I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 91

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91. Prisoner (2)

Ryuie had never once wanted to see someone else’s crying face.

Whether they were young or old, she despised the sight of people unable to control their emotions and sobbing pathetically.

She hated being swayed by emotions she didn’t particularly want.

But now, as she felt the moisture flowing down her neck, when unfamiliar emotions climbed up her spine.

The warm and gentle movement that flowed between her collar was so unfamiliar.

‘This is the most tender thing you can give me.’

There had always been an oath between the two of them, so no matter how they touched, it was sharp and painful.

Sadness was actually more comfortable.

“….”

Ryuie realized.

That she hadn’t been shaken by seeing Glem’s face last time. Just Glem being there was enough to make Ryuie waver.

So now she wanted to see Glem’s face.

I’m curious about your expression as you cry.

Glem crouched down while holding Ryuie tightly.

“Do whatever you want with this body.”

The slightly hoarse and cracked voice was dry as if no tears had been shed, but Ryuie wasn’t fooled.

Though he probably had no intention of deceiving her, she found herself unconsciously leaning in. Between the small crackling lightning, Glem spoke.

“When the honeymoon is over, I’ll return Yosua to you and die.”

Only after their relationship had completely reached its end did Ryuie belatedly realize that she had loved Glem in her own way.

Enough to make her want to indulge him once even when he was being unreasonable and acting impossibly spoiled.

Enough to make her throat burn with emotion at Glem’s voice that had given up everything.

She had wanted to kill Glem so badly, but when Glem actually resolved to die, a corner of her heart felt empty.

As if it were hollow.

‘How boring.’

Ryuie quietly lay on top of Glem and listened to his heartbeat.

The sensation that always pressed firmly against her wasn’t felt, and it was quiet. This time he seemed to be truly sincere.

“Alright.”

Ryuie thought of both the wedding ceremony she couldn’t hold and the engagement annulment ceremony.

“Let’s do that.”

Glem, who had been holding her until then, turned his body to the side. Naturally changing to a position where he was pillowing her with his arm.

Her back no longer stung, but Ryuie pressed her stiff neck against Glem’s arm.

Without anyone screaming in pain, they continued to endure each other like that.

Because they wanted to be beside each other.

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Creeeeak.

The next day, as she opened the door to the room where the two had been staying just a crack like an ant’s antenna, Agasa couldn’t relax her tension.

She couldn’t even imagine what scene might be waiting for her.

“Please make sure to confirm if he’s dead.”

Marquis Kelsus emphasized with a face that had already given up.

He had mediated so that the other nobles and knights could return after reaching an amicable agreement, but he remained because of his age.

“As soon as Glem’s corpse is visible, we’ll escort Yeongae to the capital for punishment and His Highness Yosua will return.”

“She didn’t kill him.”

Agasa stated her wishful thinking.

But even she was half-doubting it.

“Ryuie?”

Agasa, who was carefully entering the room, was greatly surprised.

The two were sleeping peacefully, which didn’t match the commotion they had caused yesterday.

“What on earth is this.”

“…Shh.”

Agasa, who cautioned Marquis Kelsus following behind her, hesitated.

The two people sleeping side by side as if they had collapsed from exhaustion looked somehow sad.

Enough to make Agasa, whose heart usually ached just seeing the two together, want to leave them be.

“Don’t wake them.”

Agasa saw the crushed and mangled wounds in their entirety.

‘At least they would be happy.’

If the two had ended with ‘and they lived happily ever after,’ she could have left it as just a memory with some lingering attachment.

Thanks to the anesthetic incense, the two were sleeping peacefully despite their terrible wounds.

‘I should burn more smoke.’

Agasa, who thought she should get more from the Republic’s envoy, was immediately refused.

“That won’t do.”

“Pardon?”

“They’ve slept enough. The matter is urgent, so I’ll wake them now.”

“What? No, just a little more.”

