Chapter 226 – 220 – When I Walked Ten Steps Like That
Literature and fashion influenced by Mithra’s strict order and asceticism gradually faded. The romantic trend is popular, and people’s clothes increasingly reveal more skin.
Also, rumors of lustful and humiliating deaths are heard from various places. Infidelity, honeymoon, scandal. And so on.
Sociologists believed that this was an effect of the chaotic situation. That was until the Ishtar Church, which had proliferated beneath the surface, was finally revealed to the world, and the demon of lust came knocking on their classroom door.
Ishtar’s children, the ‘Ishtarborn’, went crazy with joy. The days of boredom sucking one’s fingers in the narrowed territory of one’s mother are over. Now that paradise on earth has arrived, it is time to leave the spiritual world and go have some fun.
Of course, not all humans could generously accept their love. Many men and women were taken to the emergency room due to urinary injuries or heart problems.
Of course, there were exceptions to such parties. Monica Ishtar Born often intervened in her mating affairs, but unlike her more promiscuous siblings, she had no interest in choosing a partner to sleep with. Instead of laughing at Monica like that, the other Ishtar borns actually envied her as her counterpart.
And here is another exception. That woman walking inside the old, dilapidated fortress.
The garden was lost to wild grass, and the once majestic spire became a nameless ruin. It is a landscape that reminds us of the transience of time and, further, of the fate of mortality.
But the woman laughed. Every time she passes a bend in the road, every time she touches a stone, she smiles anew. As if a different happy memory comes to mind every time.
She wanted to become God. She knew that if she became capable of anything, she would be able to resurrect the owner of this castle. This is because she once abandoned her position as Ishtar Bone and fell into a demon state with the help of the Demon King.
Lilith walked for a while and then stopped. She then looked back as if she couldn’t win.
“Is there anything else you want to say?”
“Are you really not going to accept the ring?”
“You’re persistent. If you ask and get silence, isn’t it normal to think it’s rejection?”
“You didn’t say it out loud. So, is this a rejection?”
Lilith blinked her eyes a few times. She then looked at the ground and sighed heavily. She finally looked up at the sky as if she was complaining.
“Let me ask. Why even mine?”
“I’m going to seriously apply for a relationship.”
“Don’t you think that suggestion itself is strange? I almost killed you twice.”
“And he slept with me twice. Once with Nidroga. Once with Sister Monica.”
“···Do you believe that you should take responsibility if you slept together? Do you also believe that birds bring babies?”
I took a step closer. Holding a ring mixed with black and purple.
Lilith took a step back.
“···You are out of your mind. You have become so deeply intertwined with the god Ishtar that your concept of love has been distorted.”
“It could be something like that.”
Tan shrugged her shoulders and took a few steps closer. Lilith was disgusted and took a few steps back.
“How would you feel if you were rejected by Eshen or Monica?”
“Hmm? I probably cried a lot. I probably felt like I wanted to die.”
“If I refuse, are you going to cry or scream and say you’re going to die? I’m not that bad, right?”
“Well, that’s a very delicate issue.”
“Be nice to those who would die without you. Not to women who have nothing to do with you anymore!”
I continued to approach. When her back hit the railing, Lilith, who had nowhere else to retreat, made a frustrated expression. A bit forced.
I’m not a master of the chase, and if I really don’t like it, I can just walk off to the side. But what is that attitude of reluctantly stopping?
If you hold her fingertips as if asking for her permission, Ishtar’s power penetrates her nerves and forcibly reveals her intentions.
While accompanying her on her long journey, Lilith felt some kind of emotion from my personality that she had looked into. The memory of her first loss was so deeply imprinted on her that it was a feeling she thought she would never feel again.
Thanks to her, Lilith was reminded of her buried wounds and stayed here for a long time, reflecting on her memories. She thought that, unlike the other lucky ones who were with me as a comrade rather than an adversary, she would not be chosen.
And then I came. Lilith enjoyed the visit. She liked my courtship. Her voice asking me to please take the ring, and the feel of an electric current flowing between her fingers. And she was trying hard to deny that fact.
Lilith, who realized that her inner thoughts had been read through the power she conveyed, blushed with a somewhat resentful expression.
Do you think I’ll miss it? A woman with a body comparable to Monica’s, such an insanely cute expression, and who even had feelings for me.
Perhaps I am not the first person to confess love in this castle. I will love you so much that I will overshadow you.
“This is why I hate it. Ishtar’s ways.”
“Do whatever you want. I will love you as much as I can as long as I live.”
“···Are you confident?”
“It’s more than that. I know it can be done.”
Lilith glared at the sky again and frowned as if she were resentful.
Then she folded her other fingers and held out only her ring finger to me, as if she were swearing. I grinned.
“Thank you. And I love you. Lilith Ishtarbon.”
“Okay, put it on quickly. Don’t waste time making unfamiliar noises.”
Lilith has to be this harsh.
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···Are they also the type to be this harsh?
“I knew you would come. How have you been?”
“Hehe, it’s hard to say I’m doing well right now. I feel like I’m going to die from the blood rushing to my head.”
“Haha, the man who survived from the jaws of a demon is going to kill me very harshly.”
Rhenias Tallah squatted down and smiled face to face with her.
I was caught in the rope trap of the Elan forest guards, my ankles tied, and I was hanging upside down and grinning.
