43. The Truth Revealed (5)
Lea alone cleaned Elijah’s bedroom.
I don’t know where or what Elijah is doing.
Because these days, only the two of us hang out with Judas.
Elijah thoroughly managed the approach of others for the time alone.
The two could only be separated when it was publicly necessary.
Thanks to that, she has no time to intervene.
It was very fortunate.
Now that you have a man who will accept and answer Elijah’s heart.
The original plan was to die and disappear during the war.
They survived unintentionally, and the war was won.
Elijah’s strength surpassed everyone’s expectations.
Now that all the obstructions are gone.
To tell her own truth or not.
Lea pondered every day, without a break.
But if she tells the truth, how will she bear the hurt Elijah will receive?
The days when she pretended not to know her even when she saw her struggling.
She must have had a harder time with Elijah than herself.
But how shocked Elijah will be if she now reveals her truth.
She is not afraid of resenting and hating herself.
If Elijah’s heart is at peace with her hatred, she can do so.
She deserves it and she herself.
She’s not doing her job properly.
The excuse that she couldn’t help it is pathetic and childish.
Nevertheless, that was the only option given to Lia in her past.
Lower people with no power, no money, no connections.
A dancer from a shabby theatrical troupe on the outskirts of the city, earning money by dancing day by day.
It was sheer coincidence or whim that she caught Balak’s eye.
She didn’t know whether it was good luck or bad luck.
Amid Balak’s neglect and Narcissi’s containment, the greatest way for Leah to protect Elijah was only this relationship.
She is sorry for Elijah.
It’s a relationship that started with lies from the beginning.
On top of that, lies were piled upon, piled upon, piled upon.
If you reveal the truth here, the tower of lies you have built will collapse.
It will pour down and bruise the heart of Elijah, the foundation of it.
She should be kept to herself. Until she dies
Her own identity must be eternal, an existence that Elijah does not have to die.
Remaining years.
I just want to be quiet.
I want to see Elijah assisting her from time to time, and watching her fall in love with Judas happily.
That is the last greed.
A small potted plant placed on the bedroom window sill.
Looking at the anemones in full bloom, Lia smiled happily even though she was wearing them.
It was fortunate that there was a man named Judas who could take his place.
*
Maria.
A person who was her own unique color and was the world.
To herself, she is the same as the Judas of the past.
All of her own.
She killed the target, the person who is now her everything.
Judah.
‘… ….’
The person who commissioned it is Narushi.
Maybe Judas was just the one who carried it out.
There were too many things involved to simply think that way.
Judah.
Judas killed her own mother.
Judas is a man destined to kill himself.
Judas said he liked him.
In front of her mother’s grave.
What do you think?
For what purpose.
For what purpose?
Why did he do such a vicious thing?
Judah said he had no memory of the past.
So, can you prove it?
I thought I knew everything about Judas.
Withdraw the arrogant judgment.
I didn’t know anything about him.
Maybe she knows all about him, maybe it’s a lie.
Reaction when lying. Habit.
Even though he knew that no matter how skilled he was, Elijah couldn’t believe him at all.
There is another questionable point.
Angra, who he confirmed, had many aspects of his memory erased.
It was a bit unnatural erasure.
Of course, Judas will be among them.
The document in front of you.
The various clues that I have confirmed with my eyes are exquisitely intertwined.
To the extent that a cool-headed reason cannot raise an objection.
An assassin raised to kill himself.
The assassin who killed his own mother.
They are the same person.
Judah Defacet.
The Imperial Family. Moonsingyo.
A collaboration between the two.
Then what about Balak?
If the three didn’t keep themselves in check from the beginning, what kind of person would Balak be?
Elijah did not consider her own massacre pointless.
Apart from the Empire and the Moonsin Church, if time had passed, those brothers would have tried to kill him one day.
Balak is the one responsible for not controlling him.
So it deserves to be killed.
Is that so? I do not know.
Amid the chaos, the most difficult thing to understand was Balak.
If he hadn’t joined forces with the Empire and the Cult of the Moon to kill himself, why did he treat himself so harshly?
Do you really want to keep the family safe at the cost of just one person?
He knew he had a cause.
It’s funny that the cause is only conquering the empire, but anyway.
But that’s not the case, did he really just hide himself and his mother for the sake of family peace?
No. This issue is not important now.
Things outside their own world.
Judah.
I said I don’t remember.
It’s a lie.
No, maybe, I really can’t remember.
It is also possible that unnecessary memories were removed to make it a good blade.
But one thing is certain.
An assassin must never forget his goal.
I wouldn’t have forgotten the memory of killing Maria and killing myself.
I have a question.
Then why?
Didn’t Judas still kill himself?
There were countless opportunities to do that.
‘Ah….’
I realize it right away.
‘For this moment.’
If Balak was not an enemy of the Empire, this would explain the situation.
The Empire triggers a civil war in House Bebel.
Elijah kills all of his direct line, including Balak.
And Judas kills the remaining Elijah.
With this, the Empire will be able to completely eliminate the Bebel family without any damage and monopolize the continent.
The words that I like you.
A trained assassin does not choose any means.
The method of killing a well-preserved target after years of painstaking efforts to gain favor with them is famous.
No way, she didn’t know that she would suffer from it.
‘Me… To keep you off guard….’
