Chapter 186 – Chapter 186: Seongju Seong-Ju, the Pre-Saint of the Goddess of Beauty (5)

It has been like that since before.
When I heard Shin Seo-ah’s voice, I couldn’t resist it.

“Come on.”
“Love you.”
“I only have you.”

What should I say?
Should I say that it breaks the will to resist?
It was not a mental attack like hypnosis.
If so, my charisma stat would have worked.

Rather, it was closer to seducing the opponent.

At the time, I was mesmerized by her looks, and I liked just hearing her call me by name.

“I like you, Mr. Shadow Mask.”
“What is your real identity?”
“Did you show up today? Like a hero of justice.”

The first time I met her in an emergency dungeon, she touched me without hesitation and approached me.

She seemed very adept at approaching men.
There was no hesitation.
Before she knew it, she closed the distance, before she knew it, she gently held my fingers, and before she knew it, she touched her shoulder with her own shoulder.
When she came to her senses, I realized that I had become her lover.

“I like you. You.”

I remember Shin Seo-ah’s shy smile.
The face that confessed to me and smiled like a country child.
The soft touch of her breasts that I felt when she held me tight.

It was still clear.
How can I forget
She was the woman who broke me so badly.

“How about you? Can you show me what you look like?”

The day she confessed to me
The day I received that confession.
I showed her my sincerity by taking off her mask.

From that day on, we dated.
I thought he was the happiest man.
That’s why I tried to do anything to help her.

When she held my hand and whispered that she loved me over and over again, I almost fainted as she was hardly immune to women.

“Shinseo, is that woman strange?”
“I don’t know what my sister thinks, but she’s a really nice guy.”
“Siwoo.”

Even when Chungha noona dissuaded me, I still trusted Seoah Shin.
Then I was

I was stupid.

To be distracted by the anger of a woman and to become haggard.
He didn’t even know what monster was waiting behind the mask.
Thinking about it now, I felt stupid that day, but because of that time, I am who I am now.
So.

‘I’m not bewitched.’

I said to Shin Seo-ah on the other side of the door.

“Get off now. Before calling the police.”
“Hmm, if I report it, will they stop me? I am a hero to them.”
“At least, you’ll know that you’re clinging to a man, even if you’re engaged.”
“It is very cold.”
“Because of whom.”

I heard her snort from the other side of the door.

“I thought I’d never see you again, so why are you here?”

I know why.
It must be because of what happened in Gangneung.
It’s something I’ve done, so I’m suspecting it.
Whether it’s the chairman or Shinseo-ah.

“What could be the reason? I want to say I’m sorry for what happened then. I came to apologize.”

A voice still heard from beyond the door.
It was the same.
A deep and gentle voice that tickles people’s hearts.

“I’m sorry for killing everyone… Do you think that makes sense?”
“Killing. You say weird things We haven’t killed anyone. You know that? I didn’t kill you or anyone else.”

He realized the moment he heard it.
That she hasn’t changed at all.
The look of that time when you don’t hesitate to use others and tell lies.

‘I wasn’t expecting it…’

It was bittersweet to see him again like this.

“Siwoo.”

Shin Seo-ah’s voice calling my name.

“Now, this is my last request. Please open the door.”
“No. Go back.”

It was then.

Wood deok!

With the sound of the doorknob breaking, Shin Seo-ah forced the door open.
An open door with a broken knocker.
Shin Seo-ah took one step closer to me.

“It’s tough to be alone in the house. Are you continuing her workout?”
“Do not come. This is the final warning.”
“… Okay. If you say so.”

She kept her distance and asked me one after another.

“It seems that both mana and body were sharpened. There are no gaps.”
“Just because she quit her job doesn’t mean she should stop working out.”
“Okay? Then all of a sudden she wants to go out somewhere far away? For example, Gangwon-do.”
“I don’t know what you mean?”

I knew it.
She came like this to inquire about her work in Gangneung.
It must mean that she has grown closer to Daesung’s side.
The fact that Shin Seo-ah came to me like this is to warn me that Daesung will keep an eye on me.

Don’t do anything stupid

“Okay? She wondered if she hadn’t been away lately? Last time I looked, there were traces of Siwoo’s car riding on the highway.”
“I’ve been driving.”
“Okay? It seems like you’ve been around longer than you thought?”
“I lost my job, so now I am traveling with the money I have. Any complaints? Did you want me to live like a dead person?”
“It’s not like that.”

She stared at me
Her eyes twinkled and her tears began to form.

“I’m glad. Still, I think you’re doing well.”

It was the first time I’d seen her cry.
She was the woman who always showed me only a smile.
I was a little perplexed.

“I was very worried about what would happen if you collapsed. Was it very difficult? I should have helped and visited often.”

But the moment she heard her, she realized.
It’s smoke.
As in the past, acting to charm me.
Those tears were also part of the acting.

“Don’t act nice.”
“… Did you catch it?”

Wiping her tears, she grinned.

“But it doesn’t matter. After all, you will speak.”

