Chapter 335 – 335. Mother’s Keepsake (1)
“Master…”
“Looks like it’s over.”
It didn’t take long for things to be sorted out.
As soon as Lily woke up, she slowly opened her eyes and came to her senses. She felt Eun-hyeon’s arms, and she leaned her head against his chest.
“Ugh, ugh…”
At the same time, Federica, who was in the arms of the vacant seat, let out her moan and tossed over her body.
“Boss?”
She woke up with a slight shake of her body, frowning at the man’s voice calling her.
“Suck!?”
Eventually, Federica gradually comes to her senses and realizes that she is being held in a male body.
Opening her eyes wide, she met the gaze of the vacant seat.
“Ah…”
“Boss?”
As her mind awoke and her hazy mind became clearer, Federica’s eyes shook.
At the same time, the corners of her mouth quivered.
“… Boss?”
As soon as she came to her senses, Federica, who showed her strange appearance, called her once again, worried about her condition.
“… Don’t.”
“Yes?”
“Don’t touch me!”
As Federica let out her screams, she struggled to get out of the vacancy’s arms.
“Bo, Boss! Why are you doing that!”
Seeing her blindly in her own face and seeing Federica writhing in her face in her terror, she hugged her even tighter so as not to let go of her.
The more that happened, the more Federica’s resistance grew.
“Boss! That’s me! Mason!”
“It’s hot… Hot! Don’t touch me!”
“Miss Federica!”
Then, when her seat vacancy urgently called her by name, her Federica stopped moving.
“Ah…”
Federica’s blurry pupils, lamenting at the same time as her small trembling, slowly found her color.
Suffering from her trauma and coming to her senses, Federica finally checked the face of the vacancy officer who was hugging her.
“Three… Suya?”
“Yes. Miss. That’s me. Mason.”
“Flaw… Ugh…”
After checking the face of the vacant seat, Federica hugged his body, sobbing on her shoulder.
“Where have you been…”
“Miss… ?”
Federica’s face, when she came to her senses, was completely different from before she was attacked.
As a child, she was a frail and delicate girl who reminded her of the first time she was entrusted with Federica’s escort.
As she enters the end of her late twenties, it reminds her of her childhood, which is nowhere to be found.
“I… How much did I find…”
“… Sorry.”
She suddenly collapses with Lily out of her mind, and the sight of her opening her eyes is a very foreign situation to Gong Suk Su.
First of all, I apologized obediently to comfort her.
“Leave me… Don’t go anywhere…”
“Yes. All right.”
When the vacant seat nodded her head obediently at the request of Federica, who was young and complaining with earnest desire, Federica slowly closed her eyes again as if she felt relieved.
As soon as she woke up, seeing Federica falling asleep again, Gong Suk-soo felt a question.
She stared at Eun-hyeon and Lily because the only person who could clear her doubts was the one who had caused her strangeness.
“…”
Lily, who woke up at the same time as Federica and got up with Eun-hyeon’s support, calmly accepted Gong Seok-soo’s questioning gaze.
“It’s just weakened.”
“… What did you do?”
“I was just showing you a dream.”
“A dream?”
Gong Seok-soo asked Lily with her questioning expression.
It was partly because he wasn’t well versed in magic, but Lily’s explanation was too vague.
“I recreated the experience of the pain my mother might have gone through.”
That’s the way Lily thought it would tie her bad relationships.
“…”
As a result, Federica’s mind was regressed, and the reason why she struggled with competition just by seeing men was because in her dreams, she had to go through the terrible experience of dealing with dozens of men.
The men who appeared in Federica’s dreams were all her subordinates.
The appearance of the subordinates has been transferred exactly the same as the actions and personalities of the subordinates that have been embedded in his head.
Lily just manipulated the situation so that her men, who had shown her so much loyalty, would lust after her own mafia boss.
As a result, Federica’s mental breakdown was devastating.
“This…”
Of the arms holding her, the left arm of her vacant seat, which supported her lower body, was damp.
