Chapter 779 – Deputy Executive, Yeonhwa (3)

“The warrior Jeong Si-woo. Rose of Sharon… Kim Soo-yeon.”

The dying 【Insect】 vomited blood and cursed the two.

Beetle. Acteon.

The giant, covered in toxic green slime, chuckled for a while as he looked at the two people who had become disgraced.

Hehe. After becoming a stooge for the trees, what is left?”

The group of bugs, including Acteon, defeated many of the World Tree’s elite troops, but there was no way to stop the two people who were pushing in with the momentum of destruction.

-Jeobbuk.

Jeong Si-woo stumbled and took a step.

The entrance to the fortress. It was difficult to deal with all of Flower’s troops alone.

Jeong Si-woo, who was walking ahead, looked at Acteon with tired eyes.

The beetle, whose lifeline was about to be cut off, was panting and laughing at Jeong Si-woo’s behavior.

“… “Where are the test subjects kept?”

“Don’t ask that guy. “It’s not information that a guy like this would know.”

Su-yeon, who was pouring a top-quality potion into his injured left arm, blocked Jeong Si-woo’s path.

“You never know. “Sister.”

“You laugh at us even as you die, do you think we’ll answer the truth?”

That’s right. Jeong Si-woo lowered his head and sighed.

“Ha.”

I was a bit overextended in my expectations that I might have a younger sibling.

I thought that if it wasn’t now, it might not be my chance.

But even taking that into account, Jeong Si-woo was mentally overly focused.

– Seo Geng.

As he drew his sword, a light appeared in Acteon’s eyes her.

“… Experimental subject.”

“!”

It seems like he remembered something right before he died. A guy with a wicked smile.

Jeong Si-woo’s sword stopped standing tall. Actaeon chuckled and muttered.

“That’s right. Jeong Si-woo… Hero, you. Okay. You said you were looking for your younger brother. “It stuck in my ear because it appeared so many times in the video.”

“…”

“Your brother. “Do you think they were caught by us?”

The blue light in Jeong Si-woo’s calm, calm eyes shone.

Jeong Si-woo’s first life his his, showing his actions his his for the weak and living with a good attitude. He evokes an indescribably deep fear.

Acteon starts to giggle loudly due to his anger at her.

Even at the moment of death, the guy who was looking for something to laugh at made an appropriate joke.

“Heh, heh heh. Hey hero, this is the test subject. If you’re not fit, you’ll become a plaything of Cistus, a mass of mindless muscle. Even if they are fit, most of them die. If it’s a test subject that’s been around for some time…”

It is different from the current test subject, which is relatively benign.

If Jeong Si-woo’s younger brother was kidnapped at a time when the project wasn’t even completed yet.

There was a very high probability that it would become an ordinary entertainment or plaything for the researchers who were tired from continuing the experiment.

“Can’t you hear? I’ve already searched~ Wow. Sigh, keke. Hehe. Uh? Your brother is a piece of meat. You idiot. Are you listening?”

“…”

“Don’t listen. Jeong Si-woo.”

Perhaps. We may never really meet.

Jeong Si-woo’s head, covered in a lot of shadow, bowed. He raised his sword without saying a word.

However, the ending of the villain’s name took precedence over Jeong Si-woo’s actions.

“Don’t wait in hell. “Let me meet your younger brother first.”

A monster that torments Jeong Si-woo until the end and leaves.

The symbolism contained in the name ‘Hero’ sometimes became a spell that held him back.

“…”

Among the ways to defeat a strong hero, using force was not the only method.

It gives a feeling of helplessness that one cannot protect someone.

Push your spirit by any means necessary.

Having the hero give up on his own is the most terrible, yet also the best, solution.

Everyone that Jeong Si-woo dealt with cursed him.

I don’t want to die. He said it was an inevitable choice to save his family. Aren’t you like that too?

Why do you follow the world tree? Don’t you know how many people have been harmed by trees?

It’s your fault that my younger brother was kidnapped.

Is it really my fault?

-Brother… I’m sick.

I just.

I just want my family back.

“Jeong Si-woo.”

Jeong Si-woo turned his head to Kim Soo-yeon’s worried voice.

Jeong Si-woo was strong and strong.

The expression he showed to Soo-yeon was the same as always with a faint smile.

“Yes. “Sister.”

