Chapter 154 – Father?
A moan breaks the stillness.
Quite different from him, a sofa that hugs the body warmly.
“…”
Ugh.
The phone I was holding started to vibrate, indicating that there was an incoming call.
But did not receive
Anyway, the person calling me this time will come this way soon.
And, the moment I received it, I was worried about what to say.
“Ha.”
If you go now, when will you come?
Humming a song that didn’t suit the gloomy atmosphere, I put my phone down for a while and looked out the window.
The moonlight coming into the house, where even the lights were turned off, calmed my mood.
“Astarte…”
Quiet guys
To be precise, I was sitting alone among the enemies who had come to capture me, searching for known information about the Astarte family.
Even if it’s just information that’s for public disclosure, there’s a big difference between knowing and not knowing.
‘He’s coming.’
Of course, that time was really short.
As if he knew I was alone, I felt someone approaching me from far away, fast.
And there are only a few that can achieve this speed, so the one coming is sure to be Kim Joo-won.
“Cuck!”
I get up from my seat and pace around, and a scream echoes through the house because someone accidentally stepped on it.
I looked down in shock for a moment, and my gaze, numb with the sense of fear of having been helpless by me, turned to me.
However, after stepping away and watching indifferently for a moment, I went back to the sofa that was at least available and sat down.
Then release the dimensional barrier.
The moment Kim Joo-won arrives, don’t let him get in the way.
Soon after releasing the trap to catch those under me, Kim Joo-won appears.
“Are you standing?”
I wonder if he was a bit surprised to see me waiting casually despite the bleak surroundings.
His voice sounded somehow awkward.
“I’m here?”
“This, these people are all…”
“People who came to kidnap my family to blackmail me.”
I got up from my seat.
Kim Joo-won must have been having a blast as well, and the dust on the end of his sleeve caught my eye.
“I guess you came to the hospital too.”
“…Huh.”
Take a small breath
It’s not big, but the trace that tells you what happened is a fire in a corner of your heart.
“Seoha, are you going?”
As if Kim Joo-won had already guessed, he carefully asked me.
In fact, if you think of Sae-ah, it would be right for me to inform the association and get help from the association instead of going personally.
It’s me and Kim Joo-won, how can we each have our own combat power?
“Uh.”
I couldn’t help it.
To protect them, I had to move.
“I’ve been thinking about it. Of course I could get some help from the Association. But…”
I recalled the moment when I had no strength and helplessly lost my baby to Lee Seo-ha.
Having a child can inspire happiness, but on the contrary, it can also act as a weakness.
Because I did
“To be honest, I’m not confident.”
“…What kind of confidence?”
“Under any circumstances, there is nothing that can completely protect my people.”
In a way, it is an obsessive choice caused by trauma.
But the things that happened after I fell into this world pushed me to make that choice without hesitation.
I was making myself so that I wouldn’t stop even in the face of Kim Joo-won’s worried expression.
No, maybe no one in this world can stop me in the first place.
From the beginning, Kim Joo-won strongly pressured and tied me down, and trampled on me at will.
To some extent, I couldn’t understand her feelings, but Yoon Shi-hoo greeted me with a cold gaze when I returned to the academy.
“So I’m going.”
“But it’s too dangerous.”
“I know. But if I don’t finish today, I’ll put other people in danger, not me. I won’t see that anymore.”
And does he know
Now, within the category of my person, he also included himself.
“Kim Joo-won, what do you want to do? I don’t care if you don’t want to go.”
“Seoha.”
“Of course, it started with her, but in the end it won’t end without me…”
“Lee Seo-ha!”
But did Kim Joo-won fail to understand my feelings?
She looked up at him, startled for a moment by the sight of the guy who was suddenly calling out to her.
“Come to your senses. You’re not the kind of person who gets swept away by emotions like this. What’s wrong with you today?”
“Uh…”
“Yes, it’s good to go. What are you going to do? Are you going to fight with the determination to beat them all like you do to these people?”
In fact, she vaguely thought so.
After all, I was the one who killed one of their members to get revenge on the terrorists and kidnappers.
After all, the end of the conflict that occurred in this world was written in a novel as a battle to the death.
“If it’s simply an individual force, if you go 1v1 with an individual member of Astarte, you might win them all. But, if there’s a majority, it’s a different story.”
