Episode 119

Suddenly, one side of the wall opened and masked men rushed in.

Wow!

They shouted. A flashing sword touched Lucerne. Lucerne drew a sword from his waist.

“Shadow?”

“…….”

“Shadow?”

Lucerne muttered twice. Elisha knew that she was looking for the shadow, the guardian and beast she was proud of. But nothing happened.

He had his powers sealed. I didn't know where or what went wrong. Lucerne turned her head and glared at Elisha. Elisha stepped behind her with her quivering eyes.

She had to tell me it wasn't a trap I dug. She didn't know anything, she had to say.

However……. It didn't make any sense.

Lucerne came here at her call. She should have known it was going to be like this.

In an instant, the situation was settled. Lucerne rubbed the tip of her sword across her silk wallpaper. Blood was dripping from her knife.

It was the first time I had seen someone die since seeing my father's body a long time ago.

“Huh. Hee……. Black…….”

Elisha covered her mouth and crouched in a corner of her wall. It wasn't just Lucerne's sword that was bloody.

A cheap fake rug carpet with colorful patterns on the floor and an old round table. And faux silk wallpaper. All were smeared with thick, hot-smelling blood.

And the cortisans who pretended to be fake ladies. These are all Jacob and Carola people.

Everyone in this building was dead.

Lucerne staggered a little and approached Elisha.

'Die.'

Elisha clenched her teeth. Tears flowed from her eyes. Lucerne tilted her head slightly. She was like a wild animal that only now realized that her prey was there.

“General! Are you okay?”

Then someone called Lucerne from behind her. Through the crack in the open door, Elisha remembered the name of the knight. It was an article called Ian.

“Close the door. There is still one left.”

Ian's eyes lit up with a curious light. But he soon closed the door. There was a dark bang. Elisha was pale and her lower lip was quivering. Lucerne is slowly approaching.

It was a locked room with no windows. Elisha saw his face clearly in the light.

It was the kind of ferocity and dark lust Elisha had first glimpsed of her. Elisha realized that he was excited and she couldn't believe it.

“Why are you provoking it and then dropping it, huh?”

Lucerne asked affectionately.

“Now I just need to sort things out.”

“Save me, save me……. Please. Please…….”

Lucerne's blade touched the nape of Elisha's neck. Blood began to ooze from the blade. Hail-like tears fell from Elisha's eyes. The knife moved a little further. The nape of her neck tingled…….

Elisha finally looked into his eyes.

Lucerne was confused. Elisha felt his lust grow. She really could only express it that way.

'Why me……. In this situation……. This person is…….'

Elisha really didn't know. She wondered at the same time whether she would die first, be attacked first, or both…….

However. Nothing happened. He removed the blade. Lucerne looked at Elisha for a while before bending her body.

Elisha couldn't believe what happened the next moment, neither now nor then. He kissed Elisha wildly. When he fell, he was biting Elisha's lower lip. Blood flowed from her lips.

“Heh, heh…….”

Elisha couldn't breathe. It was a very sharp first kiss.

“I think you survived today by selling your little tongue.”

“…….”

“If you think of it as the price of your life, isn't it a waste to suck it up?”

Lucerne tapped Elisha's cheek with her bloodied finger.

“I'm really going to call you next time. You just…….”

“…….”

“I think it would be better if it disappeared right in front of my eyes.”

He whispered in a very friendly tone. Elisha felt like someone was threshing her heart with a rod. It hurt that much.

“What are you saying?”

“…….”

“But. It won't happen next time.”

Lucerne said. His eyes were terribly indifferent. It was the way others looked at Elisha. He exists in that place, but the expression of seeing a non-existent existence.

Okay. She was a gaze that only Elisha, who lived as a ghost, could feel.

“The next time you see me, run away, very far away. Because I don't think I can be lenient with you any more.”

Lucerne said.

Bang. The door is closed.

It's not my fault. I didn't do anything.

My fault is just that I'm weak. It's just that I didn't have the strength to stop Carola.

You shouldn't have come here. You shouldn't have looked at me. Why are you torturing me? Why do you despise and hate me? No fault of mine

A lot of thoughts popped into my head. But none of it meant anything. Who cares about her chagrin? Even if someone looked closely at Elisha, she would find nothing but ugliness in him. That was her

She couldn't even apologize to him anymore. It just ended with that. Elisha felt deep despair. Her terrible past, which pressed on her shoulder, tormented her as if it were her time.

Elisha said she had nightmares of that day every night, and every night she apologized to him. But he will never pay attention to Elisha again. He won't even remember her Elisha soon.

