Beware of the Brothers - Chapter 31.5

Glad to say, the day when Dice can meet Rosabella came.

This is because the hunting event, the official event of the imperial family, was held.

As long as Dice is a representative of the royal family, Rosabella, his fiancée, also had to attend even if for a moment.

Of course, it’s an external event, so they won’t be able to have a private conversation right now, but maybe he’d better take a look at the opportunities later and have their own time.

“Are you well prepared? Which area will the Sir go to?”

“it’s probably the northeast.”

“There are a lot of predators in the north, isn’t it dangerous?”

I looked around a bit boringly between the chatters.

The hunting ground where the event is held today was divided according to the type and risk of hunting.

Most of them plan to go hunting in the east or south, where deer and foxes are there.

But for those who are particularly good at their skills, they are planning to go to the northern side of the country in groups. I heard that.

“What is that?”

Suddenly, several servants were seen carrying several things like dead animals somewhere.

Ethan, who was behind me muttering as I was alone in my doubt, and he answered.

“It will be the blood of a small animal, such as a chicken or a rabbit. It is said to be sprayed on the northern section.”

Hearing that the predators in the northern section of the hunting ground today are nocturnal and do not show up during the day.

So the blood of another beast is suitable for the grass and told that they plan to sprinkle them out.

“Things like hunting, is boring, noisy, smelly and not good.”

Then, someone murmured from my side. I turned my head to that sound. Then Erich’s face who was reluctant catch my eyes.

It was me and Erich who attended the hunting festival as the representatives of Ernst today.

It was also understandable that he reacted like this because he was sloppy at hunting since childhood.

“You do like hunting? I just wish I had a rest at home.”

Originally I was going to come with Eugene, but he said that something else has happened and he can go out on the way to the hunt in the middle.

So as Erich came home, he attend with me on the weekend.

“Would you like to go in first?”

“No.”

“Brother Eugene said that he will come a little later, so I can wait here with Sir Ethan.”

Erich refused but I once again recommended him. This is because Erich’s face didn’t look very good.

“It’s okay. I know you thought it would be better if you two with my brother in this. Of course.”

And the next moment, I stopped at Erich’s boned words that spit out.

Erich also seemed to be involuntarily said that without realizing, and immediately changed his face a bit.

A short silence sat down between him and me.

“I’m not saying that.”

Soon after, I whispered quietly, and Erich stand silently for a moment, looking down at me. After a while, he glanced at me and slowly opened his mouth and said.

“I know.”

“……”

“Now, it’s just… I’m grumpy.”

I then looked up at Erich, as he raising his hands and sweeping his face slightly roughly.

“……Sorry. I’m just a little sensitive.”

He say a little unexpected things, then he unexpectedly apologized to me easily.

In fact, it wasn’t that I couldn’t understand why Erich reacted like this today.

He was sensitive to death since his twin sister, Arina, died, so he was reluctant to hunt and kill animals as usual.

It was also a hunting ground that the Ernst couple died, so this was not a pleasant place for him.

I know that a little bit as I had said that to Erich before.

However, if I think about it, it was quite possible that Erich couldn’t let me go alone today.

As I mentioned earlier, Eugene was planning to arrive on the hunting ground a little late, and Cabel said that he was going to the Templars today, which is on the weekend.

I took Erich’s arm with a shallow breath.

“Anyway, we just need to stay for a reasonable amount of time today. Let’s get it over.”

Hunting anyway was like a field of social gathering and chatting with each other without going directly into the forest and hunt.

However, Erich’s condition was like this, and there was no reason to drag him somewhere else and force him to haha.

Fortunately, Erich did not shake my hand and followed me gently.

“You haven’t slept well these days?”

I sat Erich on a chair in the tent.

After that, this guy warmed up and shook his shoulder when I asked.

“No, I’m sleeping well. I’m sleeping very well.”

“No, I think you haven’t been sleeping well for at least a week!”

Erich was lying, but it’s not me to go over it just like that! Since he was a child, I have watched all of his history as a sick child because of lack of sleep.

Erich’s face was crumpled by the words I said confidently.

No more cheating. Judging that, Erich did not continue to deny what I said.

He clasped his mouth and looked at me. And after a while, he turned his head away from me and spit it out.

“So, no one else knows why. Why can’t you let it be unnoticed?”

“Isn’t that a very attentively and scrupulous personality?”

“You’re laughing.”

Oh, I was ridiculed right away.

