Chapter 636 – Living in Two Houses (1)
The perfect picture was completed for me.
A picture in which only I benefit by killing two apostles of anger at the same time and cutting out their veins.
I had an idea in my head from the moment I got involved in this game, but I couldn’t easily put my pen to it.
I have seen countless times when people try to catch two rabbits at the same time and end up losing both.
So I put down the brush.
It doesn’t matter who draws the picture, as long as it comes out the way I envisioned.
With that in mind, I made them hold the brush.
I did the planning, and I appropriately guided the situation so that the two rabbits could draw the picture on their own.
Pooh wow!
Like right now.
“Wow…!”
The guy who had his heart pierced twice in one night looks up at me with an expression of disbelief and asks.
“Why, why…?”
This is a very shameless bastard.
To express my gratitude to that guy, I answered with a wide smile.
“You tried to stab me in the back first, right?”
The expression on the face of a guy who is rapidly rotting.
“Uh, how…”
How did you find out?
That’s obvious.
The goddess’s energy in Lu Bu was clearly burning hostility towards me.
She probably knew.
That I am an apostle of greed.
It is absolutely unacceptable for my apostle to be killed by another apostle of the Seven Deadly Sins.
One, she got to the point where she lost her Jay Coop, so she chose Lu Bu, and then she lost her Lu Bu as well.
It was obvious that the energy that Jay Coop had hurriedly transferred into her body would do.
“Your goddess must have whispered to you to kill me.”
“…!”
My eyes, slightly widened by the blind spot, begin to roll.
It looks like he’s working his head off to somehow avoid this crisis.
“Yeah, that’s right. I have no choice but to do that because the goddess gives me orders.”
The conclusion I came to was funny.
Who would have thought that he would try to survive by selling his goddess.
The guy who quickly reached out his hand and barely managed to grab the leg of my pants begged.
“I, I was wrong. Even if it was the goddess’s command, I shouldn’t have done that, but I was foolish. Please give me just one more chance! I will never show my teeth to you again!”
A proposal that involved considerable humiliation.
But it is impossible.
The thing about him surviving here.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t do it.”
“Uh, why?”
Why?
Isn’t it weirder to forgive a guy who tried to take my life by stabbing me in the back?
Even excluding the fundamental reasons, two reasons hastened his death.
I couldn’t miss the opportunity to eliminate all the Apostles of Wrath.
And another one.
“You knew my identity.”
“…!”
It was only for a moment, but the way he looked at me changed.
In other words, it means that there has been some kind of change in one’s state of mind.
Judging by the fact that it was right after the anger returned, she must have revealed my identity.
Apply strength to the knife stuck in your heart and push it further in.
The guy is struggling.
“Oh, no. I can’t die like this. Furthermore, I, I, I have something to do…!”
A guy who constantly burns his will for life.
“I don’t know what you want to do.”
There were many.
Those guys standing in front of death, holding on to my pant leg and begging for their life.
There is a question I always ask those guys.
“The people who begged you to save them, did you save them?”
“Well, that is.”
I always think about it.
How does a person feel when they arbitrarily invade their territory, destroy the peace, and hold on to the trouser legs of someone who is trying to take their life and beg for their life?
I don’t know, but it’s definitely not a very pleasant feeling.
I told him the same thing.
“Go to hell first and at least set the table.”
Sooner or later, I will send my colleagues one by one.
“Oh, no…!”
Spread the energy on the sword and crush the guy’s heart entirely.
Kwasik!
Blood pouring out.
No matter how tough his body was, he couldn’t withstand even this, and his body fell helplessly on the floor like a doll with its strings cut.
“Whoa.”
As soon as I see that the guy has completely stopped breathing, my whole body becomes heavy.
I had been pretending like nothing had happened until now, but my physical condition was not very good.
No, to be exact, it was close to the worst.
Among the injuries I have suffered in my life, it is serious enough to be in the top three.
If it looks fine on the outside, it’s broken on the inside, and if it’s miserable on the outside, it’s even more miserable on the inside.
I’m surprised at myself for moving like this.
A red aura is visible beyond the slightly blurred vision.
The energy of anger that came from J. Coop’s body that turned into a cold corpse.
However, it feels quite different from what I’ve seen so far.
Although its power is very weak, it has the most intense color.
The energy that had been floating above the corpse for a while suddenly changed direction and rushed towards me.
“…?”
It was literally the blink of an eye.
The red energy that rushed at me accelerated and seeped into my body.
“… What is this?”
The energy that seeped into the body soon disappeared without a trace.
I quickly checked to see if something was wrong with my body, but there was nothing wrong.
What on earth were you trying to do just now?
While wondering.
Someone falls from the sky.
“You…!”
Joohee Han.
