Episode 96: There was nothing at the end of your life.
The next day, the evil Soma came to see me.
The sight of him slowly crossing the Hwangcheon Pavilion martial arts field while wearing a white mask was truly overwhelming and terrifying.
The investigators and enforcers couldn’t even whisper from afar. They all quietly greeted each other and passed by. They were even more afraid than when Hyeolcheon Doma or Ilhwageomjon came.
I was standing by the window of my office and watching the scene.
Seo Dae-ryong, who was standing next to me, spoke in a trembling voice.
“What on earth happened yesterday that brought that scary person to the main building?”
“Inspector Seo, the scariest place in our school is our Hwangcheon Pavilion. Everyone who comes here should tremble, so why are you leaving?”
“Yes, let’s say that’s true. Do I need to evacuate or not? Please let me know, considering our relationship. Please!”
Since he has the leeway to make such jokes, he must be learning martial arts well from Doma. Well, he’s giving it his all, so I expect he’ll show us his transformed form soon.
“It was only yesterday that you told me to keep worrying about me.”
“I will worry about you from afar like I did yesterday.”
“Go and bring him. Your right arm must go.”
“I just hope that the evil Soma doesn’t know that I am the right-hand man of the Lord.”
So Seo Dae-ryong went out and my gaze turned back to the evil Soma.
I knew you would come looking for me, but I didn’t expect you to come to Hwangcheon-gak so quickly, and in broad daylight.
Acting impulsively based on instinct is no different now than it was then. That’s why he’s an interesting opponent, and that’s why he’s difficult to deal with.
After a while, Seo Dae-ryong spoke from outside the door.
“The ultimate evil spirit has arrived.”
“Take it.”
Soon after, the evil Soma came in, guided by Seo Dae-ryong.
“Welcome, sir.”
“You’re an old man again. I told you to treat me like a friend.”
“That can’t be. Then I will call you Soma-sama.”
“great.”
The evil Soma laughed out loud. The evil Soma’s actions were natural, as if nothing had happened yesterday.
When Seo Dae-ryong, who had guided him, was about to leave, I quickly spoke.
“Oh, by the way, that guy over there is Detective Seo, my right-hand man.”
After Seo Dae-ryong screamed with an expression, he greeted the evil Soma with a calm face when he turned around.
“I am Seo Dae-ryong. It is an honor to meet such a respected person.”
“Oh, I’ll remember that.”
“thank you.”
Seo Dae-ryong walked out with an expression that seemed like the end of the world. He must be shouting in his mind. Please don’t remember! I laughed as I watched him.
The evil Soma suddenly asked.
“Don’t people who care about others usually hide it?”
“If the opponent is an enemy, then yes. But Soma-sama is not an enemy, is he?”
“But that doesn’t mean we’re friends yet.”
“If someone wants to kill you, no matter how hard you try to hide them, will they be hidden? Lord Soma, has there ever been a time when you were unable to kill someone you wanted to kill because they hid?”
“doesn’t exist.”
“That’s why. Since we don’t know when we’ll die anyway, shouldn’t we live our lives properly as right-hand men?”
A strange light flashed in the eyes of the evil soma.
“That’s quite an interesting statement.”
The evil soma stood up and looked around the office. He looked at the piles of papers on the desk and the books on the closet, and then smelled the scent of the flowers in the flowerpot on the window. It was the flowerpot that Ilhwageomjon had given him as a gift.
“It smells good.”
“I recently started liking flowers.”
“I’m a successor of the Cheonmasingyo who loves flowers… … If the Murim Alliance bastards invade, will we die in the flower field?”
I responded calmly to his mocking words.
“It would be nice to die alone in an unknown field, but wouldn’t this be okay? If the last smell you smell as you take your last breath isn’t the smell of blood, but the scent of flowers.”
Instead of answering whether it was good or bad, the evil Soma let out his habitual laugh.
“But why have you come to me?”
The evil soma that was facing the flowers turned towards me.
“After Lee Gong-ja passed away yesterday, I thought about it carefully, and I realized that it was such a shame that we couldn’t be friends.”
“Me too.”
“So I came to see you to see if we could find a way to become friends.”
