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[Remote Control]
Command situation room inside Yeongju Castle.
Kiyoshi felt like he was going crazy right now.
“How on earth is this going on!”
Flames soaring tens of meters high and an earthquake shaking the ground, monsters screaming in pain.
What was visible on the situation room monitor was an unrealistic disaster itself.
Has hell appeared on this earth?
Or that he was having a long, terrible nightmare…
It wasn’t a dream. It was all real.
The land burning outside was clearly his domain, and the earthquakes that continued even now were not natural phenomena, but were caused by thousands of monsters.
“My territory…!”
Kiyoshi muttered with a very distorted expression. The flames burning the territory flickered across his retina as he looked at the large monitor.
The cameras installed on the outer wall and the drone cameras that were monitoring the sky were all destroyed as they could not withstand the fire caused by Lily.
Therefore, the situation room could not see the fight between Lily and Shin taking place outside.
However, the terrible traces caused by the two disasters could only be confirmed through cameras installed in Yeongju Castle. The command staff in the situation room could not even imagine what was going on in that fire.
One of the adjutants reported to Kiyoshi.
“My lord. All troops were concentrated within Yeongju Castle. What should I do…”
“Wait.”
“yes?”
To the adjutant who asked with a dumb expression, Kiyoshi distorted his face and spoke.
“Please wait. Can’t you clearly see what will happen if you go out there now? “Do you want to try the experiment yourself?”
If you go outside the castle now, you will all be swept up in the flames.
Kiyoshi did not want to waste precious troops like that. The civilians remaining outside the castle were of no concern.
“I’m sorry. “I’ll have all troops on standby!”
The lieutenant blushed and responded to the lord’s scolding. Soon, a standby order was given to the troops gathered within the castle.
It was then.
Quang!
The door to the situation room opened as if it were about to break, and Sakura and Joo Sang-wook, both wearing dresses, came in following them.
“Brother!”
“Sakura…”
“A large-scale monster attack? How could it not be detected by our detector?…”
She stopped talking, looked at the monitor, and then opened her mouth blankly.
“Oh my god….”
A fire burning wildly as if it would burn the world and the screams of monsters coming from beyond. The outside of Yeongju Castle was literally hell.
“What is all that?”
“I want to know that more than anyone else. But…”
Kiyoshi frowned and whispered to his younger brother.
“Why did you bring that guy here?”
In the direction he pointed, Joo Sang-wook was looking at the monitor with a serious expression.
Sakura also whispered softly into her brother’s ear.
“I didn’t know it was this serious. “I brought you here because I thought showing our technology and skills would help us form an alliance… Should we let you go now?”
Kiyoshi frowned and pondered for a moment, then shook his head.
“no. “It might sneak away, so it’s better to keep it here.”
They invited Joo Sang-wook with the intention of forming an alliance with the Korean government and unifying Tokyo.
However, if Joo Sang-wook sees this situation and goes away disappointed, everything will be in vain.
Sakura also nodded with a firm expression.
“that’s right. “I can’t send it back like this.”
For the sake of our alliance with the Korean government, we had to somehow resolve this situation quickly.
It was then that the fire began to die down.
Joo Sang-wook, who was staring intently at the monitor, said.
“It looks like the fight is coming to an end…”
When the flames died down, the melted corpses of the monsters were revealed. Earthquakes have almost disappeared.
And as the fire wall began to clear, the civilians crouching inside it were visible.
“You survived that fire?
“how?!”
While everyone was shocked, Joo Sang-wook muttered in surprise in a different way.
“No way, Lily…”
Even though other people didn’t know, Joo Sang-wook knew about Lily’s abilities.
Despite her cute appearance, the girl had the ability to control enormous flames.
But I never thought it would be like that.
‘I knew he was strong, but to the extent of causing such a disaster on his own…’
A drop of cold sweat rolled down from Joo Sang-wook’s forehead. As for the landlord, I wonder what happened to the guild…
Sighing slightly, Joo Sang-wook glanced around at the other people.
‘It would be best to keep your mouth shut for now.’
I planned to check what happened outside when Lily came back.
I was able to make a rough guess.
‘It looks like monsters are pouring out of a large-scale gate and Lily is out to stop them…’
Joo Sang-wook’s reasoning was roughly half correct. He still had no idea about Kurodama God’s abilities.
Joo Sang-wook looked back at Kiyoshi and said.
“Shouldn’t we first let the civilians outside come into the castle? If another monster appears…”
“As the lord, I will take care of that.”
