Chapter 49 – Let Me Introduce You to My Girlfriend.(1)
Russ and Lily sat across from each other and said nothing.
There was a lot of noise and noise around them, but between them it was as quiet as another world.
The delicious food on the table was getting cold without touching it.
Only bottles were rolling around.
Russ silently handed the glass to Lily.
Although they were rivals, they were now also comrades who shared the pain with each other.
Without hesitation, Lily raised her glass and clashed it with Russ.
Lily, who doesn’t like alcohol very much, couldn’t stand it today.
I couldn’t survive without relying on alcohol.
“..Hey!”
Lily hiccupped.
And as a snack, he brought the hand he had been holding with Starchis all day in front of his nose.
The smell faded over time, but still clung to the faint scent that remained.
“… I hate it.”
Russ looked at him and said softly.
Hearing Lily say that she had been wearing her handcuffs all day, Russ knew what she was doing.
However, there was no strength left to stop such an action.
Exhausted
Even now, when I closed my eyes, Elzain’s smiling face shimmered.
A face that is ugly, gives goosebumps when you see it, and makes you want to punch it.
Even so, it was a fresh, beautiful, and very enviable expression.
Honey was dripping from Elsaine’s eyes as she stared at Stachis.
At least that’s how it looked in Russ’ eyes.
If she had mustered up the courage, would she have been able to make that expression next to him?
“Kick-kick..”
Well, it would be rather difficult not to make such a face.
Even he, who is running around with a slightly stiff expression, loses his expression in front of him.
I couldn’t help it if a guy as good as Stachis was my opponent.
As Russ drank, the past with Starchis came to mind.
-‘Mr. Russ, cheer up.’
Those words that he said to himself, who was in the bottom ranks, who had excellent results in training.
-‘Haha, I got it. Let’s talk nonsense from now on, Russ.’
It was something that the two of us had to talk about after spending a tough schedule together.
-‘Ahaha! You were tricked? Happy birthday, Russ!’
Even though it was his birthday, he didn’t say anything, preparing and handing out food and presents right before he felt sad.
When the memory came to mind, a smile came out.
-‘…It’s okay. Russ. Tell me everything.’
The thing that soothed me when I was late to arrive and a criminal in the city took many casualties.
The more the imagination continued, the more laughter came out, and then the expression gradually grew colder.
When the alcohol energy rose, he looked to his side as usual.
For more than half of the six years, when I turned my head like this, he was by my side.
But now there was only an empty seat in her eyes.
He was leaving his side.
His relationship with himself, which he thought would last forever, was changing.
Suddenly, I felt a surge of emotion.
‘What the hell did I… Do?’
Russ looked down at her own hands.
The friendship ring was still there.
She clearly had a chance.
Perhaps she has been given more opportunities than anyone else.
There was time to build countless memories, and there was even a chance to have a serious talk just the two of them.
But every time I felt ashamed and excited, I couldn’t take that one step further.
She had the complacent thought that if Starchis had come to her first, she would.
‘Who did I… Miss?’
Still, her memories with Starchis are the most precious treasure,
It was so painful to think that the memories he had with him would be painted over by someone else.
He hated that the woman he liked the most was not himself.
He said he was going to meet Elzain’s parents.
I thought it was crazy, but it was because Starchis was with another woman.
If she had just met her in a few weeks of dating him, she would have welcomed her with open arms.
Maybe the bitch Elzain also noticed what a wonderful person he was right away?
Is she doing everything she can to make sure she doesn’t miss him too?
If everything goes wrong and Starchis ends up marrying her, will she be able to hold on?
“Ah…Ugh..”
Just imagining it made my heart ache.
If so.
If it’s Starchis, once he’s stamped marriage, he’ll never even look at another woman.
He was tormented by the thought of Stachis not even paying attention to him.
Russ raised his glass again.
Only alcohol was the only pain reliever for this pain.
****
Lily returned to her house and slumped on the bed like her disenchanted golem.
Her head was messed up.
She even went round and round in a drunken spirit.
It was hard for her to come to her senses as her emotions fluctuated in large gaps up and down.
Today, the start of the day was good.
He reacted to the clothes she wore while thinking.
With her blushing blush and her eyes also unnaturally hardened, she met hers with hers.
A good atmosphere continued as he touched the back of Starchis’ hand and then interlocked his hand.
Her heart didn’t get used to the situation and it continued to rage and hurt, and her lower legs continued to get wet.
And when she even got a promise to have dinner with him alone, it seemed like she had the whole world.
Moreover, she was happy to think that these days would continue, because she would not only meet him today, but until his hand healed.
But from what she heard today, maybe the days she could be alone with him were not far away.
No, even if they could be alone, there might not be many days left that his heart would not be shaken.
She brought her hand back to her nose to smell the starch.
The scent had already gone.
Again she forcibly removed her hand.
It was really good all day.
When he moved the mana in his body with this hand, it seemed as if every corner of his body was connected to him.
Even though I was touching him, I wanted to touch him more, and even though I was looking at him, I wanted to see him more.
And when he saw that there was no response even though he tried to help him as hard as he could, he got a response when he put on a pod, so he thought that this might be an opportunity given by heaven.
Of course… I knew that the more the contact area, the better the mana response.
I thought everything was going according to my plan…
Elzaine’s figure came to mind.
I remembered the woman who had said that she was going to see her parents.
