What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 718

Buddy Movie (4)

-Thud, thud thud!

-Swishhhhhh!

No sooner had the divine message been delivered than the trash crumpled to the floor.

My sanctuary was small but radiating intensely angry golden light.

“Ugh! My knees, ouch!”

“Wait, what?!”

“Good heavens, you fiend! So you weren’t a speechless monster!”

[Monster, my foot. Even if Venetian is a land of gods and fairy tales, are you guys really that dumb? To believe that hook, line, and sinker?]

-Gurgle!

Normally, I wouldn’t use such contemptuous language to strangers, but the humiliation these guys inflicted on me made it hard to suppress my anger.

Especially that idiot—whether he’s a radar or a hater—he just makes me sick to my stomach, and I want to kick him off the continent right now.

I warned the knights reaching for their waistbands.

[Don’t even think about drawing your weapons. They won’t work on me anyway.]

“That, that insolent thing dares!”

“How dare a priest hide their identity and infiltrate the Lasso family! What on earth is your scheme…!”

[All of you, shut your traps! From now on, you’ll do exactly as I say. You, put your clothes back on, before I order you to shove them right into your mouths. Three, two, one…]

-Swishhhhhh!

“Ubb!”

“Uuuubb!”

The middle-aged man I couldn’t stand to look at hurriedly picked up his coat, sealing his lips shut, and the other knights, kneeling before me, groaned, their necks flushed crimson.

I could roughly count about seven or eight guys I could boss around.

Meanwhile, Her Majesty Han jumped out of my arms and slipped through the bars.

The rag doll hanging outside the carriage instantly opened the lock with its tiny scythe, and the guys started trembling all over, turning pale.

They could somehow accept a winged priest, but a possessed doll seemed terrifying.

-Click!

The poorly locked prison door opened in no time.

I walked out, sneering at them.

Tete and Lea in my arms also whined ominously.

“Uuuubb! Ubb…!”

[Don’t make unnecessary noise, or should I make sure you can’t use your vocal cords for the rest of your lives?]

-Awoo?

“……”

[Now that’s a bit quieter. Hey, you two, just put your hands behind your backs and bury your heads in the ground.]

-Kyaa!

As the lesser panda and I gave the order, the knights who had pointed skewers at me widened their eyes.

They didn’t seem to understand the posture I was talking about. Tsk.

[Assume the push-up position. Right, in that state, bury your heads in the ground and stand at ease. That’s what you call ‘Won San Bombing’ [a Korean military punishment]. Memorize it.]

“……”

“Kkeueuk……”

[Good job. You’ve got a knack for it. From now on, do that for ten minutes every day until you die.]

‘Cough, cough!’ A sound that was neither a gasp nor a cough escaped their throats.

I barely managed to release the strength in my jaw.

Anger surged up the more I thought about it, and I had the illusion that my vision was turning red.

[You treat even monsters in human form like that, so how terribly have you been treating speechless beasts all this time…? I can’t even imagine. And I don’t even want to imagine.]

“……”

[The world calls magical beasts evil beasts. No, in my opinion, the worst are you guys. No matter what magical beasts do, they can’t even touch the heels of bastards like you.]

-Little one.

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Her Majesty Han, who had been pacing around my feet, looked up at me with her short arms behind her back.

I felt like I already knew what she was about to say.

She said in a low voice.

-I must catch those bugs.

“Huk, huk……”

The look in her eyes as she glared at that Hater or Moral Hazard was fierce.

This time, the nobleman clutching his front tightly trembled his chin as he looked at us.

I reflexively felt nauseous.

Disgusting.

“……Please, do as you wish.”

-Kwaaaang!

No sooner had I answered than a black vine burst out from the corner of the solitary cell.

Pow! Red soil and gravel scattered everywhere, and the thorny vines shot out like bullets, grabbing Hater’s throat.

The man didn’t even let out a whimper before being thrown out into the outer hallway. Koo-oong!

‘Hwaaaak!’ The screams of the horrified people rang out like sirens.

The rag doll walked leisurely out of the doorway.

“Heueu……”

The knights covered their heads and crouched down, their shoulders trembling.

It was the first time that their appearance didn’t seem pitiful but just nauseating.

[……You guys, get up right now and bring me all of Micah Lasso’s cronies in this underground area. The white horse and the black horse you dragged away earlier too. Make up some excuse to send all the noble guests up to the ground and have them wait quietly in the carriages. And guide me to Lasso’s most secret space.]

-Kyaa!

[Of course, the information about me and my party is secret, and you must never tell anyone for the rest of your lives.]

-Kkieung!

“……”

Lea was originally a timid child, but today, she didn’t hide in my arms and added words clearly.

Crash, thud! The sound of attacks shaking the ground and dirt falling shook the solitary cell.

I blinked and tilted my head.

[Not answering?]

The terrified knights jumped up and hurriedly nodded their heads.

After enough time had passed.

-Thud, thud, thud……

-Tap, tap, tap……

-Clatter, clatter, clatter……

The underground was empty, and we had truly come down to the deepest part of the lord’s castle.

Areum and Charles, who had returned quickly, walked in step together.

I felt a little proud that they seemed to be doing great things even without their human friends.

Mr. Gain, Cedric. They must be doing well, right?

“Here, it’s here! There are several stairs leading to the door, so be careful……”

[Okay.]

Meanwhile, one of the knights who had been won over to my side held up a torch to light our way.

I carefully walked with Her Majesty Han, who was shorter than the stairs, in my shirt pocket.

Then, Her Majesty climbed up my shoulder and sat on top of my head.

This was said to be Micah Lasso’s underground prayer room.

