Karum barely managed to hang on to his sanity.
There were a total of four corpses in front of them.
Standing among the bodies was Radan, who was barely covering himself with his torn clothes.
The blindfold was untied and was laying at Radan’s feet.
It looked very strange.
It was only a moment later that Karum realized what was strange, Radan was not wearing his blindfold.
Why was the blindfold that he never takes it off even when he sleeps there at his feet?
“That…… d,don’t look…… please.”
Radan turned his back to him.
He spoke desperately in his stuttering voice.
Karum looked puzzled.
What does he mean, don’t look?
It was Radan who couldn’t see, so why shouldn’t he look at Radan?
Radan’s voice sounded like he was talking through clenching his teeth.
“I don’t want to k,kill you…… I don’t.”
“…… What?”
Karum tilted his head again with an incomprehensible expression…
“…… Huh?”
…as Radan ran forward.
It was a movement that did not look like a blind person at all.
Radan ran swiftly through the thicket and branches. His precise steps left almost no sound behind.
What was left behind Radan’s steps were the corpses of four people.
Three of them looked familiar.
Three of the corpses’ eyes had become black pits. Those were the signs left behind by The Unknown Assassin.
“… …!”
At that moment, he came to his senses.
Radan was running away from the corpses left behind by The Unknown Assassin.
“The Unknown Assassin!”
Karum cried out like an angry bear.
The truth that could no longer be denied smacked him up against his head.
Radan was The Unknown Assassin.
Regardless of what he did, or did not want to believe.
“Stop there!”
Karum began chasing after Radan.
The pounding in his ears seemed to come from his heart, not his feet.
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“No, I lost it! I’m sorry, Your Majesty… huff- huff-……”
Veroz didn’t cry, but he wanted to.
It was an absurd command in the first place.
No matter how fast a person or a horse was, they couldn’t keep pace with a flying bird. What’s more, it was especially ridiculous on a night like this when it was so hard to see.
Veroz bowed his head in front of Leshak without having time to cool the perspiration from his body.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty.”
“It was unavoidable. Stand up.”
Leshak’s party also lost their carrier pigeons. The place where he had guessed based on the bird’s direction, was on the other side of Merv, and he was able to join Veroz in the vicinity.
“It’s certain that the bird came to this area. If you give the order, we will search the area a little more.”
Those were Abadd’s words.
It was only then that Veroz was able to find time to wipe the drops of sweat from his brow.
“Whoo, I am of the same opinion, Your Majesty. However, unfortunately there hasn’t been any sign of large-scale movements of troops yet. If enough people move, we’ll definitely notice it. Also, the bird may have gone somewhere other than Kemened.”
“Is that so?”
With that short answer Leshak quickly organized his thoughts.
The lack of visual movement from the enemy was evidence that they had not moved closer. If it was just one or two troops maybe they wouldn’t notice, but a large army couldn’t move as though covered in an invisibility cloak.
“I’m going to cut the number of people in half. Half will return to join the camp’s defenses, while the other half will become a search force. Let’s look for the bird, and if it’s not found, then we’ll find a clue about Kemened.”
“I see, My Lord.”
Soon the order was put in effect.
The search Corps was commanded by Veroz. Twelve people were left behind, and the rest of the party turned and headed towards the military camp.
Leshak ran his horse in the lead.
His horse, who had naturally fast feet, ran through the night like the waking dawn.
Abbad sighed heavily as he saw Leshak’s back which had already become a distant shadow in the dark night.
“Damn it! Master, I can’t quite keep up. Why is it that I never see the First Prince get a sore ass when he rides like that, and at that speed?”
“It’s fine, it means don’t follow him.”
Abadd shrugged his shoulders as if in surprise, at Sidris` words.
“Who doesn’t know that? Still, I have the responsibilities as a Guardian Knight. I thought you would insist on not letting His Highness go alone.”
Sidris’ eyes, which were chasing after Leshak’s back, were twisted.
“If it is the duty of a Guardian Knight……. then in that case, neither you nor I deserve that title. The decision should have been made already when Mjab’s family couldn’t be found in those dirty streets…… No, maybe before that.”
“You mean it’s too late now? Well, I can’t deny it.”
Sidris asked.
“What are you thinking?”
“About the identity of Sir Mjab?”
“Yeah, I don’t think his surname is Mjab.”
”…. ….”
Abadd took an unusually long time to choose an answer.
“I hope he’s not the Unknown Assassin.”
