Chapter: 912
Monster…?
Are you talking about me just now?
I had to make a face as if I was dumbfounded by what the turtle said.
‘Who is calling whom a monster?’
To me, my opponent looked much more like a monster, so I was dumbfounded when he called me a monster.
“Hmmm.”
The turtle looked at me. Its gaze felt strange.
“Jang Moon-in. Where on earth did you pick up something like this?”
“Hey, that’s a bit too much to say directly to someone’s face.”
Shin Noya finally couldn’t stand the continued rudeness and spoke to the turtle.
“No matter how much of a monster he looks, that’s just not right.”
“Noya?”
“Calling a person a monster? What kind of rudeness is this! No matter how monstrous they look—!”
“Hey.”
“You see it that way, but you’re going too far. If this continues, I’ll have to reduce your plum tea job to three months…”
“Don’t write long sentences, Jang Moon-in.”
“Tch.”
“These damn things….”
Snap. He clenched his fist and gnashed his teeth.
“What are you doing in front of people—!”
“It’s noisy when adults are talking,” the turtle said, pointing at my forehead with the cane it was holding.
At that moment…
“…Huh?”
Before I knew it, I was outside the building.
“What?”
How did this happen all of a sudden?
While surprised by the strange feeling, my heart began thumping.
Thump—!
“…!”
I clutched my chest as my heart suddenly started pounding wildly.
Thump! Thump thump!
“…Hah…”
Did the energy react?
It seems so, but it wasn’t the Gu Flame Wheel Technique.
Not that it was magic either… Then what’s left?
‘…The Ring of Sorcery?’
A link tied to the heart while learning witchcraft.
It reacted violently due to what just happened.
That means…
‘…That thing just now was…’
Are you saying it was witchcraft?
*
“Hey, why are you sending the kid away without permission?”
Shin Cheol clicked his tongue briefly, speaking to the now-missing Gu Yang-cheon.
The turtle sitting quietly took a sip of tea.
“Jang Moon-in. I thought you wanted that too, didn’t you?”
“Anyway, you’re quick-witted.”
Shin Cheol chuckled.
As he said, what I was hoping for was right.
I just didn’t know it could be done so quickly.
“The more I look at it, the more amazing it is. How does it even work?”
“There’s no point in wondering. It has nothing to do with you.”
“You say such sad things. You’ve never done this before.”
“No.”
The turtle’s old eyes grew cold.
“This is a decided thing. It can’t be changed, even if I die.”
Shin Cheol rested his chin on his hand, looking regretful at that gaze.
“You are so decisive. It’s similar to how I don’t have the same power as you.”
“Does this mean the realm of talent?”
“It’s different.”
Slurp.
The turtle refilled the empty glass.
“It’s about choices, not talent.”
“No matter how many times I’ve heard it, I still don’t understand.”
“It means you were not chosen by this side.”
“Really?”
Shin Cheol chuckled.
The look of regret that had been on his face until just now suddenly disappeared.
“So, you kicked that loser out?”
“…”
The turtle paused at Shin Cheol’s comment.
“If you were going to send him out anyway, why didn’t you send that kid out too?” Shin Cheol’s head turned to the corner.
There, a black-haired woman sat quietly, looking this way.
Violet eyes. An unreadable expression.
An unknown ominous feeling.
She was a woman who embodied everything unsettling.
As the rookie said…
That’s a heavenly horse.
Surely.
‘How heterogeneous.’
It was clear that she was an uncomfortable presence.
“That won’t do.”
“Huh?”
At the turtle’s words, Shin Cheol looked back at him.
“It’s already been covered, so it can’t be reached.”
“Are you going to keep talking like that? I can’t understand you.”
“I’m saying this because there are things I can’t say. No, why did you bring something like that in the first place?”
“I didn’t bring him. He was brought in by Aesong. Seriously… Anyway, he seems to attract a strange abundance of women.”
He particularly seemed to be loved by strange women.
“So, what about that wretched kid you dislike so much?” When asked about Gu Yang-cheon, the turtle’s white eyebrows twitched.
“That monster, you mean?”
It was a remark that was subtly annoying.
“As I said earlier, no matter how monstrous the child looks….”
“That’s a monster.”
“…Turtle.”
Shin Cheol finally frowned.
Even so, the turtle’s words remained unchanged.
“In this domain, that’s what we call those things.”
“…What do you mean?”
“He who is loved by the great.”
“Give me more details.”
Shin Cheol’s tone lost its humor.
“Don’t you really get it? The countless added layers to that child? I can see it so well.”
“He’s a guy who’s popular with eccentric people. More than a few.”
It was amusing to see how different he was each time I looked at him.
The turtle shook its head at Shin Cheol’s words.
What he said and what Shin Cheol said were different.
“Everything that happens to that child is the handiwork of someone.”
A gentle tremor developed in the turtle’s voice.
“I’ve heard I’m great everywhere I’ve gone. But that child has something different.”
“Hmm.”
Shin Cheol didn’t really deny those unlucky words.
In reality, the turtle was a remarkable being, and he himself wasn’t so different either.
“The only fortunate thing is that the monster isn’t here.”
The turtle’s cane pointed at Shin Cheol.
“Is it because he chose that side?”
“Hmm.”
Only after hearing that did Shin Cheol seem to understand what the turtle was discussing.
“Can that really be called a choice?”
Gu Yang-cheon was not chosen.
“Since it was the central plains in the first place, there wouldn’t have been anything to choose from?”
Gggggggggg.
The turtle laughed at Shin Cheol’s words; they were amusing to him.