The fact that it seemed increasingly difficult to smile was probably not due to my mood.

-Tuk.

When he put down the sword, the blade scraped against the ground and made a dull sound.

A flower made of blood blooming all over the body. Su-yeon spoke carefully to Jeong Si-woo, who drank the potion in silence.

“… “Is it because of a dream?”

“Little. “There are a lot of things at stake.”

My younger brother is alive. The World Tree of Justice declared to Siwoo.

That’s a lie, and in fact, it’s not impossible that it’s simply to use himself.

But his intuition was telling him that his family would survive. Jeong Si-woo accepted World Tree’s proposal in a limited way.

‘Why.’

The day before, Jeong Si-woo had a dream.

Sometimes the World Tree of Justice conveys its will through dreams. I did not quite understand the content of the dream I had this time.

I vaguely remember my younger brother’s younger self.

The younger brother he cherished and loved… For some reason, he was holding Lee Si-heon’s hand tightly.

‘What are you inducing?’

A girl looking up at Lee Si-heon with an anxious face.

And naturally, many rumors pass through my head.

Stories that had been passed off as nonsense passed through my mind, and my once strong heart began to shake little by little.

Forcibly. Something.

─I don’t like it… I hate it!

And among the king’s abilities is subordination.

Ha.

“Huh…”

Jeong Si-woo stroked his forehead and raised his hair.

My hot forehead is throbbing. A laugh naturally came out.

No matter what, you still doubt your friend. It seems like there are quite a few people there.

“Sister.”

“Uh.”

Jeong Si-woo immediately approached Soo-yeon with his healed body.

Let’s shrug and say to Soo-yeon, who looks a little embarrassed.

“Could you please slap me on the cheek?”

-Taaaaah!

The head turns sharply.

I never asked you to hit me this hard…

“Kekkeekkeek.”

“… “Did you hit me too hard?”

Soo-yeon belatedly apologized, but Jeong Si-woo’s jawbone was already broken to the point where it needed to be reassembled.

“No, what… Yes. Thanks to you, I feel a bit more energetic.”

“I feel energized… Go? “You don’t like that, do you?”

“No way.”

There is a separate problem.

Jeong Si-woo shrugged his shoulders and turned his head towards the next room.

Kim Soo-yeon also straightened her sword and strengthened her momentum toward the powerful energy beyond her door.

“You know?”

“I can feel it.”

Executive.

There is a monster beyond here.

It’s hard to guarantee victory, and if we make a mistake, both of us could die without being able to guess anything.

However, Jeong Si-woo and Su-yeon are the best forces in the current World Tree camp.

It was not to the point where the two people who had partially transplanted Sephiroth’s permanent organs were considered to have no chance of winning.

-Drur.

A fierce feeling of weight through the open door.

An old man standing alone in a huge garden was looking at the two people, rubbing his bushy beard.

“… Fifth leaf. Honeysuckle. Japonica.”

A gentleman in a suit wearing a monocle.

Contrary to his appearance, I could keenly feel the magic power concentrated in his huge body his.

Japonica looked at Si-woo and Su-yeon with her stern face, and then she lightly lowered her eyelids.

“Welcome.”

The first words the middle-aged man spoke were a polite welcome.

At the same time, his whites turned black.

* * * * * * * * * * *

More than half of the fortress succeeded in escaping due to the intrusion of deputy officials.

There was an option to just follow him, but he decided to act after rescuing the children as requested by Ebondan, and as the magic stone at the fortress level stopped operating, he was able to contact Alba.

-Wooow!!

Warp is the average of a wise man.

Wiki, my father’s love dog, came running at my word no matter where I went.

“Dad. Dad~! “I did well, right?”

“My daughter is the best.”

“Hi-Hi. Can’t I give you a prize? Dad, please spend a little of your time with me~! Just a little bit. Yes?”

Wiki curls up against my forearm, hugs the back of my neck, and rubs my cheek.

There are more than one or two calculations to worry about just maintaining warp. I couldn’t understand how one could use magic and even have a conversation.

‘No matter how you look at it… ‘My daughter is a genius.’

Cute, smart and lovely.

A fully equipped wiki is like the mainstay of our family.

They even have a lot of charm.

“Wiki?”

“Yes.”

“Kiss.”

-Side!

