Chapter 21.
#21.
What should I do to go find a house?
For now, covering Lucia’s face is probably the priority.
Rustling rustling.
I rummaged through the trash can and took out an old cloak from inside.
It was a cloak that was stinky and smelly, but even this was a good thing.
Picking it up, I said as I approached Lucia.
“Put this on.”
“Uh, huh..? Ah, yes… Iris gave it to me…”
Lucia looked at the cloak I handed her with her blurry eyes.
She took her cloak with her trembling hands.
Then she shuddered and put on her cloak.
As soon as she put on her hat, she couldn’t tell whether it was a beggar or Lucia.
Nodding.
Seeing that, I nodded her head.
“Perfect.”
It was the perfect camouflage.
“If Iris is fine… I’m fine too. Yes. It’s really fine.”
Lucia also seemed to agree with me.
She also nodded several times.
I said with a satisfied smile.
“Let’s go now.”
I was busy trying to find a house within today.
I think Lucia’s preparations are over. I grabbed her hand and hurriedly started to get out of her alley.
“Uh, huh??”
Lucia’s embarrassed voice came from behind.
Feeding him.
I laughed and said to Lucia.
“I should go on a date.”
“Dah, a date…! No more than that! Were you always this bold…?”
Stand tall.
Hearing her words, I stopped in my seat.
‘Come to think of it…’
Certainly, until now, I have always been timid when it comes to the opposite sex.
But how can I be bold now?
Perhaps it is because there is a difference in mindset between me then and now.
A bird confined in a cage begins to pay attention to its owner in order to survive.
Birds that live day by day trapped in cramped barrels become sensitive and sharp.
But it was different now.
Look at me now.
If you want to go left, go left.
If you want to go right, go right.
I was able to go where I wanted to go.
‘I don’t have to notice others anymore.’
Of course, since I was tamed by the emperor for three years, my personality won’t change easily.
But we will change.
But.
Holding Lucia’s hand in the process was not included.
I hadn’t even thought about it in the first place.
Actually, holding Lucia’s hand was so exciting that there was no sense of overdoing it.
‘I caught it without even knowing.’
As she felt Lucia’s small and soft hand, an unknown feeling tickled her heart.
This sense.
It was definitely the feeling I felt when I kissed Ariera for the last time before parting ways.
“…”
No.
I shook my head.
‘I’m going to forget it now.’
Whether it’s a good memory or a bad memory, I’ll forget everything that happened at the academy.
This feeling I feel right now in that part…
‘Lucia is of the opposite sex.’
Pretty, beautiful, and kind-hearted opposite sex.
Whose heart doesn’t beat when you hold the hand of a person of the opposite sex?
“That…Iris?”
“Ah, yes!”
I was lost in my thoughts for a while, but I started to move her feet that had stopped her in a fit of excitement at Lucia’s voice.
Following me, Lucia asked me.
“Why are you looking for a house?”
“Well..? Maybe I live to live here.”
Unable to say that I ran away from the emperor, I found an answer somewhere between truth and lies and told Lucia.
Upon hearing that, Lucia began to ponder.
After a while.
Lucia asked if she had finished her thoughts, widening her eyes.
“Um…Then you’re not coming to the academy?”
“Yes. It happened.”
I’ll never go there again.
Forever.
Could that determined emotion be contained in her words?
The words I uttered were so cold that even thinking about it, I would think I was sharp.
Oh, I wanted to.
As Lucia got quiet, she turned her head away, which I was a little sorry for.
Looking at her like that, Lucia was smiling.
“If I get a house, can I go to play every day?”
I thought you were hurt.
She asked me in a very excited tone for some reason.
What is it?
“Ugh, yes. If you can come, well, you can come and play every day.”
I answered awkwardly and smiled awkwardly.
But unlike the awkward smile, what he just said was true.
No matter how good it feels to leave the academy, it was clear that it would be lonely to be alone again.
I would be really happy if Lucia came.
Fortunately, Lucia seems to visit me every day.
‘By the way… How did Lucia find me—‘
“hehehehe…That was good. Let’s do a lot here that she couldn’t do at the academy!”
Lucia, who said while cutting off my thoughts, started dragging me in the opposite direction this time.
“Wow!!”
How fast it was.
My body, which had been dumbfounded by her words, moved forward in an instant.
Fortunately, I didn’t fall.
I couldn’t understand where Lucia was so excited.
Doing a lot of things you haven’t done before.
‘Are you thinking of smoking?’
Maybe Lucia was a very bad student, contrary to her appearance.
Inside her, I erased and rewrote her notes about her Lucia, and then I went out to the plaza, guided by Lucia’s touch.
About how Lucia found me.
‘How are you?’
Because good is good.
It seemed the same for Lucia.
We came out to the plaza before we knew it.
In the middle of the plaza, Lucia jumped up and shouted.
“The goal is a beautiful mansion!!”
A grand mansion.
“I don’t have the money to buy something that big…”
I was the one who answered her words with pouting lips.
Unlike him, it was good if she was in a good mood, but not bad.
* * *
“…”
I don’t know how many hours have passed.
Ragrasha looked at her blood flowing on the floor with empty eyes.
The amount of blood that could not be dyed on the red carpet was unusual.
To the point where I doubt that the person who shed this blood is dead.
“…What the hell. Where the hell have you gone?”
Ragrasha, who was looking at the blood, said in a small voice like a dying flame.
