62 – Report on the Fall of Humility (10)
Arianne trembled, twisting her whole body on the bed, which was big enough for four people. She desperately tried to take off her silk robe.
“Tongue! “Your tongue is wrapped around me, let me go, let me go, come on!”
She has already given up on reason. She screamed and tried to stab me in the eye with her nails.
Cain ran to her bed. She held her arms tightly and pressed them down onto her bed. In the midst of her struggle, her collar came loose. Her body is clearly visible.
The parts hidden under her outer clothing were all covered in scars. These are intentionally added wounds that can only be healed by carefully carving them with the tip of her knife and re-carving them once they have healed. She remembered Lily’s back at the monastery.
There were even letters engraved on it. Western pagan and imperial languages mingled. ‘I will not forget. I won’t forget. I will not forget.’
Cain’s eyes were spinning. Her head throbs and her stomach twists as if she’s been punched. She was poisoned. Cain held her breath. Arianne screamed.
“Mother! Mother! Come. Here comes the snake! Please save me, please save me! Sorry!”
The wind blew from somewhere. Soot rose up to the ceiling. Cain looked inside her room. She had to put out the fire that was burning the Asas grass.
A stone statue stood at each corner of the octagonal room. They are beasts. Eagle, lion, snake, scorpion, leopard, fish, horse, camel. But the head was a human head.
Her body was made of stone, but her head was made of iron, and her face cover hung down like a knight’s helmet. The eyes, nostrils, and mouth were pierced and could be opened upward.
All faces were the same. It seemed like it was modeled after someone’s face. Looks like Arianne. Every time a fire burst out from behind the cover, black smoke billowed out. It seemed as if Asas grass was burning inside her helmet.
“Mother! Mother! Mother! I was wrong, I was wrong! I won’t do that again, I won’t do that again!”
Arianne twisted her body violently. Cain hastily gathered up her bed sheets. She wrapped Arianne’s body around her and tied it tightly so that she could not untie it.
Her breath caught. She couldn’t help but inhale, little by little. It feels like her body is getting lighter little by little. Her steps are new. Her mood is excited.
‘Come to your senses. ‘You can’t leave it here.’
However, there is no sign of water in the room. The exit to get the water has been blocked by Cain himself, and there is no other door. I saw a bowl placed at the feet of the stone statue. It contained something black and reddish.
Cain grinned and laughed. Without even thinking twice, she lifted it up. The thing on her plate was pounding like a heart that had just been taken out, but she laughed it off. Cain gritted his teeth. She must not lose her mind.
The steel woman’s face was tilted back with the edge of the plate. As expected, grass was burning inside the empty steel crater. Cain put something on her plate. There was a crunching sound and a thick smell of blood. Only then did Cain realize that what was on her plate was not a heart but congealed blood.
There was a sound like a snake whining and grumbling. The fire, which was not satisfied with grass, died happily when it soaked in her blood. Cain moved her body even though she was staggering. When she saw the flames of being taken away, her senses came back a little.
Her eyes keep rolling over, and her limbs don’t listen to her. She keeps smiling and she wants to laugh happily.
But she knows Cain.
It’s fake. All of this is fake. But just because her head understood, that didn’t mean her body followed. Cain himself had no choice but to feel an instinctive repulsion and to see something in vain.
Cain did not resist. She didn’t even refuse. She just accepted it. She knows that being startled and scared will only make her condition worse. She had to stay calm.
And to stay calm, you have to move. Set achievable goals and act accordingly. I confirm that my body moves according to my will.
‘You have to turn off the lights. In action!’
When he tried to go forward, he kept leaning backwards, so Cain went forward thinking he was walking backwards. So, one, one. He put out the flames.
When the fire on the last statue was put out, the smoke burned fiercely upward. Cain’s body swayed. She sat down on the bed. When I turned around, I saw a white snake wrapped in cloth. It was a snake shedding tears.
“Please save me…” “
Cain knows that the serpent is Arianne. He also knows that what appears to be a snake is his illusion. That’s why Cain wasn’t embarrassed.
