CH 121

As the clear liquid touched his skin, Yurtha screamed and collapsed on the spot.

“… Ugh, sister.”

He hugged me in great pain, wriggling like a trampled worm.

Strangely, looking at it, I even felt a refreshing feeling.

Even though I’ve never been happy to see people in pain.

That’s weird.

Why do I hate you so much?

“… Why?”

Yurta asked as if embarrassed.

“Dylan suffered just like you.”

I don’t know why I’m so angry if it’s about Dylan, which I’ve only seen a few times.

As expected, when I get involved with them, I only act out of order.

“You still have no intention of breaking the curse?”

“……”

He didn’t answer.

“Dylan and you are very stubborn. In the bad way, of course.”

“…That, Dylan.”

Yurtha buried his face in the snow and muttered as if he was tired of it.

Soon his body trembled.

When he lifted his head, he realized that he wasn’t just shivering from pain.

Yurtha’s eyes were red.

“What are you so sad about?”

You and I can never be victims.

“… On the contrary, if I had been cursed by Dylan, wouldn’t sister have done this for me?”

Why does he ask questions about things that don’t happen.

It’s all useless.

I no longer wanted to continue talking to Yurtha.

He grabbed me by the ankle when I stepped back like that.

And he looks at me with piercing eyes.

“… Do you think I will let go of you so easily, ugh?”

As he complained of pain as if his whole body was on fire, he tightened his hands more tightly as if they were shackled.

“Let go of this, Yurtha.”

“… This is what sister was going to do in the first place.”

“I’m sorry for using you. But I don’t think I’ll regret it.”

I pulled the ankle out of his grip.

“It’s fair that you feel the same way.”

I turned my back on that beast who had a wounded face without any regrets.

You don’t deserve the pain

“Sister is being deceived!”

At that moment, Yurtha shouted as if he was making the last move.

“Do you think that Dylan is as good as sister thinks?”

I stopped my feet.

“I’ve at least showed you my underside, but you don’t know how wicked he is.”

Are you trying to make a difference?

But does he know? Even at this moment, it seems the ugliest to criticize others.

“Everyone has an evil side. Why can’t Dylan have duality and contradiction?”

“… You see only what you really want to see and hear only what you want to hear.”

“It’s not that I want to hear only what I want to hear, but I don’t trust people who curse their brothers.”

Yurtha kept on wanting to say something to me, but it just seemed like nonsense in my eyes.

It was the limit of a relationship that consisted only of distrust without any shallow trust.

“You will find out sooner or later.”

Even as he was dying, he spoke with a strong voice.

“Dylan was not someone you can trust.”

Well, Only if it’s you.

I laughed at Yurta.

I moved my feet without listening to his nonsense anymore.

Cursed his brother and put him in burning pain.

You’re saying don’t trust your brother who was cursed without power. I was just thrilled.

I left Yurtha and walked through the forest.

I wanted to turn my head to see how far away I was from Yurtha, but I couldn’t, because I was afraid he would still be reflected in my sight.

I just walked quietly.

Seeing that Yurtha has not been able to pursue me so far, the drug has a strong and long duration.

“It should be about here.”

The place I promised the Count.

When you enter the forest and start running in a straight line, you will come to a fork in the road.

The Count said to take the path on the right.

Then it is said that there is a prominently large tree that will pierce the sky, and we decided to meet the Count’s knights there.

Since Richard made a crazy self-made play that drives me into a demon worshiper, shouldn’t I play with him too?

‘You can say I’m a victim too.’

Kidnapped by the devil worshippers and about to die.

I also roughly set the reasons why the demon worshipers are after me.

Evantes has been loyal to the Imperial family from generation to generation, and is a family that has given great power to the Imperial family. They have been the pillars of Imperial power for many years.

Demon worshipers, of course, do not like Imperial courts that reject them.

Therefore, if you make it up as a warning that you tried to hurt me, Argen’s fiancee, wouldn’t you have a good reason?

In the first place, they don’t work rationally.

‘The Count’s knights will come to pick you up soon.’

<Please send the knights you trust. And have them testify that I was seriously wounded when found.>

I asked the Count to do that.

Roughly like that, I was going to do a self-made play.

It’s really annoying.

I looked around, navigating through the withered branches with my hands. How far do I have to go?

At that moment, there was the sound of a tree branch being bluntly trampled behind me.

When I felt someone’s presence that I had never felt before, I looked back in surprise.

Did Yurtha follow me?

But when I looked back, there was no one there.

Only the dry branches sway in the wind.

‘Is it because I’m too sensitive?’

That’s possible.

I turned around and headed back the way I was going.

Not long after, I heard the rustling of the leaves of grass on the grass behind me and the sound of the soil rolling under my feet.

Then, a clear sound echoed through the forest as if someone had stepped on a branch again.

‘It’s not an illusion.’

Is someone following me?

Who is it?

I secretly pulled out the self-defense knife I had hidden in my arms and looked back.

I knew it. There was no one behind.

Then what is it?

<The northern land is cold and barren, so the forest is no different. There is nothing to dig in, so there are very few people going in and out.>

So the Count asserts that I will not see anyone while I am on my way to the meeting place.

Then who…

An ominous energy came upon me, and I immediately felt the need to run away.

The moment I was about to run, looking straight ahead, strong hands stretched out in front of me.

“Ouch!”

It happened so suddenly that I fell without any resistance.

Someone rushed to me without missing the gap.

I tried to run away even by crawling, but someone grabbed my neck first.

I couldn’t even move.

She wore a robe to cover her body, and only the lower wing was visible. I had no idea who it was.

“Uh, uh… let it go! Ughh!”

When I shouted to let go, the intruder started choking me violently.

I scratched the assailant’s hand and struggled to escape, but he didn’t budge.

I was suffocating and my mind went blank.

Then a knife fell into sight.

I reached out to pick up the knife that had somehow fallen.

The assailant leaned her upper body as if she was trying to forcefully cut off my breath.

At that moment, the larynx that covered the face flapped, and the monster’s face was reflected in the field of vision.

‘Why….’

I forgot to resist the shock and just froze.

A face I know well.

There was a face I could never know.

At the same time, a face that shouldn’t be here.

It was so shocking that I even forgot that I had to get out of the moment of death.

A sharp feeling of fear crawled up all over my body.

“Die! Die! Die! Die!”

The monster shouted.

Overwhelmed by evil, the woman cursed and screamed at me.

And at last, as if the woman’s curse had worked, my mind was clouded.

That’s how I died.

In vain.

****

“She hasn’t come?”

The knights silently nodded their heads at the gloomy Count’s words.

I waited for hours at the promised place, but Rosie did not come.

What’s wrong?

“Wait a little longer. First, secretly release the search squad.”

I wish she was just late.

The Count hoped that his wishes would work.

However, after a day or two, Rosie was not found.

Anywhere.

And on the other side there was a problem.

“Count! Demon worshipers have invaded!”

****

Richard was nervous.

From the moment Rosie ran away, he had a gut feeling that the plan was going awry.

However, even after demon worshipers have invaded, she is still missing.

I don’t know what Rosie and the demon worshiper have to do with each other.

So he was more anxious.

Did the demon worshipers take her?

All sorts of speculations flooded his mind. Eventually, Richard left the castle.

To find Rosie.

Until then, I never imagined that I would find her body.