She stretched out her hand
He felt an unprecedented strength in her hand.

[A serious mental attack has occurred.]
[He endured due to the SS-class charisma stat.]

Also.
I knew you were like this.
Because up until now, I’ve followed your words almost as if I were obedient.
But I did it because I liked you back then, not because I was possessed by your mind attack.
At least then.

“Say. Wasn’t it you Kim Si-woo who messed up the base of the Salvation Church in Gangneung?”

But not now.
She could be sure she didn’t feel any emotions.

“No.”

I shook my head.

“What?”
“I have never been to Gangneung. I don’t even know what the Salvation Church is.”

Shin Seo-ah looked at me as if she was embarrassed.

“For a moment… You can’t.”
“I’m sorry, but childish things like that don’t work for me.”

I took a step closer to Shin Seo-ah.

“I’m warning you.”

I hit the wall she was standing on and spoke to her.

“Don’t try to tie me up with one more nonsense. Because I forgot everything about Daesung.”

I hid my true feelings as much as possible.
I continued, hiding my feelings that I would destroy both Daesung and Shin Seo-ah.

“So don’t think about appearing in front of me now and get out of here.”
“You you…”
“At least, I’ll end it with a final warning, as we did in the past.”

Because of Jung? No.
The reason she was sent here with her life was because she still needed Shin Seo Ah.
In her mind, she even thought of killing her here and ending everything with her.

But she must not collapse just yet.
Because Shin Seo-ah was the one who connected Watchers, Daesung, and the Salvation Church.
It’s not now that she collapses and falls, but when she breaks them all down.
She only deserves to be defeated after losing everything she has accomplished.
Until then, never.
I don’t forgive

“Looking at you reacting like this, there must be something.”

Shin Seo-ah, who corrected her expression before she knew it, uttered a word.
When her own ability didn’t work, she looked a bit flustered, but that was for a while.
Returning to her original expression, she glared at me with her characteristic eyes shining.
Okay.
It was the face I saw in court.
The face that led others to ruin.

“Look forward. The evidence you’ve been hiding so tightly, I’ll find it right away.”
“Seeing as you’re trying to make something up that I’ve never done before and bring it to court, you haven’t changed.”
“Well. You can see that, right?”

After her words, she left her seat without hesitation.
In the future, full-scale monitoring of Daesung will begin.
Not just one Kim Hyun-jung, but several.

‘I’ll have to tell Hyeonjeong to keep quiet for the time being.’

It was difficult to lose talented people who had been hard-earned after being caught for nothing.

I looked at the place where Shin Seo-ah had left.
The doorknob was broken and couldn’t close properly, her scent.
Everything Shin Seo-ah left behind made her feel dirty.
It was not a good reunion.

But that’s it.
The moment I met her face, I was able to make a promise.

Even if I personally brought her down, I would not feel any guilt.
It may sound cold-hearted, but it was my truth.
Probably won’t hesitate.
Even if she begged me to save her, she wouldn’t forgive me. She was confident.

‘Thank you for standing.’

For not letting me hesitate
I had to hurry even more.

Before Daesung’s surveillance network gets tighter.

***

“How…”

Back at her company, Shin Seo-ah felt her hands tremble.

“His power doesn’t work?”

It was the power that could make most people in this world express their sincerity.
It was similar to hypnosis, but a different kind of power.
The power to make her tell her only her truth and to make her subordinate to her more and more.
With this, she made many men her own, and made their power her own.
All the men she used were like that.

“Brother, give me all the power in your mana core.”

With this one word, her strong A-class hunters also dedicated their strength to her.
She was the reason why she, who was only a C-class hunter, was able to become the hero of River Gate.

Daesung Choi Woo-seok will soon be there too.
Chairman Woo-Sung Choi was an exception.
He was a man with good seeds for the Lord to descend, so he did not dare.

Kim Si-woo was also one of the many male toys that were bewitched by her.
She gave her all but her strength.

That’s why I thought he might be her enchanted opponent too.

‘Why didn’t it work?’

Why?

He said Siwoo Kim was plotting something on her, and she thought, of course, that he would tell her everything.
She did, so she went to see him herself.
But she didn’t listen at all.
As if it were not affected by her powers in any way.

Moreover, his hands trembled at the vicious spree of blood.
If it was a terrible sight of her, it was such an intense murder that even she, who had seen her bones, felt fear.
It was the first time I’d seen anything like that.

Facing Kim Si-woo’s gaze, she felt familiar from his appearance.

‘Watcher…’

The feeling she felt when she met him for the first time while tossing and turning in her back alley.
A gaze that makes a person naked and sees through them.
Why did I feel a similar aura in that man?

She couldn’t understand

“I must have felt wrong.”

Because this was the first time her power didn’t work.

***

I found the men’s dormitory where Jo Seong-ju was staying.

“Whoa… What are you nervous about?”

Made a will
Come to your senses.
You have to succeed somehow.
Also to strengthen students’ power.
Also in order to gain greater power to use in the future.

After making my promise, I went into the dormitory lobby.