“Don’t say such weak things.”
“Damn it! Other than that, I don’t know. I don’t even want to think about the other case.”
“Do you believe him?”
“No……. Damn it, I really don’t know. But I don’t think an enemy spy would tell the truth, even when dying. If one of the two is lying, shouldn’t it be the latter, not Mjab?”
“But he knew the prophecy. A prophecy that His Majesty will be bitten by a snake and die. You didn’t even know that.”
“Damn it. That’s because I’m a lazy and thoughtless person.”
Abadd’s voice became harsh.
“There is a saying that ‘the one who knows me best is my enemy’. What is there to say that those who want to kill His Majesty the most don’t also know some of the bullshit prophecies about his death? The first person, save for a Kemened Vassal, to learn of King Alsanu Ill dementia, was an Ibeden scout.”
“So that’s the reason you believe it? You mean you just applied that to the situation right now?”
“What do you know? That’s nothing to say that isn’t how it is. It’s war! Everyone knows that a fragment of a lie, like a butterfly’s wing, can bring a hurricane on the battlefield.”
“At the end of the day, it’s about what you want to believe. It’s the evidence that will reveal the truth.”
“Do you know the truth!?”
“Me……?”
Abadd witnessed Sidris’s eyes flicker for a brief moment.
“At first it was Karum.”
“What are you talking about?”
“But now you’re doing it too. You’re taking his side under the pretext of siding with His Majesty.”
Sidris spoke clearly as if trying to do away with the wavering of the past.
“I think we should look at it with cool heads as well.”
Abadd kicked the horse in the side.
“Then do it like that. Because like you said, it looks like my mind is like that too. I don’t think that the face of someone who ever lied. Come on!”
Abadd took over for Leshak and became the dark shadow of the night.
The blood moon was still dark.
It was a night where they didn’t know how it was going to end up.
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“Huh-…huh-…….”
His breathing was rough. He couldn’t remember ever running for such a long time with all his might. It felt like his lungs were about to pop out of his throat.
“More, more…… “
He couldn’t run any more. Radan took a few breaths, his mind turned white and his body lost it’s balance.
“…….“
Thud!-
Radan fell forward. Luckily it was on top of a bush where withered tree roots were tangled.
“Ugh…….”
Radan bit his tongue to hold back a scream that threatened to spontaneously burst out.
A branch as thick as a bear’s claw scratched him from his thigh to his shin. Blood was seeping through the long torn hem.
Soon after, a burning pain covered his entire leg.
“……”
He had run away. He didn’t know what to do.
His legs, which had stopped, were unlikely to ever move again. Even though the pain had stopped, he had no energy left.
Eventually he gave up on running.
He fumbled through the damp soil and found a place to hide. Not far away there was a large, hollowed out tree. It was enough that Radan, who was small in stature, was forced to sit with his body bent over.
Just a little bit more.
Radan leaned his head against the rustling bark.
Very tiny.
He decided for a moment to forget the anxiety caused by Karum chasing him.
Radan lifted his eyes only after reconfirming that there was no sound.
“Ah…….”
Just then, the red moon rushed into view.
Tonight was the night when the bloody moon rose. It was his first time seeing it with his own two eyes.
The moon that filled the sky looked like a bloodstain had just started to seep into the hem of the dark black velvet night. It was as if someone had stabbed him and his consciousness had drifted far away, as if somewhere in his body he was bleeding as much as the moon.
He couldn’t fall asleep.
Radan clenched his jaw while forcibly lifting his closed eyelids.
He had to run away.
No one…… to a place where there is no one.
There was no ‘safe place’, even behind the iron gate. Radan realized it too late.
As long as he is there, and as long as Prince Leshak is alive, the killings will not stop.
Until then, he believed he was doing it for Laud. He said that if he didn’t kill people as instructed, they would kill Laud at any time.
However, murder was murder..
In the end, in order for one to live, another died.
The weight of the sorrow that came with it was the same.
Radan remembered Leshak’s trembling hands, saying that he thought he was going to die…So was Radan. His whole body trembled at the thought that he might die. It was the first time he felt such a terrifying weight. Leshak must have felt that same weight too.
It was nothing but unending pain.
Now Radan didn’t want any death.
He was going to run very far away.
To a place where there is no Leshak, and no Laud.
Therefore he will go, there will never be a time when he will come across Leshak again.
“Fine…… Ah…….”
Radan repeated the same words as if reciting an incantation.