Oh god, this impatient guy. Anyone who cares and think of you like me, where else you gonna find it again!

“I’ll lying down to rest, so you go out.”

“Shall I ask Ethan to be here?”

“It’s his job to protect a baby like you.”

“You hate just being with him too?”

Eh, what he said about Ethan is true.

He refuse to accept him with a knife.

Still, I’m glad I saw Erich growling, and I don’t think he’s in a really bad condition again.

I leave Erich with the words to rest and get out of the tent with Ethan.

When I came out, I noticed people gathering three or five to make a friendship.

“Oh, Miss Ernst.”

So, while I was wondering which way to go first, I faced Marjoram young lady, who was passing the road.

“I saw you stepping inside the tent and tried to greet you later. Don’t you go hunting with the Ernst today?”

“Yeah. Sir Gothian, your fiancée, I guess he is in the east forest.”

“Well, he telling me that he’ll catch a deer with pretty horns.”

I smiled after Marjoram young lady, who smiled Ho Ho Ho, and stopped subconsciously at her words.

“Sir Ernst didn’t attend the hunting festival today, didn’t he? I thought that I could meet him today because his hobby is hunting, but I’m sorry.”

In fact, Marjoram young lady was the person who asked me to deliver a letter containing her heart to Cabel during the New Year’s Day.

After that, she continued to show interest in the second son of our house, but in the end, she became engaged to another lord last month.

Um, last time Marjoram young lady said something to me with a bright smile.

Roughly,

‘It’s true that I like Sir Cabel, but that doesn’t mean I want him to be my man.’

I remember she said something like that. It seems like she also had laughed cheerfully like now while saying something like,

‘It is enough to purify my eyes while seeing him.’

Great.

I split up with Marjoram young lady and looked around.

It was because I remembered the person I had forgotten for a while while talking about Cabel.

It was Lavender Cordis.

It was Lavender Cordis.

But, again, she couldn’t be not seen anywhere.

I recalled the disturbing rumors I had heard yesterday.

It was rumored that Cabel grabbed Lavender Cordis’s arm at a garden party just a while ago and dragged her somewhere.

Hearing the date of the garden party, it coincided with the day Cabel suddenly went out and returned home with a bad face.

Besides, why did Cabel sound weird to me that day?

Moreover, I was a little nervous because the person Cabel met was Lavender Cordis, not anyone else.

But I heard that Lavender Cordis hasn’t been out of home since then.

I didn’t know in any sense that it would be natural for her to not appear on time today for hunting.

I heard that it seems that something has made her shocked……

I know that the reason was Cabel, but I couldn’t get the details of what happened between the two.

When I go home today, shall I ask Cabel?

“Hari, welcome.”

With that in my mind, I entered the central tent, and a group of people came into my eyes.

In the middle is Rosabella.

As soon as she saw me, she welcomed me.

Originally, Rosabella, who was at the center of the social world, and engaged to His Highness Dice, got more attention than before.

In addition, she, who had not been out of the mansion for a while, appeared after a long time, and people around her were crowded like bees.

And I say this a bit, but as a member of Ernst, did I get the attention of others everywhere I go?

When I and Rosabella met, I felt the attention of the surroundings in an instant.

“Hello. Rosabella. It’s my first time seeing you since at the gallery last time.”

“Yes, today, I didn’t expect to meet miss Hari on the hunt, but it’s nice to meet you like this.”

A small chatter was heard around her in my friendly conversation. It seemed to be because I confirmed that the rumors I had only heard in the wind were true.

Since my last accidental meeting in the dressing room, I have met Rosabella quite regularly.

In fact, after Rosabella took off her name tag as Eugene’s fiancée, she and I both seemed to be more comfortable with each other than before.

Just as I was secretly feeling a sense of distance from her, it was probably the same with Rosabella.

If she were to marry Eugene as it was, I would be Rosabella’s sister-in-law, so it wasn’t something I couldn’t understand.

However, as we escaped from such a relationship, Rosabella and I were able to face each other purely.

Besides, we had a lot of things that could be communicated with, such as hobbies and interests.

After knowing her more deeply, Rosabella is secretly furry and cool, unlike my first thoughts of her.

There was also a cool corner in my heart.

Maybe I was more comfortable with her than before, and Rosabella seemed to have received similar impressions to what I felt for her.

So, it could be said that after Eugene’s annulment with her, Rosabella and I became closer.

