chapter 38
38 – Teacher (8)
-Pair, pair.
Her I applauded her a few times and sent her cheers and congratulations to her. Of course, it was ironic.
“So, you almost got arrested by the police for being falsely accused by the person you want to kill, and then you whimpered that the other person didn’t know your situation, and in the end, you even exposed yourself to the target by saying, ‘You’re the target’?”
It is a preparation that leaves you in awe. If the ulterior motive is to catch the target off guard and assassinate it, it’s a perfect strategy. If that stupid and inexperienced figure were all acting, I would have my heart ripped out by the snake-like fangs behind that freshness. Just thinking about it makes my heart pound and sweat. Is this love
“So perfect? If it weren’t for me, I would have been fooled by my inexperience and would never have imagined being an assassin. Who would believe that a man like this is an assassin? They’d just treat it like a boring joke.”
But unfortunately, this isn’t love, it’s a survival instinct. Furthermore, what I feel right now is not even the survival instinct, but the exhilarating pleasure created by mockery. It’s like the kind of thrill you feel when you make fun of a friend who has been exposed to confessions. The kind of pleasure you get from watching idiots who ruined the most important thing in their lives. Low heat but sure pleasure.
“…Ugh.”
As the assassin rolled up his tattered hood, he barely endured the shame. It must be the feeling of wanting to go into a mouse hole. Really, wherever it is, wherever it is dark, you want to hide and hide yourself from the world.
“Ooh, I may look funny, but I’m serious. I will definitely take your heart…!”
But he didn’t give up. Lupika muttered in a half resigned state.
“That’s what I’m saying, if you give me your heart…”
“Will you give it to me?”
I coldly rejected Lupika who held out her hands while avoiding my gaze. A heart that can be regenerated at any time. Could you give me a heart or two? Well, my nature is overflowing with charity, so I can become a living, open barn and show everyone the gifts of scattering my body. But no.
But my heart can never be handed over. Even if you take it over, you won’t be able to use it.
Since I came here, I’ve done so many things that I can resent. Among them, I don’t remember having a resentment so great that I was even asked to assassinate him. At least among the good people.
The only people worthy of resentment are the former demon worshipers and vampires. Both those who want the devil.
I am definitely a person with a devil’s body. The devil’s heart is the finest material for blood magic. I don’t even know who is aiming for my heart for what purpose, but I can’t hand it over like that. In addition, seeing that he hired an assassin to illegally target my heart, he wants to use it for something seemingly insignificant.
“As expected… Can’t it? That, the devil will die without a heart, after all.”
“Did you get the order from me without knowing anything? Oh, and you know I’m a demon too.”
“Ah. Ma, it’s ruined…!”
“…No sorry, I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it.”
Even the client is convinced that I am the devil. The fact that was kept top secret at the meeting of lilies. If so, the culprit is one of them. Officers who were there or one of their associates. Or not…
The vampire who kidnapped me and the other vampire I knew.
It’s probably the latter with a very high probability.
Lupika was shocked that she leaked her secrets again, and her tears welled up. I applauded to ventilate the area around him, lest his drops of tears wet the grass.
“Anyway, you’re trying to kill me. I know very well that you won’t give up on my assassination, even though you’ve revealed the truth with your mouth now.”
I understand his stupidity. Humans are animals that live not only with reason, but also with emotions. That emotion sometimes becomes a powerful weapon, but at other times the weapon stabs itself in the mouth.
A mental cracked by one failure causes the body to crack as well, and the cracked body causes another failure. Failures are repeated like that, and people fall into an unanswered pit and struggle. He was just like that now.
“That’s why I can’t just die quietly. Besides, if I fight again, it’ll be a nuisance to the nun and my master.”
“That’s right. It’s important not to cause trouble to the benefactor and master…! As expected, you know that too well.”
I was momentarily stunned at being treated the same way, but I endured it by expressing one of my virtues, patience.
I decided to give him a charity. It is a very big charity. To let the one who tried to kill me go. It’s fortunate that the target was me. If it had been anyone else, I would have harvested his heart in reverse.
“So, let’s make one promise, man to man.”
I told Akklesia earlier that I was going to have a male talk, so Lupika got angry. It means that you are happy when you are treated as a man. Perhaps he feels proud of himself because he feels that his dressing as a man has been successful. I gave her the success of being her ‘him’. It is the beginning of conciliation.
“While you’re staying here, we’re having a truce. I won’t reveal your identity, and you won’t reveal mine either. Don’t forget to pretend we’ve gotten along so the nun can rest easy.”
I put my index finger on the corner of my mouth and seduced him as if I was telling a secret story. It’s not the only trouble when the identity is revealed. I’m in trouble too. In this sacred pasture where lambs are tended under God’s protection, wolves and devil cubs must be excluded.
So, this is a conciliation and a deal.
“You stay here slowly, observing me. ‘How can I steal his heart?’, ‘What’s his weakness?’, ‘Who will be his weak spot?’ ?’ Isn’t this the best opportunity to think about things like this?”
Putting my face close to the assassin, I proposed to him. At least let’s not attack each other inside the cathedral. Yes, in the cathedral.
You won’t know if you go outside. Now my charitable deeds may be cut off, or my patience may be cut off. But that’s in the future, not now. What does it matter.
“It is to increase the probability of an assassination by identifying the target’s habits. What a good chance? hehehe…”
I approached him, even smiling to increase the credibility of the transaction. Lupika pushed my face with the palm of her hand and distanced herself.
“Wait a minute…”
After hearing my suggestion, the assassin crossed his arms and groaned. Perhaps the ears under his hood are fluttering, attesting to his own troubles. Soon after, he proudly placed both hands on his waist and declared.
