Chapter 896 – Traces
“Well… I would have shed tears and shouted, “I believe you!” When I saw the young leader using telekinesis to cast an empty spell or floating in the air.”
Seong-il had a trivial talk with Edward. Before he knows it, he arrives in front of the ‘palace’ where Eunwol is closing down with a small group of maids.
“… Is it okay for me to show myself?”
Interestingly, when Edward walks around the palace without hiding himself, Seong-il speaks to him in a slightly absurd tone.
“It’s okay. There are only a few maids who reside here, and they are loyal subjects who are truly loyal to the Eunwol Church.』
Edward says that the sight of a strange being like him wandering around and being loyal to Eunwol is even better because it instills awe in the maids who serve her, making them even more loyal.
“Still, if there’s even a rumor…”
『Haha! You don’t have to worry about that. The maids here have a mind implanted in their bodies, so when they have an impious thought, that feeling is transferred to the spirit of Lord Eunwol. The religious leader even has the right to escape life and death.』
“…”
Seong-il looks slightly tired of Edward’s explanation that Eun-wol controls her maids in a very cruel way, typical of a demonic religion.
“But they say it’s a closed training facility… Why is this place so big?”
『It is said that the closed room of the Cheonma Seonggyo cult leader is, as people like to say, a closed room, but in fact, it is closer to a kind of Dongcheon (洞天).』
“Dongcheon… It’s a fitting nickname.”
It is covered with huge, high, sheer cliffs on all sides, and the only entrance is a natural cave. After walking for a while through the narrow and long cave, a huge basin appears, with a quiet pond and a beautifully spread bamboo grove, making people who see it for the first time feel that this is a place where immortals live. And the beautiful mansion built in the center of the space was making people doubt whether this was indeed the land of the infamous Demonic Cult.
“Edward. Have you forgotten that this place is forbidden to foreigners?”
The two women guarding the only main entrance to the mansion look at Edward and her holy day and shout out sharply as if they are displeased.
Although they were wearing the same clothes as her maids, Seong-il could feel right away that they were quite high-level warriors.
『This person is not an outsider. Rather, he is the person the religious leader has been waiting for a long time.』
“Ah…!! Then this is…?”
The maids looked surprised at Edward’s words. Since they were Eunwol’s closest associates, they seemed to have heard about the holy day to some extent in advance.
“Oh. You seem to know me?”
“Yes. Please forgive my rudeness. Good old man.”
The maid immediately kneels in front of her seongil and then attempts her five body fighting techniques (五體投地). Seong-il, embarrassed by the fact that they were more polite than he expected, projected his telekinetic powers to force them to stand up again.
“Indeed! You have the same magical powers as the religious leader! As expected, you are amazing!”
“… That’s it. Where is the religious leader?”
Since he did not want to lose face in front of the church members who worship Eunwol like a god, Seong-il refers to Eunwol in the most respectful way possible.
“The sect leader is taking care of the sect leader in the main house. Please come in.”
“Yes.”
The maids, perhaps with a lot of tact, see Seong-il off and remove all the people working inside the mansion to the outside.
“He’s smart?”
“Yes. All of them are talented women. Thanks to those people, I also felt comfortable serving Eunwol.』
Seong-il is quite satisfied to see the maids not interfering with Eun-wol and her own personal time. In the meantime, he reaches deep into the main house where Eunwol seems to be living.
“Oh my~ It’s so pretty~ Who does it look like so it’s so pretty?”
And the voice of a woman in love heard from inside the main house. She was whispering softly to someone without stopping.
Come on!
“What kind of bitch has gone… Ah! Young master!”
She was spending precious time with her precious child, but when Eunwol came rudely in and out of the house without showing any sign of recognition, Eunwol lashed out at the visitor.
Even though her opponent her she was someone who approached her so secretly that she could not easily detect her, she threatened to protect her precious child with her killing fierce power.
However, when she discovers a very familiar being in the place where her fierce spirit shines, she smiles brightly and looks very happy, as if she has never been angry before.
