Episode 7
Elisha didn't know whether to panic at the blood smearing on the floor of the marble bathtub, or at the sight of a penis as big as a bat in Lucerne's hand.
Taktak. An obscene sound came from his grip.
'Now this person……. Was he masturbating to a dead body?'
* * *
That was Elisha's big misunderstanding.
The body was not even in Lucerne's eyes. He was masturbating while thinking of Elisha. But then the culprit walked into the room. Even without a sound.
Lucerne did not blink an eye at this absurd situation. He was rather offended. Because I thought that someone made a plate.
“What kind of operation is this?”
Seeing Elisha, Lucerne muttered. He wasn't upset at all.
Elisha was wearing a ripped nightgown, with Lucerne's cloak draped over her shoulders.
It was torn so coolly that I could see all the underwear underneath the skirt. Lucerne extinguished his cigarette by rubbing it against the wall. He picked up his gown and strode toward Elisha, brushing his hair.
“Excuse me, I…….”
She was staring at Lucerne, frozen like a herbivore.
'It's that maid of the day.'
“…….”
“What is going on here?”
Contempt flashed in Lucerne's eyes.
“I'm…….”
Elisha's lips softened.
“Ugh!”
* * *
Lucerne grabbed Elisha by the neck and pushed her against the wall. His hands were so big that even Elisha's lower jaw was in Lucerne's grasp. The pure white neck trembled beyond Lucerne's large grip.
“Did Carola tell you to slip into my room privately tonight, since I seem to lust after you, or Jacob?”
“It is not……. I'm…….”
“You train spies pretty well now. How did you come in so silently? Or was it just a double operation with him?”
Lucerne's gaze scanned Elisha's whole body.
“Hey. If you want to take it off, take it off all the way.”
Lucerne placed Elisha's body. A crimson cloak flowed over her shoulders. Lucerne's face was covered with contempt and lust. Elisha's whole body trembled.
“I'm. My name is Elisha.”
Elisha barely uttered those words.
“If I were your lower half, why would I need to know your name?”
Lucerne said in a tone that even softened. But there was a sneer in his red eyes.
Elisha shut her mouth.
“Where did you get something like this vivid? It looks really frightened.”
Lucerne muttered.
Elisha tries to stay calm, and she purses her lips in silence. That patient appearance further stimulated Lucerne's appetite for music.
“I didn't come because someone ordered me to.”
Said Elisha, pressed against her wall.
“I have something to tell you. Very important, that…….”
“Then?”
“To tell you the story of the transaction.”
Lucerne looked over at Elisha.
“In this outfit?”
“…….”
“Important thing, what. Are you chewing?”
Huck, Elisha swallowed her breath.
“I came here doing this, but how could something else be the main topic?”
Lucerne's big hand lifted her chin. Elisha did not avoid her trembling eyes. Lucerne could not understand himself like that.
'Now that I see it, its eyes are the problem.'
The eyes were the problem. Eyes with predictable beauty caused an unexpected chemical reaction. This woman seldom aroused his lust.
'It couldn't have been?'
'When you see a woman and get excited, you are rebelling against God. Hey, bring the whip.'
At the same time, unpleasant memories of her whizzed back through his mind. Lucerne laid her eyes on Elisha's full chest. Her eyes of suspicion and lust lingered on her chest raised above her old bustier.
Elisha bit her lip once and let go.
“I have brought information that the general will never lose. I'm not here for Jacob or Carola. Rather, I came to take the side of the former general.”
“Convince me. Give me 30 seconds.”
Lucerne said nonchalantly. His eyes looked as if they would tear all of her clothes at any moment.
“I want to help tear Jacob apart and kill him.”
Elisha's expression seemed to be out of breath.
“Did Jacob make you do that? Of all the spies I've ever sent, you're the worst.”
Upon hearing those words, Lucerne's lower body began to stand up again. Lucerne was now looking at Elisha's bare thighs.
“You did the right thing this time. By the way…….”
Lucerne's hand pulled up Elisha's nightgown. The girdle was so thin that even the color of her body hair could be seen through under the soft light.
“I wore something like this while writing a beauty pageant. It is the poorest temptation I have ever seen.”
Elisha's cheeks turned red. Of course, the girdle she wore even had a slight tip.
“No, I came on my own, so, to find a way to live…….”
“Is your lifespan my dick?”
“…….”
Lucerne smiled.
“Yes, I did find something to wash.”
“Then make a deal!”
“I don't do that with a woman's body. I don't know if I'll just have it.”
Lucerne slowly began to lose interest. He looked at her How do I get rid of this, tear it to death? Between murderous intent and mercy, he pondered for a moment.
At that time, Elisha grabbed Lucerne's arm.
“I…….”
“…….”
“You know how to be the head of household.”
Lucerne's action stopped.
“There is nothing like that in the world.”
