Saved a Heroine From the Brink of Death

151. Return (3)

#151. Return (3)

I arrived at Shinga with the members of the Madoka Heavenly Family. And there I found myself in a rather awkward situation.

“… … In the midst of an unprecedented crisis, Shin Chang Baek Ga decided to stand with Shin Ga. This is something that the Shin Ga’s head and Baek Ga’s head agreed upon-”

Although it was packaged plausibly, to put it simply, Baekga had also fled here because of the monsters.

“So you’re saying you won’t let us in? Is that it?”

I asked the man who was blocking us at the door. He stood guarding the door without even blinking, despite the fierce gazes of Cheon So-hye and the elders of Cheon Ga standing behind him.

“exactly.”

The man, who spoke in a way that seemed to be used in a historical drama, glanced at me and Cheon So-hye before continuing his speech towards us.

“… I can accept one or two, but it’s impossible to let all of these people in.”

In short, he was telling me to get out.

Cheon So-hye looked at me and asked what I should do, and I nodded appropriately and opened my mouth.

“By the way, who are you?”

“… I am a mid-level hero belonging to the 3rd Shinchangdae of the Great Shinchangbaekga, and my name is Widaeho.”

“What, you’re being too harsh? It’s not like a mid-level hero is trying to fool around with me right now… What you just said sounds like an arbitrary opinion.”

I made a rude face and spoke down to the man. If it were my usual self, I would have somehow managed to keep a smile on my face and used polite language, but the times were what they were.

“… … .”

“Okay, bring your superior. I want to talk to him.”

As the gatekeeper’s face gradually hardened, the main gate of the shrine opened and someone came out.

“… I came out because I heard a familiar voice. Is it really someone I know? Is it Representative Han? Wow. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you? Next to you is Chun So-ga-ju.”

“… Baek Jin-yool.”

“I wish you would call me Baek Jin-yul’s head. The previous head of the family passed away, so I took over as the head of the family. Cheon So-hye’s head of the family.”

I sighed as I watched Baek Jin-yool making puns even in this situation.

“Haa… What do you want to do now?”

“what?”

“It looks like… they forcibly took over the shrine.”

No matter how much I thought about it, it was strange.

It seems unlikely that the people of Shinga, especially Shindongbaek, would have let these guys in. Aren’t they the guys who had been attacking Shinga on the side of Ilwol-yoonga until a few years ago? Besides, Shinga would have gotten through this crisis on their own in this situation… But they received help from Baekga?

“Forcibly occupying? I’m just lending Baekga’s strength to Shinga to overcome the difficult situation together. How about being a bit more careful with what you say, Representative Han?”

As one side became short-spoken, the other side changed in the same way. Five minutes before the situation became a mess, I looked at Baek Jin-yool and gave him a warning.

“Call the new lord.”

“Unfortunately, Lord Shin is not in good health at the moment, so that won’t be possible.”

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“… Are you trying to fool around with me right now?”

“No, are you serious?”

Baek Jin-yool touched the spear he was holding with a mocking expression. His expression seemed to be asking, “What can you do?”

‘This little beggar’s son… .’

I suppressed my anger inside and tried to figure out a way to get out of the situation. In this situation, it was impossible to engage in an armed conflict, as it would lead to mutual destruction, and I needed help from the gods…

‘By the way, where did the Shinga people go?’

If there’s this much of a fuss, shouldn’t someone come out and say something? That idiot Baek Jin-yool came out right away… Where did everyone else go as a group?

I thought about it for a moment, then changed the observation mode to see-through mode and looked inside the shrine. The building itself wasn’t see-through, but I could get information about the people inside.

“Ha… this crazy kid.”

The inside of the shrine was filled with people from Baekga. The surnames of the people confirmed by the observer all started with Baek, and even if that wasn’t the case, there were many people inside who had learned Baekga’s singing methods.

And there were no people of the new world in it.

Baek Jin-yul did not simply occupy the site of the shrine.

“You kicked out the people of the shrine. You. It doesn’t look like you took over an empty house… It looks like you forced them out and took over. Is that right?”

“Did you develop any interesting traits?”

Baek Jin-yool looked at me without getting angry or making excuses.

“So, let’s have a go here? Let’s go over it together?”

