Genius Wizard Takes Medicine [EN]: Chapter 949

“Ban!!”

Peisha collapsed, the consequence of breaking the ban and revealing the project’s secrets.

Seeing this, Jenny called out to Lenok and rushed towards Peisha.

“Guh… Cough…!!”

Peisha Grisburn was unconscious, bleeding from every orifice on her face.

Her shoulders and limbs were convulsing, and all the muscles in her body were stiffening.

She looked utterly miserable, as if she were about to let go of the thread of life at any moment.

Thud!

Jenny opened the cabinet in the office, took out a first-aid kit, and shouted as she inserted an ampule into Peisha’s neck.

“Call the medic! I’ll do the emergency treatment in the meantime…!!!”

The backlash of the ban was something even high-ranking transcendents [individuals who have surpassed normal human limitations] couldn’t avoid.

However, in this tower where experts from various fields gathered, there might still be a chance to save her.

Jenny, quickly assessing the situation, was about to administer a painkiller into Peisha’s mouth without hesitation when Lenok, who had been quietly observing, replied.

“It’s fine.”

“What…?”

“She’s an incorrigible killer, but she’s still too useful to die here.”

He looked down at Peisha, who was convulsing, with his arms crossed.

Lenok’s gaze at her face, which was close to death, was cold, but conversely, there was no particular murderous intent.

“I’ve already taken care of the hand. The rest is up to her will.”

“What does that…”

“Cough, cough!!!”

At that moment, Peisha shook off Jenny’s hand and coughed roughly.

She threw away the ampule stuck in her neck and rolled on the carpet of the office.

It wouldn’t be strange if her head had been smashed and she had died, but she was still alive, convulsing all over.

That fact itself was proof that the arrangement Lenok had made in advance had worked successfully.

“Cough, cough…!!! Ugh, ugh, ugh!!”

Peisha, who had been twisting her limbs and scratching the floor with her fingernails, couldn’t hold back her nausea and vomited.

Something that wasn’t stomach acid came out of her stomach, which hadn’t had anything to eat for days, and rolled on the floor.

A piece of a goat’s horn, broken in half.

Covered in wet saliva, it was corroding and melting as if it were burning.

Chiiik!

“Haa, haa…!!!”

Peisha, who had been staring blankly at it while sweating profusely, slammed her head into the floor.

A heavy impact that would have caused a cerebral hemorrhage if it hadn’t been for the carpet.

However, Peisha’s breathing was much more stable than before.

“A way to bypass the ban using a part of Anatame’s body.”

Peisha approached where she had slammed her head and picked up the piece of horn.

Lenok, who had been watching the rapidly corroding and disappearing piece of horn with interest, said.

“I was wondering how to use it, but it seems that simply ingesting it has some effect.”

“You, you son of a…”

Peisha muttered in a voice that seemed to be on the verge of death.

“When the meeting ended… you played a trick… you bastard…”

Peisha had fainted as soon as the meeting ended, and by the time she woke up, Lenok and Kyulbaek were talking.

In the meantime, Lenok had cut off Anatame’s horn and fed a piece of it to Peisha.

“Don’t blame me too much. If it weren’t for this, you would have died here.”

Lenok chuckled and squatted in front of Peisha.

Chiiik!!

Lenok, who had lit a cigarette, blew smoke over her head and said.

“Either way, if you went back to Oliviera, you would have been used for experiments to bypass the ban until you died, wouldn’t it be better to preserve your life this way?”

The reason Peisha was able to survive despite breaking the ban was because Anatame’s body, which had been absorbed into her body, had taken the backlash instead.

Surely, Oliviera would have expected this kind of use and asked Lenok for a part of Anatame’s body.

“Bullshit, you and that woman… what’s the difference…!!”

However, instead of accepting Lenok’s words, Peisha laughed weakly.

“Either way, if I go back, I’ll be experimented on until I die…!!”

“No, it’ll be fine. This kind of application is only a one-time thing anyway.”

Lenok said, looking at the piece of horn that had completely corroded and disappeared in his hand.

“Even if you bypass the ban, you’re still taking the backlash through a substitute. The geas [a magical compulsion or binding] isn’t such a lenient restraint.”

