I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 108

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108. Sanctuary (3)

What was more troublesome to deal with than climbing the city wall was Benito.

“Get down.”

Ryuie commanded with a very displeased expression.

It was good that they had decided on a method to cross the city wall, but she didn’t like the means.

“It would be better if I carried Ryuie.”

“I don’t want that.”

Ryuie protested with her arms crossed.

“I’ll step on your shoulders and stand up, so endure it.”

“Even though my middle is like this?”

When Benito exposed his waist, tentacles that had completely lost human form writhed.

As if demonstrating, he pressed his shoulder firmly with his human hand, and his body without support collapsed limply to one side.

Ryuie was disgusted.

“Just endure it with your human body.”

“That’s also difficult. See for yourself.”

Benito suddenly switched his human skin. These were the forms of humans he had devoured.

‘I wondered what he was doing while running away.’

How did he manage to choose only elderly people or young boys?

Not only were there no properly usable humans, but disgust welled up abundantly, making Ryuie press her brow.

“Enough. Stop it.”

Looking at him as he returned to Benito’s appearance, Ryuie fell into thought for a moment.

‘Agathos uses divine power in a different way from Rkultu. Then would an oath work too?’

Ryuie decided to test it.

“Swear that until we cross the city wall, no non-human parts will touch me.”

“Understood.”

Benito easily agreed. He raised both arms, then tilted his head when Ryuie still didn’t move.

“I swore, didn’t I?”

“You need to offer a sacrifice.”

“That’s Rkultu’s way.”

Benito elegantly raised his arms like a bird flapping its wings.

“Don’t you trust me?”

‘Would I trust you?’

Ryuie grabbed Benito’s shoulders with a troubled expression. It was obvious she was reluctantly clinging to him.

Even though the fingers gripping his shoulders must have been quite painful, Benito lightly kicked off the ground.

It was movement closer to leaping than flying.

“If you want, I can also make you a different face and safely take you to the temple.”

“If I give up my face now, it’s as good as already losing.”

Ryuie answered while slightly poking her head out to see how Benito was flying through the air.

It was quite an unpleasant means of transportation, but there was no shaking.

“Don’t you pursue certainty and safety? We can reach the temple without being detected by anyone.”

“You still don’t know how I operate, do you?”

Even Glem, who had only seen her once, had grasped her personality.

‘How dull.’

A bitter sneer rose up.

The man she had eliminated with her own hands might have been the person who understood her best in the world.

Then what?

What about the resurrected Crown Prince?

Ryuie suddenly felt as if someone was watching her.

She deliberately pulled up her lips as much as possible.

Only when she received attention would everything work out well.

Even though she had drawn attention with massive magic and combat.

Thud.

People who saw the two men and women suddenly fall from the sky gaped and stopped what they were doing.

Among them was a woman who had stopped while dressing her child. The child who had been struggling with pants on backwards saw his mother suddenly stop and ran away excitedly.

But even that child stopped dead in surprise upon seeing Ryuie.

Ryuie chuckled.

“Surprised after a long time?”

Ryuie, who didn’t want to stay attached to Benito for even a moment longer, immediately separated herself.

As promised, Benito didn’t touch her body.

But as soon as Ryuie fell, dozens of legs stretching out as if they had been waiting were overwhelming. Terrified people screamed.

“It’s a witch!”

“It’s that Yeongae who went to the swamp!”

“What’s that thing behind her!”

“It’s a demon!”

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

A great commotion broke out due to people fleeing slightly late.

“Everyone knows me well.”

Ryuie watched with satisfaction.

“It seems quite interesting rumors about me have spread in the capital.”

“What are you planning to do now?”

Benito, who had threatened to chase away the troublesome humans, had eyes that made it hard to predict Ryuie’s next move.

The capital also had a garrison to maintain public order, and since people had fled like that, other soldiers would soon come rushing.

Fighting outside wouldn’t last long either. The numerical difference with the city walls was obvious.

When everyone would evaluate it as a reckless act, Ryuie shrugged her shoulders once.

“Put that away and follow me.”

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Ryuie’s knights were being pushed back slowly but surely.

Yosua looked up at the city wall once more with anxious eyes.

‘If only I had priests and mages too.’

Originally, the capital’s walls were protected by magic, so mages couldn’t cross over carelessly.

Also, priests were only strong against healing and curses, but had no power to physically destroy or soar through the air.

However, when Agathos appeared, all the sufficient countermeasures became ineffective.

Yosua considered rejoining the battle and crossing the gates together with the Duke of Greatone, but unexpectedly, Ryuie’s knights were tenacious.

Meeting and talking with the Duke of Greatone like before would be impossible.

‘Stop thinking about unrealizable possibilities.’

Yosua judged that there was absolutely no possibility of the gates opening immediately and put his foot on the wall.

The wall made of stacked stones was uneven, so if there was no interference from above, it could be climbed.

Oh, and boldness was needed to not think about the risk of slipping and falling to death.

Physical strength and muscle power went without saying.

But Yosua was in a position where he had to climb a stone wall less than two weeks after awakening from death.

‘To think I’d miss the days when I was Glem.’

With Glem’s body that had been intensely trained for years, he would have easily crossed such walls.

But Yosua’s body, which had barely been clinging to life, screamed at him to stop such dangerous acts immediately.

Still, Yosua stepped toward the next brick.

‘Because it’s Yosua’s body, I’m less conspicuous.’

Thanks to his black hair, unless someone looked at his face up close, it was much safer.

‘Because it’s Yosua’s body, I can request assistance from the capital again.’

The process of proving his identity would be a bit complicated, but it could be sufficiently resolved with a few pieces of knowledge passed down through the imperial family for generations.

‘And because I am Yosua, to Ryuie I…’

Suddenly, the rough wall that slipped from his hand tore his palm.

Drip.

Blood that flowed out like a bursting dam fell directly onto his face.

Instead of wiping the blood, Yosua regulated his breathing through tightly closed lips and then crossed the last wall.

“An intruder!”

At that moment, one of the soldiers on the wall ran to call his superior.

And the remaining soldiers stepped back with faces full of awe instead of raising their weapons.

Although he had climbed from the ground rather than descended from the sky, the appearance of the person who emerged with a drop of red blood at the corner of his eye was too beautiful.

They were all from the capital and had frequent experience seeing people who inspired awe at first sight.

Someone who resembled the person now standing upright, one who wore a crown.

“Are you His Highness the Crown Prince?”

At the question that came before he could even introduce himself, Yosua couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

‘I didn’t need to worry about revealing my identity.’

Even strangers didn’t doubt his status. Innate nobility. Divine blood was sustaining him.

Indeed, no trace of Glem remained in him at all.

Yosua wiped away the blood and calmly accepted his regained position.

“That’s correct.”

“Your Highness.”

All the soldiers knelt down.

Even the knight who came running after hearing the news looked at Yosua with surprised eyes. Though he was the Crown Prince returning after ten years, the blessing of Rkultu surrounding him had grown stronger, making the sense of otherworldliness intense.

He could never be mistaken for any other ordinary person.

The knight knelt on one knee.

“You have returned.”

“I didn’t come alone. Ryuie should have infiltrated the capital by now, right?”

“Yes, we just received a report that Yeongae is causing chaos in the outer districts.”

“I know her destination, so I need to go ahead. And could you call all the priests?”

“The priests?”

The knight was puzzled.

“Are you certain it’s not the army or mages?”

“It must be the priests.”

Yosua answered while approaching the opposite wall. Even in the always bustling capital, a conspicuous commotion was visible.

It was practically proof that Ryuie was still moving together with Agathos.

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