“ha….”
Exhaling a tired breath, he steps out alone towards the front door of the Lovias family.
“If I had accepted the favor this time, it would have been really bad…”
As if he had barely escaped from the grip of evil, he breathed a sigh of relief and calmed the tension that had risen.
“……”
To catch my breath for a moment, I recall the memory of a moment when a catastrophe almost occurred.
Having passed all the trials and barely being allowed to go on an adventure, I am about to go back to my daily life after everything has come to an end…
“I want to see my grandchildren as soon as possible that they are destined to get married anyway.”
Erina, who heard Mirina’s bombshell remarks that suddenly exploded, became suspicious eyes and tried to commit a crime assuming good intentions.
“How about staying at our mansion today?!”
Like a kidnapper whispering a sweet proposal to seduce a child, it guarantees a comfortable stay and invites me to stay here for just one night…
There is a degree to being dignified, and I knew the intentions as clearly as asking a question, but without any hesitation, I confidently recommend them.
“Haha… I guess that’s a bit difficult…”
Without needing to explain, I sincerely refuse her kindness and leave the room…
“Why? My family’s mansion is well-equipped? It’s sure to be the best night ever!”
In the end, ‘If you refuse, I will do it by force.’
“No! I will decline as well!”
Inevitably, the forced execution had to be faced with a forcible breakthrough, and before her hand reached me, I leapt towards the exit at full speed.
As if escaping from the room where the bomb was installed, he rushed out of the room, and the moment Erina’s figure was about to disappear from view, it was a very fleeting moment, but I had to see it for sure.
“Ah…!”
He was staring at me with sad eyes as if a plan had gone awry, but soon, I could see a firm resolve to make his wish come true no matter what.
Creepy!
When I recalled the atmosphere of Erina at that time, even though it was hot, I felt a chill in my bones.
“……”
However, fortunately, there was no sign of chasing after me as of now that I had escaped.
“after…”
I’m not entirely sure, but when it seems that some degree of safety has been secured, the tension that has arisen has subsided again, and I finally lift my feet off the ground.
tumbling tumbling
A slightly heavy sound can be heard regularly, and the fact that everything is finally over brings a feeling of liberation that is hard to describe in words.
The more you walk on the road, the lighter your steps and the naturally rising corners of your lips will make you want to jump freshly.
A feeling of euphoria that makes me want to hum a pleasant hum, and my shoulders shake without realizing it.
“By the way, shouldn’t I go see Eleana?”
However, as soon as it comes to mind, the feelings that were at its best in the midst of a crisis are quickly fading away.
Still, I didn’t have the guts to face Erina, who was always jealous, so I made an unreasonable request for permission to marry her.
I didn’t even want to imagine what it would be like in the future if I didn’t go and explain it now.
If I had to compare it to that, it would be a situation where you and your ex-girlfriend go to your current girlfriend and congratulate them on their wedding…
Of course, in the process, there was coercion from my ex-girlfriend, so the man becomes the victim, but even an innocent person should ask for forgiveness for the fact that his current girlfriend was vomited.
“Ugh… What kind of face should I face her?”
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No matter how much I thought about it, I didn’t want to go to Eleona, but I thought that this was an opportunity when I had enough time to do something I had to do someday, and if I sold it quickly, it would be medicine.“Well, I have no choice but to go…”
He walks out the front door, stepping hard step by step, one step at a time, which must have been light until recently.
With the kindness of the employee, I moved my feet through the open iron window and finally came out onto a busy and crowded street.
“Shall we think of an excuse as we head towards the temple?”
The voices of the noisy people and the sounds of shoes overlapping uncontrollably are especially peaceful.
I was walking down the street muttering things like that to myself…
“…?”
Suddenly, the reason is that the heart beats faster, and wonder is caressing the chest.
“Why are you doing this…?”
My heart starts beating like crazy for no reason, and the ironic feeling that my body doesn’t look like my own raises a question mark above my head.
and…
My heart!
“Ugh?!”
A sudden burst of pain… As if a balloon filled with nitrogen had burst, the heart, which had been beating abnormally, quickly turned around and gave me a bitter pain.
“Ahhhhh!”
The pain that came so unexpectedly makes me scream in the middle of the road without realizing it.
And the unpleasant sensation that followed, something wriggling inside was a very disgusting sensation.
However, the familiarity felt at the same time… It was definitely not a feeling I had encountered for the first time.
“Huh?!”
Memories that pass through my mind with a voice that leaks out as if I’m suffocating…
It was certainly similar to the sudden feeling that came to me a few hours ago when the pagan affairs were over.
The unpleasant sensation of a giant parasite wriggling inside your body…
It was almost exactly the same pain I felt before.
However, if there was a difference, I could now see more clearly than before what the true nature of this pain was.
It was the darkness that grew within me… It was the pain caused by that darkness spreading all over my body.
If I had to ask him why he said that, on what basis, he couldn’t give an answer, but he intuited that it would definitely be the case.
