What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 842

O! My Lord (4)

“It just feels like a dream.”

Jeong Eun-seo mumbled blankly.

The three stooges, meaning the three of us, were gathered on the living room sofa, looking down at the kid on the floor.

Eun-seo had my laptop open on the table and was sprawled out on the rug.

The girl, wearing her middle school gym uniform as everyday clothes, kept voicing her thoughts.

“Wow… It’s already unbelievable and absurd that I’m reading a novel where little *oppa* [older brother or male friend] appears, but the fact that this actually happened is even more incredible… My *oppa* got stabbed in my dream. But that’s a true story…”

“I know, right? Imagine how *oppa* must have felt.”

“What does Jeong Hyeon-seo know? He’s been deceiving me for over a year.”

“I apologize. I’ll restrain myself.”

My brother, who had added a word, immediately retreated and turned his eyes to the TV.

The evening news was already playing on the screen, turned down low.

Cardinal Johan showed great interest in almost all the appliances and household goods we used, and TV was no exception.

He commented that the phenomenon of the screen changing when he pressed the remote control was like an amazing magic trick.

However, he questioned whether it would become common for someone to be brainwashed or easily hold false beliefs if everyone spent several hours a day staring at it.

I admired his insight and diligently dipped an Oreo in milk and handed it to him.

Eun-seo looked up at me and blurted out.

“Piggy. Don’t you have any thoughts even after experiencing all these incredible things?”

“Hmm? I don’t really have any particular thoughts…”

I smiled awkwardly and met my sister’s gaze.

“I guess everything was real for *oppa*, so the emotions I felt at each moment were the strongest. After a big event passed, there wasn’t much time to reflect… There were so many incidents.”

“…”

“…It was very difficult, but also very enjoyable. A little scary, too, I guess.”

I just glossed over the details.

Numerous memories that had passed me by would already be recorded on my old-fashioned cell phone, and adding detailed annotations to them felt somehow embarrassing.

Even I had never properly read the blocky files, but it was a little embarrassing for my brother and Eun-seo to know all of my past.

…No, maybe a lot. So this is how it feels for our story to become a novel for someone.

Soon, the gazes of the three people moved away from me.

“No, not that kind of thought… Never mind.”

Eun-seo tried to say something more but waved her hand.

“But are all the settings here official? There’s so much content that doesn’t appear in Toegye Gong [a famous Korean Confucian scholar].”

“It’s based on the official settings, but there are quite a few discarded settings. In the first place, using all the setting fragments was their world’s way of surviving.”

“Ah, I see…”

“Still, the basic values like personality can’t change, so the difference in attitude is largely due to your little *oppa’s* influence.”

“Oh, Se-re is strangely not acting like Se-re very often? Only acting like the male lead.”

“What’s ‘acting like the male lead’?”

I joined the conversation between the two.

Then the youngest stared at me blankly and gave a sighing answer.

“…Just live forever without knowing…”

“Huh?”

“But in the part I’m reading now, *oppa* came back home, right? Does he go back again after this? Does Dduk-sim go with him? Dduk-sim is so cute!”

“You said not to spoil it.”

“…He’s going. Ha, crazy. Is he really jumping off the veranda? That crazy bastard…”

Eun-seo, who had been cooing about how cute Dduk-sim was until just now, glared fiercely.

Her facial expressions changed so quickly that it was a little scary now.

However, since I was the major culprit in any situation—I was scolded a lot for the knife joke—I decided to just focus on the TV news.

Jeong Hyeon-seo, who had been checking his phone for a while, suddenly looked down at the youngest.

“Jeong Eun. But how did you read it so quickly? It’s not surprising that you speed-read, since you’ve been doing that since you were little, but the blocky files have a lot of blanks.”

The youngest, lying on her side, answered while touching the laptop’s touchpad.

“I was a little worried about that after hearing you guys talk, but there weren’t that many blanks as I thought?”

I diligently twisted the lid of the strawberry-flavored Crown Sando [a popular Korean cookie] and opened it with a flourish in front of Cardinal Johan.

The cardinal smiled faintly at the result, with only the cream neatly left on the bottom surface. The news had long since faded into the background.

In fact, these days, stories about the world and new news didn’t resonate much.

Even though I knew I shouldn’t let go of the reins here, it wasn’t easy to focus completely.

Perhaps it’s because there’s a separate world that my heart is drawn to.

“It’s also delicious if you eat it like this.”

“You said there weren’t many? It would have been quite distracting for someone reading it for the first time.”

“No. Some pages were just completely visible. It seems like the blocks disappear as you go further back?”

“Disappear as you go further back?”

“Herrit would like it too. Right?”

“Yes. It’s sweet and delicious.”

“Yeah, it’s really gone. This part reads completely too.”

“Let me see.”

Jeong Hyeon-seo rustled and went down under the sofa.

Only then did I blink and look at my brother and sister. Why are they so serious?

“*Hyung* [older brother], why? What’s wrong?”

