I Captured the Enemy Who Tried to Kill Me - Chapter 51
He bowed deeply.
In the darkness, the person beyond the communication orb was reproaching him with a silence full of blame.
“I apologize, Leader.”
The Leader whom they respected endlessly. The Star, who had steadily promoted all these affairs.
But he had betrayed the expectations of the Great One.
“I tried to kill the Emperor, but failed.”
Opening a Gate required that much sacrifice.
It was their carefully planned attack with significant investment, but regrettably, it had failed spectacularly.
A mental attack-type Gate that binds Awakened Ones. The Emperor, who was on the verge of going berserk. And the condition of being left alone.
‘It should have been a state from which he could never escape.’
─So does this mean the Emperor’s partner exists somewhere in the Empire?
At the Leader’s voice, his face hardened.
“But that partner.”
Hadn’t they dealt with them?
Then why, after six years had passed, did the existence of the Emperor’s partner suddenly appear again?
‘Or was what we caught a fake?’
No, that couldn’t be.
“If you entrust me with one more chance, this time I will properly handle…”
─No.
He squeezed his eyes shut. In truth, anyone could take this position as the Leader’s limb.
But their Leader was an irreplaceable, noble being.
─I will go myself.
“…!”
─The royal delegation will seek to visit the Empire. And there I will personally examine the Emperor’s surroundings.
The Holy Kingdom. A rotten, stupid group worshipping an incompetent god who had abandoned this world.
They had deliberately put down roots there.
“You’re coming yourself?”
The limb’s eyes gleamed brightly. How long had it been? The Leader personally visits the Empire.
“It’s an honor. I will prepare everything.”
─I expect so.
Click, the communication was cut off.
The man who was the limb raised his stiff knees and let out a meaningful laugh.
Though it was impossible to know who was helping the Emperor while hiding their identity, they would no longer be able to do so.
Because they would make it so.
Under the Great Power.
“Ahaha!”
The Emperor and all the monster offspring existing in the Empire deserved to be eliminated.
***
I was swallowing dry saliva in front of the massive door.
Finally, this time had come.
‘I should go in. I need to go in.’
For two days, I had made the excuse that I needed to focus on research for the demonstration and didn’t attend the imperial palace, but the Emperor still went through Gates.
So I was summoned again.
The moment I opened the door and entered, my waist was grabbed.
Before I could be startled, I was pulled sharply into someone’s embrace.
“I’ve been waiting for you.”
A heavy voice resonated from the chest of the person touching my ear.
When I raised my head, I immediately met eyes that shone blue like ice crystals.
Looking at that desperate gaze, I deliberately used the point of contact to spread my energy.
“Always.”
I could feel through my fingertips how the Awakened One’s body trembled as it sensed the guiding energy flowing faintly into it.
“This pain was terrible. It’s funny that now I look forward to it.”
He continued speaking.
I didn’t say anything.
“When it hurts, you come.”
Yes, that’s the problem.
“My Indoja.”
The faint smell of blood, the body repeatedly regenerating, and the sharp, cold energy that was finding stability according to my energy.
The problem was facing that moment when the other person was truly crying out with their whole body that they wanted me.
‘I simply can’t hate him.’
In fact, the Emperor, that man, is threatening my life.
Because of the Empero,r who is suspicious and wary, raising his tail in case his hated Duke Ariel might be related to the Indoja at night.
‘Thanks to you, my life is also constantly wavering.’
So I should hate him to death, but I couldn’t because of that desperate gaze.
Come to think of it, it hadn’t been long since I started feeling familiarity with that handsome face that was merely a character in “The Tyrant Emperor.”
My emotions had been colored gradually, like clothes getting wet in a drizzle.
When did it become like this?
“My Indoja.”
That familiar title isn’t actually mine.
That made me angry.
‘I didn’t know my place.’
I wasn’t angry at the Emperor, but at myself for feeling arbitrary familiarity toward him despite being a slave to the quest.
‘I was stupid. Only those who hide their ulterior motives are kind to Guides.’
After putting out the urgent fire, I lowered my hands from the Emperor’s chest and stepped back.
The Emperor’s hands that had been strongly holding my waist also fell naturally.
Those relaxed blue eyes.
That gaze that didn’t recognize me.
‘It’s okay. The system’s power is still working.’
Still, remembering the Emperor’s words, who had remembered and guessed so much, gave me chills.
‘I need to stay alert. Considering what happened inside the Gate, the system’s power isn’t perfect.’
If I got captivated by that handsome face and revealed too much, my identity could be exposed in an instant.
No matter how instinctively touching it feels when an Awakened One begs and pleads, that’s that and this is this.
“Why don’t you kiss me?”
Even if he throws such crazy words with that face without hesitation!
‘That’s just an Awakened One wagging its tail to please the Indoja. Get a grip, me!’
I saw the large man’s hand slightly extended.
That hand was a problem from the beginning.
I glared at that hand while biting my lip.
But what could I do? I slowly took his hand and let my energy flow.
Above my head, I heard the other’s ecstatic exclamation.
Feeling myself inexplicably becoming pleased along with him, I just kept nibbling on my innocent lips.
“Inside the Gate.”
Today, the Emperor was particularly talkative, while I remained silent.
“Did you save me?”
But I couldn’t keep ignoring him.
Since the one to whom he confessed his suspicions was Duke Ariel during the day, it was right that I, the night me, shouldn’t know anything.
I looked directly into those blue eyes and said.
“Because I promised. That I would go whenever you were in danger.”
Even though you blurted out about this secret time to Duke Ariel.
You were my bamboo forest.
The moment you revealed it, I had to wear a false mask even during the night hours.
That makes me feel empty and hollow.
“You came into the Gate.”
“Does the time and place matter?”
“Do you know how amazing what you’re saying is…?”
Of course, I knew.
I was indirectly speaking about the existence of some power that transcended the rules of Gates.
Perhaps with my confession now, the Emperor might suspect a connection between me and the villains.
That was also what I was aiming for.
‘Associate me with those things rather than Duke Ariel!’
The system was still quiet.
There was no flashing red light on the status window.
Only the display of Kaisis’s decreasing berserk level due to the guiding energy I was steadily pouring in.
87%.
81%.
78%.
72%…
However, just holding hands could only achieve that speed and level.
His skin touched mine between our fingers.
The movement of deeply interlocking fingers was ticklish and languid.
With a slightly stronger force pulling me in, I fell toward him.
Along with the feeling of something being drained out, the strength in my knees gave way.
I slowly exhaled in the Emperor’s arms, which naturally supported my waist and let me lean on him.
“Why are you so quiet today?”
Because you suspect me.
“You promised to tell me your story.”
And you broke your promise.
“My partner.”
Soft lips touched the tips of my raised fingers.
He rubbed his lips against my fingertips like he was pleading, like an affectionate young beast.
“Tell me.”
Even though I knew he was actually suspicious. Even though I knew he was doing this to dig for more clues.
‘Since I told him my power was good.’
I opened my mouth.
