Chapter 344: An old ill-fated relationship 2 (1/2)

However, Kang Chul-In was different. There was no need for him to do that. He, or to be exact, Desdemona, had a way to find out where Cereb was emitting the brain waves from.

Thanks to her, it was easy. Desdemona informed Kang Chul-In of where Cereb was, so all he had to do was ride on Temeraire with his companions to fly into the Shatyameba territory.

“Seems like Milenius didn’t tell you about the way to hide, hm?” He mocked the great bug. “I suppose so… that scrawny guy probably didn’t even know how the Emperor of Blood and Iron and Emilia killed Cereb in the past. He wouldn’t have been able to imagine that the brain waves led enemies into his allies’ command.”

Kang Chul-In’s assumption was correct. The dead Milenius wasn’t able to find out how Cereb was discovered. He just thought Cereb was found coincidentally… he couldn’t imagine any other way Cereb was found so easily.

“Well, that’s enough for the explanation.” Kang Chul-In grinned and tightened his hold on Kaiforce and Mitra. “It’s time to die, bug.”

The Agnanga army was right in front of him. After he eliminated Cereb, Desdemona would stop the ranking system. Then, when that moment came…

My ambition will become reality.

Kang Chul-In would be the final victor of the competition between Lords and climb to the position of emperor.

-Kang Chul-In…

Cereb answered.

-You’re making a huge mistake… I guarantee that you messed up the moment you stepped in here. Yes, I’ve been waiting for you to arrive.

“Waiting for me?” Kang Chul-In tilted his head. “Why would you?”

-Kek, kek kek kek…

Cereb laughed.

-Yes, you don’t know a thing…

“What don’t I know?”

-Do you know who I am?

“The head bug?” To Kang Chul-In, Cereb was just a bug. “Then what is he?”

He turned to his companions and asked.

“I think he is a bug.” Dorian replied with an innocent face.

“He is.” Hecate agreed.

“If he’s not a bug, what is he, Oppa?”

“It is a bug, your Majesty.”

Han Ye-Sun and Lucia judged it as a bug as well.

“They say you are a bug.” Kang Chul-In looked at Cereb with a validated face. “You’re not planning to go on about how you’re a superior alien species or anything else like that, right?”

However, Cereb’s reply wasn’t about his identity as an Agnaga.

“What?” Kang Chul-In asked. “Why are you suddenly asking about that loser?”

-Loser? Did you just… call Alex Rothschild…

“Yeah, a loser.”

-...

“He only knew how to use that gold spoon of his, there wasn’t anything else he could do. What else would I call him then? What a…”

It was then.

-Shut up!

Cereb’s brain waves shook the minds of Kang Chul-In and his companions.

-You dare… you dare!

“...?”

-Who do you think you are to…

“...?”

“-Who do you think you are to judge Alex… MY Alex, like that!?

Kang Chul-In was flabbergasted.

“My… Alex?”

He didn’t know what in the world Cereb was talking about.

Why was the Agnaga army calling Kang Chul-In’s rival (not actually a rival, but a giving tree) “his Alex?”

“Can I ask about what kind of fresh bullshit that is?”

-He… was my Alex.

“...?”

-I wasn’t able to confess my sincerity, but… he was my friend, my Lord, and my lover.

“...!”

-He…

Resentment entered Cereb’s brainwaves.

-He’s not someone you can mock!

Just then, a thought flashed in Kang Chul-In’s head.

No way.

Something felt off. Of course, it wasn’t danger he felt. It was just that he suspected that the Cereb in front of him could be “someone” he knew.

“You.” He spoke with an unpleasant face. “Are you Lee Gong-Myung?”

-Do you finally recognize me, Kang Chul-In? Finally?

It was a shocking response.

“What? Lee Gong-Myung?”

“I think I just heard something strange. Kang Chul-In, sleep with me. Then everything will be back to normal.”

“That bug was Korean?”

“The bug was Lee Gong-Myung, your Majesty?”

His party murmured amongst themselves. Lee Gong-Myung. It was someone they thought was dead. But that giant bug, the Agnaga Cereb, was calling himself Lee Gong-Myung.

“Are you really Lee Gong-Myung?” Kang Chul-In asked again.

-Indeed, Kang Chul-In.

“...”

-I am Lee Gong-Myung.

“What the…” Kang Chul-In looked flustered. “I should’ve killed you properly back then. So that’s why the feel of the kill was off…”

-What?

“So, your new job was to become that creepy monster? No, aside from that, you guys were… a couple? You were gay?”

Yes, that was the core of this conversation. Cereb, Lee Gong-Myung, said that Alex Rothschild was his friend, Lord, and “lover.” The nuance of his words suggested he was homosexual.

-That’s… not it…

“It’s not? But you were lovers?”

-That’s just one-sided on my part… technically, we weren’t lovers.

“One-sided love?”

-You can say that…