I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 59

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59. A Room as a Cage (2)

 

The Crown Prince’s body had been sunk deep in the swamp.

 

To show that thing, which was no different from a giant lump of mud, to Ryuie, it first had to be cleanly washed with water.

 

That’s why the knight who had separated from the other party members had rushed to Ryuie first.

 

By the time Ryuie arrived, muddy water was no longer flowing from Yosua’s mouth.

 

“You came?”

 

Benito, who had been kneeling and looking down at the Crown Prince, greeted her with a bright smile.

 

Ryuie, whose expression had completely disappeared, didn’t even recognize him.

 

Only Glem was raising his guard.

 

Glem, who hadn’t been able to hear the detailed story because he was trapped in the cage, briefly summarized the situation.

 

The nobles had mistaken Benito for the Crown Prince.

 

Benito knows that Glem is the Crown Prince.

 

And he rescued Yosua from the swamp?

 

‘That’s fake.’

 

Even knowing this, Glem was seriously shaken.

 

From the moment Yosua’s phantom appeared in the swamp, he had suspected that his original body might be sealed somewhere.

 

But he never dreamed it would remain in such a tangible, touchable form.

 

Much less enough for Ryuie’s eyes to see…

 

“Yosua.”

 

Ryuie murmured.

 

Yosua’s closed-eyed face, with clear water trickling down, was extremely sacred.

 

Inappropriately so for the situation.

 

The nobles and priests gathered there all stepped back together.

 

Even they had the courtesy to keep quiet when Ryuie faced the body of her fiancé who had returned after ten years.

 

Ryuie slowly knelt on one knee with an unreadable expression.

 

That body of Yosua’s, neither decayed nor pale, was so vibrant it seemed like it would wake up at any moment.

 

Just as if he had briefly fallen asleep.

 

The back of Ryuie’s hand, who had been staring down at Yosua, touched his cheek.

 

The betrothal vow did not activate.

 

But even without the curse, Ryuie flinched and pulled away.

 

“He’s still warm.”

 

Ryuie, whose expression had contorted, looked around at all the people standing nearby.

 

“He’s warm!”

 

It was a shout demanding an immediate explanation of what was going on.

 

Everyone around couldn’t hide their pitying expressions.

 

A vein throbbed at Ryuie’s temple.

 

What’s with this solemn atmosphere?

 

Those eyes.

 

Those gazes that dare to pity me.

 

The conclusion that everyone except herself had already accepted seriously grated on her.

 

Only Benito was grinning inappropriately for the situation.

 

“His Highness the Crown Prince is in a completely unconscious state. He has no soul.”

 

“You. You said you were Yosua.”

 

“I never once said that, did I?”

 

With Benito’s single statement, all the nobles there became fools.

 

Among them, there were still some who couldn’t accept it and still suspected Benito even after seeing the corpse.

 

“Didn’t you say you would bring His Highness the Crown Prince!”

 

“Yes. The swamp was the last place the Crown Prince was, wasn’t it.”

 

“So when people were looking for His Highness, you just went to check the last place he was spotted?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

Benito smiled brightly.

 

‘Don’t be ridiculous.’

 

Glem’s insides were also turning upside down.

 

‘You know I’m Yosua.’

 

If only Ryuie weren’t here right now, he would have gone to beat up Benito immediately.

 

Glem tried to cross his arms to restrain himself, but only his innocent forearms tensed as if they would break.

 

Ryuie also turned her head away from Benito with a disgusted expression.

 

“Move him.”

 

“Yeongae.”

 

“Whether he’s really dead or not, I can’t keep Yosua lying on the ground.”

 

Ryuie, who replied in a cold tone, turned away from Yosua’s body.

 

Complex emotions briefly surfaced then sank deep again.

 

“To my room…”

 

Ryuie, who had been giving directions, hesitated.

 

Glem, whose eyes met hers, also flinched.

 

Ryuie bluntly added the rest as if she had never paused.

 

“Take him to the prayer hall.”

 

“Understood.”

 

The knights carefully lifted and moved Yosua’s body.

 

Ryuie pressed her lower lip firmly as if lost in thought again.

 

Her eyes looked like she would kill someone, making Glem anxious.

 

She had said she didn’t know what would happen to herself if she met Yosua.

 

Still, just a moment ago, very briefly, Ryuie had thought of him.

 

Because she ordered Yosua’s body to be moved to the prayer hall, not the bedroom.

 

‘…Is that enough?’

 

The fact that Ryuie wasn’t exploding right now was rather ominous.

 

If she had done something rash right now, he could have stopped and calmed her down.

 

Once Yosua’s body was out of sight, the surging emotions seemed to subside as Ryuie moved quickly.

 

“Benito, follow me.”

 

“Yes. I understand.”

 

“Glem, you can’t.”

 

Glem, who had naturally been about to go with them, unexpectedly stopped.

 

Ryuie was firmly holding up her palm.

 

“What?”

 

“Don’t interfere right now. It’ll make things more confusing.”

 

“This is an important matter for me too!”

 

Because he was the real Yosua.

 

While Glem couldn’t bring himself to speak, he was dying of worry about Benito.

 

‘Just threaten him, damn bastard.’

 

Glem’s insides were boiling.

 

The person who should be examining Yosua’s body and interrogating Benito right now was himself.

 

Moreover, Benito had clearly told him to reclaim his body, so why did he keep letting this situation continue.