Eugene seemed to feel somehow strange about it, but that didn’t mean that he was against my visit to Velontia.

So maybe the nobles gathered in this place think harder than expected as they might expect that Rosabla and I would each be rolling our heads hard.

“Miss Ernst, come over here and sit down.”

“Yes, right now, Miss Velontia’s side is empty.”

“Today, the miss did not come together with the Duke?”

“So it turns out that you were with the youngest sir…”

I intervened between them, receiving the invisible hospitality of the people.

After that, a nutritious conversation came and went for a while. Be it’s about past event or in the future.

It was because of my appearance that I seemed to have a close relationship with Rosabella, so I had more attention than ever before.

However, they sometimes glanced behind me as if uncomfortable.

I easily noticed that Ethan was the place where people’s gaze was directed. And I realized what the feelings were in their eyes.

Perhaps they were those who knew that Ethan was Schumaha before he had the surname of Bishop.

Even before, when I went out with him, I sometimes got this glance, but today In particular, the conservative aristocrats gathered a lot, so their attitude was obvious.

I stand up first, making excuses with a smile.

“Then, I think I should go to my brother, so I will excuse myself.”

“Hari, I was planning to go out now, let’s go together.”

Unexpectedly, Rosabella followed me.

People who quickly lost the center of the conversation were sloppy, but Rosabella was not aware of it.

That’s include myself too. It was the same that we both left the tent together.

“It’s finally liberation. I almost got scolded because I was cramped a while ago.”

“It’s been a long time since Rosabella appeared on the official event, so everyone seems excited.”

As she sighed, I said with a small laugh in my face.

“Hari, why don’t you take a tea with me for a minute?”

“Sound good.”

There was no reason to refuse, so I accepted Rosabella’s invitation.

And we stepped into Velontia’s private tent.

I was already drinking tea at a meeting with other people just before, but since the purpose of conversation was anyway, there was no particular concern.

“Do you think I was bad to His Highness Dice?”

Rosabella opened her mouth after the attending maid squeezed a steaming teacup in front of us.

“Actually, I’m listening to my mother naggung when she have time.”

As I sip of tea, I saw her face and connecting her words, and I burst into laughter.

Rosabella, who is a socially pleasing lady and always showed only dignity and mature appearance outside.

It was fascinating and interesting to hear her being scolded by her mother.

“I don’t think I can’t judge that kind of thing, but as for me as a friend’s thoughts, what’s most important is Rosabella’s heart?”

Then, the face I faced was slightly loosened.

She had been suffering quite a while in her house, and I noticed that she appreciated my words.

“I know Miss Hari is having a hard time between His Highness Dice and me.I’m sorry for getting you involved in this private affair.”

“No need, I’m just listening to the story.”

I smiled at Rosabella.

After that, we drank tea and talked about it between she and I. It was only a while later that somebody came to our place.

“Rosabella!”

It was none other than Dice that swung the cloth at the entrance and went inside.

No, but this guy should be in the woods now? I had a memory of seeing Dice at the forefront of people going hunting in the forest.

“Your Highness Dice?”

Like me, Rosabella also absurdly calling his name.

“Oh, there is Hari, too.”

Dice pretended to know me after a while and then stepped over to Rosabella.

Then, as he holding her hand tightly, he said.

“Rosabella, I missed you.”

Oh, at that moment I saw Rosabella’s face shake.

She was embarrassed to see Dice just a little while ago, and was more embarrassed by the unexpected Dice’s words.

Hah, I couldn’t have imagined that Dice would go up to her as soon as he saw Rosabella and whisper sad words.

“That’s…Why your Highness is here now…”

“I wanted to apologize after looking at myself, but I seldom had a chance, so I got out of the hunting ground by myself.”

When I heard that, I wanted to say, ‘Oh, that’s what it was like’.

From the beginning of the hunt, I noticed that he wanted to share a private conversation with Rosabella.

Eventually, Dice left the other people and left the forest alone to meet her.

“Your mood might be worse with my immature actions. What hurt you, I’m reflecting on it. I’m so sorry, Rosabella. Please forgive me. You don’t know how hard it was while you kept me away.”

Dice’s earnest confession continued.

Most of the time, I’ve only seen Dice whining because of Rosabella, so I thought his serious appearance was surprising.

No, but by the way…

These two, have they forgotten I was here?

For some reason, it feels like they are gradually falling into the world of their own…

I felt some embarrassment and coughed loudly.

“Khm, then I’ll stop and go out.”

