Chapter 169 – 169. The Real Mastermind (4)
“A demon of breaking marbles? What is this awkward combination of two words… ?”
Erin muttered with an expression of incomprehension.
Erin, still a young girl, had very little of her knowledge of men, and she had never seen a man’s crotch properly.
Despite having two men in her household, her father who abused her and her brother who treated her with respect, her Erin’s knowledge of her sexuality was almost nil.
That’s why Erin, who didn’t know what Emilia was doing here, couldn’t understand the words she shouted as her gatekeeper ran away with a fearful gaze.
“I will guide you.”
“Uh, yes.”
Erin, who answered absentmindedly, quietly led the way and followed Emilia into her building.
Entering her building, all the gangsters with a stern impression of her size were all looking at Emilia with fearful eyes.
“Really.”
“Why are you here?”
“What happened again this time…”
“Please, please just pass by…”
Erin, hearing the voices of her whisperers, put her mouth to Emilia’s ear with her suspicious face and asked in her low voice.
“Emilia, what the hell are you doing here?”
“It’s a way to end the life of a man who shows disrespect, so I just showed off a technique the former master programmed.”
“That’s great…”
The moment she was about to ask, ‘What is that?’, Emilia stopped her steps and stood in front of her door.
Before he could hear Erin’s questions, Emilia opened the door.
Without knocking or other greetings, Emilia’s behavior as she proudly entered her own home was her human form itself.
The door opened and a dark-haired man sitting on a desk in the room looked up at the open door.
The fierce eyes of a man wearing a black eyepatch confirmed Emilia who had entered her room, and before long, she frowned when she saw Erin, who hesitated in front of the door behind her, not entering the room.
“Not that man.”
“Ah… That is…”
“And you… Is he that girl then?”
“… ?”
Erin tilted her head, unable to understand what she was talking about.
The face of the one-eyed man in front of her did not exist in her own memory.
Why does a man know his own face that he doesn’t know at all?
“… You don’t seem to know.”
Seeing Erin’s bewildered response to her, Runan sighed for a moment before she told her what he had done to Hersha and her brother.
“I am Runan. He is the leader of this information guild, Heilangdan, and the leader of those who tried to assassinate you and your brother under the direction of Ashton Armitas.”
“Ah… !”
Erin’s expression hardened in an instant at her completely unexpected confession, and she glared at Runan with a ferocious expression.
“The assassin you instigated me to kill…”
When Runan calmly accepts the gaze of anger flowing from Erin’s body, she does nothing.
Close
Inside Runaan’s office, the sound of running footsteps getting closer and closer.
Erin instinctively aimed at her from behind, sensing her incoming life force, pulled out her rapier, which had been worn around her waist, and tried to stance straight ahead.
“Detect threats to submasters. We respond immediately.”
It was Emilia who reacted more quickly to the threat aimed at Erinn.
Emilia, who was positioned in front of Erin, turned her body to stare at her back, and she approached Erin from the side and slashed the blade flying at her neck with her bare hands.
Caang!
“Ah!?”
The disarming Erin with a knife to her throat was neatly stopped, and the shrieking voice of a panicked woman echoed through her room.
It leaps into the air with the dagger, jumps lightly, grabs her right arm, bends it backwards, fixes it firmly behind her back, grabs the head of the attacking woman with her other arm, and uses her body weight floating in the air to slash her downward.
Cooung
“Nice… Ugh!”
Her attack was blocked by Emilia in an instant, and the woman, who tasted the humiliating position of crawling on her floor with her forehead slammed into her floor, covered her face with her hood pulled deep, but Erin Grinding his teeth, he felt the gaze glaring at him and Emilia.
Wooddeuk
“Kyaaaaah!”
When he twists the woman’s arm, which has been bent to the limit behind her back, it begins to bend in a deformed direction with an eerie sound.
Without stopping there, Emilia grabbed hold of her arm, which had bent in a deformed direction, and pulled, as if to make sure to eliminate the source of her danger.
“Ah, aaaaagh!”
The action of the doll trying to tear off her arm bent behind her with an expressionless expression is so extreme and frightening.
“Stop, stop! Emilia! Stop!”
Erin, who had been watching her in a daze, came to her senses belatedly and restrained Emilia’s actions.
Emilia stopped her act of pulling her woman’s arm with the momentum of pulling her arm out, but the act itself that had sealed her off did not unravel.
“This is an incomprehensible command. This woman is the person who tried to harm the Submaster. There is a need to remove her element of danger by completely removing this arm, her means of attack.”
“This X-Baal… !”
Her movements were blocked by Emilia, and the hooded woman with her head slammed into the floor resisted fiercely and tried to escape from her doll’s grasp, but Emilia did not even show the slightest movement in spite of the woman’s resistance. .
“But you can’t try to tear off a person’s arm!”
“…”
Emilia put on a puzzled expression at Erin’s resolute voice.
The reason why Emilia does not immediately respond to the words of Erin, who has the authority to command her, is that the conflict between Eun-Hyun’s command, her upper command authority, and Errin’s command, which is imprinted in her head, is causing her contradiction. Because.
