What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 879

Gaho (2)

The sun was now slowly tilting towards the west.

-Goo-goo-goo…

-Whoo-woo…

The earth was groaning ominously. The group checked everything once more.

“Herit, are you okay?”

“Uh-huh.”

“Oh my, you don’t look okay at all. Your forehead is burning up now.”

‘What am I going to do with my pretty niece?’ Gain clicked her tongue and stroked the child’s cheek with the back of her cool hand.

Herit forced a smile despite her pale face, but she was still too young to overcome the presence of the four Divine Relics.

High fever, dizziness, nausea. It could only be said that she was enduring this much thanks to the care of the Ark.

It was fortunate that she wasn’t bleeding like Cornelison.

The Cardinal knelt before the boy and embraced his small body tightly.

Herit hugged her back with hands that had grown noticeably over the past few years.

Fortunately, the air attribute did not clash greatly with any other attributes, so it easily accepted other energies.

The two closed their eyes for a while.

-Whoo-ee-ing…!

“……”

The desert sandstorm opened its jaws wide and mercilessly swallowed them.

Gain gritted her teeth and endured the headache.

The pain, as if her head was splitting in half, seemed to become a little more bearable as it continued.

No. Perhaps the suffering was lessened because there was someone to share the pain with.

The Cardinal silently lifted her eyelids and looked across.

“Herit is right. It might be okay.”

“……”

“Because we’re not alone. Right?”

The boy followed the knight’s gaze and shifted his eyes.

A man was seen standing to the south of the ruins where the cabin had been, drawing the Hye Geom of Mars [a powerful sword].

Cedric Liester was now enjoying an impeccable vessel, a body that would not break from any shock.

His solidity—that tremendous audacity that made one stick out their tongue—sometimes even dragged Gain up.

Originally, she was a relentless waterfall that never gave up, but sometimes she became an existence that overflowed, powered by the hottest flame on the continent.

The child slowly met Gain’s eyes and smiled faintly. And then…

-Flap flap, flap!

“Good, that’s it.”

“Hehe-he.”

She spread the two wings of the Main God wide, stepped away from her, and stood alone.

From the center of the four directions, Jibril Diop, having checked Anpeta’s condition, was approaching this way.

He was planning to take Herit to the west and settle down.

It was far enough from Gigolt Village, and unfortunately, close to the Papal States.

North was water, west was wind, south was fire, and east was earth.

And in their center would be the living fragment of the Holy Grail, Anpeta.

“Yeah, yeah.”

“Hmm?”

Herit, floating about fifteen centimeters above the ground, wrote on Gain’s palm.

She gritted her teeth in the headache, concentrating so as not to miss a single letter.

The child did not stop even with her pale face and trembling fingers.

‘Because I came to find Dad with you’

‘I can do well too’

“……”

Gain just smiled brightly, feeling grateful and sorry for the child who had grown so much even in the midst of war.

“That’s right. Herit will do the best. Maybe even better than that dark uncle.”

“Hehehe.”

“When we meet Dad, let’s greet him first. Let’s brag a lot about how much our Herit has grown.”

“Yeah.”

“Let’s move slowly now, sugar baby.”

“Uh-huh.”

The boy obediently grabbed Jibril’s sleeve. Finally, Gain asked, sweating coldly.

“Take good care of him. He’s stubborn and will endure, but he’s still too young.”

“I know.”

He didn’t add much and strode away.

The Cardinal stared at the backs of the two for a long time, then carefully tied Tete, whom she had been carrying on her back, to her front.

Fortunately, the baby and other Divine Beasts did not seem to be greatly affected by the Divine Relic’s influence.

Tete was with her, and Demi, Rea, and Perry were by the Spirit’s side.

Ropi was guarding the Crown Prince as always.

In addition, Lord Martier Jielstra volunteered to escort Anpeta.

The Paladin, Karme, was not in good condition—when Cornelison was bleeding from the nose, she was vomiting blood—but she could still use Divine Power and Mana, so she was in charge of protecting Prince Yeser and the Princess’s party.

The three sturdy Goo-Goos were also close to them.

“Anpeta… You have to endure.”

