Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 323
◈ 323. [Side Story] Hwayangyeonhwa (花樣年華)) (5)
Agents of the assassination unit quickly infiltrated the interior of the villa..
Lucas was following behind him slowly..
Walking along the hallway of the villa, Lucas was lost in memories for a moment..
Serenade, Alberto, and many other people... … A beautiful childhood in this villa.
Dustia, who took good care of her when she came here after losing her parents,.
Ash, who took the arrow on his behalf and called him brother,.
The sparkling, beautiful days.
Trampled by the intruders' war boots.
“…….”
Lucas stopped in his tracks..
And I pulled out the sword that was on my waist - Ash had given me as a gift..
sreung-!
As the sound of a blade hitting the outside air was heard, the leader of the assassination squad walking in front of Lucas turned around in confusion..
Lucas glared at the leader of the assassination squad with tears streaming down his bright blue eyes. The leader clicked his tongue..
“Are you going to stop us now??”
“…….”
“For that to happen, the door should never have been opened in the first place. Little kid. You opened the door and there was already a knife in your stomach. What are you going to do now??”
“It's not like that..”
Lucas chewed fiercely and spat it out..
“I definitely helped you. He said he kept his promise to His Highness Fernandez. So, His Majesty Fernandez, you must spare the lives of my family members. … … Aside from that, I'm going to die here in an accident..”
Dustia, if Ash had to die today.
Lucas decided that he would die here too..
“I went crazy due to the side effects of the beast transformation serum, and I couldn't distinguish between my friends and my friends... … They're attacking you..”
“Hey kid, stop talking nonsense. Just put that knife back and I'll make it right for you.-”
But before the leader could say anything, Lucas stuck a syringe filled with beast transformation serum into the back of his neck..
As soon as the serum was injected, it created a magical chemical reaction and penetrated into Lucas' body..
Lucas bent down and trembled, feeling the blood vessels in his entire body swell..
“Haha, ahhh……!”
Then, between the boy's disheveled blonde hair, two bright blue eyes burned like fire..
The tears flowing down them looked like sparks flowing down..
“You kept your promise, right? therefore… … For the last part, please let me die for Ash's sake..”
“…….”
The tongue-in-cheek leader gestured to his subordinates before him, then pulled out two daggers from his arms and held them..
“You are in charge of removing the second empress and the prince. I need to take care of this poor little boy..”
Lucas, whose white breath was flowing from the corner of his open mouth, lowered his posture..
And, with the sword he had been given in front of him, he leaped like an animal..
***
Hall at the entrance to the villa.
“Oh my! please come to your senses!”
1Ash screamed while standing at the entrance to the floor. Ash was looking at Dustia standing on the railing on the third floor..
Dustia was swaying precariously on the railing on the third floor, with a knot made of copper rope tied around her neck..
“It's dangerous, oh my! Come down quickly!”
Ash looked around for help, but there was no one..
By any chance - no, as if for this very reason - even Alberto was forced to take leave today..
The serenade that came every day wasn't there today..
Ash prayed with both hands and now knelt on the floor and prayed to Dustia..
“You said you were going to live with me, Mom! please! don't do that please……!”
“ash.”
Dustia's face was calm. Just like before suffering from mania.
“It may sound like nonsense, but listen carefully. Mom said she's experienced this day thousands of times. So she knows what's coming.”
“all right. mom. Okay, so come down and talk.……!”
“I have to die so you can inherit your clan's curse and survive today. okay. This is the only way.”
She slowly opened her mouth with a peaceful and warm smile..
“I'm sorry, Ash. I'm truly sorry for passing on this curse. my son But this is how you live…….”
A tear flowed down her smiling eye..
“Mom will always be by your side.”
“No, Mom! no!”
“I love you.”
Dustia jumped down the railing..
“No way baby-!”
With Ash's scream, Dustia's withered body hung in the air..
Fortunately or unfortunately, Dustia's suicide ended quickly..
His neck was broken while caught in the rope, and his life was cut short before he could suffocate..
