< 123. Shock and Terror (21) >
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The air is freezing. Choi Pan-seok’s eyes are stained with bewilderment.
‘How did this happen?!’
This old orc is a congressman who has been through a lot.
However, he could not completely hide his agitation. The man who should have been subdued by Blade by now suddenly appeared. He was holding an odd sword, and using an incomprehensible method.
What calmed the trembling in his voice was the power of experience.
“Give it to me… What do you mean?”
Minjun’s gaze became sharp.
“Actually, there is something I need to return.”
Although he was naturally being treated with contempt, Orc had no courage to point out or protest. He waited for the next words with a burning tension in his chest.
Click.
The dagger moves slightly.
“You took advantage of me. Is it worth living now?”
The last words were aimed at the daughter behind the congressman.
Choi Seon-ah was still shaking close to a seizure, as if she had not yet escaped the influence of the premonition. The orc carefully moved his body and placed her behind his back. That way, he could hide her from the agent’s sight. He knew it was useless, but he felt he had to do it. His mind was in disarray.
‘Surely… my prediction was wrong?’
No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem like he’s been brainwashed.
The quiet anger flashing in his eyes was clearly the agent’s own.
‘The plan has been exposed.’
His blood vessels constricted and a chill spread throughout his body. The orc gave up trying to evade any longer.
“My daughter doesn’t know anything.”
He slumped his shoulders and spoke with earnestness in his eyes.
“I planned it all myself. It’s not Seon-ah’s fault.”
Minjun thought as he listened to the congressman’s words.
Indeed, she has something in common with prisoners, criminals whose memories of crimes have been wiped clean.
but.
“okay?”
A voice that is full of coldness.
“If you erase your memories, will your sins disappear?”
Minjun doesn’t think so.
He thought about the original sin that he had forgotten for 800 years. However, what Min-jun recognized was not the sin that the committee had requested. Min-jun did not feel guilty about the act of creating Asif-1.
The real sin, he believes, is that he has reduced his own people to the status of blood-sucking livestock.
Whether intentional or not, the result is still terrible. So he is a sinner.
And now he was determined to pay the price.
Minjun took a step and the orc shouted with his face turned pale. With all his might.
“···I had no choice! To save my daughter!”
He cries out in a desperate appeal for recognition.
But the reaction was disappointing. Minjun’s expression did not change. The congressman felt his blood dry when he could not read any emotion from the other person’s face. He shouted on purpose, but it was quiet outside. He knew that the hospital room was magically disconnected and the lives of the mother and daughter were in danger. He desperately racked his brain.
“I’m sorry for lying to you! But if I tell you honestly, my daughter foresees that I won’t treat you…”
“There is something I absolutely cannot stand.”
The oppressive atmosphere that fills the hospital room.
The orc felt his chest being crushed and his breathing becoming suffocated.
“I can’t stand it when someone touches what’s mine. I’m talking about people who invade my territory and cause chaos.”
Now I know why it was so hard to bear and so frustrating.
Because I have already experienced having everything taken away from me.
I hear hallucinations in my ears.
– People are suffering. Let us give them freedom. Let us help them to blossom to their full potential, free from the oppression and tyranny of those monsters who know nothing but domination and exploitation. Let us end the long winter and let the spring of freedom sprout.
Minjun just wanted to wake up all his people a little earlier. That wish led to the situation going to ruin.
-So tell me, where are you sleeping?
Our people have been robbed of what is most precious, their blood, and are being robbed even at this very moment.
That is Minjun’s original sin.
“But then there was another thing I couldn’t stand anymore.”
Minjun’s voice rang out sharply.
“Those guys who are running at me to put a dog collar on me.”
The orc tried to protest.
But the blade flying towards the nape of his neck was faster.
“Ugh!”
A life focused on one point.
Choi Pan-seok screamed at the sensation of his throat being pierced.
“···Ugh!”
But, he didn’t die.
Gulp.
Instead of piercing the black jugular vein, it stopped with a small tear in the skin. Blood flowed out in red streams. The orc froze, unable to breathe.
At that moment.
Choi Pan-seok’s eyes became blurry.
“······!”
brainwashing.
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This is the original way Blade captivates people.
Meanwhile, the moment Choi Pan-seok lost his wits, Min-jun felt that the brainwashing power that Blade had planted in the shadow monster had disappeared.
‘I see.’
Minjun sorted out the abilities of the fused fragments in his head.
The Blade’s brainwashing is limited to one person holding the handle and one person wounded by the sword. So the moment Choi Pan-seok was brainwashed, the shadow monster returned to normal.
Compare that to the original power of the frying pan. Twenty-nine members of the National Assembly were still under his control. There are complicated prerequisites for cooking and feeding, and the control is weaker than the sword, but in return, it can control more people.
And now the frying pan has absorbed the blade’s abilities in addition to its original abilities.
‘I guess I can use this for a while.’
Thinking like that, Minjun looked into Choi Panseok’s memories. The creature had conveyed the councilman’s memories.
In it, Minjun saw a chain of repeated hatred.
-Seon-ah! Come to your senses… Seon-ah! Is there anyone there?!
Orc wanted revenge on the racists. His whole life was a fight against discrimination, and what happened to his daughter was decisive. Whatever the reason for adopting her, his love for Choi Seon-ah was sincere.
