I Grabbed The Leash Of The Blind Beast - Chapter 19

Chapter 19

“And Rona?”

The butler seemed embarrassed.

“Where’s Rona?”

“She hasn’t come back yet.”

Eleon calmly said.

“Maybe she’s wasting time somewhere on purpose.”

He was aware of it.

At first, he sent her to do chores, and she went to do it.

Then she comes in when his seizures have stopped.

“Send two or three knights to Cafe Cardinal. If she’s not in the cafe, look around.”

“Yes, I will.”

Cafe Cardinal is only a 5-minute walk from the Grand Duke’s residence.

I thought that sending knights was a bit excessive, but there was no reason for the butler to disobey the master’s orders.

As Bernard disappeared out of the room to call knights, Eleon let out a long sigh.

I’m lonely.

He was tossed alone in severe pain on his cozy bed.

What an ironic loneliness.

When I opened my eyes, I was very hungry for Rona, who always has comforted me.

I didn’t want her to be sad and afraid because I was in pain.

What would you be like if you were in the past?

If someone had felt sorry for him, he might have considered it an insult.

But now, it was different.

Such feelings are based on understanding and empathy.

At some point, I wasn’t satisfied with Rona just giving me the perfect service.

I want to get closer to her. I want to reach her.

He felt like something was missing.

Eleon unconsciously licked his lips.

A bitter taste of blood rose from his rough, cracked lips.

He probably wouldn’t look good enough.

He believed Rona would give him water with her soft lips.

Eleon sent her out because he didn’t want her to suffer.

But when he regained consciousness, he wanted her by his side right away.

“Rona is not a clock.”

What’s the point of knowing if he was sane or if he had lost his mind in a seizure?

Still, I kept getting anxious about Rona’s absence.

It was then.

RAGING

Eleon’s eyes were on fire.

“Argh!”

A seizure caught me off guard.

It was the first time I had suffered this outrageous pain.

“Bernard! Bernard! AHHHHH… … .”

Bernard rushed in.

“Your Highness! Are you all right?”

“Eyes… … Are my eyes on fire?”

“The… they’re not.”

Listening to the butler’s embarrassed voice, Eleon thought there was no way his eyes weren’t burning.

He felt his eyes melting like candles in a blazing fire and flowed out of the snow.

“That can’t be true. My eyes are melting and flowing.”

“Your Highness… Your Highness… They’re not.”

The butler cried.

“Your eyes are filled with tears.”

“Ugh.”

Eleon was in pain.

The butler swallowed a cry and placed a towel over his mouth.

And so began another long seizure.

* * * * *

They moved Rona to a more secret room.

She blinked.

Only Duchess of Yuter and Iris remained with her in the room.

Using the two large mirrors, Rona looked behind her back.

She had her back uncovered, and there was a strange spot near her left shoulder.

Five circles were arranged like petals, and a small pentagon was drawn in red in the center.

“What is this? Is it a tattoo?”

When Rona asked, Iris took off her robe and showed her back.

“Oh!”

The same thing that was on my body was on her back.

Her skin color was a little darker, and it was closer to a reddish color than the pink patterns on Rona’s body.

“It’s a scar.”

Iris put on the robe again.

“It’s a priesthood’s token. It means that you have become a servant of God and it appears close to the heart. A mark appeared on our backs.”

“It just appeared?”

Iris nodded her head.

“You don’t remember anything?”

It was Rona’s turn to nod.

“God engraved it when I finish training and become an official priest.”

“Did God engrave it?”

“Yes, it appears on its own after the ceremony.”

“Heee.”

It was just amazing.

Now I feel like I’m in a novel.

It’s because I haven’t had a chance to know this kind of setting since I’ve only been at home with Eleon.

I don’t look at every corner of my naked body in front of the mirror.

It’s been about a year since I came here, but it was the first time I had to see something like this in my body.

Duchess of Yuter and Iris felt sorry for themselves.

They didn’t know what to do.

‘Then did the original Elysia die?’

So, that’s why she was able to possess her.

And she keeps saying that Elysia is a priest, but she couldn’t hear the voice of God at all.

“Excuse me, Iris.”

Iris seemed happy when Rona called her, even though she was disappointed that she couldn’t remember her.

“If you are a priest, do you also hear the voice of God?”

“Yes, it’s natural. If you can’t hear God’s voice, you can’t even come to Hadunsha.”

“Ahhh. But what about it? I can’t hear anything.”

Iris and the Duchess of Yuter exchanged complex glances.

“And if I’m Elysia, what happened? Why did I lose my memory and appeared somewhere?”

Rona told them that she had woken up on the shores of Lake Laurel and that she was found by a couple of rangers forest.