It was only then that Rosabea seemed to have awakened.

Until then, she, who was making a speechless expression towards Dice, who was holding her hand, fluttered and turned to me.

On the other hand, Dice was eagerly glanced at me as if told me to leave my place immediately.

Seeing it, I kicked my tongue in my heart.

“Hari, I’m really sorry.”

“I’m fine, so don’t worry. Then talk to each other slowly.”

Rosabella looked at me with an apologetic look.

I turned to her, smiling as if it was okay.

“Are you coming out now?”

“Yes. His highness the crown prince has come.”

As soon as I left the tent, Ethan met me. He come close when he had saw a face that he knew.

It was natural that he too would have seen Dice while standing in front of the tent.

Ah, then, is my hardship ending now?

I thought so and looked back at the place I just left.

Honestly, I didn’t know when Dice was not bothering me whenever he met me.

However, as I saw a little while ago, the two people were also in an atmosphere of reconciliation. They won’t bother taking me now.

I turned in front of the tent, feeling a little cool.

It was quite a while since the hunting started so it was quiet around.

Perhaps others seem gathering in a large tent to build a friendship, or returning to their respective seats and resting.

Like a child, I was thinking of going to Erich.

But after a while, I suddenly stopped my mouth from getting sick.

“Woo-huek.”

Until a while ago, I was obviously okay, but somehow, the earthenware came up as if it was not going to soothe my stomach.

Seeing me like that, Ethan looked surprised.

“My Lady?”

“Suddenly I…”

But as soon as I opened my mouth, my stomach began to plump, so I hurriedly moved to a place where no one else was.

The back of the tent was near the entrance to the western forest with small animals such as peacocks and rabbits.

I hold onto the tree then sat down and was nauseous.

What? Is it real? But I didn’t eat much.

I couldn’t figure out why the hell was I suddenly so sick in my stomach.

“Shall I take you to the tent with a duty doctor?”

He said in a very embarrassed voice, whether it was Ethan seemed to be in a bad condition.

If only I allowed it, it was a voice showing his willingness to go around me right now and take me to the doctor’s place.

But now, it was unreasonable because I seemed to empty my inside if I took one more step.

If, by any chance, I showed embarrassment in front of other people, I probably didn’t know that I would get rid of the gossip for ten years.

“Now, it’s impossible to move… Ooh oop!”

“Then, I’ll call people quickly.”

Ethan hesitated for a moment behind my back and quickly left as if he had decided.

“Uh…?”

Shortly after Ethan disappeared, I felt my present condition and put my hand on the floor.

Until a while ago, my inside was very thick and rumbling, but this time somehow, my head gradually became dizzy and my hands and feet became cold.

Then, after a while, I felt a sudden shake in my vision and fell to the ground.

I tried to stand up again by giving strength to my limbs, but I couldn’t hold my body properly no matter how hard I tried.

“What, you still have consciousness?”

At that moment, I heard someone’s voice behind my back.

While my eyes were blurred, I turned my head and tried to see the person’s face, but as a result it was impossible.

I felt that the string of consciousness I was trying to hold on was cut off.

And before long it’s starting to get dark.

In a moment, darkness came.

“Wake up.”

Suddenly, I heard someone waking me up.

My consciousness returned slowly, as if the body that had been submerged under the water slowly emerged.

However, the one in front of me doesn’t seem to be waiting for me, as this time she used the method of hitting my face a bit violently.

I felt a sharp pain in my cheek and slowly opened my eyes.

“Yeah, you have to wake up like that. It’s not fun unless you struggle a little more.”

At first, my view was weak and I couldn’t see well, but after closing my eyes a few times, I gradually started to see the surrounding landscape.

I was lying on the floor lined with laughable grass.

There was thick greenery in the field of view.

The sound of small grass insects and birds, and the sound of the leaves and grass grazing in the wind dimly spread to my ear.

The woman who woke me up a while ago is standing with a green forest in the background, looking down at me, lying on the floor with a smile.

I whispered her name with my lips wide open.

“Lavender Cordis….”

My throat was locked for some reason, so my sound did not come out well.

How the hell happened to this? Somehow I tried to grasp the situation by feeling the door into my hazy mind.

“Also, it’s better that you crawl on the floor like a bug.”

But without thinking deeply, the fact that Lavender Cordis did something like this to harm me. I’m able to realize it.

I thought she didn’t attend the hunting festival today, wasn’t that true?

