Under the moonlight pouring, gray-brown hair softly crumbled.
I slowly opened my mouth when I saw the face of the man who had given his hand.
Am I dreaming with my eyes open? I doubted it inwardly, but it didn’t seem any real in my eyes.
He, who died five years ago, was now reaching out to .
“…Eclise.”
I squirted my lips for a long ti and muttered like a shrill scream.
“You… you, were you alive?”
Callisto had been searching the Empire for quite so ti because he could not find his body.
It was to find all the rebels and execute them so as not to leave any regrets behind.
I overheard a report of the search for the rebels with a nervous heart.
But in the end, Eclise’s body was never found.
Now, five years later, it was believed that the dragon had disappeared without leaving even the belly of the breath. (?)
Actually, there were quite a few people whose bodies couldn’t be found for that reason.
However, I couldn’t even imagine in my dream that I would face such an unexpected situation in an unexpected place.
“……how….what happened?”
I sat up and leaned over.
And asked, looking at him with confused eyes.
“Where the hell have you been? It couldn’t have been easy to be chased for years….”
It was then.
As he stared at like a doll without saying a word, he suddenly opened his mouth.
“Is my original na Eclise?”
“…what?”
I looked up at him blankly as if I didn’t hear anything.
Then he slowly crouched in front of to match our eye level.
“I don’t rember five years ago.”
“That… that’s not….”
“One of the rcenaries picked up the bleeding from a back alley. They called Hamilton. It was the na of the back alley where I was lying…”
“…….”
“Do you happen to know?”
He asked quietly, keeping a close eye on .
Like wax, I was reflected in the grayish brown pupil.
I felt it was very unfamiliar and familiar at the sa ti.
Because Eclise would always stare at with this face, just like this, without any particular agitation.
So it was hard to believe his words about losing his mory.
“……don’t lie.”
I glared at him, who looked as if he was asking to refer to him as Hamilton.
“You were this close, but you weren’t found? You were about to die because you had a hole in your stomach.”
“………”
“It took us quite a long ti to prepare those rewards, I don’t think any of the rcenaries would ever try to hide you….”
“Seeing that there was a restraint harness on the neck, a rcenary leader tried to make angry.”
Cutting off my suspicious words, he spoke calmly.
I opened my eyes wide to the words of Eclise.
Despite my appalling reaction, he continued.
“When I ca to my senses, I had killed them all…. I couldn’t stay in the capital any longer. I don’t want to be caught and executed as a criminal.”
“……..”
“So as soon as I was able to pull myself together, I imdiately stole the potion and left the capital.”
“……..”
“After that, I just wandered around the country working as a rcenary without a na.”
“Ha….”
I got dizzy by his words.
The sudden outpouring of information made my head spin.
It was hard to believe that Eclise was still alive in front of , and had lost his mory.
There was no reason to explain such a specific lie to .
Having barely accepted it, I took my hand off my forehead and looked at him again.
“You said you had no mory. How did you know I was here. Why are you following ?”
The confusion cald down faster than I thought. I asked in a calm voice.
There were more than one or two questions.
I was vaguely aware that he had been after many tis because of what had happened.
But he has lost his mory, so there was no reason for him to stick to .
“You know who I am?”
Eclise, who silently waited for my question to end, nodded slowly.
“…..the one and only princess of the Eckart family, the emperor’s fiancée. Penelope Eckart, an honorary professor of the Royal Academy of Archaeology.”
He answered slowly.
My external posts were easy to know without any background checks.
Nevertheless, I stared at him with a little nervousness.
At the end, I thought there would be another modifier, sothing like ‘My one and only master’
But he kept his mouth shut, overshadowing my doubts.
And after a little break, he whispered.
“……three years ago, when I was asked to catch a demon, I went to a village and saw you.”
“……..”
“At that ti, I was in the midst of confrontation with the demon, just like you today.”
As if he recalled that ti, he added with a faint smile.
“When I saw you struggling… the only thing I could think of was helping you.”
“……..”
“I’ve always been watching from afar, but this is the first ti I’m seeing it closely.”
He leaned over with a curious look on his face.
I stepped back from him in surprise and distanced myself.
“So since then….. have you been following since three years ago?”
“………”
“Every ti a demon shows up, soone kills it and then disappears, was that you?”
When asked in a vigilant voice, he replied, straightening his body.
“…..unless you’ve hired another escort or rcenary.”
“Why?”
I asked him as soon as his words ca to an end. I could hardly understand him.
“You said you lost your mory. You said you don’t rember anything. But what do you know about that made you follow for three years?”
“……..”
“You said you lost your mory. You barely survived. Then just live your life, why are you chasing again!”
My chest was stuffy.
I was just going to ask, but by the ti I realized it I was shouting at him.
‘Why is he still not getting out of the ga?’
I was reminded of the ga that I had completely forgotten.
