How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 21
Chapter 21
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I thought this day might come someday.
That’s why I let it linger around me.
“I’m sorry, Boss.”
Sloth’s voice.
“Of all times, while tracking the seed…”
Although I was interested in Kim Se-hyun, the timing was too perfect.
My attention was focused on discovering the demon’s seed and what happened while pursuing it.
I thought it was because Yoon Seung-ah had made her move during that time.
‘Always.’
Go Johan closed his eyes briefly and said.
‘It’s always like this.’
It was the same in Travania.
People spoke of the perfectly aligned timing.
‘This must be God’s doing!’
The resentment that unless it was God, unless she wanted it, how could things turn out this way.
However, Go Johan, Michael thought differently.
Swoosh.
Demons.
Those damn things were always like this.
“Johan.”
Kim Se-hyun, who had approached without notice, said with a bright smile.
It was her usual smile, but now it seemed more deeply seductive.
“Have you been well?”
“…”
“You weren’t worried about me being gone, were you?”
Lee Jae-kyung stood frozen stiff.
“Boss, what should we do? Should we kill her?”
Envy was pressing Go Johan.
“Huh, I really thought I was going to die from the pain?”
Kim Se-hyun said with a somewhat sorrowful face.
“But after being in so much pain… everything… everything became okay, you know?”
She turned around with her hands behind her back, seeming to seek praise like Envy.
“I feel refreshed. I won’t cause you any more trouble.”
“…”
“From now on.”
Grin.
“I’ll protect you.”
“It hasn’t… taken effect yet?”
“Hm?”
Kim Se-hyun brought her face close, right up to his nose.
Go Johan, true to his name, quietly gazed into her eyes.
“You know, Johan. After being sick, I can see things I couldn’t see before.”
Her fingertips.
Flutter.
“You…”
Were trembling slightly.
“What exactly are you?”
“Go Johan.”
Lee Jae-kyung also spoke while looking at Go Johan.
This was a school.
While Shinsung Middle School had defense facilities and systems no less impressive than its headquarters, being established by Shinsung, it couldn’t be considered completely safe from what occurred inside.
Especially.
Flutter.
Lee Jae-kyung’s fingertips were also trembling.
Just as Kim Se-hyun was terrified of Go Johan, Lee Jae-kyung was terrified of Kim Se-hyun.
He who had seen demons while conquering several Black Gates together.
“Boss!”
And.
“Everyone be quiet.”
At Go Johan’s words, the noisy atmosphere instantly became silent.
“Kim Se-hyun.”
“Yes?”
“It would be better to stay quiet until school ends.”
There wasn’t time to send her home early.
“I’ll confirm it.”
The time Sloth moved to check on Taehan.
And.
“Don’t do anything unnecessary.”
As long as Go Johan was nearby, he could suppress Kim Se-hyun.
“You’re so mean.”
Kim Se-hyun said.
“You never look at me.”
Something seemed to boil in her eyes as she made a briefly dejected face.
That’s when.
“Stay quiet. Before I tear you to pieces.”
The moment Go Johan’s voice reached something inside Kim Se-hyun.
Whoosh.
Kim Se-hyun, whose eyes had been flickering with excitement, soon became calm.
“Okay. And I’m sorry. Always. Thank you too.”
Kim Se-hyun, wearing her previous smile, trudged toward the classroom.
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“What… what’s going on here?”
Lee Jae-kyung asked, breathing heavily with excitement.
In the garden behind the school, Go Johan was looking at the classroom where Kim Se-hyun was.
“Boss.”
Envy also revealed himself.
“Why did you tell us not to kill her?”
Envy seemed not to understand either.
From Envy’s perspective, Kim Se-hyun just looked like a demon.
Moreover.
“That’s dangerous.”
It was enough to make even Envy tense up.
Inevitably.
“Ha, these damn things played their hand.”
Go Johan said.
“It’s an Archdemon.”
At the name Archdemon, Lee Jae-kyung and Envy fell silent.
The strongest demon Lee Jae-kyung had seen was the Triangle Demon.
Even that was a monster.
Estimated level 500 or higher.
But an Archdemon…
“We… need to kill it.”
Envy said, tenser than ever before.
“We need to kill it, Boss.”
Envy was even more adamant.
He, or rather the apostles, were ones who had seen fragments of Archdemons.
Children who had been partially exposed to that power to become vessels.
That’s why they knew just what kind of monster it was.
“Why! Why are you just standing there…?”
Envy spoke as if he would have moved immediately if not for Go Johan’s permission.
“They must have noticed their vessel was being taken. No matter how ignorant they are of our affairs, they’re not fools.”
The Archdemons had also noticed.
Go Johan’s existence, something interfering with their plans.
“They moved directly to claim the vessel.”
“Boss…”
Lee Jae-kyung said.
“Then shouldn’t we kill her?”
Even he, who rarely spoke easily, was frightened.
