I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 79

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79. Catastrophe (3)

“I need to stay with this kid today. See you later.”

“Huh?”

“When you come tomorrow, bring a gun too.”

Ryuie left those words behind and went off with the Foreign Boy.

That night, Yosua vomited all night long.

“What’s wrong, Your Highness? You need to tell me where it hurts!”

The Imperial Palace’s exclusive priest turned pale, not knowing what illness had befallen the Crown Prince.

Yosua could barely speak properly before finally managing to answer.

“…Please bring my tutor.”

“Pardon?”

“Quickly!”

The person who came running out in pajamas in the middle of that night was the foreign language teacher.

The priest wore an expression of complete incomprehension at the Crown Prince’s request.

He was even more astounded when the Crown Prince, who had been retching so violently, suddenly became clear-minded and focused as soon as the lesson began.

Yosua only allowed himself to receive treatment again after conversing with his tutor until dawn, his voice completely hoarse and cracked.

The next day, Yosua could understand every word of the conversation between Ryuie and that Foreign Boy.

“That person is your country’s Crown Prince?”

“He’s incredibly smart. He learned a foreign language overnight just to talk with you. That shows how kind he is too.”

“Hmm.”

Yosua sat quietly between the two with a smiling face.

He still doesn’t remember the Foreign Boy’s name even now.

“So you were the one who brought the gun prototype to the Ducal House.”

“Yeah, that’s right. I heard you’re a Crown Prince, but you couldn’t even get hold of a single gun?”

The Foreign Boy deliberately snorted.

He was saying this knowing full well that since it was something they made, it couldn’t be obtained elsewhere.

“Ryuie here was already able to shoot excellently just one week after we brought the gun!”

“I heard that poorly made guns can easily explode. It seems too dangerous to bring something like that so casually.”

Yosua spoke in his still gentle tone while watching the Foreign Boy’s twitching eyebrows. Ryuie said indifferently.

“Even as a prototype, it didn’t have that much power. When I tried shooting it with Dad, arrows were stronger.”

“You can’t compare it to arrows! It’s much easier and anyone can handle it! Soon guns will be sold throughout the entire Empire!”

“So that’s why you came to sell them.”

Sometimes new changes would casually circulate in children’s hands.

Instead of going to school, Ryuie spent her time seeking out and trying such items with the status of the Ducal House.

That was another side of Ryuie that Yosua didn’t know about.

Yosua’s neatly folded fingers twitched once more.

“Father put it up for public bidding, but everyone’s uninterested. Loading is too difficult and slow, so they’d rather bring a mage instead.”

“I think it has great value.”

“See, only Ryuie gets it.”

“Looking at the weapon you made, what’s the purpose? What are you trying to hunt?”

Yosua interjected. The Foreign Boy’s expression became sullen again.

“Monsters, obviously.”

“Then it’s even more curious that you came to sell to the Ducal House instead of the Imperial Court.”

“I don’t believe in Rkultu. So how could I possibly cooperate with the Imperial Court here?”

The Foreign Boy suddenly changed his expression.

“All monsters were created by Rkultu, weren’t they? This blue blood.”

Slap!

A slap flew across.

Yosua was so startled he momentarily wondered if he himself had struck.

But the boy holding his cheek with a dazed expression was looking at Ryuie.

“How rude.”

“…!”

The Foreign Boy was greatly shocked by the fact that Ryuie had hit him.

“You, how could you do that to me…!”

“Even if you’re a foreigner, who are you disrespecting right now? Does our country look that easy to you?”

“…I won’t let this slide! I’ll make it all as if it never happened!”

The Foreign Boy ran out crying.

Ryuie didn’t care and even delivered a kick toward where the Foreign Boy had exited.

“Next time you do that again, it’ll be your butt!”

“…The Duke will be angry.”

“If Dad wants to be angry, then he should be.”

Ryuie’s answer was so nonchalant that it drove Yosua to an even more distant point.

His stomach churned again and he felt inappropriately excited.

‘Ryuie really does like me, doesn’t she?’

While the servants Ryuie brought along couldn’t stay long and got chased away, Yosua could always be by Ryuie’s side.

When foreigners badmouthed the Imperial Court as monstrous, calling the blue blood cursed, she immediately defended him.

Yosua, still childlike, thought Ryuie was on his side.

So with an excited heart, he wanted to hear Ryuie’s feelings again.

“You don’t believe what he said, right?”

“I don’t know. It’s true that Rkultu’s blood is mixed in your body.”

At Ryuie’s answer, Yosua ended up vomiting all night again that day.

