Black Badger - Chapter 321



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321. Disconnection (1)

I couldn’t bring myself to look at Kyle.

I never imagined that this feeling would explode.

What on earth does it mean for emotions that were locked up inside to burst out?

I lowered my gaze, feeling the heat rushing to my face.

My eyes, full of shame, were reflected in the rippling water.

I really didn’t want to get caught for this… .

“Stop.”

Kyle said.

Clyde’s swordsmanship suddenly stopped.

“If you do not continue the work, there is a high possibility that it will be removed incompletely.”

The executioner’s dull voice fell upon his back.

“Besides, Hildebert Taleb is a child of the World Tree. Unless he follows the perfect procedure, he might be able to restore the sixth sense damaged by inhalation… .”

Phew!

A dull pain came to my abdomen.

“Ugh!”

I started coughing.

Thanks to the chains, I didn’t get blown away and crashed. The only thing that hurt was the area where I was chained. I frowned in pain and listened to the sound of Clyde’s scalpel hitting the water and the wizards panicking.

The sound of Jin taking a deep breath.

The cave then becomes quiet.

“If a problem arises, you just have to start over from the beginning.”

Kyle’s suppressed Imperial language broke the silence.

“Executioner. If you don’t want to get into trouble while you’re here, stay back.”

Clyde’s face reflected in the water was indifferent.

He was neither surprised nor frightened. His face, shaking on the red water, was emotionless.

The bureaucrat, who had been displaying a mechanical indifference, soon lowered his head and took a step back.

Kyle came over, splashing water.

I couldn’t bear to meet his gaze.

A strong hand reached out and grabbed my chin.

“Hilde.”

Kyle’s hands, which were forcibly turning my face away, were shaking with anger.

“What is this?”

Even his voice shook faintly.

“Explain. What the heck is this?”

“… What is there to explain?”

He muttered in resignation.

My head was forced to turn, but I couldn’t bring myself to look into Kyle’s golden eyes.

“I didn’t even show it. You guys just poked at my feelings without any reason…”

Bam!

I got hit.

I tasted blood in my mouth. I spat out the blood and felt relieved that my head had turned. I didn’t have to force myself to look down and avoid eye contact.

I couldn’t tell if my inability to make eye contact was due to shame or anger.

I didn’t particularly want to know.

“Shameless bastard.”

Kyle’s clenched fist was visible in the water.

My fist, stained with a few drops of my blood, was shaking with anger.

“How dare you….”

I hope Kairos arrives soon.

I thought as I swallowed my blood-tasting saliva. I miss my kind, whose location I could not find even by feeling around with my intuition, thanks to Colton’s actions.

I thought it would be nice if someone else came, even if it wasn’t him. I had planned to live my whole life hiding these feelings.

I thought it would be better to die than to get caught by Kyle.

“Wouldn’t it be easier to just kill me?”

I muttered as I looked at Kyle’s reflection in the rippling water.

“Isn’t it nice not having to see each other in such a bad way?”

Phew!

A fist came flying.

And it didn’t stop. I watched the reflections on the water as Kyle’s fists swung in frustration. The water on the floor was good in many ways. I could hide my rolling eyes and still see what was going on.

Jin lowered his gaze with a face that said he couldn’t bear to look.

We have to rescue him safely.

Even while being hit, he rolled the poison on his tongue without swallowing or bursting it.

If my life really depended on it, I would have popped the poison and run away with Jin on my back, but now was not the time.

“Pass it here.”

As I rolled the capsule, the beating stopped.

Drops of blood dripping into the pond.

I saw Kyle and Clyde reflected in the water, which was turning red.

A man reaching out to Clyde.

“It probably hasn’t cooled down yet.”

“It hasn’t cooled down, but I really recommend removing it the right way.”

Clyde’s brow furrowed slightly.

I guess you really don’t like it.

“If you proceed like this, there is a possibility that it will be removed incompletely….”

Chewy!

A sharp pain ran through my skin.

It was a pain I had never felt before. I couldn’t even scream.

Isn’t that right? Maybe he screamed but didn’t realize it.

Anyway, I was flailing my body like crazy.

it hurts.

I want to immerse my neck in water.

It’s too hot.

“Commander of the Knights! Stop now! If you touch it any further, it will be impossible to remove it cleanly!”

“You don’t deserve this feeling.”

Kyle’s trembling fists were visible through my vision, which was soaked with sweat and tears.

“How could you… . What the hell were you thinking… .”

Tears and sweat dripped onto the surface of the water.

“You killed Ray!”

Kyle’s journey echoed through the cave.

“You killed Ray! How can you miss me when you’re like that!”

embrace.

I know that too. I don’t deserve to miss you. It’s no different from me killing Ray.

But there’s nothing I can do about it. Even though I know it in my head, I still miss it so much.

I now remember the despair I felt when I heard that Ray’s rampage had begun.

The overwhelming sadness I felt when his presence ceased.

Why didn’t you believe me?

I felt the heat pressing against my skin and thought blankly.

If only those who carried it hadn’t been there, I would have fought with you and died in peace.

In fact, I thought until the very end that you would eventually believe me.

I thought you would run away with me since I had knelt down and begged you. I thought you would be wise enough to take a step back this time too, since you had knelt before the emperor.

A vain belief that could not be let go until war was imminent.

The sound of a scalpel being cut is deafening.

I closed my eyes, accepting the coming reality.

***

Rose stood tall.

