Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 189

Riding the Romance Fantasy with Baby-nim’s Cash – Episode 189

☆ Chapter 189 ☆

[The closed contact circuit is forcibly opened.]

[Warning!]

[Evil energy is approaching through the opened contact circuit!]

Evil energy?

‘Why evil energy…….’

Could it be that Muriel, who isn’t quite dead yet, found out about the contact with the Spirit Beast and is making a move!

From the other side, a bright red energy rippled like an illusion.

Just looking at it made my hair stand on end. That thick, blood-red energy stretched out directly towards me.

‘Ah.’

I already thought the ground beneath my feet had crumbled, and I couldn’t despair any further.

‘I—.’

It felt like my will, my heart, was shattering into pieces.

A chill permeated through the cracked and broken heart.

Evil energy hadn’t even touched me yet, but the coldness froze and solidified my entire body.

I barely had a family, finally felt like I knew my place, and even experienced romantic feelings for the first time.

I was just starting to feel like I was living.

In this unknown place, alone, lonely, and desolate—.

‘Am I dying?’

The crimson evil energy filled my vision.

I couldn’t even close my eyes.

I had no will to face the final moment head-on.

I just couldn’t move my body.

I didn’t want to move my body.

No, I wanted to move.

I wanted to live.

I wanted to survive.

Even if hope was broken countless times, even if I fell endlessly into the abyss—.

‘I still want to go back.’

To my place.

But it was too late.

The blood-red evil energy swallowed me whole.

‘……Is this the end?’

Slowly, my eyes closed.

At that moment.

“I’ve come to get you, Master.”

A voice that shouldn’t be heard here was heard.

The last voice I heard before being swallowed by the gate.

I couldn’t believe my ears.

But still.

‘I want to believe.’

Even if I despair at the hope that disappears again, still.

I slowly opened my eyes.

Something sparkling brushed past my eyes.

Even in this hellish world, golden hair shone brilliantly like the sun.

Cool and collected eyes.

Violet eyes like the universe, with a mysterious mix of red and blue.

Sidrian, with a pale face, smiled at me.

Strong arms tightly embraced me, unable to move while sitting down.

Strongly, as if never to let go.

* * *

Going back in time, when the newly born Spirit Beast was pawing at the gate and whimpering.

The gate, which was gradually shrinking and seemed about to disappear, was being clawed at by the Spirit Beast and couldn’t shrink.

Sidrian looked at the red energy that was being torn apart and gathering again, and recalled a very old memory.

A memory that he had repeatedly seen due to the Geumje [a magical curse or binding], and therefore never recalled by his own will.

His childhood memory of being sacrificed as a living sacrifice by his mother and being subjected to the Geumje.

The red energy that had bound him back then was exactly the same as the energy that now made up the gate.

The woman who led the Geumje ritual, wearing a robe that deeply covered her face and half-covered her mouth.

Sidrian’s gaze turned to Muriel, who was sprawled on the floor.

“It’s been a while, hasn’t it.”

He couldn’t understand what Muriel had said when she came here.

He had encountered Lady Chavonne at the imperial palace banquet before, but were they on terms to exchange such greetings?

They hadn’t even exchanged words at the banquet.

‘She wasn’t talking about the banquet in the first place.’

It had been a long time since he had seen her in the ritual where the Geumje was cast.

‘……If that gate rejects external intrusions…’

Wouldn’t it accept the same power?

Even now, the gate was absorbing the evil energy that was being torn away and leaking out.

Sidrian looked down at his palm.

A clean hand without red lines.

Thanks to Ruatisha, he was freed from the Geumje and no longer suffered.

‘If I were to be subjected to the Geumje again…….’

The same evil energy as that gate would bind and restrain his limbs.

‘It might even try to absorb me since it’s the same power.’

It might be a ridiculous thought.

There was no accurate logic or perfect basis.

If he failed to enter the gate, it would only end with him being subjected to the Geumje again.

