10 – I swore that day.
“Julius, don’t you even see any woman other than your wife as a woman?”
As my fellow Heretic Questioner walked through the brothel, he looked at Julius walking next to me with an expressionless face and asked.
“…So, even though you are a Heretic Questioner, do you lust in such a vulgar place?”
At Julius’ harsh words, his colleague flinched and cleared his throat.
“Hmm, that’s not what it sounds like. “I’m just talking about a physiological reaction.”
Julius looked at him for a moment while sweating and making excuses next to him, and then just walked away without answering.
He was in a very bad mood.
Golden eyes like the intense sun. It was just unpleasant for him to see a woman other than his lovely wife, Cecile, there.
You must prove your purity.
Julius, who was seriously considering burning down the entire town, eventually arrived at his destination.
[Night Flower]
Changguan where a vulgar devil is hiding.
You’re hiding in a place like this and polluting my eyes. Anger towards the faceless, ugly devil grows.
I want to go back quickly and make love with Cecil.
Let’s go out and eat dinner.
Ignoring my mind, which was only thinking about my wife, my body automatically started stamping my feet vigorously.
The huge flames exploding from the soles of the shoes spread beyond the brothel and throughout the brothel.
“Now, are you crazy now? “Are you planning to kill all the guests here?”
“Hmph, I guess I’m not worried about the guests, I’m just worried about whether you’re a genin who visits with flowers every night or something.”
A colleague takes off his clothes and runs away shouting the prostitute’s name. Is it okay for the Church of Telmere, where that guy is also an interrogator, to be like this?
Julius shook his head and went home without reporting to the church.
It goes without saying that his skill in controlling flames could be considered the best in the history of the Telmere Church, and the flames that covered the entire brothel burned only the demons and heretics that were hidden like lies.
That evening. When Julius returned home, he hugged Cecil and begged her to go out to dinner.
After hearing from Cryle where he had gone to punish demons and heretics today, Cecil was so angry that he had to prove his innocence all night long without even being able to eat dinner.
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Two years later, on the remains of Changgwan [Night Flower], With only a pile of ashes remaining.
The golden beast, holding a pure white holy sword stained with blood, looked up at the sky, knelt down on her knees, and swore to her dead wife.
Until the day I die… No, even after I die, I only love you.
A story of a winter day when pure white fireworks embroidered the earth.
***
Julius, who was coming down the hill and returning to the mansion, made eye contact with Emily, a silver-haired priestess smoking a cigarette under a cedar tree.
“Good morning, Julius.”
“…Good morning. “Priest Emily.”
Is it because of what happened yesterday? The suffocating air flowing between them.
Julius quietly bows his head once and turns to leave, but his steps stop at one word from her.
“…Devil.”
“…What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“No matter how much I think about it, it’s strange. “Your wife.”
“Has Cecil committed any disrespect?”
“No, I’ve only talked to her a few times, but she doesn’t seem to have anything to do with being Julius’s wife.”
“She is too much for me.”
Purple eyes stare intently at his bitterly smiling face.
Emily, who was silent for a moment, moistened her lips and continued her words.
“You are incredibly good at handling the sacred flame. Did you ever work as an interrogator like you? “It doesn’t look that way.”
“Because she is the daughter of Saint Erman. She must have been taught by Him.”
“…I see, she’s the saint’s daughter, hmm.”
“I understand what your suspicions are, but she is my only wife. Even the priest can only tolerate her insults to this extent.”
Growling slightly, Julius lowered his head as if he had nothing more to do and left the scene without even looking back.
Emily thought as she looked at the burned-out cigarette.
When I met Julius again after 10 years, he looked like he was truly lost in the world.
However, after a woman named Cecil appeared in her market, his face began to smile more and more happily.
So what did he lose when he returned to church after a long absence?
In Emily’s mind, the face of the woman she killed long ago by giving her holy water with her own hands comes to mind.
He lost his wife, and she came back.
A scary thought occurred to me. I felt like I could smell the faint scent of blood on the wind.
“Ha, raising a child is of no use.”
My heart is shaking. First of all, it is my duty as a mother to watch over the workplace.
Emily sighs deeply and slowly climbs toward the church.
Her black bird perched on her tree was watching her intently without a single song.
***
Her priest Emily is suspicious of her.
Biting his lower lip, Julius tried to calm his growing nervousness.
Even though I try to calm her down, I keep thinking of the day I lost her.
Cecile, who was lying on her bed and whispering to herself, and yesterday’s Cecile, who is kissing her mouth, begin to overlap.
-Julius, I am a really bad girl.
-I should tell you to forget me and live happily.
-I can’t say it….
-Please… Look only at me for the rest of your life…
-Promise for me.
She died after saying those words.
He couldn’t answer her last words.
A curse that will never be forgotten echoes.
She sees him kissing her devil and cries out that he is her traitor.
I am
I made an oath that day.
I made a promise to my heart that I would never betray my love.
I don’t love her devil, I only see you in her.
