Chapter 142 (1/2)
“What? Lilith? Really?”
Karan asked with a surprised expression.
“Don’t remind me. Just thinking about that bitch is awful.”
Pigeon answered with a voice full of anger.
“That’s why she was expelled.”
Karan was unable to attend the meeting due to working even on the weekend.
Karan’s face was full of shock when he learned of Lilith’s betrayal only a day later.
“Huh?”
It was then.
Stop!
Karan paused and exclaimed absentmindedly.
“What is it?”
Pigeon also stopped walking. Then he saw Karan.
Karan looked forward and was stunned.
What made him stop walking? Why did he have a confused expression?
Pigeon turned his head to see where Karan was looking.
“..That”
But there was nothing where Karan was staring.
Pigeon looked at Karan again.
Karan was still showing a confused expression.
“What is it? Why are you looking like that?”
Pigeon asked Karan. Why was he doing this all of a sudden?
“… … I just saw Lilith.”
Karan replied to Pigeon’s question.
“Did you see that bitch Lilith?”
“Yes, but… …”
Karan muttered, blurring his words.
“There was a guild mark.”
“What? You said she entered the guild already? Aren’t you mistaken?”
“I guess I could be wrong,….”
At the words of Pigeon, Karan nodded.
He saw it, but it seemed unbelievable.
“….because it was the Dokgo guild’s mark.”
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“Wouldn’t it be a problem this time?”
Rooting said in a worried voice.
“What kind of problem are you talking about?”
Sun’n’stars tilted his head and asked.
“That we’ve taken Lilith in.”
“Ahh…”
At Rooting’s words, the Sun’n’stars nodded understandingly. Rooting continued watching Sun’n’stars nodding his head.
“Obviously, it could look bad for our guild.”
Yeon-jeung would not stay still. He would certainly protest.
“With Lilith being exposed under these circumstances…”
Rooting blurred the end.
Without Lilith, they could just deny everything that the ‘Reader’ guild said. They didn’t have any evidence against the Dokgo guild.
Therefore, they could just deny the ‘Reader’ guild’s accusations. But now with Lilith being exposed as Dokgo guild’s spy?
Impossible.
They couldn’t deny it.
“Of course, if there’s evidence, we can’t deny it.”
Sun’n’stars replied with a grin.
“…”
At the answer from Sun’n’stars, Rooting looked puzzled, and Sun’n’stars continued.
“But, we can deny it.”
As Rooting said, if there was no Lilith, they could just deny what the ‘Reader’ guild said.
“But we have to do it right.”
But how they did it was important.
“Because of the things that happened in the past, people would most likely believe the ‘Reader’ Guild even if we were to deny it.”
“Yes.”
“To the public our denial will seem like lies.”
When they’re denying these accusations lies wouldn’t be of help.
“But with Lilith, the story is different.”
“…?”
“If Yeon-jeung expelled her. We can use that. Lilith was expelled after a fight with Yeon-jeung and accepted the Expulsion to relieve the resentment.”
“..Will they believe that?”
Rooting tilted his head.
Would people really believe it?
“Haha, there will probably be more people who don’t believe in it.”
Sun’n’stars said, laughing out loud.
“But there will be some people who believe our words.”
There were many people in the world. And surely there would be those who would believe the words of the Dokgo Guild.
“Whatever we do, our reputation will take some damage. However, if it goes according to plan, the ‘Reader’ guild’s reputation will also be harmed.”
“Ah… …”
Routing exclaimed.
“You want to drag them down with you.”
“Indeed. Probably, in the ‘Reader’ guild, there will be disputes. We might have brought some cursing our way, but the ‘Reader’ guild won’t be left alone either? Hehe.”
The Sun’n’stars, who imagined the ‘Reader’ guild being cursed at, laughed as if he felt a little better.
“Okay. But what are you going to do about Yarion’s Wrath?”
Understanding why Lilith was accepted into the guild, Rooting asked a second question. It was about Yarion’s Wrath.
Originally they were supposed to kill Soo-hyuk to stop Yarion’s Wrath being auctioned.
But they couldn’t kill Soo-hyuk. In addition, as Yeon-jeung learned of their plan, he would protect Soo-hyuk more thoroughly. In other words, it was impossible to stop the auction.
Sun’n’stars, who was actually laughing, said with a bitter expression at Rooting’s question.
“We just have to succeed the auction.”
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Soo-hyuk pulled out a book and looked at the remaining books on the shelf.
‘I’ll read everything by tomorrow noon.’
There weren’t many books left.
The amount wasn’t small enough to be finished today, but not so much that he could finish by tomorrow noon.
‘I’m glad there is a library that I can use right after.’
Although there were not many books left, Soo-hyuk’s expression was not anxious.
This was because there was a library that could be used immediately afterwards.
Jumble
Soo-hyuk, looking at the rest of the book, turned to the desk. And upon arriving at the desk, Soo-hyuk started reading.
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At a blink of an eye a year had passed.
And a very big change has happened to me.
The right pain.
I want to feel that pain.
No, can it be called pain?
It was pleasure for me.
I don’t feel any pain even if I’m struck.
Ogre’s fists are tickling me now. What should I do?
I tried poison.
At first, I thought I was dying.
That would be nice though.
I was able to feel tremendous pain, but it seemed that my body had adapted to the poison.
Poison is no longer effective.