The envoy turned off the anesthetic smoke without delay, and shortly after, Ryuie was the first to react with a flinch.

“Mmm.”

Ryuie, who had gotten up groggily, couldn’t properly open one eye. Agasa hurriedly opened her mouth to treat the two of them but hesitated.

It was because she remembered Glem’s appearance when he stubbornly refused her treatment.

The Envoy called a healer to treat them as soon as he woke them up without any particular questions.

In Agasa’s view, it was at a level that could hardly be called treatment.

The flesh hadn’t healed, strange ointment was applied, and they were just tightly wrapped in cloth.

She couldn’t even imagine how long it would take to heal like that.

‘A single prayer would finish in the time it takes to sing one song.’

Agasa looked at the healer with strange distrust.

Ryuie, whether still not fully awake or curious about the new treatment method, was entrusting her body to the healer’s hands.

Fortunately, since Ryuie had no such intentions toward the healer, the oath didn’t activate and no lightning sparked.

The same was true for Glem.

When he opened his eyes, he no longer embraced Ryuie, but quietly gazed only at Ryuie no matter who spoke.

Even when apologizing to the Envoy.

“I have committed a great discourtesy.”

“Let us preserve the honor of both nations by not mentioning yesterday’s events.”

The Envoy spoke calmly. If he didn’t maintain courtesy, he would keep glancing at the two of them.

‘How persistently he stares.’

Glem stared intently at Ryuie as if he were someone who had witnessed the last survivor before the world’s end.

Even though it was enough to make the observer more concerned, Ryuie casually accepted Glem’s gaze fixed on her. It seemed natural.

The Envoy tried not to mind their private world and got to the main point.

“The Empire’s rain is not stopping.”

“How long has it been raining that you’re complaining about rain?”

“Rain that falls without stopping for even a single minute isn’t normal.”

Even during a typical rainy season, the rain should stop for some time each day.

But the rain currently falling on the Empire didn’t rest at all. The air was so humid it seemed you could touch it with your hands.

“Rainwater that has already overflowed from the border is flowing into our side. It cannot be seen as an ordinary natural phenomenon.”

“Are you saying a god did this?”

“Yes. You must have experienced it directly yourself.”

Glem spoke while still looking at Ryuie.

“When that god reached me, there was a collision.”

Everyone who recalled the bizarre turquoise slime writing that had been scattered on the floor shuddered briefly.

“Agatos is targeting Ryuie. If she marries the Crown Prince, according to the oath, Rkultu will descend into Ryuie’s body to make the Empire prosperous and I will be able to live forever.”

Glem spoke without hiding anything.

“But that also means Rkultu would be trapped in a human body. In other words, the moment the oath is fulfilled, Agatos will try to kill Ryuie and seize Rkultu’s power.”

“…What did you say?”

“Is that true?”

“Your Highness! How can you say such things? Are you certain?”

“I’m certain.”

Glem replied gloomily.

“Every time Agatos tries to possess my body, I can read his thoughts.”

At those words, for the first time, Ryuie’s eyes, which had been facing straight ahead, turned to Glem.

No, returned.

As if trying to confirm whether the person she was looking at was still Glem.

Reflexively, Glem smiled faintly.

Even in this worst situation, when he looked at Ryuie, his heart inevitably warmed. He wanted to reassure her.

“So I plan to forcibly kidnap Ryuie, marry her, then receive the god’s curse and die. Ryuie will just be a victim, so she won’t receive a great punishment.”

“You’ll die?”

“If Glem dies, will Your Highness return to Yosua Albenheim’s body?”

‘No.’

At the Kelsus Marquis’s question, Glem already knew the answer but lied.

“That’s what will happen.”

Because he didn’t want to be caught lying to Ryuie, Glem didn’t avoid her eyes.

Even so, Ryuie seemed like someone who knew something.

Like a cracked ruby, a sharp cross-section of light appeared and disappeared between her pupils.

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