Chapter 388 - Brainwashed? (3)
“So why are you following me?”
Heiji had an expression that made it seem she didn't know what was going on as she looked at Hailey. She was displeased that Hailey kept following her.
“I’m just going to go buy some food. Why are you following me?”
Why else? Heiji was going to go buy food for Lee Gun. However, Hailey couldn’t say this out loud, so she merely pouted. What if Heiji asked for some strange reward from Lee Gun in return for the lunch box?
Therefore, Hailey didn’t make it too obvious as she furrowed her fine brows. “Don’t mind me. Just go about your business.”
“How can I not when you’re following me like a stalker?”
That wasn’t all.
“Why is Gun’s noona…” Heiji sweated as she looked at Yeonwoo, who stuck close to her as well.
Yeonwoo let out a bright smile. “Ah! Don’t pay attention to me. I’m just going to go buy a dessert that Miss Jiwoo likes.”
“Ah…”
Although Yeonwoo wasn’t hostile toward Heiji, like Hailey was, she was well-informed about Heiji. It was to be expected since Yeonwoo had been alive when the twelve Zodiac Saints had appeared around the world.
The nail in the coffin had been….
- Oh! I like the Witch of the East. She’s cool and my type.
Heiji had been the damn woman Gun had liked when he had seen her on TV. No, no. He had said she was cool.
Heiji had been one of the two first Zodiac Saints. Of course, Lee Gun had liked Stevens too, but he really liked Heiji at the time. He claimed to have liked that she fought with bolts of lightning.
However, Yeonwoo remembered clearly.
- Her sexy costume is awesome.
- That’s all thanks to her clothes. I can pull that off too.
- Uh… I don’t think you can wear that, Yeonwoo…
- Where are you looking?
When Yeonwoo thought about that incident, she became angry, yet maintained a smile on her face.
Heiji was intelligent and pretty. She also wore a sexy(?) costume, and her battle sense was outstanding. Yeonwoo acknowledged that Heiji was a brilliant mind worthy of being called the leader of an organization made out of magicians.
‘That’s why I’ll kill her quietly.’
Yeonwoo had been the previous god of Life. With an angelic face, she let out a bright smile.
On the other hand, something bothered Hailey a bit. It was the conversation she had with Scorpio.
- What did you just say?
When she had gone to the Divine world, Scorpio had secretly called for her and unexpectedly spoken about Hugo.
- You should separate Hugo Otis from Lee Gun’s side.
- What? Hugo?
Scorpio, who had a monstrous appearance, seemed to hate Hugo. It had shown its distaste whenever Hailey had helped Hugo, so Hailey had guessed this to be true. Yet Scorpio had never revealed the reason behind its hatred.
- That bastard is a predator who’ll bring about the end of the Divine world as well as the earth.
- …!
- Aslan told us to spare him. His Karmic debt dictated that he would die a pitiful and painful death at the hands of Time. That was why I had left him alone.
- …!
- However, Time is gone now, and he’s still alive. If you still fancy Lee Gun, you must separate Hugo from Lee Gun. You must kill him.
- …!
Surprised by Scorpio’s words, Hailey had wanted to say something, but the Zodiac had cut her off.
- That cunning bastard must not be left alive.
* * *
At this moment, the man in question, Hugo, confronted the angels with a dumbfounded expression.
“You’re shameless. How dare a dirty monarch like you pretend to be a human.” Raphael had a sharp look in his eyes.
The angels spurned Hugo’s hands.
“Don’t touch me, dirty monarch!”
“Do you think your filth will wash away because you’re wearing the skin of a human?”
“???”
Hugo’s expression was a sight to behold as the angels growled at him.
‘What the hell are they saying?’
Aside from looking for Lee Gun, they were claiming that he was a monarch?
Hugo bit his tongue because he remembered his bow.
‘Is it because Gun made that bow with a monarch…!’
He was sure that, that scent was causing the mixup. These angels were causing a fuss over nothing.
