CH 70

Live, Survive, Die

11. Fugitive

‘Die, Noona.’

I’m sorry, Aaron. I couldn’t keep your will.

‘Live, Kyrie.’

I’m sorry, guys. I couldn’t even run away.

Kyrie blinked her empty eyes. Something in her heart whispered a little.

Run away…..

Where?

Run away.

Even if she had hope, Nathaniel would turn it all into despair. Where the hell?

He was right. She cannot run away from him. She was forever in the possession of Nathaniel. Even if she ran, she would be caught, and no matter what she did, in the end, Nathaniel would be waiting with his cane.

‘I can’t escape forever…….’

Kyrie’s mind broke with a bang.

Nathaniel made her shed all her tears and lifted Kyrie to her feet, as hard as a wooden doll. He either handed over Kyrie’s hair or rarely came into contact first. 

[There’s still a curtain call left.]

Nathaniel flicked his finger. People turned around again and looked at Kyrie.

“Ugh…!”

Kyrie was nauseated in vain. She was afraid of their eyes. Nathaniel put his palms together to cover Kyrie’s mouth as she showed signs of hyperventilation.

[So you have panic disorder.]

Kyrie trembled and covered her face with the robes that Nathaniel had covered.  When she couldn’t correct her posture, Nathaniel made a long black cloak out of the air and put it on his Kyrie.

Kyrie breathed, relieved at last. She didn’t even seem to notice that she grabbed the hem of Nathaniel’s clothes unwillingly. Only Nathaniel knew about it. He looked with delight at Kyrie’s hand that was like a winter branch.

[Your friends helped a lot.  Of course your maid as well.]

The crowd split from side to side, terrifyingly for Nathanael’s words to end.

“Kyrie!”

“Kyrie!”

Laura and Maria, who had been dragged by the people, shouted at the same time. Kyrie backed away like a frightened person when she saw them. Laura’s eyes sparkled after seeing the figure.

“What have you done to Kyrie? You son of a bitch! I’m not gonna let you! It’s the Legend’s game!

“Kyrie, Kyrie? Wake up!”

The cries of the two people further tore through the spirit of Kyrie. In guilt and fear, Kyrie gasped again and began to shed tears. Nathaniel gently raised his arms to cover Kyrie’s eyes.

[The figure of making an escape plan even while imprisoned in the palace was imaginary.  But you are only the heirs, not the heads of state.]

“You……!”

“What do you mean, did my dad cooperate with you?!”

[He would have wanted to save his daughter, of course.]

Nathaniel, who achieved everything, smiled unrealistically beautiful. Laura and Maria, on the other hand, were colored with astonishment.

“You son of a bitch! You coward! No wonder Dad’s attitude was weird!”

“Then all the informants we’ve ordered…….”

[He did as I commanded.]

As if he just remembered it, he groped Kyrie’s hem and removed the brooch.  It was a brooch with Old Ciudad’s laurel pattern. She had little skill in magic, and it was specially made by her, and the magic was hung to determine Kyrie’s location. His white finger lightly crushed it.

[How easily did she believe this was?]

“What the hell are you doing to her?”

[That’s none of your business.]

Nathaniel, who was smiling, immediately showed off his coolness. The cold gaze soon turned to the carriage that stopped at the end of the square like water flowed. It was Jenya Hartwood’s carriage.  Nathaniel narrowed his eyes and laughed.

Initially, there were five variables. Five people were difficult to kill.

Cesar Buchanan was a slave to wealth and power. The elf did not change his decision once it was made, MarryAnne persuaded him by saying that ‘I will not kill Master’. Maria Old Ciudad and Laura Port Ducaine took advantage of their fathers. Among them, Jenya Heartwood was the only variable that could be said to be the right one.

But she did a great job of helping Kyrie Buchanan awake from her dream.

Everything was to his liking.

As he looked down at Kyrie, who had broken her heart and wasn’t running away from his side, Nathaniel smiled. When he took off her cloak and her outerwear for his mischief, Kyrie crouched in vain again in the eyes of the people.

Laura was angered by it.

“Kyrie! Wake up!  Don’t fall for that crazy guy!”

“Kyrie, please…..! Calm down, Kyrie, you can’t do this….!”

[You have to like it. If Kyrie Buchanan is solely by my side, you will enjoy the movie from generation to generation.]

Nathaniel giggled and put the cloak over Kyrie’s head again.  He seemed to watch it as a very fun game.

[If the country becomes rich, better things will come to Kyrie, and if there is an invasion war, I will cooperate with you.]

“What kind of sacrifice do you think Kyrie is?!”

[If it’s not true, would they have carried out my words so thoroughly?]

“……That’s!”

[Whether you covet wealth or just want to live, it doesn’t change the fact that the men of the capital agreed to hand over Kyrie Buchanan to me.]

Laura’s trembling eyes looked around. The situation outside was unknown because she was locked up in the palace, but it was impossible without a certain amount of spontaneity. He really dominated the whole thing.

Laura brushed her wet eyes fiercely.

“If you like her, you should cherish her! Don’t bother her! Who the hell are you?!

She twisted herself, shouting in a rumbling voice. Perhaps because of the momentum, one of the courtiers slipped her hand, and the restriction on Laura’s wrist was released.

“Let Kyrie go!”

Laura ran into Kyrie and Nathaniel. Suddenly, there was a dagger the size of the palm in her hand.  A sword cut through the air.

“Kyrie! Run!”

It was a clumsy gesture, but Nathaniel took a step back as a courtesy.  Kyrie and Nathaniel fell in the wind, and Laura shouted again.

“Run away! Live! Be sure to live, Kyrie!”

