Chapter 19. Push and pull to get what you want. (4)
He strengthened the hand holding Rachel’s hair.
“You have to answer when I call, right?”
The hair was pulled tight, making it even more painful. Rachel bit her lip and said nothing.
A laugh escaped from the lips of Emperor Theodore, who was glaring at the sight.
“ha ha ha.”
He swung his hand and threw Rachel to the floor. Rachel tried not to make a sound, but he couldn’t help the sudden impact of hitting the floor.
“Wook!”
With a suppressed moan, the flesh inside my mouth burst and started bleeding.
“Rachel.”
Emperor Theodore squatted down behind Rachel. Despite that stance, he was still huge.
“What happened earlier? Why did Serenade suddenly run wild?”
“…….”
“Isn’t this something that has never happened before? What is the cause?”
Rachel sat down on the floor and steadfastly ignored the emperor’s questions.
chin.
Emperor Theodore reached out and grabbed Rachel’s chin.
“If you have a mouth, speak, okay? You know that.”
The emperor’s voice was extremely low. It meant that he was suppressing his growing anger.
“What happened to Serenade?”
“…….”
“There’s no way you can’t control it. Is there another reason?”
Rachel imitated a doll without a mouth until the end. As the silence continued, Theodore finally got up.
match!
The veil was lifted, and Rachel’s face turned to the side. The once pure white cheeks suddenly turned red and swollen.
Theodore, who slapped her across the face, had an expressionless face.
“Stupid.”
When he was extremely angry, he would completely cut out the emotion from his face.
“…….”
Rachel gritted her teeth and didn’t even moan.
Pot!
White light exploded from Rachel’s body. My red cheeks suddenly regained their original appearance.
“Yes, yes. Will Serena just watch that happen?”
After the sarcasm was over,
match! match!
Ruthless violence began.
However, no matter how much she was slapped, Rachel quickly recovered as if nothing had happened.
Serenade did not allow her master to be harmed in the slightest.
“Okay, just keep holding on.”
Emperor Theodore sneered.
“It’s not like you can’t feel pain, right? Let’s see how long you can hold out.”
Emperor Theodore’s violence continued. Not only did he hit Rachel on the cheek, but he also trampled and kicked Rachel’s weak body.
puck! thud! puck!
Unlike him, who had magnificent bones and the body of a 30-year-old in his prime, Rachel’s body was that of a teenage girl, delicate and weak.
Due to the overwhelming power gap, Rachel was swept here and there like a sailboat caught in a storm.
“…….”
Rachel gritted her teeth and made no sound.
She might have reflexively blocked the flying foot, but she didn’t even flinch. As if he was afraid that he might accidentally touch Theodore’s body.
I just crouched down and held on until the storm stopped.
That meant she was already used to this kind of violence. This meant that even screaming could be tolerated from this level of violence.
Sigh!
Suddenly, Theodore’s foot kicked Rachel’s solar plexus.
“Oops!”
For a moment, I was out of breath and my eyes turned red. Rachel rolled over and fell against the wall.
“Wow….”
Rachel held her chest and gasped. Even as her whole body trembled, not a single tear fell on Rachel’s eyes.
She already knew from experience.
Theodore gets happier when I shed tears. That the time of this excruciating pain is prolonged.
“You’re holding up pretty well today.”
Emperor Theodore walked over and stood in front of Rachel.
“Are you getting used to getting hit now? Or,”
A wicked smile crossed his lips.
“Are you even enjoying it?”
“……!”
Rachel reflexively raised her head. A light of anger appeared in the pain-stained eyes.
Emperor Theodore’s eyes narrowed when he confirmed this.
“If that’s the case, I’ll join you as much as you want, okay?”
A sneer meant to provoke the other person seeped into the whispering voice. He didn’t like it when Rachel was unresponsive.
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“It will be free for a while because it is the festival period.”
No matter how much you hit it, it recovers quickly, and even if you kill it, it doesn’t die. To Emperor Theodore, Rachel was a very pleasant toy to play with.
“you……!”
Rachel had sparks in her eyes.
No human being, no human being, would be able to say this. If I knew how I was enduring this time, I couldn’t say anything.
“You son of a bitch!”
Rachel’s hand flew towards Theodore’s cheek in extreme anger.
‘ah.’
I suddenly came to my senses, but it was already too late.
match.
Thanks to her strength being released at the last moment, Rachel’s stabbing ended with a faint sound.
“……!”
Rachel’s face turned pale. It was not out of fear that he had dared to slap the emperor.
Rachel trembled and looked at her hand touching Theodore’s cheek.
yet.
“Aaaah!”
A scream came out of Rachel’s mouth.
Passsss-
The palm that touched Theodore changed horribly. All of her veins tightened, and all of her skin peeled away, exposing her muscles and flesh.
“Ahhhh, ahhhhh!”
It was a terrible pain that no one should ever experience alive.
It felt like my bones were crunching, my skin was on fire, and my flesh was being stabbed with an awl.
“Keuuuuuuu!”
Rachel held my hand and gasped. Her lips had already been burst and stained with her blood a long time ago.
Paaaat!
Serenade noticed her master’s abnormality and moved. A beam of white light extended from the top of his shoulder and wrapped around his palm.
Slowly, the bones regenerated, flesh and muscles filled in, and skin grew to cover them.
The process was excruciatingly slow and painful.
“Ha, ha ha.”
Rachel fell to the floor and trembled. Her face was pale and her whole body was drenched in sweat.
