Chapter 513,
Chapter 141. Fall (6)
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The lowest level of the dungeon.
Two days have passed since Joshua was trapped here.
The limbs are tied to the wall and the pupils are unfocused.
A gagged mouth cannot even bite its tongue.
‘It can’t end like this…’
But what should I do?
The bound limbs were like nannies serving prospective riders, and the knights they believed in were ultimately not themselves, but their mother’s.
The brothers who were close to Mew and Anne did not have the power to save themselves, and neither did the elders.
You can’t pin your hopes on the hounds raised outside your family.
There’s no way the likes of them could penetrate this dungeon, and in the first place, his hounds didn’t have the terrifyingly blind loyalty of Tymune’s children.
The hounds will lose their focus and collapse.
Now that he has fallen, the other riders closest to the throne.
Runtia Dipus Mary and Jean. At least, if they petitioned directly, there would be a little possibility, but that is absolutely impossible.
Even if my father in the Black Sea knew this, my mother’s order would not be revoked.
It was impossible to completely stop eating and drinking and face death like this.
Runkandel’s dungeon is not a place to kill prisoners.
Whether the target is a human, dragon, demon, or anything else. The purpose was to confine the prisoner in complete solitude until the end of his life.
If you refuse to eat, you will be forced to eat it and even attempt suicide is impossible.
Even the Prophet will not be able to get himself out of this place.
‘I can’t do anything. I can’t rely on anything.’
At least if there is only one hope.
‘mother.’
It is the heartless mother who pushed herself into this hell.
It was the only way to get back to the ground.
Ki-ik…
From afar, the sound of the door opening on the lowest floor could be heard.
Joshua fixed his bemused eyes and looked at the closed door.
Expecting that when that door opens, my mother will come in.
It wasn’t long before the door to the prison where Joshua was was opened.
“This is something like a second rider… Oh, you’re not a rider anymore.”
A voice like an old snake.
It was Jorden Runkandel.
He clicked his tongue as he removed the gag from Joshua.
“How does it feel to fall?”
“Chairman Black Sword…!”
“Don’t look at me with those eyes. I didn’t come here to make fun of you.”
Jorden then freed Joshua from the wall.
“I am not imprisoned, but I am in a similar situation to you.”
“What is that?”
“I mean, I lost all my limbs. I wasn’t publicly humiliated like you, but my pride was trampled to the floor. To the acting head of household.”
A family slaughter unit made up of especially strong members among the Black Sword Elders.
Jorden was no longer their leader.
He still holds the position of Black Sword Chairman, but the command authority has completely passed to Rosa.
Of course, all the original family’s troops were in the hands of the family head and the acting head, but Jorden could no longer personally move the Black Sword Society under any circumstances.
It was because of the exile case.
“Me and you too. You got hit by the 12th Horseman.”
“I am.”
“Are you trying to say that you are here not because of losing to the 12 Horseman, but because of the acting head?”
Joshua couldn’t answer.
“Stop admitting it. we lost Perfect too.”
“…What does the Black Sword Chairman plan to do in the future?”
“Fortunately, the neck is still attached, so we have to plan the next one. I’m asking for the obvious And… isn’t it the same for you?”
“It’s the same… As far as I know, the Black Sword Chairman has never experienced a fall like this. Having been treated worse than a bug by your father and surviving miserably? Having gnawed at yourself with the vain desire to eventually become the head of the household? Losing the Black Sword Society? None of that compares to the cold floor of this dungeon.”
Fisik Jorden let out a laugh.
“You might think so. I mean kids like you.”
“I didn’t come here to make fun of you. In the end, you were supposed to masturbate while looking at the loser at the bottom.”
“No, I came because I was jealous of you.”
“what?”
“The acting head of household will come to visit you soon.”
Joshua’s eyes widened.
Now it seemed that Jorden understood the meaning of what he had just said.
“If you show your mother something worse than a bug like you are doing to me now, then it might really be the end. I came earlier because I was worried that something like this would happen.”
“My mother… did you say she was looking for me?”
“Mother mother mother. You are really, fundamentally, a child. It’s embarrassing to use the same last name. I never had a mother like you. Besides, my competitor was not the 12th jockey, but the jockey Chiron Runcandel. Once you fall, you can never come back up to the ground.”
A bitter smile formed on Jorden’s lips.
“Now is the time for you to bear the weight too. When I come out of the world again after completing the closing training, I hope I can see you throwing off your fragile shell.”
