“Please… kill… me…” I begged.

I acted like I was in extreme pain while unleashing my fake tears. I stared at Kim Hyun-Sung as if I couldn’t take it anymore and simply wanted things to end right there and then.

Kim Hyun-Sung was stupefied. I felt like shouting in delight because of my near-perfect acting, but I obviously couldn’t do something like that. I had to look as sad and as desperate as possible. I cringed to the point that my fingers and toes curled in, but this scene was more important than anything else.

‘This is the pinnacle of self-sacrifice. Indeed.’

The will to give up my life for the peace of the continent.

Goosebumps broke out all over me when I thought about how every living being on this continent was watching this scene at the moment. I could already deduce what they were feeling when they heard the corrupted Light Ki-Young asking to be killed.

It wasn’t just Kim Hyun-Sung.

Park Deok-Gu, Cha Hee-Ra, and everyone else who had been rooting for me just now was now staring at me with sadness.

Kim Hyun-Sung still looked like he had no idea what to say, so I decided to speak...