Chapter 688 – Side Story 191) the Chaser (90)
191) The Chaser (90)
“I hope the abductees come back soon. Oh, we’ve arrived. Shall we go in?”
“Huh? Oh, yes.”
Henderson opened the door and guided Hwang Ki-jun inside.
“… Dr. Henderson? This, what is this?”
Hwang Ki-jun, who looked inside, widened his eyes.
There was a fairly large space at the end of the secret passage in Dr. Henderson’s lab.
It was all just strange how such a space could exist within the family, and how there could be a space that he didn’t know about because he was the head of a small family.
But what was more shocking was something huge and unknown that existed in this secret space.
Wiggle-! Wiggle-!
The huge object, nearly 6m tall, was wriggling non-stop as if it were alive and breathing. The pink color gave off a grotesque feeling, as if it were made by attaching pieces of flesh together.
It absorbed nutrients and looked like a well-grown tree, with clusters of fruit hanging from the tips of its trunks.
“Uh-uh-uh…”
“Please… Save me…”
The problem was that the fruit was a person.
“Oh, what the hell is this… Huh? Oh, no, wait! These people?!”
Hwang Ki-jun, who checked the faces of people in pain, couldn’t contain his astonishment.
It is because the ones hanging like the fruit of the tree are none other than people, and those who are missing. Researchers who said they were on vacation today and didn’t go to work were also clinging to the strange creature.
“Keugh…”
“Elder kite?!”
Hwang Ki-jun, who saw a familiar face among the people hanging on to the strange creature, realized that the person was Elder Yeon, one of the elders of the Hwang family.
“What the fuck is going on! Wake up! Wake up with tools!”
“Keuuugh… Sogaju…?”
“Yes it’s me! What the hell happened? Why are you here?”
“Sogaju… Run away… Author Henderson… Monster, water… Turn off!”
“Yeah elder!”
Elder Yeon’s face twisted as he told Hwang Ki-jun to run away. His skin sprouted and wriggled, as if parasites had dug into him.
Elder Yeon, who reached a high level (Level 9) at a young age, maintained the youthful appearance of a man in his early 20s even at the age of over 60.
However, his skin wriggled and he suddenly began to grow old.
“I-I can’t…”
As rapid aging progressed, Hwang Ki-jun, shocked, hit his back.
Wiggle wiggle wiggle-!
As if absorbing the kite elder’s strength and youth, the tree-like pink creature wriggled more violently and slightly increased in size.
“Huh-huh-huh. Do you like my present?”
“… Henderson!”
I still don’t know what a monster creature is.
However, it was clear that Dr. Henderson was the one who brought the terrible creature here and the culprit who kidnapped the people of the Hwang family.
Hwang Ki-jun, who quickly rolled away from Dr. Henderson, used his psychic powers.
Oh oh oh oh-!
Behind Hwang Gi-jun, a huge rhinoceros appeared with three sharp horns on its nose and forehead.
His psychic ability is [Hero of Heroic Spirits], And he can control the spirits of animals. This soul becomes stronger as Hwang Ki-jun’s superpower level increases, and at present (Lv. 8), it was strong enough to catch quite a few monsters.
“Whoop whoop.”
Even in the face of a huge rhinoceros that looked like it could blow him away, Dr. Henderson, no, the White Killer, didn’t lose his composure.
Considering the power he had, it was natural.
When he was active as a Shadow Killer, he would get robbed whenever he met Steel Armor, but he was also one of the strongest in the Dark City.
Even now, he was in a stronger state by possessing the body and superpowers of the White Knight, once called the strongest hero in the Dark City.
Even if not Hwang Ki-jun, but his father and head of the Hwang family, [Hwang Deok-myeong], They could not defeat him.
“Why is that, Lord Soga? This is a present I prepared myself for Lord Soga. Aren’t you happy?”
“헨더슨 이 개새끼… 가라 서우! 저 새끼를 죽여!”
Oh oh oh oh-!
