I Just Wanted to Avoid Death - Chapter 110
Eldis had never imagined things would end up like this. He had been the one stabbed, poisoned by the blade’s toxin, yet somehow…
“Yeshion…”
The slender body he held in his arms lay limply. Having spent so long unconscious, he had become thin and frail, pitifully wasted away.
Someone barely strong enough to support himself had ultimately sacrificed everything for someone else.
…He could have lived.
Despite wavering countless times between life and death due to Edward’s attack and the lingering Gebi poison, Yeshion had continued to cling desperately to life.
Yet, in the end, he departed too easily.
Not anyone else, but him—who had scolded Yeshion countless times—was saved at the cost of Yeshion’s own life.
“I wanted to know more about you…”
But now, it was too late.
The person who could provide answers was no longer here.
Only now remained…
“Archpriest, you’re not sleeping again? You’ll get sick at this rate.”
…Only the faint illusion of him, flickering before Eldis’s eyes, intangible, unreachable.
How much time had passed since Yeshion’s death? Eldis couldn’t even recall clearly who had tended to Yeshion’s body afterward.
Fragments of memories lingered, such as desperately fighting off the imperial soldiers trying to take Yeshion’s corpse.
Eldis, staring blankly out the window, slowly rose from his seat. Behind the temple stood a newly erected gravestone. Clearly engraved upon it was Yeshion’s name.
After a long gaze at the inscription, Eldis gently brushed away the snow piled atop it.
Ever since Yeshion’s death, Eldis’s world had begun to distort uncontrollably—almost as if the very foundation holding it together had vanished.
“It’s especially cold today… Was it around this time last year that you asked if we really had to do laundry in cold water in weather like this?”
Maybe he should have asked someone else to handle it then.
Even with that small regret, Eldis knew nothing would have changed, since he had disliked Yeshion at the time anyway.
Now Eldis spent more than half his days standing here. He endlessly replayed the memories he’d shared with Yeshion.
Because, although Yeshion never appeared anywhere else, he always seemed to greet Eldis with a faint, indifferent expression whenever he visited this grave.
After standing vacantly for a while, Eldis saw a faint outline of Yeshion’s form. It was a blurry, wavering apparition, yet Eldis smiled softly upon seeing it.
But soon, his voice grew somber again.
“…Do you know, Yeshion? It’s already been over half a year since the Saintess disappeared. No one has heard a word from him.”
Rosaline, who had left to find medicinal herbs for Yeshion’s stubborn fever, had vanished. He would never have willingly left Yeshion, yet there had been no news for half a year now.
“A short while ago…the Crown Prince was executed.”
“……”
“With the Saintess gone, and you no longer here… the curse that was barely suppressed eventually spiraled out of control.”
Though the imperial family had desperately hidden Adelio’s curse before, they turned their backs on him after he clashed with the ducal family and shielded the temple.
“The Empress supposedly called him ‘the devil’s child.’”
The temple insisted the prince’s curse had no connection to demons, but the Emperor refused to listen. Believing only the Empress’s words, he personally carried out the execution.
Even though it was his own son, he trusted only the Empress.
“If you had been there…how would you have solved it?”
Eldis laughed bitterly.
He knew Yeshion couldn’t possibly have solved what he himself, as Archpriest, could not.
Yet, he still missed him terribly.
It felt like everything would have worked out if only Yeshion were there.
“…I don’t have much time left either, Yeshion.”
Eldis slowly raised his head, gazing up at the sky.
“Since I supported the Crown Prince, they say I, too, must’ve been bought by demons.”
Not knowing demons didn’t even exist in this world.
The absurdity nearly made him laugh.
The softly falling snow and thick silence seemed to confirm that the vibrant temple he once knew no longer existed.
“But perhaps that isn’t so bad.”
Because when I die, I’ll be able to meet you—not just your illusion, but truly meet you.
“I miss you.”
Today, as the winter sunlight gently fell, the vision atop the grave smiled brightly and stretched out a hand toward him. At that moment, Eldis felt the bitterness deep within his heart melt away, like snow beneath the sun.
Looking at that faint visage, Eldis slowly opened his mouth.
Only at that moment did Eldis finally realize:
‘Ah…I truly loved you.’
Eirabell
This is too sad 😭😭 Please, may Yeshion really can regress again and that time, their relationship will be much better than before 😭😭💐
Kanna Anderson
This was so sad T-T
I hope they could reach a happy ending in the next part.
Somehow I prefer Eldis over Adelio. But I still don’t know witch would be the final pairing