chapter 21
Yuria Taylor-1
“I don’t think you’re saying it because you don’t know what it means…”
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Jay, her real name is Arwen Tarsilla.
How will the meaning of the words that she will kill the crown prince be interpreted to her who betrays the imperial family and runs away?
I know the answer to this question. If I had to pick a common denominator between me and her, that would be the crown prince.
It wasn’t the first time he’d faced her, so it was better to be straight-forward rather than round and round from the start.
It might be quite embarrassing on her part, but it’s a little easier to get to the point if you always say this.
Her bright red eyes, like those of a rabbit, shook without a doubt.
I wanted to try my will, but it seemed like I couldn’t do it easily because of the image I had just shown.
“…you said you would kill me? the crown prince.”
“okay.”
“I don’t know how you found out about me, but I can’t answer right now. I know you, but this is the first time I have met you face to face.”
Arwen, who was staring at me, nodded once and continued talking.
It seemed like it would take some time.
It’s always been a sudden meeting, but this time it was different, so it might have been.
“I need time to think. Thank you for saving me, but I can’t easily judge things related to the crown prince. More than anything, I don’t even know if your true intentions are that way.”
“I understand. If you change your mind, you can contact me where I am.”
Looking to the side, I sensed that Adele was now quite close.
I didn’t think this meeting would go straight to the point anyway.
Perhaps in a few months, a deal will be concluded after a month at the earliest.
Still, it was certain that this episode also saved Arwen.
As much as the possibility is open, if you act calmly, the harvest will follow.
Soon, footsteps were heard from below, and Arwen narrowed her eyes and looked at me.
“Are you with them?”
“You can think of it that way. I told you to wait, but it must have been too late.”
Looking around, the corpses and bloodstains were gone.
There is blood incense, but wouldn’t this be able to hide the horrors to some extent?
Then, when the door burst open and Adele entered, she made eye contact with me and looked at me for a moment.
“You are here. I told you to wait.”
“Did you do well? It took too long, so I came up just in case…”
After saying that, her eyes turned to Arwen.
“Is that the person you were trying to save? What, the hidden lover?”
“I don’t have that taste.”
“If I really did, I would have killed him here. The world doesn’t need someone like that.”
Laughing mischievously, he quickly came closer to me.
After staring at me for a moment, Adele stretched out her arms and began to feel me carefully.
As if shaking off rainwater, she checked every corner of her body as if she were spreading out her wrinkles.
“I am not hurt. It’s strange to go anywhere and get hurt with that skill.”
“…Did you check?”
“There was a guy who died after hiding useless wounds. If you have a wound, don’t hide it. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
Upon hearing that, Adele turned her head to look at Arwen.
Arwen seemed to know who Adele was.
Of course, there is no one who does not know Adele Ygritte, but to be precise, they must know her ‘past’.
The tyrant Adele, who killed countless people close to massacre.
You don’t have to tremble like that.
I let out a small sigh as I watched him shake his body to the point of feeling sorry for him.
“Looks like I have to leave now. Maybe she needs to rest too.”
“Is it dawn already? Yes, I can’t help it.”
When Adele looked at Lotos, Lotos nodded and disappeared alone.
He probably intends to leave with his subordinates spread out beside him.
Adele won’t stay long either, so maybe we won’t see each other until I head north.
Arwen also noticed and cleaned up the broken beaker, and I also had to return to the duke’s house.
Arwen’s gaze lands on mine, but by the time our eyes meet, it falls again.
It’s probably because my appearance from before overlapped.
He had no ill feelings toward her, but since he felt the threat to his life, it seemed that he would behave like that for the time being.
If Arwen and Adele don’t have to meet for a while…
I wonder if YuRia and Theresia will run into each other at least occasionally.
It was a name that made me feel bad just thinking about it.
As I was about to wipe my dry face, I realized that Adele, who was about to leave the room, had suddenly stopped.
Then he looked at me and then quietly moved his lips.
“Aren’t you coming?”
“I will go. Just for a moment, my head hurts.”
feel relieved However, it was also true that it was complex.
He saved Arwen, but wasn’t this always the first thing he did while returning?
I thought a lot of time had passed, but I had only taken the first step.
If I couldn’t finish this round, I really thought I wouldn’t be able to catch my spirit then.
For that reason, I tried to take a different route, but will this method really work?
Shaking my head for a moment, I followed Adele, who was walking in front of me.
My head hurt. He frowned at the pain digging into his brain, then smiled bitterly.
Rather, if time goes by quickly, this pain might go away.
This end is quickly visible in front of my eyes, my honest heart was that I wanted to die as soon as possible.
forever. so that I can never think again.
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After rescuing Arwen, he always walked back to the duke’s house through this alleyway.
It was always bloody, so I had no choice but to hide it.
I had an extra set of clothes, but this time everything went well and the outside was clean.
I never thought Arwen would wake up in that commotion.
