What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 806

Deus Ex Machina (6)

“…A wish…”

A grating, cracking sound escaped my throat.

I glanced at the massive notebook, then confirmed the past ‘Gate’ opened in the lofty cosmos.

Then, dripping blood from my entire body, I looked at Eunseo across from me.

【……】

“……”

Afraid that someone precious might get hurt or sick because of her… Her face was stained with worry and guilt.

Large teardrops were falling from her tightly closed eyes.

Her hands, clasped tightly as if in prayer, trembled incessantly. Earnestly, so earnestly…

“…What that child wants is happiness.”

I muttered in a hoarse voice. The Milky Way flowed in hushed silence.

No one in the vast universe answered me.

“That’s all. Nothing else…”

「……」

“She just wanted Gain to be happy, and Cedric to be happy. Especially Prince Yeseo, she desperately wanted him to be happy… He was her favorite character.”

【……】

“Is that wrong?”

-Aww…

I could see Eunseo’s small shoulders trembling.

Tete, who had stopped crying on her own, was looking at me with her wet nose.

“Yes, you might argue that. That this is all God’s will. That among the dreams of countless gods, you have carefully chosen the most sensible development. That you didn’t act out of personal feelings…”

“……”

“But merely created a rational flow.”

Some color gradually filled the white vision.

I recognized it but didn’t bother to acknowledge it.

“But what you overlook is that no one wanted such painful constraints.”

「……」

“Then you’ll say again that the stimulating and unfortunate developments were also what God wanted. No.”

「……」

“My sister, I, want these people to be truly happy.”

Boiling liquid flowed down my throat.

I continued to speak in a faltering voice.

“Even if they experience hardship in life… I want it to be the foundation for true happiness. Not suffering because of someone’s intentions, not struggling as someone’s pawn… But solely by their own will. Do you understand?”

【Ugh, hiccup…】

“I want these people to overcome adversity as masters of their own lives. Making silly mistakes, bumping into strange things, and sometimes failing… I just want that. I want them to always be free. Then…”

Ice-cold fingers weakly grasped my fingertips.

Suddenly, the scene before me felt real.

Jeong Eunseo was sitting alone at the dining table, sobbing like an ugly doll.

Like the day she was six years old and heard that her mom couldn’t come to her kindergarten sports day.

Like one winter night when she realized that her mom couldn’t come to her elementary school graduation.

I barely suppressed the emotions surging from within.

“…Then eventually, they can become the masters of their own happiness. They won’t owe their precious lives to anyone.”

「……」

“So, the time we spent together, the end of our adventure turning out like this… It’s not God’s will, as you say, nor is it my fault.”

Holding hands tightly, I steeled my heart.

I vowed to break rather than fall.

“It’s your fault for trying to embalm us alive.”

For everyone’s sake. I nodded jerkily.

“That’s right… Werner Fenetian is an evil man. Wilhelmina Sneider is also evil. Those guys committed terrible crimes and lived for far too long. They were still alive when I last saw them. Their desires were so tiresome and vicious… Sometimes, I was almost humanly impressed. Even though I’m the victim.”

「……」

Because I have people to protect.

“But the evil in this world is you three sisters.”

I gritted my teeth and raised the scepter. Beeeeeeep—

-Thaaang!

-Flap flap, flutter flutter!

-Swaaaaaah…!

Simultaneously striking the universe with my scepter and spreading my six wings wide, I struggled to control the sensation that threatened to burst my body.

The backs of my hands and forehead, covered with bulging veins, felt like they would rupture.

Ether still didn’t rise, but the scene before my eyes gradually turned golden and then purple. I knew exactly what this meant.

The heart, which seemed to have stopped circulating ether, felt like it was slowly restarting its pump.

I immediately shielded my friends with my wings, held the baby in my arms, and raised the scepter, aiming it straight at them.

White feathers floated in the universe like omens.

“You trapped us in the framework of a novel, stole our free will, and even plundered the wishes of the gods who watch over it! And you butchered everyone’s fate under the guise of plausibility!”

-Glug, glug, glug…

Beyond the lavender constellations and the dark purple galaxy, enormous ink-colored eyeballs were opening. One, two, three… Six in total. The gazes of plausibility, pressing down on us and watching us.

The constant headache, combined with the pressure of the world, made me feel like my head would explode at any moment.

‘Wheeeeng!’ A fierce wind threatened to break my wings and buckle my knees.

I stubbornly refused to back down, even as I vomited blood. Where do you think you’re going!

“Cough! If Fenetian and Sneider are the evil men of reality who killed and abused innocent lives and survived to the very end of the war—!”

「Hahahahahahaha…!」

“Your Grace! Yeseo! Don’t overdo it!”

I swear. I will bury you here.

And never open you again.

[You are the villains of this novel!]

【That’s right! Damn it! We don’t need your kind of plausibility!】

-Tzzzzzzzzzzzzzt—!

A sound of rupture that tore apart my eardrums.

-Paaaaaaaaaaaaah…!

[Ah……!]

Following that, a radiance that illuminated the milky white universe entirely with gold burst forth from my heart.

At the same time, an unbelievably enormous sense of liberation struck my entire body.

All the pain that had been strangling me and tormenting my senses until just now vanished as if washed away.

-Sarrrrrrrrrrr…!

In an instant, the boundary between my body and the world blurred, and every element that made up my flesh, blood, and bones—literally my entire body—repeatedly became one with the universe and then separated.

Swaaaaaaaaaah…! For a moment, I couldn’t control the surging ether.

I was dazed by the dizzying ecstasy as I watched the circle of golden light expanding without end, and I floundered in the air, feeling a dizzying sensation as my feet didn’t touch the ground.

Space-time was clearly frozen.

What grabbed me, unable to control the powerful force in the flash of light, was—

-Thump!

