I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 61

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61. A Cage of One Room (4)

 

As soon as Ryuie disappeared, Benito brushed off his knees and stood up.

 

Bendam hastily stopped him.

 

“Stay right there.”

 

“?”

 

Benito tilted his head.

 

Bendam, who hadn’t forgotten his duty even after his master disappeared, hardened his expression.

 

“Benito, where are you from?”

 

“I’m from this Temple.”

 

“That’s not what I’m asking.”

 

At Bendam’s signal, the knights slammed the door shut again with a bang.

 

The knights surrounded the priests threateningly.

 

“No matter how I think about it, the knowledge you possess is excessive. And just now you even said you’d kill someone to save His Highness the Crown Prince.”

 

“It’s not just anyone, it’s Glem.”

 

“Does the crime change if the target is clear?”

 

Bendam glared at Benito.

 

“According to Imperial law, offering living people as sacrifices is prohibited. From this moment, I will arrest you and send you to the Capital for investigation.”

 

“I’m going to the Capital?”

 

“Yes. I know very well that you’re not even a proper priest anyway. I’ll bundle that into the charges as well.”

 

Bendam, thinking this was the reason Ryuie had left, gripped his documents tightly.

 

Just as the knights were about to rush at Benito, Ohen’s voice was heard.

 

“The Duke’s daughter seems to be the type who surprisingly doesn’t keep secrets. In front of all the knights too.”

 

“Don’t speak carelessly about that person!”

 

Bendam, sensing something strange, shouted.

 

“All the knights here have received anti-priest training. I also carry the Saintess’s sacred relic, so don’t even think of opposing us!”

 

“I don’t fight originally. I’m not the type to jump in knowing it’s foolish either.”

 

Ohen muttered in a mournful voice.

 

“But it was a mistake to let the Duke’s daughter leave. She’s not your master to be protected by you, but because she can protect.”

 

“…What do you mean?”

 

Benito smiled brightly and fluttered the hem of his robe.

 

And from beneath it, substantial darkness burst forth.

 

“!”

 

“Aaahhh!!”

 

“What is that…!”

 

Transparent and soundless suffocation instantly covered the entire room.

 

Despite the horrified Bendam crying out for the Saintess’s protection, the brilliant light was devoured by the flowing darkness.

 

Cosmic silence that gripped each person’s head like a giant’s hand flashed from all directions.

 

The only people who remained unharmed were the lying Yosua and Ohen.

 

Benito continued to smile cheerfully as if playing an amusing prank, pressing down on the heads of the fallen people.

 

After a moment, the darkness was withdrawn from the people who had lost consciousness and were bleeding black blood from their eyes and noses.

 

Benito said proudly.

 

“I ate all the necessary memories.”

 

“…I suppose I’ll have to provide them with new memories that make sense.”

 

Ohen muttered in a low voice.

 

His body was trembling slightly, invisibly.

 

“Forgive me. I said I would break the betrothal ceremony because it will fail anyway.”

 

“Ah.”

 

Ohen was using extremely respectful language with Benito that he didn’t even use with Ryuie.

 

Benito accepted it naturally.

 

“I needed time, so this worked out well. Glem didn’t seem like he would give up on the Duke’s daughter easily.”

 

“Is separating those two my next task?”

 

“Yes. That would be good.”

 

“Understood.”

 

Ohen bowed his head respectfully.

 

“I’ll go see Mos! If I make a new lover for the Duke’s daughter, Glem will give up soon too!”

 

Benito bounced out cheerfully.

 

Ohen, who had kept his head bowed until then, slowly lowered his body.

 

Using only the sensation in his fingertips to feel around the floor, he began turning people over one by one and wiping their faces.

 

He looked like a priest performing last rites alone in a place swept by plague.

 

* * *

 

Glem couldn’t wait for Ryuie to come out of the Temple again.

 

He went to the front of the prayer hall where Yosua’s body was placed and just turned back, and even went to the storehouse to look for weapons in advance.

 

Simply put, it meant he kept pacing around restlessly.

 

‘The conversation is taking a long time.’

 

When he heard something breaking inside, he almost just went in.

 

But realizing that the smashing sounds were coming from Ryuie, not someone else, he turned back reassured.

 

Of course, it wasn’t really a situation to be reassured about.

 

‘Did Benito tell her?’

 

Glem had vividly imagined Ryuie’s reaction when she learned he was the Yosua she had been searching for so desperately.

 

Whether she’d strike his chest with an axe, blow a hole in his head with a gun, or strangle him with her hands in the classic way.

