episode_0524

The change in attitude of the hallucinator who was convinced that the Grand Duke Widow was alive was quick.

He promised to send Damien and Stella within a week, and Isabel’s workload, which had been unusually heavy, was noticeably reduced in just three days.

“It was like this a long time ago.”

Isabel, who finished work early, sighed as if she felt refreshed.

“I had no idea that he was toying with state affairs to such an elaborate level.”

Tax avoidance. Deteriorating relations with allies. Establishment of the Republican Party and spread of its ideas. Trade paralysis, etc.

They were eating away at Habstenburg behind the scenes.

It’s a position I have no interest in anyway, but if I had been interested, my blood would have dried.

“Tomorrow, the sand hallucination will be caught by us.”

“Hold it tight. Because I don’t want to go through something like this again.”

Isabel glanced at the pile of documents she had processed yesterday.

Anne and Rohan were playing together in the garden outside the terrace.

Isabel seemed very envious of that sight.

“Can’t you retrieve it as their agent? ”

The peridot colored eyes that were looking out the window glanced at me.

“···You’re going to save me after being treated like that?”

It’s not that the hate went out, it’s that there was no time for it.

Because my mind was busy with other things.

“Once you get your powers back, you are just an ordinary person.”

I am no longer Dantalian’s agent.

Anger burns fiercely, but usually what burns intensely burns out quickly.

Anger is just like alcohol with a low ignition point.

For me now, there was only one word that I thought was right.

‘My footsteps.’

Future generations will surely discover my footprints.

So what story should I leave them?

Isabel seemed to want to dissuade him.

“Sihyeon. I don’t like killing people either. But it was only yesterday that I heard something from Mabju.”

“So I think it would be better not to kill him.”

A thorough and wise monarch never spares his enemies.

Because it will be a regret.

In other words, monarchs who are clumsy and thorough end up being swept away by recognition.

Such people were not greatly praised even by later generations.

‘So let’s be merciful people.’

The surviving members of the hallucinations will curse me for the rest of my life.

You’ll be spreading mean things about me until you die.

“I think this world needs a devil.”

“What?”

“I will create a devil in this world where God exists.”

Man cries out for goodness and abhors the devil.

I will walk down the devil’s path.

If they watch my footsteps and learn, they will never see what lies ahead of me.

“···Are you planning to completely become the enemy of the ‘head’?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

Moreover, even their identities will be revealed.

By doing so, it will become absolute evil in this world where God exists.

‘What if good and evil are defined by God?’

This world will definitely become a better world to live in.

“···What kind of confidence do you have to say such grandiose things?”

Isabel glances at me subtly, then withdraws her gaze and adjusts her posture.

It seemed like he was in a good mood after finishing work quickly for the first time in a long time.

“I’ll keep that a secret for your enjoyment at the time.”

“···I carry it alone the same way as before or now.”

“It used to be like that, but not anymore.”

Isabel’s focus suddenly becomes blurred.

Then, in the end, he regained his true self.

“Now it’s time to have a meeting with the ministers.”

“Please come back.”

Isabel stood up

I followed suit and lifted my butt.

I found a man leaning against the wall outside the door.

“···Are you there?”

“What are you thinking?”

“What is it?”

“The reason I remain here is to deal with the remnants of the hallucination.”

Hermann seemed to find my conversation very insulting.

Because this person has a personal grudge against Hwan-sang.

It was also true that I was not responsible.

“Unfortunately, it seems there is no need for that anymore.”

“I have to pay for my sins.”

“You died there. I just saved you on my own.”

“Did you think that if you saved me, you would be able to do whatever you want with me?!”

Hermann glares at me with wide-open eyes.

“Even if you forgive, I will never forgive.”

“Of course.”

“···What?”

“I won’t kill them, but isn’t that separate from my favor with you?”

For a moment, Hermann looked at me with a blank expression.

Hermann, who pushed the wall to his feet, passes by me.

Today will probably be my last relationship with him.

“I have just one question.”

Hermann looks at me coldly with only his eyes.

It seemed like he didn’t want to talk back.

“What would you do if your friend James is alive and trying to kill me?”

“···What are you talking about?”

“Dantalian’s former agents rose up.”

Judging from his expression, it seems that James did not tell Hermann that he was alive.

“They said I was a dangerous person and that I should die.”

If you attack, I will kill you.

However, if I can end it through conversation, I plan to end it.

“···He’s alive?”

“Dantalian’s agents do not die. It revives endlessly.”

“Is James trying to kill you?”

“I don’t know. But it could be.”

I looked straight at Hermann.

His embarrassed expression seemed to subside when he saw my eyes.

“If that happens, I will kill you without mercy.”

“···Do you think the guy who hasn’t shown his face for hundreds of years is my friend?”

“I feel relieved to hear you say that.”

A normal human being would ask these questions and not reveal them implicitly.

Just fake it or keep your mouth shut.

But not me.

Whether you want to live life comfortably or you want to live a troublesome life.

When you step on the threshold of death, the way you see the world changes.

For example, the fact that every moment of his life was a miracle.

“I thought you two were still close, right?”

“···Kill or not, do whatever you want.”

Hermann walks away, avoiding my gaze.

As if he didn’t want to show his thoughts.

‘I guess we’ll hang out together a little longer.’

I thought it was a really deep friendship.

* * * * * *

I’ve always thought about it.

Death is just an escape.

Death is not special because in the end, everyone dies someday.

So, you have to pay for your sins alive.

That’s why I insisted on asking Isabel.

“I hope you will pretend to be a widow and leave them cold.”

“Why do you have to do that?”

“Because they want to atone.”

