Chapter 20.
#20.
“Ugh! Smell of blood. Did you even menstruate?!”
A familiar voice rang in my ears.
A refreshing voice with a tangy lemon scent.
‘Unbelievable…’
My eyes, which were lying on the floor exhausted, trembled in disbelief.
By the way, this wasn’t an empire.
It was the kingdom of Argentina, far away from the academy.
But…
“Anyway, it would have been a real disaster without me! Let’s get up at once!”
How does Lucia get here?
Lucia slapped me on the shoulder, dumbfounded, and pulled me up.
Absolutely incomprehensible situation.
“You smell blood like this, are you afraid I won’t be able to find it?”
“…”
“It’s written all over your face. What are you thinking?”
Having said that, Lucia pricked my cheek.
‘Is my expression that easy to understand?’
After seriously thinking about it, I was able to confidently answer that question with no.
Of course, I have been rolling and rolling under the Emperor.
Every time I cursed inwardly, it was all revealed in my expression.
Probably, I would have died in less than two years.
He died after being hit by the emperor’s hand.
No, but wait a minute.
‘This is not the time for me to think about this.’
I suddenly came to my senses and shook my head.
My heart suddenly calmed down after seeing Lucia.
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Just like being held in her mother’s arms.
You need to calm down.
Rather, I had to take advantage of this situation.
I was distracted by the pain a while ago, but now I can think normally.
My head fell.
Then I looked at my chest, which had been loosened up a lot.
“…!”
The light is gone.
The bright red light that had been twinkling in my chest had completely disappeared.
Why?
The light that seemed to burn forever has disappeared.
“hehehehe.”
As the question floated to the surface of the water, a small laugh sounded from the side.
‘No way…’
“Did you make a blood oath with Iris’ ex-boyfriend? You shouldn’t do anything like that. You can control your body at will.”
Lucia said with a smile.
However, it was never something to laugh at.
‘A blood oath can control the body at will?’
Apparently Ariera said that a blood oath would do me no harm.
But from what Lucia said, that wasn’t the case.
It was a very dangerous technique.
‘Why did you lie to me…?’
That Ariera.
The sudden fact made her confused, as if she had been hit over the head with a hammer.
At the same time, it hurt so much that my heart broke.
It wasn’t the primal pain that I had felt a while ago.
From within.
It felt like something was twisting deep in my chest.
“…Probably, you made this oath without knowing anything. It is also known as the oath of love to the general public. In reality, it’s a terrible magic that imitates the devil’s black magic.”
“Well, then most people would think it’s safe…?”
“Yes. But in the case just now, the caster was trying to locate you. Judging from what he was trying to find, he must have known how dangerous magic this was.”
“……”
I’m glad.
I am very fortunate.
Really.
I was so fortunate that I cried.
“…Iris. It’s fine?”
“Ah, yes. It’s fine.”
I tried to smile at Lucia’s hand shaking my shoulder.
I don’t know why I think it’s fortunate.
No, the reason was simple.
If even Ariera used me to eat it, she must have been confident enough to collapse even now.
That’s why I said it so many times, but it was fortunate.
However, it was too early to breathe a sigh of relief.
My thoughts, which caught my breath for a while, started walking toward the precipice again.
‘The emperor is looking for me.’
Maybe I could have found it.
I don’t know what they might have done to catch me by now.
Actually, not long ago, I fell to the floor, losing control of my body.
Let the accident get there.
Leak.
My body began to tremble.
It wasn’t the time to talk like this.
“Huh?”
I shook off Lucia’s hand and hurriedly pulled her hat over.
It was a mistake to come to the city.
I had to hide in the mountains until I found a way to break the blood oath.
If the monster can’t find me because it’s in the mountains…
Still, it must have been better than the city.
I’m going to get out of here quickly.
This place is too dangerous.
Babaktabak.
Whipping his trembling legs in fear, he hurriedly walked outside.
“Hey, wait a minute, Iris!”
Lucia shouted from behind me.
He was a good friend.
I don’t know how I got here.
I’m sorry I couldn’t greet you for coming, but…
“I have to leave.”
His voice trembled.
My face was white.
It was so scary to have to be locked up in that terrible cage again.
I really, really didn’t want to go back.
My steps gradually quickened.
That was the moment.
“Iris..!”
Lucia grabs my wrist.
At that, my forward steps stopped.
Flutter.
Her right hand clenched in her hand trembled.
At this moment, I hated Lucia, whom I thought of as my close friend.
“Wait a minute, Iris. Look at me.”
“Lucia. I’m really sorry, but I don’t have time.”
Hold on.
She tugged at her holding her hand.
But the force holding her hand was so strong that my hand did not budge.
“…”
She bit her lip.
Kung kung.
My heart skipped a beat with anxiety.
