I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 90

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90. Prisoner (1)

“Someone please explain what the hell is going on!”

Ryuie screamed while struggling frantically.

Glem, who had lost consciousness, was holding Ryuie tightly with both arms and legs and wouldn’t let go.

Glem’s reaction was completely different from what Ryuie had expected before coming here.

‘He’s not going to insist that what just happened was a wedding ceremony, is he!’

She absolutely, positively could not accept it.

Ryuie, furious to the tips of her hair, banged her head backward repeatedly trying to shake Glem off, but he didn’t budge.

“He’s heavy! What’s wrong with his condition? Agasa!”

“I’ll, I’ll wake him up!”

Startled, Agasa hurriedly began to pray.

“Don’t!”

Glem, who they thought had fainted, suddenly shouted again. He seemed to react almost automatically as soon as he heard Agasa’s prayer.

His words sounded almost like sleep talking.

“Leave it alone. Don’t mix Rkultu’s power here again. It’ll get complicated. It’s already too much as it is.”

“Your Highness, you’re bleeding!”

“That’s fortunate. This isn’t a body made by Rkultu.”

“Pardon?”

Glem buried his head in Ryuie’s shoulder like a whining child, then burned half his face with lightning until he regained consciousness.

It was a sight that made onlookers wince in pain.

“Stop touching it, Your Highness! You’ll really die at this rate!”

“I won’t die. This is a body made by Agatos. I lost my body, but Ryuie is fine.”

“You lost Yosua?!”

Ryuie’s voice rose sharply, but Glem lost consciousness again.

Ryuie let out a shriek and twisted her body, starting to bite Glem’s heavy arm with her teeth.

“Get up right now, you damn bastard!”

“I told you to stop!”

“Someone please pull him off!”

Though she said that, the lightning crackling between Glem and Ryuie was so fierce that anyone who tried to intervene would likely struggle to preserve their life.

“…They’re both complete monsters.”

“Let him receive treatment from the Republic! Even if there are no priests, there should be healers!”

Marquis Kelsus, who was relatively rational, tried his best to resolve the situation.

“The Republic?”

Ryuie stopped biting and looked up at the envoy with a crooked posture. Even while being tightly embraced by Glem, her ability to look so fierce was a talent.

The envoy, who unconsciously hesitated, said.

“That’s right. You have now crossed the border without permission, and if the Knight Order arrives, it will be considered a declaration of war!”

“What about those nobles?”

“I invited them.”

“Hah.”

Ryuie tiredly blinked her eyes that were about to roll back.

“We can’t let a mere marriage escalate into a diplomatic issue between nations.”

Seeing Ryuie say something sensible for once, the nobles felt briefly relieved.

Ryuie looked down at Agasa with eyes that were still completely unhinged.

“Report it as the kidnapping of the Duke’s daughter.”

“Ryuie!”

“No, let’s make it a bit more provocative. Mercenaries who annihilated the Duke’s Knight Order and kidnapped a beautiful young lady, then dared to lay hands on her.”

“That’s fine too.”

“What did you say?”

The nobles fell into confusion, unable to tell whether that was serious or a lie.

Only Ryuie persistently showed clear irritation.

“Glem, will you either answer me properly or let me go?”

“I don’t care about the reason, just let us stay here.”

Glem spoke while still keeping his eyes closed.

“Then I might be able to think of a way to grant your request.”

“…”

The Republic’s envoy used up all the eye-rolling and sweating he could do for a lifetime that day.

“Let’s treat him first.”

Finally, the envoy guided the other nobles to another room and began acting like the owner of this place again.

“We may not be as good as the Empire’s priests, but if you two are going to stay attached like that, we absolutely need a healer.”

“Please let me treat him.”

Agasa requested.

“If Your Highness is reluctant to have Lord Rkultu’s power touch his body, I’ll only treat Ryuie.”

Glem, who had been stubbornly refusing all along, nodded at those words. Ryuie was dumbfounded.

“I’m fine too. Even if my wounds heal a little, if Glem doesn’t let me go, they’ll just get burned again. It’ll only increase the pain.”

Ryuie, whose nerves had become completely numb, felt no emotion even when Agasa made a pitiful expression.

