episode_0156

“You are Han Sejun. I heard it.”

visor!

The long sword that Sejun swung cut through the air, and was caught in the old man’s palms, losing its power.

It wasn’t surprising. There’s no way that person can be the only one who appears in this Demon King’s Castle. If that had been the case, wouldn’t it have been more than just blindness, it would have been filled with regret.

It was to the point where even a small amount of admiration came from the sight of him blocking Sejun’s sword strike with perfect arming, as if he were clapping his hands.

“You’re not the devil. I wondered if it was a devil pretending to be a human.”

Conductor Impale’s gaze was focused on a boy. No, there was a person whose opinions were somewhat divided as to whether he should be considered a boy.

A young face with a tall, sturdy physique. If you look at his body, he appears to be an experienced person who has been training for a long time, but if you look at his face, it is not. Age: late teens to early 20s at most.

Due to the current situation, he had taken off his top and looked comical, but he was not an awkward person.

To compare the images, this is a person whose image is the polar opposite of the conductor Impale who is standing in front of him right now.

“Is that what happened in the end? In the end, was that collaborator also a fake? The person who approached the dean?”

“This body doesn’t know. Yeah, it was really frustrating.”

“What are you talking about?”

There isn’t really a proper answer back. Of course I thought so.

“Because I really don’t know. I don’t know what the plan is or what the two are aiming for. Just being used.”

“What bullshit! Now you’ve turned us into little idiots and come all the way here saying strange things!”

“… Whoosh!”

The self-deprecating old man’s face quickly changed. He couldn’t tell exactly when he had been kicked in the stomach, even though he had just recognized the boy.

“Ohh.”

The face of the old man, who seemed skeptical and uninterested just a moment ago, turns pale and his gaze moves downward.

And the old man’s eyes captured the image of a boy with red rays in his eyes.

‘It’s a monster. I thought my insides were being crushed.’

The old man quickly took up a fighting stance. At the same time, the numerous ornaments on the old man’s robes make clanking sounds.

The moment he was kicked, the old man was greatly shocked. It was not just a feeling of pain in the affected area, it was a concept of fear.

It was a fear that was so fast and strong that it penetrated into the deepest part of a person in an instant, making one feel horrified with just one blow.

‘The feeling I felt from the collector.’

okay. The kind of fear he felt from something that had borrowed the body of someone who had once been his friend.

“Thank goodness. I just realized your skills.”

“… What?”

“Looking at you now, you seem to be the right-hand man of the guy disguised as the dean’s collaborator, but I’m not particularly impressed with your level right now. That means he’s probably similar to you or slightly superior to you. In that case, I don’t think he’ll be in any way hindering the dean’s path. Am I wrong?”

I was trying to laugh like that. The guy in front of him doesn’t know that the collector guy is on a different level from him. It was a monster that could fold things like itself like folding paper with its fingers and throw them somewhere.

But I couldn’t laugh. Is it because the old man’s personality was not shameless enough to show a smile in the face of a formidable opponent?

Even if you force your brain to say something after learning that what you thought was a cat was actually a wild beast, a lion, you cannot come up with it.

“Damn.”

Impale immediately kicked the ground backwards. After being headbutted by the conductor of the circuit bridge that deals with dark mana, the wall of the private house crumbled like styrofoam, and the old man rolled on the soggy, wet ground.

The sound of small metal objects and large objects rolling in the mud can be heard.

“Are you running away? It’s a disappointment. You came so confidently and then ran away with your tail turned? Is that your level?”

However, unlike the mocking voice, the face of the person who said those words was full of trouble.

Han Se-jun is smiling sarcastically, but his inner thoughts are something different. Seeing that, Impale realized that his choice was right and internally rejoiced.

‘Fighting in the rain of this deep water would be a burden even for that fierce guy.’

In fact, the reason Impale entered the private house where Sejun and his group were avoiding was with the intention of using the other students who had lost their power as a shield.

Among the conductors, Impale is a person who has no connection to battle. Of course, he was also a conductor and could fight to a certain extent because he could handle dark mana, but it was difficult to fight at the front. I’m saying this now, but I was actually in a cold sweat when I just blocked Sejun’s blow.

After getting hit by him, I thought about taking the other characters hostage for a moment, but when I saw the look in his eyes, I immediately gave up.

If this guy has a purpose, he will naturally accept the sacrifices that come with it. This means that if he took someone hostage, he would cut himself down as a hostage.

And looking at that guy’s troubled face right now, it was obvious that his choice was right.

“… !”

Quagwagwang!

Impale narrowed his eyes. This is because my vision became blurry for a moment.