Lenok, who had burned the crumbled powder on his glove, turned his gaze.

“If you try to bypass the ban the same way next time, it will ignore Anatame’s causality and kill the contractor immediately.”

“…”

Simply absorbing a part of Anatame’s body is only enough to take the backlash of the ban once.

In order to use Anatame’s causality more efficiently, it would be necessary to adjust it in a different way.

That adjustment might be the real purpose of Oliviera Ron Maze.

Thinking that, Lenok looked down at Peisha with a smile.

“But it’s surprising that you chose to break the ban, disregarding death. Did you think it was okay to die now?”

“…”

She was someone who had participated in the war under Kaise and had witnessed the failure of the project.

Considering the time she had lived, she would have known from the beginning that this would happen.

But even knowing that, Peisha chose to break the ban and die here.

If you can decide when and how you will die, that alone is a blessing in this world.

“You laughed at Claude, but you were also looking for a place to die.”

Lenok sneered.

“You want to be at peace, it’s contradictory. Death is too much for a human like you to be allowed.”

“…It must seem pathetic to you.”

Peisha struggled to lift her gaze.

Her eyes glistened with regret and self-deprecation.

“I just thought it wouldn’t be a bad way to end this miserable life.”

“You’re talking as if you want to atone. Don’t you think it’s too late now?”

“…”

“You must have been thinking about the end from the moment you saw Jenny, but I won’t let you off so easily.”

The words Peisha had revealed in front of Jenny were because she thought they were her last words in this place.

She must have started the conversation with the intention of breaking the ban and dying for the sake of the Bajur’s granddaughter.

“I’ll deal with your situation separately by trading with Oliviera.”

Lenok whispered, looking at Peisha’s distorted face.

“You can look forward to it. I’m planning to give you much harder work than now.”

“You, you bastard…!!”

“But I can see that what you said wasn’t a lie. To cut off the talent of defying fate in his generation…”

Lenok muttered, turning his gaze to Jenny.

Jenny, who had a complicated expression and was biting her lip, asked.

“To cut off the talent… are you telling me to believe that?”

“It’s not the answer I expected, but it’s not an entirely incomprehensible reason.”

Lenok replied.

“Kaise Bajur was born with a heavenly curse that made the magic power in his whole body flow in the opposite direction to his blood vessels.”

Peisha’s shoulders twitched greatly at Lenok’s explanation, which mentioned Kaise without hesitation, but he ignored her and spoke again.

“Because of that, he obtained the reverse magic that turns back time, but he was a body that had to live in a different time than others.”

“…”

“It is known that the bloodline ability passed down through generations, the curse or binding inherited through blood, is expressed more powerfully through generational skipping.”

Lenok said, looking at Jenny with indifferent eyes.

“From here on, it’s just speculation, but Ethan Bajur is highly likely to have been aware that Kaise’s traits would be strongly expressed in you.”

“…”

“If the talent of defying fate had actually been expressed through generational skipping, your life would have been drastically different… and Ethan Bajur might not have been able to accept that.”

“That’s, that’s…”

Jenny’s hands were trembling uncontrollably.

She was holding back because it was Lenok who was speaking, but it was proof that her agitation was so severe that it was difficult to suppress her emotions.

“Of course, that’s what Peisha is claiming, I don’t know what kind of person Ethan Bajur actually is.”

Therefore, instead of continuing the explanation, Lenok naturally changed the subject.

“It’s hard to say that the attitude of condoning the war waged by Dead Rise or the massacre of Peisha Grisburn is desirable. I don’t know what he’s thinking.”

“Bullshit…!! You bastard, you know everything…!!!”

Was it because Lenok’s appearance of turning the subject while pretending not to know, even though he was close to the answer, seemed so hateful?

Lenok, who had neatly ignored Peisha, who was foaming at the mouth and convulsing, organized his thoughts.

He had turned the subject appropriately for Jenny, but there was one fact that he had to tell her now.

“However, because of that… the fact that Ethan Bajur is still alive is clear.”

“…”

“After contacting the generals of the legion, I also learned that fact. The Dead Rise he leads is literally Ethan himself who has returned from death.”

Lenok smiled and pointed to the fallen Peisha.

