episode_0149

I looked at the guy running away.

Perhaps one of the three arrows hit an appendage, and the creature took the form of an atypical creature.

It was running away like an insect, using its ribs as legs.

The arms were holding the flowing lungs and heart.

Since Shir became Amor, how much image training have you gone through to prepare for today?

‘Without ribs, breathing is impossible.’

Even immortals need to breathe.

“Sihyeon!!! What on earth are you doing?! Explosives are strictly controlled under Horus!”

“Don’t breathe in front of that corpse! My lungs are melting!”

“Hee Iik─?!”

The fact that Amy came means that there are no risk factors.

Gulp. Gulp.

I drank water from the canteen and started running toward the amorphous creature.

There is something I need to experiment with.

There was something I needed to find out.

We have to catch that guy.

However, the guy who lost his limbs is faster than me.

I’m not even breathing!

‘···Does this make sense?!’

If you continue like this, you will definitely miss out!

The good news is that his path is going downhill. As long as you cross the hill in front, your visibility will be clear.

However, if you hit this arrow, he dies.

······But it’s better than missing out.

The moment I entered the open field, I pulled the bowstring.

Even though he chased after me straight away, he had already jumped 200 meters ahead.

If you shoot now, it will take 4 seconds for the arrow to reach him.

He was watching me.

···In this case, it is virtually impossible to hit.

“Fuck…!”

I took out all my arrows and fired them at the guy.

Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!

Hahaha!

“────?!”

Accompanied by a bitter wind, something passed by me.

···It’s Juul! Conviction was quick. When you see something unbelievable, you tend to doubt your own eyes, but I’ve seen things like that too often.

Jool, running at supernatural speed, pounces on the Immortal and grabs the insect-like creature by the head.

“······It’s me.”

It was so absurd that I burst out laughing.

I quickly retrieved the fallen arrow.

If this arrow is discovered by the dragon, Zul will have to interview the Root Serpent.

The hair of the Immortal that Jool was holding fell off as if a wig had been pulled.

‘Is it possible to cut oneself in preparation for poison?’

He was a great guy.

To escape from Jules, he cut off all his limbs. If ‘Penangaran’, a ghost in Southeast Asian folklore, were real, this is what it would look like.

Still, the guy was alive.

This is the monster I have to fight from now on, the Immortal.

It felt like my eyes were already getting dark.

*

The Immortal, who had only intestines and ribs left, blinked.

“Are you awake?”

“I buried it all.”

Just then, Jules comes over here with a shovel.

“I was sleeping and I didn’t know what was going on… As soon as I came back, I had a hard time.”

I said hello to Jool and looked at the immortal.

Is this what happens if you live for a long time?

Even though they may have lived for centuries, Immortals feel a greater fear of death than criminals.

“Wow, what do you want…”

Jules was looking down at him with perplexed eyes.

Because a ghost with only its internal organs left was afraid of us.

“Well, I have something to ask. There are also things I want to find out.”

I sat comfortably next to him.

“It’s you…! You are the rumored devil!”

I can’t believe a guy with nothing left but his intestines and head recognizes me.

I guess I’ve been given a lot of strange nicknames along the way.

“I have a lot of questions. If I receive a satisfactory answer and promise, I will save your life.”

“Do not lie.”

It caught right away.

“I don’t like killing things. However, I can’t look at the conditions during the battle. You know that, right?”

“If you find out everything you want to know, I will kill you and bury you like my subordinates! Torture doesn’t work for me. I don’t feel any pain.”

“Don’t do that. No, you didn’t intend to kill me in the first place? There’s an immortal next to me too, right? I was originally on your side. When we first met, he tried to kill me, but he cooperated and saved my life.”

Immortal just rolls his eyes and looks at Amy.

A little hope appears like a burning ember in the eyes.

“We must follow the times. There is a Eucharist over here. Are you really going to follow the ‘Father’?”

“······.”

Immortal silently agreed to my wishes.

I decided to accept it that way.

“First, please tell me everything you know about that village. Even if you go back and get reprimanded, Hosott sensed something was wrong by smell and attacked your group. Got it?”

You fell for my trick.

Once you get a spark, it’s easy to start a fire.

When a few drops of sacred blood are poured into the creature’s mouth, flesh begins to grow from the ribcage.

Immortal doesn’t seem to believe it even when he sees his own body like that.

“Now, shall we say Tongseongmyeong first?”

“······My name is more than ten.”

“Ugh, I’m going to wake up after hearing everything. Just don’t do it. You already know my identity, right?”

Because they called me a heartbreaking nickname, like a devil or something.

“And, why does that person called ‘Father’ cherish your blood so much? Why is playback so slow? The overflowing rotten blood must be the Precious Blood, but why───.”

“Father’s Precious Blood is of poor quality.”

quality? Does the Precious Blood have a quality?

“···The quality is bad?”

“The efficacy of the Precious Blood depends on the condition of the host.”

aha. Immortal refers to Amor as a saint.

In our village, they call her a saint.

“Ugh~ They locked you up like that and only drew blood, but shouldn’t you have let them see the sunlight sometimes? You can’t continue farming. Sometimes you have to fallow.”

When you drink water mixed with sacred blood, your strength rises.

“···That is the Father’s will.”

“What kind of person is your father?”

“Always wearing a mask. I’ve never seen a bare face.”

“Really? What is the name of the organization you belong to?”

“Father.”

“······Yes?”

“The name of the boss and the name of the organization are father.”

I thought your naming sense was really bad.

“Are you lying just to be loyal? This won’t work. Now, drink more!”

More blood was poured into the Immortal’s mouth.

Amy’s gaze becomes bizarre.