You’ll be okay.~
I can’t see you again.~
You’ll be okay.~
He will live.~
It’ll be fine…….~
Radan buried his face in the palms of his hands.
His head shook briefly as moisture gathered in his palms. Radan tried to ignore the trembling in his shoulders.
Now everything will be fine, that’s how it should be.
But Radan didn’t know.
In fact, there was one more reason besides being slow-witted that Karum was called a bear by his colleagues. It was the fact that he was very good at hunting, like a real bear.
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“He didn’t go far.”
Karum sat down on the damp soil and traced over the shallow footprints Radan had made.
The crushed soil around the footprints hadn’t dried out yet.
It told Karum that Radan had passed by no more than two hour before.
Karum took a breath and looked around.
He did so in order to distinguish the subtle sounds from the forest. There were no visible signs, but he knew that Radan was exhausted.
The strides had continued to narrow, and the footsteps were heavier.
If he chose the right direction, he would definitely be able to catch up to him.
The problem was that Radan was the “Unknown Assassin”.
Karum had no idea how the Unknown Assassin, killed. What he had seen was not the method of murder, but the bodies it had produced.
Considering that the key figures in the Empire had been killed by the Unknown Assassin, he was someone to be feared.
Karum pondered this…
“He cherished you, and gave you so much…….”
He could never forgive the Unknown Assassin.
He knew how precious the feelings Leshak had for Radan were. He also knew they were all real.
But Radan was just a lie!
His purpose was probably the assassination of Prince Leshak.
No, maybe his purpose was something more sophisticated and time-consuming than that. The Unknown Assassin was hiding at the very heart of the Ibeden Empire. He might have been tasked with shrewdly digging up essential high-level information.
He did not know how much of his purpose he achieved.
So he had to catch him.
Karum vowed that he would surely catch him alive and force him to regurgitate all information he’d swallowed, in front of Leshak.
“You must catch him!”
Karum lowered himself and looked down the dark dirt path.
And after a while,
“I’ve found you.”
A sharp smile blossomed that did not harmonize with his dull appearance.
Karum raised his hand. There were still wet drops of blood on the tips of his fingers.
Karum reduced his heavy breaths and followed the drops of blood.
There was a tree not far away. It was a tree with a large hole in the base.
Just the right size for a small adult man Iike the Unknown Assassin to hide in.
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– Now it’s all over. Be patient a little longer.
A gentle voice comforted him.
Radan wanted to express that his leg was sore and he couldn’t stand it.
– Yes, it hurts. Just a little bit. Just, a little bit longer.
What’s a little bit?
A cold, dry hand stroked Radan’s head.
It was a very different hand from Leshak’s.
– The curse is complete. The Caliph is going to die soon.
Radan raised his head in surprise.
He knew only one Caliph.
– It’s all thanks to you. My serpent, that grew up having fed on my blood.
Radan desperately denied it.
lt couldn’t be. There was no way he could have killed Leshak.
Radan didn’t want to kill him, that’s why he was running away like this. He decided that he would never see him again, rather than kill him.
It couldn’t be.
– Bear with it a little longer. It hurts a little. Please just suffer a little more.
A finger lifted Radan’s chin.
Radan closed his eyes and saw the face of someone who was smiling sincerely.
It was like an evil-minded face, shrouded in darkness, hidden behind a thick black hood.
Before Radan could make a sound,
–Until you end up hating the Caliph like me.
Radan cried out.
No! That will never happen! No way!
The gentle voice continued as if it heard Radan’s refusal.
– That hatred will complete the curse. A curse engraved in the blood of the Caliph.
“No! N,no…….”
Radan used all his power with his mouth wide open, only to realize that he couldn’t make a sound.
–… …?
The long, thin tongue, with a forked tip, clearly came out of his mouth.
Every time he tried to say something, his tongue flickered in and out of his mouth. He silently tried to speak, spewing out creepy, skin-crawling sounds.
–… … !
His body was not human.
It was a snakes.
“Ugh… … !”
Radan opened his eyes and screamed.
A strange and ominous red moon pierced his eyes.
And,
“I found you!”
Karum’s voice struck his ears.
“Oh, no..…. “
As Radan desperately struggled to get his crumpled body up,
“Unknown Assassin!”
A large man’s shadow covered the bloody moon. Radan saw Karum’s face reaching out toward him.
Eyes met eys.
Eyes that should never meet!
“No!”
Despair, before fear, quickly crushed Radan.
