I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 60

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60. A Room as a Cage (3)

 

Fortunately or unfortunately, Ryuie didn’t need the power to describe illusions.

 

Only clear facts and confirmation were needed.

 

Ryuie, who had heard all the preliminary testimony from Bendam, also gathered the other priests.

 

“Is this the Yosua you knew?”

 

“This can’t be.”

 

Even Ohen collapsed to his knees upon hearing the news that Yosua’s body had been found.

 

Not satisfied with the other priests’ words, he even fumbled around to touch Yosua’s face directly.

 

“This is why we couldn’t find him. This is why…”

 

Ohen muttered.

 

It seemed he too had never made the mistake of confusing Benito for the Crown Prince.

 

‘Even I was almost fooled for a moment.’

 

When I said I’d find the Crown Prince in the swamp, of course he’d think it was him.

 

Who would have thought another body would exist so perfectly intact like that.

 

Ryuie kicked a chair with her foot, pushing Benito’s bottom forward.

 

“This guy belongs to you people. Didn’t you dump him in the swamp from the beginning?”

 

“That’s not true.”

 

Ohen soon calmed his trembling and answered.

 

“You have no idea why he was buried in such a state?”

 

“I think he might have fallen in while trying to find the relic and couldn’t get out. You said he was in clean condition when you pulled him up.”

 

“The relic. The relic. Did you find that damn relic too?”

 

“Ah, no.”

 

Bendam said hurriedly.

 

“After discovering His Highness the Crown Prince, everyone was so flustered that no one thought to bring the relic back up.”

 

“Besides, it would activate just by touching it, so we couldn’t have brought it anyway.”

 

Benito explained.

 

“Now that we’ve found the Crown Prince, there’s no reason to look for the relic anymore, right?”

 

Ryuie snorted.

 

“Then wake him up.”

 

“…”

 

All the other priests showed reluctance.

 

Everyone had been offering prayers for quite some time already, but Yosua wouldn’t open his eyes.

 

Ryuie commanded Benito.

 

“Wake him up.”

 

“That’s impossible.”

 

Ryuie’s patience, which had been burning since earlier, finally exploded.

 

“Then what am I supposed to do with this body that only breathes!”

 

Crash!

 

The chair she pushed all the way crashed into the end of the room and shattered.

 

“Miss! Please calm down!”

 

“Are you people enjoying this?”

 

A blood vessel burst in Ryuie’s eye.

 

“Are you having fun watching me go crazy with a fiancé who will never wake up?”

 

“Of course not!”

 

“Is Yosua a complete stranger? A corpse you can just burn without concern? Weren’t you people the ones who served this guy as the damn Crown Prince?”

 

Bang! Bang!

 

Every time Ryuie shouted, something broke.

 

One table leg flew up to the ceiling, but everyone was helpless to restrain Ryuie.

 

‘Even in the midst of all this.’

 

Ryuie’s breathing became rough.

 

‘What am I supposed to do about that damn confidence that I might desire them?’

 

She was even more furious than when her lovers couldn’t touch her.

 

Just as she thought it would be better to have a good old-fashioned brawl.

 

Benito, like cold water, jumped into Ryuie who was boiling like oil.

 

“Now that Yosua can’t open his eyes again, will you go meet Glem?”

 

“What?”

 

When boiling oil meets water, it explodes. This is a well-known fact.

 

“Do you love Glem?”

 

Crack.

 

Ryuie’s hand couldn’t hold back and grabbed Benito’s face.

 

“!”

 

“My goodness! The curse!”

 

“Ah, no. Wait a moment.”

 

Contrary to people’s worries, Benito’s jaw wasn’t being burned by the vow’s backlash.

 

Right now, Ryuie pushing Benito against the wall while gripping his jaw was purely Ryuie’s own strength.

 

Even as her crackling fingers tightened around his jawbone, Benito still had a smiling face.

 

“Are my words unpleasant?”

 

“I don’t understand your intention.”

 

Ryuie stared up at Benito.

 

Whether she hated having to look up at the taller Benito even while she was the one cornering him.

 

Or whether she hated more that all the time she had so desperately wanted to feel proper sensation with Glem had been interrupted by burning sensations.

 

Yet here she was having unwanted human contact with Benito.

 

Pressing against his annoyingly soft cheek only made her angrier.

 

“The vow doesn’t even work, so why are you asking that? Do you like me?”

 

“Of course, Yeongae.”

 

Benito affirmed, but Ryuie didn’t believe him.

 

The betrothal vow activates even if only one person has feelings, so where’s he getting off lying.

 

“Don’t priests take vows? Doesn’t lightning strike from heaven every time you lie?”

 

Benito, who had a talent for infuriating people, tilted his head toward the ceiling.