The look in his eyes as if asking what he was doing, but it didn’t matter.

“You also know that Yunaira is a moderate faction and Yain is an extremist faction, right? But these days, it’s really annoying that Drekkar is building fences near the demarcation line and that raids are frequent.”

“I don’t know about that. Isn’t it because you attacked the citizens of Drekkar?”

“Wrong. That’s right, because my master and I completely destroyed the bandit village around the demarcation line. I think you are leading this war.”

“I don’t know.”

Where did you get away from it?

Amyna, is the main reason why you came here?

“So, I hope you will prevent war. I heard that there is an immortal on the wall of the Great Wall, so don’t make excuses.”

He has no choice but to show me favor.

Otherwise, you have no choice but to die.

We get along well with each other.

“···It was just an expedition to find the Eucharist, and we are not leading or leading a war. All I want is the Eucharist.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

hmm···.

When it comes out like this, I start to get confused again.

“Do you know of a group called Hallucinations?”

“I know. They use clever tricks to play with people’s minds.”

good. This is a natural way to confess.

“Hasn’t the father, by any chance, joined hands with hallucinations?”

“Wrong. We are wary of each other.”

I don’t know if it’s long or not.

Better think about this later. If I forcefully ask you out of curiosity, they will start to mistrust me.

“Good. I don’t know if Drekkar is truly preparing for war or not…”

Immortal, who has recovered both arms, tilts his head.

“···What is it? Do you know nothing?”

“Yes?”

“This is Habstenburg’s arbitrary act.”

···What does this mean again?

Are you saying that a country, not the Drekkar Alliance, is making a provocation to fight the Unira Alliance?

“Can you explain in detail?”

The eyes of the immortal looking at me rolled.

“Most countries were absorbed into the Drekkar Union, but that did not mean they were conquered. The Romaria Empire is swallowing up the surrounding countries one by one. The devil has reached Habstenburg.”

“What… hehehe…!”

I understood it right away.

When I understood that, I couldn’t control the laughter that came out.

“Hehe… Ugh… Human babies are no different here or there…”

The purpose is different, but it is to stimulate Yunaira, just as North Korea threatens other countries with nuclear weapons.

That warning is being sent to Romaria.

If you keep messing with it, it will cause war. Do it in moderation!

Except for the north, all countries in the central and southern regions are either kingdoms or adopt an aristocratic system.

Even Horus. The fact that a small number of people can legitimately rule over their subordinates means that the king is no different from the god of the country. This was not an isolated act of hallucination.

······How nervous I was when I realized that was the case.

“If you have dozens of faces, don’t you also have some connections in the political world?”

“No, the political world is guarded by hallucinations.”

“You are protecting it? You didn’t take control?”

“Okay. I am guarding it. That’s why we don’t get along.”

head hurts.

Because it was said that the ‘hallucination’ was not a black organization, but an organ of the country.

“Do you know that he is a widow?”

“She is a female archduchess who rules over the seaside coast, west of Habstenburg.”

A woman is an archduke?

Historically speaking, this is quite rare.

Still, that doesn’t mean there aren’t superwomen.

“Tell me about the Grand Duke Widow.”

“···She is a psychopath. I don’t know why, but I get married more than ten times a year.”

“Yes? How many husbands do you have?”

“Nothing.”

“······Yes?”

I may not know your age well, but the position of Grand Duke is definitely not light. She was clearly a fairly elderly woman. If you marry ten people a year, shouldn’t there be at least a hundred?

“She kills her own husband.”

“You’re a crazy bitch.”

“That’s right. What a crazy bitch. We also tried to dig up information, but when even the Immortal joined the Archduke’s husband, they all died. Thanks to this, there are no unmarried men in the Grand Duke.”

They say they don’t know anything about the Widow Grand Duke.

There is no more information to dig up.

“Now all my questions have been answered. Except for one thing.”

“What is it?”

I’ve always thought about it.

Why was I able to kill Amor?

If I think about Shir today, let alone kill him, he is an opponent I cannot defeat even if I have 100,000 men.

And then I remembered the root snake’s words.

What I need is confidence.

“Let’s eat all of this first.”

All remaining blood was poured into the Immortal’s mouth.

The creature’s body was rebuilt in real time, and the eyes of the Immortal who was eating it began to come to life.

‘Is this enough?’

He seemed to have set his heart on me treating him.

“What are you curious about? Let me help you with anything.”

And, this is also the warning I need to give Amy. The dagger was instantly driven into the Immortal’s heart.

“Huhhh!!!”

“If you come back alive, you can sing about the Eucharist, right?”

I didn’t bleed or cough like in the movies.

He just looks at me with wide eyes.

As if he was going to remove my arm, he tried to pull out the dagger stuck in my chest with his newly regenerated hand.

“Ah── evil spirit…?!”

No poison was applied to the dagger.

As it is, immortals cannot die.

“It is right for you to die. Because I could put my precious people in danger.”

Immortal pulled out the dagger as he wanted.

I’m crying!

When the knife is pulled from the heart, blood pours out.

Even though my blood pressure has weakened, I still hold my hand tightly. Because I was scared of sudden death. Soon, the Immortal, who was holding my hand tightly, sagged and its pupils began to dilate.

Dead.

I can feel Jules and Amy stiffening. They are sick of my duplicity. I knew that those two would look at me like that, but what I said was more of a self-suggestion.

‘Do the right thing. Isn’t this the most right feeling for the devil, a good and generous punisher, to have? That is the limitation that unshackles Dantalian.’

I needed to test this statement.

And I also found out that that was right.

Because urine started flowing from the Immortal’s lower body.

sorry.

Because it hurts to die.