“Arianne… Addiction… “
“Window. Break the window.” The snake hissed. “Hurry. That way we both survive. Hurry… “
Wand. Cain found his staff. But there is no wand. There is only an arm writhing on the floor. This is a fresh arm that has just been cut off. As he raises his elbows, his hands wave in greeting.
“Teacher.” Cain asked politely. “I’m sorry, but please lend me a hand. Clench your fists tightly.”
And swung. I broke the thick window. The stained glass shattered into pieces. A dry sand wind blew. Loud shouts and screams were heard from outside. This is the cry of the Samaritans.
“Can you see it?”
The snake whispered. Cain put her cane on the bed and crawled away. Arianne’s face was that of a human, but her eyes were those of a serpent, her nostrils were small and her forked tongue hung loose between her lips.
The snake burst into tears.
“Can you see it?… What I saw… Can you see it too?”
“I can see it.”
“I… how is it… “
“People.”
Cain did not believe his eyes. Sometimes not everything you see is true. It’s like that when something is written in her eyes. She believed that Cain was a person beyond her hallucinations. She said what she wanted to believe.
“People. You are a person.”
“They called me a monster.”
The snake hissed. The noise from outside has now become unbearable. Cain wondered for a moment whether he should play her flute.
“William made the most noise. He told me he was a snake b*tch. But he said it would be more miserable than a snake. “When a snake sheds its skin, its skin becomes clear, but that snake b*tch won’t be able to do that.”
“Are they the wounds they inflicted?”
“No. My mother My mother every night. From so long ago that I don’t even remember. He lit the grass and brought a knife. You engraved words on my body. I didn’t shed a single drop of blood. Flesh. Only flesh. Neither more nor less. ‘It’s all because I love you.’
My mother said, but I was afraid. Sick. Sick. ‘Love is inherently painful.’ Then, can I also engrave my love on my mother? She did and she asked. ‘A crazy b*tch, a b*tch that even her father doesn’t know, how did I have to give birth to a b*tch like you!’ Ah, mother, mother! Why did you give birth to me! Ah, here comes the snake! Snake come down to me! Stop it, stop it quickly!”
Arianne looked at the ceiling and screamed. Cain looked up at her. I saw a really large snake coiled up looking down at me. But reason whispered.
It’s not a snake. Snakes can’t coil themselves on the ceiling. You are being deceived Just like the snake b*tch you’re crushing, that’s a hallucination!
I had to kill him. Snakes must be killed. Cain’s hand slowly rose. She is the snake that ate Arianne. All she could think about was how to strangle the evil serpent that had covered Arianne’s skin.
Cain’s trembling hand touched Arianne’s cheek. She was wet. What is this? Cain didn’t know. He lifted her hand and examined it, smelling her scent. She wasn’t bloody. Why does water come out here? Cain muttered and tried to suck a mouthful of her.
Salty and bitter. Did the snake shed tears? Cain doubted. She gently placed the palm of her hand on the eyes of something she couldn’t tell whether it was Ariane or a snake. It was sobbing.
“It wasn’t your fault.”
Her palms got wet. It’s human. What’s down here is human. No matter what shape it takes. Whatever you are thinking. What lies below is a wounded human being.
“I wanted to get away. My mother stabbed me with a knife every night. She tamed me with grass. One night. The knights have arrived.
My mother had a seizure. She was gentle in front of other people, but when she came back to the room she would crush me. Excuse me. Your father came. Go and find your father. Go ahead and pray like a dog. Because then you can live a better life than here.
So she did that… I, I didn’t even know it was the 5th Crusade… I just followed… “
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The Crusade launched by the Pope. A crusader who rose up to fight against the devil. Cain’s reason whispered. Okay. That’s how I followed it. Shazah al-Dur must have gone crazy after seeing the Knights of the Holy Grail. Because something happened to me. But, would the Knights have done the same thing to her daughter? Don’t you want to know?
Cain removed her palm. I ignored the whispers in her head.
“But Arianne. “You are a hero.”
The tone of speech changed, but Arianne didn’t seem to notice. Now she looked quite like a human face. But her tongue is still a snake’s tongue.
“You don’t know what a hero is.”
The snake’s tongue is flowing.
“I walked, fought, and cut down. Stabbed, cut and trampled. Things my mother engraved on my body. The things she saw every night when her mother tried to kill her intoxicated with the smell of grass.
