I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Chapter 150 Season 2 – For the Family

A few minutes before the present moment.

After the Katarinas had cheerfully captured the princes and princesses who had come to retrieve Leon, they dragged them in front of the time machine.

“Crea… And is that Katrina?”

“Brother Leon!”

“Oppa! Help us! We’ve been caught!”

Leon, who descended from the time machine holding a cup of hot coffee, looked at his two younger sisters screaming for help.

However, Leon made no move to free them, knowing full well they would just drag him back to the Empire.

“A family reunion, huh? How does it feel? Not great, I imagine?”

“It’s hard to say it’s great when both of my sisters have been captured.”

Leon simply conversed nonchalantly with one of the Katarinas.

Meanwhile, Lightree, the tenth child who had come to rescue his family and had been caught instead, could only sigh deeply.

“Damn… How did I end up in this situation?”

“Are you Han Lightree?”

“Do you know who I am? First Prince?”

“Of course. You’re the prince who inherited the Han surname just before Yujin. …Looks like even you couldn’t beat the Katarinas here.”

“Wait, that makes it sound like I should have lost on purpose.”

“Well, what can I say?”

“Leon, you’re prickly in any universe, aren’t you?”

Watching Lightree’s defeat to Katarina, Leon spoke as if regretting it.

In response, the Katarinas who had brought the three children sighed, as if questioning if this was the right reaction.

Meanwhile.

“Brother! I heard you betrayed the Empire.”

Leon’s first younger sister.

Crea, the second child of the Ria family and a princess, was regarded in textbooks as one of the worst villains in history.

She approached her brother, who was leisurely chatting with Katarina, with disbelief in her voice.

“What was the reason behind it?”

“……”

“No wonder… You were Father’s favorite child! One of the few whom His Majesty remembers by name. Sometimes, he forgets my name.”

“Crea…”

“But Brother always calls me by my name properly! You received such grace, so I can’t believe you betrayed Father!”

“Y-Yeah! In my case, he barely even remembers I exist! But Leon, who was the most loved, betraying His Majesty? That doesn’t make any sense! There must be some reason, right? That’s it, isn’t it, Leon oppa?”

Just like her older sister, Kartina, who also couldn’t believe her brother betrayed the Empire, questioned him in the same manner.

But their brother only shook his head.

“It’s true.”

“…!”

“Brother…”

“I have decided… to kill His Majesty, Han Shin-woo.”

“To… kill His Majesty?”

“Damn, I knew our family was messed up, but I never thought I’d hear something like this from the Ria family…”

The royal family members were frozen in place at Leon’s words, realizing he was beyond just running away—he was committing treason.

Lightree, overhearing this shocking revelation, was at a loss for words.

And of course, the most shocked of all were Leon’s direct younger sisters.

“Brother…!”

“Oppa! Are you out of your mind?!”

“I’m perfectly fine.”

“Then how could someone in their right mind think of something like that?”

“Do you really think you can kill His Majesty, no matter how strong you are, Brother?”

“No, if I were alone, I’d be dead in the blink of an eye.”

But…

“Unfortunately, I am not alone right now.”

“……! Me?”

Leon gestured to Katarina, as if to say that suicide wasn’t his hobby.

He then pointed his thumb toward the time machine behind him and continued.

“And the father of the past has decided to stand with me… or more accurately, I’ve sided with the father of the past.”

“The father of the… past?”

“His Majesty? …So, the rumors we’ve heard in the Empire were true? That the past His Majesty came to this world?”

“Yes. And if we free the forces of humanity and our ‘Aunt,’ who is currently trapped in the Divine Eye, we may have a slim chance.”

“Aunt…? You mean… you plan to break Aunt Eve out of prison too? If you do that, there will be no turning back, Brother.”

“Crea. That’s exactly what I want.”

Desperately, Crea ran forward and grabbed Leon by the collar. Her face was covered in cold sweat, as if she were begging him to stop.

But it was as if he had been waiting for this.

“I will cross the line and strike Father’s neck.”

“…!”

“Even if I die in the process, I won’t regret it.”

“Brother…”

“Why… Why are you doing this…?”

At Leon’s resolute words, his two sisters tried to ask more questions.

But just then.

“Why are you doing this?”

From beneath Crea’s feet.

Or more precisely, from the shadows, a voice filled with immense pressure echoed out.

Everyone present instinctively began to tremble at the sound.

Starting with Katarina.

“Huh? Where’s that voice coming from…?”

Swoosh.

In an instant, the necks of the Katarinas who had crossed parallel worlds were sliced off, and they spewed fountains of blood over the royals’ bodies.

