Chapter 116 Demon King (2)
What exactly did Elle see? He didn’t know. She lost consciousness and collapsed before he could ask.
“…?”
Yoon-seok, who grabbed Elle, suddenly hesitated. He thought it was simply exhaustion, but her whole body was hot as if it might burn his hands. It was to the level he was worried it might be threatening to her life.
‘Damn it.’
Yoon-seok sent Skywrath Energy through her body, but there was no sign of improvement. Yoon-seok hurriedly woke Kanna Blitz. The Pontiff… no, the saint now, might have an idea of what to do.
“No one can fix this.”
Kanna said so without even trying. As a result of checking with the Eyes of the Executor, he knew she spoke the truth.
“You said you interrupted the ceremony, right? That’s why. The body collapses because the emptied shell to put in a deity was not filled up.”
In short, the reason was that Yoon-seok brought her out during the ceremony.
“What should I do then?”
“What do you mean? There’s no other way. She’s going to die soon.”
The tone was as if it was a good thing because she didn’t have to do it with her own hands. Yoon-seok was frustrated rather than angry.
“Don’t you know what happened to you isn’t Elle’s fault?”
“So it’s my fault?”
Kanna clenched her jaw and shouted. Sometimes what made humans endure in despair was hatred, not hope, and he sensed that now. Yoon-seok knew. Therefore, he could speak without hesitation.
“It’s not anyone’s fault.”
Who was the victim, and who was the perpetrator? It was meaningless to distinguish because they were both victims.
“Don’t you know that?”
“…Don’t try to deceive me. That kid is a heathen. The blood of a dirty heathen is flowing through her body!”
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Yoon-seok knew about it from the last mission: the Lady position of the Trejan Cult was inherited by blood. Elle’s mother was a Lady who escaped and gave birth to Elle.
“Is she someone you should resent?”
Yoon-seok took a step back to the side to make the unconscious Elle more visible to Kanna. The heathens robbed her of a happy childhood, and she even lost both of her eyes. And now, she was on her deathbed. If Kanna didn’t break her stubbornness even after seeing this, he’d have nothing more to say.
“What do you want me to say… everyone says it easily. But you guys don’t know what I’ve been through. Even at this moment, you have no idea what I’ve felt up until now. Huh? No?”
“Yes, I don’t know.”
He didn’t. There were times when he suffered, but how could he say he knew? No, even if he had gone through the same experience, it would be arrogant to say that he could sympathize with her pain. The depth of pain each person felt was different.
That was why Yoon-seok didn’t know. How long she struggled and suffered and screamed where no one could hear her.
“But you’ll get through it eventually.”
Yoon-seok knew one thing. There was no such thing as an erasable wound in this world. Only beasts who had committed sins that couldn’t be washed away.
“I’ll help you.”
Yoon-seok reached out to her, offering the touch that Yoon-seok of the past had longed for in his hellish days.
There was nothing dramatic that occurred.
“…”
After a long silence, Yoon-seok retracted his hand in embarrassment. Kanna didn’t reach out to him. However, he could feel it from the way she looked at Elle. Not now, but it would get better and better.
“Is there no other way?”
Yoon-seok asked Kanna urgently. He felt like he could receive a more coherent answer now.
“As far as I know, there’s no such thing. But it might be different for that person.”
“That person?”
“Rick Gerssey. When it comes to heathens, he’s almost like an expert.”
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That name again. At this point, he had no choice but to think that he was intertwined with something important in this mission.
“Can you tell me more about him?”
“Well, I don’t know either. Other than the fact he saved what had been held captive by the heathens a few years ago and enacted a tremendous vengeance against them.”
Kanna wasn’t aware that the man was one of the guard mercenaries in her caravan before.
‘Am I at a dead end again…?’
When he felt a sense of frustration as if something was caught in his throat, Kanna opened her mouth.
“If you’re curious, why don’t you meet him in person?”
“…Can I meet him?”
“Yes. As far as I know, he participated as a mercenary as soon as the war broke out. But, will it be okay?”
Kanna suddenly asked as she looked at Yoon-seok. Even if he didn’t know what the words meant, Yoon-seok wasn’t that senseless.
‘She’s asking if I can trust and follow her, who just tried to kill Elle.’
Well, the answer was already set. Yoon-seok nodded without hesitation. In fact, rather than believing in her, he had greater faith in himself. No matter how many enemies there were, he was confident he could protect Elle. Even if there were unexpected dangers, it was worth taking them if he could dig into Rick Gerssey’s secret.
“I’m jealous of that kid.”
“What did you just say?”
“No. I didn’t say anything. Let’s go. For now, this is the middle of the enemy’s territory.”
Yoon-seok, carrying Elle, joined Kanna’s troops and headed to the Holy Trinity Cult’s camp. They moved quickly beyond the mountain to the center of the plain without saying anything, but as if they had grown comfortable, Shiori spoke as they drew closer. In a quiet voice that no one could hear.
“The people here aren’t real.”
As soon as he heard that, his head tilted. She wasn’t wrong, but it was questionable why she suddenly said that.
“Nothing changes even if you do something here.”
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“I know that much.”
“Then why did you do it? I didn’t want to change my mission because of the challenge, but I don’t understand what you said to the saint.”
She seemed genuinely curious about the reason. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have asked him when she was so scared. Yoon-seok answered briefly.
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