I sat there blankly staring ahead as if I had frozen.

The two men turned their heads as they realized her ideal.

Those sitting in the driver’s seat and the passenger seat.

It was Igor who opened his mouth.

“bantling.”

He always called Rose that.

In fact, Igor was considerably older than her. Compared to You, Kairos, and Deltey, Igor was also on the younger side.

And Rose had no qualms about Igor’s title.

The two got along quite well.

The shaking red eyes turned towards Igor.

“Keep your guard straight.”

“… The captain… .”

Her eyes and voice shook faintly.

“Chief, I just heard something….”

“So we have to go quickly.”

Igor turned his head, suppressing his emotions.

“The situation doesn’t get better just because you’re angry.”

Even as he spoke, his fists were clenched tightly.

The veins on his neck stood out clearly. Anger and fear surged from the veins that protruded above his skin.

All of this happened because a sensation that had not been felt for a long time suddenly popped up sharply.

It struck their senses, which had been sharpening their sixth sense, as if they had been hit by something.

But it disappeared in an instant like a mirage.

There was only one instance where the body swayed and bounced around unsteadily like this.

I’m currently working on my sixth sense.

“If you do it the right way, it will take at least 5 hours.”

You, with your hood pulled back, muttered darkly.

As he said that, he couldn’t help but feel nervous and bit his thumbnail.

“I won’t kill Hilde in the meantime. So as long as I get there five hours early, it’ll be fine. The missionary will be here soon… Clyde will definitely do the work, and he’ll be obsessively disciplined in the process of removing the sixth sense. No matter how much Kyle goes berserk, he won’t shorten the work time. He’s strangely obsessed with his sixth sense. So definitely…”

“I have to give it back in the same way.”

Rose lowered her head and muttered.

“Fanatics with their eyes set on martyrdom.”

If it had been the normal Igor, he would have laughed and said, ‘It feels strange to hear that from you.’

But he couldn’t afford that now.

Instead of answering, Igor stepped on the accelerator.

Without even thinking about opening his clenched fist.

“Stay sane.”

The two agreed in silence.

***

[Jack asks to speed up.]

Yoon received a report from his younger brother.

[Hilde’s presence is strange.]

“How is it weird?”

When I asked again with a frown, the badgers all froze.

Badgers listening to communications while stationary.

Yoon focused on Ami’s feminine voice.

[Transaction while removing the sixth sense.]

The emotionless voice made us aware of the gravity of the situation.

[This task usually takes 5 hours.]

Yoon didn’t ask any more questions.

Asking more won’t change anything.

He looked down at the GPS signal and answered briefly.

“Increase speed.”

[huh.]

The end of my brother’s answer was muddled.

[Please take good care of Hilde.]

Yoon ended the call.

After checking the GPS one more time, I stepped on the accelerator without looking back.

Anyway, all the squad members heard it.

Yoon could smell the anger and fear of his squad members spreading through the air.

“Be prepared to engage as soon as you arrive.”

There was no one to refute it.

***

It’s so annoying!

A vehicle that rotates noisily.

By the time it had turned 180 degrees and was facing the ruins, the occupants were already out of the vehicle. Both of them opened their doors and jumped out the moment they turned the steering wheel.

Ami soars into the sky as soon as she comes out.

Kairos had a defensive wall created by the wizards behind him.

There is an angel above his head.

It was sitting on the plain, curled up like a giant flower bud, waiting for its master to come, and it bloomed dazzlingly, covering the sky.

A monster that spreads its six wings to reveal hundreds of eyes.

The angel began to sing.

Ah ah ah ah ah!

Sound waves that pass through the body of the dead.

The sand was swept away by the sound waves.

The spirit that had been looking up at the army soaring into the sky lowered its head.

A superior demon that looks back at the angel without expression.

The ruins that had been standing still at a certain distance began to move after a while. Kairos looked straight at the ruins that were closing in on him and lightly stroked the milk in his front pocket.

A small body trembling.

He took out the milk without taking his eyes off the ruins.

“are you okay.”

He placed the demon on his leg and whispered to it to come down his body.

“Stay away, Milk.”

Milk listened carefully, even though he was whining.

The small creature turned transparent and ran away.

In the empire, they were called thieving eyes.

A very timid creature, difficult to find in the wild, but cute and docile, it is popular as a pet.

However, the monster, whose danger level varies depending on how it is raised, soon stopped in a safe place and looked back at Kairos.

The minister smiled faintly as he heard Milk’s worried cries.

“Don’t worry. I’ll make it through safely.”

Standing under the shadow cast by the angel, I look straight at the ruins that have stopped before me.

A high-ranking demon that looks at angels and Kairos while keeping the upper body erect.

Only darkness can be seen through the sunken eye sockets and wide-open mouth.

Light began to form in that endless abyss.

That which is called the light of destruction.

Something that no wizard or swordmaster can perfectly defend against.

Kairos saw a sphere of light as he felt an angel wrap his wings around him.

I took in the light as I listened to Echo humming a song.

I had to avoid that at the last minute.

The light of destruction that was trying to sweep me away would tear apart the defenses behind me.

A gamble where failure leads directly to death.

“Shoot.”

Kairos whispered, looking at the orb of light forming on the mouth of the ruined spirit.

“now.”

Kwaaaaaaaang!

The light poured out by the monster split the atmosphere.

***

In a faded consciousness.

Valdez’s shrill scream pierced my ears.

“The spirit has awakened!”