Chapter 40 – 3. Saxony’s Great Leader (Complete)
I am facing a huge conspiracy.
Contrary to how he said he would explain to Elizabeth in a triumphant manner, he has no idea where to begin. As much as that, the plan made by Gisele Schneider of Saxony was enormous.
“…….”
It is not a waste to be called the king of the back alley. Without Otto and Elisabeth’s help, I wouldn’t even be an opponent. In fact, even at this moment, it is difficult to say that they will become opponents as they are only getting closer to the truth.
Okay, Gisele Schneider.
I’ll admit it. At this point, you have an edge over me. Thanks to Elisabeth’s joining, I managed to keep my body alive, but it’s still too much to save Adele and other intelligence department relatives and get out of here.
So I’ll admit it cleanly. You are the most feared of all the human groups I have encountered since coming here to Bernhard. Except for Beatrix Adler, the untouchable queen over there, she is by far the best.
But be aware.
You will defeat me in the end You can bet. I am the owner of a grand dream of defeating Beatrix Adler. On the other hand, how are you? I am complacent with the present reality and I am in a hurry to cling to only what I have in my hands.
This is what makes the bowl different.
Who do you think I grew up watching? I am the Führer’s male prostitute. He was the man who watched that Beatrix closely and resolved to surpass him.
“Are you watching, Gisele Schneider!”
I shouted in a booming voice. Around that time, after glancing at Hans, who had returned to his human form and stood up, he glared at the pitch-black aisle beyond the place where those thugs were standing.
“From now on, I will expose your private parts to the world.”
The reason I liked the gray-brained detective wasn’t just because he was a genius. Among the numerous famous detectives, where was one or two geniuses comparable to him?
Without going far, there is an English eccentric gentleman with an immortal stature.
But yes, the story of that lofty old man has something that no other person in the industry has.
He is infinitely human. We make reasoning based on our inner world and nature. Sometimes, he forgives the criminal with a story and covers up the case, and sometimes he punishes the devil that the law cannot confine. It’s a group of people you really want to be around.
When I was young, I wanted to be someone like him.
“…… In fact, it still is.”
I caught my breath and cleared my mind. After telling Adele, who had become naked from afar, to put on clothes, she glared at the invisible enemy and spat out clearly.
“Now then, let’s go over your identities first.”
Even if it’s clumsy, don’t imitate it. This is a declaration of war by Seo Jeong-woo, a man who comes back to life even after dying, to Gisele Schneider, the ruler of the streets of Saxony. I will fight you with what I have learned from your inner world and nature.
“The Schneider Family is not just an underworld organization. You are the survivors of the 13 aristocrats, the remnants of which were directly awarded titles by the old Bernhard family.”
Elisabeth said that her family Mittemeyer had perished. And Hans Schneider is a man with the blood of a werewolf so thick that he comes back to life even after being stabbed in the heart. Based on these two facts, we can infer:
The group that rules Saxony is the 13 nobles of the old kingdom, to be exact, the 12 nobles excluding the extinct Mittemeyer family. That is why, like the Brotherhood of Saxony, the organization under the Schneider family has no choice but to be divided into 11.
“Schneider is a word that means tailor in the Bernhard language, and family is a word that means family in the Atlantic language. Is there any reason to mix a foreign language that is not a foreign word with a completely pure Korean language?”
For nobles, tailors are inseparable. Gone are the days when only the ruling class had surnames, and some tailors in the transition period would have adopted surnames out of pride.
The so-called Schneider, Bernhard’s tailors are themselves.
“Originally, the forces that ruled the streets of Saxony must have been from the United States. Perhaps they referred to themselves as a family. The remnants of you 13 nobles, that is, the surviving 12 nobles drove them out after a desperate struggle and followed the name.”
That is the current Schneider Family Lira.
“I feel resentful, but I wouldn’t have been able to bring up my family, and since I needed a name to shake off fear, I must have thought about it in my own way. It’s not unusual for a noble’s tailor to double as a steward or property manager. If so, what is the probability that it was a loyal tailor from one of the 12 noble families who helped you survive and settle down?”
A few idiots who can’t manage their facial expressions are stunned. I’m 100% sure with that expression just now. I moved on, pointing to Adele, who was belatedly dressed.
“Adele, you are a lower class citizen who does not belong to any of the 12 nobles. It’s a bit rude, but it’s for explanation, so I ask for your understanding.”
