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Chapter 554 – You should have watched your back (8)

"554 fast forward to that hu-ugh" just talking about the hug physically hurts tboah!Cale.

"You know" og!Cale chimes in as he addresses tcf!Cale "were already in 500+ chapters does that mean your journey is very lo-"

"Shush!"

tcf!Cale did not let that sentence finish.

"It means every chapter is very short" he defended.

But-"

Shush!

(pout)

That's the one thing tcf!Cale was ignoring. ''I'm sure I got my slacker life in between, it's just that there are times where I had to fight, only sometimes!

Ignorance is really a bliss.

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"What the hell happened?!"

"T, the barrier broke and a weird power- a scary power-"

Bud was about to urge her to respond until he realized that her body was shaking.

"Whose 'her'?" tboah!Bud asks curiously.

"More importantly what is going on?" tboah!Beacrox doesn't care who that is, he was more concerned about the situation.

"Whatever it is it's not a good start" tcf!Beacrox doesn't really care what happen to that Mercenary King, he just hopes that the young master wasn't involved in whatever is happening there.

He quickly looked toward where the door had been.

Bud subconsciously started to speak.

"...What the?"

He then took a step back.

He had chills all over his body.

It was a natural reaction.

"Cale!"

tcf!Beacrox curse.

"What did you do again? Wait. Why am I even shocked?" og!Cale was covering his anxious worry by what he does best, being rude.

"Stop worrying the dad ancient dragon!" tboah!Cale just blurting things out of worry for tcf!Cale. That golden dragon shout was quite alarming.

The golden dragon would've been proud if he wasn't worrying about the unlucky transmigrator.

He could see Eruhaben stumbling as he charged forward.

Bud had never seen Eruhaben moving so urgently before.

"Yes! Drag him to safety gramps"

"Save him grampa!"

"Go get him goldie gramps!

The children cheer the golden dragon to hurry and rescue whatever their human trouble magnet was in.

"Hmph, I'll do what I want," the golden dragon said nonchalantly all while thinking "Hurry you old body!"

"Damn it! No!"

The White Star was also shouting as he urgently rushed forward and passed Eruhaben.

"Wha-!?"

"Is the what star worried?"

"Did he also turn into an ally?"

They highly doubt that.

tcf!Cale's face shows great disgust at the prospect.

His face showed both anger and anxiety.

"Thought so, whatever happening to Cale Henituse the white star doesn't like it as well." tboah!Alberu said as he continues "It must be something he needed."

Which begs to question' what is it?

Everyone doesn't like where this was going.

'Ah!'

Bud finally thought to look for Cale. Cotton had been flung out, but Cale had not.

"Oh, so that's the woman" tcf!Bud says but he still doesn't know who that is. Well, considering the chapter he has some guesses.

"A new name. That woman must be connected with Duke Fredo" tcf!Alberu was thinking about how to use this information to his advantage.

"Good thing the human didn't get thrown out or else that weak body of his would've splatter" tcf!Dodori sighed in relief.

"..."

They pale at what the pink-haired person(?) said.

He overcame the fear that was filling his body and looked back toward that direction.

He saw Cale there.

Cale had plopped on the ground right in front of the thing that was giving him such terrible fear.

"...What the hell is this?"

Cale's eyes opened wide as he sat there on the ground.

He had not been flung out with that explosion just now, but he was on the ground because he fell down.

They let out a sigh of relief.

"It's a good thing he wasn't flung out or got injured by the explosion" tcf!Pendrick was concerned that the young master was heavily injured and now was relieved.

"With that delicate-looking body, just thinking about it.." tcf!Witira couldn't finish her sentence as she shudder at the thought.

"But why did they have that reaction if the young master is unharmed?" tcf!Litana ask what everyone was thinking.

They read on.

He lowered his head.

'What's going on?'

His whole body was shaking.

The unranked monster that had killed all his teammates... A pressure that was much worse than when he had gone up against that monster was overwhelming him.

Ah, the sculptures.

They felt sad to hear that. Such a headstrong person was shaking in fear or in pain they don't know which but they both don't like it.

"He must've remembered those tragic scenes being played out in his mind as he look at those unranked monsters."

Everyone thought solemnly.

"But hey, just remember what the Koreans said, everyone is happy!"

"Yeah! And whatever happens, it won't ever happen again in our world since we have more information!"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale said encouraging words with confidence lace in those words.

tcf!Cale agrees. He would've been in more grief if he didn't have that talk with his (hyungs) idiots.

"I'm going to gather happy memories," he thought happily with serenity.

"Besides your a pokemon princess that catch em all"

Which was ruined by that sentence as he scowl at them.

Cale lifted his head.

The thing giving him that fear was right in front of him.

Everyone was once again feeling downhearted.

"Those sculptures were reviving the transmigrator's nightmare."

