262. The Last of the Shingaga (4)

Battle─

Beetle─

Shindohwa dragged her feet and headed towards her residence.

Bright red blood flows from the head,

Her whole body was covered in dirt.

Go into a deserted alley and put your hand on the wall.

Pushik─

The floor opened and a staircase made of marble appeared.

As she went down the stairs, a luxurious and spacious room with a chandelier hanging from the ceiling welcomed her.

This windowless space was a sanctuary just for her.

dump!

“······under.”

She buried herself in the soft sofa, looked up into space, and let out a deep sigh.

Then he covered his face with both hands.

“Yes, this is right······. This is right······.”

Yes, there was no other way to protect the name of the shrine.

The family that was both hateful and great, his entire family.

The Shin family.

The only way to keep the lineage alive was to pass it on entirely to her daughter, Shin Se-hee.

“I······. Am I finally going to lose······.”

It still doesn’t feel real.

A new god who once commanded the world after the Gate incident.

Everything that had been built up over a long period of time to regain that status came crashing down in an instant.

“No, if it’s that child, he’ll definitely make Shinga even greater······.”

I guess that’s the only consolation I can offer.

She let out a hollow laugh as she thought of her daughter whom she hadn’t seen in a long time.

The second one is overly clever and cunning.

I wonder if anyone would say we are not blood relatives.

Even though he would clearly resent himself and hate himself to death.

He suppressed his emotions calmly and instantly figured out his intentions.

Just looking at that, Shin Se-hee was a daughter who looked so much like herself.

‘Yeah, that’s why I was trying to hold it down······.’

If I had left it as it was then

Obviously, he would have tried to overturn the gods and eat them with his own power, just like he did.

Wasn’t that why he made his incompetent and stupid eldest son his successor and suppressed Shin Se-hee?

It was my karma that came back to me because I chose the path that was easy to roll over my hands.

“Huh, right······. I guess I’ll have to be satisfied with the fact that the Shinga lineage hasn’t been cut off.”

Shindohwa forced herself to get up and tried to go to the desk.

Because there was still some material left to send to Shin Se-hee.

at that time.

Wheein───

A fly landed on the back of her hand.

Shindohwa’s face hardened.

‘Is it attached to my body······?’

We have taken thorough measures to prevent even a single bug from entering this place.

worm.

The starting point where everything went wrong.

Yeah, everything that happened today was because of this bug.

Wiggle.

Shindohwa tried to use her powers to burn the bug.

but.

“······uh?”

For some reason, the ability was not expressed.

So even though it’s dirty, I try to catch it with my hand.

Ss …

I heard the creepy crawly footsteps of a bug inside my house.

“What, what!!!”

Shindohwa looked around in confusion.

Goosebumps ran through her body.

Well, her whole house was infested with bugs.

I didn’t even realize that my room was infested with so many bugs.

It was because I was absent-minded, but I never expected that bugs would invade my room.

“What the heck is going on······.”

at that time.

Chijijijik─

Peeing!

The large TV that took up one side of the wall came on.

Shin Se-hee’s figure sitting on the sofa was reflected on the TV screen.

“······Daughter!?”

“mother.”

Only then did Shindohwa realize what had happened and spat out in a dejected voice.

“······Have you already had the Shinga Guard raid this place? Just a little while ago, while we were talking?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“You’re really thorough about who your daughter is······.”

Then Shin Se-hee smiled brightly and nodded.

“Thank you for the compliment. I went to my mother’s lab and there were a lot of interesting things there. For example, a secret technique that can turn a normal person into an Awakened person, or conversely, a potion that can turn an Awakened person into a normal person.”

Shindohwa’s face hardened.

‘You used that on me? When on earth······?’

Oh. Now that I think about it, Shin Se-hee did come into contact with me for a moment.

Ask the party’s healer to heal you.

When I was hit by the golden arrow to heal my burns, I felt a stinging sensation.

I thought it was the pain from the arrow······.

‘Was that the time you gave the injection?’

Shindohwa’s face hardened as she watched the pitch-black insects swarming around her.

“Daughter, did you really have to do this? You must have known that I wouldn’t do anything different······! And you even had to decide what choice I would make······!”

Yes, Shin Do-hwa planned to send the information to Shin Se-hee and then take her own life.

And my daughter seemed to notice it too.

Then Shin Se-hee let out a deep sigh.

“I don’t want to be like this either. But what can I do? I am my mother’s daughter.”

“······.”

“I am a person who can never let my mother go in peace.”

“Son-in-law, son-in-law! Do you know that you are this kind of person!?”

Shindohwa spat out urgently, as if clutching at straws.

however.

Instead, Shin Se-hee smiled brightly at those words.

As if he really liked the word son-in-law.

“Yes, you know. Of course.”