Was he watching this from afar?
She closed the distance with her urgent steps and asked me harshly.
“What on earth did you do?”
“What are you doing? You eliminated the enemy.”
“It was too hasty. I’m sure they’ll doubt you when they hear the news of J. Coop’s death.”
“I guess so.”
This is something I have already prepared for.
The death of J. Coop and Yeo-po.
Through this, it became a situation where no one could laugh.
But they will think so.
What if I, the only one who survived there, was actually not an ally but an enemy?
It is a reasonable doubt.
If that happens, I will be the only survivor there and at the same time the person who benefited.
But, so, well, what should I do.
“I’m sure you’ll doubt it. But you can’t push me further than necessary just because of your suspicions.”
“…”
“They lost one of their best forces, and I can be a great replacement for him.”
Excessive suspicion makes relationships awkward.
That’s why they can’t push me hard.
Killing Lu Bu means that I have further proven my abilities.
In other words, if you have them as enemies, it will be quite a headache, but if you have them as allies, they will be extremely reassuring.
But, out of unnecessary suspicion, you turn someone who should be your ally into an enemy?
What greater loss could there be than this?
She continues her words, placing her hand on her bewildered shoulder with a bloody hand.
“There will be no evidence. You would never leave something like that.”
I did the work, and she took care of the cleanup.
It means that two people holding hands took charge of the beginning and end of the work.
So they can’t find out anything.
Unless you summon the spirit of the dead J. Coop and hear the whole story directly.
Han Joo-hee is confused whether this is really true.
I warn her like that.
“There is no turning back now. There are only two paths left for you and me.”
Get everything you want.
Or lose everything and fall into the abyss.
“If you didn’t have that much determination, you wouldn’t have done it for your family or anything, right?”
She bites her lower lip hard.
“… Okay. I’ll clean up after you, so you can stop now.”
Her words didn’t last until the end.
No, it would be more accurate to say that it did not reach my ears.
In the end, the body reaches its limit and collapses helplessly.
“Hey, hey! Are you okay?”
Her confused question can be faintly heard.
She pointed out to her exactly the current situation.
So, you won’t kill me or betray me hastily.
I bury my face in the crook of her neck, which is close to her mess.
I take a deep breath without realizing it because of the familiar smell.
“Seuuuuup.”
“Hey, hey. What are you doing…!”
Maybe this is why the affection shared through the body is said to be scary.
Even though I don’t like her, I unconsciously react to the scent coming from her body and inhale deeply.
Suddenly a thought occurred to me.
Maybe I can’t hate this smell.
After that thought, her mind wandered far away.
* * *
It’s full of shocking things.
A power that far exceeds the expectations of one of the world’s most powerful men.
A classic by J. Coop and Kim Do-jin.
Kim Do-jin’s growth.
And even J. Coop’s death.
Even if just one thing happened, four things happened in a row that made me feel like I was going crazy because it was so confusing in my head.
But surprisingly, none of them were the biggest cause of what was bothering her.
What she is remembering now is the last, the last.
It was Kim Do-jin’s last action as he hugged me as if he had reached his limit and collapsed.
She touches the nape of her neck and between her collarbones, where his touch still remains.
The texture was not very unfamiliar to her.
‘It doesn’t make sense.’
It was a small habit he did every time he spent a hot night with Son Si-woo.
After finishing the long affair that lasted several times, he hugged her tightly.
Then, he would bury his face between the nape of his neck and his collarbone and take a deep breath.
The reason was simple.
I smell good.
The smell of sweat, the faint smell of perfume, the smell of her unique flesh, etc.
He said he really likes the smell of all the things that symbolize him mixed together.
He would inhale my scent without fail.
She didn’t hate that moment either.
No, I was extremely happy.
Every time I do that, I feel like he loves everything about me.
Suddenly it became a ritual.
A noble ritual that confirms the love between you and him.
But another man recreated it.
So her mind was confused.
Why did he smell the same place, smile the same way, and lose consciousness?
Even though he is an illegitimate child, is it possible for him to resemble such habits?
Lastly.
‘… I didn’t feel bad.’
I wonder if she doesn’t feel bad even though she is touched by the breath of someone other than her husband.
Rather than feeling bad, why does my body feel so hot?
After completing the treatment, I look down at him sleeping soundly on the bed in the hospital room.
Looks completely different from my husband.
However, his face keeps appearing overlapping.
“Uhm…”
Even the way they toss and turn their arms and legs in their sleep is eerily similar.
Suddenly, an impossible thought unfolded.
What if the man in front of me is not my husband’s illegitimate son, but the husband himself.
“…”
Then he shakes his head vigorously.
“… That can’t be possible.”
Because my husband still exists.
So.
“It can’t be.”
It had to be gone.