“Why are you laughing? It makes me want to break your shell.”
“Jang Moon-in, you are mistaken about something.”
“Huh?”
“Those who are called monsters in the world are usually predestined.”
“What do you mean?”
“It means that their place of birth was predetermined. That way, the blessings they have will have meaning.”
“…”
“But the monster choosing that side over this one…”
Thump.
The cane lightly pressed against the floor.
“That must mean it was someone’s intention.”
Shin Cheol was reflected in the turtle’s black eyes.
“I’ll help you with the work as promised, but I won’t get involved with that monster.”
The turtle stood up.
Until then, Shin Cheol hadn’t said much.
He just looked at the turtle with calm eyes.
At that moment…
“Ah. But, Jang Moon-in.”
The turtle looked at Shin Cheol and asked.
“Are you feeling okay?”
“…”
At those words, Shin Cheol’s face crumpled slightly.
“Somehow it doesn’t look good…”
Click-!
Quwaduk-!!
“Hmm?”
The turtle stopped talking and looked towards the door.
What’s this? The door was opening.
“Huh? Why is this happening…?”
It was a door that had been blocked so it would never open.
If you don’t mix one or two conditions, it shouldn’t easily come off.
Is it suddenly trying to open now?
The turtle looked a little flustered and tried to touch the door.
Kwaaak-!!
The door that had barely held up suddenly burst open.
“What the hell.”
Then a young man with black hair emerged, cursing fiercely.
“It’s so filthy, it’s hard to open!”
It was Gu Yang-cheon.
“What the heck, there’s so much to solve. I thought my head was going to explode!”
Gu Yang-cheon gnashed his teeth in anger.
The turtle stared at him, surprised.
“…How on earth?”
I can’t grasp this.
At those words, Gu Yang-cheon scowled.
“What?”
“I’m sure I erased the conditions when I sent you out. How on earth did you open the door and come in?”
“Conditions? Ah.”
When Gu Yang-cheon heard that, it clicked.
“That thing that was wrapped around my body?”
There was something weird about it. It looked extremely annoying.
“I took it off.”
“…You took it off?”
“Yes, I took it off.”
“How…?”
“I just grabbed it and pulled it off.”
Of course, it wouldn’t come off just by pulling; I had to twist it a bit to get it off.
But it wasn’t that hard.
“…”
What kind of answer is that? The turtle stared blankly for a moment before coming to his senses and asking something else.
“…Then how did you open the door?”
“What did you expect? I just opened it.”
“That’s impossible. We specifically made it so it couldn’t be opened.”
“Yes, it was just locked.”
So…
“It was hard to open!”
“…”
“A lot.”
That’s just an absurd answer.
How did that happen? The turtle felt perplexed and had numerous questions.
“…Ah.”
He dismissed those thoughts quickly, realizing they were meaningless.
“Long story.”
“Huh?”
“I didn’t say anything.”
The turtle pointed at Gu Yang-cheon and stated.
“This is a monster.”
“No, why do you keep calling people monsters…?”
Giggle.
Shin Cheol laughed at the turtle’s words.
“But isn’t it still funny?”
“…”
The turtle shook his head and walked past Gu Yang-cheon.
Seeing this, Shin Cheol rose and followed the turtle.
“I just got back here, and now you’re going…!”
As he passed by, Shin Cheol patted Gu Yang-cheon’s head, who was fuming.
“Stop whining and come with me. I’ll show you something fun.”
Shin Cheol’s eyes, as he spoke, looked slightly tired for some reason, unlike his cheerful tone.
In the dark space, crimson eyes glow faintly.
The woman opened her closed eyes and gazed ahead.
“You’re back.”
Someone knelt down and bowed their head at her softly spoken words.
“Did you have a good trip?”
“…”
Nod.
The one kneeling in response to the woman’s words nodded instead of speaking.
It would be absurd to take such an action in front of a woman, but she was the only one allowed to do so.
A being with brown hair and a black mask.
Many called her Yalang.
“Have you checked everything?”
Yalang nodded again.
“Alright. Where is it?”
Yalang carefully wrote something on the floor.
The woman squinted and touched her lips with her fingertip.
“Hm.”
It was unexpected.
“Thought it would be farther away.”
If they had tried to flee or hide, she imagined they would have gone much farther.
How did they pick such a location to settle?
Was there something else on their mind?
“The bottomless pit…”
Why did that child make this choice?
The woman still couldn’t understand.
She needed to faithfully carry out her role in the darkness, not in the light.
“…What kind of wind is blowing?”
An abnormal occurrence had taken place in the Mujeonggang.
The resulting anomaly had caused a significant rift in the very universe.
The woman needed to resolve this matter.
Furthermore.
‘Dragons.’
The two dragons that had been thought to have disappeared had suddenly reappeared.
That in itself was strange.
It was even more bizarre that they had tried to protect it.
Additionally,
The more significant issue was that even while aware of this, she still hadn’t taken proper actions.
That was probably the biggest problem.
Tracing back to the cause, it had to be from that moment.
From when she caught a glimpse of the dragon, the woman had felt an inexplicable unease.
Because of this, she couldn’t even give the orders that needed to be issued correctly.
“It’s done now.”
Her mind was gradually settling.
To be more precise, there was no time to think further.
It was clear she had something to protect.
“Please relay to the children instead.”
Thinking that, the woman spoke to Yalang.
“Now that I know the location.”
The woman’s eyes, as she spoke, shone with light, yet above all, they were dark.
“Capture him and bring him here.”
The only thing she had to protect was the ten thousand worlds.
For the woman, there was nothing else.
Nothing existed.
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