Chapter 5 (1/2)

“This is Karein.”

After confirming that our life depended on each other, Abel introduced me to his aide. As soon as I saw him,I grabbed my heart without knowing.

Karein.

He is a handsome man with an impressive atmosphere with slightly long black hair.

Lucia’s male interest No.2.  At first glance, he was Abel’s faithful companion and close friend, but he was a celestial deity from Luce, the hometown of Solar, and was currently attached to him as a spy to rescue Assand who was sealed.

He steadily sends information to Luce and when Abel joins Apocalypse and fails to attempt to get rid of the leader, Dark Lord. He was branded as a traitor and barely ran away, but was barely saved by the female lead and fell in love with her.

As if announcing his unstable future, Karein’s red thread that was connected to his heart was quite thick.

“Why do you look at me like that?”

No. Never mind. I laughed awkwardly. At the first meeting, it seemed strange to stare at his chest without looking at his eyes.

Karein was the first to die among the male leads. Even if he’s not a villain. He was guilty of looking at the woman of his master, Asand, with such eyes, and was a submissive man who gave his life to protect the female lead in danger.

‘Please be my first and last.’

Kya, it may be a cheesy line, but he was a pure hearted man, who was sorrowful for being a guard soldier. If there was a favorite, he was my favorite. I don’t know if it’s because he died first, but it was even better than the male lead Asand.

While I was thinking about Karein, who had no idea what I was thinking about, faithfully introducing me to the temple at Abel’s command.

“This is the room where Lian will be staying. If you have any inconvenience, please feel free to let me know.”

How good-looking is the black hair that has been slightly messy. He’s hiding it now, but how cool would it be if he spread the white wings unique to a heavenly god?

I was gazing at him unknowingly, but I turned back in a flash at a touch. It was Abel dressed in black armor with no reflected light.

“Oh, damn. It’s annoying when you smell humans any time.”

What does it mean, the human smell? Is that racial discrimination remark?  As I frowned my eyes, Abel, who I had seen after half a day, looked at me strangely and pointed out where his wings are. I couldn’t see well because of the blackness, but it was clear that the messy entanglement of the red thread was a serious wound.

“Follow me.”

He breathed a sigh and hurriedly went into his room.

He thinks I’m his first aid kit! If you take off this red thread, I will kill you!

I tried to place my middle finger on his back but I folded my fingers, frightened at the fact that there was Karein behind me. As our eyes met, Karein smiled softly, pretending not to know, and said.

“He is not a bad person if you look at him.”

It was a line a vassal would say a hundred times over, but there was no light in his glanced eyes. Suddenly I was saddened by his dark eyes sinking dimly.

Abel will not know until the time he dies, but Karein lost his family because of what Abel did when he left Luce. Even because of that, it would be difficult to stick to his side. He was watching him for Asand.  Abel, who believes in him, or Karein, who must be attached to the person who killed his family. I felt sorry.

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“Come on, touch me. Hurry up.”

No, maybe I was the sorriest thing. Being stuck next to a vicious villain and acting as his first aid kit. I was called out in the middle of the night and went over to the next room, nervous.

Abel, half naked, closed his eyes and sat down. His clearly exposed chest was severely wounded with scars.

Even after that, Abel often came back late at night with scars of what he was doing. Each time he called me into the room, he made me grope him.  Like now.

No, it’s weird to grope him, but that was true. To drop the red thread, I had to come in direct contact with the body, and I unintentionally let him do that.

Of course, because it was that kind of thing I’ve been doing for five years-maybe even worse than that-I didn’t have much impression, but it wasn’t bad except for those bright red eyes looking through me while I was treating him.

If you keep getting the eyes of a bright red reaper that you don’t know if he’s strangely madness or what it is, you will feel strange with fear.

“………it hurts.”

Sometimes on days when he was really seriously injured, he even closed his eyes and gave up his body, but in the process, I secretly touched the red thread connected to his heart.

Please cut off, disappear!

I tried rubbing it hard with a wish, but unlike other red threads that melt away when touched, they don’t. I tried many times, but every time it failed.

“Human.”

Even that day, I was constantly touching the thread on his heart, and Abel called me.

Have you noticed? Are you upset? Are you angry?

My feet are numb, blinking my eyes awkwardly, pretending to be calm, but he stares at me and asks.

“At the time, why did you do that?”

“Huh?”

“I know you’re bothered to heal me. But when I think about it, it’s weird……you said that after you healed me, there was a red thread. So, if you pretended not to know me in the first place, would this have happened?”

When I inhaled, I crumpled my forehead to see what he meant. I was simply amazed that Abel, who was known for his bad brain, thought so complicated.

Wasn’t he stupid? This is surprisingly complicated? I rolled my eyes in embarrassment and replied honestly.

“Responsibility came first. You were injured a lot then.”

It was true. There was a seriously injured patient in front of me, and I just couldn’t get past it. It was because after five years of caring for patients, there was something like a sense of responsibility. That’s what I’m trying to do with my life right now!

But Abel began to pry into something strange.

“What if I would have killed you?”

“Well, you didn’t kill me.”

“……Are you afraid of me?”

No, there are some people in the world who are not afraid of death. Plus, you’re an official villain. I shook my head, remembering when I first met Abel. If I had known that he was Abel, then I wouldn’t have healed and would have run away immediately.

“Sure.”

Now, because of the red thread, I’m stuck. But if I said I was afraid, he would treat me more insignificantly and ignore me, so I brazenly raised my head and said.

“And now you can’t kill me anyway. The thread of fate, have you forgotten?”

“…………”