CH 75

“Even though Aaron-nim looks young, his behavior is the same as the grandfather next door!”

Throughout the conversation, the things he does is to make me eat this and that, he feeds me so much.

Even though it is dinner time, I am not hungry.

As he tenderly saw myself being very angry, I could sense a relief in Dillian’s voice.

“So it was to respect the old man. You were just chatting with your grandfather, so I misunderstood.”

“Respect the old man….”

I touched my forehead.

How does he let his thoughts flow like that?

I looked around belatedly. Fortunately, there was no one to hear.

It’s a good thing that this is a garden that people don’t often visit, I almost became a woman playing with Dillian.

“As expected, I can’t. Next time I will go with you.”

“Don’t say stupid things. It hurts for you just by touching the divine power, where will you go? Sir Dillian, don’t you know how painful it was when you were in the Great Temple?”

As I slapped him in the back, Dillian laughed happily.

“How can I not know? It’s a place that is opposite to me, isn’t it?”

“You know, and you want to go there again? Don’t shout at me. Never go!”

“Seeing you like this makes me want to go. Then miss Ria will take more care of me, right?”

Huh, duh. It makes me very concerned, how can you like it so much?

“Don’t laugh. None of that is nice.”

I lifted my index fingers and pressed both ends of his lips together.

Neither smiling nor crying, Dillian, with a strange face, opened his mouth and bit my finger.

“Ugh? What, what did you do?”

“Didn’t you put it in my mouth to ask for it? I thought you said to bite it.”

Is he a dog? Why are you biting a hand….

Haha, Dillian burst into a laugh, on my face that was confused.

“Let’s go together. If miss Ria is by my side, it won’t hurt at all.”

I felt frustrated at the familiar words, and I was angry at his casual and blunt attitude.

Like a fool. Don’t get used to the pain.

As I was wheezing and swallowing my anger alone, unable to speak, Dillian’s thumb brushed under my eyes.

“That’s the kind of eyes you had again.”

“What kind?”

“You have eyes that say you’re going to die because you’re worried about me.”

“… Me?”

You said it’s the eyes that say I was going to die because of worry? Not the eyes that say I was going to die from anger?

“I think my seduction is working.”

Suddenly, Dillian leaned in and kissed my cheek.

The accident was stopped by the ringing sound and the warm heat.

“I wish I could eat this too.”

“Ah! Seriously, do not approach today! No skinship!”

“What did you say? I can’t hear you.”

“Are you really going to do this?!”

“Do you want to do it one more time?”

“Argh! Just go away!”

I told him to go away, but I was the first to push him and run away. I covered my red face and ran as hard as I could.

Behind my back, a roar of laughter rang out for a long time.

Chapter 11. Mission Given To Her (2)

I managed to escape from Dillian and ran to the room, then I dug into the blanket.

It was time to go to bed, but strangely, I couldn’t sleep.

It was because of the oracle I heard from Aaron.

‘Am I really the child of destiny?’

I rolled over and looked for Nathan.

It is said that the divine creature existed even before the empire was founded. Maybe Nathan knew about the oracle.

“Nathan, sleeping?”

“Hmmm….”

“You slept….”

I gently stroked Nathan’s head as he was tossing and turning with a mumbling sound.

‘I really wanted to ask if the oracle is true.’

After looking at him for a while, I quietly stood up.

I lit a lamp small enough not to disturb Nathan’s sleep, and opened the desk drawer.

‘If I look at this, maybe I will get something.’

I opened the book that Aaron had given me.

The beginning was as Aaron said.

From the first Saintess picked up and raised a small and insignificant lump, those are all things I already know.

[■■ chased after me like a duckling that woke up from an egg.]

“I can’t see the name.”

I flipped through the back page and tried to find the erased name, but everything else was likewise obscured.

[He followed everything I did and wanted to be loved by me.]

Thinking back on it, I was confused. How can I read ancient languages? It was a new language which was also written in difficult words.

Is it because I’m the child of destiny?

It felt as if you were being nailed down that you could never get out of there.

[He was a bright and clever child. If I taught one, he knew ten, so I gave the child the knowledge I had.]

Perhaps the Saintess was very fond of the Darkness, and affection could be felt through the letter.

[The child who acquired the language and learned about society, throws off his beast-like appearance, and begins to gradually transform into a human being. Not only the thoughts, but also the appearance.]

At the corner of the book was a picture of a round ball turning into a little boy.

[Then one day, the child began to change.]

As the story became more and more interesting, I took my eyes off the picture and turned the page.