“…”
“No matter how much your attack can ignore defense and feed all the effective hits, no one really knows what will happen if you really fight them.”
I shut my mouth at Kim Joo-won’s words.
Either way, there was nothing wrong with what he said.
“And me too, now I…”
In addition, Kim Joo-won’s fighting power.
It is the story of the last half of the work that Kim Joo-won has the power to wipe out the Astarte family.
It is a state that can only be achieved by crossing countless lines of death, but Kim Joo-won of the current episode, let alone a line of death, was in a state where I was holding onto and living peacefully.
Of course, his return was cut off, and his experience so far became his own again, and his combat power itself rose dramatically again.
“But I think it’s already too late.”
Avert your gaze.
Then I see a headless corpse, killed by me, for ignoring my warnings.
“I can’t help it. We have to make a deal today.”
And when he saw the corpse, Kim Ju-won shut his mouth.
I don’t think I know that it’s something I can’t help anymore.
Bella Astarte is the kidnapper who kidnapped Sae-Ah Kim, the child of Seo-Ha Lee, and was killed by the mother of her child, but that nameless enemy was killed by Seo-Ha Lee.
“Seoha, why did you have such an accident…”
“Sorry.”
“Really, I can’t help it.”
As soon as he saw the corpse, he put one hand on his temple as if his head hurt.
However, this is also the fate of the guy who made me like this.
“Seoha, I’m asking for one.”
“Huh.”
“…Don’t step out in front of me no matter what.”
However, the guy told me in a voice telling me to never break this, as if that incident from the past had suddenly resurrected.
With very cold eyes.
“Never again like that time…”
As he turned his feet and walked to the window, he heard the sound of him alone.
The incident I created to eliminate Lee Seo-ha, a supporting character in the novel at the time, was still a big trauma for him.
“Okay.”
If I try to step forward, he will probably stop me.
Even if he were to attack himself with fatal wounds, he would do so.
But it can’t be.
Because you can’t make a new child a fatherless child.
“I’ll try my best.”
Having said that, I closed my eyes.
Even though it wasn’t a very good thing, the guys were going to appeal to themselves, and the media reported on which hotel they were staying at.
It’s me, thanks to that, the trouble of finding the Astarte family will be less.
“Then open it.”
“Huh.”
I hold Kim Joo-won’s hand and designate me and him as targets.
Then, remembering the location of the hotel you saw on the internet, use dimensional transfer towards its front door.
The surroundings turn green, and Kim Joo-won and I observe the rapidly changing appearance of our surroundings in real time.
However, even that is accepted as a moment of tension to me.
Like the calm before something big happens.
“Here.”
I swallowed saliva while watching the hotel boasting a huge majesty.
Now, if you come all the way here, it won’t be a problem to find Nagi, who can be seen anywhere through the two-dimensional space.
“They’re staying on the top floor.”
“…Only the guys?”
“Maybe.”
However, if there was a problem, it was that they had prepared one floor to welcome me throughout the charter, as if they had in mind that I would come.
Of course, they didn’t know the details of my abilities, although their bodyguards were mainly deployed outside.
“It’s a chance.”
Kim Joo-won nodded her head and murmured softly, as if she knew that.
And once again, while holding his hand, I and Kim Joo-won used dimension transfer again.
To face only the family head and the real members of that family.
“You’re here.”
The entire room is surrounded by a dimensional barrier to exclude all outside forces.
Dimensional barrier is basically a technique that draws the power of another dimension.
“Looks like you’ve been waiting.”
As long as this technique is deployed, even a guardian with teleportation cannot enter.
Teleportation is basically a space-riding technique, so it is impossible to enter an isolated space.
“Sure. I was wondering who killed my family’s up-and-comer.”
The man who was looking out the window turned his body.
Until then, I had simply viewed that man as the enemy.
Of course, it wasn’t that there wasn’t room for conversation at all, but basically I was the one who killed one of their members.
But.
“…Father?”
Unbelievable words flowed out of Kim Joo-won’s mouth and his body flinched at the moment.
However, Kim Joo-won’s expression was more unbelievable.
“What?”
Because Kim Joo-won, who was set up as an orphan, uttered the word father.
