I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 81

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81. Catastrophe (5)

Mos was by no means a foolish young man, even though many people knew him as just a cursed village youth.

Even after Benito was revealed to be a monster and disappeared, he continued to think over and over.

Just as he hadn’t stopped offering flowers to Yosua, knowing it would look like funeral offerings.

“Yes.”

Mos smiled brightly.

The servant squeezed his eyes shut at that brazen appearance. It looked like he had resigned himself to death in desperation.

But Mos knew Ryuie. He wanted to know her.

“That person thought you loved Yosua.”

“Continue.”

“I thought you loved Glem.”

Ryuie gazed steadily at Mos, but her eyes had clearly changed from before she entered.

That was enough for Mos.

“The flowers I gave to the Crown Prince were consolation sent to someone who was similarly heartbroken.”

Mos spoke with melancholy.

His forlorn expression finally calmed Ryuie’s flames a little. Though her anger was unavoidable.

“Yosua was stolen from me.”

Ryuie continued speaking without blinking even once.

“And I’m planning to wage war with Glem from now on to get Yosua back.”

“Am I wrong?”

“No.”

Ryuie’s voice remained unwavering.

“He wouldn’t believe it himself, but I loved Glem quite a lot.”

‘Yes, you did.’

Mos could readily agree. As someone who had been stealing glances at Ryuie all along, he already knew well.

There was something special about Ryuie’s attitude toward Glem, and that had made Mos despair.

Even though his guess was confirmed to be correct, he wasn’t particularly happy.

“I’ve been smashing everything noticeable to avoid acknowledging it until now, but it seems I loved Yosua too.”

Mos could only continue listening with a gradually aching heart.

“But now that those two people have been revealed to be one person, it’s become easier for me to decide my attitude.”

Ryuie’s still unmoving eyelids cast shadows over her burning eyes.

“I just need to keep the one I like more.”

“How simple of you.”

“I’m going to make the other side die regretting meeting me for the rest of his life.”

“That would be difficult.”

“It’s exciting because it’s challenging.”

Ryuie let out a short bitter laugh.

Like someone who enjoyed that moment even while angry. As if she couldn’t contain herself.

Mos thought he could feel Ryuie’s confusion.

And very carefully, he groped for the opportunity he had been waiting for in silence for so long.

“If your love has already been stolen.”

Ryuie was someone who easily showed her emotions, but she didn’t take out her anger on innocent people.

Mos constantly repeated that sentence to himself.

“Even if you reclaim that love, it won’t be the same as before.”

“What are you trying to say, Mos?”

“You’ve surely resolved to win this war, but if by any chance you were to lose. Then.”

The servant beside them was shocked instead.

He never dreamed there would be someone bold enough to mention the word defeat to Ryuie before even beginning.

He believed Ryuie would immediately rain down fire. Mos thought so too, for a moment.

‘She’s still listening to me.’

Hope spread, leaving a shimmer like sunlight on water in Mos’s eyes.

“Please come to me.”

Mos looked up, biting his lovely lips with frost.

“I’ll give you proper love, not love that’s already broken and tainted. If you just give me as much heart as you gave to choose one side.”

The heart that had been writhing and waiting rose to the surface.

“You can be happy.”

“….”

Ryuie looked down at Mos with an expression she’d never shown before. That alone made Mos’s heart ache enough to split.

‘Finally.’

An ecstatic resonance drifted through Mos’s chest.

Ryuie had ‘truly’ recognized him.

‘She noticed me.’

Mos’s head grew hot.

Yosua who lost consciousness? Good riddance.

Glem who dared start a war? Likewise.

There was no empty space left for those who foolishly opposed Ryuie and left.

Mos wanted to occupy all of that space.

‘I can be loved.’

Now his turn had finally begun.

For Mos too, this war was his own war. His fate would be decided by victory or defeat.

So he could wish for Ryuie’s victory with infinite heart.

“The war has just begun.”

“That’s why I had to say it now. After defeat, you’d feel it as humiliation. Please don’t do that.”

Mos leaned his upper body toward Ryuie purely and boldly. Ryuie didn’t back away.

“What I want most is. For you to win and still abandon Yosua and come to me. The appearance of you I want most is victory.”

“….”

“So please win.”