Kiyoshi cut off Joo Sang-wook’s words with an unpleasant expression. He gave orders to his deputies in the situation room.
“The troops will continue to wait inside the castle. After sending out the drone first and scouting the outside…”
While the lord of Mandala was timidly cowering inside the castle, the lord of Orochi rushed in with his troops.
Doo doo doo doo doo!
A soldier shouted as he spotted the army coming from afar, raising dust.
“My lord! An army has been brought from Orochi in the west!”
“…what?”
There was no time to react. In an instant, the enemies with their troops crossed over the outer wall, which had collapsed in the battle of disasters, and surrounded Mandala’s Lord’s Castle.
It was perfect timing.
Kiyoshi gathered all his troops into the lord’s castle and naturally left almost no troops outside the castle.
And the fight between Lily and Shin only ended a little while ago. Now, the plan was to send troops out of the castle after scouting the outside situation with a drone.
“Why, at this timing…!”
If it had been just 10 minutes later, Orochi would not have been able to enter the Mandala’s realm so easily.
That 10-minute difference decided more than half of the outcome of the war.
Aaaaeaaaaang!
An ear-piercing siren rang and an announcement came from the Orochi Army’s lead vehicle.
[Notice to the lord of Mandala. We will attack in 12 hours. If you surrender before then, your life will be guaranteed.]
“Bring the microphone!”
Kiyoshi excitedly grabbed the microphone. His voice rang out through all the speakers in the castle and outside.
[If you don’t get off my land right now, I’ll cut you into pieces and throw you to the dogs and pigs!]
After that, Kiyoshi was very excited and cursed for a long time.
The other person’s reaction to him was simple.
[6 hours given.]
The time remaining until the enemy attack begins has been reduced from 12 hours to 6 hours. The command staff in the situation room was in an uproar.
“Damn it…”
Kiyoshi trembled with anger.
It was fully expected that a war would soon break out between the four major tribes to take over Tokyo. I prepared for a long time.
But I never imagined that I would be ambushed like this.
“My lord. What should you do….”
“What should I do? What should I do?” “You have to fight!”
In response to the lord’s nervous reaction, the adjutant shrugged his shoulders and answered that he understood. However, anxiety and fear were visible in those eyes.
‘The commander is this excited…. Morale is bound to fall.’
Because he was an outsider, Joo Sang-wook was able to understand the atmosphere inside the command center situation room more objectively than anyone else.
Kiyoshi did not have a proper sense of leader.
In this situation, instead of reacting properly, he was just irritated and anxious, taking a few steps back and forth to the left and right.
Because of the lord, the morale of the command staff was falling even further.
Rather, it was his younger sister, Sakura, who handled the situation calmly.
“Brother. “Calm down.”
“Do I look calm now?”
“There’s no reason to get excited, right? “We just have to win this battle.”
Sakura said that while looking around. Her voice, unlike Kiyoshi’s, was relaxed. She smiled at the people looking at her.
“Everyone is so anxious because of the natural disaster we saw earlier. But look. Now the flames are all gone and there are no monsters, right?”
It was as she said.
What appeared on the situation room monitor was simply Orochi’s army surrounding the feudal lord’s castle.
There were no longer any traces of the fire or monster that had occurred before. Sakura said emphatically.
“We are Japanese. I’ve been through disasters dozens of times in my life, and I’ve always come out of it well. “You’ve been through worse things than this.”
Sakura’s voice had the power to persuade and calm people. It was an ability her brother did not have.
“We are not at a disadvantage at all. One side of the outer wall has collapsed, but our main force is still inside. “It’s thanks to my brother quickly gathering the troops.”
Since Kiyoshi immediately summoned all his troops into the feudal lord’s castle, most of their main forces were preserved.
In other words, the castle was surrounded too easily because of that, but Sakura only highlighted the positive aspects.
“Besides, as a woman who doesn’t know much about war, I know that siege warfare is several times more difficult than fortress warfare. “Those of you who have been in the military here know much better than me, right?”
Some of the command staff nodded. The situation room, which had been full of anxiety and tension, soon regained stability.
‘I don’t like her, but she still has abilities. ‘I am making up for the weaknesses of the lord who is weak in interpersonal relationships.’
Joo Sang-wook evaluated her that way. Sakura made eye contact with him and gave him a wink.
At that moment, Joo Sang-wook’s expression hardened.
It wasn’t because of Sakura’s wink. It was because of a girl’s voice that suddenly sounded.
[Uncle Joo Sang-wook!]
“Lil….”
[Shh!]
