Episode 72

The fourth time, Elisha ended up falling asleep in his arms. It seemed that she couldn't come to her senses anymore because she hadn't had sex in a long time.

“Now, I really can't. Really, no…….”

Lucerne called Elisha to dry her body and put her nightgown on.

“Ugh, uh…….”

Elisha would sometimes fall asleep like this, and she would talk in her drool. Lucerne was a light sleeper. At such times, she would hold Elisha and pat her, and she would listen to her mumble.

On the nights after holding her as if vomiting everything in her stomach, her unresolved possessiveness enveloped him again. If possible, she wanted to swallow and chew them all, taking away every whining breath.

Since when that he became like this

At first it was just curiosity. It was just lust. It was just interesting.

The feelings that had grown slowly took root before I knew it. And all of her stems and fruits that grew from her roots, she said, to entwine and possess her.

'Did I have a preference for suspicious women?'

He thought to himself.

However, that feeling did not bear fruit. He didn't know love. Because he grew up in an environment where he couldn't survive without giving up his heart.

He was whipped in Merha's cellar. The day when he was driven to the battlefield at thirteen and returned alive after two weeks of hell.

And the day I turned a blind eye to the sacrifices and deaths of those close to me. He lost his mind

So the only clear feeling he could give her was her possessiveness.

“Sorry…… Do.”

Elisha muttered in her sleep.

'What am I apologizing for?'

Lucerne, who clicked her tongue, covered her with the blanket and patted her.

She was supposed to tear Jacob to death, but it seemed she would have to deal with it worse than that.

Tell the shadows to melt and eat them one by one over a year. Should I save him for about two months and then kill him by working on each one from the end?

'How much do you want me to do?'

Elisha's guilt-ridden drool was often thought of as a habit that Lucerne had acquired while suffering from Jacob's annex. He said that he had labor there, so he deserved to know the back and forth.

Lucerne pulled Elisha's palm and kissed her.

“I know how much I care for you.”

Lucerne whispered very quietly. I'm afraid she might wake up.

Actually, she knew everything.

'Ristralfoe, the sins of Merha and Marco. And a prophet who died eight years ago.'

At first, Nora reported that Elisha's bracelet was broken, so Lucerne headed straight to the clearing in the forest. There she found Lisztralfo's secret safe.

And he saw an amazing sight.

It was the sight of a luminous blue butterfly taking off from the corpse of Listralpo in the underground vault.

The high priests with true divine power had messengers. The messenger would fly to a place of need and leave letters to people to express his intentions. At the moment of his death, Ralphpo, through the messenger in the form of a butterfly, implanted a 'message' in his body.

And the butterfly completed the message in the air.

[I ran away here. The ones who killed me were the temple's Merha and that Merha's son, Marco. The Cartier family.

They killed me when I later donated my body and demanded that the money from the sale be distributed to my family.

Whoever found my body, tell the world about it. I'm sorry, mother, father. My one and only brother

Remember the day I died.]

And the date was left. That was Listralfo's last will. Lucerne knew the whole story right away.

But he pretended not to know anything.

He slowly watched how Elisha acted. What's certain is that even though Elisha didn't see her will, she said, 'She knew everything.'

And she cleverly drove Lucerne closer to the truth.

“You are very interesting.”

I risked my life and my body because I wanted to do something. Are you running this game?

Housekeeper game.

The succession battle between the descendants of the Duke of Cartier was implicitly called the family head game within the family.

If it's enough to participate in the family head game, you must have a deep grudge against this family. Also, it seemed that she had no fatherly love for her father's enemy.

She did her research on Elisha, but also said that she grew up apart from her father altogether.

He suddenly became curious about the end of the game Elisha was drawing. Until that day, he decided to examine her as if he were savoring her.

“Don't betray me. Elisha.”

Should she forsake him, Lucerne will plunge her into her abyss. Her freedom, which she so desires, is not to be seen in her whole life.

Elisha, she will have to live her life accepting the obsession and possessiveness she has developed from Lucerne.

So, this home game was not lacking for him to enjoy. It was a game he could only get.

'Should I make a secret room at least?'

Lucerne thought. It was a problem when she was by her side because she kept making her feel so good. I felt like going crazy at times.

But preferably in a relationship of trust. At the same time, her desire to see her in peace and her desire to see her for a long time arose at the same time, and she thought it was a contradiction indeed. He was not accustomed to such contradictions. He always enjoyed a challenge.

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“No, what if you force a sick person like this?”

The next day, the butler saw a rare sight he had never seen before. Lucerne was in trouble. It was also to the high-ranking priest who came to see Elisha.

Elisha was lying in bed, feverish with her feet covered.

'It's worth knowing.'