Gain stared at the old woman who had taken off her hat and knelt neatly in the middle of the desert.

She had the most stable expression the group had ever seen.

-Kkoong?

“…Let’s go now, Tete.”

-Ae-woo!

“Yeah, let’s run to the Palace Lord together.”

-Aook!

‘Awoo!’ The baby’s black eyes became even brighter.

Gain barely held onto her heart, which seemed to be rolling around inside her, and kissed Tete’s forehead.

She had been feeling nauseous since earlier, and she wondered if she would feel better if she vomited, but she decided not to waste her energy.

She kissed the rag doll she missed even when she was looking at it, put it in her arms, and took out the pure white whip instead.

Then, she stood on the firmest ground with both feet.

“The Palace Lord is probably coming to us now. Teacher Johann is also desperately looking for us.”

-Awoong

“…I can feel it. Sister, I’m really sure.”

Belief becomes more solid with language. Suddenly, when she looked up at the sky…

-Go-go-go-go…

“……”

A very large—so large that she wondered if it had always been this large—moon shadow was looking down on them from the summit.

In an instant, Gain felt overwhelmed by an invisible force and felt a suffocating sensation.

-Koo-goo-goo…

“Ash gray……”

Ash gray that was much fainter than it had been just a few tens of minutes ago.

Suddenly, she felt a gaze.

“…Wait a minute, ‘gaze’?”

The Cardinal blinked and aimed at the core of the moon shadow, but the gaze of someone that seemed to scan her entire body a moment ago had already fled.

No, perhaps it was because it was not one person’s gaze that she could not chase it.

Gain gripped her whip and stared as if to pierce through the shadow.

But the unknown interest, which was cold and warm at the same time, sharp as a knife and soft as a butterfly, unfamiliar and longing, had already scattered into the vortex and could not be held.

‘Our Chris is so, so pretty. Do everything you want to do……’

…What did you just say?

“Lord Cristel Rambouillet.”

-Aeu-woo

Flinch. Gain finally broke free from the shadow’s whisper.

She hurriedly turned her head and saw a man holding Cornelison.

“It’s time for the moon to rise.”

“……”

Thanks to his calm eyes, her startled heart quickly calmed down.

It was a bright time when no planets could be seen, but everyone there understood the Prince’s meaning.

Gain nodded a couple of times for the last time, then brought the whip in front of her eyes and gripped it.

And, and…

We’ll meet again.

“Now—!”

-Chwaaaaaaa!

She swung the pure white whip violently and shouted at the top of her lungs, as if to make the desert disappear.

At the same time, the blue light of God, like the sea, burst forth from her heart!

-Saaaaaaa……!

“Keuheok!”

-Kwakwakwakwa……!

“Agh, haaaaaagh!”

It was a terrible sensation, as if the vessel was being lifted whole, and it was a tremendous force that shook the bones and muscles of her entire body.

Her body floated into the air, unable to withstand the Divine Power that shook the heavens and the earth.

Her neck bent back on its own, and her breathing became difficult as if someone was squeezing her lungs and lower abdomen.

Outburst—the ‘Blessing of the Sea’ was clearly running wild. The Divine Relic was freed by the owner’s will and no longer listened to the owner’s will.

In the face of that power, which made it impossible to even consider resistance, Gain did not let go of her mind even as she gasped for breath.

“Keok, keoheok……!”

Her eyeballs rolled laboriously in different directions.

The surrounding noise was too loud, excessively loud.

The sound of waves piercing her eardrums, the sound of bedrock collapsing.

Fierce explosions and air-splitting sounds struck continuously or simultaneously.

Her ears kept getting muffled and then painfully bursting open.

-Swaaaaaaa……!

-Kwakwakwakwaaa……!

-Kureureureung……!

-Jeeeeeeeee……!

“Heok……!”

Then, streaks of blue, red, amaranth, and light purple light drew straight lines and shot towards the heart of the moon shadow.

Like arrows flying towards their target without looking back. To a single vertex.

-Kwaaang, kwaaaang……!

-Ureureureung!

“Heoeok, aeuuuuuick!”

‘Cough!’ Eventually, a stream of hot blood flowed out of Gain’s mouth.

