SPMB - Special Side Story 12

 The Revelers of Addis (8)

"Why are you doing this? Talk to me!"

"I lost the Eyes of The World Tree."

Raphael said calmly.

"Still, remnants of that ability still remain, sometimes it is faintly visible."

"What...?"

"And I saw you in that capacity."

He stared impassively at the restraints that filled Kanna's hands and feet.

"You have now been tempted by a relic from the Southern Continent. You tried to follow the suggestion to leave Addis and drown yourself in the sea."

"..."

"So please be patient until the suggest released."

Ah.

At that moment, Kanna remembered its last command.

Leave Addis and take the ship to the Eastern Continent.

To drown in the sea on the way. Drown her to death so that her body cannot be found.

"Yes, I did."

So Raphael thinks he will commit suicide. Kanna was swayed by that suggestion.

"I didn't get caught..."

Kanna said with a sigh.

"No, that's right. I was caught at first, but when I discovered Orsini hiding the holy stone, I woke up angry."

Kanna was so angry. She immediately woke up from the suggestion.

"Then why are you following the suggestion?"

"I'm just pretending to comply! I'm doing this because I want to find out which guy gave me the suggestion. Raphael, I have a plan too. Just listen, I..."

"I won't listen."

Raphael cut her off firmly. It was the first time.

"Believing that you're free from suggestion is also the effect of suggestion. So, don't try to convince me, just shut up."

Raphael doesn't believe me!

Kanna was shocked. Raphael denies her words! Shut up? He says such harsh things!

"Raphael, how can you do this to me?"

"Sorry."

"Don't be funny. If you're sorry, you can't do this."

Then Raphael fell silent. The face looking down at her with dark eyes looked like a stone statue with shadows.

"Yes."

"What?"

"Now that I think about it, I'm not particularly sorry."

"What...?"

"I will ignore your orders from now on."

Raphael spoke calmly. It's as if it's something he can do whenever he wants.

"Protecting you is my top priority, so please know that and be willing to be patient."

With those words, Raphael turned around.

Kanna couldn't believe this reality. Surprisingly, Raphael seemed a little angry now.

He probably thought she was trying to die.

"It's not. I was just looking down at the sea without really thinking anything.'

Besides, no matter how angry he is, what is this?

Kanna looked at the chains that bound her limbs.

This is a sight she saw somewhere.

From the past.

"Seon-Hae was like this."

As if history repeats itself, Kanna is in the same situation as her mother. She was captured by a spirit and imprisoned in the main temple.

'No matter how worried he is, how could he use such barbaric methods...'

Kanna sighed.

'How do I prove that I woke up from the darkness?'

Even if Kanna says no, he won't believe her. Why is she so sure?

'But I don't have time to stay here right now.'

Of course, she had her own plan. Leisurely enjoy running away from home.

It wasn't her intention. She was also racking her brain to find the guy who had hinted.

Time is of the essence if she wants to catch him...

"I brought you a meal."

After a while, Raphael comes in with food. He sat down next to her and served her a steak with a fork.

"Please eat."

"..."

Kanna stared at him and then smiled.

There is no time to convince him, no time to wait for him to believe.

'Then there's nothing I can do about it.'

There is no choice but to break down the wall called Raphael and pass by.

"I like something different."

Kanna gently raised her hand.

Then Raphael dropped his gaze and looked at her again. He bluntly refused.

"Not now."

Raphael was only wearing a thin black robe, but that alone was not enough to deceive his immediate reaction.

"Never mind."

Raphael spoke as if it were not his body and held out a fork.

"You're going to eat it, so please eat it quickly."

Kanna looked at his pelvis.

There's a pocket over there. And he put the key in there.

"Yes. I'll eat."

Kanna opened her lips and bit into the meat he had chopped into small pieces. She stared and chewed.

She gulped, swallowed, and smiled faintly.

"Would you like one more?"

Kanna opened her lips.

"You put it in."

Raphael looked at her lips in silence. He gazes at the red fruit inside her mouth, unlike his faithful-looking face.

"Rapheal, I can't help but pay attention."

Kanna whispered and smiled.

"Do you know that even your gown is open now?"

"Yes, I know. I'm sorry."

"If you told me you were sorry..."

Kanna glanced again at the gap of his gown. As soon as their eyes met, she felt heat from Raphael's breathing. Now he was clearly reminded. Kanna was a little shocked by that high-pitched tone.

"Don't worry about this?"

