Chapter 164
“Oh, by the way, aren’t the other two breeders currently waiting for punishment in the main church’s prison? I heard there are several bloodlines that don’t qualify as breeders.”
As if just remembering, when Mugeuk mentioned the two breeders waiting for trial in the main church’s prison, they finally seemed to grasp the reality of the situation and exclaimed in realization.
“Come to think of it, two of them are captured, aren’t they? This is a big problem.”
“It’s only delayed due to the vacant apostle position, but they will pay for their crimes. After Cheon Gwanghangja is appointed as apostle, they’ll be offered as human sacrifices during the sacrificial ritual. If that happens.”
“Both of them? Is Yoo Oseon’s crime serious enough to be offered as a sacrifice? I don’t know much about it. If both are used as offerings for the sacrificial ritual.”
“…No, then there would be no breeders left except for CEO Yoo Siwoon, wouldn’t there?”
“Only one breeder would remain… would that be okay? Would conception be possible with just one breeder? If needed, two or three should mate. I understand the children are still young. Around ten years old, nine years old or so. Besides, The Great Crevice fled all the way here to escape CEO Yoo Siwoon.”
They stared at each other in confusion, their minds racing with various thoughts. Cheon Gwanghangja turned and said:
“We should think carefully about returning to CEO Yoo Siwoon for now.”
He took an apple and went up to the second floor. The bedroom door was tightly locked. He knocked and waited, but there was no response.
“…Eunseong-nim. Are you sleeping?”
“……”
He waited patiently for a while, but no answer came. Cheon Gwanghangja pressed his ear close to the door, wondering if he could hear any sound. The faint sound of sniffling and crying could be heard.
“Eunseong-nim…, I brought an apple. Please eat the apple. You need to eat something. Your body will waste away like this.”
Just as he was resolving that if Eunseong continued to refuse food as Mugeuk had said, he would have to force him to eat from now on.
“…There, just leave it there and go.”
A voice barely suppressing tears could be heard faintly.
“Then I’ll leave it here and go. You must eat it. That’s your duty, Eunseong-nim.”
“……”
All he had to do was eat well, sleep well, live well like that, then mate with the breeders and conceive their god. What was so difficult about that to make it so troublesome? Cheon Gwanghangja clicked his tongue softly, finding Eunseong somewhat frustrating and pathetic. He put the apple down in front of the door and turned away.
Eunseong wiped away his tears with the back of his hand. Bitter tears burned hot around his eyes.
Ahjussi wouldn’t have done that.
No, ahjussi isn’t that kind of person.
No… please no. It can’t be.
His mind wasn’t functioning properly. He would defend Yoo Siwoon, then curse him, then think it couldn’t be true again, that there must be some misunderstanding, wondering from where and how things went wrong, then thinking again and again, retracing what he had done to him and cursing him again… The emotional exhaustion had reached its peak, and Eunseong was on the verge of collapse.
He needed to escape from Yoo Siwoon and shatter their ridiculous belief that claimed he was The Great Crevice, but he couldn’t think of what to do, who to contact, or whose help to seek.
Wiping his wet eyes on his knees, Eunseong took out the cell phone Detective Lee Joon-seung had given him with trembling hands and called the burner phone number he had provided.
“Hello?”
―You… is it okay for you to call me?
“Is it really true that ahjussi killed our birth parents and dad?”
Eunseong confronted him directly, hoping desperately that this at least wasn’t true.
―What about Director Nam? Is Director Nam alive?
Lee Joon-seung also asked urgently.
Director Nam was alive. He seemed to know the whole story. He had known from the beginning that Eunseong had a body capable of pregnancy. That’s why from their first meeting, he kept asking if his body was okay and observed him persistently. The sense of betrayal Eunseong felt toward Director Nam was no less than what he felt toward Yoo Siwoon.
“Director Nam is alive.”
Eunseong’s voice hardened bluntly as he confirmed Director Nam’s survival.
―Ah, thank goodness. It seems they couldn’t do anything to Director Nam. That means they’re not completely insane.
“Ahjussi didn’t kill our birth parents and dad, right?”
