I’m Hunting My Enemy - Chapter 98

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98. Demon Lord (4)

After running for quite a while along the fenced cliff path, white flowers bloomed along the mountain, and beyond them, a waterfall appeared like mist.

The brilliant blue sky suited the season, but the blossoms seemed so out of place that Glem briefly looked out the window.

“How are there apple blossoms in autumn….”

“It’s a frost apple variety that blooms late and bears fruit in winter. They don’t taste good when eaten raw and are usually made into alcohol.”

The Republic’s Envoy looked pleased to finally be able to explain something to the two like a tour guide.

Anyone could see it was a romantic place. It was the perfect scenery for lovers to pledge their love and dream that there could be no happier day than this.

‘Suitable for lovers….’

For someone who had suggested coming here herself, Ryuie seemed to have little interest in the fairy-tale scenery.

Rather, as if their roles had switched from before, she only gazed at him quietly. There was no conversation at all. None of her usual teasing or jokes either.

The Envoy felt awkward and opened the carriage window with difficulty.

“With so many blooms, the fragrance reaches all the way here.”

A sweet scent like that of tart, unripe apples poured in like sunlight.

His mouth watered involuntarily and his stomach tingled.

Now that he could smell it without looking, he had no choice but to gaze at the person he adored.

Glem stopped pretending to look out the window and faced Ryuie directly.

It felt strange to face each other in such a narrow space. Usually he would watch her sleeping form, or Ryuie would turn her head away first with contempt.

Would it be strange to say he had liked even that?

“In spring.”

Glem, who had opened his mouth without realizing it, pressed his lower lip.

Normally he wouldn’t have spoken.

But heading toward this truly honeymoon-like beautiful place, thinking that the oath was coming to an end, it felt like a hole had been punched in the dam of his heart.

“I was disappointed that the season when I met you again wasn’t spring.”

The words I didn’t want to say like a thief when you weren’t looking at me finally spilled out when I could see you.

“I was sad that the only paths we’d traveled together were through dark forests and swamps.”

“Don’t write your will.”

Ryuie spoke abruptly. As if the words had burst out uncontrollably like an electric shock, she too seemed surprised and pressed her mouth with her tightly clenched fist.

After a moment, Ryuie added.

“Don’t do that right now.”

“….”

Glem closed his mouth and Ryuie finally turned her head away, avoiding looking at him.

Breathing in the frost apple fragrance, Glem felt the bitter taste of boiling emotions at the root of his tongue.

Could it be that you too regret losing Glem?

Instead of only hating me after meeting me again.

‘…The apple scent is too strong.’

Too strong, as if permitting delusions.

He was in a state where he could only swallow empty breaths with nothing in them.

Yet Glem couldn’t stop looking at Ryuie, his eyes slightly reddened beneath.

Like a last supper.

* * *

White leaves fly away.

Wings that had freely cut through the sky soon landed wearily in the pouring rain.

It seemed to wander as if this was its first long journey. Fortunately, the white dove didn’t forget its purpose and landed on the Temple window after passing through the rain.

It was about 5 minutes later that Catsy discovered the dove shaking itself off at the window.

“A carrier pigeon?”

Catsy approached in surprise.

All this time, unable to believe that Ryuie had been kidnapped, she had been going in and out of Ryuie’s Room every day.

And that the kidnapper was Glem, no less. It was absurd.

Ryuie had surely left voluntarily, so she firmly believed she would return voluntarily soon.

Catsy’s eyes narrowed as she spotted the small letter tube attached to the bird’s leg.

‘This isn’t a carrier pigeon used by the Empire.’

“!”

Realizing that Ryuie had crossed over to the Republic, Catsy ran like she’d been struck by lightning.

It was indeed a letter from Ryuie. She could tell just from the densely written small handwriting. Catsy read the letter without even breathing.

Soon the letter began to tremble. It wasn’t trembling because it was close to her face due to her breathing.

It was because Catsy, who rarely lost her composure, was shocked.

“Good heavens.”

Catsy quickly crumpled the letter. She didn’t want anyone to know she had even received this letter.

With startled hand movements, Catsy swallowed the letter in one gulp without even chewing.