Squeak- Squeak-
Dustia's body swinging like a pendulum with her neck hanging from a rope..
Blurry gray magic came out of his body and flowed into Ash, who was standing blankly and shedding tears..
-click.
With a sound like clockwork gearing together,
“Cough, cluck?! Ugh, cooler.!”
Ash collapsed on the floor, coughing violently and shaking..
Eventually, the trembling body calmed down, and Ash's pitch-black eyes settled coldly amidst the disheveled black hair..
“……iced coffee.”
Ash's voice as he slowly got up was a little different than before..
“Damn it. I can't get used to this feeling even if I experience it thousands or tens of thousands of times..”
The refreshing feeling unique to a fifteen-year-old boy is nowhere to be found..
It was a hoarse and tired voice, as if it had been worn down by time..
“It would be good to set the point of return at a slightly different time... … . Why is it always at this time when I come back?.”
Looking up at his mother with eyes filled with emptiness instead of sadness, Ash let out a dry sigh..
“Couldn’t there have been another way, Mother? Please understand how your son feels when he has to look up at your dead body every time he returns.…….”
I wipe away the tears that wet my cheeks as if I’m annoyed..
Ash turned back..
“And, I'm so sick of you guys too..”
Before we knew it, members of the assassination squad were pouring into the first floor hall..
The number is about twenty.
Killing machines, each with a passion for killing people, slowly surrounded Ash..
“ha…….”
Ash sighed, brushed his hair back, stretched out his hand, and flicked it..
“Come in, fucked babies.”
There was a grim sneer on the boy's lips..
“I'm in a shitty mood, let's vent some anger..”
“……?”
On the contrary, the agents of the assassination squad were embarrassed..
The young prince had no fighting ability at all, and besides, he had bare hands. He is provoking them.
There was no way to explain it other than that I had gone crazy..
But who cares??
I'm destined to die here today anyway..
The agents all pulled out their swords from their arms and rushed from all directions toward the target they were supposed to kill..
***
The two daggers wielded by the assassination squad leader were both lodged in Lucas' body..
One for the shoulder, one for the side.
And, Lucas' sword was also stuck in the body of the assassination squad leader..
left chest.
It was the heart.
The leader tried to subdue Lucas without killing him. Lucas noticed it and took advantage of it on purpose..
He deliberately attacked an area that would not have been fatal even if the attack was allowed, and then delivered a fatal blow in that gap..
Although the leader was strong, he could not properly understand the boy's concentrated will and tenacity. So he allowed himself to be fatally wounded..
“Cluck, cluck! … … This is a hit.…….”
The leader, who was bleeding from his open mouth, broke down laughing bitterly..
“also… … McGregor is McGregor?…….”
flutter.
The leader's body fell limply to the side..
After confirming his death with his bright blue eyes, Lucas stumbled and headed towards the villa..
Many attacks other than the shoulder and side were allowed. Blood flowed from his entire body, and it seemed like he would lose consciousness at any moment. But Lucas walked..
I was going to die next to Dustia and Ash..
‘At least together... … please let me die…….’
Lucas gritted his teeth as he left bloody footprints..
From the garden to the entrance of the villa.
There was no place where memories were not accumulated..
Lucas cried, his face distorted like that of a beast as he was in beast form..
I want to go back.
To those days.
To those days that were as beautiful as flowers…….
Lucas used his last strength to move his feet and entered the first floor hall of the villa..
“……?”
I had to face an incomprehensible sight..
The assassination squad agents were all dead, lying around. Without a single exception, everyone fell dead..
And on top of the pile of corpses-
“It's late.”
Ash was sitting.
His entire body was soaked in blood, as if he were the king of hell sitting on a throne. He smiled leisurely and bleakly. He waved at Lucas happily..
“You traitor bastard.”
“what… … ? how……?”
Unable to accept this situation, Lucas stuttered in a daze. Ash shrugged his shoulders calmly..
“Every time I regress, the same guys attack me in the same way. Isn't it stupid that I can't win??”
“Prince, Your Highness… … ? That's right, you……?”
The atmosphere was different..
