Chapter 38: Meteor, Kidnapped? (5)

“I feel like I’m going to die…

His stomach churned like crazy.

-My brother’s blood…

became one with my body!

When LeaForte, with her crazy eyes, tried to suck his blood while spitting out those crazy words…

I can’t hold it in any longer.

Yooseong had lost consciousness due to shock from excessive blood loss.

Since the conditions for releasing the consciousness of a cloned body were to pass out or die.

If the normal sequence that followed had been to return to his original body, it would have been.

What…

is that?”

However, when Yooseong opened his eyes again, he hadn’t returned to his original body.

Is my consciousness still in the cloned body?”

The surrounding scenery wasn’t a dark mountain, and Yooseong realized that he hadn’t been able to escape his cloned body because he could feel the soft sensation of a bed behind him.

“But…

my body won’t move!?”

It wasn’t that he was tied up with tentacles or ropes and couldn’t move.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t tied up by tentacles, but his body itself fundamentally didn’t respond.

He didn’t know if he had been given a paralytic drug or if he was unable to move due to a magical effect.

The only thing he could tell for now was that he was conscious but his body couldn’t move.

It was similar to being awake during surgery.

He could hear, see, and even feel touch, but he couldn’t even blink.

…I’m going crazy.

He couldn’t even move his pupils, so his gaze was fixed on the field of vision where his pupils were looking.

The only information he could get visually was that he could see a ceiling that looked like it had been carved out of marble.

The light from the small chandelier-like crystals was dazzling.

He tried to blink reflexively, but his eyelids wouldn’t move either.

“Brother…

You must be very hungry, right?”

At that moment, a delicate, beautiful voice came into Yooseong’s ear.

“I prepared a meal for you, Brother!

Of all the dishes that my brother made for me during our adventures in the past…

I made beef porridge.”

“Of course, I’m not as good at making it as my brother…!

But I worked hard to make it, so please enjoy it, right?”

“You made porridge?”

LeaForte’s voice was heard, along with the clanking sound of something like a bowl being placed down.

Unable to move his head or eyes, Yooseong couldn’t see Leah’s face or what she was doing.

Since he couldn’t see what she was doing, his anxiety grew even more.

“Okay, go ahead, brother!”

After a while, with those words, a spoon appeared in the upper view.

Swish…

The spoon gradually got closer, getting closer to his mouth and then disappearing from his sight.

What do you want me to eat in this condition…”

He felt something hot touch the corner of his mouth, but he couldn’t even move his eyes, so it was impossible to open his mouth and chew food, and the spoon that had been hitting his mouth several times soon stopped.

“Oh!

Brother, you couldn’t move your body because of the goddess’s curse, right…?”

“The goddess’s curse…?”

Another strange setting was added.

Rather than really being cursed by the goddess, he was inclined to think that it was LeaForte’s delusion.

“You don’t have to worry, Brother!

For Yooseong, who is feeling unwell…

I will feed you with my mouth myself.”

“What…?”

However, at the next moment, LeaForte’s words made Yooseong’s mind, which was trying to guess the situation, turn white.

No way…

right?

Yooseong asks questions about the reality he wants to deny, even though his words cannot reach LeaForte.

“Ugh…

Ugh.”

After a while, a noise like chewing food is heard.

Whoosh…

A hand presumed to be LeaForte grabs his head…

Please!

LeaForte’s face, with something in her mouth, comes into his field of vision.

Leah’s flushed face and ruby-shining, heated eyes gradually approaching, enough to hear her breathing.

Stop!

Stop me!

Yooseong shouted in half-panic.

The fear he felt every day during the past journey of the warrior party resurfaces.

Eating is an act that must be done in order to live.

Normally, eating is a time to fill your stomach while tasting food, but for Yooseong, it was a terrible moment of torture that he wanted to get over at all costs.

• Receive the wrath of the goddess.

Every time you left your seat for a moment during a meal, LeaForte would poison and curse the food and potions with the magic of the cult.

• Keuk…

Geuk…!

Ueeeek!

• Yooseong?!

How many times had he vomited blood after eating food or had a horrible experience of not being able to move his body parts properly due to an unknown illness?

Wasn’t his hair turning ashen also a side effect of that?

For Yooseong, eating was the very definition of fear, and for a while, he couldn’t even trust the food he made, so he habitually carried around a silver rod that could detect poison or curses.

“Stop!

Stop, LeaForte!!

