Episode #110. conflicting intentions.
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Hotel Leviathan is one of the most secure facilities, along with the temples of each religion, the base of the teenage guilds, except for national facilities.
It was for this reason that high-ranking officials and celebrity criminals from around the world favored Leviathan.
I don’t know if it’s another hotel.
Because in Leviathan, it was absolutely impossible to get stolen or attacked.
flutter!
So at this moment.
The presence of a monster clad in black cloth infiltrating Leviathan through a window was frightening.
Especially in that the place where the monster broke into is not just an ordinary room, but the penthouse on the top floor, which should be the most secure in the hotel.
“Have you been well?”
However, the only guest and owner of the penthouse, the black-haired girl, was not surprised at all.
I just smiled roundly.
“OK.”
The monster calmly nodded.
Then, after grabbing the hem of the cumbersome black cloth, he threw it off and lay down on the sofa.
“Did you handle the bomb well?”
“Do you think you couldn’t?”
“no.”
Li Qingyu immediately replied.
Then, looking at the white-haired young man who had even removed the bandage from his hand and returned to his original form, he added a word.
“Because there is no way that the swordsman could not handle a single prisoner escorted by a single armed force.”
“So that’s why I went out to dispose of the bomb.”
I don’t want to take on Ryu Kang-cheol.
Conversely, you can’t take it.
That’s why Limon and Li Qingyu chose this method.
It was to dispose of Ryu Kang-cheol, who was escorted from the Shanghai royal family to the Leviathan.
It is like disposing of useless bombs by blowing them up in the field instead of disassembling them one by one.
“Has anyone noticed?”
“Those idiots with eyes thought I was a player who used the telekinesis skill and rushed excitedly.”
“I can’t blame them.”
Li Qingyu chuckled.
And the bandages and cloth that Limon took off.
To be precise, he picked up a thread that was too thin to be seen, hidden in between, and continued.
“There are few masters who can see through the sword made from the web of the Invisible Spider, a level 90 monster, at a glance.”
“Is that why you made this too?”
“It is used by masters who have learned your celestial style.”
“What do you mean? If you are a Cheonjamsa, you may not know, but the swordsman would not be suitable for the type of celestial mang sculpture.”
“Instead, it is stronger and more intimate than any other thread. Even if psionics are lacking, I can handle it comfortably.”
“How are you?”
For a moment, he made a dumbfounded expression as if he had heard that he had horseshoes attached to the dog’s paws.
Limon clicked his tongue lightly.
“I want things to be comfortable these days. The Sword (劍隱) struggled for over a hundred years to find a weapon suitable for its swordsmanship.”
“If you are black, you mean Rashid-sama, right?”
“okay. Rashid al-Din Sanan. He was the one who created the swordsman by integrating the mysteries of magic and alchemy.”
Only 13 sword masters in history.
Among them, Limon quietly continued, remembering the one who was more threatening than any other swordsman even though he was not originally a swordsman.
“The first and last old man on the mountain, and also the only assassin to become a sword master.”
“He was such a great person.”
“It’s a great plague, but you’re a crook who killed Saladin and stole his prestige.”
“Who is Saladin?”
“I could have been an unsung hero, but I had the misfortune of not having the bad luck of dying because I met one wrong sword master.”
I even tilted my head for a while.
Li Qingyu did not bother to ask more questions about a person he had never heard of, but instead focused on the sword master.
“Anyway, his swordsmanship was independent, right?”
“…Well, I’ll admit that.”
Limon, who called Rashid an assassin and a cheater, also nodded his head about his swordsmanship.
In fact, it was because he was sure that no one would recognize that Limon had imitated his swordsmanship in this raid.
Originally, a secret technique used by tying threads.
The ‘invisible knife’, a sword technique created by the sword so that the thread itself can be used like a sword, was such a bizarre skill.
Of course, in terms of something strange, the Sword Saint’s ‘non-pulling sword’ was an added bonus.
“There will be no one in this day and age who will notice the swordsmanship, which was said to be rare even in the life of a swordsman, right?”
“okay.”
“Then the King’s family won’t be able to argue with us about this.”
“I guess so.”
“In the end, everything worked out just fine.”
“It is like that.”
So Li Qingyu was satisfied.
I wonder if I would have fought wielding a sword.
No one will notice that Limon is the monster who changed his appearance with the power of the constellation and attacked the convoy.
After all, this will be regarded as something the Liberation Brigade did to keep quiet, and there is no reason for Li Qingyu and Li Mon to be subjected to political attacks.
“…Swordsmith? Do you not like being an assassin by any chance?”
So it was.
What Li Qingyu wondered about.
“No, not like that.”
“Then why do you look like that?”
Although everything worked out as planned.
Li Qingyu wonders why Limon doesn’t straighten his frown.
Limon’s answer to her question was simple.
“I know what their purpose is. … Or should I say that I have a sense of what the final goal is?”
“yes?”
Li Qingyu widened his eyes.
Why did the ghosts of the Liberation Brigade attack the affiliates of the Black Dragon Clan?
Its purpose was a mystery even to her.
“Did Ryu Kang-chul open his mouth?”
“no.”
“Then how did you know?”
