I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 155

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

Only I Have Two Towers Episode 155

The Mark of Karma

Shoji let out a quiet breath.

Even Sumida and Utsu were defeated so helplessly.

Just how strong is this mysterious visitor?

“How did you get in?”

“I walked through the main gate.”

“Ha.”

A hollow laugh escaped him.

He couldn’t understand how such a thing was possible, but he didn’t think it was a lie.

The martial arts displayed before his eyes had already exceeded the realm of common sense.

“Do you know what you’ve just done?”

“I came in through the main gate, beat up a few security guards, and came to meet Sugihara’s Chairman. Oh, and the building got damaged a bit from the explosion.”

“Are you trained? Government? Player Hunter Bureau?”

“I’m just an ordinary citizen.”

Sugihara Shoji looked at the sprawled Sumida and Utsu.

“An ordinary citizen couldn’t do this to these guys.”

“If they hadn’t been careless, it wouldn’t have ended so easily.”

For some reason, those two had mistakenly thought the enemy would quietly wait for their transformation or enhancement.

Thanks to that, he was able to handle them very easily.

“But are you really Sugihara’s Chairman? You’re not scared even though there’s no one left to protect you.”

“Me? Of you?”

Shoji shook his head.

It was true that he was surprised by how easily Sumida and Utsu had fallen.

But that didn’t mean he had lived his years in vain enough to be scared of the young one before him.

“I’ve lived long enough. If you thought I’d cling to your pants legs out of fear of death, you’re gravely mistaken.”

Indeed, Shoji’s eyes weren’t shaking at all, but rather glowed with an even more brilliant light.

Like someone who had never once encountered the concept of fear in his life.

And indeed, that was the case.

Sugihara Shoji.

He had never learned how to bow his head to anyone.

All he had learned from his grandfather and father was how to trample on others and climb up.

Jinhyeok drew a faint smile.

“You’ll probably realize after some time passes.”

“Realize what?”

“Ah, being paralyzed with fear back then would have been normal.”

“Is that ridiculous babbling what you came all this way to say?”

Shoji straightened his back and continued speaking.

“How boring. Let’s end the small talk here. Say what you came to say. If you’re going to kill me, kill me. If you’re going to take something, take it. You’ve reached Sugihara Shoji, so you have that right.”

“First, one question. Why did you kill innocent Korean Players? They never harmed you. Thirty of them, no less.”

“…Kuk!”

Shoji burst into laughter.

It wasn’t a question meant to be laughed at, though?

“You risked death and came all this way just for that?”

He hadn’t risked death, let alone danger, but anyway.

“As expected, your country has a small vessel. Doesn’t thirty sound like a large number to you?”

“Those people’s lives were just small numbers to you, I suppose.”

“Don’t mistake yourself for being on the same level just because we’re facing each other. I’m a pillar who has led and sustained the Empire of Japan to this point.”

Did he gain confidence while conversing?

A sneer formed at the corner of Shoji’s mouth.

“What did you do this for? Wealth? Honor? Power? Or that pathetic sense of justice? Well, your country has always been like that. Even when you could live well by just keeping quiet and submitting, you constantly bark and bark again. Without getting tired of it.”

“A sense of justice, well, it’s not really that. I’m not a hero from a comic book. I don’t have some grand mission or cause either.”

“Huh. Did you come without knowing what you want or what you’re doing? Well, there were probably many among your ancestors too. Idiots who threw away their lives just swept up by the atmosphere.”

Jinhyeok stared at Shoji with strange eyes.

Then, he burst into laughter.

Shoji’s eyebrows twitched at the mockery from the much younger visitor.

“What’s so funny?”

“Is it because people around you praise you too much? You seem to have an inflated ego. Do I need something as grand as a mission or cause to come meet one old man who’s ugly with age and living on borrowed time?”

Jinhyeok brought his hand to Shoji’s neck.

“I just stopped by while passing through. I was taking a walk and happened to see Shoji Sugihara’s house nearby, so I thought I could meet you right away by just walking through the main gate. I wanted to see your face and have a little chat. Though I didn’t expect you to be this shameless and arrogant even when I’m the one deciding whether you live or die.”

“If you’re going to kill me, kill me. Even if I die, nothing will change. Sugihara will still be Japan’s pillar, and Japan, supported by that pillar, will continue to oppress and trample you people from the shadows. All you can gain by coming here is just the life of one old man living on borrowed time.”

The corners of Shoji’s mouth stretched long.

“The death of just one person won’t change the world, you brat.”

Having just met him, it was impossible to know everything about the human called Sugihara Shoji.

However, one thing was certain.

He had tremendous pride.

The kind of pride that he was leading and supporting Japan.

“Come on!”

Shoji spread both arms.

“Torture me or kill me, do as you please.”

Jinhyeok, who had been silently staring at Shoji.

Slowly.

He slowly removed his hand from Shoji’s neck.

“There’s a saying. Death without pain is a blessing.”

“What nonsense are you spouting again…”

“Sugihara Shoji.”

Jinhyeok, who had erased his smile, met eyes with Shoji.

Shoji drew in a sharp breath.

For just an instant, a chill swept over his body.

“You will personally destroy with your own hands what you’ve considered your pride.”

“Nonsense.”

