Chapter 277. Agent (6)
Hearing the familiar voice, Kang Yujin turned his head.
“I’m glad you’re safe.”
“Joo Minha...?”
Joo Minha was standing there.
Kang Yujin had heard that he was still in the Middle East with Alexei.
When had he come all the way here?
“What’s going on?”
“There’s no time to explain.”
“Come this way first. Every second matters.”
“Got it.”
Kang Yujin nodded and approached Joo Minha.
As usual, he assumed that if he simply followed Joo Minha’s instructions, there wouldn’t be any problem.
“Kang Yujin, wait!”
But then Kim Nameless shouted.
“Stop!”
“What’s wrong?”
Kang Yujin paused and turned around.
But...
it was already too late.
"...?!"
Suddenly, it felt as though gravity had increased hundreds...
no, thousands of times over.
His entire body became so heavy that he couldn’t even remain standing.
Drawing up his internal energy didn’t help.
“What... is this...?”
Kang Yujin barely managed to raise his head and look at Joo Minha.
“This is unfortunate, Lord Kang Yujin.”
Joo Minha merely looked down at him with his usual cold expression.
“Joo Minha...!”
Kim Nameless shouted.
“Don’t tell me you awakened too?”
“Awakened?”
“You found out I was investigating Taigong Wang, and awakened as one of his servants?”
“Ah.”
“No.”
Joo Minha shook his head.
“I was Taigong Wang’s agent from the very beginning.”
“I always have been.”
Joo Minha stood expressionlessly after subduing Kang Yujin.
I glared at him and asked.
“Weren’t you someone who received a revelation... and waited for the savior?”
“Wasn’t that why you met Kang Yujin and fought beside him, trying to turn him into that savior?”
“Yes.”
“All of that is true.”
Joo Minha answered without the slightest hesitation.
“The only difference is that the one who gave me that revelation was Taigong Wang.”
"...!"
When Jason first introduced Joo Minha to me, he had said something.
Joo Minha had truly received a revelation...
but no one knew whose voice it had been.
So Jason had been wrong?
“Even my former Constellation, the ‘Leader of the Expedition,’ didn’t know.”
“So naturally, you couldn’t have known either.”
“Joo Minha, then...”
Kang Yujin spoke with difficulty.
“Were you deceiving us?”
“Me, Seok Taejun, Lee Jukheon...?”
“I wouldn’t say I was deceiving you, Lord Kang Yujin.”
Joo Minha looked down at him.
“I genuinely wanted to raise you into the savior.”
“I believed you were the one most suited to becoming one.”
“Then why...?”
“The problem is that man.”
“No.”
“That Constellation.”
Joo Minha’s gaze turned toward me.
“If that Constellation had never tried to investigate Taigong Wang...”
“I would have continued serving all of you.”
“Joo Minha...!”
Kang Yujin raised his voice.
“Is that Taigong Wang bastard’s order really more important than creating the savior?!”
“Of course.”
“Creating the savior was Taigong Wang’s order in the first place.”
“Why the hell...?!”
“Lord Kang Yujin.”
“Why are you loyal to the Nameless King?”
“What?”
“Because he rescued you from a hopeless situation.”
Joo Minha’s voice remained calm.
“For me...”
“Taigong Wang is that kind of existence.”
"...!"
Kang Yujin sharply drew in a breath.
“There are two types of Taigong Wang’s agents in this world.”
Joo Minha looked toward me again.
“One type is like those Constellations over there.”
“They normally remain unaware of what they are.”
“But when an emergency occurs, they awaken.”
He glanced toward Golden Horn, Silver Horn, and Wen Zhong.
“The other type remembers a revelation received in the past and continues acting according to it.”
“There are humans like me, classified as having Jeanne d’Arc Syndrome.”
“And there are also several Constellations.”
“Wait.”
Hearing that...
one particular Constellation immediately came to mind.
“Yes.”
Joo Minha nodded and turned his gaze.
“Among the Constellations...”
“the ‘Divine Child of Three Heads and Six Arms,’ Nezha, is one of them.”
"...!"
I followed Joo Minha’s gaze.
Nezha was standing there...
already in his Three Heads and Six Arms form.
So the voice Nezha heard telling him to prevent Lucifer’s resurrection...
was actually Taigong Wang’s command!
Nezha had lied to me before.
Originally...
Nezha had been Taigong Wang’s right hand.
So of course he obeyed Taigong Wang’s orders.
And of course he had kept everything completely secret.
“Well... I guess it ended up like this after all.”
Nezha muttered bitterly.
“Maybe my instincts were right from the beginning.”
“In the end, Nameless King...”
“I’m fighting you.”
“Nezha, you bastard...!”
Silver Horn shouted when he saw him.
“Wake up!”
“You liked Kang Yujin and the Nameless King too!”
“Yeah.”
“I did.”
“Then why are you doing this?!”
“Even if you served Taigong Wang three thousand years ago, you don’t have to...!”
“No, Silver Horn.”
Nezha shook his heads.
“Ten years ago...”
“I was an artificial being who couldn’t even properly become a Constellation.”
“I was trapped in an incomplete state and suffering.”
“The one who saved me from that was him.”
"...!"
“So I...”
“have no choice but to obey his command.”
With that...
Nezha moved.
Holding six weapons in six arms...
he charged straight at me.
"...!"
Even though Nezha was only A-rank, his strength was on the level of Heracles or Sun Wukong.
Facing him unarmed would normally be extremely difficult.
“D-Damn it, Nezha!”
Silver Horn grabbed the bottle at his waist and called his name.
He was probably trying to suck Nezha into the Suet-Jade Purifying Bottle, which possessed the same power as the Purple-Gold Red Gourd.