“······What? You know?”

“Yes. He is so tolerant, he said he would accept me no matter what I am.”

“······.”

“Still, I have a subtle desire not to show this side of me directly. You understand, don’t you, mother? Because you are my mother. Then it is time for us to say goodbye now.”

“Okay, wait a minute!”

Shin Do-hwa reached out her hand toward Shin Se-hee and tried to say something more.

Pusheeeeeek─

However, along with the sound of a swoosh, thick smoke rose into her room.

“Mother, let’s go back to the bug room.”

The pure white gas blocked my vision, and I could no longer see Shin Se-hee.

A mind that is gradually becoming clouded.

“As expected, I should have killed you when you were young······! I let you live just in case, and that was the cause of the trouble······!”

Shin Do-hwa cursed Shin Se-hee in a blood-spitting voice until the very last moment before she collapsed.

dump.

Shindohwa finally fell.

Wheein.

Okay.

A cockroach sat on her head with its wings folded.

*

Shin Se-hee watched the screen fill with gray smoke until the very end and then disconnected.

Beep─

“Please, live long and suffer, Mother.”

Shin Se-hee bowed her head toward her mother and said her final goodbyes.

When I raised my head again, her face was reflected on the pitch-black screen.

Shin Se-hee, who was staring blankly at the sight, muttered to herself.

“Maybe I’m a little broken?”

A strange sense of emptiness filled my heart.

Still, there’s nothing I can do.

If I don’t do this, it feels like something isn’t completely tied up.

I’m always feeling stressed.

He himself had no talent for enduring such emotions.

“Son-in-law······. But he said nice things to me in the end.”

Shin Se-hee smiled slightly.

– Don’t worry. I’ll be your family. A real family.

– A family that doesn’t feel like a family, who has tormented you, made you lonely, and until the end… A family that will be on your side until the end, no matter what you do, no matter what you say, and even when the whole world turns its back on you.

When I close my eyes and think of Jin Yu-ha’s voice, a tingling sensation comes over me.

“If I had a family like that······. Wouldn’t I no longer have to live like this? If I were to start a family with Jin Yu-ha and become an ordinary family, then······.”

at that time.

Knock knock knock─

“Flower field. A person from the Chinese Public Security Hunter Association has come. Yellow is looking for you.”

The person who came was Kang Do-hee.

“Oh, yes! I’m going out!!”

Shin Se-hee quickly got up from her seat and headed toward the door when Jin Yu-ha called her.

* * *

The female hunter dispatched by the China Public Security Hunter Association was eyeing the Utopia party.

Hunter, who shows his dissatisfaction as it is, with his arms crossed and without even thinking about drinking the tea in front of him.

Her lips, which had been staring intently at Utopia, slowly parted.

“······Utopia, you guys are really big-headed. You even meddle in the internal affairs of China.”

Huruk─

Jin Yu-ha calmly drinks tea.

“Yes, I had no choice. Our Utopia has a rule that any request that is paid for fairly must be carried out.”

Ppoduk─

A vein appeared on the public security hunter’s forehead.

Because I felt like I was being ignored.

Even though he came in person, the person in charge of the party was drinking tea with a calm expression on his face.

Because the one answering was the woman next to him, Shin Se-hee.

bang!!

She slammed her hand on the desk.

Then, the shape of her hand was dented into the desk.

“Don’t make me laugh! Are you saying that you flew all the way from Korea to China just to listen to that little kid’s words?!”

But it was not a utopia that would blink an eye at such a frivolous threat.

“Yes, we do not hesitate to reach out to those in need. But, isn’t that strange? Shouldn’t China be grateful to us?”

“Thank you? Did you say thank you!?”

“Yes, you must have figured out everything that Liu Jin, the landlord from Guangdong Province in China, has done, right?”

Then, the police hunter’s face became even more wrinkled.

Actually, as the woman said, I had already finished the investigation before coming.

Liu Jin, a landowner in Guangdong Province, kidnaps humans and conducts illegal experiments.

In the process, even her own husband was sacrificed as a test subject.

And the strange phenomenon of bugs gathering here was also revealed to be Ryu Jin’s doing.

There was no justification for blaming Utopia here.

‘Probably, saying something like that means you’ve already gathered all the information······.’

She kept her mouth shut and glared at Utopia.

There has already been a lot of noise about security issues in China.

In that situation, my head started spinning just thinking about what I would hear if it became known that Utopia had solved this problem.

That was when.

“You look like you have a lot on your mind.”

“Worries? I have a lot! If only you guys hadn’t made things so big─”

“Yes, I know. So, I have a suggestion for you too.”

Shin Se-hee cut her off.

Swish─

Then he held out a piece of paper towards her.

“Would you like to hear it?”

Shin Se-hee said with a bright smile.