Chapter 164 – My Son Is All Grown Up
“Ah, master! You’re safe!!”
Among the many cars standing on the road at the back entrance of the apartment, I found a black van and opened the door.
The saintly women who welcomed me were smiling as if they were telling me to get on quickly.
Noah is holding the steering wheel and Go Eun is in the passenger seat.
Isabelle and Harumu bought time to rescue her mother.
Hyemi’s older sister would have evacuated with her mother first, so she is fortunate.
Everyone is safe.
“…Hey, but Choi Woo-joo… What about Little Dad?”
“…”
Go-eun noticed the bright red around my eyes and someone else’s blank space.
I had no choice but to answer Go-eun’s uncertain question with silence.
I put the twins, who were holding both of my hands, in the car first and smiled with difficulty.
“…Small, dad…? No, how did it happen…!”
Noah stopped her from getting up from her seat, unable to overcome her anger and her tears that were quickly welling up.
Noah put his hand on Go-eun’s shoulder and quietly looked ahead, leaving me laughing hard.
Go-eun looked back at me, cursed softly, covered her eyes, and sat back down.
The inside of the car was really quiet, except for the faint sound of crying from the passenger seat.
No one made eye contact with me or apologized.
They were silent because they were saints who knew Choi Woo-joo’s heart better than anyone else.
Thanks to their consideration, I was able to force myself to smile.
I got into the quiet car, closed the door, and Noah quietly stepped on the accelerator.
Slowly, a little faster, I watch the trail outside the window getting further and further away.
The crowd of people gathered around the spot where my father was lying became smaller and eventually moved further away to the point where I couldn’t see them.
“…Mom is?”
“Ah, the master’s mother is protecting Hye-mi in a safe place.
Right now, Luna will be staying at the accommodation near the intercity bus terminal.”
Noah, surprised by my calm voice, answered, although it was mixed with snoring.
“There’s Natsuki Hana and the rest of the saints there, so it’ll be okay.
The preparations for the raid are perfect, so it will be difficult for the agents to break through.
However, considering the variable of the Red Saint, it is best for her to join quickly…”
“And then we escape Seoul in a large vehicle prepared nearby.
“If there is no human to turn into a red saint, the danger will be reduced, so stay as far away as possible.”
“Okay, let’s go to mom first.”
I nod my head to the saints’ explanation and look back out the window.
All I can do now is protect her mom no matter what.
And to stop Erdanis, who wants a world full of madmen.
That is my responsibility as a person.
Now that I’ve picked up the mask and had a lot of fun with its power, I’m done.
It is time to take responsibility for the desires that were fulfilled while avoiding responsibility.
But…
“Before that, I have to tell mom first.”
On the completely dark streets of Seoul at night, night scenes are reflected on the glass of buildings.
In the midst of the lights that shattered particularly finely today, the car stopped.
“…We have arrived, master… This is room 203 in the building.”
“We will prepare a bus at the terminal…”
“Then I will follow the master.”
After checking her armament, Isabelle gets off wearing a black hat.
He puts the twins who have turned into masks into his arms and gets out of the car.
A shabby motel with a crackling neon sign and definitely no customers.
I looked up for a moment at the building obscured by gray night clouds, put on my hood, and
I quietly walked into the dusty smelly lobby of the motel with Isabelle.
I briefly make eye contact with the old owner, who is watching TV without even saying hello.
Find the concrete stairs hanging in the corner of the lobby and climb them.
On the second floor, I looked around to find the room Noah told me about and stood in front of room 203.
The moment she raised her right hand towards the old door, wondering if she should knock.
Suddenly─
“Woah, it’s day…”
Hyemi opened the door, as if she knew I was standing on the other side.
My older sister smiled brightly even as tears rolled down from the corners of her red eyes.
That’s right, my sister knew.
I lightly hug my sister, who must have felt the same emotions I experienced.
After a brief hug, my older sister released her arms first and gave way to the back of the room.
I pass by my older sister who gives me an awkward smile and tells me not to worry.
The eyes of the yellowish room where the old lamp crackled turned towards me.
They looked at each other with surprise and joy, but no one was the first to say anything.
Because there was my mother sitting on the bed with her back to me.
“…Mom, I’m back.”
“…Are you here? Mom, I heard the story roughly from these people.
“I helped them because they are all people who value the universe.”
“That’s right, they are very important people to me too.”
She sits next to her mother, who smiles softly without raising her head.
“But Uju, what about your dad?”
