In the name of God (4)
Meetings are not forever.
Relationships are cut off someday, and sooner or later a breakup comes.
It was something that even a bond bound by blood had to go through.
Late at night, the day before the battle to subdue the Dragon King.
On the devastated land stood a military camp of allied forces gathered to fight against the Demon Dragon King.
The fire that lit up the largest tent among them was still burning late at night.
“… If you do that, we will be able to live together forever. So when it’s all over, say I’m dead.”
Neftam’s hand pressed over his brother’s dry hand and covered it.
The hand, which had been fidgeting anxiously, stopped moving.
“when? If we part like that, when can we meet again?”
Neftam read the loneliness in his lovely brother’s pale green eyes.
Truly, he is a child who cannot be without me.
Neftam pulled the corners of his lips and smiled.
“Soon. you can see it soon We’re breaking up for a very short time.”
“I don’t know. This… .”
Yuan’s delicately stretched long eyelashes were moist and glistening.
The moist appearance was as pretty as looking at a picture.
It was like a well-drawn picture, and Neftam often enjoyed seeing Yuan like that.
‘I won’t lose it to anyone.’
Who should I give to my pretty little sister who won’t hurt even if I put it in my eyes?
so… You just have to be patient.
Neftam smiled brightly.
“Trust me. Everything will be fine this time too.”
As always.
you can’t do anything else
Neftam kept those thoughts hidden from view in his mind.
“… yes.”
The girl, who pursed her small lips like a squirrel, timidly nodded.
Neftam looked at his brother with love and sorrow.
It must be difficult to live without someone to rely on, as I have such a weak personality that I can’t even say my own words properly.
After all, Yuan’s transcendent power is useless without me, my blood relative.
So Yuan definitely needed himself.
“It’s all for Yuan. I will protect you.”
Neftam said while hugging Yuan’s small body.
As he smelled the clean body of a girl who looked just like him, Neftam made a deep-hearted resolution.
sure to keep
That’s why I promise to make sure you never leave my side.
throbbing.
For some reason, Neftam pressed hard on my aching heart.
A corner of my heart that hadn’t dulled as usual was hurting.
However, Neftam turned a blind eye to that feeling again, making excuses that it was for himself and his brother.
I’m not wrong. Yuan is happy just looking at me.
like that, thinking
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Neftam opened his eyes with a sharp pain on his cheek.
Unable to measure how much time had passed, it was a sharp pain that came after the long darkness had stopped.
The sweet scent that lingered in my nose was gone. because it was a dream
Instead, Neftam’s eyes showed pretty silver eyes looking down at him with cold eyes.
Elina’s fingers, which were small but slender compared to their size, were kindly applying medicine to Neftam’s cheek.
In the place where her fingers passed, a sharp pain remained like a trace.
“Calm down now. Lord Neftam.”
After finishing the medicine, she pulled the gag out of Neftam’s mouth.
When the stiff jaw that seemed about to fall was freed, clear saliva flowed from Neftam’s mouth.
It’s too hard. During the war with the Dragon King, Neftam had never experienced anything like this.
When facing monsters filled with the desire to destroy, defeat meant death.
After becoming a goddess, she knew more, but never thought that she would be subjected to such torture.
“… Elina. my saintess.”
Neftam moved his limp tongue and spoke incoherently.
The man. Elina completely fell for that man.
“I don’t want to see you.”
A ghastly voice pierced the skin sharply, as if leaving a warning.
“I don’t want to see you… ?”
Neftam stuttered and asked.
Elina’s eyes were colder than her cold voice.
Those hateful eyes from Elina made me feel especially painful.
He was the child with whom he felt the most homogeneity. I thought I was just like myself.
Elina was a pure white girl who was innocent, ignorant of the world, and believed in justice.
He smiled gently, loved his brother, and valued him above all else.
Even though she was a subject of one-sided empathy, Neftam cherished Elina.
“Get up at once.”
Elina pulled Neftam by the body and forced him to stand up.
In the process, the rope tying Neftam was rubbed against his flesh and dug into it.
“Huh… oops… ! Elina, stop it.”
It was difficult for me to say a single word because I was so weak.
“Leonhard, you can’t believe his words. It’s all lies. ”
At those words, the corner of Elina’s eyes pulled up.
“lie… ?”
A small sigh escaped from his parted lips.
After she finished speaking, her hand reached Neftam’s cheek.
When I touched my swollen cheek, a sharp needle-like pain penetrated my flesh.
Sensing pain, Neftam’s long eyelashes trembled.
Yesterday, it was the spot where Elina touched.
The shock I received then came back again.
With each slap on the cheek, his inner self-esteem was horribly shattered.
The humiliation he felt when he was crushed by her made him want to turn away from reality.
The hand that touched Neftam’s cheek and gave him cold pain stopped.
Elina let out a small sigh as she saw Neftam trembling slightly.
“I think Neftam-nim is lying. How should I trust you? On the subject that the appearance of you right now is a lie.”
Neftam was quick to read the hatred inside Elina.
Neftam’s body froze as he realized that it was an abomination sent to him.
‘I… ?’
Anyone can be hated.
No one who is loved by everyone can exist in the world.
But it was a stranger to Neftam.
“That’s Okay. what more can i say I want to go soon.”
Elina grabbed Neftam by the shoulders and pulled him.
