CH 229

“Love… love humans, son… love humans. We are small and weak and make mistakes… but you must not forget that you are also human. Don’t become jaded.”

“What? What bullshit is this crazy bitch talking about?”

As Genichi nodded in exasperation, the man behind Hye-ran raised his sledgehammer once again. Seyoung grinded his teeth.

“If you do anything to harm my mother… I swear…”

Seyoung’s eyes flashed with chilling killing intent. His clenched fists were filled with blood.

“I will kill you and all those related to you.”

The killing intent Seyoung emanated was intense. Even though he couldn’t use mana, the other men in the car couldn’t help but shake in fear.

However, Kenichi, who had lived a fierce life in his own way and who felt relatively safe due to the distance between him and Seyoung, casually nodded his head with a firm expression instead of being frightened by Seyoung’s spirit. Seyoung groaned.

“No. Don’t do it.”

“Break her hand.”

“Don’t!!”

Crack!!

The sledgehammer swung down and hit Hye-ran’s hand. With the terrible sound of bones being crushed, Hye-ran’s body trembled as if it had been struck by lightning.

“You! You son of a bitch! I will kill you! You… your family… the organization that protects you! I will destroy your country!!”

“Hahaha! Could you really do that, Arthur Pendragon, the white knight of justice? Anyway, we are ready to die at any time for the sake of the Great Japanese Empire. Now, as for this bitch…”

After saying this, Genichi’s expression hardened as he looked at Hye-ran. However, the seasoned yakuza soon calmed down and looked at the screen once more.

‘Damn it! How did this happen? It was only one shot!’ Genichi thought.

While grinding his teeth, Genichi refocused his attention on eating the food on the table and tried to regain his composure. He was mulling over what he should say next. Seyoung looked at Hye-ran with a blank expression, as if his mind had gone totally blank.

Sometimes, his excellent intuition let him know things that he didn’t want to know.

“Oops, she seems to have lost consciousness,” Genichi commented.

Though he was looking through a television screen, Seyoung could tell the truth.

“Okay then, let’s start talking again. Tell me how to connect with the Noblesse.”

Genichi spoke with a calm attitude, as if nothing was wrong. It was a natural mannerism that he learned from living a precarious underworld life.

But Seyoung knew.

The string that bound him to this world…

The reason he loved the world…

Had now been disconnected.

“Mother, mother, how…”

Seyoung’s eyes went blank. The ground that had been firmly supporting him had collapsed.

“Why do you have an expression as if the whole world is collapsing? If you don’t open your mouth right away and tell me what I want to know, this lady’s other hand will…”

“How am I supposed to love this disgusting human being?”

Boom!

Seyoung’s eyes lit up. Genichi shouted, startled by the phenomenon that was obviously unnatural in real life.

“Finish him!”

Bam! Bam!

A handgun, which had been pre-installed in the car, opened fire. The handgun had been squarely set on Seyoung ever since he entered the car.

Though the hidden handgun had been installed with considerable care, Seyoung had been aware of its existence from the beginning.

Seyoung had been paying attention to the handgun the moment he got into the car so he could evade the bullet if it was ever to be fired. However, at this moment, he didn’t have to dodge the bullet. The bullet ricocheted off of him.

“W-what? But… he obviously hasn’t manifested!”

Hearing Genichi’s screams, Seyoung closed his eyes. His sensory sphere was widening at a terrifying pace, and numerous theories that he had not realized or understood until now were violently entering his head in full comprehensive form.

Arthur knew he was changing. All the spiritual energy in the world was pouring towards him. The path of the great sword, which had been difficult to even peek into until now, had instantly opened up for him.

However,

‘Ah, this is wrong.’

It was impossible to go crazy with anger and enter the transcendent realm. The transcendent realm was a state that could only be reached by realizing the principles of the world with a free spirit that was free of any emotion. Even if madness and rage reached a peak and forcefully opened a door, in the end, there would only be destruction, not an epiphany and transcendence.

