Chapter 100 : Chapter 100
Chapter 100: Kidnapping (4)
Death.
The one thing humans can never avoid.
Everyone lives embracing a time determined from birth.
Whether that time is long or short, no one can extend or shorten that gift on their own.
Unequal time.
Some get 10 years.
Some get 100 years.
Each has a natural lifespan.
Well, nothing has been scientifically proven.
Due to accidents or illness.
There are many cases where one dies without fulfilling their lifespan.
But everyone.
Receives a gift from God.
Called lifespan.
That time during which one can remain alive.
***
What floated up like a hologram above Little princess's palm was surprisingly an hourglass.
And beside it floated Seong-hyeon's face.
An appearance one might see in a 25th-century movie.
Inside the translucent glass, the sand fell slowly but precisely downward.
“This is my true ability.”
The little princess's smile became clearer.
Just as her red dress fluttered slightly in the wind, her words scattered lightly.
“True ability……?”
The little princess was known as a martial artist who fought using a fan and Chinese martial arts.
That was how it was announced to the public.
Yoo Jin also knew it as such.
“So this was it. The reason you had such a confident face.”
Yoo Jin bit his lip.
Smirk.
The little princess smiled.
Very detestably, enough to make the viewer feel nauseous.
“That's right. My Unique Skill is a god's ability that can steal the lifespan of a desired person.”
God.
Most of those who called themselves that were madmen like cult leaders.
However, this time Yoo Jin admitted it a little.
An ability that can steal a human's lifespan.
Even when he was in the otherworld where magic was rampant, it was an ability that could not be easily seen.
No, it was impossible to see.
Even magic prohibited as black magic would mostly be less than that.
An ability to usurp a human's lifespan, trap it in one's hand, and do with it as one pleases.
Really…….
Isn't that something only a god can do…….
“Saving the body is useless. Because that child's lifespan is with me. Ah, I did leave some remaining to match the negotiation time. Hmm… about two hours?”
Two hours.
Those words pierced Yoo jin's chest like a knife.
The little princess's eyes, curved like half-moons, looked like a fox.
A fox that had eaten about a thousand human livers at that.
“…….”
As the flower of laughter bloomed on Little princess's face, conversely, Yoo Jin's expression crumbled.
Yoo jin's tightly clenched fist trembled.
As if he would destroy this place and everything in sight right this moment.
Seeing that seed of anger, the Little princess spoke in a low voice.
“Killing me is useless. Because I have already stolen that child's lifespan. If I die, that child dies too.”
“…….”
Because his expression had already collapsed, Yoo Jin did not show any reaction.
Whether he fell into despair or couldn't find an answer to get through this trap.
He just stood with his shoulders slumped like a person whose soul had left.
“You know now, right? That you have no choice but to contract with China.”
“…….”
“If you want to save the child, first become affiliated with China and be active for just 3 years as per the contract.”
The little princess's voice was heard in one ear.
And in the other ear, the voices of Ye-na and the children crying out for Seong-hyeon were heard from the smartphone he hadn't hung up on yet.
Yoo jin just stood rigid like an empty tin can.
When Little princess, wearing a smile of victory, gestured with her chin, the bald subordinates stood side by side in front of Little princess, holding the contract in one hand and red ink paste in the other.
“Stamp it. Since that is…… the only way to save your student.”
It's a trap.
Even this.
It was a fact even a fool would know.
Still.
There was no option he could take.
Thud.
Thud.
Yoo Jin slowly moved his steps toward the contract.
***
“You won't be able to refuse. Absolutely.”
She guarantees it beyond conviction.
The humiliation she tasted at the school she visited to contract with him the first time.
After being kicked out like that, Little princess investigated.
No, she studied.
About Yoo jin.
Yoo Jin, who is obsessed with students, not the school.
Returnee.
Power, money, honor, the world…….
Why cling to mere students when he has the power to have it all.
Why does he want to be a teacher so much?
Even though the investigation on him was finished, she still couldn't accept it, but since she at least knew the reason.
She became able to move.
Naturally, she set up countermeasures for the future too.
That is why the Little princess met the Korean Association President.
Thud.
Thud.
The returnee walking toward the contract was visible.
Yoo jin wearing an expression of resignation.
Looking at that, life felt truly futile and bizarre.
That man who kneels to her because of just one student, despite possessing the power to own the world.
It is so….
So pitiful, yet refreshing that laughter does not stop.
An expression of feeling pleasure as if on drugs formed on Little princess's face.
‘Ah, happy. I will work him like a dog forever.’
The contract period is 3 years.
However, she had no intention of keeping the promise from the start.
This child's lifespan is with her.
She will make the Returnee her dog by returning it bit by bit using the lifespan as a pretext.
Naturally, since having many cards is good,
Besides this student, she will steal the lifespans of all other students the returnee teaches.
Thud.
Thud.
