episode_0433

“Did you eat it all?”

Shir was spoon-feeding me food.

Why bother feeding me when I have my own hands?

“······Let me go now.”

As someone whose love cells had died, it was difficult for me to endure this situation.

“Ah~.”

Please…

“Ah, do it.”

“Haa···.”

When I open my mouth, Shir puts meat into my mouth.

It’s soft, well seasoned, and melts in your mouth.

It was really delicious.

As for the taste.

I don’t feel that good because I feel like I’m being made fun of and treated like a child.

“When you come back, there was something I wanted to show you.”

“What?”

“What kind of people we are, how strong we are, how much power we have… things like that.”

I don’t mean to brag.

Shir wanted to be recognized by me.

I hope you come and see it.

“···Where is Shii?”

What are you going to do with my recognition?

“My sister is working as a patriot at Ymir’s tomb. I…”

[Shir, stop fooling around.]

ah.

Lexi’s voice suddenly burst out of the air.

It was such a power.

“Why are you so heartless? I just woke up and I can’t leave you alone, right?”

[Something to do comes first. Sihyeon, eight hundred people who knew nothing died while I was bringing you here. It makes me feel bad, so don’t do anything stupid. If you do something strange, I’ll throw you behind bars.]

The quiet warning didn’t really resonate with me.

Why is it my fault?

Isn’t it the responsibility of the commander-in-chief who started and planned this?

“I never asked you to bring me.”

[good. Shir, throw that bastard in a cage.]

“Sister, Sihyeon doesn’t know anything yet. Something like this…”

[You can explain later, right? I don’t have time right now, so fuck me first. Before I go.]

Shir looked into space as if disapproving, and then he turned his gaze towards me.

“I’m sorry, Sihyeon… I think she doesn’t trust you.”

Sigh!

Let Shir go to the corner of the room and pull back the curtain—

“······?”

The iron bars were revealed.

A brutal-looking iron bar that is so firmly embedded that it can never be torn off.

The room itself is split in half, and everything a person needs is provided inside the iron cage with stakes… is it prepared?

I get chills.

My heart was beating wildly.

“···What is this?”

Why is there something so scary?

Shir laughs bitterly.

“My sister won’t trust you…”

“Shir! Is this a mental institution?!!”

“It’s not like that.”

Shir approaches me.

To put me in that iron cage.

···Really. It was made to trap me!

─Wuzrey was right!

The moment you enter there, you will have stepped into the final destination of your life!

I don’t know about Shir, but Lexi is definitely crazy!

“I can’t go in there.”

The door, the door…

found!

“Do not open.”

I opened the door and jumped out.

There are too many doors at regular intervals in the hallway.

Where is Isabelle?

Isabel…

“Sihyeon. No one knows you are here. How are you going to get back now? What are you going to do when you get back? Does anyone recognize you? The person who loves you…”

What nonsense?!

“Shir, I am not your pet. I don’t know what you did, but it’s none of my business anymore.”

“I was so excited.”

“Shir, you are not listening to me. You only say what you want to say. And I think I’m misunderstanding something, but I’m dating someone. I don’t even want to know why you’re like this, I…”

Shir just smiled sheepishly.

I soon realized it.

‘···I see.’

Nothing I say has any effect on Shir.

Because he read my emotions and understood me when I was angry.

Same goes for me.

Sur was a mirror reflecting me.

People don’t necessarily need to understand other people’s minds.

─This is a curse.

I poured the medicine that Seth gave me into my mouth.

The medicine dissolves as soon as it touches the tongue.

write···!

“···Did you take poison?”

It was an instant.

My brain tingles.

In an instant, Shir’s emotions become invisible.

Now think about it.

Away from the gaze that whispers that you love me.

To avoid the unfairness of thinking that you made a sacrifice for me.

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“Haa···.”

That’s right.

“As expected, you guys are strange.”

Shir’s face hardens.

I guess that’s because I hit the nail on the head.

First, find Isabelle…

chin!

“Big!”

Shir pushes me.

The voice is cold.

There was anger in his eyes that I couldn’t understand.

“Sihyeon. I just don’t understand.”

Quack!

“Khaaak…!”

The body is crushed by being pressed against the wall.

It’s broken…!

“Why are you so selfish?”

I felt dizzy.

─Am I selfish?!!

“I did everything I could for you! By ignoring all the prejudices in the world and even throwing away their lives! But what you’re doing to me is locking me up and raising me like a pet?!”

How can people do this?

why?

How hard have I worked over the years?!

“Sihyeon. Please don’t disappoint me like the sloppy guys out there.”

“Do you think I won’t disappoint?! You…!”

“What have you done for me?”

“···What?”

I was so dumbfounded that I started asking questions.

What have I done for you?

“Sihyeon. What you did wasn’t for me.”

Shir’s thumb pushed my neck to the side and broke it.

“What you did is called picking up what you spilled.”

You picked it up?!

This effort I made like a dog?!

“That makes sense…!”

“You said it wasn’t fate to meet me?”

My body stiffened.

“I lost my life after meeting you, I was forced to like you after meeting you, and I lost my family and relatives after meeting you. Without you, my life would have been simple and ordinary and happy.”

Shir presses his body close to me.

What is Shir thinking?

What do you plan on doing?