"He's driving me crazy"

"Must destroy it! For the young master and the world"

"Humans always have fears. Tsk."

"What should I do to help hyung-nim"

"Just wait Oraboni! I'll become strong to protect you, I'm going to drag Choi Han to teach if I have to!"

"My Cale, I want to hold you and hide you from my protective embrace"

"My son, I swear I'm going to be a father that you could open up to"

"Weakling should just stay at the back. Tsk!"

"He has fears?"

And more various protective and/or stupid thoughts.

It was a black hand.

Hm?

It's not the unranked monster?

They were flabbergasted with what they read.

And what og!Cale is currently screaming.

"I knew it! Ghost existed!" og!Cale dramatically wailed at the prospect of the horror of a real-life (dead) ghost.

"Go look for the ring!" tboah!Cale frantically shouted as he too was afraid of the being that's immune to attack.

"It's not a Ghost and I told you it's a videotape!" tcf!Cale sigh all while with a pale face at what the idiots were putting in his head.

The hand was so large that it could almost touch the ceiling of the hall.

"Itssaaa Titan Ghost!!!" og!Cale shouted in horror.

"Titans? L-Like giants?" tboah!Cale was getting frantic about having not only a ghost but a giant at that!

"Yes! And it eats humans! Quick we need Eren-No scratch that! We need Armin and Mikasa!" og!Cale frantically said as he was going through his records to remember what his team members told him on how and who defeated the titans.

"Who even the heck are those people!?" tcf!Cale was so done with these idiots and his previous team members because he was so sure it was them who were feeding og!Cale with nonsense.

What could be going on?

'What is happening all of a sudden?'

Cale recalled his actions just now.

'All I did was get close to the platform.'

Almost everyone snorted.

That made og!Cale and tboah!Cale's franticness stop at the comical thing tcf!Cale was saying.

"I'm sure that's not what you only did" tboah!Alberu sighed at his counterpart's headache.

"What does he mean by that?" tcf!Cale is confused at the nonsense this version of Alberu is saying.

"Well, you really make small things into larger mess" tcf!Alberu sighed at his headache.

"What nonsense is he saying?" tcf!Cale is once again confused at the nonsense his Alberu is saying.

All he did was move toward Cotton who was observing the black smoke and the transparent barrier.

But the black smoke inside the transparent barrier... That had suddenly disappeared and a large black hand shot up from the platform.

The power of that hand made the transparent barrier explode.

And Cale was looking at that black hand right now.

Ah, so that's what happened.

"That black hand is another thing the white star is keeping" tcf!Mila shares her observation. She was a little concerned about her poor unlucky teacher of her son. "Nothing bad should happen to him so that he can teach my son."

"And it must be very important to him to react like that" tcf!Sheritt said in a venomous voice. She would like to go there just to destroy that thing he precious.

The eight sculptures?

He wasn't paying them any attention right now.

Sweatdrop

"Well who could blame him if there's a large hand suddenly reaching out for you"

Everyone thought.

"Pyah" "pyah"

"What do you mean even the author-nim makes the readers including you be victims of misunderstanding?" Ask tboah!Lock who was near the slime.

Which the slime ignore as a cookie was floating inside of it.

He thought it was weird that they didn't have a scratch on them after such a large explosion, but he had no time to look into that right now.

"No kidding!"

"C'mon! For once in your life think about your own safety first!"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale shouted in frustration.

Which everyone agrees.

They sigh as they saw tcf!Cale's face that says 'what nonsense are they talking about?'

Sigh "Let me teach you how to be selfish"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale said at the same time.

Now the frustrated sigh was directed at them.

Which flew over the Cales head. The idiots.

"Um hyung-nim please don't, being sacrificial isn't selfishness" tboah!Bassen gathers his courage to bravely say it.

"Wha-? I'm trash!"

tboah!Cale and og!Cale looked scandalized at the gibberish his dongsaeng was saying.

"For us!" The Henituse siblings said in an outburst. He acted like a trash, ruin his reputation, and made a deal for them to have a new chance all for their sake and that will never be ok.

...!

"Wha-I-N-No! I didn-"

"Don't."

"My sons just don't."

og!Cale and tboah!Cale becomes silent of that helpless smile and caring loving stare that his family gives him.

They immediately look away as if being burned by something they didn't ever expect to experience.

"..."

They then remembered the scheduled talk.

They dread.

They then decide to ignore it by focusing on reading.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

His heart was beating as if it wanted to explode and he had chills all over his body.

Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-

The black hand started to move while making that odd noise.

The palm stopped in front of Cale.

"Levi! We need Levi!"

og!Cale was back with being frantic. He should tell tcf!Cale how to make that ultrahard steel sword. He hope it work against a ghost titan.

"Again! Who is that?!" tcf!Cale was also getting flustered at that black hand that is going toward him.

– You disturbed my slumber.