Realizing that her lower body, which was shivering all over in a cold sweat, had made her incontinent while she was unconscious, the Gong-seok-soo hardened her face.
“I can’t believe the reason the young lady collapsed like this…”
“As you guessed.”
Guessing what she might have done, the vacant count frowned at her, but did not express her anger at Lily’s behavior in her.
“You’re calmer than you think.”
It was Eun-hyeon who spoke to him.
“… It’s like the lady’s karma has returned.”
Gong Seok-su secretly guessed that such a day might come someday.
Born as the daughter of a mafia boss, her way of thinking has been seen since she was a child.
In a world where the strong survive and the weak are exploited, she has learned to use her wealth and power.
Her way of thinking does not see humans as human beings, but only as a tool for accumulating her own wealth by making profits and growing the organization.
Whether it was the right way or the wrong way, she did not hesitate to make the best rational and inhuman decision she could think of.
Gong Seok-soo calmly expressed his opinion that he was getting that karma back.
“If you knew that, why didn’t you stop her?”
“I am also one of the axis of evil. To protect the lady no matter what. That was the order my predecessor gave me. It didn’t matter to me what harm she did with her decisions.”
Whether she squeezed many people with tools and means to exploit her profit was not so important to the vacant position she did to the detriment of a few people.
When she was a teenager, she joined the Mafia, caught the eye of the boss and was tasked with escorting his daughter.
Federica was 6 years old at the time.
Since then, they have been together with her for more than 20 years, and the previous boss of the Brodia mafia has a will to protect Federica no matter what.
Even after her predecessor’s boss died, he had been protecting her for five years.
A loyal subordinate to someone, an older brother, and a family.
The crystallization of twisted humanity that possesses duality that is, to some, the subordinate of the devil itself.
Gong Seok-soo carefully laid Federica’s body, who was sleeping soundly in his arms, on the floor, and approached Lily, who was standing in front of him, and knelt down on her knees.
“… Sorry.”
“… Do it.”
“My lady… I left a lasting scar on you and your mother in my memory.”
“Stop.”
Lily’s fists were clenched as she faced the sincere apology of the vacant seat head-on.
Lily’s voice trembled, telling her to stop apologizing.
Despite the voice holding back the anger that was about to explode, Gong-seok-soo did not stop his words.
“I will apologize for my death, please, young lady…”
“Stop!”
Finally, a voice mixed with Lily’s anger burst out.
“Apologizing? Are you done with an apology?”
“…”
“My house collapsed, the horrible memories I experienced? Are the terrible memories of your mother gone? Could it be that there was no Can you forget all those memories and live with a smile like before?”
Lily’s feelings collapsed, her words mercilessly lodged in the ears of the vacant seat on her knees.
Faced with the torrent of emotions that could not be refuted, Gong Seok-soo did not give any answer.
“It could be… There is no…”
Lily’s voice flowed down her clenched fists, and her tears wet the floor.
The voice filled with anger was filled with sadness.
“From the moment my father got into gambling, from the moment he abandoned me and my mother, my hell began.”
That hell will haunt her all her life, in her head, in her lily.
“I have no intention of killing you or that woman. That woman must not die.”
Killing her Federica is too merciful for her.
Lily imprinted in Federica’s mind the terrible experience of being burned at the stake by a ‘brass bull’ and being gang-raped unilaterally by many men.
Periodically flashback the memory so that you can never forget it so that you can relive the experience vividly.
At that time, the sensation was so vivid and real that it would haunt her terribly throughout her life.
To live on, carrying the same horrible experiences and memories in her head as she did.
The end of the rest of Federica’s life has been decided.
The sensation she felt in her dream is scheduled to flash back in her head periodically.
Even if her body is intact, her mind will continue to taste the memories of being raped by her many subordinates and the sensation of being burned all over.
The curse that Lily placed on Federica’s head, which cannot be fixed, will make her suffer for the rest of her life.
Just like she and her mother had to live with all the pain and memories.
“Live. That is my punishment for that woman.”
“… I get it.”
