David remained silent. Nike chuckled and added,
"If you don't like it, you can kill me with that amazing power. You have nothing to fear anyway, right?"
“...”
David really wanted to do that.
He wants to do it without any consideration for circumstances or worry about the consequences.
He wants to show the difference in power between an ordinary human and someone with superpowers.
He wants to crush this bastard and make him understand that they are absolutely not the same.
"If you don't like it, you can kill me with that amazing power. You have nothing to fear anyway, right?"
“...”
David really wanted to do that.
He wants to do it without any consideration for circumstances or worry about the consequences.
He wants to show the difference in power between an ordinary human and someone with superpowers.
He wants to crush this bastard and make him understand that they are absolutely not the same.
But right now, at this moment.
In order to retrieve the traitor Marina, all those with superpowers have had their powers sealed by their father for the time being.
“There were many mistakes.”
David suppressed the anger that was boiling over his head and pushed away Nike's sword aimed at his neck with his hand.
And he bent down.
Thinking that he would never forget this humiliation...
“I’ll remember what happened today. See you again.”
“I have to comfort my younger sibling, too.”
David's steps stopped as he passed Nike.
“It’s at a level where you should be charged with assault for sibling education.”
Nike nodded at Ryan.
"You never know, the day may come when you'll be guillotined. Then, without needing to add another charge, seek absolution from the person involved, right here and now."
This son of a bitch...!
David's breathing became ragged.
Nike raised his sword again, seemingly unfazed by David's lightning, which could split his head open at any moment.
“If you don’t like it, I’m thinking of applying the crime of disobeying the royal family’s orders this time...”
“...”
"I'm serious. Even if I fight you, I'll probably just get struck by lightning and die."
Nike was fearless, as if he had seen through David's current inability to use this ability.
It really feels like he's going to cut his throat.
Finally, David slowly turned around.
He sees Ryan with a messy face and a child standing next to him, swallowing her tears.
Pretend as if nothing happened as much as possible...
David opened his mouth.
“You were a bit harsh, brother.”
“Oh, it’s okay. Brothers just fight and take turns, you know.”
"Yes."
“But, brother.”
David, who was just starting to walk, stopped.
Ryan smiled brightly.
It was ominous.
“Do you have a handkerchief?”
He must have noticed right away since he's very perceptive. For some reason, David's reaction in front of the Prince was so submissive...
“Come here and wipe the blood off me before you go. I think my anger will subside if you touch me with your warm hands.”
“...”
This...
Those fucking bastards...
***
It was a refreshing sight.
David's shameful expression as he took out a handkerchief from his bosom.
He approached Ryan and wiped the blood off his face with his own hands, his cheeks bulging as if he was clenching his teeth to suppress his anger.
Was it enough to make all the anger disappear just by breaking that arrogant man's pride once?
Ryan said the same thing.
“Ah, ah, it hurts!”
“Does it hurt? How can it be... Just bear with it for a little longer...”
I personally applied medicine to Ryan's broken forehead and examined his broken nose.
David, you son of a bitch...
Break this handsome nose?
“What if my nose gets ugly? I haven’t even been in a relationship yet.”
“Yeah, don’t worry. With <Restoration of Light>, it can be restored.”
“It’s not possible now.”
Yes. Father will probably keep the "Disarm" feature on until he catches Marina.
So I'm useless now.
“Just live a little ugly. You’ve lived handsomely up until now, so you can endure it for a few days.”
But the period of <disarming> will not be long.
Father, brothers, or... if they didn’t have this ability, they would be ignorant worms who would easily get their necks cut off.
How long would my father, who knew very well that there were many resentful people around him, endure without any means of protecting himself?
"If Marina isn't caught quickly, it'll be released soon. My father is a man who can't sleep because he's so anxious when the superpowers are disabled. He's done so many bad things."
We've become ignorant too, but it's a time when the people with superpowers in Wassenberg are just as vulnerable.
“But it seems like our acting is really good?”
“I told you so. He came looking for trouble and got thoroughly humiliated. Ha ha. Serves him right.”
David doesn't know that Ryan killed Marina, or that Marina is dead at all.
To begin with, it is difficult to imagine a situation where an assassin with supernatural abilities like Marina would die at the hands of an ordinary person.
