-Fwoosh—!!
Countless Red Flame Cannons spreading in multiple directions from the Disaster's fingertips.
Dazzled by the brightness like a meteor shower for a moment, I—
"Scale of the Dragon. Recoil. Twin Meteors."
-Kwa-ga-ga-gak—!!
Split the guy's Red Flame Cannons heading towards me with 'Dismantle' fired multiple times in an instant.
"…!!"
"Kang Yuhyeon! What is this—"
"Take care of your own body."
In the process, a considerable amount of Red Flame Cannons headed towards Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk, but.
Well, they'll manage on their own.
"Dismantle (解)."
Glancing at them, I engaged in battle again and fired 'Dismantle' without omitting Incantations and Hand Signs.
Although the Binding Vow and Black Flash didn't occur simultaneously like when I split the Sea Commander's belly before, it was still far more powerful than the 'Dismantle' I usually fire, so it wasn't something to be ignored.
However.
[The Returnee 'Myung Ilsang' activates 'Large Red Flame Cannon (大赤炎砲)'!]
"Such lousy tricks don't work anymore, you retaaaaard—!!"
In front of the guy's serious skill, fully determined to kill us, even that was meaningless.
"…Tch."
-Throb….
I thought the 'Dismantle' just now wouldn't leave a significant hit on him, but I didn't expect it to disappear without leaving even a scratch like that.
At that moment, an unknown unpleasant feeling spread through my body as if bugs were crawling inside.
Gritting my teeth at that feeling, I kicked off the ground and rushed towards the guy.
"Kuhaha! Think you can do anything in hand-to-hand combat?!"
"Shut up."
-Boom! Ba-ang! Kwa-a-ang—!!
Sounds that could never be heard from fists colliding echoed in the air.
Speed and power that couldn't be followed with the eyes unless one was Kim Dokja or Yoo Joonghyuk.
In that fierce attack, the one who was knocked out first was.
[The Returnee 'Myung Ilsang' uses 'Blink LV.9'!]
"…!!"
"Take this properly, soccer kick you son of a b*tch!"
-Kwa-a-a-ang—!!
Using Blink to move to my blind spot, the guy kicked my head with his leg as is.
Fortunately, since I was reinforcing my whole body with Cursed Energy, my head didn't fly off or break.
However.
-Riiiiing…!!
The shock was transmitted straight into my head.
The brain colliding with the skull and meninges for an instant due to inertia.
Because of the ringing echoing in my head and shaking vision caused by it, my whole body became full of openings.
And that.
[The Returnee 'Myung Ilsang' activates 'Red Flame Cannon'!]
The guy didn't miss.
-Kwa-a-a-ang—!!!
"I'll kill him…, I'll kill that bastard—!!"
"Wait, Yoosung-ah!"
"…F*ck, hey. You hold her tight."
Ear-splitting sound of destruction and the floor burning without leaving a handful of ash.
However, my corpse did not exist in the center of it.
It's not that I died wrapped in that despairing Red Flame Cannon without leaving a single corpse.
"You owe me for this?"
"…."
Kim Dokja, he threw his body in that short moment and saved me.
"Kang Yuhyeon, you might not like it, but right now, all of us must cooperate. Understand?"
"…Don't order m—"
"Chatter chatter, what are you babbling about?!"
-Whooosh…!!
Using Blink, Myung Ilsang chased after me again to kill me, crumpling his expression violently.
But the guy's hand couldn't pierce me and Kim Dokja.
-Claaaang!
"Kuhup…!!"
"F*ck, this bastard is damn hard!"
Because Yoo Joonghyuk swung the Splitting the Sky Sword to deflect the trajectory of the guy's attack elsewhere, and in that opening, Han Sooyoung stabbed a dagger into the guy's torso.
"…I was going to let you live because your face is decent."
-Swish…!!
"But this changes the story."
"…!!"
The guy intentionally took Han Sooyoung's attack and grabbed her arm tightly at the same time.
Realizing that she was the one in trouble, not Myung Ilsang, she tried to pull her hand out from him somehow from that moment, but the overwhelming gap between the guy and her didn't allow it.
"Sh*t—"
-Thwack—!!
Han Sooyoung's abdomen caved in from the guy's fist, reminding one of Yoo Joonghyuk before he was taken to Kim Dokja.
Her body falling towards the floor.
