What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 726

The Sub-Male Lead Goes on Strike – 726 (726/920)

You Are Perfect and Ultimate (7)

A flying object in the night sky.

To be precise, the prow of a massive white ship was crashing towards the window.

-Screeeeeech…

“Damn it, it’s coming this way!”

‘Juliette, get down!’ Gabriel Diop’s shout rang in my ears, and I huddled down, embracing Cedric and the divine beasts.

Gugugugugu…! In just a few seconds, it became virtually impossible to hear anything else.

The earth-shattering vibration threatened to tear my eardrums apart. Tete finally burst into tears, and the Gugus [small, furry creatures] scurried around frantically like wild animals seeking shelter before an earthquake.

It seemed like His Majesty Hanan was warning us about something, but in the chaotic darkness, it was impossible to understand.

The Lord’s Castle was already being destroyed in areas we couldn’t see.

The last thing I saw was Sir Johann approaching me, and the light slowly fading from Micah Lasso’s eyes.

There was a terrible smell of blood and the scent of tragedy.

Three, two, one. Finally, the sharp tip of the foremost yardarm struck the window―

-Clang!

-KABOOOOM!

“Aaaaaaagh!”

-Kiyaaaaa!

-Rumble rumble! Crash crash crash…!

The mast, long enough to pierce through the study, crashed in, shattering the window and the entire wall.

Just as I was about to gape at the overwhelming destructive power, a sharp noise like a razor blade assaulted my ears.

Crash crash crash! Clang! Broken stones and glass fragments struck the bars and bounced off.

Hugging Cedric and the children, who were burning with fever, I gritted my teeth.

The earth was shaking so violently that my lips would have been torn if I hadn’t clenched my jaw.

Of course, I was incredibly afraid, but even more than that, worry weighed heavily on my heart.

-Boom boom boom boom!

-Awoo, awoo!

“It’s okay, Tete! Hyung [older brother] is here. It’s okay!”

Mr. Gain. What’s going to happen to Mr. Gain now? Someone has to calm him down.

That’s a stigma [magical mark]. If he keeps pouring out power like that, he’ll run out of energy soon.

His heart might not be able to handle it. I have to go right now―

-Kabooom!

“Huuuuurk!”

-Kkiheow!

At that moment, a terrifying roar erupted from above. The ship’s massive keel finally broke through the roof of the main castle and crashed down.

I watched the ceiling crack like parched earth and couldn’t think for a moment.

I was simply swallowed whole by the fear of ‘I’m going to die like this,’ unable to move.

Fragments of the ceiling mural were pouring down before my eyes. A god shrouded in twilight was depicted devouring his daughter with a grotesque expression.

As soon as I realized that, my breath caught in my throat. It felt like my feet were glued to the floor. Kururururung!

“Ah…”

“Hold on tight.”

“Heogeok!”

Thump! Before I could even realize what was happening, my body was lifted up, and my vision soared.

Once again, the world began to return to normal speed―or perhaps too quickly!

-Whoosh!

“Help meeeee! Save me!”

“I’ll try,” Cedric Liester replied, leaping into the open sky.

Dust and debris rained down from beneath his four shoes.

The cold night wind whipped my cheeks from all directions, and icy streams of water poured down like summer rain.

Ugh! Thanks to that, I finally snapped out of it. I held Tete in front of me, Leah clinging to my head, and washed my face as I looked around.

The sky had already been dyed the color of the deep sea. The crescent moon illuminated the ground with half its light, and the stars dancing beside us seemed close enough to touch.

-Whoosh…

“Huk, haa, hoo…”

And the night sky was eerily clear, with not a single cloud to be found.

I found it quite grotesque.

Beyond the pale face of the Crown Prince, a pure white cannon loomed.

The sight, slowly falling back into view due to gravity, imprinted the surreal scene directly into my mind.

-Swish, swish, swish…!

“Uh…”

Wait, ‘cannon’?

-Thud!

The moment the Crown Prince landed on the half-destroyed roof, we faced her almost simultaneously.

-Kukukukukung!

“Die.”

Good heavens…

-Swoooooosh!

-Kugugugugugu…!

“Ah…”

A knight with pink hair flowing like waves stood at the end of a cannon made of pure white bubbles.

Her face, soaked with water, was devoid of any color, and a blue aura emanated from her entire body like mist.

I shuddered and trembled at the instinctive awe that surged within me.

Even though I fear Mr. Gain, who exudes the pressure of a ‘Cardinal’—that level of power is intimidating even to me, a priest—this is truly the first time I’ve ever seen a warship of this scale.

-Splash, splash, splash…!

A massive amount of pure water formed the perfect shape of a ship, not only composing the warship but also actually coming to life.

This was because she was not only drawing moisture from all directions but also pulling clouds from the sky, making them her vassals.

High waves rose from the entire hull, all decks spewing white foam, and the clouds in the sky rotated in a funnel shape, supplying her with endless ice.

Whoosh! The ship unfurled its sails and turned its helm solely according to its master’s will.

Each time the ship changed direction, I heard the ship’s cry, which I could only encounter in the middle of the sea.

-Screeeeeech…

“You die too.”

‘Die.’ Her unfocused, sea-colored eyes were aimed somewhere over our shoulders.

I leaned on the Crown Prince to keep my balance and quickly looked down.

“Goodness, Your Highness!”

“I see it too.”

“Cough, heok, ah…”

Leopold Lasso, covered in blood, was kneeling in front of Micah Lasso’s blood-soaked corpse.

The man’s ragged breathing reached us vividly.

The place where the Duke and His Majesty Hanan were located was a fragment of the main castle, completely destroyed up to the first-floor lobby.

