I tamed the First Rank Chapter 121
- HoshiMiya
- May 9
- 8 min read
In an instant, a heavy silence descended. Not only on Gong Tae-seong and Min Geut-nyeo, but also on Hyeon Gyu-ha and In Yoo-shin.
In Yoo-shin rolled a familiar name in his mouth. Anna, Anna.........
"......Anna? Why’s wrong with your daughter? Was she sick?"
Min Anna. She was clearly their only daughter. The person who gave In Yoo-shin the gift he had chosen at the department store along with Gong Tae-seong.
A look of belated regret appeared on Gong Tae-seong's face as he spat out the words in anger. However, it was already spilled milk. He muttered to Min Geut-nyeo as if spitting out the words.
"I can't explain in detail, but in order to cure Anna's illness, I had to kill Hyeon Gyu-ha first."
“…….”
"It doesn't matter what kind of person Hyeon Gyu-ha is to you..."
Slap!
Gong Tae-seong’s face suddenly turned as he was slapped in the face. In Yoo-shin flinched when he saw his lips split open. Gong Tae-seong could probably strengthen his body to some extent, but he seemed completely defenseless in front of Min Geut-nyeo.
He didn't even think about wiping the blood flowing from his split lip, and just sighed. Tears welled up in Min Geut-nyeo's eyes in an instant, and fell sadly, dripping down.
"You... You, why are you doing that to someone who isn't even your blood! She’s not even your child!"
“……!”
The secret of the birth of the 4th generation chaebol was suddenly revealed. In Yoo-shin and Hyeon Gyu-ha, who had accidentally become listeners, took a deep breath.
"The woman I love gave birth to her and I raised her. Why isn't she my daughter?"
"You little punk!"
As tears fell from her face, Min Geut-nyeo beat Gong-tae-seong with her fists. Hyeon Gyu-ha pressed his forehead and muttered to himself.
"Why did the genre suddenly become a melodramatic morning drama?"
“...should we go out?"
"Let's do that because it seems like it'll take a long time."
The two just came out and closed the hospital room door.
It was quite some time after that that he sat across from Min Geut-nyeo in the guardian’s room attached to the hospital room. In Yoo-shin poured himself a cup of warm cocoa and took a sip. If it had been any other time, my heart would have sunk from the tension of having the vice president of a large corporation in front of me, but perhaps because I had witnessed that scene earlier, I didn’t feel nervous at all.
Min Geut-nyeo, her eyes swollen, lowered her head.
"Thank you, Yoo-shin-ssi."
"No. It was originally in the hospital room......."
"This is my first time meeting Yoo-shin-ssi, and I've shown you an ugly side since our first meeting. Don't worry, I'll make sure that this never happens again, even if it means locking up that guy in a coffin."
"Is Anna very sick?"
Min Geut-nyeo smiled listlessly.
"If it were other people, I would have asked you what would you do if you had to raise another man's child with your ex-husband, but Yoo-shin-ssi is a good person like Hunter Hyeon."
In Yoo-shin scratched his head silently. Just because I was worried about his daughter’s well-being, it didn’t mean I forgave Gong Tae-seong. I had many questions, and I was still angry about Gong Tae-seong’s actions. However, after hearing the reason, I couldn’t continue to pursue the question.
How can parents be sane when their child has a fatal disease? Besides, Hyeon Gyu-ha ended up being safe.
'......Isn't it probably because Gyu-ha-ssi is safe?
If Hyeon Gyu-ha had been seriously injured, I would not have been in my right mind either.
Min Geut-nyeo, who seemed to be organizing her thoughts while fiddling with her cup of cocoa, let out a sigh as if in a hurry.
"Since we started dating, Tae-seong and I have fought, broken up, and gotten back together repeatedly. I dated other men, but nothing worked out for me like Tae-seong. Tae-seong is the person who liked me when I had nothing but money."
Back in the days when all they had was money... So what else do they have now?
Min Geut-nyeo continued speaking as if she knew In Yoo-shin's feelings, who was somehow sweating profusely.
"Now, I have power."
”Haa……”
"Anyway, I met a guy briefly in a fit of anger because I was preparing for marriage and I thought I was done with him for good. But I ended up having a child. I didn't use a condom that one time……”
MinGeut-nyeo sniffled and wiped her eyes with a handkerchief.
"Yoo-shin-ssi, don't make the same mistake I did. Always use a condom. Hunter Hyeon has manners and is gentlemanly, so he takes care of things like that, right?"
"Th, uh....... yes......."
"I found out I was pregnant when I was meeting Tae-seong again. I felt lost. I was torn between breaking up with Tae-seong and raising the baby on my own, or secretly getting an abortion and getting married. I ended up choosing the latter."
If she had an abortion in Korea, Gong Tae-seong might have noticed. Min Geut-nyeo left for Germany on the pretext of a business trip and even set a date for the surgery.
