Chapter 19: 1.18

"Duke, I'm keeping you safe, nothing will hurt you with this protection,"

Yunyu was dumbfounded with Michael's way of thinking. He suddenly set up an impenetrable barrier around Yunyu's room, locking him inside the room. Yunyu knew that Michael's spell was powerful, because he could feel it immediately.

Yunyu could feel that his strength had been depleted to almost a regular man level. He looked at Michael coldly, "Why are you doing this? I said to you that I can protect myself. You are worrying over something baseless."

"I do not worry over something baseless!" Michael reacted exaggeratedly. He was worrying every minute that the Duke would disappear. That foresight haunted him, "It's in my foresight! I saw everything, I saw your death!"

Yunyu was pretty vexed with Michael's paranoia. He was obviously fine, nobody would be able to hurt him anytime soon, if there was someone, Yunyu was pretty sure that Michael would kill that guy first. Yunyu looked at Michael with a cold gaze, "You are a Saint, you're not supposed to focus your attention only to me."

"But I want to protect you. Duke, you are… really important to me, I can't bear losing you after losing Saintess. She is like a mother figure to me, and you are… you are the first and the only one that I will ever love…"

Yunyu's heart jumped, it beat rapidly after Michael confessed his love. Of course, Yunyu already knew that Michael loved him. Because the Fatemeter had reached 100% and it didn't show any sign of changing at all. But when Michael confessed like this, it made him stunned silly.

[Pupa: You already know about his love anyway, why do you still act surprised?]

[Because I was actually surprised. His confession sounds sincere…]

[Pupa: Because it is.]

[… system, I want to ask something. If I completed the task and the Breakmeter reached 100%, what would happen to the main character of the world?]

[Pupa: Nothing will happen. If you complete the task without killing the main character, he will resume his life. The world will be saved and everything will return back to normal, I will guarantee that the main character will live a fulfilling life, at least each of them will be seen as the beacon of hope in their own respective world.]

[So, if I have filled the Breakmeter to 100%, Michael will surely live a fulfilling life? He will be the Great Saint that is loved by everyone?]

[Pupa: Yes. Why are you asking this?]

[I just don't want the target to suffer after I leave the world. This gives me assurance, at least. If Michael becomes the Great Saint that is well loved, I believe that my task has been fully completed in this world.]

Pupa said nothing, Yunyu was the first host to ask about this. Pupa had few hosts before Yunyu, and none of them ever asked about the main character's fate. Because they always thought that it was just a game. When they died, they had completed the game and jumped to another world happily.

"Your highness, you are a saint. You are God's dearest, if you become a good saint, you'll return back to heaven where you can ask for everything. You are going to risk your position in heaven by falling in love with a man, don't be stupid!" Yunyu said harshly.

"I'm not stupid! I know the risk and I will still love you!" Michael grasped the Duke's wrist firmly. His emotion was unstable, he knew that the Duke wouldn't accept him so easily. But when the Duke rejected him, he was indeed heartbroken.

"Argh!" Yunyu struggled hard when Michael grasped his wrist. Michael realized it immediately and let go of the Duke's wrist.

The Duke's hand had been burned. It turned black like charcoal. Michael's hand trembled, his unstable emotion made him lose control of his power. He accidentally spilled some of his holy aura, "D—Duke, I'm sorry, let me heal you."

Michael wanted to chant his holy spell again, but stopped midway when he realized that it would only hurt the Duke more.

The Duke looked at him coldly, he said, "Leave."

Michael bit his lips, he wanted to say more. But he blew it up because he still couldn't control his holy power well, "I will leave. I will send livestock for your food everyday…"

Michael disappeared from the room. Yunyu had a cold gaze, but after Michael left, Yunyu's eyes started getting teary, "Waaahh… system, it hurts!"

Pupa materialized itself again and circled around Yunyu, "Your hand is badly burned, but it will be recovered once you drink blood again. No need to worry."

"But it's still painful!" Yunyu remembered that he had a living chicken in the kitchen. He walked to leave the room, but his nose smacked the light screen. Yunyu pushed the light screen, but it didn't budge.

Yunyu took the chair and threw it on the light screen, but it didn't leave any crack.

"That light screen set up by Michael is impenetrable, nobody can enter except saint or saintess. Including you, You are stuck here," Pupa said.

Yunyu slammed the light screen with his body to no avail. He was tired today, he wanted to rest. Yunyu slumped on the bed, still writhing in pain. He just wanted this to be over with.

After that day, Michael didn't stay around the Duke's mansion anymore. He appeared in a mere second to give the duke food and new clothing, then disappeared again. Michael felt really guilty when he saw the Duke with an obvious scar on his wrist. Although it had been healed after the Duke drank blood, the permanent scar was obvious.

Michael practiced every day to control his holy power. Usually, saints or saintesses didn't need to control their power. Because holy power does nothing to human and animal, as long as the saint did not have intention of hurting.

But he practiced every day because he wanted to be close with the Duke. He wanted to hold the Duke's hand.

Michael was also busy with the saint's task to bless the people. Although he never blessed anyone, because he simply found them unworthy.

Days passed and nothing had changed, until one day at night, Michael came to the altar in the church to practice as always. He didn't notice anything until his sense suddenly noticed something.

"What is this uneasiness?" Michael looked around, there was nothing amiss around him. But his keen sense said different things.

There was uneasiness in his heart, Michael closed his eyes to probe this strange feeling. Right after he closed his eyes, he saw the Saintess in front of him. Although Michael's eyes were shut, he could still see his surroundings clearly, including the Saintess.

She smiled at him and pointed at a small drawer near a door, then she disappeared.

Michael opened his eyes, sometimes, Saintess would come to his dream to tell something. But she was always unresponsive when Michael wanted to talk with her.

However, this time, Saintess appeared right after he closed his eyes. It must've been something important for her to appear suddenly. Michael walked to the drawer pointed by the Saintess, he gulped and opened it.

There was nothing inside, it was an empty drawer. But he noticed a few blood spots inside the drawer. Michael touched it and his body immediately reacted, he got the foresight of the future again, but it was a very near future.

He saw the Duke lying on the ground with a silver stake piercing his heart, the same foresight as before. But there was a man who laughed at the Duke's motionless body.

The head priest laughed creepily, his body had been smeared with blood, but it was not his blood, nor it was the Duke's, because the duke was a vampire.

It was Saintess' blood.

Michael was able to connect everything and saw the Duke's demise, he opened his eyes immediately, he rushed to the Duke's mansion.

"No, not like this!"