6kv Chapter 298
Chapter 298
Chapter 298
Yu-Hyun led me to a deserted alley behind the club.
As soon as we left the club, he said, "Are you crazy?"
We occasionally spotted people in the deserted alley staggering around while smoking cigarettes, or something more sinister than cigarettes, like marijuana.
I summoned Dan Wedo to make it rain. Due to the pouring rain, the cigarettes and marijuana that the people were smoking were extinguished.
The smokers cursed and hurriedly sought shelter. Only Yu-Hyun and I remained in the alley. Due to the rain, my wet hair poked my eyes.
I pushed my hair back and looked at Yu-Hyun. He was still looking at me with a bewildered expression.
Splash!
I pushed Yu-Hyun, causing him to fall into a puddle. I then kicked his face with my foot. He spat blood from his mouth and writhed in the puddle.
I clenched my fist and was about to strike Yu-Hyun's face once more, but Yu-Hyun curled up and waved his arms while shouting something. I couldn’t hear him properly due to the rain, so I leaned closer.
"What did you say?"
“My face... Just don’t hit my face!” Yu-Hyun shouted. Finnd new chapters at novelhall.com
I chuckled. I found it absurd that he was concerned about his face even in this situation. I grabbed Yu-Hyun by the collar and lifted him up.
"I told you before that it’s fine to mess with me, but not with others.”
"When the fuck did you say something like that?! I’ve never heard anything like that from you,” Yu-Hyun yelled in a furious voice.
Did I never tell Yu-Hyun that? I honestly couldn't remember. I most likely said something similar to him in passing.
Well, it didn’t really matter. Whether I had warned him or not, Yu-Hyun had messed with the Voodoo Cult. That alone was enough for me to beat him up.
I clenched my fist and was about to hit Yu-Hyun again. However, it felt like it was too much effort, so I decided against it. Yu-Hyun was hunched over and shivering.
I looked down at him and said, "You once said that we were alike."
"..."
"I admit it. The way we think is similar."
We were similar in the sense that we were both the leader of a religion or someone who was about to become the leader of a religion. Since we were different people, there was no way our way of thinking would be completely the same. However, there were definitely times when our thought patterns were the same. Thus, to some extent, Yu-Hyun probably knew what I was thinking, and vice versa.
I could roughly guess how Yu-Hyun intended to use me in the conclave. He was probably trying to gain an advantage in the election by orchestrating my downfall.
But I was going to move according to Yu-Hyun's intentions.
"Don't think that I don’t know what you're thinking."
"..."
Yu-Hyun did not respond and just continued hunching. I turned around and left the alley.
The rain that I had summoned via Dan Wedo drenched the world, and the people outside were either running or hiding beneath shelter to avoid the rain.
I walked through the crowd of people.
***
The frequency of demons and demonic beasts appearing in the country decreased over time. It reached its peak when the Satanist Executive named Lust entered the country, but it now decreased to an unprecedented low.
"I heard that the North Crusader Order was going to eat out together today after completing a subjugation mission,” Sun-Woo said.
Jin-Seo wondered how Sun-Woo knew about that. But then she realized that Sun-Woo was now a member of the Central Paladin Order. Since he was a formal member of the Central Paladin Order, it was not unusual for him to know what was going on in the Northern Crusader Order.
"I didn't go because I thought it would be a waste of time."
Sun-Woo nodded and murmured, "I figured."
Sun-Woo's eyes fell on Jin-Seo's hands. Her hands were so badly damaged that they were bleeding.
Startled, Sun-Woo grabbed Jin-Seo's wrist and furrowed his brow.
"What happened? Did you get hurt during the subjugation mission?"
"During the training session..."
"It seems more like you're inflicting self-harm rather than training though?"
Jin-Seo remained silent. Her training session was indeed closer to self-harm, just as Sun-Woo had pointed out. Despite feeling a bit embarrassed, she was grateful for Sun-Woo's concern. Jin-Seo pushed away Sun-Woo's hand and hid her injured hands behind her back once again.
Sun-Woo looked at Jin-Seo with a flabbergasted expression.
"What are you doing? I was trying to at least cast some healing blessings on your injuries.”
"It's fine. I can do it myself. And..."
"Why are you feeling embarrassed all of a sudden?" Sun-Woo said with a mischievous smile.
That made Jin-Seo feel even more embarrassed. She felt her face flushing.
Jin-Seo tried to maintain her composure and not show any signs of embarrassment as she said, "So, why are you here? You didn't come to train as well, right?"
"Oh, right.”
Sun-Woo nodded belatedly as if he just remembered.
"Where is your director?"
***
Ha-Yeon was searching Sung Yu-Da's research lab.
Sun-Woo's admission to the Central Paladin Order was confirmed, and the admission ceremony had taken place. Thus, Sun-Woo had become an official paladin. Not just any paladin, but an official paladin that belonged to the Central Paladin Order.
After joining the Central Paladin Order, Sun-Woo frequently visited Sung Yu-Da. The two mainly met at the research lab. It didn’t seem like Sun-Woo was visiting Sung Yu-Da just to express gratitude for his help in joining the Central Paladin Order. If that were the case, he would have visited once or twice, but Sun-Woo regularly visited the research lab to meet Sung Yu-Da.
Ha-Yeon did not know why Sun-Woo visited Sung Yu-Da so frequently or what they discussed when they met. She had a curious personality that compelled her to find out anything she did not know about.
There was nothing special in the research lab. Research on miracle replication. Research on blessings and divine powers. Medical applications for healing blessings... They were all ordinary research materials.
"..."
At that moment, something caught Ha-Yeon's eye. It was a drawer locked tightly with a padlock. The other drawers were not locked—only that drawer was firmly locked with a huge padlock. The drawer was clearly suspicious. The padlock was the type that required a password to unlock. Ha-Yeon tried to guess the password by fiddling with it.
Since it seemed to be an important padlock, it wouldn't be set with an obvious password. For example, Ha-Yeon's birthday...
Click.
The padlock opened. The password actually turned out to be Ha-Yeon's birthday.