“How are you?”
“Of course~! I had a good time!”
Eunwol runs to Seongil for a month and clings closely to him. Then she noticed the sweet scent flowing from her body. Seong-il feels her spirit being shaken by her long-time lover.
“It’s him! Isn’t he cute?”
“Huh? Ah…”
Seong-il, who was distracted by Eun-wol, sees the child she shows him and feels as if he was struck by lightning.
White and plump. However, the girl with her distinct facial features and very cute appearance immediately shakes Seongil’s soul.
“Wow…”
Seong-il, who saw her first child her, who inherited her own blood touched her child with an expression as if he were fascinated, and Eun-wol began to look at him happily from her side her.
“Hehe!! Do you have to come again?”
“Ugh… I’m sorry. I want to come here often too…”
Eunwol stayed with Seongil for almost half a day and took care of the child. Even though I saw her apologizing for not being able to come to her holy days often, she didn’t seem particularly offended.
“I understand! It’s not like I’ve been in Young master’ world for a day or two.”
Excluding Red and the others, who were unable to communicate honestly due to her damaged brain, Eunwol was Seongil’s first true follower.
Because she had experience with Seong-il for a long time, she knew very well how terrible and dangerous the situation was for him and the world he lived in.
In turn, she respects Seong-il, who reigns like a hero in that world, and because of that, she doesn’t seem particularly offended even if Seong-il doesn’t come by here often.
“The child’s baby name is Han So-wol, a combination of Young master and my name. What do you think? Isn’t it pretty?”
The child’s nickname appears to be a combination of Eunwol and her own name. Surprisingly, she likes that name quite a bit, so she tells her that it would be okay to use it as her real name rather than her nickname.
“Hehe! I still don’t know, so I’ll try to think of a better name!”
It looks like Eunwol plans to formally introduce her child to school and give him a proper name once he grows up. As she was in a position where she could not provide proper help as the father, Seong-il, who felt guilty about her conscience, did not pout at her words. Seong-il, who shared his deep thoughts with Eun-wol for a while, prepares to return to reality once again after her brief meeting.
“Edward. Good luck.”
『Just leave it to me.』
Seong-il smiles at the answer from his trustworthy subordinate who will never betray him and returns to reality with her strange inspiration filling his mind.
***
Seong-il was distraught because of the appearance of a child carrying her own blood. Even as he returned to reality and sat in his office, he could not let go of the lingering effects of that intense experience.
“Why do you look like that today?”
A single word flowed from the mouth of the woman kneeling under the dance desk at Seongil’s house. Seong-il, awakened from his thoughts by her beautiful voice, lowers his head and looks at Erica, who is caressing her own alter ego.
“Ah, because of Eunwol.”
“Hmm… I guess it was good?”
All of Seongil’s followers knew that Eunwol was having a child. Therefore, rather than being surprised when Erica hears Seong-il’s story, she asks him a question with a strange expression on her face.
“Yeah. It was cute.”
“Hmm~ Really? I guess I can quit my workshop job~”
She is Erisha, who has already completely taught the Gaia system and the people of real life the alchemy technology of her world. Thanks to this, the Gaia system and the faculty members carefully trained by Seong-il were able to train a huge number of alchemists in the real world based on this knowledge, or handle tasks that humans do not need to do through G.E.C.R.
“What will I do if I quit?”
“What should I do? Of course, I should return to Portis territory and take control and rule it as the rightful heir, right?”
Erica tells her story about the estate that was almost taken over by Edward, another villain in the now-forgotten world of alchemy.
“Ah… I remember. Did you handle your debt repayment well?”
“Yes. It was easy thanks to the gold coins and information you gave me…”
Seongil generously gave away a huge amount of treasure he had acquired in Adenheim in the past to Pirina and Erica, who were loyal to him. Not only that, he revealed to her the secret secrets hidden in the world of alchemy, helping her benefit enormously.
