I Just Wanted to Avoid Death - Chapter 155
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Yeshion swallowed dryly and bowed his head.
After being scolded by Rosaline, it was now Eldis’s turn.
“I permitted you to go out alone, not to come back beaten.”
He thought Eldis wouldn’t say much since he’d claimed to know when he’d return.
But apparently, he’d just been waiting for the right time—right after Rosaline.
“Explain yourself, Priest Yeshion.”
“…Well, that is…”
“Yes?”
“…That wasn’t what I had planned.”
“Of course it wasn’t. Who would plan to get beaten up? You’re not an idiot.”
He might as well have called him an idiot directly.
Still, what Yeshion had done was truly foolish this time, so even if it stung a little, he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.
“I wanted to chase after you right away.”
“…What?”
“Because I knew something had happened to you.”
The divine power linking them through the imprinting also served to notify each other when something went wrong.
Not long after Yeshion left the temple, Eldis sensed his emotions growing violently unstable.
He stopped his prayer and stared silently in the direction Yeshion had gone, not even noticing that the laurel branch in his hand had snapped.
Each time the life force within Yeshion faltered, Eldis continuously sent power without delay.
He wanted to go to Yeshion immediately, but feared that doing so would ruin whatever plan Yeshion had in mind. So, he waited. Trusted him.
Eldis grabbed Yeshion’s hand tightly.
“My heart nearly gave out.”
“……”
“So please…”
Eldis’s voice cracked, and he lowered his head. There were too many things he wanted to say, but if he let any of them out now, he didn’t know what might follow.
He might expose that ugly desire to keep Yeshion in his arms and never let him go anywhere again.
“…I’m sorry.”
While Eldis was struggling to contain all that, Yeshion spoke in a barely audible voice.
Still bowed like Eldis, he fidgeted his fingers and gently stroked the back of Eldis’s hand.
“I didn’t mean to make you worry.”
“……”
“I just… I had to find out who the enemy was. I needed to know who the real ‘Yeshion’ had been with, what he had done. I thought that was the only way to save everyone.”
To be honest, Yeshion was anxious too.
If he had known what had happened, what needed to be solved, it might have been easier.
But this wasn’t in the original story. He didn’t know anything, and that was frustrating.
All that hidden anxiety had eventually burst out through action.
“Living together includes you too, Yeshion. Don’t forget that.”
“…Yes.”
“If you die in front of me again…”
Then he might truly lose his mind.
No, he already had.
Eldis pulled on the hand he held, lifting it to his lips. As Yeshion’s hand came up with his, he kissed the back of it.
“Baine Anderson.”
“…Sorry?”
“That woman who took you. Her name is Baine Anderson. She’s the youngest daughter of the Anderson Trading Company. Her family has all but disowned her. She operates mostly in the slums…”
Trying to calm his fury, Eldis unfolded Yeshion’s hand and leaned his cheek against it.
Resting in that small warmth, he continued.
“And the man who tried to harm you in your past life… I’ve identified him as well.”
“……”
“Amon. He’s quiet. All his past has been erased. Even his name is likely an alias. But there’s a portrait in the Baron Kreppel estate that resembles him.”
Yeshion’s mouth slowly fell open as he listened. Was this something Eldis knew because he was the Archpriest? Or was it simply his own capability?
As Yeshion gazed at him in awe, Eldis smiled faintly.
“I’ll take care of it soon.”
“…Sorry? Take care of what?”
“Their existence.”
When Yeshion blinked at him like an idiot, Eldis continued.
No matter how you heard it, he meant to kill them.
At that, Yeshion’s expression twisted in shock. Eldis, puzzled, asked plainly:
“Surely you didn’t think I’d just leave the bastards who did this to you alone?”
