79 – Imperial Capital Ethelmarion (7)
Are you curious about the taste of candy? What kind of question is that?
Well, wouldn’t it taste sweet? Because it’s candy.
Or maybe it’s just a little bit of fruit flavor mixed in.
I don’t like candy that much, so it was just a question I asked without much thought.
I tend not to eat sweets, especially late at night.
As I was looking at Sirien blankly, the mouth that had bitten the candy raised its tail with a grin.
“Do you want to eat lazen too?”
“Is there one more?”
“Well, guess what? Rajen made fun of me earlier, so I don’t want to teach him.”
Hijuk. Sirien gently rolled the candy she was holding on her tongue.
A sweet scent wafted from the slightly opened mouth.
The eyes, curved like a crescent moon, seemed to have found a good prey.
The excited voice continued to tickle my ears.
“You know what? Usually, we lump it all together as sweetness, but in fact, there are many different types of sweetness. This is my favorite flavor among them all. “It would be a waste to eat it alone.”
“…… ?”
“I’m sure you’ll be surprised if you try Lazen too, right? But actually, there’s only one candy left, and I’ve already tasted enough. “Then what should we do?”
“I don’t mind just not eating.”
“No. I told you it would be a waste to eat it alone. I’ll hand it over now. “Should I accept it properly?”
Toup. Sirien grabbed my head and pushed her body straight into me.
A kiss that could be used as a surprise. The light pink meat offal invaded my mouth, and something sweet passed over my tongue.
I felt something like a small glass bead.
…… It tasted like peach.
The candy melted in Sirien’s mouth and immediately showed off its violent sweetness.
The scent, somehow luxurious yet stimulating, rising softly seemed to disturb my mind.
Sticky saliva came in with a crunching sound.
A dreamlike appearance unfolded before my eyes, as if the world had suddenly become a dream.
Sirien calmly closed his eyes.
Eyelids as white and clean as ice caps were captured in my field of vision.
In a time that felt like a fairy tale, a slightly strange sound rang out.
“Umm, um. Jjook, jjook.”
Sirien’s hand grabbed me as if telling me not to run away.
This time, I couldn’t resist that weak power.
It was a kiss that was neither too long nor too short.
Finally, Sirien pulled away again after lightly sucking on her upper lip.
Her face looked happy, as if she had just been hit.
I was in a daze and then received a night greeting.
“Then I’ll really go, sleep well. Sweet dreams. “It’s better if I dream of myself.”
“Uh, uh… ….”
“Phew. Cute, my article. “It would be great to show that side of me every day.”
I hear the door closing.
I sat still until all the candy left in my mouth melted and disappeared.
I felt like today was my crushing defeat.
* * *
The promised location the dwarf told us about yesterday was a cemetery near the capital.
Contrary to the idea that this kind of meeting usually takes place late at night, it is not that dark.
We arrived just as dusk was slowly falling.
The setting sun was melting over the dead grass.
While the flowers withered next to the moss-covered tombstone, Sirien and I slowly looked around the cemetery.
Our shadows stretched long along the small slope.
“It’s a nice place. Even though it looks like this, all the souls are asleep. “It doesn’t seem like there are any evil spirits or anything.”
“I guess the priests of the pantheon were just sitting idle.”
“If you get that money, of course you have to work hard. “If the undead emerge from the capital, the entire empire will turn upside down, right?”
“I guess I still had that in mind.”
“You said you would definitely get it back? “I was serious.”
“…… Okay.”
It was a graveyard that clearly showed signs of being unmaintained.
There seemed to be people coming and going from time to time, but it didn’t seem like they put much effort into it.
Most of the tombstones had dark moss on them or were broken in places.
Even so, there were cases where only a sign indicating that someone was buried was engraved without a tombstone.
It certainly does not seem to be a place where nobles are buried, and it was probably a place where commoners or criminals are buried.
It wasn’t a bad place to have a secret meeting.
“They said he was a man with a cross-shaped scar under his chin.”
But even after washing my eyes and searching, I couldn’t see a man who looked like that.
At first, there was no one to be seen.
Even if you wash your eyes and look for a place, it is rare to find even traces of people, let alone people.
