Episode 173
“Because you are a stupid woman.”
Lucerne answered briefly.
“When my uncles came and dragged me away, I was told that I couldn't take you because you were a lowly citizen, so I committed suicide in despair. He took poison and crawled all the way to the base of that tree.”
Lucerne said. Elisha's body trembled gently. She couldn't stop looking at him. Lucerne said his birth mother was an idiot. How miserable would she have died? Why?
Why do you get involved with this family…….
The thoughts didn't stop. But it took only a moment for her body to turn over.
When she came to her senses, Elisha's body lay under Lucerne.
“Have you any sympathy?”
“…….”
“Then, let's begin your interrogation.”
Lucerne said.
“I even dressed like this and waited. I'll have to do it politely. It won't hurt.”
Elisha's eyes widened.
Her shoulders were pressed against the bed. She says she moves so easily even after eating Baekje?
“Wait, as promised…….”
“I never said I would let you eat the confession. You said you would.”
“I'll just take the confessional. I hate shadows.”
“Where did you get your confessional resistance training?”
Elisha's struggles stopped. Her eyes trembled greatly.
“I think he was relieved when he brought the weakest one. You are naive no matter how many times you've been beaten.”
Lucerne clicked her tongue.
“It's fine. I'm going to tell you everything today.”
“…….”
“To be mine, there must be no secrets. So that.”
“Lucerne, no, no!”
“I'll make you prettier.”
A dark shadow was cast behind Lucerne's back. Growing in size as if the shadow were alive, she was approaching Elisha.
“It's okay.”
Lucerne said soothingly.
“This way is better for the body. Confession pills can't harm your body, and if you take the confession pills wrong, you'll have to take care of yourself for a few days.”
“Uh, uh…….”
Lucerne whispered one last time.
“The principle is the same for both. Mine just works better.”
Lucerne's words echoed in her head.
And Elisha's eyes went dark.
* * *
In the blink of an eye, the work progressed. Elisha literally felt a shadow 'sink' into her head. The black thing was going into her mouth.
“Ha!”
“Be patient. It will be over soon.”
Lucerne whispered. He climbed on top of her Elisha and looked up at her with her eyes radiating cold madness.
“No, no. Don't come in, ugh, ugh…….”
“The shadow is like my alter ego. It's okay to get stabbed by me more than once or twice.”
Lucerne caressed Elisha's ears and head and spoke as if to soothe her.
'Oh, no.'
She recalled a time in her previous life when she was trained in confession. Her heart pounded and her stomach throbbed and her head hurt like someone was banging it with a hammer. The back pain and deprivation that swept through her body were standard.
But Lucerne's shadow was much better……. There was no feeling. Often, Elisha was so unfair and angry that Lucerne's words were mostly correct and she cursed. And she was afraid
'I don't want to be found out.'
Her own ugly past life. The ugly feelings she had for him all her years past. That she was a shabby existence that no one looked at.
Nothing she wanted Lucerne to find out.
Her eyes blurred. Elisha moved her tongue. She speaks, but she doesn't even know what she's saying. In her head, her words echoed like echoes.
“How on earth do you do this…… Did you?”
“Let's say it's used more like hypnosis than confession.”
“Lapis……. Is it like fantasy magic?”
“Mine is more classy. Because this is a cutthroat. I am not bewitched by anyone.”
Elisha caught her breath.
“Then, what should I ask?”
Lucerne raised her Elisha head. In my dim vision, I saw his smiling face. Suddenly, Elisha felt her heart weaken.
“You know about the confessional, right?”
Elisha nodded her head like her irresistible. Her mouth moved on her own.
“That……. I hate……. Because you repeatedly showed me what I'm afraid of…….”
“Okay. It makes people's mind and body tired. That's why I'm unlocking the heart.”
Lucerne said. Confessor is just a name. In effect, it was a drug that temporarily turned a person into a semi-idiot. In that state, a person had no choice but to answer whatever the other person asked.
“It's not difficult to guess the object of your fear. That is unacceptable.”
“…… What is that?”
“It means you can't be afraid of anything other than me.”
“…… You……. Is interrogation the real purpose?”
“Let's say it doubles as surgery. It's an operation to remove the fear in you.”
“Haha!”
A shadow moved within the body. Clearly, that was all I could say.
“Then first.”
Lucerne laughed.
“Shall I ask about the best position?”
Elisha doubted her ears. Tears welled up in her eyes. She was so angry that her heart broke. She was afraid now, unbearable and in pain. I fear that she will be abandoned at his hands and that she will die a miserable death. She can't contain it
“Huh, huh…….”
