90 – broken, scattered, hated (11)

The floor was splattered with dark red blood,

The air with the fishy smell of blood dissolved in it,

The floor was covered with broken pieces of furniture, and the sofa was strewn with pieces of reddish bandages.

“……What the hell happened here?”

Ariel, who had her eyes on the chaos of the room, asked such a question with a bewildered expression.

A faint trembling voice lingered in the dark room for a moment.

“……”

“……”

With the waves of sound ringing in their ears, Alan and his companions were unable to say anything.

The sudden situation made them slow down their thinking and harden their bodies.

“……”

“Oh, brother… what happened to you…? What are these bloodstains all over the room…”

“……”

“…What happened to my brother?”

The questions that keep popping up and the answers that keep coming back.

Ariel felt that her patience was running out as she saw the children silenced with bewildered expressions.

“…Get out of the way, before I kill them all.”

In the end, Ariel radiates cool energy and roughly pushes the children standing in front of her.

Leaving behind the staggering children, she stepped into the room without hesitation.

Lucy and Rachel, who were standing a little stiff, hesitantly followed behind Ariel.

“Brother… please, please… is everything okay…?”

Anxious mutterings dissipate helplessly.

Trembling steps nervously cross the darkness in the room.

ㅡChalbak….

The rough footsteps touch the pooled blood on the floor, and small red drops pop up.

The deeper you go into the room, the thicker the bloodstains, the more fishy the smell of blood.

“Bocchan… what the hell is going on…”

“Why is Raiden’s room in this shape…”

The faces of Rachel and Lucy, who had been struggling to keep their composure, become tired of contemplation.

With anxiety brushing their necks, the three girls headed to Raiden’s bedroom, where the level of dizziness was the worst.

ㅡClack, kiik…..

As a slender hand grabs the doorknob and pulls, the closed door slowly opens with a small hinge sound.

Through the gap between the widening doors, a familiar shape comes into the children’s field of vision.

“brother…?”

“young master…?”

A black boy lying on a bed with an expressionless face in a space painted red.

The children realized at once that the boy was Raiden, and hurriedly entered the bedroom.

“Raiden!!”

“young master!!”

A body covered in bandages and faint bloodstains in places.

The appearance of the boy, whom we met again five days after leaving the academy, was literally a wreck itself.

“Brother… oppa why…”

“young master….”

While Ariel and Rachel run to Raiden and check his condition.

Lucy, who was standing in front of the door, quietly turned her head and looked toward the living room.

“…Those who are standing over there.”

Lucy calls Alan and his companions, who are making complicated expressions.

She opened her mouth coldly, exuding an unusually cool atmosphere.

“What the hell happened here? Why the hell did Raiden end up like that?”

“……”

Lucy felt her insides boil at the sight of the children who could not answer this time and stiffened.

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Just before her emotions explode.

Maharet, who was standing in the back, came out in front of the children and opened her mouth.

“I will tell you…”

“…Princess Maharet.”

Maharet bit her lip as she met Lucy’s eyes, then lowered her head.

Then, in a trembling voice, he began to speak.

The academy invasion, and all the stories connected since then.

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ㅡ Clap!

The palm that flew fiercely hit Maharet’s cheek hard.

The sound of bloody blows from flesh colliding with flesh harshly shattered the silence in the room.

“I’m sorry…..”

Maharet let out a faint moan at the burning pain felt from his left cheek.

Into the flickering field of vision, a blonde girl’s glare enters.

“Maharet… how could you do that to Raiden…?”

“……”

Seeing the blue eyes glaring at him in disbelief, Maharet had to hold back his moaning.

Lucy lifted the hand that had slapped Maharet’s cheek again, and this time grabbed her by the collar.

“You… You shouldn’t do that…! How many times Raiden saved you…”

“……”

“On school trips, during ranking matches… How could you do that to someone who gave his whole body to protect you…”

The resentful reprimands Lucy spat out became long thorns that penetrated deeply into Maharet’s stomach.

Maharet had to bite her tongue lightly to avoid expressing the pain creeping up from within.

“Did you hate Raiden so much…? To the extent that you even forgot that you owed your life to that one letter…?”

“…Not like that, no…”

“No, what’s wrong!!”

Lucy, with a raging voice, distorted her expression.

Every time she shook her clenched hands roughly, Maharet’s head shook helplessly.

As the atmosphere became more and more violent, the children who had been flinching behind Maharet belatedly began to move.

“Wow, Princess… Calm down…”

“If it’s our fault rather than Princess Maharet…”

Alan and Clara step forward to stop Lucy, who is strangling Maharet.

“You guys are the same!”

Lucy slammed the hands of those two people roughly and shouted.

“Raiden has risked his life many times for the sake of others! The banquet hall raid, the school excursion raid, and the academy invasion!!”

“……”

“To the subject who owes his life and received grace…! How could he be so shameless!!”

Lucy’s words made the children shut up.

Every single word from her pierced their hearts.

“You don’t even know what kind of pain Raiden is going through or what kind of disease he’s suffering from inside…!”

“……”

“You must have only listened to the low-level rumors going around in the world and judged him as you please!!”

Have you ever thought about how much your attitude hurt Raiden?

Lucy, who was about to let out those words for the last time, couldn’t help but swallow them.