Shining water droplets bounced and fell below Mos as he raised his body.

If there were legends in this place, it would be a sight worthy of a song about a beautiful lake fairy appearing with a swishing fish tail to wish for victory.

Mos closed his eyes toward Ryuie in a manner perfectly suited to a story.

It was a gesture hoping for a kiss, and he was somewhat prepared for pain.

But mostly it was anticipation.

Sizzle!

A small lightning bolt grazed Mos’s lips. But instead of the soft touch he expected, he felt the bone of a finger pressing lightly.

“…I can’t right now.”

Mos opened his eyes gently in disappointment.

Instead of responding to the kiss, Ryuie had lightly pushed his face away with her hand.

Still, the curse of the oath continued to work.

Mos was happy just that Ryuie, who was gazing at him steadily, was no longer angry.

Because he felt like he had made it so.

Ryuie lowered her hand to avoid hurting Mos further.

“I’ll have it treated.”

“Yes, miss.”

Mos said with an ecstatic smile. He couldn’t even feel the burn on his lips.

‘See. I really do need to stay by your side.’

Mos became endlessly delighted.

He could gladly welcome an all-out war.

Unlike someone else.

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“You must return to the capital immediately.”

Glem, who had retrieved Yosua’s body, stopped at the border area on the opposite side of the swamp.

Though he had safely crossed the swampland by borrowing Glem’s knowledge.

Since this was the border area, he couldn’t go any further, and to return by the original route, he couldn’t break through Ryuie who had set up camp at the temple.

Despite gathering all the priests and guards the nobles had to block them, stopping the knight order was purely luck.

It was because they hesitated, unable to recklessly attack the Crown Prince and nobles.

Of course, Ryuie was furious.

The nobles didn’t believe such fortune would continue either.

The seasoned Marquis Kelsus offered counsel.

“Now that we’ve confirmed Yeongae’s treasonous intent, arrest is natural, but as we just confirmed, immediate suppression by force is impossible.”

Glem looked at the marquis silently for a moment.

Though it had been over ten years since he left the Imperial Palace, the Empire’s laws he had learned from childhood were still ingrained in his mind.

“You’re going to treat this as treason?”

“This is a case that requires no investigation.”

“I’d like to define this incident as merely a somewhat large fight between lov…ers.”

Glem’s voice revealed undisguisable discomfort.

Even in this situation, did he still want to claim to be Ryuie’s lover?

The other nobles had looks that said ‘enough already.’ They still couldn’t accept Glem as Yosua deep in their hearts.

It was a remnant of their habit of despising mercenaries.

Marquis Kelsus and a few other experienced ones were stern.

“Six bullets fired by Yeongae are lodged in you.”

“Strictly speaking, that’s Glem’s body.”

“Since Your Highness’s original body is asleep, if we don’t treat Glem’s current body as your true self, we cannot even provide immediate protection.”

“…What if I said I had such a hobby?”

Glem’s forced argument was quite a spectacle.

‘No matter how much you want to cover for Yeongae, really. What kind of pervert would claim to have a hobby of being shot?’

Marquis Kelsus managed not to sigh and changed the subject.

“Let’s postpone what should be discussed in court. Your Highness. How did you come to be in such a state?”

“I came into contact with a holy relic that had sunk in the swamp and transformed like this.”

“Even though your original body is right beside you, is there absolutely no way to return?”

Glem still held Yosua’s body with a displeased expression.

Though he had turned it the other way, perhaps finding it difficult to look at his own face.

That sight was equally shocking to the watching nobles.

“I couldn’t return.”

“Since we have mages and priests, let’s try first.”

“Since it’s not an oath, it might actually be easier to resolve.”

“More than that, recapturing the horses and carriages is urgent. It’s obvious Yeongae will block the path to the capital.”

“What about our food supplies?”

The nobles, who didn’t know the exact details of the incident, each chattered and began looking for solutions.

Glem sighed and unconsciously rubbed his arm.

It was where Ryuie’s bullet had hit him earlier.

Since there was a priest, the wound had disappeared without a trace.

But what made him uncomfortable was something else.

“…Why didn’t you stay by Ryuie’s side?”

Glem frowned at Saintess Agasa, who had instantly healed his wounds.

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