I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 62

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62. A Cage of One Room (5)

 

Though Glem mumbled evasively, Ryuie roughly guessed his intention.

 

It wasn’t strange for a current lover to be curious about someone who had been bound to her in engagement for so long.

 

She even became curious about how Glem would react.

 

Ryuie readily agreed.

 

“Fine.”

 

“Thank you.”

 

“And one more piece of good news. His mind is gone and only his body returned, but I’m going to proceed with the engagement dissolution ceremony with the priests.”

 

“Really?”

 

This was truly good news.

 

Glem’s complexion brightened.

 

If the betrothal vow could be broken even in this way, he would welcome it with open arms.

 

Though it would be extremely difficult to later apologize to Ryuie and ask her to marry him without the vow.

 

If the reason he had left the Imperial Palace in the first place was resolved, he could devote all his time to Ryuie.

 

Ryuie was also pleased.

 

“You’re so happy about breaking the engagement? Do you really love me?”

 

“It’s more surprising that you still can’t believe it.”

 

Glem grabbed Ryuie and spun her around.

 

“Do I look like the type to confess in front of hundreds of people if it weren’t for you?”

 

“Ahaha!”

 

Watching Ryuie burst into genuine laughter, Glem realized that his vague happiness had become certain.

 

It felt like his long-parched stomach was finally being filled.

 

“Anyway, since many other nobles are here too, I’ll keep the place where Yosua is open. You can go see him anytime, so go take a look.”

 

“I’m not going to look, I’m going to keep watch.”

 

“What’s the point when he can’t even wake up.”

 

“Because he can’t wake up, he’s an even stronger enemy.”

 

“…”

 

Ryuie fell silent for a moment.

 

Glem was also slightly surprised to realize he had spoken more sincerely than he thought.

 

Didn’t it sound like Glem was truly jealous of Yosua?

 

‘…Me, jealous of Yosua.’

 

Glem hastily added.

 

“I was wondering if you might waver since he’s the fiancé you searched for so long.”

 

“As if.”

 

Ryuie answered immediately, but her lips pressed together again.

 

Her feelings were complicated.

 

She disliked both having feelings for Yosua and not having them.

 

Glem suppressed his emotions and suppressed them further.

 

It seemed he hadn’t sorted out his own feelings yet, and that would be too selfish.

 

All desires had to be set aside in front of Ryuie.

 

“Glem.”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“Kiss me.”

 

Though this changed things.

 

Glem immediately lowered his head.

 

* * *

 

While the two were having their romantic moment, they hid nothing.

 

Quite a diverse group of people was watching them with complicated feelings.

 

Most of them were nobles.

 

The majority were genuinely scandalized seeing her playing around with Glem despite Yosua’s body having returned.

 

“Does Yeongae truly have no fear of God?”

 

The nobles who had once held their breath just watching the knights wash the ground where Yosua had lain whispered among themselves.

 

“No matter that he’s a fiancé whose life or death was unknown for ten years, she still can’t act like that in front of her fiancé.”

 

“That’s right. Especially when that fiancé can’t even open his eyes.”

 

“It’s none other than His Highness the Crown Prince!”

 

“They must have sent word to the capital already, right?”

 

They gossiped.

 

Mos was listening to the nobles’ whispers from a little distance away.

 

Mos had also come out of his room because he couldn’t stay still after hearing the news that the Crown Prince’s body had returned.

 

“Of course the investigator reported it.”

 

“I heard she’s preparing the engagement dissolution ceremony right away with just that body.”

 

“I’m suspicious. I think she called us here intending to do this from the start. Otherwise, how could she discover His Highness at such a perfect moment?”

 

“That priest Benito too. He’s been traveling with Yeongae all along, hasn’t he?”

 

Mos’s ears twitched each time the nobles, accustomed to conspiracies, made their predictions.

 

‘They don’t know anything.’

 

Ryuie had been sincere throughout her time here.

 

That’s why her current appearance as Glem’s lover was all the more painful.

 

Apart from defending Ryuie in his heart, Mos’s heart kept being torn.

 

Every time Ryuie and Glem openly showed their affection, black lightning kept flashing, making it hard to pretend not to notice.

 

‘Those two are the ones breaking their vow.’

 

Why was his own heart suffering more?

 

The fact that he too had had a chance wouldn’t leave his mind.

 

He felt foolish for thinking he had grown close to Ryuie by merely offering fish tails and such.

 

It could have been Mos, not Glem, embracing and laughing with her over there.

 

He was the one who had first shown interest in Ryuie.

 

Mos’s fist gripped the water tank in frustration.

 

Every time he came outside, even being trapped in this narrow water tank felt like it was because he had failed to win Ryuie’s love.

 

And now even the real fiancé, the Crown Prince whom he could never dare to rival, had returned.

