I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 68

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68. Saintess (2)

 

Glem tried to make excuses.

 

“What nonsense are you…”

 

“Your Highness. This is not the time to deceive.”

 

Agasa whispered urgently.

 

“Your original body has already been discovered, so why do you keep trying to persist in that form?”

 

Flustered, Glem briefly raised his head to look around.

 

Fortunately, having been caught once before, he managed a somewhat calmer response the second time. His opponent was also a Saintess.

 

Glem whispered quickly.

 

“Can the other Priests see who I am too?”

 

“No. This is my divine power.”

 

“…But there was already one Priest who recognized me before.”

 

“What? I don’t know what method he used, but unless one is chosen by God like me, it would be difficult.”

 

Benito was even to the point where his body would transform into a demon. He couldn’t even become an apprentice Priest, let alone a strong one. Then how.

 

‘Is his identity something else?’

 

Glem pushed Agasa away.

 

“If we’re seen together, it will raise more suspicion. Just pretend you don’t know, please.”

 

“That won’t do, Your Highness!”

 

The Saintess who anxiously clung to him looked even more troubled.

 

As soon as his identity was discovered, the forgotten etiquette and manners naturally sprang forth.

 

As if it was now time to return to his original body.

 

The sensation of formal speech he hadn’t used in years sticking to his tongue was terrible.

 

“The oath-breaking ceremony ultimately failed. Once I regain my original body, I’ll leave immediately.”

 

“Leaving Ryuie behind?”

 

“…”

 

“I can’t be certain that Ryuie will be able to endure it now that Your Highness is running away.”

 

“What do you mean.”

 

Glem’s eyes narrowed for a moment. It was like a volcanic crater opening up.

 

The ego that had lived as Glem quickly kneaded the insides that were turning over with intense emotion.

 

“Don’t spout nonsense about things you don’t even know and get lost!”

 

“?!”

 

Agasa, startled by the sudden shouting, realized that people around them were already starting to look at the two of them and closed her mouth.

 

Glem, skillfully covering up the topic, revealed undisguised hostility.

 

“Whatever relationship you two had before, you never even became lovers in the end, right?”

 

“…How rude.”

 

Agasa also hardened her face, pretending to be genuinely angry.

 

Taking advantage of that gap, Glem once more deliberately bumped shoulders hard with the Saintess.

 

“Arrange some time for us to be alone.”

 

“…!”

 

Before the Saintess could show that she had heard the whisper, Glem walked out like an angry person.

 

However, his heart was beating frantically with anxiety.

 

‘That’s already two people.’

 

Then it was only a matter of time before there would be three, and it wouldn’t be long before his identity reached Ryuie’s ears.

 

Glem’s eardrums filled with a buzzing noise.

 

Because he had heard something far more serious than the risk of being discovered himself.

 

‘But I can’t be certain that Ryuie will be able to endure it?’

 

‘Endure what?’

 

What on earth does this mean?

 

Does it mean that just keeping Yosua’s body far away isn’t enough to stop the wedding?

 

The ominous premonition kept becoming more and more real. It was unacceptable.

 

Glem’s legs, which had been walking, were now running, and by the time the Prayer Hall came into view, he was almost sprinting at full speed.

 

“Ryuie!”

 

Crash.

 

The scene that greeted him as soon as he opened the door was enough to strike Glem’s heart.

 

Ryuie was with Yosua again.

 

With the feeling of all his hair standing on end, Glem grabbed and pulled Ryuie’s arm.

 

“Come out.”

 

“Why are you acting like this?”

 

“Stay with me.”

 

Sizzle.

 

Even though there was the smell of each other’s skin burning, Glem didn’t let go of Ryuie.

 

“Not that bastard. Not the Saintess either. You already chose me.”

 

Glem spat out with uneven breath from running.

 

With considerable sincerity. With most of his desperation.

 

Ryuie didn’t reciprocate others’ goodwill, but she wasn’t dull.

 

The sentence that bounced roughly around Glem’s tongue before coming out was so endearing.

 

When Ryuie grabbed Glem’s arm and leaned her head in, Glem was startled.

 

“What are you doing?!”

 

“Kiss.”

 

“Really, can you do that here?”

 

“What?”

 

“I said let’s go out!”

 

Glem deliberately rolled his eyes, trying to ignore Yosua’s body lying in front.

 

‘It’s my own body, so why am I embarrassed.’

