Chapter 29 – Pick White Flowers
“…”
Choi Woo-joo wipes the blood dripping down his nose with his white skin.
The owner of the mask looked down at the bloodstains that had spread like scars on his skin and stood up without a word.
“Ugh…!”
“Master!!”
However, due to the impact of the direct blow to the head, both legs immediately lost strength and staggered.
The sound of Noah’s footsteps running towards the man in front of me gets closer and closer.
Then, with a clunk, he reached back his hand holding the triplet at the sound of cold metal directed at the back of my head.
He puts his handgun on Noah’s arm and uses his small body as a support to lift him into the air.
“Ah–“
Noah’s small moan, realizing that something was wrong at the moment.
Noah tries to untie my arm wrapped around his own, even if it is belatedly, but it is already too late.
Noah’s hand holding the pistol held the triple bar with both hands and twisted it.
“Ah!! Ugh…!”
“…!”
The pistol fell from its small, fragile grip and flew into the grass in the park.
Deciding that he couldn’t just drop me hanging from his arm, Noah grabbed me by the collar and threw me away.
To minimize the impact of the fall on his back, he curls up and rolls across the floor.
Due to being blown away quite far by the power of the saintess, after a prolonged fall, if you return to your stance,
Noah, who was supporting Choi Woo-joo, who had collapsed on the floor, was staring at him.
I was thinking of breaking his arm, but Noah’s momentary coping failed.
This is the second time I’ve been put on a mission with Noah, especially since she doesn’t have much experience in combat, so I’m mostly in charge of her engagements.
I forgot that she was Noah, who always supported her, but she is also an agent who was trained by her organization.
Especially since you know my fighting style well, it must be that easy to deal with.
“Noah, give you the opportunity to die with honor as a human being…”
“I don’t need that kind of thing. Consideration of that kind of organization? Could you please stop mentioning it?
From my point of view, my sister, the people in the organization, and me as a human being were trash that was weeded out.
A life of serving the owner with my body, mind, and life. It’s an honor for me now.”
“…Totally soiled, I’m sorry Noah. This is all my fault.”
“No, it’s all ‘thanks’ to my sister… Thanks to her sister’s hard work, I met my former master and got a new life. Thank you so much ♡”
Noah smiles with his jade-colored eyes, the proof of a saint.
If I hadn’t used amnestics on my own, if I had stopped Noah from trying to cover it up.
At least Noah wouldn’t have become a saint.
“…”
Fighting Noah, who certainly knows my tactics, is annoying.
It’s not difficult, but if Noah is determined and focused on defense, it will take time to break through.
In this situation, the fastest way to end the engagement in less than two minutes is…
“…Eup, ugh…”
I look at the owner of the mask, Choi Woo-joo, who is hanging on Noah’s shoulder and bowing her head.
Unlike the saintess, you just have to aim for the owner of the mask that has the same body as a human.
Saints who lose their owners lose control and fall apart because they cannot maintain their changed bodies.
It may be difficult to get things right, but the dragging of time in a park with so many people is also difficult.
I didn’t want to use a gun as I had ears to hear and eyes to see, but I couldn’t help it.
Under her skirt, in the holster prepared in advance, she puts her hand on the pistol and prepares it.
As it is an area where civilians are concentrated, only one bullet can be used. Aim for the best universe with this.
“…I can’t do that!!”
“───”
As expected, Noah ran forward with Choi Woo-joo as if he knew what I was going to do.
In place of her pistol, she took out the triplet she had hidden in her waistband and, instead of swinging it, threw it at my eyes.
I turn my gaze slightly to the left, avoiding the approaching triple pole that has become a large dot that blacks out my vision.
On the contrary, I quickly stab Noah’s neck with the triple stick I was holding.
“Cheuk…!”
Tongue sticking out of her mouth along with pupils constricting from the heavy pain inflicted on her vitals.
I couldn’t neutralize the saintess like this. As it is, she reaches out and holds her hand on the back of Noah’s neck, and pushes her stomach up with her knee.
