My Strange Savior - Chapter 148

Chapter 148

Gia’s hands trembled nervously. 

Is this really the end? 

Gia’s gaze avoided Morrison. Behind him, Kalion, crying while looking at her, came into view. Seeing Kalion struggling on the floor, desperately trying to move, Gia’s nose reddened.

‘Sorry.’

Gia buried the apology she couldn’t send and tightly closed her eyes.

“After I kill you, you know.”

Morrison whispered in Gia’s ear.

“That guy called the Commander. I wanted to use him as my experiment.”

At Morrison’s mocking words, Gia’s eyes widened.

“Well… Ugh.”

Morrison’s grip on Gia’s throat tightened gradually.

“Last time, I felt it too. What an enticing experiment.”

Beep-

A ringing noise confused Gia’s ears. 

What is he talking about? Wasn’t it over after she died? Gia’s fingertips, which had dropped helplessly, tightened as Morrison’s hand gained strength.

“Farewell, Yu Gia.”

Under the force squeezing her throat, Gia’s face turned crimson. As Gia struggled, trying to grab Morrison’s hand with one hand, something brushed against her thigh.

Perhaps.

If this is the last cure left. If it can perfectly cure the zombie virus, can it also cure Morrison?

A sudden thought crossed Gia’s mind. Gia’s hand slipped between the folds of her skirt, groping her thigh. 

Chuckle. Even amidst the gasps, Gia writhed to regain her composure. She couldn’t die like this. After she died, it would be Kalion’s turn.

She wanted to prevent that. Gia’s trembling hand opened the lid of the cure with one hand. When her breath didn’t come, her mind blurred. Her eyes rolled back, and foam dripped from her mouth.

‘No, this can’t be.’

Even if Gia scratched Morrison’s hand with her nails, he smiled and widened his hazy pupils as if determined to etch Gia’s last moments into his eyes.

“Ugh.”

Then, Kalion rushed straight at Morrison. She didn’t know where he got that strength, but Kalion, who even overcame paralysis, grabbed Morrison’s neck from behind.

“What the…”

Morrison laughed at his lack of strength and glanced at Kalion behind him.

“You’re begging to be killed.”

Morrison, who had let go of Gia, grabbed Kalion’s back and thrust him to the ground in an instant. Whether the paralysis potion still held him, Kalion took the shock without a proper response.

As Gia’s breathing eased, Kalion, groaning with difficulty, stood up.

“It’s a shame. I wanted to keep you as an experiment, you know.”

Morrison chuckled as he transformed his remaining hand into a sharp, spear-like shape, reminiscent of what Gia had seen in the cave. The sharp tip of the spear instantly blocked Gia and headed toward Kalion’s abdomen, who was standing in front of her.

“Kkuk.”

A thump.

Crumpling, Kalion’s knees gave way, right in front of Gia. Gia’s eyes shook with dismay.

“Ah, no… No!”

A voice filled with despair flowed out like harsh metallic noise.

“Ka-Kalion.”

Without even thinking about restraining her trembling body, Gia crawled on the floor towards Kalion.

“Kalion… Oh, no.”

With her head deeply bowed, Gia’s pupils widened as she examined Kalion’s abdomen, who knelt with knees on the ground.

“Kulk.”

Kalion, exhaling rough breaths, clutched his abdomen, trying to regulate his breathing, but nothing flowed out. Only now did Gia’s eyes turn to the bright red bracelet Kalion was wearing. Alchemy had really activated.

Seeing the partially broken red bead, Gia closed her eyes tightly and hugged Kalion, who hadn’t had his abdomen pierced but was still gasping in pain.

“Are you okay?”

“Kuukgh, yes.”

Kalion replied in a low voice. Crouching down, he acted like a person whose abdomen had been penetrated, attracting Morrison’s attention.

“I’ll somehow hold him back, so run, Gia.”

Upon Kalion’s words, Gia nodded, and without saying a word, she embraced Kalion’s large body. Even at this moment, Kalion’s mind was filled with thoughts of saving only her.

Gia’s lips trembled. While hiding the cure she held in her hand so Morrison couldn’t see it, she wiped Kalion’s back with her hand.

Seeming to understand that signal, Kalion quickly got up and rushed at Morrison. Despite the few seconds Kalion had to grab Morrison, they were crucial to Gia. If she could just inject him with the syringe.

In a relentless charge, Kalion detached Morrison to prevent him from reaching Gia. Astonished by the guy who seemed about to die a moment ago now running perfectly fine, Morrison fumbled, unable to regain his balance, and fell.

Gia, who had held her breath for a moment, precisely jabbed the syringe into Morrison’s shoulder when he was off balance.

Squeak.

Dozens of needles pierced Morrison’s skin, pouring the cure inside.

“My… shoulder.”

Morrison struggled to get up from the ground, swatting Gia away with his hand. Gia rolled away in the distance.

“You, what is this? Ugh.”

Did it work? 

Gia swallowed her insufficient breath, looking at Morrison writhing on the floor. The imprint of Morrison’s hand on her neck remained grotesquely, a testament to how tightly he had grasped it.

“You, you… Yu Gia. You…”

From his lips calling Gia, blue blood gushed out like a fountain. The cloudy pupils were quickly returning to their original color as if asking when they had become like this, and the crimson veins were visibly receding.

