Chapter 471: You made a mistake (3)
Translator: miraclerifle
Editor: Borderline Masochist
The White Star, Bear King Sayeru, and Cale.
Mercenary King Bud Illis who was listening to the three of their conversation while hiding blinked his eyes a few times before starting to speak.
“Doesn’t it look like they've made a weird mistake?”
His head quickly turned to look at Choi Han who was crouching next to him.
“Doesn’t it?”
“...It does seem that way.”
Bud looked toward Choi Han who was responding calmly but had an odd expression on his face.
“...Ho.”
He then gasped.
"So, basically...”
He started to organize the thoughts on his mind.
“They think that Cale Henituse has been preparing to stop them in secret for many years?”
“It does seem that way! Mercenary King!”
Raon who was next to Bud fluttered his wings and agreed.
“...Ho.”
Bud gasped once more before shaking his head. However, he could understand how they could make such a mistake.
‘Even I would be suspicious about how long someone has been playing if someone suddenly appeared and got in my way every time I tried something.’
And was Cale just a small obstacle?
To be honest, Cale Henituse and his group were like a large disaster. If anybody wondered how Cale gathered such strong individuals together, it was understandable after hearing their stories.
‘He gave me something to eat! He brought us home!’
‘He said don’t come because it was dangerous but gave me a lot of food!’
‘The human saved my life! I saw the night sky for the first time thanks to the human!’
Starting from the children averaging nine-years-old...
‘Well, Count Henituse and his family have been extremely gracious for our father-son duo.’
‘I learned how to cook from the Henituse household. The young master-nim used to be trash in the past, but he was still a good boy from time to time.’
Ron and Beacrox.
‘I had nowhere to go. No, forget nowhere to go, I had nothing at all.’
‘He showed me the world.’
To Choi Han and Mary.
Bud had wondered how he had gathered people with such sob stories every time he heard one of their explanations. He found it amazing that Cale managed to put people with such sad pasts within his fence.
‘He's someone who doesn't plan!’
The more he heard about Cale's progress, the fewer plans there seemed to be.
The few places he heard about where Cale found the ancient powers were huge coincidences.
Of course, Cale's group might have happened to grow by chance, but he was quite strategic about the ancient powers.
Unfortunately, Raon was the only one who knew about this.
“...Is it because he is a good person?”
Bud wondered if Cale was so lucky because he was a good person.
However, he quickly got rid of that thought. Cale had this unexplainable side to him that was cheeky and annoyed people too much to say he was a good person.
‘He is cold-hearted as well.’
Bud who was organizing his thoughts recalled the cold-hearted Cale he had seen from time to time. He then had a, ‘what if?’ question and asked Choi Han a question.
“Cale hasn’t been planning this for a long time, right?”
Bud could see Choi Han instantly start to smile. It was an innocent-looking but oddly cold smile. Bud put on an awkward smile and mumbled as if he was talking to himself the moment he saw that smile.
“Hahaha! A person shouldn’t have such useless curiosities!”
He then slowly avoided Choi Han's gaze.
Choi Han looked at Bud who was avoiding his gaze with an odd expression.
‘Good.’
However, it was good.
Choi Han had no answer for Bud’s question.
He couldn't honestly say, ‘Cale-nim has changed so much in the past two years because he is my nephew's friend, Kim Rok Soo, from another world. That person named Kim Rok Soo was quite eccentric and was the same as he is now in his original world as well.’
“But what do we do now?”
Choi Han heard Bud's mumblings and was about to respond to him.
It was at that moment.
“Hahahaha-!”
Loud laughter echoed through the empty underground city.
Cale was slightly bent forward as he quietly observed the laughing White Star.
Bear King Sayeru who had been angry at Cale quietly closed his mouth after seeing the White Star’s reaction.
“Hahahaha, ugh, hahaha-!”
Cale started to frown.
‘Did he go crazy?’
