CH 161

A phoenix (1)

The hot wind came in.

Baek Ho-min pulled the hem of his clothes in a hot mood.

The two lines that could not tolerate each other were confronting and distorted.

Moktukgaksi was probably predicting this ending. But she was ready to take responsibility as always.

As it was when I decided to accept Haru, the shadow masquerade.

Your past and your future.

It was projected onto a paladin called Hongryeon.

Hongryeon began to take steps first.

Unlike before, when they rushed like lightning, it was a slow and sagging movement. There was no strength in the hands that dragged the wooden sword. This was because the boots were weighed down by Hongryeon’s consciousness.

Even when the boots were awake, she was already overwhelmed by Moktukgaksi.

The ending was fixed.

Moktukgaksi takes one step further at a cost. Hongryeon’s runaway stops here.

‘It’s not my business to intervene.’

Baek Ho-min watched the two with a tense look. However, while watching somehow, I had a hunch that this was not it.

I feel like I’m making a huge mistake.

Baek Ho-min wondered if any of the constellations were sending a warning, but there was no constellation responding.

“Do I want to save Hongryeon?” Or they don’t want Moktukgaksi to kill her?’

My heart trembled to the point where I had a headache. Thanks to this, when I heard rustling sound from behind my back, I almost ran forward.

Platinum Lord and Kang hajin were approaching through the red crystals.

Platinum Lord was watching the two with a rigid look.

“Youngjoo, are you okay?””

“What’s happening now, Baek Ho-min?”

“Moktukgaksi is telling Hongryeon that she will give her the last lesson.

“Last one?”

Platinum Lord looked strange as if he had heard a word that was not in the world.

At that moment, fear permeated her face and eyes.

Facing the eyes, Baek Ho-min had a chilling hunch.

Boom.

With the sound of Hongryeon kicking the floor, she rushed toward Moktukgaksi.

Although it was only one hand, it was no less sharp and fast than boots. However, it was far short of speed to reach the wooden carvings.

Moktukgaksi leaned and quickly dug into the gap. The moment her hand moved, Hongryeon closed her eyes.

All the scenes went by very slowly.

And Baek Ho-min recalled that he had seen this scene somewhere.

“You are my mistake and failure, and the future I was afraid of encountering someday.’

Zen blood was scattered along the trajectory of the sword wielded by Hongryeon. The veins rising from the neck of Moktukgaksi were also clearly visible in the rusty city world.

Platinum Lord screaming and Kang Haejin’s stiff expression. And myself who bit my teeth.

The eyes of Moktukgaksi, who boldly held his neck as if accepting death, were aloof. It was clear that she had already imagined this moment hundreds of times.

Maybe I was waiting.

Finding the perfect moment for the last of the carpentry.

‘Come on, this is the last class.’

My head was dizzy.

She, who was the deputy general manager of the paladin group, became Moktukgaksi when she cut off the leader’s neck.

That’s what the “last class” was about to tell Hongryeon meant.

If you were alive, you could teach it a few times, but this teaching is only once.

The disciple kills the teacher and stands up alone.

It engraves guilt and responsibility on the body.

It becomes an atheistic paladin.

And Baek Ho-min had seen this scene.

“When and where?”

Baek Ho-min felt a dizzy list of memory conveniences that came to mind very briefly.

In that memory, Baek Ho-min was not in the position of a bystander.

It was the party.

Baek Ho-min was in the position of the executor who cut the neck of Moktukgaksi.

At that moment, Baek Ho-min’s circuit burned down.

“The lord entrusted you to me. Baek Ho-min.”

Baek Ho-min looked at Moktukgaksi with a blank expression.

It was not a five-story rusty city, nor was it just before Moktukgaksi was cut off.

In the unknown dungeon, she was only talking to Baek Ho-min officearily with a calm look.

“To be honest, Paladin’s training course is difficult for the general public to follow. There’s a high possibility of dying.”

