Bad Born Blood - Chapter 140



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140

I was barely holding on to consciousness. I felt like I would faint if I lost focus even a little.

“You came to help me, Grace. I was half-hearted until the very end.”

I said as I looked at Grace approaching. She looked down at me with Ruina, who had become a sniper rifle, on her shoulder.

“Because I thought my bed would be in turmoil if Lord Luca died. And because you said you trusted me.”

Grace knelt down on one knee and sat down next to me.

“Haha, ugh, crap.”

I laughed so hard my heart ached that I grimaced.

“Hmm, your condition is not very good. The burns are severe. It’s amazing that you’re still alive. If you want to leave a will, say it now.”

Grace said, calmly examining my condition.

“What about the will…? Considering who the other person was, this was a cheap shot. By the way, the eyes covered by the blindfold are pretty.”

I said this while looking at Grace’s left eye. In fact, it is not an objectively pretty eye. However, aesthetic standards usually follow the subjective.

To others, it looked like a monster with extreme emphasis on functionality. Her left prosthetic eye was probably so high-performance that it could not be used all the time.

“For now, it would be best to hide. There’s been a riot and the atmosphere in Akbaran is unstable. Diva is also thinking it’s strange. She said that this is the most chaotic storm she’s ever experienced.”

For reference, storms come about once every 30 years. And Martina Diva has a lot of experience surviving storms.

Anyway, I have to hide now. It seems that all the assassins that Heilas had laid down have been dealt with, but I don’t know when another danger will come.

Even though Grace can be trusted, Martina Diva is not someone you can completely trust. And if Diva makes a decision, Grace will inevitably betray me.

So there was only one person who could protect me now. The one I could completely trust, or rather, the one I trusted. I still don’t know if he would give up his life for me.

A lot of time has passed. As I have changed, he must have changed too.

“Call Ilay Kartika on your terminal. The unique number is… … .”

I spoke quickly before my consciousness became clouded further. Grace also quickly finished typing on the terminal and waited for a reply.

“He said he would come.”

The tension in my body snapped at the mention of Ilay’s arrival. I grabbed Grace’s arm as if trying to hold onto my fading consciousness.

“This is my last request, Grace. Please protect Giselle until Ilay arrives.”

“I’ll provide that as a service.”

Grace nodded. Only then did I completely lose consciousness. Since I had been forced to awaken, my body immediately came to a standstill.

“Luke? Wait… … !”

There was confusion in Grace’s voice.

I saw Grace’s expression change through my narrowing vision. She was frowning and shouting at me. The cold face was nowhere to be found.

Grace is worried about me, after all. With that thought, I reached the point of death.

* * *

I don’t know how many times I’ve fainted in a short period of time. When this is over, I’m going to suffer from all sorts of aftereffects.

I was working my body so hard that I was overworking it. It felt like I was dragging my body along with my obsession, even though it was exhausted and wanted to die. It was to the point where I felt sorry for my body.

“What the heck, Luca? What the heck is this… … .”

“… … in cardiac arrest… … .”

“I need to administer a cardiac stimulant… … .”

“Then you die! Let’s solve the bleeding first… … .”

“Keep calling his name and stimulating him! If his brain stops working, it’s over.”

My consciousness came back to me vaguely. The voices seemed to come from far away. Even that was hard to hear.

My body was being carried away on a stretcher somewhere.

“Hey, to Heilas… … .”

I said something every time I opened my mouth. Now was the time to hesitate and say it hurt.

“Shut your mouth. You’re going to die at this rate, you idiot!”

Maybe this is Ilay’s voice.

My consciousness subsided, and when I woke up again, I heard a different voice.

“Now is not the time to worry about side effects.”

“But the person who got hit by it last time changed strangely.”

“It’s better than dying right away.”

“No, you’re just doing it because it’s fun, you psycho.”

“Well, I’m telling you, there really is no way. There aren’t any facilities here. Honey, should I just let you die?”

There were other voices mixed in besides Ilay and Grace, both of whom I recognized.

“If that’s the best we can do, then I can’t help it. Please, sir.”

It was Ilay’s voice. He called me ‘Chief.’ It took me a while to realize who the Chief was.