Shake! Rattling—!

We were in the carriage.

Hermann pretended to be the coachman and chased us out.

“You did something evil to the world for your love, but what would you do if that person left you?”

“That’s right, your true instincts will be revealed.”

“Yes. It will run wild for a long time. At the end of that anger, acceptance will await.”

It wasn’t a crime committed in a sane way to begin with.

Anyone would have a desire for revenge if their beloved family member or girlfriend was murdered.

“Please take care of me.”

“···What is Sihyeon doing in the meantime?”

“There was a call from Seth. It looks like something happened to the railroad construction.”

The carriage going up the dirt road shook and cried mercilessly.

How far did it go that way? Soon the carriage stopped.

─Arrived.

Taking Hermann’s voice as a signal, he and Isabelle, disguised as the widow, went out in a carriage.

An abandoned logging site in a lush green mountain.

The members of the hallucinations were waiting for us there.

Gender, age and race are all different.

‘There’s a woman too.’

Is that woman also in love with the Grand Duke Widow?

I headed towards them like Isabelle, whose arms were tied up.

Hermann… does not step forward.

It was proof that his friendship was deeper than his desire for revenge.

A middle-aged man and woman were trapped in front of them.

‘So much time has passed.’

Stella was a six-year-old child, and Damian was only twelve.

Those kids are now in their early to mid to late thirties.

“If you send the Grand Duke, we will also send our younger brothers.”

“How do I know if those two are my younger brothers or not?”

“You saw us, and you remember the Archduke’s scent. But how can we tell a lie?”

‘smell?’

…I can’t believe that the words I had uttered without even thinking about them have returned to their rightful place.

I pushed Isabelle’s back roughly.

Isabel, who had stumbled and been pushed back a few steps, glared at me and started walking forward.

In response, the two gagged and bound man and woman also began walking towards me.

The three pass each other.

Isabel hallucinates.

Damian and Stella to me.

······It’s been a long time since I met my younger siblings.

I wasn’t sure if they would understand me, and I was afraid that they might think of me as someone else.

Still, they are my younger brothers.

Just as I was about to greet the two approaching me.

Wedge ───!

The sound of blowing air steals attention.

Everyone looked around with a puzzled expression.

Because the arrow was too thick to be a negative pressure force hitting the air.

Bang───!

The earth rumbles and piles of dirt explode.

“──────?!”

Wedge! Bubberbuffuck!

Debris from the center of the explosion flew in all directions and stuck in my body.

“Hiiing───!”

A horse hit by debris cries and runs wild.

Hermann was glaring at me with his eyes wide open.

“Kyaaa?!”

“Waaagh—?!”

Soon my younger siblings started screaming.

Only then did I realize what it was.

“Get down!!!”

And the fact that it won’t just happen once.

Bang───!

─Cannonball.

A monster that has long been called the god of war is flying from somewhere.

‘It’s the head’s work!’

I immediately hugged my younger siblings and hugged them.

The body of the horse tied to the carriage explodes.

Hermann, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, was hit by the horse’s intestines and bone fragments and was thrown down the mountain.

The hallucination quickly began to run away from the lumberyard, taking Isabel with him.

“Sess—! Help me───!!! It’s a gunpowder weapon────!!!!”

Wow!

The space was torn apart and Seth appeared.

“Gunpowder weapons?! What do you mean?!”

Maybe they were having a meeting, but there were other Dragonia around-

Kwaaang────!

Debris scattered from the center of the explosion flies in all directions.

Some flew inside the portal and were blown up by the dumbfounded Dragonias.

Bub bub bub!

Seth and other Dragonias fell helplessly.

“Kyaaa?!”

“What?! What the hell is going on?!”

“It’s a bomb─! Bring the healing medicine───!”

But the portal is open.

I ran towards the portal holding the two of us.

Pot!

However, the last look in the other Dragonia’s frightened eyes went out like a candle.

“···Such a dog─” Boom─────!

It wakes me up.

This time, a cannonball fell on the heads of the members of the hallucination.

Burbubbuk!

People explode and scatter in all directions.

What had been a person just a moment ago was reduced to pieces of meat and scattered around.

Isabel looked at me blankly, having been hit by the piece of meat.

“Get down───!!!”

If I had done something wrong just now, I could have died!

I lowered my body and ran to Hermann’s side, taking my trembling and screaming younger brothers with me.

“Hermann! Hermann?!”

“Keuuuugh…?!”

Herman’s body was covered in scattered horse bones, and chunks of horse meat were stuck to his body like Christmas tree ornaments.

I immediately ripped out the horse bone stuck in his lung and gave him a handful of medicine.

Hermann suddenly shoved the medicine into his mouth.

“Take them both and run away! Right now!”

I also gave my two younger brothers medicine.

Isabel was also unable to grasp the situation.

No matter how great the power is, you can only deal with it if you know it.

Because we weren’t prepared, didn’t even the tower’s owner, Sets, suffer in the blink of an eye?!

Even Isabelle, now a demigod, was in danger.

‘I can’t hear the firing sound.’

Some doubts become certainty.

I was a self-propelled artilleryman.

I know how much trouble artillerymen go through to find coordinates.

The amount of gunpowder or charge of the propellant. The weight and appearance of the shell. Measuring launch angle and triangulation. Distance of target.

Even if there is only a 1mm difference, the shell falls with an error ranging from tens of meters to tens of meters.

Coordinate values can never be easily obtained.

This meant only one thing.

The opponent is dropping cannonballs from high in the sky or shooting them with magic.

There was only one way this was possible.

─Wild Dragonia.

Also, a ‘head’ with military experience is targeting me.