“It’s okay.”
“Actually, it is something that has no choice but to be taken for granted. During the Kingdom, the only pure-blooded elven family was the royal family, Bernhard. Unlike the other guys, Adele probably didn’t even have a surname or came from an insignificant family.”
If so, how can I explain the sights I saw after coming here?
“But Hans and you thugs had a really hard time with Adele. Even though she was such a charming woman naked, she never turned her head away without giving her a glance. I saw two possibilities in that response.”
Respect is usually born out of awe. Awe is fear. Their attitude stems from her fear of her Adele, of her person, or of the situation she will create for her by touching her.
“One, the possibility that those who touch Adele will be retaliated by Giselle. Considering his abnormal obsession, this is a very reasonable guess. But if I had been so favored, it wouldn’t have been difficult. Even if they treated me like someone who didn’t have one, it wouldn’t have been a respectful attitude.”
Yes. In that context, the remaining possibilities are narrowed down to one.
“Therefore, two, Adele is feared by you.”
Apart from being blunt, she is a delicate woman. There is no reason for Adele to be afraid of her friends, who look bitter despite her strength. She might not know if it was a lustful gaze, but there is no reason to look at her with an awe-inspiring gaze.
…… Seemingly.
“What kind of life did the Saxon alchemist live? She wandered around her back alleys from a young age, and by the time she reached adulthood, she joined an organization.”
A place where special things are bought and sold, to human trafficking organizations.
“Adele, you were an assistant teacher before you were hired by the official residence. He himself said that he had tamed a fallen aristocrat, a bankrupt businessman, and even a wounded soldier to be devoid of joy.”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t that fallen aristocrat the remnant of the 12 aristocrats, the matrix of the Schneider family?”
I didn’t even get an answer. Because that’s what I said with confidence. I moved my gaze to Hans, who was staggering while clutching at the wound while leaning against the wall.
“Hans Schneider, when I saw you, I felt like I was dealing with a businessman. Because your vocabulary and gestures were never those of a ruffian who ate at the bottom. Furthermore, Elisabeth even tipped off that there is a high probability that you are descended from the 13 nobles of the Old Kingdom.”
“…….”
“I knew it when I hit my body. The way you fight isn’t just that of a back alley bully. It is that of a well-trained soldier.”
Ruined nobles. Bankrupt businessman. And a soldier suffering from injuries.
“You are exactly what Adele said. Guessing from that, Adele has the fact that she tamed you and the thugs over there. As a very persistent sexual assistant, he must have planted a trauma to make me tremble just by looking at my face.”
“Are you going to laugh? I became afraid of women who were not even a handful.”
“Don’t bring me down to the same level as you guys. I don’t pick on other people’s wounds for no reason.”
“It’s okay for once. Were you so offended that you mentioned your beloved wife and daughter?”
It would be a lie if it wasn’t But that has nothing to do with it. I don’t pick up on other people’s wounds for no reason. Because I know how painful and difficult it is.
“I mean this is my way.”
Along with empathy and truth, the most powerful weapon I have!
“…… The story went off track for a while, but the words you just said made my guess come true. The organization that Adele belonged to must have been the forerunner of your Schneider family. Nameless things that may have come from the United States.”
So now there is only one puzzle left.
“No matter how clear the clues are, as long as there are countless interpretations, there will always be a gap with the reality. Even more so, when you have to use induction and deduction alternately like now, you should never recklessly spread your confidence. So I’m not going to pinpoint who Gisele Schneider is.”
When you put it off before and after, you only put forward the most powerful hypothesis.
“However, Giselle, we can conclude the reasoning about the background in the sense that there is a high probability that he is at least the wealthy man who requested to tame Adele or his associates.”
The past history lecture ends here. Hans and his thugs are now looking at me with wary eyes. I’m just grateful That’s why I’m bragging about what I’ve found out.
Yes, the limit of reasoning is, after all, that it is an assumption. Therefore, your expressions and reactions are a great verification of the facts I have inferred. Thanks to that, I can take a step further based on that verification at this moment.
“Adler’s eyes are truly frightening. How could a person like you have gone unnoticed until now? If there is a vessel called intellectual talent in the world, it must be you.”
“You are mistaken. My story is not over yet.”
By the way
“From now on, this is the main topic.”
The reason I came here is to save lives. At least Elisabeth and Adele won’t be hurt, and if possible, I’ll take Feininger and other relatives from the secret service.
