How to Replace Your Dad - Chapter 95

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How to Replace Your Dad

Chapter 95

Yustea roughly pulled Oscar’s hand away.

Oscar’s expression hardened in an instant.

Everyone’s gaze in the prison cell was directed toward Oscar.

The Elite. And even the unit members of Oscar’s team looked at their team leader with trembling eyes.

Oscar’s team members shouted.

“What are you saying, Young Lady!”

“Yes, wasn’t it Yuise who killed the sorcerer!”

Oscar and Yustea’s gazes met.

Oscar curled up the corner of his mouth as if finding it absurd.

“Right. What could you possibly mean.”

“It was strange from the beginning. Angelica suddenly coming down to Cuaron at this time.”

No matter how much they coveted Saint Yustea, there was no need for Angelica to come down to the North.

“If Sanponce coveted the Saint that much, they wouldn’t have offered Angelica. They would have pushed for my marriage with the First Prince.”

“Your engagement with the First Prince was broken once, so it would have been impossible for appearances’ sake.”

“If they cared about appearances, they shouldn’t have pushed their daughter onto Cuaron, who had no interest in marriage in the first place.”

“….”

Yustea stared quietly at Oscar.

“The timing is strange too. Sending Angelica down precisely when the princes are conducting military training in the North.”

“Well.”

“You were targeting Prince Luciano and planning to do something at Marcello Manor where he was staying, weren’t you?”

Now that the Old Empire Restoration Society has been revealed and the country is in chaos, security is at its peak.

They couldn’t move as easily as before.

“You disguised the sorcerer as Angelica’s employee and brought him over.”

“….”

“So for three mother and daughters coming, there were hardly any employees who came to Cuaron.”

Oscar let out a hollow laugh.

On the surface, he wore an expression asking what that had to do with him.

But his inner thoughts were different.

‘She’s quick-witted.’

She had pinpointed the plan accurately with just a few circumstantial clues.

Yustea continued with an emotionless face.

“As evidence of that, when the commotion broke out at Marcello, Angelica and her two daughters were unusually quiet.”

“Were they?”

Right.

Given Angelica’s personality, she should have caused a scene.

Why are so many soldiers being deployed to Marcello.

Are there enough soldiers to protect us.

She should have been shouting such things.

“Even if not that, she should have at least asked what was happening. When emergency signals were going up.”

“Well, they might have been sleeping.”

Oscar shrugged his shoulders and smiled brightly.

To maintain his usual composure.

Yustea also smiled back at him.

“But you know what. If I were Duke Sanponce or the Restoration Society, I would never entrust work to Angelica.”

Arrogant and hot-tempered.

A fiery personality that knew nothing about worldly wisdom.

They would be worried about entrusting such work to her.

Viola has the exact same personality as her mother.

“So I realized. The center of this affair is Hera.”

“….”

“But it was strange. When I had employees attached to monitor them, Angelica didn’t know that Hera was the center.”

The magic incense that the employees found while searching the guest suite.

Even that tremendous item was in Angelica’s hands.

“It was the Restoration Society’s decision, wasn’t it? So that even if things went wrong, Angelica would take all the blame.”

“….”

It wasn’t Duke Sanponce.

It would be more beneficial in many ways to frame Hera rather than his own daughter Angelica.

Because then they could make it seem like Hera’s family’s doing.

“So I understood.”

“….”

“Hera is a member of the Restoration Society.”

Once you know that much, things become easy.

Whoever Hera contacts is the traitor.

Oscar’s team members urgently shouted.

“What does it matter if that woman is part of the Restoration Society!”

“That’s right. Did you even see the team leader contact that woman!”

Oscar raised an eyebrow slightly.

It meant whether she had anything to say in response.

‘I never met Hera.’

All communication was through transmissions.

The communication device wasn’t even his.

Even if they caught the transmission signal, they couldn’t identify it as his.

“Right, Oscar never met Hera.”

The expressions of Oscar’s team members brightened.

“See! The team leader isn’t a traitor!”

“Yes, there’s no way the team leader would…!”

Yustea, with her hands behind her back, lightly bowed her head.

“So.”

She raised her head just when Oscar felt a certain chill.

Yustea’s emotionless expression was reflected in his eyes.

“It seems you couldn’t see it with your own eyes either.”

“What…”

“Cesar’s mechanical doll attached to Hera.”

“…!”

“Cesar’s doll. It’s like a tracker.”

Cesar, one of the Elite.

It was his mechanical doll.

The white insect-type mechanical doll that had been attached to Yustea in Andres could not only track but also eavesdrop.

And Oscar…

“My eyes are a bit special.”

“I can read mana.”

He had eyes that could detect Cesar’s doll.

