Chapter 123
Chapter 123
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 123
Chapter Title: I Won't Save You
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Go Yohan seemed to devour all the noise and attention.
It was a vivid demonstration of just how much presence a single being could command.
“…Thank you.”
The Sanctuary Union said that much to Go Yohan.
His healing abilities weren’t widely known yet, but word had vaguely reached even them.
But.
“Ah…. Ah!”
The others were different.
A healing ability known to be exceedingly rare worldwide.
Moreover, among the wounds he had just healed were injuries that had been on the verge of amputation.
Go Yohan slowly scanned his surroundings.
There were no more threats.
‘Too late.’
The reason he had arrived so late was simple.
He hadn’t wanted to see it.
He might not have been able to hold back against the malice directed at him, or the slanders against those around him.
“…….”
He hadn’t wanted to forget that he was the Goddess’s Knight.
“P-Please… spare… me….”
Someone crawled across the ground toward Go Yohan and pleaded.
He was one of the executives of the citizen group Justice.
One of his legs had vanished, as if struck by a black flash.
“Please… save… me….”
“The demon is dead.”
At Go Yohan’s words, the executive contorted his face and said.
“Me too… heal….”
He begged to be healed, just as he had done for the Sanctuary Union.
That was when it happened.
-Hang Go Yohan!
-Burn the heretic!
Sudden voices from behind. Go Yohan turned to look.
On a shattered billboard from the battle’s aftermath, a small, cute black dragon was displaying a single screen amid the distortion.
-Go Yohan is the real demon!
The scene of the executive begging Go Yohan for healing—something he had been ranting just moments ago—was recorded there.
The VTuber called Yongyong said nothing else, but her intent came through clearly.
Don’t save him.
“…….”
Turning back, there was the executive’s twisted face.
“Save….”
What would he have done in the past?
If this were Travania.
And if Go Yohan were…
“I won’t….”
Go Yohan swept his gaze over the protesters behind him as he spoke.
Those writhing in pain, begging to be saved.
“save you.”
“……!”
“So don’t beg me for your lives.”
“…Demon!”
That was when it happened.
“You’re the demon! That bastard from earlier was sent by you! You ordered it!”
The executive who had just been begging for his life screamed as if possessed.
With the hope of healing gone, he spat curses in rage.
“That demon said it! That he followed you! That it was for you!”
“…….”
“If you won’t save us, then you admit it!”
Where did that strength come from?
The question flashed through his mind briefly.
“So what?”
Go Yohan replied.
“……?”
“When did I ever say I was your savior? I’ve said it clearly all along.”
“……!”
“I’ll do anything to kill demons, but.”
Step.
“I never once said I’d save you.”
“Ah….”
“Don’t judge me or those around me as you please.”
And one more thing.
‘This will keep happening.’
Go Yohan knew it for various reasons.
Demons would use any vile tactic to target him, and incidents like this would occur endlessly.
‘I can’t keep doing this forever.’
Each time it happened, it wouldn’t just wound him.
Greed had said.
-I want to kill them all.
The others felt the same.
They had the power to do so, and no one would object.
But they held back for Go Yohan’s sake.
‘No more….’
He wouldn’t stay silent, hiding behind them any longer.
“Don’t forget that I’m an ordinary person.”
It was a message to everyone.
“That my patience has limits. That no one likes getting beaten.”
“…….”
“I’m a villain now.”
Go Yohan said.
“But do you want me to become a demon?”
Gulp.
No one dared open their mouth.
His aura and gaze made it clear.
“If I have to step in for things like this in the future, a lot of people will die.”
It was a warning to all.
“Even if it means my hands end their lives.”
That was the end.
No one tried to provoke Go Yohan further.
If anyone dared.
Flicker.
The Association members with fire in their eyes and the Sanctuary Union would act first.
It was clear he wouldn’t hold them back anymore.
And.
“…….”
Go Yohan approached the billboard.
‘Hayeon, is this your doing?’
Before his eyes, the black dragon on the shattered billboard cautiously opened its mouth.
-Kr, kraaang. Kraaaang.
It cried out wildly, pretending it couldn’t speak human words. The sight was impressive.
-It wasn’t me.