What do you need to do first to do that?
It starts with bringing out Saxony’s leader, Giselle. I have to make him see me as a danger that he should never let go. Only then will he appease or threaten you, and you will be able to bargain even risking your life.
“Judging from the tattoo of the vow above the pubic bone and near the lower abdomen, Giselle is a transsexual. Unlike you who have a hard time with Adele, she is proof that she is obsessed with her to the extent of being irrational. Let me tell you what this means.”
Giselle is jealous of Adele. And she loves She has a mixed love-hate for her, having been in charge of her organization before him and ruling over her 12 nobles.
“I don’t know when you guys made Adele reborn as an infiltrator of the official residence. Judging by how far things have progressed, it must be between at least three months and at most one year.”
However, deadlines are not very important.
“A teaching assistant is just a teaching assistant because he likes to talk, but in reality he is a human trafficker. How can a felon who commits rape and even threats raise his face outside Saxony? I don’t know Adele’s original identity, but she should have stolen her identity, which was within her organization at the time, anyway.”
Given its origins, it makes sense, but Schneider is a fairly common name here in Bernhard.
“That’s how Adele became the Adele Schneider we know. Because of her identity, it would have been very easy for you to track her down, and you would have used her as her snitch.”
Then why is Gisele so obsessed with Adele?
“By the way, the lingerie she is wearing right now is a luxury item from the Rosenkrantz dressing room. I wonder why it’s so absurd all of a sudden, but this is an important clue.”
I asked a question to Adele, who was being airlifted, in a calm manner.
“Adele? As for the underwear, aren’t they originally Helga’s?”
“…… Yes, that’s right.”
“Then can you explain why you are wearing it?”
“The Great Leader has ordered her to offer her treasured possessions as they will be auctioned along with her saving power. She added that it must be something that can move the mind. But I didn’t have any underwear like that, so I stole Miss Schmidt’s and gave it to her.”
It wasn’t just prostitution, it was a human auction. I roughly guessed that it must have been stolen because of Giselle, but there was a dirtier inside story than expected.
“The reason you are wearing something that should be put up for auction is probably because Gisele doubted the origin of the item. If you’re a man that’s so sloppy, you can easily memorize your body measurements. Is my guess correct?”
“Exactly except for the soggy man part.”
What does it matter whether it is sloppy or sticky when it comes to the way we cling? That everything is there.
“Then, back to the main point. I will explain why Gisele is obsessed with Adele.”
Adele Schneider is the shadow warrior of Gisele Schneider.
“Simple. To use as a stand-in.”
Let’s think of Otto for a moment here. From the army intelligence department to the SS intelligence police, he must have found information by mobilizing all kinds of connections regardless of means and methods, and he came to the following conclusion.
Adele Schneider’s real name is Gisele Schneider. The distance of her ruler of Saxony is her.
“Considering the status of the ruler of Saxony, it can be affirmed. The driving force behind the growth of the Schneider Family was the work given to them by the Army Intelligence Department. She ate that tteok crap while working as a so-called subcontractor.”
After making such a big game, are they expecting only 1 million or 10 million marks? From the beginning, Giselle probably had no intention of releasing the families of the underdogs of the Ministry of Information. If I had given them 10 million marks, then they would have changed their words and asked for 100 million marks.
“Feininger is a poor man to the point of being stubborn. He looks a lot like a friend I know.”
Cheongbaekri is not always used in a good sense. Especially when it comes to the kind of illegal business like these guys here. In the meantime, I might have been satisfied with the rice cakes I used to eat, but I think my thoughts have changed these days.
“Was it an eye thorn?”
Feininger and his intelligence department do not make good business partners.
“I was thinking of getting rid of it someday. Because I have to stick to the SS and do a bigger business.”
I ask you to take my family out of the country. It’s just like a pumpkin that’s just rolled in by the vine. It must have been a real windfall for them.
“You bastards without a coward.”
These wicked children.
“It makes no sense to do something like this and not have insurance. Adele is an alchemist and teaching assistant who made a name for herself in Saxony in the past. Think of the twist of her life that she, who was an employee of her official residence, is actually the head of Saxony. Anyone would think it was plausible and shocking.”
Giselle must have aimed for just that.
“If it were to happen, you would have thought of using only Adele as bait and falling in. If you are a low-level person who does not know the secret history of the organization, you can make up for it as long as you have money, and the important thing is that the person who becomes the focal point.”
