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[ Come quickly! ]
“Mister. What are you doing?”
Daein, who was leisurely reading a book, looked up at the sound of Lily’s voice. Lily stuttered as she read the title written on the outside of the book.
“Cloth… hemp… fertilizer?”
The great man put aside the book he was reading, 『The Chronicles of the Heavenly Demon』. And then he looked at Lily with a pitiful face.
“Not fertilizer though. Cheonmabirok. “You’ve been learning from As for months and you can’t even read this?”
“tooth. “Worim letters are difficult.”
Lily’s lips protruded in displeasure. I know how to write and read Korean now, but the martial arts script was still very difficult for me.
‘But why are you so good at everything? He speaks Gaia very well, he speaks Murim well, he speaks Korean well…’
Lily once again felt that the great person who knew multidimensional language was amazing, but she felt like she would look really boastful if she showed it, so she decided to pretend not to know.
Lily said, snooping next to Daein.
“Is that fun?”
“so so. “It’s more beneficial than you think.”
“What is it about?”
At that moment, the great man narrowed his eyebrows and looked at Lily.
‘weird. There’s no way this kid who hates studying would be interested in thick books.’
Maybe it’s a comic book or a cookbook. There was no way Lily would have been interested in the thick and wordy Cheonmabirok.
That means there is something else in mind.
He was a man who prided himself on having become a millionaire when it came to this little boy.
“Be honest. What?”
“What what?”
Lily, startled, shook her shoulders. That’s right if you do. The great man said with a grin.
“What accident did you get into again? Have you secretly taken out food from the refrigerator and eaten it? Or did you break something?”
“…It’s not like that.”
Lily sighed with a sullen expression.
The great man, who had been tilting his head at the sight, opened his eyes wide when he saw that there was no softness on Lily’s neck.
Plus, that anxious look.
“Are you…”
The great man’s eyes wavered. Now that I think about it, the monkey execution “Ukkikkikki!” from earlier. There was no sound.
The great man closed his eyes and sighed, as if he had given up on something.
“Did you eat this roasted squid? With the execution of a monkey? Well, I thought you endured it for a long time… So was it delicious?”
“Sii! “It’s not like that!”
Lily lunged at Daein. The great man easily dodged the attack. And then he put a headlock on Lily.
“You’re fussy. “On the subject of the little one.”
“Ugh! “Let go of this!”
The great man looked around while feeding chestnuts to Lily’s forehead.
I saw Geumo and Malang sleeping in the corner of the trailer, using each other as pillows. Perhaps because they were similar spirits, the two got along strangely well.
“I didn’t eat it. But why is that?”
“…That feels a bit strange.”
“Feel?”
The great man let go of Lily. Lily did not rebel like usual and behaved quietly.
‘Where does it hurt?’
It was unusual for her face to look particularly weak, so the great man placed his palm on Lily’s forehead and measured her temperature.
There seemed to be no fever.
“What’s strange?”
Lily wiggled her fingers, avoiding the man’s gaze. Because I couldn’t explain it accurately myself.
“My heart is racing and I feel anxious for no reason…”
Daein’s expression hardened at those words. It was so slight that Lily didn’t notice.
‘Perhaps…’
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When he was in Murim, Daein had a separate conversation with Abraxas.
“The devil’s baptism took over Lily’s body. “You remember, right?”
The great man nodded.
“Of course I remember. “I killed that demon myself.”
When I went to the continent of Gaia, I enlisted the help of an elf elder to bring out the demon that resided in Lily’s body and kill it.
“okay. At that time, I also watched you with the eyes of a great elder. But…”
Abraxas’ expression was unusual. Daein noticed something and said with a hardened expression.
“You mean that’s not the end?”
“…….”
“Why? “You killed the devil.”
Abraxas sighed lightly and said.
“When I first came to Moorim, I briefly inhabited Lily’s body. “At that time, I had a chance to take a closer look inside the body.”
Abraxas wondered for a moment how to explain what he had seen.
This was the first time even a dragon that had lived for thousands of years had seen something like that.
“The devil in my body is dead and my baptism has been erased. But something remained deep inside. I don’t even know how to explain it exactly. scar? Fragments? seed? I’m not sure how this will germinate in the future. “The only thing I can be sure of is…”
Abraxas continued carefully.
“It’s related to a certain demon lord.”
“……”
The great man was silent, and Abraxas sighed softly.
“Whew. I tried to solve it somehow. To conclude, it is impossible. If you try to remove something by force… Lily will get hurt. In severe cases, you could die.”
“…sit down. “Please tell me in more detail.”
The two talked for quite some time.
About the ‘something’ left behind in Lily’s body.
“Maybe I’m worried for no reason. It’s so weak that even I can only notice the traces once I’m inside the body. “If it’s just a scar or something, nothing could happen in your life.”
“It might not be that.”
In his previous life before returning, Daein had met the ‘Fire Witch’ who existed as a disaster.
Although he only saw her in passing as she turned other superhumans into piles of charcoal, the great man remembered that look in her eyes.
Eyes full of madness, pain, sadness, and anger, yet somehow empty.
“…Let’s just keep this to ourselves. “Don’t say anything to the kid.”
The great man said so and Abraxas nodded heavily.
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Lily continued speaking with a worried expression.
“My heart keeps pounding and I’m so anxious that I don’t even feel like eating…” “
…Hmm. “That’s a bit serious.”
The great man had said that without realizing it, but when he saw Lily’s expression become serious, he felt sorry.
Lily’s big eyes were shaking anxiously.
