Volume 5 - CH 5

A monster?

‘With that face and that body?’

I blinked at his completely ridiculous remark but shook my head quickly when I realized he was serious.

“That’s not the case.”

“Then why?”

He responded right away.

I felt like he really wanted to hear the real reason.

“Because I was afraid the temple would kidnap you. With your power, the temple will immediately take you and make you a priest.”

“So…… should I keep this a secret because of that?”

“Yeah.”

Despite my clear answers, he looked confused.

“I don’t know if you’re aware, but priests should only be vegetarian.”

It reminded me of a high priest who enjoys jalapeno sausage. His face, hiding under the stairs and eating sausage……

“Think about it. Is life without meat happier than it is now?”

Valhail was speechless when I asked him directly.

Being a vegetarian is great. I sincerely believe so.

It was, however, impossible for me.

‘In my next life, I will be a vegetarian……’

In this life, I will eat meat to my heart’s content.

I reached out to him, who stiffened as if contemplating something, and he handed me the magic stone without saying anything.

‘He’s quiet now.’

Phew, that bomb he threw before made me sweat profusely.

I was able to concentrate on the treatment because he remained silent.

Where a sharp whip had whipped his flesh.

His ripped skin started to reattach, and the wound, which was tangled with dark red blood, began to heal.

Fortunately, the wounds were not caused by a sword that penetrated his body, so the treatment did not require a great deal of strength.

“Whoa……”

I wiped the sweat from my brow.

I took a look around.

“Where’s the towel? I’ll wipe it for you.”

Because he will not be able to reach his back.

Take a look at this smooth back!

Valhail, rather than telling me directly, brought me the towel while I was having insidious self-interests inside.

‘He has a good manner.’

I’m sure there was a woman who followed him around…… I suddenly became solemn that he had never even been married.

Valhail spoke quietly as I wiped the hardened blood from his back where the injuries had healed.

“I am not normal. As you may already be aware……”

His voice was calm, but there was a heavy atmosphere in it as if he was confessing.

“I am different from the others.”

He wasn’t bragging about how his personality, appearance, or anything being more special than the others.

His trembling fingertips revealed how anxious he was right now.

Valhail was showing his vulnerability at the time.

I suddenly remembered something I had heard at the martial arts competition meeting.

“Is he really a human……?”

“He doesn’t die nor get old.”

His voice was filled with repulsion towards the stranger.

He must have had his own strange thoughts as well.

I thought he didn’t care at all.

He also seemed to be well aware of what other people thought of him.

I clutched his shoulder as tightly as I could.

“You’re a normal person.”

Under my grasp, his iron-like muscles hardened.

“So you should flaunt your pain as well as your hard work.”

It broke my heart to think of him being whipped by the fanatics he despised so much.

“You had to put up with it because of me, didn’t you? Because of what I’ve said.”

“……”

I simply told him to show off, but Valhail remained silent.

I was more grateful and sorry for his steady demeanor as if he could bear this much for me.

I wouldn’t have known what he would have paid for my honor if I hadn’t come to this house today.

I scanned his body for marks left by the whip.

His hard muscles trembled finely every time my white, thin fingertips passed over them.

It is now completely healed now, but that did mean that the pain he’s been through doesn’t go away.

“Can I go to sleep?”

Those were words I never expected to hear myself say.

It’s too late to visit the temple now.

And it was difficult to summon a carriage to return to the count castle and then to the temple the next day.

No, I mean……

Everything, in fact, is an excuse. My lies, attempting to deceive me.

As I stared at his neck, which fluttered loudly, my lips said to.

“I want to be with you.”

I wonder why I only am honest towards him only.

“I want to be with you. Valhail.”

Only those words were truthful.