Chapter 159 – I Thought I Was Smart Enough
A black wall separating us from the flying steel wrapped in fire.
Sister Hye-mi stretched her size to the limit and her bullets were stopped by her wings.
“What, Jack?! What are you doing?!”
“Jack, drop the gun. Right now.”
The escort’s sudden betrayal and the black wings that spread out from his older sister.
William, who had organized his priorities despite the chaotic situation, left me behind.
Emma, who was standing next to the traitor, also pulled a gun from her waist and pointed it at Jack.
Hyemi, who was far away, also immediately blocked William and me.
Jack’s red eyes flashed and he smiled faintly at the thwarted attack and the surrounding siege.
“..I was aiming for William’s head, but I surprised him.
Rest assured, Master of the Mask… I am on your side.”
“…I beg your pardon?”
Jack, who ignored Emma’s warning to surrender and even his superior, William, told me.
He smiled brightly, with eyes that didn’t really show even the slightest hostility.
“My master’s teachings have just sunk in for me, who used to have a bit of faith.
The possibility and beauty of the world achieved through your desires and Master’s ideals.
A street filled only with carnal desires and overflowing doctrines, a life filled with only pleasure and pleasure… Ah…♡”
Jack, whose cheeks were red just from his incomprehensible self-talk and imagination, exhaled wetly with excitement.
“…If Mr. Wooju’s desire grows bigger, we can really create such a world.
A world where all the women in the world become yours, and all the men become the master’s livestock…
“My master sent me to you, Choi Woo-joo, to create that utopia.”
“…That woman?”
I could guess it instinctively.
The identity of the being who instantly brainwashed Jack and made him his messenger.
It was a woman with red hair, the woman who spread the mask to reality.
“Yes♡ You, who will become the master of the world, must have a deeper desire.
Abominable people who try to stop the beautiful desire to bloom…
Emma, William… And it is my mission to protect you from the Organization!”
“What…? Jack, what are you saying…”
“Jack, come to your senses and drop the gun. This is your final warning.”
William and Emma yell at their colleague who has transformed into something completely different.
Jack, who had been ignoring his comrades who had been fighting together, finally looked back at them.
“William, a meager desire like yours is unnecessary for my master’s ideal.
And Emma… You have such great looks that you could be used as a public toilet on the street.”
“Shit…!!”
Emma’s brief curse followed by another gunshot filled the isolation room.
Jack’s muzzle fired in this direction about three times, but it was blocked by his sister’s wings.
Jack narrowly dodges Emma’s shot from close range and grabs her by the neck, and he—
“Kuuuuu…! Jack…!!”
“▒▒▒”
“Ugh?!”
He muttered a language that was not of this world in Emma’s ear.
This is the text written on the back of the mask and in the storybook in the cabin.
Jack’s voice was full of unknown power and pronunciation that I had never heard before.
I could understand the meaning of the language.
“…Last name, woman…?”
The change in Emma, who had it stuck in her eardrums, was instantaneous.
“────Oh, oh hook?!♡♡ Ah, ugh?!”
“…Yes, that is the world that you and I will create together…♡”
Emma’s body twitching bizarrely, a pleasure that cannot be accepted by the human brain.
From the overwhelming amount of information to the black and red blood spurting from her nose.
Emma’s struggles, which had been crying obscenely as she was caught by Jack, soon subsided.
And like Jack, who is about to change, he looks into space with red eyes.
Likewise, the corners of Emma’s mouth rose as if she had seen something invisible to our eyes.
Let’s let go of Emma’s neck that Jack was holding with the same wicked smile –
“…Cough, cough… Huh… I never thought it would feel like this… Hehe…♡”
The two agents who had become red-headed lions smiled together.
“Emma, even you…”
William, who lost two of his men in a split second, reaches out to them with a pale face.
Like a father looking at his child who had turned into a monster before her eyes, her lips parted.
’Isabel, Harumu.’
‘Master…? What happened?! ‘I’ll be there soon, just wait…!’
‘Brother?!’
First, hold card number 402 and call the two people in charge of combat.
And after stepping forward on behalf of William, who was staggering as if in shock,
Using his sister’s wings as a shield, he summons Dal-i and Byeol-i to prepare for her emergency.
“…”
Hyemi glanced at me, nodded her head, and spread her wings even wider.
We have to wait as long as possible until Isabelle and Harumu arrive.
“…Your master wants to help me?”
She raises Emma, who had collapsed, and asks Jack, who is walking towards her, a question.
To kill time, divert attention, and dig up information, I forced myself to speak loudly.
“Yes, my master wants you to be the vessel of his greatest desire.”
A vessel of desire.
Also, red-haired lions laughing heartily while spitting out words I don’t know.
I shout again at the girls who keep walking and open their arms wide towards me.
“But why are you increasing the number of mask owners without even thinking about coming to see them in person?
You said you wanted to help me? “I was almost stabbed to death by a bastard created by your master not long ago!”
“It was the master’s foresight to believe that you would not die from something like that.