Five years is enough ti to get rid of the brainwashing effects of Leila.
I still vividly rembered him, who was dying on behalf of .
I scoured his face with shaking eyes.
The words ‘lost mory’ did not seem to be false.
No, actually I don’t know. Eclise was originally a man whose facial expressions were so rare that you couldn’t read his mind easily.
It was important to survive in that hell anyway.
Why? If so, then you must find your own life, why are you still tied to ?
I didn’t know what to do with my frustration, so I bit my lower lip.
It was then.
“Seeing how your body reacted before your mind… I had a hunch that you might be closely related to my past.”
“…….”
“Fortunately, my intuition wasn’t wrong. You know better than I thought.”
He burst out laughing with a pretty pleased face.
I looked back at him, forgetting what I was about to say in that smiley face.
Eclise has never laughed that way in front of .
The feeling of looking at soone completely different instantly made feel strange.
As I glorified his face, only his eyes and hair color were the sa as before.
The reason why I thought he hadn’t changed a bit was because of his unique color and shabby armor.
But in five years he had changed quite a bit.
As the features beca clearer, the jawline and eyes beca thicker.
The fluffy hair, which had reached the neck due to poor trimming, was neatly arranged with its forehead exposed, and his height and size were much bigger than before.
With his etched face gone, he had grown up to be a complete, strange man.
“Did you observe everything?”
While I was looking at him as if he were unfamiliar, he suddenly asked.
The atmosphere has also changed. Now, I no longer slled a dangerous sll from him as if I would soon die.
A young voice made laugh, only then I got excited. (?)
‘….you really forgot everything.’
The half-crazy him, who said he loved , was nowhere to be seen.
‘Now, can you really liquidate all your relationships with him?’
However, despite my selfish feelings of relief, there were still uncomfortable and strange feelings that hovered between us.
“……why didn’t you show up in front of for three years to ask ? You said I seed like soone who knew your past.”
“At first, I started chasing you out of my curiosity about the past… but I’m not so sure about this.”
“What.”
“Is it so important to know the past?”
I opened my eyes wide for a mont to his reply. I felt like I was falling into an unknown bog.
“Then what do you want to keep chasing behind ?”
“Nothing.”
“What?”
“I just want to do it.”
“Ha….”
In the past, Eclise wasn’t a good communicator either. And this Eclise, who lost his mory, remained the sa as the wall window he was.
After a deep sigh, I cald down and asked.
“You said you’re a rcenary. Is that the kind of philanthropic service you want?”
“……..”
“Without pay, you want to help people who kill demons and have no connection? Or is it the archaeology that I do?”
If you kept pretending you didn’t know, you wouldn’t know.
He showed himself in front of , and I thought I’d help him as long as I could.
There’s sothing he wants, that’s why he keeps wandering around.
“Or money? Do you need money?”
“I don’t need any of that.”
But absurdly, he flatly denied it.
“Just… I want to see you keep doing what you’re doing safely.”
“But, why would you?”
“……..”
“Even if we’ve known each other in the past, we’ve never t before. Is it because you want to know the past? I’m sorry, but I have nothing to say to you. As you already know, you were a slave in the past, and that’s it.”
“I didn’t approach because I wanted to ask.”
As I poured out like a shotgun, Eclis shrugged and answered lightly.
It really looked like soone else.
“Then there’s no reason for you to guard , and to hover around .”
I drew a hard line.
We were poisonous to each other throughout the ga.
A venomous relationship that was hidden, deceived, and used.
The thought of repeating it again chilled my spine.
It was ti to say goodbye. I thought I was too furious, so I tried to speak calmly.
“….Thank you for saving today, but you don’t have to do that anymore, so go back to your life.”
“Ah. If you feel uncomfortable, I’ll keep on doing it without being seen. I was forced to show up today, you know….” (I might be wrong on this part. I don’t know if he said he’ll keep doing it without being seen, or he’ll just give up.)
“…….”
“I won’t mind from now on.”
“You must be mistaken.”
I couldn’t stand the suffocating feeling and finally gave a cold-hearted scolding.
“Since my face is a bit familiar, you feel like I’m the one who knows your past, so do you think I can beco so sort of lifesaver for you?”
In my aggressive tone, Eclise’s brown eyes grew slightly wide.
But if we don’t cut it off now, we’re going to have an endless war of words.
And Eclipse continues to hover around without knowing why, and may gradually regain its mory.
Sadly, I didn’t want him to find any mory.
One catastrophe was enough.
“Yes… maybe a benefactor. Because I bought you at an auction as a slave.”
“………”
“But that’s it. Know it now, that I was like your enemy in the past. You hated and resented all the ti.”
“……why?”
Eclis asked back with a strange face.
I hesitated, then answered him coolly.
“Because I ruined your life by taking advantage of you.” (She knows…)
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