I Captured the Enemy Who Tried to Kill Me - Chapter 44
But shortly after.
‘Hey. Hey. HEY!’
My tender feelings evaporated cleanly.
I was struggling with all my might to detach someone who was clinging to me.
Damn it all!
‘Moderation! Show some moderation!’
At first, it wasn’t bad.
The sensation of clinging with deep contact had become quite familiar by now.
Above all, after seeing those cursed S-ranks in South Korea, there was nothing unpleasant about seeing someone purely reaching out wanting to live.
But even that has its limits.
‘Why is it more intense than usual!’
Perhaps because it was different from when he was even slightly conscious.
When I tried to turn my head away, the hand gripping my waist remained firm, clearly refusing to let me go.
The other hand had somehow burrowed into my hair, firmly gripping the nape of my neck.
Was this a rose vine or what?
An octopus or what!
I was afraid that what happened when I guided this man at the banquet hall would happen again. Ugh!
“Now, enough. Please!”
At this rate, too much guiding energy would be drained, and I might not be able to get up.
Confirming that the hideously raised veins were starting to subside, I tried somehow to break the connection.
‘I need to escape quickly before he properly regains consciousness!’
This was especially true now that the giant man-eating flower, which had let out a final shriek, was completely disintegrating.
My heart pounded heavily.
I tugged desperately at my hair from the man’s grasp, which held me as if he would never let go.
‘What, do I need to pinch him or something?’
Tears flowed whenever I saw Kaisis’s trembling eyelids.
Someone help me. The problem is solved, but how do I get out of here!
‘Status window! System! What are you doing? Lucy, my Guide, my chubby kitty! Save me. I’m going to get caught at this rate!’
While I was inwardly struggling, trying to avoid the breath that was deeply entwined with my tongue.
āDing.
Could the sound of an angel’s bell ringing from heaven be like this?
[Congratulations!]
There was a feeling that the system window was struggling differently than usual, but it still felt like receiving a divine blessing.
But that didn’t matter.
The important thing was that the window was visible.
‘Welcome, truly welcome!’
[Point, settlementā
Congratulations, con-congratulations!
You have, splendidly, completed the quest.
Guiding pointā]
Yes, yes. Right, right.
I really tried hard.
I rescued the Emperor.
I dealt with the monster.
I must have accumulated quite a few points!
“So let’s escape quickly!”
I used all my strength to shake off Kaisis, who wouldn’t let go.
“Before this person wakes up!”
The thud of his head hitting the ground seemed like it would hurt quite a bit, but my lips, which had been bitten and sucked, hurt more.
I huffed as I wiped my glistening lips.
This human, more tenacious than an octopus’s suction cup…
For a very brief moment, I resentfully glared at the handsome man lying collapsed.
‘You’ll never know, even if you die. That you were saved by Duke Ariel, whom you hate so much!’
His peaceful, collapsed appearance made me feel wronged.
And thinking about our relationship, where we would exchange harsh words with cold and fierce eyes tomorrow, made me irritated!
‘But he’s alive, so.’
He’s alive, so it’s fine.
I decided to put aside the disappointing and regrettable things that happened while confronting him.
That was something for the daytime Duke Ariel to deal with, not now.
I reached out to the status window with sparkling eyes.
[Quest completed.
If you wish to escape from the Gate, please press here.]
Press.
My vision turned white.
Finally, truly finally!
“Ah.”
A familiar bedroom, and a familiar fat cat.
It was an escape.
I had escaped from that wretched Gate!
“I’m, alive.”
As soon as I saw the vertically split pupils, I collapsed downward.
My eyes instantly became hot.
“Hey, I, Lucy, I really.”
This time, it was truly terribly difficult.
“I thought I was going to die, the Gate was scary, sob.”
I had really endured well, but as soon as I saw the familiar cat’s face with its sticky mischief, tears poured out like a broken faucet.
“Huaaang!”
“Meooow! You, they can hear you outside meow!”
“Huuuuu!”
Afraid that it might leak outside and someone might hear, I cried like a child, suppressing my sobs.
It was truly frightening.
Seeing the fantasy where I died, and trying to escape from a past life whose name I couldn’t even remember, was scary.
The situation where I had to save the Emperor trapped in ice, and the fact that I would die together if I couldn’t save that person, was horrifying.
“Aiyoo, but you did well, meow.”
I fiercely hugged the round cat, who seemed to know the situation and was waiting, despite saying it would sleep beside Luias.
“Kyaak!”
I rubbed my face frantically while accepting the punches thrown by its front paws with a squeak.
“Let go meow!”
I heard the cat’s disgusted voice, but I persevered firmly.
“Today, you have to bear with me. I was really scared…”
In the end, I hugged that plump body that relaxed its strength and became aware of reality.
And for a very brief moment.
I thought of someone who would have been left alone in the Gate.
They would have escaped safely.
Without knowing who they owed their life to, they would see me tomorrow with that grumpy face again.
‘Bad person.’
And when night comes, they would become affectionate.
My mate, whispering affectionately.
With those eyes, different from the S-ranks of my past life, who coldly and callously ignored me.
***
His head felt like it was about to split.
With the familiar pain and the sensation of exiting the Gate, Kaisis opened his eyes.
“Your Majesty!”
“What has happ-, oh, by the gods!”
“You escaped safely! Indeed, indeed you are Your Majesty!”
The surroundings were excessively noisy.
As Kaisis, with a contorted face, slowly raised his body, people who didn’t know what to do surrounded him.
Looking around, he saw the palace garden with traces of destruction.
‘The Gate.’
It was gone.
He held his head where throbbing pain was spreading and tightly closed his lips.
“Your Majesty, did you destroy the nucleus alone? What kind of Gate was it that…”
He couldn’t answer the knights’ voices filled with curiosity and respect.
He didn’t remember.
No, there were things he remembered in fragments.
It seemed like he had truly experienced that terrible scene from his very young days in vivid reality.
And someone had held him tightly…
‘That someone.’
Who called his name, whose eyes met his.
That form.
“Red hair.”
Kaisis’s face became serious.
He raised his hand and looked at his skin, which was completely clean without any trace of his previous berserk state.
His body, which clearly bore the traces of an Indoja, the marks of his mate who visited at night.
‘She came.’
Into the Gate.
Not knowing how she appeared even inside the Gate was a problem, but there was an even bigger difficulty.
“For a dream…”
He let out a hollow laugh as he looked at his sleeve.
He could see a scratch wound slowly healing.
It wasn’t a dream. This pain, and what he saw in there.
His blue eyes instantly turned cold.
“Your Majesty…?”
The Awakened Ones, not understanding and becoming serious along with him, watched his mood.
Kaisis slowly stood up.
‘Surely.’
It seemed like he had seen someone inside who he absolutely should not have seen.
That someone who was truly unbelievable, unimaginable.
***
Now that all plans had failed.
Since the monster called the Emperor had come back alive to this world again, they needed to prepare their most certain card.
And their only god had given the blessing to use the power of the Gate.
“Rise.”
Power identical to that coming from the Gate poured into a body that had been as still as death.
The eyelids of the sleeping body trembled.
As the eyelids slowly lifted, beautiful eyes that seemed like starlight would pour down were revealed.
“Do you know what you must do?”
A figure who might have been important in this world originally.
She, who had been like a doll, slowly became a living human and held a bright smile.
“Yes. I know.”
She placed her hand on her chest and smiled prettily.
“What I must do is one thing.”
Just as someone had praised and called her the sunshine lady.
“To become a real Guide.”
She smiled like that.
“By any means necessary.”
