Episode 250
“Are you Count Jaro’s guest?”
A boy in the group asks me.
The face is bloodless and the eyes are empty.
A young boy who must have been only about twelve years old. But this child’s expression was dry itself.
Like an old man who is tired of everything in the world.
It’s not just this child.
The ten or so children huddled together in the underground space all had the same facial expressions as if they had been cloned.
“Count Jaro? “Who is that?”
“He is the one who feeds us and puts us to sleep. “You are the owner of this house.”
Even in the way he speaks, there is no sense of life at all.
“So you and Count Jaro are the only ones living in this house? “Anyone else?”
“no.”
“No?”
“yes. “Count Jaro and we are the only ones living in this house.”
It definitely doesn’t feel normal.
The Count lives alone with about ten boys and girls?
Even the title count is extremely awkward.
This shabby house, built near a remote orchard field, had an atmosphere that was far from aristocratic.
“Zane! “If you answer all the questions of strangers like that, Count Jaro might get angry.”
Suddenly a girl urged the boy.
Then, voices defending the girl came out from all over.
“that’s right. Zane. “Then what if I have to be called to the second floor again?”
“The Count said so. “John, if you have another accident, it won’t end with you getting spanked.”
Zane’s body flinched at the children’s urging.
His trembling hands clearly revealed his feelings of fear.
“Your name is Zane. Don’t worry, Zane. “Because this guy won’t reach the Count.”
“It’s no use. “The Count knows everything just by looking at our eyes.”
“There is nothing like it in the world, Zane.”
“no. “The Count is a man who can do anything.”
The children all nod their heads at Zane’s words.
It was as if he had been brainwashed.
– How about Lee Ho-young? Just by looking at this, you can tell what the situation is, right?
I wondered what Dina’s intention was when she said she read my memories, but it ended up being this.
All the children here are orphans being raised by a man named Count Jaro.
You can immediately tell just by looking at the children’s condition that their growth process is abnormal.
– Take a look at the children’s clothes and check them out. Maybe there are bruises here and there?
Dinah had touched my Achilles heel.
It seems like you have a good understanding of what I am most angry about.
– Now, it’s time to get angry. You grew up as an orphan too! How about asking children more questions?
I held Zane’s trembling hand tightly.
“Since when have you been living here? “You can tell me everything.”
Then, he took out the elixir from his inventory and applied it to Zane’s skin.
The elixir’s sacred energy spreads throughout the body and begins to completely heal the boy’s wounds.
“this… … What is this?”
“First of all, I would like you to answer my questions. “I promise to treat all the children here.”
Perhaps due to the energy of the elixir, Zane’s eyes began to glow slightly with life.
Then, when told that he would treat his friends, he nodded as if he had made up his mind.
“… … It was around the age of ten. “The Count appeared in the village where we lived.”
“I see. “Can you keep talking?”
“At that time, we were all living with our families. “It was before the terrible plague broke out.”
“plague?”
“yes. It was a terrible disease that only affected adults, and once contracted, the entire body turned black and death occurred within a day. In the end, all the adults in the village died because of the plague.”
“Is that when Count Jaro took you away?”
“yes. “At that time, the Count, who was staying in our village for a while, brought us all to this house.”
Just by hearing it, you can smell a strange smell.
It’s such a strange coincidence that the only ones who survived the plague were the children and those who were guests.
“Then it must have already been several years since you lived with Count Jaro. “So what have you been doing here all this time?”
“I was living my life repaying the Count’s kindness.”
“how?”
“During the day, I do labor for the Count in a room on the first floor. It’s not that great. “If I brew the herbs the Count brought me all day long, it will be night before I know it.”
“Then at night?”
“Actually, the nights are a little more difficult. You have to take the medicine we made during the day, but it’s quite painful. But the Count said it was all for our benefit, so we can bear it.”
The moment I hear this, I get an eerie feeling.
“Zane, can you just stay still for a moment?”
I placed my hand on Zane’s Danjeon.
I feel a foreign energy circulating inside my body.
It’s not mana.
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It must have something to do with the drugs these kids are taking every night.
“By any chance, do you still have it? “That’s what you eat.”
“Not now. “Count Jaro took everything except the amount we could eat.”
It was then.
“Well, actually, I… … .”
In the corner of the basement room, a girl with a pale face raised her hand.
He secretly stole and kept a bottle of medicine that he should have taken last night.
I immediately grabbed the bottle of pills from the girl’s hand.
Colorless and odorless.
I immediately poured a few drops into my mouth.
– wow! Bold? You just put it in your mouth without thinking?
I was able to do this because I was more angry than afraid.
[The effect of Unstoppable Invulnerability is activated.]
And the anger gauge could not help but rise further.