The White Star was laughing as if he had suddenly gone crazy. Cale had always called him a crazy bastard, but he really seemed like a crazy bastard now.
‘His eyes are red.’
His eyes were bloodshot and the veins in his neck were clearly visible as if he was holding back his anger.
- You're a transmigrator, aren't you? Who are you that is inside Cale Henituse's body?
‘Damn it. He found out.’
Although he was anxiously swearing internally, Cale's face looked calm.
The White Star started to speak again. It was out loud again.
"From body to body. You moved around while preparing. For a very long time.”
‘Hmm?’
Cale flinched.
The White Star’s eyes sparkled even more after seeing Cale flinch as he continued to speak.
“You continued to live while jumping from body to body like that.”
The White Star was slowly getting more confident about his suspicions.
Cale whose time was warped.
He was not someone a dimension traveler like Choi Han nor a reincarnator like the White Star. That meant that the only remaining options were that he was a transmigrator or a regressor. That was why the White Star first went with transmigration which would make it possible for Cale to have prepared to stop the White Star for a longer period of time.
And Cale had reacted to that.
The bastard with a poker face had finally flinched at something he had said.
The White Star had experienced many of Cale’s fake expressions until now. Even if he couldn’t tell through Cale’s fake expressions, he could recognize Cale’s real expressions.
Cale’s shocked expression as he flinched...
‘That’s real.’
The White Star was confident that he was right.
Cale was indeed shocked as the White Star was thinking.
‘Wait, this is a bit weird, isn’t it? How does he come to such a conclusion?’
Cale was shocked at the White Star's train of thought.
Transmigration was correct, but he was not someone who moved from body to body while trying to stop the White Star’s desire for world domination.
He just fell asleep while reading a book and had ended up in this world.
“Hehe. Yes, your thoughts and actions are not things that a mere eighteen or twenty years old could do.”
‘I guess that’s true?’
He had his life as Kim Rok Soo as well.
“What do you think? Am I right?”
Cale honestly answered the White Star's question.
“No?”
“Feigning ignorance again. Pfft.”
‘Why is this bastard acting like this?’
Cale had been so shocked until now that he wasn’t even shocked anymore.
However, Cale’s expression quickly turned cold. He saw the White Star raising his right arm. He had a bad feeling about it.
“That bastard-!”
Cale could see the fire rising from the White Star’s right palm. It looked ready to shoot out the ceiling at any moment.
- Human! It looks like the White Star is going to destroy this underground area! He's going to do it even though the Bear King is here!
‘Exactly!’
The dead mana smoke was poisonous for the Bear King. Cale subconsciously turned toward Sayeru. He heard the White Star’s laughter at that moment.
“Hehe. I guess I made a mistake.”
“Aaaaaah!”
Sayeru started to scream.
The White Star mumbled in response.
“Shut the hell up.”
“Okay.”
The wind created a square wall and surrounded Sayeru. Sayeru smiled and shut up as Cale noticed the White Star’s fire sword shooting up toward the ceiling like an arrow.
“No!”
Cale’s shout echoed through the area.
The White Star turned to face Cale.
“Why can’t I do it?”
As the White Star said that and started to smile...
“It’s not that you can't do it. It’s just that I wanted to do it first.”
“What?”
Baaaaaang!
A loud explosion filled the White Star’s ears. In this large underground city... The city's dome-shaped ceiling... A part of that large dome had exploded.
“This is the beginning.”
Once Cale’s comment reached the White Star’s ears...
Craaaaaaack.
Cracks started to appear on the edges of the dome ceiling.
Baaaaaaaaaang-!
The fire sword then stabbed into the center of the dome ceiling, causing another large explosion.
That was the beginning. The explosions continued.
Baaang, baaaang- baaang!
Explosions continued on the edges of the ceiling.
“Cale Henituse-!”
The White Star could see Cale who was smiling while looking at the exploding ceiling.
Then the ceiling of this abandoned underground city crumbled down.