I keep making excuses, but
Hanging around his neck, she strangles him without mercy.
***
“Wow, what on earth is the problem that I keep failing like that?”
After cruelly abandoning Thalia and running out of the hellish mansion, Cecil walked down the street clutching his hungry stomach.
No matter how hard I tried, my cooking skills never seemed to improve.
No, it got worse after I was revived.
I don’t think I could be a good wife like this.
I need to quickly become good at cooking.
If this continues, he will leave me.
A cloudy energy surrounds the whole body.
At a time when it was becoming difficult to handle her trembling body, someone spoke to her.
“Huh? Julius’ wife! Good morning.”
My trembling body calms down to the booming voice of the bakery man, Finn.
Okay, let’s buy some delicious bread and eat it with him.
“Can I buy some bread?”
“Of course, please come in.”
Fin’s store was a wonderful place filled with delicious bread and desserts that would whet your appetite.
Now that I think about it, Finn said that Julius has been doing business here since he was young.
“Do you know what he liked when he was young?”
“When he was young, he liked bread with a lot of cream.”
“Then that….”
“I always held Thalia’s hand and bought it and shared it between the two of us. It was nice to see them as if they were real siblings, hehehehe.”
That cheeky girl was like that when she was young.
I feel bad, I should at least wash his hands today.
“…Please wrap that up.”
A creepy dark blue light glares at Finn.
Realizing that he had messed up his mouth, he quickly wrapped the bread and even added a small piece of cake as a bonus.
“It’s clear that Julius loves his wife. Let’s eat together and have a cozy time. Ha ha ha.”
Cecil, who was wondering how he could bury Finn without evidence, smiled and accepted Finn’s favor.
Okay, let’s save it for now.
The skill of making bread is excellent, so it would be difficult to kill it before it learns it.
He walked slowly, holding a bag full of his favorite bread in his arms.
The warm sunlight gently caresses Kente, and the fresh scent of grass tickles the tip of her nose.
The city was dark and gloomy. This is the drawing paper of a beautiful dream that will never wake up.
As if to ridicule her positive thoughts, her black bird informs her of the conversation between Julius and Emily.
Fortunately, it ended without incident, but Emily’s suspicions did not go away.
Cecil gathered all her nervousness and ran towards the beautiful tree.
There are too many distractions that keep trying to wake Julius.
I can’t be away from him.
When we arrived at the beautiful tree, neither Julius nor Emily were there.
Fallen leaves flew from somewhere and fell to the ground and crumbled.
After staring at the scene blankly for a moment, she trudged back to the mansion.
I have to stay with him all day at the mansion today.
He will not betray his love.
Recite this like a mantra and set foot on the trail.
When I look up, what I see is Julius talking to Thalia.
-Promise for me.
He didn’t answer.
He just denies my return.
I’m here, but where do you keep trying to go?
Why don’t you answer me?
When I came to my senses, I was forcibly grabbing Julius’ hand, glaring at Thalia, and dragging him to the mansion.
“…What are you doing without being polite?”
“…It’s noisy.”
“Do you really think you can become Cecil by hanging out with him? “I would have told you not to tarnish her reputation.”
“Shut up. “Why, why are you saying that again!”
Don’t try to wake up from your dream.
Please don’t abandon me.
“Your name is Cecil, isn’t it? Have you lost yourself? Your real name is Ni….”
He could no longer speak.
Cecil sat down in front of the mansion’s door and her body began to tremble.
She let out a word with difficulty.
“…Please don’t do it.”
“… ….”
“Please don’t say things like other women’s names in front of me.”
No answer came back. Just like that day.
Did he say not to mention the devil’s name, or did he say not to mention the name Cecil?
She didn’t know either.
She couldn’t figure out who she was.
***
The gray-haired man stared at the woman lying in her coffin for a moment, holding her cigarette in her mouth, and then went out.
In the darkness filled with silence,
She opened her eyes.
The clear and kind eyes of her life have lost their shine.
The dull desire for life and the joy of being free from free things mix and become cloudy.
-After so many years, I can enjoy fun entertainment for the first time in a long time, hehehehe.
-I can finally go to his side.
-This is my first experience corrupting such a strong servant of a god, so it will definitely be fun.
-Julius would have kept his promise, and he would still only have eyes for me, that’s the way it should be.
Cecil’s memories made the devil dream.
Julius hoped, and the devil dreamed that he was Cecil.
She, who exists only in happy nightmares, whispers to her husband.
Let’s stay here with me forever.
She draws the happy dream she so desperately wanted
She hoped not to wake up as a demon.
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But there was a small crack in the dream that had to be perfect.
A silver necklace that Julius gave me as a gift a long time ago and I was planning to give it to him again.
The reverberations of the past wrap around like a chain and whisper in her ear.
You are fake. Julius will never betray me.
I can’t forgive another woman standing by his side.
Even if that is
Even myself.
Never
It is unacceptable.
She swore that day that she would never let him go in a dream she would never wake from.