Chapter 65 – 065. Encounter With the Devil (1)
Because it was caught sneaking out of the court earlier and asking Illyana and Eunhyeon to rescue Yuria, it was a situation where no one was allowed to see anyone because of strict security with Yuria, who had run away from home inside the palace using that as an excuse.
She was Illyana, who once tried to demand the release of Eun-hyeon from Helena Hubei in exchange for Eun-hyeon’s help, but she was not allowed to enter the palace itself in the first place.
The current situation of being in de facto confinement was the result of Queen Diane’s measures close to containment, but it was Illyana who was experiencing inconvenience.
Upon hearing the news that Eun-hyeon had been arrested and detained by the Royal Guard Knights, Illyana immediately went to the court and made the point that she was Eun-hyeon’s identity guarantor, and tried to meet Eun-hyeon, but her request was beautifully rejected.
Her identity was guaranteed by all wizards on the continent, but she refused Illyana’s request with the excuse that she was not a citizen of this kingdom and that she was a foreigner.
Normally, she said she would do anything as long as I stayed in Pernin, but whenever she begged me to build a magic library and take the position, now, with absurd logic, she refused her request. .
As long as she actually had authority, Illyana couldn’t do anything special, so she came looking for Riod like this.
“Dog-like fucks. What? Accept the title and become a noble of Pernias? So, is identity assurance possible? At times like this, she even sat there talking like that? Ha, I’m really dumbfounded. I barely endured trying to burn down the entire palace.”
Although she is usually very sluggish and bothered by everything, once she starts to ignite the fuse of her emotions, she can’t control the emotions.
So she poured out all the words she had accumulated to Leod, and she regained her composure to a certain extent, and Illyana felt that her reaction from Riod was not as cool as she thought.
Then, a few days ago, she recalls that the duke of this country, Avros Armitas, and three people of this strange combination, Rio de and Eun-hyeon, had a drink together.
Remembering that Eun-hyeon was to help her investigate the aristocratic raid in the capital, Illyana narrowed her eyes and glared at Riod.
“You… Did you know it would turn out like this?”
“No.”
“Then? Why are you so calm?”
Rio de values Eun-hyeon as much as Illyana.
As I said before, if Eun-hyeon wants to, even cut off the head of the king of this country and bring it to the offering. Riode questions Eun-hyeon’s actions and choices, but does not doubt his actions.
People in the world evaluate Riod as a knight among knights who swear allegiance to the royal family, but no one but his family and colleagues at the time would know that the target of his loyalty is not the kingdom, but only one person, Eun-hyeon.
“He was imprisoned, but you say you’re still? It’s nonsense. What. What were you guys up to! Blow right now!”
He had guessed from before that Eunhyeon was hiding something from him and plotting something together with Leo De, but Eunhyeon wanted to hide it, so he didn’t bother to ask.
But Illyana, who thought she should know now, glared fiercely at Riod and waited for her to open her mouth.
“I didn’t plan to go to jail. Something must have gone wrong.”
“What was your original plan?”
“Deliberately being captured by a succubus and discovering the purpose of that demon.”
“A succubus? That… A demon that steals stamina from a man’s body?”
“Yes.”
“Routine… I hope Hyuni’s regularity… ?”
Imagining something of her, Illyana began to pale her complexion.
“Oh, no…”
“What?”
“No! Whoever wants, it’s all mine… ! Town!”
Illyana, who didn’t even realize what she was talking about, panicked and hurriedly covered her mouth.
“…”
When Riod, who watched her strange behavior, glared at her with his eyes narrowed, Illyana slightly averted her gaze and cleared her throat.
“Heh, hehe! So? Tell me in detail Everything from start to finish.”
“Eunhyeon knew from the beginning that she was the work of the devil. She just didn’t come forward.”
“Okay. He always does.”
“Since then, she has come out of Eunhyun’s side and proposed to Duke Armitas.”
“Huh?”
Unexpectedly, at her words, Illyana tilted her head.
Even when an incident occurred, Eunhyeon was not the type to take the lead and solve it herself.
Even if she solved it, she was the type to handle things quietly so that she would not reveal her identity by asking for a favor or working behind the scenes without anyone noticing.
However, she had the impression that it was unexpected that this time, Eun-hyeon was actively leading the solution of her case.
What kind of change of heart was there?
“Hyun, what is he thinking about again…”
Illyana let out a sigh as she pictured the face of Eunhyun who wasn’t here in her mind.
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The crackling sound of burning firewood rang in my ears.
Her consciousness awakened and Eun-hyeon opened her closed eyes and stared into the empty space as she lay still.
The day was bright, but it was early in the morning, before the sun had yet risen.
Tuck, Tuck, Tuck
“Oh? Did I wake you up?”
“No. I just woke up earlier than usual.”
Eun-hyeon, who got up in her sleeping bag, stretched him and greeted the morning a little earlier than usual.
“What are you doing?”
“Huh? Oh, that’s…”
Holding her kitchen knife and placing the vegetables on the cutting board, the hesitant woman hesitated in confusion at Eunhyun’s words.
The sharp, long, beautiful ears of a woman with a childlike expression of shameful behavior were burning bright red.
“This, human cooking is something difficult… I always wanted to cook for Hyun-i because he always gave me food…”
Her hand holding the knife, which she was holding for the first time, showed an awkward look, and the shapes of the vegetables trimmed with the knife were all irregular and strange, representing her sloppy skills.
Perhaps because her appearance was so fresh and cute, Eun-hyeon approached her, saying that she had seen good things since the morning, and thanking the sky for her.
“Uh… ?”
“You don’t have to grip the cleaver that tightly.”
She took her hand as she gave her advice.
“Ah…”
The woman was surprised to see Eunhyun’s hand holding her kitchen knife and holding her own right hand.
