The White Tiger Clan’s Baby Cotton Ball - Chapter 254

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Part 2, Chapter 46

“What a ridiculous death. To perish while struggling so desperately to save a child he abandoned with his own hands.”

Evil laughed wickedly even as blood flowed from his pierced chest.

“Shall I tell you an interesting fact? The reason that man abandoned you.”

“What…?”

At those words, Soya’s expression hardened fiercely.

“I cast a curse long ago, you see, on you.”

Evil spoke in a delighted voice as if telling the most amusing story in the world.

“That you would be abandoned and forsaken by those you love most, and die lonely and alone! Hahaha! Hahahaha!”

Yes, he was delighted.

The being who once received her love had abandoned her and ultimately met a dog’s death before her very eyes—how could this not be joyful and pleasing!

“You think those by your side now will love you forever? No, only I can love you, they will all abandon you.”

Evil suddenly stopped laughing and muttered in a voice filled with madness.

“You will be abandoned by the person you love most.”

Soya frowned at the sharp voice ringing in her ears.

“You too will eventually be abandoned and forsaken like me… and die lonely and alone like that…”

Soya realized this was the same curse-like thing that had scraped at her eardrums in the Village of Sorcerers.

“You will spend your whole life unloved by the person you love most… lonely, painful, and tormented like me…”

‘The person I… love most…?’

At that moment, one face floated before Soya’s eyes.

‘No, I don’t want…’

The person she loved most.

‘I don’t want to, I don’t want to be abandoned like that again. I, I…’

That person was none other than…

“Don’t listen to such disgusting words, Cotton Ball.”

Saeon covered Soya’s ears and glared at Evil.

Instantly, with a rush of relief, the sharp voice scraping at her ears disappeared.

“Papa will protect you, so you do what you need to do.”

The person she always loved most stepped in front of her and threateningly pointed his sword at Evil.

“Yes, Papa.”

Soya answered while looking at the solid back protecting her.

“What, why.”

Evil, realizing that the person Soya loved most now was Saeon, glared at him with wide eyes.

“Why does such a being exist again?”

Surging jealousy engulfed Evil.

“Only I can love you, and only I should receive your love!”

Evil shouted.

“Everyone will abandon you! Even that man standing before you now will eventually abandon you!”

“Nonsense.”

Saeon frowned as if displeased.

“Our Cotton Ball is a child who receives love from so many and gives love in return.”

“Damn it! You think a mere human can escape my curse?”

With Evil’s raging shouts, black resentment extended from his body and flew toward Saeon.

However, Saeon stood firm and unwavering, only glaring at it.

“What does a mere curse matter.”

He spoke while resisting the black resentment trying to devour him.

“I won’t let such a trivial thing harm my daughter.”

At that moment, the resentment that couldn’t find a gap in Saeon’s heart wavered in confusion…

Whoosh—

Soon it lost its way and scattered.

Crash!

At the same time, Evil’s curse that had been carved into Soya’s soul for ages was broken.

“Urgh… Why would a mere human…”

Evil, struck by the backlash, coughed up blood and muttered in disbelief.

Wasn’t it a curse formed from the most terrible resentment that even the Heavenly Emperor, master of the heavens, couldn’t avoid?

Yet how could a mere human from the earthly realm…

—This isn’t the time! Hurry and wake Lord Yeonwang!

At Heuksa’s cry, Soya recalled the heart of destruction from behind her father’s back that protected her firmly.

The heart of destruction that devours the living.

It was a heart that twelve-year-old Soya couldn’t understand.

But now adult Soya knows what the heart of destruction is.

She learned that to protect and guard someone, one must also be able to carry out destruction.

She also learned why the White Tiger’s sacred relic containing the heart of protection is a sword that pierces opponents, and why Hyeonmu’s sacred relic containing the heart of destruction is a shield that protects someone.

Those two hearts were never contradictory.

Seolyeo who left White Tiger Palace fearing she might harm her.

Gayul who blocked Evil’s attacks with his whole body to protect her.

The sacrifice of the man she no longer considered father.

And…

Papa, whom Soya loved most in the world.

Evil had tried to take away all those precious to her.

Now Soya would destroy that evil to reclaim and protect those precious to her.

‘So please help me eliminate the evil, Lord Yeonwang.’

Splash—

The sound of water came from somewhere.

Splash, splash—

Soon, with the splashing sensation of water, Hyeonmu awakened.

Guardian of the North, Hyeonto Yeomwang.

A giant black turtle wrapped by a snake appeared before Soya’s eyes.

—The Baby Bird who woke me…

Hyeonto Yeomwang, who had paused upon discovering Soya, soon greeted her with a somehow tender and longing voice.

—It’s good to see you, Baby Bird. I am the Northern destroyer, Hyeonto Yeomwang.

“Lord Yeonwang…!”

At Soya’s cry, he smiled gently.

—The power of water is abundant but empty. I will give you water that devours the living.

At that moment, the cool sensation of water bloomed at Soya’s fingertips with a splash.

Soya blinked slowly.

In an instant, her consciousness returned to reality.

The splashing sensation at her fingertips still remained.

Finally, all four divine beasts had awakened, and she had obtained all the power of the Death God Beast.

Soya looked straight at the evil before her.

“No, I don’t want…”

Evil instinctively sensed that something about Soya had changed and showed a frightened expression.

The power of the four divine beasts extended simultaneously from Soya’s fingertips and enveloped Evil.

“Why, why do you only hate me? I just wanted to receive your love like the other things do!”

Evil cried out in a voice filled with resentment.

“That love you gave fairly to everyone, why won’t you give it to me alone?”

For a very long time, she had gazed at her with longing from that cold, dark, and lonely place.

She had envied the divine beasts who received her love, and thus wished to become like them.

She loved her and desired her love.

Yes, that was all. That was all I wanted.

“I did nothing but love you!”

“Love?”

Soya recalled the love she had learned at the White Tiger Palace.

The love of Father and Mother, who poured it out generously even when she did nothing.

The love of her Elder Brothers and Cheongya, who praised her no matter what she did. And the love of the White Tiger Palace people.

She recalled all of that love.

But among all that love, there was none that urged while harming the other like this.

“No, you’re wrong. Something that harms the other like this can’t be love.”

“No, I… I…!”

At that moment, the four energies surrounding Evil mixed together and swirled, then the black energy greatly expanded and attacked Evil.

“Aaaaaaaaaaah!”

With Evil’s chilling scream, the power of destruction devoured Evil.

Gradually, the dark sky cleared brightly.

Finally, Evil had disappeared.

“Evil… has disappeared.”

Sanyu muttered blankly as he watched the scene.

“Seolyeo…!”

Soya ran toward the Sacred Tree.

Seolyeo’s body lay neatly in front of it.

Seolyeo’s body, from which Evil had departed, was clean without a single wound.

The energy of the divine beasts gently enveloped that body.

—This guy’s soul hasn’t been destroyed yet!

Heuksa shouted.

Seolyeo, whose body had been completely taken by Evil, had his consciousness sink because of it, so he was in a state of ‘not being alive.’

That’s why he wasn’t devoured by the destructive power that devours living things that Soya had unleashed.

—The soul is sleeping beneath consciousness! We need to wake the soul! The Dragon Orb, quickly!

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