How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 125
Chapter 125
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There were many reasons why Kim Se-hyun had gone to America.
To escape the responsibility for Tae-han’s collapse and various issues.
To firmly establish church forces overseas and build a reputation where she could operate.
To protect Goh Min-ji.
To find Baek Seon-hee…
If she listed reasons, there could be countless more.
But the reason Go Johan sent her all the way to America was, in fact, just one.
Kwaaaaaaaa!
It was because of the archdemon’s power she inherited, Wrath.
Her pouring wrath was dyed blood-red, covering the entire building.
Not stopping there, it even covered Greed’s Vault that had sealed the building.
Crack!
Greed’s Vault, which she thought Baek Seon-hee could never escape no matter how hard she tried.
Craaack!
Pressure enough to crack it was pouring out.
Tremble.
Power strong enough to make Go Johan’s skin tremble.
This was Kim Se-hyun’s true power.
‘Wrath.’
It was wrath.
All her childhood, domestic discord, her father’s death and abuse.
The land where all of that occurred, South Korea.
Just being on that land alone made her wrath like a time bomb, never knowing when it would explode.
‘It was the best option.’
Sealing her emotions through agreement with her and choosing to go to America was unavoidable.
If not, she would have become an idiot like Ju In-gyeong with more sealed away, or become unable to step outside while locking herself away like Rust.
And such wrath of hers.
“Keeeek!”
Was directed at Baek Seon-hee.
The surging blood-red fog captured Baek Seon-hee, who had completed regeneration.
Whoooosh!
Black smoke and liquid tried to resist it.
Boom!
But the blood-red smoke burst through it all with force.
When does wrath ignite most greatly?
Between Go Johan and Michael, he had seen much wrath in those two lives.
And among them, the greatest wrath was…
Booom!
Betrayal of love, the wrath from it.
Crunch!
The sense of loss from that betrayal was indescribable, and it would cast a person to the bottom of hell.
But the greatest among them was.
“…If you were going to do that.”
The first love a human has after being born.
An instinctive bond of blood, done without even knowing the reason.
“You shouldn’t have given birth to me.”
Love for parents, that betrayal.
Those who experienced it had everything destroyed.
Whether themselves or their surroundings, if asked to name the greatest destruction in this world, Go Johan would choose that without hesitation.
Crack.
A horn sprouted above one side of her forehead.
Blood-red, black-dyed pupils stared at Baek Seon-hee while gripping her neck.
“Why!”
At that cry, Baek Seon-hee’s demonic energy reversed, and regeneration was being suppressed.
“…Why…”
Even in one wrath, countless emotions were mixed that couldn’t dare be expressed in a single word.
“…Why?”
Baek Seon-hee, held by Kim Se-hyun, curled her lips and said.
Though tremendous pain was oppressing her, whether it was the desire to live or she too had inherent wrath.
“Why…?”
She squeezed out with all her strength.
“I… didn’t want to give birth to you either.”
Boom!
Above her neck, everything burst out.
It happened without Go Johan even having time to say anything.
“Even I…”
Yet Baek Seon-hee stubbornly regenerated to continue speaking.
“Giving birth to you…”
Bang bang bang bang bang!
Red explosions left stains in the penthouse.
“That’s your situation.”
Now Baek Seon-hee had become pieces rolling on the floor.
That was the end.
Even all the demonic energy that made up Baek Seon-hee.
Bang bang bang bang bang!
Kim Se-hyun’s wrath burned and destroyed it.
As if not leaving even a trace of a piece.
“……”
Kim Se-hyun carefully turned her head to look at Go Johan.
Even though she now possessed power to destroy a nation.
“…Johan.”
She was crying.
“I…”
That’s when it happened.
“It’s okay.”
Go Johan embraced the swaying Kim Se-hyun and said.
“It’s okay.”
Just those words alone.
“Sob…”
Suppressed sobbing flowed from within the blood-red fog.
“Waaaaaah!”
Soon it exploded, becoming crying sounds like a newborn baby.
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The destroyed penthouse and building, Greed’s Vault was still activated.
Go Johan and Kim Se-hyun sat on the collapsed debris, looking down at the city.
“Is it… okay to be like this?”
At Kim Se-hyun’s words, Go Johan laughed incredulously.
The horn that had sprouted on her forehead due to the opening had already disappeared.
Though she was said to have changed a lot from her long activities in America.
“What does it matter?”
This appearance was no different from when she was a snotty kid in the past.
“Let’s stay like this until your heart settles. It won’t get better quickly anyway.”
Kim Se-hyun might have succeeded in what could be called revenge.
But this kind of revenge always left an unsettling feeling.
The betrayal of a loved one – having to ultimately punish a loved one meant that wound would be deeply embedded and never disappear for life.
“She was someone who deserved to die.”
Kim Se-hyun said.
“I knew she had her circumstances…”
While pursuing Baek Seon-hee, she learned that she too was a broken human.
She also learned that her father, who had only seemed admirable in childhood, had another side.
But, but.
“Father paid for his sins.”
