CH 133

Distant sensations hit my mind like a tidal wave, and his breath reached the depths of my throat.

I couldn’t think of anything now. I’m just kissing a man who makes my heart race.

Our rough breaths deeply intertwined, yearning for each other. My fingertips and toes tingled as if there was an electric shock, and my heart was beating like crazy.

Every time I flinched, he gently ran his hand around my neck. As if telling me not to run away, his hard chest was in contact with my body.

My breathing, which often quickened for I couldn’t control it, sometimes sounded like a moan. Yet he didn’t look at me and kissed me deeper. It seemed that he was rather stimulated by my voice.

“Haa… Haa…”

After a long kiss, he parted his lips.

I was out of breath, just like after running.

Cass’ red lips were damp.

I watched him as if I was bewitched.

“…I thought it was impossible.”

He looked at me with dark eyes and said.

“I like you.”

A low voice pierced my chest.

Once again, he spoke.

“I like you. Saintess.”

That deep voice pierced my heart.

I looked at him for a while, not knowing how to answer. Time seemed to flow only around us.

Wondering what to say to him, it felt like my head was empty. The warmth that fills my heart just made me realize that I’m grateful for this moment. And just then, something in my body rang with a giggling sound.

***

Reihausd prayed in a reverent manner for the first time in a while, yet it was noisy inside him.

“It seems that she danced with the Marquis at the Star Flower Festival. They seem to be getting along well.”

‘I wish I hadn’t listened.’

Reihausd’s golden eyes were locked in a bitter aura.

He knew that Ariel’s gaze wasn’t directed at him. No matter how much he yearns for her, the only thing that comes back is a plain gaze. Every time that happened, his greed was strong inside.

If she becomes another man’s woman… Can he let Ariel go?

Suddenly thinking about the iron bars, Reihausd shook his head.

Knowing that he couldn’t even trap a person’s heart in that way, why… are these blasphemous thoughts creeping in?

He walked down the long hallway to his bedroom. And that was when he opened the door.

He suddenly became obscured by a thick fog, making it difficult to tell what was in front of him.

“…!”

Reihausd hurriedly drew his sword and looked around.

After a while, when the fog dissipated, he found himself completely within this space.

“Here is…”

When the fog lifted, a huge iron cage was visible. Inside, like an animal cage, a boy was on a leash like a dog.

Disheveled blonde hair and slightly hazy golden eyes. His skinny body was full of scars from the whip.

However, even the miserable appearance couldn’t cover the boy’s beauty. The boy was like a little fairy in a cage. And in front of the iron window, a man was sitting on an ornate chair.

He was a general in exotic clothes. His skin was dark and his eyes were burning with greed.

“The fun of raising something beautiful and ferocious…”

A dry voice escaped from his lips.

“Do you know that you’re so strong that you can’t get out of it?”

Then the boy in the cage glared at him with hostile eyes.

“Do you hate me?”

The boy didn’t answer and the man continued.

“Yes. You must hate me And I…”

There was a fierce glare in the boy’s eyes.

Bend down to see the boy from a closer distance, the man continued.

“I like those eyes of yours. When I look into your eyes, my blood boils. That’s why I always end up killing a servant or two every time I leave here.”

The man laughed like a snake.

“So, grow up. I’m holding back for the day I destroy you.”

He was aware of his hobby of abusing and killing slaves. He especially liked beautiful slaves. Then he took out the dagger from his chest and nicked it a hand below his eye level.

“I’ll take you out of there when you’re this tall.”

Soon after, the man turned around and began to walk away at a leisurely pace.

After the man disappeared, Reihausd stepped forward as if possessed step by step in front of the barricade.

His eyebrows were stiff, and his pupils were constantly shaking.

Reihausd looked at his old self sitting in the cage.

The village where he lived was taken over by foreign troops, and all his relatives were sold into slavery. And he himself was taken prisoner and locked up in a dark cage.

“…”

The boy’s gaze was on the scratch the general had made earlier.

Anger, despair, and fear all came together and swarmed before the boy’s eyes. The boy spread his palms and covered his face.

Reihausd knew what happened after that.

When he had grown exactly that height, he was called before the general, and he vividly heard the general’s painful voice before entering his office.

His subordinate betrayed and assassinated the general. The country was overturned and incorporated into the Empire, becoming part of the Illide.

Reihausd, who had nowhere to go, was entrusted to the temple, and it was some time later that his dazzling ability as a priest was revealed. Also, while learning the sword, he reached the level of sword expert in swordsmanship with his outstanding talent.

“Ha…”

He was afraid whether time passed or not. Even the beauty that the clan was proud of was considered terrible.

Reihausd put his sword into the scabbard. Then he raised his hand and touched his forehead.

