Chapter 409 – Ha-Ok (6)
The night in the basement is dark.
Even if I close my eyes, even if I open them, the basement is dark.
It has to be that way-.
Because there was only darkness here now.
Even the lantern, which was the only source of light, went out. It’s probably because the oil has burned out.
How would it feel to be trapped alone in a place like this?
You won’t know how much time has passed, and you won’t know if it’s morning or day, evening or dawn.
Instead of appeasing a hungry stomach, being left without a sip of water until your throat is dry, and your lips are cracked – how can a person endure?
If it had been him, he would have gone crazy by now, Adela thought.
“Big…”
She cleared her throat with a cough and took out her lamp that had been hidden under the width of her skirt.
Only then does the old darkness recede, and the curved stone steps of the basement become visible.
The sound of the heels of enamel shoes hitting the stone floor resonated in the quiet basement.
After going down the stairs, Adela carefully walked to the place where the man was trapped, muttering her footsteps.
“···.”
When I shine the light on her, I see Inyoung sitting against the wall with her head buried in her knees.
That look is so… It was shabby and small.
When I first met him, I just thought he was big and reliable…
Even compared to Adela, who was not short of height compared to other men, he was much taller. It was all about height and build.
It was around noon when the stinging sun hit my face.
While fetching her water, she experienced for the first time a shadow over her own face.
‘Please. I will carry it.’
He looked down at himself from above, smiled casually, held out his hand and took her bucket, as he always did.
The bucket she had struggled to lift seemed very light in his hands.
That alone was enough to make her delicate heart tremble as she had never experienced love.
After that, I could see him guiding his companions several times.
He often shouted at me as if my ears were going to explode, and sometimes he uttered unspeakable curses.
You bastard…! A six-year-old bastard without a mother and father…!
However, the listeners only try to correct the points out. There wasn’t a single person who expressed displeasure.
Everyone rolled around on the dirt floor, sweating, trying to correct their mistakes.
I thought that was really cool.
“···Phew.”
But what does he look like now?
He was just squatting in the corner of a cramped prison room, his body hanging helplessly like an old man waiting to die.
A feeling of pity wells up.
Of course, I had no intention of changing my attitude just because of that. Didn’t he decide to do that?
Adela’s expression hardened, and she pounded on the iron bars with the back of her hand.
“Get up.”
“···Hmm.”
A man raising his head shakily.
Adela quickly looked away at the greasy hair and black eyes seen through long eyelashes.
“I came to replace Sonya. Eat.”
After saying that while looking at his toes, he took out the snacks he had brought with him from the front door and pushed them over the iron bars.
It was a large loaf of wheat bread, a few pieces of dried fish, and water in a leather canteen.
However, rather than reaching out for her hand right away like before, the man just looked up at her with his hollow gaze.
“Eat. Come on.”
“···It’s dangerous. Why did you come?”
I suggested it again, and only then did the man respond.
The voice was cracked and muffled, and there was no sound at all.
“···I told you to hurry up and eat it?”
The man was silent for a moment, then turned his head to the side. Long hair completely covered his face. And then there is no movement.
Adela screamed in frustration.
“Why on earth is this happening? Eat it? You have to eat anything to gain strength…! “What are we going to do in the jousting competition?”
The answer did not come until a long time later.
It was a very small voice, barely audible.
“It won’t work anyway.”
“What is that…!”
The man sighed softly and explained.
In the early morning, after Sonya, who was bringing food, was caught by Lord Sarah, she was said to have been beaten in the name of mental education.
I was startled and looked at the light – just as he said, my arms and legs were covered in blue bruises.
But Seojun continued, saying that wasn’t important.
Lord Sera said with a grin.
The Knights of Dawn will be put into the jousting tournament -.
Adela swallowed her sleep at those words.
The Knight of Dawn was a powerful person who competed for supremacy even within the Golden Knights.
