The Foreigner on the Periphery

Choi Seon-ah said: The ability wasn’t that great from the beginning. She suffered the same difficulties that many acknowledged people face. 

“It was completely out of control, and I saw a lot of the future I didn’t want to see,” she said. “There was also a lot of useless information. There were many cases where it was difficult to interpret the meaning just by looking at the fragmentary scenes.” 

“It was my job to figure out what was meaningful from there. Of course, that alone gave me great opportunities and benefits. He’s such a treasure trove.” 

The reason she completely changed was due to the terrorist attacks a few years ago. From the beginning, the supremacists continued to terrorize their women. The fact that humans were adopted by Orcs, and that the Orcs even possessed wealth and power, hurt their self-esteem. This was because the Orcs, who were supposed to be inferior, lived a better life than the majority of humans and even supported humans. 

However, a few years ago, another reason was added because she married Kwak Do-chul. Actor Kwak Do-chul was an Orc who was famous for mainly taking on roles such as gangsters, corrupt lawmakers, and neighborhood gangsters. “My father was my hero. He couldn’t help being attracted to a man he looked like. It turned out that the contents of the shell were garbage.” 

In the words of her unexpected choice, the wrong marriage, she was miserable. Choi Seon-ah smiled sadly. “Before I got married and the terrorist attack, my abilities were great, but not to the level I am now. I was predicting a national-scale event, but not foreseeing an important event in my life.” 

The fewer people aware of the event at a future point in time, the more difficult it was to predict. In addition to this, the weaker the ability, the stronger this penalty. “I never foresaw that the man I was going to marry was stupid and naughty, nor that if I married him, he would provoke racists and poison them with magic poison. The downside of this ability is this. It feels quite dark under the lamp.” 

She had barely saved her life, but her aftereffects were fatal. “Seon-ah was already weak, but she was addicted and left unattended for too long. I was diagnosed that it was impossible to cure with modern medicine, and that only the highest-ranking priest had to come forward to live.” Such a priest could be called a dragon-class authority. Even her status as a member of the Korean parliament was not enough to summon such a being.

“When the crisis of death approached, I was quite desperate. I was looking for a way to somehow survive.” Was it because his life was on the brink? Perhaps it was the fatigue of a desperate instinct, her foresight ability rose several steps. The increase in the abilities of those faced with extreme situations was often reported. Thanks to Choi Seon-ah, she had reached an area that had not been reached in the past. 

“She saw a puzzle completed with foresight,” she said. “The future in which I live after being associated with someone.” She repeated her foreknowledge hundreds or thousands of times to simulate the process. “Only that person can heal me.” 

At this, Blade’s eyebrows twitched. “You mean he is a papal priest?” 

“I’m not sure if he has that kind of divine power in himself or if he can move someone like that. This information is limited because of foreknowledge. Also, oddly enough, the prophecies about him are cloudy and uncertain than those about others. The only thing I know for sure is this. That he should get me interested. Then he will save me.” 

In the end, the Orc had helped. “I need your help in this process.” 

“You have to expose your body and that ‘sword’ to people.”

Blade was silent for a moment. The person with foresight in front of him had accurately discerned his identity. His known characteristics were also available through Choi’s information network. He had brainwashing abilities and mainly used a sword. However, the judgment that it was a sword was the result of combining the information obtained by foresight with the existing knowledge. 

“For what?” 

“My body needs to be completely destroyed once. I need him to heal me and save me to dig up information.” 

“What if I just be honest and ask for treatment?” 

“If you approach it that way, he won’t move. He seems to have a very important secret, and he wants to hide it.” 

It was the confidence gained after repeating the simulation with the evolved ability. “I don’t know the details, but it’s impossible even if I promise billions of dollars to avoid the risk of the secret being exposed. I’m not going to take a risk to save a stranger like me.” 

Due to this, he had to use another method. “When I show up with you in my hand, make a fuss and then go into a coma, he’ll be more curious about me.” 

The divine power emitted by a high priest in a well-controlled state returned a broken body to a healthy state. In the process, not only would the broken bones and muscles be refitted, but the magic poison that had contaminated the body would also be cleansed. It was as if nothing had happened. 

“One more.” The ‘noisy incident’ that would soon be the trigger had already been conceived. 

Choi Seon-ah had someone to kill. “I was attacked because I married my husband. It was a dead end. I know it was my choice. But that person cheated on me when I got to this point.” 

A husband who dumped his dying wife and had a boat with another woman. “It was repeated several times. In the end, he even put in an assassination quest to kill me.” 

Her purpose, as explained to Blade, was twofold: killing Kwak Do-chul and his girlfriend. And to get the attention of someone who can treat her. She found a way to do both at the same time with her foreknowledge. However, Blade had doubts. ‘Kwak Do-chul submitted a request to the head office after Seon-ah had been poisoned by her poison. Even though her abilities have evolved, has she been unpredictable? After all, if someone is going to commit a crime to kill, it’s right to kill them?’ Read the most updated version of this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at Novel Multiverse – “NovelMultiverse dot com”

While he was deep in thought, Choi Seon-ah declared. “You have to be exposed if you want to get the attention of the murderer and at the same time get you out of the murder charge.” 

It was a connection of contradictory concepts, but Choi knew how. The senator spoke up. “The police need to know about the existence of a sword that attracts people. And you have to prove it. I think the best way would be to brainwash someone else on the spot. The fact that Seon-ah killed those guys is to make you realize that it was something you did while brainwashed and make them acquitted.” 

Blade eventually agreed after a lot of thought. He decided to participate in the plan to save Choi Seon-ah. She had no doubt that once the opponent grew up with excellent foreknowledge. If he betrayed him, he would pursue him to the ends of the earth and kill him, who was considered the best assassin on the planet. Then Choi Pan-seok said: “Then, let’s talk about the next agenda. Another reason you had to come to this country. About other orders.” 

