Chapter 8 (1/2)
“What are you two doing together?”
As soon as I turned the corner, it was Abel who appeared. The uniform is covered with dirt, screaming about what he has been doing.
Why aren’t you wearing armor? I tilted my head, but he pulled up the tail of his mouth, and then pulled me with a straight face. And he lifted me up like a sack, and began to walk to the other side.
“Oh! Hey! Are you crazy? Why are you, really!”
“I told you to use your powers only for me. How long have you been overworked, do you want to die?”
Abel, who put me down on the couch in the office, said expressionlessly.
Did he?
I felt some threat from the dim glow from the eyes resembling a sunken ruby, so I ran away to the end of the sofa, and he grabbed my shoulder and looked down at me. Instead of growling like before, Abel quietly opened his mouth.
“One more time you stay with Karein … I’ll kill.”
“Hey, really?”
He’s also good at jokes. He can’t even kill me anyway. Why are you saying such nasty things?
I laughed awkwardly and pushed his shoulder out, and he replied as he was gently pushed back.
“Oh, I mean Karein.”
It was even more terrifying because it was a very sincere expression.
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The next day, when the news that a lot of injured people had arrived, I went to the central temple as usual and everyone was busy chasing me off, saying that everyone didn’t need to be treated.
“What happened?”
When I asked Yuuda, a senior official I had encountered several times, he laughed awkwardly and said it was Abel’s command.
What kind of order is that? I became embarrassed and went to find Abel.
He wasn’t in the room, so where did he go?
While wandering, I heard from the monster maids that he was in a ruined temple behind.
I gazed anxiously at the temple. The red thread is strung around like a spider web. The silver hair was shining hazy in the dark.
“Abel?”
As he was looking through something, he looked back at me with dread.
What I can see behind him is a box. At first glance I could see something fluttering in it. Looking at the red thread that followed, the heart was clear.
It must have been kept in the temple. Maybe because the real heart was in front of me, the red thread on my wrist had moved there.
Suddenly a strong impulse came. If I touch that, does the connected thread break? But rather than that, I had to worry about Abel who was in front of me.
Abel is enthusiastically obsessed with his self-confidence as a demigod. It was because of vivid memories that he was despised by humans and ignored by the gods since childhood. Because of that, he did not want anyone to see this real heart, which is a symbol of a demigod, and he didn’t even believe in himself, so he erased it from his mind and only recalled it for a certain amount of time.
I stumbled and stepped back.
“Hey, sorry. The door was open.”
“……Come here.”
So, unlike what I thought he would be terribly angry at me, threatening me, and erasing my memories, Abel was surprisingly gentle and showed it to me. Inside the box covered with gloomy glow was a fluttering red heart. It was a bloody red heart that was as clear as his eyes.
“I am actually a demigod.”
Abel, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly opened his mouth.
“I may look like an immortal, because the heart inside my body is fake.”
And I couldn’t help but panic. He was reciting in front of me the secret that he tried not to tell anyone, even the female lead in the original story, he was trying to hide until the end.
“This heart is real, so if you stab it, I’ll die.”
Because of the curse, Abel cannot have a real heart in his body.
Because of this, he doesn’t know his feelings, and he’s never really been loved. He believes that love is obsession and obsession is madness. As soon as he saw the female lead, he tried to kill all the people around her with a possessive desire, and he tried to imprison her.
He was saying something more about what he was, but another thought came up.
I hesitated and opened my mouth.
“You’ll find someone who will solve it soon. You just have to wait a bit.”