"Lilly" Hyeonin said as he gently grabs Lilly's chin and faced her toward him "Lilly.. what's wrong?"
"Is Jun dead?" she asked.
Suddenly Ad was standing at the stage of the palace "Yes... yes he is!!"
Lilly and the rest quickly turned their head towards Ad "Huh!!?" Chloe shouted.
Chloe and George looked at each other with a shocked face.
"Yes, he's dead. Hahahahah!! He died horribly by my fists!! Now! I'm going to kill all of you!!" Ad screamed and raised his hands in the air with his sword.
"He even cried" Ad smiled creepily at them all.
Suddenly Lilly's tears began pouring as she falls to the ground and cried out "Aaah!!"
"Your man is dead" Ad smiled and walked closer to her "The empire is mine!!!"
Lilly grabs a sword on the ground and charges at Ad "You killed Jun!!!" she attacks, but Ad dodges and kicks her away as she falls to the ground.
"Lilly!!" Chloe shouted, but Evelyn held her "Let go of me!!" she shouted and kicked Evelyn's legs and runs toward Lilly "Lilly!!"
Lilly cried on the floor.
"Look at this weak army... You guys are so weak.. Can't even handle the death of a loved one.. Weaklings" Ad continued.
Xiulan got tired of it and dashes to Ad and slices his head off. Ad's head rolled on the floor.
Angie lets go of George "What do we do now that Jun's dead?" she asked.
"How are we supposed to start the revolution now" Evelyn asked.
Hyeonin looked at them all "We don't have to anymore... We already won" he says and smiles.
"You.." Lilly said on the ground while crying "You killed Jun!!"
"We were going to anyways, Lilly!!" Hyeonin shouted "We were going to kill everyone here!!"
"No we weren't" Evelyn says and walks toward the scene "You said we were going to force them all to bow down to us and retake Izuzunu like that... Not like this"
"Oh... did I?" he says "Well we weren't going to-"
Lilly then comes out of nowhere and stabs Hyeonin's back "Aaaah!!" Hyeonin cried out as Lilly began stabbing over and over again "You!! You killed Jun!! You left him alone to die!! You did this!!" she cried out loud and continued.
"Stop!! Lilly!!!" Chloe and Xiulan shouted and grabs Lilly.
"Hyeonin!" Evelyn shouted and started bandaging up Hyeonin.
"Guys!!" 07 shouted.
"You killed Jun!! You're a monster!! You left him to die! You said you'd do a revolution where we would never kill! But you lied!! You killed Jun and planned to kill all the LCIs!!!" Lilly shouted louder until 07 yelled out again "Guys!!"
Everyone went quiet as 07 spoke "I found Jun"
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 9, CHAPTER 102, THE BODY
THE MOUNTAINS
"I dragged him out of the hole right there, I'm guessing Ad punched him so hard he went through the mountain" 07 said.
"Noo!" Lilly cried out as she rushes toward Jun's body.
Jun laid on the mountain as Lilly cried on top of him "Jun" she said "Jun, come back"
Everyone else was saddened by the death of Jun "Jun" Angie says.
"It's been so long" George said as he takes off his cracked helmet "Rest in peace, Jun"
Hyeonin slowly walked to Lilly "Lilly" he said "It'll be okay-"
"It'll be okay!!?" Lilly shouts at Hyeonin "Look what you did, you murderer!! You... you killed the love of my life!!"
Hyeonin was stunned as he backs away "Lilly.. I'm sorry.. I did what I had to do"
"We'll have to live without Jun now" Xiulan says "It's what our goal was, wasn't it?"
"Yes... it was" Evelyn wiped her tears.
"We won" Hyeonin says "Now we can live freely without the fear of death!! Starting today, we start the new era of the Izuzunu Empire!! The presidency terms will return and we will have an election!!"
"Hyeonin... I'm not part of this, do whatever you want with Izuzunu.. just don't talk to us, LCIs" Chloe said as she takes Jun's body and fleas from the scene.
As she's running, she says "Sorry, Jun... Your empire has fallen to the hands of another enemy"
07 and George ends up running with Chloe too. They all pick up Moises, Mikey, and Nugget and heads back to Hwalshindo Izuzunu without the Dominant League to grab all their belongings.
They hop on a horse they left in the woods and began riding toward south.
They all road on the horses and looked at Jun's body on 07's horse "Rest in peace, Jun... we'll bury you in your home"
The Dominant League walks back to the wedding palace as Hyeonin looked up at the sky "It's time for the new era!!" he smiled happily as Lilly looked at him with an angry face; wiping her tears.