Every time the sound of the returnee's powerless footsteps of resignation was heard, Little princess's expression became ecstatic.
This feeling of putting the opponent who humiliated her beneath her feet.
As expected.
She thought she was the protagonist of this world.
The sound of footsteps stopped.
Yoo Jin stopped in front of the contract.
Right.
Now if the returnee just stamps the contract, everything ends.
This returnee named Yoo jin becomes a dog.
And China gets to have two returnees so…….
It will rule the whole world.
“Now… the world is mine…….”
The moment joy settled on the Little princess's lips.
Smirk.
Chill!
In Little princess's vision.
Yoo jin's smiling face was captured.
“Since I returned… I haven't gotten angry even once, you know?”
“…….”
That can't be.
What on earth is he saying…….
Just looking at what was seen on television and Nutube.
No, even when liberating Yeoncheon, surely…….
“But I think that will be broken today.”
As soon as the returnee's words ended.
Thud!
The subordinates holding the contract fainted just like that.
***
The temperature and density in the air changed.
Crack.
Crack.
Space twisted.
There were even places where cracks formed in the void.
The Demonic Energy blooming from Yoo Jin's body was distorting space.
“What on earth did you do… these guys were A-Rank though…….”
“What is a mere A-Rank? I really hate this era of awakening. Because they divide ranks even more than before.”
“Originally… all life has ranks…….”
“Shut up.”
“My breath…….”
The little princess's face began to turn pale.
“I haven't even opened 10 percent yet. Don't fake it. You said you were S-Rank.”
One step.
“20 percent.”
Boom!!!!!
The little princess clutched her chest.
One step.
“30 percent.”
Thud!
Every time Yoo Jin took a step closer, Yoo Jin's Demonic Energy opened up and affected the surroundings.
And
“Ugh… Ugh…….”
The S-Rank called a Transcendent.
Capillaries began to burst in the Princess's eyes.
“40 percent”
When it became that much.
The little princess could not breathe.
“What, how boring. I haven't even opened half yet.”
Peerless beauty.
Her face, which was called the end of beauty, twisted.
Saliva was even drooling from her mouth.
What on earth is this?
Combat?
No, spirit?
Killing intent?
Is he crushing me with the intensity of magic power?
The little princess's mind spun rapidly.
Far from moving her body.
‘An S-Rank can't even breathe?’
However, the one thing that surfaced largest in Little princess's mind was.
‘I have to live.’
The little princess, who barely held onto her mind that felt like it would faint, moved her eyes to look at her own palm.
Then,
Yoo Jin's eyes also headed there.
Little princess's Unique Skill.
Above Little princess's palm, the hourglass and Seong-hyeon's face were floating like a hologram.
Seong-hyeon's remaining lifespan.
She couldn't act or speak, but.
One could know just by the look in her eyes.
What the Little princess was doing.
“What? If you die, the student dies too?”
Her eyes moved instead of her head.
Capillaries burst every time she moved her pupils.
It must be so.
Yoo Jin cannot give up the student.
Absolutely.
He cannot kill her.
Little princess.
Was thinking like that.
Yoo jin had a similar thought.
Only.
That half was right and half was wrong.
He was trying to teach her that now.
“Don't worry. I won't kill you. Instead…….”
On Yoo jin's face looking at Little princess, his alias.
‘Demon King’
A smile that suited it best was formed.
“It will be painful for a long time. Enough to make you want to die.”
Having finished speaking, Yoo jin took out a gourd from his pocket.
“Then, I'll give you a chance too. Think carefully inside this. Whether you will release the child… or live in that place you will go to now.”
The little princess was sucked into the gourd.
***
Inside the gourd.
“Aaaagh!!!!!!”
The whole body tearing apart.
The pain of cells bursting and regenerating again.
Pain like being thrown into the deep sea.
Since one without Demonic Energy entered the core of Demonic Energy.
The pain she experiences.
Was on a different trajectory from the pain Jin-ho and Tae-wook suffered.
Perhaps.
Is it around the pain of feeling ants tearing off the flesh of the whole body with senses amplified a hundred times in time that is a hundred times slower?
“Aaaaaah!”
No.
Perhaps.
A little more than that.
It will be a little more painful.
***
A moment later.
When Yoo Jin took the Little princess out of the gourd.
The little princess, whom one wouldn't think was the same person, begged with a haggard appearance.
“Please… spare… spare me….”
“…….”
“This kind of experience is a first. A month… a year…… how long was I in there…….”
The little princess spoke as if she had lost half her mind.
Looking at her, Yoo Jin spoke briefly.
“One minute.”
Color disappeared from the Little princess's eyes.
Yoo jin, matching eye level with her who seemed to have lost her soul, opened his mouth.
“So think carefully. Did you say Seong-hyeon's lifespan has about two hours left? Then, I can make you receive over 100 times the pain just now.”
Smirk.
At the Demon King's smile.
Hope disappeared from the Little princess's eyes.