Chapter 272. Agent (1)
Kang Yujin frowned at Number 49, who had suddenly appeared and immediately started nagging him.
“Number 49... worry about yourself.”
“I am working myself to the bone! The moment my penalty ended, I went straight back to work and I’ve been running around like crazy!”
Number 49 had received a penalty for openly defending me before.
She lost her powers as an Apostle and was forced to remain in the Material Realm for a while.
Even then, she had helped me immensely by handling the video editing and broadcasting needed to trap Christina.
Now that her penalty was over, she had returned to active duty as an Apostle.
By this point, Number 49 had practically become the leader of the many Apostles doing business with the Order of the Spirit Realm.
“And on that note, Nameless!”
“What?”
“You dumped a mountain of work on me, but you’re standing around here slacking off?”
“If you have time to fool around with Lord Kang Yujin, hurry back to the Spirit Realm and do your work!”
“Stop nagging.”
“Ah! No violence!”
When I pretended to flick her forehead, Number 49 covered her head with both hands and shouted.
Watching her, Kang Yujin spoke.
“Number 49.”
“What?”
“Don’t you think you’re getting a little too insolent?”
“Huh?”
“Is the Nameless King your friend or something?”
“Why are you talking to him like that?”
“Show some respect.”
“L-Lord Kang Yujin, that’s...”
Number 49 looked flustered.
“O-Of course Nameless is a Constellation and I’m an Apostle, but... we’re close enough to be informal with each other...”
"..."
“N-Nameless, say something!”
“Number 49, I’ve been meaning to tell you this for a long time.”
“I’ve tolerated a lot.”
“Eeeh?!”
Seeing Number 49’s devastated expression...
Kang Yujin and I both laughed.
“I’m heading back soon, so stop nagging.”
I put an arm around Number 49’s shoulder and looked at Kang Yujin.
“I’ll get going for now.”
“Yeah.”
Leaving Kang Yujin behind after his small nod, I was about to return to the Spirit Realm with Number 49.
“Kim Nameless!”
Kang Yujin called me again.
“Next time we meet...”
“let’s talk about something other than work.”
"..."
It was true.
All we had discussed lately were practical matters.
Kang Yujin hadn’t asked about me.
He must have been curious about what kind of path I had walked...
or who I had been when I was alive.
But in the end, we never got the chance to talk about it.
“Yeah.”
“Next time.”
I raised one hand in farewell...
and left Kang Yujin behind.
Apparently, the Spirit Realm had been filled with heated arguments throughout Armageddon.
Christina.
The Nameless King.
Lucifer.
Pandemonium.
There were countless subjects to debate.
Hundreds of related videos had supposedly been uploaded to Constellation Tube alone.
But after Kang Yujin and I won...
the arguments gradually began to die down.
Even so...
one question remained controversial.
Had the Nameless King truly not known he carried Lucifer’s soul?
Had everything the Nameless King had done until now actually been part of a plan to recover Lucifer’s power?
The Constellations needed an explanation they could accept.
But I had no desire to upload a video to Constellation Tube and plead,
[I’m innocent.]
I judged that doing so would damage the charisma the Nameless King had built in the Spirit Realm.
It wasn’t as though I had clearly committed some wrongdoing that required an apology.
There was no reason for me to beg the Constellations to believe me.
So in that situation...
I turned to the Shanhai Alliance, which had remained neutral until now.
“Bringing in the Shanhai Alliance was a brilliant move.”
Odysseus sat across from me in the salon once used by the Committee and spoke with a serious expression.
“The Shanhai Alliance maintained neutrality through countless conflicts.”
“They never joined the Order of the Spirit Realm either.”
“Because of that, many Constellations felt they could trust their judgment.”
“Yes.”
“No one could really object.”
Arjuna nodded beside him.
“In the end, the Shanhai Alliance conducted an official verification of the Nameless King.”
This time, I contacted the Shanhai Alliance through Wen Zhong and asked them to investigate me.
Wen Zhong, who had a personal connection with me, stepped back from the process.
Instead, two S-rank Constellations took the lead.
The ‘Immortal of the Burning Lamp,’ Randeng Daoren.
And the ‘Sect Master Who Reaches Heaven,’ Tongtian Jiaozu.
Randeng Daoren was one of the strongest figures among the Chan Sect faction in Investiture of the Gods.
Tongtian Jiaozu was the leader of the Jie Sect.
Their names alone carried more than enough credibility.
“They examined the Nameless King in various ways.”
“They also carefully reviewed everything he had done until now.”
“And their conclusion was this.”
“It is true that Lucifer’s soul is contained within the Nameless King.”
“However, there are no signs that his personality has ever been dominated by Lucifer.”
“And everything he has done until now appears unrelated to Lucifer’s intentions.”
With the Shanhai Alliance’s official announcement...
the suspicions surrounding me were largely resolved.
Of course, there were still some who refused to believe it.
But the dominant opinion in the Spirit Realm was now that the Nameless King was innocent.
“We’re sorry.”
“We couldn’t help you when things were at their worst.”
“I feel the same way, Nameless King.”
Odysseus and Arjuna bowed their heads before me.
They served as the Order of the Spirit Realm’s chief strategist and prime minister.
They were apologizing for failing to contribute directly to the battles in the Material Realm.
“No.”
“Odysseus, Arjuna.”
I shook my head.
“I know that while I was in the Material Realm, the two of you worked in many different ways to prevent public opinion in the Spirit Realm from collapsing.”
When Christina attacked me and I lost consciousness...
only Jason, Lee Gyu, and Princess Longji escaped with me.
Later, Astolfo was the only additional Constellation to follow.
But that didn’t mean every other Constellation had turned their back on me.
Arjuna returned to the Spirit Realm and reported the situation to Odysseus.
