Multiverse’s End - Chapter 25

Chapter 25: Chapter 025 – Driving Difficulty High, Not Recommended For Beginners

Translator: Exodus Tales

Editor: Exodus Tales

Wesley frowned and instinctively denied the notion. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. My father died because…”

“He died of agony!”

Luo Su cut Wesley, patting his elbow. “The actual details are too gruesome, so I won’t elaborate. I don’t know what Sloan said to you, but I can guarantee that you didn’t investigate this matter.”

Wesley fell silent. He really hadn’t investigated the matter.

In truth, he had been preparing to investigate it when Sloan stopped him, his reasoning being that he was worried that Cross might ambush him.

Luo Su continued, “There’s a lot of evidence proving I killed Slickback. If you had really investigated this, you would have even found that my wanted poster is still hanging in the police station. And while Sloan might have been able to alter the case files in the police station, he can’t modify the memories of the witnesses. If you put a gun to their heads, you would immediately know the truth.”

Wesley was almost rendered speechless by this argument. Forcing himself, he argued, “This only your side of the story, and who knows if you’re telling the truth. You would have to let me go so that I could investigate before I could believe you.”

“Kid, don’t try and play this trick in front of me. You’re naive if you think that’s going to work.”

“Even if what you say is true, what does that prove?” Wesley glanced at Cross and continued, “He tried to kill me several times. How do you explain that?”

Luo Su slapped Wesley across the face. “Idiot, he was trying to save you so that you would stay far away from the assassins of the Fraternity. Besides, if he really wanted to kill you, why are you still alive?”

“He wants to use me. By pretending to be my father, he can make me and the Fraternity fight against each other!”

Wesley’s mind provided a reasonable excuse. Whether not Luo Su believed it, Wesley did.

Luo Su scoffed, “You didn’t think that the one using you is the Fraternity, and they want you and your father to fight each other?”

“…”

Wesley fell silent. He had lived out twenty-some years as an ignorant and listless person, and he wasn’t a person with very strong views. He didn’t know which side to believe.

Luo Su gave Wesley a deep stare, and then he glanced at Cross. “Do you have anything that could prove that you’re Wesley’s father?”

Cross instantly understood. “Yes, a lot. I have pictures of Wesley from when he was growing up. They’re in my bedroom.”

Luo Su put his hands over his face. “Then they take them out! If you had done this in the first place, we wouldn’t be having this problem!”

Cross ran out of the factory. At this moment, Wesley heard the familiar sound of the light rail. The soundproofing meant that the sound was very soft, but Wesley knew this sound far too well. He realized that he wasn’t far from his own home.

Five minutes later, Cross returned, gasping for breath and holding ten-some photo albums. Wesley went pale as he realized the truth.

The reason was very simple. Cross had been living near him this entire time. Otherwise, he would have never come back so quickly.

Cross opened the picture album and pointed at the picture of a baby with great familiarity. “Wesley, this is a picture from when you were just born…

“This is a picture from when you were on the soccer team in elementary school. I thought that you would become an athlete…

“This is from your elementary school graduation ceremony. I took this picture while hiding in a corner…

“This is…”

“…”

“And this one. This is your birth certificate! I’ve always treasured it!”

As Cross jabbered on like some perverted uncle, Wesley’s eyes went moist. The love and compassion in Cross’s eyes was something he had only seen the eyes of other parents. Ever since his mother had died, he had always longed to be looked at by such eyes.

Wesley lowered his head and began to sob. The thought that he had almost killed his own father left him very conflicted. Cross once more displayed his panicking side. The photo album dropped from his hands as he reached out to Wesley, but then he hesitantly drew back his hand. The silly father decided to just stand there and cry along with his son.

Luo Su’s eyes dimmed, an unhappy thought crossing through his mind. Curling his lip, he walked up to Fox and raised her head up by pulling on her hair.

“Stop pretending to sleep. Your breathing gave you away. Since you’re awake, why don’t you tell Wesley who his real father is?”

