How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 124
Chapter 124
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After a long time, it was the moment when mother and daughter finally faced each other.
“It’s been a while, Mother.”
The appearance of her mother whom she met after so long was not much different from the past.
No, rather she seemed even more seductive and younger.
“Yes.”
Baek Seon-hee also responded without being flustered.
“It’s been a while.”
She knew that Kim Se-hyun was called the Bloody Queen in America and had built her reputation.
And that such a woman had.
“In the end, you kept Johan by your side.”
She also knew that she had become what Go Johan called an apostle, a being half-human, half-demon.
However.
‘I didn’t think it would be to this extent.’
She didn’t expect her to possess the skill to slaughter Romentu like that and pierce through multiple barriers without any sign.
Even while thinking this, Baek Seon-hee said.
“I told you, didn’t I? To keep him by your side.”
From childhood, Baek Seon-hee had particularly told Kim Se-hyun.
‘Get along well with Johan.’
‘Johan…’
‘Bring Johan home sometime.’
And Kim Se-hyun hadn’t disliked it either.
But as time passed, she could understand.
“It’s all thanks to your mother, isn’t it?”
What she had wanted was the radiance called Sanctum, and she had tried to sell Kim Se-hyun to trade for it.
“I’m grateful for that.”
“Right?”
Baek Seon-hee surveyed Kim Se-hyun.
‘I can’t read her.’
Even seeing it, she couldn’t believe it.
She had gained this power by selling everything to demons, yet even with that, she couldn’t see through her.
“That’s not the only thing you should be grateful for.”
Baek Seon-hee sat on the sofa’s headrest and said.
“That power you have now too…”
Grin.
Kim Se-hyun, who had killed Romentu, stood still.
Whatever the reason, it meant there was still time.
“You know your mother gave it to you, right?”
“……!”
For the first time, flames seemed to flicker in Kim Se-hyun’s eyes.
“Thanks to me, you could be chosen as their vessel, and in return…”
Baek Seon-hee said.
“You met Go Johan and gained that power, so it’s all thanks to me.”
“What are you thinking?”
Kim Se-hyun asked.
“What confidence makes you say such things?”
Kim Se-hyun spoke as if she truly couldn’t understand.
“Because I know you.”
Baek Seon-hee answered.
“Because I know that weak human’s blood runs in your veins.”
Grin.
“I’m your mother. What? Are you going to kill me?”
“……”
“You obviously came knowing everything. What’s the point of hiding it? But remember this.”
At that moment.
Whoooosh!
Black air seemed to fill the penthouse.
“I am your mother, and everything you have is what I gave you.”
Swish.
Baek Seon-hee’s nails, which had approached at some point, caressed Kim Se-hyun’s face.
“That weak human gave you nothing but the name Tae-han. Even that has disappeared, hasn’t it? Your beautiful appearance. That power. Everything is what your mother gave you.”
She had been an incomparably weak child from childhood.
The child who resembled that man, Kim Tae-hwan, more than herself, couldn’t even think of defying her parents’ words.
A child who would do as told, living as a pretty doll.
Baek Seon-hee, who prided herself on knowing humans better than anyone, could guarantee it.
“What have I done wrong to you?”
That those childhood memories would be imprinted like a brand, becoming inescapable shackles.
That those children who believed they had been freed would trap themselves in shackles at the slightest touch.
“You tell me. What exactly have I done wrong to you that you came looking for me with a sharp blade?”
That’s when it happened.
“Is that the end of your last words?”
“What?”
Swoooosh!
The black smoke scattered in an instant.
What filled the space instead was all blood-red light.
In the following moment.
Scrape!
A red line had been drawn on Baek Seon-hee’s porcelain-like cheek.
“What did I do wrong?”
Baek Seon-hee stepped back, and Kim Se-hyun approached her and said.
“Everything.”
“You…!”
“Why did you do that to Father? Even though Dad was insufficient, he did his best for Mother.”
Scrape.
Memories of the past.
Though his final form had been painfully hard for her to accept, the Kim Tae-hwan before that had been different.
And above all.
“Even knowing that he only looked at your background, Father… truly loved Mother.”
Stab!
The approaching Kim Se-hyun’s sword tip, the blade of wrath, pierced Baek Seon-hee.
“You shouldn’t have done that to me or Dad.”
There was something Baek Seon-hee hadn’t considered.
That what Kim Se-hyun inherited was that archdemon, Wrath.
Moreover.
“You…”
As Baek Seon-hee had said, though Kim Se-hyun had Kim Tae-hwan’s blood.
Just as much.
“…Trash!”
She also carried Baek Seon-hee’s blood.
Slash!
The blade that split her belly spattered along with Baek Seon-hee’s blood.
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Kim Se-hyun had thought about Baek Seon-hee for a long time.
Any hypotheticals that could have been made due to numerous processes meant nothing.
Because the result was clearer than anything.
“You…”
Not hiding the flickering flames of wrath, Kim Se-hyun approached Baek Seon-hee.
“You destroyed everything for yourself.”
Baek Seon-hee’s deal with demons was a very long time ago.
And she had tried to fulfill that ambition using Tae-han.
She planted a demon in Kim Tae-hwan and offered her daughter as a vessel for an archdemon.
“Want to say something?”
“……!”
