Chapter 158.
Because I’ve always done my best to predict all the actions that out characters will take, and I can’t survive if I don’t act on those actions.
But now this moment. Ikris said, “All of it was done for me.” Hearing his words, my mind went blank, only blank.
“….?”
Revealed a clumsy, meaningless voice. Nonetheless I couldn’t be sure. What was the question?
He said, “I’ll do whatever you want me to do.”
Gasped. Since settling on the bread man, I’ve done my best. Desperately trying to protect Ikris in order to keep the Duke and his two sons from rebelling.
“Whatever you want, your treatment, your teacher, whatever you want.”
Occasionally having to take a big risk is also in order. Obviously has followed the game strategy method step by step. Can’t go wrong.
“… Isn’t it solved. I tried to do it all. But why?
I grabbed the guy’s handle and asked him eagerly.
“Why don’t you give me money? Or is it because I can’t save the Master?”
Answer! Why! Why now? Why the first few days of escape? Why did it have to come to the point of having to create an escape route.
I waved the non-answer guy and screamed.
“Not love me? Right? Hmm?”
“Loving me, why are you doing this to me? Hm? Why on earth!”
If it’s 98%, then it’s not love? Can’t help but call it love.
“You love me, Ikris,”
I pleaded looking up at the top of the guy’s head. No, that seemed like begging. Desperately as I gazed at him.
“Know…” Lips white and purple.
“You know?”
Ikris asked in a raspy voice, looking down at me. His eyes vibrated.
“It’s impossible not to know.”
A look of panic filled me with sobs and a strange laugh.
I remembered the moments when Ikris’s eyes on me became more and more dangerous. From one moment to the next, he began to gradually reveal his feelings, making unreasonable demands one after the other. All of which I felt was a green light.
“What slave in the world would look at his master with such insolence?”
The blue pupils of the shaky Ikris team suddenly stopped pulsing in that instant. His jaw jutted out hard.
“You know.”
“… Do you refuse to let me escape?”
“If you run away after me. What difference would that make?
Because of the special situation of being in the middle of a Raider Game, I considered it even for a moment. If you consider the plummeting favorability of the other “lovers” or various unexpected situations, it’s no better than now.
Even if it really was Penelope, she wouldn’t do something extremely dangerous like that.
Even though it’s all over, I don’t understand him at all who was obsessed with escaping until the end.
“My home is far away from you, are you going to watch me being chased?” So, what’s next?
“What did Dad and my two brothers do? You’re living like a beggar now, think you’ll be fine in exile in another country? Or is it madness for slaves, no need for status or pride?”
“I’m afraid so.”
Ikris suddenly responded before my words left my mouth.
I don’t think you’d come down from that place easily.
“……?”
“I’m sadder than anyone, and I don’t want to leave this damn home at all.”
What was that. Wanting to ask him what that sound was, I suddenly shut my mouth. His eyes shone abnormally brightly from the reflection of the light.
“I don’t know how much I’ve suffered since the time I met Iben, who was injured by a demon.”
“If God kills her without realizing it ……”
Therefore, I will leave you with a big smile on your face if all that threatens your position is removed.
Ikris who said that suddenly smiled faintly. Unlike him, I inhaled sharply.
Creepily, sweat ran down my back. Although I thought it was incomprehensible, I didn’t realize that he was hiding such a sinister and scary inner world.
Holding that guy’s hand, I don’t know why I flinched when I did. He grabbed my hand at once and placed it hard on his own.
“But in that case, I will instead become a bond that helps my master.”
“…”
“The master is unfortunate in this house, and by killing this Iben you will become a true male daughter.”
“You ……
“So think a lot. Use the Duke’s words to make the master grow isolated in the house and keep their people away.”
Anger, though it’s the reason for wanting to know like that, I don’t want to listen to that guy’s muddy heart anymore. Horrified, I tried to take out the hand that was pulled out. But guy doesn’t give me a chance.
“I gave up on the idea of realizing that purpose.”
“Purpose? ”
For a split second the conversation stopped. I stammered, “What purpose? ”
“Why I should buy me at the auction house.”
The purpose was to get into his good graces so I could get out of this crazy game ……
See, everyone knows that I lead guys to act under thorough calculation for some reason or another
“Eh.”
I’m breathing hard, but freezing hard.
“Identity? What’s that kind of thing?”
My reaction makes the smile at the corners of his mouth grow even wider. As in mocking me.
