I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 101

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101. Yosua (1)

“I couldn’t find the will.”

Ryuie got straight to the point.

She had pushed away all the nobles and knights who came rushing in shock, wanting to have a private meeting with Ohen.

Fortunately, her closest confidants Catsy and Bendam were allowed to attend the meeting.

Instead, they were required to have enough composure not to react even when hearing the truths that emerged at every moment.

“I was too complacent. I thought once Glem died, you’d return Yosua to me.”

“The god expected that too.”

As the conversation progressed, Catsy and Bendam had to barely manage to keep their bulging eyes in check and stuff them back into their heads.

‘Glem is dead?’

‘Then His Highness the Crown Prince is returning?’

Ryuie sat carelessly on silk so precious its value couldn’t be calculated, using it like a towel.

“If you could bring me here, couldn’t you have brought the corpse too?”

“Corpses are useless. Once life is severed from a body, it cannot be reconnected.”

“Hmm.”

Ryuie clicked her tongue.

“A god who can’t do something. Don’t tell me you have some advantage over Rkultu?”

“He and I are made in different ways.”

Ohen didn’t care about Ryuie’s provocation. Rather, he seemed amused. Like the reaction that comes when something utterly insignificant attacks you.

“My power spreads through chaos and doubt.”

“Even when no one knows your name?”

“All the better.”

When Ohen’s mouth stretched into a wide grin, chills ran through Catsy and Bendam.

‘I did think it was strange how that man suddenly started acting like the Captain!’

‘To think he was a heretic!’

‘No, judging by Miss’s attitude, he is Agatos himself!’

‘Then what about Ohen?’

Bendam suddenly became terrified of the god wearing human skin, his legs trembling.

How could Ryuie face a god so calmly even knowing all the facts?

The thought that Ryuie might be similarly devoured by Agatos and that god might imitate Ryuie suddenly filled him with surging hostility.

Catsy also seemed unable to contain her rising animosity.

As anger overcame fear, it became much easier to listen to their conversation.

“Now all that’s left is finding Yosua. You couldn’t have hidden him far anyway.”

“Before that, Ryuie.”

Ohen interrupted, cutting her off.

“There’s something you haven’t told me yet, isn’t there?”

It wasn’t a question but a certainty.

Ryuie turned her head sideways and stared at Ohen before speaking.

“I don’t like that appearance.”

“What?”

“Whose appearance did you steal for Benito’s form?”

Ohen tilted his head, then soon understood. He transformed into Benito’s appearance.

“Hueeeok…!”

Though he should have endured it, Bendam let out a strangled scream.

He couldn’t watch the molting happening before his eyes with a clear mind.

Crack. Crack.

At the hideous sounds that matched what they were seeing, Catsy quickly covered Bendam’s mouth as he was about to vomit.

If he vomited, he would be thrown out immediately.

But Catsy absolutely could not leave Ryuie alone in front of that damned god.

‘Don’t vomit, you damned fool!’

‘Oh god. God… damn it. Screw gods!’

Bendam looked at Ryuie as if seeking his only hope.

Indeed, Ryuie was calmly watching Ohen turn inside out and become Benito.

Ryuie’s review was brief.

“Ugh.”

“Was it a hideous sight?”

Now in Benito’s form again, he brushed at his clothes.

“But this appearance is the only one I didn’t steal. He’s a human I chose as a gift from among Rkultu’s sacrifices.”

“So you’re Rkultu’s son?”

“No.”

Benito laughed as if he’d heard something quite amusing.

“We were born at the same time. But why did humans only notice Rkultu? When he has no interest at all.”

“Does that mean you gods can’t perceive our existence unless humans call you?”

“You don’t notice the dust brushing against your skin right now either.”

Benito spread his fingers and pointed at Ryuie.

“Just now 3,204 particles of dust landed on your body and 2,897 flew away. Now 16 more. Shall I blow on you now?”

“I get it.”

Ryuie waved her hand telling him to stop.

“What a colorful way to insult someone.”