"It's an intelligent titan ghost!"

og!Cale shrieks.

Along with tboah!Cale.

"Enough with the titan!" tcf!Cale wants to smack the shrieking idiots and also his team members. "Curse you with baldness team members!"

'What?'

Before Cale could even think about the meaning behind those words...

"Cale! Dodge!"

Cale's mind was filled by a voice that seemed to come from the black hand as Eruhaben shouted.

– Here is another punk who has found a way out of god's hand and escaped his fate.

"Wait. What?"

tcf!Cale pause.

"Why is there suddenly a false god-talk there?" He was having an eerie feeling about this.

Thus he chose to ignore it.

The black hand reached out and surrounded Cale while making an eerie noise.

Cale had instantly fallen into darkness.

No!

Almost everyone simultaneously shouted.

"Why was I even there if I was useless! Why wasn't I fast enough!?" tcf!Eruhaben was lamenting that when he was finally there he couldn't even protect his child.

As the rest was having their own lamentations and mixed emotions.

og!Cale immediately grab hold of tcf!Cale as if afraid that he will disappear.

As tboah!Cale drew more closer to tcf!Cale as if to reassure himself with tcf!Cale's presence.

The children frantically run to their human as tcf!Cale unconsciously hugs and pats them lost in his own thoughts.

Silence falls upon them as they fear at what happens to tcf!Cale.

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Bang, bang bang!

Lock had a confused expression after hearing someone banging on the door.

"Wait. What happened to Cale!?" og!Cale voice out his dissatisfaction as his hold on tcf!Cale tightened.

"Was I that strong previously or is this body weak" tcf!Cale thinks as he flinches at that tight grip.

"Show us what happened!" tboah!Cale demanded as he grab hold of tcf!Cale sleeve like a child holding tightly to not be separated.

"Human! What happened to my human!" Dear sweet Raon was ready to destroy the world.

As On and Hong drew closer to tcf!Cale curling their tails at his wrist.

A bunch of angry complaints were being let out as they viciously glare at the slime.

That was hiding behind the screen.

"P-Pyah"

They were not satisfied with 'just keep on reading'.

The Tiger warriors stationed outside would not knock like this.

"Tigers" tcf!Cale said thinking about the implication of why they were with Lock.

"The tigers that we saw in the other room with the Koreans." He continues to say as he was thinking about how to use them well.

"Why are you focusing on other people!"

"Will you just please focus on yourself!" Tsk.

Apparently, everyone hasn't stopped glaring at the slime. Now that vicious glare (but with some other emotion added on that he couldn't pinpoint what) shifted on him.

"But I always think about me first and foremost." He feels wrongly attacked but decidedly shuts up.

"Who could it be?"

Lock debated whether he should open the door or not. He wondered if he should call the adults who were all gathered in the strategy room.

He heard a voice from the other side of the door at that moment.

"Please open the door!"

"That voice" tcf!Taylor thought knowing full well who that is. He doesn't like where this was going as he had an inkling of why Cage was frantic.

Both Cage was stiff as a horrible idea was forming in her mind.

'Huh?'

He recognized the voice.

It made sense why the Tiger warriors would have let this person through.

Lock quickly opened the door as he was relieved that it was someone he knew and welcomed the person.

"Cage-nim!"

"Huff. Huff. Huff."

Cage was outside the door trying to catch her breath.

"Young master have you made any vow of death?" tboah!Cage has a serious expression as she said those.

"Yes," tcf!Cale was about to ask why but stop as he look at the priestess's expression and he somehow had an idea of what it is. So he ignores it.

Both Cage purse her lips as the timing of this isn't good . "Please. Please don't let it be."

"It's been so long!"

Lock warmly welcomed her but Cage didn't even respond to his greeting as she urgently rushed into the black castle.

"Did something-"

Lock was trying to ask what was going on in shock before stiffening up after seeing what, no, who, was in Cage's hand.

"W, wait- this person is?"

Lock who barely managed to get some words out looked toward the person who was being dragged by the collar.

"It's been a while."

This person was Saint Jack who looked as if he didn't know what to do.

"Whose brother are you dragging!?" tcf!Hannah's protectiveness of her brother was surfacing.

tcf!Jack placates her. He was more worried about the young master than him being dragged around and he was sure that her sister feels the same.

Then there was a whispered "Pyah"

"What's PriestessxSaint 300k+ words fluff and open ending? Is that a code?" Those who have a sharp hearing think.

The slime wisely shut up.

"I was suddenly dragged here and I don't even know wh-"

"Dragon!"

Saint Jack gave an awkward greeting, but... His greeting was drowned out by Cage's shout.

Cage looked toward Lock and started to speak.

"Where is the Dragon? The Dragon?!"

"That's dragon-nim to you!" Grumble Rasheel. Why is that priest-whatever even looking for them? They should just show what happened to that unlucky human. Not like he cares.