The reasoning is close to real evidence, but the survival instinct is desperately shouting to the extent that it is certain that it will.
“Ugh… nah…!!”
The pain that showed no sign of getting better, seemed to last longer than when I first felt it.
However, with the pain that lasts longer, this time, it irritates my ears as well.
‘Destruction… downfall… scream… resentment…’
An unfamiliar and unfamiliar voice kept whispering negative words in my ear and harmonizing with the pain spreading through my body, I felt like I was literally going out of my mind.
“Aww!”
I tried to cover my ears as hard as I could to hear how many times I was crying with this, but the whispers kept coming out of my head.
Stop… Stop it!!
I shouted as if in my heart, but I let out a miserable voice without realizing the symptoms that got worse.
don’t do it!!!
However, despite such an earnest request, the dark energy that grows big enough to swallow up the inside…
I can’t… Something’s strange… If it stays like this-!
“Are you okay…?”
“Huh…?!”
Then all of a sudden, a plain and worrying voice caught in my ear clearly.
“Yeah… Huh…?”
When I woke up, the pain and whispers that had gnawed at me were completely gone.
At the same time, naturally, we had more time to look around, so let’s turn to the direction the voice came from.
“I fell on the road and screamed in pain, are you not feeling well?”
A woman spoke to me with a face mixed with emotions.
“……”
I look at my surroundings with the citizens who care about me behind me.
“Why is that person all of a sudden…”
“A seizure in the middle of the road, is there any disease?”
“I have some sympathy for you…”
Attracting all the attention of the people around me, I was receiving gazes filled with emotions.
Sympathy, pity, strangeness, various emotions went through my body, and shame came rushing in because of the reason I returned late.
“I’m sorry… I’m fine… I’m suddenly not feeling well… Thank you for your concern.”
I got up casually and thanked the woman who spoke to me, then walked back down the street normally and tried to avoid the seat as much as possible.
However, since I became the main character of the riot, I had to deal with various eyes for a while, and I had to put an iron plate on my face as much as possible and move my steps.
And one question that flies in
What are these unpleasant pains that come suddenly without any attempts, even when Erina and Miru were together?
I have only experienced it twice so far, but when I compare the first and the last time, it seems that this phenomenon is probably getting worse as time goes by.
What the hell was that dagger thrown by the heathen, and what kind of ominous power is he carrying, why is this happening?
“Should I ask the Goddess…?”
However, I couldn’t come up with an answer to the problem in my head, and I only had to make an excuse to find Eleanor as quickly as possible, even if it was 1 minute and 1 second.
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“Goddess…? Servant Harold, I came to see Eleanor-sama.”
When I arrived at her temple, I opened the huge door and entered the temple of Jjupeengjjubon.
Carefully and as quietly as possible, he proceeds inside without being too popular.
Eventually, I arrived at the small altar where Eleanor was sitting, and I looked for her, but…
“Goddess?”
Oddly enough, she didn’t exist as she should have been.
At the entrance, looking at it from the west, I sensed something strange, but I wondered if it was because of my mood, but I didn’t really see Eleona.
If it had been quiet as if it did not exist in this temple, only my voice would echo and there was only silence.
“Aren’t you here?”
Her temple was so quiet that it seemed as if she had really disappeared…
“Eleanor?”
What the hell happened… Why shouldn’t she be there?
Whoops…!
“?!”
At that moment, someone grabs my body from behind and takes control of me.
I lost my freedom as if I had been attacked, and I had to suffer from the force that tried to bind my body strongly, oppressed.
“Who.. who are you?!”
An unidentified person is now suppressing me from behind. Even if I try to resist, it grasps my weakness, so even the slightest movement presses my sensitive bones, causing pain.
Who the hell was a surprise attack on me? It was not my normal skill to subdue me in an instant.
Who the hell are you…!!
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Now, I start desperately trying to figure out who the being behind me is.Did someone who could be any professional assassin hit me? Or a thief or a tomb robber who thought it was an empty temple? How can you suppress this skillfully?
“You are finally shining your face, knight.”
However, the familiar voices and tone of voice that make such reasonings in vain are whispered in my ears, and when I realize who is behind me now, my nerves are on edge and I begin to feel a sense of tension.
“So, are you on the way to play with this foolish girl, leaving me alone?”
Eleanor’s voice, standing with a lot of blades, pierces her ears and makes her even sweat.
As expected, she was still hurt even though she was hurt.
“I wondered if he had finally returned when the faithful servant who had been shining on his face every day suddenly disappeared and was trembling with anxiety…”
The colder voice gives goosebumps all over my body, starting from the back of my neck.
“It’s not enough to break the rules and bring a woman, so you openly ask for a blessing on my marriage and leave a scar on my heart, are you still my henchman?”
I had nothing to say about the offensive words, so I just had to keep silent and listen to Erina’s words, which in a sense threatened me.