I can’t help it.
First of all, I had to turn my back and listen to her story.
“Why…”
I looked at Lucia, suppressing her overflowing emotions.
“…!”
Looking at my face, Lucia’s eyes widened.
“Is Iris crying…?”
“…Don’t cry.”
Lucia responded curtly to her worried voice, then I raised her left hand and roughly wiped away her tears.
Maybe because I wiped it with an old, poor-quality hooded cloak.
The area around the eyes was stained red.
“You idiot…”
When Lucia saw me like that, she let out a sigh.
“Can’t you feel it yet?”
“What…”
A little while ago, Lucia had only said and acted incomprehensibly.
She shows up out of nowhere and she now holds me and talks crap.
‘What on earth is it that I can’t feel?’
Still, that’s what my one and only friend said.
Unable to get mad at her, I checked the condition of my body for a while.
It stings.
Pain was felt around the swollen eye.
Other than that…
I didn’t feel anything special.
A slight throb in the chest.
‘Wait a minute.’
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Just then, lightning strikes my head.
Come to think of it, it was strange.
I don’t know exactly when, but the point at which the seemingly endless pain suddenly disappeared.
At that point and the time Lucia appeared overlapped.
Above all.
‘There is still no change in my body.’
A blood oath can obviously control a person’s body.
Other than the terrible pain I felt, nothing had changed in my body yet.
That means…
“Huh. Looks like you noticed now!”
Lucia put her hand on my waist.
It was at the same time that her nose rose high into the sky.
“This body broke Iris’ oath!”
Shaak–!
The wind that blew from somewhere made her blue hair flutter.
That figure was more sacred than me, an angel.
My eyes were filled with amazement.
“Uh, how…!”
“Shh..!”
At the same time, Lucia’s long index finger pressed her lips against mine.
Lucia said, squinting one eye.
“If you know a lot, it hurts, Iris. But if you’re too curious… I’ve studied black magic a little too much? Just know this much.”
“…”
Having said that, Lucia removed her hand from holding my lips.
“Okay?”
“…Yes.”
My head nodded slowly.
That good Lucia studied black magic.
I couldn’t believe it, but it was such a cruel world.
I didn’t think she was lying.
“Hee hee. Nice.”
Lucia pulled down the hood that was on my head and brushed her hair.
Burr.
My body shuddered with pleasant goosebumps.
I wanted to continue to feel that feeling.
All of this was like a reward for my hard work.
Feeling the reward, I thought.
‘I feel relieved now.’
It was really thanks to Lucia.
Now, it didn’t matter how she got there.
She saved me from being captured by the Emperor again.
It’s embarrassing.
About the top of my head, I could give it away a hundred times.
… I felt good too.
“Good? Your expression is relaxed.”
Lucia found out right away and laughed sinisterly.
It was definitely a smile like that of a sullen man from a pornographic video.
“…”
Could it be because her body has changed into a woman?
That expression made me feel rejected physiologically.
“Ah, Iris…?”
Feeling uncomfortable for some reason, I changed my clothes and took a step away from Lucia.
Lucia looked at me with her shocked face.
That face was just like looking at her dog that had been snatched from dog chewing gum.
“Poohyuk…!”
An unbearable laugh burst through his lips.
As usual, the water flowing out of a burst dam cannot be stopped, and the laughter that erupted soon grew out of control.
“Puhh…Puh hahahaha!!”
How long has it been since you smiled like this?
It was literally a big laugh.
Laughter came out to the point that my stomach hurt.
“hahahahaha!!”
Laughed for a while.
Even after a long time, I continued to laugh.
“Ah, Iris…”
Lucia called me with a worried face.
But I laughed.
To blow away the baggage in my heart with a smile.
I’m going to laugh all the laughs I couldn’t make for the past three years like a greedy person.
Ignoring the tears trickling down my eyes.
She smiled with a very happy face.
“Huh…”
After laughing madly for such a long time, I finally calmed down.
Perhaps my heart has been broken a lot without even knowing it myself.
Because the current situation was not normal by anyone’s eyes.
By the way.
Who can say anything.
I said I would laugh.
I am no longer a slave.
Fire.
I clenched my fists tightly.
Then I looked up at the sky.
The sun rising high in the sky was illuminating the dark alley.
“I’m going to try it.”
The first step is to find a house.
I looked at the sun for a while and lowered my head.
Maybe it was because I was looking at the intense light with my bare eyes.
Lucia’s face was blurred, as if her eyes were filled with tears.
Nothing.
This was good as well.
Feeding.
I laughed and said to Lucia.
“Hey, Lucia.”
“Ah, yes..!”
“Do you want to go on a date with us?”
“Uh…Huh?”
At my words, Lucia looked at me with a dumbfounded expression.
Life.
No, it was the first date in my life.