CH 123

“What are you dissatisfied with?”

The man, who covered his body with a robe, murmured as he looked at the quiet forest where there was not even the sound of grasshoppers chirping.

Then he tilted his head, looking back at Dylan, who was grimacing the whole time.

Dylan’s dark brown hair was obscured by the long shadows of trees, making it almost black.

The man in the robe clicked his tongue as his handsome face could hardly be straightened.

“I’ve given you everything you wanted.”

“It’s noisy, so shut your mouth, Heyden.”

Dylan’s mind was a mess.

His mind was pushed to the limit, so that even the slightest noise was unacceptable.

“No, I’ve let demon worshippers invade the northern castle as I wished. But what’s the matter with you?”

“I guess you’re going to shut up if you pull out your tongue.”

Hayden then shut his mouth.

With that temper.

He remembered his brother, whom he had seen when he hid as a servant of Evantes one day.

A pretty handsome man with dark hair and pomegranate red eyes.

He was a man with a handsome appearance enough to look back on from afar.

But it was Dylan’s same red eyes that caught Hayden’s attention.

‘I’m afraid they’re not brothers, but they have the same dirty personality.’

Hayden clicked his tongue briefly.

Dylan was special among demon worshipers. It was one of the reasons he was treated there.

I don’t know the details, but I’ve heard rumors that Dylan made one ‘promise’.

It is thanks to that promise that he is being treated like this.

So, I followed the absurd order to raid the Northern Castle.

“Where the hell are you….”

Dylan, who could not understand Hayden’s thoughts, was so impatient now.

When he heard the news that Rose had disappeared, he was quite shocked.

But when rumors spread that this was the work of demon worshipers, Dylan changed his mind.

Maybe all of this is Rose’s plan.

In order to escape from the suspect in this nonsensical case, entangled by the Paladin Commander.

The transcendent Paladin Commander is enough to be attacked by demon worshipers.

It was a conviction without any evidence, but Dylan had been by Rose’s side for many years. He knew her so well.

Convinced, Dylan moved to help her.

By making the demon worshipers raid the Northern Castle, the suspicion became a fact.

His plan succeeded.

‘But why didn’t you show up, Rose?’

He wandered around the North for several days, but couldn’t find a single hair of her.

“Damn it.”

Again, Dylan spit out cursing.

I wasted such a long time looking for Rose.

But in the end, Dylan came across her.

“I found it!”

Finally, he found Rose.

As Dylan was about to leave the forest, he saw the knights of the Northern Castle passing by, who had already left the forest.

Rose was held in the arms of the Paladin Commander who was walking in the lead. His motionless, closed eyes scratched Dylan’s anxiety.

Her arm, which had escaped from the man’s arms, shook like a corpse.

Unlike usual, the Paladin Commander did not draw a smile on his lips.

He stood in front of the castle with a shady face, no dead eyes, and holding Rose.

The knights standing around him bowed their heads and did not make eye contact with anyone.

But what kind of face they were making was out of Dylan’s interest.

The relief that he had found her and the worry that her complexion was pale that shook his mind.

But the news that followed could not keep Dylan rational.

“Sablen’s Aide is dead.”

The string of reason, which had been thin throughout Rosie’s disappearance, was completely cut.

*****

The heavy snow has stopped.

However, the dark clouds that covered the castle did not disappear.

Whether it was only covered with black clouds, or the entire castle had a gloomy atmosphere.

“This matter… It must never leak outside.”

The Count gave his knights an order.

Rosie cooperated to clear the false accusation with the Paladin Commander, but things went awry.

He must have been the first to be suspected of killing her under such circumstances.

So the Count tried to hide this fact.

He wrinkled his eyes and touched his head.

“Why the hell did this happen….”

There has been much speculation that it was the demon worshipers who now killed Rosie.

However, a lot of it means that there are different opinions.

Where is young master Yurtha now?

Since Rosie disappeared from view, questions have continued to arise.

“Sir, the coffin has arrived.”

“Ah yes.”

A coffin to put Rosie’s body in has arrived at the Northern Castle.

The Count soon moved to check the coffin.

When he arrived in front of the coffin where Rosie’s body was moved, there was a passenger in the room.

The Count couldn’t get in right away.

The back of a man in a pure white robe was visible.

While contemplating whether to pretend to greet him, the Count witnessed a bizarre thing.

He opened his eyes wide, wondering if he had seen it wrong, and with only a small wiggle of eyebrows, he quietly went inside.

“Close the door.”

After a short command, the knights immediately closed the door.

Richard must have heard this too, but he didn’t look back.

The Count also didn’t want him to know his presence and look back at him.

The Count stood still and looked at Richard who was silently stroking the hand of the corpse.

The man who usually exuded a good and holy atmosphere was like a fallen Paladin who sold his soul to the devil at this moment.

The man’s eyes, which were like a blue lake, reminded me of an abyss as deep as a river in the underworld.

Most of all, it was most frightening to see him stroking the back of a corpse’s hand with his sincere hands and his eyes wide open.

By Richard, Rosie was lying in the coffin with only her hand out.

‘The body….’

No matter how beautiful and alluring that woman was in the past, she is now a corpse.

Isn’t it creepy to touch such a corpse?

The Count looked back again. He felt a deep sense of relief that the door was closed.

Isn’t it good for others to see the strange behavior of an Imperial hero?

‘Why are you touching her so tenderly?’

Come to think of it…

The Count remembered one thing.

When Richard was attacked, he had pink hair attached to his body.

The Count was puzzled the whole time how it had happened, but neither Rosie nor Richard spoke.

Maybe they even had a secret meeting?

Then I can understand why the two of them kept their mouths shut.

Looking at his faint blue eyes, it seems that Richard loved her secretly.

To love the woman who will become the fiancee of the Marquis Evantes…

“Count.”

Richard, who had been repeating only eerie actions, quietly opened his mouth to see what kind of wind was blowing.

“Is there a possibility that the dead will come back to life?”

“… What.”

“I don’t know.”

Richard smiled inexplicably.

The Count pondered for a moment whether he should even smile. But his stiff lips were not easily moved.

He pondered for a moment and moved his gaze to the end of the room.

The wide window didn’t close and the curtains fluttered.

“Will the dead not come back to life?”

“… Miss Rosie’s death is tragic, but the dead won’t come back to life.”

Was that the answer? Richard didn’t speak to him any more.

The darkness atmosphere had turned into a large scale, and the Count could no longer withstand the sensation of squeezing his entire body, and the Count immediately left the room.

“Are you okay, Count?”

When the Count’s expression didn’t look good when he left the room, his attendant asked cautiously.

The Count recalled what he had seen inside.

And he shut his mouth not to say something to his servant.

The creepy feeling he had received was beyond words.

Perhaps no one would understand.

Rather, he would look like an ignorant person trying to bring down that holy man.

He dug out the creeps from that room.

He decided to dismiss it because of his mood.

But.

“The Count is in trouble! The Paladin Commander fell out of the window!”

At that moment, the Count’s eyes darkened.

It was just a gloomy situation.

*****

“Huh!”

I opened my eyes.

It’s Korea.

With shackles on my ankles.