Between that, the guy's fishy smile, Yoo Sangah desperately reaching out to chase, and—
"Dieeee—!!!"
"…Ha?"
—Shin Yoosung with a face covered in rage entered the view.
"…What is this brat again."
"Shin, Yoosung…!!"
The guy made an expression as if he couldn't understand and found it disgusting.
It was natural. Shin Yoosung's main force is human wave tactics (monster wave).
In other words, pushing with numerical superiority.
However, currently, there were few monsters Shin Yoosung could control. At most about 6 excluding Lycaon.
But even those 6 couldn't do any harm to the guy, so they were meaningless.
Therefore, Shin Yoosung's effort like that was just futile.
-Whooosh…!!
—Is what he thought.
"This is, the Wolf bastards' skill…?"
Countless winds shimmered around Shin Yoosung's body for an instant.
Simultaneously, under Shin Yoosung's will, those winds roughly attacked the guy.
-Kwa-ga-gak!
"Ahaha! Fascinating, a brat like this using the Wolf bastards' technique?"
Blades of wind rough and sharp enough to remind one of my 'Dismantle'.
As the guy said, the reason Shin Yoosung could handle wind and fire attacks of that level was none other than the Path of the Wind, passed down only to the Imyuntar species on the planet Chronos.
"Stupid because she's a kid after all?! If you call that Wolf bastard, I become stronger?! Too bad for you!?"
The guy smiled fishily, took Shin Yoosung's attack utilizing the Path of the Wind as if to show off, and waited for the buff that would come soon.
However, my thought was slightly different from the guy's.
-Whooosh…!!
As a result of detecting with Cursed Energy, Lycaon did not exist here currently.
Above all, that Path of the Wind Shin Yoosung is using, it was quite different from what Lycaon used.
If the Path of the Wind he used felt like binding softly and naturally, the Path of the Wind that child uses felt rough, violent, and aggressive.
In other words, that was not the Path of the Wind originating from Lycaon.
"…What is it, f*ck? Why still—"
It was the Path of the Wind that Shin Yoosung, that child, realized and used by herself.
"Don't tell me…. This, f*ck…!!"
Perhaps the guy also realized how the situation was unfolding only then; cracks began to appear on the guy's expression that had been grinning until just now.
He sensed the sign of defeat that wasn't visible until just moments ago. Therefore, the guy immediately took a combat stance again and tried to swing his fist at Shin Yoosung.
However.
"…Activate Bookmark Number 4."
-Whooosh…!!
It was already too late.
"W, what. F*ck! Why does that bastard also have the Path of the Wind…!!"
The path of the guy's attack was all bent elsewhere by the wind moving under Kim Dokja's will.
Several strands of wind binding him starting from fingertips, arms, legs, and every corner of his body.
The guy flailed his arms here and there frowning at the restraint, but the wind gathered again quickly and bound the guy.
"…Two Paths of the Wind…?"
"Keo-heup, kuhup…, hey you crazy bastard Kim Dokja…. If you could use that, you should have used it earlier, why now of all times…!!"
"I became able to do it just now."
"…."
Yoo Joonghyuk, Han Sooyoung, and my expressions were instantly dyed with bewilderment at Kim Dokja's words.
But right now, at this moment, that wasn't important.
"…Kim Dokja, we'll hear the explanation later."
Because it was the only chance to subjugate the guy.
-Kwa-ga-gak—!!
-Whooosh—!!
Shin Yoosung's countless rough winds covered the guy, and Kim Dokja used the winds spreading into the air due to that to bind the guy again.
"Kuaaaaa—!!! Just, dieeee—!!!"
[The Returnee 'Myung Ilsang' activates 'Large Red Flame Cannon'!]
The guy resisted saying he couldn't die like this.
Roaring that he is the protagonist, the protagonist of this world, he struggled to kill the two by creating dark red flames using his right arm.
However, the wind, rough enough to cut everything and soft enough to embrace everything.
-Whooosh—!!
Controlled even that resistance of the guy.
"…Yoosung-ah! Release the Path of the Wind!"
"W, what does that…!!"
Kim Dokja opened his mouth while barely controlling Myung Ilsang's indiscriminate firing of Large Red Flame Cannons.
However, the words coming from him were incomprehensible.
Why tell her to release the Path of the Wind at such a moment? It didn't make sense.
