< 120. Shock and Terror (18) >
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His gaze is fixed on her face.
Choi Seon-ah says, “The ability wasn’t this great from the beginning. She also experienced the same difficulties that many people with the ability to foresee encounter.
“I couldn’t control it properly at all, and I saw many futures I didn’t want to see. There was a lot of useless information. There were many cases where it was difficult to interpret the meaning just by looking at fragments of scenes.”
“It was my job to extract something meaningful from there. Of course, that alone gave me great opportunities and benefits. He was truly a treasure.”
The trigger for her complete change was the terrorist attack a few years ago.
From the beginning, human supremacists have continued to terrorize their women. The fact that humans were adopted by orcs and that these orcs even gained wealth and power hurt their pride. Orcs, who should be inferior, lived better lives than many humans and even supported them.
But a few years ago, another reason was added.
Because she happened to marry Kwak Do-chul.
Actor Kwak Do-chul, who is known for his acting skills, is known for playing roles such as gangsters, corrupt members of the National Assembly, and neighborhood thugs.
The woman exchanges glances.
“My father was my hero. I couldn’t help but be drawn to a man who resembled him. However… the contents inside the shell were trash.”
Her father tried to stop her, but she pushed ahead with it of her own will.
The words, “an unforeseen choice, a wrong marriage,” were devastating.
Choi Seon-ah laughs in vain.
“Before I got married and was attacked by a terrorist, my abilities were excellent, but not to the extent they are now. I could predict national-level incidents and accidents, but I couldn’t predict important events in my life.”
The fewer people who are aware of an event in the future, the more difficult it is to predict.
And the weaker the ability, the stronger this penalty becomes.
“I couldn’t predict that the man I was going to marry would be stupid and worthless, or that if I married him, I would be a racist and addicted to magic poison. That’s the downside of this ability. It’s dark under the lamp.”
He barely survived, but the aftereffects were fatal.
“Seon-ah was already weak, and she had been left to suffer from addiction for too long. She was diagnosed as incurable with modern medicine, and only the highest-ranking priest could intervene.”
Such a priest cannot be used unless he is of dragon-level power. Even as a member of the Korean National Assembly, he was not enough.
“When my life was in danger, I was desperate. I tried to find a way to survive.”
Is it because his life was at stake?
Perhaps it was the exhaustion of her desperate instincts that had caused her foresight to rise several levels. It is often reported that those who face life-threatening situations will experience an increase in their abilities. Thanks to this, she has reached areas that she had not been able to reach in the past.
“Thanks to you, I saw the completed puzzle. The future I live in after becoming entangled with a certain person.”
We repeated the prediction hundreds and thousands of times to simulate the process.
“Only he can cure me.”
Blade’s eyebrows twitched.
“Are you saying he is a priest of the Pope level?”
“I’m not sure if I have that kind of divine power or if I can move someone like that. The information I have from the premonitions is limited… Also, strangely, the prophecies about him are more vague and uncertain than those about other people. The only thing I know for sure is this: I have to make him interested in me. That’s how I’ll be able to save myself.”
The orc intervened.
“I need your help with this process.”
“You have to expose your existence, that ‘sword’, to people.”
Blade was silent for a moment.
The precognitive person in front of me accurately saw through my true identity.
In fact, his known characteristics could also be obtained through Choi Pan-seok’s information network. He has the ability to brainwash people and he mainly uses a sword.
However, the judgment that its true identity was a sword was the result of combining information obtained through the ability to foresee with existing knowledge.
“Why?”
“My body needs to be completely destroyed once. I need that person to heal me and bring me back to life so they can get the information out of my head.”
“What if I just tell you honestly and ask you to treat me?”
“If you approach him like that, he won’t budge. It seems like he has a very important secret and he wants to keep it a secret.”
It was a confidence gained after countless repetitions of simulations with evolved abilities.
“I don’t know the details, but I’m trying to avoid the risk of it being exposed, so even if you promise me a billion dollars, it’s impossible. I won’t take the risk to save a single person like me who has no connections.”
That’s why I had to use a different method.
“If I show up holding you in my hand, make a scene, and then fall into a coma, he’s bound to become curious about me.”