Did emotions truly depend on the body’s influence?

The weight of the arms still tightly constricting her body felt unbearably heavy.

“Or would you rather I just kill Glem?”

“….”

Whether he was no longer getting hurt, Glem’s arms didn’t move at all.

Ryuie began silently looking up at the ceiling, and Agasa bit her lips.

Kelsus Marquis, who had been watching the young people, pressed his brow tightly for a moment.

“Let’s go.”

“Pardon?”

“We’ve already heard His Highness’s orders. It would be best to join the Knight Order before the rain gets heavier.”

The confused nobles soon remembered that Glem had told them to return as hostages.

Though Kelsus Marquis had put it elegantly.

To think they would actually experience walking on their own feet to become hostages.

The nobles looked at Glem with lingering attachment, but he wasn’t in a state to give any more orders. There was no other choice.

In the end, being nobles, they obeyed the command and departed.

Only Agasa remained, watching the two with a hardened face, forgetting both bewilderment and difficulty.

After a while, the envoy returned carrying a small jar and a lamp.

“It’s an anesthetic inhaled through smoke. It will help you forget the pain.”

“Smoke?”

Agasa glared at the envoy with the expression of looking at a barbarian.

“Is it safe? Isn’t it addictive?”

“It’s as safe as the Empire’s prayers, Saintess.”

The envoy answered with a tired expression.

“You two already seem to be enduring well, but just in case, I’ll light it. A healer is also coming, so speak up if you feel like giving up.”

“Are you really planning to leave just the two of them alone like this?”

“Should we prepare a bridal chamber too?”

At those words, Ryuie turned her head to look at the envoy.

“Abduction marriage doesn’t constitute a valid marriage.”

“Well. To our eyes, marrying because of vows and kidnapping look quite similar.”

The envoy replied coldly.

“Please ensure that only corpses don’t remain when this is over. We’ll try to trust His Highness’s promise.”

“Fine.”

Glem, who had been quiet the whole time, answered properly. It would have been better if he had at least fainted—then there would be no reason to hate him more than now.

Crack. Crackle.

The envoy tilted the lamp to light the contents of the jar. Soon white smoke began rising and filling the room.

Agasa seemed to want to stay until the end, but when the envoy quietly urged her, she eventually got up from her seat too.

After all, this was something the two of them had to resolve.

Until they were left alone, Glem didn’t move like a rock. He just didn’t say “get lost” out loud, but his intention for everyone except Ryuie to disappear was clear.

“Is this our official wedding night?”

Huff.

Ryuie blew the smoke tickling her nose with her mouth. She didn’t want to become numb to pain. Her body was already in tatters.

If even the pain disappeared here, she felt like she would fall asleep in Glem’s embrace that she had longed for so much.

“On the ground without even a bed, intoxicated not by your beloved’s body but by a foreign country?”

“Some marriages end with the husband dying.”

Glem spoke in a low tone that seemed to echo from within a cave. Unfortunately, his mouth was positioned behind her neck, so every time he spoke, the back of her neck kept standing on end.

“If there are countless ways to marry, we can be the first of our kind too.”

“Why are you so determined to marry me?”

Ryuie said. It was rather comfortable not being able to see Glem’s face.

“We’ve done enough.”

“No.”

“Damn it, we almost caused a war just now and that’s still not enough?”

Ryuie was arrogant but not stupid. She knew the consequences of her actions and words.

She just didn’t care.

“We even practically kicked out the original owner to set up this bridal chamber. You know that?”

“The body you know is fake. But the original body you loved was also made from Rkultu God’s blood.”

Glem also stubbornly said only what he wanted to say.

“Either way, no version of me can be loved by you.”

Then Ryuie felt warm droplets flowing down the back of her neck.

‘Are you crying?’

Suddenly, all the nerves in her body seemed to jump up and throw stones.

What was happening behind her right now?

Even her lips, which would normally ask questions without hesitation, stopped working and were flustered.

Ryuie had never seen Glem cry. Not even when he was Yosua.

Glem was almost sobbing.

“In return, I wanted to save you.”

Suddenly, Ryuie’s spine went cold.

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