 

Mos, an ordinary village youth, would now be pushed to the very bottom of the rankings.

 

Mos’s chance to become Ryuie’s lover was clearly lost forever.

 

‘It’s unfair.’

 

As Mos continued his resentment, a cold palm landed on his shoulder.

 

“Ahhh!”

 

Thinking he might have been caught peeping, Mos screamed.

 

Fortunately, it was a non-threatening face.

 

“Hello? I’m Benito.”

 

The cheerful priest’s face greeted Mos.

 

Mos blinked with a dumbfounded expression.

 

‘What’s this?’

 

Benito’s following words didn’t help dispel his confusion either.

 

“I’m an evangelist who connects love.”

 

“…Excuse me?”

 

“I came to support your love!”

 

Benito’s brightly smiling face was so harmless that Mos could only look up at him in bewilderment.

 

* * *

 

The experience of seeing one’s own corpse with one’s own eyes must surely be rare in life.

 

‘This really feels strange.’

 

Glem looked at Yosua with a subtle expression.

 

When had they even changed his clothes? Even his outfit was elaborate.

 

It was exactly funeral attire.

 

‘…Ryuie wouldn’t have changed his clothes, right? No way. That’s not her personality either.’

 

Glem shook his head as improper thoughts kept trying to surface.

 

It was still a body he hadn’t reclaimed.

 

As long as his consciousness wasn’t there, no matter how much Ryuie touched it, he wouldn’t feel it himself.

 

‘No. But it’s still embarrassing.’

 

Glem’s cheeks reddened for no reason.

 

Since he had only come to explore, he needed to stop thinking about other things.

 

Glem, returning to a serious posture, carefully extended his arm.

 

‘Touching it won’t immediately return me to my original body, right? Or do I need other sacrifices?’

 

Glem had deliberately come to see Yosua at dawn.

 

Although Ryuie said he could visit anytime, he couldn’t rummage through Yosua’s body in front of others.

 

If he did that carelessly, he’d face quite different misunderstandings.

 

‘The nobles’ wariness has already heightened because of Benito.’

 

When his identity was revealed to not be the Crown Prince, quite many nobles felt embarrassed.

 

If only they hadn’t gotten excited from the start. They made assumptions on their own and blamed only Benito for no reason.

 

The problem was that Benito wasn’t the type to read others’ moods.

 

The nobles who failed even at resentment were taking out their anger in the wrong places.

 

Even when Glem was with Ryuie, reproaches would fly at them constantly.

 

‘Who knows what they’d say if they knew I was here.’

 

It wasn’t that he was afraid of being cursed at by them, but it would be troublesome if he couldn’t approach Yosua’s body because of it.

 

After adequately surveying the surroundings, Glem stepped onto the stairs.

 

Yosua’s body was laid on the temple’s highest altar.

 

But there was someone else who had the same thought as Glem.

 

Creak. Creak.

 

“?!”

 

“You’re out early, Glem.”

 

“…You too.”

 

Mos entered, pushing his wheels in a posture that had become quite familiar by now.

 

The light wooden bucket and shirt that had risen from absorbing water looked quite humble.

 

Glem naturally knelt and pretended he wasn’t doing anything.

 

“Did you come to see Yosua too?”

 

“I was curious since he’s the young lady’s fiancé. Isn’t it the same for you?”

 

“Well, yeah. That’s right.”

 

Glem gave a vague answer.

 

Mos’s face was strangely serene.

 

He didn’t seem to be jealous of Glem, who was Ryuie’s lover, nor did he seem jealous of Yosua.

 

He just seemed like a sick young man, making Glem feel sorry for having been wary of him before.

 

“How’s your body?”

 

“The same.”

 

Mos simply passed by Glem, who was awkwardly asking about his health.

 

He seemed to want to see Yosua more closely.

 

But his wheels got caught and he couldn’t go up the stairs.

 

“Should I help you?”

 

“No.”

 

Splash.

 

Mos, who had risen from his spot cutting through the water, threw what he had been hiding underwater toward Yosua.

 

It was something Glem never expected, so he just stared blankly at the object that fell with a thud near Yosua’s hand.

 

“What was that just now?”

 

“A flower.”

 

Mos tilted his chin as if asking whether Glem couldn’t see for himself.

 

It was an orchid that grew in marshlands. One with several white flower clusters.

 

“It’s a gift for His Highness the Crown Prince.”

 

“A gift?”

 

From you to me?

 

Glem quickly bit his tongue at the question that almost slipped out.

 

“You don’t even know the Crown Prince.”

 

“I am His Highness’s subject though.”

 

“Don’t be ridiculous.”

 

“And just. It’s pitiful, isn’t it.”

 

“….”

 

While Glem couldn’t find words to say, Mos turned his wheels without lingering and left the room.

 

Even after that, Mos offered flowers to Yosua every dawn.

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