I tried to resist her power, but with Neftam’s strength, it couldn’t be done in the first place.
Neftam had no choice but to be dragged along by Elina.
This place was still inside the Abyss.
It was a place where he became like an ordinary human, unable to use any power.
The resulting helplessness weighed deeply on Neftam’s heart.
“Uh, where are you going?”
My trembling voice was unfamiliar.
When was the last time you were so terrified?
Ever since I became a Constellation from a human, I had erased this feeling from my head.
And the fear that spread along with goosebumps all over the body after a long time was enough to paralyze the head.
“Even if it’s a god, it doesn’t seem that different. Are you afraid of this front? Lord Neftam.”
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As usual, Elina did not feel the overflowing vitality of birds chirping.
The constant tone, as if cut with a knife, was cold.
“You will find out soon.”
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Just like dealing with someone you hate.
Neftam closed his eyes.
It was dark and miserable.
Neftam clenched his teeth with his weak jaw.
Still, the burning feeling in her heart did not go away.
Leonhard Danhart. It was all because of that boy.
To think that he would be beaten like this by that boy.
But it was not yet time to completely give up hope.
‘Elina will believe it too.’
Elina just became weird for a moment.
In the end, Elina was her chosen saint.
After a little confusion went away, faith in myself would eventually return.
“Here.”
But Neftam realized something was wrong only when he stood where Elina had brought him.
It was like a bathroom.
As is usually the case with things in the Abyss, everything was worn out, as if it had been used and abandoned long ago.
It wouldn’t be much different from other spaces, but strangely, this place was exceptionally cold.
Neftam was soon able to find the cause.
A bathtub full of water was placed in the center of the room.
It contained clear water that looked as cold as ice.
An anxious feeling of foreboding rode up along the tip of his toes, and the downy hair stood up on end.
“Are you here now?”
A short-haired girl born on the same day as Elina walked out of the darkness slowly.
“how have you been doing? It looks pretty good.”
Elin walked up to Neftam and asked.
For some reason, it seemed that there was a smile on the corners of his lips, and heat ran through his head.
“you! Something like a worm picked by Yuan… !”
Neftam shouted in anger at the saintess Yuan had chosen.
That abomination has ruined my Elina.
He helped Leonhardt and led himself into a trap.
But the next moment, Neftam had to feel the tingle on his cheek again.
“ah… ?”
Neftam, who turned his head for a moment, looked up at Elina with a creak.
More than the pain, the act itself of being hit by Elina was shocking.
Following yesterday, today too. How dare you touch me Also, her own saintess.
“Don’t talk like that to my brother. There is no one in this world more suitable for the word bug than you.”
Elina spat out in disgust.
“I, I… ”
“Keep your mouth shut.”
Neftam, who was hardened by Elina’s cold command, opened her lips and couldn’t close them.
“Ellin. sorry. You shouldn’t have undone the gag.”
“Why are you sorry? it’s okay.”
Elina and Ellin held each other’s hands in the air.
The hands of the two girls, who had regained their affection for each other, were affectionately intertwined as if clinging to each other.
It was as if they confirmed their strong affinity for each other.
Neftam didn’t like the look very much.
from a very long time ago.
The saintess he chose was living happily with the saintess Yuan chose.
An incomprehensible, unpleasant feeling surged in my heart.
“Can I really do whatever I want now?”
Elin asked Elina.
It was a confirmation voice, as if it were really okay.
“Well… ”
Elina gave a hesitant look for a moment, then nodded.
“yes. Please.”
“… Would you like to help Elina a little?”
“I don’t know yet.”
Even when the words that it was okay came out of Elin’s mouth, Elina put on an apologetic expression.
‘… What are you trying to do?’
Neftam focused on their conversation, feeling the tingling pain on his cheek.
His head was raised, perhaps because his nerves had been sharpened by fear. dizzy.
I’d rather go back to that room. No, I wanted to go back to my dream.
To that moment when I dreamed of happiness in the past.
The next moment, Neftam realized that just having the time to think about it was still okay.
“what are you doing?”
Elin grabbed Neftam by the hair and dragged her toward the bathtub.
“Ouch… !”
Neftam resisted, but it was hard to resist Elin’s power as he was already in a state of disrepair.
Elin, who dragged her to the front of the bathtub, gave a small smile. Elin forced Neftam into the bathtub.
with a plop.
The water was much colder than expected.
She struggled to get out, shivering from the cold that permeated her body in an instant.
It was too cold. It was a chill that would freeze the heart.
Elin grabbed Neftam by the shoulder and pushed him down into the water again.
At the incomprehensible action, Neftam rolled his eyes in fear.
I tried to stay calm, but it was inevitable that cold fear welled up from my lungs at this unprecedented act.
“They say it’s a god, but it looks like a human.”
Elin spoke as if mocking such Neftam and slowly lowered her head.
She must have been sweating profusely because of the pain, but she still smelled clean.
Thinking that this was unrealistic and a little funny, Elin whispered in her discolored ear.
“This is punishment. Have you ever been punished? ”
The next moment, Neftam felt a faint divine power in the holy relic of Yuan that Elin was wearing.
Elin was able to use Yuan’s holy relic to use some divine power even inside the Abyss.
The next moment, Neftam swallowed his breath.
“You will receive a lot from now on.”