Her eyes blazed like comets. Kyrie creaked like a broken music box.

“However… I can’t, you can’t die….”

“I will not die! Run away, sweetheart! Do you believe me? Please run away!”

“If you die too…”

“Go!”

Kyrie stepped back. She began to run across the crowd, stumbling like a confused person.

Nathaniel did not catch her. Just smiled at Kyrie running with his black cape spread out like wings.

[You still know how to struggle. That’s pretty good.]

“Run away! Live! Survive!”

Laura cried out that her throat burst. She was crying all of a sudden. Maria also began to shout out loud.

“Live, Kyrie!”

[That’s nice, too.]

Nathaniel reached out and lightly broke Laura’s wrist.

“Aah!”

Laura screamed, but there were still flames in her eyes. Moreover, she appeared with her hand intact and even grabbed Nathaniel’s arm.

That was definitely weird. Nathaniel’s eyes narrowed. Didn’t she seem to have been waiting for this moment.

Seeing him, Laura grinned as she grimaced at her pain.

“You know that?  Even a pawn like us can be a queen at the end of a chessboard!”

***

Kyrie ran.  Tears welled up in her eyes again.

‘Live!’

‘Survive!’

‘Die.’

There were times when she stopped walking, but the voice hovering in her ear pushed her back every time. Then the bridge collapsed. It was in front of the west gate of Sel Arellano. There were no guards or surveillance, but Kirier could not escape the gates.

‘If I run away, Laura and Maria……?’

But she couldn’t betray their desperate efforts. When Kyrie was unable to do this or that, a small presence came out of the alley. With a familiar voice.

“That’s what it’s all about, Miss.”

It was MarryAnne. She was smiling sadly in the dark, covered in a white veil that glittered like a jewel.

“MarryAnne knew this would happen.”

Kyrie’s eyes grew bigger.

“Anne, MarryAnne……?”

“Yes, it’s your MarryAnne.”

“You’re here, to catch me……?”

“No, Miss. No, MarryAnne’s here to save you.”

MarryAnne replied meekly. Kyrie looked at MarryAnne with tearful eyes. MarryAnne grinned.

“It’s okay, miss. You can run again.”

MarryAnne put socks and shoes on Kyrie’s feet, as if they were in a very sacred ceremony. There was a day she was knitting when the two of them were together. Did she predict such a situation since then? Nathaniel’s clothes, which had been hung over Kyrie’s shoulders, were also replaced by a blue cape brought by Anne.

“With the power of an ordinary human being, you cannot run away from Nathaniel completely. So it took a long time to prepare. My apologies.”

Kyrie was confused and unable to say a word.

But MarryAnne knew. Her master was straight-minded and intelligent. She won’t forget what Anne said once. MarryAnne carefully kissed Kyrie’s forehead with the meaning of worship.

“Since the day you saved my life, MarryAnne’s life has been yours. I think it’s time to pay you back.”

“MarryAnne…  …  ?”

“Miss. This is called ‘the veil of denial of existence.”

MarryAnne pointed to the veil she was wearing.  The white veil, which had no dirt on it even though it was dragged around, looked precious to her eyes.

“If you wear this, people won’t notice your existence unless you put it right in front of them. Wear this all over your body. Don’t let Sir Nathaniel find you.”

“MarryAnne, you. Told Nathaniel about me…..”

“MarryAnne was wrong. MarryAnne didn’t know that Miss would be damaged this much. It’s MarryAnne’s fault.”

MarryAnne’s face contorted. It was guilt. But the girl, like a capable maid, quickly brushed off her feelings. She soon took the little doll out of her arms.

It was a dog-shaped doll woven with a white knitting thread. When she put it down on the floor and drew a magic pearl, the puppet doll quickly grew and became a shining wolf.

“Take a ride. Go as far to the west as you can, and get on the boat. We have to leave the continent.”

“Boat…?”

“If MarryAnne sends a signal, Sir Nathaniel will immediately realize something’s wrong and come after you. So don’t look back and run away.”

Kyrie looked at MarryAnne with fright and horror. The sight of Laura and Maria shouting with blood around their neck crossed Kyrie’s mind. There was no despair in the eyes of the two. Kyrie’s jaw trembled.

“MarryAnne, this isn’t…Just to save me, this thing, is wrong…….”

“It’s not only for Miss.”

MarryAnne whispered.

“We’re all prepared.”

Kyrie looked at the spear that MarryAnne was holding. The spear, which is hardly to be touched by anyone, had an atmosphere similar to that of Nathaniel or Leschaux. Still, it was a spear. It was a weapon.

Tears fell from Kyrie’s eyes. There seemed to be more tears shed yesterday and today than tears she shed so far in her life.

“You can’t die…….”

“I’ll try not to die. I borrowed something good, so I might be able to hang on a little.”

“MarryAnne, you can’t do that……. If you die because of me…….”

“Then please live, Miss.”

MarryAnne smiled.  Her little hand took off the veil and wrapped it around Kyrie’s body.

“Please live.  Run away, far away.  freely…….”

“Anne!”

There was no time for Kyrie to stop. The wolf entered between Kyrie’s legs with the tip of its nose and lifted her up. Kyrie reflexively grabbed the wolf’s fur with a scream. The silver wolf started running as fast as it had promised, without warning.

“No…, No!”

Kyrie shouted, but the wolf did not stop.

MarryAnne saw her off with a faint smile. The last thing left was the girl’s cheerful words.

“Please live! For MarryAnne!”

***

The colour of Leschaux’s iris

Ik it isn’t redish purple…. But that’s what the Author tweeted on her account and in the novel it’s clearly mentioned red-purple….idk if something is wrong or the author is colour blind