Chapter 117 – Conclusion
Kang Ji-ah stopped the princess who was about to run away.
“Master, wait…!”
“Why?”
“I understand your feelings, but please calm down!”
“Why should I calm down?”
Jiah Kang lost her words.
He doesn’t seem to have any intention of stopping.
Then ‘Dances with Wolves’ intervened.
“Princess, wait. Kang Ji-ah is right. That guy is too dangerous. We have to be careful.”
“That’s right. It’s a very dangerous magic…! Magic that controls a corpse that has the memories and combat power of a lifetime…”
Everyone except the princess frowned at her words.
Inherent magic is all deeply related to the unconscious wishes of the wizard himself.
The stronger the magic, the greater the connection.
A magic that kills another person and uses the corpse as an attendant.
What the hell kind of ugly and filthy nature did he have?
What did you think of life and death as having such magic?
The moment they shuddered with chills as they felt a physiological disgust as if cockroaches were crawling on their bodies, they heard the sound of footsteps walking down the hallway.
The one who came across the corridor was Marie with a hole in her chest.
She said like number 1 just before.
“You’re talking too much. To attack suddenly after you’ve been told…”
“As expected, you pretended to be dead. Well, if it’s okay even if your heart doesn’t beat, there’s no way you’ll die from being shot.”
“By the way! It’s simple to explain the effect of my magic in two words. First, control the corpse you kill. Second, increase the corpse for the first! It doesn’t. And…”
-Bang!
Gunshots rang out in succession, and bullets pierced Marie’s head several times.
I shot him until his head almost fell off, but no blood splattered.
After a while, her entire body crumbled and just disappeared.
“Are you okay? Princess.”
“They’re already dead. I’d rather be like this.”
The princess nodded her head to the brief question, ‘Dancing with wolves’.
Then another voice was heard.
It was the voice of an old man screaming like a zombie.
“Wait a minute, you’re doing too much! You haven’t even finished introducing yourself yet!”
“I don’t even want to hear it. Like before, screaming and creating an atmosphere of fear.”
“Then I’ll say it on my own. I am the Bentley Loquist. One of Your Majesty’s Ten Fingers.”
Emperor’s Ten Fingers.
Kang Ji-ah’s fists clenched tightly.
“I want to kill all of you under his command. Please become a sacrifice to His Majesty and bring him favor.”
“Don’t waste your time, let’s get to the point. The whole town will be in your hands anyway, right?”
“I know you well. Thanks to you, I saved you the trouble of explaining.”
“It’s obvious what a guy like you would do.”
The whole town?
Jiah Kang opened her eyes wide.
I definitely wanted it to be a very quiet town, but…
As I listened to her, I could feel the presence of people gathering near her house.
That number is at least in the tens of thousands.
The heart rate and breathing sound itself were no different from those of a living person, so I did not feel any discomfort.
However, their excessively hard falling movements, as if commanded by someone in unison, let us know that they are not living people.
“Whoa, you’re smart as expected! You’re right, everyone in this village has already become my puppet! Besides, they’ve all taken the deadly drug you know about. All of them are powerful, no different from nobles. It’s in a state of magical power… Hey, did you say you were going to kill me? How are you going to kill me? Won’t you tell this old man?”
The old man smiled mischievously and asked.
It makes me feel even worse because of the uselessly easy-going way of speaking.
It reminds me of ugly lips that curl up with a smirk.
The princess is staring into the darkness.
“It doesn’t matter how many people you control, but controlling an entire village is impossible unless your body is nearby.
“Aim for the body! That’s the standard when dealing with a puppeteer. But can that be? You don’t know anything except my name! Besides, in a state of siege with no water leaks.”
“Really dog annoying! You nasty old man!”
Shin Eun-seo bursts into rage at the old man’s mildly threatening tone.
Looking at her figure, she thought of Kang Ji-ah.
‘He’s good at fighting. Like the master…’
It is a princess’s specialty to upset others with words that touch their nerves.
As a hypnotist, he knew the power of words.
Even when dealing with Suga, even when fighting ‘Dancing with Wolves’, he distracted the other person’s mind with words before clashing with power.
‘But this time…’
He knew too little about the old man, Ventri Loquist.
Rather, isn’t it the one who is swayed by the words of the enemy?
Jiang Ji Agai clenched her teeth and shook her head.
“Master! I’ll go out first and break the siege. What’s moving now is just some of the villagers…”
“Stay still. You don’t have to fight. Do your best, strengthen your senses, whether hearing or smelling.”
“But hundreds of people, no dolls, have the same heart and blood. I can’t find the body with my own abilities…!”
“I’ll tell you, do as I say.”
The princess cut it off and said.
It was a cold, impassioned voice.
So she had no choice but to nod her head.
“It looks like you’re mistaken…”
“Huh?”
The princess turned her head to the old man.
“It seems like they’re excited when they say, “It’s ten fingers.” Even so, they’re just puppets that move according to the emperor’s will. Isn’t it embarrassing to say that they’re the best puppeteers in the empire?”
The old man laughed out loud at his words.
“You intend to agitate me and make mistakes! Me, who has long since withered away my feelings? Try it once. Try to impress me! And to answer, the fact that I am only a puppet is what completes me as a puppeteer. Wouldn’t it?”
The princess looked at the old man with cold eyes.
“Even the slightest bit of interest that remained has disappeared. You are no different from the killing weapons that remained in the ruins of Seoul.”
“I saw it correctly. That’s right!”
