Chapter 142 - The Rattle Would Be Better (1)
Joseph Eshua.
The son of the second son Benjamin Eshua, and the interesting thing is that he hates Eshua terribly like Isaac.
‘The damn Saintess’s family.’
Others didn’t stop envying Joseph, saying ‘It must be nice to have a Saintess as a twin sister’, but well.
‘How could it be nice! Damn it!’
No matter what he did, he was overshadowed by his twin Saintess sister.
Well, he could accept that, but Eshua?
‘I hate it!’
What’s the point of being born with the Eshua bloodline, having good looks, a name, virtue, moderately wealthy! Thanks to that, there’s no shortage of women!
-Joseph! Another women problem?! The Blue name will cry!
-Ah, it’s fine as long as I don’t touch married women! Can’t I even date!
-I told you no luxury!
-You call it luxury to buy jewelry and give it as gifts?!
This damn Blue family tradition!
Is it a human thing to live like an ascetic!
Father was the same!
Even though he won’t become the family head, he sits there taking on the role of the missing eldest son, loyal to the family!
Anyway, Father is annoying and I hate the Blue family tradition, but the ‘family head position’ is a different story!
‘Cardinal! The position of ultimate power!’
Moreover, the Blue position?
It was a position that other faiths and even the Pope’s family wanted for themselves!
And the opportunity for the head position, which he thought he would never have in his lifetime, comes back like this?
‘What a blessing is this!’
Joseph couldn’t help but eye Shuri.
Why?
Because with just Shuri, he can easily clear the task of becoming the family head!
“Hey, Shuri Eshua. Call the God of Light you contracted with. It’s the Blue’s main god, right?”
At his cousin’s words, Shuri had no choice but to be dumbfounded.
Shuri knew too well why this bastard was doing this to him.
-Be acknowledged by the Blue god.
That meant to start by summoning first. And would a god just come because you call?
Following the Blue doctrine… Yes, in short, you have to stay away from worldly things and keep your body and mind pure for them to answer your call.
“What Grandfather meant was to engage in faith activities. To pray to the god while following the Blue doctrine.”
In other words, it means to start from the basics.
But.
“Who doesn’t know that?”
“…!”
“The Blue god is a bit stubborn? It’s complicated to follow the doctrine. To meet the Blue god once, you have to live like an ascetic for a month eating only herbs.”
Shuri immediately noticed what Joseph was going to say.
As expected-
“Shuri. You just have to call the Blue god for your brother for a moment.”
Yes, so it means he doesn’t want to do the training himself.
“Just call it first. I’ll take care of the rest. If the god doesn’t like it, he’ll refuse anyway.”
“Why don’t you call the god yourself?”
“Hey. Shuri, you’ve grown a lot? When I tell you to call, you call, are you getting cheeky with your brother?”
“…!”
“I told you. Don’t pretend to be an Eshua with brown hair.”
Joseph put his arm around Shuri’s shoulder in a friendly yet domineering way while smiling.
“Watch it. You’re not even acknowledged by the Pope’s family. You should be grateful that you’re accepted here, don’t be a nuisance to Eshua. You should listen when your brother says so. Just because you were a bit active in the Pentagon, your head got big?”
Shuri gritted his teeth.
Even if he tells Father about this, it will only make him sad, and if he resists, it will only cause discord.
So he always just swallowed it inwardly.
-Shuri, it will be resolved when you become the family head. Just endure until then.
Well, it’s not the first or second time that Father, an outsider with no ability, and himself receive this treatment, but…
“Hey. Can’t you hear me… Puhahk!”
At that moment, Joseph fell sideways in front of his eyes.
It was a whip.
Joseph flew away as if hit by a huge steel.
“Kuhuk!”
At the same time, the boy swinging the leather whip flashed his eyes.
“You damn bastard. Who are you touching now?”
“Isaac…!”
Isaac was angrier than ever.
Strong anger as if asking how dare he touch what’s his.
Seeing Isaac’s appearance for the first time, Shuri looked at him as if moved inwardly.
Yes, as expected, he’s violent and incomparably fierce, but he cares about me…
“Hey. I called dibs on the God of Light first!!”
…Cares about me…
“What are you cutting in line for, you bastard! Kim Shuri has to call the God of Light for me! I’m the one becoming the family head!”
Damn… Of course.
The disappointed Shuri held his face and said:
“…Isaac… That’s a trick too. You can’t do that…”
“How dare you covet what I had my eyes on first?!”
…The bastard isn’t even listening.
“Moreover, you don’t follow Eshua’s doctrine, and you want to become the family head, so you’re trying to cunningly use tricks as a Blue person?”
“No, you tried to use a trick too! You can’t say that!”
“How dare you have the same thought as me!”
…This crazy bastard.
But Joseph, who actually got hit, grabbed his head as if dizzy.
Something hot flowed down from his head… no, is this blood?
Blood flowed now?!
This solid body that doesn’t even get injured from most attacks because it received the Saintess’s blood?!
‘You ignored my special constitution? That thing?’
Just as Shuri could see what others couldn’t, the Eshua direct descendants, even the men, each had different special powers.
Of course, it’s insignificant compared to the Saints, but it was a powerful force in the eyes of ordinary people. It’s not for nothing that they are favored as sons-in-law and are in charge of exterminating the Skeleton King.