There is no way that an ordinary person with abilities could move so freely in the rain of this abyssal water. No, he is not an ordinary person with special abilities, but he still falls within that category, so why is he able to freely jump out and strike himself again?

Pubububung!

His longsword was swung again with red flames.

If you don’t listen, his special ability is only an enhancement ability. Although it looks like a flame, it is not a flame, but it becomes a storm of explosions as if a large bomb has exploded, and the long sword comes down and sweeps away the remains of the ground.

Even though he was drenched in abyssal water and seemed to be pouring out his magic power to the limit, Sejun’s speed did not decrease at all, as if there was nothing to worry about.

“What is this! Are you not affected by this? How can this happen?”

“Huh? Come to think of it. This affects me less than I thought. To be honest, I don’t feel like I’m short on mana.”

“What kind of absurdity is this? !”

This is not a guy who uses dark mana, which has similar properties to Abyssal Water. But how can this happen?

No matter how much Impale racked his brain, there was nothing he could figure out right now.

All he can guess is that Sejun’s name often came up when the Collector talked about his plans, so he was wondering if this guy was born with a secret.

Whip!

Draw from top to bottom. Very simple swordsmanship.

Even though it is just a momentary sword strike, it is a sword technique that contains strange techniques that a beast, not a human, would use.

As if the red lizard was standing behind him, the will from that thought became one with the caster and the longsword he was currently holding, moving as one.

‘Bill… ‘Eat.’

Life is in danger. There was no such word from the collector. Did he know in advance that this would happen?

Are you saying that you just threw it here, like throwing it in a trash can, when you no longer need it?

“Keuuu! Come quickly! Come and help me!”

Without even having time to catch his breath, the old man hurriedly put his hand into the lining of the unpleasant monastic habit and pulled it out, scattering something.

Something crinkled but long fluttered in the air, as if a wad of paper had been put into a shredder and picked up from below.

It is clear that they are trying to use some trick. If so, it would be right to deal with it quickly before it manifests.

The red flames rising from Sejun’s long sword add to its strength.

The sword strike shed a flaming tail, gaining momentum and instantly turning into a flare that encompassed the entire space, colliding with the pieces scattered by the old man.

Kwagwagwagwang!!

“Hwaaap!”

“What?!”

“Aaagh! west… No way!”

Some debris splashed out. Before we knew it, the sound of people holding their breath could be heard from those who had retreated far behind and had lost their fighting ability.

Was the debris flying out due to the storm of the explosion? Sejun also felt a piece of something passing through his hair.

But why make a fuss about something like that?

The dust from the explosion quickly dissipated as black raindrops fell from the sky. And Sejun was able to immediately realize why everyone who saw the scene looked dumbfounded.

Come to think of it, Impale shouted something. Was that what it was in the end?

“… What is it? Why was I summoned here? Didn’t I decide to participate in the battle against Northmund? Why did you open a portal here?”

“… Li Jiyuan?”

For a moment, I felt something suddenly getting hotter.

Suddenly, the sun rose brightly in this spot, and it felt as if the black rainwater that had accumulated under my feet had evaporated.

The moment the now-forgotten name came out of Sejun’s mouth, the perceived temperature of this damp street was not the same as before.

“The collector would have taken everything into account anyway! That’s why you entrusted me with it! So help me first!”

“… .”

Without answering, Li Li Yuan looked away. And then his eyes met with Sejun, who was looking at him completely soaked in the rain.

─This is the one who will be used in the final battle against Northmund. Take care of yourselves, Hugue.

I heard something like that. It was to shake the feelings of Northmund, who pretended to be strong but was secretly weak towards interpersonal affection.

When the Collector was finally making his final showdown with Northmund, this guy was brought in to create a loophole for Northmund.

That is why in the past, when the Corruptor was shaking the world, the Collector captured Li Jiyuan, who had been deployed to the scene.

A little dragon assistant who resisted and rebelled at first, but gradually his resistance weakened and he eventually cooperated with the Collector’s plan.

Perhaps the shock he received upon hearing the truth about Northmund was the decisive factor that shook his heart.

You know, the five steps to accepting shocking facts. There were many difficult things to do, but we were finally successful in getting the person to go beyond the stages of denial, anger, compromise, and depression and reach the stage of acceptance.

Murmur.

The audience behind us will also be truly shocked by this situation. Every time he saw the waves of emotions crossing the line between fear and confusion, Impale became a little happier.

“Hoo, all of those guys are there. Surprisingly, all the faction leaders are alive. It’s surprising that Ramirez is alive. I thought Gray would stab me in the back someday.”

“Don’t talk nonsense! Stop Han Sejun!”

“Ling Ling and Yang Yuqing are not visible. Are they alive? Still, I was close to these guys, so I think it would be a little heartbreaking if they weren’t from this world.”