Enough that Ryuie had to come visit him while he was sick.

“You’re sick?”

As soon as she arrived, Ryuie rolled up onto the bed. Yosua clenched his fists with his already weakened body that couldn’t move.

Ryuie rested her chin on Yosua’s chest and grumbled.

“That’s why I told you to go hunting with me every day. Just being good at horseback riding won’t build your stamina.”

“I have a favor to ask.”

“What is it?”

“Twist my nose.”

“Huh?”

“Hard.”

Even Ryuie, who was rarely surprised by anything, was flustered by this request.

“Did you hit your head?”

“I didn’t.”

“Really doing it? You asked for it?”

“Only you can do it.”

At those words, Ryuie closed her mouth quite seriously and twisted Yosua’s nose.

Then, as shock was applied to the mucous membrane weakened by illness, blood flowed down.

It was just as Yosua had expected.

Ryuie stopped her movement at the sudden bleeding.

“You’re bleeding.”

“Did you see?”

“Yeah?”

“It’s red.”

Ryuie, who had been about to wipe off the blood on her hand, hesitated.

Perhaps due to the pain, he greedily captured the sight of Ryuie’s wavering, teary eyes.

“It’s not blue. I’m not different at all. I’ll make you a gun again. I’ll go hunting too. I’ll even quit school if you tell me to.”

Yosua moved the red traces that had lingered on his lips.

“Don’t be with other people…”

The moment Ryuie saw Yosua crying with a nosebleed and labored breathing, she fell in love.

Without realizing it, Ryuie crawled on top of Yosua and brought her face close to his.

The sound of pounding echoed together from their touching chests.

“Do you like me?”

Yosua nodded. Ryuie’s smile deepened even more.

“Then why didn’t you tell me?”

“Because you already rejected me.”

Ryuie folded her arms and giggled.

“Idiot.”

“….”

“A Crown Prince shouldn’t give up so easily.”

Ryuie was going to tease him a little more. But she couldn’t. Because Yosua lifted his head and kissed her.

Since they were still children, they only pressed their lips together firmly before pulling apart, but still.

“Really?”

Ryuie blinked and looked at Yosua, who was flushed with excitement, as if seeing him for the first time.

The lips that had touched and parted felt hot.

Feeling her heart soar, Ryuie this time pressed her lips firmly against his first.

Yosua squeezed his eyes shut and earnestly pushed his lips forward while Ryuie gave him lots of kisses. Hoping they might bump into each other if he was lucky.

He seemed to lack energy though.

Finding it amusing, Ryuie giggled.

“What a shame.”

“What is?”

“Your blood. It was red.”

“Are you disappointed?”

“No. If you had blue blood, I would have liked you even more.”

“I don’t want that. I like being the same as you.”

“We’re already different, so saying that is meaningless.”

Yosua looked up at Ryuie with puzzled eyes.

Ryuie quietly rolled her eyes around.

“I’ll have my family handle the gun somehow. Since you’ll become Emperor.”

“Are your plans for rebellion over?”

“If you like me, you’ll definitely let me win no matter what.”

Yosua didn’t answer right away. Ryuie’s eyebrows immediately shot up sharply.

“No? I won’t accept anything unless it’s everything.”

“…I was the same.”

“What?”

“I don’t want it either unless it’s everything.”

Yosua’s profile, which had been turned away sulkily, was more persistent than before.

“You have to give me everything too. Can you do that?”

Ryuie was a little flustered. Naturally, she was only used to receiving love, not giving it for the first time.

She realized for the first time that the other person could love as much as she did.

That she wasn’t the only one burning hot in this dizzy world.

Yosua sensitively noticed Ryuie’s reaction and immediately turned his head away.

“It’s okay. You don’t have to do that. I just want to stay by your side for now.”

Yosua interlaced his fingers with Ryuie’s. The pressure was urgent, as if she might run away somewhere.

Even that felt amazing to Ryuie. The feeling of wanting to be caught instead of breaking his fingers and running away, calling him arrogant.

Some wave that calmed her temperament, which never wanted to be held obediently, washed over Ryuie’s heart.

“This is the first time I’ve felt like this.”

“Yeah.”

Yosua answered without knowing anything. Or maybe that kid had been hit by this wave before me.

Since he’s the only person who can stand in a higher position than me.

That kid I kept dragging around because even though he made me furious and tickled my insides, even though I found him annoying, I was so drawn to him.

‘Now I understand.’

If it’s not everything, then it’s nothing.

If I could have you completely, completely giving up myself wouldn’t be so bad either.

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