NOVEL NEXT chapter 74
74 – IF Gaiden 1: Don’t be taken away, don’t miss it, never. (4)
“Did you enjoy your meal?”
With a rattle, a rattle, the utensils were removed, and her smile appeared before my eyes.
“…delicious – “
“I told you not to lie, did I?”
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Right.
The steel knife strikes the bowl, and her fishy eyes pierce me.
I get goosebumps and my hamstrings numb.
My legs are trembling, as if I’m about to collapse at any moment.
Was it because he had been standing for a long time, or was it because he was afraid of her?
Or will it be both?
“The taste… was not.”
It was the worst.
It was said that the cooled vegetables were edible to some extent, but the cooled meat was a waste to even call it food.
The salty and repulsive scent of blood that was thick and cold as if you were going to vomit.
And compared to warm, it was too hard, too chewy, and even the inside was watery. That terrible texture was something I didn’t want to feel again.
“This is food without love.
It’s cold, disgusting, disgusting, and uncomfortable.
The cold meat got stuck in the teeth, and the thick, flavorful juice gave off a rotten smell.
The fresh and cozy vegetables harden and embrace the scent of raw food again.
Eating food is different from eating a corpse.”
Tak, the tableware is placed on the wooden table noisily.
“…Still, a meal is a meal. What do you say after a meal?”
“Delicious, I ate well…”
“It didn’t taste good. It’s good to just say I ate well.”
She smiled bitterly and patted my head warmly, giving me a nostalgic smile.
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Right when she and I first met.
The smile of those days when I was an innocent rabbit in love…
But that moment didn’t last long, and she turned cold again and moved to the stairs holding the utensils.
“I want you, Marcus. I’m a woman who only wants you and will do anything to get you. Your love, that’s enough for me.
and without it,
Have you ever imagined what could happen?
At least I don’t have one.
When that day comes, I will die.”
It’s a leap. It’s an exaggeration. It’s a bluff.
I repeated that and tried to avoid her gaze.
When I met her eyes, I couldn’t seem to get away from her any longer.
I was afraid.
It was scary.
It was terrifying.
The moment I admit that mad love, her mad love, only looks at me, I will be tied to her.
But I had to admit it.
There was no way I could reject the woman who saw through my appearance and approached me.
Leaving the tableware on the floor, I had neither the strength nor the will to push her away as she approached me quickly and snorting.
To this rabbit who holds onto the rattling chain and reigns as if he were the owner,
I was taken aback by her touch without even thinking about regaining the initiative.
“My eyes. Don’t look away. This is a warning.”
Her burning eyes were full of love.
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Resentment, hatred, betrayal, despair…
All of them were walking towards me covered in love.
I stretch out my arms and put the weight on my body.
one by one.
Chained me to this cold, dark cellar.
“…Sooner or later, the cat will come, if he goes to the village to buy groceries, he’ll come soon, unless it’s leaking somewhere.”
Click.
and the chains were laid.
“I want you to make a choice then.
A rabbit named Ellie Michelle who loved only you and will always give you everything.
And Shenee Felter, a stray cat who doesn’t know where she came from. An unscrupulous person who lays hands on someone else’s man…”
snap.
and a loud voice echoed through the cellar.
The knife I was cutting meat with just now got stuck in the wooden stair handle.
He gritted his teeth, stamped his feet, and swung the knife at the handle.
…it was a notice.
about what will happen in the future.
It was an allusion to the consequences of my choices.
“…I want you to choose.
i want you to love me
I don’t want to be seen as someone who wants me to leave your side right now, with those cold eyes.
Of course, now, it can’t be helped.
Because you stayed by that cat, you were firmly possessed even if you were bewitched, and your perspective toward me was so distorted.
But it’s okay! Only love, if you can revive this dying ember between you and me, if only you can revive it, that’s enough.
To do that, I’m putting so much effort into you now, to become the old you.
To that lovely man who knew only me, coveted only me, and relied only on me.
Because I am by your side to relive those memories.”
…I couldn’t deny it.
Each of her actions reminded me of the good old days with her.
And her every action made me think of an idea.
If I just comply, if I give her away,
Wouldn’t it all end quietly, at least without spilling a single drop of blood?
If I give up, if I give up myself,
No one will get hurt, and everyone will have a satisfactory result in their own way.
If not –
“…but on the other side, by all means, rejecting this rabbit who only looks at you, loves only you, and only wants to violate you,
If you choose that cat out of all odds…
I’ll bet you. without a single lie.
without any exaggeration.
Without the slightest embellishment.
We’ll all be unhappy, I promise you.”
