episode_0056

Memer’s nervous gait continues as he slams the door open. He walks off somewhere, with one arm holding his fur coat, oblivious to the cold wind.

“… This can’t be happening.”

Memer muttered, chewing his lower lip. For him, it was impossible for his seduction to be rejected. Something so absurd that he wondered if he was having a nightmare. If things had gone as planned, Remili, the unpopular second child of the Kindle family, should have been a captive, devouring her body, giving her heart and soul to this body that had given her excessive love, and falling for her presumptuous pleasure.

But tonight, somehow, that didn’t happen. Remili, who was jealous of everything her older sister had, rejected him, the lover of her sister who was the envy of everyone. While hanging out with Ailee, who was essential for his revenge, Memer could have handled his relationship with her amicably, considering Remili’s narrow-minded nature. But he didn’t.

By keeping her in the arms of her sister, who had no special charm compared to her, and not even giving her a glance, she wanted to make her grow infinitely jealous and fighting spirit. Ever since Memer decided to use the Kindle sisters for his revenge, Remili had been acting according to his intentions.

She never complained, always taking risks and doing her vigilante work quickly and fiercely. Without being told to, she spared no effort to get Memer’s attention and to prove that she was more capable and useful than her sister. The only reward she got was a compliment occasionally as she walked past Ailee, arm in arm. So that Remili could prepare for tomorrow’s mission, holding on to a sliver of hope while letting her sister play with her lover’s body in the bedroom at night.

“Ha, how dare you… … .”

Memer ended up laughing. Why would she, an inferior female with no face worth looking at (by his and the standards of the people of this world), no property left, and no status, reject the love of this body?

Another woman who rejected his seduction, Milla, the lion cub who ran away in fear of the hierarchy of the pack and played the fool, may be a beast of a woman, and may convince herself that it was because she was a woman with great ambition, but Remillie was none of those things.

“What the heck… , why on earth… … .”

At that very moment, an unexpected face flashed through his mind. The same face that had appeared in Remilie’s mind a few minutes ago, while he and Memer were spending time alone in the room. It was Ray, a boy from the countryside who had appeared out of nowhere and who had made all the females lose their minds with his natural looks and scent without any special effort.

“… No way.”

Memer shook his head. As far as he knew, Ray was not a very clever child. He had not yet fully realized the importance and utility of the charm he had been born with, so it was difficult to accept that such an innocent child could be a hindrance to his plans. He immediately erased the handful of thoughts that had come to his mind.

He was headed somewhere near the scouts’ quarters. When Sera finished her hike and came back, she saw Memer and greeted him with her face red from the ice-like water.

“Mermer! What are you doing at this late hour?”

“… … .”

“… … Smile!”

Memer approached Sarah and hugged her tightly.

“Oh, what’s wrong? I might get dirty… . That’s why I just washed up, but I’m wearing the same clothes I’ve been wearing all day… … …. Are you crying right now?”

“… … .”

He looked up at Sarah without saying a word, his eyes brimming with tears. It was heartbreaking to be rejected, but not enough to make him cry, and pretending to cry was easier for him than walking.

“What happened to you? You look so sad, it breaks my heart! Who, who did it? Who on earth made those beautiful eyes of yours fill with tears?”

Again, the face of a stupid female. This gentle puppy would help to soothe her gold-stained pride a little. Memer still buried his face in her arms without saying a word.

“Wow… . This, really… . How on earth did this happen… … .”

Sarah, with an equally troubled expression on her face, was fidgeting with her hands on his shoulders, wondering if she should hug him in her arms, and if she was even qualified to do so in the first place.

“… … I have something to say.”

“Of course. I don’t know how much help I can be to you, Memer-nim… but I’ll listen to everything! ”

As Memer finally opens his mouth, a sense of responsibility begins to well up inside Sarah. Memer, without missing a beat, sits down on the spot, allowing Sarah to take full control of the situation.

“Are you okay? Memer-nim! Oh no, I’m cold. If this keeps up, we’re going to get in big trouble!”

Sarah grabs Memer, who is sitting down in shock.

“I wish I could move… , anywhere. We could talk there… … .”

“First, I’ll take you to my room! It’s right in front of here. Just wait a little longer!”

As he whispered in a barely audible voice, Sarah quickly picked Memer up and hugged him.