“…I guess Dad valued me too. He saved me.”
“…Then what about the universe?”
“My dad is a very precious person to me too… So it’s hard.”
A teardrop falls onto my lap at the same time as my mother’s sigh.
I thought I had just finished crying, but it looks like I haven’t yet.
My mother hugged me as I quietly shed tears with a light smile.
Still, I didn’t have the courage to raise my head.
I didn’t have the courage to check her mother’s expression.
But I had to look up.
Because I decided to take responsibility.
“It’s okay, Woo Joo, as long as you understand Dad’s feelings, that’s okay.”
“…Yeah, I’m sorry to mom too.”
“Mom, it’s okay, because you know the universe’s mind well.”
Her eyes were a little red, but Mom didn’t cry.
In return, she gave me the kind smile she gave me as a child.
So I felt even more sorry.
The sacrifice of a mother who endured her grief and supported her son was so dazzling,
She couldn’t bear the rudeness of staring, so she tried to lower her head again.
But my mother cupped my cheeks with both hands to prevent me from lowering her head.
Mom asked me, her tears falling.
“Did this happen because my son did something wrong?”
“Yeah, I think so.”
If I hadn’t picked up the mask, the saints would have been ordinary.
If I hadn’t picked up the mask, Jaehyuk wouldn’t have died.
If I hadn’t picked up the mask, Dad wouldn’t have died.
So, wiping away her tears, she nodded.
“So what will our son do now?”
“I’m going to take responsibility for everything.”
But.
I was able to save Harumu because I picked up the mask.
Because she picked up the mask, she was able to protect her mother.
Because I picked up the mask, I was able to figure out the coming disaster.
I am glad that I am the vessel of desire that disaster has been looking for.
I’m truly glad I was able to end everything on my own terms.
I am happy that I have the opportunity to become the proud son that my father wants me to be.
So I wiped her tears and smiled at her mom.
“I can take responsibility for everything, so Mom, please wait.”
“…My son is all grown up. I’m so happy.”
She laughs with her mother and hugs each other before leaving.
When she got up from her bed and nodded to her saint who was standing in her room,
The saintly women, smiling as if they knew, stand up and take care of her mother.
“… Then mom, let her rest in peace first? She shouldn’t get hurt~!”
“It won’t hurt. My son is very strong, just like his parents.”
The mother and the saints leave the room first.
The only ones left are Isabelle and me.
“Isabel, the escort is okay now, so you can go with mom too.”
“What? No way. Even so, the owner alone can kill the organization’s agents…”
“It’s okay, I think I know how to do it now.”
“How do you do it… What does that mean──”
It was the moment while talking to Isabelle that he took out a cigarette from her arms and put it in her mouth.
The saints’ urgent warnings were ringing loudly in my head.
‘Master! Well, we escaped first, but… Around the motel…!’
‘Wooju Oppa! The streets were littered with those people!! Hurry…!’
“Are you okay.”
Saying only one short word, he found a lighter and lit it.
After blowing the smoke out of the room, he exhaled and approached Isabelle.
“It’s an order, so go quickly.”
“But master…!”
“Go.”
”Ugh?! …Yes.”
Putting her hand on Isabelle’s shoulder, she gives her command.
Isabelle, with blank eyes, stumbles out of the room.
Even if Isabelle is in that state, she will be able to break through her siege without any problems.
Then I…
She finished the cigarette she had just lit and threw away all the remaining cigarettes.
Then she takes off her stuffy hood, walks back the way she came, and takes out her mooncake.
“…Brother, what are you trying to do? Even if you can read text messages…”
“A cheat sheet, all you need is you.”
She walks down the stairs, through the gloomy lobby, and exits the motel.
As if the weather was gloomy, it was pouring rain.
The shoulders of the city’s roads were filled with black heavy armored vehicles and numerous gun barrels.
The Special Phenomena Countermeasures Headquarters has already surrounded this motel on all sides.
They said it was a secret organization, but now it’s secret and they’re leaving without any plan.
“Choi Woo-joo!! It’s over now! Throw away your mask and surrender now!!”
As the recommendation to surrender came from the loudspeaker of the armored vehicle, I walked forward.
The black agents hesitated as if embarrassed and then approached again, pushing their shields.
A man shouting to stop as the muzzle of a gun flashes and raindrops drenching me.
Leaving them behind, I read one of the many words written to Dal.
“Breakdown.”
Crash─
“Uh, huh? What is this… Wait a minute…”
“What happened… Huh? Me too!”