I’ve never woken up before… maybe it’s because I used magic.
“Your expression is not good. Did something happen earlier?”
“Is that so?”
“It looks like you want to vomit. I think there might be something, but…”
Did you remember what I said was a secret earlier?
Adele swallowed her saliva and didn’t speak any more.
Come to think of it, I wasn’t walking alone now.
While watching the full moon festival with Adele, whom we met by chance, we eventually met right before saving Arwen and came all the way here together.
Who could have predicted that the last meeting at the prom would lead to this?
I don’t like the word coincidence, but I didn’t think my relationship with Adele would break easily in this episode.
My mind was complicated. It was because I didn’t know what the hell this meeting meant.
What I had seen through the previous episodes was the way people who were always connected by fate turned their backs on me.
Family, fiancée, close friends.
The lover I was looking for instead of my fiancé ended up sticking a knife in me, and the person I believed to be a close friend was actually the one who took the lead in destroying me.
I remember that twisted smile.
I remember the face that laughed at me and said, “There’s no way I could really think of you as a close friend.”
There is no way you can be calm when you think about it. Betrayal was a feeling I could never get used to.
The feeling that your heart is breaking, your blood vessels are twisting, and all the blood in your body is draining downwards.
All I could do was breathe out.
so i didn’t like it When I walked these streets alone, I would run because I didn’t want those memories to haunt me.
“It is fine now. Much more than usual.”
Thanks to that, I was too embarrassed to say it.
It was because I didn’t know that my symptoms would get better just by being with someone.
Even though it was said to be a secret, I had to hide it, but those eyes that did not despise me were comforting to me.
Adele looked at me for a moment, then turned her gaze to the sky.
A night sky without lights is a law that arouses admiration just by looking at it.
I don’t know how different the sky here is from what I see in the North,
The starlight in this silence used to make people’s emotions move.
Adele, who had been staring blankly at the sky for a moment, opened her mouth a little later.
“I will be back soon. We probably won’t see each other again until you come to the North.”
“I will. Now, when autumn comes, I will visit you only then.”
“…At that time, I wish I could do something with those eyes. Every time I see you, I get very upset. You look like someone who will die any minute.”
“So are you worried? I wonder if he really died and disappeared?
Of course, I thought he would refute that, but surprisingly, Adele didn’t say anything.
Those blue eyes reached me, and it seemed as if they were trying to penetrate my heart.
When our eyes met and a moment, such a long time had passed. Adele replied with a smile.
“Wait a minute. I think he really died.”
“Yes?”
“So don’t die. I hate hearing that someone I know has died.”
The cloak fluttered from Adele, who turned her back.
Mixed with the darkness, only the white hair touched by the moonlight shone brilliantly.
that she looks at me
As if she had something to say, her mouth opened slightly as she stared at me several times.
“…Please come this time, don’t run away.”
“It should be. I have debts to pay.”
It was a huge debt just for letting it go, saying it was a secret.
If you think about my actions, it will just look suspicious to someone who doesn’t know anything.
Even so, I have to repay her for trusting me with something.
Recalling what she had said yesterday, she quoted him in reply.
“You’ll be sad if I don’t go.”
At that, Adele laughed.
It was exactly the way I remember it in one episode.
Isn’t it fortunate that I am the only one who has changed in this world.
If everything had continued to change, I might not have been able to hold on until now.
As if all she had to say was finished, Adele disappeared, buried in the shadows of the night.
The only thing left on the empty street is me. When I realized that, there was a surge of emotions again.
…walked to forget it.
Walking down a pitch-black alleyway without a single light, speeding up to erase your thoughts.
Relying solely on the moonlight floating in the sky, they walk forward.
I didn’t even know if I was going in the right direction.
I was just walking with the mind that my body would remember it.
After such a long time passed, it seemed that composure had finally returned to its place.
He slowly raised his head, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.
The building that I could see like that, funny enough, was the front gate of the duke’s residence.
Many people must have been asleep.
Beneath the many unlit rooms, I could see the only one with a light on.
Maybe it was where YuRia was. I must be pretty busy.
Since it’s the first full moon to be managed, there will be a lot of things to do.
It was rather good that way.
It was more comfortable for me than anything else that she didn’t care about me.
‘They won’t notice.’
It was not uncommon for YuRia to be awake until now.
The moment I entered the door thinking that I would never run into them.
A low voice pierced my ears.
“Come now. Now that it is past 3 in the morning, the festival must have ended a long time ago.”
There was a woman at the door looking at me.
With his unique cold gaze, the eyes that looked at my appearance were completely different from Adele’s.
Eyes filled with negative emotions such as contempt.
Let’s laugh bitterly, and YuRia begins to speak.
“I don’t know what the hell I was doing until now. Didn’t you know I’ve been looking for you for a long time?”
I thought today’s luck wasn’t bad.
But was it my misunderstanding?
I let out a small sigh as I saw YuRia still staring at me coldly.