Chapter 49
“…..!”
Seeing my shocked expression, the man sneered coldly.
“Yes. You probably know the significance of this.”
I inhaled sharply with a pale face.
Shiva was a god powerful enough to be called one of the three great gods along with Indra.
Even the protagonist, Baek Yi-heon, never managed to have him as an ally.
This was because Shiva was such a powerful god that no avatar with an appropriate matching rate could be found in the mortal world.
And I had only seen a similar case once before.
That was me, who knew the original work and greatly twisted the story.
…There was another person in the world who had read ‘TOAA’.
A chilling emotion brushed my heart as I looked into the man’s black pupils.
In the pouring rain, the man walked slowly towards me and recited coldly.
“Yes. I too am a ‘child of prophecy’ like you. Nice to meet you.”
Contrary to his words of greeting, he added with ruthlessly cold eyes scanning me.
“My little sister.”
A perhaps predestined sense of shock struck my head and flowed down to my toes.
I muttered in an empty tone.
“Don’t… lie. I’ve never heard anything about having an older brother…”
“Of course you haven’t. You.”
At my words, a blue flame flickered in his cold eyes.
The man spat out words as if chewing them.
“I’ve known about your existence since before you were born.”
“How…?”
“I received a prophecy from ‘that man’ along with my birth.”
He twisted the corner of his mouth crookedly.
“You’ve probably already heard my name since you’ve come this far. Yoo Cain. That man named me after the first murderer in humanity and then abandoned me at an orphanage.”
Humanity’s first murderer… does he mean Cain?
Then, that ‘prophecy’…
Noticing my expression, he lifted his red lips askew.
“Yes. A prophecy that someday, I would kill my half-sibling with my own hands.”
I trembled slightly at the man’s ruthless gaze.
It was hard to deny his words because even to me, the man before my eyes looked too much like me.
Like me, …and that man.
Yoo Hyun-min.
Whoosh.
As I staggered in confusion, my collar was suddenly grabbed.
He scanned my appearance with eyes devoid of any warmth.
“…You seemed to use some strange power. Which god did you contract with?”
“I didn’t… contract with anyone.”
As I answered through gritted teeth, he tightened his grip on my collar.
“That’s impossible.”
He seemed expressionless at a glance, but I could see him contemplating whether to kill me or not.
It was both fascinating and terrifying that I could read his inner thoughts so easily, a man I had just met today.
The fact that we two shared that man’s bloodline.
“Ugh…”
As I was increasingly struggling to breathe, he muttered once more in a low voice.
“What prophecy did you receive from that man?”
“I don’t… know about any… ugh, such thing…”
However, in my increasingly hazy consciousness, a distant memory suddenly surfaced.
“You are ■■■, so later you must definitely ■■■■ ■■.”
…That memory suddenly came to mind near the prison.
So, was that not just a simple conversation but a prophecy?
As I was finding it harder and harder to breathe, I caught sight of Yu collapsed far away and Choi Yudam standing dazed.
I bit my lip to try and regain my fading consciousness.
“Kuh. So, are you going to kill me like this? …Just as that man prophesied?”
For the first time, a wrinkle appeared between the man’s straight brows.
Yes, this is it. If you’re so similar to me, this is how to move you.
I stared straight into the black-pupiled man’s eyes and recited provocatively.
“Kill me. Ugh… Isn’t that why you were given that name? You can fulfill that prophecy now.”
Even the cold sneer that had been on the man’s lips disappeared.
The strong hand gripping my collar tightened even more, choking me further.
I struggled, my toes barely touching the ground.
“Khukh. Ugh…”
My vision blurred with welling tears.
‘Am I going to die like this…?’
Just as my mind was about to fade completely.
“…I have already changed many things.”
He suddenly released his grip on my collar.
Thrown onto the wet ground, I coughed violently and crawled on the ground, gasping for air.
“I made a contract with a god that doesn’t even appear in the original work, and established this Dowonhyang in Busan.”
For a while, I glared at him as I lay on the ground, coughing and struggling.
The rain pouring down on my face made it difficult to open my eyes properly.
“Cough. Then, the reason you’re building up forces to oppose Yoo Hyun-min is…”
“To kill him.”
The man answered without a moment’s hesitation.
“I’ve always vowed to kill my father with my own hands. …..Isn’t it the same for you?”
“……”
I didn’t deny it.
In the pouring rain, our eyes suddenly met as I stood up.
And at that moment, I discovered something in common with this half-brother I was meeting for the first time in my life.
That we both hated the same father.
He seemed to have read my inner thoughts without much difficulty.
For a moment, a strange atmosphere flowed between us as we faced each other.
It was something like a sense of kinship.
A primal sense of kinship that comes from disliking the same person.
He was the one who first broke that strange silence.
“…Then you follow your path.”
“…..”
“I’ll follow mine. Let’s see who was right on the last day of this chaotic era.”
Then, without further hesitation, he brushed past me.
I didn’t look back.
“Hey, hey! Are you okay…?”
As soon as the man passed, Choi Yu, who had been at a distance, rushed over to help me up.
“What was that? What’s going on? Why is that man just leaving?”
It seemed he hadn’t heard our conversation since the man and I had spoken so close together, almost in whispers.
“Aren’t we going to catch him? Not punish him? You might not know, but that man usually treats traitors cruelly…”
“Hey. Wake Yu up and treat her. Use your ability.”
I cut off his words coldly.
My voice came out cracked at the end due to my throat being choked nearly to death.
“What? …Hmph.”
Choi Yudam hesitated a bit at my words before replying sharply.
“You think I’m going to treat someone who knocked me out and kidnapped me? Now that the barrier is down, I’m going to escape!”
“That deadly poison you made and left at the temple.”
“…What?”
“There’s someone who’s been affected by that poison.”
“What?! They used it on a person? That was meant for giant monsters. F*ck. What kind of crazy bastard… What about the antidote?!”
“There isn’t one. That’s why I came all the way here to find you. That person is in critical condition now. If we delay any longer, …I really don’t know what might happen.”
I spoke calmly, but towards the end, my voice trembled a bit without me realizing it.
I’m tired and exhausted.
Right now, here, I was the one most surprised and dumbfounded by this sudden sibling reunion.
“…Alright. Don’t make that face.”
I thought he would grumble more, but surprisingly, Choi Yudam approached the fallen Yu without further complaint.
As I trudged towards them, I suddenly looked back.
At the scene inside the barrier where smoke was still rising here and there.
“Nice to meet you, my little sister.”
…He said it was nice to meet me.
Why is it that whether it’s father, mother, step-sister, or half-brother, everyone tries to kill me when we meet?
‘…Is it because I’m a psychopath? Or because I’m the daughter of a murderer?’
Because I don’t deserve to be loved by anyone. …Is that why?
For a moment, something welled up in my chest.
“Hey! Let’s go quickly! We don’t know when that man might change his mind!”
“Noah… I’m sorry. I should have protected you.”
Seeing Yu’s pale face, the emotion tickling my throat soon turned to anger.
“…Right. Let’s go.”
We’re going. As he said, I’ll go my way, and he’ll go his.
…But it’s okay to vent a little on the way, right?
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