The Returner

“To?”

Lee Hyuk turned his head to the voice behind his back.

“Are you trying to? ”

“What's wrong with you? ”

“It's for the hard work. ”

Lee Hyuk looked at the alpha with a ridiculous eye.

“Did you really fight? ”

“… aren't you overestimating me? I'm embarrassed to say it with my mouth, but if that's all I've learned and I'm capable of, I'm not exaggerating even if I'm the most talented human being in history! I'm sorry it had to be this bad. ”

“No, that's not what I meant……. ”

Lee Hyuk tilted his head.

‘You don't understand. ’

The right arm and left leg of the alpha do not show where they flew to. One eye is bursting with black blood, and two of the remaining limbs do not look so healthy.

“Hehe, I got two of them, though. If we overdo it here, maybe we can get one more. ”

“... I don't think that's a good idea, but why don't you take a break? I don't think we have much left. ”

“What do you want to do with your rest when you die anyway? We can still fight this thing. But do you think I'll get my teeth in the devil's skin? ”

“I don't know.”

Lee Hyuk smiled.

‘I thought I'd fight with all my strength...' ’

I've never believed in an Alpha. He passed on enough knowledge to the Alpha because he thought that whatever the Alpha was plotting, the world dominated by the Alpha was better than the world dominated by the Horses.

But now, judging by Alpha's predicament, this one either had no other plan or failed to endure it to the end.

“Roughly once I'm in bed with them, I'll rule the rest of the world. Well, didn't you think? ”

“It was similar... ”

Alpha giggles.

“Well, I wasn't planning on being that detailed. ”

“You're shitting me. ”

“Oh, you can't fool me. We thought that if we conserved the power roughly, we could wipe out what was left. If Lee Hyuk dies... What should I say, that NDF won't stop us? ”

“Well……. ”

Seo Ah-young, etc., will not be able to stop the Alpha. If there is only one thing left, it can be stopped, but if the Alpha and NDF survive, the Alpha forces will also survive at an indiscriminate level.

I scratched my head with only one alpha left.

“I wanted it to go like that. But, you know... If we stay like this, we'll be crushed to a level that won't work, and, um... ”

Alpha sighs deeply.

“I hate to admit it, but I think I have humanity in me. ”

“That's the funniest joke I've heard in a thousand years. ”

“No, no, I mean... it's kind of weird to call it humanity, you know? Humans suck and hate it, so I want to wipe out the race and create a new world... ”

“Fucking Hitler. ”

“But I hate them even more. I hated humanity, but I couldn't stand it any more because I hated that humanity was defeated by them. ”

“... I think it makes sense. ”

“This is the result. ”

Alpha shrugs.

“Well, I was only a servant after all. I should be able to endure the situation no matter how much I hate it, because I hated the Demon King and preached to him because I didn't want humanity to perish... Well, I should take it easy. ”

“Hmm……. ”

Lee Hyuk glanced at the Alpha and nodded.

“Well, I'll save you for now. ”

“Yes? I'm gonna die anyway. I lost too much blood... ”

“I think the odds of survival are about ten percent. ”

“I think my heart is broken, too. ”

“So ten pros. Or we could just live. ”

“Ten percent... Is this supposed to be hopeful? Patients with late stage cancer live with hope, but if they have a chance of living ten percent, they have to run away hard. But... what do you mean, you'll save her? ”

“You're too dangerous to save with that 10% chance. ”

“I look like this. ”

Lee Hyuk replied grudgingly.

“In fact, you can steam anyone in that state. ”

“That's right. Should I say thank you for saving my life? ”

Lee Hyuk shook his head, looking at the smiling Alpha.

The reason the Alpha is so dangerous in the first place is not because he's strong. It was because I had an idea that was too violent and extremely friendly compared to the violent idea.

Perhaps many of his followers do not have a good sense of what he claims and simply follow the alpha.

So if one arm or one leg falls off, we can't assume that the risk has diminished.

“Hey, Diolet. ”

Lee Hyuk shouted backwards.

Then Diolet 12, who was pouring out divine power with a contemplative face, jumped over here.

“You wanted to see me?”

“Take care of him. ”

“… Healing? ”

Diolet XII frowned.

“Which line? It shouldn't be hard to keep your life on the line, but the level of repair for your limbs is very difficult right now. ”

“It's hard. ”

“It consumes the divine power to heal dozens of others. ”

“Still, you'd better do it. This will be the last burial ground of humanity. ”

Diore 12 did not understand what Lee Hyuk was saying at the moment. But now I could feel one thing: I just had to follow it.

