Chapter 375
Raon approached the door of the mansion. The closer I got, the more certain it became. The people inside the mansion were the ladies-in-waiting of the annex, including Sylvia and Helen.
However, besides them, there were also people who were hoping to come here.
‘I’ll have to go in.’
I don’t know if you’re sleeping Everyone was awake, so I decided to go in.
Sigh.
I went to the front door of the mansion and opened the door. Soft lighting that comforts the eyes poured in with the warmth as if entering the annex.
In the neatly organized lobby, I could feel the hands of the maids of the annex.
‘It’s all over there.’
The presence of the people inside the mansion was felt in the largest room on the right. Carefully, I opened the door and went inside.
Unlike the lobby, the lights in the room were only coming down on the podium.
Yua, Helen, and other maids were moving dolls behind a black desk on top of the platform, while under the platform, nerdy children were staring intently forward with only the back of their heads visible.
-Then those children!
Lars flew forward and cheered as he checked the children’s faces.
-Everyone survived safely! Good luck!
He smiled brightly, saying that little ones should live long. It was truly a warm word that could not be called a demon king.
-By the way, what are you ladies-in-waiting doing now?
‘It looks like they’re doing a puppet show.’
Yua moved a doll that looked like a blonde knight, and the other maids were manipulating soldiers and monster dolls.
“The attacks of the monsters are getting stronger. In the end, the walls were broken, and the soldiers fell down the castle.”
Sylvia was reading something like a script a little away from the stage, perhaps commenting.
“The moment of crisis when vicious monsters approach the fallen soldiers!”
Following Sylvia’s explanation, the infant moved her hand and lowered the blonde doll down the wall.
“The hero Raon Sieghart jumped down the wall and stood in front of the soldiers.”
She smiled and spoke softly.
“The monsters fell before Raon Sieghart’s excellent swordsmanship.”
“Aaaagh!”
The maids who controlled the monsters screamed and threw the monster dolls to the floor.
“Quaaaaaagh!”
Surprisingly, Judyel put the monster doll down with realistic acting as if she had been hit with a knife.
“Raon Sieghart did not back down, guarding the people under the walls until the red moonlight set and the golden sun rose.”
With Sylvia’s powerful voice, the ladies-in-waiting tilted all the monster dolls.
Julius crawled over to the desk, removed the moon model, and hung up the sun model.
“It is not a knight’s sword that can protect the cold walls of the Frost Highlands… .”
Yua began to sing while controlling Raon’s puppet. Her clear yet clear voice drew all the attention in the room.
Raon smiled as he snapped his fingers in time with the song.
‘He’s grown again.’
The infant’s voice and sense of singing are more developed than before. She seemed to have become a singer who could literally bewitch people.
– Pineapple girl! Pineapple Girl!
Lars waved a round fist at the infant. Frost bloomed from his knuckles and shimmered like starlight.
“Raon.”
While Raon smiled as he listened to the song of the infant, Saint Fedric, dressed in a loose-fitting shirt, approached him. I knew he was there, of course, but he didn’t talk to me because he was paying attention.
“long time no see. saint.”
“How does it feel to hear about your accomplishments?”
“I’m embarrassed.”
He scratched his cheek and shook his head.
“They say it’s true, is there anything embarrassing?”
“It seems a bit dramatized.”
“I heard that child is 100% true story?”
Federick let out a benevolent laugh as he watched the toddler manipulating the Raon Sieghart doll.
‘As expected, Yua wrote it.’
The only person who would know the story properly was Yua, so it was natural for her to write the script.
Raon looked at the children concentrating under the podium and then turned to Federick.
“Thank you for listening to my request.”
I straightened my posture and bowed down to Federik.
“It’s like a greeting.”
Federick waved his hand as thin as a wave approaching a beach.
“Even if it wasn’t your request, it was something I had to help with, so don’t worry about it.”
He smiled, saying it was the natural thing to do as a human being.
“however… .”
Raon asked as he watched the continuing puppet show.
“Why are you doing a puppet show at this hour?”
Even though children are at an age where they would love puppet shows, it didn’t make sense to do them at bedtime.
“For those children, the night is a time of fear.”