“If you had contacted Hera, you would have seen the mana connected to Cesar’s doll.”

“…So meeting the Clan Leader was to get Cesar’s help.”

“Right.”

“Given Cesar’s personality, he cooperated with you well.”

“It was difficult. He said to leave the castle if the traitor wasn’t revealed.”

“Haha, that’s so like Cesar. His attitude is definite.”

Oscar rubbed his neck and continued speaking.

“We haven’t decided yet whether to take the Saint or eliminate her.”

“…What?”

“Captain, what do you mean by that…”

Oscar’s unit members looked at him with trembling eyes.

Oscar smiled brightly as he looked at his unit members.

“This is unfortunate.”

“What…?”

“Captain, what…”

Crack—!

Fissures spread from beneath Oscar’s feet.

Oscar’s unit members froze and couldn’t move.

Then, whoosh!

The floor fragments that burst from beneath Oscar’s feet flew toward his unit members who were staring at him blankly.

It was Yuise’s unit members who pulled away Oscar’s pale-faced unit members.

“Do you want to die? Draw your sword!”

“This can’t be… this can’t be happening…”

“Jason, you idiot!”

The sharp floor fragments that had burst forth shot out like bullets.

Yuise’s unit members hastily deployed barriers.

However, clang—!

The barriers shattered with a sharp sound.

Oscar smiled brightly.

“Having me enter the underground prison was part of the plan too, wasn’t it, Yustea?”

“…”

“You intended to weaken my attacks with the underground prison’s barrier, but this is also unfortunate.”

Oscar’s expression changed instantly.

His usual relaxed smile was nowhere to be found.

The revealed true face was no different from that of a cruel murderer.

He attacked the unit members he had raised with his own hands without hesitation.

“The barrier doesn’t just weaken me alone.”

It weakens both attacks and defenses created with mana.

Oscar aimed his hand toward the ceiling.

Crash—!

With a sharp bursting sound, the ceiling collapsed.

“…!”

“…!!”

All unit members except Oscar’s unit gripped their weapons.

Cold sweat trickled down the unit members’ temples.

Oscar was an elite whose specialty was wide-area attacks.

As an ally, there was no one more reliable, but as an enemy, he was more terrifying than anything else.

“Oscar, you…!”

Antonio’s black eyes swayed violently.

Oscar, who had approached the collapsed wall, smiled at Antonio.

“It was quite entertaining. Playing family, I mean.”

“Captain… why…”

Oscar’s unit members looked at him with disbelieving faces.

It was at that moment that something like black pus began flowing from Oscar’s body.

His sunset-colored crimson hair changed to deep blue.

His eyes became heterochromatic with clear blue and golden colors.

The right golden eye glinted like a demon’s.

A flock of crows appeared through the collapsed ceiling.

Oscar, supported by the flock of crows and floating in the air, spoke.

“See you next time.”

“How about now instead of next time.”

It was Yustea’s voice.

She shouted.

“Abel—!”

Something came flying through the air.

Mana condensed as sharp as a hidden weapon.

Caw!

The crows scattered with loud cries.

Oscar’s posture, who had been riding the crows, crumbled in the wind.

Oscar’s expression twisted savagely.

Yustea grabbed the edge of the collapsed wall and said.

“You’re not the only one in this castle with wide-area attacks, traitor.”

* * *

Abel, standing on a barrier in mid-air, glanced at me.

“I just need to deal with that thing, right.”

“Yes!”

I had lured Abel with snacks.

It would be good if we could catch Oscar in the underground prison, but I had to prepare for when we couldn’t.

As expected, the unit members were shocked and couldn’t move properly.

And most importantly…

‘Oscar is strong.’

More than what was originally known to the unit members.

To think even the underground prison’s barrier couldn’t contain him.

Oscar’s crows gathered together.

‘It’s the same thing I saw at Marcello Castle.’

The same thing where ghouled and zombified soldiers had clustered together.

The flock of crows clustered into a massive size about the size of a wyvern.

Oscar, who lightly mounted the giant crow’s back, said.

“I’m getting jealous that my replacement has already appeared.”

“Abel, smash that mouth.”

When I shouted, Abel lightly swept through the air.

Around Abel, easily thousands of mana-condensed needles were generated.

“Ah, this one’s also a monster.”

Oscar curled up the corner of his mouth in a grin.

“Just when people work themselves to death, monsters like these keep popping up one after another.”

Abel remained expressionless as always.

When he just slightly raised an eyebrow as if annoyed, Oscar said.

“But you know what?”

“What.”

“Monsters like you who were strong from the beginning.”

Oscar, who had kicked off from the crow and leaped, instantly moved by stepping on the barrier Abel had floating in the air.

And he thrust a strange mana condensation core into Abel’s stomach.