At this, Blade was startled. He came here to kill a member of the National Assembly besides Kwak Do-chul. The identity of the client had been wrapped in a veil…

“No way?” Choi Pan-seok laughed. “Right. It was also a request I put in.” It wasn’t a simple bait. The arrangement of the foresight powers connected numerous points so that multiple achievements can be achieved with one action. 

“After killing one person, won’t you also kill the other twenty-nine?” The woman explained why Blade should be like that. 

*** 

The earthquake had since then stopped. Choi Pan-seok looked at the hospital bed daughter with a worried expression. “How is your body?” 

Choi Seon-ah answered with a smile. “I was a little surprised, but it’s okay. As I said before, this is the first time in my life that I have been in this condition.” 

“Is that enough?” 

“Yes. Is it much better now than it was before poisoning?”

She was still hospitalized in a university hospital owned by the Red Dragon. The ironic security that Minjun commissioned from the immigration office had continued to this day. However, it was not as absurd as the first time. Returning to South Korea, Jenkinson readjusted his security staff when he learned that the FMist secretary had overstepped it. 

Even at the current level, Choi Pan-seok was satisfied. Even if it was the world’s best contractor organization, it would not be able to break through the security network like this and aim for his daughter’s life. “Would you like to stay here for a while? There is no safer place than here.” 

“By the way···” 

Choi Seon-ah’s expression suddenly darkened. “Why?” She said in a hesitant voice, looking up at her adoptive father. “Really, won’t you tell me anything?” 

Choi Pan-seok shook his head with a firm expression on his face. “I’m sorry, Seon-ah. I can’t speak.” 

The current situation was the result of his daughter, Blade, and herself meeting before losing her memory. Choi Seon-ah had a strangely uncertain and hazy prediction of ‘that man’ that she believed held the key to her healing, but she repeated.

As a result, he knew that he could live like this, but he did not know his true identity clearly, and there were holes in the flow of events. He didn’t even know why men were interested in swords. It was a situation where only fragments, incomplete shards of future information were scattered in her mind, so her daughter and her head put them together. 

Choi Pan-seok thought. ‘I think that agent must have been the man in foreknowledge.’ 

In the past, Choi Seon-ah asserted through Yeji. He needed to erase all his memories before he met the man. Failure to do so had resulted in catastrophe in all cases. Following those words, Blade wiped away her memories of sensitive information before she completely destroyed her body. “But… I’m worried. I lost my mind and woke up because it wasn’t enough that he was dead… I even killed him with my own hands…!” 

Tears welled up in both her eyes. While stroking the adopted daughter’s hair, Choi Pan-seok firmly promised something. ‘It’s rather good,’ he says, comfortingly. “Again, this is all concocted by someone. You’ve only been enchanted by the magical artifact, and the killer is the sword. You are the victim of this situation.”

It was reassuring. ‘Your sins are forgiven.’ 

Choi Seon-ah forgot everything she planned and committed in the past. Also, when he killed Kwak Do-chul and the half-elf, even though he struck the neck with his hand, his mind was controlled by the Blade. 

And so, at this moment, Choi Seon-ah’s soul was innocent and innocent. Would she be able to punish her for committing her sins without her memory of committing her crimes, and without her consciousness? Choi Pan-seok was convinced. ‘You don’t have to remember all that. There is no need for her to tremble with any sense of guilt.’ 

Choi Seon-ah’s mind remained innocent. He could possibly have his daughter reconstruct her past based on her future information. Still, it was worth a try. “Well, if you’re fine… can I ask you a favor?” 

It was her first request after waking up. Choi Seon-ah wiped away her tears and nodded. “Yes.” 

Before she fell into a coma, Choi Seon-ah could see ‘the future in which she survives’ at this moment.

This was around the time of the earthquake in Seoul. ‘In the end, it all worked out. Seon-ah has fully recovered and she will be acquitted and kept safe under the breath of the Red Dragon. Kwak Do-chul and the incestuous woman died, and among the garbage of the Human-Centered Party, I killed the one who should have been killed.’ 

One person who was found to be related to the group that poisoned Choi Seon-ah had to be killed unconditionally. The remaining twenty-nine… would have been faithful servants of ‘that man,’ according to foreknowledge. 

‘In his foreknowledge, he said he finally took hold of the blade’s handle. The problem is that you never know what happens next.’ 

If Blade were to brainwash an agent, and that agent took control of the twenty-nine again, there was no more happy ending. If all 30 lawmakers were killed, the situation in the National Assembly this year would be very smooth, but the problem was next year. 

There would be a by-election anyway, and the void would soon be filled, so a better option was to gag their mouths. However, before she lost her memory, there was something she couldn’t understand no matter how hard she tried. It was impossible to foresee what would happen after the man, whose face was not visible, grabbed his handle. Now that her body had recovered and time had passed, it may have changed. 

Choi Pan-seok waited in anticipation. And when he opened his eyes again…

“········································································?!”

Her body trembled like an aspen tree, and a cold sweat ran down her forehead. Choi Pan-seok was perplexed. “Come on, Seon-ah. Why?” 

His adoptive daughter’s face was pale blue. It was as if he had had a terrible nightmare. 

*** 

Minjun was silent for a moment in front of the sword. The frying pan was still not getting a good grip. ‘You don’t know anything?’

The frying pan blew a rare, grass-fed psychic wave. = I’m really sorry. Looking at the other ‘sculptures’, I thought I would feel something… nothing is showing itself to me right now.= 

At this, Minjun felt annoyed. Could he have made a mistake? After thinking about it for a while “Wait a minute.” 

A thought ran through his mind. “··········!” Minjun stretched out his hand downwards.