As if it couldn’t be helped, Hugo glared at the angels. “Hey. I know why you made the mistake. It is because of this weapon. I’m a normal human. Don’t make me out to be a monster—”
“Don’t act ignorant while putting up an innocent face. It’s disgusting!”
“You ripped apart the Divine world. You’re a beast that violated and humiliated the great Primordial god. Do you realize how many gods died because of you?”
Hugo felt aggrieved, and his expression became that much more puzzled. “Damn it! While I may have beaten up some gods that slandered Gun, I never killed any of them!! How can you falsely accuse a human of being a monster—”
“That’s right. You’re merely spending your sentence as a human.”
“…?”
Hugo realized something was off. The angels weren’t trying to swindle him. They weren’t being argumentative. They had serious looks in their eyes.
“I still cannot forget you eating the Archangels while laughing!”
“…???”
He was wondering if the angels were trying a mental attack. Hugo was about to say something when…
- Why does the snake god stay with him?
- What was going through Sagittarius’s mind to make him his Zodiac Saint?
‘…!’
He remembered the words that he had overheard in the Divine world. Then there were the words spoken by the goddesses of fate when he was in prison. They said he had a lot of Karmic debt. That wasn’t all.
Hugo recalled the scene that had brushed through his mind when he had recovered his soul earlier.
- He’s a monster!
- That bastard showed contempt toward the Primordial god!
- Shit! He ate Gabriel!
- He is too strong! Run away!
He had been enjoying himself while eating someone who looked like Kevin. Hugo vividly remembered that sensation.
The angels jeered as he was in turmoil.
“You were a Cluder that shamelessly changed into a god. You pretended to be a god and deceived the Primordial god and the other gods.”
“Hmmph. Do you think your dirty instinct and soul will disappear just because you changed into a human?”
The angels got up as if they were trying to defend Raphael.
“He may be dirty, but he did eat and take the Divine status of the archangels.”
“!”
“Raphael-nim!’
The man laboriously got up and glared at Hugo.
As Hugo had been born again as a human, it wouldn’t be right for the angels to directly involve themselves in his life.
“Now that things have turned out like this, let us recover the Divine status of the archangels.”
The high-rank angels were taken aback by Raphael’s words. That bastard was…
‘Amongst the monarchs, he was a first-generation…’
As if he had read their thoughts, Raphael laughed. “Hmmph. His Karmic debt placed a restriction on him. Moreover, his body is human. There is no way he can use too much power. Get him.”
Hearing them, Hugo immediately related his magical energy. If he caused a commotion here, his wife might be harmed. So he planned on quietly taking care of them.
Woosh!!
When Hugo stomped on the ground, powerful flames surged toward the angels. In a flash, he chased them out through the wall.
Kwahng!!!
Hugo felt a sense of vertigo since Lee Gun might get angry at him. He might get beaten for breaking the wall, but that wasn’t important right now. “You guys can all burn to death.”
Accompanying the powerful storm of fire, the light of the sun surged up from beneath the feet of his enemies.
The light caused his enemies to scream.
“Don’t move.”
“!”
At that moment, he heard a familiar voice alongside the voice of Raphael.
“Kyahhk!!”
“Jiwoo!”
Chun Jiwoo’s voice came from the building.
It must have been Raphael’s power. A wind letting out light had entered the building.
Raphael threateningly said, “I told you not to move. If you resist, your wife and the child inside her stomach will die.”
Flames sparked in Hugo’s eyes. “If you touch even a single hair on them, you will pay.”
As if he had wanted to see this, Raphael approached Hugo. “Do not worry! I am an angel of healing. I do not want to harm a human and a new life. If you come with us—”
“!”
Raphael suddenly froze.
Although it had happened for a single moment, the eyes of the enraged Hugo had suddenly changed into the eyes of a monster.
Raphael let out a cold sweat when he realized what this meant.
‘Despite having the body of a human, he has the instinct of a Cluder.’