He could feel the gaze of the boy trapped inside the bars.

‘Come on, let’s stay together. This is where we belong.’

He seemed to hear the boy’s hallucinations.

And then he heard a woman’s voice.

“This is your inner self.”

Reihausd saw the shadow of a woman approaching him.

“You, who are inside the cage, must have always longed for the outside.”

“Camilla…”

“You were afraid to go out, yet you wanted to. Even though you were afraid of him…”

Camilla’s face was pale in a black dress, the corners of her red lips raised.

“…You were in awe of him.”

His eyebrows hardened at her words.

“You have longed for his strength, his absolute superiority. That’s right. You wanted to be that man you hated.”

“…”

Darkness flashed in Reihausd’s gold eyes.

“Put what you want in a cage, and do as you please.”

Camilla pursed her cold lips as Reihausd stared at her, as if he wanted to kill her..

“I will help you. Reihausd.”

Reihausd’s eyes shook violently.

“You like Ariel. Now you’re standing outside the cage.”

Camilla continued her words as she looked at his eyes, which were getting darker.

“Don’t hesitate to take what you want and put it in your prison. Then no one will take it away.”

Camilla stepped in front of Reihausd and lifted his chin with her index finger.

It’s such a beautiful face that she was bewitched by looking at him again. But she doesn’t need that anymore. What’s important now is…

“I will make your wish come true, so give me the statue.”

The periodic burning pain in her heart was so intense that she sometimes dreamed of death.

She would have died long ago if Bellatrix hadn’t sustained her by consuming her divinity.

What she needs now is the icon left by Raid.

She was sure that the temple, which thought she was dead, would stupidly put the item on display, that is, certainly inside the temple.

‘If I regain my physical condition, I will have a chance to recover.’

One use of Bellatrix’s powers was to bring up wounds from the past and attack his mind.

“Hurry up.”

After a while, Reihausd’s mouth opened.

But from his lips came the exact opposite of what Camilla expected.

“How lame.”

Camilla’s eyebrows twitched.

With the power of the God of Lies, she drew out the strongest trauma in his heart.

However…

“Lame, you said?”

And at that moment, Reihausd’s hand gripped Camilla’s neck.

His murderous eyes, which didn’t suit the bright gold, clamped her down.

“Yes. It’s so boring, I can’t stand it.”

“…!”

Reihausd’s golden eyes were tinged with a muddy light.

Camilla couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him.

“Compared to the paradise I imagined in my head, it’s very shabby. I can’t even see the right tools in such a flimsy prison.”

“…What? what?”

She was taken aback.

Trauma is bound to lose control the moment it’s shown again.

“I had memories like that. But it’s enough to transcend the nightmare. With a stronger desire. I… learned how to do it.”

Reihausd’s beautiful golden eyes were filled with what could be called madness.

Well, being imprisoned by the general wasn’t a very good memory. But now those memories didn’t matter to him.

The general was dead, and Reihausd dug up his coffin and hung the skeletal body upside down in a dungeon in the valley. Although it wasn’t a priestly way to humiliate the dead.

He also found the general’s hidden wealth and made it his own.

“Cough…”

Camilla looked at Reihausd in disbelief.

His lips twitched.

He was grand to himself when he was young, but now that he has transcended that, he was an insignificant barricade.

“Listen straight. There won’t be another one, but if you want to shake my mind even a little, prepare at least ■■■ and ■■■■ and ■■■.”

And at that moment, Camilla felt her heart burn.

“Of course, even  ■■ who does ■■ will be disappointed if you, the insignificant you, are intrusive… In fact, even if I had things, it would be of no use.”

[The God of Lies, Bellatrix, feels deeply ashamed for the extremely blatant and profane language.]

[The God of Lies, Bellatrix, vomits blood.]

Bellatrix was as weak as she could be because she was focusing all her energy on Camilla now.

‘F*ck. this bastard… What is this bastard doing?’

Seeing Reihausd spit out nonsensical shameless things without blushing, Camilla felt deeply flustered.

How could such a thing come out of such a clear face as if a male god had descended?

Bellatrix’s divinity, which had weakened, was being affected.

‘It can’t go on like this…’

Camilla concentrated Bellatrix’s power into her hands and managed to shake off Reyhath.

“Die!”

Reihausd took a few steps back after being hit by Bellatrix’s mighty blow.

Now that this is the case, she will take the statue back even by overpowering and threatening Reihausd. It was time for Bellatrix to change her plans and gather power back into her hands.

The space started shaking.

It was a space built with the power of a God, but the moment she thought this couldn’t be the case, Camilla was thrown out of the window by a strong force.

It seemed like he could heard a, kyuuㅡsound.

“Are you okay? Reihausd?”