Chapter 131 – The Blood Witch (16)
“It’s nothing more than you think.”
Beatrice sighed and nodded her head.
“You mean a kiss?”
“Yes. I heard somewhere that it felt like crossing a bridge, but it wasn’t really like that.”
“I don’t know what you saw. You didn’t do it right, did you?”
“It’s my first time, how do I do it right? Knowing.”
Beatrice protested, purring her lips.
“It is, but it is. Anyway, the original kiss is a bit more…”
“More?”
“It’s soggy.”
“Sloppy, squishy?”
“…You don’t have to emphasize it.”
“Huh, it’s okay if it’s your junior. I am an experienced person, so please lead me.”
“…In the first place.”
I sighed deeply and continued talking.
“Isn’t that kind of the case here?”
Because of unintentional massacre.
Pieces of meat still warm were everywhere. Of course, it gave off a terrible stench. Even if it was far from a romantic place, it was too far.
“What, how are you?”
As if it didn’t matter much, Beatrice sat down and shook her leg. Anyway, this woman is not normal either. Although she felt it from the first time she saw it. And I wasn’t normal either. If you look at that look, it feels strangely cute.
“Let’s change seats for now.”
Beatrice followed behind me. Then she suddenly grabbed my sleeve.
“Brother. I have a question.”
“Yes?”
“Can I not go help them?”
“Yes, they sent the final weapon.”
“Yes?”
“There is such a thing.”
“Chi, there are many secrets.”
He lightly ignored the grunting Beatrice. He tried to avoid it this time as he seemed to only get help each time, but ended up calling him. As soon as things went wrong, he let Park Soo-ho and his team escape and called Cheon Ha-yeon through midsummer.
So, Cheon Ha-yeon, who was waiting not far away, headed north along the escape route. By now, you’ve probably succeeded in rescuing Jecheondae.
[Securing Jecheondae is over. I’ll hand it over to the Moorim Meng Rescue Team safely.]
As expected, Han Yeo-reum contacted me right away.
[Great job. Thank you every time. I also thank Cheon Ha-yeon.]
[Yes. How about that?]
[This has also been processed. I’m on my way out.]
[Be careful though. Just in case.]
[OK.]
How did Jecheondae feel when he saw Cheon Ha-yeon silently appearing under the moonlight? She was a little worried that she would panic and run away or try to fight, but her forewarning seemed to have worked. After talking with Midsummer, I spoke to Beatrice.
“They’re done securing them.”
“Do you think the performance of the final weapon is good?”
“…Yes. Excellent.”
Performance will be improved in the future. I don’t know how far Cheon Ha-yeon’s high point, which restored the Cheonma Singong, will be. From the fact that he is a 20-year-old hwagyeong, the realm of the late Ji-soo is far out of the way. Even the masters of the Daemun faction have difficulty reaching the Hwagyeong area.
“Cool…!”
Afterwards, Beatrice, who had been silently following me, covered his mouth and coughed. A small amount of blood trickled down his lips. He didn’t seem to have an easy fight with the footnotes of the secret circle.
“Seniors?”
“…It’s okay. Don’t mind.”
Beatrice muttered in a low voice as she wiped his blood.
“Let’s get some rest.”
There was also a large rock nearby. After lightly sweeping the rock to level it and clearing the dust, I sat down next to Beatrice.
“Are you worried about me?”
“Let’s talk some more.”
“I’m going to get rid of it for free again.”
“You don’t have to say anything if you don’t like it.”
“Nope. You can ask anything.”
“Are you aiming to destroy the Tang Dynasty?”
Beatrice, who had been twirling the tips of her hair for a moment, shook her head thoughtfully.
“Not really.”
“Attack on our facility is…”
“How much anger? Because it’s annoying It doesn’t mean much.”
It was hard to guess how serious she was.
“Are you thinking of breaking away from the blood bridge?”
“…”
Beatrice stared blankly at me. And then she laughed.
“Your junior is also weaker than you think.”
“I don’t want to kill you with my own hands.”
“Didn’t we even kiss? I like dying in my junior’s arms because it’s romantic. Or vice versa is fine. Not. The opposite is also a little bit like that. You must live.”
“…It’s more like a lip smack than a kiss.”
“Would you like to make that lip smack a little longer?”
Her long fingers lightly ran over the back of my hand.
“All right. What if someone sees it?”
“Someone sees it in the middle of the night. Doesn’t that mean you don’t like it?”
“…I want to hear the answer to the question I asked earlier.”
“I don’t know. And juniors, do you think this is a place where she can go out as she pleases, just because she wants to get out of some kind of blood ties?”
“…If you come to the Protestant Church.”
“The Heavenly Demonic Church… The location is not the problem.”
“Is it because of the curse? If that is the Protestant religion.”
“No.”
Beatrice sternly cut me off. It was a rather sad expression.
“The current Heavenly Demon Church cannot solve the curse. The current Cheonma Shinkyo is more pursuing the right than the Baekdo sect. I don’t know if it was about a hundred years ago. If something is gained, something is lost.”
“Did you hear that it was true because of the curse?”
“I am.”
Beatrice, who hesitated slightly, pursed her lips.
“Shouldn’t have just been born. I think so.”
“…Suddenly, what is it like a second grader? It’s not even puberty.”
