Chapter 723 – #6-5.5 Fear (1)
Fairy Baekseol is a special woman who became an immortal about 500 years ago.
Reaching the top line is not something that can be achieved simply by completing certain practices.
No, it’s not that there aren’t people who sometimes reach the end of special training, but at least that wasn’t the case with Fairy Snow White.
Cheontaek (天擇).
Sometimes, there are people who are said to have been chosen by heaven and have been blessed with a special destiny from the moment they were born.
In the case of the fairy Snow White, she was born into an ordinary farming family, but she had already learned her writing from birth and knew that she had been chosen by heaven.
Nevertheless, she did not show it, but she grew up like an ordinary child, although she seemed somewhat mature for her age.
After spending her normal childhood like that, before she reached her grave, she went into the mountains on her own, ate the dew, shared a home with the wild animals, and waited for the call of heaven.
When her body fully developed into an adult, she received a call from heaven and ascended to the world of immortals.
Not all gods were like that, but in the case of Baekseol, it was.
Until she reached the summit, she had not achieved any special achievements or any great enlightenment.
It’s just that she was chosen to live that way, so she lived that way and reached that way.
She had no complaints or doubts about it.
Heaven thought that this kind of person would be needed someday, so it chose him and made him the light ship… I just thought so.
Whether it will be 100 years or 200 years later is irrelevant.
Or, there was no other meaning in the sky, and there was no meaning to her ascent. If you say so.
Baekseol believed that it was a good thing.
So, 500 years have passed since she sailed.
Around that time, the whole society was in turmoil and losing order and justice due to the awakened people who began to appear in earnest.
Also, around the time when a group of awakened people calling themselves villains spread, breaking the delicate balance and causing a war-like tragedy.
At that very time, Baekseol broke the silence of 500 years after his departure and returned to this land with the call of heaven.
The complex war that almost led to the complete destruction of a society and a country was brought to an end not long after.
In order to restore the stability of her society, her fairy Baekseol gathered people of good character to help her.
This is the beginning of Korea’s [Hero Association].
This is a story from about 13 years ago.
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Whiooooo…
A pleasant wind is blowing.
The wind carrying a bit of moisture and heat seems to indicate that the weather will soon pass the spring equinox and get closer to the arrival of summer.
The Snow White Fairy was sitting leisurely on the veranda, sipping her drink and looking up at the sky.
The Snow White Fairy’s residence is located on a large piece of land behind the Hero Association headquarters, and the Hero Association is located not far from the city center.
It’s in the middle of the city, so even though it’s late at night, lights are flashing here and there, and it’s not a good day today, so it’s cloudy.
Originally, the location and environment were not very good for viewing the night sky, but through her fresh eyes, she could clearly see the night sky and countless shining stars, as if in an old mountain valley.
“Fairy lady, aren’t you sleeping yet?”
“Is it Cheong?”
As she was sipping a drink while looking at the moon, someone spoke to her from behind.
It was Sim Cheong, the secretary, wearing glasses and, as always, dressed in a sharp suit.
As she assists Baek Seol as a secretary, she is almost always with him and sees him in one way or another, but Baek Seol has never seen his secretary wearing anything other than that suit.
Do you wear different clothes? You probably don’t wear it like that when you go to sleep.
Baek Seol swallowed those questions roughly in his throat and asked with his eyes what business he had.
“There is no urgent business. The interrogation of the villains caught this time is proceeding smoothly, and in addition, the preparation of the response team to respond to the [Villain Coalition] Is also at a level without any problems.”
“I see. And?”
“Regarding what you said last time――”
Cheong continued his explanation in a calm and mechanical tone.
It was a somewhat long-winded story, but in the end, the content was, ‘All the things the fairy mentioned are progressing without problems.’
At best, he probably didn’t come to Baek Seol this night just to tell him that.
“There was something a little unclear, so I came to ask you a question. I know that I am still uneducated and lack understanding of the fairy’s intentions, but…”
“It’s okay. Okay, what was it that I didn’t understand and was curious about?”
“It’s about that man, Villain No. 13.”
“Wow,” Baekseol let out a strange exclamation.
“What don’t I understand?”
“I don’t understand why you didn’t kill that man on the spot.”