Of course, it is more realistic to say that he betrayed and ran away, and also...
'Seeing David clench his teeth and try to find Marina, it seems like the note I sent worked.'
The truth known only to Father and Marina under the sky.
The truth I happened to hear before returning.
There is no way my father's mental state wouldn't have exploded after seeing that note.
***
Before returning, when I was imprisoned after obtaining Marina's blessing, <Dark Footsteps>.
I was locked in a prison-like room with no light and no one to see.
My brothers took turns watching over me, but Marina was the one who came most often.
Reason?
Because she wants to mock me.
“Let me out, sister.”
“If you say that one more time, I’m going to cut your boyfriend’s balls off?”
“...Yes. Sorry.”
“Princess, why are you like that?”
"What."
"Who's as generous as your father? Since you don't want to do any household chores, your older brothers and sisters do them all and don't ask you to do anything."
Marina said as if she couldn't understand me.
“So I stopped you from dating, what did you do? I told you to do whatever you wanted, and you really did, you crazy bitch... A Prince? There are so many men in the world, why are you meeting a royal?”
“...”
"You kept stealing Elliot's secret ledger and giving it to him, and it was really stressful for us. I told Dad to just kill him, but Dad stopped me. Didn't you know that?"
“...”
"You need to know that you are loved! You need to know that your father cares for you!"
“What is love!”
I was going crazy.
"Sister, please come to your senses! Everything we do is a crime! And Father isn't being lenient. He's just pretending to be lenient so he can do whatever he wants with us!"
“No, Vania.”
Marina shook her head as if she felt sorry.
"My father is a truly generous and gentle man. Sometimes, I can't even understand why he's so soft-hearted."
“This is really bullshit...”
“I don’t think you know your father very well, so shall I tell you a huge secret?”
"What?"
“Do you know who your birth mother is?”
“...?”
“I know. I saw her face.”
Marina's words that day were truly shocking.
The biological mother of the Wassenberg illegitimate children.
These are people who have never even seen each other's faces since birth and are not even allowed to miss each other.
When I grew up and asked my father about my biological mother's whereabouts...
“They said she died...?”
"That's right. They're all dead now. But they were alive once. In exchange for giving up their rights to their children and remaining silent for the rest of their lives, my father gave them plenty of money."
“...”
"Father is such a soft-hearted man. They only lent him their wobs, so they should have been disposed of the moment they served no purpose."
“What, what are you talking about... You’re crazy...”
"I got in trouble because I didn't get rid of them. Later, there was a woman who threatened my father and demanded more money. It was then that my father regretted not killing them, and although it was too late, he ordered me to get rid of them."
At that moment, I was struck by an ominous thought and trembled.
"I'm ten years old, on my first mission. Do you know who the target was?"
Marina chuckled, bringing her face closer into the darkness.
“Yes, she was the woman who gave birth to me!”
"Ha..."
My mind went blank with shock.
The monstrous father's intention in ordering Marina to eliminate her biological mother was obvious.
It must have been to raise Marina as a savior.
Sympathy, compassion, empathy...
So that we can coolly and early on suppress the emotions that we should feel as humans.
"Why... why did you listen to such an order? Even after receiving such an order... you've continued to follow your father until now? Why on earth!!!"
Perhaps the sibling who hated their father the most was Marina.
But she only laughed.
"I dared to die, so I deserve to die. My father was very worried back then. He sent assassins with me, worried I wouldn't succeed, and he told me not to get my hands dirty if things got tough. But."
Marina added, making a slashing motion with her hand on my neck.
“I sent it to him with my own hands!”
***
I have hated you ever since I killed the woman who gave birth to me with my own hands.
Edgar read it again and again and again...
He read Marina's last greeting.
The true feelings of a daughter whom he always thought was loyal, but whom he never expected.
It is a painful loss.
If this is a real betrayal, then even if he captures Marina, he can't use her anymore.
How could he trust an assassin who already harbored ill will toward him?
“Fuck...”
Anger welled up.
Bloodshot eyes.
A note that was eventually torn to shreds.
“Ugh!!!”
Edgar's old voice echoed fiercely throughout the room.
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