Chapter 55 – Clearing the Slums (4)
“You motherfuckers over there!”
“Run! If caught, die!”
The shouts of adventurers from the front. Following the back of the meteor seen with him, Seris ran recklessly.
Why are you running
I do not know.
Should I run?
I don’t know either.
Because Yuseong is running, she just runs after him.
She heard her father’s voice in her ears.
-Even Seris, who will go to the baron someday, is not taking good care of her.
The pace slows down. Her body was weak and her breathing was labored. Why are you doing this? Originally, this ran just fine. Is it because I slept last night?
-As you know, Baron, Seris is a very pretty child.
Little by little, Yoosung’s back moves away. No, don’t go let’s go together. Don’t abandon me The words didn’t come out in a voice. When Yoosung spoke to me first, it came out well. Weird.
-If she grows up like this, she will surely become a child suitable for the baron.
The back of Yooseong, who had been moving further away, was no longer visible. Seris stopped running. She stared blankly ahead, then looked around her.
Huge bricks are arched. A foul-smelling stale water flows next to the sidewalks made for people to pass through. Her only light is the single torch she holds. Without that, she is so dark that she can’t even see the front.
In such a place, Seris stood alone.
“Ahhh…”
Seris’ body began to tremble little by little. She hates being alone She hates the dark too. She keeps trying to recall her memories of her old days.
‘Who, who…’
Please stay with me. Please stay by my side.
‘Mr. Yooseong? Kara?’
Cerys turned her body around and she found the two of them. Kara is at her house and Meteor is in her house and has just walked away from her. When she thinks soberly, she knows she’s not around.
But Seris was not calm now.
‘Why? Why no one why? Why?! Yoosung!!!! Kara!!!!’
In her heart she called the two of them. Should I call it by mouth? She grabbed her own neck. She tapped or rubbed, begging for a voice to come out.
Doesn’t come out
I don’t know why, but it doesn’t come out.
Scary.
It’s dark, I’m alone, I can’t hear my voice, the smell is disgusting, I don’t know where I am, the walls are hard, what the heck, where is this place. Help me. No. Mom, Dad, Yoosung, Kara. Please please…
Seris shivered and leaned her back against the wall. She crouched down and buried her face in her lap.
The same posture she had ten years ago when she was alone in the mountains.
If I see you like this, will you come? Yes, Mr. Yoosung will come back. Just like her father found her then…
-If she grows up like this, she will surely become a child suitable for the baron.
…
Pop
A drop of tear fell and ran down the thick leather pants. One drop became two drops, two drops became four drops, and soon a stream of water was created.
‘Why..? Why, why did you want to send me to the baron? Yes father? Mother?’
Because I’m a daughter
I love you.
Thank you for being with me.
Were those words all lies? Those words that supported me until now? Those words and memories that I thought of whenever I was having a hard time were all lies.
Haha, yes It was like that.
Jeon…
I was sincere.
I sincerely loved you two.
I thought it was your parents.
Cerys’s arm, which hugged her knee, gained strength. She shrugged her shoulders and let out more tears and sorrow.
In the meantime, a man came to mind.
The only man who helped her out of her pure goodwill.
‘…Mr. Yooseong.’
Maybe Yooseong didn’t help out of her pure kindness. Like her father and mother, there may be tricks to take advantage of her…
‘I don’t know.’
I do not know.
I don’t know, and I don’t want to know.
I just want to see you right now. You can see it if you follow it now.
Cerys, who tried to raise her body, collapsed again.
Hallucinations are heard. It is the sound of Yoosung and Kara having sex.
– Heh… Haang… Heh…
– Kara…
It reminds me of Yoosung and Kara hugging each other.
-Brother.
-Huh?
-Love you.
-I love you too.
On the first night of the festival, it reminds me of two people kissing with fireworks in the background.
Does not exist.
No matter how much she looked, there was no place for her to intervene.
‘No no. I’m Kara’s older sister and Yoosung’s colleague. Yooseong also cherishes me.’
Is it really so? Wouldn’t you consider it an obstacle?
‘I can’t do that. How much has Yoosung given for me? They ran away from the village together, helped me to live in the city, comforted me when I was having a hard time…’
Seris desperately denied it, giving her reasons. But in her heart she said so, in fact she knew.
Ever since he fell in love with Kara
Gradually
Very little but
She tells her that she is being neglected.
Even if not right away, that day will come someday.
The day when her place is gone between the two of them.
The day Yooseong bothered her.
‘I don’t like it… I don’t like that…’
Imagining the meteor’s annoyed expression on her face made Seris feel her heart break. No, maybe it was actually torn apart?
She cried. I started to feel the popularity around me.
‘Yooseong…?’
Seris looked back with a little hope.
“Ok? What else is he uh? Are you a woman? Debshow alone with the boss woman?”
“What? Look where.”
That hope was betrayed. Dozens of ferocious-looking men, not meteors, were carrying torches. When they saw Seris, they whispered among themselves. Even she knew that her way back was unusual.
‘Even, I have to run away.’
I tried to stand up, but my legs were shaking. Seris forced herself to run in the opposite direction of the men.
“Uh? Runs away.”
“Baby! Don’t just talk, chase it!”
“Yes? Why?”
“Why? Hey, what are you going to do when you go outside? Do you have anything to do? No! Then there must be a woman!”
“Aha!”
‘Heeik…!!’
Seris, who heard the men’s conversation, was taken aback. If she gets caught, it’s just not over. Realizing that, Seris started running like crazy.
“Uh?! Hey, run fast! That bitch is fucking fast!”
