Chapter 199 – Advent of the Demon King ( 10 )
“Haha..”
His breathing is rapid, cold sweat runs down his forehead, and black shadows form around his eyes under his long eyelashes.
Chee-ik..—!
The curse that burns life, said to have been engraved by the demon king, covers the fair skin in real time and burns it blue.
It must have been very painful because it was a flame caused by demonic energy.
‘I’m jealous of you.’
Baek Seo-hee, who came up with such a thought while watching her dying Hiro Kim, slowly closed her eyes and held out her palms towards her Hiro.
‘Hold.’
The first step is to take control of the opponent’s body in the same space.
The ability that stole the opponent’s physical ability and paralyzed their sense of sight and smell in the first year’s strongest battle is now controlled by the burn range of blue flames attached to Hiro’s body.
‘Debuff recovery.’
The second step is to separate the curse on Hiro.
Baek Seo-hee, who has the ability to apply debuffs on her opponents, also has the ability to extract debuffs from her opponents.
Whoa…!
Raises the curse of the demon king clinging to Hiro.
‘..Is it heavy?’
Since it is a skill that has nothing to do with the opponent’s strength, originally, the curse should have been extracted very easily.
Blazing..!!
“Ugh…!”
The curse of the demon king is as powerful as holding a lump of rock just by pulling it out to see if there is something like a unique power embedded in it.
“..!?”
When the white lady next to me was staring with her mouth open to see if her sister would drop the curse of the demon king like a nuclear bomb..
“Whoa…!”
Baek Seo-hee brings out her genius magic control ability to the fullest.
Blazing..–!
Very slowly, the blue flame of the demon king begins to move in the air.
‘It’s an incredible magic control… Wait? Being able to control your abilities to that extent…’
Even if he doesn’t know the magic control part, since he’s a monster, he can see through the flow of magic properly.
‘Isn’t Baek Seo-hee’s memory back?’
In the morning of what Seo-hee Baek is currently doing, she recalled her doubts about Seo-hee Baek in her ability to control, which she could never reach.
“…”
Of course, right now Baek Seo-hee is treating Hiro, so I couldn’t do anything other than just watch.
Hurry– Shuuk..!
Dump-!
“Seo.. Seo-hee?!”
Right after that, Baek Seo-hee absorbs the blue flame drawn from Hiro into her own arm and collapses as it is.
Thump-!
Surprised, the White Westerner immediately grabbed her younger sister and tried to heal her arm, where the Blue Flame had transferred, by using her other hand to summon divine power.
Whoa–!
Chee-Ik..!!
If it was possible to heal with simple divine power, the white sheep would have cured Hiro in the first place.
“It’s okay.. It’s okay.. It’s okay..! I have debuff immunity.. It’ll get better with time..”
“Why! Why did you do this?!”
No matter how much he tried to heal Hiro, the only one of his own, her sister, instead suffered a dangerous curse.
Swoop…
Seohee slowly looked at Cheols..
“Dad.. I.. I want to live here..”
With a hard smile on his face, he said to Cheols.
“…!”
Seeing Baek Seo-hee, Cheol-su opened his eyes wide and slowly raised his hand.
“Okay… And I’m sorry, daughter.”
He said while stroking Baek Seo-hee’s hair.
“Dad..!”
And Baek Seo-hee opened her eyes wide when Cheol-s, who had never called her a daughter, called her by the title of her daughter.
“I’m just… I’ll sleep.”
Even as she lost consciousness in her pain, she closed her eyes with a smile on her lips.
“There are spare beds on the third floor.”
“..Okay. Ha! But!”
Baek Seo-hee, who stood up while holding Baek Seo-hee, glared at Cheols and tried to say something to her.
“Brother… Please take good care of me in the future.”
Eventually, she leaves her room.
Jerk… Jerk…
And Cheols slowly approaches Hiro.
Fresh… Fresh…
Perhaps thanks to Baek Seo-hee’s treatment, Hiro was asleep with a relatively relaxed complexion and shallow breathing, with the burn marks completely gone.
“…”
Cheols sat down on the chair next to him and took out a wet towel from the washbasin and continued to wipe Hiro’s forehead and body.
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In fact, the curse of the demon king was so severe that it burned his entire body in just one day.
