episode_0434

“······!”

A familiar smell passes my nose.

It was the smell of night.

Outside the window, big and small lights were shining, no different from 16 years ago.

“Are you awake?”

···Lexie.

He was sitting at the table, quietly looking down at me.

“···It’s been a while.”

“You piece of trash.”

···You have to listen to the selling as soon as you wake up.

“There are many people in the world.”

“No? People like you have never been seen before in the two centuries I’ve been alive.”

‘Isn’t something that has precedents scarier?’

It was a short thought.

The thin meat placed on the extravagant-looking bowl on the table has bright red muscles twitching as if it had just been caught.

Lexi dips the raw meat in the sauce and shoves it into her mouth.

“···No taste.”

Lexi, leaning on the chair, cast her gaze in this direction.

“You are irredeemable trash.”

“I’m sorry.”

“You casually lost my trust.”

“You know. It’s not like that──”

“Yes! I know! Everything! You should have come back to me when you got on Kraxmara’s back!”

“Han o’clock was urgent. To begin with, the place where Shii has lived for over a hundred years…”

Lexi’s eyebrows furrowed.

Thanks to this, I couldn’t continue talking.

“I should have come. No matter what reasons and rhetoric are used, this fact does not change. You were not single, and you had to tell me, your spouse, the truth.”

That is correct.

So much so that there is no room for excuses.

“I’m sorry. I···.”

“There is no need for an apology or excuse. Because it’s my fault for not being able to take care of you. So… we can manage it properly from now on.”

“···Is that this?”

“I can’t trust you anymore.”

What kind of dog bone is this?

If you don’t trust people, just forget about them.

Even if we meet for 10 years, let alone 1 year, if we don’t get along, people break up.

“···Do you have any intention of meeting someone else?”

Lexi snorted.

“When you receive your head and even your head is lost. I thought for a long time in front of your empty grave. Why did I love you?”

Lexi gets up from her chair and approaches me.

“I didn’t know either. Why did I love you?”

“I heard you fell in love at first sight?”

“······Did you believe that?”

It was a lie.

“···It was like that back then. Not now.”

“Sihyeon Lee.”

“Yes.”

“Why did I love you?”

You regret it.

okay. Because I brought it on myself.

“If you regret it that much, forget it now──”

“Do not misinterpret the question and accept it as is.”

“I told you so. I was brainwashed.”

“······So, every time I see you, I always get angry at my foolish side.”

Lexi sits on the bed and looks at me.

Then it starts climbing up the bed and settles on top of me.

A familiar expression, a familiar posture.

“···There was something I really wanted to do when I met you.”

“What is it?”

Lexi climbed on top of me── and stretched out her fist.

Sigh!!!

“──────?!”

“Shii?!”

Lexi grabs my collar tightly!

“To beat you until you die.”

Sigh!!! Sigh!!! Wood-duk!!!

“Ugh! evil! Sleep… sleep…!”

An indescribable shock continues to hit my face.

The sound of bones crunching was terrifying.

‘This person is not human!’

If things continue like this, the face itself will definitely cave in at some point!

“Yes! I can bear it all! There must have been no time! It must be something you do for me! It’s been 13 years since I was reborn, so it could be so!”

Every time Lexi’s fierce fist lands, a star appears before my eyes.

Wow!!! Kkwadeuk!!!

“You could give up on me! You can wander! You can meet other women! You can sleep with other women!”

Sigh! Pap-duk!

This is crazy…!

If you continue like this, you will really die!

“But! If you respected me at all───!”

Kkwaduduk!!!!

“Wow!!!”

“At least in the house where you and I lived───! On the bed where you and I slept together───!”

Sigh!!!

The blood vessels burst and the area in front of your eyes looks red!

‘If you get hit like this, you’ll really die!’

The arm raised to guard was crushed by the wing.

“You shouldn’t have brought another woman━━!!!”

Bah!!!!

Stars are shining brightly.

As the stars flew out, my bright red eyes became invisible.

Are they saying my batter is next?

Now, even my once-ok eyes seem to have burst, and the world only appears red.

Death is not scary.

But dying like this…?

So meaningless?

Lexi, who looks red, smiles.

“Nice to come back home. Sihyeon, I really… really love you.”

Lexi laughed and punched me.

Baaagh────!

* * * * * *

“···Ni! How… yo…?!”

···.

“···Indifferent…yo!”

If you get hit any more, you die!

Must avoid! Roll to the side…!

thud!