Wiki hit me with a bean on my lips and grabbed my head tightly.

-Jjook!

2 seconds. 3 seconds. 4 seconds.

Isn’t it a bit long?

I started to feel out of breath and tried not to fall too far, so I pushed him away slightly. Only then did Wiki lower his head and start laughing.

“Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since I last saw you, but my daughter’s cuteness has increased.”

“Hee.”

Still, it’s dangerous, so let’s just send it back.

After sending all the children, including the last child, send the wiki back.

This is not something to say to children who are just growing up, but those test subjects were quite valuable to us.

Children who are perfectly imbued with the character of a wooden person and have the potential to become powerful just by raising them.

If we researched it well, we could have used the results of Flower’s hard work.

Sending my beloved daughter into the warp. I glanced at Banya, who was standing quietly next to me.

“After. What are you going to do?”

“I got the sample, so I’ll just head back.”

I don’t let the years go by. When she gestured to the queen to leave, Vanya wrinkled her nose and put on her leather underwear.

“… “I hope I never see you again.”

“You should pray like that. “If you mess up, you’ll die.”

No one knows whether we will become enemies the next time we meet.

When she said a word like that, Banya, who was shaking her body, quickly backed away.

The surviving researchers, including Lin, were taken prisoner and sent to the kingdom. Now we go back to the beginning and only Ebonyeon and I are left.

When I finished work in a hurry and looked back at Ebony, I saw Ebony leaning against the wall, lost in thought.

-Jerbuk, Jerbuk.

“Ebony. “The work is done.”

“…”

“Ebony?”

“… Ah. Yes yes! Master. What’s going on?”

You will have a lot to think about since you just met the friend you have been looking for your whole life.

It was even more so if that friend fought with me and ran away with a very angry face.

“Ugh.”

I sighed and sat down next to Ebony and leaned my back against the wall.

The inside of the fortress, which had not collapsed in the aftermath of the battle, was gloomy, and all sides were blocked, so there was almost no light when the magic was extinguished, but there was no atmosphere like this to be lost in thought .

“Are you worried?”

“… Yes.”

The fact that Yeonhwa and I engaged in combat also meant that he had completely surrendered himself to Flower.

I patted the head of Ebony, who seemed to understand the whole situation without me having to tell him.

-Tuk.

Ebony didn’t show much of a reaction this time.

He seemed uneasy, so I squeezed his shoulder on the other side and gave him a gentle hug.

The small ebony body came into my arms.

“Master.”

“Yes.”

“Why is Yeonhwa… Are you helping Flower? “I’m not sure.”

“There must be a reason. Just like you became my disciple. Even if it seems incomprehensible, there is a reason for everything.”

I could give a bad example of the process of brainwashing.

I stopped speaking vaguely and let people think as broadly as possible.

“Of course, there must be a reason for that. But… Master. Flower kidnapped me and Yeonhwa. Obviously Yeonhwa…”

“I guess that’s possible. It may be different.”

“… The expression on his face he said otherwise.”

“But I confirmed that he was still alive. “It’s not that there is no hope.”

Ebony smiled vaguely and nodded his head.

“That’s right. Yeonhwa was alive… That alone makes me happy. But…”

Flowers are our enemies.

Even Ebony knew what that meant.

In order to return to the way things were before, one side must bend and betray the power that took care of them.

All you have to do is accept the breakup and point the knife.

Lotus’s vice-executive wife, Lotus, was someone I had to kill no matter what as long as Padmé’s power lasted.

Although I know that. I didn’t say anything.

“Ebony.”

“… Yes.”

“What do you want to do? Not just now. There will be many more choices to make in the future. Maybe you can become distant from me… They may diverge from each other.”

“Why, why do you say that?”

Ebondan became my disciple and swore to remain by my side even after the work was over.

But that was a long time ago.

If Ebondan, who was like a daughter to me, had the path she wanted, I was confident that I would naturally trust her and let her go.

“That’s what they say.”

“… Please don’t say things like that.”

The ebony cupped her breasts and pursed his lips.

“Meeting. Let me talk honestly. I think that way, I will feel better.”

“Okay.”

“… Sorry. “Master.”

“What did you do wrong?”

Would it be okay if the departure was a little late?

Feeling the warmth of the fainting ebony, I stared blankly at the hole in the ceiling of the collapsed fortress.