She deliberately coughed and gagged to avoid suffocating on her own blood.

She struggled like a puppet hanging in the air, and she desperately thrashed to avoid forgetting how to breathe and to avoid forgetting the reason why she had to live.

The small flame in the vessel was her only support.

The vision, blurred by physiological tears, was faint but never darkened.

Anpeta’s small outline was reflected in Gain’s eyes.

The old woman was lying flat on the floor.

-Kwakwakwakwa……!

“Anpeta……!”

-Saaaaaa, saaaaa, saaaaaaa……!

No one knew whether it was Gain’s own cry or someone else’s scream.

At the same time, a very sacred radiance—the only radiance the Cardinal could see amidst the exploding rays of light and deafening roars—began to faintly permeate.

Golden light. The golden light that had soaked all of their hearts…

-Sareureureureu……!

“……Anpeta! Endure! You have to endure!”

“Anpeta—!”

Only then did she realize.

That it was Ham Gain herself who had been shouting the old woman’s name since a while ago, and that it was Martier, Karme, Cornelison, Iseol, and the Divine Beasts.

The alchemist was not hiding in the sand.

She was not fainting under the pressure of the terrifying Divine Relic’s power, nor was she spitting blood and dying.

-Saaaaaaa……!

“Ah……”

She was crying and praying to God.

Please, please save her.

-Woo-woo-woo-woong……!

“Keuheok! Anpeta, put in a little more strength!”

-Saaaaaaa……!

Have mercy on her, who had left all her loved ones and wandered the desert.

-Seuseuseuseut……!

The weak golden ether.

That power, which was barely a handful, finally reached the moon shadow like the final decoration.

-……Pat!

For a moment, silence lingered over the entire continent. And then…

-Koo-goo-goo…

“Heok.”

‘Thump!’ At the same time as a slight tremor, Gain fell to the sand.

She hurriedly recovered her creaking body without even having time to groan.

At first, she thought it was an earthquake, but she soon realized it was not.

Her face, soaked with blood and tears, immediately looked up at the sky. The sky was crying.

-Koo-goo-goo-goo…

“…Crazy, really……”

‘Hole’.

Four straight lines and a point of light where ether particles gathered, slowly splitting and opening the heart of the moon shadow—that was…

A hole she had once witnessed.

The jet-black circle that had shown the ‘veranda’ of a certain house.

-Koo-goo-goo-goong…

“…It’s done… Cough, it’s really done……!”

‘Gate’.

They had finally opened the gate.

Gain, who had stood up with trembling legs, hurriedly ran west, where Herit was.

The thought of having to check on the child’s condition came first, and she did not have the energy to think more deeply about other things.

So she didn’t recognize it.

-Awoo, awoo!

“Herit, Herit……! Auntie’s here! We did it……! Herit!”

-Jjeo-jeo-jeok……

The door to another dimension,

Its tiny crack.

May 22nd, night.

Our living room.

I washed myself thoroughly, and just in case, I came out wearing casual clothes instead of pajamas.

My brother and youngest sibling were also busily walking around the house in preparation for any incident that might happen tonight.

The poor Gaga bag was now on the verge of bursting.

I was worried that my brother might buy me a kimchi refrigerator.

“Hyung [older brother], I’ll be back soon, why are you packing so much?”

“If only you could keep your mouth shut. We don’t know how the situation will turn out, so take as much as possible.”

“That’s right.”

Eunseo took Jung Hyunseo’s side in a sulky voice.

Meanwhile, Teacher Johann was checking if my coat was too thin and checking the knots on my sneakers.

I could only say ‘Thank you’ to the hands that even put Yuliter’s hair ornament on me.

I felt uneasy and anxious for some reason, so I kept checking outside the veranda window.

But no matter how many times I looked, there was really no moon in the night sky. I belatedly realized that today was the ‘New Moon’.

“……”

New Moon, the day when there is no moon in the sky. And the day when a new moon begins.

The TV clearly said that.

“Seongjang. Did you pack Seongjang?”

Ah.

“Uh-huh, it’s in my bag.”

