Chapter 2: My dear… I love you so much.

I fell into the Demonic Cult.

The sky was roaring like an angry dragon, spewing heavy rain.

Water droplets fell from the razor-sharp blade and pounded the earth, and the rough rain blurred the view.

I took a breath and looked around.

A place to escape…?

There was no such thing.

I had Cheon Hye-rin behind me, and I was protecting her in front.

I said it like this, but in fact, it was no different from being surrounded.

“…Come.”

Then, there was only one way.

Kill a few and create a path.

The goal wouldn’t be me.

The black martial robe that covered my body shone even more brightly as it got wet, and the heavy moisture pressed down on his shoulders.

I heard a low voice calling me from behind.

“…My dear… It’s no use…”

It was Cheon Hye-rin. She barely lifted her arm, and with her bloodied body. She moved her lips earnestly.

My body was already tense, as if it was ready to shoulder all this rain and wind if it was to protect her.

‘…I have nothing to do with it.’

It was a strange feeling.

A damn angry feeling.

Crunch,

The hand holding the sword hilt gained strength.

How many times in my life had I swung a sword?

Not even once.

But now I was taking a sharp stance with the sword I had pulled from my waist, as if I was familiar with it.

“!!”

The enemies revealed their figures in the rain.

The blades, wet with rain, sparkled in the light, and their eyes were enough to make ordinary people tremble.

They were guys who had grown up eating their share of kalbab.

A shout mixed with the sound of rain echoed roughly.

“Kill him! Get rid of that guy first!”

“He might have done something!”

I kicked the ground and rushed.

It was an awkward movement that moved recklessly.

In that fleeting moment-

The first enemy’s sword came down over my head, but,

“…!!!”

I instinctively lowered my body and avoided the blade.

Water droplets splashed, and my sword cut through the ground and tore through the rain. The sound of metal rang out like a scream, and the enemy’s scream scattered into the rain.

“Heup!”

I immediately rushed towards the next enemy. My hand, wet with rainwater, gripped the sword hilt tightly.

The enemy’s blue blade brushed past my martial robe, and a stream of blood mixed with rainwater dripped down.

Pain dug in, but I didn’t care. My sword was swung at the enemy’s neck, and blood flowed down with the rain.

Then two swords collided and shattered into pieces.

Sparks flew from the iron filings that were carved out by the intense impact, and the ruptured sound of the air rang loudly in my eardrums.

A height of nearly 2M, the power of tightly trained muscles slammed into my body. Just listening to the sound of the wind tearing was no ordinary power.

“…Damn it.”

It was also the first time I had killed someone.

The feeling of tearing flesh was chilling beyond words.

But my body was nonchalantly facing the next enemies.

Cheon Hye-rin was right behind me. Behind me. She was collapsed in the rain, but she was still breathing.

It was as if she was carefully observing my figure, capturing each one as if it were precious.

I gritted my teeth when I saw her.

I had to protect that damn b*tch!

“You! You’re being careless with the enemy in front of you!”

In a moment of carelessness, the enemy’s sword stabbed into my side.

Hot pain spread. I almost knelt down for a moment.

But I endured. I vomited blood, and my whole body felt as heavy as iron, but.

Hatefully, I stood up again.

Even if it hurt, I didn’t fall.

Because I had to protect her, I took up a sword that I didn’t even want and approached the enemies.

The rain was still pouring like a waterfall, and the thunder was roaring as if it would tear the sky apart.

The ground, mixed with water and blood, made my feet unstable, but I couldn’t fall after coming this far.

“Everyone… come.”

I said as if I was chanting.

I was guarding her, pushing her back as if I could never lose her.

Rainwater flowed down the handle and slipped from my fingertips, but I could never let go.

The enemies swarmed in front of me like swarms of insects. Their eyes were full of murderous intent, and they had already poured out several attacks.

My clothes were torn, my skin was torn, and I was vomiting blood, but.

I didn’t back down in the end.

No, I should say I couldn’t.

My whole body had already become heavy, but I didn’t collapse.

Inevitably…

“…I have to protect her.”

The enemies’ shapes became clearer each time lightning struck.

His sword sparkled as it was reflected in the lightning.

The blade aimed at the first enemy’s neck swept fiercely and cut through the enemy’s neck. I immediately turned around and blocked another enemy’s attack.

-Kaga gag!

Along with the sound of steel colliding, he pushed out with all his might and broke the enemy’s balance.

The rain continued to pour. I firmly blocked the path to her, and fought, squeezing out every last drop of strength. Another enemy rushed towards me,

I gritted my teeth and fought back. The enemy’s blade grazed his shoulder, but I didn’t back down. Rather, I used that force to defeat the enemy.

