Episode 223 Episode
72. News to be heard News to be found (4)
Wow.
Taking a bite of the sandwich, instead of Yulian, Kuzan opened his mouth first.
“It wouldn’t be loyalty.”
“what?”
“Unlike the other hounds, Julian wasn’t the type driven by loyalty to Joshua. He’s afraid of Joshua. Just hearing his voice made my hands tremble.”
Yulian gritted his teeth at Kuzan’s explanation.
“Shut up, Kuzan…!”
“Did I say something wrong? Me and Veris followed Joshua out of vengeance and you out of fear. They are all useless now.”
“I told you to shut up!”
“If you want to live too, you’d better cooperate with Confucius.”
Convulsions erupted around Yulian’s eyes. Anyone can see that he is struggling to endure the humiliation.
“Well, it’s not that embarrassing to be afraid of your master.”
Jin released Yulian’s restraints.
“I’ll tell you in advance, but don’t think about buying and hitting this just because it’s solved. Unless you want to know that there are quite a few scarier people in the world than Joshua. Now, eat some.”
Growling…!
The same sound came from both Yulian and Kuzan’s stomach at the same time.
They ate their sandwiches in silence for a while. Yulian kept an eye on Jin and Alisa throughout the meal, but he seemed particularly conscious of Jin.
Since the memory of when he became an incarnation remains sparsely, he knows what a monstrous human being Jin is.
Of course, that memory was full of Jin overwhelming Faitel. At the time, Julian’s ego only woke up when he received an extreme mental shock, so it was natural.
‘It’s not loyalty, it’s fear. If I do well, I’ll be able to enlist this friend as well.’
Dealing with a terrified human is simple.
Either remove the source of your fear, make you more afraid, or help you become strong enough to overcome your fear.
The first is difficult to implement right away, and the third requires sincerity and time. It was impossible for Yulian to have that kind of affection, so Jin decided to use the second method.
“Looks like you ate it all. So let’s get to the point. Julian I am Gene Runcandel. The youngest brother of the trash you serve, and signed a contract with Solderlet. And this is the land of me and my colleagues in Tikan Free City.”
“Kek kek!”
Gene Runcandel.
As soon as Yulian heard the name, he was startled and the sandwich stuck in his throat. I didn’t hear that Jin revealed his real name because he was fighting Murakan in the Blue Bird Islands.
He knew what ‘Jin Runkandel’ meant to Joshua.
Jin casually handed over a glass of water and continued the conversation.
“The reason I am telling you all this information is no different. A warning that if you don’t do that, you will end your short life here. That’s about it. Do you understand?”
Nod.
It wasn’t that Yulian nodded voluntarily. Alisa, who was watching, grabbed him by the back of his neck and forced him to nod.
“Okay I like it. First question. What was the reason you guys were gathered in the Blue Bird Islands at that time?”
Unlike Kuzan, Yulian was still unable to abandon his attachment to Joshua. So I just looked at the floor, and Kuzan, who was worse off, opened his mouth instead.
“At that time, we went to the Blue Bird Islands to strengthen Yulian’s power under Joshua’s order. It’s because Joshua felt a sense of rivalry with the character Barmal. It was only then that I found out that Bamal was Confucius.”
“There must be a way to strengthen Faitel’s power by using Gram’s tomb. Is this the information that Faytel communicated with Yulian?”
“No, Yulian has been under him longer than us. From a very young age, he often strengthened his strength there. Joshua taught me how to do that.”
“Did the family documents contain information related to Faytel? After all, Joshua even knew how to enhance Faytel’s powers.”
“Sorry, I don’t know that much. I think you should hear from Yulian about the details.”
Jin looked down at Yulian.
“I have news to tell you about that time in the Blue Bird Islands. Your master is dead.”
“…Sir Joshua is dead?”
Yulian’s impatient eyes were immediately stained with astonishment.
“okay. You used Runkandel’s self-destructor to finish me off, and you almost died in the aftermath. It seems that you don’t care if you die or not. I have a lot to ask, so I took care of you.”
A moment of silence passed.
Soon after, Yulian spits out a self-deprecating laugh.
With the words Jin just said, Yulian was able to understand the entire situation in an instant.
“Why are you laughing? Oh, is it because you’re sure Joshua isn’t dead?”
Took.
He threw the newsletter he had brought with the sandwich in front of Yulian. It was a newsletter containing information about Joshua’s attendance at the appointment ceremony as a Knight of Shucheron.
“Surely, I saw with my own eyes that my whole body was burned to death by the self-destructor. It means that the next day he was active… I think you know something.”
After checking the article and the date for a while, Yulian met Jin’s eyes.
“Maybe I was just an extra toy for Sir Joshua after all.”
“What do you mean?”
Jin asked with her eyes shining.
“I was able to get the contractor for the solderlet I wanted so much in an unexpected situation, so I guess it didn’t matter anyway.”