Yes, that proud Saxony’s great leader.
“I know a breed like Gisele Schneider. She looks remarkably like a scary woman I know. Maybe he really loves Adele. I love her so much that I could only love her in my own infinitely twisted way.”
Like Beatrix Adler.
“He must have missed it. The moment Adele’s sullen face contorts with despair. So, she must have been tormented endlessly. It would have made me agonize That’s how I’m going to sink you into the bog.”
The time has finally come. This is the turning point that will determine the success of the work.
“Adele!”
“Yes, Jungwoo-kun.”
“Hang in there. I will rescue you soon.”
“…….”
This is very rare. To witness that dark-haired elf’s milky-white eyes quivering so recognizable to anyone.
“Giselle Schneider! Will you be watching?”
Don’t back down! If there is time for doubt, cheer up a little more! You must not show even an inch of hesitation. It proves that I am a person who deserves to sit in the same seat as me!
“As long as Elizabeth is here, I can get out of this underground world! Moreover, in a few hours, Bernhardt’s proud hero, Otto Moritz, will lead a special suppression company and storm into these streets!”
The image of Gisele Schneider I deduced is madness. I felt uncontrollable chaos from him. But not better than Beatrix. That’s natural. Although you may be thorough, you are not a queen. I am very grateful for that fact.
Thanks to that, I got a single clue to attack you.
“Of course, if you conspired to this extent, you would be able to escape such a crisis! But what if I went back to the official residence and went around bragging about everything? I won’t be able to satisfy your desire for Adele, let alone ruin things!”
The guy shows sympathy for Adele’s problems.
“Make your appearance! Negotiate with me! I will take any role in your organization’s growth as long as I can ensure the safety of my people!”
I said everything I could say. The act of adding more clumsily here is rather poison.
“…….”
So now i’ll have to wait Until the moment when this heavy silence is gone.
“…….”
Damn it, I’m lagging. I thought it was quite a struggle, but that side still holds the initiative. If my paranoid tendencies toward Adele are completely misguided, then I can’t do anything about it anymore.
“…….”
A long time has passed. Just when I didn’t know what position to stand on, a few idiots in the back murmured. Then, he leaned against the wall and approached Hans, who was regenerating his wounds.
“Please bring me.”
“You’re a lucky guy.”
It was such a long time.
“…… Or the bad guy.”
We have been able to face the big boss that we so longed for.
“Guide me.”
Crossing the pitch-black aisle.
* * *
The thugs went ahead with Adele. Hans was in charge of guiding Elizabeth and me. The guy who had been dying until just now had almost healed the wound in his chest. He spoke well, and seemed capable of transforming again at any time if necessary.
We groped through the dark underground passages with just our senses. Needless to say, the family members were used to it, and Elisabeth took relatively quick strides, as if it didn’t seem too uncomfortable. Unlike me.
The burns all over his body throb later. The left eye, which was almost crushed, was completely black, so it seemed that he had lost sight at all, and the bloody crust on his severed cheek was painful every time he moved.
“How much further do I have to go?”
I stopped in pain but pretended to be prudent, not wanting to show it.
“You will only have to go as far as you came.”
Yes, but can you? It seemed that he had no other intentions than to answer meekly. I, who had to endure the pain, moved on, and in that way we experienced at least a fragment of the kingdom that lay underground in Saxony and its surrounding streets.
Excluding the fallen and extinct 13 nobles, it is the playground of the old royal aristocrats who still exercise influence in the social world. I peeked through the corridors and windows leading to the secret club, where prostitution is standard and all kinds of dirty and obscene things are done.
This is a very popular underground auction house where you can submit anything for money. He passed by with a brief introduction to the dark auction, where men and women of all ages were sold as slaves regardless of race, as well as terrible items that were difficult to obtain in the sun.
That wasn’t all.
A labor market that arranges illegal activities such as murder and torture. A drug factory that produces huge quantities of drugs. Saxony, led by Giselle and the Schneider family, was a street that really shouldn’t exist. Elizabeth didn’t blink an eye, but I was indignant at how humans could be so ugly.
If Beatrix’s misdeeds were the oppression of terror for the sake of domination, then Saxony’s misdeeds were a total mess. The world isn’t always beautiful, but it’s so messy.
Reverse It’s so disgusting.