Even though it was different, it was so different..
There was no trace of the usual innocent and good-natured boy, and what was here now was a man like a ray of cold wind, giving off the scent of blood and dust..
“Your Majesty the Prince? then. Your Majesty the Prince, right?.”
Ash, grinning, slowly got up from the hill of corpses..
“Come on, traitor. The prince you must kill is here. Why don't you go ahead and bite? Or maybe you have rabies and don't even recognize the person you're supposed to kill??”
Ash's pitch-black eyes, like an abyss, radiated vivid hostility..
Lucas staggered back..
“No, I'm not trying to kill my brother.…….”
“Don't call me brother. Fuck. Because I feel like I'm going to break out in hives.”
With both hands in his pants pockets, Ash approached Lucas with long strides..
“If you hadn't opened that door tonight, my mother would still be alive..”
Dustia's body had already been collected by Ash and placed on the first floor..
Only then did Lucas' eyes widen as if they were about to explode when he confirmed Dustia's death..
“If you hadn't betrayed me to save your family, my mother would have lived much longer... … ! Then I would have started this damn regression a little later too.!”
Ash walked right in front of the trembling Lucas and growled fiercely..
“It's all your fault, Lucas. entire.”
“Ah, ah… … Wow…….”
I couldn't understand everything Ash said, but.
Because it was undoubtedly true that she had betrayed him, Lucas trembled in the end without being able to utter a single word..
The sword was still in Lucas' right hand..
Ash stretched out his arm, snatched Lucas' wrist, and brought the sword in his hand to his own throat..
“You bastard that doesn’t even recognize the owner, come at me! Stab me! That's what I came here for.!”
The tip of Lucas' sword flew into Ash's neck.,
deeply!
Lucas hurriedly put his left arm between them and blocked the sword..
Blood burst out from Lucas' left arm where the sword was inserted. Ash glanced at Lucas angrily and then pushed him aside..
Crunchy soup!
Lucas' body rolled on the floor helplessly.,
Clang-!
The sword, which had already cracked a lot from fighting the leader of the assassination squad, ended up shattering..
Amidst the remains of the shattered sword and a pool of his own blood, Lucas fell to his knees and sobbed with his head on the floor..
“I was wrong, I was wrong…….”
“…….”
“Please kill me, Your Majesty... … please kill me…….”
Lucas's consciousness gradually became blurred due to the recoil of the Beast Shoes and excessive bleeding..
After spitting out apologies until the end, Lucas eventually fainted..
Ash, who was glaring at Lucas with disdain, swept his hair with a long sigh..
“You seem like a consistent asshole from start to finish.…….”
Ash retrieved a bandage from a nearby cupboard and applied first aid to Lucas' wound with surprising skill..
Bandaging his own bloody hands, Ash put a cigarette he found in the cupboard to his mouth and lit it..
Cheek-
Although he has lived a life far from smoking, it was an extremely natural movement, as if he had smoked only his entire life..
“Phew…….”
Turn your body back and blow out a long puff of smoke.,
“How does it seem like the situation is over??”
A wizard covered in gray robes walked into the hall with slow movements..
It was a sudden appearance, but as if he had already expected it, Ash calmly chewed his cigarette and frowned..
“Isn’t this the great ‘prophet’ of Everblack? You're always one beat late.”
“haha. A prophet. No more such unfamiliar names..”
A wizard who suddenly appeared five hundred years ago and helped revive Everblack..
The ‘prophet’ who transformed the black thorn tree into a magical lighthouse and led the construction of an empire.’.
He slowly removed the hood of his robe - revealing the face of a man with shaggy gray hair and thick, see-through glasses..
Ash blew out a puff of smoke as he glared at him..
“Nice to meet you again. Damn director bastard.”
Then the prophet smiled brightly and Ader spoke in his unique, drawn-out voice..
“Did you enjoy your short vacation, ‘Save Slot’? Now, let’s begin this episode’s ‘game’..”
Immediately afterwards, Ader bitterly corrected his words..
“no… … The last round of the game allowed to us..”
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