How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 123
Chapter 123
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Go Johan seemed to devour all noise and attention.
It was as if showing how much presence a single being could command.
“…Thank you.”
The Sanctuary Alliance only said that to Go Johan.
Though his healing ability wasn’t widely known yet, the Sanctuary Alliance had vaguely heard about it.
However.
“Ah… Ah!”
Others were different.
The healing ability was known to be extremely rare worldwide.
Moreover, among the wounds Go Johan had just healed were injuries that had been precariously close to amputation.
Go Johan slowly surveyed his surroundings.
There were no more threats.
‘I’m late.’
The reason Go Johan had been so late was a simple matter.
He didn’t want to see it.
Because he might not have been able to endure the malice poured on him and the slander against those around him.
“……”
He hadn’t looked, fearing he might forget that he was the goddess’s knight.
“P-please… save me…”
Someone crawled on the ground toward Go Johan.
It was one of the executives of the civic group Justice.
Looking as if hit by the black flash, one leg had disappeared.
“Please… save… me…”
“The demon is dead.”
At Go Johan’s words, the executive made a tearful face and said.
“Me too… heal…”
The executive begged to be healed like the Sanctuary Alliance members.
That’s when it happened.
“Hang Go Johan!”
“Burn Sanctum!”
Suddenly voices came from behind, and Go Johan looked there.
The billboard damaged by the battle’s aftermath – in that distorted place, a small cute black dragon was displaying a screen.
“Go Johan is the real demon!”
The scene of the executive who was now begging Go Johan for healing, what he had been spouting until just before, was recorded there.
The VTuber called Yongyong didn’t say anything else, yet his will was conveyed.
Don’t save them.
“……”
When he looked back, there was the executive’s distorted face.
“Save me…”
What if it had been the past?
If this were Travania.
And Go Johan.
“I… you…”
Go Johan said while surveying the protesters behind.
Those distorted with pain, begging to be saved.
“I won’t save you.”
“……!”
“So don’t beg me for your lives.”
“…Demon!”
That’s when it happened.
“You’re the demon! That bastard earlier – you sent him! You ordered it!”
The executive who had been begging for his life until just now shouted as if possessed by a demon.
Having lost hope of being healed, he poured out cursing words as if consumed by evil.
“That demon said it! That he follows you! That it was for you!”
“……”
“If you don’t save us, you’re admitting it!”
Where did such strength come from?
Such a question lasted only briefly.
“So what?”
Go Johan answered.
“……?”
“When did I ever say I was your savior? I clearly kept saying.”
“……!”
“That I would do anything to kill demons, but.”
Step.
“I never once said I would save you.”
“Ah…”
“Don’t judge me as you please. Not me nor those around me.”
And one more thing.
‘This will keep happening.’
Go Johan could tell for various reasons.
That demons would use any despicable means to attack him, and incidents like this would happen countless times.
‘I can’t keep doing this forever.’
Because it wouldn’t only be him getting hurt every time such things repeated.
Greed had said:
“I want to kill them all.”
The others felt no different.
They had the power to do so, and no one would have questioned it.
But they had endured it for Go Johan’s sake.
‘No more…’
He wouldn’t hide behind and remain silent anymore.
“Don’t forget that I’m an ordinary person.”
It was a message to everyone.
“That my patience has limits too, that no one likes being beaten.”
“……”
“Right now I may be a villain.”
Go Johan said.
“Do you want me to become a demon too?”
Gulp.
No one opened their mouth.
Because Go Johan’s presence and gaze were clear.
“If I have to step forward in such matters from now on, many people will have to die.”
It was a warning to everyone.
“Even if it means my hands will take their lives.”
That was the end.
No one tried to provoke Go Johan anymore.
If anyone tried to provoke him.
Flicker.
The association members and Sanctuary Alliance with eyes blazing would step forward first.
It was clearly felt that they would no longer be restrained.
And.
“……”
Go Johan approached the billboard.
‘Ha-yeon, is this your doing?’
The black dragon on the broken billboard before Go Johan’s eyes was cautiously opening its mouth.
“Kr, kraang. Kraaang.”
As if unable to speak human language, the way it howled randomly was impressive.
“It’s not me.”
Lee Ha-yeon, Greed’s voice came.
“But it seems we need to give a reward.”
Go Johan also knew that various channels existed with him as their subject.