The front and back walls had completely collapsed, most of the floors and corridors had fallen like pieces of paper, and only the square doors of the study remained intact.

-Gogogogogo…!

“Die. Painfully.”

I could be sure. Mr. Gain was trying to kill the already deceased old woman again.

People who had not yet escaped the castle were running down the dirt road in tears.

I raised my voice frantically.

[Mr. Gain! No! There are people there! There are people alive!]

“Stop.”

[Please, Mr. Gain! The damage will only get worse! Innocent people will die!]

“Your oracle doesn’t work on Rambouillet right now.”

The Crown Prince grabbed me with his large hand. Our eyes met forcefully.

“But we have to do something! If he comes to his senses after this, Mr. Gain will definitely feel guilty…!”

“It’s suicide for a priest to jump into a Holy Knight who has already gone berserk!”

-You go to the rear!

When the man shouted at me for the first time, a resounding roar echoed from below.

Startled, I lowered my gaze.

“Your Majesty?”

A rag doll soaked in water was densely supporting the secret area of the study with black vines.

The vines, intertwined like a spider web, looked very sturdy, but it was uncertain how long they could support a building whose pillars had already collapsed and whose beams had flown away.

Especially amidst an attack that would pour down like a waterfall!

-You must find Isabel. She should still be there. Hurry!

“Isabel?”

-My incarnation must have caused that child to go berserk. Hurry!

“Uh, no…”

His words were giving me too much meaning.

Isabel made Mr. Gain go berserk?

The pieces I had deliberately pushed to the back of my mind stuck together like unpleasant glue.

My mind went blank in an instant, and my lips trembled.

The sentence Mr. Gain had uttered a moment ago covered my eyes like a spell.

‘Die.’

‘You die too.’

…You too.

He definitely said ‘you too.’ As if someone had already died before. But that can’t be.

That’s absolutely not true.

“Serenite.”

“No, no. No, wait…”

“Hey, Juliette!”

Flinch! My whole body convulsed even at the ordinary call.

I struggled to move my head normally.

“Didn’t you hear the elder? Leave this to us and move quickly.”

Gabriel Diop, who had safely landed on the ground, was looking up at me, tapping the air with his cane.

I couldn’t tell if he was being relaxed or pretending to be.

For some reason, the Gugus were dangling from the back of his neck.

Just as I was about to squeeze out an answer―

-Thud!

-KABOOOOM!

Swoooooosh! With a tremendous aftershock like a fighter jet taking off, Sir Johann shot towards his disciple. Papapapat! At the same time as the jade-colored gale wrapped around his arms, his mint-colored eyes flashed with clear fighting spirit.

Like a lie, the commotion stopped. The fierce wind and high waves met, and a cliff-like storm arose in the night sky. Ssaaaaaaaa…!

-Spot!

“It’ll sting a little, disciple.”

When the man’s index and middle fingers, which had cut through the air, touched her round forehead,

-Swoooooosh!

-Kaboom―!

“Keuk!”

The air that had contracted momentarily exploded, and Mr. Gain’s body fell backward.

Soon after, her warship also staggered greatly!

-Kigigigigik…!

“Goodness! He’s going to d-, no, he won’t die! Let’s go find Isabel quickly!”

Seeing Sir Johann suppressing him without asking or questioning, my reason returned like magic.

‘Quickly!’ Like a madman, I quickly tied up Tete, put Leah on my back, and took out the Holy Staff in one hand.

Cedric, still with blue eyes, immediately carried me.

It seemed difficult to use flames right away, but the pain seemed to have subsided a lot as I transmitted ether through contact. That’s a relief.

-Kaboom!

-Kiyaaa!

“Heut…!”

Large and small bodies soared into the sky again.

Whether it’s a royal secret or a halo grass, saving our friend is the priority!

*

…How much time has passed? Where am I?

-Kaboom!

“Keoheok…!”

In the senses that had become numb as if paralyzed, that thought finally occurred to me.

‘Thud!’ Gain slowly opened her eyes, buried in a muddy pile of stones like a tidal flat.

In the hazy vision, as if covered in sea fog, the figure of a snow-white person was visible.

He was tall and very large, and perhaps because he had a familiar voice, he had quite disarmed Gain.

She spat out the blood pooled in her mouth and struggled not to drop her head. Uwek.

“Keuheok…. Blood…. Blood….”

“No. It’s stomach acid. Even I can’t bear to see the blood of my beloved disciple.”

‘Thud, thud, thud.’ The man answered softly and approached.

But she was still unsure who he was.

Her whole body was limp as if she had drunk too much, and her brain felt like it was stretching out like cheese.

Gain looked up at him and began to whine like a child.

“It hurts so much, why do you keep…. Why are you hitting me….”

“To save you.”

“No, I’m going to die…. Huh? I’m going to die because it hurts…. I just want to die…. I want to die.”

“Not on your watch.”

The man chuckled lowly and knelt down in front of her.

The touch of his hand, checking her wrist and pressing on the carotid artery in her neck, was consistently calm.

However, Gain made the most awful face she could muster.

Her dazed head heated up, and her eyes inexplicably welled up with tears.

She felt like she was really going to die from being sad, hurt, and angry like this.

I really want to die. I want to give up everything….

“Suddenly…. Speaking informally….? Do you know me? How old are you to be talking down to me…?”

“Haha.”

“Mr. Gain! Ham Gain!”

At that moment, someone called her name loudly.

Gain turned her gaze away, even though she didn’t want to give it any more meaning.

The voice shouting, ‘Look over here!’ was very desperate.

A familiar doll was forming in her hazy vision like the light of dawn.

“Christel! Good heavens, Christel! My child…!”

….

“Ah….”

Before she could realize anything, water poured out.

Tears that were so hot they felt like they would burn her.