I Captured the Enemy Who Tried to Kill Me - Chapter 43
Upon arriving at his teacher’s room, Luias looked down worriedly at the cat in his arms.
What should he do now?
After timidly knocking on the door, Luias tilted his head.
It was quiet, as if no one was inside.
“Meow.”
At that moment, upon noticing their arrival, the cat’s eyes opened brightly.
“We’ve arrived meow……”
As he nodded while continuously stroking the plump back, the cat gestured with its chin, clearly indicating he should open the door.
But it was quiet inside.
“Open it meow.”
Creak, upon opening the door, what appeared was indeed an empty room.
Luias tilted his head.
His teacher’s daily schedule should be finished by now. Where could she have gone?
As he entered the room, the cat that had spun around in his arms before landing walked with staggering steps onto his teacher’s bed and curled up into a ball.
When he tried to follow, the cat, with only one eye open, shook its head.
“Don’t worry meow. I just need to endure a little longer meow. Little one, you must keep today’s events absolutely secret meow. Can you do that meow?”
Yes, yes.
Luias nodded his head vigorously.
How his teacher’s cat could speak human language, such things weren’t important.
Lucy was the young prince’s precious friend.
After nodding his head fervently until his cheeks turned red, the cat smiled.
It was a cute smile that somehow warmed its heart.
“Then go back meow.”
Following the cat’s words, he slowly closed the door and walked down the corridor.
The completely deserted corridor felt especially frightening today.
Where had his teacher gone?
Why was the cat in pain?
Was it okay to just go back like this?
The weather visible through the corridor’s outside window was now overcast with dark clouds that looked ready to pour rain.
“Ah.”
He wanted to speak.
‘I want to speak too.’
Like before.
‘Brother.’
Luias clenched his small hands tightly, recalling the terrifying night six years ago.
The sky, similar to that day when he had just held his brother’s hand without knowing anything, somehow felt ominous.
That’s why he wanted to see him more.
His brother, who had turned pale while protecting him.
And he also wanted to see.
‘Teacher.’
His teacher, who seemed gruff but also kind.
However, today, neither of them was by Luias’s side.
‘I’m lonely.’
Sniff.
The young prince hurried his steps, swallowing what might have been snot or tears.
***
It was agonizing. It hurt.
Kaisis was writhing.
‘Why am I like this?’
There was clearly something important, but.
He seemed to know what his mother, who was laughing hysterically before him, would do.
Finally, the blackened hole swallowed his mother.
‘Ah.’
His heart hurt as if it had been shattered.
He knew.
He knew that his power was exceptional, enough to be called a monster by his mother all along.
And he also knew that if this power lost its direction and went berserk outward, a terrible situation would unfold.
‘My brother, Luias was there.’
Please. Please, someone.
He reached out his hand.
It felt like someone had saved him when he reached out like this.
It was an absurd thought.
Around him were only his mother, who despised her son, his father, who was tired of such conflicts, and stern knights.
Sometimes, everyone imposed responsibilities and duties on him to the point where he envied Luias, who would whine while shedding tears.
‘But why do I have this thought?’
As if such a person existed.
Crack─ The sound of something splitting was heard.
It might have been his heart breaking.
While fear rushed in, somehow it also felt refreshing.
Because he had always lived oppressed, like a monster or beast chained.
‘Am I going to die like this? So futilely?’
It was at that very moment.
From somewhere, he heard someone desperately calling “Kaisis.”
It seemed like someone was calling his name with urgency.
That couldn’t be.
Who would dare call the prince’s name like that?
Even his parents didn’t call him affectionately, making him feel as if dust had settled on his name, so why?
‘Ah. Warmth…’
Why did it feel like someone was embracing him?
Why did it feel like he was being embraced into a not-so-wide, but warm and affectionate bosom?
It was fine even if this sensation was false.
It was fine, even if it was a fantasy before death.
‘I don’t want to let you go.’
He greedily gripped someone’s arms tightly with both hands.
‘Stay by my side.’
He wanted to keep them by his side forever.
‘Yes, I always…’
At the same time, he recalled the back of someone who always came and left, and the emotions that boiled inside him when he saw it.
‘Always you.’
What was this? What memory was this?
Kaisis didn’t know.
That the body in his unconscious had begun to change.
That it wasn’t the delicate teenage boy’s body anymore, but was gradually growing and changing into his current physique.
So the person who had held him tightly in their arms was now being embraced in his growing arms instead.
“You are.”
A strange, deep voice resonated from him.
In the hazy vision, his eyes met someone’s.
A brilliantly shining gold.
A beautiful light as if all the fine and precious things in the world had been gathered and molded.
And that vivid red color that rippled like the curtain of sunset.
A white face…
‘That face.’
He knew that face.
He knew it well.
Who was it? Whose was it?
He didn’t know. The Awakened One, still buried in past memories, reached out his hand as if digging a well to survive.
The other’s abundant and soft hair filled his hand.
He knew this sensation.
It was like fire. An ember found amid the coldness that was freezing his entire body.
‘Mine.’
He yearned.
Give me more.
Don’t leave.
I will never let you go.
The moment he grasped the warmth with both hands.
‘I.’
Crack─
‘I wasn’t a young prince.’
The world began to break and shatter.
‘My mate.’
***
“Huh!”
The sensation of being expelled from another’s unconscious was not pleasant, no matter how one described it.
It felt like being hungover and simultaneously hurled down a wild water slide at breakneck speed.
“Ugh!”
Anyway, I escaped safely.
I was in a state of fully embracing the man who was still slumped without regaining consciousness.
The broken ice fragments were disappearing, their power seemingly exhausted.
In front of me, that hideous giant flower was struggling in pain with its tentacles drooping.
─Kieeeeek!
I covered my ears and shouted.
“That’s right! Why would you swallow a human who seems like they wouldn’t even digest well!”
I sighed in relief as I saw the monster’s center, the nucleus that was cracking and turning to powder.
If I had been asked to solve that too in a situation where I couldn’t even use magic properly because there was no system window, I would have wanted to just faint.
“Now I just need to wait for it to die, and when the nucleus is destroyed, go through the exit…”
The problem was that I couldn’t go through that exit.
If I went out like this in the appearance of a Duke in pajamas, it wouldn’t be an escape but a path of death flowers.
Moreover.
“I can’t let this person out like this either…”
Seeing the veins climbing up Kaisis’s neck and the stinging power being transmitted, I needed to guide him immediately.
Having to kiss with a dying monster beside me, today’s luck was really the best. Damn it.
“Please.”
I gently held the unconscious man’s chin.
“Please don’t open your eyes. Please.”
After turning his direction to face me, I swallowed dryly.
‘It should be fine that our eyes met in the fantasy, right?’
Desperately hoping that he would think he was mistaken, I poured my breath over Kaisis’s slightly parted lips.
And as soon as I started guiding.
‘Ugh!’
My waist was strongly grabbed.
I was startled, thinking he had regained consciousness, but his eyelids remained tightly closed.
It was a bit painful, but somehow I smiled in relief as I felt the energy strongly flowing out.
‘Yes, Kaisis. This suits you better.’
Not that powerless appearance, collapsing in resignation in front of an open Gate.
It was more fitting for him to desperately cling to the determination to catch a Guide.
That was the person named Kaisis that I knew.