Lucerne's mother was a lowly citizen. She and she, the youngest son of the head of the household, ran away with his father. In the end, both the man and the woman who escaped love came back as corpses. If Lucerne's mother had become only a fallen aristocrat, she would have been able to use numbers, but if she was a lowly citizen, there was no way.
A son of a low class could never become the head of a ducal family.
“There is such a way. I know a lot of secret information about this family. Especially, a lot about Jacob. Based on that information, I can give you some advice.”
Lucerne is so strange that monkeys speak human words. I looked at Elisha with that expression. It wasn't that he was ignoring Elisha. He thought of Jacob as a brute, because he wondered if he was capable of such a strategy.
“And, I also know information about your mother. About the circumstances of her mother's death.”
Elisha gradually confirmed her composure as Lucerne seemed to be paying attention to her own words.
“Do whatever you want.”
“…….”
“If you want to commit a crime, you are welcome. But if you don't listen to me, you will regret it. I swear on my life.”
The embarrassment disappeared from Elisha's face and a calm expression gradually returned. With Lucerne holding her by the scruff of her neck, Elisha, who quietly blinked at her, was like a doll.
“How can I believe that?”
Lucerne's red eyes shimmered. Elisha closed her eyes and opened them. And she sighed slowly.
“My dear Aires, from the time you were born in the womb until now, we have called you a tree. I am very lowly and secretive. I had to hide the fact that you're growing in my stomach. So my husband and I expressed that trees grow. One rainy day, because we were made under the Aires tree. And again, your birth name was Black Pearl. Because I had a dream in which a snake as black as a black pearl appeared…….”
Elisha trembled and spat out one word at a time until the end. Her face was calm, but she couldn't hide her tension, and tears welled up in her eyes. Lucerne covered Elisha's mouth.
“Stop it.”
He approached as if brushing against the tip of Elisha's nose and whispered.
“Who are you?”
The fact that his birth name was Black Pearl, and the thing about the Aires tree.
These were the words her dead mother had whispered in her ear in the shack where she hid him. It was a fact no one knew. The head of the household, and Jacob. Nobody in the world
“Where the hell did you hear this?”
Tears fell from Elisha's sea-blue eyes. Lucerne's hand slowly fell from her mouth.
* * *
'Jacob. Do you know what is the biggest reason why you are called the next head of household?'
'That's because I'm the eldest son of this family.'
'It is great that my sons died fighting over the succession of the family head because of my immorality. However, that's not the biggest reason. The reason I love you the most is.'
The old patriarch stretched out his hand and pointed at Jacob. His gaze was staring at someone far away, not here.
'Because Lucerne's mother is a lowly citizen. He would have been able to make it into the enemy if his mother wasn't the only one. If you become the family head, don't forget that virtue.'
Jacob returned that night like a raging bull, his ego badly wounded. He summoned Elisha, picked up on the little things, slapped her several times before stopping.
Elisha waited for Jacob to calm down, her mouth bleeding. Over his trembling shoulder, he could see Jacob smashing furniture to pieces. Elisha covered her ears and closed her eyes sobbing.
* * *
Elisha's memory stayed there.
Yes, the biggest reason why the succession of the head of the family leaned most heavily on Jacob was because of Lucerne's status. If Lucerne's status was equal, the family head would have put Lucerne on the balance too.
So when the hidden truth was revealed, Jacob was crushed. He got on all fours and approached Carola.
'If this is the case, Lucerne could become the family head. The secret we learned today must never be known to the world. Alas, Carola. If this fact is known, the empire and my grandfather will all take his side. At least until I become the head of household……. I can't give up this position. You can have all the wealth in this world. He must be an illegitimate child!'
'…….'
'Damn it, I know how many years the head of the household has been saying that! Uh?'
Jacob said convulsively. Carola comforted Jacob.
'Look at you, my dear. I burned all of that information like this. No one knows the truth anymore. Her only number is gone.'
'Oh my gosh. Maybe it could be like this It's a huge fact.'
The secret passage behind the painting 'Gaju' that Elisha found. It wasn't just Lucerne's room that led to that passage. It was also connected to Jacob's office.
After that, Elisha sometimes. On nights when she would be unnoticed, she slipped into secret passages and peeped at various things.
Elisha was hiding in her secret passage and peeking into Jacob's office. Even at that moment, she was repeating what she had learned.
My dear Aires…….
Fortunately for Elisha, her memory was good. She will remember this moment forever. And if Jacob wants to kill her, he will use it as her last resort.
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“Would you like to know more about your mother's death?”
Instead of answering, Lucerne lifted Elisha up.
“Ah!”
And she took Elisha to her bedroom. Bound by her firm arms, Elisha trembled like a doe in her captivity. Lucerne threw Elisha onto her bed.
“Take it off.”
He ordered very briefly.