“Shouldn’t you be holding it? That’s Oppa’s magic wand.”

“Magic wand……”

I wanted to point out that it wasn’t, but I couldn’t think of any grounds to do so right now, so I rummaged around and took out my staff.

I also packed a new cell phone and a portable charger separately. Ah, an alert just came…

‘ITchOK left a comment on The Sub-Male Lead Goes on Strike, Episode 878.’

“Oh my gosh, someone’s already read it……”

I just uploaded the remaining two episodes, and they’ve already seen them all.

‘Please let them meet’

“……”

‘Please let them meet’.

That sentence contained my every day as it was, and it was a wish that had nothing less or more.

I slightly raised the corners of my lips and swiped the screen. I can’t reach you even if I do this…

“…Thank you so much.”

Thank you.

I put the small but firm wish of the reader into my mouth one word at a time and chewed it like medicine.

I was unconditionally happy and glad that these people were wishing for our reunion, but I felt a little embarrassed because my nose was tingling for no reason.

I rubbed my hot neck and pressed another comment notification.

It was right then.

-Ureureureung, kwagagagang—!

“Oh my gosh!”

“Wow, I almost had a heart attack! Why the sudden thunder and lightning?!”

Eunseo, who had been rummaging through my closet, ran out in surprise.

Jung Hyunseo in the kitchen was also looking around the living room with surprised eyes.

“…Wait a minute, just a minute.”

Teacher Johann’s mint-colored eyes intertwined with my gaze.

I felt a strange feeling and ran out to the veranda.

For some reason, I had a bad feeling.

Approximately five minutes later.

“…Damn it, why is that thing doing that!”

After spitting blood and putting on a group show to open it!

-Jjeo-jeo-jeo-jeok—!

“No, you crazy bastard! Since when were you an automatic door that you close on your own! Kallak kallak!”

‘Ptoo!’ Gain, who had been shouting at the top of her lungs, spat out blood.

Then, her dry shoulders heaved greatly, and she coughed in succession.

Herit, who was lying on the sand, looked up at Gain with pitiful eyes.

Fortunately, the child was safe thanks to the protection of the Ark, but the shock to the vessel was so severe that she fainted for a while and still could not stand on her own two feet.

It was because her energy and Divine Power were completely exhausted.

-Koo-goo-goong…

“No, star…… Why is it closing, huh? We’re about to fulfill our wish, why……!”

-Go-go-go-go-go…

And the ‘Gate’ was slowly getting smaller.

No matter how much Gain cursed at the sky, pointed her finger, and poured out curses, nothing changed.

This was a real situation that no one could stop, and it was the worst development that no one had dared to expect.

The group, who had been thrown out by the tremendous Divine Power storm earlier, were scattered or lying down in various places.

Among them, Anpeta had completely fainted, but Martier reported that her breathing and pulse were normal. Cornelison was also unconscious and was being cared for by her brother and Iseol, and Jibril was sitting over there with a very tired face.

The only one who stayed in place without much damage was the Spirit of Iran.

“Kluk, kluk-kluk…… Keuheok.”

Gain stared down at the dirt floor with a dazed expression for a while.

To be honest, she didn’t have the courage to keep looking at the sky.

She didn’t have the confidence to witness the door completely disappearing with her own eyes. ‘Wow……’

“…What should I do now?”

-Awoo……

…No, really…

“It’s not like the gate isn’t opening at all, it opens and then closes…… What do we do now? What, do we forcibly block it? Do we force it to stay open……?”

I can’t do that right now, can I? Herit is at her limit now…

-Ttalgeurak

At that time, a large rock-like thing rolled in front of Gain’s eyes.

It was only after a long time that she realized it was a diamond larger than her fist. What is this…

“…Good idea.”

‘Kluk.’ The man who had spat out blood lightly took out the scabbard [a sheath for a sword] from his waist and dropped it to the floor.

Gain slowly looked up at Cedric, not understanding what he was doing.

The man’s eyes were emitting a very intense light. Why do I feel goosebumps…

“Your Highness, what are you trying to do now……”

“If there is not enough ether, we have no choice but to open it with mana.”

“Yes……?”

…What is he saying now?