Chapter 956 – 956. Blood Curse (5)
“What do you think? “What was your first experience with a man other than Lexus?”
“It was the worst.”
On the bed, Lennie, who was wearing nothing, shed tears.
It was literally the worst experience.
Do I have to repeat this over and over again for a week?
It was so terrible.
But still.
‘For Lexus…’
Lennie held out, saying he would endure this hellish time.
After such a terrible week, Lennie came out of the dark room.
“Go to the square. Then you can see him.”
“… ?”
Leni could not understand the king’s words as he left the dark room.
Not only did he point to a place called the square, but I didn’t even understand why he was telling me that, or what it meant.
But even so, Lenny was shaken by the prospect of meeting Lexus in just a week.
Joy and anticipation, but at the same time guilt for betraying him.
It felt like bugs were crawling all over my body.
It was the worst feeling to accept a man I didn’t love, but rather despised.
Will he be able to meet Lexus again and hug him in joy?
Lennie wasn’t sure about that.
‘Let’s just look at his face and quietly disappear in front of him.’
The body was already defiled.
Feeling guilty about betraying him, Lenny decided to quietly disappear from Lexus’s presence.
He thought that just by saving Lexus, he could comfort all of his emotions.
We headed towards the square the King mentioned.
“… ?”
The square was very crowded and noisy.
I thought there was some kind of festival-like event going on, but the atmosphere was too chaotic and dark for that to be true.
As we made our way through the crowded crowd towards the square, Lenny headed towards the center of the square.
“Ah…”
She sighed, not understanding the situation.
On the gallows installed in the center of the square.
The face of a dead man who had hanged himself came into Lennie’s field of vision.
The reason why I ran to see it as soon as I left the dark room of the royal palace because I wanted to see it so much was hanging on that gallows.
“Ahhh…”
The pitiful sighs turned into screams as soon as the situation was understood.
“Huh!?”
The people around him were startled by Lennie’s screams and distanced themselves from each other.
This was when he was trying to run towards Lexus, who was in a hurry to hang himself.
“Arrest him!”
Knights appeared from all directions as if they had been waiting and grabbed Lennie.
He roughly grabbed her arms and forced her to her knees, forcing her upper body to the floor.
Resisting the subduing of her knights, Lenny looked only at her above the gallows and howled.
“Lexus! Ah! No! “Lexus!”
She tried to resist fiercely, trying to somehow free her Lexus, but she was unable to withstand the force of most of the knights who were pressing down with their strength with the physical strength of a helpless woman.
Lenny was thrown into prison, as was Lexus first.
She lured Prince Laxus with a terrible trick and falsely accused him of being the mastermind behind her treason.
Lennie realized too late that she had been betrayed.
The king, who sacrificed himself to force her to swallow her sense of shame and betrayal, did not keep his promise.
Maybe the King had no intention of releasing Lexus from the beginning.
As a court wizard, she had a great reputation within the magic circle for her outstanding magical skills, but quickly fell under the stigma of being called a ‘witch.’
“That’s right if you do that.”
“Dirty bitch.”
Many of her wizards laughed at her for her imprisonment and condemned her.
And her body was raped by numerous knights and wizards.
Another terrible hell began to unfold.
Lennie’s hell began not only because her body was defiled by countless men.
That was just one of the reasons, but the biggest reason was that the person she loved who had supported her disappeared.
There is no Lexus.
Her own lover, whom she had longed to see and whom she had loved so much, was no longer in this world.
No. Her lover, Lexus, was still hanging coldly on the gallows.
“Lexus…”
Leni called her Lexus’ name several times, but she received no response to her call.
It would be better if I just died like this.
If I die, will I be able to see Lexus’ face again?
[Hmm, I came here because you begged me so much. The situation is very bizarre, isn’t it?]
She was waiting for her death with a blank expression, getting closer to death with each passing day.
Someone’s voice came to Lennie.
I wasn’t sure if the expression ‘I heard it’ was the right expression.
The words spoken out loud were not what my ears heard.
It was a special way of communication, as if he was speaking directly to her own soul.
“Who… Nine… ?”
[Hmm?]
Eventually, the voice responded with surprise.
[Surely you can hear me?]
“… ?”
Lenny, who did not have the strength to get up, just rolled her eyes and searched for the identity of the voice that was communicating with her.
Eventually the voice spoke.
[Wait a minute, that hair of hers… No way?]
Recognizing Lennie’s identity, his voice burst into laughter as if he was very happy.
[Ha, haha, haha! How can this be… ! Right! Is this also the ‘guidance of the goddess’?]
The dark black light swarm grew bigger and bigger, showing off its presence.
The swarm of light passed through her bars and expanded in size before Leni.
The dark, ominous magical power gradually took shape, and a man wearing a robe appeared.
“You are… ?”
The man, who appeared in a translucent mental state, smiled and held out his hand to Lennie, wondering what was so fun.
[Nice to meet you. My name is Marius Horton. He is an apostle of God who attends the goddess.]
“… Goddess?”
It was something I couldn’t understand.
Goddess, Apostle of God.
Nothing he said made any sense to Lennie, who was falling further and further into the abyss of despair and becoming paralyzed.
She simply asked the man, who introduced himself as Marius, whatever came to mind.
“You are… Are you a priest of the Holy Kingdom of Erenia?”
[It was like that at one time. But the goddess I serve now is not Goddess Vesta.]
“What…”
Marius raised both his hands up and continued his speech with exaggerated gestures.