“Excuse me, do you know where the captain went?”

Latia was running around the outskirts of Maibaon with a troubled expression on her face, asking the vigilantes about Sera’s whereabouts.

“Well? Wouldn’t you have gotten off work by now? Why, sir?”

One of the scouts, who had been gambling by the light of a campfire, looked up at her and answered.

“That’s… The special forces came to help with the work, but I didn’t get any information about what they were doing. I thought that was the end of the day’s work until I washed up earlier, but I think I’ll have to ask the captain again.”

“Work? If there was something like that, I would have told you… . They didn’t misunderstand something, did they? ”

The woman who was shaking the bowl containing the dice asked. There was a rattling sound.

“Right? I’m sure they were the ones who asked for help first, but we don’t know anything about it… .”

The bowl fell to the dirt floor, and the scouts’ eyes were all focused on it. When someone secretly lifted the bowl, sighs came from one side, and cheers from the other.

“Okay, everyone give me one, quickly.”

“Do it one more time. If you run away after following it, you’ll be out of luck.”

“I saw the captain. He was running towards the dorm.”

One of the agents, who was clinking a pouch of coins, spoke to Latia.

“You mean you went back to your room? If you’re sleeping, tomorrow… .”

“No, I don’t think so. Hehe.”

She cut Latia off and let out a playful laugh.

“Huh?”

“You didn’t hide one of the dice?”

“Open your hand, right hand.”

“Tsk, I’ve been hiking so much at night that my night vision has improved. The captain went in with a man earlier. He’s probably in bed, but he’s not sleeping. Do you know what I mean? Hehe.”

Caught trying to use a deadly trick, she dropped a dice from her hand and tried to pass it off with a sly, mischievous smile.

“Does the captain have a lover…?”

Latia tilted her head and asked.

“No. Talk about something reasonable. Normally, when you lie down on your back and feel ticklish, you start to think about other things. When you’re the captain, you can find a one-night stand anywhere, right? Why are you running so fast? Was it really that urgent? Heh heh heh.”

“Ahhh… .”

Latia reluctantly nodded with a trembling face. Latia turned 180 degrees and left.

“Did I say something wrong?”

She looked around at the other agents, noticing that the joke was completely out of place.

“Well, he doesn’t seem to be very interested in that kind of thing.”

One of the agents made a loop with his fingers and pretended to slide the fingers of his other hand through it, saying:

“… What kind of guy is he? His physical abilities seem to be better than those of most special forces guys. ”

“Don’t the other guys look like the special forces guys too?”

“Eh, hey… … . No way… .”

Latia watched from afar as the lights in Sera’s room went out, a bitter expression on her face, not knowing whether she was aware that she was being suspected of having homosexual interests in a place where she was not present.

Of course, Latia had no interest in women. If you ask if she had no interest in men, it was the exact opposite. From her childhood until now, she had never once harbored any feelings for anyone other than Ray. Since that morning when she realized that her relationship of over ten years was just her unrequited love, she spent three days and nights sitting on the mountain behind the village, looking with a dejected expression at the path Ray had taken.

I constantly regretted and ruminated, wondering if it was because I was so mean to him in order to get his attention, and why I never expressed my feelings to him even once. As if it were possible that I could have spent the rest of my life with him if I had acted just a little differently.

“… Why on earth do people live so easily and carelessly?”

Latia sat down with a thud, resting her chin on her hand, and muttered as she stared at Sera’s darkened room. Her body had become incapable of reacting at all unless it was Ray who was stabbing her in the chest, so even the ordinary meeting and parting of men and women in this world seemed strange to her. If fateful pairings were nothing more than a childish joke, why did she have to suffer from this fever? Latia thought that it was all the other people in this world who (in her opinion) easily got into and out of relationships.

Latia looks up at the night sky, letting out a long sigh that came from deep within her.

“Look! That star is Agave. The one far away next to it is Liat, are you listening? Hey! ”

There was no way she hadn’t been listening. Every time Ray got excited and told stories about the stars, Latia pretended not to care, but she remembered everything he said clearly.

As Ageb crossed the night sky along the flow of time, Liatra ran away as far as Ageb had traveled. Latia could only stare up at the two unreachable, shining dots floating in the vast, black sky.