“Don’t.”
Stab!
Nothing would change as a result.
Even if she had truly done all those things for her sake, it didn’t matter.
“Don’t say anything.”
Staaaab!
She was neither a mother nor a person.
“Se-hyun… I…!”
“If you weren’t a demon, I might have hesitated.”
But Baek Seon-hee had shed her human skin and decided to become a demon.
“How is it? Do you regret becoming a demon?”
At that moment.
Kwaaaaa!
Black liquid burst out from Baek Seon-hee’s body in streams.
Kim Se-hyun was pushed back by that energy wave.
Boom!
The penthouse wall collapsed and an explosion occurred.
The appearance of Baek Seon-hee revealed in the explosion was nothing short of grotesque.
Half melted into something, the other half something unbearably beautiful.
She already knew.
‘Succubus.’
That she had sold her soul to the Succubus Queen and became a succubus in return.
“…I was mistaken.”
Revealed thus, Baek Seon-hee said with a distorted face.
“You really are my daughter. You inherited my blood more deeply than that human’s.”
Grooooan.
The descending energy seemed to devour everything around.
“You know better than anyone how to make someone regret, how to cause pain, don’t you?”
Baek Seon-hee tore at her grotesque appearance.
Black skin sprouting, her entire body was transforming.
The true power demon contractors possess.
It was the manifestation of demonization.
“What’s wrong with striving to have what you want?”
Snap.
When Baek Seon-hee flicked her finger, Kim Se-hyun’s wrath was being erased.
No, it would be more accurate to say it was falling asleep.
“Everything is just a tool. You too, that man too. No. This entire world.”
Snap!
When she flicked her finger once more, Kim Se-hyun’s eyes were gradually closing.
It was like a black cocoon transforming into a moth.
The same was true for Black Gates.
Black Gates were also just fragments of worlds devoured by demons, not their true form from their real world.
However.
Crack! Crack!
Demon contractors, those who chose to transform into demons from their original world.
Booooom!
Could exert power close to demons’ true nature.
The bursting energy wave exploded the penthouse, pushing Kim Se-hyun back.
“Ha, impressive.”
She was genuinely amazed.
She thought there was nothing she couldn’t do with this power.
“Why aren’t you grateful to me?”
Though she tried to kill Kim Se-hyun, only her skin peeled slightly.
Also, though she tried to escape this space, Greed’s Vault still existed intact, trapping her.
“I’m the one who gave you that power, aren’t I?”
“You’re not!”
“No.”
Swish.
Baek Seon-hee, who had disappeared, appeared right in front of Kim Se-hyun’s nose and extended her hand.
Stab!
Nails piercing Kim Se-hyun’s belly.
“I gave it to you. It’s a strange feeling, like I’m piercing myself.”
Swish.
With her other hand, Baek Seon-hee stroked Kim Se-hyun.
“Come with me. If you’re like this now, I can truly call you my daughter. They will be pleased too, won’t they? You have…”
Drip, drop.
Blood flowed down from the cracking cheeks.
“Their blood flowing through you, don’t you?”
She laughed like that.
“You’re my treasure. If I have you, I can go to even higher places…”
Splaaaash!
Blood-red blades that flew from somewhere tore Baek Seon-hee apart.
Kim Se-hyun, who regained her freedom, knelt on one knee and exhaled roughly.
“Look at this.”
Baek Seon-hee’s voice was heard then.
“This is the real power of demons.”
Though she thought she had torn her to shreds with wrath’s blades, Baek Seon-hee was recovering that tattered appearance.
That’s when it happened.
Tap.
At the small noise heard, Baek Seon-hee’s time seemed to stop.
“……!”
When she turned around sharply, a man with silver-white hair stood there.
“……”
Baek Seon-hee’s body trembled.
‘To this extent?’
Right now she possessed the true power of a demon who had awakened five horns.
Of course, she couldn’t completely escape the limitations of being human and the concept of time, so that power was reduced by half, but at least…
‘To this extent…?’
Though she had been confident she wouldn’t be intimidated by anyone wearing human skin.
“Wow…”
It was truly an admirable feeling.
Just by standing there, her whole body tingled.
She couldn’t move as if nails had been driven into her body, and her demonized instinct was screaming.
You’ll die, you’ll die, you’ll die.
If that man tried to kill her, she could never escape.
“W-wait.”
Baek Seon-hee said.
“I’ll tell you about the apostles! About the demons too! Everything I know…!”
Crunch!
Her head was viciously torn off.
But even so, she was still alive, writhing and regenerating.
Kim Se-hyun, kneeling on one knee, looked at Go Johan.
He was asking.
‘Are you really okay?’
Even at this moment, Go Johan was being considerate of her.
“I…”
And Kim Se-hyun responded.
“I’m okay.”
Nod.
“I’ll permit the opening.”
Did Baek Seon-hee know?
Rust, who sealed herself, Ju In-gyeong, who was forced because she couldn’t withstand her power’s rampage.
And among the apostles, there was one more subject of sealed power.
“…Thank you, Johan.”
A contract by mutual agreement, suppressing power through it was precisely Wrath.
Ira, that it was Kim Se-hyun.
Kwaaaaaaaa!
The entire world was dyed red.
From there, Kim Se-hyun’s desperate wrath was pouring out.