Chapter 149 – 149 – Love Does Not Dwell in a Doubting Heart #2

149 – Love does not dwell in a doubtful heart # 2

Winter has already arrived.

An intersection where snow falls from the sky.

“Eww… Ah… !”

A woman with her blonde hair tied back beautifully stretched out her hand toward the sky.

She was a young and beautiful woman who seemed to be over twenty now, but her eyes were as empty and dark as the deep sea.
However, her behavior had an innocent aspect, like that of a five-year-old girl.

“Ah… !”

A man approached a woman dancing barefoot in the snow.

He was covering his face with a black robe.

“… Hecate. Then I caught a cold.”

Zek-.

Alter Archbolt handed Hecate the fur coat he was holding in her hand.

Hecate said nothing as she looked at Alter.

She just tilted her head and muttered the words that had just entered her head.

“Swimming… Hecate…”

It was a muttering that did not contain any meaning.

It was just a meaningless repetition of what I had heard like a parrot.

“… Hecate. Heka… Frame… ?”

The empty-eyed witch couldn’t even remember her own name anymore.
She is as pure as the white snow field before her eyes.
That was the state of Hecate.

“…”

Alter clenched his fist.

She couldn’t do anything about herself because her anger, sadness, and other emotions were tangled up like a whirlpool, and she didn’t know where to turn.
Alter spoke to Hecate to control her emotions.

“Now there is a crossroads. If you turn left, it’s a road that leads to Royal Road, the royal road where the queen stays. If you head to the right, you can go to Castle Barakhan, where Pope Lucy is located. We—.”

As Alter spoke, she closed her mouth again and looked at the cart attached to her carriage.

On top of the cart was something wrapped in bandages, like a mummy from an ancient kingdom.

It was like a doll.

A doll that stops moving at some point and even stops thinking.

“We are going to the royal road. Hecate, you have been bewitched. It was Ginevit Uniger’s placenta that saved Milione, who was dying at the age of 15. If it were her, she might be able to cure this condition.”

Hecate fell under a terrible spell.

It was a deprivation of people’s freedom and an insult and insult to their character.

“This son of a bitch has been like this all along. I deceived people, lied, deceived them, and ultimately ruined everything. This guy is a murderer. You have to pay for it. Definitely.”

Alter escaped Sodomy through a secret passage and drove the wagon he had stolen back.

The destination Alter was heading to was Royal Road, the royal capital where Queen Ginebit was located.

Rattling-.

“Ugh-.”

Alter frowned at the rattling carriage.

When escaping from sodomy-.

It was because he was attacked by Milione who lost his temper.

━Gaaaaa!!!!!

━I’ll take charge of this place! Lord Alter! You take Hecate with you!

Milione was so furious that blood spurted from her eyes.
To stop her, Psyche remained in Sodomi full of her heretics.

There was no way for the current alter to know what happened to them.

But-.

Alter knew exactly what he had to do.

Alter thought that the prisoner he was dragging should be put in front of the people and be executed after a fair and just judgment.

# # #

Winter.

It was a winter where the snow was so white that it looked blue.

The royal capital was colder than any previous day.

It was the coldest day of the year.

Dangling-.

Dangling-.

A man was walking along the cold streets of the royal capital with a bell ringing and a body covered in an old mat.

He was carrying a heavy cross, and on the cross was written the crime of “Faithful priest.”

“Move quickly!”

“Go!”

The soldiers whipped him.

“… Ugh.”

Every time this happened, the man groaned and fell to the floor, and the soldiers kept whipping him to get him up.

The procession had already lasted three days.

We didn’t know how long it would continue, and people didn’t wonder about that either.

“This bastard!”

“I didn’t like you from the beginning!”

“You hypocrite!”

People insulted and got angry at the man.

It was right then.

A small girl who was watching this scene held the hand of a woman who appeared to be her mother and asked.

“Mom, why is that person getting beaten?”

“He is a person who committed a sin.”

“What crime did you commit?”

“That’s—.”

The woman closed her mouth.
Because the woman did not know what crime that man had committed.

The same was true of the crowds and soldiers who whipped, threw stones and insulted him.

Just-.

I thought I must have committed a terrible crime to deserve such a terrible punishment—so I just insulted him and got angry.

Also, even if it wasn’t necessary, for them, the man wearing the golden necklace was already guilty for simply climbing to a higher level than them.

Pot─.

Finally, the man collapsed.

He was already at his limit after walking through the snow without resting for several days, being beaten, and was out of breath as if he would die at any moment.

It was a woman with hair as red as a warm bonfire who extended her hand toward the man.

“Hyde… ! You… !”

Zek-.

Psyche took off her fur coat and placed it on her man’s shoulders.
She then held out the bowl of water she was holding in her hand to the man’s mouth.

However-.

The man just stood up.

Without touching the water bowl.

He chose to take off the fur coat draped over his shoulders and walk away in silence.

“…”

Psyche looked at the man’s back.

Does it end when I die?

‘Does this terrible hell really end only after death?’

“…”

There were some people who were watching this scene from a distance.

