Chapter 162 – 162 – Hyde, Erect! #4

162 – Hyde, erect! # 4

Alter Archibald was riding his horse toward Palcea when he heard some news.
It was a story about a group of black thieves running out of Palcea and heading to “Jericho Fortress.”

“Why did Roland’s band of thieves head towards Jericho… ?”

Alter guessed why Roland’s Dark Knights were advancing on the fortress.

Roland’s bandits only raided houses and merchants and plundered supplies, and were not a force that was advancing directly anywhere.

But suddenly the momentum changed.

‘It’s not a coincidence. Henry-. No, Hyde. ‘I can’t believe something like this suddenly happened after that guy headed to the Palcea region.’

Zek-.

Alter opened the letter in his arms.

This was a letter he received from his subordinate, Balhajak, not long ago.

“Henry is safe and well.”

Peaceful writing.

Only now did Alter realize that he had been tricked.

“Hyde, you son of a bitch!!!!!”

Since when did it start?

When did Henry begin to exist as Hyde?

When did you get your memories back?

Did he lose his memory in the first place?

No─.

There was no point in thinking about these things now.

Alter screamed as the nightmares he had been having every day rose up to his chin and took his breath away.

“Go back! “I have to go back!”

Alter knew very well why Hyde was heading to Jericho Fortress.

It was clear that he wanted to break through there and join the “Blood Crusade” Located in Sodomi.
It was obvious what would happen if Hyde joined them.

“That guy will kill countless people.”

In Alter’s opinion, the current Hyde was a person overcome by evil.

He was going to kill everyone and try to burn the world.

Even if Alter himself was in that situation, he would have done that.

Then we arrived at Jericho Fortress by horseback again.

The fortress seemed to be fine, as if Alter’s prayers, who had run without stopping the night before, had come true.

“Is everyone okay? They say the Black Knights are advancing here!”

Alter entered the castle and shouted.

The knights welcomed Alter.

“You’re safe. Lord Alter. Rather, I have something to tell you.”

“We captured the criminal and executed his sentence.”

Sinner?

I wondered if Alter had captured Hyde and cut off his head.

But what was heard next was an even more terrible story.

“We captured Hecate, the witch who broke the taboo.”

“He hasn’t opened his mouth even though he’s been starving for several days already. “Who is that person?”

“A baby isn’t something you can make on your own, right?”

“…”

Alter felt like ants as hot as flames were climbing his back.

Alter said.

“Uh, where are you?”

Alter ran vigorously.

Then, Hecate was seen tied up in the form of a cross in the square where criminals were executed.

The appearance was miserable.

“Lord Alter. Does Lord Alter know? What kind of man did that witch Hecate commits a sin with? No wonder she feels shocked. “The lover I trusted was tainted by the dirty blood crusade.”

“Lord Alter. That opponent couldn’t possibly be Lord Alter, right?”

The knights surrounded Alter.

Alter felt like his mind was turning white.
Why did this happen?

Is it a sin to love each other and have children?

At the moment when he should be most happy, why is Alter surrounded by people like a sinner?

And why is Hecate tied up like that?
It was time to think like that.

“Alter. You dirty hypocrite. She had sex while she was sworn to chastity as if she would remain a virgin for the rest of her life. He is honestly a disappointment.”

Someone said.

When he raised his head, there was someone standing in the castle.
He existed like soot in the world, his black hair blowing in the wind.

“You, you son of a bitch!!!!”

“How is it. A play I specially prepared. Don’t work hard for no reason. Because while you were messing around, everyone in this fortress became my slave. “I took away the free will of all innocent people.”

Alter thought he was fast.
But it was already too late.

Hyde had already arrived-.

It seemed that everyone in this fortress had been subdued for some reason.

“I swear on my name that I will kill you!!!!!”

Sereung-.

Alter couldn’t hold back and pulled out his sword.

