Chapter 133
“If you’re not insane, what is this? Do you understand what will happen after revealing Eunseong to the council of elders and the family? You said you were going to run away with him! After saying that, what is this now? And you didn’t even give me a single hint about it.”
As Director Nam’s voice kept getting louder with excitement, Yoo Siwoon stood up and closed the study door. With the surroundings quiet and only the two of them left, Director Nam’s agitated breathing sounded even louder.
“If I had told you in advance, you would have stopped me. Don’t you think I’m crazy, Director?”
Yoo Siwoon answered Director Nam’s pressing questions with a tired voice.
“Of course. Why on earth did you do this?”
“It’s my fault.”
“…”
Yoo Siwoon blamed himself as if he had made a huge mistake.
“I should have eliminated Yoo Oseon properly then, I should have burned that place down. I should have confirmed that he was definitely dead.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You said that if something happened to me, Eunseong would be in the most danger.”
“I did.”
“There’s no way for both of us to survive without harm. This is the only option. You knew it too. That this was the fastest way.”
“…”
Though unspoken, it was also the only official way to deal with Yoo Oseon and Yoo Seongil. Eunseong’s partner in this world had to be Yoo Siwoon and no one else. That was Yoo Siwoon’s true feeling. He didn’t want to let those who viewed Eunseong as a partner and felt the same way about him as he did continue breathing.
“As you said, if I had disappeared with Eunseong, the people left behind, especially you, would have been dead by now.”
“…”
“I’m not that heartless, am I?”
Betraying the trust of those who believed in him and chose a dangerous path, leaving them in danger, was also something that weighed on Yoo Siwoon’s conscience. When he planned to leave with Eunseong, he had assumed Yoo Oseon was already dead, so he had no hesitation.
Just as Yoo Siwoon felt this way, Yoo Oseon too would never give up, and would try to find out where Yoo Siwoon had taken Eunseong by any means, whether through torture or whatever.
Director Nam’s body trembled slightly as he recalled that Yoo Siwoon had once tried to abandon him, knowing the process all too well. It was like the coolness of a sharpened blade touching the nape of his neck.
“So… did you deliberately expose Eunseong?”
“There was no other way. Is there another way? You said no shooting.”
Yoo Siwoon quietly asked him to tell if there was one, to think of one himself. Though he understood intellectually why Yoo Siwoon had done this, he still felt uneasy.
“But how is CEO Yoo Oseon still alive?”
“Chairman Yoo seems to have assigned someone to watch over him.”
“Does that mean Chairman Yoo saved him?”
“He probably worried that things would go wrong after creating such a convincing fake. He must not have trusted his incompetent son. After all, Yoo Seongil would be in the most trouble if Yoo Oseon died.”
“Then the ‘judgment’ the executioner mentioned earlier…”
“I found many ways to kill them without dirtying my hands.”
“…”
Yes, perhaps it’s better to handle it this way. Though Director Nam had been the first to tell him to leave, he was grateful that Yoo Siwoon hadn’t disappeared with Eunseong, hadn’t abandoned him, and had stayed, trusting those who followed him.
“So what happens to Eunseong now?”
“…”
“Now that the council of elders knows, they’ll do everything possible to make him pregnant… they really won’t spare any means.”
“…”
Director Nam hesitated but continued. It had been an avoided topic. Since it had been confirmed through the hospital via the council of elders, it was certain that Eunseong’s body not only had markings but also something that shouldn’t exist.
“If by any chance, if it’s really possible for Eunseong to become pregnant, as far as I know, there’s a prophecy that the child… might not be human. It could be a disaster, a disease, measles… an eclipse or lunar eclipse, or possibly a demon. Looking at what’s in the prophecy books, it doesn’t seem like a normal baby.”
If Eunseong gave birth, it was said that it would be one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that appear when the first four of the seven seals mentioned in the Book of Revelation are broken, and it would be the rider of the pale horse – the most powerful of the four: the white horse of pestilence, the red horse of war, the black horse of famine, and the pale horse of death.
According to their scripture, the “God who came through the new path” was most likely to be the pale rider mentioned in the Apocalypse in the Vatican manuscript.