The most exaggerated, bizarre, twisted laugh I’ve ever seen,
The corners of his mouth are raised to the point of tearing, but his eyes are full of murderous intent,
A face full of sorrow and despair in the eyebrows,
Showing me that figure, she moved her steps slowly.
Clink.
and the iron hit the glass.
“So, please, I hope you make a good choice.”
Tuck, Tuck, Tuck…
And suddenly her steps stopped.
“…There was always something you said to me in the past, whenever I was away from you. Do you remember?”
See-off, farewell.
Every time I leave the bedroom, every time she feeds me,
I always said goodbye to her.
“Everyone, please go…yo…”
But why did you want this –
“…it’s sad when someone you love leaves.
But look at your face.
…You look happy.
Like when you were by my side
Now that I’m gone, I see relief and happiness in his eyes.”
She closed the door, and silence came.
No, even before she closed the door, silence filled my ears.
It was an epiphany.
how sincere her heart was.
It was a realization of how twisted yet straight it is.
A word of it, a word of her bone, was so unreasonable.
***
The owner’s hand was warm.
Lately, those warm eyes that have been given to me stay with me for a long time as the days go by.
And it seems that the eyes towards the rabbit are getting colder.
I’m sorry, but I have no intention of giving up.
It seems that Master chooses me over someone with a strong attachment like you.
What can a person do like that?
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Rather than restraining, pressuring, suppressing by force, threatening with contracts,
Adapting to him, helping him, approaching him gently. That’s the look that captivates him even more, doesn’t it?
You’re wrong, and I’m right, Michelle.
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Rather than grabbing onto such a warm person, gently coaxing him into your arms is a much more correct way.
Shall I open this door and go in, and try hard to leave my mark in his arms again?
To let you know, let him send you a letter in an unknown way.
This man is gone, and I’m already too close to him that you dare not lay your hands on.
Shall we talk like that?
“…You’re here? Shouldn’t it be so late to go shopping?”
By the way, why are you at home alone?
Why is there a person here who has to cry alone in the spacious bedroom on the second floor?
“Who is the master?”
“You? His? Ha…! Ha!”
“Don’t do this. I’m his rightful slave. I’m not like you, threatening me with a misplaced phrase in a contract.”
He is not a violent rabbit who triggers contract violation conditions like anyone else and tries to manipulate and manipulate the owner as he pleases.
“You’re a b*tch who’s smarter than she looks? Well, that’s why she scratches people’s nerves by using small tricks like this.”
Dripping, dripping, something scratched the table… A knife?
“What are you doing?”
“What is it? Conversation. I want to tear you to pieces and hang you in front of the gate right now, but I can’t. Because my love doesn’t want that.”
It’s an urgent threat.
But where is the master?
If there was, there’s no way this rabbit would be so riotous.
If so, what have you done?
“…as if you’re not going to harm me, put away all the fawning. Things don’t work out the way you want, so in the end you show your true colors?”
To be honest, I might be a little upset.
The resentment of a person who has always acted recklessly taking away all the time with the warm and kind master.
“what?”
“What have you done to my master, you beast?”
“…what?”
So I pushed myself a little.
Maybe she’s gone a little crazy, or that stupid is brave, that she didn’t know what she was capable of and was tongue-in-cheek.
“You can’t even understand words anymore?
“Can’t you shut that mouth?”
Seeing her giggling and stomping her feet, I knew the provocation had worked.
So what did you do to go out there?
“Yes, it’s like this every time, so you can’t even get a choice from him. A violent rabbit like you, who only knows how to use violence and doesn’t even know how to care for the man he loves, might not fit next to that kind person-“
I swear
It was the first time I knew a human fist could fly so fast.
It feels like the world is tilting, as if the world is flying into me, not me.
I only knew when I hit my head hard on the ground.
i was right
“Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up!!!!!
what do you know
What happened between me and how much we love each other, how deeply connected we are,
What on earth does the thief cat in the back alley, who knows where he came from and what he did, play with his tongue?
you, you, you –
Yes, he must have made fun of that tongue because he was so confident.”
Do you know what it feels like to be powerless?
Seriously, why… The kittens are grabbed by the back of their necks and hang on to their mothers.
Why, even those tiger cubs get into trouble and can’t move when their backs are caught.
Even though I’m all grown up… it’s like that.
don’t laugh
Because I was really scared.
“From now on we will go down.
I’m going to ask him
To my master, to my love, to my lover, to my husband,
we will ask
who you choose
And then, let’s see if you can play with your proud tongue to your heart’s content.”
She was still holding the knife.
that makes me so…
oh my god.
How the hell did I come out alive?