That face now so hateful.
Ah.
Lily shook her head.
I just need to stop stressing today.
She imagined something that would make her feel better.
Starches.
Slowly Lily moved her hand, which had been holding her starches all day, under her.
Negative memories sometimes remind me of his strong hand that I touched all day.
She believes in herself and recalls her tightly closed eyes to feel her mana.
She did, and as she was able to examine her closely, she remembered his face.
When her hand reached a secret place, she could imagine it as being touched by Starchis.
After that, the sound of water splashing continued in her room.
****
“After…”
Bien wiped the sweat from the back of her hand with the back of her hand.
Birds were chirping.
It was early in the morning, but she was riding the mountain trail with her little pouch on.
The road was pretty rough.
There were many rocks, so it was slippery in the morning when the dew fell,
There were many steep roads and sections where you could get seriously injured if you slipped.
Nonetheless, she wandered through the mountain trails and searched for her herbs.
The plan was to make medicine for Stachis.
For his stiff left hand.
It’s been days since she hasn’t seen him.
She wondered if she was doing well in rehab.
After exploring for a while, her eyes stopped on one plant.
“…Found.”
Another material.
He carefully approached the herb and started digging up the soil around it.
Her clothes and hands were already dirty from digging herbs here and there for a long time.
As she carefully dug up to her roots, she opened her sack.
Since she had been hiking since dawn, she was already crowded.
Bien checked her bag as she put in her herbs.
“…”
I felt like I could go down now.
At this rate, she seemed to be able to make a medicine that could last for quite some time.
She sat down and took a moment to catch her breath.
The sun was shining and I breathed in the fresh air, and it seemed that my stuffy and irritable mind was relieved.
And even though she was determined to take Starchis away, she was determined again.
Of course, digging herbs now is not to take him away.
I just wanted him to get better.
Nonetheless, she thought that this would cause her to bring him medicine and that she wished he had something to do with him face to face.
After a brief rest, she said a prayer.
It was originally a prayer she often prayed for, but it has completely become a habit of hers since Stachis fell.
The scene of him falling was deeply embedded in her mind and appeared as a nightmare.
Yesterday and the day before yesterday.
Or even when I doze off for a while and have a short dream.
The scene of him collapsing and the heat of his cooling body were vividly reproduced.
And when you wake up from your worst nightmare, the relief you feel is immense.
Even though I was short of breath and cold sweat ran down my whole body, I felt more fortunate than uncomfortable.
That’s why I started praying.
It wasn’t the only reason why I prayed, but there was also something that I did steadily for the future.
When he wakes up from a nightmare, he feels relieved but at the same time helpless.
If he could only use two cleanses on Starchis, he wouldn’t risk his life.
She almost lost him because she lacked her holy power.
Had he not been passed by, or had his brother not sought vampire blood,
Had it not been for a number of coincidences, he would have lost Starchis forever.
It couldn’t happen a second time.
She had to develop her holy powers.
Her holy power develops little by little through her prayers.
So, in this way, she sat anywhere and prayed.
Early moning.
Halfway up the mountain where birds chirp.
If a passer-by saw Bien kneeling in the middle of the sun and praying holyly, she would have thought that she was a holy woman.
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Casey is surprised to see Bien returning as she has dirt marks on her face and her clothes are also worn out.
“Bien!”
Casey, who was sweeping the front yard of her church, missed her broom and went over to her and wiped her face.
“Bien..! What else!”
“…Casey.”
“Why are your clothes torn like this again..! Where did you roll?”
As Casey said, Bien fell several times while descending the steep mountain.
Each time her knees were swollen and her blood was flowing, but she put the herbs she had saved first.
And after that, she came down while restoring her wounds with her holy power.
“It’s because I went to the mountain..?”
“Mountain?”
Only then did Casey see the pocket her Vien was wearing.
When she reached out and opened it for a moment, she found several herbs in it.
“No, I thought you were going to see him somewhere early today, but you went to the mountain?”
“… I want to go in now.”
Bien didn’t really want to explain every word.
She quickly made a medicine, so she wanted to go to Stachis as she said.
“What medicine are you going to make?”
“Don’t tell me.”
Bien was thinking of making a potion that would increase her mana sensitivity.
She was told that her hand would move again only when he could control her mana.
I wished his hand moved a little faster.
“Ah, bien, bien!”
“…?”
She looked behind her as Casey called her hurriedly back and grabbed her shoulder her.
“Your party members came to see you yesterday.”
Bien’s eyes widened as he was about to enter indifferently.
“S-Is it Starchis?”
Casey shook her head.
“No. The woman in the party. Was it Mr. Russ? She came and went in the morning.”
“..Okay?”
It’s not Starchis, so I feel like I’m going to die.
Still, he wondered why she had come to see him.
Casey then hesitated at what she had to say.
But she was the bien she had called for herself, and it was not something to be evasive about, Casey brought her out with difficulty.
“So… I have an appointment for dinner. They said come if you can.”
“..Promise..? With who?”
“So… That… “
Whether or not this was a promise that would hurt Vien, she continued to calculate.
But Bien couldn’t wait.
“Casey. If you don’t tell me quickly, I’ll go in.”
“…All of the party members…Even Starchis’s girlfriend. It seems like an introduction.”
Bien’s pupils shook.
“Introduce?”
Why her heart her trembled so much at those words, Bienne did not know.