"Yes. Never mind. I'm sorry."

He apologizes with a noble expression.

Kanna knew. She knows that she likes his gap, his not-so-funny pretentiousness.\

"..."

Her hands and feet were tied, but her face was free.

And lips too.

Kanna lifted her gaze and stared into Raphael's eyes a little more, then lowered it again. With a strong nose and a firmly closed mouth.

And...

He headed slowly.

Unlike his refusal, he responded by grabbing the back of her head.

His muscles, contracted to the fullest from the remains of pleasure, were in a trance.

So much so that he didn't even know the key was missing.

***

Orsini drank whiskey.

"Why did you hide it?"

A few days ago, Orsini received the Holy Stone.

Was it Cecillia? The woman who was featured in the newspaper as his mistress. It was an item obtained through a secret deal with that woman.\

Cecilia said that she happened to buy it from a random merchant while walking down the street.

He's sure she bought it from a relic dealer in the Southern Continent.

Being an artifact dealer in the Southern Continent is dangerous. So, after examining the Holy Stone, he was going to give it to Kanna.

"Why did you hide it?"

Orsini couldn't say anything as if his mouth had burst. Because he knew that wasn't everything.

And Kanna also saw the fact with frightening accuracy.

One day, Kanna told him a story about not being able to sleep. She said it was a fairy tale she heard about when she was in another world.

Did she say a story about a fairy and a woodcutter? The story of a man who captured a fairy under the pretext of winged clothes. And a story of a woman who abandons a man without any regrets when she also gets her winged clothes back.

"There are all kinds of idiots out there."

She said so calmly, but Orsini was extremely miserable at that moment. Because that idiot was like just him.

"Brother, are you listening to me?"

"Yes."

"Ell Andoit has been hinted. It is probably a relic from the Southern Continent. Julian is neither my son nor Ell Andoit's son."

"Right."

"..."

"We need to find out who did it."

Just like that?

Kalen looked at his brother with distrustful eyes.

He had a glass of whiskey, but surprisingly, his brother was working. But it is only the body that does the work. The eyes are empty, the soul isn't here.

Anyway, his brother is also foolish.

He was so pathetic that Kalen couldn't do anything for his sister and he was just hurting.

'Well, you said that when my sister left, you lived like that for several years.'

If she left, just bring her back.

Wouldn't it be enough to persuade her after bringing her in?

Of course, Kalen didn't want to force Kanna, but what was more unbearable than that was living life without Kanna Addis.

Kelan left the office.

"Lord Kalen."

"Agh, Rodrik. Is things going well?"

"Yes. As you said, we have started building a cabin on the island."

"Yes. There's no need to build it big."

Kalen smiled softly. It was a laugh of a noble gentleman whom Rodrik had admired a long time ago.

"Just enough place for two people to lie down."

"..."

Rodrik lowered his head without saying a word.

It was then.

"Oh, Father?"

Ah, he forgot about that for a moment.

Kalen turned his head grimly. It was Julian.

"Uh, what about Mom?"

"Mom? Who? Ell Andoit?"

"yes, yes."

"She is..."

Kalen got down on one knee. After reaching eye level with Julian, he whispered in his ear.

"She's dead."

"...!"

"I killed her."

Julian's eyes widen. It was a look of disbelief.

Kalen stroked Julian's head, looking at the face that looked exactly like him in astonishment as If he were a really kind father.

"If you didn't hear, would you like me to say it again?"

"Huhu, huhu...."

The child stumbled and fell backward. He fainted.

"Lord Kalen?"

"Huh?"

"What did you just say to your son, Julian?"

"It's none of your business. What are you doing? Why don't you move to the bedroom?"

Kalen stood up. There was a mountain of work to do.

***

At that time.

Sylvien put down the document and sighed. It was a document containing the whereabouts of Kalen Addis.

"Anyway, he's a human being who can't let down his guard."

Sylvien was scared the most by this person. He muttered and got up.

'As expected, Seon-Hee is right.'

When he retrieved Kanna's soul across time and worlds, he met Kanna's mother, Seon-Hee.

And that's when she warned.

It would be difficult to control Kalen Addis. And Kalen Addis is a man who could easily destroy the peace they worked so hard to achieve.

'She said it would be better to kill him.'

Sylvien smiled quietly.

He felt like that day had come.

Thank you so much for [ Step_On_Me_Alessandro] who provided me the raw for the remaining 💖💖 chapter!

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