155 – Hwangseong (6)
If you move from this spot… Leonhard dies.
Or something even more terrible than that may happen.
But that was the only thing that was certain.
“I don’t know why. Yuria.”
The emperor’s eyebrows gathered in the center as if he was displeased.
“Yuria, I know you depend on that man. Yes, I can’t do anything about that low-level tendency right now. But don’t you know? “You were not inherently lacking in intelligence.”
It was a caring voice, but I could not sense any affection.
It was a callous tone of voice that Yuria hated so much.
As she stood in front of him and listened to him, she felt as if she had become something inanimate.
But Yuria was not special. Yuria knew her subject well.
Her father always had this attitude towards everyone.
Is it because of that heartlessness? He was a man who could plunge his sword into anyone’s heart without hesitation.
“Okay. “Don’t you know full well that Leonhard is deceiving you?”
Yuria took a deep breath.
A goosebump-inducing, ominous sensation crept into her body like a creeping vine.
This man’s words reminded me of my childhood, which was completely destroyed.
‘It’s time for Yuria to learn etiquette in the imperial castle.’
At Dainhart Castle, Yuria had to return to the castle because of his words.
And then all the tragedies began, the terrible life in the imperial castle.
“Oh, no.”
Her refusing voice trembled weakly. I did say something, but that’s it.
I couldn’t deny it more strongly. It was because I was scared.
‘I feel stupid. ‘Stupid Yuria.’
Yuria thought back to herself about the frustrating evaluation she had made several times.
If Leonhard had been around, I wouldn’t have had to think like this.
It was okay to turn a blind eye to what was painful.
He must have covered his eyes with her gentle hands.
Just do that. That was it.
“What’s wrong? Yuria. “Aren’t you curious?”
“Don’t say it.”
Yuria shook her head, even her chin shaking.
The man seemed to enjoy torturing Yuria like that.
He smiled darkly and placed his hand on Yuria’s head in a pretentious manner.
He laughed when he saw Yuria shrugging her shoulders in shock.
“hahahahaha. It’s an amazing reaction. Yes, this is my first time seeing such a reaction. Even though I have gone through many ‘I’s’. “This Leonhard is really fun.”
He didn’t seem to have any intention of listening to Yuria’s request.
“Even attach a leash like this.”
Her emperor’s hand lifted Yuria’s hair and caressed her round earlobe.
Yuria, who had frozen, reacted with shock every time he touched her.
Soon, her emperor’s hand touched her Yuria’s earring as if playing with it.
“Stop it…” !”
Unable to bear it, a voice filled with fear came out.
The emperor spoke with a heightened tone, as if he was enjoying his thin and weak voice.
“You know. Yuria. “Everything that Leonhard whispered to you was a lie.”
Yuria barely managed to hold her breath as her moans threatened to burst out from inside her.
At that moment, Yuria let out a scream as the sharp pain felt in her ears.
“Ah!”
It happened without me having a chance to do anything. Yuria stepped behind her, holding her ear where blood was flowing out.
Her emperor held in her hand the earring that had been torn from Yuria’s ear, covered in her blood.
It is a precious gift received from Leonhard.
As soon as she realized what had happened, Yuria urgently stretched out her hand.
“You have to listen. Yuria. “I am telling you, for your own sake, that you are being deceived.”
The emperor grabbed Yuria’s hand by her wrist.
Her blue eyes, which were exactly the same color as Yuria’s, narrowed with a cunning light.
“Everything he whispered to you was a lie. It’s a lie that you can’t do anything without Leonhard, it’s a lie that Leonhard loves you, and above all, you’re not insensitive to magic. It was a relationship that started with a lie from the beginning. The reason you fell into a relationship with Leonhard….”
Tuk.
The earring slipped from Gaion’s hand and tumbled on the dirt in the garden.
“It’s just a mental illness.”
All the things he said were lies were things Yuria already knew.
I knew it, and I accepted it.
She was convinced that she couldn’t do anything, and tried not to doubt her words of love.