"But... Tae-seong somehow found out and followed me to Germany. He cried and held on to me, saying that I was aborting the child because of him, that I might get hurt and not be able to have another child, and that he would be a good father so don't abort the child... That's when I made up my mind. That I, who only had money and power, would take responsibility for this fool."
In Yoo-shin felt as if his fingertips were being pulled in like grilled squid, and he was certain that the two were destined to be together.
Min Geut-nyeo sighed heavily, pressing her chest.
"And then I got swept away by the erosion gate."
Unlike the guardian’s room where lively conversations were taking place, the sickroom was filled with a chilly atmosphere. Hyeon Gyu-ha also brought cocoa. Of course, he didn’t bring it for Gong Tae-seong, but he sat on a chair and drank it alone.
"Please explain in detail according to the Six W's.."
"Haa."
Gong Tae-seong let out a long sigh mixed with complicated thoughts, but he had no choice but to speak obediently. Min Geut-nyeo would have already told him everything anyway.
Gong Tae-seong wiped his forehead with his palm as he talked about chasing them all the way to Germany.
“Don’t you know what kind of people Geut-nyeo’s family were?”
"I know, because I killed them."
"It really didn't matter who the father of the child was. As you know, Geut-nyeo was weak, so she wasn't sure if she would be able to have another child. Having a happy family was Geut-nyeo's simple dream, but she couldn't have the child aborted because of someone like me, so she went all the way to Germany......."
"It's self-explanatory that Geot-nyeo Noona has her eyes glued to the soles of her feet when looking at men, so let's skip the editorial and get to the main point."
“……”
Gong Tae-seong glared at Hyeon Gyu-ha for a moment, then shook his head and spoke quickly.
"She was swept away by the erosion gate in Berlin."
"Wouldn't the erosion gates be measured in advance so that an evacuation order wouldn't be issued?"
"The gate entrance was wider than I expected. Inside the gate was almost the entirety of Berlin."
The radiation levels were normal, and the mana concentration was uneven, but not dangerous. It was not a difficult gate, except for the temperature that changed frequently and the vast interior that made it difficult to search.
He thought so.
"I came to speculate later, but I think the cause of the destruction was the wrath of God. The concentration of divine power was too high."
The fact that the concentration of divine power was high was also discovered through tissue examination after clearing the gate. It took five days to search the entire city. When exposed to high concentrations of divine power, adults only experienced minor side effects, but the child in the womb was different.
During the five days of wandering, the fetus continuously absorbed divine power, and as if to prove this, it was born with a thick divine power wrapped around its entire body. The child, named Anna, was very healthy, never suffering from a single cold. On the surface, there were no problems.
Hyeon Gyu-ha frowned when he heard that Min Anna's body was imbued with divine power.
"It means she'll die before she turns 10."
".....Yes. Even though she looks fine on the outside, her body's balance is broken."
If it was a world where people communicated with gods, it would have been a disease that the gods would have specially taken care of and taken away, or it would have been a pure child dedicated to the gods.
This world is a world where gods do not exist. However, the fear of gods is a kind of power in itself, so after the catastrophe, divine powers were manifested. However, that period was only 60 years at most. There were also many facts about divine powers that were not revealed, like gate science or unique abilities.
When Gong Tae-seong and Min Geut-nyeo learned of their daughter's illness, they sought out a small number of priests with divine powers. They sought out anything from world religions like Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam to ethnic religions like Hinduism... They even sought out weaker religious groups like the Kalash (a minority group in Pakistan).
But no priest could cure Minanna's illness. The divine power that resided in Minanna's small body was different from the religions of this world.
"Perhaps it is a god of a religion that has already lost its tradition in this world. Since this is a world without gods, there are many religions that have disappeared and forgotten gods that were not passed down. Furthermore, there are cases like the gods of Greece that remain as myths or legends but do not take the form of a religion."
“......So you were trying to go to ®ÀÇ? Because ®ÀÇ is a world where you can communicate with God?"
"That whale told me. I'm not sure who it is because it's a god from another pantheon, but he said you can find it if you go to ®ÀÇ."
When Gong Tae-seong first met the whale in Hoeryeong, he thought it was a monster and tried to subdue it. However, the whale spoke human language and told him that it could possibly cure his daughter's illness. Without hesitation, Gong Tae-seong made a contract with the whale.
To kill Hyeon Gyu-ha and use his heart to gain the right to open the door to ®AÇ.
"What are you going to do after you get some medicine to cure her illness at ®ÀÇ? The road to ®ÀÇ is a one-way road."
"He said he could move about one vial of medicine."
“Hmm.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha tapped his chin and tilted the corners of his mouth. It seems he didn’t get scammed by the whale, since he also knows that he can’t return to the Iron Age from Iad.
Gong Tae-seong, who had finished telling the story, leaned back on the bed with a look of increasing fatigue.
"Your goal is to go to ®ÀÇ, right?"
"Of course."
"Are you also planning on never coming back from ®ÀÇ?"
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