But there was no backstory. I narrowed my eyes at the blank paper.

“Why isn’t it here?”

I quickly turned the pages. The story did not continue until the sixth page.

When I turned the tenth page, then the story started again.

‘What the? So why did he change?’

The evil deeds’ story of the Darkness was just hanging, and it didn’t tell why he had changed.

Returning to the blank page, I picked up the book and lit it with a candle.

‘In a mystery novel, when you shine the light like this, hidden letters will become visible, but this is not the case here.’

I frowned at the pain I felt at my fingertips as I put down the book in a sullen mood.

“Ah.”

Getting cut by the end of the paper, blood began to form on the index finger.

“Getting cut by the paper hurts a bit….”

After reflexively releasing the divine power, I opened my eyes to the blurry letters on the paper.

‘No way, is it because of divine power?’

Just in case, I put my hand on the book and released divine power, and the letters began to be engraved on the blank pages with a soft light.

I read along as the letters became clearer and clearer.

“After that person appeared…? That person?”

Who was that person and why did the Darkness change?

I was frantically immersed in the story.

[With Father’s will, I walked towards that person. However, the injury was so severe that he could not leave immediately.]

[Is this cohabitation…?]

[I thought he was a cold person, but surprisingly, he was a person with a lot of laughter.]

[I think it’s a little cute.]

[He told me to leave with him. I can’t do that, I have to protect this place. Even though I know it’s definitely not possible, my heart keeps pounding.]

Reading so far, I blinked blankly.

“… What is it, it feels like I’m peeking into someone’s love story.”

So, this was the love diary of the first Saintess.

‘Is that why you deliberately hid it?’

Indeed, even me would want to hide this kind of tickling love story.

It’s too embarrassing to show this to the future generations.

[The first thing that noticed this feeling in my heart was neither him nor me… It was Koma.]

“Koma…?”

The Darkness must have had a proper name then.

Surprised by the name of the Darkness that appeared for the first time, I pressed my face close as if I was going into the book.

[Maybe wondering that my affection for him might be stolen, Koma hated him as the days went on. It was just enough to convey his dark feelings to me.

I tried to soothe him, who started to grow up to be crooked, but he had already left my hand.]

The content behind this was as read in the temple.

[Koma devoured everything, and gradually grew in size. His negative emotions soon became a curse.]

The Darkness that gained power devoured the Saintess’s surroundings one by one, and at the end tried to swallow the world.

[At that moment, the oracle came down. I heard His voice telling me to get rid of Koma…. Can I kill that child?]

Traces of erasing and writing were found in several places. It was a sign that the Saintess was worried.

She looked heartbroken at the fact that she had to kill the Darkness she had grown with her own hands.

But soon after, the Saintess’s anger exploded.

[Koma touched that person. I tried to stop it, but it was too late. It’s impossible on my own power. The evil energy of the curse was so strong that it weighed on my power.]

[I will erase the child’s name from the world. That child doesn’t deserve a name.]

The diary did not last long. And ten days have passed.

[… With that person’s sacrifice, I sealed it. After completing my mission, I also want to follow him.]

“It was sealed at the end of Roheim, in the oak tree. No one can find it, no one can break the seal, in the deepest and most sacred place….”

Oak tree? Just by looking at this, I had no idea where the hell it was.

But how did Lexter find it?

[Someday, the day this diary is found will come. I leave this record for that day.]

[Remember, this is the last chance he gave me, and this is a test.]

[I must not fail. I must succeed for that person who gave everything for me.]

“Test?”

Reading along the message she left, I took a deep breath at the name engraved on the last page.

[Don’t forget, Ria. Everything is to protect that person.]

***

I thought I could get something from the diary, but it only accumulated more frustration.

After staring blankly at the front for a while, I lay down on the bed as if collapsed. And I fell into a sleep I thought would never come.

“Ria.”

I woke up to the voice calling me.

When I opened my eyes, the face I had once seen in my dream was looking at me.

I instinctively woke up to that familiar yet unfamiliar face.

‘Oh, this is a dream.’

It felt like reality, but it was definitely a dream.

First, it was my dream, but it wasn’t mine.

Then it was my body, but it wasn’t mine either.

I reached out in ambiguity whether it was a dream or reality.

The hand moving towards the man trembled. It felt like my heart would be ripped apart by the burning eyes looking at me.

“Why, why did you do that?”

A voice mingled with weeping tremble uncontrollably.

With tears in my eyes, I cling to the man.

“Why did you do that, why the hell did you do that!”