“Close-up training? Do you believe that now you can turn things around with something like that?”
“What dominates the samurai is an overwhelming martial art that, in the end, anyone has no choice but to follow. I too used the shadow cast by your father as an excuse to ignore the fact for too long.”
Jorden turned around.
“It is up to you to turn Hell into Purgatory. This is not as the president of the Black Sword, but as a party master.”
Jorden has escaped the dungeon.
And while climbing the stairs, I ran into Rosa who was descending into the basement.
“Acting Governor.”
“You didn’t come down to look at the ghosts in the dungeon. Have you met Joshua?”
“exactly.”
“You did something stupid.”
“Since your parents are heartless, you should treat someone warmly.”
“Have you regained your confidence after losing everything? It’s okay for you to say such arrogant things.”
“I just remembered the essence of the family I had forgotten about.”
“If many people hadn’t forgotten from the start, today’s Runkandel wouldn’t have been so dangerous.”
“Even the acting head of household has not become dull.”
As if it were ridiculous, Rosa smiled.
“The words of a powerless person are nothing but complaints. If you want to damage my mood, let alone my sword and body. Prove it. I mean, try to perfect that lowly sword of yours. That’s why you left the neck.”
For a short time when Rosa passed Jorden and entered the lowest floor.
Joshua remembered what Jorden had just said and what Jane the Black Knight had shown him before he died.
– I hope my appearance now will be a lesson.
Jane’s will and the Black Sword Chairman’s visit.
They couldn’t change the essence of Joshua Runkandel in an instant.
It’s just a hot topic.
When Rosa entered, Joshua straightened up.
“Are you here, Acting Governor?”
hooked!
Rosa suddenly thrust a frenzied blade into his right shoulder.
“100 million…!”
The flesh split and blood gushed out.
Then, a light and fast swing of the sword left a cut on Joshua’s left shoulder.
Fear came again.
A fear of parents that he never got over.
A new fear caused by the indiscriminate attack of a mother who seemed to never let go of herself.
“Even though you said your powers were abolished, you mean you can’t even react to a sword like this? It was a speed that even senior cadets could dodge.”
“Acting head of household…!”
“Yes, but now you dare not call me mother. But is that all? Your sisters and brothers, those children who were incomparably superior to you, would have avoided them.”
The frenzy swung again, this time cutting Joshua’s chest.
The depth the blade dug into was never shallow.
“Cuck!”
“Did I just barely avoid it? Runtia Dipus Merry Jean! Rather than screaming like you, those kids would have opened their eyes and tried to fight back. No matter what the reason, no matter who did it, he was stabbed once!”
Spaw!
“And if it was Luna, she would have taken the frenzy and aimed it at my neck in reverse. Wouldn’t that child be able to do so even if he lost his strength? So, didn’t Shiron and I regret it so much?”
The terrible pain of being stabbed and cut was devastating Joshua.
It seemed that it would not be more painful than throwing my bare body into a pit of fire.
The pain of comparison and inferiority was really nothing to compare even to him.
“Aagh! What the hell are you saying to me!”
Joshua, who ran at random, had his jaw turned and his sternum destroyed.
It wasn’t a counterattack, it was an outburst.
“Cheuk heck.”
“Why can’t you guys do that? Why couldn’t you, the Child of Prophecy, do that?”
At that, Joshua blamed his mother for the first time in his life.
“You… raised me… this way.”
“I don’t remember raising you like that.”
“You’re right, you raised me like this!”
“No, I didn’t raise you that way.”
“And wasn’t it you who gave birth to me like this? Luna Runtia Dipus Merry Jean! Didn’t they pass on their talent to me? It’s all your work…!”
“Talent? Yes, Luna admits it. But do you think the rest of the kids are really more talented than you and put you here? You just didn’t struggle as much as they did. After giving so many opportunities… Ah. If you say this, you will now say that those opportunities were poison, right?”
Rosa let out a laugh.
Joshua fell forward, shaking his body.
I wanted to stand up again, but my frenzied, mercilessly cut and stabbed body refused to listen.
“I will admit that too. Now that I see it, the opportunities I’ve given you over the past few decades seem poisonous. I didn’t know that scooping and feeding would not be enough. If I had known in advance that I would have to chew on it instead, you might not be here right now.”
“That… what… sounds.”
“On that important mission to the Sota Desert that day… did you really think I only sent you riders and two black knights?”