 

As if to say, ‘I don’t see any yet?’

 

Completely fed up, Ryuie let go of Benito.

 

Pretending to be pitiful, Benito went limp and collapsed.

 

“Getting angry is a good attitude, Yeongae.”

 

“Shut up.”

 

“So you really were in love with Yosua after all, despite pretending otherwise.”

 

‘Should I kill him?’

 

Ryuie’s complexion turned murderous.

 

She hadn’t planned to commit her first murder this way.

 

She had rarely felt such boiling rage rising from within her body.

 

If Ohen hadn’t spoken up, Ryuie might have really drawn her gun.

 

“If this body has merely lost consciousness, we could try other methods.”

 

Immediately, Ryuie’s attention flew to Ohen.

 

“Other methods?”

 

“In any case, it’s definitely His Highness the Crown Prince’s body, so both parties to the betrothal vow are gathered.”

 

“You want to try breaking the betrothal vow while Yosua is in a coma?”

 

“That’s right.”

 

Ohen said, still kneeling on the floor.

 

Benito also tilted his head at Ohen’s words, but of course the blind Ohen couldn’t see it.

 

“The Crown Prince waking up is a separate matter anyway. Yeongae just needs to solve her own problem.”

 

It was a cold statement, but it worked.

 

Ryuie, much more genuine than when appealing to emotions, scratched her scalp that had become rough and dry from the oath with her hand.

 

“Would it be possible here?”

 

“It will be a large-scale ceremony, so we alone won’t be enough. But fortunately, you’ve already called the other nobles.”

 

Including the priests who followed from the capital, it would be roughly possible.

 

‘He didn’t become the temple’s high priest for nothing.’

 

He had more initiative than those idiots who only looked upward.

 

“Prepare it.”

 

“I’ll try to finish it within three days.”

 

Ohen promised as he stood up with a stoop.

 

Then Benito spoke.

 

“I don’t want to break the ceremony, Priest Ohen.”

 

“Benito, follow me. You need to be there to prepare the ceremony.”

 

“The Duke’s daughter must marry the Crown Prince.”

 

“Now is not the time to be stubborn.”

 

“You pulled the Crown Prince out of the swamp.”

 

Benito ignored Ohen and looked only at Ryuie.

 

“Duke’s daughter, please tell me to wake the Crown Prince. Then I’ll make it happen. Of course, that would mean Glem dies.”

 

“Get lost.”

 

Ryuie rejected him outright.

 

She didn’t even want to know about whatever strange ceremony the priests were planning.

 

‘Human sacrifice? What nonsense.’

 

No matter what, she couldn’t let them touch Glem.

 

Right now, he’s mine.

 

He’s my lover.

 

The only one who doesn’t fear me.

 

Suddenly missing Glem terribly, Ryuie just stormed out of the room.

 

And partly, though she didn’t realize it herself, it was because it was becoming difficult to keep looking at Yosua’s form.

 

The others already had a somber atmosphere as if viewing a corpse.

 

Yosua lying with his hands folded even seemed to emit a gentle light like a martyred priest.

 

‘What are you trying to do now?’

 

This atmosphere of everything being perfectly finished.

 

I really don’t like it.

 

‘Did you leave for this?’

 

To meet a tragic death and rise to the ranks of historical saints?

 

The more the other knights and nobles grieved while looking at Yosua, the more twisted Ryuie’s mood became.

 

‘You must be thrilled to become a noble treasure. Yosua. It’s what you always wanted.’

 

I’m leaving to do something honorable.

 

Those were Yosua’s last words, heard not from the person himself but through someone else.

 

Honor.

 

The honor that rolled around beside the knees that knelt to offer me love.

 

I should have trampled on it long ago.

 

‘Nothing has any meaning.’

 

Now even death has no meaning.

 

If Yosua, whom she had wanted to see once before breaking off the engagement, was in this state, it just felt bland and bitter and made her want to spit.

 

‘What value does your life have?’

 

Ryuie endlessly mocked Yosua’s failures. Without realizing that thinking so obsessively only about Yosua showed how much she was fixated on him.

 

‘This feels awful.’

 

With a sharp crack, her emotions that had created distance finally broke away from Yosua.

 

Thanks to thinking of Glem.

 

Glem, whose complexion was particularly pale and who sparked black lightning whenever she touched him, naturally came to mind.

 

‘I miss him.’

 

Ryuie turned around just like that.

 

If she stayed like this, she felt she would only think about Yosua endlessly.

 

To be consumed by a dead person.

 

As the heir to the ducal house, she absolutely could not tolerate it.

 

Without lingering attachment but more desperately than expected, Ryuie ran off to find Glem.

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