―It’s true that your birth parents’ car accident happened because of that father. This is certain. Whether Yoo Siwoon killed Seo Jeong-gi himself or someone else in that family did it, Yoo Siwoon must have been indirectly involved. Since you came into his hands, he must have known at least that Seo Jeong-gi was a dead man.
“……”
―I don’t know when Yoo Siwoon found out about you, but it’s also true that his family has been watching you for nearly twenty years since you were born. Without telling anyone, waiting for you to grow up…, that is, waiting for you to mature enough to have children.
A chill like shuddering ran down Eunseong’s spine. The thought that he had been watching and waiting for him to grow up all that time was a horrifying idea beyond imagination. Having done such things, Yoo Siwoon had casually told the story about a dog named Seolgi. He even doubted whether there had ever been a dog named Seolgi.
Each time he learned newly revealed facts, his chest felt like it was being struck.
He didn’t completely believe or agree with everything Lee Joon-seung said about Yoo Siwoon having impure intentions, but Eunseong felt like he was going crazy because there were more than a few parts of his words that seemed to ring true.
He didn’t know whether Yoo Siwoon had killed Seo Jeong-gi or not, but he had continued to lie while knowing about Seo Jeong-gi’s death, even creating an empty urn to deceive Eunseong. The truth was that he had used Seo Jeong-gi’s death to make Eunseong completely trust him and put him in a state where he had no choice but to depend on him.
Yoo Siwoon had said he didn’t kill him. When he told that story, his eyes could only be seen as sincere.
Eunseong could no longer trust either side. He couldn’t trust Yoo Siwoon’s eyes that seemed to genuinely like him, nor could he trust the Yoo Siwoon who used him solely for his purpose with all kinds of lies and sweet words while remaining silent despite knowing about Seo Jeong-gi’s death.
―Where are you? Are you alone?
“…I left home now. I escaped.”
Eunseong answered weakly.
―You can answer the phone, right? Where did you escape to? Is it Director Nam? Are you with Director Nam?
Lee Joon-seung asked secretly in a lowered voice.
“Director Nam… Director Nam is also one of them. He was the one who made my clone phone.”
―What did you say?
“He’s also one of them!”
Eunseong ended up shouting as he swallowed several times trying to hide his tears. Even Director Nam, whom he had trusted and relied on, was nothing more than a surveillance agent that Yoo Siwoon had placed to use Eunseong. Eunseong couldn’t believe it.
He sniffled while continuing the call, holding the trembling phone.
―Director Nam isn’t that kind of person.
“Director Nam knew from the beginning what I was, what kind of person I am. He was monitoring me.”
―Director Nam also seemed suspicious of Yoo Siwoon. Looking back now, I understand why Yoo Siwoon did those strange things. He kept delaying exposing Chairman Yoo’s corruption for a long time under the excuse that he needed to be careful. He didn’t care whether his allies went missing or died. He might have been waiting for you to grow up enough to have his child, or if not that, he seemed to need time to confirm whether you were real or fake.
Although Eunseong felt a fundamental displeasure at Lee Joon-seung’s way of speaking that treated him like an animal in heat, he kept his mouth shut and just listened to what he was saying.
―He deceived all of us. From what I saw, he deceived Director Nam too. He was keeping both possibilities open. He would have needed a backup plan for when you weren’t real.
“If I wasn’t real, I wouldn’t be needed so he would abandon me… and steal the company through other methods?”
―That’s what I was doing before you appeared. Following Yoo Siwoon’s instructions. We had been preparing for years to steal the company through other methods.
“……”
―Do you still trust Yoo Siwoon? Looking at what he’s doing now, he’s not in his right mind. Unless he intends to spread the Yongse Pacheon Church further, it’s incomprehensible! I have no reason to lie to you. What would I gain from it?
Each word from Lee Joon-seung hammered his empty chest with hollow sounds.
―You probably won’t believe what I’m saying, but you have to believe it. Even if you don’t trust anyone else, you have to trust me.
“What are you, police ahjussi? Everyone deceived me, so how can I trust you just because you’re police? I can’t trust anyone.”
―I understand how you feel right now. I would feel the same way. Did I tell you that my friend was murdered by those Yongse Pacheon Church bastards? I want to eliminate these bastards more than anyone. I’ll do anything. I’m even prepared to kill you if you don’t listen.
“…What did I do wrong?”
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
