The Main Characters That Only I Know

Chapter 156:

Chapter 156

The Nemo captain was dead.

The collapse of one of the pillars that led this fight was a huge shock to the survivors.

The surviving Nautilus crew members bowed their heads in sorrow. 

They didn’t even have time to mourn their captain’s death.

“Damn it, Old man. What are you doing, leaving us like that?”

Ahab trembled with rage.

“And, why are you smiling like that?”

The Nemo captain’s expression was very peaceful as he died in pain.

He looked like he had shed all his pain and burden, and Ahab felt a mix of envy and helplessness.

Wasn’t revenge supposed to make him happy? 

How could he smile when he died without fulfilling his revenge?

The turbulent emotions in him reacted with each other and eventually, sublimated into one emotion.

It was an endless rage towards Moby Dick.

“Fine, Old Man. Watch from the underworld. How I, Ahab, hunt down that whale!!!”

Ahab kicked the ground and jumped high. 

His target was that damn whale that was mocking him. 

The harpoon in his hands pierced Moby Dick’s exposed wound and tore his flesh.

“Die! You devil bastard! Die! Die!”

He stabbed the harpoon deeper and reached for a new one on his back.

Stabbing. Stabbing. Stabbing.

Moby Dick’s red blood soaked Ahab’s body. 

His blood and Moby Dick’s blood mingled together.

Ahab looked like a demon possessed by vengeance.

A demon wearing the blood of the devil, everyone who saw him had the same thought.

Kwoooooo!!!

Moby Dick didn’t just take it lying down. 

He shook his head violently to shake off Ahab. 

Ahab held on to the harpoon with all his strength, trying not to fall off Moby Dick’s head.

At that moment, his hand and the harpoon slipped because of the blood. 

Ahab fell to the ground.

Moby Dick opened his mouth to bite off Ahab.

Zzzzzz!

At the last moment, a blue current flew from somewhere and hit the harpoon on Moby Dick’s head that Ahab had stabbed. 

Moby Dick winced in pain and glared at the source of the attack.

“Huff. Huff.”

It was Kang Hye-rim, who was wounded all over. 

She was the one. 

Moby Dick remembered her as the one who sent an electric shock through his body when he first attacked.

As he recalled that pain, Moby Dick’s target changed to Kang Hye-rim.

“Miss Hye-rim! Watch out!”

Yu-hyun shouted as Moby Dick’s mouth opened wide.

“I’m not dead yet, you whale bastard!”

Ahab’s harpoon pierced through one of Moby Dick’s eyes.

─────!!!

A silent scream escaped as he swallowed his breath. 

Ahab felt a thrill of pain in Moby Dick.

Yes! Suffer more! Be more miserable!

“Feel the agony, like I did, when I lost what was mine!”

Woooooo───!!!

Moby Dick shook his head violently, pushing Ahab back. As Ahab gained some distance, a shockwave shot out from Moby Dick’s open mouth.

Its target was Captain Ahab, who was about to land on the ground.

Kwaang!

“Ca, Captain!”

“Captain Ahab!”

The crew shouted as they saw Ahab, who was smashed into a rock by the terrifying force.

They had no more confidence to endure if he, who had led them after losing the square bridge, was gone.

“Quiet.”

Ahab crawled out of the rock and said that.

“I’m still fine.”

He said that with a fierce look in his eyes, but his physical condition was very different from what he said. His organs were ruptured, and his bones were broken. 

Even his arm muscles were torn apart because he had crossed his arms to block the attack.

The only reason he was still alive was because of his physique that far surpassed that of ordinary people.

But even that was not enough to withstand Moby Dick’s shockwave, and as a result, Ahab became unable to continue the fight.

“Hey. Monster whale. How do you feel?”

Ahab smiled in pain. 

His eyes were still burning with vengeance.

“How does it feel to lose your eye to a human, whom you despised so much? Do you feel it? The pain of losing part of your body to someone else.”

Moby Dick could not see Ahab’s appearance, but he could hear his voice.

He did not need to understand the meaning of his words. 

He knew he was being insulted by the emotion in his voice.

Ahab did not lose his momentum as he faced Moby Dick’s rage.

‘Ah. This is definitely bad.’

He examined his body and muttered to himself.

The next attack is coming soon. 

This is inevitable, I can’t avoid it.

His broken ribs pierced his organs, and his internal organs were damaged by the shockwave. 

His arms were broken, and his muscles were ruptured. He could not hold or throw a harpoon like this.

‘No. I still have one left.’

He looked down at his severed leg. 

There, he saw the gruesome harpoon head that replaced his limb.

He had not let go of the harpoon.

Ever since. 

Ever since he lost his foot to Moby Dick, he had been holding on to it.

‘This is it, the end. How pathetic you are, after all your boasting.’

Ahab could feel his own state without looking. 

How miserable he was, after all his ranting about revenge, after all his confident shouting.

But he was happy.

Who else could have gouged out that monster’s eye? 

Who else could have dragged that monster to the shallow water and cornered it like this?

He was not afraid of death. 

He was prepared to die without fulfilling his revenge.

But what was this hesitation he felt?

“Ah. So that’s what it was.”

Ahab looked back at his crew. 

He watched their eyes, pleading with him.

They were different from him, who had gone mad with vengeance. 

They had followed him with pure aspiration and intention.

They reminded him of his past self, the one he had lost.

“I was afraid, maybe, of surviving after this revenge.”

What would he do if he survived after this revenge?

He suddenly remembered the question Yu-hyun had asked him.

He had said he wanted to go back to the past. 

Yu-hyun had said he could do that.

But Ahab knew.

He could never go back to that time.