Besides, the place where I am now was in a wooded forest.

A while ago, I was suddenly feeling very sloppy, and even now my head is dizzy and my body is tired

When I think of it, it seemed that I was taking drugs close to poison without my knowing.

I groaned a little and tried to get my body down on the floor.

“It’s useless, the medicinal effect is to high. It was far away.”

However, I was not able to get rid of it and kick it.

Lavender Cordis laughed at me as if it was pleasant for her to watch me grope at my feet.

I took a shallow breath and moved my gaze at her. At the moment of our eye contact, Lavender Cordis’ face distorted.

“What are you, are you still looking at me with those eyes?”

Tak!

Immediately a sharp pain breaks the back of her hand. I heard that sound loudly.

Because Lavender Cordis stepped on the back of my hand with the heel of her shoe.

It could be said that it was helpful in that the pain, like a broken bone, came, but thanks to it, I got a little conscious.

“I mean. I can’t see the way you become happy when you just about to die.”

Still looking at me from above, Lavender Cordis.

“Do you know how stupidly you not open your eyes and watch me take you away?”

Her eyes that I saw at that time were stained with deep-rooted hatred, so I thought that Lavender would hurt me directly again, as she stepped on the back of my hand a while ago.

But Lavender Cordis took her feet off the back of my hand and turned to the man next to her.

“Open it.”

At her order, the man opened the lid of a large canister on the floor.

Lavender Cordis herself moved her hand at the same time as I realizing that its appearance was not unfamiliar.

Splash!

As soon as the liquid in the barrel was poured over my body, I stopped and hardened.

The smell is fishy, sticking nose began to spread through the forest.

It was a nasty red liquid that hit my chin and dripping down. Since she put it upside down from the tip of my head, my vision will be washed away.

‘It may be the blood of small animals like chickens and rabbits. They said they plan to spray it in the northern area.’

The voice of Ethan I heard earlier passed through my mind for a moment.

“Now you know? This is the northern section, which is said to be filled with dangerous beasts. And you are the main dish of the beasts.”

The bucket thrown from her hand rolled over the grass. The blood sprinkled there dipped the green grass red.

It was only then that I realized why Lavender Cordis had somehow moved in a hurry.

I’m smitten with blood cloaks, and then my lips tremble.

“You’re crazy, you….”

“No, it’s you who’s crazy. Dirty bitch doesn’t even know the subject and dare to covet mine? Without you, everything will go back to normal. So all you have to do is disappear.”

Lavender Cordis seemed to think so. At that time, what I saw on her face was a kind of madness.

“If you disappear, everything will be mine. I will never be treated like this because of your neglect, and I will be taken away from you again. I will definitely come back to you.”

“You said it was stolen by me?”

I bite my lips as I watched the words Lavender Cordis said obsessively repeatedly.

“Don’t be mistaken. Even if I die, you won’t have anything.”

There was a cracked voice leaking out of my teeth.

When I disappear, everything will be hers. Where else is that stupid sound?

“Because nothing I have was originally yours.”

Lavender Cordis’ face was distorted again at my words. She stared at me as if she wanted to tear me to death right now.

However, she did not touch me directly as before, perhaps because she feared that the blood drenching my body would get on her.

“It is only until now that your mouth is alive like that.”

Instead, she relaxed and said again, as if she was going to go over my last act.

“Because of the mercy that I did not bind your limbs. Be grateful. Struggle hard once. The one who has the hope of running away that probably more cruel is you. And in the end, like crazy, despair and you’re desperate again about everything…”

What made her thibk so, Lavender Cordis said as if shems singing as if it were fun to imagine. Her appearance was creepy.

“Dying like a garbage. Not a single piece of the body left, but torn to pieces, more terrible and miserable than anyone else in the world.”

The smell of blood sprayed on my body is all around.

As I was gloomy, she turned around, leaving a last sweet whisper to me.

“It’s a pity that I can’t watch you with these two eyes when you’re chased by a hungry beast and taste your fear until you die.”

And finally I was left alone there.

In the dark and deep forest, where the end cannot be seen, it has fallen into the prey of bloodthirsty predators.

“Hyuk, Hoek..”

Dark green smeared in my sight. While walking staggering, the scenery in front of me looked like a haze.

My breath reached the end of my chin, but I had to breathe shallowly, killing the sound again before air could even enter my lungs.

In the distance, a rustling sound was heard.

I listened keenly to that small sound and leaned against the trunk of the tree.