Joo Sang-wook closed his mouth and slowly looked around at the sudden sound of Lily.
Lily was nowhere to be seen.
‘So this is an electromagnetic sound.’
As the Heavenly Demon Church and the Korean government signed an agreement, much information about martial arts was now known.
Joo Sang-wook was also learning martial arts. However, it was not yet at a level where electric sound could be used.
[Just listen. The man has something to say.]
‘The landlord’s deputy representative? ‘Could it be that you are here?’
Joo Sang-wook could only think but could not convey his thoughts. He frowned in frustration.
The electric sound was heard again.
[I ask you to get out of there first.]
“…….”
Nodding his head, Joo Sang-wook approached Kiyoshi and said.
“I’m going to go to my room. “The children are probably anxious, so I will go and calm them down.”
Kiyoshi narrowed his eyes and looked at Joo Sang-wook.
“You’re not planning on just throwing it out, are you?”
Joo Sang-wook frowned at that rude and blatant question. Sakura pulled her brother’s arm.
“Your brother too. “Don’t worry about it and just go.”
“thank you.”
Joo Sang-wook bowed his head slightly and then turned around. Behind him, Sakura spoke in a relaxed voice.
“Don’t be too late. “Because we cannot lose sight of us winning this battle.”
After Joo Sang-wook completely left the command center situation room, the siblings began talking in earnest.
There were stories I couldn’t tell because Joo Sang-wook was there. Sakura asked, her eyes changing in an instant.
“How did you deal with that kid named Shin?”
“I caught him and handed him over to Inspector Soma. But that direction…”
“You mean the direction the monster appeared earlier?”
“He’s probably dead.”
Kiyoshi could not have imagined that it was a god who had summoned such a huge number of monsters.
“It doesn’t matter if that kid is dead. “Because we already have the kid’s personal information, recording file, and video.”
A cunning light flashed in Sakura’s eyes. It was completely different from when Joo Sang-wook was there.
“I will create evidence that Joo Sang-wook, who was caught doing something dirty, killed the kid to silence him.”
“That would be nice.”
They planned to use the fact that they discovered Shin’s identity to threaten Joo Sang-wook. Of course, it was a last resort.
“If you don’t listen.”
“We have to make them listen somehow.”
The siblings looked at each other and smiled alike.
They were two people whose personalities and appearances were very different, but whose essence was similar.
“But something is strange.”
“What?”
“This is the timing when the Orochi invaded. How could it be that at this exact moment… Could it be that all of this was done by them?”
What if summoning so many monsters to attack Mandala’s outer walls was all the enemy’s plan?
Sakura thought about Kiyoshi’s guess for a moment and then shook her head.
“It’s impossible. “There is no way there is someone capable of controlling that many monsters.”
There was only one person in the world. Unfortunately, the boy thinks of them as enemies.
“And what happened next was also something strange. Suddenly, flames erupted and burned the monsters that were coming. There is no way there is someone with the ability to use flames like that…”
And there was only one person in the world. Unfortunately, in the same castle as them.
“There is a high probability that all of this is simply a natural disaster. “If Orochi had that ability, Tokyo would have been unified a long time ago.”
“I think so too…”
At that time, Joo Sang-wook returned and their conversation was cut off. Sakura smiled brightly and welcomed Joo Sang-wook.
“You came sooner than I thought. “Are the kids okay?”
“…….”
I sigh.
The moment a smile formed on the corner of Joo Sang-wook’s mouth, Kiyoshi hurriedly hugged his younger brother’s waist and dodged to the side.
Fuwaaaaak!
The heads of the command staff in a straight line where Sakura had been standing just moments ago were cut off.
Kiyoshi, enraged by the sudden surprise attack, pulled out his bladed claws and shouted.
“What are you doing?”
“As expected, Kiyoshi. “Your reaction speed is fast.”
Joo Sang-wook turned around and grinned. In his hands were two daggers used by assassins, but there was not a drop of blood on the daggers.
Sreuk. Slurp.
As Joo Sang-wook’s face began to distort and deform like clay, Kiyoshi and Sakura’s expressions became equally distorted.
They knew only one person with such abilities.
“It’s been a while, huh?”
The opponent was not Joo Sang-wook.
Lord of Tribe Orochi and Japan’s only doppelganger ability.
And the first descendant of Daein.
“Himura-san. “I’m inside. What should I do?”
The great man gave a short answer to Genji’s question.
[What should I do? Sort it all out.]
[Remote control] End
ⓒ Ganjjajang
