SPMB - Chapter 262

SPMB - Chapter 262

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

Sylvien walked down the hallway. Red footprints followed his path.

Now, taking advantage of the chaos in the capital due to the monster attack, Sylvien has completely taken control of the Emperor's palace.

It wasn't that difficult. When people are dizzy with the appearance of monsters and black fog, there is nothing more absolute than Valentino's words in this crisis.

"A black chasm has opened up in His Majesty's palace. Everyone, please evacuate."

At that instruction, everyone in the palace ran away. While everyone was running outside, Sylvien was the only one who went inside.

Duke Valentino is entering to rescue His Majesty, although everyone believed it to be true...

"Your Excellency Duke Valentino? Now, Your Majesty...!"

Blood bursts out with a scream.

Sylvien brushed off his bloody hands and walked away. The other person's body collapsed later.

"Your Excellency the Duke!"

"What are you doing now! This is His Majesty's...."

The escort knights guarding the Iong hallway rush in. It was a face everyone had memorized. So, they were all black apostles.

She knew it. That Theresa is not the end. The Emperor's surroundings are full of black apostles.

'As expected, the weeds should have been removed quickly.'

Things related to the imperial family were sensitive and dangerous, so they were postponed, and in the end... 

In the end, she ends up doing the most annoying thing.

"Da, don't come closer! Da...!"

Far away. He stepped on the back of the neck of the Black Apostle who was running away, crawling like an insect, and passed by. And then it stopped.

At the end of the long hallway littered with corpses and blood, there was no one now guarding the Emperor's resting place.

Sylvien opened the door.

"Your Majesty."

The Emperor was drugged as usual. The Empress was also by her side, and Sylvien laughed lightly at the sight.

There was a time when they were enemies, but it wasn't until this point that they started liking each other again.

"Meet Your Majesty the Emperor."

Sylvien bowed politely. The Emperor frowned.

"Duke Valentino?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Who... I said you could come in, right?" 

"Your Majesty, please lift the confinement order imposed on the Duke of Addis."

"Disallowance...."

"Why?"

"The Duke's conviction was... Not required."

Slow speech. Sylvien clicked his tongue at the muffled pronunciation. From the looks of it, he seemed to have been affected not only by medicine but also by the Black Apostle's strange illusion.

How on earth did it get this bad?

It seemed like the Emperor didn't even fully understand the disaster that was happening outside. After Theresa's death, he became even more dependent on drugs.

Yes, because he was betrayed by the woman he loved. Besides, she was dead. He must have been quite shocked. If he were human, he deserved to fall apart.

But...

'Humans can fall, but a King must not fall."

What is the result? 

The black apostles guarding the outside through the gap in the collapse stirred their spirits. They messed with the King and this country.

"Your Majesty. Do you know that a King's incompetence is a sin?"

At those words, the drugged Empress opened her eyes.

"How cruel, Duke Valentino."

Sylvienne's blue eyes slowly moved to the Empress.

"The country is in ruin! Oh, that's right!"

The Empress was even more insane than the Emperor.

Since the medicine that alleviated the chronic condition of tickling was a narcotic, she had been using narcotics for a longer period of time than the Emperor.

That's why she was more broken than the Emperor.

"It all started after I got involved with that bitch. That filthy black girl."

The sentences are rambling, like a drunkard talking in her sleep.

But at those words, for the first time, something like emotion passed through Sylvien's eyes. Displeasure, or something similar to anger.

But he soon raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.

"I will be rude for a moment."

Tootuk!

Rough drops of blood splashed on the Emperor's cheek.

He blinked.

Duke Valentino's hand is on the Empress... The Empress's head...

What is happening now? Is he hallucinating again?

The Emperor asked with a dazed look on his face.

"What are you doing now?" 

Then Sylvien answered calmly.

"I'm being rude."

At that moment, something falls. She rolled to his feet. The Emperor met her wide eyes.

"...!"

A shock like lightning tore through his body.

"Huh," 

The Emperor took a deep breath. The fear of death coming right around the corner immediately drove away the medicinal energy.

"Bah, is there anyone outside!"

"Yes, doesn't exist."

Sylvien answered instead.

"Your Majesty has been attacked by a demon that invaded the imperial palace. Her body was badly mutilated."

"What?"

"What's even more unfortunate is that Your Majesty is also scheduled to be eaten by monsters."

The Emperor stood up. He quickly ran towards the door.

"Huh!"

However, before he could take a few steps, he fell forward. His chin trembled. 

Why did he fall? Why is his stomach bleeding?

"Why, why did you do this......!"

Blood foamed at the Emperor's mouth. Sylvien answered calmly.

"A King who destroys a country through incompetence, and a subject who punishes the King. This happened often in the history of other countries. It's just that it finally happened in the Empire."

The Emperor cried out as he crawled away from the approaching Sylvien.