He would repeat that moment of pain, which was worse than death, until the day he died.

No, even if he succeeded in entering the gate, the Geumje that was cast again would bind and torment him for the rest of his life.

But.

“…….”

Sidrian clenched his empty fist tightly.

If there was even a sliver of possibility to save Ruatisha.

‘I don’t mind if that hell comes again.’

In the first place, it was Ruatisha who had taken him out of that hell and saved him.

That child, who was much younger than now, saved him even while vomiting blood.

‘So now it’s my turn.’

Sidrian consciously scattered the Ether [a magical energy] that had been accumulated within him.

It was absurd for a human to freely manipulate Ether, which was like the source of life.

However, Sidrian, who had been injected with Ether by Ruatisha, had all of his Ether circuits open.

The Ether, which had completely suppressed the Geumje, slowly moved away from his body and began to scatter everywhere.

Then, the evil energy of the suppressed Geumje began to twist Sidrian’s meridians [energy pathways in the body].

This was possible because Ruatisha did not externally undo (解明) the Geumje, but rather increased Sidrian’s Ether and allowed him to block the Geumje himself.

Just like how a cold sore doesn’t appear when you are infected with the herpes virus but your condition is good and your immunity is strong, but a cold sore appears as soon as your immunity weakens.

Soon, wriggling red lines began to appear on Sidrian’s neck and cheeks.

The Paeraton men turned around at the sudden eerie feeling.

“……!”

“You…….”

Sidrian stood there with a pale face, covered in wriggling red lines all over his body.

No one in this place didn’t know what that meant.

“No way…….”

Muriel’s eyes, who was barely holding on to her fading breath, widened as if they would tear.

She knew the pain better than anyone else because she had directly cast the Geumje.

That wasn’t something that could just be expressed as ‘painful.’

What kind of madman would try to subject himself to the Geumje?

Sidrian slowly walked towards the gate.

When the Geumje was activated in the past, he couldn’t distinguish the surroundings, lost consciousness, groaned, and wandered through nightmares.

Nothing had changed from then.

The power of the Geumje was the same as then, no, even more painful because it had been a long time, and it devoured his mind.

Now, even the sight of Ruatisha dying was added to the nightmares Sidrian saw.

But he had to endure now in order for that to end as a nightmare.

‘Ruatisha.’

One step.

‘Ruatisha.’

Another step.

‘My Master.’

The name that forcibly held onto his fading consciousness.

Sidrian moved his steps, overcoming the pain with only his mental strength.

His tightly closed lips burst and formed blood droplets.

Finally, his trembling hand touched the gate.

Thwoom.

The gate weakly pushed Sidrian away as if rejecting him, but soon pulled him back towards it.

It was trying to repel Sidrian, who was a human, but at the same time, it was trying to accept the evil energy within him.

‘……Not enough.’

Fortunately, his guess was correct.

However, the limit was to make contact without being repelled.

The force of repelling Sidrian, who was an external force, and the force of accepting the evil energy were equal, so it was insufficient to pass through the gate.

Sidrian scattered more Ether and drained the energy from his entire body.

“Keuk…….”

The number of red lines binding him increased.

His eyes were bloodshot from the terrible pain.

But at best, only a finger had slightly entered.

Nevertheless, Sidrian did not give up.

How could he give up?

It was the moment when he was about to release all the Ether that had scattered everywhere to the outside.

“……!”

He felt a force extending from somewhere and connecting through the gate.

‘This is…….’

A force that transcends dimensions.

It was the contact circuit created when the Spirit Beast Actsheraken contacted Ruatisha.

Ordinary people wouldn’t even feel it, but Sidrian could perfectly see the contact circuit.

“What is it?”

Zeon, who was sensitive to magic, raised his head.

The faint, alien energy extended from a distant place towards the gate.

“……It’s the power of the Spirit Beast lineage.”