Lavender Cordis wanted me to be chased.

Over and over again, I felt a fishy taste of blood, whether it was mine from my chewed lips, or from a beast that had been died.

My head is hazy because of the remaining medicinal effects.

To wake up, I crushed the back of my hand that had been shoehorned to Lavender Cordis with my other hand.

Immediately, the tingling pain struck, but of course it was better than being the food of the beast after being enchanted.

Lavender Cordis, that damn bitch.

I mumbled on the words of the curse toward the person who made me this way, but nothing changed.

I couldn’t figure out what kind of way of thinking she would do if I lived with it.

She apparently intended to kill me. Did she hate me enough to want to kill me in such a cruel way?

The last time I met Lavender Cordis was at the Count Gideon’s garden.

Then what I said back then, I wondered if it was the stimulation. If so, it would have been better to just ignore it.

But no… No.

It’s bad for someone who treats others as less than humans and tries to look down on them and insult them.

What the hell did I do to her?

I haven’t done anything wrong with her enough to have make me to be like this now. Even if I think about many times.

Then I suddenly wondered what Cabel, who had met with Lavender Cordis a while ago, had talked with her.

But now, thinking like that only amplifies the feeling of collapse.

I swallowed the dry saliva and looked up at the sky for a moment.

Through the dense trees, I saw a blue light that was located like a narrow door.

… In fact, one day I know that this might happen.

Of course, I didn’t know if it was because of a mad woman blinded by jealousy.

I was held by the hands of the Marchioness of Lenoard and forced out of the mansion.

It was something I’ve been thinking about since the .

Also, when Eugene was injured in his leg or when we heard of his injuries from an attack while we were away.

And while we finally came back to Ernst and gathered together as before, I always seemed to have that kind of thought on my one mind.

Maybe there are those who want to threaten us again like back then.

And if so, I thought I would be their easiest target.

So today it was my fault to be vigilant because there were many other people.

If the poison that Lavender Cordis fed me wasn’t as paralyzing as it is now, but rather a more deadly poison, I probably would have died right there without even getting a hand.

Also, if the purpose of doing this was Ernst, not me, I could have been taken as hostage to be beaten and harm my family.

I need to be a little more alert.

Of course, this thought could have been too late, but I tried to push the fear in my heart by biting my lips that had already been crushed countless times.

It was obvious why Lavender Cordis did this, hoping that I would slowly die of fear.

The symbol was really bad, but on the one hand, I’d rather be fortunate I could say.

Tak.

I fixed what I was holding in my hand a little more tightly.

The gun that Erich gave me a while ago was already stained with blood.

It was a very pretty silver gun, but because of the blood on me, it quickly turned into a reddish light.

As a precautionary measure, I always thought that I was good at putting it to my leg and hiding it in my skirt whenever I went out.

But in the meantime, always a knight were next to me. With the escort knight attached, I thought I wouldn’t be able to use it.

So, I didn’t know that Erich’s gun would be taken out so quickly, like this.

I was fortunate to have learned shooting when I was in Vastia.

In case of emergency, this is because I considered it the most rational means to protect my body.

However, Eugene opposes learning me to learn shooting from the old days because he don’t like to touch the gun.

Of course I understand his heart. But It was not impossible. Probably, no one in the world is willing and welcomes his family to pick up a gun to shoot someone.

And surely he would have pledged not to let me go through such a dangerous thing.

Krasak.

Suddenly, I heard a sound running through the grass closer than before. The sound of my neck ringing low, as if scratching my eardrum, passed through my ear.

It was a beast who came to hunt me with the smell of blood from me. Already, I had once fired a gun at that beast.

The beast, the size of a house with blood-red eyes, ran to bite me in a bite, and was surprised by the gun I shot, but the stagger did not last long.

I was still being chased, and even at this moment the siege was slowly narrowing.

There were limits to such threat shooting as well. Even if I say I have retired right now, that beast will not stop hunting as long as I am alive.

And what happen after all the bullets run out?

What is the probability that someone will come to rescue me after hearing the sound of the gun I shot?

“Woo.”

I took a deep breath as I tried to calm my trembling heart anxiously. In fact, my hand holding the gun was trembling.

My limbs are heavy, my head is dizzy, and this little gun is all that will protect my body.

Besides, I was left alone in the forest of beasts, covered in blood.

There was no way this situation would not be scary.

But I can’t just sit still helplessly and wait for rescue. And who knows how easy it is to die in a place like this?