“ah… .”
“They say the time they trained the kids to be assassins was at night. Being tortured while sleeping, and learning how to kill people, the nights are bound to be frightening.”
Federick’s tone was calm, but his hands trembled as if he were angry.
“That’s why those kids can’t sleep at night. Even if I fell asleep, I would wake up with a nightmare and strangle myself.”
“okay… .”
Raon bit his lip.
‘As expected.’
It was something I had experienced when I was living as Raon in my previous life, so I couldn’t not know. The night was hell, the most terrible time.
“This puppet show is a psychotherapy to turn children’s fears of the night into joy. I thought it would be difficult, but those kids were willing to help.”
Federic smiled as he watched Sylvia and the ladies-in-waiting conduct the puppet show with all their heart.
“Is there any effect?”
“It’s late in the morning, but now you don’t wake up and sleep until the sun rises.”
“Then can you solve brainwashing too?”
“okay.”
Federick nodded without hesitation.
“Because we saved the children before the brainwashing was complete, we can treat them.”
“… thank you.”
Raon rubbed his chest while closing his eyes. He kept worrying about whether or not he would, so when he heard Fedric’s confirmation, he felt relieved.
– Whoa, whoa!
Lars let out a long sigh, probably relieved.
– Thank God! The young of any race must be raised with dignity!
This time, the guy snorted while making a sound that was not like a demon king.
“What are you going to do when the treatment for those children is over?”
“I want to make them do what they want to do.”
Raon revealed his honest feelings while looking at the children. I wanted to let Raon from his previous life and No. 9, who had already passed away, live a normal life that he did not get.
“You didn’t even have to ask.”
Federick tapped his shoulder eagerly.
“Anyone would have done this. It’s not really a big deal.”
He said it was nothing and shook his hand. Fedrick looked at the hand and wiped the smile from the corners of his mouth.
“I’m sorry I seem to be spoiling the fun, but I think I have to give you some bad news too.”
“Bad news?”
“I don’t think I can save anyone other than those children who have already been completely brainwashed.”
Federick looked up at the blackened sky and bit his lip.
“Brainwashing children is a method in which hundreds of meters of wire are entwined around the brain, creating a barbed wire that can never be removed. Once completed, it’s almost impossible to solve. It will never be released unless the survival instinct takes over the body after receiving a wound on the verge of death.”
“Deadly wounds… .”
Is that why I’m out of brainwashing?
Thanks to being in danger of dying while on a mission, the string of brainwashing was loosened, and in the gap, I was able to learn the ring of fire.
Thanks to a combination of luck and luck, it seemed that he was able to escape Derus’s brainwashing.
“Even if the person responsible for this brainwashing is caught, there is no guarantee that it will be solved. If you meet people who have been brainwashed, it seems like the best way is to let them go comfortably… .”
Federik lowered his head, saying he was sorry he couldn’t help.
“no. The brainwashed bastards are just trash.”
Raon let out a sigh. In the end, it seemed that this hellish fight would end only if Derus was killed.
‘I have to grow up faster.’
Even now, he’s getting stronger faster than anyone else, but I wanted to grow faster and end his time.
“I told you the bad news, so this time I will give you the good news.”
Federick raised his finger and pointed at the heart.
“I couldn’t catch the brainwashing, but I think I can solve the Rage Worm.”
“Are you sure?”
“It will take some time, but I think a way will be made to get rid of the worm in the heart.”
If he was going to say that, it meant that he was almost certain.
Those with Rage Worms are the henchmen of Derus. If they could open their mouths, it wouldn’t be impossible to find Derus’ weakness.
“It doesn’t matter how much money it is. Please.”
“Looks like you’ve been making some money outside.”
“yes. I happened to… .”
Raon nodded lightly and told him that he had asked for Sepia’s cooperation.
“her! Above Sepia?”
Federik opened his mouth as if he hadn’t known that Sepia Co. would join Sieghart. The puppet show stopped at his cry, and everyone turned around.
“Saint. suddenly… uh? Raon!”
“young master?”
“When did you come!”
“The Bocchan has arrived!”
The maids including Sylvia and Helen turned on the lights and jumped off the podium.