Her voice, which was usually full of character, was unbelievable.
However, if you know her inside story, you can understand her weak voice.
Of course, all the blood here belonged to Ragrasha.
“Kuh…!”
Ragrasha bit her lip.
Her lips, already bursting and bleeding, spilled red blood once more.
The amount was also not small.
However, there was no way that all of this blood spilling on the floor could have come from his lips.
Then…
Ragrasha raised her hand.
It’s bright red.
Her hands were so miserable that it was not stained with blood and I was mistaken that her arms were originally red.
How she cut her arm with her sword.
There were wounds everywhere, and there were no remaining spots.
On that arm.
Ragrasha brought her sword once again.
“I am trying to find out the location of Iris with the power of the blood oath. Authority, follow my orders right now and tell me the location of Iris.”
It was a trembling voice.
A voice that seemed like it would die any minute.
Are you afraid of death?
No.
Sonya is not afraid of her death.
But.
A world without Iris was more terrifying than death.
Tears flowed from Ragrasha’s eyes.
Those clear, transparent tears met the blood that splattered all over her face, turning it red.
Simultaneously.
Seureung–!
She cut her arm once again.
Dududuk.
Blood is pouring out of the puddle that has already pooled.
“Come on.”
Ragrasha said earnestly.
Normally, that blood would have been drawn together.
However.
Knock—!
The blood that flowed from Ragrasha’s arm fell into a calm puddle, causing ripples.
Until the ripple dissipated, nothing happened.
“Ah…”
Ragrasha sighed.
Really.
The bloody oath was indeed broken.
Why?
With the power of Iris, you won’t be able to break the oath of blood.
Then why?
“Why…”
Tuktuk.
A bright red liquid mixed with blood and tears fell to the floor.
Now I couldn’t tell if it was tears or blood.
Tears turned red when they met blood, and blood was red in the first place.
Patter.
Her heart fell to the floor and became one with the blood.
“Ah…”
Ragrasha’s body staggered and fell.
I fell into the puddle of her blood.
Even her hair in her nice curls.
A well-organized map of conquests.
It was heavily soiled with sticky blood.
I couldn’t afford to care about that.
‘Iris.’
The toy is gone.
There was a way to find it, but her blood oath was broken.
But the oath of blood is never broken.
The way to cancel the oath has already disappeared as a legacy in ancient times.
But.
There was only one law to cancel the blood oath.
That’s right.
“Kkeuh…!”
Ragrasha clenched her fists tightly.
I didn’t want to admit it.
Iris is dead—
“No!!”
Ragrasha shouted out loud.
Chew–!
She drew together the blood pooling on her floor.
And then directly.
I started drawing with my own hands.
Chew-chew–!
Ragrasha draws hard on something.
But.
There was no way a picture could be drawn on the liquid blood.
Like Iris.
Like Iris, whom I miss so much.
It seemed to take shape for a while, but soon it just scattered and disappeared.
“No…”
Ragra Shaga’s eyes blurred.
In her head, the images of her sister, who had been coldly reduced to ashes, and Iris, who had died, were projected.
“————-!”
My heart ached as if it were stabbed with a knife.
I didn’t want to make that mistake again.
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Just.
White roses, as if stained with blood.
A girl named Iris would have only had to dye herself in a flower.
Throw away her pride.
If you acknowledged your love.
If it was, if it was, Iris wouldn’t have left.
It’s the same as back then.
The sparks bursting from her sister’s eyes.
His skin cracked and blue mana flowed through the cracks.
Iris…
Even dead.
She is what she created herself after all.
And the damage is the only one.
She was covered by the people she cared about, the angels.
“Ah…”
Ragrasha tore her hair.
I didn’t want to believe it.
I wanted to turn back the time.
Ragrasha looked up at the sky.
Then I prayed.
Almighty God.
Forgive me my sins and give me back what was taken from me.
“Please…”
Ragrasha closed her eyes tightly.
Darkness fell before her eyes.
Now open your eyes.
Iris will greet you with a smile.
-Master! Why are you here now!
Ah, I hear it.
Also.
God has not forsaken me.
A smile appeared on Ragrasha’s face.
She opened her eyes slowly.
“……”
Knock—.
Drops of blood fell into the puddle.
As if entering a huge cave, the sound resonated so clearly in my ears.
Saa—
A cold wind blew.
It ran down Ragrasha’s cheek and she wandered around her room several times before disappearing.
“Ah…”
Tears flowed from Ragrasha’s eyes.
Nothing.
In front of my eyes, there was only reality.
Brutal enough to be terrifying.
A reality that is all the more brutal because it is brought about by oneself.
There were no miracles.
In the first place.
Couldn’t God be merciful to himself as a devil?
“hahahaha.”
That’s right.
That’s right.
“Yes.”
Ragrasha’s hazy eyes regained their light.
Chew–!
At the same time, her hand began to dig into the puddle of her blood.
After a while like that.
Something caught on Ragrasha’s hand.
Picking it up, Ragrasha closed her eyes.
Flutter.
Her scarred hand lifted slowly.
In her hand.
There was a knife that flashed bright blue.
After looking at it for a while, Ragrasha pulled her arm.
“Suck…!”
Her sword rushed.
The shattering blade flew rapidly into my throat.
Simultaneously.
Knock—!
The door opened.
“Lung, Your Majesty!!! I have found the angel’s tracks.”
It was at the same time that Ragrasha’s hand stopped.