I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 104

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104. Yosua (4)

Since the oath hadn’t activated, it didn’t hurt at all even while touching Yosua.

Because of that, she could feel how much her rapidly beating heart was making her chest ache.

‘Why am I acting like this?’

Unlike Glem’s comfortable embrace, her body tensed up completely in Yosua’s arms.

Whether she was angry or couldn’t bear it.

When Ryuie stayed still, Yosua also remained still. He didn’t tighten his embracing arms further, nor did he shed tears.

He spoke quietly.

“We finally met, yet you won’t call my name.”

“…Because that god will hear if I speak it.”

“Right. That’s why I didn’t want to show you my appearance either.”

Yosua’s voice was dry. Compared to Glem who had burst into tears where no one could see, it made her wonder if they were really the same person.

Even though winter hadn’t come yet, she could feel the chill of snow in Yosua’s voice.

‘Has the time you lived as Glem now completely disappeared?’

Ryuie found it difficult to keep her mouth shut as inappropriate questions kept coming to mind.

“How did you know where I was? I was wearing an invisibility magic tool.”

“Footprints.”

At Yosua’s words, Ryuie discovered the footprints clearly left on the path.

She had tried to be alone away from others, and made such a mistake.

‘Damn it.’

Anyway, since Yosua had jumped out like this, now was the time to say she would kill him and end everything. But.

‘I left both my sword and gun on the horse.’

Ryuie deeply regretted it.

The surroundings were too much of an open field to strangle someone or strike them with a blunt object. There wasn’t even a rope.

Then was there only one weapon she could draw instead?

“Kiss me.”

Ryuie commanded without thinking.

She was curious if Yosua still had any hot parts left.

But instead of turning her head to close her eyes and just touching lips, he lowered his head to the back of her neck.

She could feel his eyelashes tickling her nape, they were so close. And his lips pressed against her white neck.

The kiss was so soft and light that she couldn’t detect any heat.

“Properly!”

When Ryuie, unable to bear it, tried to pull Yosua’s head toward her, his arms came up.

Now in a much more restraining position than before, Ryuie gave up trying to see Yosua’s face.

‘Holding me like some white weasel!’

She was newly reminded of the fact that Yosua was as tall as Glem.

Even with her elongated body unsteadily stepping on Yosua’s feet, he was easily supporting Ryuie.

Ryuie quietly began to grope Yosua’s body.

“Why did you come back? I thought you’d run away.”

“So I won’t make the same mistake.”

Ryuie, who had found what seemed to be Yosua’s side, struck hard with her fist.

Yosua didn’t budge at all.

“Do you know where I’m attacking right now?”

“The numbers seem a bit insufficient for a surprise attack on the capital.”

“That’s exactly why magic exists.”

Ryuie’s hand moved up a bit more and found his solar plexus. This time she struck properly using her elbow, but Yosua still didn’t move an inch.

“The Imperial Palace is protected by the patron deity, so magic won’t work.”

“Is that advice too? But the place I’m going to is already stripped of protection.”

“The Temple. Since the Saintess left.”

The moment Ryuie’s hand moved downward, Yosua lifted her body forward.

Thinking it was an opportunity, Ryuie tried to see Yosua’s face this time, but the angle was exquisite and she couldn’t see.

‘Too high! Damn it!’

Ryuie swung her legs back widely and shouted.

“Fine! Just collapse now! I decided not to tell you how to kill a god until I capture you!”

“Yeah, okay.”

Yosua set Ryuie back down on the ground and rubbed her cheek with his thumb.

“I’ll do my best too, Ryuie.”

“What does that—”

Ryuie, who was about to unleash vicious curses, hesitated when she saw that Yosua had completely disappeared again.

Only after he left did she finally realize that Yosua had stolen her invisibility magic tool.

‘No wonder he kept fidgeting around my nape!’

He had taken advantage of drawing her attention there to slip away the ring Ryuie was wearing.

‘Where did he learn such strange tricks?’

