Chapter 275
“This is…”
“Ha…”
The great mage, who had been confronting Ryuhyeon for a long time, staggered and stopped. His eyes, which had been filled with anger, were now half-closed as he regained his composure.
“I’ve been deceived.”
“It was fun, wasn’t it? But it seems like it’s time for me to go now.”
“Get lost. Don’t ever appear before my eyes again.”
Haha, Ryuhyeon laughed cheerfully. That incongruous laughter sent a chill down Yoseph’s spine, who was watching from the side.
“Even if you hate me that much, she’s mine anyway. Because she’s now in a state where she can’t help but be with me.”
“What?”
Yoseph asked back in confusion, but the great mage just quietly bit his lip. Seeing that, Yoseph looked back and forth between the two of them with wavering eyes.
“Wh, what does that mean? What happened to Roina-nim… What…”
“It’s exactly as it sounds, little boy. Roina-nim was crying her eyes out in my arms just a moment ago.”
“Fused with the Crown Prince?”
At those words, Ryuhyeon smiled slyly. His pupils were torn long, revealing dragon’s eyes, and his grinning mouth showed sharp fangs.
“You recognize it right away. The mark of the contract is now mine. And your body will soon be mine as well.”
Kheukheuk, Lutan didn’t deny Ryuhyeon’s laughing appearance. Only Yoseph was startled by that.
“Why, aren’t you denying it? Huh? That…”
He already knew about the existence of the ‘contractors’ with Roina. And Yoseph, who was not at all foolish, finally inferred the truth from the context of this conversation.
“Could it be…? The Crown Prince was also a contractor? And Roina-nim made it so that she could only rely on her contractors, and you’re trying to absorb those contractors to concentrate the contracts on yourself? As part of that, you planted some kind of seed in the great mage’s body during the last New Year’s party?”
Ryuhyeon laughed loudly at that guess. The great mage just remained silent, then staggered and sat down.
“Great Mage-nim! If you keep doing that…”
“The World Tree will no longer attack us.”
Lutan, saying that, looked somewhat strained. Then, he covered his mouth and coughed, khuleok.
“Then that guy…”
“Will disappear soon. Because he’s a shadow.”
He coughed a couple more times, khuleok khuleok, then spat out black blood, pweh.
“Great Mage-nim…!”
Could it be because he forcibly woke up the great mage? Yoseph looked at him with wavering eyes.
“It’s okay.”
Lutan cut off those concerns at once. He simply got up with a composed expression.
“I’m going to Roina-nim.”
He gritted his teeth and moved his feet. He had to go to her, who had given him salvation.
* * *
Ryuhyeon was a terrible person. Roina trembled at the rush of memories. She was disgusted by his obsession to possess everything about her.
“I hate it…!”
Roina shook her head to shake off the thoughts. Fragments of memories about Ryuhyeon shone in her head like broken pieces of a mirror.
She crouched down and hugged her arms. As she suffered, Amor, who had turned into a necklace in her arms, emitted a warm light of comfort and enveloped her.
Drip, tears fell from Roina’s chin.
Only when Amor enveloped her in light did she seem to calm down a bit, and her trembling shoulders stopped.
“Thank you, Amor…”
Once she calmed down a little, Roina looked around. Ernst had fainted, holding his head and crouching down, and her companions around her seemed to be in confusion. They were probably seeing hallucinations.
Swoosh, Roina stepped on the air and approached the huge tree. The smaller mirror, Amor, hanging below her neck, emitted a bright light as she got closer to the tree.
“World Tree…”
She said, stroking the tree. As she stroked the World Tree, her companions, who had been trapped in hallucinations, grabbed their heads as if the hallucinations were shaking violently, and woke up.
“You bastards…! Ah…?”
“Are you feeling a bit better?”
Camillo, who had been shouting something, looked dazed as if she had come to her senses. Ethan, who had been choking himself, and Neilla, who had been shedding tears, were the same.
“What happened?”
“It seems like we were trapped in hallucinations. Hallucinations related to old memories at that.”
Roina said calmly and turned her head. The huge tree, while welcoming her, was also sorrowful, as if shedding tears.
“It’s in pain.”
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