And he thought he should jump right in and cut off that man’s head.
But I couldn’t.

“Protect me.”

Zek-.

Sussssseu-.

This was because countless humans clung to Alter’s side like bees cling to sweet sap.

Most of them were elderly, and there were many boys and girls with fluffy noses.

“Alter. I know you are strong. If you cause even the slightest disturbance, those old men and boys will die without even knowing why. They are truly innocent. How many innocent people are you going to kill me?”

“Aaaaa!!!!”

Alter was furious to the end of his head.
The people of Jericho Fortress continued to cling to the altar.

There were also friends I had exchanged greetings with just a few days ago.

Zek-.

They pulled out their daggers and thrust them hard into Alter’s body.

Sigh-!

Kwasik-!

“Click ah ah ah!”

Alter screamed.

Hyde said while looking at that.

“Ruler. What are you going to do? It is a moment of desperation. How will the handsome Alter Archibald act? Will he ignore the deaths of innocents to enforce his own good? Or will he ultimately bend his will and become corrupt to save the lives of innocent people?”

Zek-.

Hyde put out his foot.
Then countless soldiers bent their knees and stretched out their hands to create stairs.

Hyde coming down the stairs made of humans.

He looked at Hecate and spoke with narrowed eyes.

“Ruler-. Alter. You, too, must admit it. That you, too, are an ugly, dirty traitor. Prove that you too, like me, end up holding the devil’s hand in some cases. “You might not be able to protect your woman this time.”

Alter.

He knew what Hyde wanted.

He wanted Alter to become a monster like him.

Wow-.

Alter tightened his grip on the sword.

Will you sacrifice the lives of innocent people to protect your lover Hecate?

Or will I just die like this with Hecate?-.

In my life, I have never had such serious worries.

Alter felt extremely helpless, and his head went from hot to cold.

“I am—.”

Alter-.

He finally made a choice.

One step forward.

That will change everything.

“I am—.”

“That’s boring. Alter, your lukewarmness makes me want to die.”

Sssss-.

However, the people surrounding Alter retreated.

And a straight road to Hyde emerged.

# # #

I looked at Alter.

This guy has walked a path made of humans.

I thought you were going to swing your sword at me-.

He first rescued Hecate who was tied to the cross.

“Hecate.”

“Uh, Alter…”

Zek-.

Alter looked around at Hecate.

Alter looked at me and shouted, perhaps realizing that Hecate was not seriously injured, although she had become a little thinner and more shabby.

“Hyde you bastard! “How many more people do you have to embroil and suffer to be satisfied?”

The tip of his sword was pointed at me.

Of course, Roland suddenly appeared in front of me.

Nice timing.

“Hyde! What on earth do you want? What on earth are you trying to do!”

It seemed like he had a lot of questions while not seeing Alter.

Hecate grabbed Alter’s arm.

“Alter-. That person saved me… When you are chased and caught by people… Me… I opened the castle door… So that they can come in and take over—.”

“…”

In many ways, Alter kept quiet.

You must have roughly figured out what happened.

My evangelist Balhajak has captured Hecate.

She was on the verge of being stoned to death when it was discovered that she was pregnant.

I didn’t know that Hecate was pregnant, but she wasn’t a bad thing for me.

In order to protect her child and herself, Hecate cooperated with me and opened the gate of the fortress with Balhazak, and I was able to easily hide.

That’s it.

It’s a simple story.

In the first place, the group of bandits advancing toward the fortress was bait.

“To occupy a fortress, half a day is enough, without using swords, arrows, or shedding the blood of an army. Don’t you think it’s an incredible power? “I am the only rule in this world.”

Pot-.

I spread my arms.

Alter spoke to me.

“Even the king’s power is not invincible. Hyde. I heard it from the queen. They say that the user of the power loses the most important thing that forms an individual. What are you losing?”

It was a similar question to the one I heard from Roland.

I answered simply, just as I answered Roland.