“mister. Am I serious? Is it an incurable disease? “I saw it in a drama, and he was just lying in bed, and he was bald…”
Daein sighed and ruffled Lily’s abundant hair.
“It’s no big deal. Everyone does that at your age. I’m anxious and can’t eat well. “Honestly, you’ve eaten too much so far.”
“really?”
The great man smiled kindly to reassure Lily, who was shaking with anxiety.
At times like these, it was time to show the composure of an adult and the trust that had been built up on a daily basis.
“Did you see me lying?”
“A lot.”
“…….”
“It’s the same as the old man who told me to say ‘fuck you’ a while back…”
This kid has never done that before, but still….
The great man let out a long sigh and said.
“For real this time.”
“…really?”
“Why am I lying to you about this? And all that drama is fake.”
The great man stood up from his seat.
I was able to check where I was because I was constantly looking at the monitor while talking to Lily.
“There is no such thing as an incurable disease in the world. At least in my dictionary.”
At that time, Choi Seong-min’s voice was heard over the radio.
[Vice President. We have arrived at our destination.]
After patting Lily on the head, Daein got out of the truck. Lily asked, following behind him.
“Is that really true?”
“of course.”
The great man answered in a confident voice. There was no hesitation in the answer.
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The battle truck stopped outside the city limits, where the fog began to set in.
“For convenience, from now on, all instructions will be given informally.”
The great man looked around at the warriors of the Heavenly Demon Church and said.
“I’m sure everyone is familiar with the photos of the missing people, right?”
Twenty warriors, led by Blood Gisura and Yeomragwi, nodded silently.
All of them are martial arts masters who are trained in the art of following and silver form. You couldn’t ask for a better team for a search mission in Korea.
“Then, from now on, we will work in teams of two to search for the missing people.”
Especially in that fog where electronic equipment doesn’t work properly.
“We refrain from fighting as much as possible, and when we find missing people, we rescue them and bring them here.”
“If there are multiple people missing, fire the provided signal flares.”
“Even if we don’t achieve anything, we will definitely gather here again after four hours. Do you understand?”
““Honorable name!””
The warriors of the Heavenly Demon Church respond with trust. The great man nodded with a satisfied expression.
“Then let’s go.”
Whick! Whick! Whick!
Ten search teams flew into the fog as if competing. Everyone was so good at magic that they could barely hear their footsteps.
After seeing the search team leave, Daein turned around.
Lily Jang Young-shin Geumo Soft.
And Choi Seong-min was waiting in front of the combat truck.
“You wait here, and when the search team finds the missing people and fires a signal, you immediately drive the truck and rescue them.”
Daein spoke to Choi Seongmin, the only adult on the waiting team.
“If anything happens, fire a signal immediately. Well, it might be difficult for something special to happen, but…”
Daein looked at Lily and Geumo. It was a combination of a kid + a monkey that was stronger than most archmage + sword master combinations.
Ukkkkkkk!
Geum-o pounded his chest, telling me to trust only him.
On the other hand, Lily looked at the great man with an anxious expression.
“What about you, uncle?”
“I have something else to do.”
[The Demon King’s Totem]
While the warriors of the Heavenly Demon Church were looking for the missing people, Daein planned to look for the Demon King’s Totem.
‘If we retrieve the totem, that fog will also disappear. Then the corpses in the fog won’t move anymore.’
However, since he could not reveal that he knew of the totem’s existence, Daein decided to quietly go find the totem alone.
…This time, I really only wanted to go find the totem.
“Shall I go with you?”
The great man playfully tapped the anxious Lily on the head.
“It’s faster to go and return alone.”
“…….”
The great man knew that Lily was anxious. I had to go alone to solve it.
Instead, Daein spoke to Jang Youngshin next to Lily.
“Youngshin. “You can take responsibility and protect the little boy, right?”
Jang Young-shin nodded with a solemn expression.
“…I will protect you with my life.”
What a life. The great man frowned at the feeling of discomfort rising up his esophagus.
“Anyway, I’ll go too.”
Whick!
The great man unfolded the Pacheon Shinbo and immediately launched himself into the fog.
Even after the great man was out of sight, Lily continued to wave.
“come fast!”
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The man who came into the fog climbed the wall of the tallest building nearby and climbed to the rooftop.
Whisper – thud.
Daein landed on the rooftop in an instant and closed his eyes. And the feeling was expanded as widely as possible.
“…….”
Evil demonic energy was felt throughout the city.
It was an insidious and unpleasant energy. It was similar to but different from the ‘darkness’ that Daein possessed.
‘center. We need to find the center from which the demonic energy spreads. There will be a totem there.’
The great man concentrated all his senses to find the source of demonic energy flowing out. The Demon King’s totem was most likely to be there.
After a while, the great man opened his closed eyes.
“…found.”
Whick!
The great man immediately threw himself away. I jumped from the rooftop of the building I was standing on to another rooftop dozens of times. The background changed quickly.
After a while, Daein stopped at a place where he could see the tallest skyscraper in Busan.
Tsutsutsutsu….
A sticky demonic energy was flowing out from there. Black clouds enveloped the upper part of the building, and zombified humans and monsters swarmed underneath the building.
‘It’s quite obviously a den of evil.’
The great man tried to sneak inside after using [Stealth].
If only something ominous hadn’t stopped him in his tracks at that moment.
“…!!”
The great man looked at the dark clouds billowing from the top of the skyscraper. His complexion hardened slightly.
“Devil…?”
[ come fast! ]End
ⓒ Ganjjajang