From what I heard, it was said that it was comparable to the Imperial Knights, so even though Adella, who was only a maid, had no way of knowing for sure, I thought it would be a very difficult opponent for Seojun to defeat.
His despair is understandable.
“···Well, that doesn’t mean you want to give up, does it?”
“···.”
The man had no answer.
His head was still turned to the side, and his face was still not visible.
Adela bit her lip. For some reason, a fire rises inside me.
“It’s not like you.”
His shoulders shake slightly at those words.
“I can win. No, you will win.”
“···How can you be sure of that?”
The man asks in a low voice.
Adela felt a slight tremor in that voice. Is it fear, or hesitation?
“The Knight of Dawn is not everything. “Other guys will only target me.”
I heard that he defeated a certain knight in Dalian.
And the fact that the knights are worried about that.
It was clear how they would come out with their pride hurt. They will try to oust this man somehow.
“···No, you can do it. “You.”
When she firmly shakes her head in denial, only then does he raise his head.
There was no hope whatsoever in his swarthy face. The black discolored under the eyes, the half-closed eyelids, and the black eyes beyond them seemed to be sucking in all the light.
She can’t see the original person she knew.
The sight of him casually teasing her, kissing her, and stroking her was everywhere.
That makes me angry.
“You can win…! So eat! Eat and wake up! “Get up and fight…!”
Adela screamed.
So that the basement resonates – so that Seojun’s spirit wakes up.
“… I will listen from above.”
“Either it or not.”
He chuckles at the words he blurted out. I couldn’t be happier with those weakly raised corners of my mouth.
The man slowly shook his head.
Then, he tried to get up from his seat with his hands on the floor, but he stumbled as if he lost strength.
“···Feed me.”
Adela blushed and nodded her head.
He knelt down in front of the bars. She didn’t care even if the sediment on the floor wetted the hem of her skirt.
I unfolded the wrapper and took out a piece of bread.
The man who came close stuck his head through the bars and opened his mouth.
He tore the bread into small pieces with his fingertips and put it in his mouth.
When I felt thirsty, I opened the canteen, poured some carefully, and then tore a piece of bread again.
Until there wasn’t even any flour left in the large loaf of bread. Until the last drop in the canteen. I carefully poured it all into his mouth.
After they finished eating, an awkward silence continued between the two.
Then suddenly, he said.
“Kiss me.”
With bread crumbs around his mouth.
Adela clenched her fists.
But the worries were short-lived. He nodded and kissed his lips.
Side-
Although it was very short, Adela felt like her heart was beating much harder than before.
“Again.”
“···.”
Side-
As soon as he kissed her, he grabbed her cheek.
And then he greedily wants her lips and tongue.
“Town···! Pahaa…! “Stop it…!”
Adela barely managed to push him off the chest with all her strength.
A long thread of saliva hung between the lips of the two people. I quickly wiped my mouth with my sleeve and jumped up from my seat.
I can feel a little bit of life in his eyes as he looks at me with regret.
“Are you coming again?”
As he asked, Adela shook her head.
“… As long as you don’t die.”
Covering her lamp again with the width of her skirt, she carefully climbed the stairs.
I felt his eyes on my back.
“`
[Why are you filming a movie, Mr. Bongsae haha]
[Kkkk]
[If this bastard was holding on to your daughter until now and then pretending to be pitiful in the world, it’s disgusting, then you’re screwed.]
[First, let me start haha]
[That’s it, Sera, fuck that bitch, you bitch, and tell me to rape you]
[But how can Seo Joo or the Knight of Dawn really win? Haha,]
[ㄹㅇㅋㅋ With my current abilities, I won’t be able to beat Seojunissuke even if I come here.]
[Does this mean bastard look like he’s wearing hot pants? There must be a way haha]
[Eunuch: Haha, look forward to it, brothers haha]
[If it’s not fun, it’s a disaster]
[Disaster fund-raising~]
[Eunuch: ㅈㅅㅈㅅ;;]
