LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 107 - I Missed You So Much, Unnie
Chapter 107 I Missed You So Much, Unnie
“What is it, a misfire?”
Two jet-black monsters raced forward faster than the energy blast fired by Godzilla.
However, upon seeing the energy blast split in half and explode in the air, Katsuo thought that it was fortunate no matter what.
The same went for Lorensky and Shin-woo.
They planned to run toward Godzilla’s jaw, intending to shut its mouth as it tried to open its maw for another shot.
But then.
“Huff… Huff…”
“Jaewon?”
“Huff… Huff…!”
His son’s condition seemed off.
Seeing Jaewon gasping for breath as if he were panicking, Shin-woo wanted to ask what was wrong.
However.
“Han Shin-woo… Can I leave this to you?”
“Huh?”
“I have something I must do with my mother.”
“At this moment, you’re going to see Sophia?”
Of course, since Godzilla was already half-defeated, there wouldn’t be much disruption to the plan if Jaewon left.
But more than that, above all else.
“Uh, alright…”
Seeing the desperate look in his son’s eyes, as if pleading with him, Shin-woo felt a strange emotion and, somehow feeling this was the right thing to do, gave his permission.
“Thank you.”
For the first time, Han Jaewon expressed his gratitude to his father, then immediately ran off to his mother.
***
“Ria! W-wait a moment!”
“Unnie?”
Meanwhile, as Ria from the future was about to head off to subdue Godzilla, Sophia called out to her midway.
“What’s wrong? Is something the matter?”
“Oh, no, it’s not that…”
Ria smiled sweetly at her.
Even though she had grown, that expression was unmistakably that of the little sister Ria she knew.
But.
‘Is this Ria really the one who shaped that future?’
Sophia had already heard fragmented stories about the terrifying future from the son who had come from there, before Ria.
And she knew that Ria was at the center of those events.
“Ria… I want to ask you something.”
“Something to ask?”
“Yeah, it’s nothing serious, but how am I in the future? Since you’re the Ria from the future, you can tell me a bit about it, right?”
Trying to be as natural as possible, like a curious girl.
Laughing lightly, Sophia very naturally tried to get Ria to talk about the future…
“Unnie.”
“Huh?”
She thought she would hear it.
“Why do you want to know about that, Unnie?”
“W-what?”
“Unnie, did you know? Whenever you lie, you have this strange habit of smiling a little too brightly.”
“…!!”
The little sister she used to comfort and care for every day had seen right through her.
Shocked by this, Sophia unconsciously began to back away, feeling a sense of danger.
Ria, not one to miss this opportunity, began to approach her.
Step by step.
“Unnie, tell me.”
“Ria…”
“Who told you? Who told you about the future?”
The angelic smile was gone, replaced by the ruthless expression of the future Ria as she closed in on her sister.
“Was it the humans? Was there someone among the few remaining human rebels who could travel back in time?”
“Human rebels… So it’s true, Ria, you really… in the future…!”
“Yes, I—no, we successfully exterminated 99% of humanity in the future.”
“!!!”
The shocking confession came from her younger sister.
But from Ria’s perspective, it was a fact she would have had to reveal eventually anyway.
“In at least 20 years from now, humans no longer live on the surface.”
“Then…?”
“Well, since we killed them off to the brink of extinction, I heard that the few who survived formed some kind of rebel group and went underground, but as the ‘Empress,’ it wasn’t my job to track them down one by one.”
“Ria! Did you really kill humans?”
“Yeah.”
“…!”
“I killed so many. I saw those bastards stabbing my oppa in the back too many times.”
Ria spoke coldly, saying she had killed humans without a second thought.
“But it seems I made a mistake.”
“A mistake…?”
“I underestimated the humans, whom I thought were nothing more than a minor nuisance, still having this kind of power.”
“…!”
“If I had known this, I should have personally stepped in and killed them all that day.”
“Ria!”
Ria, now radiating murderous intent toward the humans, had come right up to Sophia’s face.
Kurumi, who could no longer bear to watch, tried to intervene somehow.
“Amaterasu! Quickly, those two…”
“You can’t. If we do, Yggdrasil will break.”
“Can’t we do both?”
“Impossible. If we want to kill that monster, I have to go all out.”
They couldn’t afford to move now due to the Yggdrasil issue.
If they stood up to help Sophia, they risked not being able to defend against Godzilla’s poison gas, which could melt down the entire city of Osaka.
This meant that only Sophia could stop Ria now.
“Originally, His Majesty was supposed to come personally to bring you soon.”
“His Majesty? You mean Shin-woo?”
“Yes. But after seeing the rebels’ tricks, I need to move up the plan. I think I’ll have to take you myself, unnie.”
As she finished speaking, her younger sister’s white hand slowly reached out toward Sophia’s face.
If it were any other time, Sophia would have accepted the warmth of that touch without hesitation.
Smack!
“Unnie?”
“Ria, I can’t understand it. You killed humans? With Shin-woo… I can’t understand it.”
“You don’t need to understand, unnie. There’s no point in trying because it’s all over now.”
