Episode 12 : Meeting in the unconscious
Knock. Knock.
“…….”
Knock. Knock. Knock.
I could hear the regular sound of water somewhere.
The sound of water drops slowly falling from the ceiling and hitting the floor.
Belladonna faintly came to her senses and frowned.
Where am I…… ?
She slowly lifted her heavy eyelids, and a completely new space opened up before her eyes.
Belladonna looked around with a puzzled look on her face. It was a place she had never been to before and was a place she had never seen before.
A place that is neither Astanya nor Griblata.
No, it’s not even the Eleanor Empire at all. Where is this place?
{Are you awake?}
A low voice flowed into my head.
Belladonna were startled and turned her head.
But around her, only the sound of water continued to be heard, and there was nothing but an empty blue space.
Where on earth…… !
Belladonna shrugged her shoulders and looked around her.
{Here.}
The voice from a moment ago came again through her head.
Bella also got up from where she was lying and slowly walked towards her.
She didn’t know where to go, but she walked forward.
It just felt like i had to.
{good job. But that is not the direction.}
Another sound.
Belladonna was startled and turned her head to the other side.
I saw a woman sitting quietly in the same spot where she had been lying just a moment ago. I felt familiar with her silver hair flowing down her back.
Who is it?
At that moment, the woman turned her head towards her.
That……!
A woman with sparkling silver hair and blue eyes was smiling at herself.
That’s Saint Belladonna, right?
After seeing her appearance, Bella also lost her strength in her legs and sat down.
{Oh my, you have to be careful.}
Bella, who had fallen from her saintly state, also spoke in a kind voice towards me. Belladonna still looked at her with a blank expression.
Is it a mirror? or not……
Frowning her brows, Belladonna lowered her head and looked at her own reflection.
Her palms were scratched here and there, blisters were forming and they were horribly swollen. A dark skin color that has been burned by the sun. Her skinny legs with small scars.
She was startled and was thrown backwards, pushed to the floor.
This is me, a farmer’s daughter in my previous life…… !
{that’s right. That’s you.}
The saint opened her mouth.
Belladonna looked up at her with her shaking eyes.
The saint looked at her and smiled her benevolent smile.
{What was it like to be me?}
Belladonna slowly shook her head.
What is this….? Am I dead again?
{don’t worry. you are not dead I just brought it up because I was curious.}
curious? Can you call me for a moment?
Belladonna still looked up at the saintess with a face that seemed to make no sense to her.
{I guess you still don’t know?}
I don’t know……
I have no idea who you are, who I am, where this place is….
Belladonna lifted her arms and grabbed her hair.
Her hair, wrapped around her fingers, was not rich silver hair, but terribly split black hair.
The saintess, who was watching the confused Belladonna, opened her mouth with an unknown smile.
{What do you think? Do you like that look? Or do you like it the way it is now?}
Of course……
Bella was about to reply that she was like a saint, but I hesitated, unable to take her mouth off hers.
……Is Saint Belladonna’s life really a good life?
She had a beautiful appearance, didn’t do any work that was hard enough to damage her body, and lived in a wealthy castle where she always ate good food.
{Of course it’s me?}
But she……
Belladonna frowned as she remembered the cunning and conniving appearance of the Pope and the other side of other people.
She felt sick from the inside, and then she felt so disgusting that he started to vomit.
“Ah……!”
Belladonna covered her mouth with both hands at the sudden surge of vomiting.
{It’s also a difficult question.}
The saintess stood up from where she was sitting, spun around and smiled happily.
{But that wouldn’t be good for a poor farmer’s daughter whose life was cut short, right? i feel somewhat sorry for you that i can only give you that kind of life.}
The saint, who had stopped spinning in place, crept closer to her.
Eventually, the saintess stretched out her fingers, lifted her chin, and made eye contact with Bella and her, raising the corners of her mouth.
{Hmm…..I guess I called you too hastily. I’m so curious, so stop. I’m not as patient as I thought.}
Before I knew it, Belladonna looked up at the saintess with her tear-filled eyes.
She was confused and scared.
There was nothing that could tell me what was happening to me or why it was happening.
{Then, try staying a little longer. I’ll call you again later. Don’t cry.}
As soon as the saintess finished speaking, the blue space and time began to distort from the outside.
What, what…..!
Belladonna was startled as she looked around, crumpled like a piece of paper.
The space, which was distorting little by little, quickly approached Bella and the saint, and soon swallowed them up.
no…..!!
***
‘Huh…..!’
Belladonna woke up from her dream with her heavy breathing.
Where i am?
A ceiling that seems unfamiliar yet familiar.
Belladonna opened her eyes wide and blinked them repeatedly, trying to calm her racing heart.
‘what? I think I had a dream..….’
I couldn’t remember at all.
Why are my eyes wet again…..?Did I have a scary dream without realizing it?
A few minutes later, as her heart slowly regained its normal speed, Bella slowly turned her head.
Tuk.