“I understand.”

As Diolet 12 seemed to understand the words, Lee Hyuk nodded lightly and opened his mouth.

“And the Alpha. ”

“Yes.”

“You know your role, don't you? ”

“… I don't know if that's possible. ”

“It's possible. It has to be possible.”

Lee Hyuk kicked his tongue.

“I wish things could have been possible. Then we're past the point of trouble. ”

“I should, but I'm even more afraid of you. If I have to play the macta, I prefer to play it over there. ”

“Well, that shouldn't be too bad. ”

Lee Hyuk shook his hand.

“Then get lost. ”

“Yay.”

As the Alpha jumped back with one foot, Lee Hyuk smiled and turned around and walked forward.

Khl 'Rah, Khl 'Rah!

The howling sound of dragons echoes overhead. The falling dragon falls to his side.

“Tsk.”

Not just here.

There's a massacre in his eyes all over the place. I expected it, but I didn't expect it to be this one-sided.

‘What do you expect? ’

I don't want to blame them. Earth and Beraf did the best they could. I've been training to stop the Demon King without saving my life.

But that's all.

Overwhelming power cars were more than an effort. If you've done everything you can and you don't have an answer, you have to find a new answer.

even though the answer poses an unparalleled risk.

“Is he dying? Is he dying? ”

The moment Lee Hyuk spoke softly, I heard the voice behind his back calling him.

“… Lee Ji-hyuk. ”

“Huh?"

The one you see behind your back was an appendage.

Her face was never good. The fact that a dragon with a small emotional change looks like that is proof that his insides are rotting.

Because your people are being slaughtered?

Or because I know what Lee Hyuk will do from now on?

He couldn't figure out why.

“You look like you're about to cry. ”

“Dragons don't shed tears. You know that. ”

“That's what I'm saying. ”

The face of the appendage puzzles with wonder.

“You don't feel like a dragon anymore. It's like a person. Or should I say, somewhere between dragons and humans? ”

Lee Hyuk smiled and said.

“Seeing as how you've turned that immutable dragon all the way out here, I'm a great one, too. ”

“I never thought I'd change so much because of humans. ”

“Yes. Tough and tough. ”

And that long connection will come to an end in some way today. I don't know if there's a future in the world, but he doesn't have a future.

“Are you sure you're okay? ”

Lee Hyuk didn't answer. But the appendage spoke as if he had heard his answer.

“I know, there's no other way. But even so, there is another way for you.... ”

“Dignity is too much death for me. ”

Lee Hyuk shrugged.

“I lived too long. It's too greedy to want to die peacefully until the end. ”

“But……. ”

“I know I'm not the one who's happy about this. There's really not much I want to do in the world. I do it because I have to. Like you stopped me so badly. ”

Aphedrice nods.

When I couldn't empathize with Lee Hyuk's feelings, I didn't understand that he was in pain. Lee Hyuk was fortunate to have eternal life as a human being.

But when I understood the concept of being a dragon around me that I could never understand, I could see what the pain of EJ's revolution was like. Humans were never alone.

From then on, holding Yi Hyuk was painful for her, too.

If she had ignored Latrell's orders and tried to send Yi Hyuk back to his original world, would things have been a little different now?

“That's sad.”

“Sad?”

“Yes, it's goodbye. It's a concept that dragons don't have. ”

“Of course. You don't have relationships with other beings. It's just like standing next to a tree. ”

“... I did. ”

Aefredrice hesitated a little, and Lee Hyuk glanced back smiling.

“So what do you say? Do I mean more to you than trees now? ”

Appeldrich knew what he had to do now. She smiles as brightly as she can.

“You are the most precious person to me. ”

It was a word that could never come out of a dragon's mouth.

She has changed as he has changed. And…….

If she survives, she will have to suffer for an eternity of sadness and loneliness that a dragon will never have to feel.

It was rather a curse.

Lee Hyuk glanced at the appendage and nodded.

“Thank you for everything. ”

It meant a lot to me.

“Hello.”

Lee Hyuk resolutely said good-bye, but Aphedrice quietly smiled at Lee Hyuk.

“Farewell."

“ ……. ”

“I'll wait. ”

“Well……. ”

What should I say?

Even Lee Hyuk in heaven couldn't take it as usual at this moment.

It was the best choice he could make without simply answering.

The appledrice's eyes tremble as she looks at Lee Hyuk heading to the battlefield without giving her a glance.

The back of that face, perhaps you will never see again, is unstoppable and unstoppable.