The two of them screamed when they heard that she was found out at Laurel Lake.

“Lake Laurel… That’s ridiculous.”

“Why?”

According to them, Elysia disappeared on her way to Grerosa for a sabbatical.

Grerosa is a place where priests go to commune with God, heal their minds, and rest.

She was ambushed on her way to Grerosa.

It is said that the escorts were slaughtered, and all the priests were also killed.

Rona got goosebumps all over her body.

What happened to Elysia?

After confirming that she possessed Elysia’s body through various shreds of evidence, it couldn’t have anything to do with her.

‘By the way, was there a scene like this in <Flower of the Blind Beast>?’

It was completely unfamiliar.

I don’t remember seeing any talk about the temple or oracles.

I didn’t even know if something like that would come out later.

“Lake Laurel is a place where it takes a whole week by carriage from where you disappeared.”

She said that the road was rough because there was a canyon.

Roughly counting the time of Elysia’s disappearance and the time Rona wakes up from the lake, moves to the city, the capital, and works at the Grand Duke’s residence.

It seems that it was only a day or two after Elysia’s disappearance that she woke up in Laurel Lake.

“Then I’m not Elysia, am I?”

Iris was furious at Rona’s question.

“You just saw the scar. Even after seeing the mark of the divine god, you said those words.”

The problem was that I couldn’t hear God’s voice. I can’t hear it at all.

“Anyway, it’s too late. If I don’t go back, they will worry.”

Duchess of Yuter and Iris’ faces became weird at the same time.

Suddenly the Duchess asked.

“By the way, where have you been staying? I dispatched people to search for you through the whole empire. I couldn’t find a single hair, they said you must have been torn to pieces by the water of the canyon.”

She was crying.

“I’m working as a maid for the Grand Duke Clevent.”

“What?”

“I beg your pardon?”

Once again, seeing both of them startled at the same time, Rona felt bombarded.

“I’m serving Sir Eleon. I made a lot of money.”

“Oh, please. Hey.”

The Duchess put her hands on her head, dizzy.

“Today, I was just out on an errand for the Grand Duke for a while.”

“Did you mean you attended Grand Duke yourself?”

“Yes.”

Rona answered honestly.

She had no reason to lie.

“Maybe you and Grand Duke Clevent… … .”

“… …Oh no.”

She had a different predestined partner.

I don’t know what will happen in the future, though.

There were times when I woke up from Eleon’s bed, but it was never something the Duchess asked.

Iris nodded when Rona denied it.

“If you are not pure, the scar will disappear.”

“That’s right. Really.”

Upon learning something new, Rona’s eyes widened.

However, they didn’t seem to want to go into more detail.

“Anyway, you are Elysia Yuter, not Rona Hera Palace.”

“That’s right, that’s right.”

Iris affirmed vigorously.

“From this moment on, you must never go to the Grand Duke’s house.”

“Yes?”

The Duchess declared firmly.

“You can’t go back to the Grand Duke.”

* * * * *

The Butler was about to die.

The Grand Duke’s condition was unusual.

The pain was divided into several types.

However, it was the first time Eleon was making strange noises that he wondered if he was speaking psychotic nonsense.

He says his eyes were on fire, and his eyeballs were melting and flowing out.

He felt sorry for Eleon’s situation.

But I wondered if the pain had gone too far and if he had gone crazy because he never had seizures that lasted for such a long time.

‘I didn’t think the Grand Duke’s mental power was that weak.’

It was so much pain, it wouldn’t be strange if someone went crazy.

Many times, Bernard thought he was going crazy just by looking at him.

Even after Eleon’s wretched screams had stopped, somehow his voice remained in his head, and he thought he was hallucinating.

Thinking that I might have gone crazy, I was afraid to venture into Eleon’s bedroom for a long time, even after the bedroom was quiet.

Besides, he couldn’t find Rona.

Before his seizure, he had sent knights to search for her on the Grand Duke’s orders.

But they couldn’t find her and returned empty-handed.

The last few days, the butler felt that the condition of his master was unusual.

For half a year, Rona and Eleon have been keeping an appropriate line as employer and employee.

But the past few days, it seems that something has been broken between the two of them.

I saw my Lord drinking water from her mouth.

I sneakily asked Rona about it, but she answered naively.

「“Because the butler did it like that too.”」

Bernard was stunned.

Eleon sold him out as a loyal vassal to lure Rona.

I couldn’t believe that a well-groomed man would do such a thing, so I wondered if he was crazy.

In the meantime, failing to find Rona was stuck in his neck, it was uncomfortable like a thorn.

CLACK

As he opened the door and entered, Eleon turned his head and looked at him.

“Release me.”

His eyes were shining red in the dark.