Karum barely managed to hang on to his sanity.
There were a total of four corpses in front of them.
Standing among the bodies was Radan, who was barely covering himself with his torn clothes.
The blindfold was untied and was laying at Radan’s feet.
It looked very strange.
It was only a moment later that Karum realized what was strange, Radan was not wearing his blindfold.
Why was the blindfold that he never takes it off even when he sleeps there at his feet?
“That…… d,don’t look…… please.”
Radan turned his back to him.
He spoke desperately in his stuttering voice.
Karum looked puzzled.
What does he mean, don’t look?
It was Radan who couldn’t see, so why shouldn’t he look at Radan?
Radan’s voice sounded like he was talking through clenching his teeth.
“I don’t want to k,kill you…… I don’t.”
“…… What?”
Karum tilted his head again with an incomprehensible expression…
“…… Huh?”
…as Radan ran forward.
It was a movement that did not look like a blind person at all.
Radan ran swiftly through the thicket and branches. His precise steps left almost no sound behind.
What was left behind Radan’s steps were the corpses of four people.
Three of them looked familiar.
Three of the corpses’ eyes had become black pits. Those were the signs left behind by The Unknown Assassin.
“… …!”
At that moment, he came to his senses.
Radan was running away from the corpses left behind by The Unknown Assassin.
“The Unknown Assassin!”
Karum cried out like an angry bear.
The truth that could no longer be denied smacked him up against his head.
Radan was The Unknown Assassin.
Regardless of what he did, or did not want to believe.
“Stop there!”
Karum began chasing after Radan.
The pounding in his ears seemed to come from his heart, not his feet.
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“No, I lost it! I’m sorry, Your Majesty… huff- huff-……”
Veroz didn’t cry, but he wanted to.
It was an absurd command in the first place.
No matter how fast a person or a horse was, they couldn’t keep pace with a flying bird. What’s more, it was especially ridiculous on a night like this when it was so hard to see.
Veroz bowed his head in front of Leshak without having time to cool the perspiration from his body.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty.”
“It was unavoidable. Stand up.”
Leshak’s party also lost their carrier pigeons. The place where he had guessed based on the bird’s direction, was on the other side of Merv, and he was able to join Veroz in the vicinity.
“It’s certain that the bird came to this area. If you give the order, we will search the area a little more.”
Those were Abadd’s words.
It was only then that Veroz was able to find time to wipe the drops of sweat from his brow.
“Whoo, I am of the same opinion, Your Majesty. However, unfortunately there hasn’t been any sign of large-scale movements of troops yet. If enough people move, we’ll definitely notice it. Also, the bird may have gone somewhere other than Kemened.”
“Is that so?”
With that short answer Leshak quickly organized his thoughts.
The lack of visual movement from the enemy was evidence that they had not moved closer. If it was just one or two troops maybe they wouldn’t notice, but a large army couldn’t move as though covered in an invisibility cloak.
“I’m going to cut the number of people in half. Half will return to join the camp’s defenses, while the other half will become a search force. Let’s look for the bird, and if it’s not found, then we’ll find a clue about Kemened.”
“I see, My Lord.”
Soon the order was put in effect.
The search Corps was commanded by Veroz. Twelve people were left behind, and the rest of the party turned and headed towards the military camp.
Leshak ran his horse in the lead.
His horse, who had naturally fast feet, ran through the night like the waking dawn.
Abbad sighed heavily as he saw Leshak’s back which had already become a distant shadow in the dark night.
“Damn it! Master, I can’t quite keep up. Why is it that I never see the First Prince get a sore ass when he rides like that, and at that speed?”
“It’s fine, it means don’t follow him.”
Abadd shrugged his shoulders as if in surprise, at Sidris` words.
“Who doesn’t know that? Still, I have the responsibilities as a Guardian Knight. I thought you would insist on not letting His Highness go alone.”
Sidris’ eyes, which were chasing after Leshak’s back, were twisted.
“If it is the duty of a Guardian Knight……. then in that case, neither you nor I deserve that title. The decision should have been made already when Mjab’s family couldn’t be found in those dirty streets…… No, maybe before that.”
“You mean it’s too late now? Well, I can’t deny it.”
Sidris asked.
“What are you thinking?”
“About the identity of Sir Mjab?”
“Yeah, I don’t think his surname is Mjab.”
”…. ….”
Abadd took an unusually long time to choose an answer.
“I hope he’s not the Unknown Assassin.”