“It’s entirely my own power, and it’s entirely available. We won’t miss it.”
“You ……”
All I could do was stare at him like a fool. All this time, not only had he not fooled me into thinking he was a fool, he couldn’t even take his hand out of the hand he’d been caught in.
Looking at me like that made me look like a deflated puppy, dropping some of the corners of my eyes.
“…… But in that case, I can’t have you.”
“Hmm…?”
“You said it.” Just like I said to head for the high road stared at me and slowly kissed the palm of his hand. And, he didn’t open his mouth to speak.
“You who used me thoroughly for a purpose.”
“You talk sweet like honey, trying to get a little closer and slipping right away.”
The hazel eyes that looked directly into mine were nothing like the eyes of a loved one. White eyes speckled with blood and red circles. And yet he looked like a man who didn’t know what to do because he hated me.
Such a me. Staring at me with those eyes, he finally said what he wanted to say.
“I love you, Penelope.”
Minus
In order to confirm the favorability towards Ikris have the remaining funds 999,999
Despite hearing words of hope like that, I miserably nodded.
[Favorability 99%]
Despite receiving the confession of I love you, I’m still fooling myself in this damn game.
“Even if it’s a homelander who became a traitor who was sold out and killed.”
No increase in favorability. The rest of the good feeling. I felt like I would never be able to fill it.
“I want you, Penelope. Eckhardt.”
“Are you …… you really crazy?”
“Yeah. You’re driving me crazy.
Ekris stared at me with his gleaming gaze even in the darkness, walking with a look of confidence.
“Every time you make me look like this and then pretend you don’t know …… you’ll go crazy.”
“But what to do? But it’s still so cute.”
The eyes changed from being amiable. All of this is abhorrent and creepy to me.
Frozen white and breathing heavily, I wondered as the guy turned his head to the side.
“Why so nervous, master.”
“Angry? I’ll do whatever you tell me to do. My worth has been recognized by all.”
“Still. Hmm, just like when I met you, afraid of me? Pity her.”
“Crazy.”
Breathless from the effort, I couldn’t take it anymore and winced while moisturizing.
But this guy didn’t mind the nasty tirade. Instead, he moved my hand to the fingers of his hand gently, rubbing one finger together. The index finger with the ruby ring, to be exact.
“Don’t take it away, master. The previous words were just meaningless self-deprecation. It will be fine.”
“You are still a male daughter of Eckhardt, and I am your only knight. The only one in the world.”
“I’ll blow the reins I’ve gone mad straight up, what’s got me so worried.”
Ikris, who was weaving in and out as thrillingly as if he were pressing a ruby, whispered, looking at me with “lovely and loathsome” eyes. That guy’s head was dark purple with a fishy light like a pool of blood.
“… Only God can take me up by the neck, dear lord.”
It was then that I had to fully admit that the end of Ichris Bread ended in failure. He was not at all a suitable target for attack, and he knew it very well. That was my fault.
I had failed completely on the “Iris Route” and now had to find another way.
“…… Master?”
Like waking up from a short boat, the mind that was once filled with a gray fog slowly came back.
Now that it was established, there was no need to lie to the guy anymore.
“Why me?”
“No decent dog can pull a long neck and train someone. Value? The blow I took for failing was like a lie, and the corners of my mouth turned up.
“Dare to bite your master.”
” … Master.”
“Shut up.”
Ikris’s gaze fluttered for a moment. The hand that had been forcibly stroked was now almost shaken off.
“Penelope.”
In the midst of that, to keep me, I beat my severed hand cold as I slipped further through the window pane.
“Yes, you’re right. I was brought here to take advantage of you. So what? As it turns out, not to mention for you, I’m getting close to my goal.”
“A dog must act like a dog, and what value is that to a puppy that bites its master?”
I rattled on for a few moments before my face was covered in a terrible grin.
“You have no value now.”
Ikris’s face turned ugly, and it was a split second moment that went on like slow motion. I pulled out the ruby ring roughly in front of the guy.
“Master.”
As he called out to me with wide eyes. I didn’t hesitate to put it in the window of a house.
“No!”
Click-sharp cracking sounds spread throughout the venue. The iron that had been shattered so many times quickly disappeared into the darkness.
The index finger, which had never removed its ring since bringing Ikris, once again saw the light of day. He stared blankly at my empty hand.
“I told you. Betrayal is nothing but death.”
“To me, you’re already dead, Ikris.”
Unlike when I came, I turned away without hesitation. And that was the end of it.