It wasn’t long before he could comfortably eat the food he made himself without any suspicion.

Creak…

Creak!

Eww!!

Take that mouth off now!!

However, the person who gave him such trauma was not simply feeding him food, but directly shoving the food into his mouth.

Creak…

Creak…

Kusaaa!!

Every time Leah’s tongue moved inside his mouth and swallowed a little food, Yooseong screamed inwardly.

If it were physical torture or pain, he could easily endure it with his trained mental strength.

However, this kind of mental rape that stimulated trauma to the extreme was a type of torture that no one, including Yooseong, could endure.

“Ahh…

You ate it all?

Yooseong, brother.”

When Leah held out her empty bowl and smiled with satisfaction.

Snap!

The string of consciousness that had not been cut off even by the shock snapped.

“Ugh!

Ugh.”

Only then was Yooseong able to return to his body.

As soon as he got up, he threw up the porridge he hadn’t even eaten, spitting out the intestinal fluid, and took a deep breath to calm his extremely sensitive mind.

“Ugh…

ugh.”

I can’t calm down…

Jerk.

“Meteor…

Meteor?!”

Of all people, KarenRedleaf had come to see the staggering Yooseong and was worried.

“_”

Yooseong saw Karen and widened his eyes like a person who was scared and reflexively stepped back.

Karen was clearly looking at him with a worried expression at that moment.

However, Yooseong, who had been stimulated by LeaForte’s past trauma, was seeing Karen’s past images overlapping in his distorted vision.

…Why didn’t you just die?

Honestly!

Is there a reason why our party needs a supporter?

He could see the face full of contempt that always cursed him to die quickly while looking at him like an insect.

“Wait…

Wait!

Don’t come near me…

Please!”

“_”

Yooseong’s words and actions were reflexively shouted as a defense mechanism as his condition worsened.

Karen was surprised by Yooseong’s appearance of expressing his strong rejection towards her and opened her eyes wide and made a hurt expression.

“I am sorry.”

Tadak!

Karen said that and hurriedly got away from Yooseong.

“Ah..?”

Only then did the hallucinations wear off, and Yooseong felt a strange sense of guilt as he saw Karen, unable to even meet his eyes and trembling with anxiety.

However, there was no reason to apologize to KarenRedleaf.

First of all, there’s a way to calm down…?

Jiing-bang.

Yooseong, whose head had cooled down a little, chose to wear the helmet as a way to calm down his current state.

“In night detection mode…”

[Execute the command.]

The role of the artificial intelligence that the artificial intelligence had played can be operated in any equipped suit.

Yooseong turned on night detection mode and adjusted his field of vision so that he could only distinguish human figures.

Okay?

Only then did his rumbling stomach calm down a little as he saw KarenRedleaf as a green fluorescent lump.

“Did you find the Demon King?”

Yooseong asked Karen in his usual, flat voice to change the subject.

“Hero…

His Majesty the King and Sylvia went to look for it, but they still haven’t found it.”

“It must be on the first floor of the castle, right?”

“Ugh.”

Yooseong looked at Karen who was replying in a dazed manner.

“I’m going to search too.”

He immediately used the boosters on his feet to launch himself.

“And…

Karen.

It’s not because of you.”

Leaving those words, he flew towards Goseong.

“Who…

who are you!”

-Kwaang-

“Kwaaak!

A black monster using sorcery is invading!”

Kwasang!

Even though he was not in full armor mode and was only equipped with reinforced black scales and basic firearms, it was not that difficult for Yooseong to subdue the black magicians within Goseong.

“Search based on the ingredient analysis table…”

[Search results will be displayed.]

Yooseong started his search later than Seyeon or Sylvia, but.

[Found a target that meets the conditions.]

“Okay.”

Since he had finished analyzing the ingredients of the tentacles through his artificial eye while in his cloned body, he was able to find the tentacle room where Claire was trapped first.

Kikkik!

As soon as he subdued the warlocks standing guard and opened the door, what followed was.

Hwaruk!

Wiggle!

Wiggle!

Removal of the tentacles to reduce power and.

“It was scary!

I’m telling you, it was scary!!”

“There’s no time, Demon King.”

The goal was to rescue Demon King Claire.

After completing the first condition, Seyeon’s escape, and the second condition, Claire’s rescue, Yooseong returned to the hillside behind the castle with Claire on his back.

“Yooseong rescued the Demon King!