“Don’t say such weak things.”
“Damn it! Other than that, I don’t know. I don’t even want to think about the other case.”
“Do you believe him?”
“No……. Damn it, I really don’t know. But I don’t think an enemy spy would tell the truth, even when dying. If one of the two is lying, shouldn’t it be the latter, not Mjab?”
“But he knew the prophecy. A prophecy that His Majesty will be bitten by a snake and die. You didn’t even know that.”
“Damn it. That’s because I’m a lazy and thoughtless person.”
Abadd’s voice became harsh.
“There is a saying that ‘the one who knows me best is my enemy’. What is there to say that those who want to kill His Majesty the most don’t also know some of the bullshit prophecies about his death? The first person, save for a Kemened Vassal, to learn of King Alsanu Ill dementia, was an Ibeden scout.”
“So that’s the reason you believe it? You mean you just applied that to the situation right now?”
“What do you know? That’s nothing to say that isn’t how it is. It’s war! Everyone knows that a fragment of a lie, like a butterfly’s wing, can bring a hurricane on the battlefield.”
“At the end of the day, it’s about what you want to believe. It’s the evidence that will reveal the truth.”
“Do you know the truth!?”
“Me……?”
Abadd witnessed Sidris’s eyes flicker for a brief moment.
“At first it was Karum.”
“What are you talking about?”
“But now you’re doing it too. You’re taking his side under the pretext of siding with His Majesty.”
Sidris spoke clearly as if trying to do away with the wavering of the past.
“I think we should look at it with cool heads as well.”
Abadd kicked the horse in the side.
“Then do it like that. Because like you said, it looks like my mind is like that too. I don’t think that the face of someone who ever lied. Come on!”
Abadd took over for Leshak and became the dark shadow of the night.
The blood moon was still dark.
It was a night where they didn’t know how it was going to end up.
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“Huh-…huh-…….”
His breathing was rough. He couldn’t remember ever running for such a long time with all his might. It felt like his lungs were about to pop out of his throat.
“More, more…… “
He couldn’t run any more. Radan took a few breaths, his mind turned white and his body lost it’s balance.
“…….“
Thud!-
Radan fell forward. Luckily it was on top of a bush where withered tree roots were tangled.
“Ugh…….”
Radan bit his tongue to hold back a scream that threatened to spontaneously burst out.
A branch as thick as a bear’s claw scratched him from his thigh to his shin. Blood was seeping through the long torn hem.
Soon after, a burning pain covered his entire leg.
“……”
He had run away. He didn’t know what to do.
His legs, which had stopped, were unlikely to ever move again. Even though the pain had stopped, he had no energy left.
Eventually he gave up on running.
He fumbled through the damp soil and found a place to hide. Not far away there was a large, hollowed out tree. It was enough that Radan, who was small in stature, was forced to sit with his body bent over.
Just a little bit more.
Radan leaned his head against the rustling bark.
Very tiny.
He decided for a moment to forget the anxiety caused by Karum chasing him.
Radan lifted his eyes only after reconfirming that there was no sound.
“Ah…….”
Just then, the red moon rushed into view.
Tonight was the night when the bloody moon rose. It was his first time seeing it with his own two eyes.
The moon that filled the sky looked like a bloodstain had just started to seep into the hem of the dark black velvet night. It was as if someone had stabbed him and his consciousness had drifted far away, as if somewhere in his body he was bleeding as much as the moon.
He couldn’t fall asleep.
Radan clenched his jaw while forcibly lifting his closed eyelids.
He had to run away.
No one…… to a place where there is no one.
There was no ‘safe place’, even behind the iron gate. Radan realized it too late.
As long as he is there, and as long as Prince Leshak is alive, the killings will not stop.
Until then, he believed he was doing it for Laud. He said that if he didn’t kill people as instructed, they would kill Laud at any time.
However, murder was murder..
In the end, in order for one to live, another died.
The weight of the sorrow that came with it was the same.
Radan remembered Leshak’s trembling hands, saying that he thought he was going to die…So was Radan. His whole body trembled at the thought that he might die. It was the first time he felt such a terrifying weight. Leshak must have felt that same weight too.
It was nothing but unending pain.
Now Radan didn’t want any death.
He was going to run very far away.
To a place where there is no Leshak, and no Laud.
Therefore he will go, there will never be a time when he will come across Leshak again.
“Fine…… Ah…….”
Radan repeated the same words as if reciting an incantation.