“Don’t even know what their own weaknesses are. Because they don’t need to think.”

As soon as Oscar finished speaking, Abel’s needles scattered with a whoosh.

Abel coughed.

Fresh blood flowed down the corner of his mouth.

“…!”

I flinched.

The ground beneath Abel’s feet was shaking.

He couldn’t maintain his mana properly.

‘His core was hit!’

Soon the ground beneath Abel’s feet gave way and he fell.

Swoosh!

A giant crow quickly flew toward Oscar.

Unlike Oscar who grabbed the crow’s talons and floated in the air, Abel looked like he would hit the ground at any moment.

“Abel!”

It was when I shouted.

Vroooom….

I felt a vibrating sound beside me.

It was Yuise.

The string of characters extending from Yuise’s fingertips became a rope that caught Abel before he hit the ground.

‘Thank goodness… no, more than that.’

I hurriedly ran to Abel.

I poured mana into his core to heal it.

Abel’s mana, which had been tangled in a mess, began circulating through his core again.

Abel frowned.

“Ugh….”

“Are you going to lose like this?”

Abel’s eyes flashed.

Though he seemed indifferent, he was a man with strong pride.

The mention of losing had really gotten to him.

“I don’t lose.”

“Right. Abel doesn’t lose. So we need to go outside.”

As I said before, Abel and Oscar specialize in wide-area attacks.

But now that he’s become an enemy, Oscar being inside the building isn’t a weakness.

He could win by collapsing the building and killing us all.

But we’re different.

‘The castle can’t collapse. And to make use of Abel’s specialty, we need to go outside.’

Abel, who had been frowning, got up.

I quickly grabbed onto his shoulder.

“What.”

“Take me with you!”

Because I need to heal him if Abel’s core gets hit again.

Abel clicked his tongue.

However, perhaps remembering the roll cake… that is, the reward I promised to give him, he moved obediently.

A flat barrier formed beneath Abel’s feet and our bodies floated up.

“Young Lady!”

“Yustea…!”

As I clung to Abel and rose up, the unit members shouted.

Abel, who had risen to ground level, immediately destroyed the wall and went outside the castle.

“Oscar too!”

“I know.”

Abel extended his hand.

A spherical barrier quickly moved outside the castle, trapping Oscar inside.

Bang!

He slammed Oscar to the ground, barrier and all.

However, Oscar wasn’t much affected.

He had created another barrier inside Abel’s barrier to protect his body.

The barrier protecting Oscar’s body swelled up and destroyed Abel’s barrier.

The giant crow flew toward Oscar.

The condensed crow returned to its original size.

The crow’s beak turned red as if burning.

And just like that, they poured down on us like a rain of arrows.

Before the crows could reach us, I immediately pressed my hand to the ground.

Vroooom…!

The ground vibrated finely as a domain spread out.

A domain of nullification.

‘Oscar’s crows aren’t living creatures, he said.’

Then as soon as they enter the domain, I’ll purify them and make them disappear.

As expected, the crows that entered the domain shrieked sharply and fluttered their bodies.

Starting with the crows closest to the center of the barrier, their bodies scattered like dust.

“Damn.”

When Oscar slashed through the air with his hand, the flock of crows quickly flew up into the sky.

They had moved to a place my domain couldn’t reach.

“You really are a troublesome existence, Yustea.”

“Better than disgusting you.”

“Why don’t you treat me more kindly? I get hurt easily. I’m the sensitive type!”

Shouting, he sent a sword strike to the ground.

Wind infused with mana flew at us like a giant iron blade.

Abel quickly created a barrier outside the nullification domain.

Kwaaaaang—!

Wind whirled with a tremendous roar.

Dust flew at us, so I covered my eyes with one arm and turned my head.

Abel leaped outside the domain.

A dark sphere of strange color formed beside his body.

When the sphere grazed Oscar, that part disappeared as if it had been torn apart by something sharp.

Oscar gritted his teeth.

“This is why I hate monsters. They make you lose your humanity.”

Do you have any humanity left to lose?

No, is he trying to do something?

It was when I flinched.

Crrrrrack—.

The castle’s outer wall shook.

‘No… that’s….’

He’s trying to bring down the entire castle.

So that Abel would have no choice but to stop attacking and create a barrier to protect the castle.

But if it’s a barrier large enough to protect an entire castle, Abel’s defenses would be breached the moment it’s activated.

Then Abel would….

I pressed my hand to the ground, got up, and ran to Abel.

“Protect the castle first! I’ll protect you—.”

That’s when it happened.

Oscar, who had instantly passed by Abel, came running toward me.

The corner of his mouth curved up.

“Now you’ll finally come into my arms without interference.”

“…!”

He embraced me.

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