“Jeong Eun-seo says there aren’t many blanks.”

“Ah? In the blocky files?”

“Yeah.”

My brother, sitting in front of the laptop, clicked the mouse with a serious expression.

I hurriedly approached the two on my knees. The screen that came into view was very…

‘「Sunday night, 11:55 PM. Everyone was asleep, preparing for tomorrow.

Except for me and Dduk-sim.

“……”

I put the wren in my pocket and moved silently.

And I stood in the dark corner of the living room, waiting for my eyes to adjust to the darkness.」’

It was clean.

“……What? There really aren’t any blocks?”

All the letters were clearly visible and easy to read.

I was surprised and grabbed the mouse instead of my brother.

I diligently scrolled up to check the past content, and Eun-seo was right.

The characters that were clearly broken into blocky squares when we last saw them…

‘「I could tell this was real without having to pinch myself.

The texture of the cloth touching my skin and the sound of the collar brushing against it were all too vivid.

“Is there anything uncomfortable? The imperial tailors made this outfit with reference to the royal family’s everyday clothes of the New Kingdom.”

“It fits perfectly. It’s okay.」’

“……Oh my god. It’s really mostly restored.”

Even if it wasn’t 100%, it was about 98% perfect.

I trembled and trembled again as I reread the conversation I had with Benjamin on the first day of possession.

Jeong Hyeon-seo also had a bewildered look on his face at the miraculous harmony unfolding before his eyes.

How, how could this happen…

“……Ah.”

‘Lord’ Oh my god.

“Eun-seo, you really are a god.”

“Huh?”

A trembling voice flowed out. The hand holding the mouse became wet in an instant.

However, this was not due to the tension or fear I had experienced so often.

I quickly turned my head and made eye contact with my sister.

“Because you’re reading it. Because you, the biggest fragment of the Lord, are looking into the worldline again…”

This trembling is due to joy.

“…The world is being rebuilt for you. Only to receive your gaze.”

We’re on the right track.

Meanwhile, the same exclamation erupted in the Imperial Palace of Riester.

“……Lord, have mercy!”

“‘Moon Hunt’? Moon Hunt?”

“Is His Highness the Crown Prince saying that he will personally find the moon? Did I hear correctly?”

Numerous exclamations echoed off the top of the round ceiling, and the great nobles of the Aristocratic Council fell into confusion.

The air in the hall was much hotter than when the argument had broken out a little while ago.

Some of them had been forewarned about the Crown Prince’s bombshell announcement, but most of them had not expected his conclusion at all.

Of course, they had guessed that there would be a major announcement, as the Regent had urgently convened the Aristocratic Council through a complicated procedure.

But they never imagined that such a precious person would personally respond to this situation…

“Then the capital and the imperial palace will once again be empty. I wonder if this will really help the order and well-being of Riester after the war…”

“Are you so worried about the situation in Riester after the war that you tried to take the support funds from His Majesty for free?”

“Hey, Count!”

“He’s going to find the moon himself without waiting for the moonrise… Of course, it’s the most certain way for His Highness to step in. He is the only imperial knight along with Lord Rambouillet…”

“How can you find a lost moon? Isn’t that ultimately God’s will?”

“I think so too. The Kingdom of the Moon has fallen, so the moon has naturally disappeared!”

“Hey, you. Doesn’t that mean that His Majesty ultimately made the moon disappear?”

“Oh!”

“Even while struggling to recover from the damage after the war.”

The Crown Prince said in a dignified voice.

The conference hall became as quiet as if it had been covered in ashes.

“I heard that the people of the West Coast are being put into flood recovery work day and night, and they are not able to return to their livelihoods smoothly.”

“……”

“The impact of the moon’s disappearance has only just begun. If we stand idly by, we may face even greater disasters.”

“……”

“I heard that beasts and monsters that have lost their moonlight are coming down to the villages because they cannot successfully hunt in their habitats. Are you preparing for the normalization of such incidents?”

“……”

‘Daily life.’ The blood gradually disappeared from the faces of the audience at the light yet heavy word.

Cedric continued coldly.

“The leader of the Fleur de Lis reports that if the moon’s disappearance is prolonged, we must also consider the great disaster of the seasons changing or disappearing across the continent.”

“Oh my god…”

“Then how will the farmers in the territories farm…”

“Shh!”

Some nobles covered their mouths with handkerchiefs or gasped in surprise.

The Crown Prince flashed his red eyes and parted his lips again.

It was at that moment.

-Koo-oong!

“Your Highness, Modest Bakari, the leader of the Fleur de Lis, urgently wishes to see you!”

At the same time as the urgent report from the imperial palace attendant, the large door of the conference hall opened wide.

The nobles were shocked by the very unusual flow.

A figure wearing a navy robe entered with quick steps and went straight to the head seat.

It was a great disrespect that anyone should stop, but the other party was none other than the leader of the ‘Fleur de Lis’.