“Welcome. So, did you find the solution?”
“The way I thought of it was to give in one by one.”
“how?”
“I will compromise on the perspective of the scholar regarding good and evil. I will try to understand the scholar’s new magic.”
“Then what do I have to give up?”
“Can you give in to the idea that we can become friends only if we take off our masks?”
“Before that, let me ask you one thing. Why do you want to be my friend?”
“I want to be open and honest with all the scholars.”
Actually, I know why the evil Soma is doing this. First of all, I want to find out how the evil Soma was killed. When I returned to the main school, the evil Soma was still alive along with the evil Soma.
This is what I felt at that time: The worse you are, the longer you survive.
The evil Soma is also someone who values his life, so he will want to find out how I killed the Sub-Hon-Ma-Jon. If the Sub-Hon-Ma-Jon was hit, he will think that he can be hit too.
Another reason is his personality. He is obsessed with people who provoke and interest him. He approaches them, makes them his friends, and when he gets sick of them, he kills them right away. It was his morbid taste that no one else knew about, only I knew about.
So, you shouldn’t take any good meaning from him saying let’s be friends. Let’s be friends means he’s going to play with you until you die.
These two reasons are what made the evil Soma come to my office in person. It was the reason he made me tell the ridiculous lie that he understood my magic.
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“I want to be friends with people with science and engineering skills.”
Yes, I will be friends with him in this life too.
Only when you become his friend will he stand at a point where he is neither friend nor foe.
That’s the very evil Soma. A person who can barely escape from being an enemy by becoming friends.
“Okay. Let’s give in to each other.”
The evil soma laughed loudly at my answer. It was a hearty laugh that anyone who heard it would be delighted, but I was looking into his eyes with my new eyes. He was looking at me with extremely cold eyes.
Soma, there was nothing at the end of your life.
He said he had no regrets until the moment he died, but that was a lie. The moment he thought back to his childhood, he was already regretting it.
Blood Heavenly Sword Master has changed, Ilhwa Sword Master has changed, and the leader of the Wind Heaven Sect has changed, but this extremely evil Soma will not change easily. He was born with an evil nature and was raised while being brainwashed by his master since childhood.
It was just then.
Seo Dae-ryong’s voice was heard outside.
“The Archduke has arrived.”
“Take it.”
The evil Soma said with a smile.
“I called.”
Calling my brother here while looking for me? That’s something only a truly evil Soma could do.
If he thought, “Should I try this?” he would do it without any consideration for the consequences. Despite this impulsive personality, he was one of the demons who survived until the end, which shows how great his evil intentions were.
After a while, Geommuyang came in. He greeted the evil Soma first.
“It’s been a while, Soma.”
“Welcome, Your Highness. Now, I don’t need to introduce you two, do I?”
I played along to his playful remarks.
“Maybe we brothers are the ones who need to introduce ourselves to each other. We know less about each other than we think.”
As I treated the evil Soma comfortably, a slight tension crossed Geommuyang’s face.
Let’s go one step further.
The evil Soma spoke to Geommuyang.
“I was trying to get Lee Gong-ja to become my friend.”
The evil soma watched Geommuyang’s reaction with a look of anticipation, wondering how he would react.
My brother reacted like a brother.
“Sometimes we need this kind of entertainment.”
The evil soma laughed at the reaction of the black magician who didn’t show any flaws.
“That’s why I plan to have fun with my younger brother. Our Grand Prince is too upright, so it’s not fun.”
“Mugeuk is so witty that he would be a great friend.”
My brother has had a hard time too. He is not the type of person to come and listen to such things just because someone told him to. He is enduring it all with the determination to become the successor.
Yeah, good job, bro.
If you lose your nerve here, you’ve lost at that moment. You’re doing well.
Whether he knew those feelings or not, the evil Soma provoked Geommuyang.
“A scholar came to see me yesterday. He asked me to support him in place of his older brother.”
Even though I was there, he was unhesitating.
“Soma-sama, you said you wanted to be friends, so why are you causing discord between brothers? If you do this, you will never be good friends.”
At my words, the evil Soma laughed heartily and said.
“There is nothing more fun in the world than causing discord, so how can I endure it? I can endure sh**ting, but I can’t endure that.”
