How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 131
Chapter 131
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“Ugh…”
Go Yoon-su, whom Go Johan was searching for, opened his eyes feeling intense pain.
Crackle.
As if sparks were flying, memories from just before he lost consciousness surfaced.
The memories of boarding the plane heading to Korea, when the arrival wasn’t far off.
“……!”
The feeling of mana expanding along with brilliant light.
“Ra…”
Go Yoon-su spoke with a parched voice.
“Rachel…!”
That moment.
Boom!
A huge explosion was heard.
His hazy consciousness became clear, and he felt strength filling his powerless body.
Thud!
Amid the massive tremor, Go Yoon-su instinctively reached out his hand.
In his hand was already his prized weapon, a unique spear named Ranand.
Whoosh!
It collided with something rushing at him fiercely.
Boom!
It caused another explosion.
“…Did I pass out?”
Go Yoon-su asked.
“Yes.”
An answer came from beside him.
At that, Go Yoon-su felt indescribable relief.
Chuckle.
“This…damn it.”
The smile Go Yoon-su made was one of self-mockery and emptiness.
Now he remembered.
“How long…was I out?”
“Not long.”
The voice that had been beside him.
Thud!
The man moved away and, just like him, held a spear and thrust it toward the giant.
Giants with size five to six times that of humans, having firm and compressed muscles different from ogres with their bulging muscles ready to burst.
Most of all, the part different from ogres was the large eye situated on their face.
‘Cyclops.’
A monster discovered only once.
It had appeared as a boss monster of an A-rank gate, and when evaluated by individual ability alone, it was known to approach S-rank.
Clang! Boom! Clang!
The man who rushed in and the cyclops continued to collide, causing tremendous noise.
“Ugh!”
Go Yoon-su groaned and staggered.
In his thigh, there was a large hole.
“……”
He remembered everything.
Whoooosh!
The sound of the plane crashing that rang like tinnitus.
Back then.
“Skull pendant!”
The man sitting in the front seat shouted.
He was a man Go Yoon-su met during his study abroad in England, an Indo-British man named Paluka.
As one of the top rankers in the British rankings, he was a colleague and friend he’d spent quite a long time with after building friendship through a chance opportunity.
When he heard Go Yoon-su was going to Korea, Paluka had insisted on coming along.
Clang!
He was the one.
“Take out the skull pendant!”
Inside the crashing plane, he suddenly shouted like that.
In his hand too, there was a cross-shaped pendant.
What was that?
“Barrier! Barrier…activate!”
When Go Yoon-su, who realized something at Paluka’s words, took out the skull pendant he had been keeping well in his bosom.
Woong!
It activated and enveloped Go Yoon-su and his surroundings.
He still vividly remembered that solid mana.
A barrier that could completely block any damage for a certain period of time.
But that alone wasn’t enough.
“Paluka!”
Go Yoon-su shouted.
“Is there a way to amplify this barrier? Quickly!”
At his cry as he realized something, Paluka bit his lip and handed over the cross pendant.
And surprisingly, the pendant that had been protecting only Go Yoon-su and his surroundings glowed and wrapped around the entire plane fuselage.
“Ugh…”
“Ahh…”
Groans were heard from behind.
The wreckage of the crashed and damaged plane came into view.
However.
Grin.
Go Yoon-su could smile.
Because all of them were still alive.
“…I’ll thank you later. You bastard.”
Thanks to the barrier and Paluka.
But the target of that gratitude was someone else.
Also.
“…Rachel.”
In front of the passengers, he saw a woman standing as if protecting them.
With her red hair flowing, standing in midair, she seemed to have lost consciousness but was pouring her strength to protect the passengers in this battle.
Clang!
The flashback ended with that.
Go Yoon-su, who had restricted his injury by moving mana, also kicked off the ground.
Whoosh!
He too thrust Ranand toward the cyclops.
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The cyclops’s massive body collapsed with a thud.
“Ha, haha…”
Go Yoon-su laughed as if it was absurd.
The cyclops had a notorious reputation among players.
Wasn’t it to the extent that when a boss of an exclusive gate was determined to be a cyclops, guilds would even yield the gate to other guilds?
“…Are you okay?”
Go Yoon-su asked Paluka.
“I’m still okay.”
That confident voice was even more absurd.
“For someone claiming to be ranked 89th in Britain, that’s excessive?”
“……”
At Go Yoon-su’s words, Paluka made a distorted smile.
It was probably because of guilt from deceiving him.
“You don’t need to feel that way. We survived thanks to you.”
“……”
“Was it that rascal who sent you?”
“……”
Silence became the answer.
“Let me ask one thing, are we still friends?”
At those words, light dwelled in Paluka’s pupils.
“If you permit it.”