That’s why Joseph had no choice but to look at Isaac in surprise.
‘Damn it. What is that guy to make me bleed?’
No, blood isn’t important right now!
A whip?? S-Since when does an Eshua use that?
The proud Eshua usually sparred using swords. Yes, there’s no way they would use such a crude weapon…
Smack!
“Ha, yes. It was a problem trying to talk from the beginning. As the ancestors said. Physical conversation is the pinnacle of communication.”
No, I don’t think that conversation meant that?!
“Shall we have a heated conversation? Joseph? Kim Joseop?”
He’s crazy. Those eyes are crazy!
Joseph looked at Isaac in surprise.
“Isaac. Don’t you know who I am? I’m your bro-“
“So what if you’re my damn brother?”
As soon as he finished speaking, the whip flew.
Smack! Smack!
Sparks flew in front of Joseph’s eyes.
“Kuhuk!”
“Eshua is mine, you bastard!”
Joseph screamed.
The whip’s material is clearly a golden rattle, so it’s metal.
That means…
‘Damn, what power!’
It hurts like hell.
Eventually, unable to endure it, Joseph drew his own sword. Having grown up with the Saint, his swordsmanship was also high-level.
“If it’s a duel, I think I’ll lo- Puhk! Puhk!”
Smack! Smack!
High-level, but Isaac kept hitting without giving a chance.
‘This bastard, he used a divine technique!’
Joseph realized that the ground he was standing on had turned into mud.
Moreover, various buff divine techniques were applied to the whip…
“Die! Eshua!!”
Die, you’re an Eshua too?!
In the end, Joseph urgently shouted at Shuri.
“Shuri! Stop this bastard!”
Then Shuri looked tired as if seeing this sight again.
“Isaac!! I told you not to use that monstrosity! The successor story is coming up, so please think about how it looks!”
Isaac seemed to have gasped at those words.
“Yes. To become the family head, I need to think about dignity too.”
Image is important, but I acted too much like a ruffian.
Isaac immediately transformed the shape of the whip.
Then, the golden whip that was in the form of a rope changed into a whip that looked like a stick. Should I say it looks like it could even catch a fly-like insect?
The stick part was well bent with elasticity, and a flat metal plate was attached to the end of the stick.
A horse whip? Yes, it’s an item he saw when riding.
“Kim Joseph, I’ll make you my horse too! Hiyah!”
Shuri looked at the sky as if in disillusionment.
…No. Just hit him with the rattle.
* * *
“Wow, you look terrible. Really ugly.”
“Is that all you have to say! Leia!”
The bloody and swollen Joseph angrily shouted at his twin siblings.
But Leia smiled brightly.
She was the Saintess who came with Melissa to find Isaac at the Pentagon.
“You reap what you sow. And it seems like Isaac actually went easy on you? The peeled skin will heal quickly.”
At her appearance blatantly taking Isaac’s side, Joseph was dumbfounded.
As expected of the Saintess, a lunatic… No, whose side is she on in the first place?
“Since when did you care about a guy and take his side!”
But Leia ignored him and thanked Isaac.
“Thanks for giving Uncle Noel a beating. The Saints don’t really like Uncle Noel.”
“Leia! I’m telling you your brother got hurt because of that guy?”
“Isaac, do you need anything? Sister will get everything for you.”
But Isaac actually picked his ear and pointed at Joseph.
“Anyway, since I beat this bastard, call the Blue god for me, Kim Shuri.”
“My opinion doesn’t matter at all!”
“What, weren’t you obviously going to call?”
This bastard??
“You think I’ll allow this kind of trick!”
At Shuri’s words, Isaac let out a long sigh.
“Hey. Kim Shuri. You think I’m telling you to summon the God of Light without any thought?”
“Yeah. Seems like it.”
This bastard??
“You said she keeps appearing in your dreams. The God of Light said it’s dark here, that she’s trapped. Isn’t the God of Light the highest god who manages the Blue?”
“Ah…”
Shuri sighed.
In fact, as he got closer to home, Shuri had strange dreams.
Help me… Help me. It’s dangerous there, my child. You have to run away quickly… He heard words like that.
And he only told Isaac about that story.
[The God of Light is close with Master, right?]
Well, she’s the only friendly goddess among the gods.
She was the god who stopped all the gods when they tried to harm the Skeleton King, and she was the only god Isaac thought well of among the gods.
“It’s a bit strange. For 150 years, the God of Light hasn’t given revelation to the Blue. Even Grandfather is contracted with another god. But she chose me…”
At those words, Whisper chuckled.
[Actually, it’s exceptional for that Shuri bastard to make a contract with a goddess of that level.]
At Whisper’s words, Isaac grinned.
‘She probably barely chose Shuri.’
[What do you mean?]
‘Instead of me, she’s trapped in a bug. It’s probably the Blue god.’
[What?!]
Isaac said to Shuri:
“Okay, now do as I say from now on.”
I’ll make the Blue god submit and become the family head to devour Eshua, and regain Eshua’s power to crush the Pope’s family.
At those words, Whisper seemed surprised.
[Could it be that you’ll take her out?]
‘I feel a bit sorry, so let’s see the situation first? Just from the prison?’
[Will she agree to the deal?]
If she doesn’t like it, I’ll say I’ll destroy Eshua. Haha!