There is only one order that Eunhyeon gave to Emilia, ‘Thoroughly eliminate the source of the threat posed to Erinn and Illyana.’
That’s why Emilia was acting in a more drastic way than usual in order to carry out her master, Eun-hyeon’s order.
Among the orders given by Eun-hyeon, her highest commanding authority, and those given by Erin, who is now in front of her, she was right to give priority to Eun-hyeon’s orders, but for some reason Emilia could not disobey Erin’s orders.
That’s why she feels a question that even Emilia herself can’t understand, and she’s on the vague border of either continuing or stopping her action.
“Lana, stop resisting.”
“All right, Captain! But this girl… !”
“Stop.”
“Big… Eww!”
Underneath Emilia, the woman wearing a hood who had been fiercely resisting could not hide her resentment at Runan’s overbearing command carried in her low voice, but she had no choice but to loosen her body and stop her resistance.
“I’m sorry. I’m going to attack you aiming for your back. That child recognized you just from your back and must have thought that you came here for revenge.”
“… Do you mean me?”
“X feet! Let go of this!”
She looked closely at the hooded woman, and her voice was somehow familiar.
– … There are people who want your body. Would you like me to quietly follow you?
“Ah…”
A terrible memory that I couldn’t forget.
Even so, she recalls the fear and despair she never wanted to recall, and Erin hardens her expression.
“Certainly, you are the one who tricked me on the rooftop with your brother’s false information… Assassin?”
“Yes.”
It was his boss, Runan, not the woman who affirmed Erin’s disapproval of her guess.
“…”
Erin put on a complicated expression, and she said nothing, lost in her thoughts.
‘Hyun is… She knew this… ?’
Unknown sorrow for Eun-hyeon begins to fill her heart.
The fact that the letter sent to Eunhyeon was from the leader of the information guild, Heilangdan, means that the two were connected behind the scenes.
It is also different from the case in which Ashton, who was the ringleader of the incident, was neglected without any punishment.
Clearly, he was trying to assassinate Alvin, and he was building some kind of cooperative relationship with those who threatened him, so it made him feel a kind of betrayal.
‘Why… ?’
Erin, who had never questioned the actions of Eun-hyeon, who she trusted and depended on and was no different from a great mental support, was confused by the unknown question of the existence she was leading her for the first time.
Runan didn’t answer and waited for Erin, who was making a complicated expression, to open her mouth.
His attitude was like that of a prisoner waiting for the judge’s verdict.
“Why… Are you telling me all these things?”
“Because you are his disciple.”
“Is Hyun-i related?”
“You don’t seem to know what kind of influence the man has had over this case in the shadows.”
“…”
Erin shut her mouth after realizing that the ‘this case’ mentioned by Runan was the ducal family’s controversy that led to the kidnapping of Eleanor and the embezzlement of breach of trust with Renion Hersha at the fore.
She was told only the outline of the incident and the detention of one of her ringleaders, Ashton, in the temple, but she was not told the details.
Her Ashton’s self-destruction was both terrifying and complicated news for Erin, who wanted to bring Ashton down herself one day and receive her apology from him.
“I promise. I will not harm you in the future. In the first place, our lives now depend on that man and the duke’s family. It is also true that there is nothing good for me to touch you rashly.”
“But he just tried to threaten me with a knife to my throat.”
“I apologize instead. Could you please release Lana?”
“…”
Erin did not readily answer Runan’s request.
I turned around and approached her slowly, got down on one knee on her floor, and met her gaze with Lana, whose movement was blocked by the floor.
She pulled back her hood, which was pressed deep into the woman’s head, to see the woman’s hidden face.
Seeing the beast’s ears pricked up on top of her head, showing signs of alertness, Erin put on a surprised expression for a moment.
“… Suin?”
“What are you looking at!”
Despite being subdued by her Emilia, Lana did not let go of her ferocious and aggressive attitude.
She was like a wild animal on the alert for anything that might threaten her.
“Did I do you wrong?”
“… No.”
“Then why did you attack me?”
“You… You’re here to avenge us. At that time, I held a grudge against our information guild that tried to kidnap you…”
“No.”
“What?”
Erin realized that this prisoner woman, Lana, had the same mentality as Ashton.
As she has a history of hurting Erin, she grows insecure about Erin, imagining that she is a threat to herself, and makes hasty judgments.
Like Ashton, who crossed her line in the end, Lana was just acting foolishly without being able to distinguish between her front and back.
“I didn’t come here for that purpose.”
“… Aren’t you here to avenge us?”
“Don’t get me wrong. Because I haven’t forgiven you.”
“Then… !”
Ugh
“If I move now, I really won’t back down either.”
[Hujok magic (狐族姚術)]
[Distortion of emotions]
Erin put her warning cold voice into her mouth, and she opened up the magic spirit within her body to banish her aggression altogether.
“Eww… Awesome!”
Her breathing quickened, and the pressure pressing so hard that she couldn’t even open her mouth, Lana let out her moan.
‘What… Hey. This… !’
