Episode 96: There was nothing at the end of your life.
The next day, Extreme Soma came to visit me.
The sight of him slowly crossing the Hwangcheongak training ground while wearing a white mask created a truly overwhelming and terrifying feeling.
Investigators and executioners couldn’t even whisper from afar. Everyone breathlessly said hello and passed by. I was even more afraid than when Hyeolcheondoman or Ilhwageomjon came.
I was standing at the office window and watching.
Seo Dae-ryong, who was next to him, spoke in a trembling voice.
“What on earth happened yesterday that brought that scary person to the headquarters?”
“Inspector Seo, the scariest place in our school is our Hwangcheongak. “Why are you leaving when people who come here should leave?”
“Yes, let’s say so. Is this a situation where I need to evacuate or not? Please let me know, considering the affection we have had so far. please!”
Seeing that he has time to make jokes like this, he must be learning martial arts well from Doma. Well, I’m doing my best, so I expect to see a transformation soon.
“It was only yesterday that I asked you to keep worrying about me.”
“I will worry about you from afar like I did yesterday.”
“Go and bring him. “The right arm has to go.”
“I just hope that Extreme Soma doesn’t know that I am Gakju’s right hand man.”
Just like that, Seo Dae-ryong went out and my eyes turned to Extreme Soma again.
I knew you would come for me, but I never thought you would come directly to Hwangcheon Pavilion so soon and in broad daylight.
Acting suddenly based on instinct was no different then or now. That’s why he’s an interesting opponent and that’s why it’s difficult to deal with him.
After a while, Seo Dae-ryong spoke outside the door.
“The Extreme Evil Mazon has arrived.”
“Take it.”
Soon after, Extreme Evil Soma came in, guided by Seo Dae-ryong.
“Welcome, old man.”
“They say you’re an elderly person again. “I told you to treat me like a friend.”
“That can’t be possible. “Then I will call you Soma-sama.”
“great.”
Extreme Soma laughed out loud. Extreme Soma’s actions were natural, as if nothing had happened yesterday.
When Seo Dae-ryong, who guided him, was about to leave, I spoke quickly.
“By the way, that guy over there is my right-hand man, Inspector Seo.”
Seo Dae-ryong screamed with his expression, and then when Extreme Evil Soma turned around, he greeted him with a calm face.
“This is Seo Dae-ryong. “It is an honor to meet someone I respect.”
“Oh, I’ll remember that.”
“thank you.”
Seo Dae-ryong walked out with an expression like the end of the world. You will be screaming in your heart. Please don’t remember! I laughed while looking at that.
Extreme Soma suddenly asked.
“Don’t you usually hide the people you care about?”
“If the opponent is the enemy, then yes. Soma is not your enemy, is he?”
“But we’re not even friends yet.”
“If someone wants to kill someone, no matter how tightly they hide it, will they be able to hide it? Soma, have you ever been unable to kill someone you tried to kill because they were hiding?”
“doesn’t exist.”
“That’s right. “I don’t know when I will die anyway, so shouldn’t I live my life as a proper right-hand man?”
There was a strange look in Extreme Soma’s eyes.
“That sounds quite interesting.”
Extreme Soma stood up and looked around the office. I looked around at the documents piled up on my desk and the books in the closet, and smelled the scent of flowers in a flower pot by the window. It was the flower pot that Ilhwa Geomzon gave as a gift.
“It smells good.”
“I recently started liking flowers.”
“We are the successors of the Heavenly Demon Church who love flowers… If the Murim Alliance invades, will we die in the flower fields?”
I responded calmly to his mocking words.
“It would be cool to die lonely in an unknown field, but isn’t this okay too? “What if the smell you smell at the last moment of your breath is not blood but the scent of flowers?”
Instead of answering whether it was good or bad, Extreme Soma burst into habitual laughter.
“But why did you come to see me?”
The evil soma that was facing the flower turned towards me.
“Yesterday, after Gongzi Lee passed away, I thought about it carefully and I was very disappointed that we couldn’t be friends.”
“Me too.”
“So I came here to see if we could find a way to become friends.”
“Welcome. So did you find a way?”
“The way I thought was to give in one by one.”