ONE DAY LATER, IZUZUNU ELECTION STAGE
"Hello citizens of Izuzunu... It is I, Hyeonin.. one of the soldiers in the Hwalshindo mission. I helped find the Diamond Valley where you all stand right now.. We are now the richest empire!!" Hyeonin spoke into the microphone.
"Yeah!!" the citizens cheered.
"Quiet down" Hyeonin says as they all quiet down.
Hyeonin looked at all of them with a depressed face "I... I don't know how to say this, but the most heartbreaking moment of all time had just happened yesterday morning... the emperor is dead"
"What!!?" everyone shouted as Phoenix shouted "Emperor Jun is dead!!?"
Everyone was so shocked and couldn't believe it, but a few people said "Finally" "That monster is dead now? Great"
It was a wave of mixed emotions in the crowd.
"But aren't you all happy? Aren't you all happy that a bad and cruel emperor like him is finally dead!!? Look at what he's caused in all of us!!.. Fear, pain, struggle, and more!! He's only brought these upon all of us because that is not the Jun we know anymore, that is Emperor Jun, a real monster!! He would murder you in cold blood and kill anyone in his way!! Be glad that he's finally dead" Hyeonin said.
"Yeah" a woman said in the crowd "He took my son away from me!! I know my son is a thief, but he didn't deserve to die!!"
A man shouted too "Yeah!! My sister died because of him back in wood war!!"
"Yeah!" the crowd shouted.
"My brother died because he ordered his men to kill him when he was just trying to get food for our family!! He is a monster!!" A teenager shouted.
"Yeah!! Screw Jun!!" a woman shouted out loud.
"Screw Jun! Screw Jun!! Screw Jun!!!" the crowd began chanting.
"Screw Jun!!!!" Hyeonin shouted and then began to laugh like a villain "Settle down now guys.. Today... we will be bringing back the presidency term and elect a new president for Izuzunu!!"
"Yeah!!" "Okay!!" the crowd shouted and began cheering "This'll be great!" "New ruler!!"
The crowd quiets down as Hyeonin looks at Phoenix in the crowd "Phoenix" he says "Why don't you come up here"
Phoenix walks up to the election stage and stared at the crowd. He looked at Hyeonin and asked "Why am I here?"
"I will be happy to announce the new president of Izuzunu!! Phoenix!!!" Hyeonin announces as the crowd begin to cheer "Yayyyy!!!" "Phoenix!!!!" "Woo hoo!!!"
"Wha- what!? Are you serious!!?" Phoenix was surprised "You have to be joking, right!?"
"No.. I am not, Phoenix" Hyeonin says as he walks up to him and shook his hands "You were born to be a ruler; a president.. the president of Izuzunu"
Phoenix smiles "Thanks, but... what happened with Jun?"
"Oh him? He died in the war against GDRNI and Chaos Team" Hyeonin answered.
"There was a war????" Phoenix was shocked.
"You didn't know???" Hyeonin asked.
Phoenix leaned toward Hyeonin "Hyeonin... don't tell anyone about the war, okay?"
"Okay.." Hyeonin answered as Phoenix leaned back.
Phoenix walks up to the microphone to make his speech "Hello citizens of Izuzunu... I am Phoenix and am here to become the new president of Izuzunu.. I promise.. I will make this empire better and protect all of us from the threat of this world!! Thank you all for your respect.. Please bow down"
Everyone in the crowd bows down to Phoenix as he looked at them all with a serious face and then began worrying "Jun.." he said and turned to Hyeonin "Where is Jun?"
"Well, I think the LCIs must've buried his body somewhere" Hyeonin answered.
Phoenix looked upset "We failed"
Hyeonin looked at him with a confused face "What?"
"We failed to change Jun and the perspective of the citizens of Izuzunu....They still don't give a fuck about Jun for everything he's done" Phoenix says.
"Are you telling me you feel bad for that monster?" Hyeonin asked with a confused face.
Phoenix then replies "He's no monster" and walks away "None of you guys understand Jun"
Suddenly "Jun!!!" Mark pops out of nowhere and runs into the election stage "Hey, guys!! Where is Izuzunu!!?"
"Mark!!?" Phoenix shouted.
"Guys!? What are you guys doing here!!? What is this place!!?" Mark shouted and asked.
"This is Izuzunu, what do you mean- Ooooh..." Phoenix remembers Mark hasn't been in Izuzunu for a while "Mark.. there's a lot of catching up to do. We missed you-" Phoenix tried to hug Mark as Mark pushes him away "Guys!! There's no time for this!! I miss you guys too, but we need to find Jun!!"
"He's..." Phoenix says as he looked at the election stage floor.
"He's what?" Mark asked.
"He's dead" Phoenix finally answered.
Mark's looked at them in confusion and fear ".... what?"
TO BE CONTINUED....