And she continued to digest the letter’s contents with her head, not her stomach.

Pushing down other important details, Catsy tried to think of only one thing.

‘Miss will return!’

The problem was the ‘method.’

* * *

The lodging where Ryuie’s party would stay was the Orchard by the Waterfall.

“It’s a place that only takes guests when it’s not harvest season, so it has a bit of a lived-in feel.”

“It’s like a newlywed home.”

The small orchard was quaint and cute like something from a fairy tale. Thanks to the trees, the waterfall’s sound was barely audible, serving only as a pretty backdrop.

The envoy who had dropped off the two people climbed back into the carriage. Glem asked in surprise.

“Aren’t you coming with us?”

“That house only has one room. I’ll stay at another lodging nearby.”

Glem’s ear tips turned slightly red. The situation he had anticipated was suddenly right at the door. He thought he would have more time before facing this moment.

Ryuie nodded her chin casually as if this was already a guest she had invited into the room.

“Don’t come until tomorrow morning. No, until noon. Actually, hmm.”

Ryuie tilted her head and gazed intently at Glem. Ryuie, who had been gauging how much time it would take, raised the corners of her mouth.

“To be safe, a week? Since it’s our honeymoon.”

Glem was more pleased by the fact that Ryuie was making jokes again than by the content of her crude joke.

“A month would work too.”

“Ahaha.”

“Actually, even a year wouldn’t be enough.”

Glem barely swallowed the words that were about to slip out next – that a lifetime would also be possible.

There was no point in extending it like this.

The envoy shuddered as if he wouldn’t interfere any further and closed the carriage door.

“I’ll just come back in three days. Please exercise some restraint.”

“Yeah, got it.”

“If there’s any news, please let me know before then.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

The carriage departed.

Glem stood facing the same direction as Ryuie for a moment.

Even until the moment the carriage left, he couldn’t feel the reality of it.

‘But what could be more certain than this?’

“Then let’s first check out the room inside…”

Ryuie’s voice, about to give the next instruction, was cut off. As soon as the carriage disappeared, Glem had grabbed Ryuie’s cheeks and begun showering her with kisses.

“…!”

A bitter scent mixed in among the floral fragrance.

Glem, who could no longer leave all of this as a joke, desperately pressed kisses onto Ryuie.

However, so that she could still refuse if she wanted, he left only Ryuie’s tongue and lips untouched until the very last moment.

Glem’s touch, light as a feather as it brushed against her and pulled away to lessen even a bit of pain, was almost ticklish.

Ryuie looked up at Glem, who was being persistent yet avoiding the main point.

“Right. After it’s over, we won’t be able to speak to each other anymore.”

Glem responded by lifting Ryuie’s feet off the ground.

Ryuie’s fingers traced over Glem’s lips, which were already swelling. Even though it must hurt a lot because of the oath, Glem’s lips immediately followed and left their mark.

Each time his lips teasingly followed up her fingers joint by joint as he lowered his head, a tingling sensation traveled up her elbow to the top of her head.

Ryuie, who had bitten down hard on her lower lip, instantly wrapped her arms around Glem’s neck like climbing a tree.

Sharp pain was instantly transmitted to her upper body.

‘It’s the same while we’re touching.’

The two could share exactly the same areas and the same pain.

This sensation of physically imprinting into their bodies a specialness that no one else could give.

‘You’re mine.’

Unless you were a god, you couldn’t erase this mark. Burns weren’t scars that healed easily.

‘You’re mine!’

Finally, on land without gods, Ryuie felt a tremendous sense of fulfillment.

“Do as you wish.”

Ryuie also pressed her lips to Glem’s ear and whispered. She bit to her heart’s content and even burst into laughter.

There was no more need to destroy innocent beds. No need to ask the Empress to break off the engagement.

No searching for missing persons, no thinking about the Empire, and no war of the gods!

‘Because right now I have Glem!’

Because for now, forgetting all plans and schemes, only the two of them remained!

“To your heart’s content!”

Instead of a blizzard announcing the cold, Glem’s white hair scattered in all directions, and watching him rush into the house, Ryuie laughed out loud.

Everything was so satisfying.

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