“how?”
“I will yield to Lee Gongja’s perspective on good and evil. “I will try to understand Lee Gongja’s new magic technique.”
“Then what can I give up?”
“Can you give in to what you said about being friends only when you take off your mask?”
“Before that, let me ask you one thing. “Why do you want to be friends with me?”
“I want to live without fault with Lee Gongja.”
Actually, I know why Extreme Soma is like this. First of all, I want to find out how the Nuphonmazon was killed. When I returned to the main school, along with the Subsoul Mazon, the Extreme Evil Soma was still alive.
This is what I felt at that time. The worse you are, the longer you survive.
Extreme Evil Soma is also a person who values his life, so he will want to somehow find out how I killed the Subsoul Mazon. If the Soul Mazon suffered, he would think that he could suffer as well.
Another reason is because of his personality. He is obsessed with people who provoke and intrigue him. They approach you, make you their friend, and when they get tired of it, they kill you right away. It was a pathological taste of his that only I knew about and that no one knew about.
So, you shouldn’t have any positive meaning when he says we should be friends. Let’s be friends means I’m going to play with you and then kill you.
These two reasons are what brought Extreme Soma to my office. This was the reason why he made me lie and say that he would understand my magic.
“I want to be friends with Lee Gongja.”
Yes, I will be friends with him in this life too.
When you become a friend, only then will you stand at a point where you are neither enemy nor ally.
That person is called Extreme Soma. A person who can barely escape from being an enemy only by becoming a friend.
“great. “Let’s make concessions to each other.”
Extreme Soma laughed loudly at my answer. It was a happy, loud laugh that anyone could hear, but I was looking into his eyes with my eyesight. He was looking at me with extremely cold eyes.
Soma, there was nothing at the end of your life.
He said he had no regrets until the moment he died, but that was a lie. Because the moment he remembered his childhood, he was already regretting it.
The Hyeolcheon Doma is changing, the Ilhwa Sword Zone is changing, and the Pungcheon Cult Leader is changing, but this extreme soma will not change easily. Because I was born with an evil nature and was raised through brainwashing by my teacher from a young age.
It was right then.
Seo Dae-ryong’s voice was heard outside.
“The Grand Duke has arrived.”
“Take it.”
Extreme Soma said with a smile.
“I called.”
Are you calling your brother here while looking for me? This is truly something only the worst Soma can do.
Should I try this? He was the type of person who, when he thought of something, would do it without any hesitation. Despite this unexpected personality, he was one of the Mazon who survived to the end, showing how great his evil intentions were.
After a while, Geommuyang came inside. He greeted Extreme Soma first.
“Long time no see, Soma.”
“Welcome, Grand Duke. Now, I don’t have to introduce you two, right?”
I matched his playful words to the beat.
“Maybe we brothers are the ones we should introduce to each other. “I don’t know as much as I thought.”
As I treated the extremely evil Soma with ease, a hint of tension flashed across Geommuyang’s face.
Go one step further.
Extreme Soma said to Geommuyang.
“I was begging Lee Gongja to be friends.”
I looked at Geommuyang’s reaction to see how the evil Soma would come out.
My brother reacted like a brother.
“Sometimes entertainment like this is necessary.”
Geumaksoma said with a smile at Geommuyang’s reaction, which was completely undisturbed.
“That’s why I plan to enjoy the entertainment with my younger brother. “Our archduke is so straight that it’s not fun.”
“Mugeuk is so witty that he would definitely be a good friend.”
My brother is also going through a lot of hardships. I’m not the type of person to come and listen to people say things like that. He is putting up with it all because of his determination to become the successor.
Yes, I’m good at it. brother.
If you lose your nerve here, you will lose at that moment. You’re doing great.
Perhaps aware of such feelings, Extreme Evil Soma stimulated Geommuyang.
“Gongja Lee came to visit me yesterday. “He asked me to support him instead of my brother.”
Even though I was there, he didn’t hesitate.
“Soma, you asked to be friends, but why are you alienating your brothers? “We can’t be good friends like this.”
Hearing my words, Extreme Soma laughed and said.
“There is nothing in the world more fun than conflict, so how can you tolerate it? “Even if I can tolerate pooping, I can’t tolerate that.”