All of the clues were probable and pointed to a conclusion.
‘Judah from the beginning…. Me….’
Yuridike called out urgently.
I couldn’t let myself be buried in one truth over reason.
“Elijah! Just calm down… !”
That moment.
It was noisy outside.
“No way…. It must be this time!”
The door burst open.
With the knight in platinum armor at the forefront, several knights in gold armor rushed in.
The platinum-colored knight at the forefront was the Imperial Guard.
Yuridike gritted his teeth.
They were the forces that pursued her.
The guard golems parked outside were useless.
It wasn’t enough to stop them.
The assailants were taken aback when they saw Elijah, but she did not delay.
“Hold those two.”
Yuridike said hastily.
“Elijah. Sorry. I know it’s hard to believe, but please believe in Judas.”
She left those words, and Yuri Dicke disappeared.
“It’s gone!”
“Such a damn thing… ! How did you get here!”
They used a teleport artifact.
Elijah laughed involuntarily.
That artifact was one of the things she commercialized in collaboration with the Master of the Magic Tower.
I was making a necklace for Judas. She was like that.
I don’t remember what she said before Yuri Dike left.
However, this scenery, to her now, seemed perfectly perfect.
Information The royal guards and knights attack the guild just as they are in shock.
Doesn’t it seem like she came to catch him?
The guard shook her head as she saw Elijah laughing like a madman.
“I don’t know why, but it’s not normal. It’s better to kill the enemy here anyway….”
Steel puck.
As she spoke, her head fell to the ground and rolled.
The rest of the knights were neither surprised nor able to draw their swords and respond.
When I found out that the golden flames had killed the guardsmen, their heads were already rolling on the floor.
“Heh, hehehe, hehehe….”
Tears flowed incessantly from eyes that burned with mad fire.
And then, Elijah laughed as if he had lost his mind.
This situation was so funny that I couldn’t stand it without laughing.
*
The cage collapses.
The steel frame of the grate is distorted, twisted, and bent with a grotesque sound.
The moon, the only light source floating in the void, shatters like glass and falls as rain.
Sharp fragments rain down.
When steel and glass try to attack anemones.
Elijah defended the anemone by reflexively throwing her body.
Pain pours down my back.
Even so, Elijah persevered.
That flower.
Even if Judas deceived himself.
Even if everything about him is a lie.
The emotions and feelings he felt through him were not lies.
I was sincere.
Every moment.
A new feeling grows in her heart.
Emotions that I thought were settled.
The feeling of betrayal is a rusty knife that carves the name of emotion into the heart.
Hate.
But, memories from childhood together.
The time and emotions I shared with him at that time.
I couldn’t bear to hate those moments that were clear enough to capture.
Hate met with fresh love, gets tangled and mixed, and eventually becomes a different emotion.
Love-hate.
Emotions, contradictory to the words themselves, were deeply embedded in his heart.
*
Hermis rode his horse badly.
The story that Judas couldn’t tell because he was leaving in a hurry must be delivered before Elijah knows.
The fact that Judas killed Elijah’s mother, Mary.
And also that there are so many questions about Mary’s death.
Judas carried out the assassination of Mary, but at the time he belonged to Lamech.
If you know Ramek well, you can’t help but think that Maria’s death is suspicious.
Their assassination is not done that way.
For her hurried departure, she had already learned that Elijah had come to her information guild, and she was unaware of the situation in which she encountered the imperial guards who were tracking the information guild.
“… What?”
Hermis felt uncomfortable.
He carefully slowed his horse down.
Many shadows rose on the terrain around Elijah’s mansion.
‘That’s….’
A knight dressed in golden armor.
A lot of other troops.
A knight in platinum armor mixed in the middle.
‘Imperial Guard…. The rest are the Imperial Army and the Imperial Knights.’
Imperial troops were besieging Elijah’s mansion.
I am not in a position to actively attack.
Judging by the atmosphere, it seems that they are looking for a time to encamp nearby and ambush them.
‘I heard the negotiations broke down. If so, the Empire decided to attack first before Elijah could use his mobility.’
Hermis turned his horse’s head.
To find a hole to squeeze into somehow.
He should have told you this before he got hit.
*
Judah was summoned by Elijah.
When he arrives by teleport, he sees the familiar scenery of his office.
However, Elijah’s atmosphere was unfamiliar.
It was completely different from usual.
Judah instinctively felt that something was wrong.
“… Miss?”
Elijah was halfway across her work desk.
She looks at her window blankly, her eyes stained with mad fire.
Bright, yet empty eyes.
I’ve never seen Elijah’s eyes like that before.
“What happened….”
Judas, who was approaching, stopped.
The desk where Elijah sat.
She recognized the papers scattered at random on it.
It was a document that Yuridike had shown and was trying to show to herself.
The information that she is an assassin is written on it.
I don’t know about the rest of the documents.
‘Why is that here….’
Elijah’s dry voice called him.
“Judas.”
“… Yes. Miss.”
She said without looking at Judas.
“Why did you do that?”
It was a question with many implications.
The moment he heard that, Judas realized.
Elijah found out everything.
I was honest every moment, but I hesitated just once.
The result was right in front of her eyes.
I had an intuition that a certain end had come.
This is the same place as the second tragedy showed.
