Lady Devil - Chapter 53

#53

Griselda moved towards the main tower. Throughout her walk along the deserted back alley, she couldn’t shake off one thought. It wasn’t about the ominous dream of tormenting her husband. Rather, her husband’s last words about suffering from nightmares for a fortnight lingered in her mind. Could it be a coincidence?

A fortnight.

Griselda, her husband had called. I had no choice but to watch everything you did with ‘it’, he said.

You bend over, and I gradually lose my breath. I want to stop you, but I have no legs to approach, no arms to tear it off. In the end, I cry out to you a little. Then suddenly, the walls of our bedroom collapse. From ceiling to floor all at once.

Suddenly we’re outside.

It’s not raining. Instead, gray snowflakes are swirling in the black sky. When I look closely, feeling something’s odd, it’s not snow but petals. Yes, dozens, hundreds of petals are swirling in the sky. And you are tied to a pile of wood.

The people of the fortress surround you in a circle, watching. They point fingers at you, shouting “murderer” in unison. You, blindfolded, wail calling for me. Several clusters of red flowers are blooming on the platform where you stand.

Those flowers are like beasts. Dozens of red petals stretch out like long tongues in the air, gradually attaching to your fluttering skirt and blooming anew. As white and red petals surge up, splitting the pitch-black night, ah, Griselda. He said.

You burst into flames…

Her husband was withering away with each passing day.

He lamented that now, even if he managed to doze off for a moment, he always had the same dream. He said it was maddening how burning Griselda haunted him whether his eyes were closed or open. The arms that occasionally embraced the sobbing Griselda, unable to suppress her worry, were now just protruding bones.

Griselda suspected the eldest son, even though she knew it wasn’t true. She spent nights wide awake with trembling eyes. Of course, nothing like the nursing infant transforming into a demon engulfed in blue flames ever happened.

One day, her husband said with sickly eyes.

“I will protect you.”

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