Even if I couldn’t break the entire body like martial arts , a real sword could cut flesh.

In other words, even the increasing number of scratch as the fight went on would become increasingly disadvantageous due to bleeding.

Nevertheless, I poured out every ounce of strength I had.

“Hap!”

Another enemy lunged from behind, but I sensed the movement and lowered my body to avoid it. And I immediately dug into his side and cut off the enemy’s leg.

Ignoring the fallen enemy, I immediately rushed to the next enemy. My vision was blurred, and blood was flowing with the rain.

The battle continued without end.

“Haa, huh… hoo… heu… hak.”

The rain became heavier and heavier. Thunder rumbled and lightning struck.

My heart was beating so fast that I could no longer hear my own breathing. My body had already reached its limit.

A body driven to the edge of a cliff.

The number of enemies was still overflowing.

Damn it.

My whole body was screaming.

The fight showed no signs of ending.

It was at that moment.

“Behind..! Behind you!! My dear-“

It was that moment.

Poohk!

A razor-sharp blade pierces my abdomen.

And in that fleeting moment when the blade that I couldn’t block flew towards her.

Everything moved slowly.

I instinctively turned my body and stood in front of Cheon Hye-rin.

At that moment, the enemy’s blade dug deeply into my chest.

Time seemed to stop. The blade completely pierced his body, and a clear red color spread across the black martial robe.

“…!!”

Was my lung pierced?

My lips trembled momentarily, and the breath I exhaled couldn’t even become a scream.

Rainwater and blood mixed and began to flow down his clothes.

I reached out to grab the blade, but my strength was gone and I sat down helplessly.

Cheon Hye-rin’s pupils, seeing that appearance, were swept up in pain and shock, and dark red blood spread downwards along the hem of her clothes.

“What… are you doing…! My dear, just a moment…”

Cheon Hye-rin called me and moved forward, but I was already kneeling.

Blood poured out from my abdomen, mixed with the rainwater, and pooled on the floor.

“Keup…”

Hot pain spreads.

Was it wrong?

My body leaned heavily forward, and my fallen body fell to the floor.

Cheon Hye-rin stood there as if frozen.

The blood spread wider and wider.

I tried to smile as I looked at the woman’s face with my last strength, but in the end, only my lips trembled slightly and I lowered my head.

Between the increasingly darkening vision. I could hear.

-“It’s here!! The Sword Empress is here! Kill all… those damn guys who are harming the teacher… tear them to death!”

Resounding through the area all at once. The sound of the resounding cries of the reinforcements.

Between the sound of blades colliding and the sound of heavy rain falling.

Cheon Hye-rin I’m wandering to find someone.

After seeing his last figure.

From the moment he disappeared from view, her heart fluttered like a storm.

She had never been swayed by emotions like this before.

Wouldn’t she have been so shaken if it had been normal?

A soldier came to her, lifted her arm, and said.

“Sword Empress. This place is dangerous. You must move quickly-“

“You, quickly… There is something you must find.”

Cheon Hye-rin said quietly.

I didn’t know what kind of expression I was making now.

Judging from the figure reflected in the puddle.

I could tell that the viscous and sinking pupils and the disheveled figure holding the dirt floor were unusual.

Water, which I couldn’t tell whether it was rain or tears, was constantly flowing down her eyes.

She wiped her eyes with the hem of her clothes, where a very small amount of his warmth remained.

And not long after.

She discovered him with a faint breath.

His body, lying on the wet ground and soaked in blood, was growing cold.

She rushed to his side with labored breathing, knelt on the floor, and hugged him tightly.

His body was heavy and cold, and the life felt between her fingers was fading more and more.

A faint breath created a big hole in her chest.

“Yoo Jin…! No, my dear…!!”

“…You were, alive. Damn it.”

He opened his mouth lightly.

Cheon Hye-rin couldn’t understand what he was saying.

At that moment, Yoo Jin brushed Cheon Hye-rin’s hair behind her ear.

There was a faint scar there that would not be erased.

As if he was very upset that he had scarred her face.

..My dear?”

A cold feeling came into her chest.

‘Even coming to this situation… You’re, worrying about me.’

Only looking at one person… An important person who may never exist again.

Cheon Hye-rin cried. Her tears fell on his cold body.

“Coming all the way here… you’re  such nonsense… why… did you… save… me?”

-It’s absolutely necessary.

A sentence flashed through her head.

The pain in the center of her chest became more and more severe as that happened.

She pressed hard in several places to stop his bleeding.

But the wound was too deep.

