Chapter 12 (2/2)

“Oh my! Come on, get on!”

Whether he believed me or saw the box I had, Sleipnir gave me his back without asking or questioning. The black mane that had been burning, sprang up, and pulled my arm.

Ahh!  With a scream, I gently settled on the large, smooth back, and I was able to face the hordes of monsters who arrived late.

“Sleipnir! What are you doing!”

“Why are you taking the side of a human woman?”

Dozens of monsters that shocked and frightened me before I settled on the back of a giant black horse, now seemed like nothing. After all, it’s good to have a backup. I held onto his reins. The monsters in front of the burning hell horse retreated, and a familiar face appeared among them.

“Sleipnir. There must be a misunderstanding, but the girl stole the heart of the reaper without knowing.”

“Hmm, you mean the master’s heart? Only the master, as far as I know, knows the location, but how did you know it was stolen?”

“………The girl was suspicious and ran.”

They’re lying without batting an eyelid. I remembered his name and squeezed the reins. Sleipnir, a loyal horse, responded steadfastly and confidently.

“Anyway, she is someone who my master cares about anyway. Even if you accused her for a crime, it’s up to the master of the temple to judge. Now, clear the way!”

“Are you not believing our words? Your master and even you! Why are you covering for that sleazy human woman!”

“There’s no one bad who cares about animals!”

Besides, my aesthetic sense is also excellent!

Sleipnir raised his forefoot, bursting with a laugh and he started to run up the sky at an amazing speed. A black flame fluttered from six hoofs.

“You didn’t say you were going to fly!”

“Isn’t it natural as the world’s best monster!”

Without the permission of Abel, the owner of the temple, no one could leave the temple. Anyone. Because of this, we had to play tag inside the temple. Eventually, the demons followed us with forbidden wings-no one could fly except Abel in the temple-but no one could catch up with the fastest monster in the world.

He even kicked, breaking the barriers that had been engulfed in smoke, and sprinting to the main temple. Clop! Clop! There was no one who couldn’t wake up to the sound of six hoofs that could make the earth ring.

“What the hell is this!”

In the mess, finally the skeleton captain -sadly he couldn’t hear the sound well because he didn’t have an ear-came out, and the bloody chase could be stopped for a while. Yuuda, who had wiped his greasy forehead covered in sweat, gasped and said.

“That human girl, stealing Abel’s heart and running away, I’m about to catch her.”

“Fuck! No this isn’t. Anyway, no! You think I’m crazy and steal the reaper’s heart? You know obviously that the obsessed man will chase me until I die?”

“Well, look, look! The girl who lives with such vulgar words can’t be silent!”

“Because I heard all the screams to let go of the heart.”

“Quiet!”

The voices echoing from the Skeleton Captain made everyone quiet. The Skeleton Captain draws a bone sword and says.

“Anyway, she is the woman Lord Abel cares about. Step back! And Lian, explain. What happened?”

“Well, I went to the abandoned temple in the middle of the night.”

“Why did you go?”

I bit my tongue trying to speak casually. It is true that Abel implicitly gave me the location of the heart, but it was also true that I tried to touch his heart without permission, so I hesitated for a moment. Then Yuuda pointed out his finger, saying that he was right.

“Look! She can’t talk openly!”

“What are you guys doing?”

At that time, the monsters that were crowded split like ​​the Red Sea. In the middle of it stood Abel in black armor. Abel glanced through the believers around me with his expressionless face and finally looked at me. In an instant, his blood-red eyes flashed his feelings, but quickly disappeared like a shooting star.

“Reaper! This girl ran away with your heart! Look!”

At Yuuda’s cry, Abel looked down at my hand. I was holding a box of his heart. It was true that I touched it, opened it, and, technically, ran away with it. I was sure I heard them cry out to bring his heart out. I heard a hundred more times. But there was no evidence.

When I was in a chase with Sleipnir, they didn’t say a word, so I was the only one who heard it.

“Lord Abel and that girl are connected to the thread of destiny, and it is the truth that we all know openly! That woman must have stolen his heart to run away and gain freedom!”

The blood-red eyes turned to me. Unlike usual, it was an unfeeling gaze, and my heart is somehow stinging at the insensitive gaze of the god of death itself. As a habit, I gave a gaze to the red thread connected to his chest, and slowly opened my mouth as I made eye contact with his sharpening gaze.

“It’s true that I touched your heart and wanted to get freedom. I didn’t intend to do that. I…”

“Give it to me.”

Abel, who was staring at me, reached out his hand. I thought he was asking for the box, and I pushed it, but Abel stretched out his hand and pulled my hand holding the box. In an instant, the cold energy was trapped in his warm arms. The cold armor touched my cheek.

“……Just say no.”

He lowered his head deeply as if to bury his lips in the nape of my instinctively stiff neck, whispering in a voice mixed with madness. A voice that seemed to explode at any moment broke through the ears.

“From me, you tried to run away, just say no. Just say that one word.”