“So, if you want, you can meet him someday. Until then, this woman will be a means of finding Ethan Bajur.”

“…”

Jenny’s appearance, as if she had lost her words.

In fact, with the position and authority she has now, it is not an impossible task.

The only magic tower in the megacity. As Lenok’s business partner, she is the manager in charge of most of the administrative work.

Someday, when Dead Rise returns from the center to the Balkans, if Ethan Bajur is leading the legion, Jenny will also face him in some way.

“A presumptuous magician like you, trying to find Lord Bajur…”

Peisha grinned.

“He is not a being bound by the time of this world. No matter how skilled you are, even if-”

“I guess so. Returning from death is impossible with just the strength of the soul or spirit.”

Lenok said, looking down at Peisha, who seemed to have been stabbed in the heart.

“A vessel strong enough to hold a soul that has reversed life and death. There’s no need to confirm that Ethan himself was an outstanding transcendent.”

If he was the leader of a military group like Dead Rise, there was no need to talk about his martial power.

Above all, Ethan Bajur was a person who traveled alone through the military cities and left records in all sorts of secret places.

How could such a reckless journey have been possible without confidence in his own martial power?

Unlike Kaise, Ethan Bajur must have been a transcendent with very strong martial power from the beginning.

“If you don’t have anything else to say, let’s finish here.”

Lenok said, raising his hand.

“I want to clean up the room first. Your vomit is making me feel nauseous.”

Snap!

At the same time as he snapped his fingers, the carpet that Peisha had vomited on was rolled up and folded.

The window opened wide, and the thin light-blocking curtain was automatically pulled back, starting to ventilate the room.

As he grabbed Peisha by the collar with magic power and sat her on a chair, Peisha, who had regained her strength, retorted without losing.

“You’re a madman who sees blood at every opportunity, but you’re pretending to be weak-willed… who do you think will believe such a pretense?”

“Not one thing you said is right. Can you only say wrong things when you’re not breaking the ban?”

Lenok replied indifferently, opening the window wide.

Whoosh!

A chilly wind poured in through the window, ventilating the room.

As the heat that had filled the office dissipated, the sound of things being busily tidied up echoed.

Only then did Jenny seem to come to her senses, rubbing her cheeks with both hands and turning around.

“…Ban. I’ll take care of the contact from the city council first.”

Jenny said, picking up the documents she had placed on the table.

“The connections of the upper echelons seem to be twisted because of the cult and the apostles. I’m going to sort out the confusion in the council line first and then listen to the situation again.”

“It wasn’t something that could be resolved overnight.”

Lenok nodded.

“I also have somewhere to go for a while, so you can take your time. I’ll be waiting.”

“Okay. And what happened today…”

Jenny forced a smile and sighed softly.

“Later. I want to hear the story from Jorden and think about it again. Is that okay?”

“Regardless of whether it’s okay or not, it’s something related to you.”

Lenok smiled with his arms crossed.

“If you didn’t think carefully and decide, I would have thought there was something wrong.”

“…It’s a mess from beginning to end, what are you talking about?”

Jenny grumbled, but she seemed to have relieved some of her burden.

Jenny, who had picked up the documents, tapped Lenok’s arm and glanced at Peisha before leaving the office.

She must have guessed that there was more to talk about between Lenok and Peisha.

“…”

Even in the midst of all this, Peisha seemed to want to remember Jenny’s face, glancing at her, but Jenny had already disappeared.

“You’re very devoted.”

Lenok, as if he had been waiting for that reaction, which was completely different from his usual mad behavior, sneered at Peisha.

“Anyone would think I brought Jenny’s nanny to the tower.”

“…You’re the one who’s different in how you treat her granddaughter.”

Peisha retorted, not wanting to lose, with a flustered look.

“I didn’t know a cold-blooded magician like you could make such silly jokes. If the guys who died at your hands saw it, they’d be so upset they’d be jumping up and down.”

“Regardless of her origin, she is a capable and trustworthy person.”

Lenok replied.

“There are many talented people, but there are few who know how to gauge the line. It’s a waste of talent to be in this kind of dark place.”

“Don’t you think that even that character is because of her bloodline?”