Everyone, come back!”

“I think I’ve convinced everyone who could be persuaded.

Your Majesty.”

After that, Karen and Granil sent messages to Seyeon and Sylvia to return.

“The suit is cool.

If only I had the ability to wear such a cool suit instead of the flashy powers of a warrior…

Ah!

How was that crazy girl?

Since Yooseong was so into you, I wonder if she didn’t do anything crazy?”

Seyeon, who was so happy to see Yooseong again that she had forgotten that she had become bald.

“…”

Even Sylvia, who was just staring at Yooseong, or to be exact, the part of the helmet that had covered the eyepatch, with both eyes.

“Now all that’s left is what to do with LeaForte.”

All of the warrior party except for LeaForte gathered.

“HanYooseong…

Wouldn’t it be better to run away?”

The warlock Granil approached Yooseong, who seemed to be the representative of this group, and made a suggestion in a more polite tone than before.

“That’s right.

Your Majesty…

That woman really has terrible powers!”

“If you don’t run away quickly, she’ll chase us…

and divide us like our comrades…

Ugh.”

The warlocks who had been persuaded by Granil through Seyeon also chimed in.

Most of them were upset by LeaForte’s abnormal behavior.

The fact that the black magicians, who were treated as terrifying beings like ghosts or demons by the continental people, were feeling deep fear of a young girl who wasn’t even half their age…

was on the one hand a funny sight.

However, their reactions were somewhat understandable.

Anyone who saw LeaForte, who squeezed people to death with her tentacles with her abnormal words and actions and small whims, would have been terrified.

“However, if we go back like this, we won’t be able to activate the warrior’s magic circle.”

“That’s true…

But you know?

Even though I’m not in my right mind, my power is uselessly strong and I’m a real pain in the ass.

Huh?”

The reason I came to Hayden City, the den of black magicians and necromancers, was to secure LeaForte’s identity in order to activate the warrior’s magic circle.

“Isn’t there any other way, Demon King?

Aside from dealing with that monstrous former saintess?”

When Seyeon asked, the Demon King made a worried expression.

“Unfortunately, there’s no other way.

Warrior.

Even when I saw it in person, it seemed like she had sucked up the divine power of another priest…

because her divine power had increased significantly.

In terms of the total amount of divine power that the goddess had spread, about two-thirds were concentrated in the saintess.

For now, the saintess is the only energy source that can activate the warrior’s magic circle.”

He answered with a serious face.

“But Demon King…

I have a question.”

“Huh?

What is it, knight?”

The Demon King turned his head and asked at Sylvia’s call.

“Why are you so…

close to Yooseong?”

Sylvia asked the Demon King, narrowing her eyes as if she was quite displeased.

“Huh!

Eh…

ah!”

At that, the Demon King, Claire, completely lost her serious appearance from before and let out a strange voice with a very flustered face.

“Haha…

what kind of protagonist are you?

Do you get horny just by looking at me once?

Yooseong…

you seduced the Demon King after the other warrior party members, no way?”

“Eww!

I thought it was weird too!

Why are you so attached to Yooseong!?”

Following Seyeon who let out a hollow laugh, KarenRedleaf, who was enraged again by Yooseong’s last words, shouted at Claire.

“This is…

So that’s why.”

Claire was hesitating with a red face.

In that state, Claire was clinging tightly to Yooseong.

There was no way Yooseong, who was standing with both arms down, could be holding onto Claire.

It was obvious that Claire herself was using both arms and both legs to cling to Yooseong’s suit like a cicada.

Her outfit was also a tom top, so it naturally drew attention, and to the people around her, especially the two who were secretly holding Yooseong, it was inevitable that a strange woman would cling to her lover in an inappropriate outfit…

It was a very nerve-wracking scene.

“You…

You get off me!”

“No!

No!

Don’t come near me, half-elf!”

Finally, Karen, who couldn’t stand it any longer, ran to Claire and pulled her body away.

“No!

Nooooooo-!”

“Get…

off me!”

Claire, who couldn’t use her magic power due to the torture, couldn’t handle Karen’s half-blinded strength.

Thud!

“_”

In the end, Claire fell off Yooseong!

“Ah…

ah…

ah!”

As soon as she fell to the floor, unable to get up, Demon King Claire lay face down, covering her head with both arms and trembling.

“Is she okay?”

“There wasn’t anything wrong when we rescued her.”

As soon as Yooseong answered Seyeon’s question.