“It will definitely happen. You talk as if you’ve lived for pillars and great causes, but you’ve only lived to satisfy your own twisted desires. In the end, you’ll choose the path of destroying the pillar to save yourself.”

Jinhyeok put his hand into his jacket.

When he pulled it out again, someone’s fresh blood was on his thumb.

Swish.

Jinhyeok smeared blood on Shoji’s forehead without giving him a chance to resist.

And he began to recite.

The words of Camilla the Sky Reader’s poem.

“From now on, what is carved upon you is the mark of karma. The mark will spread and transfer like a plague to all the karma around you. The pain will be determined by the weight of karma, so if you wish for peace, it would be right to clear the karma you have accumulated yourself.”

Jinhyeok finished speaking and quietly stared at Shoji.

A brief silence flowed through the room.

# We’ve completed searching the entire mansion! Since he’s not visible, it seems the intruder has escaped!

# Contact with Sumida has been lost! Check if the Chairman is safe first!

# Each team is heading to the annexes!

Jinhyeok stood up.

And with his characteristic relaxed smile, he opened his mouth.

“I hope you slept well last night. From now on, you won’t have any peaceful nights.”

Rustle.

“…?!”

The moment he turned to leave, Jinhyeok’s figure disappeared.

As if he had never existed in this place to begin with.

“Chairman! Are you alright!?”

In less than a minute, security personnel came rushing into the annex.

Crack!

Shoji irritably wiped the blood from his forehead.

‘I am Sugihara Shoji!!’

His opponent was just a young brat.

That’s why he wasn’t scared at all.

Surely, he shouldn’t have been scared.

But why was it?

His hands were trembling terribly as he looked down at them.

Sato Tsubasa, who had been sitting collapsed, got back up.

It was because Jinhyeok’s fading resonance was drawing closer again.

“Ha…”

Tsubasa let out a hollow laugh as if dumbfounded.

-I’ll enter through the main gate and exit through the main gate.

At the time, he had wondered what kind of crazy talk that was.

When sneaking in would barely be enough, he said he’d go through the main gate.

It was completely unrealistic.

But seeing the trail of resonance leading precisely from the main gate, he had to acknowledge once again.

That the scope of his common sense was far too narrow.

“You’ve been waiting long.”

Tsubasa checked his watch.

30 minutes.

That’s how long it took Jinhyeok to enter and exit the Sugihara Estate.

“Did you achieve what you wanted?”

“Yes. Completely. As promised, no one died, so you don’t need to worry.”

As expected of Dark.

He listened to requests well.

“What on earth was it for…”

Tsubasa, who was about to ask, closed his mouth.

Because he recognized the meaning in that characteristic expression – that he wouldn’t answer even if asked.

Instead, he changed his question slightly.

“Politicians are like merchants. You know this saying, right? I’d like there to be something to gain from this, so will what you mentioned earlier come to pass?”

Sugihara’s downfall.

Rationally and realistically, it was impossible.

But the person who said he would do it was someone who casually turned the impossible into reality.

“Of course. Just wait a little. Time will solve it. But Congressman, if the Kamin Party collapses, will you become Prime Minister?”

Sato Tsubasa wasn’t simply someone with a solid position within the party.

Not only was public opinion of him excellent, but he consistently ranked first in the periodic popularity polls for Diet members.

Unlike other members who were set in their ways, his fighter-like image of pushing through with his convictions without being bound by customs or conventions attracted people’s hearts.

“If the Kamin Party collapses… it might be possible? Of course, it would be a distant prospect. Having been in power for so long, the ruling party’s foundation can’t be ignored either. Even if something is revealed, it won’t crumble like a sandcastle.”

“This might be a somewhat presumptuous question.”

“What’s new about that.”

“Do you have something like ‘I’ll be this kind of Prime Minister!’? This is my first time meeting a Diet member, especially an influential one.”

“Aspirations, huh. It’s a bit difficult since I’ve never thought about becoming Prime Minister. Hmm.”

After pondering for a while, Tsubasa drew a strange smile.

“One thing came to mind.”

“Oh, what is it?”

“Let’s not create situations where Yoo Jin-hyeok comes visiting in the middle of the night.”

“Pardon?”

“There probably won’t be such occasions. I’m wealthy, so I haven’t taken a single bribe while climbing to this position. I’ve lived only studying, so there are no weaknesses to be caught. Even if I become Prime Minister, I won’t be swayed by anyone.”

“Oh… I don’t really understand, but that sounds good.”

Jinhyeok gave a thumbs up.

He didn’t know much about politics, but if Tsubasa became Prime Minister, Japan would probably be much better than it is now.

Watching such Jinhyeok, Tsubasa let out a quiet sigh.

‘I’m serious about not creating situations for visits.’

He didn’t even want to imagine it.

A situation where he’d turn the man before him into an enemy.

“Shall we head back?”

“Yes. That would be good. There’ll be commotion soon.”

“Eating nearby seems a bit dangerous, would you like in-flight meals?”

“I’m too hungry to refuse. I’ll gratefully eat. I’ll think of it as a last supper before going back to the National Diet and getting crushed.”

The two walked side by side down the stairs.

And to the place they left, Camilla Shirin, the one who reads the sky, appeared.

Camilla gazed at Sugihara Shoji’s mansion with a chilling smile.

It was time to receive retribution for one’s karma.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————