The Returner
[544] 9. He's gone (4)
“Resurrection?”
Christopher looked at the screen with trembling eyes.
Lee Hyuk, who thought he was dead, is alive and moving in front of his eyes.
“Director, Lee Ji-hyuk isn't dead! He's alive!”
“ ……. ”
“Of course! I'll die... ”
“Quiet.”
In Christopher's low, cold voice, the mood in the situation room that was boiling quickly cooled down.
“Sir?"
Christopher's face hardened.
I have no idea.
I knew very little about what happened to Lee Hyuk who overused Mana. Even Christopher recently found out. There was no need to hang around.
Since there is no solution, the more people you know, the more anxiety it spreads.
So Christopher was the only one who knew what was going on here.
‘That... can't be it. ’
Even if you look the same, you can't call that existence Lee Ji-hyuk.
According to Lee Hyuk, that was Lee Hyuk's appearance, but it could never be Lee Hyuk. The base of the basic thinking is that other beings are not human beings.
How are you going to move? How! "
It was a pity that I was not Lee Hyuk. What was important was the appearance of Lee Ji-hyuk.
It's not strange to hold hands with other Horses as long as you're a Horseman. Being a Human is not strange, even if you are friendly to Humans.
Christopher was fearful for the first time of an unpredictable and uncorrigible existence.
And…….
Engage! Engage! Lee Hyuk ripped off Barbacce's arm! ”
“I did it!”
“I win! Lee Hyuk is overwhelming! ”
Christopher sits down, looking at his cheering men as if he had met a hero.
Then the poem tears off the end and burns it urgently. Christopher rubs his eyebrows as the harsh poem emits smoke.
‘That's terrible.'
Combat does not simply determine who is strong. There is more than weight and strength in the world than there is in the world.
Even when Lee Hyuk was the best person in the world to beat even the Demon King, Christopher did not consider Lee Hyuk to be a threat to humanity.
If he really wanted to kill Yi Hyuk, there must have been thousands of ways. Lee Hyuk was extremely aggressive, but he didn't have the proper defense power.
Even if only a dozen snipers with large sniper rifles could operate, they were confident that they would turn Lee Ji-hyuk into a beehive in an instant.
If not, you can bomb the surroundings of Lee Hyuk. We can never survive there unless we are human.
Human science and weapons may be powerless against the Demon King or the Sorcerers, but they are optimized for killing the same humans. If it's natural, it's natural. Weapons have evolved for it.
But that didn't work for Lee Hyuk.
By breaking through the barrier that Barbase created and grabbing Barbacean's arm with his bare hands, it means that the flesh of Lee Hyuk has already turned into something completely different from that of man.
There was no way to attack Lee Ji-hyuk now using human technology. As if no attack had ever worked on Barbatch.
Christopher looked at Lee Hyuk with desperate eyes.
What the hell does he have to do with him? We're up against Barbatch right now. So, should we say that Lee Hyuk was reborn as the Savior of mankind who came down to save mankind?
Or…….
“Try a close-up. ”
“Yes?”
“... pull it, toward your face. ”
“I understand.”
I zoomed in on the screen that was filming Lee Hyuk from afar, and his face was full of screens.
“Ah……. ”
“Hey, is that? ”
An astonishing elasticity flows out.
Christopher realized his feelings were right. I wish I was wrong, but unfortunately, his premonitions were not so high.
“Damn it.”
The face of Lee Hyuk, who appeared, could not be called a human being. Not quite the same face as before, but the face that appeared on that face was a terrifying, unparalleled face that no one could make. It is a face that I have never seen in Lee Hyuk until now.
“Uh, how do I do that? ”
Then came the confusion in the situation room, knowing the situation.
“Wait for now. ”
“… again. ”
Christopher didn't answer.
Repetition of the same word.
Stand by. Stand by. I watch.
Judgment is a discussion of what I should do to get the best results. Now, however, Christopher and humanity could not change the outcome with any action.
Then we just have to wait for the variables to occur.
Seeing the situation in the field changing time and time, all they could do was wait and watch.
* * *
“Brother?”
Lee Ye-won looked at the screen with an unbelievable eye.
It's moving.
Lee Hyuk was moving. The Lee Ji-hyuk who felt so clearly that he stopped breathing beyond the screen was now moving alive.
“Hey, Mom! He's alive! Mom!"
My heart seemed to burst with joy.
“Mom! There! ”
Lee Ye-won pointed to Lee Hyuk moving in the screen with joy, but Park Seon-deok held Lee Ye-won's hand and pressed down.
“Mom?"