"Excuse me?"

"A Dragon that can cast long-distance teleportation! Or at least Miss Rosalyn! No, it needs to be a Dragon, a Dragon!"

"Just what-"

"Young master Cale was cut!"

Both Cage inhales sharply.

She was right.

She hated that she was right.

She wants to be wrong in this situation.

Someone correct her, please.

"Tell me I'm wrong"

"Excuse me?"

Lock became anxious after suddenly hearing her mention Cale but Cage looked around as if things were urgent before running toward the stairs.

Lock followed behind her as Cage continued to speak.

"You know about the vow of death, right?"

"Why is that coming out right now?" tcf!Lock nervously asks. He doesn't like how the situation keeps on changing. And he doesn't like how it's being pieced together into something frightening.

Dread was filling everyone as they saw that grave expression on Cage.

They were afraid to ask.

They were afraid to confirm.

Cage continued to look around as if she couldn't even see Lock who was anxiously following behind her and then resumed speaking.

She seemed to be looking for someone.

"Young master Cale and I made a vow of death, you know? There's a power you feel gathering around your hand when you make a vow. It is the power that lets you know whether that person kept or broke the vow."

It was the eerie feeling that seeped into the bodies of the people making the vow of death.

"But that was just cut off."

tcf!Jack is shocked with a horrified face.

"N-No" he said as he looked toward Cage.

He covers his mouth shaking his head.

As he continues to chant 'no'

As the place was filled with dead coldness and silence.

"Really?!"

Jack who had been dragged here without knowing why looked toward her in shock.

However, Cage didn't respond to his question and just continued to speak.

"There should be someone else who is feeling this right now. He should be feeling that something is weird."

Screeeech.

They then heard a door opening on the second floor.

Lock turned toward the door.

Choi Han was walking out of the strategy room with a confused yet serious expression.

"The vow of death that I made with Cale-nim" tcf!Choi Han remembers that day when he places his whole trust in him.

And he hated himself.

Because of him, Cale-nim needed to make that vow of death.

Because of him, they both have a tracker now placed in them.

And he hopes that it won't be because of him that he will lose his new family.

'Didn't hyung say that he had a lot of things to do?'

Choi Han who said he had important business to take care of was coming out with a serious expression before finishing his work.

"Ah, Miss Cage!"

He looked extremely happy to see Cage. It was as if he had found the person who could answer his question for him.

Choi Han stepped onto the stairs and walked toward her.

"Miss Cage, when did you get here? You see, umm, I made a vow of death with Cale-nim once-"

"The presence that entered your body when you made the vow disappeared, right?"

Choi Han flinched and looked at her.

Cage let go of Saint Jack's collar and continued to speak.

"People who make a vow of death are able to tell whether the vow was kept or broken by that power in their body."

Death was the result if the vow was broken.

"Please let this be one of those different informations."

"Please don't let it be true."

Both Cage hopes and wishes with all her heart.

The presence inside the body would tell the other person that the vow was broken and that the other party was dead.

"But there are times the presence itself disappears from a person's body. That means that the vow of death is cut."

Cage slowly walked over to Choi Han.

Her voice echoed through the staircase.

"There's only one reason that a vow of death would be cut."

Her face stiffened.

As did everyone.

Hearts thumping.

Cold sweat drips.

Eyes and ears are open.

Focus on every word that was being said.

And hoping for being wrong in their assumption...

Hoping...

"That is when the vow becomes useless."

There was only one reason a vow of death would become useless.

"That means that the other person is dead."

All expressions disappeared from Choi Han's face.

[End... Preparing next]

No!

Anguish cries fill the room.

"It can't be, please don't let it be" tboah!Cale chanted as if desperate enough his wish would come true.

"H-Human..."

Meow

Meow

The kids were shedding tears as they stick closer to their human feeling him and reassuring themselves of his presence.

og!Cale was alarmingly silent with haze-filled eyes as records played in his mind looking distant and defeated.

"A-At least we know now right? So so we can prevent it!"

A voice said.

Who said it? No one bothered to know as they were all trying to process and express their own emotions.

Just

Please prevent it.

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Alternative ending:

Crunch

"I'm the one whose going to kill you right now if you're eating at this situation"

tcf!Cale wisely put down the cookies and forcefully swallow what he was just chewing.

He didn't really get why they were viciously glaring at him when that didn't happen yet.

"I mean since I know what will happen I'll obviously won't go near that black thing without a foolproof plan"

"After all, I am a selfish person and my safety is the number 1 priority"

That's why he wasn't really concerned right now about that. (He didn't even think that a really selfish person will run away and let others be the sacrifice, it's like it was obvious that it have to be him.. the idiot)

What he is concerned though was the vicious glares that were still directed at him.

Welp. Time to hide behind the children who he was patting a while ago by hugging them close.

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