[It’s Medea, the goddess of death!]
“Death… Goddess?”
[And you seem to inherit the blood of the ‘witch’, the starting point of Medea?]
“… !”
Lennie was startled.
The ‘witch’s’ story about her origins that she had never told anyone, let alone her lover Lexus.
Marius only noticed her origins by the black hair that witches have and the special magic wavelength she possesses.
Marius burst into laughter at the sight of Lenny starting to catch herself off guard, like a beast, the hairs on her whole body standing on end.
[Don’t be so nervous. I came here to help you.]
“… “How did you know me and come here?”
Until just now, Marius came here not only without knowing his identity, but without even knowing the details of his situation.
As if someone had forcibly led me there.
[Your lover asked me for help.]
“… Yes?”
[Actually, you didn’t ask me for help. He was looking for a special being who could see him.]
Her own lover.
There was only one person that came to mind when Marius spoke.
Lenny immediately came to her senses.
She looked around her with one mind, looking for his invisible figure, just in case.
Just by any chance, if his soul, who had already died, was here.
Leni asked Marius with all her earnest heart.
“He… Are you here… ?”
[Yes.]
Marius laughed and explained to Lenny how desperately Lexus was asking for help.
The square where the gallows where his head was hung was a place where many people passed by, but not a single person could feel, see, or hear Lexus’ presence.
Even if there was one, who could save the woman who was imprisoned by the royal family’s orders?
But even so, Laxus desperately tried to save Lenny, and with only her soul remaining in her mental body, she searched for a being who could ask for help.
[He said he heard everything you did to save him from his father.]
“Ah…”
Lennie’s face quickly hardened into despair.
Laxus knew of her atrocity in betraying him, which she never wanted to be found out about.
The King spoke to Lexus.
It’s all your fault.
Your status, your life, even the woman you loved.
It’s all your fault that you couldn’t keep them all.
He is powerless and an incompetent person who cannot do anything if the things I gave him are taken away.
The result of his stubbornness and stubbornness to carry out his frail will without bending to himself.
It’s all your fault.
The words.
“Sorry… Sorry… Yo. This. Mi… I don’t. Sorry… Do. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.”
Time and time again, Lenny apologized to Lexus for betraying him.
[Haha, don’t be so discouraged. Because he did not give up on you.]
If I had given up, I wouldn’t have found Marius and brought him here.
“…”
Lennie’s eyes, which had been stained with despair, quickly began to come to life.
It was not a brilliant, shining vitality.
Venomous eyes filled with hatred and anger toward this unreasonable reality, filled with black, cloudy energy.
[Hmm, you have very nice eyes.]
Marius really liked her expression.
“… “I want to ask you something.”
[What?]
“Now he too… “Do you feel the same way as me?”
[Tsk, I don’t know what you’re talking about.]
“I know very well that I don’t deserve this. Lexus. But… If you want… Please give me one more chance. And if you feel the same way as me, please lend me your strength.”
At that time, someone answered Lennie’s heart.
[Lenny. Let’s be together this time. Whatever it is.]
It was the voice of my beloved lover that I had longed to hear.
Lenny, who had not eaten anything for several days and was so thin that all she could see was her bones and skin, slowly raised her body.
Haha! Haha! It’s truly a masterpiece! Very fun!]
“… “Is it fun?”
Lennie asked.
This was because she was irritated that the terrible reality that she and Lexus had experienced was nothing more than entertainment for him.
[Hmm? Oh my, I misunderstood you. Apologize politely. My pleasure is due to the consideration you and your lover have for each other. I felt that human emotions are truly amazing. Tsk tsk.]
In particular, the feeling of love was truly great.
Sometimes, human logic does not work, and the results of actions taken solely for the sake of each other, without understanding the pros and cons, overturn the logic.
That is why human emotions are a noble light that shines so profoundly and brilliantly.
I, too, had met a woman who was as noble and brilliant as that light.
She is a woman who struggles to save the people caught up in the disaster amidst the disaster she created.
She was a woman who inherited and used the power of a special being called Shinsoo.
Marius felt her love for him.
That’s why she was so moved by the story of Lenny and Lexus.
The reason I became interested in them and came here was because I was interested in that feeling of love.
Lennie stared at the ghost-like man for a moment as he politely apologized, then accepted his apology.
“… “I have a favor to ask.”
[Hmm, I’d like to help you too, but I can’t be of much help to you right now. I’m recuperating because I overexerted myself recently.]
When he attacked the Holy Kingdom of Erenia alone and encountered Anies, the clone he had created in advance disappeared and suffered a serious blow.
Not only was her double body damaged, but part of her soul itself suffered significant damage due to her immense divinity, so Marius was currently unable to go to the front.
“Then wouldn’t it be possible to secretly move Lexus’ body here?”
[That much is possible. But bringing him back to life…]
“I will take care of that. “Because you’re not the only one who can use black magic.”
[Hoo.]
If you think about it, Leni, a descendant of a witch clan, was a more expert in the field of black magic than Marius, who was just an ordinary priest.
Leni, who had already made up her mind, planned to use the secret arts and magic that she had originally possessed, but had never displayed since she became a court wizard.
Among them, curses specialize in scattering disasters and taking lives.
Unlike Marius, who only received knowledge from Medea, Lenny is an orthodox wizard who officially inherited the field.
Marius was happy and brought Laxus’ body from the dawn square where no one came and went and moved it in front of Lenny’s prison.
[Let me support your future. My new friend.]
