The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 283

"...So that's what happened."

"Haa..."

Cheon Yuhwa, who had heard all of Irhegue's words, let out a small sigh.

"...He separated his own mind and mixed it with a skill to create a new personality? The fact that he succeeded is absurd, but what kind of mental structure must one have to even think of such a thing?"

Cheon Yuhwa grumbled, muttering that he was a guy she couldn't understand even if she tried.

Irhegue looked at her with a surprised expression and said.

"Unlike what I expected, you believe me quite readily. I thought you would surely think I was joking."

"I can tell whether you're joking or being serious. The atmosphere you give off is also completely different from that Lee Shin guy."

Cheon Yuhwa said so and gently leaned her back against a tree.

"Besides, I also know a kid similar to you."

"...Similar to me?"

"Yes."

Cheon Yuhwa said so and spread her hand slightly.

Suuuu-

At that, a small wing of light appeared above her palm and fluttered, flying around.

"Of course, they weren't born in a peculiar way like you."

"...What is that?"

Irhegue asked, looking back and forth between the wing of light and Cheon Yuhwa with narrowed eyes.

At the innocent reaction that Lee Shin would never have shown, Cheon Yuhwa felt anew that Irhegue was a different personality from Lee Shin and let out a small laugh.

"It's a spirit I have a contract with. A high-ranking spirit of light."

"...Is this a spirit?"

Irhegue said, looking at the wing of light fluttering on Cheon Yuhwa's palm with a suspicious eye.

"To my eyes, it just looks like a pair of wings moving."

"Ah, this wing is just something the spirit made for fun, it's not the spirit's form. In the first place, spirits can't be seen by anyone other than those with an aptitude for them."

Cheon Yuhwa said, tapping the wing of light with her finger.

"This one seems to like my wings, so it plays pranks like this. That's why I named it Feather."

"A form it likes?"

"Yes, isn't it the same as you liking the form of a dragon?"

"A spirit... just like me..."

At Cheon Yuhwa's words, Irhegue muttered so without realizing it.

Irhegue, who had been lost in thought for a moment, soon nodded and looked at Cheon Yuhwa, saying.

"Thank you. Thanks to you, I think I've gained something, albeit a little."

"...This part is different too."

"Hmm? What are you talking about?"

"No, it's nothing. I was just thinking that your honest appearance is nice to see."

Cheon Yuhwa slurred her words and then changed the subject of the conversation.

"By the way, there's something I'm curious about..."

Cheon Yuhwa began cautiously and looked at Irhegue.

At first, it was a little difficult to get used to his sharp gaze and strange way of speaking, but after talking for a bit, he was much easier to talk to than Lee Shin.

So much so that it was hard to believe they were born from the same personality.

'If they were born from the same personality and share a mind, they must know some secrets about that guy.'

So Cheon Yuhwa was planning to ask about the things she was curious about Lee Shin and his secrets at this opportunity.

"By any chance, Lee Shin's secrets or something..."

"Ahem, cut."

But Lee Shin was not one to just stand by and watch such a situation with his eyes wide open.

At the same time as he blinked once, Lee Shin, who had taken his body back from Irhegue, looked at Cheon Yuhwa with his characteristic grinning smile and said.

"I don't know what you were trying to do, but you can't just turn away so easily."

"Tsk, you could come back whenever you wanted?"

"It's my body in the first place, so of course."

Lee Shin said with a sly smile and laughed.

"Now, then, what were you so curious about that you were trying to seduce an innocent kid? I'll listen, so go ahead and tell me."

"Haa, forget it. More importantly, there's something I need to tell you..."

Cheon Yuhwa turned her head and said to Lee Shin with a serious face.

"I also met Gaia on my way here from Earth."

"Hmm, is that so?"

Lee Shin said so and gave a small nod.

"Your reaction is more lukewarm than I expected."

"I was expecting it. She met me, so there's no way she wouldn't have met you."

Lee Shin said, looking at Eun Yeonwoo's group who were checking if the Sword of the Earth and the Sword of the Sea had gone to the Earth side properly.

"Did you see them too?"

"No, I didn't ask separately, but it seems she only saw me."

"Hmm, I see."

Lee Shin spaced out for a moment and then said.

"Should I congratulate you? You were officially chosen as Earth's hero by the one and only god of Earth."

"If I'm the hero, then what are you, something like the demon king?"

At Cheon Yuhwa's words, Lee Shin let out a small laugh and said.

"Did you hear my identity from Gaia too?"

"No, I didn't. She was about to say it, but then she suddenly said something was interfering and shut her mouth."

As the same situation he had experienced came out of Cheon Yuhwa's mouth, Lee Shin was slightly disappointed inwardly.

Because he had thought it was a chance to find out what was above him.

"I don't know for sure either, but I heard well that you are a more dangerous guy than the dangerous guys called the Heavenly Killing Star."