…

..I have to stop it. I have to stop it.

He wasn’t destined to face such a miserable end.

With impatience, she put strength into her hands and held his full of scars body roughly.

More blood flows out. Blood splatters on her white cheeks. She doesn’t care.

Nevertheless, he was silently looking at me without saying anything.

Judging from the fact that I could feel movement from the body I was holding, it seemed that he was smiling.

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‘…Stop it. It, hurts.’
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It tears.

With just that one reaction.

Because it showed her the reality that she couldn’t do anything.

A feeling that her chest was collapsing.

I don’t know what to say.

My head is too dizzy.

‘…You can’t leave.’

Cheon Hye-rin felt like her chest was being cut out.

She stood there for a long time.

Cheon Hye-rin’s face, as if she had half lost her mind.

“Sword Empress… was it.”

“Get up, open your… eyes. Please…. please. I beg you. You can’t leave.”
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..You love… me…’

“…Yoo Jin?
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No answer came back anymore.

I felt it.

Only Yoo Jin’s stiffened body and his covered hands that had fallen to the floor could be felt.

“Yoo Jin…! No, my dear…!! Get up, open your… eyes. Please…. please. I beg you. You can’t leave.”

In the end, she carefully hugged him.

She walked.

…He’s a terrible man.

My heart, everything. While I’m being held hostage like this.

Is he going to in vain – go away?

A sturdy figure of a man passed through her head.

I love you.

Was it under that one idea that she loved him that she moved?

Was he a person who couldn’t live without her?

Now she was starting to understand the actions he had taken.

‘Because he loved me… he did that. Was that it.’

Where did he start to have such feelings?

Knowing that he would never be able to get involved with her.

‘…You’re a funny man.’

Really.

He’s the only man who shakes herself, who is famous for being a cold-blooded person.

But she hadn’t said anything yet.

She was ready to do anything, do anything to repay the debt someday.

Now it was useless.

…Could she make it usefully ?

Could she meet him in the future?

Now she didn’t think she would be able to control her expression if she met him. If she looked at his face and talked, a hot emotion would flood in.

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When she closed her eyes, the figure of him fighting to protect her was still vivid in her mind.

But the last moment when he collapsed, stabbed her chest more sharply than any enemy’s blade.

Cheon Hye-rin’s heart collapsed, and the blood flowing through her fingers didn’t stop.

“…No. I won’t forgive you if you leave my side.”

She tried not to let go of his hand even in the surrounding chaos.

Cold rainwater flowed down his face, and her tears were mixed with the rain and couldn’t be seen.

“So… just hold on a little longer.”

She takes off her gloves.

She secretly held his hand with her bare hands.

Her voice trembled, and her soft hands caressed his face. At that moment, a trusted subordinate ran up.

It was ma- brain .

He knelt beside her, waiting for the Sword Empress’s command. His face was filled with firm will, but the heard in his hand
She was clearly embarrassed by his miserable state.

No, to be exact, was it because of my reaction?

Or was it because I showed my bare hands?

Then that would be the end of the explanation for this person.

Cheon Hye-rin handed over his body to her most trusted person and said.

“….Ma-brain.”

“Yes, speak, my lord.”

Cheon Hye-rin struggled to grasp her blurring vision and looked into Ma-brain’s eyes.

Her long hair hit her face due to the wind and rain, but Cheon Hye-rin stared straight at him without even shaking and opened her mouth.

“That man… save him, no matter what.”

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…I understand.”

“You must save him. Bet everything you have. Save him unconditionally. I will not forgive failure.”

“…Yes. I understand.”

Ma-brain did not spot.

The figure of her, so sad.

Even for him, who had lived under her for decades. It was the first time he had seen it.

“…I will return.”

Cheon Hye-rin’s voice was filled with short determination, but she couldn’t hide her trembling.

She endured the cheonbul in her inside, recalling the feeling of Yoo Jin’s hand.

She squeezed her eyes shut at the reality that she had no choice but to entrust it to her subordinate.

His breath was getting too weak. She didn’t want to open her eyes.

But she opened her eyes for the person she had to protect and the person she had to carry out the order.

Cheon Hye-rin straightened her body as if she had made a firm decision. Ma-뇌 immediately lifted her husband’s body gently.

An inevitable sorrow flashed through her eyes, but she bit her lip and endured it.

“Sword Empress, don’t worry. I will… save him, no matter what.”

“Hurry, there’s no time.”

Looking at Ma-brain’s fading back. She quietly bit her lip.

-…You love… me…

“My dear… I, love you so much.”

So please.

I will easily grant you that last wish.

“…You can love me, forever.”

Please always be by my side.