It would be okay if it was all a lie. It was okay if he just needed me.
The things I receive in return are so sweet.
Leonhardt’s friendly smile and sweet, soft kiss.
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I wouldn’t have known it if I didn’t know it in the first place, but now I know it.
But this is the starting point where all that sweet resignation began.
This is the first time I learned that the insensitivity to magic power was a lie.
“Well, that can’t be possible…” .”
The Emperor’s smile grew even deeper at Yuria’s passive rebuttal.
“You thought you knew everything and accepted your fate. No. You don’t even know how it all started. Why does Leonhard want you?
Yuria suddenly felt like she was submerged in very deep water, and she felt like she was going to suffocate.
“Shall I tell you? Yuria. “You choose.”
It’s a choice.
The words felt very unfamiliar to Yuria.
Originally, it was something I always did, it was nothing, it was just a routine thing.
It’s going back to the old days.
When I thought that, a flood of fear came over me.
It felt like her whole body was going cold.
I’ve been thinking so much since a while ago that I think I’m already going crazy.
“Well, I…” .”
Yuria noticed that her mouth was moving arbitrarily.
“… No, I do not want.”
That one word.
The word that would decide everything in her future flowed from her own mouth.
Anyway, without Leonhard, there was nothing anymore.
I liked the lies that Leonhard gave me better than the truth.
I’m sure it all comes from love. For sure.
“Yuria. “I would have said that everything you believe in is an illusion.”
“I know. “Still, I don’t like it.”
After Yuria answered, she thought she was completely crazy.
You can see that he still believes that Leonhard will come forward and protect him.
But what difference will it make if we return to the normal life of the past?
It will probably be even more painful.
“Okay. I see “I don’t know how they discovered this side of you.”
The emperor laughed. I couldn’t even smile anymore.
He made such a fun toy just for himself.
Even though I was jealous, it was something I couldn’t help.
Isn’t it a great stimulus?
It’s been a long time since I found this kind of fun.
If the fallen Leonhard had been a little less capable, this episode would have been enjoyable with a new flavor.
But it was already too late, and even though it was a waste, there was nothing we could do.
“Yuria, nothing will change even if you stop me. There’s no way you could stop me in the first place, and if you really want to, I can just order Gardner. You need to know your fractions. “If you know, you won’t be able to block my path.”
From the beginning, passing by Yuria was simpler than drinking tea.
The conversation I had with Yuria so far was nothing more than a light entertainment enjoyed in the spirit of fresh fun.
It’s just annoying. This little girl in front of me doesn’t know her place and is blocking me.
‘Fountain….’
Yuria took a deep breath.
Yuria knew that under that fountain, she held her breath for a long time, soon suffocated and eventually died from the enta’s. She had no intention of meeting the same fate as her mother.
“Mo, you can’t go.”
Yuria spoke resolutely as she let out her deep breath.
The area under her eyes became sore and painful.
I felt like tears would come out, so I bit down hard on the delicate flesh inside my mouth with my teeth.
I know how dangerous the threat he is talking about is.
I know, but I hate and fear the life after Leonhard is gone.
“I’m feeling a little frustrated now.”
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Yuria’s cheek turned sharply with a sharp pain.
There was no place in her body that did not tremble, and the stinging taste of blood filled her mouth. Her cheek throbbed as if she had been hit with a club, and red blood flowed from her torn lip.
Still, Yuria barely managed to stand in front of the emperor with her faltering, thin body.
“Your Majesty!”
Gardner, who was surprised, tried to dissuade the Geion who was shaking his hand.
But the sound did not seem to reach the two father and daughter.
Gaian was still looking at her daughter who was out of control, and Yuria was blocking his path with her shoulders pathetically shrunken.
“… “But it still doesn’t work.”
“Why should I do that? “There has to be a reason.”
Why?
In response to that question, Yuria barely concretized what she had been thinking vaguely from a while ago. It had been quite a while.
“… Useless… “You said there was.”
Yuria said, recalling what she had heard.
He said that he was called here because it was useful and had a purpose.