“Second, the gun is broken! The owner of the mask did something…!!”
The muzzles of guns pointed at me began to shake.
“W-what are you talking about?! Catch that bastard right now!!”
Upon hearing the shouts of the man who seemed to have a head, the agents immediately formed a formation and raised their weapons.
Knives, triple batons, even clubs that sparkle with electricity and look really painful. Then…
“Give in.”
Slam!!
“Ugh?!” “What else this time…!!”
Another text, this time the men in the lead suddenly fell to their knees.
The men were trembling, perhaps because their bodies were frozen in that state and they could not move.
Heavily armed special agents are transfixed by the voice of an ordinary college student.
It may seem like a comedy from afar, but from their perspective, it is a tragedy.
”Um, what is that…!! Second, the gun breaks down all at once and I can’t attack…!!”
“Fuck, fuck…!! I didn’t tell you there was a owner of that mask!!
They say it’s a normal operation and that it’s over if they catch just one guy, but…!!”
Anxiety began to spread rapidly among the organization’s soldiers.
A situation that even veterans have never experienced before would be terrifying.
“…Brother, how…? Against so many people, a very coercive desire…
You spit that out without any stars, right?! But are you still okay? Are not you tired? Aren’t you going to die?!”
“…Do you wish I were dead?”
“Oh, no, it’s not like that! It’s not strange even if I die, right!!
Spreading such an incredibly large desire on an enormous scale…?”
“It’s because I haven’t achieved what I wanted yet.”
After laughing off Dal-i’s question, which seemed even more perplexing than the agents, he walked in the rain.
As I approached, the strong formation was destroyed in one fell swoop,
A ragtag group of people who are busy running away, hesitatingly walking backwards, pass by.
When you walk behind the numerous soldiers and in front of the man standing on the platform—
“What, this… This…! Fuck!!”
The captain immediately pulls out his sword and lunges at me.
Did this man also lead the attack on my house?
If so, it would be good revenge, but it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t.
He raised his finger towards him and memorized the text.
“You are a saint.”
“Ugh?!”
The captain’s body fell helplessly to the floor.
The captain, who fell down without even losing his sword, immediately begins to shake his body.
The physique is gradually shrinking, and the face under the peeling helmet is also becoming smaller.
His beard disappeared, his hair grew longer, and his skin became clear and free of blemishes.
His deep voice turned into a tickling female moan, and his chest swelled.
The captain let out a heavy breath due to the rapid change in her body, and her eyes glowed purple.
“Sssss…Wtsssssms of my heads… My mind has changed, yo…
This feeling is, ah, I have become a saint…! And you are my master…♡”
“Okay, wake up.”
“Yes…!♡”
I don’t know the captain’s original face, but he, who was a man, instantly turned into a beautiful woman.
With a single gesture of my hand or voice, she became a saint who pledged allegiance to me.
This reality will be a much bigger tragedy for the organization than the one just before.
“From the captain to the saint…”
“With one wave of your hand…? That’s what happens…? Man, do you…?”
“Ooh, wow!!”
Agents throwing away their weapons and running away, agents collapsing in fear.
I look around at them for a moment and then ask the new saint who is prostrate in front of me.
“Did you just attack my house?”
“Yes, yes…! How blasphemous… To do such a thing to my master…!”
“Oh, really? Then use your body to serve your subordinates.
Gentlemen, since it is an order, you can use this saint as you wish.”
And he threw the captain, who had become a saint, to the agents who had received the letter of surrender earlier.
The agents, who had succumbed to me and could not resist my orders, immediately rushed at the woman.
The saint, who had been a man until just now, began to moan happily and enjoy the men’s touch.
“Whoa, you’ve seen everything now, right?”
Clap, clap, clap…
Several applause sounds were heard in the middle of the chaos mixed with screams, chants, and shouts.
I look back at the women who are smiling as if they are moved among the agents who are running away or sitting down.
“Finally, you are finally finished…!! The vessel of desire…!!
The owner is very happy too! Now, bowl, now…!!”
“Stop saying this or that and shut up.”
“…Yes.”
Overlaid domination, my desire is much stronger.
The lions of Erdanis with red eyes and manic smiles.
As expected, the organization was playing a trick on Erdanis, that woman.
“…Hey, are you watching? Stop hiding and come out.”
I approached one of the red saints and spoke to the being beyond.
Slurp──
And as if responding to the provocation, an old door appeared right next to it with black fog.
It was an old door leading to a hut that was supposed to be in the bed of desire.
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