Lee Shin looked at Cheon Yuhwa's indifferent expression and said.

"Your reaction is also quite lukewarm than I expected."

"What, did you think I would attack you, calling you a time bomb or something?"

"Not to that extent, but I thought you would at least be on guard."

Cheon Yuhwa let out a small laugh and said.

"I have no intention of doing that. You've been controlling it well until now, haven't you? Then, as a partner who said let's achieve world peace, I should trust you."

Grin-

"Rather, I feel quite refreshed knowing why you've been doing those things all this time."

Lee Shin looked at Cheon Yuhwa's smiling face for a moment and then asked.

"So what are you planning to do from now on?"

"Hmm, for now, I'm not going back to Earth and I'm planning to move around in this world and bring down the church. This time, I was lucky with the other races, so I was able to recover the damage somehow, but..."

Cheon Yuhwa shook her head as if tired and muttered.

"It's hard to think that such luck will be there next time."

Cheon Yuhwa said, shaking her head gently.

"So from now on, we're going to pay back what was done to us here."

"Somehow, I was wondering if it was necessary to transmit the video, not just the audio, but it seems you're planning to see the end here."

"That's right."

Cheon Yuhwa said with a wicked smile.

"We have nothing now, but once we build a base and secure proper communication with Earth, the real attack begins."

Cheon Yuhwa looked at Lee Shin and asked.

"So, what are you going to do here? Is your purpose still just to play around?"

"Hmm, besides that, there is one more goal I set when I came.

Lee Shin said, pointing at Irin who was maintaining the magic circle.

"It seems my sister is indebted to some nobles, so I'm thinking of dealing with them. And while I'm at it, I'm also thinking of dealing with all the guys who interfere with my work."

"Hmm, is that so?"

Cheon Yuhwa thought for a moment and then extended a hand toward Lee Shin.

"That's right."

And Lee Shin took that hand.

They knew each other's goals, and they knew there was no conflict, so now they could join hands.

It was when Lee Shin took Cheon Yuhwa's hand and got up.

Kwaaaang--!

A huge explosion, different from the ones that had rung out several times until now, as if signaling a period, occurred in the forest.

"Then what's the first goal?"

At Lee Shin's words, Cheon Yuhwa said, looking at the large explosion.

"For now, I'm thinking of supplementing the necessary manpower and information from those resistance guys. Do you have any other thoughts?"

"No, I was also very interested in that suspicious organization, so I was thinking of visiting it at least once."

Having thus finished their short conversation and reached an agreement, the two told Eun Yeonwoo's group to wrap things up and waited for the prey that would walk out of the forest.

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"What, you guys are planning to follow along too?"

"We don't particularly like fighting either, but we have no choice."

At Lee Shin's words, Midra sighed and said.

"Because you made so many people flock to our side, a situation has been created where if we stay still, we'll obviously be killed by the pursuers from the church."

Midra said, grumbling.

Tafra seemed very disappointed that she had to leave the garden she had cultivated, but she did not express any dissatisfaction with Midra's decision.

"Then what happens to your village people?"

"I asked, and they said they would be moved to a village managed by the resistance."

"It seems we have a severe shortage of manpower."

Free, who had heard their story, walked over with a smiling face and said.

"So our ideology is to accept as many people as we can when we can. Therefore..."

Free said with a smile to the people behind Lee Shin.

"We will also welcome all of you who have come with Mr. Smile with smiling faces."

"Tsk, what a still-unlucky fellow."

Just then, someone said so.

It was not a statement from Lee Shin's side or Midra's side.

It was a voice from where the resistance members, who had been stirring up the forest until a moment ago, were.

Free bowed his head slightly in the direction where the incredibly rough voice had come from and opened his mouth.

"Oh my, an unexpected person has come. It's been a long time, Mr. Jark."

"Tsk."

Even at Free's words, the dragonoid man called Jark clicked his tongue openly and frowned.

"So which one is the guy we came to recruit this time? Is he not here?"

"No, he is here."

When Free pointed at Lee Shin and said so, Jark's expression distorted strangely.

"I came all this way for this frail-looking guy?"

Jark said in annoyance.

"He looks like he has no strength and won't be of any help, so I don't know why we accepted him. Besides, I heard he's a dragonoid like me, but seeing as there's no sign of it, he's trash, isn't he?"

Jark, who had approached Lee Shin, said so and revealed his fierce presence.

At that, Lee Shin stared at Jark and then said.

"Those horns are certainly scary."

Lee Shin said so, and then, so that Jark couldn't tell, quickly reached out his hand, grabbed his horn, and swung his other fist, hitting his scale-covered face.

"Kuhuk!"

At the sudden attack, Jark screamed and was sent flying.

Lee Shin threw the horn that was still in his hand to the ground and said.

"You shouldn't carelessly stick something that hideous at other people."

Grin-

"As a penalty, one horn is confiscated."

Lee Shin said with a grinning smile.