“……”

She hated and resented Raiden, believing only rumors, because she was the same.

It was the same for her that she judged him arbitrarily without recognizing him properly.

Lucy didn’t think she was qualified to say that.

If Milliam hadn’t tipped it off,

Had Raiden not approached her first,

Lucy could have been one of those kids standing there.

Lucy felt her body stiffen at the terrible assumptions blackening through her head.

The powerless hand missed Maharet’s collar and fell into the air.

“……”

“……”

Once again, a heavy silence passed through the dark room.

Lucy biting her lip with a dark expression,

Maharet sat down in front of her with a disheveled appearance.

And Alan and the children standing behind them.

What broke that complicated silence was the sound of the bedroom door being opened roughly, which Ariel and Rachel had entered to check Raiden’s condition.

ㅡQuaang!

“Ah, lady… just calm down…”

“It’s okay, Rachel. Don’t stop me. I can’t take it anymore.”

Ariel strides out through the loudly open door, and Rachel follows with an anxious expression.

Ariel glared at the children standing in the living room with her red eyes shining fiercely.

The blue mana flowing from her body chilled the air around her.

“Hey, Alan. And next to you are the f*ckers.”

“Ariel…?”

“I heard everything that Princess Maharet said inside. You f*cking assholes.”

Ariel gazes at Alan and his companions with cold eyes.

In her hand, expressing her anger like the raging winter wind, a spear made of ice was holding up before she knew it.

“I told you… Please don’t touch me as much as my brother…”

“……”

“I told you to leave your brother alone!!”

ㅡWheeze, baek!!

The spear of ice that swung quickly hit Alan’s face hard.

Alan, who deliberately received the spear without blocking or avoiding it, collapsed to the floor due to the impact.

“miss!”

“Let go of this, Rachel. Today I have to tear that distant top to pieces.”

Ariel freed Rachel from holding her arm and pointed the spear at Alan’s face again.

Unlike the beginning, the tip of the spear had a sharp edge.

“Princess Ariel!!”

“Hey, wait a minute Ariel!!”

Perhaps surprised by Ariel’s murderous appearance, Clara and Abbie stepped forward to stop her.

Ariel looked at those two and raised her spirits even more.

“You f*ckers, are you not moving?”

“Ah, Ariel… that’s…”

“Vicky.”

A cold, bloody conversation.

Ariel, soaked in anger, continued the confrontation with the children for tens of minutes.

……In the meantime, without knowing that Raiden, who was left alone in the room, had awakened.

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“……ah.”

When I opened my eyes again, I was alone in the dark.

The scenery of the ceiling reflected in the blurry vision.

As I moved my arms and legs, I could only breathe out a mixture of dejection and despair at the sense of reality.

“……”

reality.

it’s real again

I gritted my teeth, suppressing the paroxysmal reactions that were about to rise from within once again.

The nightmares and seizures that I have already repeated dozens of times were enough to grind my mind.

—-Naruya, it’s dangerous!!

—-Sorry, Naruya.

ㅡ Starting today, there is no Lee Ji-hye. He committed suicide by jumping off the roof. Tsk, weak bitch.

—-You scumbag, you are not my son.

Once again, the misfortunes of the past pass by me.

I always felt that I was suffocating.

“Hee-euk… Hee-euk…”

A breath that scatters unsteadily.

A crushing headache and a sensation as if the intestines were being torn apart.

With a silent scream, I twisted my body.

“……”

Why do I have to suffer like this?

All I wanted was a little shard of happiness, that’s all.

no one is giving it to me

None of that was for me.

In pain that cuts through the mind and burns it.

I continued to roll my eyes.

“Wooo…”

I wanted to run away.

anywhere.

I didn’t want to be sick anymore.

Even though I tried so hard, if what I couldn’t accept in the end was the ‘life’ that was given to me.

Stop now, I wanted to put it down.

…..I wanted to be comfortable.

“……”

Perhaps it was a coincidence.

While I was thinking about that, my eyes landed on the ropes that restrained my hands and feet.

“Blink×1”

And getting out of it lightly and getting the untied strings in my hands. and…..

….It must have been a coincidence that they were woven together to form a circle.

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Meanwhile, in the living room, Ariel and the children were still fighting.

“Ah, Ariel…”

“Get out of the way, you bitches. Before we thread them all together.”

When Ariel, who was holding a spear, pushed Clara and Abby and tried to step towards Alan.

A strange sound came from Raiden’s bedroom.

—-!

“….What is this sound?”

A single line of sound that sounds strange somewhere.

It sounded like a grievous groan, or like a painful breath.

With uneasiness running through their heads, Ariel and Rachel ran straight to the bedroom.

And Lucy and Maharet stumbled after those two people.

ㅡA jump!

“Bocchan! Are you okay?!”

“Brother! Are you okay?! I suddenly hear something like a moan…?”

As they hurriedly opened the bedroom door, Rachel and Ariel, who were looking for Raiden, could not finish their words.

Both of their faces went pale.

“……!”

Breathing in pain, feet struggling in the air.

A boy whose eyes had half lost their vitality, and a single rope tying him.

It was the appearance of Raiden that the children found.

He was hanging himself from a rope tied to the ceiling.