“Okay. “I did.”
“Then whatever it is, I won’t help you. “No matter what you do.”
Gaion became speechless for a moment at those words.
Then she suddenly burst into laughter.
“This is true. “I thought it was arrogant, but it turned out to be just stupid.”
He looked at the dry eyes that seemed ready to shed transparent tears at the slightest touch.
Yuria shuddered at the cold look in her eyes, as if she had become something that was not alive.
“You have already served your purpose. Yuria.”
It didn’t take long for me to understand what that meant.
“It’s already been done.”
At that moment, I felt like everything had been completely denied. I was truly a tool to him.
Yuria realized how hopeless she had placed her hope and bit her torn lip. I feel stupid. Fool.
I felt like my body was falling apart.
Yuria’s legs had truly lost strength and she was collapsing toward the floor.
“No way. Yuria. “Your service is done, but she has not been punished enough.”
Before she completely collapsed, it was her emperor’s hand that snatched Yuria’s arm.
He pulled Yuria up with strength.
It may not have been her body that collapsed, but her heart.
Even as she forced herself to get up, Yuria could only breathe out her tears.
It felt like her heart was empty and there was nothing left. She
She already knew, but she felt like everything she had done up until now had been wronged.
Everything I worked hard for meant nothing in the end.
It would be nice if Leonhard was there. If you were here.
I want to be hugged tightly.
“Gardner. “I’m taking care of this child.”
The Emperor said as he pushed Yuria towards Gardner.
“I’m sorry. Majesty.”
Gardner said, supporting her as she was helplessly pushed away.
Belatedly, Yuria’s vision showed the emperor approaching Leonhard.
“No! Don’t do it!”
Yuria struggled desperately and shouted.
However, Yuria could not move even an inch due to her Gardner suppressing her with all his might.
“He is not dead. All we need to do is for His Majesty to take necessary action. So… !”
“Don’t do it, Abama…” ! Let go! Lord Gardner! “Let go!”
While Yuria was screaming, her emperor’s hand grabbed Leonhard’s head without hesitation.
A powerful magical power began to circulate around his hands.
I don’t know what he was going to do, but it was definitely dangerous.
It was then that something sudden happened.
Suddenly, Leonhard was enveloped in a spherical darkness, and demonic beasts made of shadows poured out around him.
“These are the assassin woman’s demons! But there won’t be a shadow… ?!”
Even though he was embarrassed, Gaion’s movements were fast and without any unnecessary steps.
Magic power circulated around him, and the demonic beasts were instantly thrown to the ground.
The demonic beasts being crushed by the ground wriggled and screamed as if in pain.
“I sent them as elites, but it seems they failed to capture them. Gardner. Take Yuria with you and step back… “
That moment.
Hook.
A sharp sword protruded from the darkness surrounding Leonhardt and plunged under the Gaian’s chin. There was an unpleasant sound of his muscles and bones being cut.
The ugly tip soaked in blood was suddenly exposed above the top of the Gaian’s head.
The sight was so unreal that she froze, unable to breathe.
“Now I understand.”
Leonhardt’s low voice was heard.
“You didn’t create the system.”
At first, I thought I was seeing a fantasy.
But when I closed my eyes a few times and opened them, I saw that Leonhard was indeed walking out of the darkness, pulling out the sword that had passed through the Emperor’s head in one go.
“You, you… how… !”
“I’m glad that Libya understands my intentions.”
Yuan’s divine power was hovering over Leonhardt’s body.
The moment Leonhard decapitated Gaien, his body turned to dust and crumbled to pieces.
“Ah..Ah….”
Looking at her like that, Yuria opened her mouth and tried to say something. I don’t know if it’s screaming, crying, or joy.
But what came out was just a blown sound.
Leonhard added his words to Yuria in a whisper.
“I’ll finish it soon. “I’m closing my eyes.”
“… Huh.”
Yuria immediately closed her eyes. She
Even at this moment she hears her right while she thinks she is funny.
Or she is completely crazy.