“I saw that bastard and knew it.”
Previously, it was unknown because they had only been indirectly contacted through a corpse or through a Weiring.
But meet Ryu Kang-cheol.
The moment you cut it with your own hands.
Limon instinctively realized.
“The thing I cut was just an empty shell, and they were decorating the Thirty-six Worlds with it.”
It’s an intuition based on experience.
It was a certainty that Limon could have because he had directly cut down thousands of lives, learned the ‘sense of stealing life’, and prevented numerous conspiracies.
Even though he could have eliminated Ryu Kang-cheol, he could not kill him.
It was a really crazy sound.
However, Li Qingyu was not taken aback.
I was just asking seriously.
“Which of the thirty-six precepts are you talking about?”
“Is that important?”
“…The important thing is the fact that they tried to write the Thirty Six Commandments itself.”
“I am still using it.”
Li Qingyu understood.
It’s a chasihwanhon or a gold line evasion.
It only looks complicated because it divided the situation of war into six and established six good strategies for each situation.
The core of the thirty-six worlds is ultimately one.
To deceive the enemy!
That is why, no matter how complicated a strategy is, if it is detected by the enemy, it becomes a self-killer, and even a simple strategy becomes an irreplaceable trick if it succeeds in deceiving.
“According to the words of the swordsman… I really deserve to know their goal.”
And just by realizing that Liu Kang-cheol’s existence itself was a trick, Li Qing-yu was able to guess a lot.
A kind of ruse used by beasts.
What was the reason for that strategy?
Even to the final goal.
Because she was their princess who inherited the strongest blood from the founder of the Black Dragon Clan, which was known for conspiracies and schemes.
“Of course, this is just my feeling, and there is no clear basis, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t believe it.”
One problem.
That the basis is only Limon’s words.
The Black Dragon clan was good at seeing through the schemes, but that made it even more difficult to believe.
Those who are good at deceiving others will not doubt that others will also deceive them.
“No, I believe.”
“…are you serious?”
“Of course.”
Nevertheless, Li Qingyu insisted.
And he smiled and spoke.
“Because I am the fiancée of a swordsman. Who can you trust if you don’t trust the groom you will be with for the rest of your life?”
“You can’t trust anyone, can you?”
“well. I used to be like that too…but I found out in the end that it was very stupid.”
Li Qingyu said plainly.
In fact, even though she doubted her own judgment, she absolutely trusted Limon’s intuition.
It was also because he believed in Limon’s intuition that he decided to just deal with the opportunity to interrogate Ryu Kang-cheol, a high-ranking officer of the Liberation Brigade.
Nothing different this time either.
Li Qingyu speaks softly.
Limon, who had been watching her tremblingly, finally let out a laugh.
“Seeing that I already know the duty that I realized only after I was over 200 years old, I must have had a very smart bride.”
“You are talking too much.”
Were you happy with the compliment?
Contrary to his humble words, Limon casually asked Li Qingyu, who smiled brightly and arranged the bandages and hem of cloth mixed with the swordsman.
“So how are you going to respond?”
“Do I really need to respond?”
“hmm?”
Limon put on a puzzled expression.
Looking at him with obsidian-like sunken eyes, Li Qingyu smiled quietly.
“Anyway, the person who plotted this seems to want to fool us with a scheming, so we can just let them do what they want.”
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“Hmm….”
Thinking for a while.
The man with braided hair took out a ring, a chloride-based item, from his finger.
Then, rolling the ring in his hand, he quietly opened his mouth.
“The plan to plague is a failure.”
Everything seemed to be going according to plan until the point where Ryu Kang-cheol was escorted to the Leviathan.
However, to think that Ryu Kang-chul suddenly died a violent death.
It was honestly an unexpected situation.
“This mission feels strangely twisted.”
As a high-ranking officer of the Liberation Brigade, he had traveled all over the world and performed numerous missions.
Intertwined with the Teenage Guild.
Destroying state facilities.
Like starting a war.
There was never a single easy task, and among them there were tasks that seemed impossible to compare with this one.
But it was the first time things had gone this way.
“I don’t think it’s because the opponent is the Seven Dragons…”
Possibilities conjured up in an instant.
The man himself denied it.
No matter how skilled and wealthy the Seven Dragons are, that’s all.
In the end, it was impossible for the forces clinging to the remnants of the old era, such as the seven dragons or the psionics, to hold her back.
That’s why this situation was even more unacceptable.
“As expected, it must have been a mistake to entrust such a heavy duty to a stupid comrade who ate rice in his brain.”
The man eventually passed all the responsibility on to Ryu Kang-chul.
If Ryu Kang-cheol heard it, his clothes would explode and he would feel unfair, but he didn’t care.
Originally, when things went well, it was because of the commander, and when things went wrong, it was because of the soldiers.
“I wanted to end it quietly if possible, but… There is nothing we can do about it.”
If it hadn’t been for a clumsy resistance, it would have ended with thousands of people dying.
Feeling sorry for the foolishness of the Seven Dragons Association, which was so preoccupied with their own gains that they sacrificed in vain, the man with braided hair quietly continued.
“If you want to see the true blood, I will show you the blood as you wish.”