The butler unwillingly noticed the situation and tried desperately to distract himself. Lucerne rubbed her eyes with a tired face.

“Has your condition gotten worse?”

“It's not……. In any case, common sense dictates that those who are sick should be treated gently.”

The butler hadn't seen a person with such guts in a long time. The reason why the priest could even open his mouth in front of Lucerne was because he was a high-ranking priest who was directly subordinate to the high priest.

Lucerne nodded his head once at the word fortunate, and then said as if he was sorry.

“Then it won't be tonight.”

“No, General. Jebaal…….”

The butler quietly closed the door and left. At times like this, pretending not to know was life.

Elisha was lying on her bed listening to the non-argument.

'Head hurts.'

If I really do too much, my whole body gets tired and my head feels blank until the next day. Elisha learned for the first time that even her head hurts.

What's more crazy. It's not just sick……. As if something like a snake was crawling in the stomach……. She was always in a weird mood.

'Now that's it……. Could it be that I am addicted to intercourse?'

Maybe she was an early symptom of that kind of illness. She felt that Elisha had to stop her priest's nagging. Because she really didn't call me today just to see.

'I'll have to settle the matter first.'

Elisha called him weakly.

“Stop it and come here.”

Her priest approached to examine her at her Elisha's words. Elisha glanced at Lucerne.

“Actually. I have a favor to ask of you. It's something I've been wanting to tell you all along the way.”

Elisha clearly saw her priest's eyes flicker.

“I want to meet the person above the priest.”

She said Elisha neatly.

*​ *​ *​

She, the gunner, hurriedly came to Lucerne's mansion.

He adjusted the collar of his priestly uniform several times in the carriage to avoid showing it in a hurry.

'At a time like this, with the election of the great pope just around the corner, we must not forget our dignity. Because the appearance that followers follow is the life of a priest.'

With that alone, the middle-aged priest, handsome and impressive, has become a well-groomed figure that would be liked 11 out of 10 times.

“Welcome, High Priest Gunner, I've been waiting for you.”

The butler opened the front door.

When he finally entered the general's residence, he was impressed by how tidy it was. I liked the expressions of the servants and maids in neat uniforms. The soldiers could not be seen, but shouts of cheer could be heard from the gym far away.

If he had a little more delicate eye, he would know that the atmosphere of the mansion has improved a lot recently. The new hostess would find herself at the center of the change. But he wasn't as agile to that point.

“The General is watching training at the gymnasium. It's time for training to end soon, so I'll guide you to the tea room first.”

“I just came and stopped by, so don't worry too much about it. After all, the general and I are not related.”

“Yes, the general will be delighted with that. It's because he doesn't have any close relatives or adults.”

The butler quickly responded. Gunner liked the answer.

“I heard that the madam is coming and is preparing tea. If you see the lady first, the general will come soon.”

“…….”

Gunner hesitated.

'What did that woman say, that I have to go to bed alone? Isn't that the kind of woman she is from a fallen aristocrat?'

Although Gunner was a collateral, he was a relative of the Cartier family. He had an arrogant personality to match.

Elisha, now the wife of Lucerne, made a very subtle impression in the capital. She was famous for her beauty, but she was closer to the fairy image than that. Because she was the woman who was said to have entwined the famous Great General of Terror.

'Well, there is no man who refuses to see a beautiful woman.'

But soon curiosity won out. He was a man before he was a priest.

“Nice to meet you. My name is Elisha de Lorre.”

Elisha looked at Gunner and greeted him neatly.

“This is Lady Elisha. I am the servant of the Lord. It's a gunner. I took refuge in the temple and abandoned my last name.”

“Yes, please sit down.”

Elisha got out of her car with her calm face. She was a different impression than I thought. She was quiet and largely expressionless, with a doll-like face while her eyes were large.

'She said this is a man-eating fairy?'

Unknowingly, Gunner scanned Elisha's body thoroughly.

“So, she is going to run for the next papal election. I heard rumors.”

“Hmm. What is that?”

Gunner coughed. There were only two potential candidates for the next great pope. Merha, the only living son and second son of the Duke of Cartier.

And he was a famous priest, high priest, and gunner of a temple famous for his relief of the poor.

'It's a perfectly advantageous composition for Merha…….'

Merha's status was much higher than Gunner's, and the performance of the temple business was good. Above all, the election of the High Priestess was money after all.

Candidates had to scatter money in the name of donations and events. This is because the election of the great pope is a factional fight, which is ultimately decided by the abandoned name vote of priests of higher rank or higher.

'I have a chance as long as I have a good sponsor. So, I'll have to cater to a woman who is nothing more than a contract wife like this.'

Though he thought so, he couldn't hide his arrogance in Gunner's attitude toward Elisha.