“Sup… haha…”
Then, all of a sudden, he drank my harvest and showed me a face of disgust.
“The scent of a female has been cut off so much that it’s hard to breathe. It’s so disgusting that I can’t stand it…”
He looks into my eyes and pierces me with delicate eyes as if looking into the inside.
“Fortunately, I don’t think I’ve ever had s*x with that woman other than me… Let’s just skip that for now.”
And then, I wondered if the sharp atmosphere would loosen up a bit.
swish!
Eleanor puts her hand on my shoulder and demands the truth, having released the pressure and turned my body to face her completely.
“But you’ll have to explain very well why you had to do it.”
Lies are never tolerated, and he seemed to warn that any remarks that were inconsistent with the truth would result in harsh punishment.
“That… that…”
I stuttered open my mouth to get rid of her doubts, so I managed to regain my confidence and describe everything I’ve done so far.
Like disarming a time bomb that is about to explode, he quickly, concisely, and accurately summarized the process so far in an easy-to-understand manner.
Of course, he didn’t say any situations that could upset her, but only slightly adapted what he had to say.
“It happened…”
Eleanor, who quietly listened to my explanation without saying anything for a while, still seemed suspicious, but looked at me with a lighter mood.
“……”
But strangely, even after my words were finished, Eleanor remained silent and stared at me for a moment with a dull and displeased expression.
“Eleanor?”
“……”
Even though I called her name, she kept her expression on her face and looked at me.
However, for a while, she suddenly buried her face in my arms to cover it, and left her weight to me.
“Wow?!”
I was so flustered that I didn’t have time to go crazy and lost my focus, and I fell to the floor supporting her.
“Harold.”
Eleanor, who was still in my arms in a strange composition sitting on top of me, comes to me.
“Hold me.”
Then I was so stunned by the sudden declaration that I couldn’t think for a while.
“yes?”
After a while, the accident came back and I asked if I had heard something wrong, but Eleanor’s words did not change.
“I told you to hold me.”
He still speaks quietly in my arms without revealing his face to me.
“Now… wait a minute… that’s impossible-“
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Naturally, I was going to turn down this offer, and I actually said no, but…“”
“Eleanor…?”
Suddenly, she raised her head up and couldn’t dare to say it all on her face.
Because… She was crying now, and the atmosphere was so different from before, when she was strict and serious.
I was taken aback by the sudden development, but as soon as I understood the situation, I faced her in a serious mood without realizing it.
“Actually… I knew you were on the verge of dying from a heart attack.”
She continued to shed tears and her voice was split in a sad heart, and she told me a shocking fact.
“I beg your pardon?”
Actually, you knew what I was going through…
If so, is the reason I’m crying because of the accumulated sorrow because I was so worried about myself, who was in danger of dying once?
Thinking like that, I was very concerned about Eleanor, who was holding me and crying sadly.
“To be precise, when you suffered a serious and irreversible moment… the moment you almost lost your precious life, the feeling of that time still remains vividly…”
The moment I almost lost my life would be when the dagger thrown by the heretic pierced my heart…
After all, at the fact that I might have died, Eleanor weeps so sadly and hugs her even tighter.
“Of course, right after you first brought a girl named Erina, there were only evil feelings of sacrifice, but…”
Stealing the overflowing dew with his sleeve, he expresses all his feelings.
“Since the moment you could have lost your life, I’ve only been filled with worrying about you.”
The sadness soon turned into excitement, and even breathing became rough.
“After that, I began to earnestly pray for my hope in the air. I hope that I can return safely to my arms. I would rather stay with her, so that the moment when I see her bright face again comes, and I prayed countless times.”
“Of course, I still have a dissatisfaction with Erina because of the girl, but for me, your existence is my top priority.”
And now Eleanor, who has wiped away her tears until all her sleeves are wet, weeps to me.
“So please embrace me, repay me with your body for the misery that made God cry, and give me rest from my eternal worries…”
Eleanor, who immediately poured out all her emotions, looked at me with a complex face full of emotions.
Eleanor’s expression really contained all of her feelings, as she said, including sadness, worry, anxiety, restlessness, and despair, as well as jealousy and dissatisfaction with Erina, who still lingered in her heart.
However, what I usually felt was worry about me and the sadness it caused, and when I recognized it, I felt some kind of sympathy for her.
Something about her seemed different when I thought that she was jealous, worried, and crying so much for me.
She was pitiful and wanted to comfort her, who was crying softly, and on the other hand, she felt love.
what? This feeling…
To the extent that I feel a little strange about myself, foreign emotions urge me to make a choice.
Her heart beats a little faster, her fever rises, and she starts to get hot. Seeing Eleanor’s face with tears still in her eyes, a strange desire soars.
“Harold?”
After reading the change in my mood, Eleanor whispers my name in a slightly puzzled voice.
And when I received her answer, I grabbed Eleanor’s fair cheek and
side
I kissed Eleanor myself.