CHAPTERS
The awkward silence was broken by an urgent knock at the door. “Master! Are you alright?” It was the coachman’s voice. Only then did Sharhan, who had instinctively stepped back, return to his seat. Lestel opened the carriage door. “What is it?” “I’m sorry. We were almost there, but an addict ran into the road, and we had to stop suddenly. Are you unharmed?” Beyond the open door, an addict was being dragged away by the gambling hall’s guards. Around gambling dens, it was…- 264.3 K • Completed
- “Is that really true? That places where magic flows are cool regardless of season?” Sharhan asked in surprise, and Derry nodded. “There used to be a few places where magic flowed naturally. Mages often settled around them. It made it easier to fill their cores and helped them grow faster too. But after the war with the monsters, many of those places were destroyed or lost. That’s why they’re so rare now. If you felt magic down there… maybe ancient imperial mages used to live…
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- Sharhan screamed as if his throat were tearing. At the same moment, Lestel twisted his body and swung his sword. But the blade, thrown off by the sudden movement, only managed to cut deeply into the moving corpse’s forearm. Muscle split apart, exposing pale bone, but the creature, immune to pain, didn’t even flinch. It grabbed Lestel’s shoulder and immediately brought its teeth toward the exposed flesh. As Lestel fell backward and dropped his sword, a sharp clack echoed, the corpse’s bloodied…
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- The snowstorm continued through to the next morning. Winter had arrived abruptly and violently. The fierce winds rattled the cabin, keeping the three of them from getting any real sleep. They woke before sunrise, their noses stinging from the cold air inside. Fortunately, none of them had caught a cold. “This is all we have left.” “Then we’ll eat that.” All that remained was flour. They mixed it with snow melted by body heat to stave off hunger. The flour left their mouths dry, and the…
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- “You kissed me, didn’t you.” “A k-kiss is just a kiss. Sex is different.” “How is it different?” “The kiss was… like an accident. But sex… Anyway, I’m not doing it. Never.” “Bit too passionate for something accidental, don’t you think?” Sharhan stammered, trying to come up with an excuse, recalling how he’d pounced first, using his pain as an excuse just a few hours ago. “T-that was…” But no matter how hard he racked his brain, no decent excuse…
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- “What the fuck, is that really something to say right now?!” He was in so much pain he thought he might die, and this lunatic was spouting nonsense again? “You’re in a lot of pain, aren’t you? If you focus your mind on something else, it’ll hurt less.” It sounded plausible at first – but why, of all things, did it have to be a kiss? Sharhan looked up at Lestel, full of disbelief. He thought he was being teased, but Lestel looked completely serious. “You forget pain through…
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- Sharhan jerked his head up. Lestel’s profile came into view as he stared outside. “Lestel, just now…” “I can’t be sure it was Thunder and Lightning, but it was definitely a horse’s neigh.” The two of them locked eyes for a moment, then rushed outside at the same time. The snow-covered world was as silent as ever, and not a single living creature was in sight. ‘Did I hear wrong?’ Sharhan inhaled the cold air, disappointed. Hiiing! Another neigh rang out, and soon,…
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- “What?” “Worry about your own body. With a face that looks half-dead, who exactly are you thinking of going out to find? You’re so worn out, you’d collapse after just a few steps. Are you in your right mind?” Lestel sneered as he checked the wounds on Sharhan’s side and thigh. He wasn’t wrong. The clearer Sharhan’s mind became, the more acutely he felt the miserable state of his body. A foul odor was already seeping from the festering wound, and chills ran through him again. His…
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- “No matter how I look at it, you’re not acting normal…” Lestel’s eyes had completely lost focus. Sharhan’s mind went blank along with him. A strange rush of euphoria washed over him, tightening his lower belly. “Your temperature’s normal.” Lestel said this as he bumped his forehead lightly against Sharhan’s. “Of course it’s normal?” “Don’t be so sure. Your fever kept going up and down for days. And today you were in such bad shape I thought you might die without…
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- Even though his consciousness hadn’t fully returned, Sharhan sensed something was off. Slowly, he opened his eyes. But his vision was blurry, and his mind felt foggy. It was as if all five senses had shut down. He blinked a few times, waiting for sensation to return. The first to come back was touch. ‘W-wait a second… is someone holding me right now?’ And that someone was undoubtedly Lestel. It was ridiculous, but it felt familiar. The embrace was unmistakably his. Most shocking of all,…
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