How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 11

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Chapter 11

“What will you do?” Go Johan asked in a languid voice.

“Ha, this damn kid…” The player without arms spoke, suppressing his emotions.

“What do you mean by serve Goddess?” Park Do-young said. 

“Old man! You believe those words?”

“Stay still.” Park Do-young growled in a low voice. “What do you mean by serving Goddess?” He asked again.

“For now, you just need to protect this church and one child.”

“Is that all?”

“Mr. Park Do-young may not know, but the others… perhaps for a long time, won’t be able to leave the church.”

“What does that mean?” Shin Seul-hye spoke as if implying they would be confined.

“What would happen if the severed arms, severed legs, blinded eyes, became intact again?”

All the attention would pour in. Recovery players were rare enough to count on one hand worldwide.

“…There would be an uproar.”

“Yes.” They still had to avoid too much attention. ‘We can’t be fooled by the demons’ tricks.’ It didn’t matter for just himself, but Shinsung’s family was at stake. He made up his mind to involve others, but Shinsung was not just anyone.

“Good. I see why Lee Jae-kyung said those words beforehand.” It seemed Lee Jae-kyung had roughly told the story.

“What about the others?”

“Me too.”

“As long as my legs become intact…”

“Damn it. Are you all crazy… If it’s possible! Me too…”

Go Johan smiled with satisfaction. “A promise must be kept.”

Go Johan moved and approached the player who was expressing the most dissatisfaction, the one without arms. His name was Choi Byoung-su, a former prosecutor who had to endure countless insults after losing both arms.

“Just try and fail…” He was venting his anger even as Go Johan approached right in front of his nose.

Swish. Go Johan placed his hand on Choi Byoung-su’s chest.

Gulp. Everyone swallowed and watched the scene. Even if resentment surged at relying on an 8-year-old boy, the other party was Shinsung’s youngest and the Sword Demon.

‘Please.’ Closing his eyes with a vague bit of hope, that moment.

Gugugugugu! Choi Byoung-su’s upper body began to tremble violently.

“Kuheok!” Choi Byoung-su suddenly let out a scream. His vision went dark and his whole body felt like it was being sucked somewhere.

“Heok!” Choi Byoung-su gasped for breath in that deep darkness. An endless fear engulfed him. A sense of dread as if submerged in the deep sea, having to live forever with no rescue. 

In that sea, small light appeared at that moment.

“Heok! Heok! Heoheok!” Choi Byoung-su gasped roughly. Reality had returned at some point.

“You… you damn kid!” Choi Byoung-su, thinking Go Johan had done something to him, reached out his hand toward Go Johan, unable to contain his anger.

“I’ll kill…” I’ll kill you. That’s what he thought, but.

“……” He stopped and trembled.

“Aa…” Something flowed down his cheeks.

“Aaaa…!” He screamed and wailed.

“Thank you… Thank you…!” The two hands he had clearly lost were stopped right in front of Go Johan’s nose.

“This, this unbelievable…” 

“Crazy…” Those who saw the scene were all shocked.

* * * *

“Aaa…” The reactions were all similar. Feeling the light entering her two eyes, Shin Seul-hye burst into tears. She thought it was a light she would never see again.

Fumbling, fumbling. The church chair, and.

“Aaaaaah!” She cried out loud, seeing Go Johan’s face. “Thank you….”

They were all people who didn’t give up the life of a player despite becoming disabled. They researched how to fight with their legs without arms, and didn’t let go of the bow despite being blind. But it was all useless, and they only became the laughingstock of other players.

“I, I can’t believe it.” Park Do-young also said, feeling the cancer cells that had been heavily weighing down his whole body disappear. 

“I can’t believe it…” The number of players with healing abilities in the world could be counted on one hand. The one boasting the most powerful healing among them was Lucia Song Claire of Europe. Some called her a saint. Even she only regenerated one severed arm, and became so weakened afterwards that she couldn’t get out of bed for a while.

If that was the case. “Huh.” Go Johan just looked a little more languid, standing fine. 

“……” And that sight was surprising even for Lee Jae-kyung. He had expected it, but. ‘To this extent.’ This was not something that could be called recovery or regeneration. 

‘It’s a miracle.’ A literal miracle. There was no need to think of the power that tore demons apart. With just this one ability, Go Johan’s value was infinite.

“You haven’t forgotten the promise, right?”

“O-of course!”

“We will keep it…!”

“Thank you!” Just looking at the scene in front of them, that was the case. Those who were once rankers, albeit fallen, were following Go Johan like a god. 