“I’m just stating facts.”

“According to you, you’re a perverted god who gets excited by dust. How much dust do you need?”

“When dust returns to being dust.”

Suddenly Benito’s face flushed with ecstasy.

“If you become the Demon Lord, the dust will dance in whirlwinds. I want to see all of its beginning and end.”

Everyone knew that meant he wanted to watch until all humans were slaughtered.

Ryuie just tilted her chin once, looking rather uninterested.

“I don’t like the title.”

“You can call yourself whatever name you want. After all, you don’t need to marry a corpse anymore.”

Ohen smiled brightly and acted coquettish.

“Once we get rid of Rkultu, let’s have some fun together.”

“Sure. Sounds good.”

Ryuie answered readily, forcing Catsy and Bendam to look at their master with unfamiliar eyes.

Ryuie didn’t pay much attention. The eyes of her closest subordinates weren’t enough to make her forget Glem’s eyes.

‘Maybe I should go find Mos.’

Mos had played a small part in Ryuie’s return to become the Demon Lord.

“Miss Ryuie!”

Just then, with the sound of wheels rolling quickly, Mos approached with a bright face.

“I heard you came back! Finally! I’m so happy!”

Ryuie wasn’t as delighted as Mos.

“What’s wrong with your legs?”

“Ah.”

Mos swam with his legs that had become a tail again, looking somewhat embarrassed.

“The god said he’d let me walk only when it rains. When you came, the rain stopped briefly in the sky. So.”

Ryuie looked down at Mos’s tail with a frown.

She had thought he was completely healed, but it was just the god playing a brief trick.

‘Ah. I see.’

He prepared Mos as a hostage in case I might change my mind.

Because Ryuie had kept Mos in her sight, even if briefly, she could understand.

The reason Agatos appeared in the Empire rather than the Republic and seized the Temple was all to take possession of Ryuie’s people.

No matter how great he claimed to be, it seemed Ryuie was still essential to cut off Rkultu.

“It’ll return to normal by tomorrow. Don’t worry.”

When Ryuie’s expression didn’t soften, Mos hurriedly added.

While his persistent clinging in dreams had been annoying, seeing him in person wasn’t so bad, so Ryuie spoke generously.

“I came back because I was thinking of you, Mos.”

“…Really?”

Mos’s voice became choked with emotion.

‘I should at least take responsibility for you ending up like this.’

Ryuie stroked Mos’s head with pure sympathy.

Having spent a long time with Glem, she no longer minded such burns at all.

There were even priests here.

But no lightning sparked.

“…?”

For a moment, both Ryuie and Mos froze.

“…It’s not activating?”

Ryuie was a bit surprised.

The condition for the oath’s activation was mutual feelings. Since her own heart had cooled, for lightning to spark, there would need to be feelings from his side.

‘But there aren’t any? Has Mos lost his affection for me?’

Unlike Ryuie’s calm reaction, Mos turned pale and panicked.

“It’s not that I don’t love you, Miss!”

He cried out urgently. As if someone had asked him if he’d committed robbery.

“Why? Why didn’t it activate? I, I still love you, Miss.”

“Hmm. I wonder.”

“Could I only touch you in dreams? No, no. That’s not it. It’s not. I’ve only ever loved you, Miss. I love you!”

Even if he kept saying he loved her, nothing would really change.

Ryuie thought people’s hearts could change easily enough.

Rather, she couldn’t understand why Mos was so restless.

‘You just don’t have to like me anymore. Why is he acting like that?’

But Mos denied reality as if he had met great despair.

“No. I love you!”

“You don’t need to love me.”

“But!”

“I don’t particularly love you either.”

Mos made an indescribable expression, then tears suddenly welled up in his eyes.

“No. It’s different. This isn’t my fault—it’s all because of Agatos.”

‘Hmm. Now that’s worth hearing more about?’

Ryuie shifted her posture and listened attentively.

“Want to tell me about it?”

Mos willingly entrusted himself to Ryuie.

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