He was treating it like a game. Even just before her, she was speaking her love with his mouth, making her so miserable.
Alas, perhaps her work, risking her life, may be as leisurely as moving one of her chess pieces to him.
“Crying again. Make me weak.”
Lucerne licked Elisha's tears.
“I feel like going crazy just seeing you cry.”
Lucerne said languidly.
“I'm struggling just for today.”
“…….”
“Next time, don't be afraid of other bastards. I don't want to be jealous of even the people in your nightmares.”
Lucerne said. He kissed her softly on the lips.
“Then, shall we really go?”
“…….”
“Close your eyes. You will see a fantasy.”
Lucerne whispered.
“Don't reject me.”
She was seeing a fantasy before she knew it.
'This room…….'
Elisha was in an empty room.
'The room I lived in in my previous life.'
A diary was placed on the desk in the room. Letters that couldn't be sent to. They were all memories written with tears. Elisha looked at her frantically in the mirror.
There were burn scars on her face.
'Confessions repeatedly shows what you fear most.'
Oh, it was an illusion. She returned to the hell she feared the most. Elisha groped her face with her trembling hands.
'Ah. I hate this look.'
Thud. Thud. There was a knock on the door.
-Come out! Come out!
The knock on the door got louder and louder. The door burst open and Jacob entered. He had the expression on the verge of hitting Elisha. After that, Jain followed. Zain held something round in his hand.
No. No.
Elisha opened the closet door wide to hide in the closet. But the closet door opened and it was Carola who jumped out. She was laughing grotesquely with her mouth torn.
-There's something you need to do for Carola. I know that? Lucerne says she has kinky tastes. I think he likes a girl with a very ugly face. The guy likes you Carola needs your strength to get the man's seed. Can you do it
Elisha curled up over her. It was then. A black shadow crept behind them.
“Huh!”
Elisha's body trembled. Lucerne's red eyes were staring at her in the dark.
“What are you looking at?”
Lucerne asked in a whisper.
“Jacob and Jain. And…….”
In the repeated fear, there was only one way to counter the confessor. To hurt yourself. Elisha, in her fantasy, scratched her own arm with her fingernails and slammed her body against the wall.
'Anyway, this is an illusion.'
“Is that what you fear the most?”
In the darkness, Lucerne's voice asked again.
“Scary. I do not like it. However…….”
Elisha begged. But that wasn't what I was really afraid of. What she really feared was the truth.
“Huh!”
Elisha opened her eyes slowly. The eyes of Lucerne he was facing now were genuine. He was staring down at her coldly.
“I told you not to resist.”
Lucerne whispered.
“It's okay, everything you're afraid of will be gone after today.”
Lucerne pressed Elisha's shoulders against her bed.
“Come on, tell me.”
“Please please…….”
“What are you afraid of? How long have you known me?”
“I, that……. I can't answer. Lucerne…….”
“Why do you sometimes show guilt towards me?”
Elisha's whole body started to tremble. She wanted to shake her head. She wanted to burst into tears.
But she couldn't do anything. It was because it was hard to hold back her tongue as she tried to move her at will.
“Tell me. Elisha. What do you see?”
Ah, it was fantasy again. Elisha was back in her attic again. Fortunately, Jacob and Jain were not there. No……. They lay on the floor bleeding. Lucerne was standing in his military uniform.
'This person is.'
It was the Lucerne of his previous life. The seriousness is lacking compared to now, but the mockingly smiling eyes and cold expression. She was definitely him. The shape of the military uniform was different.
'Maybe the military uniform will change once next year.'
-Tell me. Elisha. What did you do wrong to me
That Lucerne asked. Elisha reflexively hid her diary.
-Come on, tell me.
He pulled Elisha's hand tightly. Elisha sat down on the floor.
It was like this. Elisha remembered even in the confusion. Lucerne's method of interrogation was to ask questions through the most feared fantasy.
Elisha looked up at Lucerne. He, in next year's military uniform, was bleeding. She'd rather cry and she'd rather laugh. This was the worst form of torture.
“Tell me everything.”
Lucerne whispered again.
“Black……. Tiger.”
“Tiger?”
“There was a fairy tale about a black tiger.”
There was an allegory. A large water snake, a crocodile, and a tiger living in the forest decided to join forces to catch the black tiger. The tiger was very black, had a strong body, and was in a reasonable position.
But the black tiger was the king of the forest. So the other lords in the forest decide to hunt the tiger…….
Crocodiles and water snakes dug traps by the water's edge. The tiger decided to bite and kill the tiger who had escaped from the trap.
“Crocodiles and water snakes. And a tiger comes out.”
“Keep talking.”
Lucerne ordered.