The divine power unleashed by a high priest in a well-controlled manner restores a damaged body to a healthy state.
In the process, not only will broken bones and muscles be rebuilt, but the magical toxins that have contaminated your body will also be purified.
As if nothing happened.
“One more thing.”
The ‘noisy incident’ that would become the trigger had already been planned.
Choi Seon-ah has someone she has to kill.
“I was terrorized because I married my husband. I was terminally ill. I know it was my choice, but he cheated on me when I got to this point.”
A husband who abandoned his dying wife and had sex with another woman.
“That happened several times. Eventually, he even put in an assassination request to kill me.”
Her purpose, as she explained to Blade, was twofold.
Killing Kwak Do-chul and his mistress. And attracting the attention of someone who can cure him.
She used her foresight to figure out a way to do both at the same time.
But Blade has doubts.
‘Kwak Do-chul must have made the request to the headquarters after Choi Seon-ah was poisoned by magic poison. But did he not foresee it? Or did he know in advance and···?’
If you knew that you would sin anyway, if you knew that you had a wicked nature enough to do so… would you have deliberately let them commit the sin until they did?
‘If someone is going to commit a crime that deserves death, then it’s right to kill them, right?’
I can’t say for sure, but I have a feeling that might have been the case.
While he was lost in thought, Choi Seon-ah declared.
“If you want to get attention for a passionate murder and at the same time get away with murder, you have to be exposed.”
It was a connection of contradictory concepts, but Choi Seon-ah knew how to do it. The congressman added.
“The police need to know about the existence of the sword that confuses people. And they need to prove it. I think the best way would be to brainwash someone else on the spot. Make them realize that Seon-ah killed those guys while she was brainwashed, and clear them of all charges.”
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After much deliberation, Blade agreed to participate in the plan to save Choi Seon-ah.
First of all, there was no doubt that the opponent had outstanding foresight.
He threatened her not to think of anything frivolous, saying that if she betrayed him, he, considered the best assassin on Earth, would chase her to the ends of the Earth and kill her.
Then Choi Pan-seok said.
“Well then, let’s talk about the next item on the agenda. Another reason why you had to come to this country. Another request.”
Blade flinched. He had come here to kill not only Kwak Do-chul, but also a member of the National Assembly. The identity of the client was shrouded in mystery…
“no way?”
Choi Pan-seok laughed.
“That’s right. That was also my request.”
It wasn’t just a simple bait. The precognitive’s arrangement connected numerous dots so that one action could achieve multiple results.
“While you’re killing one, why don’t you kill the other twenty-nine as well?”
The woman explained why the blade had to be like that.
***
The earthquake has stopped.
Choi Pan-seok looked at his daughter in the hospital bed with a worried expression.
“How are you feeling?”
Choi Seon-ah answered with a forced smile.
“I was a little surprised, but it’s okay. As I said before, this is the first time in my life that I’ve felt this way.”
“Is that it?”
“Yes. Compared to before you were poisoned, you’re in much better shape now, right?”
She was still hospitalized in the university hospital owned by Red Dragon. The tight security that Minjun had requested from the immigration office was still in place.
However, it wasn’t as ridiculous as it was at first. Jenkinson, who returned to Korea, realized that the FMist secretary had taken excessive measures and readjusted the security personnel. Choi Pan-seok was satisfied with the current level.
Even if they were the world’s greatest organization of hitmen, they wouldn’t be able to break through this level of security and threaten my daughter’s life.
“Let’s stay here for the time being. There’s no place safer than here.”
“however···.”
Choi Seon-ah’s expression darkens suddenly.
“Why is that?”
She looked up at her adoptive father and spoke in a hesitant voice.
“Really, you’re not going to tell me anything?”
Choi Pan-seok shook his head with a stern expression.
“I’m sorry, Seon-ah. I can’t tell you.”
The current situation was the result of discussions between himself, Blade, and his daughter before he lost his memories.
Choi Seon-ah repeated strangely vague and vague examples of “that man” who held the key to curing her.
As a result, I knew that this was the only way to survive, but I didn’t know his true identity clearly, and there were holes in the flow of events. I also didn’t know why the man was interested in the sword.