Noah, who couldn’t even let go of her groan from her continuous attacks on vital points, was in the process of falling in front of her, and hit Noah’s back of the head with her triplet.
“…Huh…”
Fluff–
Noah collapses as it is, and the blood on her triplet.
He wouldn’t die to this extent, but he would have received enough damage that he couldn’t move immediately.
While her body is still floating in the air, she stretches out her hand to the fallen Noah and glares at her staggering Supreme Universe.
“Noah…!”
“Ugh…!”
And as soon as her toes touched her floor, she threw herself forward, drew her pistol hidden under her skirt, and aimed it precisely at her supreme forehead.
She put her finger on her trigger and pulled without hesitation.
Tang——!
“───!!”
My fingertips spit fire, and gunshots ring out that shouldn’t be heard in my father’s homeland, where he only hoped for peace.
The red bullet flew straight and hit the forehead of the Supreme Universe,
With a black hole pierced in his forehead, he fell back and fell helplessly.
My body, which flew in the sky once again, fell forward and landed on top of the limp corpse of Woojoo Choi.
“…Whoa…”
It’s over now.
I didn’t get it right, but I was able to stop it before it did more damage.
I’m sorry, father. I’m sorry, Jaehyuk Park, Noah. And the other saints whose souls were stolen by this man.
“…In the next life, I pray to wash away my sins and live again.”
Standing on the ground, I stretched out my hand to close the eyes of Choi Woo-joo, who opened his eyes and was looking at the sky.
As he stretched his body forward to do so, he felt two strange tactile sensations.
“…?”
The first was the familiar softness of the left hand that accidentally touched Choi Woo-joo’s chest.
The small but distinct sense of volume was a feeling that could never come out of a man’s chest.
And secondly, while shuddering at the sense of incongruity, the right hand that finally reached Woojoo Choi’s face felt cold.
No, to be precise, a kind of hardness that cannot be felt by the human body. As if touching a cold stone—
Choi Woo-joo’s face, which should still be warm even if it was a human body that had lost its life, was as cold as ice.
As soon as I realized that creepy sense of incongruity, things I couldn’t see in the urgent situation began to appear one by one.
First of all, Choi Woo-joo’s eyes didn’t even have life left, but blood didn’t flow from the hole in his forehead.
Also, her height and muscles, which seemed to have shrunk compared to when she first met, and her feminine figure hidden under the loose sweats.
If you hurriedly tore off the upper clothes the man was wearing, you could see that he had white skin that was hardly a man’s——
“…This…”
It was a bra. Pure white underwear surrounding her small breasts.
“How… Uh? This… What…”
I turn around at the sound of laughter that seems to clear my still confused head.
“Hu, huhuhu…! It was good… I was honestly worried, but Minji-ssi is good at acting.”
“…Noah? You…”
I look down again, following Noah’s gaze as he is on his knees, stopping the blood dripping from his head and laughing at me.
The Choi Woojoo that lay beneath me was not the Choi Woojoo.
A man’s face begins to crack around a gunshot wound to the head.
A woman’s face could be seen beyond the fragments of her face, which had become white plaster and had begun to crumble.
A woman quietly looking up at me with empty eyes.
“…”
A saint? No. This woman’s soul has a human white color—
Her hair is black if black. This woman, has only part of her soul been taken away? How the hell is this…
“The mask’s anomaly…”
Chills run down my spine at the sound of my voice answering my own questions.
No, it can’t be. Clearly, I checked the spirits of everyone nearby before going deep into the park.
Even in this area where the fighting took place, there was no one except me, Noah, and the owner of the mask.
There was nothing suspicious about it…!
Before I can finish my thoughts, I close my eyes and think of my body sitting on the toilet.
I decided to return with a sense of crisis that I had to return to my body quickly.
In this way, the body I am now becomes a particle of light and returns to my original body with the sensation of slowly disappearing.
“…Goodbye, sister…♡”
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“…Universe oppa, I found it.”
“What? Really?”
“Yes, come in quickly!”
“Uh…? Anyway, isn’t it a bit like I’m going in there?”
“Because it’s fine! There’s no one inside! And I’ll look over the nearby net!”