“…Concentrate.”

[Ah ah……]

A dazzling pair of suns, always guarding the same spot and receiving the revolution of countless people [referring to someone’s unwavering gaze].

He coughed up blood again but didn’t move, his gaze fixed on me.

Then, a sense of stability that overwhelmed even the extremely dilated peripheral nerves washed over me.

I smiled brightly with the lips that had been spitting out blood just a moment ago.

Then, still holding Gain’s hand—

-Swaaaaaaaaaah!

[Now, no one will be able to restrain you.]

Wielding the scepter in my right hand, radiating brilliant light and growing relentlessly, I immediately aimed at the six eyeballs floating in the universe.

It was an action close to instinct.

-Jiiiiiing! Clang!

Beyond my magnificently 펼쳐진 [unfolded] sanctuary, a second circle emitting golden light opened.

‘Dual Ignition.’

「Haha……!」

「Haha, finally……!」

「Hahahahahahahahaha……!」

The chilling laughter of the three old women echoed into the infinite space.

I commanded the surging ether without any hesitation or difficulty.

The movements were fast, and the measurements were accurate. No one had reviewed it, but I could be sure.

As the sanctuary below began to adjust the position of the patterns, scattering brilliant rays of light, the sanctuary above changed its position quickly to match it. Woooong, woooong…!

“Wait a minute, Your Grace. Could that be…!”

[Coordinates.]

‘And a target.’ I smirked and prepared the oracle.

A spell that would trap those guys in the void forever, so they could never come out again.

The worst restraint in history that no plausibility in the world could persuade…!

-Kwagwagwagwaga…

It was then.

【……Huh?】

[……Huh?]

The gaze of the gods, which had been alternating between the deep universe and me, was fixed in one place and did not move.

Jeong Eunseo’s small whisper was like a revelation.

The vibration that even made the decorations of the scepter tremble caused the comets to shake their tails and flee.

I finally understood the identity of the rupture sound I had heard a little while ago.

If I thought about it, it was a roar that had nothing to do with the moment I was promoted to cardinal.

So, definitely physical, a sound that really seemed to tear and break some material…

-Kwagwagwagwagwaga…

“Interesting, that is…”

[Uh……]

A large ray of light that illuminated one side of the universe like a shooting star had a clear arrow shape.

John’s voice was buried in the vibration and blurred faintly.

The eyes of the bloodied party widened all at once.

The trajectory of the arrow became clearer and clearer, and the falling speed became faster and faster.

I couldn’t even guess how such a thing was possible, or who had accomplished such a great feat. Moreover, it was getting closer and closer to us…

-Ssaeeeeeeeeek…!

“…The Divine Palace of the Tree?”

“Crazy, damn it!”

“Duck!”

The moment John whispered, covering us, the arrowhead of the universe raided the scene at full speed!

-Kwakwakwakwakwakwa…

[Jeong Eunseo! Get down!]

“Aaaaaaagh…!”

I immediately moved the position of the sanctuary to protect my sister and screamed at the top of my lungs.

I saw the big kid crouching and going under the chair. That was the last thing.

-Kwagwagwagwagwagwang—!

-Kugugugugugu!

With a roar like a cosmic explosion, the whole world was dyed emerald green.

Wheeeeeeng! Subsequently, a terrifying aftershock swept through space-time as if to blow us all away.

With the feeling that my wings were about to fall off, I squeezed my eyes shut and held the baby, enduring.

Like that, with my friends, for a long time, really a long time, I huddled up…

-Awoong, awoong!

[……Tete?]

-Wheeee…

At the call of the divine beast in my arms, I was finally able to raise my head.

Then, Jeong Eunseo and her friends, who were crouching on the opposite side, all raised their eyes and gauged the direction of the arrow.

I felt bewildered and dazed as to what all this commotion was about.

Once again, a faint breeze brushed past our noses.

The air that pierced the universe had a faint forest scent.

And…

[Oh my god……]

What we found were the six eyeballs pierced by the arrow of the gods.

My breath caught in my throat.

A chill ran down my spine at the feeling of witnessing the corpses of death row inmates hung in the universe.

For a moment, I couldn’t speak and barely gasped for breath.

Those were the eyes of the three old women who guarded plausibility.

So, the fact that all of those were hit by arrows…

-Pasuseuseu…

「……Destruction is, not, the same, as failure……」

-Pasuseuseuseu…

「Destruction is…… Failure……」

[Gasp, good heavens……]

Bojena’s body, which had been wearing a black robe, was crumbling into graphite powder.

I shuddered with an emotion I didn’t know whether it was joy or something else, and hurriedly turned to look at my sister.

She still had a terrified expression, afraid that she would see her friends, and her face was swollen with tears.

She didn’t forget to move her lips slightly so that only I could see them, with one hand covering them the whole time.

‘Maybe… Is that because of me?’

Gulp. I swallowed hard and recalled the last words the little girl had shouted.

‘【That’s right! Damn it! We don’t need your kind of plausibility!】’

[……]

No way… Did they even foresee their own destruction?

I blinked and tried to sort out the current situation.

I was breathing too hard, like someone who had just finished a marathon.

I don’t know if it’s really possible, but in short, Eunseo.

If my sister Eunseo somehow killed Bojena with the power of the gods.

Then what’s left for us now is…

[……The Holy Grail, cough.]

My notebook and the gate I had opened someday were all gone at this point.

Since those were illusions created by the three sisters, they were no longer here.

However, my friends and the Holy Grail of Wishes were still clearly present.

I exchanged glances with everyone once and then looked back at the sacred object for the last time.

At that very moment.

-Jeojeok!

[Ah!]

The ground under my feet sank, and a terrifying gravity grabbed me and pulled me down.

The universe of the gods was collapsing.