Ahab’s gaze lingered on Yu-hyun, and then moved to the Nemo Captain’s cabin, where he had met his peaceful end.

‘Hey captain. What did you see before you died?’

There was no answer to that question. 

No matter how long he waited, the dead man would not come back to life and tell him.

Well, whatever. Enough with these distractions.

Ahab shook off all his doubts.

“Listen up!!”

Ahab strained his voice.

“I Ahab was born in the sea, and vowed to bury my body in the sea! I thought that day would come in a very distant future, but I was wrong. It’s today! Today is that day!”

In the grave of lightning and rain.

He declared proudly, without blinking an eye.

“I am going to die soon!”

“C-Captain!”

I couldn’t believe that Ahab, who never made a weak sound, had accepted his own death. 

Ahab laughed. 

He had no choice but to laugh.

How could he not laugh?

“But you are not! This place should be the grave of only me and that whale! The revenge and all the bitter feelings on this sea will be buried with me today! So listen, sailors! And you strangers too! You must live! Live and remember this moment, and tell it, and move forward! And remember these words!”

Ahab bowed his body and bent his knees. He looked so precarious that he seemed to fall at any moment.

“Human beings! They were not made to lose!”

Ahab smiled in pain and stepped forward.

One step. One step.

He ran at a speed that was unbelievable for a dying man.

“This wreck of ships is the final destination and the end of me, Ahab!”

You whale, who destroys everything, but does not conquer.

I will run towards you and fight you until I die.

Even in the hell’s inferno, I will throw a harpoon at you.

And spit out my last breath with this unbearable hatred.

Grrrr!

Moby Dick’s mouth opened. 

There was the end point.

A huge shock wave burst out from the opened abyss. 

Ahab did not back down even as he faced it head on.

“Hahahahahahaha!!!”

He spat out a mad laugh and ran against the shock wave.

Crack!

One of his arms fell off. 

Ahab felt his body lose balance. 

He looked down and saw that one of his legs, which was fine before, had been torn off by the shock wave and flew somewhere.

He bled endlessly from his wounds, but Ahab jumped with his prosthetic leg.

Ahab, who was in the air, jumped into Moby Dick’s open mouth. His prosthetic leg made of harpoons pierced Moby Dick’s mouth.

Krooooo!!

Moby Dick tried to shake off Ahab, but his body was fixed to the roof of his mouth by the harpoons and did not fall off.

Ahab took out something from his waist with his last arm.

It was a kind of bomb made of gunpowder.

If you can’t be attacked from the outside, how about this!

“Captain!”

“No!”

The sailors shouted, but it was too late.

Ahab sent a look of trust to Yu-hyun as his last gesture.

Boom!

He was engulfed by the explosion.

Moby Dick was in pain from the explosion that went off in his mouth. 

Ahab even had whale oil hanging from his waist. 

The fire that boiled with the oil burned Moby Dick’s mouth without going out.

Uwoooo!!

Still

Despite Ahab’s sacrifice, Moby Dick was still alive. 

He screamed, writhed in pain, and floundered.

The sailors were terrified by his sight. 

The collectors were no different. 

They had no idea how to catch this phantom creature that did not die even after being attacked like this.

Everyone was frozen in fear by that thought. 

Moby Dick let out another scream.

It was different from the previous shock wave and a cry to put out the fire in his mouth, but it was enough to make the survivors roll on the floor like paper dolls.

Ugh!

Yu-hyun, who fell down, clenched his teeth. 

He couldn’t give up at this point.

‘Move.’

Yu-hyun pushed his trembling legs and got up from his seat.

‘Two people have opened the way for us here. Get up.’

The situation was desperate. 

The despair now reminded him of the end of his previous life.

Hell.

This place, where I fought the devil on a rocky island in a storm, was hell.

‘Hold the sword.’

But why?

I felt my heart pounding fiercely.

More hardships.

More serious despair.

They settled on my whole body like the fog of dawn.

Even in this situation, I felt a longing emotion that I didn’t know myself.

‘Just like I always did in the end.’

And with all this as nourishment, I became stronger.

My eyes suddenly turned to the picture of the pendant that the Nemo Captain dropped. 

Then they turned to Moby Dick, who was suffering from the fire in his mouth.

Something that I had forgotten in my head clicked into place.

[Some spirits look at you with a worried expression.]

[Some spirits are excited by your actions.]

[Some spirits shake their heads at your meaningless resistance.]

The spirits’ attention was drawn to me, who did not give up and got up.

Their reactions were different.

Some had expectations, some had pity, and some had regret.

They poured their eyes on me, wondering what this tiny mortal could do.

‘What should I do now?’

I grabbed the cannon that the thousand-dollar governor had dropped next to me.

‘The answer is already decided.’

I end this damn fight.

Only that.

“Baekryeon. I’m counting on you.”

[…Okay. I got it.]

Baekryeon respected my will without saying anything.

“Yu-hyun… sir?”

“You…”

Kwon Jia and Kang Hye-rim looked at me. The other collectors were the same. 

All the survivors looked at my back.

The representative of the strangers. 

Everyone had expectations for me, who remained until the end.

If they didn’t, they would have given up.

The burdensome one-sided expectations. 

I felt my shoulders being crushed as I barely got up.

Still.

‘Yeah. Your hearts. I’ll carry them for you.’

I had never been ahead of anyone. 

I always followed behind one man’s back.

But now, it was different.

 Everyone was looking at my back. 

It was my turn now. 

It was the moment for me to go ahead and show them.

The expectation that someday I might become like him.

It became reality at this moment.

“Here I go. You damn whale.”

With those words, I jumped into Moby Dick’s open mouth.