Saxony was a town worse than garbage in a trash can or filth in a gutter. This street was a hell on earth made only of the law of the jungle and the almighty rule of gold. Any devout believer could not help but fall into pessimism after seeing this scene in succession.
“I’ll be arriving soon, so get ready.”
I let go of the scenery of Samaoedo, which is in full swing. Elisabeth and I, who had been following Hans for nearly an hour, finally arrived at a certain gambling place. It was said to be larger than the Casino Babel I had seen from the ground, but strangely, the lights were not turned on and the machines were not operated, so I could barely tell that this was a casino.
“The table in front of me.”
I thought it was a rather large gambling hall, but the atmosphere was very solemn. Hans stopped right there when he saw Adele and the other thugs who had arrived first, pointed to a hold’em table about 10 steps ahead, and said to me.
“You go alone from here. Adele and the last descendant of the Mittemeyer family must defend this position with us.”
“I was out of my mind?”
“It would be nice to know as an honor. Because not only my other subordinates, but even me, my confidant, can’t approach him carelessly. Besides, it’s not even a few steps.”
I’m sorry but I couldn’t help it. This is what it means to not have the initiative. I nodded her head to Elisabeth, who sent her eyes asking if it would be okay, and moved forward. Relying on the soft light and the glowing paint on the floor, she reached the table Hans said.
Silence.
However, there was definitely someone sitting across from him. I was sure that I was breathing comfortably, as if I had no intention of hiding it. The guy who will probably be called Giselle seems to have a bat or something as a pet, and thanks to that, I’m covered in the unpleasant cries of bats, and I’m in the mood.
“…….”
Chiik, even though I was watching it, a spark rose and went out in a very moment. I guess he had lit a cigarette. It might not be out of consideration for me, but the fact that the bats who were messing around disappeared without a trace, I knew it was time to talk.
“There is one thing, clearly wrong, in your reasoning.”
“…… !”
A voice so loud that it gives goosebumps! Maybe it was because of the vision covered in darkness, it came into my ears more clearly.
“What is it?”
“I am a woman.”
It was an environment where only shapes could be distinguished. In the meantime, Giselle, who leaned slightly in front of her where the light could reach her, showed and then hid the shadow of her curvy chest and added.
“That is also very attractive.”
“I thought she was a crazy boy, but she was as crazy as Beatrix?”
Giselle burst out laughing. It was a big laugh that left the gambling house here.
“You are energetic. Do you like it.”
“Stop the small talk. If it’s an intention to kill time, I won’t let it go.”
“Why do I need to do that? This is my kingdom There are already many enlisted soldiers around here. I just can’t see it now.”
Elizabeth is not invincible either. It’s because the military power he possesses is so outstanding, but it’s not mythical enough to repulse all the endlessly pouring troops. In the first place, that Beatrix could do it.
“Sit down.”
Yes, it came into the tiger’s mouth.
“It is very rare for me to offer a seat.”
“So, should I at least know it as an honor?”
Giselle, who had been smoking a cigarette, rolled something of hers across the tabletop. She casually grabbed it and saw that it was a syringe. An unused syringe with suspicious contents at a glance.
“Administer.”
“What kind of trick is that?”
“Just give me 5 seconds. Inject it.”
“Ha, did you need someone to wrestle with?”
“If you pass even one second, Adele will die. Three seconds now.”
“…… What a bitch!”
My body moved involuntarily. Otherwise, there would have been no other option. I inserted the needle of the syringe I was holding in my hand into the vicinity of the heart, and administered the contents as it was.
“Do you enjoy taking the risk? If I was even a second late, I would have cut my throat.”
“What are we going to do now…… !”
“It’s bold to stick it in your heart. I hope I don’t die of shortness of breath.”
Damn it, this is a drug. The feeling of happiness that spreads through the whole body along the spine dispels the pain that has just been held and makes one struggle with pleasure.
“Huh, huh…….”
“How are you feeling? How about getting another hit?”
“Fuck it, fuck it…… !”
Giselle laughed and rolled one more of her syringes.
“Should we do it for 3 seconds this time? If more than one second passes, Elizabeth will die.”
It was completely her own. I put the syringe back into my body without even having time to think about it. This time too, because I couldn’t afford it, it was near the heart.
“Ahh…… !”
“There is no other knight on a white horse.”
“Hoo-wook, whoo-wook…… !”
“It has been a very bad year. The number of men and women who have rang so far is probably four digits.”