It was a skill that didn’t suit him.

Ryuie suddenly felt an itch on the back of her neck and rubbed it vigorously with her palm.

Now only two rings remained on the necklace.

Seeing the ducal crest and the imperial crest hanging side by side on the necklace made Ryuie feel bad again, so she simply broke the string.

She didn’t like how they were stuck together like mere chunks of metal that had held their own wedding ceremony.

“Did you come back just for this?”

Ryuie rolled the rings around in her palm with a grinding sound and surrendered her body to the wind as if trying to shake off all traces of Yosua.

“I’m just getting started, Yosua.”

As soon as Ryuie spoke his name, Benito appeared.

His two eyes staring intently were clear, as if asking what had happened.

“That boy appeared here.”

Ryuie threw the Crown Prince’s ring to him as if offering a sacrifice to an evil god.

Benito lightly caught the Crown Prince’s ring and peered inside it.

Ryuie grumbled at the god who was playing with the Crown Prince’s ring as if it were a telescope.

“He knows all about my purpose too. Said he’d do his best?”

“How interesting.”

“Can you track Yosua with that?”

“No. But since he took your ring, His Highness the Crown Prince will come looking again. A little more boldly. A little more passionately.”

Benito’s tone was strange.

‘Why is he bringing up passion?’

Ryuie, who had been retracing what just happened, smacked Benito on the head.

What he was hinting at was definitely Yosua’s kiss.

“Just how much are you watching from where to where? I told you not to come out before I call you, didn’t I?”

“Haha.”

Still pretending to be human, Benito laughed mischievously.

Feeling like she’d been caught in romantic antics in front of a neighborhood kid, Ryuie quickly snatched the ring back.

‘This is annoying.’

Even when she tried to treat him like a proper god, seeing him like this made it impossible to get immersed.

Benito was still grinning and supporting his chin with both hands.

“Ryuie doesn’t know how many interesting things happen even when you’re not worried. Even if not here.”

Benito’s pupils suddenly contracted and his focus changed as if looking at somewhere far away, not here.

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“Slowly, slowly come down.”

In the swampland where it was still raining, Mos carefully directed.

Most of the knights and mages had followed Ryuie and left, but the priests remained here except for the minimum personnel.

Currently, all the temple priests were following Agathos’s orders, and they thought of Mos as Agathos’s representative.

He was the human who had changed the most because of Agathos.

‘Miss Ryuie entrusted me with a mission.’

That was truly a joyful thing.

Mos imagined Ryuie burning down the entire capital and then returning here to take him to a new palace.

He would look like a mysteriously beautiful fairy that anyone could see.

Then how wonderful it would be to write a new mythology together with the Demon Lord after this Empire collapsed!

Thanks to the grin that kept leaking out, even while doing hard work, it wasn’t tiring at all.

Moreover, the new legs given by the god never slipped no matter how much muddy water flowed.

“I can see it over there!”

At the priest’s signal, Mos ran splashing through the rainy path.

It was time to retrieve Agathos’s sacred object that had been sunk in the swamp for so long.

The rain that had poured for too long had filled the swamp and overflowed, almost forming a river.

‘Rivers have advantages.’

Rivers flow. Unlike stagnant water, water that starts moving gains power.

Enough to make what had sunk below rise again.

Mos, who had made a huge net from the nobles’ belongings he had seized in advance, turned the priests into fishermen.

One of the spots became taut.

“We caught something!”

“Never touch it with bare hands! You all already know what happens if you do, right?”

The priests who had cared for patients for a long time naturally pulled the net very carefully.

Soon the rope was pulled up span by span above the water, and just like when they had retrieved Yosua’s body, it revealed another object above the surface.

However, unlike Yosua who hadn’t even been stained with mud, the dirty, moss-covered black circular iron plate brought disgust and revulsion.

“That must be Agathos’s door.”

As if something that should have been hidden forever and never discovered was finally revealed to the world, the moment Agathos’s sacred object appeared, endless muddy water filled all directions.

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