“Guys! That’s Raon! Raon Sieghart!”
Yua even put an aura on her voice and told the children Raon’s name.
“Raon?”
“Are you a real hero?”
“Raon! Raon! Raon!”
“Waaaaaaaaaa!”
Even the children sitting on the chairs jumped out and attacked like bees.
“Did you really save people by fighting for a week?”
“Is it true that you defeated the demon king?”
“Have you got a use for it?”
It was even said that Yooa’s script had caught the devil and the dragon.
“Not that… ah.”
That child… .
Raon shook his head and met the eyes of the little girl who had given him the name Pine.
His dark eyes were full of hope and light, and he was holding hands with a friend who was aiming a knife at each other in the basement.
Seeing his face so bright that it couldn’t even be compared to before, something in the depths of his soul melted. It could have been a lump from a previous life, it could have been hope, or it could have been the resentment left by No. 9.
“okay.”
Raon nodded his head to the children, letting go of the emotion he didn’t know exactly what it was.
“The Demon King was captured.”
“Really?”
“Did you really catch the Demon King?”
“okay. It’s the Hogu demon king named Ras.”
“Wowaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
The children cheered and raised their hands.
-Hogu named Ras… .
Lars didn’t understand what he was saying at first, then lit a blue fire of anger in his eyes.
– Hey son!
* * *
noon the next day.
After a leisurely lunch, Raon headed to the cliffs of Mt. Bukmang.
Because I told them in advance in the morning, all the members of the Gwangpungdan came to the bottom of the cliff to warm up. Unlike yesterday, they were warming up at the bottom of the cliff with very refreshing and cool faces.
“Raon.”
Runan ran first and nodded.
“Are you coming now?”
Burren came up behind him and smiled.
“If it was like before, I would have been here since dawn, but I was lazy.”
Martha clicked her tongue in pity.
“It’s been a while since I wanted to eat some home-cooked food.”
Lars, who was angry yesterday, insisted that we eat until lunch, so we had no choice but to eat breakfast and lunch at the annex building.
– I’m satisfied.
The guy who was in a good mood was now smirking while floating in the air as if doing a backstroke.
Raon approached Dohee, who was leaning against the cliff.
“Commander. Thank you for your hard work.”
“I thought I was going to die of boredom when I left all the troublesome things behind and crawled out now.”
“Compared to that, the achievements of the members have gone up a lot.”
“I just couldn’t let it go because I was bored.”
“thank you.”
Do-goe turned his head away, frowning. It was thanks to his training that the Gwangpung members grew like this, so he bowed his head in gratitude.
“Are you climbing a cliff again today?”
“Isn’t yesterday enough?”
“I fell almost 10 times… .”
The members of the Gwangpungdan sighed, asking if they would do that again.
“Okay, ah, hello.”
I heard a moan and looked to the side, and there was Dorian, who was covered in bandages. If it wasn’t for the belly pouch, I don’t think I would have recognized it.
“Why are you like that?”
“It’s because of the boo-dan lord!”
“me? why me?”
“I left it to throw stones yesterday, so people thought I threw stones from the beginning!”
Dorian pointed at the members of the Gwangpungdan, asking them to quickly reveal the truth.
“ah… .”
Raon laughed at Dorian and the members of the Gwangpungdan.
‘That’s how it happened.’
Now I know why it was like that. It was clear that Dorian had been caught and beaten by Burren, Martha, and Runan while throwing stones all the way.
“I told you to do it once and leave.”
Raon pretended not to know anything and waved his hands.
“Boo, when will Lord Budan… .”
Dorian opened his mouth wide enough for the toad to enter.
“No, obviously… .”
“As expected!”
“That bastard!”
“You died later!”
The gwangpungdan members glared at Dorian with red eyes, and Dorian trembled his pursed lips.
“Is everyone here?”
A loud voice came from the right. Turning around, there was Rimmer, with tanned red hair and black-and-white snowballs.
“Why is Danju like that?”
“I don’t know. men and horses. Start soon.”
Rimmer leaned against the cliff and muttered that life is too hard to live.
‘It’s a really strange group.’
Raon smiled and stood in front of the members.