At best, there were only traces of mowing that had been done a few months ago.
“Is this still nonsense?”
“Let’s just pretend we’re sightseeing and look around a little more. “It might have been a little twisted.”
“Of course.”
“Now that I’ve come this far, there’s something I need to do.”
He wasn’t particularly disappointed. Because he didn’t have much expectations in the first place.
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Why? Isn’t there a famous saying that says if you don’t expect something in the first place, you won’t be betrayed?
There was no way he would keep his promise when he was being chased, and there was a high possibility that he would have had problems with his life before that.
Sirien walked around and slowly shed divinity in the nearby area.
All the souls in this graveyard were asleep, but that did not mean they had reached rest.
The souls who touched the divinity of Hybras disappeared one by one, as if melting into the ground.
I was just taking a walk around the cemetery.
Should I really call this fortunate? We were able to find the man we were supposed to meet.
I climbed a nearby hill to check out the entire cemetery.
There was a tree. It was a tree so large that it could be seen from afar.
And behind the wooden pillar, a man was sitting down as if he was asleep.
“Looks like it’s a step too late.”
“It’s not good. “Because it means you’ve been caught by the tail.”
As I heard, there was a cross-shaped scar on his chin.
The problem is that he is not already alive.
There was a large sword mark on his heart, and the clothes he was wearing were covered in blood.
Degree of dried blood. And looking at the condition of the body, no matter how long it took, the body was dead within a few hours.
Moreover, those are signs of thorough murder.
It was clear that he died without even a single proper resistance.
Based on the circumstances, it appeared that he had been stabbed from behind and died, but if it was the work of an assassin, it was really neat work.
“Tsk. I didn’t think the Marquis of Eloran would stay still…… “It looks like they decided to take a drastic step.”
“Of course, in a place like this, it wouldn’t be surprising if a few people died.”
Sirien clicked her tongue.
The fine eyebrows furrowed, and a black divinity enveloped the man’s body.
His death was not particularly regrettable.
The demons that this man invaded would eventually cause many deaths, and he would eventually be held responsible for the countless tragedies.
Nevertheless, Sirien first guided the man’s soul to rest.
It was because of her karma as a saint.
Every god has his own divinity, and priests make that divinity their business.
For example, if the priests of Hybras gained strength by leading souls to rest, on the other hand, if they left lost souls unattended for no reason, there was a price to pay.
That too is a kind of immorality.
Well, the creators of God are not that flexible.
After checking, Hibras’ standards were quite broad.
“Let’s check our belongings first.”
“I’m not expecting much from that either. “Be careful, there might be something poisonous in there.”
“Could it be possible that such a shallow number was used?”
All that came out of the man’s arms was a few pennies and a dagger.
The fact that there was money left in the belongings meant that it was not accidental or the act of a robber.
There would probably have been enough time to remove this man’s body.
Nevertheless, he left the body behind for one of two reasons. It could only have been meant as a warning, or as bait for a trap.
In this case, it was the latter.
“In the end, it turned out as you said yesterday.”
“What?”
“Dangerous things will begin from today.”
“I didn’t know that I started out as a human.”
A guest came.
It doesn’t seem like they came to say hello to each other, and they would probably end up having a pretty rough conversation.
It seemed like we were trying to approach undetected, but we are still active in the battlefield until just a few weeks ago.
The demons even use invisible magic to approach us at night, but it has never worked on us.
This means that you cannot deceive us by simply erasing your appearance and presence with magical power.
The divinity of Sirien has come together. He held a lamp in one hand and an ax in the other.
Of course, I took out my sword.
Naturally, I turned my back to Sirien.
“Six? Oh, there are seven.”
“I think seven is correct. “What do you think, Sirien?”
“Instant death is impossible. Even if it’s a hassle, it’s better to fight.”
Beep!
A high-pitched flute sound was heard from a distant forest.
It was a signal announcing an engagement.
I chuckled as I saw the enemy running towards us.
“But it looks like you don’t know anything about us. Why fight in a graveyard?”
The cemetery itself is a place that symbolizes death.
It was a place where the soul that had come to rest left everything and left.
The divinity of Hybras covered the entire cemetery.
The sun has not yet set. An early night came.