“Li Jiyuan!”

“Yes, yes. I’m finally putting the dark magic you gave me to use in real life. Can we wipe out all of those guys? After all, they are the ones raised by Northmund.”

Li Jiyuan decided to escape from Northmund and join their group.

And the moment she acknowledged it, everything changed for Li Jiyuan.

Yongjosu, who was his special ability. Now, the long claws of a black devil with an appearance that makes you wonder if it can even be called a dragon bird are rising.

The moment when everyone recognized that they had now become a body that controlled the abilities of other beings, not those of humans. Li Jiyuan looked at Han Sejun and smiled.

“Foolish guys who follow the trickster Northmund. Even if you die, you won’t know that it is Northmund who is trying to destroy the world. Poor guys.”

“Huh? What?”

“Northmund’s identity is the same as the beings you are fighting now. No, rather, he is a person who is more closely connected to the root of demons. Northmund is even more evil than the devil who built the academy just for his own satisfaction and is ultimately driving this world to destruction.”

“What did you just say?”

“Still don’t know? Northmund is just playing with the world. Rather, these demons are worse than him─”

Li Jiyuan swallowed mid-sentence. This was because I felt like I was being swung by something sharp.

“─A devil-like person… .”

There was an unpleasant sound, like water flowing out of a hose with a hole in it.

Almost simultaneously, a clanking sound was heard, as if the hose had been thrown on the floor after removing all the residue remaining inside the hose.

“… Huh?”

“What do you say to yourself in Chinese? I said I couldn’t understand. I don’t want to discriminate, but it’s a bit unpleasant that you’re talking in words that only you understand right now, right?”

Li Jiyuan felt that only her shoulders seemed to be more and more wet.

There was no need to worry about whether the rain from the sky was falling only on you. Because our eyes met right away.

His black dragon assistant, which should have been attached to his shoulder, had fallen on the floor instead of his left shoulder, rolling in the black mud, and the blood pouring from its cross section was soaking his shoulder.

That overly shocking scene hardens Li Jiyuan’s mind and makes her feel indifferent to the pain.

“I’m sorry, but I’m shirtless and I don’t have a translation badge. I think I said something important, but I feel sorry. But you also saw that I don’t have a badge. Or did you think that everyone would understand Chinese?”

“Uh? Huh?”

“Now I understand the meaning. From now on, speak with body language.”

It was a surreal feeling. An incident that occurred not in a single second, but at the level of a few decimal points of a second.

As if it doesn’t feel real, Li Li Yuan lifts his remaining right hand and tries to touch his left shoulder.

“─Eh?”

And this time, for some reason, I feel like I am very close to the ground. No, it’s not a feeling. This sensation I feel on my face… .

Cheolpudeok.

“I can no longer even speak. It’s been a while since we last met, and I’m sorry Li Jiyuan for being like this.”

“Huh.”

Impale clicked his tongue as if he couldn’t understand this shocking sight.

And everyone looking at it from behind says “Woo… ah… While saying something like ?”, his eyes were wide and he was in shock. Some even covered their mouths.

‘Is this guy a psychopath?’

Without realizing it, I was taking a step back and looking at the tragedy with a dumbfounded look on my face. The assessment of this guy was not wrong.

Even though he has a good personality, he has a purpose and will mercilessly cut down his allies for that purpose. I really doubted whether anyone could call him a good guy after seeing something like that.

“Looking at you talking about Northmund with that look on your face, it seems like you’re gossiping about the dean. Anyway, fate has already been decided.”

“… .”

Impale swallowed his saliva. Come to think of it, this guy didn’t understand me when I was talking to him earlier? No, that won’t be it. I had the feeling that we were having a rough conversation.

When I was inside a private house, I found myself fiddling with my clothes that I had taken off. Was it because of my badge?

‘It’s not a dream.’

Even though I looked down at the scene over and over again, nothing changed. The hidden card that was summoned no longer functions as a life form and its life is suspended in a fragmented form.

Perhaps there was no pain. There are no signs of life in the man who was slashed across the head without understanding the situation.

The red liquid that should have already started circulating for physical exercise leaks out, mixes with the black rainwater, and flows across the ground.

‘No matter how careless Li Jiyuan was… .’

“Now only you are left.”

Wow!

A very violent sound hit Impale’s face. Before I was hit in the face with a thrown fist and rolled over, I once again received a dull shock to my abdomen.

A dull sound rang out as if the old man’s proud, high, hooked nose had been broken or crushed.

Should I have been thankful that it wasn’t a sword that struck him?

In the endless darkness of his vision, Impale saw Sejun’s twisted smile.