However, the reason why Hiro’s burn progress was relatively low and only stayed at his hands and legs…
Wriggle-..!
It was because the golden tentacle cells that made up its body were resisting.
Cheols’ normal gray tentacle cells couldn’t resist the demon lord’s attack and couldn’t even recover.
Wriggle–! Wriggle–! Wriggle–!
The golden tentacle cells that grew up eating the elixir and evolved together with Hiro were doing well against the demon king’s curse, slowing down the progress to some extent.
“Oops…”
There was only one side effect…
The golden tentacle cells were in a state of sharing ownership with Hiro, the owner of the body, not completely owned by Cheols, the origin of the tentacles, so they had a tendency to share the information or memories they had with the owner.
Wriggle-..!
In other words, the golden tentacle cells shared their memories, Cheols’s memories, with Hiro.
‘Uh…?’
It was reproduced by Hiro in the form of a dream.
‘Here is…’
Cell.
[The evaluation of this game wasn’t bad… Where should I go back? ]
A man is holding a game pack and inserting it into a game machine.
Although the body shape, atmosphere, and face were subtly different.
‘..Dad?
Hiro realized at once that the man holding the game console was Cheols.
And while thinking about why this scene is unfolding in front of my eyes.
‘No way..! Was the man who kept dumping your dad?!’
Feeling sorry for not seeing his face, he realizes that the man he thought was great was his father, Cheols.
‘That’s why you’re angry.. Because it’s my father.’
She couldn’t help but be angry as a daughter and wife because the father she loved so much was being dumped by some women.
‘But at that time, someone covered his eyes so I couldn’t see anymore?’
As he is about to turn the game pack that reads ‘Boys, Become Heroes’ in Cheols’ hand, Hiro remembers that someone with the same voice as himself covered his eyes from behind.
‘Well, good. I don’t know if it’s a dream or reality, but it’s nice to see a different side of my dad.’
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t come up with an answer, so Hiro smiled and sat next to Cheols, who was spinning the game pack.
He was Hiro who felt good just being with Cheols.
Chijik..–!
The game runs on the screen of the game console, and the prologue of ‘Boys, Become Heroes’ begins.
At first, the opening song plays along with the image of an academy building.
‘…?!’
First, a boy with red hair wearing a male academy uniform and holding a sword appears.
‘Ahyeon? Are you hostile?’
And in turn, the figure of Cheong Ah-hyun attached to the boy smiling brightly on both sides of them, and the figure of Jeok Se-na with blond red eyes, arrogant, arms crossed and snoring.
‘Uh…?’
Then, figures of people appear on both sides…
‘What… What!’
Croa, Baek Seo-hee, Cheon-rya, Hyeol-ra-hee, and even the school’s homeroom teachers and principal…
This is the face of everyone you know.
‘I wonder if it’s because it’s a dream, so the faces of people I know come out?’
Hiro had a strong feeling that this was not a dream, but subconsciously tried to think that the current situation was a dream.
‘But that person in the middle…’
However, the moment he sees the red-haired boy standing with a sword, a thought pops into Hiro’s mind.
‘..Doesn’t it somehow resemble me?’
Of course, his body shape and face are completely different from himself, who now looks like a girl with his hair growing and has gained round weight, and the sharp red-haired boy on the screen.
But even so, the reason why they feel similar is because the bright red hair, pale skin color, and eye color are the same as twins.
“…”
Hiro, who kept looking at the opening screen while tilting his head.
Charreuk-..!
I opened my eyes wide and began to focus on the next black and white screen.
[A guy like you shouldn’t have been born..! ]
[Since you were born, Sun-ah… Sun-ah is dead! ]
No, I had to focus.
‘What..? Why did that scene appear in the game..?’
That would be the case, too, because what appeared on the screen was the image of the young self and his father Baek Seo-moon, who had already died and disappeared.
A red-haired boy who is locked up in the house and is watching TV.
He is called Baek Shin-hyeok.
I hear disgusting glances and words of resentment from my drunken gray-haired father who comes in very occasionally.
Rattled..–
Hiro, remembering those days, wrapped his arms around his knees and trembled with his eyes wide open.
[The main character’s situation is too much..]
But then I heard the voice of Cheols, who was sitting next to me and holding the game console.
‘That’s right! It’s all a dream! I was already… Saved by my dad, right?’
