Cryer’s pronunciation slipped due to his pressed lips.
Olivia bit her lips as she gently pressed her finger against his twisted mouth.
“Don’t make that face.”
“What?”
“You are the most important! You started the war, and you’re the one who will end it! Whether you’re a slave or not! Whether you’re an ancient god or not! It’s you, you!”
The trembling fingertip pressing Cryer’s mouth brushed his lower lip and fell away.
Cryer opened his mouth towards Olivia, who swallowed her breath without saying anything for a while.
“Everything is my fault……”
“No!”
As Olivia shook her head, her flaming red hair waved like a flickering flame.
She closed her eyes tightly, then looked at him squarely.
“There must be a reason why you made a slave contract. If it was just to borrow the power of an ancient god, the wizard himself could have made the contract. But it wasn’t. He chose you. As the one to carry out the contract. You, the one who died and came back to life?”
“I was just a knight before I was resurrected.”
“Remember anything else?”
Cryer did not answer Olivia’s question.
He… couldn’t.
“You don’t remember, do you?”
“Well… yes. I see. I don’t remember……”
“You can break the slave contract. No, you will. Whether you find your past or even if it’s not the key!”
Cryer felt the mark on his collarbone.
The scattered memories that occasionally came to him were all from the time he was marked.
The wizard prepared the mark, but it was his daughter who actually made it.
‘……Chosen. With……’
And again, Olivia’s hand overlaid his on his back.
She doesn’t know why he’s touching there.
But every time he touched his collarbone, the chill she felt from his emptying eyes unwittingly extended her hand.
Olivia, who held his hand until it turned white, stared at him squarely.
“I will survive. So you won’t be able to start a war, nor fill your hands with the blood of the world.”
Very small fragments, so small that he didn’t even know, were embedded in Cryer’s eyes, blacker than night, facing Olivia’s eyes, burning like blue flames.
They were fragments of something he couldn’t even dare to put into words now, of hope.
As the curtain of night fell and the owl’s eyes sparkled beneath a large tree where someone was digging the ground like crazy in the dim moonlight under the overcast sky.
Thump, thump.
It wasn’t a shovel or any other tool shoving the clumps of soil, but someone’s bare hands.
He dug the ground like a madman.
In the outskirts of the imperial capital, a place where hardly anyone lived…
“Hu, huuuk. Hukhuk.”
His rough breath and his ghastly look as he dug the ground without blinking his eyes was beyond creepy.
If anyone had seen him, they would have screamed and run away before calling the police.
How long did he dig like that?
By the time the ground was dug enough to bury a person…
The man’s hand stopped.
He gazed down at the dark soil and then up at the even darker sky.
His hands were black with soil, some of his nails had fallen out and were bleeding, and his clothes were ragged.
So he gazed at the sky for a while, not the ground.
Chirp, chirp.
Swoosh.
The sound of an unknown bug and then the sound of an owl flying, silencing the bug.
The man’s fingers twitched.
Like a nonhuman, he turned his creaking neck and looked at the death of the bug that was invisible to his eyes.
Soon his mouth split long, down to his earlobes.
It seemed like he was laughing, but he was crying.
Tears fell on his cheeks, stained with deep red spots, but the stains were so thick that there was no sign of disappearing.
Then from his open mouth, a whining sound flowed out.
“Mercy, O God, mercy.”
The man who was muttering incessantly was truly seeking mercy.
Just that the ‘god’ he was seeking was not the ‘gods’ spread across the continent.
His god was the ancient god that has been said to have existed on the continent since a very long time ago.
A god whose form, let alone name, was not properly remembered.
The fact that that god was much more powerful than the gods currently being exalted was passed down.
And the man needed that strength.
Truly, desperately.
“O Divine One.”
I wonder if there was a response to the man’s call to the nameless god.
Startled.
The moment the owl flew up again, the moon that had been briefly hidden behind the clouds showed its face. Moonlight also entered around the man praying with all his heart.
A gaping hole with the smell of earthy dirt.
And a human lying on the side of the hole.
No, it was a corpse.
Joy was in the face of the man who had seen light in the darkness where he could not see even an inch ahead.
“Oh, Divine One.”
He prostrated himself and called out to the deity countless times, over and over.
And the moment the moon hid behind the clouds again.
The man’s eyeballs rolled weirdly as he suddenly lifted his head. He crawled up like a spider over the pit and reached out towards the corpse.
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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