“… … .”

“Get out when I speak nicely to you. If you don’t want to end up like a god.”

“… What did you do to the Lord of Shingaga?”

“What? Nothing much. Just a little inconvenience to the old man who can’t understand the situation?”

“… Baek Jin-yool, you little punk!”

I grabbed Baek Jin-yool by the collar and looked at him as if I was going to kill him, but instead, he shook my hand away as if nothing had happened and thrust his spear into my neck.

That was when.

“… Right now, someone is approaching from behind.”

One of the magicians of the Heavenly Family reported to Cheon So-hye. Everyone’s eyes turned to him as he spoke.

“…Your Majesty the God?”

There, Shin Dong-baek and the people of Shinga were coming towards this place.

***

This happened before Shin Dong-baek returned to his hometown.

‘Whew, how did Shinga end up in such a state of decline?’

Shin Dong-baek let out a sigh and led his men through the heart of Seoul. He was driven out and had his family’s homeland taken away by the ruthless forces of the Shin Chang-baek family.

They were as lively as if they hadn’t fought a battle when the monsters were flooding in. Clearly, the place where Shinchangbaekga was was where there were several times more gates than where Shinga was. It couldn’t have happened. What this meant was simple. They abandoned the place where they lived and fled.

‘I never thought I’d covet the barrier I had created with all my heart… How absurd.’

In the Kwonseong Shingah, a great barrier created by a dozen or so great magicians is unfolding. The barrier prevents the entry of non-human life forms, that is, monsters, and it has a powerful protective device built into it that immediately punishes monsters with lightning if they do enter.

This was a barrier that Han Seong-jin had set up in his family with his own money. At the time, it seemed like a lot of money, but looking back now, it was a very good decision. That’s why the Baekga b*stards were after the Shinga, but that’s because they’re b*stards, and there’s nothing they can do about it.

“Phew. I guess it’s because I have no virtue that these things keep happening.”

“No, my lord.”

The elders of the other families shook their heads at Shin Dong-baek’s lament. They knew how Shin Dong-baek had lived for the sake of the new family.

It was at a time when hundreds of people were wandering around the city center looking for a place to stay.

A familiar face approached Shin Dong-baek like a mirage. The space in front of him was as wide open as a field, so it was absurd for something to suddenly pop out. But… that’s what happened.

“…grandfather!”

“Shia… is that right…?”

“Yes, I’m back.”

His own granddaughter was hit.

It was a face I hadn’t seen in years, but it hadn’t changed at all.

Shin Dong-baek shared a warm hug with his granddaughter.

He didn’t know how or by what means the person in front of him suddenly appeared in front of him like a goblin, but he was sure that the person in front of him was his granddaughter.

“But… why are Grandpa and the others outside?”

“That, that’s… .”

Shin Dong-baek looked at his granddaughter who had miraculously reappeared before his eyes and was at a loss as to how to explain that his family had been taken away by the Shin Chang-baek family.

At that moment, an elder appeared and explained to Cynthia what had happened with Shin Changbaekga.

“… Those Baekga guys are really crazy. How dare they steal our family’s treasure.”

“There’s nothing I can do right now. I have no choice but to wait for the situation to be resolved first and plan for the future… I’m sorry for being such a bad person.”

“No.”

“More than that… how did you get out of the gate…?”

“Gate? Oh, right. I was trapped in the gate… I just somehow managed to get out. I guess I was lucky.”

“I see….”

Shin Dong-baek stopped asking because he didn’t want Cynthia to remember what she had experienced there.

“by the way….”

Cynthia suddenly recalled her past memories of being isolated alone at the gate. She wondered if the others were okay, but there were more important things to worry about, so she put aside her doubts and asked her grandfather.

“How are you, oppa?”

“Are you talking about Han Seong-jin?”

“yes.”

“Ahem. If it’s that guy… I haven’t heard from him since this incident.”

“yes?”

“If he were alive, he would have definitely come to his hometown… but that place was taken over by Baekga, so there’s no way to know.”

“… Ha. Now that I think about it, I don’t think I can do it because those Baekga guys are annoying. Let’s go back to our family.”

Cynthia decided to start by reclaiming her lost family.

“Sia…?”

“Just trust me and follow me. There is a way.”