While Min-ji, disguised as Noah and me, wasted Isabelle’s time, Sol-yi Yun and I started searching every nook and cranny of the park.
A public toilet I saw while looking around the outskirts to avoid the center of the park where the fight was taking place.
While looking for the men’s and women’s toilets, Sol-yi Yoon gestured with her head sticking out as if she had finally found something.
I hurriedly entered the women’s bathroom while observing my hesitant steps and the surroundings.
“Brother, the first column.”
“…Okay.”
Sol-yi Yoon, who closed the door, tore up a piece of her notebook and wrote in a thick pen, ‘It’s broken, please use the bathroom at the back door.’
She stuck the paper to the outside of the bathroom and locked the door again. I didn’t know Sol-yi Yun had this kind of talent…
While scratching the back of her head, when I put aside the first bathroom door that had been broken for some reason—
“…”
“Found.”
With blank eyes, she could find a silver-haired woman sitting on the toilet.
To be honest, even I was dubious about whether the operation, which was embarrassing to even call it an operation, would work, but I never thought it would be so successful.
To be honest, it was not easy to deceive Isabelle, a person who is thorough and close to perfection in everything.
A military force that would not cause any problems even if several saints attacked at once, and a serious suspicious disease that would beat a stone bridge a thousand times before crossing it.
A woman who even has insurance so that even if she is lucky enough to knock her down once, she will say ‘Yes, that was an alter ego’ and escape.
There was only one chance to catch Isabelle like that. It is also an opportunity for multiple miracles to overlap.
First of all, Minji was chosen as my substitute.
A human being turned into a dummy doll by Hyemi noona. Since she wasn’t a saint, there’s no fear of being caught,
It was the doll itself that did not disturb even her breathing, so it was the only way to avoid Isabelle, who said that she could see through her lies with the shaking of her soul.
Above all, the reason why Min-ji was the right person for the pinch hitter was because Hye-mi noona taught her talent while she was drunk.
A feat of mimicking the faces of others by completely transforming her own head and face.
The difference in body shape and height was unavoidable, but it was the best in terms of being able to imitate my voice.
Besides, Isabel was sure that she was suspicious because she had never seen my soul form, but she was fooled once.
To be honest, she didn’t want to send other saints or Go Eun to a dangerous battlefield, and it was a pinch hitter determined by the elimination law…
He did an excellent job of acting beyond what I expected.
And the second point of the plan is the clone’s range.
I called Isabelle to a large park on purpose because of her weakness that she couldn’t move more than 100m away from her body.
If you use out-of-body in an open place like a park, your body will be somewhere in the park, unprotected.
All I had to do was hide in a convenience store near the park and quickly search the park when the fight started.
Of course, if Noah, who would buy me time before I find Isabel’s body, is attacked or if it is exposed that he is a substitute, it will fail.
Far from Jaehyuk’s revenge, it was a risky gamble-like plan that could follow Jaehyuk.
Of course, the structure of the park is wider and more complex than I thought, so I almost got fucked, but
A miracle happened that she ran into Sol-yi Yun on her way back home after a college-linked debate in the provinces.
‘Oh, brother? What are you doing…? Morning jog…?’
‘Ha ha… Ha, ha ha…! Yoo, Sol-ah Yun… Ha-ah… Get someone with me… Ha-ah… Let’s find it together…’
Later, I found out that Sol-yi Yun’s room was near here, so I happened to pass by.
The first miracle that Isabelle was tricked by her double, the second miracle that Noah endured for quite a long time against the monster woman,
Lastly, the funny third miracle of meeting Yun Sol-i, who happened to be passing by, interlocked, and now I am standing here.
Beautiful silver haired Isabelle looking straight ahead with a dazed face. She is in front of her body.
“…Fuck you.”
“…Sobbing…”
I took out her mask from her arms and grabbed her hair.
Slowly raising her mask on Isabelle’s moaning face in line with her swaying body,
Turn-up
“…”
Finally, the skin that was like white jade, the blue walls that shimmered like the sea, the lips that were a pale cherry color,
It was covered with an old wooden mask.
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