I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 111

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111. Sanctuary (6)

Ryuie was finally able to see the face of Yosua, who had returned at last.

‘Like a vision.’

The appearance of Yosua who had emerged from the swamp and the current Yosua looking at her with a sad face were far too identical.

It felt like time and memory were overlapping.

As if she had known all along that everything would turn out this way.

As if it had all been fate predetermined by the gods.

Emotions surged up like fierce rapids rising from within, and Ryuie bit her lip.

‘None of this could have been predetermined.’

Her nails digging into her palm stabbed at her as if to pull her mind together.

‘I chose everything myself. It’s all according to my calculations.’

Yosua looked down at Ryuie standing with Agathos in front of the Temple of Rkultu.

His attitude was terribly poor for a groom welcoming his bride. She tried hard to think that way.

“Welcome.”

Yosua’s voice was also hoarse as if hiding trembling.

“I was waiting for you to come.”

Even though he must have come raising the same dust clouds, Yosua’s appearance was immaculate.

Though his clothes weren’t fine, his appearance was sufficient to be called a groom about to begin his wedding ceremony.

And Ryuie, who had walked here on her own feet, was confident she would shine brightest in any attire, so she didn’t mind.

Ryuie lowered her head slightly to avoid showing her mouth moving.

“Can you enter the temple?”

“Of course.”

Benito’s skin rippled and changed into Ohen’s appearance.

“We cannot interfere with each other, but coexistence is possible within a human body.”

At the blind priest’s words, Ryuie was finally able to calm her turbulent heart.

“Now that Yosua has appeared, tell me about the method to kill Rkultu.”

“Very well.”

Ohen extended one arm. Though Ryuie was reluctant, she grasped that arm.

Ohen, who had linked arms with her side by side like a bride taking her father’s hand as she enters, began climbing the central stairs of the temple one by one.

“Every god has faith.”

Ohen said.

“The first belief that keeps a god godlike, the first sacrifice. If that disappears, the god’s existence will vanish along with the faith.”

Ohen’s voice sounded eerily like a prophet’s.

The closer they got to Yosua, the more he seemed to abandon his pretense of being human and become his true divine self.

“Rkultu first became a god because of the vow made by the First Emperor. I waited for a very long time to make you and Yosua renew that first vow.”

“That cheap vow where I become his and he gains immortality?”

“A vow of deception.”

Ohen smiled slyly.

“That’s exactly when I noticed humans. I manifest through trickery and chaos.”

“You’re saying Rkultu has been angry for so long just because the Emperor deceived him once? How petty.”

“Rkultu doesn’t feel anger. He has no emotions whatsoever. Emotions belong to humans.”

The writhing tentacles climbed one more step.

“You still don’t know what true chaos is.”

The crawling darkness crossed another step of the temple stairs.

“The moment you and Yosua marry, if you deny each other, the sacred vow will be broken and all the bonds that held Rkultu to the Empire will disappear.”

“After the Rkultu God enters my body?”

Ryuie spoke in a distinctly sarcastic tone.

What could she possibly do after her body had already been stolen by a god?

But Agathos cheerfully pointed at Ryuie.

“Your impurity will be revealed. How many you have lusted after while breaking sacred vows. How much you have denied your betrothed. I know the magnitude of all the flames you have suffered from the curse.”

“…”

“That’s why you’re perfect.”

At Agathos’s words, Ryuie couldn’t help but let out a sneer.

‘Everything I did was for a god?’

“Haha.”

‘My hatred was needed?’

“Ahahaha!”

The louder Ryuie’s laughter became, the deeper Ohen’s smile grew as well. Ryuie laughed so hard that her eyes became moist.

‘Ah, wow, my goodness, he really understood humans perfectly.’

Because humans can only display proper hatred when love runs deep, Agathos had even prepared Glem.

He had molded him into a form Ryuie could love, trying to double the magnitude of her emotions.

Having learned the answer, Ryuie couldn’t contain her explosive laughter at the emotion.

‘So that’s why you were all so afraid of Agathos?’

A god who knows humans is more terrifying than a god who doesn’t know humans.

The reason why Agathos was more disgusting than the indifferent Rkultu, who thought it would end just by keeping one’s vows.

Ryuie, who suddenly felt refreshed, lightly wiped the corner of her eye with her pinky finger.

‘This is too fun.’

Agathos seemed to have no idea what he had just done to Ryuie.

But Ryuie had finally gotten the answer to the question she had been hesitating about until the very end.

‘I have my answer.’

She would no longer agonize between Glem and Yosua.

“I’m going to get married.”

“I’m in favor.”

Ohen, who had returned to Benito’s way of speaking, gently placed his tentacle on the last step leading to the temple.

Yosua stood alone in front of the temple. Behind him, through the massive open doors, she could feel countless priests and people watching them.

“Shall we begin?”

Ryuie took out her necklace and broke the string. Conveniently, rings symbolizing both the Imperial Palace and the Ducal House were present at this place.

“This should be enough for a wedding. Unfortunately, the ring you gave me when you proposed isn’t left.”

“I have that.”

Yosua raised his right hand to show her. Because his body had grown larger than when they made their betrothal vow, the ring they had once shared was stuck at the second joint of his pinky finger.

Even though he had sold almost all the imperial items he had during his vagrant life, it seemed he had kept that one.

Ryuie’s heart suddenly ached at the unexpected object.

The size that had fit snugly on their ring fingers when they were much younger than now brought back memories that belonged only to the two of them.

When they made their vow to be together forever, neither of them felt the presence of a god.

They existed only for each other.

“This was a moment you’ve been waiting for too.”

“Yes.”

Yosua drew a faint smile with his eyes.

“I’ve been dreaming only of this moment.”

Hearing his bitter voice, Ryuie felt her heart becoming sharp in all directions.

It made her want to thrust out like thorns and spew them out hideously beyond her chest.

“We were destined to end up like this no matter what vows we made anyway.”

“…”

“You know it too. You have Rkultu’s blood flowing through you, and I am…”

Ryuie chose her words.

“A human who can’t be satisfied with just one thing anyway.”

Yosua gazed at Ryuie silently. Even though it contained no resentment, it was somehow a gaze that made one unable to stay still.

‘Everything is going according to plan.’

Agathos becomes reinforcement, and Yosua eventually kneels before her and accepts the wedding.

The only thing that goes against expectations is her own reaction when confronted with his emotions.

She becomes shaken.

She becomes unable to control her heart.

Always whenever she sees Yosua!

“Thank you for loving me.”

“What…”

“And for loving Glem too.”

Ryuie’s lips pressed tightly shut. Yosua was right in front of her.

“I’m grateful to all the humans you’ve tried to love until now.”

Contrary to his gentle tone, Yosua’s eyes gleamed wildly.

“If that helped you endure, then anything is fine.”

“Shut your mouth.”

“Even if the gods toy with us.”

Yosua stepped forward. Why was that peaceful and sacred face becoming frightening?

An emotion she had never felt even from Agathos surged up.

‘You’re not in your right mind either.’

There was madness inside Yosua too.

Though it was a slightly different form from what Ryuie had been burning with, his persistence was unparalleled.

It was better when it was expressed through Glem’s form.

Now Ryuie knew too.

How deeply the emotions that had accumulated in Yosua’s inner self had changed while he was unconscious.

“I will marry you.”

At that moment, the sky split open and a vast, dazzling golden light incomparable to what she had seen in the swamp poured down upon the temple.

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