Hwang Ki-jun pointed at the White Killer and shouted, and the spirit of the giant rhinoceros standing behind him spewed a strong snort and rushed at the White Killer.
“Oh… It’s disappointing, Lord Soga. I prepared such a nice present, but you’re trying to kill me. I feel like I’m going to cry from the feeling of betrayal.”
“Shut up, this dog! Die!”
When the White Killer mocked him with a face that was not upset at all, Hwang Ki-jun screamed in anger.
Hwang Gi-jun’s rhino heroic swung his head from bottom to top and attacked the White Killer with the horn on his nose.
“Well done Seowoo! You dare to do such a trivial thing against me… Huh?”
Hwang Gi-jun’s eyes widened as he was convinced that the rhino spirit had killed the White Killer.
Whoa, whoa, whoa-!
A heroic rhinoceros screaming in pain.
A black thorn protruding from the floor pierced the belly of the Heroic Rhinoceros. It was a rhino heroic spirit that was impervious to physical attacks due to its soul state, but it could not avoid the shadows handled by the White Killer.
“Seo, Seowoo! What’s wrong with Seowoo! Come back! Come back, Seowoo!”
Hwang Ki-jun anxiously called the rhino spirit.
The rhino heroic spirit exists but has no substance, so it can return to its owner as much as it wants.
In fact, the rhinoceros heroic spirit pierced by the shadow thorns used its power to return to Hwang Gi-jun’s side, but it only repeated blurring and clearing as if there was noise, and could not escape the shadow thorns.
“I’ve always felt sorry for you. Even though you’re the head of the Hwang family, you’re too weak. There are many people who are worried about you becoming the head of the Hwang family, even though others haven’t told you about it.”
“Iik! Shut up, you bastard!”
“Because I have such weak superpowers, I am not recognized and ignored by the people around me. Didn’t you almost get killed by a monster when you first met me?”
“This, you bastard…!”
The White Killer touched Hwang Gi-jun’s complex. Hwang Gi-jun shows a big-hearted appearance on the outside, but in reality he had a complex about the fact that he was weaker than other families’ Soga-ju.
‘… That’s right. That guy… Is stronger than me.’
Hwang Ki-jun, whose complex was shot, recalled memories of the past that he had forgotten at the same time as his body trembled with anger.
In the past, Hwang Ki-jun had gone out to the land of monsters to hunt monsters with the talented people of his family.
While hunting monsters with excitement, the ruler of the area appeared and all the escorts lost their lives due to the monster’s overwhelming power. Even Hwang Ki-jun’s rhinoceros heroic spirit was pushed back unilaterally without being able to properly use his strength against the monster.
It was Dr. Henderson, no, the White Killer, who saved Hwang Ki-jun from a desperate situation where he could be killed by a monster.
The White Killer, who fell from the sky, fired lasers from its eyes and killed the monster instantly.
‘Why did I forget that?!’
Usually, the White Killer played Dr. Henderson and showed only a weak and soft appearance, so Hwang Ki-jun forgot the fact that he was a psychic strong enough to kill the ruler monster of a district at once.
‘Sir, fuck…’
Sujiaju of the Huang family is about to die in the middle of the Huang family.
Only then did Hwang Ki-jun, who had a sense of crisis, break out in a cold sweat. But there was no one here who could help him.
“Huh-huh-huh. Are you scared? Soga-ju of the Hwang family?”
“Gee, who’s scared! It’s you who die here, not me!”
“Huh-huh-huh. It’s definitely weak, but it’s like an intelligent Sogaju. That’s right. I’m going to die here.”
“… What?”
“Anyway, in Sogaju’s eyes, that’s… Hmm. This is quite noisy.”
Oh oh oh clothes-!
The White Killer, who was talking to Hwang Gi-jun, looked at the rhinoceros screaming as if it were annoying as he was stabbed by a shadow thorn. Light gathered in his eyes.
Gyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy-!
“Oh, no!”