At some point, I heard the sound of the wet towel on my forehead falling onto the bed.
Her gaze followed the bed from where the wet towel had fallen.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a man sitting in her chair next to her bed, quietly watching her.
With low, sunken gaze, a cold golden eye staring down at her.
* * *
The sound of urgent footsteps echoed through the hallway.
The owner of the footsteps who was barely following the man in front from behind opened his mouth.
“My lord! Please, please calm down!”
Escalion, who was walking ahead of him with great strides, did not slow down her steps.
<My lord! Madam suddenly collapsed. The maid said that she was in extreme pain and had a high fever!>
shit……
The sculpted muscles of his lower jaw bulged as if he were angry.
He continued to repeat vulgar curses in his mind and walked quickly.
Klick!
“Hey, my lord!”
As I opened her door and entered, the maid stood up from her seat with her tear-stained face turned away.
Behind her, a small figure was seen lying on the bed.
“Since when?”
“Ah, earlier during the day…..After the jeweler and the tailor couple left, she was taking a short walk in the garden, when suddenly….”
The maid answered in tears.
Escalion walked right past her and looked down at Belladonna on her bed.
Wolff, who came running into her room one step behind him, patted Cindy’s crying shoulder and comforted her.
“Cindy, you must be very surprised. You had a lot of trouble.”
“Oh, no, deacon. Hmm……”
“What did the doctor say?”
Escalion clenched his fists tightly and asked in a low voice.
Shee collapsed during the day. After she collapsed, he, like a fool, spent his time outside the castle while the doctor visited her.
“Well, it’s called the flu….he said it looked like she had been overexerting herself recently or had been exposed to cold air for a long time.”
“so.”
“Thank goodness, there is no problem with life. However, you are in a very weakened state…..He said I should wait until the condition improves…..”
Only after hearing that there was no problem with her life, I feel like my breathing, which had been blocked near her uvula, was freed.
Even that wasn’t refreshing.
“About medicine.”
“I already gave her the medicine. Your fever has gone down a lot since before, but you still have a mild fever…….”
“The said she was a saint. Can’t she use her holy power to heal her body?”
“By nature, sexual power is something that puts a burden on the body of the person who uses it, knowingly or unknowingly……In particular, it is said that the saint’s holy power, or healing power, uses a certain amount of life force every time she uses that power. It is a significant strain on the saint’s body, so I think it will be difficult for her to heal on her own.”
“…..Right.”
Escalion narrowed his eyes and spat out.
“Just leave now.”
“What……?”
“…….”
“Let’s go, let’s go. Let’s go now.”
On behalf of Escalion, who did not respond, Wolff grabbed Cindy’s shoulder. Cindy looked at Escalion’s back with an incomprehensible expression.
“B-but……”
“Then, my lord, we will see you again tomorrow morning.”
Wolff, who was quick-witted, dragged Cindy out into the hallway and closed the door behind him.
Cindy quickly turned around and tried to go back into the room.
“Deacon! Madam still……!”
“Shh! Stay still. Didn’t the lord say he would do that?”
“But I have to stay by her side and watch over her……!”
“Let’s go back now. my lord will be able to do anything for her.”
Cindy looked at Wolff with an aggrieved expression.
“It’s definitely not because he’s not good enough.”
“sure……?”
“…..It’s because the lord is overflowing.”
Cindy still had an incomprehensible expression on her face, but after repeated attempts to dissuade her, she had no choice but to turn around.
Across the hallway, the sound of two footsteps grew further away and then quieted down.
“……”
Escalion pulled out the chair the maid had been sitting on a moment ago and sat down, quietly looking down at Belladonna on the bed.
“Huh……Huh……”
She must have been having a hard time, and her field was exhaling and making an impression on her.
Escalion, who was looking down at her with her lower jaw pressed tightly, reached out a hand to her forehead.
Before he knew it, a lukewarm wet towel was in his hand.
He rinsed the lukewarm wet towel several times in cold water in a nearby basin.
He squeezed out all the moisture with his large hands and placed it on her forehead again.
“ha…..”
Her face looked much more relaxed than before, but her breathing was still labored.
Escalion clenched his fists and placed on his knees.
What makes me so angry?
He couldn’t figure out why he was so angry.
The woman who paid for her and make expensive wedding and brought her back was so weak that she fell?
Is it because she was foolish enough to follow me without saying a word, only to be hit by the cold sea breeze and caught by her flu?
or not……
Because this happened to my wife while I was out? Am I angry at myself for being complacent?
Maybe there was another reason, maybe it was all of them.
“Ugh…….”
At that time, a very small voice came out from her slightly opened lips.
Escalion’s face hardened and Bella looked down at her as well.
“Ugh……Ugh……”
Belladonna was moaning softly.
Escalion’s golden eyes dilated slightly. He couldn’t take his eyes off her while she was breathing hard
• ❁ • ❁ • ❁ •By Esraa• ❁ • ❁ • ❁ •