Oh, it looks like Director Jingau is here. That person was treating me.

“Luka, can you hear me? Your brain scan shows that your auditory area is still responding. I’m going to start inducing regeneration now. You won’t understand anything about accelerated cell division or anything… … Just think of it as hyper-regeneration.”

Jin Ga-woo paused for a moment, as if preparing something. After a while, he continued.

“Although I am not a doctor, I am a person who values ​​ethical obligations, so I will give advance notice. This is a dangerous procedure.”

If you value ethical obligations… …then you were joking, you were pretty successful. It was pretty funny.

I kept listening to Jin Ga-woo’s explanation. Most of it I didn’t understand. It was mostly because my cognitive ability was low.

“… … If there were more proper facilities or if you were less injured, I could control the regeneration area. However, your condition is so bad right now that full-body regeneration is necessary, and your heart is especially damaged, so I cannot control the flow of the drug. I will try, but even I cannot predict the results of the treatment. If you understand and agree to the instructions, then remain silent. If you do not want to, then react by moving your eyes, mouth, or anything else.”

I agreed anyway… …but I felt like a test subject.

“Oh, thank you for agreeing. I wanted to try that procedure too.”

The test subject is correct.

“And you forgot to explain one thing. This procedure is going to hurt like hell. I guarantee it… … You’re going to have a hard time with it. Hey, get me the gag!”

I can’t even imagine how much pain Jin Ga-woo would feel if he were to say that. If I could move, I would have writhed. This is something I need to think about.

Jin-ga-woo stuck something into my chest. It was probably a syringe. The thick needle went into my heart and spat out a pungent drug.

At first, I didn’t feel anything special. This silence made me feel more uneasy.

Woohoo!

There was a sound. I don’t know what it was.

Ugh.

As time passed, the dull sensation became clearer. All kinds of pain from the injury enveloped me.

Blink.

I opened my eyes. The first thing I saw was Jin Ga-woo wearing glasses. He was wearing a gorgeous gown with gold embroidery. The house was filled with decorations just as extravagant as the gown.

“This is La Vie en Rose’s VIP mansion. It’s my exclusive use now.”

Jin-ga-woo said with a grin. A little further away, Martina Diva was standing, wearing only a thin dress. And Ilay and Grace were also visible.

“Giselle is also receiving treatment. She is in much better condition than you, so don’t worry.”

Ilay came to me and said.

slam!

He grabbed my cheeks with both hands as if he was hitting them. His blue eyes stared at me with a burning gaze.

“Thank you for calling me, Luca. And see you alive.”

Ilay tapped my cheek and stepped back. And then the real treatment began.

Kook!

Jin Ga-woo injected drugs into my body one after another. He stared at the screen with complicated graphs moving around. His eyes, which had been playful, occasionally narrowed into seriousness.

Woohoo!

The sound came from inside my body.

sick.

It felt like someone had put their hands on my body and broken my bones. I can still handle this.

Ugh, ugh.

It feels like a worm with teeth is crawling inside my body, eating my flesh. It’s getting harder and harder to hold on. This is an unfamiliar pain.

Crackle! Crackle!

A tangle of tiny pains came up, as if each strand of my nervous system was being torn apart. This was not the kind of pain I could adapt to.

So, even if it’s a little ugly, there’s nothing I can do about it.

CLANG!

Because of the restraints, my limbs wouldn’t move, and only my body would shake.

Pain tolerance training is basically about becoming insensitive to pain. It is also a process of teaching the brain that minor injuries will not kill you.

So we train to experience the pain we will experience on the battlefield in advance. If we repeatedly imprint on our brains that we will not die from this level of pain, we can ignore moderate injuries and pain and not panic.

In other words… …it means that you have a low tolerance for pain of a type you have not experienced before.

‘If I stay like this, I’ll die.’

I even had that illusion. It was called treatment, but there was a terrible sound inside my body. The bones were rapidly fused together, and the wounds were healing at an unusual speed.

“Oops, I put it on wrong. Where are the saw and hammer… … .”

It was a super regenerative treatment that was difficult to control. Jin-ga-woo broke my bones that had been attached incorrectly again. Blood spurted out like a fountain wherever his hands touched.