However, Seyoung was an Irregular. One of the few mutant geniuses in the entire universe. Even if he couldn’t reach transcendence, he ‘understood’ the ability of the upper level, and he was able to adapt to it the moment he opened the door. However, after entering the evil path, his spirit would become permanently twisted and would suffer great damage that couldn’t be undone.

‘But even so…’

Seyoung opened his eyes, and light emanated from his eyes.

“Body of Light.”

Whoosh!

Seyoung’s entire body turned into light. He knew the destination point. He could feel all beings within a 50-kilometer radius just by standing in one spot.

“Damn it! What’s happening! I was planning on using this bitch for so many things… How did she croak after one blow? And why has the video feed been cut off?”

“I-I don’t know, sir. All of a sudden, it became bright, and then it went black… huh?”

The man holding the sledgehammer, who flinched at Kenichi’s enraged appearance, took out a handgun from his belt, frightened at the sight of Seyoung, who had suddenly appeared in the space after a flash of light. But before he could pull the trigger, a beam of light burst out and passed through him.

Flash!

A bright beam of light passed through the man’s neck. Due to the high-temperature energy carried by the beam of light, the pierced surface was singed and burned, so the henchman’s blood didn’t splatter.

“W-what, how are you…? How did you get here? The distance from there to here…”

Seyoung murmured softly after seeing Kenichi’s confused, stuttering appearance.

“Light travels around the Earth seven and a half times in one second.”

Physical distance meant nothing to Arthur. Now that it was possible to photonize his entire body, he could fly and appear anywhere on Earth in an instant.

“What the hell does that mean…”

Genichi questioned the incomprehensible situation, but before he could continue his words, his throat was cut off. Seyoung didn’t even look at Genichi’s corpse and went straight to Hye-ran, who was lying on the ground.

“Mother.”

Seyoung hugged Hye-ran’s body. Her heart had already stopped beating.

The moment the sledgehammer crushed her hand, she was in so much pain that she had a heart attack. She had been cured of leukemia, and, considering that she had regained her health to some extent, this form of death seemed infuriatingly cruel.

“Mother.”

Tears of blood flowed from Arthur’s eyes. With his mother’s corpse in his arms, Arthur turned around.

His face, always adorned with a gentle smile, was deadly cold.

“I will seek revenge on the world that hurt you…”

And on that day, Japan faced the strongest and worst enemy that it could ever imagine.

*** Reunion & Conspiracy ***

Eunhye woke up about two days after the completion of the mission.

“Do you feel alright?”

“Huh? Ah, I’m okay… but my head…?”

Waking up in her bed, Eunhye was startled to find that her own hair had grown long enough to reach her waist.

This was weird because she had always kept her hair short so that there would be no discomfort in her movements.

“How long have I been sleeping?”

“In terms of time, it’s been about 42 hours. Do you remember anything?”

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“I don’t remember anything in particular…”

Eunhye recalled her memories. However, she couldn’t recall anything. All she could recall was just how her stacking of space collapsing spells caused the dimension to suddenly collapse, sucking her into a void, then she awoke to find the Grand Masters of DIO’s Holy Lands staring back at her. They asked her some questions and conducted some basic research, then they sent her back to her reality with her mission reward.

“Anyway, I’m glad. I thought something terrible had happened to you.”

Yongno spoke calmly, but the truth was that he didn’t get a wink of sleep as he waited by Eunhye’s bedside over the last 42 hours. Over the past couple days, he had even taken a break from his research, which he had not taken a break from ever since he started.

“What about the reward?”

Yongno, who quickly figured out what Eunhye’s question meant after she got up from bed, answered.

“90,000 gem points. And you?”

The reward Yongno received was enormous. Other users would have rolled their eyes and foamed at the mouth if they heard such an astronomical number.

His feat of inducing a gap in Regrants’ posture by colliding his huge flying shuttle, Vimana, against him was an achievement that none of the other users, outside of Eunhye, had achieved.

Compared to Yongno’s reward, though, Eunhye’s reward was even more overwhelming.