“Ah.”

···.

“Look! Are you scared?!”

“There are so many different things.”

Lexi approaches me with a smile and pinches my collar again.

Would you do it again?

Are you really trying to kill me?

Just as I was about to break the hand I was holding and throw it away.

“──────?!”

My wrist was bent backwards and I was grabbed by the collar along with my hand!

“Sihyeon, are you using the techniques I taught you on me?”

Lexi twists the corners of her mouth as if slandering.

“You ungrateful bastard.”

“······Do you want to wash up?”

In response to Shir’s question, Lexi looks at Shir.

“Yes. That’s how it should be. The bed is also covered in blood. I called someone.”

“Then let’s wash together.”

Shir opens the iron cage door and moves forward as if leading the way.

Come to think of it, it’s a place that looks quite familiar.

This place…

“······This is the place where you got scolded by Jule for doing something strange.”

“Did you remember?”

“Is there any way it can’t be done?”

I remember everything that happened here at that time.

Things like a visit to a human meat market or intestines swimming in a head basket.

“After I left the South… I found myself lost in self-consolation and self-compromise, saying I would somehow adapt to the South. know?! This was a shitty place!”

“That won’t happen anymore. Because my sister and I worked hard to make sure that wasn’t the case.”

“I said I wasn’t interested. ···I am not afraid of death.”

Wow!!!

Lexi slapped me like a gale.

Thanks to this, something started to get angry in my heart.

“Shii… Do you want me to make it so that you can’t endure it without killing me?”

“Shut up.”

“Tell me honestly. Are you just… seeking revenge? To end my life miserably there? When I die, they will laugh at me over my corpse. ‘I’m finally falling into hell.’ And.”

When I look at my burst lip, hardened blood comes out.

“I recognized him from the moment he drove a spear into my thigh.”

“I wasted 16 years for you! Just like you, I have watched your progress through self-consolation and compromise! Doing something like a male prostitute selling her body for money! You’re hanging out with Edeline, who betrayed us!”

“Really? Then you give up like me. Because it’s easier to give up. Or, like before, try beating him again until he loses his temper. Just like before, my face is sunken and my eyes are blind. Did they just kill him? No, kill me. I’m asking you to please, will you kill me?”

“···Sihyun. Let’s wash first. Let me tell you.”

“Your story is enough…! Ahhh…!”

···The body loses strength.

The heart…!

“I don’t think you should be allowed to talk. Just listen.”

“Fuck…!”

Shir picked me up with a stern expression and headed toward the bathhouse.

I turn on the hot and cold water at the same time, take off my smile, and take off my own clothes.

As I enter the lukewarm water, Shir embraces me and gently washes my bloody head and face.

“What is the water temperature?”

···What should I do?

Would it be fun if you turned me into a doll and played with it like a button to turn it on and off?

“Don’t be too angry. How much I like you.”

Shir gently cleans every nook and cranny of my body.

“Sister… suddenly received a blessing from Venus. At that time, he sensed something was wrong and went to the highest mountain.”

Lexi curls her feet snugly on the other side, wiping my blood off her body.

“When I asked Mercurius where you were, he answered that you were dead. And he told me to give up because it was difficult to hold on to you.”

The blood spreads out beautifully, like smoke rising in water, and then becomes diluted.

The scenery outside the bathtub was no different from 17 years ago… but there were no people.

“But there’s something wrong with what you say, right? It’s difficult when he’s dead.”

“My sister thought it was strange and asked Mercurius about how to see you again, and he predicted that you would return 14 years later.”

“Instead, she said she couldn’t tell me any more, but instead said she would help her even a little bit and pointed her as her agent.”

···As Feraku said, Mercurius is a person who likes to watch political fights.

The nosebleeds that had accumulated in the nasal passages clump up and flow out unsightly.

“Mercurius enjoys passionate fights. You’re probably smiling at us now.”

“That’s what Feraku said arbitrarily, and it’s not what Mercurius said. He said that was also a hint given to you. Something like an imprint effect. It is easy to accept the first information you receive as truth. Anyway…”

Shir pours water on my head and removes the blood.

“My sister came to the south to meet you and to keep your will to help me.”

“First, I learned how to control my powers from Fera Ku, and then I came to the ogre’s nest. At that time, thanks to your petition, my memories had returned, and my mother allowed my sister to settle down. And···.”

Shir pulled me into his arms.

“···Your head has arrived to us.”