“Hold the sword like this, her hand against hers, wrapped so that her fingers were not visible.”
As soon as she took the form of holding her hands and teaching her directly, Eun-hyeon suddenly became the posture of hugging the woman.
“Slowly, with regular rhythm.”
Listening to Eun-hyeon’s voice whispering in her own ear from behind her back, the woman absentmindedly moved her knife as Eun-hyeon’s hand guided her, cutting her vegetables.
“Isn’t it easy?”
“Yes. It’s easy…”
“You don’t have to cook, though. ‘Elves’ don’t have the concept of cooking in the first place.”
“It is not… But Hyuni’s cooking is delicious.”
Sylvia, the elf who is traveling with Eunhyun while smiling bitterly, shook her head at Eunhyun’s comfort.
In the first place, in the culture of the elves, the concept of cooking does not exist, as Eunhyeon said.
This is because they are beings who love nature as it is, and there is no method of roasting something or seasoning it with seasonings.
In a different sense from Eunhyeon, for the elves who live a life close to the eternal life of an old man, food is only a consumable item to supply nutrients to the body, and they do not seek pleasure from it.
They did not prefer to kill and eat living creatures, so they did not eat meat or fish, and all they ate were fruits, plants, roots and vegetables from which toxins were removed.
That’s why it was a very unexpected choice for Sylvia to challenge herself to cook an awkward human dish.
“Thank you for your heart, sister, but I’m fine. Now, let’s hurry up and get ready in the morning, shall we?”
“Yes, then.”
Returning to her original role, while Eun-hyeon prepares a simple breakfast using outdoor cooking utensils, Sylvia organizes her bed and sleeping bag, and packs her things so that she can move immediately after the meal.
The human and elf companionship, which was awkward at first, lasted for several weeks, and the two of them got used to each other without communication, faithfully fulfilling each other’s roles and preparing for a smooth trip.
“Hyun is really amazing. She wasn’t too surprised to see an elf. Have you ever met your own people?”
Another racial name for elves is ‘fairies’.
Closed elves, who spend more than a thousand years in a dense forest wider than a country, and have no relationship with other races, are a race that has remained only as a legend because there are no eyewitness stories among humans.
Even if there is a situation where they go out to the world where humans live, they wear artifacts that change their appearance to look like humans, so recognizing elves who don’t stay in a place in the world for a long time is difficult for humans who have never witnessed elves. It wasn’t easy to spot their camouflage.
“Inwardly, I was very surprised.”
“Lie, do you know what your expression looked like when I first saw you? ‘Yes, an elf,’ she said just once, and how hard her face was, so you thought you were talking to a tree?”
While eating a simple breakfast, we had a good time laughing and chatting with each other.
“Should we break up when we arrive at the ‘City of the Moon’?”
“I guess so.”
“No… I want to live while eating the rice that Hyuni cooks for the rest of my life. Can’t you just live with me?”
“There is no way the other elves will leave it alone. I am human.”
“Hmm, I can convince you well.”
“It’s still a long way off, so let’s think about it slowly.”
“Blood… Okay.”
Eunhyeon smiled at Sylvia, who made a sad sound, and imagined her life living with Sylvia after settling in the elf village.
If he hadn’t been an ‘Apostle of God’, he might have accepted Sylvia’s offer.
The existence of a female elf named Sylvia had a large place in Eun-hyeon’s mind to the extent that no woman he had ever seen could compare.
But, convincing herself that she shouldn’t be like that, Eun-hyeon sets her foot on her journey to the World Tree.
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“Eww…”
Erin shivered as the cold wind crept into her own body on her hard floor.
“What, that memory… Hyun and a very pretty person… Hot!”
Awakening holding onto her slowly awakening consciousness, Erin muttered as she recalled her vague dream memories, realizing that her wrists were still tied and her springs bouncing. Lifted her body up.
“Uh… ?”
When she came to her senses and became aware of her surroundings, she realized that the place she was in was a prison.
“What the hell happened… ?”
She remembered being assaulted one-sidedly by Ashton and something about her coming into her head and talking to her, but after that she couldn’t remember anything, so she wondered why. I couldn’t understand why I was trapped here.
“You woke up.”
When she couldn’t clear her confused mind, Erin heard a familiar voice from a man in the corner and turned her head in the direction she heard her voice.
And as soon as the owner of the voice confirmed that she was the man she thought she was, she cried out in a man’s voice.
“Hyunah! Uh… ?”
And when she sees Eun-hyeon’s condition, she is surprised once more.
Her one eye was so swollen that it was difficult to open, the blue bruises visible through the torn clothes here and there, and the state where she was restrained with her handcuffs with her arms behind her back like Erin.
Besides, his whole body, which had been so emaciated and was so dry, couldn’t be said to be in a good condition.
It was the work of the divine beast that dwelled in Erin’s body that sucked out all the magic and spirit in his body, but Erin, who had her consciousness taken away and control of her body robbed, was unaware of anything.
Erin asked Eunhyeon in a trembling voice.
“Your face… What happened… ?”
“It just happened.”
“What the hell is going on…”
What the hell had happened, was his face badly damaged and swollen?
The situation is not properly grasped.
‘I was hit by that man then and I lost consciousness… Who was the woman who spoke to my mind then?’
The feeling of having someone invade your head and push you away.
Erin frowns as she recalls her memory of an unknown sensation she has never felt and helplessly unable to resist.
While Erin couldn’t keep up with the change in her situation and was making a confused expression on her face, Eun-hyeon hid Erin behind herself.
‘Article… ?’
Erin stared at the knights in front, and she realized that she and Eunhyeon were imprisoned in prison.
“Okay, let’s continue talking. So my suggestion. Will you accept Will you stop?”