Tadadak. I heard a run behind her. Seris did not look back. It was because Yoosung had advised him that way.
“Hey! At there!”
“If you write now, I’ll take care of you!”
The men chasing after me shouted in playful voices. It was disgusting and scary.
‘Mr. Yooseong…!’
I want to see you like crazy If he had been by his side, she wouldn’t have been so scared. But he’s not around She ran without stopping.
“Damn it! What’s so fast about that bitch?! Hey, you guys go that way, you guys go back this way!”
“No, boss, do you have to go that far?”
“Then you just sleep in the village!”
“I will run right away!”
The sound of footsteps behind me diminished. It was scattered to catch a detour. Seris ran without stopping. When she stops, she dies. I don’t want to die. She wanted to live
She keeps running
She’s out of breath easily, probably because she’s run before, and her legs throb.
“Hey! Heo-eok… Stand there! Hey!”
It was very difficult to breathe and her lungs were hurting. She held on evil and ran. Want to live I don’t want to die.
Alive…
Alive..?
What are you doing alive
Why should I live
I didn’t even know my real parents, and my parents, who I loved and regarded as real parents, treated me like a commodity, and the man I liked didn’t even look at me?
‘…’
Suddenly, running desperately to live now became futile. All the strength went out of the body. I heard the laughter of men running behind me. Seris clenched her shield. The man grabbed her Seris by the shoulder.
“Heo-euk… Heo-euk… I finally got it…”
She slammed her shield into his face.
“Keukhe…”
The man fell into the dirty water with his face contorted.
“What, what is this bitch doing all of a sudden?!”
Two men left.
They drew their weapons Seris also put the torch down on her floor and drew her sword. They held her torch, so she didn’t have to hold her own.
“Do you know that I… Have been saving the first time to give it to the likes of you guys?”
I would rather have hit the meteor.
Her cool voice echoed through the sewers. The men were nervous about the atmosphere that had changed from before.
After a brief confrontation, it was Seris who moved first. She threw her shield forward and walked towards them.
“Damn it…”
“Yulbert-sama, how are you?”
“What a climber! Isn’t it a waste to run all the way here? Don’t kill me!”
The men also began to move, tearing from side to side. They intended to subdue Seris without killing him.
“Under…!”
Seris, who was planning to die fighting, let out a laugh. She swung her sword at the man approaching to the right. The man raised his sword and blocked it.
That was the wrong choice.
“Ugh?!”
He slipped on the slippery floor, pushed by Seris’ force. Then his arm was broken by the sword that came down.
“Keah!!!”
The sword comes down again. This time, it was so deep that it made my arms tremble. The man fainted from the excruciating pain and Ceris tried to finish her off.
“This year!!”
At that time, the man called Yulbert swung the blunt weapon he was holding in indignation. He was a morning star with sharp horns attached to a round lump of metal.
Seris blocked it with her shield. But the impact of her blunt force was formidable, and she was pushed behind her. Taking advantage of that gap, Yulbert continued to wield the Morning Star.
“Come on, if you wish to die like that, I will kill you. I will crush your limbs!”
Cerys kept pushing behind her. It wouldn’t have known if this was an ordinary place, but it’s inside a slightly slippery sewer. It was difficult just to stay centered.
Seris was driven into the wall in an instant.
“Search!”
Thinking he had a chance to win, Yulbert raised the Morning Star loudly. He intended to deliver the finishing blow, but there were too many gaps. Seris threw her shield at him.
“Ok..?!”
The shield he had just thrown luckily hit Yulbert in the neck. He fell backwards, clutching his neck. Seris rushed at her, grabbed her sword in her reverse hand, and stabbed Yulbert in the chest. Yulbert’s arms trembled and then hung limply.
Cerys sat down on her floor.
“…Lived.”
She was going to die fighting, but somehow she survived.
Why did she live Even if she lives, it means nothing.
‘…I want to see Yoosung.’
Suddenly she had an idea. She tried to raise her body, thinking that she wasn’t dead yet.
“This way! I heard the boss’s voice from this side!”
I could hear men’s voices and running.
It’s time to die
It was difficult just to deal with three people. There must be a lot more than three of them.
Seris took away Yulbert’s Morning Star. She sat down against the wall. Rather than being disgusted by those men, I intend to kill myself by smashing my head with this heinous weapon.
‘…I’ll just use a sword.’
I think it’s going to be really painful.
But the footsteps were already getting closer. There was no time, so she resigned herself and squeezed the Morning Star.
‘All at once… At once…’
Whoa Whoa I breathed in. For the last time she remembered the face of the man she had longed to see. That was when she tried to move the Morning Star with a hearty smile.
“Ah!!”
“Where did you pop out of nowhere?!”
“Kill that bastard! Kill! Don’t die!!”
The sound of footsteps stopped with the screams of the men. Ceris stopped her arm from swinging the Morning Star.
Just in case…
The men’s screams and shouts that had been going on for a while disappeared. Instead, the sound of footsteps approaching.
After a while, the figure of a familiar man appeared. Seris threw Morning Star far away with a bright face.
“Ceris, what are you doing here?”
“Yoosung!!”
Ceris got up in a huff of delight and tried to approach him, but stopped. It was so dark that I couldn’t see his face. She picked up the torch and approached him.
“Meteor…”
Fluff.
Meteor fell towards Celis, and she was taken aback when he received him.
“Seed…?”
Seris felt the palms of her hands that held the meteor get damp.
No way…? Probably not It won’t be.
She brought the torch to the palm of her hand. There was blood on her palms.
“Ah…”
Seris’ hair went white.