Hwang Ki-jun, who knew what it was, shouted that he couldn’t do it, but a laser flew from the white killer’s eye one step ahead of him. The rhinoceros heroic spirit disappeared as it was.
“Ah, ah, ah…”
The Heroic Spirit of the Rhinoceros was Hwang Gi-jun’s psychic power itself. Since the Heroic Spirit of the Rhino disappeared, he was just an ordinary person with excellent physical abilities.
Crackle -!
Realizing that the fear of death was right in front of his nose, Hwang Ki-jun trembled. The White Killer smiled and walked over to him and put his arm around his shoulder. Hwang Gi-jun, terrified, could not shake off that arm.
“Huh?!”
“Huh-huh-huh. You don’t have to be so frightened. Didn’t I tell you? This is a gift for you. You won’t die here.”
“… I won’t kill you, will you?”
“That’s right. So there’s no need to be so scared or nervous. Then let’s get back to the main topic. What does that look like in Sogaju’s eyes?”
“…”
The White Killer turned Hwang Ki-jun’s body and made him see a tree-shaped monster absorbing the family’s abilities.
What does that look like?
Monster!
What do you look like a fucking monster?!
Hwang Ki-jun said the words soared to the tip of his chin, but he couldn’t spit them out.
“That’s a [Seed].”
“Seed?”
“Yes. Seed. I thought that I was the only priest of Cthulhu in this world. Fufufufu… I was very naive too. To think that I was the only one prepared for that monster to devour this world.”
“…”
Hwang Ki-jun did not understand what the White Killer was saying. But the White Killer didn’t care whether he understood what I was saying or not.
“Cthulhu is truly a man full of creativity. He even made monsters into priests. I’ve carefully examined the Dokgo family’s human monsters that you handed over to me as a favor. It felt familiar somewhere, but sure enough, the same as me. He was a priest of Cthulhu. By your standards, you could call it my death penalty.”
In the distant past, Cthulhu made a monster his priest before making the White Killer his priest.
Based on the power given by Cthulhu, this monster began to devour the surroundings and grew to the point of threatening Red Town.
Feeling a sense of crisis, the seven families of the time joined forces to block the monster. Many talented people died, but in the end they succeeded in subduing the monsters.
The body of the dead monster was occupied by the Dokgo family, who made the greatest sacrifice at the time.
The Dokgo family obtained the power to absorb others and use the psychic powers of those who absorbed them by studying the corpses of monsters.
Without knowing that the power is that of a being comparable to the god Cthulhu.
The unauthorized use of the power of Cthulhu had to pay the price. When they gave birth to a child, they only gave birth to twins, and they were able to absorb and use only the twins’ bodies and superpowers.
“In the meantime, while studying the power left by my monster brother, I applied a little manipulation. Thanks to that, I succeeded in reviving the original ability.”
“…”
Hwang Ki-jun, the white killer who smiled while looking at Hwang Ki-jun, looked like a devil’s smile.
“Seeds need nutrients to grow. So I asked them for their understanding and helped me.”
The White Killer pointed to the people who were being absorbed by the strange creature like fruit. He said he asked for forgiveness, but he didn’t understand. In reality, he just kidnapped them and fed them.
“Hwang Gi-jun Sogaju.”
“…”
“Don’t you want to have power?”
“…”
“If you take that, you will gain more power than anyone else. Neither your father nor the heads of other families can defeat you. You will become the only king here in Red Town.”
“… King?”
“Yes, you will put everyone under your feet and be in fear and awe. All will listen to you and will not disobey you.”
“… King.”
Hwang Ki-jun, who fell for the white killer’s sweet tongue, did not tremble anymore. With his enchanted eyes, he stared at the pink, treelike creature.
Frown-!
Churrrr
The White Killer winked his eyes at the monstrous creature, and the flesh moved and created a door through which he could enter. He went inside with Hwang Ki-jun.
Churrrr
The flesh door closed as the two entered.
The monstrous creature wriggled.