Furthermore, I even doubted what this man was thinking.
But even so, I.
"You must have a definite plan."
"Of course…!!"
"…Understood. Shin Yoosung! Follow Kim Dokja's words!"
"…Yes!"
Boarded his plan.
"Ah…!! And, kuh…, 10 seconds. Just hold on for exactly 10 seconds…!!"
"…."
10 seconds? 10 seconds….
"Nothing I can't do."
-Kwa-a-a-ang—!!
As Kim Dokja and Shin Yoosung released the Path of the Wind, the guy regained freedom again.
But me and Yoo Joonghyuk attacked the guy immediately to prevent him from running away to another place like last time.
-Kwa-ga-gak—!!
Because the Splitting the Sky Sword he wielded and my 'Dismantle' rushed at the guy like a rain of arrows, deep sword marks were left on the guy's arm instantly.
"Haa, haaaa…!!"
"Kuhuk…!!"
Han Sooyoung breathed heavily and squeezed out her Magic Power, which had bottomed out long ago, to summon several Avatars.
Not only that, but Yoo Sangah, who was behind the guy, pulled out several strands of golden thread and bound the guy's hands, feet, and whole body.
A game of chicken with no end in sight. A situation where it was unknown which side was inferior or superior.
In such a precarious moment, like being driven to the edge of a cliff.
[The penalty of the 'Disaster of Questions' activates!]
[The Returnee 'Myung Ilsang's' power weakens!]
[The Returnee 'Myung Ilsang's' seals begin to regenerate again!]
The tight balance between the Disaster of Questions and those trying to subjugate him finally tilted to one side.
"…Is it about time."
The balance tilted to one side began to widen the gap endlessly.
「A gale in the left hand, a storm in the right hand. In the place where straight lines and curves collide, the path of the wind will open.」
Countless winds began to gather towards Kim Dokja and Shin Yoosung.
They activated the Path of the Wind again.
「One wind meets another wind to form Taichi, and again one wind meets another wind to form Yin and Yang.」
The [Story] of the [Path of the Wind] started from them and spread to the surroundings.
That story was merely a mantra to realize and gain insight into the Path of the Wind.
But that story was imbued with hatred and anger towards the Disaster of Questions who destroyed their world.
「Four winds meet to form directions, and again four winds are added to form the marvel of the Eight Trigrams.」
And that story advanced, advanced, and finally reached one person.
「Thereby, the wind exists everywhere, and exists nowhere.」
Air following the form of the Eight Trigrams swirled and trapped the guy.
Quiet wind spread around like a gentle breeze, while the wall to trap the guy raged fiercely like a rough typhoon, and inside where the guy was trapped, sharp sounds like biting winter wind were heard occasionally.
It was the one and only prison existing to trap the guy who was the Disaster that destroyed their world, the slaughterer who killed their close friends and people around them.
The guy's face seen inside that prison was pale beyond measure.
[The Returnee 'Myung Ilsang's' seal regenerates!]
[The Returnee 'Myung Ilsang's' seal regenerates!]
[The Returnee 'Myung Ilsang's' seal regenerates!]
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"Kuh…!!"
"Haa, haaaa…!!"
Kim Dokja and Shin Yoosung, who were maintaining the Vacuum Prison, vomited breath roughly.
It had to be.
A large amount of Magic Power would be needed to maintain this prison.
It would be a quite difficult task even in normal condition, but since they were proceeding while forcibly dragging their exhausted bodies, the Magic Power consumption must have doubled.
However….
"…Too much waste."
Black Flash occurred twice in a row.
Through that, I was capable of higher quality Cursed Energy manipulation.
From that, looking at this Vacuum Prison, I could understand one fact.
Is there a need to use it like this? Thinking so.
"…Kim Dokja. Don't try to control forcibly, guide the wind. Not creating a wall, but removing the medium near the guy's body."
"Shin Yoosung, a prison doesn't necessarily become a prison by creating a space. If you can bind his hands, feet, and whole body so he can't move, that is also a prison."
Kim Dokja listened to Yoo Joonghyuk's advice, and Shin Yoosung listened to my advice, perhaps realizing something, they withdrew all the Magic Power they were wasting.
Simultaneously, they collapsed the form of the Vacuum Prison trapping the guy.
But that didn't mean the prison trapping the guy disappeared.