Fortunately, the drug Giselle gave me was slightly inferior to the dragon blood Beatrix had given me. I don’t know if I should call this a relief, but she seemed to be able to manage it somehow.
“The prince of the East, the male prostitute of the Führer, and the eagle owl of the black orchestra.”
“Eww…….”
“I will make you an offer you cannot refuse.”
You don’t have a godfather. Is it customary for the rulers of the underworld to talk about stereotypical things like that? I clench my fists, controlling my body so that I won’t run out of breath while sweating like rain.
Not yet. Now is the time to endure.
“Your hair is very useful. I’m sorry for my fighting skills, but I have grit. It’s definitely a bowl that’s going to be great. If you come to me, within half a year I will make you the number two in Bernhard’s underworld.”
“Is that what you meant to laugh at?”
“Let’s not waste each other’s time. You and I both know that it is not.”
“I am not interested in such a position…… !”
Giselle was silent for a moment. Then she rolled three more syringes in front of me. I’m really excited. I won’t be able to see your face once like this and I’ll just drink the medicine and search for it. I dosed her meds all over her body before she babbled her to do her 5 seconds or 3 seconds.
“You are holding up surprisingly well. I see you have resistance.”
I’m dying. My heart feels like it’s going to explode. No wonder Giselle is driving me into a corner.
“If you’re not interested in a seat, what about Adele? I’m willing to hand it over to you as long as you treat that bitch like a fucking house on the street.”
“Dog, same year…….”
“It must be a very tempting proposition for you as well. Because it is a condition that can satisfy each other. Didn’t you draw my attention to negotiate something like this?”
“Why, are you so impatient that you can’t bother Adele…….”
Boom, Giselle, who had been babbling just a moment ago, stopped her laugh. Then, as if to touch her wretch, she opened her mouth and spoke. She must have thought that she had mastered her anger, but the most emotionless thing she had ever heard, on the contrary, made her guess the emotion that was in it.
“Since we came to the gambling house, we must gamble.”
Five syringes rolled onto the table.
“That is the end.”
I picked them up one by one with trembling hands. He put a sharp syringe needle into his forearm and inserted it into his forearm. Giselle must have realized that I was an inflexible bastard who would commit a crime even without a time limit, so she didn’t set any restrictions this time.
Hooked hooked hooked hooked hooked
Scary. Sick. I don’t want to get hit anymore. But there is no way. Is this really the end?
“Doesn’t the trembling in your heart subside?”
Anyone is fine, so please save me! Anybody there?
“The field of view is distorted and the pupils are extremely constricted.”
Victoria? Leona? Elizabeth?
“In the beginning, the sense of reality will gradually collapse in the feeling of happiness.”
Hey, Cecilia. Daddy don’t cry Why would you cry when you have such a lovely princess?
“Then the excitement will come and run you. Soon hallucinations will consume you and throw you into the mire. Until you die in a pit where no one can save you. Even if I live, I will die without living.”
I’m sorry Dad couldn’t protect you that day. I still bury you deep in my heart. I will never back down until I avenge you and your mother. I’m not going to give up.
―I swear, Beatrix!
But what are these memories?
―You must erase the memories of Youngbugun.
Someone touched my memory
– Sergeant, hurry up and pull the trigger.
Captain? Are you?
― Korean army sergeant, is that correct?
Beheader, you fanatic scumbag!
– Please stop…….
Don’t even dream, you cartel guys won’t let a single one of them live.
―Sergeant Seo Jeong-woo is a dangerous element.
Colonel, how could you throw me out here?
– Look what they did to us!
That doesn’t justify your actions!
― Music, why not try it again?
But Master, both of you will be against it. Everyone sees me as a murderer.
―Your birth itself was our mistake!
Mother, father.
I did my best. But it just didn’t go well. Why were you so harsh on me? You won a prize among those crazy piano players. Is the Chopin International Piano Competition a joke? If I had the skills to win that easily, I would have left my name in music history.
Why didn’t you tell me you loved me just once?
Was I really your mistake?
Fuck, I couldn’t sympathize with you even at the moment Beatrix killed the two of you. My childhood was a hell that couldn’t be worse.
What did you want me to do?
I just wanted a family…….
Was that such a big wish? Was it such a big wish to get out of here with Adele and Elisabeth? It was Beatrix who always got in my way. But I do know a little bit. That she wasn’t really the one standing in my way.