There would be quite a few players who become disabled at the gate, so if they all borrowed strength from Go Johan in exchange for treatment?

“……” Shinsung and the others couldn’t even compare. But that’s why it was dangerous. ‘They’ll try to take it.’ Countless people would rise up to monopolize that power.

Goosebumps… Osososo. Goosebumps rose. ‘If they don’t keep their promise…’ He thought he might have to step forward.

“It mustn’t be just words.” At the end of Go Johan’s warning, the meeting that day ended.

* * * *

“I, I can’t believe it.” The four players sat blankly on the church chairs and spoke. “I can’t believe it…” 

What the 8-year-old kid showed, Go Johan who couldn’t find anything special if you didn’t mind Shinsung’s backing. 

“It’s a miracle.” It was a miracle. Osososo. Even now, thinking of that moment gave them goosebumps.

“If people find out about this fact…” As Park Do-young was saying that.

“Old man, don’t talk nonsense.” Choi Byoung-su’s chilling voice flowed out. It wasn’t just that. Shin Seul-hye, who healed her two eyes, and Kang In, who healed his legs, also looked at Park Do-young with fierce eyes.

“W-who said they would do that?” Park Do-young said, startled. “I was just gauging how much of an uproar there would be.”

“If you have any silly thoughts, we won’t leave you alone.”

“Am I crazy.” Park Do-young said. “…After seeing that.” 

All those who received treatment had the same experience. Pitch-black darkness, a small shining light in it.

“…Is that what they call a goddess?”

“I don’t know.”

“Really.” The players who felt closer to the world’s secrets after becoming players felt like they had become much more distant.

Swish. Yoon Seung-ah carefully revealed herself from a corner.

“Seung-ah.” Shin Seul-hye spoke to Yoon Seung-ah as if welcoming her. Before Go Johan and Lee Jae-kyung left, they introduced Yoon Seung-ah.

“Sorry, were we too loud?” The four players were welcoming Yoon Seung-ah with smiling faces as if there had never been a grim atmosphere. But something was strange.

“…It’s not a goddess.” Yoon Seung-ah approached and spoke with an unprecedented look in her eyes. 

“……” To the extent that the ranker-level players shrank back for a moment.

‘They said she was a special child.’ ‘To this extent?’ It wasn’t the first or second time they were surprised by both Go Johan and Yoon Seung-ah.

“What do you mean it’s not a goddess?”

“…He did it.”

“He?”

Shin Seul-hye tilted her head and spoke. “The great one…”

“Johan?”

That’s when. Hwarureureuk! A huge fireball flickered and appeared behind Yoon Seung-ah.

“…!” Feeling the distinct power, the four players unknowingly stepped back and took a combat stance. That was a huge and intense power they had never felt before.

“W-what…”

“Don’t call him so casually.” As if warning.

Hwik. The single fireball multiplied into eight, surrounding the area. 

“He saved me and you. Him.”

“……”

“If you disappoint him.” Along with Yoon Seung-ah’s cold eyes.

Pasut. The flickering fireballs froze and fell in an instant.

“I won’t… forgive you.” Leaving those words behind, Yoon Seung-ah turned around and left again.

Thud. As if having the energy drained, the four players almost simultaneously sat down.

“Oh my…”

“What is this…”

Their faces were dumbfounded and perplexed, but the gravity did not fade.

“Certainly…” It wasn’t fear of Yoon Seung-ah? It was just that they felt it was right to change their thoughts about Go Johan, as Yoon Seung-ah said.

“I, I think…” Park Do-young said with a faint smile on his lips. “I found something to devote the rest of my life to.” He only didn’t say it, but the others’ faces were similar.

* * * *

“Haa.” Go Johan sighed.

“Why are you doing that?” A dashing old gentleman approached and carefully asked Go Johan. It was Park Do-young. His face was so different from before that even a close friend would have a hard time recognizing him.

“Let’s change the face first.” The four players had made up their minds in case someone recognized them, and it was thanks to Go Johan’s help. Now their past was gone. Only the present and future remained.

“Is there some big issue?” Park Do-young asked with a worried face, his attitude much more respectful. ‘What on earth is it.’ If it was enough to make Go Johan sigh like this, he thought it must be quite a big deal.

“…I learned multiplication and division.”

“…?” Park Do-young was blank for a moment, then smiled. “You’ll have to take the middle school equivalency test or something.” Because he realized the fact that this great person who would surprise the world was only 8 years old.

“Do you have a lot of homework?” Shin Seul-hye, who had approached at some point, also asked with a dumbfounded face. 

“If necessary, I will do it for you.” It was Choi Byoung-su’s voice.