The unique point was that it was hidden far away from her underground bedroom or study, in a much deeper place.

And that although it was named ‘prayer room,’ no prayer or sacrament had ever actually taken place here.

“I swear on the month of the Main God, this is the most secret room among the underground spaces we know. Of course, the underground shelter itself is a secret place, but…… Even his son, Prince Leopold, grew up without knowing about this place.”

[Hmm.]

……Because he was a human who abused his son by burning his arm with cigarette ashes. Not surprising.

“Duke Micah visits this shelter once or twice a year. But she always enters and exits the prayer room alone, without bringing anyone with her.”

[Suspicious. Open it.]

“Yes, Priest.”

And after Lasso’s knights struggled with the door for a long time,

-Clang, rattle rattle! Clatter!

“Ouch!”

-Squeak……

The door to the prayer room finally opened. I led the soldiers and slowly stepped inside.

The red torch cast flickering shadows everywhere.

“Not really…… Doesn’t seem like much. I don’t see any furniture or sun halo grass…… Wait a minute.”

-Hmm.

-Kking?

-Woong?

What is this? Why are the walls dug out like this?

“This…… I’ve seen it recently.”

That was true. I had seen a room like this before.

The structure vaguely reminded me of a crude dormitory.

The walls were all dirt, shaped like beds in layers.

Wide and flat enough for one person to curl up and enter.

“People……”

People. ‘Skeletons.’

-Is that not the same form as that catacomb?

……Lilianer Venetian’s creation, an underground tomb.

“Yes, Your Majesty. It resembles the room where innocent bones poured out.”

-Wheeeee……

A chilly air rushed in from somewhere underground, and I shuddered with a creepy feeling.

Her Majesty Han grabbed my hair and turned to the left!

I immediately made eye contact with the old general who had guided us. I immediately asked the question I had to ask.

[Have any corpses or remains ever been found here?]

“You’re saying terrible things, Priest. This place has been empty all along. And as far as we know, this room existed before Duke Micah was born.”

The old woman answered truthfully.

Other knights even questioned, ‘Isn’t that just a shelf?’

I bit my lip and looked around the room. No, it can’t just be a shelf.

There’s no such thing as coincidence in this world line. It can’t just have the same structure as that place.

Who would make a space in a prayer room like this for people to enter?

-……I have an ominous feeling.

“Me too, Your Majesty. Ouch!”

-Examine that side a bit.

Her Majesty suddenly grabbed my hair and made me do a U-turn!

“Ugh, please grab it gently!”

-There, there are letters written behind the door. Can the living see them too?

“……Yes?”

-Kku?

Letters? I rubbed my tingling scalp and moved as the elder guided me.

The surprised knights cleared the way and held the door open.

The rag doll’s small hand pointed to the top of the wooden door.

I received a nearby torch and illuminated that part.

“I don’t know the language. Mort, morte……”

‘morte tua surripere.’

“……Oh my god.”

A thrill ran through me.

This was a language I didn’t know, but it was definitely a sentence I knew. So……

‘To steal your death.’ That’s the literal meaning.

‘To paraphrase…… It would be something like, ‘So that you can avoid death.’

“……”

The phrase I learned from Sir Johan. A voice like the wind mixed with the chilly air and rang in my ears.

There was no need to open my notebook to check.

This was the phrase engraved on the entrance to Lilianer Venetian’s underground passage, or rather, on the huge rock that blocked it.

The ancient king looked down at my expression and clicked his tongue.

-Indeed, it is not only visible to this body.

“Your Majesty…… Micah Lasso knows.”

I whispered. ‘Kking.’ The divine beasts, feeling uneasy, tossed and turned.

“That person, and the ancestors of the Lasso family, must have known about the late King Lilianer’s scheme. Perhaps even the specific consequences it would bring……”

They must have known everything.

Not only the existence of the ominous underground passage, but also its detailed purpose and use.

So they built a shelter underground with a restaurant, guest rooms, and even a ballroom……

“This is not a prayer room.”

-……That’s right.

“Yes. This is…… A space used as a family tomb in case of emergency.”

So they engraved the same phrase as that place.

Because this is a room only used in ‘that’ kind of situation.

The knights gasped at the word tomb.

-Thump!

I hurriedly opened the door and left the room.

Then our plan might have to change direction once again!

“What Micah Lasso knows is perhaps Wilhelmina Schneider’s blueprint. Schneider is the human who carries on Lilianer’s legacy!”

-Kkiwoo

After Kristel Rambouillet and the chamberlain left, Jibril was guided by two young knights.

“We will safely escort you this way.”

“Please follow us.”

“……”

‘Thump, thump, thump, thump……’ Military boots and dress shoes busily tapped on the carpeted floor.

‘Aaaak!’ ‘Quick, bring the tub! The biggest one!’ Finally, people’s shouts and the sound of carriage wheels were echoing outside the window.

It certainly seemed like a mess had broken out.

The magician checked the presence of the staff inside his sleeve and tried to increase the distance between himself and the knights without being obvious.

The servants passing him in a hurried pace all had uneasy faces.

“……Strange.”

Jibril muttered, rolling his eyes.

Like the chamberlain, the majority of the workforce here were people who seemed injured or uncomfortable somewhere.

It wasn’t just a matter of expression.

Some had scars on their necks, others had burns on the backs of their hands……

“Did that old man even raise his hand to the servants?”

Just as he was muttering that—

-Clang! Crash!

“Who’s there!”

“Damn it!”

Suddenly, the front window of the hallway shattered into pieces, and a black-haired boy jumped in, wielding a dagger.