Moktukgaksi calmly said, estimating the life of Baek Ho-min.

However, your guilt is difficult to avoid the death penalty anyway, and considering your talent, it is difficult to keep you a natural person. Do you understand what I mean?”

“I don’t know.””

Baek Ho-min opened his mouth at will.

It was only then that Baek Ho-min realized that his arm was bent back almost naked and his whole body was handcuffed.

The naked body was full of wounds.

It was full of persistent and old wounds. The traces of torture were clear.

Baek Ho-min came to mind when he was first caught by Moktukgaksi.

‘But it wasn’t to this extent back then.’

Moktukgaksi did not laugh at Baek Ho-min’s answer that he did not know. I just nodded as if it were natural.

“If you go wrong, I’ll take responsibility for your neck and cut it for you.” You already…”

She glanced at the documents written on Baek Ho-min and opened her mouth.

Like killing 127 people in an alley.”

“They all deserved to die.””

“Unauthorized private sanctions are only murder. Well, it can be unpleasant from the perspective of Yeongju. Thanks to you, the death row has been drastically reduced, reducing the amount of platinum to be substituted. This is a fatal problem for resource efficiency across the city. But.”

Moktukgaksi bent his back in front of Baek Ho-min and looked at him.

“Some of the atheistic paladin members like you.”

“Who?”

“Representatively, I.”

Moktukgaksi said with a strange smile.

She reached out and lifted the blindfold covering Baek Ho-min’s left face.

Baek Ho-min felt a large chunk of metal covering a quarter of his face like a mask inside the eye patch.

It was a circuit engraved with iron.

“You’re already a great gemstone. Your unrefined madness can be a bright sword if smelted well.”

Moktukgaksi whispered, advocating a manga-like view of justice.

“If you want to kill more bad guys, be more strict with yourself, Baek Ho-min.”

“How many times is this? Baek Ho-min?

“Third?”

Again this time, Baek Ho-min was looking up at Moktukgaksi with his arms bent back.

Paladins dispatched to capture him weighed down and arrested him.

“If you did something like that one more time, I would have warned you that you would cut off your neck.””

“You tried to cut off my neck twice already, right?””

Baek Ho-min twisted his neck and revealed it.

Two deeply cut scars were revealed under the muffler covering the neck.

All of them were wounds that were narrowly cut and managed to heal.

Baek Ho-min was embarrassed by the unfamiliar change in time, but soon came in as if the post-war situation permeated.

Baek Ho-min, who passed through paladin training and trained, entered the tower and carried out his own view of justice.

However, there was one problem with the process.

“I’m sure you promised to hand over the opponent you can surrender or capture to Platinum Lord.”

“Because of the resource efficiency issue?””

“Because that’s the law!””

Moktukgaksi shouted as if growling.

“There is only one reason why the atheistic paladin group can function as a security guard! It’s because the citizens acknowledge it! Do you know what happens when people start to get angry at you killing people so randomly?”

“To realize more justice?”

“Platinum Lord will form a security organization on her own!” Only an organization that is loyal to Platinum Lord and catches people at Platinum Lord’s orders! Now do you know why security organizations should be separated from rulers?”

“I don’t know.” “Leader.”

Baek Ho-min smiled brightly and said.

“If there is a problem with the organization, we can kill the members of the organization.” If there is a problem with the ruler, kill the ruler, and if there is a problem with the citizen, kill the citizen. Wouldn’t the world be worth living if all the bad guys died and disappeared?”

Moktukgaksi stared at Baek Ho-min. Soon she opened her mouth.

“I think I taught you wrong.”

“No, wait a minute. I think you misunderstood what I just said. Let’s sit calmly……”

“I was supposed to take responsibility for you. It’s like that time right now.”

Mokttukgaksi lifted the sword. Like a thunderbolt, the sword struck Baek Ho-min.

“■사■■.”