I cried it out with that thought.

Tang.

A beast that had come before me was circling around me, revealing itself.

The brown-haired beast looked at me, drooling in the corner of his mouth, and his blood-red eyes gleaming brightly.

Even if those sharp teeth seen right now, It seemed to want to torn me apart.

Even the big feet with long toenails grown looked strong as if I could be crushed at once.

Sabak.

Every time a beast drooling and approached me one step at a time, the sound of a small grass rubbing on his body stopped in my ears.

Tension was flowing all over my body.

Cool sweat flowed behind my back and my heart pounded without affection, but I couldn’t take my eyes off the eyes I was facing.

Shall I shoot now?

But it was still too far. If hit by a comb, it would only make the hungry beast more excited, and only waste bullets then it would be wasted.

Then suddenly, I laughed at myself, acting more calmly than I thought in such a situation that I could not even imagine.

I’m in a very unrealistic situation, so my mind seemed to calmly sink.

Of course still my heart is nonsense. It was beating so loudly, and my hand at the muzzle was shaking finely.

Still, I couldn’t get back because I had to do it myself somehow.

Sabak.

Even in the midst of that, I constantly thought about myself.

No.

No matter how scared I want to go back and run away right now, I have to bear it now.

Not yet, wait a little longer.

Yes, just a little more……

And the moment I finally came close enough to see the pupil of the beast leaping to bite my neck.

Taang!!

Taang!

Finally fired.

The claws with sharpened shoulders were scratched and passed. It wide open mouth was right in front of my nose, as if try to swallowing me in one bite.

The red eyes I met right away were like a demon who came to drag me to hell.

Dump.

I was struck by a huge weight and lost my standing. A huge beast struck me without hesitation.

The forest, where the gunshot echoing in my ears, disappeared, and was filled with eerie silence.

After a while, I let out my breath, which I managed to stop. I even felt a sharp pain in my lungs, which had pushed to the limit.

As soon as I took a deep breath, the smell of fishy blood pierced my nose.

Patter.

Even then, the hot blood pouring from the animal stomach wetted my front. It was covering but my body was still fine.

I gasped wildly and barely escaped from underneath.

The beast that threatened me a while ago was dead. My shot, make it head pierced, and it bright red eyes still open, seemed to be staring at me.

For a moment, my eyes became hot and my nose was sore. The area around my chest that was just wet with new blood is damp and hot.

I got this.

I grabbed the gun again with my trembling hand and raised myself from the place.

Like an animal that had just learned to walk, my legs had lost strength and had to stagger several times, and a couple of times I had to stop walking because of nausea, but I still moved my legs without rest to get away from the spot.

It would be nice if someone came to me after hearing the gunshot.

Apparently Ethan must have noticed my absence, so he probably sent out a search.

Then how long until then? Can I pull it off? How long can I last?

I wasn’t sure if I was moving in the right direction off the north.

Still, I walked. Finding a way out where I don’t know.

Taang!

But there was no way.

After that, I faced two more beasts. One succeeded in killing, the other wounded and ran away.

The fact that the first was the fluke.

As if it were, the beasts I met afterwards couldn’t hold their breath at once.

So now there is one bullet left, how many beasts are left in this forest?

It seemed to me that I could hear the thumping, beat of the heart beat in reverse beats to my ears.

When I shot all this, I couldn’t figure out what would happen now.

No… I know the truth. It’s a future I don’t want to imagine, so I’m just pretending not to know.

“I’m not scared.”

I’m scared.

“I’m not dying.”

I don’t want to die.

However, what my heart was so loud, I began to breathe more and more, colorlessly.

The hand I saw when I got off was completely red.

It wasn’t just my hands. Both my arms, legs, and body were all armored with red blood.

My ankle hurt when I fell earlier.

The back of my hand stepped on the heel of Lavender shoe and my shoulder scratched by sharp toenails were throbbing.

Probably, blood is oozing out from the wound, but since my whole body was already covered with blood, it was not clear.

The same was true of the flesh on the branches and grass. My face was unpleasantly sticky because I was sweating and covered with blood.

“Ha, uh….”

It seemed to me to be awakened by the scent of blood blowing from me and the red light that poked my eyes.

My heart is stuffy like before I suffocate, My lungs hurt. So I wrapped it around my throat, and continued to gasp violently.

‘Where are you struggling hard once. If you have the hope of running away, it will probably be more cruel to you.’

