How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 138
Chapter 138
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“Rachel is…”
They said Rachel had fallen asleep exhausted in the room given to her and Go Yoon-su.
Well, it had been a storm of a time for her.
“I need to see Rachel for a moment.”
At Go Johan’s words, Go Yoon-su nodded and began walking with him.
“But, hyung. You’re planning to marry Rachel, right?”
Go Johan, who had been saying the situation wasn’t very good, asked Go Yoon-su in a calmer tone than expected.
“That’s… my plan.”
“Hmm, really?”
“Why are you asking?”
Go Yoon-su’s fingertips were trembling.
The ominous feeling he sensed was multiplying fiercely.
“Because I need to decide how to treat her.”
“……”
“What if Rachel isn’t the person you thought she was?”
Go Johan asked again while walking.
“What are you saying?”
“You fell in love with Rachel when she was an ordinary Black Rose guild member, right?”
Love.
“But what if she’s no longer the Rachel you thought? Or what if she hid something from you from the beginning?”
At Go Johan’s question, Go Yoon-su finally stopped.
“What are you trying to say?”
“I’m just asking.”
“Then I’ll tell you.”
Go Yoon-su and Go Johan’s eyes met.
“…Rachel wouldn’t have hidden anything from me.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yeah.”
Go Yoon-su was firm.
“Because I trust you more than myself.”
“……?”
“If Rachel was suspicious, you wouldn’t have just watched. You would have intervened somehow or told me.”
A smile slowly spread across Go Johan’s lips.
“And if Rachel ‘changed’ for some reason.”
Go Yoon-su said.
“That can’t be helped. But what I can do is clear. I’ll try to bring Rachel back, and if that doesn’t work…”
It was Go Yoon-su who took the first step again.
“I’ll ask you.”
Go Yoon-su walking ahead.
“You can call me shameless. But…”
Go Yoon-su, who had been in England, could actually be said to understand Go Johan better than any of Sanctum’s blood relatives.
Within South Korea, Go Johan’s position was very dual.
But when viewed from abroad, Go Johan was.
‘An insurmountable monster.’
His evaluation, deeply rooted in the world economy, player circles, politics, and influencing world security with his own power alone, was secret but even more elevated abroad.
Royal, which accepted talent from famous guilds of other countries to establish relationships, never extended that period beyond a year.
But Go Yoon-su hadn’t received recommendations to return from Royal for several years, and rather received many proposals as if to hold onto him.
‘Was that because of Sanctum?’
Because they were South Korea’s number one?
Or because of Goh Min-ji who became a top American ranker?
Because South Korea’s own prestige increased?
None of it would be true.
“Go Johan.”
He realized at some point that it was all because of his younger brother Go Johan.
“If I’m in the way, you can remove me anytime. But at least make the effort.”
Go Yoon-su’s voice also held a small tremor.
“Rachel is… like a goddess to me.”
The wandering times, the difficult life abroad, the numerous mental issues experienced as a player.
‘Feelings of inferiority and burden toward family.’
Rachel who filled and embraced those pathetic aspects.
So to him, she was a goddess.
“…Goddess.”
Go Johan said while standing in front of the door.
“Hyung, do you know what that means?”
“…I don’t.”
“Anyway, understood. Don’t enter the room. If you want me to do something.”
Creak.
The door to the room where Rachel was sleeping opened.
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Toss, turn.
Rachel was having a nightmare.
-You have been chosen.
A voice buzzing in her head.
-You are…
And memories.
Go Yoon-su whom she’d harbored feelings for long ago, following him to Korea to decide her future but the things she had to experience.
Whoosh!
And even those who were black terror itself.
“Gasp!”
Rachel jolted awake from the nightmare, letting out rough breaths.
“Are you awake?”
A voice heard then.
“Yoon-su…?”
Though Rachel spoke that way with her senses not yet returned.
“……”
She could soon realize.
What was there instead of Go Yoon-su who should have been with her.
Roar!
Was an immensely huge black terror.
She had seen it from the first time they met, but could never show it.
If the other also realized that she had noticed that truth.
Gulp.
An opponent whose instincts told her she would never survive.
The news she heard was all unbelievable, and this person whom Black Rose’s top executives cautiously mentioned.
One of Royal’s executives who had deep relations with Black Rose had called him this.
“…Dark Knight…”
The Black Knight.
Swish.
Go Johan stood up toward such Rachel.
“Nine Black Gates have opened.”
Flinch.