They were Thorin the Platinum Wizard and Archibald the Medici.

The blind wizard Thorin said.

“People are cruel. They mercilessly throw stones and swear at men they don’t know what crime they committed. The world is such a terrible thing. Medici. “I wonder if it was really right to keep that man’s truth a secret.”

“…”

Medici Archibald shut her mouth.
He had been deep in thought for a few days, ever since it started snowing.

These were fundamental questions that had been asked for a long time.

‘Why do humans deceive each other, lie, and feel sad?’

Medici still did not know the answer.

But she knew the answer was to hide the identity of prisoner Hyde from everyone.

“After the confrontation that day, the Crusade has been gaining momentum by attracting surrounding heretics. At the same time, I tend to remain quiet in sodomy. It’s like a quiet beehive. “If they find out that their leader, Rust, has been captured—.”

“Okay. There will definitely be swarms of bees popping out in all directions. But. If it were revealed that the identity of the cult leader was in fact Priest Hyde, wouldn’t there be enough of a gap?”

Medici also thought like that.

However-.

He soon denied his thoughts.

“I don’t think so. The Crusaders are like flames. If I could set the world on fire, I would do it regardless of whether it was oil or straw. The best thing is not to throw any firewood.’

“Huh…”

Thorin touched her burned eyes.
It was his habit of doing it whenever he was in trouble.

Sorin still couldn’t forget what happened to her back then.

Paladin Alter.

What happened when he brought a man to negotiate with the queen.

Even though a week had passed, it felt as vivid as if it were yesterday.

Rust’s true identity was Hyde-.

The only ones who know it are Thorin, Medici, and a few people including the queen.

Thorin felt a chill.

“Did he intend to control the country by manipulating heretics in the back and taking control of the king and queen in the future? This is my first time seeing such a scary monster. What is it and where did it come from?”

Thorin recalled his investigation into Hyde.

There were no records or even rumors about this man until he set fire to Bluebeard’s house in sodomy.

It’s as if he suddenly came out of nothingness.

Sabak, Sabak-.

At that time, Psyche approached Thorin and Medici.

Thorin spoke to Psyche.

“Miss Psyche. I feel really sorry. I can’t believe I was married to such a horrible man. However, Her Majesty Queen Ginevit will use her authority to annul your engagement.”

“It’s invalid… ?”

“Okay. Miss Psyche. You are still a pure and pure woman. It’s okay to say that I’ve never been married. “Was the reason we didn’t sleep together even after marriage because you noticed something?”

Psyche was a virgin, as if she was not married.

Queen Guinebit made the marriage between the strange Hyde and Psyche disappear and completely isolated Hyde.

Exciting, Exciting-.

Psyche felt her heart beating in many ways.

She said after clasping her hands together in front of her chest.

“… I don’t want to get divorced. It is even more impossible to turn a marriage into something that never happened. All of this is my responsibility. “If I think about it now, there were plenty of opportunities to realize that.”

Psyche continued to cry.

Until her tears dry and no longer come out.
It was not because she pitied her own life, nor because she resented or hated Hyde.
Psyche, whose tears dried, became even stronger.

“I am responsible for what happened to Hyde. If I had noticed earlier and stopped him-. It wouldn’t have happened like this… ! So—.”

After-.

Psyche took a deep breath.

“Therefore…”

A story that I hesitated and pondered over several times.

She finally said it out loud.

“If there is any punishment that Hyde deserves, I will take it on his behalf. Any insult or humiliation. Even if it means death… And for Hyde, she wants to be given a second chance. Please… !”

Psyche remembered the vicious prisoners that Hyde had dealt with.

Hyde defended them by saying, “They too should be given a second chance.”

At that time, Psyche only thought that Hyde had a very good heart.

But─.

When I think about it now, I wonder if that was something I wanted to say to myself.

Everyone that Hyde has defended so far.

Wasn’t it a protest and defense for oneself?

In fact, Hyde, who had poured out all the stories at that time, was now enduring the insults and insults without saying anything.

Just stay silent.

As if he had been waiting for the day to pay for his sins.

After─.

Medici Archibald sighed deeply.

He said, looking up at the snowy sky.

“It will not be accepted. Because Hyde has already been decided to be executed tomorrow along with another ‘prisoner’. Everyone wants to deal with this incredible situation as quickly as possible.”

“Well, that can’t be…” They are executed immediately without a trial or any such process. Isn’t that against the law? This is wrong… !”

“Still, I will speak to Her Majesty, the young queen. And Miss Psyche. “Do you not know what happened to my daughter Milione?”

Milione.

When Psyche heard that name, her heart ached again.

“Miss Millie, I’m fine too…”

“… Is it. Okay. I see.”

It was an unusually cold winter day.

“—Why do we hate each other? Does her face blush? Why do we have no choice but to deceive one another and sin? Why do we—.”

The story of Medici became a breath of air and disappeared into the sky.

The snow that was falling from the sky had already piled up to our knees, and people who had been walking around the streets with blushing faces had returned to their families.

Dangling, dangling-.

A sinner carrying a cross was still walking along those winter streets.