“If you want to fight against each other, do it with the Murim Alliance and the Apostolic Alliance, not with us.”
“Even if I wanted to, I’m in a situation where I can’t do that these days.”
Geommuyang was just listening to our conversation from the side. He’s probably just hoping that I’m going to cross the line.
“Now that the two of you are together in one place, can I ask you a question I’ve always been curious about?”
To Extreme Soma’s question, my older brother responded obediently,
“Of course.”
“Then I will ask the Archduke first. “What will you do for me if I help the Archduke make you his successor?”
After all, an extremely evil soma is an extremely evil soma. How can you show such bad taste in front of the two of us?
Geommuyang answered calmly as if she had been prepared.
“We will triple our support for bad songs and lift the limit on the number of unsung singers. “And we will lift the ban on excommunication currently imposed on Soma.”
There was a ban on the extremely evil Soma, prohibiting him from being excommunicated. This is because the year before last, there was an incident of massacre of Sado League warriors, which almost led to a war.
“At that time, they attacked first.”
It started like that, but it ended in massacre. After that, his father forbade him to go to the center for the time being. It’s already been two years, and my body is itching to death.
“Oh, these are very attractive conditions.”
“you’re welcome. In addition, if there is anything Soma wants, I will fully support it.”
Extreme Soma laughed out loud. Does your brother know? Even though he smiles with such joy, his eyes underneath the mask are extremely cold.
“Now, this time I will ask Mr. Lee. “What will you do for me if I help Gongzi Lee and turn him into a Heavenly Demon?”
They both wondered what my answer would be.
I stared at the evil soma and spoke softly.
“I will give you my life.”
The atmosphere froze for a moment. I should have said it was a joke, but this is what I added.
“We talked yesterday, right? What kind of new magic is I aiming for? But did you know what I would do to Soma, who is showing off extreme evil? Did you think they would at least support you? “I will try to live even if it means bearing the political burden.”
My brother may be secretly happy. I thought I was ruining this great opportunity because of my youthful energy.
But there is something my brother doesn’t know. This extremely evil soma becomes more attracted to the opponent when the opponent appears like this.
As if to prove it, his eyes were shining brightly inside the gaping hole seen with the Shinan technique.
I spoke to him colder than before.
“Suddenly playing with friends became no longer fun, right? Play that breaks formality too much will not end well in the end. So please don’t ever ask me to be friends again.”
In a quiet atmosphere, Extreme Soma stood up.
“If we’re not friends and we’re together, we’ll just end up fighting. See you next time then.”
After saying goodbye to Geommuyang, Extreme Soma left the office.
Just the two of us, Geommuyang asked me.
“What on earth are you thinking?”
My brother knew that I was not the type of person to offend Extreme Soma so carelessly.
“Are you just pissed off? Your successors must show off to Palmazon. Come on, wag your tail. Then I will place you in the position of successor. “Aren’t you angry?”
My brother thought for a moment about what to say, then stood up and said.
“I always get the heat from you.”
After leaving those words, Geommuyang also left the office.
Soon after, Seo Dae-ryong came in.
“Are you waiting outside because you’re worried about me?”
“Not Mr. Footnote. “I was worried that it might have unleashed some demon energy and withered away.”
He was relieved to see the flowers in the flower pot.
I smiled and stood next to him.
Extreme Soma was seen walking out of the building.
“You look angry. Are you okay?”
“I’m not angry. “Can’t you see those exciting steps?”
“I don’t know. “It feels like I want to step on someone and kill them.”
“If you’re that worried, give away the flower pots tomorrow.”
“That’s right. yes? “Extreme Soma is coming again tomorrow?”
If you run away and say not to, the person who will chase you until the end is Extreme Soma.
“He is someone who has to make a decision one way or another. “That person.”
After a moment, Seo Dae-ryong asked.
“How are you holding up under all this pressure?”
“I have a right arm, a left arm aiming for the right arm, a heart, wings, and now even a brain. What would be difficult for me?”
I added softly, looking at the back of Extreme Soma walking alone in the distance.
“It must be that evil, lonely soul that is having a hard time.”