CH 136

Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea

Bund was not hurt by Kyrie’s infidelity. He knew she wasn’t talking about him.

Kyrie had lost something, and she looked at her tears as if she didn’t know what it was.  Bund, who was staring quietly at her trembling eyes, dropping thick tears on the back of her hand.

“You miss Nathaniel.”

Kyrie stopped.

“I….”

Her voice trembled.  It wasn’t just the voice.  Even her mind seemed to have been shaken.

“No, I….”

Her words were cut off.  Like a dam collapsing, thoughts flooded in like a flood.

What the hell is Nathaniel to her?

Beautiful appearance, brilliant jewels that spring from his fingertips, and great power.  That doesn’t really matter. However,

When she first met, hIs glassy eyes gradually filled with emotions, and he listened to her every word, accepted her joke as a joke, and rejoiced purely if she did well.  He was fidgety in front of her, groaned like a child, and sometimes had a very sad expression on his face.

He has so much that it’s hard to see what he really is.  But Kyrie, who has seen him, knows.  Nathaniel was the one who would cut off his limbs if Kyrie had nothing to eat.  If Kyrie held out a sword, he was the one who would point out the location of his heart.

He was very strong and rich, if Kyrie was very weak and poor, he would have given her everything he had. Even if he knows that Kyrie doesn’t need that. Even if she throws what he gave her right in front of him.

Kyrie closed her trembling eyelids.  Her head collapsed, and her breathing became heavy.

Right.

Nothing can take the place of Nathaniel.

Nathaniel told her to do what she wanted to do, but in retrospect she had none of that. Since she was a child, she has had everything she has ever wanted.

She wants just wanted one thing that is to be loved enough to make her hungry. It didn’t have to be from a lot of people.  It may be an opportunity that she will never have again in her life.   She’d like to say even it’s one time, ‘I ate too much.  I’m full now.’  

But who can love her like that?

She didn’t even get it from her parents.  

But who can give me that?

She could tame him slowly

Ah. That’s not what I want. 

I wasn’t born with that permission.

Nathaniel appeared in front of Kyrie. He was like a miracle. He was like a gift box that had been prepared just for her. But Nathaniel was a legend, Kyrie was Buchanan, and Kyrie had no other choice but to act as Nathaniel’s deterrent.

People should be next to her and she must unwrap the gift box.  Kyrie couldn’t understand any more at the kindness of those around her.

‘Is this really what I wanted?’

She knew Nathaniel too. She knows that in that state she has nothing to choose from.

Kyrie placed her trembling fists on her lap and bit her lip.  Her long undisturbed tears flowed down her cheeks again.

“Isn’t it strange? Wanting to see someone treat me that way…….”

Bund shook his head softly as his tears ran down his lush beard.

“Where is the reason for a person’s heart?  And if it looked really serious, I wouldn’t have let them go back then either.  But Nathaniel’s eyes….”

“Eyes…..?”

Seeing Kyrie’s expression, Bund burst out a weary smile.

“You always looks like that, so he seems to have gotten used to it.  When I saw it, I thought honey was dripping from his eyes. Excuse me, but it was miss Rie who was rather unclear.  That’s why I said that if you want to run away, I’ll help you.”

A sweet but sober Bund.  Kyrie grimaced at his face, and then she burst out laughing helplessly.

“right….., it was.”

She wiped the tears with the back of her hand.

“I had no choice back then……”

People, responsibilities, to-dos.  If you wanted to ignore it, you could ignore it.  But that was not what Nathaniel wanted, nor what Kyrie wanted.  She wanted to be her own if she had a choice.  It’s not like that’s the case.

‘So now?’

A star appeared in her heart, which seemed to be foggy the whole time. Her eyes clouded white.

Nothing stopped her now, and she was completely free. She is like a lion who is not surprised by the sound. Like the wind that doesn’t get caught in the net.

“What I want to do……”

Kyrie muttered.  She sat for a long time without saying a word, then raised her head with a lost childlike face.  Bund was watching her with a generous gaze.

“Bund.”

“Yes.”

“If someone you thought you would never see comes to meet you…..will you happy?”

