My Illusion Is Survival - Chapter 27

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Chapter 27

“What did you just do?”

Kazen’s sinister eyes glare at me venomously.

However, since his limbs were visibly frozen with tension, I had no reason to fear him.

Though I had no intention of letting my guard down.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

When I feigned innocence, Kazen’s expression became even more fierce.

“You’re looking down on me.”

“Not at all.”

“If you’re going to lie, at least wet your lips first. And wipe off that disgusting smile too.”

Even his grinding voice was filled with murderous intent.

If this continued, he seemed ready to lose his mind and charge at me, so I hastily wiped away my smile.

Of course it was because I was scared, but as long as I didn’t show it, that was enough.

“If I really looked down on you, I wouldn’t have bothered giving you a warning like this.”

“…Warning?”

When I lowered my gaze to look at Kazen’s abdomen, he hastily wrapped his entire body in magic.

“The Holy Maiden is someone who sacrifices herself for this world. She’s an existence who loves this world and cherishes all humans.”

“So?”

“But I’m different. I’m too narrow-minded to cherish all humans in this world.”

“…!”

When I deliberately raised my gaze slowly, Kazen’s eyes that eventually met mine wavered.

“I simply value the things I care about more. But you’re trying to ruin that.”

How dare you.

At the words I added in a whisper, the surrounding temperature dropped coldly.

“Next time won’t end with just a warning. As I said, I’m quite narrow-minded.”

While everyone was glancing at us two cautiously, Kazen could no longer speak carelessly.

Meanwhile, I glared at Kazen with an expressionless face,

‘I need to run away quickly while I have this chance.’

That’s what I was thinking inside.

Though I was acting tough telling him not to mess around, if Kazen seriously went crazy and charged at me, it would be a serious problem.

‘I can’t stop Azel if he starts acting up about awakening again!’

I didn’t know the activation conditions for that light from earlier, and overusing the illusion pendant carried a high risk of being discovered.

Therefore, I needed to escape now.

“Linoa.”

When I called Linoa urgently but outwardly pretending to be relaxed, she bowed her head respectfully.

“Please give your orders.”

“?”

Had she decided to quit the maid act? Linoa was quite openly showing her knight side.

“Let’s go.”

When I took the first step, Linoa followed behind me like a guard.

The crowd blocking our path hurried to clear the way rather than trying to stop Linoa and me.

-Kheung!

-Krung! Puhehe!

The two Aigres also obediently followed behind us.

‘Damn, that’s charismatic.’

Thanks to that, I felt quite satisfied with the exit that turned out more impressive than I had thought.

‘Now I just need to get Azel.’

Now I just needed to get Azel, who had been strangely quiet this whole time, and leave this place.

With that thought, I hurried toward Azel.

“…?”

But somehow, a strange scene caught my eye.

‘What? Is it broken?’

Wondering if my eyes were broken, I rubbed them hard and looked ahead again. But the same scene still entered my vision.

“…???”

As I was rubbing my eyes hard again, I heard a strange sound from beside me.

“M-Master?”

Linoa was looking ahead in shock, completely flustered.

‘That expression is the kind you’d only see when accidentally deleting a document file you worked on for 22 hours.’

Only after seeing Linoa’s reaction did I realize I hadn’t seen wrong.

Creak, creak.

Creaking like a poorly oiled robot, I turned my neck back to its original position, and that violent scene unfolded before my eyes again.

“Uh, …Azel?”

So what I mean is,

That ‘Azel’ was crying.

“…C-Crying?”

And incredibly sorrowfully at that.

Around that time, I was half out of my mind from the shock of my brain’s hard drive exploding.

“W-Who is it! Who made him cry!”

It was truly the beginning of great chaos.

*

“Why, why are you crying? Huh? Azel, why are you crying. Don’t cry.”

I tried to comfort Azel while trembling, but he just kept shedding tears as if something was terribly sad.