Peisha asked with a sharp smile.

“Innate talent and a character that surpasses it. A transcendent will and mental strength that surpasses humans. Both of them had it.”

“Bloodline, bloodline… you’re singing out loud that you want to praise it.”

Lenok couldn’t help but give a cold smile.

“If the Bajur’s bloodline was so precious to you, why haven’t you cared about her until now?”

“That’s…!!”

“You betrayed Kaise, and after the project failed, you abandoned the Balkans. His son has become the leader of the traitors and is waging war with the legion.”

“You… how dare you…!!!!”

“Where is Gilleon, who was so proud of his loyalty, and what is he doing?”

Every time Lenok opened his mouth, the murderous intent in Peisha’s heart swelled like a balloon.

It must be because every word he threw was hitting the mark, as if it were touching a sore spot.

However, Peisha did not rush at Lenok, nor did she shout with harsh curses and excuses.

She just stared at Lenok with bloodshot eyes, as if waiting for something.

And Lenok also knew what Peisha was thinking.

“You were angry that I pretended not to know even though I had guessed the answer in front of Jenny earlier.”

Lenok whispered with a smile.

“You hate me, but you rely on my judgment and expect my intuition. You must have wanted me to understand the secret that you couldn’t say yourself. But I won’t do that.”

“…!!”

“You said that Ethan participated in the project to eradicate the Bajur’s talent, but that’s different from the purpose of Kaise that I know.”

The Black Consumer Project was a plan that Kaise started to find an answer.

It was literally an act of forcing things, dreaming of a qualification and future that were not given.

Lenok, who had met Kaise in the past in the closed area, knew what he wanted and why he started the project.

Kaise’s determination to clarify all the failures of this world without exception and find one answer that would lead to the next.

His choice to become something more than fate, even though he had failed, left its mark on Lenok’s kaleidoscope.

However, the purpose of Ethan Bajur that Peisha had explained was completely different from the answer that Kaise had wanted.

That’s why Lenok was able to know that there was something that Peisha hadn’t said and that she couldn’t explain to Jenny yet.

“I can guess why Kaise and Ethan’s goals for the project were different.”

Lenok’s eyes flashed sharply beyond the open window.

“The two of them split up during the project, or Ethan’s purpose was part of the answer that Kaise wanted, or maybe both.”

“…”

“That’s why I don’t believe your words. Everyone involved in the project has different testimonies, and your situation is ultimately biased towards Ethan.”

The essence of the Black Consumer Project was Kaise’s lingering attachment to finding an answer to destruction.

Therefore, the eradication of talent that Ethan wanted must have been one of the results that could be achieved through the project.

The failure of the project. Kaise Bajur’s change of heart and death. Ethan Bajur’s resurrection and the existence of Alcaide.

Dead Rise is definitely hiding something.

Something that only those who directly served the Bajur family know.

The decisive reason why they betrayed Kaise, even though they had directly participated in the project.

The reason why they have been ignoring Jenny’s existence even though they know about it.

It was clear that the secret was most closely related to Ethan’s existence.

“Whatever happened to Ethan Bajur, whatever he has become, it’s none of my business.”

No matter how strong and outstanding a transcendent Ethan Bajur is, or how different he has become since his resurrection.

Before the end comes, Lenok had to meet him once and hear the answer.

That would be the only thing Lenok could do for Kaise, who had entrusted his answer to the kaleidoscope.

“At least judging that will be something I do after I face him directly.”

“You…”

Perhaps it was because she felt an unprecedentedly strong will in Lenok’s answer.

While Peisha was staring at Lenok with a pale face, forgetting even to pour out her hatred.

Lenok, who had instantly calmed down, put his hand in his coat and turned around.

“Well, you don’t have to answer right now. It wasn’t something I had to hear from your mouth anyway.”

Lenok, who had stubbed out the half-burnt cigarette in the office ashtray, smiled and nodded.

Jenny’s past and Peisha’s secret. Even the method of bypassing Anatame’s ban. All the work and experiments that could be done right now were finished.

Now it was time to go and receive the price of the deal that had been exchanged before the meeting.

“Let’s hear the rest of the secrets about the project from Oliviera first.”