“If you want to cause discord, don’t join us. Join the Murim Alliance and the Sadomasaki Alliance.”
“Even if I wanted to, I’m in a situation where I can’t do that these days.”
Geommuyang was just listening to our conversation from the side. He must be just hoping that I’ll cross the line and make a slip of the tongue.
“Now that the two of you are here together, may I ask you a question that I have always been curious about?”
To the evil soma’s question, the older brother answered obediently.
“of course.”
“Then I will ask the Archduke first. What will you do for me if I help you become the successor?”
As expected, the worst of the worst is the worst of the worst. To show such bad taste in front of the two of us.
Geommuyang answered calmly, as if he had prepared for it.
“I will triple the support for the Evil Songs, lift the limit on the number of faceless guests, and lift the ban on Soma-sama from leaving the church.”
The evil Soma was banned from leaving the church. This was because the incident the year before last, in which he massacred the Apostolic Alliance members, almost led to a war.
“That’s because they attacked first.”
It started like that, but it ended in massacre. After that, my father forbade me from going to the Central Plains for a while. It’s been almost two years now, so I’m probably going to die from exhaustion.
“Wow, that’s a very attractive deal.”
“Don’t worry. If there’s anything else you want, I’ll push it forward without fail.”
The evil Soma laughed loudly. Does his brother know? Even though he laughs so happily, his eyes underneath his mask are extremely cold.
“Now, I will ask the Duke of Yi. If I help the Duke of Yi and make him a Heavenly Horse, what will you do for me?”
They both wondered what my answer would be.
I stared at the evil Soma and spoke softly.
“I will give you my life.”
The atmosphere froze for a moment. I should have said, “I’m joking,” but instead I added this:
“Didn’t we talk yesterday? What kind of new magic I’m aiming for? But how did you know that I would deal with Soma-sama, who advocates extreme evil? Did you think that I would at least support you? I will spare you even if it means taking on political burdens.”
My brother might be secretly delighted, thinking that he was wasting this great opportunity because of his youthful spirit.
But there’s something that Hyung doesn’t know. This extremely evil Soma is more attracted to his opponent when they act like this.
As if to prove it, his two eyes inside the hollow hole seen through the Shinan technique were shining brightly.
I spoke to him more coldly than before.
“Suddenly, playing friends has become boring. Playing games that are excessively formal will not end well in the end. So please don’t ask me to be friends again.”
In the midst of the chilling atmosphere, the evil Soma stood up from his seat.
“If we’re not friends and we’re all in the same place, we’ll just fight. See you next time.”
After saying goodbye to Geommuyang, the evil Soma left the office.
Only two male swordsmen asked me.
“What on earth are you thinking?”
My brother knew that I was not the kind of person who would so recklessly anger the evil Soma.
“Aren’t you just angry? You successors need to look good to our Palmazone. Come on, wag your tail quickly. Then I’ll put you in the successor’s seat. Aren’t you angry, hyung?”
My brother, who was thinking about what to say for a moment, stood up and said.
“I always get the heat from you.”
After saying those words, Geommuyang also left the office.
Soon after, Seo Dae-ryong came in.
“You waited outside because you were worried about me?”
“Except for your lord. I was worried that you might have withered away because of some magic.”
He felt relieved when he saw the flowers in the flower pot.
I smiled and stood next to him.
The evil Soma was seen walking out of the building.
“You seem upset. Are you okay?”
“I’m not angry. Can’t you see those exciting footsteps?”
“I don’t know. It feels like I’m about to step on someone and kill them.”
“If you’re that worried, just give me the flower pot tomorrow.”
“That’s right. Right? The evil Soma is coming again tomorrow?”
Because if you run away and tell them not to do it, the person who will chase you till the end is the evil Soma.
“That person is someone who has to make a decision one way or another.”
After a moment, Seo Dae-ryong asked.
“How do you endure all this pressure, my lord?”
“I have a right arm, a left arm that aims at my right arm, a heart, wings, and now even a brain. What could be difficult for me?”
I added softly, looking at the back of the evil Soma walking alone in the distance.
“It must be that evil and lonely soul that has a hard time.”