“I get it roughly. Joshua was going to take your contract if he couldn’t secure me. Am I wrong?”
Yulian didn’t answer and just trembled with his clenched fists for a while.
As Jin guessed, he was a kind of ‘replacement’. Just in case I couldn’t steal Jin’s contract.
Joshua’s secret villas had several such contractors.
So, Joshua didn’t have much need to take care of Yulian in the Blue Bird Islands. Because I thought it was a golden opportunity to capture Jin without any harm.
However, Joshua, driven to a crisis by the appearance of Garmund, chose to self-destruct. It didn’t matter even if Yulian was swept away.
To Joshua, reducing Jin’s power was more important than saving Yulian.
“How the hell is he going to transfer the contract? It is certain that he is alive and active after the Blue Bird Island, and he is doing something strange and unpleasant. I hope you can alleviate this awkwardness.”
“…will you protect me if I tell you everything I know?”
Yulian said as if he had made up his mind.
I didn’t ask if you would save me, I asked if you would protect me. Recognizing the difference, Jin nodded.
“As long as you spit out valuable information.”
“There is a woman called the Prophet.”
Kuzan was a story about a completely unknown person.
“prophet?”
“He is Sir Joshua’s closest aide. I’ve only met her twice, but almost every choice she makes seems to reflect her influence. She was the one who told me that Gram’s tomb was in the Blue Bird Islands and that I could use it to enhance my power.”
“What kind of person are you?”
“A monster who obeys Sir Joshua absolutely.”
“Does it mean that you are strong because you are a monster?”
“No, I don’t know. I described her as a monster because she doesn’t seem human. You said you killed Sir Joshua on the Blue Bird Islands, right? It must be a replica of the sutra made by that woman.”
Jin smiled in satisfaction.
Bold information popped out from the beginning, and the hypothesis he and his colleagues had established was now convincing.
It was shocking to hear that he was a ‘cloned’.
“Do you know how the woman clones Joshua?”
“I just know it takes a lot of humans.”
“…what?”
“Looks like he’s using Hufester’s death row inmates. When you send them to the Prophet, a new body is created… The Lord mainly used that body to deal with people like me. For the purpose of direct suppression when strengthening one’s prospective contractors and running out of control.”
It was the moment when the reason why Joshua suddenly visited the Blue Bird Islands that day was revealed.
Joshua sent Yulian to the Blue Bird Islands and was waiting nearby.
In the meantime, seeing a thunderstorm formed in the Blue Bird Islands, he mistook it for a runaway rather than an incarnation, so he went out and encountered Jin.
‘Crazy man. Could it be that he used cloning because he couldn’t send his family’s knights when the contractors ran out of control?’
Jin shook his head and touched his forehead.
Even though he was a death row inmate, it made me sick to my stomach thinking that he was casually making a clone of himself using humans as materials.
“Hu wouldn’t have used his clone only for that. Do you know how many copies you have?”
“I don’t even know that. However, I do know that I lost one copy while subduing a runaway water contractor before.”
The story that not one, but several may have been cloned at once.
As Yulian put it, the Prophet was a person worthy of being called a monster.
“I guess we need to find out first if the person called the Prophet is human. The Prophet must have told me how to move the contractor.”
In fact, the Prophet was still in the stage of gathering materials for ‘contract fulfillment’, but neither Jin nor Yulian could know about that fact.
After thinking for a while, Jin looked at Yulian with a curious look.
“But you seem to know that Joshua will take your contract if he fails to catch me. What was the reason you couldn’t get away from him? Are you afraid of him?”
“Do you think it’s possible to escape Sir Joshua’s clutches in Hufester?”
“Nothing is impossible. Because you are a contractor, not an ordinary person. If you asked for a trust in Ziple, you would have taken him with double arms. If that happened, Joshua wouldn’t have been able to touch it carelessly.”
Since Yulian was not an official power of Runcandel, there was no justification for Joshua to retrieve him if he went to Zipple.
“Is your family being held captive?”
“The Guardian Dragon is captured. no family They all died at Joshua’s hands. The whole town where I lived.”
Even so, did you hear orders from Joshua? Without pride or vengeance!
Jin didn’t bother asking.
It was because he knew how far away from the emotion of ‘fear’ he had lived in this life, which was born in Runcandel and was running on the road to success every time.
Most humans cannot overcome fear.
However, I knew that it was not a bad thing because I had gone through a miserable previous life.
“I must be funny. That’s why Berris always quarreled with me. However, if it was Jin Runkandel, it would have been valuable enough information. Keep your promise.”
“It is not difficult to protect you. There is no problem if you live stuck in the land of Tikan here as if you were dead. But I don’t think that’s what you mean.”
“That’s right, get my guardian dragon back from Joshua. Without him, my miserable life has no meaning.”
As if there was nothing to worry about, Jin shook his head.
“I’ll give you a chance, so take it back yourself someday.”