“But I can’t believe you say that your feelings have dried up. You just said passionately that you wished for the Emperor’s favour.”
“Hmm, I guess that’s what I’ve heard. You’ve taken away our humanity, but on the contrary, you’re also the last bastion of our emotions. But what does that have to do with it? You’re going to die soon.”
Kang Ji-ah, who raised her senses as Gongju-in ordered, felt the encirclement surrounding the building they were in gradually narrowing.
The dolls were approaching one step at a time.
A flow of destructive mana, boosted by the drug, was overflowing from them.
It is an immediate situation.
‘Can I get rid of all the dolls and escape the siege? Even if it succeeds, the next dolls, the next dolls after that, will be waiting…’
The future, unable to overcome the numerical inferiority of the heavy duty talismans, is surrounded by ant-like dolls and hacked to pieces.
The figure of oneself facing death looms in front of the eyes.
My heart was beating loudly, and my breathing was disturbed.
I can’t die in a place like this.
I haven’t gotten my revenge yet.
‘No, don’t think about that! You must do it. Otherwise, annihilation! Even if I have to sacrifice myself, Master…’
Kang Jia was desperately determined, but the next moment she heard Gongju-in’s words, she couldn’t help but open her eyes wide.
His words were such an unexpected question.
“Family, friends, or lovers?”
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
Even the old man asked indifferently if he was dumbfounded by the princess’ question without context.
No, is it really just that?
It was very weak, but it seemed that his voice had an agitation like never before.
‘What about a question like that?’
It seemed that the other women were equally absurd.
The moment they looked at the princess questionably, he said.
With a cold sneer on his lips.
“Powerful unique magic usually manifests itself from a simple motive… Shall we guess? What kind of wish did your magic come from?”
“Isn’t there nothing to do other than match? Complete domination over others! It’s a very natural human desire.”
The old man answered.
Kang Jia also nodded his head.
It must have been magic that came from a dirty and ugly nature anyway.
However, the princess seemed to have a different idea.
“Lies. If you really have no feelings, you wouldn’t have to fool yourself with such words.”
“What are you talking about earlier? I don’t understand.”
“If you’re a puppeteer, you’ll always have a doll that protects you, right?”
When the princess asked in a sharp voice, the old man answered after a moment of hesitation.
“Obviously. What does that mean?”
“Since you seem to keep pretending, I’ll tell you the essence of your magic. The magic of manipulating a corpse while retaining the form you had in life… What kind of heart did you come from? A desire for dominance? From what I can see, your inner thoughts are the opposite. Very It’s a pure and desperate wish… I want to bring the dead back to life, even if it’s just for a moment. I want to meet the dead again.”
“…”
The old man didn’t answer.
But his cold, hard voice answered instead.
There were no more exaggerated gestures or tone of voice.
“Who did you want to meet? Parents who died when you were young? Brothers who passed away first? Friends who shared memories? Lovers who shared hearts?
“…”
“Did you enjoy talking to them? It can’t be. They’re not really reanimated, they’re just corpses repeating their life form.”
The princess laughed.
It wasn’t a bright smile, but a smile that lifted one of his lips as he laughed at the poor old man.
“The best puppeteer in the empire? You’re just a ventriloquist talking to your hands out of loneliness. You old man.”
Did you say the same thing as a dagger?
The princess’s words became sharp blades and must have stabbed the old man in the middle.
The sharp coldness of his words made Kang Ji-ah’s skin tremble as she listened.
To see through the essence of the old man in such a short moment.
Is it because of the experience of manipulating countless people and peeking into their hearts?
She looked at the princess with admiration.
-Thump!
It was the sound of a strong heart beating.
Just a moment ago, it had been a calm, pulsating sound like flowing water.
It was a place closer than I thought.
It is intense emotional movements that make a person’s heart beat.
Such as strong anger.
At that moment, as if she had heard the sound, the princess moved.
His hands moved blurryly, and the moment the iron ball blew the old doll’s head apart, he shouted.
“Tell me where it is, Kang Ji-ah!!”
“…Based on the visit, it is exactly 127 meters at 8 o’clock! It is 5 meters and 37 centimeters high from the ground!!”
Kang Ji-ah, who almost reflexively told the source of the heartbeat, realized.
‘I see. He must be watching us with the dolls as his eyes.
Master tried to slow his reaction as much as possible…’
The princess moved.
As if he were doing a back hug, he put ‘dancing with wolves’ in his arms.
The princess whispered to her, who flinched at her moment.
“You aim and shoot. I’ll infuse the bullet with miasma, so don’t mind the obstacles and shoot.”
The princess wrapped her pistol around Dancing with the Wolves’ right hand.
It’s too far away for a pistol.
But he said, ‘Can you guess?’ Didn’t ask any questions like that.
The red eyes of ‘Dances with Wolves’ shone sharply.
In the next moment, she emptied all six bullets in her revolver.
With a sharp sound, bullets bearing poisonous air pierced everything in their way.
Thick wooden walls, stone pillars, glass windows…
Even the dolls of men and women of all ages surround the old man in gaudy clothes as if to protect him.
Even the last barriers that protected his body become shattered fragments and scatter in all directions.
Fragments of things that were once human and dolls before they were broken turned into embers and embroidered the air brightly.
Lover, friend, family… What were those?
When did you stop remembering that?
The old man, Bentry Loquist, was hit by six bullets all over his body and fell over in a splatter of black blood.
“Gagging…”
Did you hear the final screams of Ventri Loquist?
The princess was looking at the body of the old man with cold eyes.
