Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 397

Kang Eun-ha, who had been asleep for a long time, awoke.

“Blood Demon Lord….”

Her hazy eyes regained their focus, and she slowly raised herself, speaking to Lee Ro-woon.

“Am I going to die?”

It was a calm question.

She had just opened her eyes, yet her tone suggested she knew everything.

In fact, her consciousness had awakened around the time the ritual had begun.

“I have….”

She placed a hand on her chest and said,

“Something I shouldn’t have has taken root.”

She already knew everything.

Chaos.

A fragment of that guy had taken root.

Thump! Thump!

Kang Eun-ha’s heart was beating more intensely than ever before.

She was recovering her core energy moment by moment, exuding a more powerful aura than ever before.

Clench.

As she clenched her fist, the surrounding air vibrated.

It was proof that a fragment of chaos had taken hold, and as time passed, the chaos would consume her even more.

She asked.

If she was going to die.

That too was the influence of chaos.

An indescribable power, a repository of immeasurable knowledge.

“There’s no way.”

There was no way to extract only the chaos from her.

So, there was only one way.

“Am I going to die?”

The same question she had asked at the beginning.

“That’s right.”

He gave her the answer.

“Kang Eun-ha. You will die again.”

She had been resurrected, but her end was not far off.

“This time, you might not be able to come back.”

In her previous death, she had been resurrected.

If her soul and spirit were intact, it might be possible to resurrect her again, though not indefinitely.

But if her soul and spirit were not intact.

“There is a way to erase the soul.”

But if that happened.

“You’ll just become an undead.”

An undead born with an incomplete soul.

Some part of their ego might remain, but would it be the same as when their soul was complete?

Also, even if an undead has an ego, would it truly be the same as the one they had in life?

-Memory and soul.

The Demon King had asked.

-What do you think is real?

About the correlation between memory and soul.

It was a question that no one could answer.

“Then….”

Kang Eun-ha was about to ask for something.

“No.”

But Lee Ro-woon refused firmly.

He knew what she was about to say.

“Your value to the Blood Cult is great.”

Her intention to stay by his side even as an undead.

“Have you thought about how others would see you if you became an undead?”

No.

That wasn’t important.

“What has taken root in you can’t be removed by just erasing your soul.”

Chaos also takes root in the body.

It takes root in everything, devours everything, and distorts everything.

The moment chaos seeped into her, her fate was as good as sealed.

“…….”

Kang Eun-ha lowered her head.

And after a moment.

“I have a request.”

She spoke with a determined look in her eyes.

* * *

“Grandfather.”

Kang Han-cheol stood before Kang Eun-ha.

He was Kang Han-cheol, who had been a guardian of the Blood Cult, and now he was the leader of the Blood Cult.

And Kang Eun-ha was his granddaughter and a priestess.

“Yes.”

“It’s good to see you again.”

Kang Han-cheol held Kang Eun-ha’s hand.

He stroked her hand with a gentle smile.

“You’re going through a lot.”

“It’s the time I’ve been wishing for.”

The two grandparents were smiling.

“Don’t worry about too much.”

“Yes. You’re here, Grandfather.”

“You are….”

Kang Han-cheol smiled even more deeply.

“You have been more of a joy to me than anything else.”

The two talked for a while.

Kang Han-cheol left.

After him, several figures from the Blood Cult, including Jeong Chi-soo, entered.

“Priestess.”

“Guild Leader.”

“It’s good to see you all again.”

They exchanged greetings.

Lee Ro-woon did not leave her side, watching them.

Those who were talking seemed not to care about Lee Ro-woon at this moment.

“Please take care of our Lord.”

“Is that even a thing to say?”

“Thank you.”

Then next, and then next.

Some of Eun-ha’s executives and those with whom Kang Eun-ha had shared friendships also entered.

And now, it was Lee Yong-jin who entered.

Smirk.

Kang Eun-ha smiled as she looked at him.

“Thanks to you, I can smile.”

“What did I do to make you smile? This is unpleasant….”

“You were always the one who made me laugh with trivial things.”

The two who faced each other didn’t say much.

Ha Se-min had mentioned it before.

-The two of them spend quite a long time together.

That Lee Yong-jin and Kang Eun-ha spent a lot of time together.

“You can understand, right?”

Kang Eun-ha asked Lee Yong-jin.

Crack.

A sound came from Lee Yong-jin’s mouth.

But soon, Lee Yong-jin grumbled and said,

“What can we do? This is our fate.”

“…….”

“Born as a martial artist, living as a martial artist.”

Lee Yong-jin, who was always lighthearted.

“Whether we are assassins or priestesses, we are martial artists, aren’t we?”

He said in a serious tone.

“We live as martial artists and die as martial artists. There’s no way we wouldn’t understand.”

“Thank you.”

“It’s just a shame.”

With a ‘tch’ sound, Lee Yong-jin briefly looked at Lee Ro-woon.

Quietly, Lee Ro-woon turned his head.

How much time had passed? Lee Yong-jin stood up.

His eyes were red.

Kang Eun-ha’s eyes were no different.

“I’m counting on you.”

With those words, Lee Yong-jin passed by Lee Ro-woon.

After him, Dang Hwa-young entered.

“I greet the head of the Dang family.”

“I greet the priestess of the Blood Cult.”

Their relationship was not very deep.