 

Though they were terrible scenes to imagine for lovers, all three were more than realistic enough.

 

Honestly, if it were up to his heart alone, he would gladly offer his body to Ryuie to vent her anger as many times as she wanted.

 

‘Why isn’t she coming out.’

 

Glem glanced toward the Temple.

 

His heart kept pounding.

 

The more his anxiety grew, the more brutal the scenes of Ryuie massacring him became.

 

Even while imagining increasingly terrible acts too horrible to write, Glem hoped Ryuie would do exactly that.

 

‘If she would forgive me even after doing that.’

 

He didn’t dare beg for mercy.

 

Glem pressed his innocent sword sheath in his helplessness.

 

Except for killing people who had become monsters with a mourning heart, he had never deliberately killed anyone.

 

He didn’t want to kill Benito to silence him either.

 

Yet the reason he couldn’t let go of his sword was perhaps due to another wariness.

 

A familiar scent brushed his nose on the wind.

 

Faster than a shout, Ryuie ran over and embraced him, then black lightning struck all around like the appearance of a demon lord.

 

“Ryuie!”

 

Crackle!

 

The body temperature of Ryuie, who leaped into his arms, was so intense that Glem felt dizzy for a moment.

 

‘The third time?’

 

As soon as Ryuie’s arms wrapped around his neck, Glem tensed.

 

Contrary to his expectation that his neck would be strangled like this, Ryuie’s arms that tightened around him just squeezed with all their might.

 

It hurt, but it was much better than he had imagined.

 

“Are you trembling?”

 

Ryuie whispered along with a sizzling, burning sound.

 

“I thought you’d naturally be waiting for me.”

 

“…I was waiting.”

 

Glem hugged her back with strength.

 

If not for the betrothal vow, he really would have pulled her fiercely until heart touched heart.

 

It was quite difficult to embrace his beloved with just enough force to reach that stage where they had agreed to only wound each other’s skin.

 

Ryuie also seemed to find control difficult, readjusting her grip on the back of Glem’s neck several times.

 

Or maybe she just wanted to pet Glem.

 

“Were you anxious?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Glem.”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“I strangely want to kill everyone.”

 

Instead of saying “Haven’t you always been like that,” Glem clumsily pressed down on Ryuie’s shoulder.

 

If only there wasn’t the curse, he would have done better than this.

 

Instead, only his voice came out easily.

 

“When that happens, don’t forget to kill me first.”

 

Ryuie chuckled and stretched out her arms to meet Glem’s eye level.

 

“Were you the type to pursue honor too? No matter what, you’re saying I shouldn’t kill people?”

 

“No. I just don’t want to give that up to someone else.”

 

“A confession that you have a preference for being murdered?”

 

“As if that could be true. It’s because it’s you that I don’t want to give anything to anyone else.”

 

Glem said shamelessly.

 

“Pass.”

 

“It’s an honor, Yeongae.”

 

“Where did you learn such speech habits?”

 

“Secret.”

 

Ryuie giggled and suddenly kissed Glem.

 

Then both of them were no longer in a position to speak and had no choice but to separate from each other.

 

“Please at least pretend to be in pain.”

 

Even at Catsy’s words, Ryuie only pouted her lips.

 

Glem didn’t know, but watching Ryuie act more dramatically than usual, Catsy was filled with worry.

 

‘Is finding the Crown Prince’s body really a good thing for my master?’

 

She was skillfully hiding it now, but when she saw Yosua, the way Ryuie’s emotions fluctuated was unsettling.

 

It didn’t seem like the Ryuie she had known until now.

 

It felt like she would cross some line and change completely.

 

She was much more like the old Ryuie when she was with Glem.

 

Catsy, who had been secretly relieved, shook her head vigorously.

 

‘No! That won’t do! I can’t hand over my master like this!’

 

Besides, what was she supposed to do about Glem having the same lip marks as Ryuie because of the curse – it was disgusting to look at!

 

Catsy, consumed by jealousy, absolutely refused to mention that it would be better for the two to be together.

 

But she couldn’t bring up the Crown Prince again to Ryuie, who had just escaped from Yosua, so she was struggling.

 

Unexpectedly, Glem casually threw it out there.

 

“Let me freely visit the Crown Prince’s body too.”

 

“Are you trying to kill him behind my back? A lover’s jealousy is my type though.”

 

“No.”

 

If Glem did that, it would be suicide.

 

“I’m just curious.”

 

“Hmm.”

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