“No…

no!

I’m scared…

no!

I’m scared…

ticklish.

hehe…

hehe…”

Claire muttered, trembling as if she had lost her mind.

Everyone there looked at Claire with puzzled eyes at her reaction.

By any chance.

Thump.

Thump.

After observing Claire for a while, Yooseong slowly approached her, stretching out his arm and placing his hand on her golden hair.

“Hehe…?

Huh?”

She quickly returned to her original form and looked around.

“Uh.

That…

This is so.”

Claire, unable to speak easily due to the intense gazes of those around her, soon lowered her head and opened her mouth while sobbing.

“I really went through something terrible!

So I still feel the sensation of those wriggling tentacles all over my body…

and I can’t calm down if HanYooseong, who saved me, isn’t by my side!

I don’t know why I’m like this either!”

At that moment, Yooseong took his hand off for an experiment.

“Wriggle, wriggle…

I don’t like it!

Heheheeit!”

When he put his hand on her again.

“Ah…

Stop joking!

HanYooseong!”

In an instant, she returned to her original Claire and screamed.

It was too extreme a reaction to simply call it acting, so in the end, Yooseong had no choice but to hug Claire around his side and discuss the next plan.

“Demon King, Is it necessary for the saintess to be alive to supply the divine power?”

Yooseong turned his head and asked Claire right next to him.

“It’s not necessarily like that.

As long as I have that body, I can somehow supply the divine power, and even if she dies, I can retrieve the divine power scattered in the air.”

Yooseong nodded at the Demon King’s answer and made eye contact with those watching.

“Yooseong…

you really?”

“Even if all the power here were to attack, who knows what would happen.

If we kill them instead of securing them, wouldn’t it be much easier to recover them?”

“That’s true…

right.”

Seyeon also knew.

Securing such a monstrous LeaForte would be much more difficult than capturing the Demon King.

However, no matter how terrible an act one had committed, killing a comrade who had gone on the journey of the warrior party with them was not something to be taken lightly.

Yooseong, you came again today!

“YooSung also felt uneasy when he made this decision.

LeaForte was clearly a disgusting existence that left trauma, and even now that the Goddess’s brainwashing had been lifted, she was someone he could never think of favorably, having committed all sorts of atrocities.

-Someday, I will be able to see the world with my brother, right?

In YooSung’s memories, there was also Lea, a delicate and pure girl who was trapped in the temple and curious about the world.

“There’s nothing I can do.”

However, there was no other way.

Clank!

YooSung, who had taken off the satellite drone gauntlet, looked around at the warlocks and his former warrior party comrades and said.

“First, I will strike with the weapon I have…

and if they survive, I will attack them myself.”

…And if I can secure them while they are still alive.

YooSung swallowed his words and immediately opened a hologram window with his gauntlet and designated the range to strike with the satellite drone.

Is the strike range you applied accurate?

The range of the hologram visible in the field of vision encompassed the entire castle.

If you shoot at full power, it will concentrate enough power to obliterate a nation onto the castle itself.

The damage is different from when you simply aimed for Lea’s heart and head.

If you shoot this, not a single speck of dust will be left.

This time, LeaForte might really die.

“Fire.”

[Executing the order.]

The ‘Lock on’ message flashed across the hologram.

Jing-

From the port of the satellite drone floating in the air, incandescent energy gathered.

KWAAAAAAH!!!!

In an instant, a mass of energy like a pillar of light was released.

KWAGAGAGAGAGA~!!!

The shadow of the castle engulfed in the pillar of light gradually collapsed from the top down and completely disappeared.

KWAAAAH.

The beam of light disappeared, and what remained was a giant circular sinkhole.

“Oh my god…

This isn’t magic?”

“No, what the heck…

What kind of weapon does that guy have!?”

While everyone was astonished by the power of the satellite drone that YooSung possessed.

“She’s still alive!”

YooSung, who had detected a life sign with the satellite drone, shouted while looking towards Karen.

“Blink!”

Karen then immediately cast the Blink magic that she had stored with her Memorize magic in succession.

Bam!

And everyone landed at the same time, and where they arrived.

“Ahh…

Ah…

Brother…

Brother…”

LeaForte, who had half of her body covered in shadow and was in a state of regeneration, cried out.

“Brother, you can’t…

You can’t leave Leah like this…!”

A scene unfolded as she held the frame of a blackened metal skeleton and shed tears.