Thanks to the help of my daughter whose abilities have been enhanced, two methods have been developed.
In the short term, the idea was to turn the representatives elected by the racists into puppets of the Orcs. It was exciting to imagine. The idea of the Orcs controlling the congressmen sent by their constituents to pollute the Congress with racist ideology. It was exciting. There was also a plan to get rid of all those behind the terrorism by making them vomit out everything they know.
Also, in the long run, they planned self-developmental revenge, not self-destructive revenge. Revenge in the form of making the lives of their despised compatriots better. And so, in the end, they will give the orcs wealth that no other race can envy, so that no one can ignore them. They will gradually shift the balance of power toward the orcs. So they prepared a redevelopment bill that will be a stepping stone.
Minjun sees the twisted hostility in his memories, and confirms that he was trying to use Minjun as a tool for revenge.
The agent pulled out the sword that had only slightly stabbed the tip. The adopted daughter’s gaze followed it. She was frozen like a wax doll, only her eyes moving.
“You really are a rare talent.”
To the extent that the committee would covet it if it knew about it.
“I told you, I came because I had something to give you.”
Choi Seon-ah couldn’t understand what Min-jun was saying.
“······?!”
Unlike what Ego Sword had been struggling with, Minjun did not feel confused about the standards of good and evil.
His principles of action were much simpler.
The woman returns the same malice that was intended to use her as a tool.
“From now on, you will have to work for me.”
The reason why he brainwashed Orc instead of Choi Seon-ah is because he knew that the effectiveness of foresight would decrease when the mind is lost.
“·········.”
She had just seen a terrible future.
Choi Seon-ah was able to simulate various scenarios. In the first future prediction she made after losing her memory, no matter which path she chose, the father and daughter would end up in a miserable state. Earlier, she had lost her senses and shouted at them to run away, but in fact, there was no exit. No matter which path she chose, it was doom. A cruel future unfolded that would make you lose your mind if you just glimpsed it.
But there was one way for the woman to survive in a somewhat better way.
that.
“Shiki···.”
I barely manage to finish the sentence with trembling lips.
“···I’ll do whatever you tell me to do.”
The brainwashed adoptive father is a hostage. He will jump out of the building without hesitation at the command of a single word. Choi Pan-seok’s life depends on the agent.
Choi Seon-ah realized that she was caught in a trap from which she could not escape. She also realized that the power of foresight she had used for Choi Pan-seok would only be used for the man in front of her from now on.
Minjun plotted to use him as a servant, but then looked at the woman who ended up becoming his servant with cold eyes.
***
=Could you explain in a little more detail? Among the things you said today… You said that the agent created me?=
Because there was so much work to do, it took more than half a day to finish it all.
After returning home, the frying pan reverted to its original form without even asking. Although it absorbed Blade’s abilities and memories, the ego frying pan that had been around for 800 years was still at the forefront, and its identity was still closer to that of a cooking utensil.
Minjun was similar. He was still him, even though he was regaining some of his memories. However, his forgotten identity was gradually mixing and becoming colored.
“That’s what I mean.”
Minjun explained what he found out.
After the story ended, Madougu was in shock and didn’t respond for a long time.
Then again, I’m losing my mind.
=···Well, so, to sum it up, I’m a tool that the agent created to awaken his own kind?=
Although some questions remained, it seemed like he soon came to his own conclusion.
=Perhaps by doing so, I can save everyone and lead them to true happiness? Otherwise, I can’t explain why I have such a sense of mission.=
It seemed that Kabite interpreted it as the destruction of the world, but Minjun did not bother to mention that story. It was definitely an excuse to suppress and arrest Asif-1. They were beasts full of lies from the very beginning. There was no need to give meaning to each and every one of their outrageous remarks.
While thinking like that, Frying Pan added a word.
=Well, come to think of it, Agent, you strangely seem reluctant to call me hyung. Is that why?=
He remembered that when he held it in his hand, regardless of age, men would call it “hyung” and women “noona,” but he never called Minjun, who had actually changed his owner, that way.
Well, it might be a coincidence.
=If so.=
Suddenly, a serious feeling is mixed with the frying pan’s mental wave.
=At this point, wouldn’t it be necessary to reestablish the relationship between you and me?=
Minjun’s eyebrows twitched.
“What are you talking about?”
=I··· So.=
After a moment of silence, the frying pan rolled the wad of meaning with great difficulty.
=···Dad?=
“······.”
Feeling the air freezing, Frypan decided that they would have to postpone reestablishing their relationship until later.
Even if you don’t throw it on the floor like you did when you first met, it’s a huge improvement in your relationship. Feeling both disappointment and joy at that fact, Frying Pan asked something more important.
=So, what are your plans for the future?=
“We need more talents, more fragments.”
Ultimately, what he dreams of is to recreate the plan he had when he first created Asif-1. It was also to awaken his kind…
“I have something to return to the committee guys.”
Of course, I had no intention of quickly submitting the blood of my own kind or the fragments of Asif-1.
Starting today, Minjun’s goal has clearly changed.
=What?=
It won’t be easy and it will take a long time. There is a long way to go. But Minjun has firmly decided to repay what he received from the ancient race.
The primordial race vows to cross the 800-year gap.
“Shock and horror.”
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