Kim Tae-hwan died.
By Go Johan’s hand.
“It was Mother’s turn to pay.”
Even the remaining mother paid for her sins by her own hand.
“Now…”
Kim Se-hyun said.
“Only my turn remains, right?”
The endless cycle of revenge.
“You’ve grown.”
“Hm?”
“You even know such things.”
Revenge was ultimately an infinity that couldn’t be cut, so once started, the end could never be good.
“But that won’t happen.”
“……”
“Live selfishly. I’ll protect you.”
“……!”
“If it’s really hard, think that it wasn’t you who did it. That I did it.”
“…But.”
“Did you forget?”
Go Johan said without looking at Kim Se-hyun.
“I bore all your sins. That includes not only the archdemons’ sins, but also the sins you will commit in the future.”
“……!”
“That’s the price for making you fight demons.”
Go Johan said.
“You don’t need to feel guilty. Baek Seon-hee wouldn’t have repented. The moment she sold everything to demons, it just became that way.”
In fact, he had heard through Greed that Baek Seon-hee had even planned to use Kim Se-hyun again.
She had never once thought of Kim Se-hyun as her child.
Just a possession.
“I’ve really become an unfilial daughter now.”
At those words, both Go Johan and Kim Se-hyun chuckled.
“Plus I’m an orphan now.”
“……”
Go Johan looked at Kim Se-hyun incredulously.
“What should I do?”
“An orphan, well. I too…”
Was once an orphan.
“Why? Will you adopt me?”
“Are you crazy? You want me to make you my daughter?”
“And the unfiliality wasn’t committed by you. Baek Seon-hee committed it.”
Go Johan stood up.
Woooong!
Greed’s Vault that had been spread out began to fade.
“Please continue… to take care of me.”
Kim Se-hyun also stood up and said.
“Captain.”
No longer did her wrath seem about to rampage.
As he was retrieving the seal placed on her.
“Kraaaang!”
In the middle of the city, a small cute black dragon was breathing fire on a large billboard.
“Did you all see? Kim Se-hyun is unfilial? Bullshit! How dare you accuse the victim of being unfilial? Kraang!”
Yongyong – he was broadcasting by borrowing the billboard.
“……?”
Kim Se-hyun seemed unable to easily understand the sudden situation.
But soon she could understand after seeing the changed screen.
“Everything is just a tool. You too, that man too. No. This entire world.”
Baek Seon-hee’s appearance and voice were echoing.
“The villainess of the century! The psychopath of the century! If there’s still anyone who curses Kim Se-hyun after this, I, Yongyong, won’t forgive them!”
At those words, Go Johan scratched his cheek in embarrassment.
“I didn’t tell him to go that far.”
No matter what, exposing the one who had been her mother like that would only make Kim Se-hyun more pitiful, he thought.
“Did you do this?”
“Huh? Uh… but wait.”
“No.”
Kim Se-hyun said.
“It feels refreshing.”
She looked truly relieved.
“Villainess! Psychopath! Trash! So…”
Regret, and regret again.
“Because you’re the one… who created a daughter like me!”
[Kim Se-hyun’s faith stat increases greatly.]
“By the way, what’s that?”
Kim Se-hyun finally asked about Yongyong.
“There will continue to be attacks like propaganda from now on, so we don’t need to deal with them in a complicated way every time, right?”
Go Johan said.
“Since I’ve decided to become a villain, I’ll need one henchman.”
Yongyong.
He seemed like he’d be a decent card.
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With the Gangnam incident, Yongyong’s growth literally skyrocketed.
Originally, it was already a notable channel in South Korea, but was merely evaluated as one of the channels that briefly activated when issues about Go Johan erupted and profited from it.
However.
“Kr, kheuk! Do you see it, everyone?”
With the Gangnam incident, borrowing even the billboard to confront the Justice protesters changed public opinion.
“Yongyong?”
“Interested in working on something together?”
That day’s scene was preserved as a video.
“Wh-what kind of work do you mean?”
“Just as you’ve been doing, and occasionally just be my mouth.”
“M-mouth?”
“Just show what I want to show you, as you please.”
“I’ll do it!”
And the live broadcast that started immediately was a huge hit.
A live broadcast transmitted through Go Johan’s smartwatch.
“Everything is just a tool. You too, that man too. No. This entire world.”
Evidence that a giant mastermind had manipulated all these incidents, and the fact that the mastermind was Baek Seon-hee, who had been Tae-han’s mistress.
Considering that she was the biological mother of Kim Se-hyun, one of the hottest star players recently, it was a hit, a hit, a super hit.
Also, since the power Baek Seon-hee showed was not a player’s but a demon’s power.
“That’s a real demon…?”
“How could a human…”
Naturally, interest focused and views skyrocketed.
But all this was just the beginning.
“I, Yongyong! From today, officially Johan hyung’s henchman! No, that’s not right…”
Yongyong was someone who knew how to seize opportunities.
“Johan hyung’s official wrecker! Yongyong! I’ll greet you again! Hyungs!”