And, the fact that the master is increasing the number of mask owners is really for your own good.”
“What…?”
“As I said earlier, your desire needs to become more intense.
For that purpose, the Master has prepared desires to feed you.
“So that your mask can drink the desire stolen from the masters of the world.”
Jack and Emma take turns conveying the redhead’s wishes.
The reason the number of mask owners has increased is to increase my desires?
With one click, the gears in my head start to engage and turn.
The red-haired woman wants to establish friendly relations with me.
The purpose of the ‘Master’ that Jack conveyed is to join forces with me to create a new world.
It’s not a fantasy novel written by a middle school student, and the content is completely incomprehensible.
I only understood one thing: the offer to give half the world if you help me conquer the world.
Lines typical of classic comic book villains, candy-coated words that seduce the main character.
Strangely enough, the suggestion gave me the confidence that it was all a lie.
“…So, vessel of desire, please create a utopia with our master…”
“Don’t fucking come.”
A red-haired woman has been a masked being in the world for thousands of years.
Before I became her owner, she was the only one who could come in and out of the cabin.
For the purpose, to find the owner of the mask that will become the ‘vessel of desire’,
By creating countless victims, he created saints and masters in this world.
And finally, he found the vessel of desire named Choi Woo-joo, who had a deep desire.
The mask was put in place to give a spurt to the final plan.
Because I have no choice but to drink desire to save them and their saint.
A cunning plan that took advantage of my thinking, which until today has never crossed the line into murder.
A madman who has killed and exploited countless human beings for centuries.
I think I know the identity of the woman with her long red hair.
An artist was the main character in the children’s book we read in the witch’s hut.
There was one more witch besides the witch who spread a curse on the village he lived in.
A character who appeared unnaturally in a beautiful story.
There was an uninvited guest from the village who could not be included in the story.
It’s like a character forcibly added by a third party, not the author.
A character who becomes the center of a story that fades and twists differently from the author’s intentions.
And one sentence was drawn violently on the last page of the children’s book.
‘Judgement to her saintly liar, may my another play for her continue forever.’
The children’s book that contained the ending of an artist and a saint’s relationship was a lie.
That red woman──
“…A saint, a saint who first appeared in the story… Right?”
──She was the first saint.
“…”
“…”
The lions stand still, muttering to themselves, and only show quiet, eerie smiles.
“That’s right, you bitch.”
This time, I laughed at the lions who were flinching like computers with an error.
I hope that the meaning of this eerie smile will be conveyed to the saint who is watching from somewhere.
“…No matter how much I am a vessel of desire, I cannot bear to insult my master.”
“Fuck it, it’s a bowl of desire, if you like it that much, stick your nose in the plate and rummage through it.”
“You…!!”
Jack and Emma raise their guns with blood on their foreheads in anger.
But there was something faster than their guns spitting fire.
Weeeeebe
[Warning, the saint in isolation room 12-4 has escaped.]
A loud warning sound and a siren that turns the isolation room bright red.
As the lions quickly turned their heads, there was a researcher who had already crawled outside.
It took her time and attention until she pressed the emergency button hidden outside in her isolation room.
If this were the case, William’s situation would be immediately reported to headquarters.
“You guys were planning on killing this person, blaming me, and then playing politics, right?
“I shouldn’t have the support of these people, because it’s easier to be tricked if I’m alone.”
“…I am no longer able to follow the path given by my master.”
“Emma, Jack…!!”
Jack and Emma smile resignedly as they see countless celebrities approaching from afar.
William looked at them over my shoulder as if sensing something ominous.
It was a moment when I thought I had gotten over it.
“…William, I didn’t want to use this method if possible.”
“Thanks to you for taking us as humans, we were able to serve our master.
“It’s a pity that if he had been shot and killed, he could have gone without even having to feel pain.”
“Yes, now I have no choice but to kill you in excruciating pain──”
Jack and Emma purse their lips slightly.
What are you trying to do, before your head even finishes thinking?
“────!!”
The body moved first and rushed towards William, but it was too late.
“”▒▒▒””
“What… Ugh…? Ugh, kuhehe!! Cluck, gurk…!! Cough, boo, hoo…!!”
William collapsed as the mysterious language echoed in the isolation room again.
And as if trying to scratch away something crawling under his skin,
I struggled, scratching my skin and bleeding from my eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.
William’s red, bloodshot eyes looked like they were about to pop out.
He soon collapsed, spitting out his last words.
“…It’s the end, then let’s leave the rest to others, Jack.”
“…Yes, I have disappointed my master…”
Bang──!!
“Oh my god…!!”
Jack and Emma shoot each other in the head as soon as they confirm William’s death.
Funny enough, William’s subordinates rushed into the isolation room after the whole situation was over.
“…Holy shit, put your hands up!!”
I saw Isabelle and Harumu among the agents pointing guns at me.
Fucked.
Two agents and an executive who entered Korea in response to my request for cooperation died.
Sitting among three corpses in an isolation room is me, the owner of the mask.
Anyone can see that I am the culprit.
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