*​ *​ *​

Elisha's life was like that. Once she got her hands on even the smallest thing, she would then have to pay the price in two or three times more pain. The end of the subjectless emotion was miserable.

From then on, even when her Lucerne met her, she only threw her eyes of contempt and disgust, and she did not pretend to know. She sometimes seemed to hold back something in her.

Too stupid, she made her stupid mistake……. It was an irreversible mistake.

'Like an idiot.'

Elisha looked at her muddy hands.

As she cried one night, she buried a locket with ancient gold coins in the dirt. And her emotions also became a corpse. Now even her heart was ripped to shreds and there was nothing left.

I lived a life where it was natural to be abused. Since the day she was taken captive by Jacob, her life has been mostly a road to despair and hell. However, her heart that could not be broken by countless pains.

Unfairly indeed, he could have been crushed all too easily.

Just like a child breaking a sandcastle for no reason. Her heart was so easily scattered like sand.

'But even if it hadn't been like this, what would have been different? That man and I wouldn't even be one night stand. That's it.'

Elisha thought, if she could have him for just one night in this world, she was up for it. She longed for even just one memory……. But that won't happen.

He's very ugly and ugly. Unless he crashes to the bottom of hell.

So unless you come down to where Elisha is……. There will be no such thing.

So Elisha gave her funeral to that feeling herself. But the passion that burned in her heart did not disappear.

So again, the flame hurt her.

Same this time. Any high or low being in this world. Even little worms. No one cared about her pain. So Elisha was alone again.

It was around then that she decided on her death, which she had long thought about.

*​ *​ *​

“You have no problem. You're showing signs of fatigue, and you look a little startled.”

Lucerne nodded her head. Elisha was lying on the bed. Lucerne inquired more closely of her doctor about her condition, Elisha, and it was only after she threatened her to stay overnight that she allowed him to return.

He looked down at Elisha. The pale-faced Elisha was asleep. Lucerne suddenly felt a tug at the nape of her neck.

'What the hell is it?'

Elisha and Lucerne look alike. Both were suspicious and didn't trust each other. But at the same time, we knew each other well.

'Did you think I would take my anger out?'

If what Elisha received was a real love letter, she would have found her partner somehow and punished her by chasing her to hell. But she says the one Elisha received was worse than the love letters.

'I know their names…… La.'

Chris, Elott and Pian. Lecove…….

14 names. Their names were not mentioned by anyone in front of Lucerne. After all, few people remember them anymore.

'What the hell do you know?'

It didn't make sense to know that far.

'It's past the stage of being fooled by that ridiculous little ghost story.'

Strangely, however, Lucerne was not angry. Looking at her pale face, she felt hot and empty at the same time.

'It's already been a few times.'

Lucerne was already suspicious of Elisha on several things. She was looking at her with one hint that she was neither Jacob's nor her traitor.

Suddenly, the Lord's warning came to mind. It was said that if you keep something that shakes your heart, it will end.

'Throw away your heart, Lucerne.'

And the one who was his mentor a long time ago. The advice of one of the 14 people he hated to the point of trembling came to mind.

'Maybe it's really better to just forcefully deal with you.'

Elisha being suspicious aside, she agitated him. That wasn't a good sign. Words like teasing to Elisha. She is her own weakness. Saying she can't live without her.

It was half sincere and half warning. Those words were gradually becoming impossible for Lucerne himself to overlook.

'I can't repeat the same mistake again.'

The risk of being obsessed with Elisha and continuing to be affectionate. And will Elisha really only benefit him? Won't it be harmful?

The calculation was the same in all respects.

He had no reason to give Elisha her freedom. He just needed to possess Elisha. Don't let her run away anywhere. It was safest to keep it that way.

It was then.

“Um…….”

Elisha let out a small moan. Lucerne leaned over her.

“Elisha.”

Lucerne called her quietly. However, she began to tremble when she heard Lucerne's voice, wondering what she was dreaming of. It was like having a terrible nightmare.

“I'm sorry.”

Elisha muttered.

“I'm sorry, Lucerne-sama. I'm so sorry.”

Elisha said as if it would cut off. Lucerne received a great shock as if he had been hit in the head.

Elisha had a habit of apologizing to someone in her sleep.

Lucerne had never mentioned that fact to Elisha until now. Because the moment her wary woman knows her own habit of talking in her sleep, she won't be able to sleep well at night.

He vaguely thought that the habit had come from being abused by Jacob. But he realized at this moment.

Until now, the object of her apology, which she had talked about in her drool, was Lucerne.