“Nothing. I don’t lose anything. I would rather get my hands on it. Everything. And I will give just judgment to this lukewarmly dying world.”

“… Do they know? “That you are back.”

“Doesn’t care. From now on, nothing can be changed by others. Because I have decided to choose who I am and what I should do.”

“…”

“But Alter. In the end, you couldn’t choose to be a bad person or a good person. What a lukewarm hypocrite. You just sleep like that. Then get out of my castle now.”

# # #

Hecate.

She washed her body thoroughly before leaving the fort.
It was very refreshing.

Alter took care of Hecate.

“Do not work too hard. I’m not alone anymore.”

“Alter. This is okay. And you. It was amazing. “In those moments, you suppress your anger and worry about the innocent people who will get hurt, so you just act like a fool.”

Zek-.

Hecate examined Alter’s body.

Her stab wounds ‘regenerated’ and disappeared as if washed away, but her scar remained.

“As expected, you are a Holy Knight loved by people. If it were me, I would have run away and hit people to survive. I actually did that too. When the nuns came after me. “I hit the nuns.”

“…”

Alter couldn’t open her mouth.
Because he was trying to make a ‘choice’ after all.

I had made up my mind.

However, the reason it could not be done was because the temperamental Hyde opened the way for Alter.

“Hecate. “I’m not that great of a person.”

“Know. But people think you’re amazing. There are many people who look to you and find hope. Maybe that’s why it was like that? Hyde, that man opened the way for you.”

“What?”

“Maybe that guy, Hyde, didn’t want to see you make the wrong choice. It seems like he hates you, but he seems to like you just as much.”

Alter couldn’t understand.

I couldn’t believe that Hyde, a villain so terrible that no words could describe it, would do something like that for me.

“That guy is a piece of trash. Look at this fort. He warped and subdued everyone in his castle with his terrible powers. It’s a cursed power. It is truly the power of a killer.”

It seemed that Alter could not stop his anger and hatred towards Hyde.

But Hecate looked out her window.
No one died and no one was hurt except Alter.

‘Isn’t it the power of a child’s whining? I rather think so.’

Hecate came to mind a lot.

However, I swallowed those stories with my mouth.

Instead, she spoke calmly.

“Alter. I want to go to the Blood Crusade. Because in this world other than that place, loving each other and having children seems to be a sin. Alter, I want you to go there too.”

“…”

Alter was deeply troubled.

So, I headed to the commander’s office in the castle where Hyde was staying.

There, Roland and Balhazak were having a meeting with a map spread out, but they fell silent with Alter’s position.

“Hyde. “Let’s talk.”

Alter said.

“Yes.”

Hyde pushed people away.

Looking at that, Alter frowned slightly.

“I’m the one who asked to talk. “Why do you harm people if I kill you?”

“You are not the kind of person who would do something like that. I don’t even have the guts to do that.”

It was indeed as Hyde said.

Alter did not swing her sword even though Hyde, whom she hated so much, was in front of her.
Alter was just curious.

“Hyde. What are you? What do you want to do? I want to hear the truth, not lies. Man to man. Human to human.”

Depending on the answer-.

Alter had a desire to trust Hyde.

The world where a strange halo appeared in the sky was not normal.

Alter knew this better than anyone else, but he lacked the power.
Even now, called the Platinum Knight, he was confident that he could defeat any human being, but he was only a human being and could not fight and win against the ‘world.’

Alter believed that Hyde was the only one who could change this strange world.

Hyde finally broke the long silence and spoke.

“I am sex.”

“What?”

“And from now on I will be─────.”

A story from Hyde’s mouth.

It was a story so simple yet so shocking that it could be summed up in one word.

Since Alter was born, he has never felt so shocked.
It was a shock that literally shook his brain and cracked before his eyes.

‘… Is this guy really sane? How can you say something like that? How on earth can a person think like that?’

It was such a crazy story that it was actually funny.