot with her hands on her hands.

My hands were shaking and I grabbed the dirt.

“But… My aunt died in an accident… ”

“It wasn’t an accident. Because I died from a difficult birth while giving birth to you.”

She asked the question again in a stuttering tone, as if she had not given up her last hope, but the man’s answer only made her fall into a deeper hole.

“Why on earth are you like that with your aunt…? ”

“… We loved each other more than anyone else. We were everything to each other in this world.”

After hearing the words of the man who had been dry the whole time, a little bit of moisture came back.

“We were together the whole time. Even when we were young, when we were in the cradle, and when we dealt with the trash in the countryside together. With her, there was nothing to be afraid of. Even if it’s a trial given by God.”

There was a pure affection that bordered on madness.

“At that time… That’s what I thought.”

However, his words lost momentum in an instant and fell apart.

“I was too young. I guess I was naive. Because I thought that if we had love for each other, we could overcome anything. How could you have known? I never thought that the result would take everything away. How did I realize it so late… ”

It was one of the most basic knowledge learned in biology class in the cradle.

Inbreeding between those with the aptitude to be wizards posed an even more extreme risk.

The possibility of a future generation with powerful talents is definitely increased, but the chances of survival of the mother or fetus are proportionally extremely low.

Those words, filled with heart-piercing resentment, made me tremble like a person thrown into a pitiful midwinter snow field.

The man who had been standing silently for a while raised his head again.

“It was such a painful and lonely time. But now that too is over. The time is not far away. Soon he will be with me again.”

“What a time… that is… ”

While Yeon Myeong-ha is asking questions in confusion. Suddenly, her father made a grim expression and turned his head.

His eyes remained in the middle of the garden full of luminescent plants and shrubs.

“But… It looks like a rat has crept in.”

-Quaang!

For a moment, a wind so strong that it was difficult to open my eyes condensed into one point. The tornado exploded like a bomb, uprooting the beautifully blooming glow-in-the-dark plants and shrubs and shattering them.

And when the dust cleared, the staggering figure of someone was revealed.

“Cough… Cough… !”

The white and smooth mask slightly reflects the light of the luminous candle.

Perhaps due to the accumulated shock from the previous blow, the incontinence around the mask’s right eye had grown to the point where it looked dangerous.

***

Yang Yeon-ha turns her head and immediately recognizes me. A look of shock and fear is an attitude that suggests one is a sinner.

I had no choice but to walk out and stand in front of Yeon Myeong-ha, who was sitting down.

“How dare you set your dirty feet into the main house, which is only accessible to your direct relatives. Did you even overhear an intimate conversation?”

Then the head of the Red Flower family scolded me in a gloomy voice.

“The student recommended by Black Lotus this time is truly rude and dishonest. Have you been influenced by that bastard Sogaju? Huh?”

I turned my head to Yeon Myeong-ha, letting his words flow through one ear.

When our eyes met, Yeon Myeong-ha lowered her head and was unable to speak properly.

“Room… The story just now… therefore… ”

“Cough… ! it’s okay. There is no need to say anything.”

Honestly, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t surprised, but in the end, it has nothing to do with me. My only concern now is to get out of this place with Yeon Yeon-ha.

It would have been great if everything had gone as planned, which was to wait until the conversation was over. Have they spread spirits around?

“Can you stand up before that? We have to get out of here quickly.”

“You, you have a fever… The wound again… ”

I held Yan Yanha’s hand and lifted it with strength. The feeling is as cold as ice.

On the contrary, he looked surprised when he saw me, pitiful, as I stumbled to my feet.

Due to the poison on the demon’s fingernails, the wounds on various parts of the body had not healed and dark red blood was still gushing out.

“You’re cheeky with the topic. How dare you think I would tolerate him.”

The head of the Red Flower family, Yeon Jeong-moon, no longer hid his hostile attitude.

“You can’t just let a petty thief who freely enters the main house of Jeokhwa and overhears confidential conversations.”

His discomfort is clearly conveyed in his tone of voice.

“You will receive a punishment commensurate with your mistake. And the only punishment for that sin can be death.”

“Father… ! What is that… !”

I stepped forward again, blocking the astonished Yang Yanha. I don’t want to criticize my father in front of her, but…

What he did was too great and a terrible mistake to cover with the palm of my hand.

“You are the one who needs to be punished. The matriarch of Jeokhwa.”

“What kind of sophistry is that… ”

“Plague magic formula.”

As if he hadn’t expected the words to come out of my mouth at all, he, who was exuding a menacing spirit, stood tall like a wax doll.

The face of the person whose secret he most wanted not to be revealed soon became distorted like that of a vicious devil.