Bund blinked his still wet eyes.  Kyrie averted her gaze, and she waited for his answer with a little nervousness.

Bund smiled kindly and nodded his head.

“They will be very happy.”

***

After ‘the incident’, the Bay of Pobe, which was no longer a cape, became a place no one could approach.

The Empress built a watchtower there. She deployed soldiers to watch the sea.  Of course, since there was usually nothing to see but the roaring sea, the soldiers were not very enthusiastic.

That day too, the soldier was nodding in his sleep.

Then, suddenly, a soldier waking up for no reason habitually looked at Pobe Bay.

“What?”

And at the end of it, a woman was found standing there with pale purple hair fluttering.

Woman.  

Secluded place.  

Light purple hair that looks like silver when exposed to sunlight.  

The ivory-colored wizard’s robe fluttering in light hands without a single load.

Before the soldier could understand the meaning, she turned her gaze towards him.

“It might be dangerous, so will you go away?”

Even though it was far away, the woman’s voice could be heard very clearly.  The soldier opened his eyes belatedly.

“The Lord…..!”

It was before he even finished speaking. The Lord Protector flew like petals into the sea.

***

It wasn’t difficult to hold her breath for a while thanks to the magic. She could use magic to breathe underwater, but he didn’t want to drink seawater. Kyrie watched the air bubbles between her hair rise towards the water surface, as she turned her head down. She stood on her toes as if dancing, and slowly sank into the sea.

The shallow sea close to sea level was bright and clear. Everywhere she looked, she could see the light golden sunlight shimmering along the waves.  A swarm of sharks hovered around Kyrie, quickly losing interest and disappearing.

Kyrie unleashed her magic in all directions without much expectation.  It never came back.

She stepped on the wide ivory sand several times with her feet, and headed deeper.

The darkness deepened in an instant. All around was an infinitely pitch-black blue.  Kyrie stretched out her hand and created dozens of her light magic. She tried to unleash her magical powers, but it was only reflecting on natural objects.

Around that time, white snow began to fall in the sea.  Kyrie passed a swarm of humpback whales, and headed deeper.

The water temperature is 0 degrees.  Terrible water pressure hit Kyrie’s body.  If it wasn’t for her magic, she would have been a mess.  Kyrie once again unleashed her magic field.  This time it was a bit wider. Still no magic returned.

There was no seaweed around.  All that was left was strange-looking fish floating on the barren land.

〔Since he could not die, he chose eternal sleep. Where no one can wake him up anymore〕

Recalling Leschaux’s words, Kyrie stood softly on the wide, quiet plain of the deep sea.  A deep valley stretched out before her eyes.

He is Nathaniel, and he is a man who knows nothing of the middle.  So if he sleeps, he’s in a deeper place.

Kyrie threw herself into it without hesitation.  Except for the light emitted by her magical power, the surroundings were pitch black. She felt like she was in the shadow that Nathaniel showed her.

As Kyrie went down she was convinced.

Here he is

A place that humans cannot reach.

Where only the sound of her own heart can be heard so that his ears are deaf.

And finally, her magic power responded.

Seeing the white thing beneath his feet, Kyrie’s heart pounded.

At the bottom of the sea, where there was neither light nor warmth, huge, transparent ice filled the entire valley. The ice, like a jewel crafted very delicately, radiated a soft light and let out a chill.

Inside was a creepy beautiful man sleeping.

The overly perfect form of facial features made it possible for anyone to know that he was not a human being. No shortage and no overflow.  He is lustful to be called an angel, and noble to be called a devil.  It was an inhuman beauty.

Even Kyrie, who thought she had gotten used to it, got goosebumps on her arm. She gets sucked in just by looking at it.  It was the moment Kyrie put her hand on the ice without realizing it.

Prriiiing.

The chill froze Kyrie’s fingers and started climbing up her elbows.

“……!”

It was an unexpected situation.  There was no use in using the magic quickly.  It was natural.  No matter how much Kyrie flew and crawled, she could not match Nathaniel’s strength.

When the magic didn’t work, Kyrie, embarrassed, opened her mouth without realizing it.

‘This!’

***

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