Chapter 192: The Voice’s World. (3)

Chapter 192: The Voice’s World. (3)

…On the dark road of the Voice, I walked while watching Deculein’s back. He was upright as always like nothing had happened.

I didn’t know much about Deculein. It hadn’t even been a year that we’ve been together, and I spent most of that hating him. I don’t think I even tried to get to know him. Yet I was curious about Deculein now. What was he thinking? What was he feeling?

Then, I realized my feelings a little late. I was sad over Deculein as I looked back on his life as I knew it. A father who didn’t trust him. Family pressure and conflict. The only woman he had ever loved died in vain. The love that the demon’s letter took away. Kagan Luna’s crucial role in robbing him of that love.

His daughter, me. Now, I understand. For Deculein, it wouldn’t be strange if he hated me enough to kill me. Just because I am Kegan’s daughter, he had the right to hate me.

…But even so. He made me his disciple. He understood my betrayal in siding with Ihelm and forgave my father. He recorded his name as the co-author on his thesis. His reason… I don’t know.

I don’t know. The more that I got to know this person. The more we were together. The more time passed by. The more I didn’t know him.

I’m becoming a fool. Why did he make me his disciple? Why didn’t he reject me? I don’t hate Deculein anymore; I’m just worried.

If he reunited with his lover who had been brought back to life as a demon, and if he killed her, if he destroyed her with his own hands. If that happened… what would remain in his heart? A wasteland where not even a strand of grass could grow, where only ashes were left…

“Epherene.”

Deculein called me. I cringed and answered back loudly.

“Yeeees—!”

“…Are you crazy?”

“Ah, no… why, what’s wrong?”

“Go back.”

He pointed somewhere with his chin. I looked up in that direction to a huge signboard.

“…Hotel?!”

*****

The hotel that I arrived at with Epherene was simply a safe point. When you enter the Voice, you will open your eyes in a random place, but you could choose to start using a hotel or a house.

[Room 303]

“O-open this?”

“Open it.”

Epherene opened the door with her key. After a moment of hesitation, she walked inside.

“…Tsk.”

There was a musty smell wafting out. The wallpaper was moldy, and the bedding was disgusting and dirty.

“Wait.”