Chapter 20 – Lily, Seojun
As usual, Lily came down her mountain trail from her hunt with her father, Booker.
A large wild boar was on Booker’s shoulder, and Lily held three rabbits in her hands.
The two did not speak at all except when going up the mountain and coming down.
In the first place, they weren’t the talkative ones, but it was because of Booker’s hunting credo that you shouldn’t talk carelessly when hunting.
Booker looked back at his daughter from time to time, but he didn’t say much.
She knew her father cared for her daughter.
He asked her nothing after her Pentecost. Because she knew that just asking could hurt her. After Maria’s affair, Booker became more cautious.
Lily felt very grateful for such a father. Sometimes, even silently standing by her side gave her strength.
An old herbalist who bumped into the two of them while going down the mountain road asked Lily.
“Uh? Lily… Are you okay?”
“Ah yes. It’s okay.”
It was the third time today. She smiled and replied that she was fine, but she was frustrated inside.
The villagers will have this kind of curiosity in their hearts.
Was Lily beaten by those men that night? Is it dirty…?
Even if they didn’t say it directly, I could feel it in their gaze. Even if she didn’t mean to, she felt that way.
A few days have passed since the Feast of Pentecost.
Not only did he coerce Maria’s sister into taking her own life, but the five men of Juanmucci Han de Hero who attempted to rape Lily were put on trial, as the Bishop of Luton had said.
As if it was no joke that the Bishop of Luton spoke on his own honor, the magistrates and privates who had come from the viscount’s house were polite to the bishop and passed judgment on them impartially.
The outcome of the verdict was castration.
The reason for the verdict was that he had ruined the sacred festival of Pentecost due to his excessive sexual desire, angered the ancestors, and even tried to drive Seo-jun, a young man who was the property of a viscount, to death.
The five men’s faces turned white and cried out for mercy, but they couldn’t help it because the verdict had already been handed down.
In the end, castration was carried out, and the five men fainted foaming at the pain of having their objects cut with a saw-like instrument.
Thanks to Sister Mary’s treatment with her divine power, although she was saved-. They were now half-penny, unable to bear children, and no woman would ever be interested in such a man.
Despite the villagers’ objections, Lily, who attended her trial and witnessed the scene clearly, felt a thrill of excitement in a corner of her heart.
The Bishop of Luton’s sermon on revenge was not persuasive at all. She had never been as thrilled as then.
“Are you going to see Ian again…?”
Nearing the cabin, Booker asked.
The usual Lily always went hunting, leaving her father to do the slaughter, and going to visit Ian after she finished her field work.
However, she was very uncomfortable with Ian now.
“Nope···. Seojun, I want to go see him.”
“That guy… Isn’t it the benefactor who saved you? Sing it properly.”
“…”
Booker patted his daughter on the shoulder and carried the boar and rabbit carcasses into the cabin.
Lily rubbed the rabbit’s blood on her fingertips with the palm of her hand. The blood curdled and flew like crumbs in the wind.
She went to the basin of her water, washed her hands, and pur-washed her face, then scrubbed the scruffy nape of her neck and walked along her trail to Seo-joon’s cabin.
As I was walking along the trail, I heard the sound of children running and singing in groups.
What is a boy made of?
Frogs and snails,
And a dog’s tail
It’s made of that!
What is the girl made of?
Sugar and spices,
And all sorts of nice things
It’s made of that!
Lily heard her sing and she paused.
It was because she was uncomfortable running into her children. But inevitably the children found Lily and stopped her song. She then looked at her with her watchful eyes.
Lily smiled softly, and as if she were running away, she left the trail. Her children must have seen her messed up and wept bitterly in Seo-joon’s arms.
Normally, Lily noona smells like sugar…! The guys who would have giggled in droves to her…
As the children disappeared from sight, I felt a bit relieved. If even the kids are uncomfortable, how are you going to live in the village from now on… It was just frustrating.
Let’s think of something else…
As she walked up the trail, she remembered her Bilbo and her men who had attacked her.
Those brutes. Her shameless desire to rape her second sister, Maria, was not enough.
I still remember the frightful breath they exhaled on Lily’s neck, the soggy tongue, and the horrible liquids they pressed into her genitals.
Next, I thought of Seo-jun, who had thrown himself to cover himself.
His chest was very large and broad. The smell was also very strange. It smelled very different from Ian’s. If Ian smelled like soft spring sunlight and cotton blankets, Seojun smelled like a rough and wild male.
It seemed that Seo-joon was constantly trying to protect Lily from the men who beat him with stones, fists, and kicks.
Why did you even do that? It must have been painful…
Lily had been uncomfortable with Seo-joon for a long time.
Ever since he had been following her Maria her sister, Lily had warned her. Don’t go out with a guy like that… Perhaps it was because of her advice that Sister Maria rejected his confession.