I showed it to those monsters. Every time the shadows appeared, one by one, I went crazy. I saw my mother, many mothers, in front of me, but every time I cried out.
I’m not going home. My mother can’t stop me. I’m not going back. I’m leaving!
To do that, you had to become a hero. I walked. I walked and walked again. No matter how terrible the shadows unfold. Even though the humans, whose flesh was tangled in a strange way and who had become one with the beasts, ran towards me, I kept walking.
Those around me… Those heroes… It was more hideous than that monster… Not even the shadows could stop the damned. Those who called me a monster. Those who were afraid to even talk to me. When I finally came back. I believed I could live again. I believed it… “
Arianne let out a tearing scream.
“My flesh! My skin color! Everyone told me Everyone pointed their finger at me! Samaritan! Samaritan! Shame of the Empire. The illegitimate child of the empire! They say you are the best b*tch among illegitimate children!
I shouted that I was a hero, but people still said it! No, you are a Samaritan! A Samaritan who doesn’t even know who his parents are!
Even though the emperor and the pope said I was a hero! Vicious b*tch, look at that knife in her eye! How severe would it have been to cut off the Demon King’s limbs and bury them in the ground? She’s quite a toxic b*tch, isn’t she?
You were so kind. You were so nice. He was so humble without showing off. Even the Pope called me humble… why… Why am I still… I can’t escape… “
Cain seemed to know. She Arianne had nowhere to go. This place she so desperately wanted to escape from. Other than coming back to this place she wanted to get away from. Empire. West. There was nowhere for her.
She emptied herself so humbly.
Only skin color. Just prejudice. Only the place of origin was not empty. It wasn’t abandoned.
“So, catch me.” Arianne, who had returned to human form, whispered.
“Come on. They said she was an inquisitor. I’ll tell you everything. I can testify to everything, everything. What my mother did here. Something my mother had been preparing her whole life to do to ruin her empire.
That secret ritual… Even the Magdeburg stone floor is fine. Please. Even if it’s prison, take me with you. I’ll tell you everything. I will tell you my sins. I want to get away. “I just want to get away from here.”
Are you talking about killing your mother? But Cain couldn’t say anything. She couldn’t say why she killed her mother. I just placed my hand on Arianne’s forehead.
“What crime? What crime… “
Arianne cried.
“My mother and my sins. My mother taught people out there to hate. Every day I was reminded of how much the people of the west and the empire were persecuting us. “She constantly poisoned people by releasing burnt ajax grass and boiled concentrate into the ‘well.'”
“… Well?”
Cain was embarrassed. There are no wells in the eastern area. There are only two oases. All wells are on the west side. She thought Arianne must have said something wrong.
“Okay. Well. Concentrate was added to all wells. He incited the Samaritans to dig a tunnel. I dissolved a little medicine in my drinking water every night. I don’t know how effective it was. But I just know that it has been consistent for 10 years… My mother… Mother prepared for this day for a very long time… “That is my mother’s sin.”
The trumpet sounded. It is the trumpet of the army. The cries of the Samaritans were heard.
“What have you prepared?”
“Consciousness.” Arianne shivered.
“I drew a camp in secret. The ground held enough blood and corpses. If you memorize the right spell. He will come down from the sky.”
“Who?”
“The devil.”
The ground shook. It seemed like the Samaritans and the army clashed. Scream. Shout. Footsteps. The knocking on the door gets louder. The cry, ‘Lead us!’ I keep trying to look inside through the window.
“The devil, the devil is dead. You, the seven heroes… “
Cain repeated in disbelief. Arianne pursed her lips. Are you trying to laugh? Are you going to cry? Is it a feeling of relief? She didn’t know if she was falling into irreversible despair.
“That is my sin. Lie… “
The door was shaking. The desk was pushed back little by little. Arianne closed her eyes.
“The devil is not dead. We just buried it. Cut off limbs. Sealed. I buried it in the ground. Because… “
The door was torn off. The angry Samaritans stopped as they looked at Cain and Arianne. But Arianne doesn’t seem to care about anything anymore.
“The devil… Because I can’t kill you… “
Cain took out his imperial sword.