"Keo-heup…!! Kuhup, up. Uuuup…!!"
The guy knelt and crumpled his expression in pain, repeatedly tearing off the wind with his hands to get rid of the winds binding his neck and mouth somehow.
But the wind the guy desperately tore off headed towards the guy again and bound him more firmly and toughly.
Just as he cannot shake off the sins he committed in another world and this world no matter how hard he tries.
[All seals of the Returnee 'Myung Ilsang' have regenerated.]
"S, sa, save, s...a...v...e...."
The guy weakened to the point where he could no longer use proper vocabulary.
Perhaps because of that, the guy shed tears saying he couldn't accept this situation and pounded his fist on the floor repeatedly.
"…."
The guy was no longer the Disaster of Questions.
He wasn't an SSS-grade Hero, nor a Returnee who became strong by destroying another world, but just Myung Ilsang who was merely a high school student.
-Thud, thud….
"W, wait. Yuhyeon-ssi! It's dangerous…!!"
"…Hey! Kang Yuhyeon! What are you trying to do…!!"
"…."
Yoo Sangah and Han Sooyoung shouted from behind to stop me.
Shin Yoosung didn't say anything because she was busy maintaining the Vacuum Prison binding Myung Ilsang, but she looked at me with earnest eyes.
Among them, only Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk looked at me with strange eyes without stopping me.
[The talent dormant in your soul blooms.]
Myung Ilsang, who was merely a seventeen-year-old high school student.
An innocent boy who was chosen as a Hero to save the world and fell into Chronos.
Surely, he might not have wanted to become like this either.
He might have just wished to spend a normal and enjoyable daily life like others, a day nothing special just like yesterday.
However.
-Swish….
"…."
"Ah, aaaaaah…!!"
That cannot be an indulgence for him.
He eventually slaughtered countless lives, and furthermore, became a Disaster and tried to harm lives in his original world too.
In other words, this guy in front of me is the ugliest villain among those I have met so far.
-Grab.
When I offered my hand with a nonchalant expression, the guy grabbed my hand.
And.
-Seo-geok.
"Cleave (捌)."
"…Ah?"
At that moment, the condition for another one of my techniques, 'Cleave', was met.
"Ah, aaah. Aaaaaah…!! Aaaaaaak…!!!"
The guy began to be sliced slowly like cube pieces.
Sensing that, the guy tries to pull his hand out from me somehow, but I don't let go easily.
Like that, 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds. When a little time passed.
"Don't…, want, to…, di…."
"…."
The guy's form could hardly be seen, only his bloodstains announcing that he existed remained.
The end of the Disaster who destroyed a world was futile beyond measure like this.
-Whooosh….
A prison with no prisoner to confine is not a prison.
Therefore, the Vacuum Prison soon scattered naturally into the air, and due to that, a quite cool breeze swept through my entire body.
[You have fought against a 'Returnee' and won for the first time in the scenario!]
[Contributors: Kang Yuhyeon, Kim Dokja, Shin Yoosung, Yoo Sangah, Yoo Joonghyuk, Han Sooyoung.]
[You have received 40,000 Coins as an achievement reward.]
[A new item is added to your Fable.]
[Fable, 'One Who Opposes Miracles (Strange Feats/Miracles of Others)' is added.]
[You have obtained the possibility of a new Stigma.]
[The Constellation, 'Prisoner of the Golden Headband'….]
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Message window updating because the scenario was cleared.
Because the speed was faster than I thought, I couldn't remember everything from one to ten properly, but I could remember just this one thing.
It was fun watching this scenario. It wasn't fun. Messages from Constellations reacting in this way, just that one thing.
-Clench….
My fist clenched tightly without my realizing.
Is it because, in the end, someone's terrible misfortune is treated only as a story? Is it because all these things are nothing more than entertainment for those called Constellations?
[Wow~, to think you succeeded like this. I didn't expect it at all.]
[…I hope you clear the next scenario successfully like this too.]
Is it because I feel even more disgusted towards that Dokkaebi and Star Stream who planned and directed all this situation?
"…."
Suddenly, a thought occurred to me vaguely.
Aren't I or that child also being consumed as some role within the wheel of this story?
Won't we become a Disaster like Myung Ilsang, that child, and be killed by someone else?
These were thoughts that couldn't be drawn well yet.
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