Chapter 100 - Rebellion – 9 [End of Volume 4] (1/2)
Rebellion – 9 [End of Volume 4]
[It’s incredible…!]
“But there’s not much room in it.” I responded to Cain, who was admiring the castle made of only natural stone and mana.
“I’ll build a temporary lodge inside the walls.”
[Why temporary?]
“Until the next evolution, shrink down enough to get inside somehow.”
[Evolution…will I be able to evolve again?]
No matter how strong his current body was, he must’ve gone through countless changes over this year and a half. If maybe not as much as I had, but still, he must have evolved several times.
‘Will there be a next? Or am I facing the limit here?’ There was no room for such a question.
“Don’t worry about it. You’re following me, so I bet it’ll be the best evolution ever.”
“Myu.”
[…There are so many secrets here…]
He shrugged and sighed at my words. It was quite the sight, given he was a six meters tall ogre.
[But I trust you.]
“Good.” After speaking to him, I turned my head to look at the forest outside the walls. A group was approaching from the front without trying to hide.
“Captain, they’re coming. I also have three subordinates ready.”
“I knew they’d come.” My sister Kang Si-yeon, guild master of Erkindra, was moving forward to protect the fallen. She was approaching our castle with a group of high-level people, moving fast in a straight line.
“I showed up like you said!” The inside of my head was burning up. I checked my sister and the people following her, and then brought them all inside. Cain, who was leaning against the wall, bowed his head as soon as he saw who it was.
[Thank you for saving me.]
“…” My younger sister looked at him quietly for a moment before responding.
“Did I really save you?”
[If not for you, I might’ve died before he arrived. So yes.”
“But you’re still treated as a monster…by this man…! He’s manipulating you.”
[He’s not moving my mind with an ability. My gratitude is real.]
“But…!” High-school students had such rich emotions. I decided to step in, thinking it wouldn’t end if I didn’t.
“Is Erkindra’s purpose to save the fallen?”
“Yes!” She turned around on me.
“I don’t like this hatred for the fallen! They’re the same people- they just died during the Great Fusion because they had no luck…!” Her angry eyes drew me in. I wondered if she thought of me when she said that; the me who had lost his life in a Chinese restaurant during the Great Fusion.
“These people are all crazy. Experience, money, items! Some people would even kill their own families for those things!” However, I couldn’t imagine why she would go so far as to create a guild and engage in these activities. Or rather, even be able to. Maybe it was because she had a bandit’s daughter as a partner? Could she have acquired something that surpassed all these other factors?
“And you! You’re acting like a monster. I thought I felt something different about you, but I was wrong. You are like everyone else after all…” I really didn’t know. Everything about her had changed, yet at the same time, it made me instinctively recognize her. I smiled bitterly and shrugged.
“So, you’ve chosen to stop people using force?”
“There’s no other way. We tried to talk it out with them again and again, dozens of times, but they never listen…!” Her shoulders trembled weakly. Lee Chan-yu, who was standing next to Cain, had an expression of surprise on his face as he listened.
“My brother too…I need to save him. I don’t know how to do anything, but I’m trying my best…” My sister looked up at me with an expression of sadness, not unlike the elf man from earlier.
“…Such useless words…”
“Then, it’s my turn to speak.” I looked around at Cain and Lee Chan-yu. Solas let out a little cry as if not to be forgotten as well. I smiled and looked back at my younger sister.
“Your way is wrong.”
“What the hell are you saying…my way?” She tilted her head.
“Are you saying there’s another way?”
“There you go.”
“I’m done asking!” She ground her teeth while grasping her dagger.
“If you had saved Cain earlier, then what would you have done?”