“Hmm, did humans originally have three kidneys? Just kidding, kidding. I’ll remove the ones that are too old. Use the newly grown ones. Regeneration doesn’t necessarily follow the genetic map. It seems that unnecessary proliferation also occurs.”

What the hell is going on in my body!

Dulkudung!

My eyes would have been bloodshot and red, and Jin-ga-woo would have been soaked with my blood.

Phew!

Jin Ga-woo took the scalpel and cut my neck. I felt a lot of blood draining out of me. I thought I would die from excessive bleeding.

“There’s nothing we can do to stop the drug from going further into the brain. We’ll hook you up to a dialysis machine and run it, so just hold on.”

Jin-Gau calmly explained and inserted the dialysis tube into my neck.

… … I don’t know how much time passed. Unfamiliar pains stabbed my brain in turns. I wanted to faint, but my mind was clear.

Jin Ga-woo, who used to talk a lot, closed his mouth and focused on the surgery. It seemed like he also lost the energy to talk.

“It’s almost over. I’m sick of it, but you’re also amazing. To be honest, I was so hands-on that I wondered if it was okay. I did the surgery boldly, thinking that I could die. Anyway, if you save his life, don’t waste it on something useless. I don’t want to see someone I worked so hard to save die so quickly.”

It’s a strangely poignant statement.

Jinga-u was not ignorant of the darkness of the Empire. It was also questionable why he was here during this time of chaos.

* * *

I received miraculous treatment and survived.

My whole body ached as if I had been beaten, and the scars that had torn my body were red and raw. But the important thing was that the serious injury that had led to my death had healed in half a day.

Persistent.

I squinted my eyes because of the severe headache. And even after I recovered, I still felt pain in my body. It felt like someone was stabbing and cutting me intermittently.

‘Aftereffects.’

The scars engraved on my brain and body will remain permanently because of the extreme treatment I received without any consideration for the consequences.

“I won’t do a detailed inspection. I don’t think we have the facilities or the time to do so.”

Jin Ga-woo said naked. He was washing off the blood by showering in the center of the mansion. Why is the shower facility in the center of the first floor hall… … I don’t really want to know. This is a mansion owned by La Vie en Rose.

“Thank you for treating me. Although there were a few times when I felt like killing you, sir.”

I stumbled down from the operating table.

My body was covered in scars, as if someone had drawn pictures with a knife. I already had a lot of scars, but now they were beyond that.

“I don’t know what you’re doing. I don’t want to care. The intrigues of the Empire are none of my business. If anyone comes to me and asks questions, I’ll tell them everything. So don’t ask me for any more help, and don’t reveal any secrets to me. Do you understand?”

Jin Ga-woo skillfully drew the line with me. It wasn’t for nothing that he had survived in the empire for so long. He had his own way of dealing with the world. He wasn’t an eccentric person who simply ignored the mood.

Martina Diva was coming down from the second floor to the first. She was carrying clothes for Jin Gao to change into.

“You survived, my lord. As expected, your skills are truly amazing. I was thinking about whether or not to call a body cleaner.”

I moved my pupils to find Giselle and Ilay. They were not in my sight at the moment.

“What about Giselle?”

“Don’t worry, I’m sleeping upstairs. Master Kartika is guarding me well. I guess I’ve accumulated more virtue than I thought. There are many people around me who are helping me. Grace also came forward without taking any reward.”

“That’s because Grace is kind.”

I said it as if it was nothing. Talking about Grace was a topic I wanted to avoid with Martina. But Martina was persistent.

“No, that’s not true. We’re a gang, and a good person can’t be a leader. You don’t put everything aside and rush out just because someone you know is in danger. But why did Grace do that? It’s simple. Love always paralyzes reason. Grace likes you. She sensed that feeling and used it. She’s quite good.”

I kept my mouth shut.

What Martina said is true. Grace helped me out of emotional considerations. She didn’t expect anything in return.

“… … Anyway, thanks for your help, Martina.”

“I did Grace a favor. So tell her thank you. Now Grace will be in my hands for the rest of her life. She will never be able to leave La Vie en Rose. I have a strong sense of responsibility.”

I touched my chest with one hand. I don’t know if it stung or hurt.