I wouldn’t have been this surprised even if Azel had secretly completed his awakening in the meantime.

A person who would have said a dry ‘wah’ even at the moment of birth was crying until his nose turned red, so it was enough to drive me crazy.

“Did something happen? Does it hurt somewhere? Why are you crying so sadly, breaking people’s hearts? Huh? Don’t cry, please.”

I earnestly patted his back and wiped his wet cheeks with my hands, but Azel’s tears showed no sign of stopping.

But this was, how should I put it.

It made me feel strange.

‘Why is even his crying pretty?’

Azel’s crying face was too beautiful.

The red flush on his pale cheeks kept stealing my gaze, and the dizzying weight of his wet eyelashes struck my heartstrings.

Though I shouldn’t as a person, my face kept turning red for different reasons.

‘I-Isn’t this a bit dangerous?’

I was holding him to comfort someone who was crying, but my heart kept pounding.

Moreover, being embraced like this also reminded me of what happened earlier.

‘When Azel held me, we were embraced just like this.’

The heart that had dropped with a thud back then was now cheering and pounding in a rapid rhythm.

‘Why am I being like this?’

Just as I was feeling puzzled at myself, Azel’s large hand grasped my wrist that had been wiping his wet eyes.

“…I’m fine now.”

He didn’t look fine at all.

Azel’s hand gripping my wrist was still trembling faintly. However, since he had rejected my touch, I couldn’t persist like this.

That fact somehow felt a little disappointing.

Wait, disappointing?

‘Am I going crazy?’

Meanwhile, Azel, who was looking at Kazen’s group staring at us, staggered and got to his feet.

“…Let’s get going.”

I thought Azel wouldn’t leave Kazen’s group alone given his personality, but he showed a surprisingly detached attitude.

No, it was more accurate to say he didn’t seem to have the energy to worry about Kazen’s side.

‘Why did he really cry?’

While I pondered this incomprehensible behavior inwardly, Linoa Marigold, still not recovered from the shock, attended to us out of habit.

Fortunately, Kazen didn’t try to stop us from leaving anymore.

*

We took Dariya and his father with us and headed straight to the village.

Fortunately, the distance to the village wasn’t far, and we were able to arrive at the village without incident.

“Dariya! Ben!”

“Look, look over there! Elder Ben has returned!”

“Ma’am! The two of them have come back!”

As we entered the village entrance, a crowd of people came pouring out. They seemed to have been worried about Dariya and his father, who hadn’t returned for a long time.

“Good heavens! Why do you look like that!”

“Elder Ben, your leg…!”

Since we had left the Aigres far away from the village to avoid causing unnecessary commotion, people’s attention was focused on Dariya and his father.

Some of them glanced at us three people wearing robes, but just then Dariya’s father stepped forward and explained the situation.

“These people saved me and Dariya.”

“Saved you? Did something happen on the mountain?”

“We encountered wild beasts on our way down from the mountain. We were about to die helplessly when these people rescued us.”

We had already agreed to keep the encounter with the Aigres a secret.

The same went for being attacked by Kazen’s group on the way. It was better to keep quiet rather than risk our identities being exposed through rumors.

“To think you saved Elder Ben and Dariya, we’re truly grateful. I’m Derick, the village chief.”

A middle-aged man who introduced himself as the village chief expressed gratitude on everyone’s behalf. But I didn’t care about gratitude or anything else—I just wanted to quickly treat Linoa Marigold’s shoulder and return to our cozy manor.

‘We’ve done our job by bringing Dariya to the village.’

Leaving home means suffering like a dog.

Having learned this fact painfully today, I wanted to return as quickly as possible.

“One of our companions is injured, so we’d like to have a physician look at the wound. Would that be possible right away?”

I was asking while pointing to Linoa Marigold’s injured shoulder when someone interrupted our conversation.

“Is there a priest in this village?”

The culprit was Azel.

For some reason, his expression was extremely hardened.

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