Lee Ye-won looked back at Park, not knowing English.
“No.”
“Huh?"
“He's not your brother. ”
“… Mom, what are you talking about? ”
Lee Ye-won couldn't understand Park Seon-Duk's words. Lee Hyuk is definitely alive, but what is her mother saying right now?
“Mom... he's your brother. Hey…… ”
“Yewon.”
Park Seon-Duk shakes his head, holding Lee Ye-won's hand tightly.
I'm tired and helpless.
“No, that's not your brother. ”
“Mom.”
“My baby. ”
Park Seon-Duk bit his lip slightly and said.
“No matter how long I've been away, my stomach hurts. It's my baby I bred and raised. But you don't recognize one of my babies. ”
Park Seon-Duk's voice was full of confidence and sorrow at the same time.
“No, that's not Ji-hyuk, even though he looks the same. ”
“Mom... ”
Lee Ye-won couldn't say anything.
I couldn't understand what Park Seon-Duk's words meant. But listening to Park Seon-Duk's voice, I couldn't help it.
So I just have to look at it.
He's alive and moving.
Her brother is moving around alive, and it's not you. How could you say that…….
Lee Ye-won shut up.
I can see Lee Hyuk's face on the close-up screen. At that moment, Lee Ye-won was able to understand what Park Seon-deok meant.
No, it's not.
That's not Lee Hyuk.
Lee Hyuk was a person who was annoying, annoying and sometimes irritating, but he was never evil or bad.
But that face...
Lee Ye-won's lips began to tremble.
Something else occupied my brother's body. Something other than her brother.
Then...
Then what will happen to Lee Hyuk?
Chaos and unbearable despair begin to shake her at the same time. Park Seon-Duk hugged her shoulder quietly without saying anything.
“It's okay.”
“Mom... ”
“It's okay.”
Park Seon-Duk tightly hugged Lee Ye-won's shoulder.
It's nothing to be sad about.
She has already left Lee Hyuk.
But…….
Park turned his head as he didn't even look at Lee Hyuk anymore.
That's worse than death.
Watching her son who could not rest even though he was dead was a punishment worse than death.
‘It's too harsh. ’
Park Seon-Duk blamed the god of another world that would not exist.
* * *
Even as Lee Hyuk's hand moved, the Horsemen and the Demon Kings did not understand what Lee Hyuk was doing.
They've never done anything like this before.
Just as we couldn't figure out how to deal with Lee Hyuk who had become the Horseman, it was hard to decide how to deal with Lee Hyuk who had become the Horseman.
Haven't any of you ever been a Horseman before?
There was a human who became a demon. But there was no man who became the Demon King.
Moreover, Lee Hyuk was the Demon King before he became a devil. Since he reconciled himself from man to the devil, he had no idea how to assess his existence and how to treat him.
But they didn't have to think.
“What?”
It was around that time that I felt an ideal.
Red energies of blood rushed up Lee Hyuk's shoulders. Then he began to drench the world in red, very red blood.
Like the sunset.
"That one?"
Lee Hyuk became a Mage.
Except for the causes and processes, there is a horse that is not so different from them.
But no one thought so.
That's who they are?
Is that it?
No way.
It's so alien.
I couldn't even understand what the red energy was coming out of that body.
Just as humans had sensed that Lee Hyuk was different from themselves, even the Horsemen felt that Lee Hyuk was not just a horse.
What the hell am I supposed to call that?
Aphedrice watches the situation quietly and opens his mouth.
“Mutants.”
“… Yes? ”
Seo Ah-young asked as if the appendage was cynical.
“Ji Hyuk used to call himself that sometimes. even though I didn't fully understand his language. It wasn't until I received the world's information that I understood how deep and lonely that self-help was. ”
“Ah……. ”
“But that was wrong. ”
Seo Ah-young looked at the appendage with questionable eyes. As if waiting for her answer.
“I'm not a mutant. The language of Lee Hyuk then or Lee Hyuk now is better suited to the language of a country other than your language. Lee Hyuk did the same. He's just an Irregular. ”
“ ……. ”
Seo Ah-young closed her mouth.
They also sometimes called Yi Hyuk that way.
“If it used to just be self-indulgence in situations that ordinary humans couldn't face... … now he's literally become Irregular. I'm not a Human...... I'm not a Demon. ”
The appledrice's eyes do not falter.
It was hard as if I had cut off my emotions. Even though he looks like Lee Hyuk, he is never Lee Hyuk.
“Disaster.”
“Why?”
“Maybe... you won't feel like you belong anywhere." ”
“Yes?”
The appendage shakes its head silently.