The mother and daughter put their heads together to piece together the fragments of information about the future that were scattered throughout their minds.
Choi Pan-seok thought.
‘I never thought that agent would be the man in the vision.’
At first I was confused, but after learning about his background, I could understand.
I don’t know how they got involved, but he was a man that Red Dragon Jenkins acknowledged as a close friend.
Before losing her memory, Choi Seon-ah had a premonition that she needed to erase all of her memories before she ever met that man. If she didn’t do that, all of the possible outcomes would have led to catastrophe.
Following those words, Blade wiped out her memories containing sensitive information before completely destroying her body.
“But… I’m worried. When I woke up from a loss of consciousness, not only was Mr. Dokdo dead… but I killed him with my own hands…!”
Tears well up in her eyes.
While stroking the head of his adopted daughter, Choi Pan-seok firmly resolved something.
‘It’s actually a good thing.’
Speak comfortingly.
“I say again, this is all a plot by someone. You were simply possessed by a strange artifact, and the killer is the sword. You are a victim of this situation.”
I reassured myself like that and at the same time thought to myself.
‘Your sins are forgiven like this.’
Choi Seon-ah forgot everything she had planned and committed in the past. Also, when she killed Kwak Do-chul and the half-elf, even though she cut off their necks with her own hands, her mind was still under Blade’s control.
So at this moment, Choi Seon-ah’s soul is innocent and innocent.
Can she be punished for committing a crime without any memory of it and without consciousness?
Choi Pan-seok was confident.
‘It’s a good thing. You don’t have to remember all that. You don’t have to tremble with unnecessary guilt.’
Choi Seon-ah’s mind remains innocent before committing a crime.
Instead, Choi Pan-seok will remember.
Maybe my daughter could reconstruct the past based on future information. Still, it was worth a try.
“Okay, if you’re feeling better… can I ask you a favor?”
It was the first request after waking up.
Choi Seon-ah nodded, wiping away her tears.
“yes.”
Before she was seriously injured and fell into a coma, the simulation showed that the furthest point in time that Choi Seon-ah could see in ‘the future where she survives’ was this very moment.
Around the time the earthquake occurred in Seoul.
‘In the end, everything worked out well. Seon-ah has fully recovered, will be cleared of charges, and is safely protected under the Red Dragon’s protection. Kwak Do-chul and the concubine are dead, and the scum of the Human-Centered Party who absolutely had to be killed have been killed.’
Anyone identified as having ties to the group that poisoned and terrorized Choi Seon-ah had to be killed without fail.
The remaining twenty-nine… if everything went as planned, they would have become ‘that man’s’ faithful servants.
‘In the premonition, he said he eventually grabbed the handle of the blade. The problem is, there’s no way to know what happens next.’
If Blade brainwashes the agent and that agent takes control of the twenty-nine again, there is no happier ending than that.
If you kill all thirty members of the National Assembly, things will be very smooth this year, but the problem is next year. There will be a by-election anyway, and the vacancy will be filled.
So a better option is to muzzle them.
However, no matter how hard Choi Seon-ah tried before losing her memory, she was unable to predict what would happen after the man grabbed the handle.
Now that my body has recovered and enough time has passed, things may have changed.
Choi Pan-seok waited in anticipation.
And finally, when Choi Seon-ah opened her eyes again.
“······?!”
Her body trembled like an aspen tree, and cold sweat ran down her forehead. Choi Pan-seok was embarrassed.
“Seo, Seon-ah. Why are you like that?”
The adopted daughter’s face turned pale.
It was as if he had had a terrible nightmare.
***
Minjun was silent for a moment in front of the sword. Frying pan still couldn’t get the hang of it.
‘What? You don’t know anything?’
The frying pan rarely shed a dead wave of spirit.
=I’m really sorry. I thought I would feel something when I looked at the other ‘pieces’···. But now I can’t feel anything.=
Minjun felt annoyed. Could it be that he had come up empty-handed?
After thinking about it for a while.
“wait for a sec.”
A thought crossed his mind.
“······!”
Minjun reached down.
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