Sophia firmly rejected Ria’s touch.
However, the now mature Ria, as if it didn’t matter at all, simply tried to grab her sister again.
“Unnie, let’s go to the ‘future’ together.”
“Ria?”
“In the future, all those humans you hated so much are underground, so it will be much more comfortable to live than in the present!”
“Ria, stop…”
“And that’s not all! I missed being in your shadow so much. Ever since you died, I haven’t contracted with a single human. I’ve only been thinking about you…”
“Ria, stop it!”
In that moment, Sophia, as the master, gave an order to her contracted monster.
Squeeze.
“…!”
Bound by the contract, Sophia tried to stop her increasingly dangerous sister.
Step… Step!
“Huh?”
But it was in vain.
“Unnie, did you know? The limit of a Beast Hunter’s control over a monster is exactly twice their own power level.”
Grab!
“Unless you get help, you can’t fully dominate. In those cases, they say you can’t control the monster perfectly.”
“Ria, how did you…!”
“Hehe. How could I disobey your order? It’s simple.”
Ria grabbed both of her sister’s wrists, forcing her face into her chest.
Having finally embraced her sister after so long, Ria spoke in an excited tone, almost savoring the moment.
“It’s because I’m much stronger than you now!”
“R-Ria…”
“Ah, but don’t worry, unnie. This is the only time I’ll force you. Once we go to the future together, I’ll go back to being your and oppa’s obedient exclusive contracted monster.”
“Ria, let me go!”
“No. Unnie, I missed you so much. I missed the way you petted me, I missed showering together, and when I couldn’t sleep in the shadows and sneaked out at dawn, I missed sleeping in your arms the most!”
One day, that sister had burned to ashes.
After that, she had been so lonely and missed her so much that she thought she would go insane.
The only time she found solace was when she was held in oppa’s arms, imprinting that warm passion onto her body, but those days only came about once a week at most.
Even the children she had given her all to bear were lovely, but it was different from how she felt about her sister.
Yes, in the end, her sister was the only one.
“Unnie, the ring’s effect is about to end, and I’ll be returning to the future.”
“!”
“But! I know about the ring’s special trait. This ‘Future Ring’ allows a grown monster to transfer their energy to their master right before disappearing, enabling both to be recognized as one entity and transported to the future together.”
“So that means…”
“Yes, when the ring’s effect ends, only the younger version of me will remain here! Because you’ll be going to the future with me!”
Upon hearing the mature Ria’s plan, Sophia began to struggle desperately to escape.
However, the future Ria was a monster that, if the Hunter Association still existed, would surely be classified as a national disaster-level threat, even by American standards.
Squeeze.
“Unnie, when we get to the future, let’s take a shower together first. I miss when you scrubbed my back.”
“Ria, let me go, now!”
Sophia’s strength was nowhere near enough to break free, and as the ring’s time limit approached…
“Unnie, and you know, if you really want, His Majesty might even allow a human autonomous zone…”
Shwick!
“Gah?!”
“Ria?”
It seemed like this state would continue indefinitely.
But then, a jet-black blade suddenly protruded from Ria’s forehead as she was lost in memories with her eyes tightly shut.
“Hey, monster. Let her go if you don’t want to see your head blown off.”
“…!!”
Ria had no choice but to release Sophia and quickly pulled the blade from her head, then aimed a back-kick at the presence behind her.
Bam!
“Who are you?!”
Standing behind her was a boy with beautiful blonde hair, holding a holy sword.
“A Hunter?… No, you must be the rebel who provided my sister with information about the future.”
“Yes, but don’t you recognize me? We’ve met before.”
“Met before? Are you saying a human like you saw me and lived?”
There was no way a human who had seen her, the second princess of the Empire in the future, could have survived among the rebels.
Even the leader of the rebel forces, who once tried to fight back, had his heart cut out by her that very day.
So who on earth was this boy?
More than anything, that gleaming blonde hair…
“Jaewon!”
“Mother, stay back. I’ll take care of this.”
“M-Mother…?”
The unbelievable words from the boy’s mouth.
As he called her sister “Mother,” Ria’s scowling expression quickly turned to cold sweat.
“Mother…? But that day, the prince burned to death along with unnie…”
“I almost died. But I didn’t.”
“…!?!! Then, you’re really…?!”
“I survived. I was saved by none other than those humans you despised so much!”
As he spoke, the ground began to tremble.
And with a small shout, a storm of black sparks gathered around Jaewon.
Seeing this, Ria could no longer deny it.
The signs were unmistakable—this transformation, which neither her children nor any other bloodline offspring had inherited despite countless attempts, was identical to her oppa’s.
“Haaaaaaaah…!”
“Complete monster transformation?”
“Haaaaaaaah-!!”
With a black roar, Jaewon, now fully transformed and clad in black armor just like Shin-woo, sent Ria’s face into a pale shock.
“If Sophia gave birth to me, there was another who raised me.”
“Then… you’re really the prince…!”
“Now, I’ll avenge the death of my other mother, Teacher Jin-ah Lee, whom you killed!”