“One of them can hardly be called a Black Gate, demonization is in progress.”
His sky-blue eyes rippled as if stained black.
Rachel wanted to scream right away, but no voice came out.
“A Demon King…”
Go Johan said.
“A Demon King seems to be descending.”
The Demon God Balrog.
Before that creature, there were four beings who ruled the demon realm.
The continent people of Trabania called those passed down in legend Demon Kings.
The Demon God Balrog was also an existence worthy of being called the first Demon Emperor, standing tall after making those four Demon Kings kneel.
“In North Korea.”
Flinch.
“I think the plane disappearing in North Korea too.”
Go Johan had appeared right before Rachel’s nose.
Swish.
A hand reaching out.
There was nowhere to avoid, no way to avoid.
“The Iron Lion Knights appearing, and the Demon King descending in that place where I thought there was time.”
Grip.
Irresistible pressure was felt on her suddenly grabbed neck.
“I think it’s all related to you.”
It seemed her neck would break with just a little, just a tiny bit more force.
And then she’d die and be sucked into that deep darkness.
-Come heeeere!
-Join uuuus!
-Save meeee!
Screams seeming to come from within Go Johan’s eyes.
That’s when.
Thud.
Go Johan lowered Rachel’s neck he had been holding.
“Do you know anything?”
Though courteous, Rachel couldn’t feel relief at that.
“N-nothing…, nothing at all…”
Rachel told the truth without hiding anything.
“I thought so.”
Go Johan nodded too.
Was it over?
“It’ll sting for a moment.”
“……?”
“Don’t endure. Just…”
Stab!
Something piercing through skin.
“Die comfortably.”
A voice sounding kind, something seeming to pierce through the heart.
Rachel dropped her head with a blank face as if possessed by a ghost.
There.
“……!”
She saw a blade that had pierced through her chest.
“Huh…?”
Consciousness growing distant.
That’s when.
Boom!
Bright radiance began bursting from Rachel’s entire body.
“I will ask what dwells within you.”
Go Johan’s voice came hazily like a dream.
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Boom!
Only after Go Johan was flung back and hit the wall could he regain balance.
Because the temple’s power had completely isolated the room making it another realm.
Roar!
If it hadn’t been isolated, not only the apostles but many things would have been in chaos at the phenomenon before his eyes.
Rachel Ashford.
The fiancée Go Yoon-su had brought.
“……”
Was engulfed in white light, containing something beyond human.
Death.
The moment human life ended, something dwelling within her had revealed itself to protect its host.
Crunch.
Go Johan regained his stance.
“This is surprising.”
It was a sincere voice.
The power bursting from Rachel now was something beyond 7-horned archdemons.
“What on earth…”
At the same time, Go Johan said with sunken eyes.
“Are you?”
It wasn’t the first time seeing a phenomenon like Rachel’s.
The S-rank gate connected when activating the warp gate.
At its edge, Go Johan had seen.
‘Pantheon.’
The power vaguely felt within it was similar to this.
-Michael.
At the name flowing from Rachel’s mouth, Go Johan’s eyes widened.
“…God…”
His heart felt like it would stop.
“Goddess?”
No one on Earth had called Michael’s name.
At this moment, Go Johan was more surprised than at any time in both his previous and current lives.
“No… way…”
Go Johan muttering like a child.
-Michael.
Could it really be the Goddess?
The one he so wanted to see, wanted to hear from…
-This child should have remained there to prevent the Demon King’s descent.
Her voice could be heard.
-Because you saved this child, a great rift occurred, creating a gap for the Demon King to escape.
“Really…, really…, are you the Goddess?”
Go Johan asked but.
-This is a rift already opened beyond stopping, with this they will invade even faster.
That was the moment.
Ripple.
Go Johan’s sky-blue eyes were stained with indescribable light.
Roar!
Part of space was caught in Go Johan’s surging hand and torn away.
Boom!
But what should have been torn was looking at Go Johan perfectly intact.
“…You’re not the Goddess.”
Go Johan’s rage was keenly felt.
“How dare you impersonate the Goddess before me!”
-Michael.
“Shut up!”
-Don’t forget that you have no right to blame anyone.
Flinch.
-This is a door you opened. Due to your existence…
Whoosh!
Even more intense light pushed Go Johan back.
Crack.
Though he tried to squeeze out power to resist, it wasn’t enough.
-The grace and blessings dwelling in you are twisted due to your existence.
Whoosh!
Light swallowed everything.
-We are…
The world scattering away.
-Not your enemy.