Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 225

The memories surged in.

The memories and pain were so vivid.

“Aaaaaaaah!”

The Duke of Carnage.

He was smiling.

Smiling as he slaughtered everything.

Swoosh!

Cutting down.

Crack!

Crushing.

He was genuinely enjoying that series of actions.

“Nooooo!”

At that memory, tears of blood flowed from Count Petus’s eyes.

The words to prove loyalty.

The words to just watch.

Thump!

How could that be possible?

-Honey.

It was his wife.

-Father.

It was his daughter.

-My lord.

It was a knight.

-Lord.

It was a territory citizen.

They walked towards the Duke of Carnage on their own feet.

The gazes that came towards him.

The gazes they threw at him, who could only watch everything without stopping the Duke of Carnage.

-Hold on.

It was just to endure and hold on.

They were trying to protect Count Petus by sacrificing themselves.

Petus staggered and tried to approach the Duke of Carnage, but.

Thump.

Their eyes, their hands, blocked everything.

The slaughter was over.

-Hoo.

His gaze, looking down at him with a face covered in blood, was so vivid.

-Fortunately, it seems you didn’t have any disrespectful thoughts, Count Petus.

That face was not of someone who had done a difficult task, but of someone who had felt a pleasant amusement after a long time.

-Or….

He brought his face close to his face and said.

-Or a coward.

At that time, Petus was just sobbing and trembling.

-Since you have proven your loyalty, I must give you a reward for it.

The Duke of Carnage lifted him up.

Crack!

A hand pierced through his solar plexus.

He felt something hot from that touch.

That was the whole story of that day that Count Petus remembered.

“Aaaaaaaah!”

It surged.

Those memories that he couldn’t suppress or forget, no matter how hard he tried, crawled out from the depths of the abyss and revealed themselves.

“Aaaaaaaah!”

Tears of blood flowed down.

“Count!”

It was no use even when Hamaye called him.

Kuwahhhhh!

The entire lord’s chamber was seized and shaken by the energy that Count Petus was emitting.

The energy he was emitting now was different from before.

It was not a pure resonance of mana, but something closer to a scream filled with anger.

At the same time, it was a sticky and dirty energy.

“Count!”

Hamaye called out to Count Petus and tried to approach him, but.

Thud!

He was bounced back by the energy that was gushing out from Count Petus.

The only one who was maintaining his posture within it was Irowoon.

“…….”

Irowoon, with languid eyes, quietly looked at Count Petus.

Hamaye couldn’t even pay attention to Irowoon.

Peeeeeep!

A whistle sound echoed.

The energy moving in various parts of the castle.

Bang!

The lord’s chamber eventually burst open due to Petus’s power.

“Haa. Haa.”

Count Petus was breathing roughly.

His appearance now was very different from before.

Tears of blood flowing down.

A face turning pale.

Growing fangs.

Whoosh!

Disgusting wings sprouted from his back.

No longer did he look human.

Thud!

The door to the lord’s chamber was hastily opened, and the Red Bat Knights poured in.

Did they come to target Irowoon, who had seen something they shouldn’t have?

No.

“We must stop the Count!”

To stop Count Petus, that was their goal.

“The Count’s rampage…!”

It was then.

Count Petus’s figure blurred.

Thump!

He grabbed Hamaye’s neck.

Hamaye quickly twisted his body.

Clang!

He struck away Count Petus’s arm.

Hamaye barely escaped in that slightly trembling moment.

“The Count…!”

Hamaye gave the order again to stop Petus’s rampage.

But this time, Petus’s target changed.

One person who had been the most bothersome from the beginning.

His instincts told him to back away, but the anger that surged within him paralyzed his reason, and the choice he made was.

“Krr.”

Irowoon.

Blur.

Petus’s figure blurred once again.

At a speed that was hard to follow with the eyes, Petus, who had disappeared like that, appeared behind Irowoon.

Swish!

The fingernails that had grown even longer were sharper than any famous sword, feeling threatening.

Drop, drop.

The drops of blood falling from the tips of his fingernails stuck to the floor.

Fss!

Creating a pungent smoke.

Without hesitation, Count Petus thrust towards Irowoon’s heart.

“No!”

Hamaye shouted, but it was already too late.

The moment Irowoon’s back and Petus’s hand made contact.

Thud.

Petus stopped.

“I heard there was such a race in Gehenna.”

Irowoon’s voice slowly echoed.

“I heard it was a race that was very similar to the Blood Demon Art of Master Muwang.”

Irowoon slowly turned his body as if nothing had happened.

Shudder.

Count Petus was just trembling, unable to do anything while looking at Irowoon.

“My master was very sorry, but I never thought I would see the traces of it here.”

Now, Count Petus and Irowoon were facing each other.

“……!”

The Red Bat Knights were also watching that scene.

The Count’s occasional seizures.

For that, the Red Bat Knights were always stationed in the castle, guarding the Count’s side.

The Red Bat Knights, who were originally close to a hundred, had been reduced to nearly fifty while stopping Count Petus’s seizures.

Petus, who barely calmed down after a battle close to a fierce fight.

“I.”

He was docile now.

Thump.

Irowoon grabbed Petus’s wrist that had been extended.

“I don’t think the feeling of revenge is bad.”

A slight emotion settled in Irowoon’s eyes, which had only been languid.

“It reminds you of a past you thought you had forgotten.”

Since when was it?

Irowoon also knew.

Around the time when the chaos began to awaken, the fragments of emotions that he had suppressed and erased were slowly raising their heads.

