Chapter 125
Chapter 125
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 125
Chapter Title: Wrath's Reckoning
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There were several reasons why Kim Se-hyun had headed to America.
To escape responsibility for the ruined Taehan and all the associated issues.
To solidify the church's influence overseas and build a reputation that would allow her to operate freely.
To protect Go Min-ji.
To find Baek Sun-hee...
And if he tried to list more excuses, he could come up with countless others.
But the real reason Go Yohan had sent her all the way to America was actually just one.
Kwaaaaa!
It was because of the power of the Archdemon she had inherited—Wrath.
Her surging wrath dyed everything blood-red, engulfing the entire building.
Not satisfied with that, it even covered the Vault of Greed that Greed had used to seal the building.
Creeeak!
The Vault of Greed that Baek Sun-hee had thought impossible to escape.
Creeeak!
An immense pressure was cracking it apart.
Tremble.
A force powerful enough to make Go Yohan's skin crawl.
This was Kim Se-hyun's true power.
'Wrath.'
Wrath.
All of her childhood, the family discord, her father's death and abuse.
All of that had happened on that land—South Korea.
Just being on that soil turned her wrath into a ticking time bomb, ready to explode at any moment.
'It was for the best.'
Sealing her emotions by agreement and sending her to America had been unavoidable.
Otherwise, she would have ended up like Joo In-kyung, sealing away even more and becoming a fool, or like Rust, locking herself away and never stepping outside.
And that wrath of hers...
“Keuk!”
Was directed at Baek Sun-hee.
A torrent of blood-red mist seized Baek Sun-hee, who had just finished regenerating.
Shoooo!
Black smoke and liquid resisted it.
Puk!
But the blood-red mist burst through it all with sheer force.
When does wrath ignite the most fiercely?
Go Yohan had seen much wrath in his lives as Go Yohan and Michael.
And the greatest among them was...
Puuung!
Betrayal in love—the wrath born from that.
Kwaduk!
The sense of loss from that betrayal was indescribable, dragging a person to the depths of hell.
But the greatest of all was...
“...Then why.”
The first love a human experiences upon birth.
An instinctive bond of blood, done without even knowing the reason.
“You shouldn't have given birth to me.”
Betrayal by one's parents, the love toward them.
Those who experienced it were utterly destroyed.
Whether themselves or those around them—if asked for the greatest ruin in this world, Go Yohan would name it without hesitation.
Kwak.
A horn sprouting above one temple.
Blood-red and black-tainted eyes fixed on Baek Sun-hee, gripping her throat.
“Why—!”
With that cry, Baek Sun-hee's demonic energy refluxed, suppressing her regeneration.
“...Why...”
Even a single wrath contained countless tangled emotions, impossible to express in one word.
“...Why... did you...?”
Baek Sun-hee, seized by Kim Se-hyun, curled her lips as she spoke.
Despite the immense pain crushing her, whether from her desire to survive or her own inner wrath.
“Why...?”
She forced out the words with all her might.
“I didn't want to give birth to you either.”
Puuung!
Everything above her neck exploded.
It happened so suddenly that Go Yohan didn't even have time to speak.
“I...”
Yet Baek Sun-hee forcibly regenerated to continue speaking.
“Giving birth to you...”
Pupu-pu-pu-pu-pung!
Red explosive smoke stained the penthouse.
“That's your excuse.”
Now Baek Sun-hee lay scattered in pieces across the floor.
And that was the end.
Even all the demonic energy that had made up Baek Sun-hee.
Pupu-pu-pu-pung!
Kim Se-hyun's wrath incinerated and destroyed it all.
As if refusing to leave even a single trace.
“......”
Kim Se-hyun cautiously turned her head to look at Go Yohan.
Even with the power to destroy a nation right now.
“...Yohan.”
She was crying.
“I...”
It was then.
“It's okay.”
Go Yohan embraced the staggering Kim Se-hyun and spoke.
“It's okay.”
Just those words.
“Hic...”
A stifled sob leaked from within the blood-red mist.
“Waaaaaah!”
Soon it erupted into the wail of a newborn infant.
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The shattered penthouse and building—the Vault of Greed was still active.
Go Yohan and Kim Se-hyun sat atop the collapsed debris, overlooking the city.
“Is it... okay for us to just sit like this?”
At Kim Se-hyun's words, Go Yohan laughed in disbelief.
The horn that had sprouted on her forehead due to the release had already vanished.
She had changed a lot from her long activities in America, they said.
“What's wrong with it.”
But this appearance was no different from her snot-nosed kid days.
“Let's stay like this until your mind clears. It won't get better right away anyway.”
Kim Se-hyun might have succeeded in what could be called revenge.
But this kind of revenge always left a lingering unease.
Betrayed by one you loved, and in the end having to execute them—the wound burrows deep, never fading for life.
“She deserved to die.”
Kim Se-hyun said.
“I knew she had her reasons...”
Chasing after Baek Sun-hee, she had realized her mother was a broken person too.
She had learned of the dark side of her father, who had seemed perfect in childhood.