“I would have explained why. “Didn’t he say, not that he didn’t kill, but that he couldn’t kill?”
Snow White said so.
On that day, there was no star to be seen, hinting at the death of Villain No. 13.
It would be a futile attempt to kill him on such a day, so I gave up on killing him early on and instead left only hostages and threats to control him.
However, that fact seemed completely unnatural to Cheong, who was close to the scene.
“If he couldn’t kill him, couldn’t he at least try?”
“At that moment, Rahegar, we arrived at our location much sooner than originally expected. Or some kind of natural disaster–for example, a lightning strike may have struck the dry sky. Also, even if he succeeded in taking that life, it might have ended in disaster. To go against heaven’s fate even after seeing it, requires the readiness to pay a high price. Especially if you can see it.”
“So, even if he wasn’t killed, wouldn’t it have been possible to arrest him and bring him in? He certainly has a lot of information, and through him, he may be able to return Rahe and other brainwashed heroes to their original state.”
“Hmm.”
At Cheong’s words, Baekseol stroked her chin and sipped her drink, as if trying to think of her.
For a long time, no other answer came back from Baekseol.
Around the time Simcheong began to see a faint light of nervousness in her eyes under those glasses.
Only then did Baekseol break the silence and answer.
“Cheong, do you not want to keep that man alive?”
“Yes.”
It was a sharp answer.
“That man is sinister. That man is dangerous. Clearly, the man himself is nothing more than a scum. However, the whole world seems to revolve around that man. “It felt so dangerous that it gave me goosebumps.”
Simcheong’s words continued to explain her anxiety.
“I saw Captain Rahe desperately trying to protect that man. He was always considered to be fair and unbiased or unwavering in his mind. I saw such a person, with passion, falling in love with that man.”
“The hero called Spade, although he has talent, is still at an advanced level, but for a moment, he reached an amazing level and showed a power and ability that could have gone crazy even to me. Even though he had help from that man, given his momentum, it probably wouldn’t take long for him to break the wall on his own.”
“Because it was the will of the stars, the fairy gave up taking that man’s life. However, I find it questionable and strange that the measures against him are so weak.”
“I don’t understand why the fairy shared her blood with that man. In order to build a relationship with him, there must have been a more advantageous way. However, that method could have turned out to be the opposite, causing the sun to return to the fairy.”
“I don’t understand.”
“What does the fairy see and what does she expect?”
“I don’t know.”
Despite Cheong’s lengthy appeal, there was no particular reaction from Fairy Snow White.
Just, she poured a new drink into her glass.
With those jade-colored eyes, she just watches her entourage.
“I’m afraid of that man.”
That’s how Cheong put an end to her appeal.
I’m afraid. I am afraid of that man.
It was close to an instinct for Cheong.
I don’t know the exact reason, but I thought it shouldn’t happen.
It was as if I had seen a triangle drawn with two straight lines.
It’s like drawing a square with three straight lines.
I felt like I was seeing something that I shouldn’t have seen, something that shouldn’t exist.
It’s not because of the abilities he has.
Although he has very special abilities, even if he is in his prime, Cheong believes that he is an opponent that he can defeat if he gives his best.
Even more so in my current state, where I have lost my strength and fallen like a mere insignificant object.
But even so, she considered No. 13 to be dangerous.
If you leave him alone… On the contrary, he feels like he is going to be eaten.
Moreover, it is blasphemous.
It doesn’t end with yourself… I thought that it would even affect the fairy in front of me, whom I respect and love.
“… So, what do you want to do, Cheong? “You’re not just looking for answers to questions, right?”
Words that seem to have already penetrated the Blue House’s business. Thinking that it was her fairy, Cheong conveyed her own request.
She couldn’t let that man live.
So――
“… I understand.”
Baek Seol paused for a moment as if thinking, but then calmly nodded.
“I’ll leave the matter regarding that man to you. You can kill me or let me live, so do as you wish. … However, you must make sure that unrelated children do not get caught up, and you must sort it out on your own.”
“I will do so.”
In response to the easy answer, Cheong lowered his head and walked away without showing his back.
Baekseol looked at the direction Cheong left with a sigh for a moment, then sipped his drink again and looked up at the stars in the night sky.
Is this also the meaning of the stars? I mumbled in a lamentable tone.