You’ll be okay.~
I can’t see you again.~
You’ll be okay.~
He will live.~
It’ll be fine…….~
Radan buried his face in the palms of his hands.
His head shook briefly as moisture gathered in his palms. Radan tried to ignore the trembling in his shoulders.
Now everything will be fine, that’s how it should be.
But Radan didn’t know.
In fact, there was one more reason besides being slow-witted that Karum was called a bear by his colleagues. It was the fact that he was very good at hunting, like a real bear.
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“He didn’t go far.”
Karum sat down on the damp soil and traced over the shallow footprints Radan had made.
The crushed soil around the footprints hadn’t dried out yet.
It told Karum that Radan had passed by no more than two hour before.
Karum took a breath and looked around.
He did so in order to distinguish the subtle sounds from the forest. There were no visible signs, but he knew that Radan was exhausted.
The strides had continued to narrow, and the footsteps were heavier.
If he chose the right direction, he would definitely be able to catch up to him.
The problem was that Radan was the “Unknown Assassin”.
Karum had no idea how the Unknown Assassin, killed. What he had seen was not the method of murder, but the bodies it had produced.
Considering that the key figures in the Empire had been killed by the Unknown Assassin, he was someone to be feared.
Karum pondered this…
“He cherished you, and gave you so much…….”
He could never forgive the Unknown Assassin.
He knew how precious the feelings Leshak had for Radan were. He also knew they were all real.
But Radan was just a lie!
His purpose was probably the assassination of Prince Leshak.
No, maybe his purpose was something more sophisticated and time-consuming than that. The Unknown Assassin was hiding at the very heart of the Ibeden Empire. He might have been tasked with shrewdly digging up essential high-level information.
He did not know how much of his purpose he achieved.
So he had to catch him.
Karum vowed that he would surely catch him alive and force him to regurgitate all information he’d swallowed, in front of Leshak.
“You must catch him!”
Karum lowered himself and looked down the dark dirt path.
And after a while,
“I’ve found you.”
A sharp smile blossomed that did not harmonize with his dull appearance.
Karum raised his hand. There were still wet drops of blood on the tips of his fingers.
Karum reduced his heavy breaths and followed the drops of blood.
There was a tree not far away. It was a tree with a large hole in the base.
Just the right size for a small adult man Iike the Unknown Assassin to hide in.
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– Now it’s all over. Be patient a little longer.
A gentle voice comforted him.
Radan wanted to express that his leg was sore and he couldn’t stand it.
– Yes, it hurts. Just a little bit. Just, a little bit longer.
What’s a little bit?
A cold, dry hand stroked Radan’s head.
It was a very different hand from Leshak’s.
– The curse is complete. The Caliph is going to die soon.
Radan raised his head in surprise.
He knew only one Caliph.
– It’s all thanks to you. My serpent, that grew up having fed on my blood.
Radan desperately denied it.
lt couldn’t be. There was no way he could have killed Leshak.
Radan didn’t want to kill him, that’s why he was running away like this. He decided that he would never see him again, rather than kill him.
It couldn’t be.
– Bear with it a little longer. It hurts a little. Please just suffer a little more.
A finger lifted Radan’s chin.
Radan closed his eyes and saw the face of someone who was smiling sincerely.
It was like an evil-minded face, shrouded in darkness, hidden behind a thick black hood.
Before Radan could make a sound,
–Until you end up hating the Caliph like me.
Radan cried out.
No! That will never happen! No way!
The gentle voice continued as if it heard Radan’s refusal.
– That hatred will complete the curse. A curse engraved in the blood of the Caliph.
“No! N,no…….”
Radan used all his power with his mouth wide open, only to realize that he couldn’t make a sound.
–… …?
The long, thin tongue, with a forked tip, clearly came out of his mouth.
Every time he tried to say something, his tongue flickered in and out of his mouth. He silently tried to speak, spewing out creepy, skin-crawling sounds.
–… … !
His body was not human.
It was a snakes.
“Ugh… … !”
Radan opened his eyes and screamed.
A strange and ominous red moon pierced his eyes.
And,
“I found you!”
Karum’s voice struck his ears.
“Oh, no..…. “
As Radan desperately struggled to get his crumpled body up,
“Unknown Assassin!”
A large man’s shadow covered the bloody moon. Radan saw Karum’s face reaching out toward him.
Eyes met eys.
Eyes that should never meet!
“No!”
Despair, before fear, quickly crushed Radan.