I looked on the left side of Lennie’s coolly shaved hair.
“Why are you so focused on me when I haven’t seen you?”
“This is the best hair I’ve ever had in my life. I’ve been growing it out for this. Do you want to go back?”
“Are you going to grow the cut side back? If you say, ‘It’s going to be really awkward because the balance between the two sides isn’t right,’ you’re going to get hit, right?”
“That’s fascinating. I saved the hair I cut to make a necklace later. If you want to strangle yourself with it, just keep going.”
I like this tense chemistry. Leni, who was always smiling, suddenly stiffened her face and pinched my chin with her finger.
“Our porter, who still has a usable top, didn’t you hear? Don’t even come near the Elan.”
“Uncle Aleister said he would kill me if he came to me, but when I met him, he was really happy.”
“Let’s get rid of lies that we don’t believe. If it was a joke, it was pretty funny.”
“Would you like to tell me one more joke that you won’t believe? Actually, I don’t love you, Lennie. I don’t have your ring.”
Leni moved her fingers and pinched the bridge of her nose. It hurts a little. I spoke with a nose-blind sound.
“Do you think I would reveal the location of the ring if I tortured her like this? I would never tell her that she had it in her left pocket under her coat.”
“It may upset me to say this, but I have already set a date to get married soon.”
“With me.”
The window of the carriage parked on the side of the road was opened. Former Grassroots Guardian and current Eternal Queen Ebenenyar has appeared.
Side face only. It seemed like he wasn’t even looking at me.
They both raised their hands at the same time and showed the ring finger of their left hand, which already had a silver ring on it.
“So shut up.”
“I came to know.”
“···You crazy bastard.”
Although Nenya was shocked, she never looked at me. Leni said, shaking her head.
“You may be heartbroken, Tan. No matter how attractive you are and how good you are at night, there is no way every woman who passes by you will accept a formal relationship. That is impossible even if you are the most powerful person or handsome man in the world.”
It breaks my heart, but it is true. Lenny shrugged her shoulders.
“Thanks to our once-divided nature, we have become closer together. Thanks to our past adventures, we have gained a common goal. We will crush the remnants of the Senate who are trying to suppress mixed race people, and build a world where no one feels sad about their lack of bloodline. That’s it.”
“I heard from Rod. I heard that the atmosphere of Elan has changed a lot these days.”
“That’s it. Now, many people face each other’s character, not their lifespan. With many grudges settled, the possibility of moving forward as a true family and brother and sister has opened up between the Great Elan and the Little Elan. Also, the deadline for the day when everyone dies I am able to love regardless of circumstances. I owe it to you in many ways.”
“That’s a very happy thing. In that sense, would you please accept a ring?”
“You don’t necessarily have to express this gratitude by becoming your concubine. I’m a rather ambitious person. I can never fit into someone else’s tail. Furthermore, I can put a plug in Nenya’s tail.”
“What-“
“Oh, I turned around.”
When Lenny and I smiled brightly and shook her hand, Nenya, who had turned her head in frustration, sighed. And then she returned her head to its original position with a condescending expression.
“With that in mind, I’ll just go home.”
“That’s right.”
Leni grinned and looked back at Nenya. Then she turned her head to me again with meaningful eyes, and gently held out her hand.
“Handshake.”
“Why shake hands?”
“A handshake of friendship before sending it back.”
Since I was hanging upside down, I held my hands together and shook them a little awkwardly.
And through the power of the goddess, I learned their true intentions. I widened my eyes and pointed to my lower body. Leni shrugged her shoulders again.
I looked straight at Nenya and shouted loudly.
“Then, you two can come and borrow it sometimes! In fact, you can often come.”
Nenya jumped up in her chair as if in a fit, stuck her head out the window and looked in all directions around her. As if they were worried that someone would hear.
“Did you say to Lennie, ‘I’m willing to join you when you two are together’? I’m welcome. Even if it’s just like that, I’ll completely melt your two hearts. The love triangle isn’t over yet! Be prepared!”
As Lennie giggled, her face turned red, and she threw a cushion in her carriage at Lennie.
“Why did you say that on purpose and then sit down?”
“It’s because I had such a disappointing experience trying to end it like this, Nenya. In fact, wasn’t that why you wanted bigger and bigger tools?”
“Hey!”
I left Elan under the guidance of the forest guards. The two people, who were about to get engaged, waved me off and asked me to tell Thena that they would return to the party.
With my ring on my right ring finger.
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“Hey!”
The voice, which is much louder than Nenya’s, contains endless anger.
And her strength is much stronger than that of Nenya. I just grabbed him by the collar and shook him once, and my neck almost broke. I looked back at Shin Gyo-ju with a request in my eyes to save him, and my father-in-law shook his head with a pitiful expression.
Garam Taiga kicked me in the stomach and knocked me down. And then he suddenly threw it into the lake. Just as the world was turning upside down and water was filling my throat, Garam grabbed me by the collar, pulled me out of the water, shook me again, and said.
“Why! Why! Why?!”
“Cough, wait a minute-“
“Why am I the last one! You bastard!
“Yes… Your closing training is not over yet…”
“I’m dying!”
I flew up into the sky again. As I was about to give up my situation and smile, a thought suddenly occurred to me.
After all, a harem is not something to create.