The Duke of Paeraton frowned and muttered.

The Spirit Beast is a type of Spirit Beast.

What has that whimpering, crying baby Spirit Beast done?

‘If the power is connected, then through that path—.’

The Duke of Paeraton’s thoughts did not continue.

Sidrian’s body had completely passed through the gate.

“That!”

“Did he go in?”

Ixion and Ares rushed towards the gate, following Sidrian’s lead.

Thueo-eo-eong!

However, the gate repelled them as before.

“Damn it!”

Ixion, who had been repelled, jumped up.

“Why can’t we go in when that guy went in!”

He knew it was related to the evil energy of the Geumje, but he couldn’t possibly accept it.

A deep sense of defeat, which he felt for the first time, colored his face.

But at the same time.

‘……I believe.’

For the first time, he placed his hopes on a complete stranger.

* * *

Ruatisha’s wide eyes trembled slightly.

Sid.

Sidrian was in front of her.

“How, how did you get here…….”

Sidrian smiled as he looked at Ruatisha.

His heart ached at the sight of her being so messed up and injured.

“Sorry.”

Ruatisha looked at him, who was apologizing, as if she was puzzled.

“For coming late.”

“…….”

“I should have come before you got hurt.”

Ruatisha’s face contorted.

“What kind of stupid thing are you saying!”

Tears welled up.

Sidrian smiled at the sight.

Light returned to Ruatisha’s eyes, which had seemed to have lost their vitality and were fading away.

As if she had come back to life.

Yes, Ruatisha is alive.

‘It’s not too late.’

A sense of relief filled his entire body. His limbs lost strength.

And the Geumje, feeling his relief, joy, and delight, was activated again.

“Sid?!

Red lines wriggled and spread over Sidrian’s body.

“This is…… Geumje? Why is the Geumje back…….”

I clearly undid it back then.

‘Why?’

She looked at Sidrian, but he was only groaning while leaning on Ruatisha’s arms.

It seemed like his consciousness was fading away.

“No…….”

Ruatisha grabbed Sidrian’s face with a desperate expression.

It was then.

– What kind of ignorant human is this……. Using the contact path that I have control over?!

The Spirit Beast’s voice of anger echoed.

– How dare you!

However, there was some concern in that angry voice.

– Your soul could have been torn apart by my power!

“What?”

Unlike Ruatisha, who was surprised, Sidrian opened his blurry eyes and muttered.

“I don’t care…….”

He had to come to Ruatisha.

Even if his soul was torn to shreds, even if he died and his spirit scattered, he didn’t care.

It was better than staying still outside the gate, unable to do anything.

– This crazy bastard!

The Spirit Beast was appalled.

Sidrian was probably the first human to make the Spirit Beast appalled.

– But that alone wouldn’t have been enough to get into the gate. It’s amazing.

– Aha, that red mark.

At those words, Ruatisha, who had only been checking Sidrian’s condition, raised her head sharply.

“Do you know this?”

– Of course, I know.

– He’s marked with the mark of Kiyas Edel.

“Kiyas Edel?”

The Spirit Beast was silent.

Ruatisha didn’t ask further.

That wasn’t important now.

She had to save Sidrian.

She didn’t know what would happen if he lost consciousness in a place like this.

No, she knew very well what would happen.

And that was something that should never happen.

“Please share your power.”

– It’s amazing.

– Taking that guy along is going to be harder than taking care of yourself.

– You were despairing earlier, but now that it’s even harder, you’re actually strengthening your will.

“…….”

– Hope?

– No, it’s not hope.

It was a voice as if measuring.

– You know very well that the situation hasn’t improved. You’re cold.

– You become stronger when protecting others than yourself? Interesting.

Ruatisha said nothing.

She just steadily looked after Sidrian.

– Okay. I’ll lend you my power. But there’s a price to pay.

“I don’t care. Whatever it is.”

It was a firm statement.