It was poison that this guy named Jaro had been feeding to his children for several years.
– Hoyoung Lee, shall we tell you the full story of this absurd story?
Dina looks very excited.
They must be thinking that this time I have no choice but to carry out the quest.
– For your information, I run a few more workshops like this. That plague the kids mentioned earlier? Of course it’s a poison created by Jaro. But you probably thought something like this. Why on earth are you doing something like this? The answer is that he is creating a monster right now. The intention is to slowly consume these children with poison and ultimately create poisonous people.
Just by hearing this explanation, you can roughly guess what it is.
I heard a similar story when I was a member of the Heavenly Demon Church for a martial arts mission.
There was a reason why these children were bloodless and gave off a dry energy that did not feel like life.
Because he was slowly becoming a monster.
A lot of gold appears to be broken.
This is not a problem that can be solved by giving one or two drops of elixir.
“By any chance, what do you guys think of Count Jaro?”
The children answer my questions with one voice.
“He’s scary, but he’s grateful.”
This is clearly gaslighting.
So, it is obvious that these children will be truly sad when I harm Jaro.
It’s just a shame that the time given to me on the 37th floor is not enough.
In the end, it will be up to these children to overcome it.
– Jaro is coming home! It will arrive soon!
Dina looks so excited that she looks like she’s about to open popcorn.
“Uncle, I think you need to go outside for a moment. Would you mind sharing some of this medicine here for a while? “You must never leave it behind.”
“what is this?”
“Medicine that heals wounds. “Did you see Zane’s wounds get cleaned up earlier?”
“yes!”
“And please stay here and do not come up to the first floor within two hours.”
“Anyway, we can’t move until the Count comes. “If you move as you please, you will be called to the second floor and beaten.”
“It’s okay after two hours. “This man is someone you can trust.”
I smiled at the children and went up the hallway stairs to the first floor.
In front of children, the anger that was suppressed boils up.
– You don’t know how excited I am right now, right? I’m so excited at the thought of you finally clearing the quest that I’m going crazy.
“Dina, did you say this would be your last quest?”
– okay. Because I have used up all the power I can bestow.
“Then don’t get excited. Dina. Because what you want won’t happen.”
– Well, what does that mean? Are you really saying you won’t do the quest?
“uh.”
– Hey Hoyoung Lee! Did you say that after seeing the pitiful state of the children just now? By your standards, I am a man who deserves to die a hundred times over!
“If I could kill you a hundred times, I would, but everyone only dies once.”
– So, what are you going to do?
“I won’t let you die easily. I plan to make you die very slowly and in extreme pain. “You can’t kill a hundred times.”
[Time remaining: 2 days, 18 hours, 37 seconds]
This guy named Jaro is crazy about poison, so I plan to send him to the poison.
Coincidentally, some suitable poisonous plants are growing in my garden on the 33rd floor.
It is the worst poison that causes your body to slowly rot from the tips of your feet the moment you are poisoned, and has the effect of gradually dissolving your bones after all the skin has festered.
I plan to give him the worst possible death.
It is said that it takes 96 hours from poisoning to death, so the timing is excellent.
– You, no way!
It’s true that he can immediately see through my thoughts.
It would have been better if he had seen through all my plans with that great insight.
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“It’s old.”
As soon as Jenna saw me, she immediately put something on my forehead.
“What is this!”
“Compliment stickers.”
“Are there any other rewards besides this? You know it too. “I did all kinds of things for two weeks to reduce your favorability.”
“Then, shall I add one more?”
“That’s it! Is there really no soup? “I even used elixir like crazy to treat my children.”
“You have already received ample compensation.”
“A red flame fire goblin?”
“okay! “I never thought something like that would come out of there!”
The exclusive skill ‘God’s Shot’ attached to the fire goblin.
Except for the information that it is a myth grade, everything is still unknown.
The effect is private, and the cooldown is also private.
“Are you sure it’s good?”
“Knowing.”
“Honestly, I have no idea. How powerful is the skill? After all, it wouldn’t be a good idea to try it out as a test, right?”
“You know that too. “The cooldown is going to be ridiculously long.”
“Which one is it?”
“I don’t know exactly, but the cooldown won’t run out until the end of your life, right?”
This made it clear.
This ‘one shot of God’ is used only once, at the most important moment, against an opponent who cannot handle it.
“I have some good news for you. “It’s related to the Holy Sword.”
“Are the conditions to open the portal again met?”
Jenna nodded.
I’m looking forward to it.
The last portal opened up amazing possibilities to me as I headed into the future, but I wonder how much of a miracle it will bring about this time.
With my heart pounding, I took out the holy sword from my inventory.
-Continued in episode 251-
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