Iha Yeon’s voice, Greed’s voice, reached him.
-But it seems we need to give an award.
Go Yohan knew there were multiple channels centered on him.
Among them, the one with the most explosive growth was Yongyong, using the black dragon avatar.
“Yongyong?”
-D-Do you know me? B-Big bro?
“Want to work together on something?”
At Go Yohan’s words, the billboard froze as if glitching.
But soon.
-W-We’d be hoooonored!
A scream-like cheer erupted.
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“…Why didn’t you say anything?”
Baek Sunhee said, her face twisted.
Cracks seemed to spiderweb across her beautiful features.
“What are you talking about?”
Romentu, the demon of the Quadrant, tilted his head.
“…That Go Yohan has healing abilities.”
“Does that matter?”
“It does—!”
Baek Sunhee shouted.
Crunch.
At some point, she had started biting her nails.
“We tried to bind Go Yohan, but this….”
It would have the exact opposite effect of what she intended.
“Idiot demon bastards.”
“…Watch your mouth.”
“You watch yours.”
For demons, healing and regeneration were just basic passives.
Without Go Yohan and a few others, demons were nearly immortal to begin with.
So they didn’t grasp the greatness of healing.
“Do you know what this means?”
Baek Sunhee said.
“Of course not.”
Crunch.
The greatest motivator for humans to sell even their souls was fear of death.
Whether their own or their family’s, humans would sell soul and all to avoid it.
‘Go Yohan replaces demons.’
Even at this moment.
Crunch! Crunch!
She felt regret for allying with demons herself.
If she could remain human and receive eternal life from Go Yohan.
Crunch!
Much more…
“Haa!”
But it was too late to think about it now.
Her plan had completely failed.
‘Calling himself an ordinary person, of all things.’
Don’t those types usually strain to appear greater and more special?
“We need to move.”
Baek Sunhee said.
“The operation in Korea has failed completely. It’s too late to corner Go Yohan socially.”
Moreover, she had confirmed that someone quite promising had sided with him.
“How?”
Romentu said.
“Do we have a way?”
In that moment, Baek Sunhee realized.
“Ha! If there’s no way, what? You gonna take my head?”
And…
“If necessary.”
The aura pouring from Romentu proved his words true.
Baek Sunhee had five horns, Romentu four.
But Romentu was no inferior demon.
If anything, he hid something, an unsettling presence.
“…We have a way.”
That was why Baek Sunhee took a step back and said.
“I’ll go around nuclear powers and turn them into my slaves. Greed… that damn thing already meddled, making it hard, but with time, I can find an opening.”
Baek Sunhee thought.
‘Even nukes might not stop him….’
Even so.
“If I dump dozens on South Korea, won’t it work somehow?”
If the ground he stands on crumbles entirely, and everything he cherishes is destroyed, the story changes.
“…You really know nothing about him.”
“……?”
“That won’t solve it.”
That was when it happened.
Ding.
Her sharpened hearing from demonic power caught something.
“Looks like escaping is off the table now.”
And outside.
Fwaaah!
A golden cube tightened around the building.
She had seen it before.
‘Vault of Greed.’
The ability used by one of Go Yohan’s subordinates called Greed.
An absolute prison where thousands of demons were trapped, helpless.
“He is the adversary all demons acknowledge.”
As Romentu spoke and moved his hand.
“You have no chance, but if we can learn from this once more, it will have value.”
Stab!
A blade flew from somewhere, piercing Romentu’s chest.
Another sliced off the hand reaching for his sword.
And.
Spurt!
The sword through his chest tore him apart.
“Ahh, may my memories and emotions reach all the complacent ones.”
With that as the last.
Shrick! Shrick!
Dozens of blades shredded Romentu.
“……!”
Baek Sunhee recoiled in shock and horror.
Even she couldn’t dispatch Romentu like that.
The absolute powerhouse, Go Yohan?
No.
“Long time no see.”
All those blades were bloodier red than anything.
And Baek Sunhee knew them.
The ability to create and control dozens of swords at once.
Their movements so beautiful, the woman called Queen.
“Mother.”
Kim Sehyun stood at the penthouse entrance, looking at Baek Sunhee.