“Gia.”

“Kalion…”

Crawling next to Gia, who was sitting down, Kalion’s mouth dripped with blood. Nevertheless, Kalion didn’t stop and reached out. Afraid that Gia might do something reckless again if not stopped, his trembling hand firmly grasped her slender shoulder.

“Gia. Gia.”

As if unable to do anything other than call her name, Kalion’s lips found Gia. His gaze wandered over the handprint vividly marked on Gia’s neck.

“It’s… fine.”

“Are you okay? Ugh… not. Never again… never again.”

Kalion’s voice was moist. Gia stared at Kalion, who was holding her in his arms with a blank expression, occasionally glancing at Morrison writhing on the floor.

“It seems like… it worked.”

“What?”

Kalion turned his head at Gia’s words. Then, writhing in pain on the floor, Morrison came into view.

“The cure… it worked.”

After much struggling, Morrison heaved a sigh and stretched out his body. The Emperor who caused this chaos was just hiding behind a chair, observing him.

The lifeless face of Morrison regained color, and the dark red veins were no longer visible. Morrison had truly returned to being human.

Gia carefully pushed Kalion away, who was holding her, to the side.

“Gia?”

“Just a moment… there’s something I need to finish.”

Gia pulled out a dagger from her thigh while lying on the floor. Absentmindedly playing with the ornament attached to its end, she approached Morrison, who was lying still.

“How does it feel? Being human again?”

“You, you… what are you doing to me…”

“I’m just asking how it feels to experience something you’ll never know for the rest of your life.”

Gia’s shoe forcefully kicked Morrison’s shoulder. 

“Ugh.”

This time, Morrison’s scream echoed. As if it were her turn now, Gia unhesitatingly stomped on Morrison, who was lying down.

In pain, Morrison’s mouth widened. Even though Gia heard his screams, she felt no joy at all.

“I… I became human again… Kuh.”

Morrison’s pupils widened unbelievably. Now that he had regained his strength, now. 

Even though he could finally escape from the disease that had tormented him for a lifetime. Morrison’s dilated pupils reflected a vacant light, overwhelmed by the complex emotions.

“Did I betray my friends for this? Did I cause so many people to meet their deaths?”

Morrison’s lips trembled as if he sensed the end. Despite the torrent of violence, Morrison groped his lower abdomen as if he had lost his mind, his whole being now collapsed.

Lying sprawled out, Morrison let out a hollow sigh, having abandoned everything. Even at the sight of him, Gia found no way to contain the anger welling up from deep within her.

Each time Gia’s sorrowful pupils reflected the light, they sparkled.

The day had come to congratulate Morrison on becoming human again. Gia’s front teeth ruthlessly bit into her lower lip.

“You damn bastard. The likes of you.”

The dagger gleamed sharply at the end, reflecting the light of the chandelier.

“Die.”

Bent on one knee, Gia precisely thrust the dagger into Morrison’s forehead. As if splitting tofu, the dagger sank deeply between the skull bones.

Was he such a weak being? Even as a human, Morrison was like this.

Gia’s hands, filled with resentment, trembled. Did she ever think that the hard-won cure would be used like this?

Thud, thud.

Gia’s tears fell onto Morrison’s eyes, unnoticed.

“Ah, ah…”

A dry moan spread sorrowfully, unable to form any words. Gia, trembling and looking at Morrison, tears poured incessantly from her eyes.

“Gia.”

Kalion, who had limped over, gently embraced her shaking shoulders.

“Ugh.”

From her beloved lover’s mouth, a cry filled with various emotions emerged. Behind her, Kalion embraced Gia and reached out to hold the small hand tightly gripping the dagger.

How much strength she exerted showed in the blue veins that surfaced on Gia’s back of her hand. Kalion gently withdrew his hand from Gia’s, supporting her tender body with all his might.

“Ugh… Huh…”

“It’s okay. I’ll find a way to make you feel better somehow…….”

Kalion’s low voice flowed ceaselessly into Gia’s ears.

“Guards!”

The trembling Emperor, calling for the guards urgently, was in a state of fear. Even in his chaotic state, Gia couldn’t help but smirk at the Emperor selfishly pleading to survive.

Upon the Emperor’s call, knights outside rushed into the banquet hall. Startled by the chaotic scene inside, the knights, who had been ordered by the Emperor to stay away from the banquet hall, looked at the disarrayed interior with bewildered expressions.

The Emperor’s anger erupted at the bewildered knights who seemed to have lost their minds.

“You scoundrels! What are you doing? Come here and guard me!”

Who he was asked to guard him was unclear. Regardless, the knights, dutiful as ever, moved forward. Slowly emerging from behind the chair where he had been trembling, the Emperor’s body appeared.

Witnessing the repulsive behavior, Gia opened her eyes wide.

“You, you! Look at me, you wench!”

The Emperor, hiding behind the knights, fiercely lashed out at Gia. The Emperor decided to weave lies to conceal the fact that he had allied with Morrison and to hide his own illness. No one should know the details of what had happened today.

“The foreigner harbored seditious intentions!”

It was an absurd statement.

Gia’s mouth hung open in disbelief. 

He didn’t even know what she had given up.