“Now, let’s start the game.”
It was just weakness.
“I will risk Adele Schneider’s life.”
No one else’s, only my own weakness!
“What would you bet?”
Consciousness prevails in the overflowing hallucinations. The memories that were suppressed come back and you gradually regain yourself.
“…… Seo Jeong-woo’s life.”
But that’s only for a moment. The constantly pouring medicinal effects make you lose the string of reason you barely held on to.
“It’s a total of 2 wins out of 3 games.”
It’s like floating on a cloud.
“The event is Dealer’s Choice, in the manner of the United States.”
It’s not about feeling good. It means no sense of reality. I don’t know what it is. No matter how hard I try to catch my mind, I can’t catch it well.
“This is my house, so I will catch the player. The first contest event is the coin toss.”
Giselle held out both hands with a single Bernhard Penny. Then, without saying anything, he tossed a coin and caught it on the back of his hand.
“Front? Back?”
“…… Front.”
After removing his hand, the coin revealed was reverse.
“Determine the second match event.”
You have to come to your senses. You shouldn’t lose to this drug. Think of what’s in my hand I’m not the only one risking my life. Adele Schneider and Elisabeth Mittemeyer, Anton Feininger and Hartmut Heinz, Franz Rosenkrantz and their families!
“Under, over.”
“Of what?”
“The number of medicines I can take more in the future.”
“What is the maximum?”
“Up to ten.”
Rolling around, 10 syringes rolled in front of me.
“Funny. I’ll bet on less than ten.”
Wouldn’t it be strange if drugs flowed instead of blood. Judging from Giselle’s remarks, this drug is strong enough to suffocate with just one wrong hit. I can’t even remember how many of these there are, but anyway, I threw the odds in that my lifeline is now attached.
Yes, just believing in the possibility that my body developed a tolerance to the drugs that Beatrix had given me.
“One.”
Sick.
“Two.”
It hurts so much.
“Three.”
But you’ll be fine soon.
“Four.”
I’m out of my mind
“Five.”
I feel like I’m counting down.
“Six.”
Seven, eight, nine.
“And ten.”
Surprisingly, it is fine. Seeing over there Rolfe, whom I shot and killed, waving his hand across the river, I don’t think he’s ok, but he’s surprisingly ok.
“This is the last one.”
Yes, it’s fine
“It is my turn again. Will you understand me?”
“…….”
“It was completely delicious. Well, it would be weirder not to do that.”
Giselle did not decide on the third match event. Instead, she prepared the people who were waiting at a table a little further away, and waited until I came to my senses for a moment before talking to them.
“Seo Jeong-woo, I actually like your spirit. So, I would like to show you mercy one last time.”
“…… ?”
“Trample Adele. I swear I’ll make you more miserable than anyone else in the world. If so, I will send you back intact. I promise to release Feininger and all of his intelligence family relatives.”
Trampled country. In wretched words. An oath written in blood and soul.
―I swear, Beatrix!
The promise was a lie.
“I am not saying this to set up any tricks or traps.”
It was obviously a lie.
“It’s truly a reward you pretend to give.”
Even if it were true, it was an offer I couldn’t accept!
“So now accept the deal.”
Why are you so anxious not to bother Adele?
It’s an obsession beyond obsession.
What made you feel so much love and hate?
“It’s a foul. Just one word and you won’t have to push yourself anymore.”
Spirit returns I can only say it was a miracle. I clenched both of my fists on the arms stretched across the table.
Not. This is not a miracle Just like Gisele is obsessed with Adele, so am I.
Yeah, I’m starting to remember now.
It was. I was originally that kind of person. No matter how many people pointed at me and cursed at me, I didn’t fix it. For the most part, that was my definition. Like a lion that is not startled by a sound. Like the wind that is not caught in a net. Like a lotus flower undefiled by mud.
“I…….”
So I went alone like a rhinoceros horn.
“I don’t trade lives…… !”
Never compromise I straightened my drooping waist and managed to hold on to my spirit, which I had almost let go of.
“Our match is not over yet, decide on the third event…… !”
Giselle smiled bitterly. There was no sound, but I could feel it. She summoned her son-in-law, Adele, and Elizabeth, whom she had prepared earlier. While they were coming here, they scribbled something and sent me a white piece of paper with some words written on it.
“This is the place where the families of secret agents of the Ministry of Information were detained.”