Gong Seok-soo didn’t say anything else, just nodded silently.
That’s when their conversation came to an end.
Erin and Emilia came out of the room upstairs and took the central staircase down to the hall with Eunhyeon and Lily.
Eunhyun asked Erin.
“It’s over?”
“Huh. Done. That… What about your sister?”
Seeing Lily’s stiff expression, Erin glanced at her and whispered in Eunhyun’s ear.
“We are done too.”
“I see.”
“… Master. Now, stop.”
Having done all her ball work, Lily turned her back on the vacancy.
“Okay.”
After leaving her mansion, on the way to the inn where she left the slaves she bought at the black market, Eun-hyeon opened her mouth.
“Erin.”
“Huh.”
“Take the slaves at the inn and use the ‘gate’ to return to Armitas territory with Emilia first. And she consults with Eleanor about the circumstances of the slaves. If you use the slush fund Federica has saved up, the accommodation problem won’t be too difficult.”
And if it was Eleanor, she would be able to properly utilize the slaves she purchased through consultation with Alex in a way that would not overwhelm them.
In particular, for Armitas, who was managing a large-scale farmland, the more hands he had on the agricultural side, the better.
“Hyeon and sister?”
“I have somewhere to go with Lily.”
In response to Eunhyun’s reply, Erin nodded her head without asking further.
“Okay. Let’s go. Emilia.”
“I accept your order.”
Erin and Emilia left as they headed for the inn.
Left alone, Eun-hyeon looked at Lily and gently held her hand.
“Lily.”
“… Master.”
“I don’t see how you feel.”
“… It’s the worst.”
The culprit who twisted her own life gave her a terrible experience that she will never forget for the rest of her life, destroying her spirit.
Even though the moment she wanted in her heart came and she achieved her goal, she was experiencing contradictions full of futility in her heart, accompanied by her irritation, anger, and sadness, rather than feeling relieved.
“Once upon a time there was a saying like this. Revenge is empty. Various words were circulated, such as paying back as much as someone suffered, not all of that anger would be relieved, and that there is no other unproductive act than revenge.”
“…”
Lily did not respond to Eun-hyeon’s words as if she was representing her own mind.
“But I do not agree with these statements.”
“… Yes?”
“In the world, that is. There is no such thing as meaningless action. If you feel like doing it, the action is what you have to do. No matter how futile and unproductive it is, it is never meaningless.”
“…”
It was an affirmation of her cruel vengeance, for what Lily had done to her Federica, and for breaking the spirit of her thug leader who had violated her own mother.
“In this hellish world, if the action you have to take to rebuild your once-broken heart is revenge, then it is absolutely meaningless.”
Looking up at the sky, Eunhyun’s self-deprecating words looked very sad.
It was a word of empathy that affirmed her own revenge and at the same time gave her understanding as if she had experienced it.
“Master too… Have you ever wanted to get revenge on someone?”
“… There was I had a teacher who taught me how to fight even though I had no talent, and a close older brother.”
Eunhyeon made an expression she missed after a long time and recalled Joo Hyeonseong’s face.
“Master’s revenge… Are you done?”
“I do not know.”
He learned the sword from Siete, and continued to train and grow without neglecting self-discipline even when he was left alone again.
Finally, all the demons of the middle and lower ranks that killed Ju Hyeon-seong were completely eliminated.
Just like he killed all the Dark Elves who killed Sylvia.
Eun-hyeon made a resolution to accept the breakup with her precious person in any form.
The reason why he couldn’t say it was over was because he hadn’t found Master’s enemy still in his heart.
The strong demon believed to have killed Siete could not be found even after the earth was destroyed.
“Okay…”
It was an ambiguous answer, but Lily gave a small nod of her head.
“Lily.”
“Yes?”
“Do you remember the initial purpose of this trip?”
“Yes. Ah…”
The first purpose of this trip.
It is none other than to find the mother’s whereabouts.
“Your journey is not over yet.”
At Eunhyeon’s words, Lily shuddered slightly.
“Let’s go.”