“They say it’s a being that transcends humanity. Like an asura with no distinction between good and evil, right and wrong. I don’t know what that means exactly.”
“…We don’t know. It could just be a baby.”
Yoo Siwoon muttered as if talking to himself.
A beautiful baby… resembling Eunseong.
“According to the actual records…”
“Probably no one would have believed it. It’s more likely they deified it as a mysterious and untouchable being. Even if something exists, it wouldn’t be easy for a man to get pregnant. After all, the prophesied being is nothing more than a miracle needed for the unity of believers. Don’t Christians also wait for Jesus to return? Even though they’ve never seen him and he’s not visible.”
“…You don’t believe it?”
“No. I do believe it.”
Director Nam was confused. Yoo Siwoon seemed rational at times, but when they conversed, he also seemed out of his mind.
“Then you know that Eunseong might have a child?”
“Yes, I know.”
Yoo Siwoon answered casually as if it wasn’t a big deal.
“You’re using protection, right?”
“I didn’t expect to be nagged about this by you.”
“Are you?”
“…Are you worried I might get Eunseong pregnant?”
“It’s not an impossibility, is it? Everything matches the prophecy.”
“The thing you’re worried about won’t happen. Don’t worry.”
Director Nam, who had finally asked the difficult question and was pressing for an answer, was relieved by Yoo Siwoon’s words. If he was careful, the already slim possibility could be reduced further, and the council of elders couldn’t interfere with their bedroom affairs.
“What are you going to do now?”
After making such a big move, he couldn’t help but be curious about Yoo Siwoon’s thoughts. Yoo Siwoon smiled faintly at Director Nam’s question. Before meeting Eunseong, he had tried to destroy the Yongse Pacheon Church. Now Yoo Siwoon was at the center of that cult group.
“I plan to break it down from here, piece by piece.”
He meant that from where he stood now, he would break it down piece by piece until it eventually collapsed. What he wanted was Seo Eunseong, not the Yongse Pacheon Church or Seongha Group, nor revenge for the dirty work done since his father’s generation.
“That would be good, but now that everyone knows Eunseong is the Great Gap, the Yongse Pacheon Church will become more united. It won’t stop at just uniting. From their perspective, it’s like a miracle has occurred.”
Eunseong’s existence had set fire to that dry grassland. Even those who had been half-believing would all turn into fervent believers, and they would be desperate to see the Great Gap that actually exists, to touch it just once.
The earliest record of the Great Gap mentioned was over two thousand years ago, around 221 BC, and it was recorded in secret history only twice. And both outcomes were not good. There were only records that those born that way ruled the world and soon destroyed it. According to their prophetic books passed down in secret, the one who destroyed a 500-year-old country in just three years was the son the emperor obtained through the Great Gap.
The emperor, wanting to give birth to a god, searched for the Great Gap. He embraced dozens of pretty boys and, to fulfill the prophecy, cut open their bellies and transplanted the clumps of blood. The blood of those born that way flowed down to Yoo Siwoon’s father and then to Yoo Siwoon himself. If one were to speak of having chilling blood, it wasn’t Eunseong but Yoo Siwoon, who inherited their blood.
“Because he’s a divine being, they might do strange things to Eunseong. Making shamans who claim to be possessed walk on knife ladders, walk through fire… such things still happen quite often. No matter how I think about it, I’m not sure if exposing Eunseong to that cult was the right thing to do. Did you see the executioner’s eyes earlier?”
“Why do you think I did this?”
“…”
“Without my permission, they can’t do anything to Eunseong. From now on, my word is law.”
“…”
“Stop nagging and take good care of Eunseong.”
Director Nam finally seemed to understand his intention. Yoo Siwoon’s will to eliminate the Yongse Pacheon Church and reform Seongha Group, which had become a shell of heresy and a hotbed of corruption, remained unchanged. Although he unintentionally stood at the center of the heretics, he was trying to rectify it by any means necessary. Director Nam finally understood him and nodded with eyes that trusted Yoo Siwoon as before, saying he understood.
Author: Hyacinthus B
Hyacinthus