Hiro thought of Cheols and focused on the monitor again with his peace of mind.
[It was an accident while hunting for the White Tiger Guild… This must have been a big mistake. ]
[Even if the dead person is from a hundred families…]
And the funeral of father Baek Seo-moon began.
‘Here.. My father appeared.. Me.’
Hiro secretly thought that Cheols would appear and save the grieving himself like his princess.
[How do you deal with that child? ]
[Honestly, I don’t have any talent, and I just dispose of it appropriately. ]
‘Why?’
Contrary to expectations, father Cheols did not appear.
[Hehe… Are you Baek Hyuk? You look pretty cute? ]
The scene of himself being harassed by a toad-like human with dead eyes follows.
To be honest, it was much weaker than what I did with my beloved father, Cheols.
[ Woo-wook.. Woo-wook..! ]
The decisive difference was ‘love’.
I’m blissful in sexual relations with the person I like, but I don’t want to have any contact with the person I hate.
[ Yes! If you’ve expanded this much, today’s finally sexual activity. ]
The sight of him taking off his pants and showing off an erect penis that was too small compared to Cheols’s.
[ I hate it–!!! ]
Kwaaang—!!
On the screen, young Baek Hyuk unleashes his magical power and destroys the mansion of a pervert man.
Tadak-..!
[Huh..! Ugh..! ]
He ran out into the street in rags.
‘…’
Hiro looked worriedly at Baek Hyuk in the screen.
He knows better than anyone what it is like to be left alone in the world.
Even now, when I imagined being alone without my father, Cheols, I was afraid.
Dump-..!
Baek Sang-hyeok, who was running, fell down in an alley, as if he soon ran out of strength.
It was snowing outside, so Baek Hyuk, who had already weakened to the point of weakness, soon closed his eyes with a haggard face.
In the narration, there was a message saying ‘It seemed like it was the end’.
[ Hey! Hey! Calm down! Because the business is going to fail… Isn’t this about cleaning up dead bodies? ]
? Saved by a man with a sign.
[I have to take him with me first. ]
And the moment the man carried the unconscious Baek Hyuk on his back.
[ Kang Woo-chan ]
‘Kang Woo-chan…?’
The name I heard somewhere appeared on the monitor screen.
Cheolreuk–!
And again, the screen went over and Baek Sang-hyeok opened his eyes at a place called Cheongsong Military Museum.
[You don’t have a lot of expression for a child.. Hey! Do you know your mother’s or father’s number? ]
The boy Baek Hyuk shakes his head at the awkward question.
[ Huh! ]
Baek Hyuk asked a few more questions after that, but couldn’t answer at all.
[Ah.. This is crazy. Mia isn’t just lost, amnesia? Well, once you know Since no one comes here anyway, I wonder if it was something simple until I remembered]
Kang Woo-chan, director of Cheongsong Military Academy, allowed Baek Shin-hyeok to live at Cheongsong Military Academy.
Of course, the environment was not very good.
Although it was a day where I could sleep on the ring or eat cup noodles for a meal.
Chaeeng-! Visor-!
[ No! Ilchiwoljangdo has a degree! Are you already trying to beat the master?! ]
[Ah.. I need to get stronger quickly and become a famous swordsman. Master’s military service is also a hit and the favor is repaid. ]
[ Haha! Yes. Become very, very strong, please cheer me up. ]
Baek Sang-hyeok, who was expressionless, looked happy at the Cheongsong Military Academy.
‘Similar to me..’
However, it is slightly different.
If Hiro himself received the love he received from Chuls, he would take care of him as a daughter and lover.
[In that sense, today is 10 times more training! ]
[Can you afford it? Master. ]
[Don’t whine about stopping because you’ll have a hard time later. ]
[Puha-! That’s Master! ]
[ What?! ]
Chaeeng–! Visor–!
‘It’s like father and son..’
Now, the relationship between Shin Baek Hyuk and his teacher, Kang Woo-chan, seemed like a close father-son relationship.
Hiro quietly turned her head and looked at Cheols.. No, Cheolsoo sitting next to her.
“…”
I turned my gaze back to Baek Hyuk in the monitor.
[Shin Hyuk! My teacher said he would write a letter of recommendation! You too can get into Shinsung International Academy! Hey! ]
The story continued.
