Children of the Holy Emperor Chapter 46

046. Premonition (4)

Let me talk about the past for a moment.

At the time, young Nate, who was in the midst of a culinary journey, was passionate about seafood dishes. While staying for a few days in a port city famous for its shrimp dishes, he met an old man with dark circles running down to his chin.

He introduced himself as the guardian of Delcross, and he was in the midst of fighting against the danger that came to the dimension he was protecting.

-Well… … .

Even at that time, the boy, who had natural spiritual eyesight and extraordinary divine power, could immediately tell that the old man’s words were not bluff. Nate chewed on the crispy fried shrimp, hoping to convey his heartfelt condolences to him.

-So help me! Don’t just pretend to be for the sake of words!

-Well… … .

-What a rotten bastard! Am I just trying to do well on my own? This dimension you live in will soon be destroyed!

What is important is not whether there will be destruction, but when.

-So a crisis is imminent. This means that within a hundred years, or at least a few decades, a terrible disaster will come to this world!

From a hundred years to several decades. It is outside the scope of his consideration.

Nate nodded.

-Please stay healthy and continue to work hard for the world.

-What?

A bright vein of blood sprouted from the old man’s forehead.

-The only person I can ask for on this continent is you. All you have to do is to exercise my power occasionally when needed!

-Isn’t it true that you can just exercise the power of an elder if you want to?

-I don’t expect that much from you, my human! Literally only assistant, huh? Please lend a helping hand. If this continues, I’m going to die right now!

-well. First of all, I’m planning to die within a few years… … .

Wow! The old man almost looked like he was spewing fire from his mouth.

However, a few years later, the guardian of Delcross was dumbfounded when he saw Nate running towards him on his own with a pale face.

-Elder, when did you say the world was in crisis? What can I do?

This was right before Melody’s birth, when I heard from the information guild that he had become the father of three other children.

* * *

‘I think this is all retribution for that time, old man.’

Nate was thinking these pitiful thoughts as the bandit grabbed him by the collar and his head was shaking.

It would have been nice if we had helped the overworked old man earlier.

If you had rolled up your sleeves and actively helped him from the beginning, wouldn’t there have been less cases of running around and dating recklessly?

Well, if I had, I wouldn’t have met these kids. It is difficult for him to imagine a world without the children he has already met.

“You bastard! What kind of guts do you have? Are you planning to keep your mouth shut until the end!”

The guy who was grabbing his collar and shaking him couldn’t control his temper and started swinging his fist. Nate continued to think absentmindedly, reflexively twisting his upper body and barely allowing his fist to pass by.

Anyway, what on earth is that kid in Cayenne thinking?

It appears that he was born with spiritual eyes like himself, but I never imagined that he would come up with the idea of ​​eating souls.

Do you remember being hungry as a child? Could it be that his personality became warped as a result of being mistreated under someone like Jerome? Or did you suffer a serious head injury as a child and can no longer think normally?

When I found out that my child was doing such a thing, I was extremely angry, but if I think about it, it was all my fault for not being able to find and take care of my child in time.

“What? “Has this bastard escaped now?”

The bandit raised his opposite fist, and Nate, who spun around around the collar that was grabbed, wrapped his legs around his neck and spun him around. The load wasn’t enough to knock the guy’s body down, but fortunately the guy lost his grip on the hem of his robe and landed on his arm on the floor in his haste.

Meanwhile, Nate quickly rolled to the side and lifted himself up, low kicking the ankle of another bandit who was still standing foolishly, then turned his body around with the momentum and kicked the chin of another bandit standing next to him.

Wow! Wow! The bandits stumble, but they do not fall completely.

This is a disaster that occurs because the homunculus’ body is too light and cannot supplement its strength with aurors. It would have been better if I could at least swing the handcuffs like before.

“That bastard? “After all, he was not an ordinary prisoner, but a professionally trained person!”

“Let’s all attack together! “Kill that guy!”

Wow. The bandits rushed towards him, but Nate was still dazed and thinking about something else.

Still, let’s consider ourselves lucky that we found it now.

It’s a shame that I came here in a hurry because I had a bad feeling, but what would have happened if I had just been lost waiting for the guild’s investigation. Didn’t she almost completely lose track of her child’s whereabouts in Hwajeon Village, where the punitive force swept through?

First of all, I think I need to find Cayenne and have a chat. At the bottom of the cliff, she had already placed a barrier on her child’s soul, so she could now determine the child’s location at any time.

Hwiik. I ducked to avoid the bandit’s fist, which swung with terrifying force, and then rotated my leg backwards, slamming the back of the bandit’s neck into the floor. Kwasik!

He spins his body to let the guy behind him lunge past him, then uses the momentum to turn his body once more and kicks the temple of the bandit next to him. Bah!

It’s a little annoying to spin it round and round, but I still feel like I’m hitting it properly this time by gathering my strength and striking it.

He moved towards the next scum.

“… “This is crazy!”

“That bastard is staggering so badly. How can he still move like that?”

As he said, his body without aurors was in a state where he would have collapsed immediately if he had to gather all his strength and hit his opponent just once, but fortunately, after hitting that one hit, the divine power was able to hit his body one more time. It restored me as much as I could.

In other words, Nate will never collapse during a fight. It’s just that the process is extremely difficult.

He ran towards the bandits near the entrance. He uses his running power to jump straight up and kicks the guy in the chin. Wow!

Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough strength this time. While he stumbles and blocks the entrance without falling, the guys behind him rush towards him.

Nate jumped back and hit the nearest guy’s chin with his head. If it doesn’t work once, you have no choice but to hit it multiple times.

* * *

“I never imagined it would be like this… … .”

When Cayenne came to the barn in the vacant lot, all the bandits inside were already spread out on the floor.

Nate had already cut the rope with the dagger used to threaten him and was considering cutting off his arm. The reason for his hesitation was that the dagger was too short to cut the arm with one sword without an Auror, and the heavy handcuffs were quite helpful in fighting as a homunculus.

The boy, who had quietly opened the barn door and looked inside, was startled by the unexpected sight, when Nate quietly called out to him.

“Cayenne.”

The boy frowned grimly and twisted his lips.

“what? How do you know my name? “What are you calling me?”

“… … .”

“What kind of mess is this again? “Is this all your doing?”

The three black eyes are flashing.

“Are you really Asin’s spy?”

“You need to talk to me.”

“… … ?”

Cayenne studied Nate’s face for a moment. However, it was difficult to find meaningful emotional changes in him, whose facial expression never changed. The expression on the boy’s face, who was quietly looking at Nate’s cold face, soon fades away.

The arched and wrinkled eyebrows return to their original positions, and the corners of the mouth that had been exaggeratedly twitching move down. They decided that consciously imitating the faces of the bandits would be ineffective and unnecessary.

Soon, the two people facing each other had similar dull faces, as if they were looking in a mirror.

Kaien looked at the faces of the bandits lying in the barn with an expressionless face. When the guys with the new handcuffs stamped on them show no signs of coming to their senses right away, they hobble inside and lock the door. Then he slowly turned to Nate and asked.

“… “What are you talking about?”

For Kaien, it was his first time meeting someone who could see souls like him. I had some time to spare before the punitive force arrived, and I thought there was no need to refuse if the other person wanted to talk.

I also had to find out what that guy did to me not long ago.

“Why do you eat souls? “Since when has it been like that?”

“Why should I tell you that?”

The boy seemed to be asking out of pure curiosity rather than sarcasm.

“Because how I should stop you will be determined depending on your answer.”

“Like what you did last time?”

“Just like what we did last time.”

Nate nodded, and this time the boy’s eyebrows actually furrowed.

That’s a bit difficult.

“Then the conversation has broken down. “If you’re going to interfere with me in some way, there’s no point in talking to you, right?”

The boy turned and spoke, but stopped walking towards the entrance when Nate continued.

“Have you ever examined your own soul?”

“… … ?”

“Did you truly not know how soul-eating affects your soul?”

It was as if he was having a bad influence on himself.

Kaien quietly contemplated his soul. The appearance of the soul is not that different from the normal body.

The difference is that the souls from overeating over the past few days are not properly digested and are sticking out all over his body.

[You want to kill Aslan, right? Why me? huh? Why me?]

Conrad’s face protruding from his stomach was shedding bloody tears. This is the guy who killed Rodrigo by pulling out his fingernails a few days ago next to the waterfall.

One of Rodrigo’s legs is sticking out of his back, and Martha’s right arm is hanging around his neck.

And the face of Jerome, who had just finished eating, was sticking his head out from his side and crying.

[Uuuuu! Martha, Martha, Martha!]

“Well, it’s a bit of a mess.”

Normally this doesn’t happen, but it seems like it’s eating so many souls in a short period of time that the things it previously ate are coming out as well.

Although he replied indifferently, Nate’s expression became a little subtle. He asks, tilting his head to one side.

“Do you not feel the pain that your soul feels? Having the dark emotions of the souls you consumed flowing in unfiltered at the same time is probably not something an ordinary human being could endure… … .”

“Does my soul feel pain?”

Kaien tilted his head. Because it was something I couldn’t understand.

He was a human being who lacked emotions ever since he was a mute baby. As he grew up, he gradually realized that he was a little different from others, but the clever boy soon began to imitate the faces of other bandits and gradually erase the sense of discomfort that others felt.

It wasn’t very difficult. Because most of the bandits were always angry.

Just by frowning, shouting, and cursing, the bandits believed that he was one of their kind and a member. That is how the boy has lived until now.

Perhaps his soul also felt emotions like other people. In any case, his spiritual eyes could not see his own expressions, so there was no way to confirm.

But anyway, no matter what your soul is like, if you’re not having a hard time right now, isn’t that okay?

Nate shook his head at Cayenne’s words.

“Do you think your body will be fine when your soul is being ruined like that? In the end, you will have to deal with it one way or another.”

“hmm… … .”

Come to think of it.

Jerome, whose soul was torn apart, was instantly turned into a half person.

Until yesterday, the boy had been eating Jerome’s soul and laughing at his adoptive father’s stupidity for not realizing what his soul truly wanted. But could it be that he was no different from that foolish man?

“Yeah, let’s say that’s true. So why are you trying to disturb me? The people I ate had nothing to do with you, right? “If a problem arises, it’s only my problem and it has nothing to do with you, right?”

Then Nate quietly made eye contact with the boy.

“It doesn’t matter. “All of your mistakes will ultimately become my responsibility, and any problems that arise with you will soon become my problems.”

“what? Why does that happen?”

The boy asked back with a sullen expression, but at Nate’s next words, even Cayenne could not help but gape.

“Because I am your father.”

uh? Huh?

fantasy,