“Someday I’ll be able to tell you… but not now. It’s enough that you are here now.”
He murmured to himself, picked up Asha like a princess, and leisurely returned to his home.
His feelings deepened in the moonlight.
[This is the time separator]“…Captain!”
In the early morning after a grand drinking party when everyone was asleep, a patrolman suddenly came to Jackal’s house in a hurry.
The rough knocking on the door caused him to rise from the bed, his sensual halfnaked body asking,
“What’s going on?”
The patrolman who flung open the door inhaled deeply with a pale face and spoke urgently,
“There… on the mountain pass… the Cactus Knights…!”
“…The Emperor’s personal knights?”
Jackal furrowed his brows.
The sudden noise caused Asha to wake up, and she quickly came downstairs.
Having heard what was just said, she stopped midway down the stairs, her face pale with fear.
Jackal quickly got up and began preparing, giving orders,
“Start moving right now. Tell the members to take the packed bags and weapons and gather in the yard as quickly as possible.”
“Yes!”
The sudden attack confused the members, but they efficiently prepared and gathered in the yard.
The sky was still showing the pale blue color just before dawn.
Jackal instructed,
“Set fire to the village. Since our location seems to have been found out anyway, we need to erase the traces and cover our escape with smoke.”
“Yes!”
They lit fires to the wood and hay piles and threw them remorselessly towards the village.
Asha blankly watched the village, where they had spent peaceful times, burning up in flames.
The memory of the joyous and happy night before turned to ashes in an instant.
The scene of the village burning suddenly reminded her of the day the minority village was razed.
She murmured, looking ghostly pale, watching the organization members’ hideout, the meeting hall, and finally Jackal’s house all burning down,
“I’m sorry… because of me… since I came here…”
“Don’t apologize. It’s not your fault.”
Jackal said calmly.
“We’ve always lived like this. There’s nothing surprising about it now.”
“But…! But the Emperor must be coming to catch me…!”
Asha momentarily visualized Karaf’s red eyes like blood and shivered uncontrollably.
Jackal placed a firm hand on Asha’s shoulder.
Then, surprisingly, the trembling stopped.
When Asha looked up blankly, he met her eyes and said seriously,
“You’ll be safe with us, so stop worrying needlessly.”
Certainly, here’s the translated passage:
Empress Lenisha’s steady and blue eyes seemed unshakable, and Asha soon calmed down and nodded.
The Ricarions all mounted their horses and began to gallop up the mountain.
Perhaps due to the excessive drinking the night before, everyone was not in the best condition.
There was no doubt that the attack had been deliberately planned for this day.
Geb attached himself to Asha’s side and said,
“Don’t worry, sister. We aren’t Ricarions for nothing. We haven’t survived this far just by luck. If you are really worried, you can clear them out with arrows.”
When Geb smiled while running, Asha’s mind was slightly eased by his joke, and she smiled too.
Geb spoke to Wild horse Jackal, who was leading the pack from the front.
“Captain, I’ll go check how far those guys have followed us.”
“All right, be careful. Don’t get caught by the enemies.”
“Yes. I’ll catch up soon.”
Geb immediately changed direction and ran back.
His reddishbrown hair fluttered wildly in the wind. His eyes were fiercer than a hawk as he drove his horse roughly.
Asha, who was turning her head to watch him, suddenly looked around at the other members and screamed, almost like a shriek.
“Shepi…! I can’t see Shepi…!”
No members were seen riding Shepi. Her heart felt like it was sinking.
But Jackal, who was in front, casually said,
“Don’t worry about that guy. He’ll follow on his own.”
“On his own? Surely he hasn’t gone on another outing…?”
When Asha asked in a voice mixed with disbelief, a corporal who was following behind unwittingly laughed, snorting.
Jackal glanced at him.
The corporal cheerfully spoke to Asha instead.
“He went out with the prettiest white horse in the world this time, so he’ll be safe. That horse is surprisingly strong, you know.”
“Is that white horse a female?”
“It’s a male.”
“It’s a male.”
Jackal and the corporal’s faces hardened as they simultaneously cut in sharply.
The two never wanted to be misunderstood as having gone on a date.
Asha was worried, but the two spoke of it so nonchalantly and joked that she decided to relax for now.
Above all, she had faith that Shepi wouldn’t be taken down so easily.
They had left the village at dawn, and it was only at dawn again that they unpacked in the cave and took a short rest.
They had not even had a proper meal and had been tense all day, being chased by the knights, so Asha’s strength drained from her body as soon as she sat on the ground.
Soon Geb, who had gone on patrol, returned safely.
Jackal asked,
“What’s the situation?”
“They are camping in the valley.”
Jackal nodded.
“They must have decided that pursuing us continuously at night is too dangerous.”
Unlike the Ricarions, who lived in the forest and had good night vision, the knights who had lived a luxurious palace life were vulnerable to darkness.
Even the outstanding knights would have judged it dangerous to run through the dense forest in the middle of the night.
Jackal looked around at the members and said,
“We will wake up a little faster than them and start just before dawn. Let’s get about three hours of sleep and then set out immediately.”
“Yes!”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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