“Then we’re friends. Paluka, let’s not deceive each other anymore.”
At Go Yoon-su’s words, Paluka trembled as if moved.
But the important thing wasn’t just that.
‘Where on earth is this?’
The plane that had clearly been heading to Korea crashed along with light.
Then the crash site should have at least been on Earth, but the scenery visible around and the cyclops they just hunted told the story.
‘A gate.’
That this place was a gate.
Thud, thud.
How did this happen? It wasn’t that he didn’t have doubts.
Thump.
She, Rachel, who lost strength and fell to the ground, was caught by Go Yoon-su.
“Paluka.”
Go Yoon-su asked again toward Paluka who had followed.
“Rachel, was she also sent by that guy?”
This time the atmosphere was different from before.
If his reaction toward Paluka was that he didn’t care what the answer was, now many things seemed like they would change depending on that answer.
“……”
Because he knew what kind of existence Rachel was to Go Yoon-su, Paluka could empathize.
“Why…is there no answer…”
“No.”
Paluka said firmly.
“That person also knew about Rachel, but that doesn’t mean Rachel is his person.”
“Then what was that hesitation?”
Paluka had clearly hesitated to answer.
And then.
Swish.
Paluka approached with his spear lowered and said.
“Because I don’t know what her identity is either.”
“……”
“As you know.”
Everything happening now was centered around Rachel.
Not just Go Yoon-su, but the lives of everyone aboard the plane had been in danger.
She who had lost consciousness used her strength instinctively to protect the passengers, but that alone wasn’t enough to believe.
“She wasn’t even a player.”
In the first place, until just now, she had been an ordinary person, not a player.
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“Rachel, are you coming to your senses?”
After some time passed, Rachel who had fainted opened her eyes.
Murmur murmur.
Many people already seemed to have awakened from the shock.
The players included among the passengers were building a base together with Paluka, and Go Yoon-su was nursing Rachel who had lost consciousness.
“Yoon-su…ugh!”
Rachel who had awakened called Go Yoon-su’s name but felt pain as if her head would split.
“It’s okay, it’ll be okay.”
Along with Go Yoon-su’s voice.
[You have been chosen.]
A voice she was hearing for the first time was ringing loudly in her head.
“Yoon-su…! I am!”
Rachel’s eyes widened.
Past the resounding voice, hazy memories were beginning to surface.
[Determining compatibility.]
“Yoon-su!”
It was because of her.
The plane’s crash, the lives of so many people had almost been lost in an instant because of her.
“The people…! Yoon-su, what about you?”
“Everyone’s okay.”
Only then did Go Yoon-su say while sitting Rachel up at an angle.
“Me too, and the people. Not a single person died.”
“…That’s a relief.”
Crackle!
Sparks from mana flew, and Rachel’s eyes were closing.
“Thanks to that guy.”
“……”
“Remember? I told you before. That there’s someone even worse than me in our family, a rascal even worse than me.”
Why wouldn’t she know?
Rachel was gradually losing consciousness while listening to Go Yoon-su’s voice.
“That guy will come. Though he’s someone who calls himself a villain, he’s an amazing guy incomparably more so than someone like me.”
“…Yoon-su.”
“All the people on the plane survived thanks to him too. They say Paluka is also someone that guy sent to protect me, you know?”
“…Paluka is?”
“So don’t worry and go to sleep. Rachel.”
Go Yoon-su said while grasping Rachel’s hand.
“Everything will be okay. The villainous troublemaker, Sanctum’s chuunibyou will come. Whatever happens, that guy will solve everything.”
Rachel’s eyes were already closed.
At her gentle breathing, Go Yoon-su stood up.
“The situation?”
He asked Paluka.
“…Not good.”
They had given up on escape through gate conquest from the start.
Go Yoon-su’s injury was one reason, and it was because of the news Paluka brought back after briefly scouting.
“Three cyclopes ahead. Six cyclopes behind are heading this way.”
They tried to somehow lure them elsewhere but failed.
As if those creatures had this place as their certain destination, they were heading straight here.
Swish.
He held his spear.
“Let’s survive.”
Go Yoon-su said.
“…I can’t show that guy an unreliable sight.”
Thinking of the younger brother and family he’d meet after a long time.
Rumble!
Go Yoon-su drew out all his mana.
Whoosh!
When he swung his spear, ice barriers surged up in all directions.
Spear Mage, Go Yoon-su.
Even though his ice wall, which even the British royal family coveted, appeared as a solid fortress.
Boom!
The cyclopes that finally arrived charged in, ignoring all of it.
“Paluka.”
Go Yoon-su said while kicking off the ground first.
“Let’s survive until that guy comes.”
If it’s that guy, if it’s Go Johan.
Boom!
He will surely come here to find him.