"Hey. I'm going to stop taking medication! I won't touch drugs anymore!"

At those words, Sylvien stopped right in front of him. He tilted his head. His bloody silver hair swayed.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes! I will also lift the detention order imposed on you and the Duke of Addis!"

"Well thought out."

At those words, the Emperor breathed a sigh of relief. 

Thank God. Fortunately, the crisis....!

"It would have been better for both of us if you had come to your senses sooner."

That was the last word the Emperor heard.

Sylvien took off his blood-soaked gloves and threw them away.

"Your Excellency the Duke."

When he turned around, Valentino's knights were standing there. They were pulling a large cart, and when the black cloth was removed, the corpse of the monster was revealed.

"I brought it."

"Thank you for your effort. It would be best to place the monster around here."

The Emperor, Empress, and the knights guarding them were killed in a monster attack.

Duke Sylvienne Valentino, who came late, took care of the monster.

It was a story that would be recorded like that.

'After all, treason is not noble.' 

Such low-level stories will not be found anywhere in history books.

It was just an unfortunate accident caused by an attack by monsters. That was it.

***

Sylvien headed straight to the forest where the World Tree was located. There's probably a Kanna there.

However, upon arrival, the World Tree soon dissipated into smoke and disappeared. In addition, the black gap began to heal.

'What happened?'

Sylvien rode his horse to a place where he felt popular. And there he met Alessandro Addis.

“Duke Valentino.”

Alessandro had a look on his face as if he had been waiting for him to come.

That was indeed the case. Alessandro had only the last step left.

"How did this happen?"

Alessandro briefly explained what had happened so far.

It would have been hard to believe if someone else had said it, but the other person was Alessandro Addis, who doesn't know jokes.

"So you're saying Kanna's soul is broken now?"

"Yes."

Her soul was torn apart as a result of using too much power.

Kanna probably also heard the roar of destruction. Nevertheless, she would have continued.

"She was sucked into the drinking circle."

Everything about Kanna was sucked into the magic circle that closed the black gap. Kanna's power, life, and pieces of her broken soul. The life of the body was revived.

But it was only a shell.

"That means...?"

"It means that Kanna's soul escaped through the black gap, beyond the wall of the world."

A suffocating silence fell. Sylvien kept his mouth shut. In his entire life, he had never heard anything more terrible. 

"So what happens to Kanna?" 

"She won't be able to open her eyes until she regains her soul." 

"Can we find it?"

Alessandro nodded.

So far.

Alessandro's path ended here.

There was nothing Alessandro could do for her now. At this very moment, this place was his final destination.

Someone had to escape from this world and retrieve the pieces of Kanna...

'I can't do it.'

Like Kanna, his soul is broken into pieces and he is on the verge of death. He will die soon.

Moreover, it was impossible for the Addis clan, who came back from the dead once in a while and whose souls were unstable. There is a possibility that their soul will be broken in the process of crossing the world wall.

"If you could find it, would you?"

He handed Sylvien a bottle containing Kanna's blood and three pieces of paper torn from a book.

This was Seon-hee's ancient alchemy book that Kanna had discovered, the bookshelf that he had torn out and kept.

One chapter is about moving around the world.

One chapter travels across time.

And the last chapter was about the method of retrieving souls.

"Kanna is faint, but she has divine power. You will be able to recognize her from that."

"So, using only her holy power as a clue, I am going to search through various worlds like catching a mouse and find it?"

"Yes. After everything is over, come back to this moment and this time."

Sylvien laughed at those words.

"I don't think it will last just a few years."

Contrary to what he said, Sylvien accepted the item without hesitation. He was worried as he read the detailed text written on the torn bookshelf.

'What should I do?'

Sylvien never did anything to lose money.

As he said, this wasn't something that would end in just a few years or just the word 'hard work'. But...

Sylvien stared at Kanna's face. There was a time when he believed this woman was dead.

At that time, Sylvien regretted recalling the many things he had not done when she was alive.

'Yes, I did.'

That's why Sylvien was confident.

If he ignores the possibility that this woman will not open her eyes like this, he probably won't be able to sleep comfortably until the moment he dies.

And in the end, he will regret it again.

He was sick of regrets now.

"I'll see you later then."

From there, a very long journey began. Only one person in this world.

It was a long, long journey with only Sylvien alone.

***

After a while, Alessandro felt a presence and turned around.

Suddenly standing right next to him was Sylvien, who had disappeared a little while ago.

Sylvien looked around as if seeing something unfamiliar. The wind that touches his cheek, the trees with green leaves, and even the deep blue sky.

Then he looked down at his hands one last time.

Himself at this time.

A young man's hands without a single wrinkle.

Alessandro asked.

"How long did it take?"

It was only after a while that Sylvien understood the language.

"You'd better not know."

Sylvien spoke quietly and smiled.

His blue eyes shined serenely like stars from long ago.

"Because you can't listen to it without crying."

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