When Hugo had died at Confusion’s hands, his body and soul had been separated. It had caused the seal on him to unravel over time.
Moreover, completely imprisoning the soul of a monarch was impossible.
‘There is no one that can control a monarch in the first place.’
This was why he was about to stop.
“!”
However, Hugo looked to be in pain as he clutched at his forehead.
Raphael’s eyes shone when he saw this.
‘Is Aphrodite’s Divine status keeping it in check?’
He didn’t know who had done it, but a non-fighting Divine status was pressing down on the savagery of the Cluder.
This made Raphael move again.
‘The snake god declared war on Eden.’
Eden had been trying to turn the earth into a battlefield for gods, yet their angels, including Michael, had been harmed by the monarchs.
‘I have to take back the archangels.’
Raphael would read the memory of Hugo’s soul and look for the archangels Hugo had eaten. He’d locate Gabriel and Uriel.
He had to find the hidden Divine statuses. At the very least, it would let others inherit the archangels’ Divine statuses.
Raphael finally approached Hugo, who had frozen in place!
“Dad!”
Flash!
“!!”
Suddenly, Yooha appeared at the scene like a lightning bolt from the sky and struck Raphael.
Raphael groaned.
‘This woman…!’
Raphael could feel Athena’s Divine status from her. Moreover, she was too strong for his current state.
Yooha trapped Raphael and said to Hugo, “Are you ok, Dad?”
Hugo massaged his forehead, as if he was having a headache, and said, “Where’s your mom?”
“She’s been moved to a different location…”
However, they were surprised when they heard an explosion coming from the building.
[Call to the Heavens (5 star)]
An enormous bird was flying above the building. The bird flying in the air was using wind to choke Chun Jiwoo’s neck.
“Kuhk…! Huhk!”
“Jiwoo!”
“Don’t move. The angels of Eden merely have to twitch a finger to take humans into the heavens.”
“…!”
Raphael glared at them. In other words, he could kill her.
This made the father and daughter try to kill the angel.
“It doesn’t matter if you kill me.”
“Bastard.”
Raphael laughed. Currently, they had a monarch imprisoned within a hidden dimension and were currently extracting and using her power.
While Hugo used to be a vicious and powerful monarch, he was still a beast. He was an organism that existed to be exploited by the gods.
“If you want to fault someone, you should place the blame on the snake god, who went against Eden…”
Zzuh-uhng!!!
At that moment, a sharp destructive sound rang out. The wind bird holding Chun Jiwoo let out a scream.
Raphael turned his head in surprise and saw the wind bird being frozen. Then he heard a familiar voice.
“Die.”
The frozen bird screamed as it turned into a sculpture.
When Chun Jiwoo fell, Hugo flew through the air to grab her. “Jiwoo! Are you ok?”
Chun Jiwoo nodded in Hugo’s arms.
“Kuh-hoohk…!”
Raphael was stabbed by an enraged Yooha. He looked in the direction the voice had come from. “That bastard is…!”
Hugo looked surprised as he turned in the same direction. “Kevin…! You are alive?”
“Don’t bury me prematurely!” It was the Virgo Saint Kevin, who had gone missing and was presumed to be dead.
“I knew the angels were acting suspiciously. That was why I pretended to be dead and tracked them secretly.”
Kevin glared at Raphael as if looks could kill.
However, Raphael flinched.
“Gabriel?”
“Huh?”
Raphael realized something when he saw Kevin. He desperately yelled, “You were here, Gabriel!”
“Who is Gabriel?”
Seeing Kevin’s expression, Raphael shouted in frustration, “You’re an archangel! The one next to you is the one who ate you!”
“…!”
Hugo flinched when he heard those words. He recalled the memory of him eating an angel that looked like Kevin.
‘Could it be?’
“Anyway, you are—”
Before he could finish…
“Hey, what the hell are you guys doing in front of my house?”
Everyone shook when they heard the menacing voice.