They had hardly spent any time together, and they were merely in a senior-junior relationship.

But for some reason, they were more excited than anyone else and talked a lot.

“I can count on you, right?”

“I will make sure that the name Eun-ha is not tarnished.”

There was warmth in her well-organized words.

“I’m counting on you.”

Kang Eun-ha gave some advice, suggestions, and requests.

Dang Hwa-young, for some reason, kept nodding her head and holding her hand.

The Dang family.

The story that the blood of the martial artists of the Northern Ice Palace was cold had been famous since ancient times.

But even before that, there was a story that the blood of the Dang family was even colder.

They were known not to show emotions for anything and not to sympathize with anything.

“You’ve worked hard.”

When Dang Hwa-young stood up, her eyes were red.

And finally.

Swoosh.

Ha Se-min entered.

It was the first time.

“Blood Demon Lord.”

Kang Eun-ha called out to Lee Ro-woon.

“Can we talk just the two of us for a moment?”

It was the first request she had made, not asking for it when meeting anyone else.

“…….”

Ha Se-min also looked a little flustered.

“Hmm.”

Lee Ro-woon also seemed to be in thought for a moment.

Kang Eun-ha was a bomb right now.

A time bomb that could explode at any moment.

Moreover, the explosion she would cause would be more intense than anything that had happened so far and could leave unprecedented damage.

That’s why he had to watch her.

“Alright.”

But Lee Ro-woon granted her request.

He wanted to grant the request she was making today, as she had never asked for anything before.

“Thank you for your consideration.”

Lee Ro-woon moved away from his spot.

Into his ear.

-There’s something you need to know.

Kang Eun-ha’s voice, speaking to Ha Se-min, was heard.

-What I found out….

Lee Ro-woon blocked his hearing.

He could hear the sound beyond any barrier if he wanted to, but he deliberately blocked everything.

Lee Ro-woon moved away from his spot.

“What is it?”

Ha Se-min asked Kang Eun-ha.

“The Lord we serve….”

Kang Eun-ha.

She spoke with a face that was more hardened than ever before.

“May not be the person we think he is.”

“What do you….”

Ha Se-min was flustered and widened his eyes.

It was a sound he had never expected to hear from Kang Eun-ha.

‘Could it be.’

Could it be that the poison that had taken root in her had already consumed her?

Even so.

“Tell me.”

Ha Se-min listened to her words.

* * *

“Thank you for your consideration.”

All the greetings were over.

“I’m sorry I can only do this much for you.”

Kang Eun-ha smiled at Lee Ro-woon’s words.

“What are you talking about? It’s a blessing to have this time thanks to having a great Lord.”

Those who died on the battlefield talked to the living and greeted them.

There would be countless people who wished for that.

It was a blessing and good fortune.

“Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Kang Eun-ha sincerely thanked him.

Lee Ro-woon smiled bitterly at her appearance.

‘The influence has already begun.’

As the owner of chaos, who contained chaos, Lee Ro-woon could see it.

Her soul was already being consumed by chaos.

Also, chaos was spreading to her body.

It was a fragment close to a speck of dust, but in this short time, the fragment of chaos had multiplied enough to devour everything about her.

‘Since when.’

It had already started from the time they were exchanging greetings.

It was possible because the chaos that had taken root in her had escaped from Lee Ro-woon.

“Will you grant my last request too?”

The requests Kang Eun-ha had made.

-I want to talk to others.

He had already granted her request to talk before reaching the end.

And the last one.

“Yes. I will grant it.”

Kang Eun-ha requested.

-Please let me….

A heartfelt request.

-Take root in the Lord’s world.

It was a request to devour her soul again.

The only way to purify her soul, which had been taken over by chaos, was to destroy it by making it disappear as a soul itself.

But there was only one way to preserve her soul, and that was to devour her soul and place it back in his inner world.

However.

“That’s not salvation.”

That method was not salvation for Kang Eun-ha.

“It will be an eternal prison and punishment.”

Lee Ro-woon said with languid eyes.

“The place where your soul, already influenced by chaos, will reside is not a solitary cell in my inner world.”

Not a peaceful and comfortable resting place.

“It’s by the side of chaos, that guy.”

She would go to the side of chaos.

“I know.”

She said as if she already knew.

“You won’t even be able to cut off your consciousness.”

Lee Ro-woon said.

“You won’t be able to die even if you want to die anymore.”

She would become a part of chaos.

“You won’t be able to escape or sleep.”

Eternal pain.

“That place will be hell, but do you still want to do it?”

At Lee Ro-woon’s words, Kang Eun-ha.

Nod.

She nodded her head.

“I….”

If she said even a single lie at this moment, Lee Ro-woon had no intention of granting her request.

He unleashed his power for a moment and took away the chaos that had consumed her.

It was possible for a moment.

“I will become the Lord’s spear and shield.”

A firm voice.

“I will protect the Lord in the place where the Lord’s hand cannot reach.”

It was her sincerity.

“Can you do that?”

To become a part of chaos, to protect Lee Ro-woon with her will, and to suppress chaos.

Now that chaos was always trying to run wild, having such an existence would be like gaining a million soldiers.

“Your spirit of sacrifice is always amazing.”

Lee Ro-woon approached her.

Swoosh.

Lee Ro-woon embraced her.

“If that is your choice.”

And in the moment that followed.

Thud.

With a short tearing sound, her body slumped.