“You guessed it roughly, too? What happened between Biwon Gakju, Dangmun, and me?”
“…”
“If it wasn’t for me, so many children wouldn’t have died. The project would have been scrapped soon after saying it was nonsense.”
“You mean our secret wish or something? What is that?”
“The madness of trying to artificially create the strongest body that surpasses even the heavenly body. The long-cherished wish of the Tang family, which he tried to achieve even by borrowing the power of the outside world. The result is me Of course, the party is still pursuing it. Because the country even has a success story. It doesn’t seem to work as well as I thought.”
Outside road.
It was a word that was often bundled with Samaoedo (邪魔外道). Since cheating meant a way out of Sangri, boatman and magician also belonged to the framework of cheating in some way. Of course, if you go into details, it’s quite different.
A lot of people are mistaken, but not all sama affair is evil. Right now, Protestantism alone couldn’t be seen as evil.
But, just as the darkness of Protestantism is blood religion.
The risk of deterioration at any time was too great. Tang’s secret wish to create an artificially superior body. The first must have been purely intentional.
There are quite a few things in the world that are pure ‘in terms of purpose’. But, things don’t always go the way we initially planned.
In the end, it must be said that Tang Mun could not overcome the temptation and entered the path of non-human outsiders. Cases like this are more common than you might think. As if a war hero with noble will becomes an evil dictator.
Still, I didn’t like it.
“Stop talking bullshit.”
At my verbal abuse, Beatrice opened her eyes and looked at me.
“It’s not your fault that non-human things did things that aren’t human. You blame yourself for saying why you shouldn’t have been born.”
“I am only telling the truth. Do you think I never thought of anything else?”
Beatrice’s voice rose slightly. She struck first before she could open her mouth again.
“The truth is one. Senior is just caught up in it. If it wasn’t for seniors, how do you know if you would have sacrificed more children because you thought it wouldn’t work out?”
“…I’d like to think so too. Looking at the ghosts running rampant inside the Killing Stone, how easy could that be? And you say Have you forgotten where I am from?”
“You are the great Thirteen Apostles of the Blood Church. He only chooses to do things that are bad for blood ties. If you were a sure villain, you wouldn’t have said such a thing.”
She was only ‘a little’ unusual, but not evil. If he was a truly wicked person, he would have taken such things insignificantly. It was safe to say that her thoughts were a form of PTSD.
Called Survivor’s Guilt or Survivor’s Syndrome.
A victim of a cruel experiment in childhood.
It wasn’t unreasonable to think, “Maybe it’s all because of me.” Indeed, it was a common pattern among survivors of horrific disasters.
There is an abnormal living environment called blood bridge. If you’re sober, that’s even weirder. Rather, the fact that she stopped at that level proved that she was a born good person.
“I am evil. Did you see what I did?”
“I set the standard.”
“Great. If I exceed that standard, do not hesitate and kill me?”
Beatrice’s eyes drew a thin arc. As usual, it was hard to tell if he was joking or serious.
“It was a gloomy talk. So, are you saying that we can solve that curse first?”
“…Maybe?”
As I frowned slightly, Beatrice waved her hand.
“This is true. If the curse is lifted, you should be freed from the spirit of blood, but you don’t know what will happen.”
“Wasn’t it because of a curse that you said you needed me?”
“I remembered. Right. The Heavenly Demon Artifact that my junior learned. And solar retardation.”
“The Heavenly Demon Sacred Art?”
“…I’m surprised you don’t know. The lord of Mansa and Manma. In a way, the supernatural ability of Cheonma Shin Gong, which is the sum total of cheating, is also applied to the left-handed way visitation technique. There are quite a few records of the Cheonma Shinkyo religious leader breaking the magic of the Jegal Sega in the past by force. However… It seemed that it was incomplete as some of the rules of the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art were lost.”
“Are you saying I showed up?”
“Yes. Actually, I found out later that I learned the Heavenly Demon Art.”
“Apart from the Heavenly Demon Goddess, what is the solar retardation?”
I didn’t even know anything about this side of things. According to Beatrice, it was about being able to break the curse spell with the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art.
“The original owner of the Killing Stone. Do you know what tamamo-no-mae is?”
“I think I heard it somewhere.”
“In other words, white-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox. Gumi’s body is originally a mass of yin qi. Of course, its essence, the Killing Stone, is strong enough to be compared to an ice crystal that exists somewhere.”
“If you want to suppress it when it goes out of control, you need at least the sun’s energy?”
“…I don’t know. Because my body itself is no different from a miracle. Still, the junior is the only possibility.”
“That’s why I had to become stronger.”
“Yes. It doesn’t matter to me, but my juniors could be in danger.”
I groaned inwardly and wiped my forehead with both hands. From the first time I saw him, I wondered why he was so obsessed with me, but there was a very realistic reason.
“But don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t like juniors because of that.”
“…”
As if reading my mind, Beatrice spat out in a pouty tone.
“Just. Nope.”
“Why did you stop talking?”
“Can’t you just be aware of it?”
Eyes wide open, Beatrice glared at him. I tried to resist the urge to stroke my hair. Anyway, I got the situation. If so, what to do next has been decided.
“For now, I will go back today. Have a good rest and thank you for your help.”
“Yes.”
“Call me when you have time.”
“Yes?”
“Let’s see what his curse is.”