Among them, the one showing the steepest growth was Yongyong, who used a black dragon avatar?
“Yongyong?”
“Y-you know me? H-hyung?”
“Interested in working on something together?”
At Go Johan’s words, the billboard hesitated as if lagging.
But soon.
“I-it’s an honorrrr!”
A shout like a scream burst out.
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“…Why didn’t you tell me?”
Baek Seon-hee said with a distorted face.
Cracks seemed to break across her once beautiful face.
“What are you talking about?”
Romentu, the four-horned demon, tilted his head and said.
“…That Go Johan has healing abilities.”
“Is that important?”
“It’s important!”
Baek Seon-hee shouted.
Crunch.
She was, at some point, biting her own nails.
“I tried to bind Go Johan, but if it’s like that…”
The opposite effect of what Baek Seon-hee had thought would occur.
“Idiot demon bastards.”
“…You should watch your words.”
“You should.”
For demons, healing and regeneration were just ordinary passive abilities.
From the beginning, if not for Go Johan and a few other beings, demons were beings close to immortal.
So they didn’t seem to notice the greatness of healing.
“Do you know what that means?”
Baek Seon-hee said.
“Well, of course you wouldn’t.”
Crunch.
The greatest motivation for humans to sell even their own souls was the fear of death.
Whether themselves or their families, human nature was to sell their souls and everything if it meant not dying.
‘Go Johan replaces demons.’
Even at this very moment.
Crunch! Crunch!
She felt regret about joining hands with demons.
If only she could have remained human and just received eternal life from Go Johan.
Crunch!
Much better…
“Ha!”
But it was too late to think about it now.
Her plan had completely failed.
‘To call himself an ordinary person there.’
Didn’t such beings usually struggle desperately to appear more great and special?
“I need to move.”
Baek Seon-hee said.
“Operations in Korea have completely failed. It’s already too late to corner Go Johan socially.”
Moreover, she had confirmed that someone with quite some talent was on Go Johan’s side.
“A method?”
Romentu said.
“Is there a method?”
At that moment, Baek Seon-hee could tell.
“Ha! If there’s no method, what? You’ll take my head?”
And…
“If necessary.”
The aura pouring from Romentu was proving those words were true.
Baek Seon-hee had five horns, Romentu had four.
But Romentu was by no means an inferior demon compared to her.
Rather, a demon who seemed to be hiding something, unsettling to no end.
“…There is a method.”
So Baek Seon-hee stepped back and said.
“I’ll go around nuclear-armed nations and make them my servants. That Greed person already worked on them making it difficult, but if I take time, I can create an opening.”
Baek Seon-hee thought.
‘Even nuclear weapons probably can’t stop him…’
Even so.
“If we fire dozens at South Korea, won’t it work out somehow?”
If the ground he stood on completely crumbled and everything he cherished was destroyed, the story would be different.
“…You really know nothing about him.”
“……?”
“That’s not a problem that can be solved that way.”
That’s when it happened.
Ding.
With demonic power gained, her heightened hearing sensed something.
“Seems too late to escape already.”
And outside.
Flaaaash!
A golden cube was felt constricting the building.
She had seen that before.
‘Greed’s Vault.’
An ability used by one of Go Johan’s subordinates called Greed.
An absolute prison where thousands of demons were simply trapped, unable to do anything.
“He is acknowledged by all demons as our adversary.”
As Romentu said this and moved his hand.
“You won’t have a chance, but if we can realize this once more, that alone would have value.”
Stab!
A blade that flew from somewhere pierced through Romentu’s chest.
Another blade cut off his hand reaching for a sword.
And.
Splaaaash!
Moving the sword that had pierced his chest, it split Romentu apart.
“Ah, may my memories and emotions be conveyed to all those who are complacent.”
With that as the last words.
Slaaash!
Dozens of blades tore Romentu apart.
“……!”
Baek Seon-hee backed away in panic and shock.
Even she couldn’t have dealt with Romentu in such a way.
The absolute powerhouse, Go Johan?
No.
“It’s been a while.”
All those blades were redder than anything else, blood-colored.
And Baek Seon-hee knew about it.
The ability to simultaneously create and control dozens of swords.
The woman called Queen because the movement of those blades was so beautiful.
“Mother.”
Kim Se-hyun stood at the penthouse entrance, looking at Baek Seon-hee.