Was it really this scary to not know people’s hearts?

“By any chance… you didn’t think I wouldn’t know anything, right?”

I feel like my heart is sinking.

“Your damn free will.”

Shir’s blazing blue eyes turn to me.

“You probably didn’t plan on covering up your mistake and leaving me and my sister, who lost her life because of you, to go see another bitch. Right?”

“It wasn’t my free will! It was your father’s will!”

I’m just playing into Zur’s hands.

Shir’s hands began to gain strength.

The airway is crushed…!

Tdu-duk-!

The hyoid bone twists and shrinks.

“Wow…!”

“Sihyeon. You must take responsibility for the misfortune you created.”

‘I can’t breathe…!’

I tried my best to push Shir away, but he didn’t move at all.

Shir just snorted at me.

“Shir…!”

“I took out your heart and put a heart made with my blood. To prevent you from running away again.”

“What…?”

“Your heart, I ate it with my sister on the spot… It was very delicious. So much so that I wanted to eat the rest right away.”

The hand leaves his neck.

Shir pressed me against the wall and hugged me even closer.

Strength drains from the body.

Before I knew it, I was sliding down with my back against the wall.

“······What do you want to say?”

“Whether you like it or not, accept us.”

“Fuck you.”

“Even if you feel resistance, it will be okay once you get used to it. Status, money, relationships, family, safety…”

“Shir! I ate human flesh here when I was thirteen! A few months later, my finger was cut off due to an unfair trial!! I’ve been in and out of this place and seen people hanging on hooks like slaughtered pigs!!! You saw the dead man in the Rotten Swamp, right?!!!”

“But not anymore.”

“That doesn’t matter! I have no intention of living in this damn place!!!”

“That’s why we overhauled everything. Do you know what I had to do today?”

Shir smiled broadly and patted my back.

And then, he picks me up and carries me away.

“Today was the execution ceremony of Douglas and Eusria, who cut off your fingers.”

“······?!”

“It’s okay. Since I was not present, the trial would have been postponed.”

My heart is beating wildly.

I don’t know about Yusria, but Douglas is not guilty.

He is just a person who is faithful to his job!

“What kind of bullshit are you talking about…?!”

“You can never forgive anyone who laid a single finger on you. I’ll show. I cut off your fingers for the same reason, so I’m going to cut off the heads of those two kites for the same reason. What would be a good crime? What is the method of execution? You decide.”

“Are you crazy…?”

Shir laughed and shook his head.

“Are you crazy? I am a king. The warchief. If you just make up a good reason, they can’t do anything!”

Soon, laughter broke out.

Where have you heard this before?

What you see is different depending on where you stand.

My heart calmed down due to my disappointment.

Dramatic emotions are mixed, and emotions float in a clouded mind.

“······My father smoked.”

Shir frowns.

“Cigarettes?”

“Among them, he smoked a pipe. My father strangely liked quaint things.”

My father couldn’t quit smoking.

I always had a cigarette in my mouth…

“Tobacco has a scent that is incomparable to cigarettes.”

“Second-hand smoke did not make me irritated, but it was so bad that I went to smell it.”

I still remember that heavy woody scent.

I wouldn’t necessarily say it now, but it was when I was young.

Because I was an elementary school student at that time.

“One day, I became very curious about why my father smokes.”

“I had advised you hundreds of times not to do it because it was bad for your health, but I asked you to do it that day.”

“Dad. I want to try it out too.”

I can’t forget it.

“But my father hid the cigarette pipe and placed it high up out of my reach.”

“And that’s right, they say that once you start smoking, you can’t quit. So they say it’s better not to mention it and not to know at all.”

“And then he unfolds himself again. It was ridiculous.”

You do things that you wouldn’t recommend to your child, right in front of their eyes.

And then he does it.

Even though children are animals that follow in their parents’ footsteps!

My father’s answer was so contradictory to me at the time.

“Then why did my father burn what was eating away his life?”

“If I can’t do that, is it really so frustrating that I can’t help it?”

“Does the world look different after you smoke?”

“Will there be dependency?”

“Do you feel good?”

“It was when I was young. So it was a stupid question.”

“But when I look at you now, the pure doubts from back then come to mind.”

Is power something that makes people so arrogant?

Is strength what makes people so aggressive?

Is money something that makes everything around you so small?

I have never had or used anything properly.

So I’m curious.

Is there something in the world that we shouldn’t have?

Is there something that you shouldn’t take or rely on?

I’m over 30, but I’m still a ‘mite’.

I still didn’t understand the world.

“You got everything I didn’t have. So I’m curious. If I accept that, will I naturally become like you?”

It was a question that came from pure, child-like thoughts.

As people get closer to perfection, can’t they accept their own imperfections?

Shir rolls his amber eyes.

“It may vary depending on the person, but yes. At least it was that way for me.”

···I see.

“Then I don’t want to know. I’m already a murderer and a scumbag, but I don’t want to be like you and Shii…”

“You will be able to adapt soon.”

“······Let go.”

The iron bars open.

Shir carefully puts me down on the bed, closes the iron bars, and leaves.

Wow! Clap! Slam!

“I’m sleeping now.”

Shir locks the cage and turns it around.

I had no strength in my body.

As if just before falling into sleep… my thoughts… fly…