“Sort.”
When the order was given to sort things out after a long time, the Gwangpungdan members, who had been scattered here and there and couldn’t concentrate, gathered at once and set up a display. His eyes also flashed so fiercely that there would be no problem even if he fought right away.
“I will start with an introduction. Sir Mark.”
When his name was called, Mark Goetton, who had fallen behind, stepped forward.
“Have you learned the face?”
“I learned very well. It’s a problem because the first meeting was a rescue, but… .”
Burren shook his chin in bewilderment at Mark Goetton.
“You look good, who are you?”
Martha rolled her eyes like black pearls as if feeling a sense of victory.
“Hold me well.”
Runan nodded, saying that the landing was comfortable.
“His name is Mark Goetton. He’s a knight-turned-thief, and he’s not yet a member of Gwangpungdan, but you’ll have a lot to do together, so it’d be nice to be friends with him.”
If Mark Goeten wanted to join Gwangpungdan, he would put it in, but since he wanted to be a vassal, he put it in as a member of the annex.
“… … .”
Runaan looked blankly at Mark Goeten, as if he was not interested in his name and status.
“I haven’t heard of it.”
Marta muttered the name Mark Goeton a few times, as if she didn’t know him.
“Mark Goetton? Nakhwa too… Suck!”
Burren closed his mouth while talking about the nickname Nakhwa Island.
“you’re right.”
Mark Goetton stepped forward and nodded.
“My name is Mark Goeton, who is called Nakhwado, which means a fallen soldier.”
He proudly revealed the meaning of his name and smiled.
“I was sunk lower than the bottom, but thanks to Raon-nim, I was able to gain enlightenment. I wish you well in the future.”
Mark Goeten bowed his head respectfully to the young Gwangpungdan soldiers.
“welcome!”
Burren was the first to applaud and smiled coolly, as if feeling a sense of sympathy.
“Let’s play together later!”
“Do you like marble ice cream?”
“I hope to go along well!”
“Waaaaaa!”
Marta and Runan said their own thing, and the other gwangpungdan members laughed and cheered.
match!
Raon clapped his hands loudly when Mark Gotten finished the shout with the members of the Gwangpungdan. The members of the Gwangpungdan turned their gazes with serious expressions as if they had been waiting.
“Now that the greeting is over, continue the training to climb the cliff from yesterday. Let everyone take their seats.”
While moving between the swordsmen, their mana circuits were blocked.
“okay. It seems to me that you guys have to work hard… uh?”
I blocked the mana circuit by pressing Limer’s neck, who was giggling, and he turned around with his eyes wide open.
“Ra, Raon? Do you think you made a mistake? I also blocked the aura… .”
“It is not a mistake. Even the lord should do it.”
“Yumma! I’m sober… .”
“Didn’t you say you would entrust me with training until the armed forces are restored?”
Raon looked at Rimer and narrowed his eyes.
“No matter how much I do, I can’t train with those little kids on this jjambab!”
“Sweet Lord. You can see that there is oil on the stomach. Didn’t you skip physical training because you were only doing Aura exercises?”
“Ugh, that, that… .”
Rimmer shrugged and lowered his gaze.
“If you come to the top even once, I will take it off.”
“Really?”
“Sure.”
Raon nodded and looked down at the entire Gwangfungdan.
“So are you. If you manage to break through my hindrance and reach the top even once, I’ll remove this training.”
“Oh oh!”
“Good!”
“I’m used to it now! Let’s finish today!”
The members of the Gwangpungdan looked at each other and shouted that they could do it.
Raon listened to the cheers of the swordsmen and bowed his head to Do-Hae standing next to him.
“Commander. Please.”
“I am They do everything because of you.”
He walked towards the cliff, laughing nonchalantly. Dohae was the lifeguard of the day, as Mark Goetton also had to train.
“Then see you later.”
Raon waved his hand lightly and climbed to the top of the cliff at once. After he reached the top of the cliff, he screamed under him.
“Start training!”
“Gazua!”
“This F*cking training ends today!”
“Aaaaaaa!”