Lightree, covered in Katarina’s blood, looked on in confusion, not understanding what had just happened.

And then, from the shadows below Kartina, Crea, and Leon, the Empress finally emerged, slowly revealing herself.

“…Mother.”

“M-Mom?!”

“You’ve been in my shadow this whole time?”

“Of course… How could I let you two come alone when you were dragging Leon back? I was worried.”

Having calculated that if the daughters came, they would likely be captured, the Ria Empress had secretly followed them.

Seeing the current situation unfold as expected, she smirked.

But upon looking at her eldest son, who intended to kill her beloved, the smile quickly disappeared from her face.

“Leon… Why are you doing this?”

“Mother…”

“Come back now. If you do, I’ll make sure everything you’ve said and done until now never happened.”

“Mother.”

“Leon, you’re the first son your father and I officially had together. Hmm? Did we do something wrong?”

As if saying that this wasn’t something he should do.

As if saying that, unlike the other children, he, of all people, couldn’t do this.

Ria’s voice, as she spoke to Leon, grew more and more filled with obsession and pity.

As if saying she couldn’t bear to lose even him.

“Leon. You are my most beloved, cherished first son.”

“I know, Mother.”

“Then why did you have such a terrible thought? To harm His Majesty… What happens after that? Once your plan succeeds, what happens to me, left all alone? You know that better than anyone, don’t you?”

“…You would be very sad.”

“It wouldn’t just be sadness. I might go completely mad and live the rest of my life locked away in a palace, just like Empress Riverine.”

It was both a plea and a threat.

In the midst of the massacre of humanity, the reason she hadn’t lost her mind completely despite losing everything dear to her.

It was because someone she loved remained by her side.

Because there was still a way to share love in some form.

But to hear that the person she loved most would be killed by her most beloved son?

Ria gently stroked Leon’s face with both hands.

My son.

My good son.

From a young age, he was smart, and more than anyone else, he would do anything for his mother.

Ria stroked her son’s hair, desperately wishing for him to return to being the good child he was before he went back in time.

But.

“And if I just stand by and do nothing?”

“Stand by… and do nothing?”

“Every time you and His Majesty engage in… relations, irreparable wounds continue to accumulate in your body, don’t they?”

“…!!”

Leaning close to his mother’s ear, Leon whispered the secret between the two that no one else was supposed to know.

“How… do you know that?”

“My ability is ‘language.’ There are many ways to find out.”

“Leon…”

“Every night, you go into Father’s chambers and endure his brutal beatings while having relations with him. You monopolized the most love by offering yourself as a punching bag for a father who was driven mad by his past trauma…”

But!

But…

No matter how extraordinary a monster’s regenerative abilities were, the opponent was a human who had reached the realm of gods.

“Each time you were abused while having relations with Father, those wounds… some of them have become impossible to heal, haven’t they?”

“…Did you know?”

“Yes.”

“Since when?”

“From the beginning… Especially two years ago, when I started noticing you practicing Kyokushin karate positions in the garden every other night.”

“……”

Leon took his mother’s hands, which had been stroking his cheek, and slowly brought them to his chest.

He allowed her to feel the rapid beating of his heart, which was still pounding madly.

“Mother, may I ask you one thing?”

For the first time, Leon wore a sorrowful expression in front of his sisters, as he asked a question, son to mother.

“Mother, would you truly be happy living the rest of your life as Father’s punching bag until the day you die?”

“Leon…”

“But as time passes, you’ll continue to break down, and one day, I’ll find you suddenly dead. Could you maybe think a little about how I’ll feel when that happens?”

“Oppa, what do you mean by that?”

“Brother… Why are you saying Mother will suddenly die?”

His two younger sisters were still completely unaware of their mother’s physical condition.

This was a secret only known to Leon, their mother Ria, and the man responsible for her condition—future Han Shin-woo.

Leon had no intention of revealing this fact to the rest of his family.

Because knowing this would bring no benefit, only harm. It was a curse of a secret.

Moreover.

“And once Mother dies like that, who will Han Shin-woo take his trauma out on next?”

“Leon, that’s…”

“You already know, don’t you, Mother?”

“……”

“Surely you’ve sensed it by now.”

Ever since she could no longer perform Kyokushin karate properly, even finding it difficult to run—

Was it from then on?

“His Majesty the Emperor… No, that bastard Han Shin-woo has started looking at my younger sisters with the same eyes he once looked at you.”

“…!”

“I’m sorry, but I have to protect my family.”

And so.

Regrettably, Leon returned his mother’s hands to her sides as he expressed his resolve once again.

“Even if it’s not me… my ‘older brother’ will make sure to kill Han Shin-woo. It will definitely happen.”