But, but.
“Father paid for his sins.”
Kim Tae-hwan was dead.
By Go Yohan's hand.
“It was Mother's turn to pay.”
Even the remaining mother had paid her dues by her own hand.
“Now...”
Kim Se-hyun said.
“It's just my turn left, right?”
The cycle of revenge that kept turning.
“You've grown up.”
“Huh?”
“You even know that much.”
Revenge was ultimately an endless loop that couldn't be severed—once started, the end was never good.
“But that won't happen.”
“......”
“Live selfishly. I'll protect you.”
“......!”
“If it really gets too hard, think of it as not something you did. Think I did it.”
“...Like that.”
“Forgot?”
Go Yohan spoke without looking at Kim Se-hyun.
“I atoned for all your sins. That includes not just the Archdemon's sins, but the ones you'll commit from now on.”
“......!”
“That's the price for making you fight demons.”
Go Yohan said.
“No need to feel guilty. Baek Sun-hee wouldn't have repented anyway. The moment she sold everything to the demons, that's how it became.”
In fact, he had heard through Greed that she had even planned to use Kim Se-hyun again.
She had never once thought of Kim Se-hyun as her child.
Just a possession.
“I've really become a matricide now.”
At those words, both Go Yohan and Kim Se-hyun chuckled.
“And now I'm an orphan too.”
“......”
Go Yohan looked at Kim Se-hyun in disbelief.
“What do I do. Me.”
“Orphan? Well. Me too...”
He had been an orphan once.
“Why? Want me to adopt you?”
“Are you crazy? Me as your dad?”
“And the filial impiety wasn't committed by you. It was by Baek Sun-hee.”
Go Yohan stood up.
Woooong!
The Vault of Greed that Greed had deployed began to dissipate.
“From now on... take care of me too.”
Kim Se-hyun stood as well and said.
“Captain.”
There was no longer any sign of her wrath on the verge of rampaging.
It was then, as he retrieved the seal he had placed on her.
-Kraaaang!
In the middle of the city, on a large electronic billboard, a small and cute black dragon was spewing fire.
-Everyone see that? Kim Se-hyun is a matricide? Bullshit! Who calls a victim a matricide? Kraang!
Yongyong, the little guy, was borrowing the billboard to broadcast.
“......?”
Kim Se-hyun seemed unable to quickly grasp the sudden situation.
But she soon understood upon seeing the changed screen.
-“They're all just tools. You too, that man too. No. The entire world.”
Baek Sun-hee's appearance and voice echoed out.
-The villain of the century! Psycho path of the century! If anyone still badmouths Kim Se-hyun after this, this Yongyong won't forgive you!
Go Yohan scratched his cheek in embarrassment at those words.
“I didn't tell him to go that far.”
No matter what, insulting her biological mother like that on broadcast would only make Kim Se-hyun seem more pitiful, he thought.
“You did that?”
“Huh? Uh... wait a sec.”
“No.”
Kim Se-hyun said.
“Feels refreshing.”
She truly looked relieved.
“Villain! Psycho path! Trash! So...”
Regret it, and regret it again.
“You're the one who made a daughter like me!”
[Kim Se-hyun's Faith stat has greatly increased.]
“By the way, what's that?”
Kim Se-hyun finally asked about Yongyong.
“There will be ongoing agitation and attacks from now on, right? No need to deal with them complicatedly every time.”
Go Yohan said.
“We decided to become villains, so we need a frontman or something.”
Yongyong.
Seemed like a not-bad card.
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With the Gangnam incident, Yongyong's growth skyrocketed.
It had already been one of the top channels in South Korea, but it was rated as just one that sporadically activated during Go Yohan-related issues and profited off them.
But.
-Kkh, kkhup! Can you see, everyone?
Public opinion shifted after it rented out the billboard in the Gangnam incident to confront the justice protesters.
-Yongyong?
-Wanna work together?
That day's scene was preserved as a video.
-Wh-what do you mean?
-Just keep doing what you've been doing, and occasionally be my mouthpiece.
-Y-your mouthpiece?
-I'll show you what I want to show, and you just broadcast it as you please.
-I'll do it!
And the immediately started live broadcast was a massive hit.
A live feed transmitted via Go Yohan's smartwatch.
-“They're all just tools. You too, that man too. No. The entire world.”
Proof that a massive black curtain had orchestrated all these events—and that the black curtain was Taehan's lady of the house, Baek Sun-hee.
Considering she was the biological mother of Kim Se-hyun, the hottest star player lately, it was a bombshell, mega-bombshell, ultra-mega-bombshell.
Moreover, the power Baek Sun-hee displayed was not that of a Player, but a demon's.
-Is that really a demon...?
-How could a human...
Interest poured in, and views exploded naturally.
But all this was just the beginning.
-This Yongyong! Starting today, official frontman for Yohan hyungnim! No, wait...
Yongyong knew how to seize opportunities.
-Yohan hyung official wrecker! Yongyong! Greeting you again! Hyungnims!