Chapter 291. Constellation System (2)
Lee Gyu knew he was no match for Nezha.
“I am Lee Gyu, the Black Whirlwind of Liangshan Marsh...!”
He roared and charged.
Nezha swung his spear and pierced straight through Lee Gyu’s stomach.
But Lee Gyu used that very attack to grab onto the spear.
“Khahaha!”
Laughing loudly, he pushed himself forward.
He seized Nezha’s arm and pressed himself even closer, clinging tightly to him.
“What the hell are you doing?!”
Nezha tried to throw him off.
Several arms hacked and stabbed at Lee Gyu’s body, but Lee Gyu refused to let go.
Meanwhile...
the distance between them and the others continued to widen.
“Lee Gyu!”
A voice reached him.
The Nameless King, who had been too shocked to say anything until now...
had finally raised his head and was shouting toward him.
“Brother! Listen carefully!”
Lee Gyu shouted back.
“So what if you lost your power as a Constellation?!”
“Do you really think we followed you because of your strength?!”
He shouted with all his might so the Nameless King could still hear him as they moved farther apart.
“There has to be a way!”
“I’m too stupid to have even the slightest idea what it is, but you’re different!”
“Move, small fry!”
“Yeah!”
“You’re the man who opens new paths!”
“Just like... Brother Song Jiang!”
Lee Gyu had carried one regret for a very long time.
When he was alive...
he had died because of Song Jiang, the man he respected as his elder brother.
At the time, Song Jiang had been cast aside by the imperial court he remained loyal to and forced to drink poisoned wine.
Knowing Lee Gyu would cause chaos after his death...
Song Jiang had made Lee Gyu drink poisoned wine beforehand as well.
Lee Gyu had known.
And he had accepted it willingly.
He had never resented Song Jiang.
Still...
there had always been one regret.
If I was going to die anyway...
I should’ve caused one last huge mess before going.
“This time, I finally get to settle that regret!”
“What the hell are you talking about?! Let go!”
Even as Nezha’s attacks mangled his entire body...
Lee Gyu endured through sheer willpower.
Then...
squeezing out his last strength...
he buried one axe into the back of Nezha’s neck.
“You bastard... what a useless struggle!”
Enraged, Nezha used every weapon he had and tore Lee Gyu apart.
But while that happened...
the Nameless King and the others moved even farther away.
That alone was enough for Lee Gyu.
He had fulfilled his role.
“I’ll leave the rest to you...”
“Brother!”
A title he had always been too embarrassed to say aloud.
He shouted it proudly at the very end...
then burst into loud laughter.
Even as his body was torn apart...
Lee Gyu continued holding onto Nezha.
And he laughed until his final moment.
Unlike in his previous life...
he was glad that this time...
he could send off the elder brother he respected with a smile.
We arrived at Sakhalin.
A massive island off Russia’s eastern coast, north of Hokkaido, Japan.
“It would’ve been better if we could’ve made it all the way to Korea...”
“Hell, even Japan would’ve been enough...”
Jason sounded disappointed.
But Princess Longji’s strength had run out.
There was nothing we could do.
“I’m sorry.”
“My strength wasn’t enough...”
“No.”
“The Mist-Dew Universe Net isn’t a transportation-type Constellation Armament to begin with.”
“You already did more than enough by carrying this many people at once.”
“It would’ve been nice if Astolfo could’ve helped, but I haven’t seen him.”
“He might’ve been injured.”
“Let’s rest for a while and decide what to do next.”
“We can head to Japan and ask Yuuki Hina for help.”
“Or Korea.”
“China is another option.”
“Yes. Understood.”
After finishing their conversation...
the two of them sat on a nearby rock.
Just like me.
I had been sitting alone on a rock for a while already.
"..."
Unlike when we had fled Jerusalem in the past...
this place was surrounded by grassy hills and a black sea.
There were no man-made structures anywhere nearby.
All that stretched before us was overwhelming nature.
I sat there silently...
my lips tightly closed.
“Are you hungry?”
The one speaking was Daji.
She approached from the shoreline...
wringing seawater from her soaked clothes.
“I was getting hungry, so I caught some fish and ate them.”
“You’re human now, so you need actual nutrition too.”
“You should eat something.”
"..."
“There’s probably nothing around here besides fish.”
“I’ll catch some for you.”
When I still didn’t answer...
Daji quietly stared at my face.
“Hey, Nameless King.”
Then she smiled.
“Why don’t we just surrender to Taigong Wang?”
At those words...
Princess Longji immediately jumped to her feet.
“Daji, what are you saying?!”
“Is there a problem?”
“Surrender?”
“How can you say that...?!”
Princess Longji raised her voice.
“We can’t surrender to Taigong Wang now!”
“Princess Longji...”
Daji looked at her and smiled cruelly.
“You must want to feel what it was like when Yang Jian died all over again.”
"...!"
“Kang Yujin is already dead.”
“Arjuna is dead.”
“Lee Gyu is dead too.”
“If the Nameless King keeps resisting...”
“he’ll die as well.”
Daji placed a hand on my head.
“Can you protect this man with your strength?”
“Daji...”
“If you want to protect the life of this powerless human...”
“surrendering is the best option.”
“Why are you saying something like this...?”
Princess Longji’s voice trembled.
“Weren’t you the one who hated Taigong Wang the most?”
“And now you’re telling us to surrender to him?”
“We should at least survive.”
“Even so...!”
“We have no chance of winning.”
Daji looked toward Jason.
“Jason.”
“Can you come up with a plan to reverse this situation in place of the Nameless King?”
“That...”
“You can’t, can you?”
“You don’t have that kind of ability.”
Jason’s face hardened.
Daji shrugged.
“If someone like Yang Jian... or Merlin... were still alive, maybe they could find a way out.”
“But with only the people here?”
“It’s impossible.”
"..."