Was that why?

There were times when he became a bit sentimental.

“Is your revenge as desperate as mine?”

Shudder!

Petus, who was grabbed by Irowoon, trembled like an aspen.

Blood flowed backward and into Irowoon’s hand.

Trickle.

Tears of blood also flowed from Irowoon’s eyes.

The corners of Irowoon’s mouth began to twist.

“You are desperate too.”

A wry smile.

The experience you had wasn’t important.

The emotion you felt at that time was important.

Petus had a desire for revenge that was no less than his own.

Perhaps even more than him.

Trickle.

Tears of blood flowed down Petus’s cheek.

“Hehe….”

That sob echoed through the lord’s chamber.

“Your revenge.”

Irowoon said.

“Shall I help you?”

The red pupils of Petus slowly began to return to their original state.

And Petus, who had been rampaging for a long time and had to sleep for several days to regain his senses.

“Please….”

He spoke human words and then lost consciousness.

* * *

Phile was worried.

‘That energy from earlier….’

That was an energy that could never be tolerated as a Holy Knight of the Church.

He had a strong urge to rush out right away, but.

-Don’t come out.

Because of what Irowoon had said when he left the room, Phile was just pacing back and forth.

Boom!

The energy became even stronger.

Tingle.

The energy was so strong that his skin was stinging.

This energy.

“Demon…!”

It was definitely an energy that could only be felt from the demons of Gehenna.

-Don’t come out.

And a demon.

Phile was worried and worried again in the middle of it.

Clench.

In the end, Phile closed his eyes.

The existence of the Church was originally meant to fight against the demons of Gehenna.

As a Holy Knight of the Church, if he felt the energy of a demon, it was right that he should prioritize it above anything else, but.

Shudder.

Now that his faith in the Church and his faith in Seran were wavering.

Clench!

In the end, Phile decided to follow Irowoon’s words.

He blocked his senses and covered his ears and eyes.

And he waited until time passed.

Finally.

Swoosh.

Phile slowly opened his eyes.

He didn’t know how much time had passed.

However.

“No.”

In the end, Phile grabbed his sword hilt and started to move.

Thump thump thump!

The Count’s castle was shaking.

The demon’s energy was too strong.

What he was doing now was not a duty as a Holy Knight.

‘It’s dangerous.’

It was because Irowoon might be in danger.

A demon was something clearly different from the existence of silver or Einheart.

Their species was different, their ecology was different, and the energy they possessed was different.

They were so powerful that those who had not faced them could not face them.

He knew that Irowoon was strong, but.

“I have to help him.”

Danger could come to him too.

Tap tap.

Phile’s steps began to quicken.

The Count’s castle was so quiet as if everyone had died.

Tap!

He ran up the stairs.

Thud!

When he couldn’t find the way, he broke through the walls and ceilings.

Using the demon’s energy he felt as a compass.

Whoosh!

Phile went forward and forward again.

“…….”

Tense, Phile put his hand on his sword hilt.

Finally, he arrived at the floor where the lord’s chamber was located.

The Red Bat Knights were all standing in the hallway with their swords drawn.

“Please step aside.”

If necessary.

‘I’ll reveal my identity.’

It wouldn’t be a danger or a problem for Irowoon.

He would just take responsibility for everything.

“Step aside….”

When Phile spoke to the knights again.

Swoosh.

They lowered the swords they had drawn and began to step aside.

“……?”

Phile had thought that at least a small battle would take place.

However, the fact that the Red Bat Knights stepped aside so easily was actually embarrassing.

“You are….”

A familiar person was standing in front of him.

It was definitely the aide who had been with Petus all the time.

The one who was said to be the commander of the Red Bat Knights….

“My name is Hamaye.”

It was a man named Hamaye.

“You may go in.”

At Hamaye’s words, Phile cautiously took his hand off his sword hilt.

“The matter is already over. Both the Lord and ‘that person’ have allowed you to enter.”

“Now….”

Did he call Irowoon ‘that person’?

Phile wanted to say those words, but he couldn’t easily do so.

Nod.

He just nodded and slowly took a step.

Even then, he didn’t completely take his hand off his sword hilt.

It was because he thought that he might be ambushed when he passed through them, even though he didn’t feel any hostility from them.

Did Hamaye feel that too?

“Sheath your swords.”

An order to the knights.

Clang!

The swords they had drawn hid themselves again in their sheaths.

Swoosh.

Now they had completely stepped aside.

“You don’t have to worry.”

Hamaye seemed somewhat dejected.

“…….”

He looked relieved.

“Thank you.”

Phile thanked Hamaye as he passed him.

Hamaye didn’t say anything else and just bowed his head.

‘What’s going on?’

Phile had only heard a rough plan.

He thought that it wouldn’t be good for him to know everything, so he only listened to what Irowoon told him.

But now, for the first time, he regretted it.

An unbearable curiosity, curiosity.

What on earth happened here?

Knock knock.

What was going on?

“Is it okay to go in?”

The owner of the room was Petus, but now Phile was asking Irowoon.

Squeak.

As if it were the answer, the door opened by itself.

Phile went towards the open door.

The sight he saw was.

“Gasp!”

It was enough to make him cover his mouth.

Petus was kneeling on the floor.

He was kissing Irowoon’s instep.

That was a courtesy that was only given to the Emperor of the Empire.

“The plan has changed.”

Irowoon looked at Phile as if he didn’t think anything of that scene.

“We’re going to catch the Duke of Carnage.”

Good heavens.