As soon as I shouted to start training, the Gwangpungdan members jumped like grasshoppers and clung to the cliff. Because the sun was up and it had already made several round trips, it was rising twice as fast as yesterday.
“It’s fast. Anyway… .”
Raon laughed and took out a dagger-shaped piece of wood. He held the piece of wood between his index and middle fingers and fired it straight down.
Phew!
The wooden dagger fired with an intense piercing sound hit the cheekbone of the crane that was coming up the front.
“Kwuq! Why are you calling me again?
The crane let out a thick scream and fell straight down. Do-goe let out a sigh and moved to accept him.
“This isn’t it.”
Raon clicked his tongue briefly and pulled out a booklet from his bosom. It was the book of martial arts of the White Thunder Bido that he received yesterday.
“Oh, the shape of your hand is a bit wrong.”
-Yes, you can’t… .
Lars looked at Raon and his lips trembled.
-Are you trying to practice blowing rain with those guys?
‘okay.’
Raon nodded confidently.
‘I can’t just leave a good target like that.’
The most important thing in rain training is to hit the moving target. Thanks to having learned secret magic in a previous life, I decided to skip a stationary object and aim for a moving target immediately.
‘They train to develop their senses and responsiveness, and I kill two birds with one stone if I train to match them.’
-What kind of crazy guy… .
Lars shook his head, saying that he had become a real idiot.
‘This is what cost-effectiveness training is all about.’
Raon laughed and blew a second rain. Rain, which flew faster than before, struck the Gwangpungdan member’s armpit. The swordsman who had been attacked in the vital part screamed and fell away.
“It’s still a bit lacking.”
This time the accuracy increased, but the speed was a bit lacking. Injecting a little stronger aura, I blew a wooden blade at the members of the Gwangpungdan who came up.
Bubbeobuck!
Since he made up for his shortcomings through the Book of Muhak and the Ring of Fire, Bido started bombarding the members of the Gwangpungdan with more and more speed and accuracy.
“Uhhhhhh!”
While he was making the Gwangpungdan members fall with excitement, Rimer was climbing to the middle of the cliff before he knew it. Instead of an internal aura, he was using the wind around him to increase his speed.
“This is against the rules.”
Raon shook his head and filled Bido with an aura and fired it at Rimer. Just as Bido, which fell like a thunderbolt, was about to strike his forehead, a green wind rose up, changing Bido’s direction and reducing its power.
“Laon! You are still young!”
Rimer smirked, saying that this is the response of an adult.
“Hmm… .”
Bido was blown a few more times, but Rimer used the wind to reduce the power of Bido and jumped up the cliff like a goblin.
“It can’t be helped.”
Raon drew his sword without panic. He raised the cartoonist’s return on the blade of the Jecheon Sword.
-uh… ?
Lars saw it and opened his mouth.
-Yes, you can’t… .
‘That’s right.’
With a smile, he fired young sparks from the blade toward Rimer.
Quaaaaaa!
The blade, which rotated like a circular saw blade, completely shattered the edge of the cliff Rimmer was climbing.
“Keep!”
As the wall on which his hands and feet rested fell off, Rimmer’s pupils swelled as if they were going to explode.
“Because I didn’t say I didn’t use a sword.”
“Raon! You crazy bastard!”
Limer also couldn’t use the aura, so he started to fall down the cliff.
“uh… .”
“Um, why did he come here as an idiot?
“Dorian! Why is he like that!”
“It used to be like that!”
Dorian waved his hand at Martha.
“This is against the rules.”
Raon smiled and put his sword in. When I was about to throw the dagger again, a person came up from behind with a rustling sound.
“Dude lord. Long time no see.”
Turning around, Chad, a non-banquet owner with a large box, bowed his head.
Aww!
Raon hit Dorian’s forehead with the dagger he was holding and bowed his head to him.
“What brought you here?”
“I came here because I have good news.”
Chad put down the box he was holding and smiled.
“A present has arrived from the Palace of the Beast.”
“A gift from the Beast Palace… .”
Raon smiled happily as he alternately looked at the box Chad put down and the Gwangpungdan members eagerly climbing the cliff.
‘I wonder if I can increase the intensity of my training with this?’
-… Are you really going to kill kids?