‘And in the end, you despairs like crazy, and then you dies in despair. Without leaving a single piece of the body, it was torn to pieces, making it worse and miserable than anyone else in the world.’

Lavender Cordis left the cruelty to me. Her old words rang in my ears like an echo.

My heart is beating so strong that my chest is painful.

Perhaps, without this gun, I would have been torn by their sharp teeth, as Lavender Cordis said.

Seeing the sun still hanging on the top of the tree, it didn’t seem that long time had passed.

However, it seemed to me that I had been wandering this forest for a very long time.

It would be easier to faint. This was clear, but it was a stupid idea.

Basrock.

In the distance, I heard a sound like stepping on the grass again.

Was it a mistake to hear the simple sound of the wind, or….

I calmed my heart and gave strength to my hand with my gun.

The wind is blowing from all sides, so it was impossible to know exactly from which direction the sound was heard.

The anxiety and fear that melts deep into my heart increases the speed of me recognizing the surrounding situation.

It was starting to slowing down.

Perhaps because of the mood, the surrounding air seemed to be a little fussed.

The sound of my beating heart, the shattering of blades of grass, and the sound of my footsteps rang in my ears.

Right now, it seemed that the beast’s molars would bite my back.

But the next moment it wasn’t the cry of a beast that seemed to dig into my eardrum.

“Hari!”

Ah…..

The moment I heard that voice, the tension that had been tightened loosened.

Only then was the fired gunfire echoed in the woods to realize that the loud noise around it was from people, not from animals.

From a distance, once again a familiar voice shouted my name.

I have to tell Eugene that I am here, I have to get up and go see him.

But in my tight neck, now even a voice also didn’t leak. My legs that hesitated against the tree did not move as if the power had been released.

What if he doesn’t find me like this and just go away?

But the next moment, Eugene appeared in front of my eyes like a magic.

Eugene, who appeared after wandering through the rough grass almost up to his knees, found me hiding behind a tree trunk.

And the moment he met my eyes in the air, he looked like he was holding my breath…..

“Hari….”

As if someone was strangled, a roughly sinking voice flowed into my ear.

I breathed in my breath and looked at him like that.

Somehow I didn’t feel real, so if this is a dream, what to do and what I think, I dug into a corner of my heart.

At last, Eugene approached and reached out to me.

However, he touched me with a very careful movement, his hesitating hands on me who became bloody.

It was like a gesture of fear of reaching out to a wounded animal.

When I realized that Eugene’s hand was trembling, I barely squeezed and called him small.

“Brother Eugene.”

Only then, Eugene’s face, which was frozen in vain, changed.

The next moment, he didn’t care about the blood on his clothes and body and hugged me.

As much as I did want it, my sound of breath was distracting.

A solid arm wrapped around my body, and his small trembling hand still wiped my back. It was as if he wanted to make sure I was safe.

“Hari, Hari……”

Again, desperate enough to melt the soy sauce, he called my name over and over again.

“Now it’s okay.”

I couldn’t figure out who’s the thumping heart was.

“You’re gonna be fine because I’m here.”

Eugene whispered in my ears like this, trying to reassure me.

There was a warm warmth in contact with him. As long as I was held, my body slowly began to drain from the body that had been hardened with a long way.

“So you can stop it now.”

It was after a while that Eugene’s hand wrapped my hand.

I finally realized that I was still holding my gun so hard that my bones were swollen.

Eugene is firm with his careful touch and open my hands. How hard he was giving strength, and his fingers were all tingling.

I still looked a little empty, looking at him in front of me, and opened my mouth unconsciously.

“I did good….?”

Eugene, who was pulling out the gun from my hand, stopped at my little question that could be said to be a bit unsuccessful.

Once again, my eyes met his in the air.

Soon after Eugene pressed something, he paused and opened his mouth.

“Yeah.”

His hand grabbed me tight so that it hurts my hand.

“Well done. Good enough, well done.”

As I listened to Eugene whispering over and over again, I slowly let go of my hand.

“You really endured it well, Hari.”

When the gun was completely released, I finally realized the current feeling and started to breathe with a different beat.

“So don’t worry about anything now and leave the work behind to me.”

Just because Eugene existed, it seemed that the place I was in now became a safer place than anywhere else in the world.

I saw people running and discovering us from a distance. Erich and Ethan also there.

I closed my eyes feeling Eugene hugged me.

And finally, the string of consciousness that was only held until then was completely released.