Emperor Theodore stood with his arms crossed, quietly looking at Rachel.
His red eyes were blood-red but lacked warmth. They were as beautiful as jewels but extremely inorganic.
The way he looked at Rachel was not looking at a fellow ‘human being’.
Theodore took one of Rachel’s hands and literally lifted it up.
“My cheek hurts.”
He said that while dangling Rachel in the air.
“Treat.”
Indifferent orders were merely given to objects or tools.
“…….”
There was cold anger and hot sadness in Rachel’s eyes. She slowly extended her hand towards Theodore’s cheek.
Faaah!
White light exploded from Rachel’s hand. At the same time, even the faint marks on Theodore’s cheeks disappeared.
“joy.”
When Theodore let go,
dump.
Rachel’s body fell to the floor like a doll with its strings undone. Emperor Theodore turned his back on Rachel.
“Knowing the contract between you and me, why do you believe and ask?”
Rachel closed her eyes tightly.
That damn contract.
This magical contract, which strongly bound Rachel’s soul, ensured that Rachel, her second son, could never harm her second son, Emperor Theodore.
If Rachel hurt Emperor Theodore, it would come back to me with ten times more pain.
It was so severe that even Rachel, who had more than average patience, gave in. A pain that feels like your entire body is being rebuilt, a pain that is difficult to bear with a sober mind.
So Rachel could never harm Theodore. No matter how much I tried to harm him, every cell in my body rejected it.
Theodore continued.
“I have a lot of time. If you want to enjoy it more, I’ll hang out with you as much as you want.”
“…….”
“But I’m merciful, so I’ll give you a chance. What happened just now?”
If she continues to refuse to answer, Theodore will grab Rachel’s hand and hit her. Because that is the quickest way to open Rachel’s mouth.
“……as you know,”
Rachel took a breath distorted by pain.
“Serenad moves very actively in places where there are a lot of humans. Because she wants to share her life force.”
“so?”
“It was just difficult to control the force that came out.”
The emperor slowly nodded and asked.
“Then why didn’t you say that from the beginning?”
He had a lot of doubts, and only after checking everything did he become clear. Rachel knew Emperor Theodore’s temper very well.
“Because I’m sure you’ll be angry.”
Rachel took a deep breath and answered softly.
“If I were to make a mistake, I would have spread the life force to many people in the area.”
“hmm.”
“I barely managed to suppress it, so something like that didn’t happen. But if I’m not careful, I end up wasting my valuable life force….”
Rachel trailed off as if she was tired.
“There’s no way you’ll like that.”
His trembling eyes were lowered, as if out of fear for the emperor.
“……Right.”
Emperor Theodore’s expressionless face finally cleared up. He didn’t hide his greedy smile and grabbed Rachel’s chin.
“I understand.”
He looked at every inch of Rachel’s pale face.
“Your strength, your vitality, and even the Serenade.”
It was the voice of a ruler and master. I can never resist.
“Everything about you is mine. Only I can have it.”
A voice that seemed to be chanting a spell was wrapped around Rachel’s neck like a chain. So strong that it can’t be cut off, thick enough that it can’t be cut out.
“Don’t think in vain. Wouldn’t it be easier for both of us if we behaved calmly?”
Emperor Theodor clicked his tongue and then turned around.
“I will come again next time.”
After getting what he wanted, he left the prayer room feeling relieved.
“…….”
Rachel, left alone, clenched her fists. Other than the traces of her blood around her mouth, there was no trace of what she had just been through.
“iced coffee.”
Among the perfectly clean faces, the green eyes were darkened with resignation and loneliness.
“I want to die….”
Even though my eyes were open, it was as dark as if they were closed. It seemed like the light had disappeared from her own world.
“Please, someone help me….”
Rachel’s body slowly collapsed.
❖ ❖ ❖
“Have a good time.”
Once the process of putting on the mask was complete, a huge door opened without a sound. With each step, the blue feathers swayed gently.
“-!”
“You’re Abel Kindreal, right?”
“oh my god.”
The nobles’ reaction when they saw me was quite different from before.
“That blue-feathered mask, isn’t it him? He lived with Princess Violet.”
“You mean blackjack with all the stakes? I heard the princess almost fell behind that day.”
“I saw that. It was truly the fight of the century.”
We talk about that day at the casino,
“I heard he completely turned the noble council on its head? He played with his tongue so well that there were no nobles left.”
“You even had a drinking contest with Lord Mikel? It was my first time experiencing such a crushing defeat.”
“Your swordsmanship skills were also amazing. I heard Director Joshua praising you with his mouth watering.”
He also talked about what happened at the conference hall.
‘Rumors spread really fast.’
Word of mouth among nobles seems to be a great thing. Anyway, experiencing the changed status wasn’t that bad.
As I approached, people started flowing out like a tide, making way for me. As I was walking through it, I felt like I was Cain, the main character.
After exchanging money, I stood in front of room 17.
‘poker.’
Today’s goal was not to win money, but I chose a game that I could enjoy. Of course, I have no intention of losing it.
‘hmm?’
As soon as I entered the room, I felt a slightly different atmosphere.
They glanced at me and naturally looked away, but it was because the dealers couldn’t hide their trembling eyes.
A dealer was seen rushing to headquarters.
‘… … aha.’
As expected, coming to the casino was a good choice. I had a strong feeling that the person I wanted to meet would come soon.
fantasy,