Seo-joon, if you ask him whether he likes or dislikes that man, he is of course the latter.
Lily has always been like that. She was always rude to him and cocky. It had to be, because she hated Seo-joon and didn’t want to be in one place even for a moment.
Why did you do that to her…
Then, when it came to her thoughts about Ian, Lily felt very tight around her chest.
The past few days Lily broke and didn’t find her Ian.
On the evening of the day she almost suffered her assault, she clearly saw two figures jumping out of the bushes.
The two were Ian and Monica.
If it was usual, why were you two together…? It was a story that would have ended with Ian asking in a calm voice. Because I knew he was in love with Ian anyway.
However, the two were holding hands. Both of them had very red faces and were short of breath.
And more than anything else, Ian had a red cloth in his hand. When I met her eyes with Lily, I saw that the hand that was holding it fell. The red cloth that fell to the floor in the wind…
“Ha···.”
Her breath blew away in the wind.
I hurriedly cut off the tails of my thoughts before they lead to deeper places. Just because Ian was holding the red cloth didn’t mean the two did that.
Lily wanted to think so.
As she tried to calm her stuffy heart and walked, she arrived at the cabin before she knew it.
After pacing around the entrance to enter or not, she stood in front of her door and cleared her throat.
“It’s me. Lily. Can I come in?”
As she spoke, she heard a voice from inside telling her to come in.
When I opened the door and entered, I saw Seo-jun lying on a bed covered with straw.
He had been convalescing for a long time with bruises all over his body on the night of the fifth day of the moon, but now he looked fine except for a few blue bruises. Healing from his wounds was quick.
Still, when I saw that his eyelids were stained black, I laughed for no reason compared to the way he usually walks around boasting.
“Howdy. Cute hunter girl.”
Seo-joon has been greeting me like that again. Lily stood in the doorway and glared at Seojun.
“What is going on at my house?”
“I just came to see how much better you are.”
Lily’s reply made Seo-joon smile and shrug his shoulders.
“This is embarrassing. The cutie hunter lady takes care of me…”
“…”
Seo-joon’s prank made Seo-joon widen her eyes when she didn’t respond in anger as usual. Laughing at him, Lily brought a chair in front of him and sat down.
It was the first time she had come this close in person, so Seo-joon looked quite surprised.
Lily looked at Seo-joon and pursed her lips a few times. She then reached out her hand without hesitation.
“Give me.”
“What?”
When Seo-jun let go of his pretense, Lily slammed his forearm. Seojun is billion-! And twisted his body like a slug.
“Why, why! He didn’t hit that hard?”
Lily jumped up in surprise and tried to look at her wounds, but Seo-joon grabbed his wig lock.
“What···? It’s tough!”
Lily frowned at her. She seemed fine and pretended to be sick, otherwise why would she want to not show it?
The blanket fluttered and fell to the floor, exposing Seo-jun’s naked body.
“Kyaaaaa!”
Lily collapsed on her floor as her large snake snapped. However, it was not a serpent, but a lamb hanging from Seo-jun’s crotch…
How in the world is it that big…?
Seo-joon quickly picked up the hem of his shirt and covered himself, and silence ensued between the two.
The barely real Lily got off the floor and barely stood up. Then she chuckled and held out her hand again.
“Give me. Necklace.”
“…”
“Oh, he said! They said they’d give it to you when you’re done!”
When Lily’s face flushed even more and she screamed, Seo-jun lowered her head as if apologetic.
“Sorry···.”
“···What?”
As Lily frowned at her, Seo-jun smiled awkwardly. What followed was spectacle.
“I think I dropped it somewhere after being beaten up that day. Today, I sent Jonathan and the kids to look for it, but they said they couldn’t find it…”
“You, you, you…!”
Lily, in admiration, tried to run at Seo-jun, but she held back. When she held her breath and glared at him with her teary eyes, he whispered apologetic over and over again with a very apologetic expression.
“Sorry. I’ll try to find something as similar as possible. Yes?”
When Seo-joon said that, Lily’s pulse went numb.
She is precious to her, but she is not that important to Seo-joon. Maybe she’s not that precious to Ian… She thought about that and quickly shook her head.
Anyway, that evening, Seo-jun threw himself to save Lily.
He said that was the plan, but it was true that he had beaten her badly on her behalf. Thanks to that, those who raped Maria’s sister were not punished… She got a little punch on her face too, but she got better quickly.
“Done.”
Lily got up from her seat. She then tossed what she had been carrying in her arms onto her old table.
It was a deliciously ripe fig.
While hunting with her father, she found them and picked them up, which she brought after recalling that Seo-joon was still groping around in her closet.
Before she opened the door and left, she said to Seo-joon.
“Thank you for that day… Take good care of yourself.”
Bang- The door is closed.