Fox’s eyelashes trembled, and she opened her murder-filled eyes and spat out a ball of bloodied saliva at Luo Su.

Luo Su tilted his head and dodged, and then he forced Fox to look at Wesley.

In the face of Wesley’s disbelieving eyes, Fox closed her own, not daring to look back. Through her silence, she proved that it was all true.

Cross had already untied Wesley, and the two were now tightly embraced. To Luo Su’s great displeasure, top-class assassin Cross even removed a handkerchief from his pocket and blew his nose.

Wesley, his eyes still wet with tears, walked up to Fox. The pain in his heart was clearly displayed on his face. He found it impossible to believe that his beloved goddess had been trying to get him to kill his father.

“You knew everything, so why did you trick me? Do you know how much I trusted you…loved you?”

Wesley’s voice was shaking, but Fox was extremely firm. Opening her eyes, she coldly declared, “Because you’re the only one who can kill Cross!”

“Just for a shitty reason like that?”

“Cross betrayed the Fraternity. His name appeared in the Loom. Even if we have to resort to the most despicable of methods, he must be killed.”

Wesley was speechless. He knew the standard of the Fraternity: kill one to save one thousand. He hadn’t understood at first, but later, he had realized its deeper meaning. Names that had appeared in the Loom of Fate were people who were certain to commit great evils. He began to struggle with himself. It turned out that his father was not a good man.

“Sloan is deceiving all of you!”

Cross patted Wesley on the shoulder and then glanced at Fox. “You as well. He’s been deceiving everyone…”

Cross began to explain why he had betrayed the Fraternity.

For his personal greed, Sloan had begun to fabricate assassination targets. Cross discovered that Sloan’s name had appeared in the Loom, and when he investigated this, he found an even greater conspiracy. Sloan, afraid of being exposed, took the initiative and declared that Cross’s name had appeared in the Loom and ordered his assassination, thus leading to everything else.

Wesley chose without hesitation to believe in Cross, but Fox coldly scoffed, indicating that she took this all as mere sophistry. To prove himself, Cross took out a small piece of cloth. If one examined this cloth with a magnifying glass, one would discover a binary code. One could decode this binary to reveal the name of the assassination target.

Wesley took the magnifying glass and began to decode the binary, and in the end, he saw that it was Sloan’s name, upon which he became extremely upset. If Sloan had been fabricating targets this entire time, then we’re the people he had killed before innocents?

Fox was a little panicked. She didn’t know if Cross had fabricated this assassination target, and her convictions forced her to continue remaining calm.

Luo Su seized the decoded name from Wesley and waved it in front of Fox’s face, stimulating her sensitive mental state. “Suppose that Sloan was the person who had betrayed the Fraternity. Then you were the tyrant’s executioner. You’ve killed quite a few people over the years. How many of them were unjustly killed?”

Fox furiously roared and struggled to stand, the ropes groaning under strain. Luo Su grabbed an oil-stained rag and stuffed it into her mouth.

Fox angrily glared, her eyes burning. This glare made Luo Su feel a little cold down there, and he whistled and looked elsewhere.

Wesley found the sight unbearable. “Hold on a moment. She’s also a victim. She’s been tricked by Sloan this entire time. We might be able to have her join us.”

Luo Su raised an eyebrow. “Kid, I know that you like her, but she’s not right for you. If my guess is correct, Sloan definitely gave her the mission to kill you once you killed Cross.”

Wesley nodded, indicating that he understood. “That’s not important. She didn’t know the truth back then. She won’t do anything like that now.”

As Wesley spoke, he began to untie Fox’s restraints. But as soon as he untied Fox’s right foot, she kicked out and struck him at his weak point, causing him to fall to the floor, his face ghastly white.

Luo Su found this rather amusing. “As I said before, she’s not right for you!”

Wesley lay prone on the ground, his legs trembling, but he remained unrepentant. “I…I think it’s…still okay. Just needs some to get used to it.”

In the face of his goddess, the lapdog refused to repent!