Baek Ho-min heard an unfamiliar name. It was a name that was not familiar to me no matter how much I heard it.

A familiar person was approaching from the other side of the high cliff where the lukewarm wind blew.

Moktukgaksi with a tired and tired expression was dragging a knife.

As she faced her face, Baek Ho-min felt the third scar engraved on her neck tickle.

“■사■리……”

Mokttukgaksi repeatedly muttered as if moaning.

The way she deliberately spoke of tinnitus, not his name, seemed to keep her distance from Baek Ho-min.

The eyes of Moktukgaksi were full of despair and frustration.

“That’s it. I can’t run away anymore.”

Baek Ho-min looked down at the rusty city where the wind was blowing.

It was a journey that continued to climb up and up the tower to avoid ■사■리, paladins, and hunters of the lord. However, it seemed clear to Baek Ho-min that this was it.

“Platinum Lord asked me why I had to do that.”

“In the 3rd floor?””

Baek Ho-min said with a smile.

“It’s because I didn’t like Platinum Lord’s method. But I chose a way to kill as little as possible.”

“You don’t like it?””

“Yes.”

Moktukgaksi stared blankly at Baek Ho-min.

“Because of you.”

Mokttukgaksi muttered as if moaning.

“……The armed battle was about to collapse and I couldn’t even think of climbing the tower. With countless resources already in the tower climbing plan, the city has been hit irrecoverably. Now, the fall has begun its countdown.”

“If good people face good death…”… Wouldn’t it be a happy ending?”

In response to Baek Ho-min’s answer, Moktukgaksi closed her mouth and said nothing. Baek Ho-min continued his words at will.

“If you were ■사■리, you would have chosen a way to take responsibility and climb the tower.”

“Are you saying it’s not you?””

“I’m not good at things like that. You know how to just point out what’s wrong and erase it.”

Long after, Moktukgaksi murmured like a moan.

“I still don’t know what I did wrong. ■ Sajari.”

Just by spitting out the words itself seemed to feel the dizziness of dizziness.

“Did I say something wrong?” I’ve been thinking more than hundreds of times about what I’ve done wrong to you. I wondered if there would be another future if you hadn’t entered the paladin group.”

“No, sir.”

Baek Ho-min replied with a smile.

“You didn’t do anything wrong.” I think I’m just a bit of a strainer from the basics.”

“There’s no one wrong with the basics.””

There was no confidence in the words of Moktukgaksi who said so.

When she lifted the knife, many people appeared beyond the red crystals behind her.

Paladin members, hunters who worked hard to get revenge from armed martial arts, and hunters dispatched by Platinum Lord themselves.

Countless people were appearing.

“You dragged more than before.” “Leader.”

“I can’t run away this time.””

“I ran away three times even when I was cut off. Do you think my nickname is that?”

Mokttukgaksi lifted the sword. Baek Ho-min also smiled and lifted the sword of the waist dance in both hands.

Whirl, whirl.

The double swords rotating like dancing cut through the wind and made a sharp sound.

Moktukgaksi smiled sadly.

“You are my mistake and failure, and the future that I was afraid of encountering someday.”

Baek Ho-min tilted his head.

When she cut off his neck, did she ever talk this much?

I felt that she was different from usual, but Baek Ho-min could not let his guard down at all as his opponent was his opponent.

“Come on, this is the last class.”

A thud rang out.

Baek Ho-min felt the rage of bumping his whole body.

Baek Ho-min belatedly realized that he had intervened between Moktukgaksi and Hongryeon.

I remembered Hong Ryeon trying to cut off the neck of Moktukgaksi.

It was just a moment ago, but it felt distant as if it were years ago.

Baek Ho-min was able to push out Moktukgaksi in that short moment.

Avoiding the close cut of her neck, Moktukgaksi stared at Baek Ho-min with her eyes wide open.

Baek Ho-min belatedly realized who he was in that gaze.

He was a constellation immortal, a blasphemy of eternity.