 

‘If you’re not going to return it to me, what exactly are you planning to do with that body.’

 

In his urgency, Glem grabbed her without thinking.

 

“I’m your lover right now!”

 

“!”

 

Ryuie’s eyes widened.

 

Other people were also shocked, not expecting Glem to make such a pleading sound.

 

‘Ah, damn.’

 

Glem belatedly realized it was exactly the kind of sentence that would cause misunderstandings.

 

Or perhaps that was his true feelings—no, it wasn’t. Glem tried to respond more sensibly in his confusion, but it was too late.

 

Crack.

 

“?!”

 

His lips, which had finally grown new flesh, stuck together again.

 

Only after foam bubbled up and all the moisture in his mouth disappeared did Glem slowly push Ryuie away.

 

He didn’t speak.

 

The lover who had suddenly kissed him was endearing, and his mouth had literally melted.

 

“Don’t heal me without my permission.”

 

Ryuie gave that instruction to the shocked priest who was treating her first.

 

Glem protested with his eyes as he touched his throbbing mouth with his equally burned tongue, but Ryuie only smiled.

 

“If Glem says one more word here, I might lose sight of my goal too.”

 

Glem lowered his eyes in dissatisfaction.

 

‘Since when have you been so diligent?’

 

She had said she didn’t know what would happen if she saw Yosua directly.

 

How cunning, kissing Glem and silencing him to maintain her sanity.

 

Ryuie was absolutely not a person consumed by madness, as people evaluated her.

 

‘Unreasonably.’

 

Glem covered his burned mouth with his hand.

 

Even in this situation, his honest heart kept beating, so Glem imagined Ryuie.

 

The sight of her realizing he was Yosua and turning away, trembling with betrayal.

 

Eyes that would never forgive him.

 

Then it took effect immediately.

 

* * *

 

Ryuie also focused on Glem to earnestly maintain her sanity.

 

‘I shouldn’t have healed him.’

 

Ryuie bit the inside of her mouth, finding the spot where blisters had formed from the curse.

 

The body she had searched for so long had appeared before her eyes—one she could touch without worrying about curses—yet she felt no joy at all.

 

‘The reason I searched for Yosua so desperately in the first place was because no one could risk getting hurt to become my lover.’

 

If she could just get past that, honestly Ryuie didn’t care whether Yosua existed or not.

 

She had actively seduced so many humans.

 

But all humans rejected Ryuie just because their flesh would burn a little and they’d get burned.

 

They were even afraid of her.

 

It was unreasonable.

 

They say the most terrible pain a person can experience in life is the pain of burning. But anyway, it was unreasonable.

 

In the end, Ryuie decided to throw everything away and find Yosua to settle things directly.

 

But at this very moment when she finally found Yosua, she had to meet Glem, who wasn’t a coward for the first time.

 

How ironic could it be.

 

‘So the reason my insides are turning upside down like this is solely because of that.’

 

Ryuie ground her teeth.

 

She had found him but no longer needed him—she repeated this many times, but.

 

Every time she saw Yosua’s clean face, she couldn’t suppress the urge to hit him.

 

It felt like resentment would pour out through her fists.

 

However, no matter how much she wanted to dismember his limbs, now was not the time.

 

She absolutely could not allow it while he appeared to be sleeping so neatly and peacefully.

 

“Half of your hair is gone.”

 

Benito still failed to read the atmosphere.

 

“Your face is more visible now, Yeongae.”

 

“Where did you find this body?”

 

“It was sunk at the bottom of the swamp.”

 

Benito leisurely unfolded his story as if telling an oral legend.

 

“Since all the monsters in the swamp were dead, I went into the deepest part.”

 

“Didn’t they stop you?”

 

“Of course they tried to stop me.”

 

The person who had followed Benito was Bendam.

 

Completely soaked in muddy water, he spoke gloomily.

 

“Until we entered the swamp, everyone thought Benito was just performing a slightly unusual ritual.”

 

“To reclaim his original body?”

 

“That’s how it appeared from the circumstances. Enough for everyone to misunderstand.”

 

Bendam found it difficult to express what that atmosphere had been like.

 

He had attended many temple prayer meetings, but he had never experienced such a quiet and eerie atmosphere.

 

Especially since the one conducting that prayer was Benito.

 

‘What should I explain to the young lady?’

 

For the first time, Bendam resented his own vocabulary.

 

Because if he said that when they pulled Yosua from the swamp, Benito looked like he was creating new life right there on the spot, it would definitely sound strange.

 

That would be an impossible miracle.

 

‘And yet.’

 

From that swamp where everyone had splashed through the mud, Benito pulled out a ‘clean’ Yosua.

 

The Crown Prince in pristine white condition, undefiled.

 

The mud on Yosua’s body came from when the panicked people received him and dragged him out of the swamp.

 

The panicked knights slipped in the mud and dropped Yosua’s body into the swamp.

 

Actually, they had expected Yosua’s body to remain as clean as when Benito pulled him out, but everyone was surprised when he unexpectedly got dirty.

 

At that moment, not only they but even the people watching were overcome with the feeling that they had ruined something mystical.

 

‘It’s been revealed that that priest isn’t His Highness the Crown Prince, but.’

 

Bendam found it difficult to calm his stirring heart.

 

‘Then what exactly is he?’

 

Benito smiled faintly.

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