 

Even while coming to drag her away, his loose nerves wandered around, tingling at the parts touching Ryuie.

 

Despite suffering the pain of being burned by lightning, he sensed it very well indeed.

 

Ryuie just pouted her lips.

 

“Mm.”

 

“Stop kissing. The ceiling here is open too, you know?”

 

“I know.”

 

“You never know when someone might come in. I don’t know about you, but I hate being seen by other guys.”

 

“Mmm.”

 

“Ha. Really.”

 

Glem quickly turned Ryuie around. His back completely covered Ryuie.

 

“If you’re going to hide, do it like this.”

 

“Ahaha!”

 

Ryuie laughed out loud and wrapped her arms around Glem’s neck.

 

Glem pressed his clinging lips firmly with his tongue while quickly carrying Ryuie out of the Prayer Hall.

 

Being careful that Ryuie’s dangling ankles wouldn’t catch on the threshold.

 

The thought came belatedly that it would be safer to hit the door frame than to get burns on his own hands.

 

But Glem’s deceitful hands had already measured the length of Ryuie’s ankles.

 

Even the sensation of her slender egg-like ankle bones fitting between his fingers.

 

‘How can I forget this.’

 

Every time he touched Ryuie, his brain, not his body, was imprinting memories.

 

While frantically pouring his passion onto Ryuie, Glem kept backing away from Yosua.

 

As if wanting to run away wasn’t just to save Ryuie.

 

* * *

 

Agasa received absolute hospitality from the Temple.

 

Even the Priests of the Swamp, who had been prickly toward the Duke’s daughter, bowed their heads to the floor and submitted as soon as they saw the Saintess.

 

Thanks to this, Agasa was able to investigate the Temple much more comfortably than Ryuie.

 

Moreover, with the privilege of being chosen, she could even see the proper truth.

 

However, the more Agasa confirmed the reality entangled in the swamp, the heavier her heart became.

 

‘It’s too cruel to Ryuie.’

 

Everything was created for Ryuie, but it was stage machinery that would never have a happy ending.

 

Agasa felt deep sorrow.

 

The night she treated Ryuie.

 

It was always the same when she recalled the truth of the betrothal vow she heard directly from the Emperor and Empress when she visited the Imperial Palace.

 

Could a person named Ryuie truly love someone who had trapped her in a cage she could never escape from?

 

The Ryuie that Agasa knew would never forgive The Man.

 

Therefore, in this moment when the truth was still hidden.

 

Every time Ryuie showed even the slightest bit of her feelings toward Yosua, it would become endlessly sad.

 

So much so that she desperately wanted to believe Ryuie’s words that she truly no longer loved Yosua.

 

Knock knock knock.

 

Agasa startled.

 

It wasn’t the door, but the sound of the window glass being tapped.

 

“Who is it?”

 

The person outside chose to reveal their face instead of answering. Agasa felt relieved.

 

“Your Highness.”

 

“I’m sorry for stealing your sleeping time.”

 

Glem, who had been hanging upside down outside the window, silently opened it.

 

Even with the deliberately dim light in the room, she could see Glem’s appearance, terribly burned.

 

Agasa’s eyes naturally wavered.

 

The Saintess’s subordinates brought from the capital weren’t many, but still, all the rumors that should come in had come in.

 

How jealous Ryuie’s lover had been as soon as the Saintess arrived, taking her to the room and not letting her come out for a long time…

 

Agasa’s earlobes reddened as she couldn’t bring herself to continue the rest of the words.

 

“You used quite a… direct method.”

 

“We had to go that far to divert attention so Ryuie wouldn’t pay attention to us.”

 

Glem unconsciously rubbed his face with severe burn marks and let out a groan, “Ugh.”

 

Rather than his pain, Agasa found it hard to look at the marks Ryuie had left and recited a prayer of healing.

 

“Thank you.”

 

“Crown Prince.”

 

Agasa steeled herself again and clasped her hands together.

 

“I also heard everything from His Majesty about what kind of vow it is.”

 

“…”

 

“Rkultu is truly cruel.”

 

Glem didn’t answer.

 

Only after seeing sufficient guilt and regret on his face did Agasa finally feel sympathy.

 

When you’re too smart at too young an age, it becomes easy to read misfortune.

 

Yosua was tremendously smart, so he simply brought tremendous misfortune.

 

“That vow existed even before this Empire was created.”

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