Though he held back his words because Kim Se-hyun was his student and had a connection with Go Johan.
Growl.
He too was one who had glimpsed the abyss.
“Why?”
Why weren’t they moving?
“This is different from before. And…”
Go Johan said heavily.
Kim Se-hyun was sitting quietly in the classroom, pressing her thigh.
“She’s still resisting.”
That was the difference.
“Things like Gong Cheol-woo and Choi Sin-woo, they offered themselves up, intoxicated by that power.”
The demon tempted, and they fell for it.
Even if it wasn’t their intention at first, Go Johan had no thoughts of leaving such things be.
Those who sold their souls to demons.
And.
“Se-hyun, you are different.”
Go Johan saw Kim Se-hyun as being like the apostles, like Envy.
“You all endured and persevered. In your unconscious minds, you fought to preserve that purity.”
“…”
“It was because of that will that I took you in.”
And Kim Se-hyun too.
“Then, will you take in Se-hyun too?”
“Not yet.”
Go Johan said.
“Because Se-hyun’s case is different from yours.”
If it had been a Black Gate, if she was just being made into a vessel, it would have been fine.
“The sins, curses, and a part of the Archdemon have already taken root.”
It was already too late.
“The Archdemon will try to corrupt Se-hyun, and if she resists, I will take her in.”
“And if she can’t resist?”
Envy asked.
“Then she must die.”
Both Envy and Lee Jae-kyung nodded.
This was Go Johan.
If Go Johan said it was so, then it was so, and if not, then it wasn’t.
“We’ll end school early today.”
Lee Jae-kyung said.
“Boss.”
And just then, Sloth’s voice was heard.
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“You’re back?”
Kim Tae-hwan, the chairman of Taehan Group, welcomed Kim Se-hyun more warmly than ever before.
“Yes.”
Kim Tae-hwan, wearing a bright smile, grabbed Se-hyun’s shoulders.
“I granted your request.”
The reason Kim Se-hyun could go to school today was simple.
She had asked to be allowed to go to school one last time, now that the seed had finally sprouted.
Shudder shudder.
Se-hyun’s entire body was trembling like an aspen.
“Tsk.”
Kim Tae-hwan clicked his tongue at the sight.
“What makes you resist so desperately?”
Kim Tae-hwan knew what was happening to Se-hyun.
She was resisting a great power.
“Accept it.”
“Fa…ther…”
“And don’t forget.”
Grin.
Kim Tae-hwan showed his teeth.
“That I was the one who gave you this power.”
The power blooming within Se-hyun was beyond what Kim Tae-hwan could measure.
The researchers said that while the Player System wasn’t active yet, already.
Kukukuku!
Se-hyun’s estimated level was over 400.
Perhaps even far beyond that.
“Fa…ther…”
The number one ranked person in South Korea was only in the early 300s.
Over level 400.
“Yes, yes. My daughter.”
Power that could potentially devour all of South Korea with her alone.
This was just the beginning.
“Father.”
Se-hyun’s trembling voice stopped.
Kim Tae-hwan thought he had the ability to control Se-hyun.
Since childhood, Se-hyun had never dared to go against him.
‘Seed of Evil.’
With this item he possessed, he would be able to control Se-hyun as he wished.
And that was…
“Kill him!”
A delusion.
A terrible voice was roaring in Se-hyun’s mind.
“It’s him! Kill that man!”
Bang! It sounded like an explosion striking her consciousness.
“This is the power you wanted! That man is just your shackles! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!”
It screamed.
“Only then can you resist him…!”
That voice somehow seemed frightened.
“Don’t you want to be confident?”
The seed that had taken root in her body was stimulating Se-hyun’s hidden feelings.
“Don’t you want to possess it?”
Go Johan.
“Don’t you want to punish those who looked down on you, those who gazed at you with lustful eyes?”
All those countless gazes directed at her since childhood.
They weren’t looking at her.
‘Taehan.’
The name Taehan.
‘Appearance.’
Her looks.
They showed their greed while looking at something around her, not her true self.
Se-hyun could see it all too clearly.
Only one.
‘Johan.’
Only Go Johan was different.
Somewhat pitifully, and bitterly.
Pretending not to care, while still caring, only Go Johan was different.
“Kill that man, and everything will be yours. That man… while he hasn’t fully grown… now is the only chance.”
Only Go Johan.
“I’ll give him to you, he will be yours. You can have him forever. I’ll give you the power to remove anything that stands in your way.”
The voice said.
“My name is Wrath.”
And.
“Stop hiding that you have anger worthy of my satisfaction.”
When the voice was heard.
“Father.”
Squelch, drip.
Kim Tae-hwan’s back.
More precisely, blood was flowing from Se-hyun’s hand that had pierced through his stomach.
“I’m sorry.”
Kim Se-hyun was smiling more brightly than ever while crying.
“So, it has come to this.”
Just then, a voice was heard from behind.