“Okay! I don’t know what your plan is, but it’s a good offer for me, and there’s no reason not to accept it!”
‘You must be trying to kill someone. This bastard (for real)…’
Thinking that God was watching me, I swallowed my words and endured it. That’s why you can’t be a low-educated person. Lack of deep thinking. This kind of joke is that I can make jokes like this because I am also a low-educated person. I will kill others if they do. I’ve actually killed a lot of people who said this.
“Okay! Is this a superficial reconciliation?”
“Superficial…?”
“I purposely wrote difficult words, so you don’t have to know. Now, let’s put our shoulders together.”
I put my hand on his shoulder. The closer I got, the stronger the smell of the beast. Ooh dog smell.
“You should wash your face first.”
“Are you going to wash together?!”
” What bullsh*t are you talking about?
Because he is a dog, he seems to be good at talking about dogs.
“Come to think of it, what’s your name?”
“Rumi… No, this is Lupika.”
“Yes, my name is Iba. Okay, I’m done with the voiceover, so we’re friends now. At least while we’re in this cathedral.”
I handed him a fist with my shoulder wrapped around my shoulder. Lupika just stared blankly at it. Maybe he’s copying what I did, and when he carefully raised his fist, I just put my fist right into his fist.
We got out of the shadow of the sacred building just like that. Turning their backs on the mercy of God who had been hiding the devil and the wolf, the evil ones who shared secret stories within it came out into the light and spoke lies.
“Sister! We are reconciled!”
**
“So?”
The assassin, who had been on friendly terms with them, was left behind for a while. I walked down the street to have brunch with Lilia. Originally, it would have been breakfast, but due to the commotion with Lupika, the time was delayed and it became brunch.
If she just walked, she might lose her way like yesterday, so Lilia, who was handed a map containing Ekklesia’s thoughtfulness, carefully moved her feet while examining it.
In the meantime, Lilia suddenly asked this question.
“What?”
“What is that? What was that number?”
“What, did you notice that it’s a beast?”
“The appearance of wearing a hood so that the top of the head is not exposed, and Mr. Leah also said that he was an illegal stay? Then, no matter who sees it, there are only prisoners.”
“I guess.”
Lilia touched her shoulder with her own shoulder and continued her question.
“So what? Was he a real assassin?”
“Yes. I heard you came to take my heart?”
Before I could finish my words, Lilia turned behind her like her sword. A sad theft was embedded in the movement. A movement that really cuts someone.
“Where are you going?”
“That younger fingers are pulled out.”
“Oh, it’s scary. How can people be so violent?”
“I’m glad I ended up with her fingers. I could have slit her throat.”
I immediately grabbed her arm and pulled it toward me. Her back touched my chest. Interrupted in her straight ahead, Lilia raised her head in displeasure, and she glared at me above it.
“Don’t stop, hunk.”
“Wow, that’s too much to say.”
“What were you doing! Why did you suddenly receive an assassination request? And why did you leave it like Hogu? If you were like me…”
“I would have played with it very shady if I was like you.”
“Correct answer.”
You would have played with it over his head, never revealing that you knew you were the target of an assassination. They enjoyed playing like a puppeteer controlling a matryoshka, and when they got tired of it, they would turn it over to the police or take care of it on their own.
“But now that it’s your job, I’m kind of upset. Is that proof of a good master?”
“hahahahaha, my master has increased his jokes too. His tongue is very free.”
As for bullsh*t, it’s enough just for Lupika to talk. I press down on Lillia’s cheek, controlling her free-spirited mouth from spitting out any more nonsense. This sense of coexistence of softness and chewyness is very stable. I found a new softness that was different from Innis’ hip. Also, the human body is beautiful.
“Don’t do it.”
Lilia stopped my control by sticking her elbow into her side. Her throbbing pain passed swiftly through her body, then she left a lingering aftertaste of pain.
“Anyway, are you okay?”
“It’s not okay, you crazy b*tch…”
“Looks fine. Then I don’t care about that prisoner boy either?”
“Thank you for doing so.”
When the story was over, we started walking side by side again. Lillia looked over at her map and walked, alternating between her roadside landscape and the map. I love Lilia turning her head around like her baby bird, I walked watching her.
If this is a city that gives trials, you may suddenly hear the contents of the trials while walking around the city like this.
But I can assure you that at least that will not happen to Lillia.
Erapor, in the original work, was just a city to show Ekklesia and its cathedral, and to draw scenes of Lilia and her children playing. Nothing more, nothing less. It is nothing more than a little healing episode to let people know that Lilia also has a warm side.
In other words, there is no reason for her to wander around this place right now. But I can’t give her any basis for saying ‘this place is not a city of trials’, and it’s not suitable for me to wander alone. Like this, I will take a walk around the city with her.
“So… Go around the fight club…”
In the middle of enjoying watching her vain steps, wasting Lilia’s time like that.
Lilia’s footsteps stopped.
“Huh? Lilia What’s wrong? Where does it hurt? Do you want to be a fisherman?”
She stayed blank when I talked to her. The moment he tried to put his hand on her shoulder because something was wrong.
Lilia hugged me with a lively, lively smile.
“Hey! It’s done! It’s done!”
“What, what is it?”
“I heard you!”
I didn’t immediately notice what I was hearing, so I was speechless.
After realizing the meaning of “I heard it” Right after that, I was speechless with a different meaning.
“It’s an ordeal! Eraport was my ordeal city! Nice to have you here!”
She heard of her ordeal.
The sage’s voice, which was not heard in the original work.