“…… !”
“If you inform the Guardians of the Eastern Front, they will take care of it. If you don’t want more blood, it would be wise to send his Special Suppression Squadron there.”
“What do you mean?”
It was such a sudden change of heart that I couldn’t help but doubt it. At first, I wondered if there was something of her in my words and actions that made her reflect, but it wasn’t. Rather, the reason for her sudden action was the opposite.
“That drug was used by Adele Schneider to train me.”
Adele and Elizabeth were still there, but my men had just arrived. Even so, she calmly recited her past without showing any emotion.
“It was one less than you. Declared submission when given exactly twenty doses. But it wasn’t just because of the drugs. The way that woman tames people is so awful. In my case, the lives of her husband and son were also shaken. The first time she rebelled, she was given the head of a young man, and then the head of her two-year-old son.”
“Gibberish.”
“Of course you would say that. But as proof of my submission, I had to crush the head of my beloved husband with my own hands. She had to throw out the child’s head. I had to do whatever it took to make her naked and nasty. That means I had to survive as a plaything for girls who were crazy about spanking.”
“I can not believe it.”
“Believe it or not, it’s up to you. But I warn you, next time you better not dare to belittle my love-hate.”
Slowly, Giselle, who was sitting across from her, stood up, dragging her chair behind her.
“I will forfeit the game today.”
“Is it a game today?”
“Yes, since I committed an unfair act, it is cheap to be disqualified.”
“I think you mean that there will be a next game.”
Giselle neither affirmed nor denied. However, with a meaningful word, she only drove things to the point of being settled.
“May I give you some advice? Never trust Adele.”
“Stop the clumsy alienation.”
“Kuh-kuh, the day will come when you will remember my advice too.”
Adele and Elizabeth finally arrived. Hans and his thugs cautiously approached the seat where Giselle had earlier stood, and I looked at the two women standing next to me and put the paper on the table into my arms.
“Oh, one more thing.”
“…… ?”
“You have to do the calculations. I haven’t received the price for Yannick’s wrist yet. What will you do?”
That bullshit that isn’t even funny.
“Elizabeth.”
“Yes, Jungwoo.”
“I’ll borrow you for a moment.”
I snatched Elizabeth’s sword from hers and brought it to me. In her bewilderment, she threw her flustered back behind her and held her blade high.
“Giselle Schneider.”
Then he looked at the darkness in front of him and said. From there, it slashed at the faintly revealed form.
“Look carefully!”
“…… !”
Then, without hesitation, he struck my left hand down. With a sharp blade, I aimed straight between the bones and cut them open. Blood gushed like a fountain, but there was no pain because of the drugs. Only the bleeding that gushed out without countermeasures was a little troublesome.
“Hey, Jungwoo!”
“I know what you meant by saying that. And I don’t fall for that viper tongue.”
I know that Adele is hiding something more from me. But what do you mean? I bet everything on Adele Schneider at this moment. When you give your trust, you give it like this.
“You better look forward to it. I will never let you win or drop the next game!”
“…… You are indeed a man who could have become Bernhard’s official secretary.”
The words he said were shocking, but he wasn’t dumbfounded.
“Seo Jeong-woo, it’s difficult to think that I only found out everything about you from Adele.”
Gisele did not refer to the post of First Lady of Republic Bernhardt. Even less did it point to the position of the spouse of Beatrix Adler, the Führer, but it only pointed to my scarred and shameful past.
“I was once an aristocrat. An aristocrat from when this country was great in the past.”
“13 Nobles…….”
“Imagine that the Restorationists, who might still be alive, find out about your troubled past.”
Giselle said to me after flicking the cigarette that had been burnt out at the end.
“Think of the last bloodline of the Bernhardt family who died because of you.”
“…….”
“Everyone will try to kill you. That’s when the real game begins.”
Even at the moment when his eyes were blurring from blood loss, he could understand the words.
“It sometimes appears in my dreams, doesn’t it?”
“Shut up your mouth!”
As he said that, he stumbled and collapsed, even in the midst of it.
“Where are you struggling to your heart’s content?”
Gisele Schneider was now declaring war on me.
“No matter how hard you try, you won’t come back.”
He was once the highest rank of the kingdom, and now he is the leader of Saxony.
“…… Your Victoria Bernhard.”
At one time he could become the kingdom’s bureau chief, and now to me, the Führer’s male prostitute.
