Chapter 68 – Ian
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The dew falls plumply on my forehead. Smell of poo… It smells like shit.
My eyelids trembled and then slowly opened. The blurry blue dawn sky peeps through the old and shabby boards.
“Heo-euk…!”
Ian, who woke up with his eyes wide open, realized only belatedly that his body was tied up somewhere.
“What, what is this…!”
I tried my best to untie the rope, but my arm didn’t have strength.
This place···?
The beams in the ceiling, the straw on the floor, and the horse dung lying around made it look like an abandoned stable. A few years ago, there were no horses, so the horse manager left, and it was a place that was not used anymore.
“Why am I here…?”
Ian looked around and looked down at his body. Arms and torso tied to poles, unable to move.
The early morning sunlight streamed through the sloppy boards.
It seemed to be early in the morning when the sun hadn’t risen yet.
Ian tried to wiggle himself to and fro to free himself from the rope, but he couldn’t budge. There were no sharp objects in sight, so there was no way to cut the rope.
Who would do this…!
Tired of struggling to escape, Ian shouted outside.
“Hey, hey…! There’s no one there…!”
As he screamed, a muffled voice came from outside.
Kiyik- Then the door of the stable opened, and a group of people entered.
They had their backs to the light, so their faces could not be seen. Ian frowned and looked up at the people in front of him.
“Who, who…”
His question was drowned out by their murmur. A woman appeared through the crowd. The woman was breathing very heavily. Just by looking at the silhouette, you could tell who it was.
“What, what is this…!”
Wow, the woman shouted and rushed to Ian and hugged him.
“Are you okay, Ian?”
It was his mother, Sophia.
“Why did you tie this child up here…? What did my child do wrong…!”
Sophia cried and hugged Ian in her arms. She asked, looking around. Ian also had no idea what the situation was, so he just opened his mouth and groaned.
Someone stepped out of the crowd and stood in front of Ian.
The middle-aged man with a bulging stomach was Melson, the owner of the mill and Monica’s father. A well-known drinker in the village, he had blushes on his cheeks and nose, as if he had been drinking since the morning.
Melson shouted, gnashing his teeth, standing in front of him. The red, bloodshot eyes made it clear at a glance that he was angry.
“This twin bastard…! You raped my daughter Monica…! Tied up and raped like a dog…!”
“What, what is…?”
At Melson’s words, the townspeople looked at Ian in horror.
Sophia, who held Ian in her arms, was equally surprised. But she seemed to trust Ian. I shook my head and whispered to Ian.
“Ian…? What are you talking about? Mom can’t understand.”
Ian was dumbfounded by the terrifying word rape. The words that barely came out were enough to sound like excuses without confidence.
“Go, it’s not rape… Go, not because of rape, but because Monica seduced me…!”
At Ian’s words, Melson snorted at her and lunged at her, striking Ian in the chin with her pot-like fist.
Sophia screamed and grabbed him by the waist, and people rushed to stop him.
There was an uproar.
Melson, exhausted from trying to get away from those who tried to stop him, cried out to Ian through tears.
“How could you…! How do you… Maria died like that…! Did she intend to kill Monica as well…!”
The villagers were already hurt by Maria’s incident. Only then did Ian realize that he had said the same thing as the men from the next town, De Hero.
Yes, they also claimed that Mary had seduced them…
However, Ian’s claim was true… It wasn’t a lie. Ian was embarrassed. He felt his chin tingle from being hit by Melson, but he had to tell the truth rather than that. He said it was much more urgent.
“I-I really am…! Monica…! Call Monica noona…! She will tell you the truth about her…!”
At Ian’s words, Melson tried to punch him once more, but was caught on all sides and rolled a mess on the floor.
He whacked at him, his body smeared with dirt, like a wild boar.
“She is crying…! She’s been crying all day…! Just like Maria did…!”
Melson pounded his chest and roared. Melson’s wife, Camilla, who was reading the book, also stood in a corner and began to cry.
The eyes of those who had wandered, not knowing whose words to believe, now began to look at Ian unreliably. He was beginning to suspect Ian.
Ian shook his head. He was embarrassed
He had simply succumbed to her seduction. He only listened to her whispers of her love. She pretended to be invincible and fell for her temptation and gave her cock…!
“Oh no! I-I’m really not!”
Ian insisted on the truth.
But Sophia covered his mouth with her hand. Then he saw his mother’s face. Her mother was clutching her chest and biting the inside of her lips, as if her heart was hurting.
She seemed scared too. She smiled as she brushed his blond hair, nonetheless, with the same patience as Ha-Hae. I understand you… With that look on her face, her mother held him tightly in her arms.
Ian forgot he stopped thinking.
Clink – someone dropped something.
People’s attention gathered there.
There…, Lily stood there with a blank expression on her face.
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He said that…?
Ian…? I can’t believe it. How nice is he…?
So you’re saying that Melson lied? He says he shuts himself in his room and cries all day…!
The Bishop said that until he had heard the two of them clearly, he would never guess…
What is a guess? According to Melson, he tied up his child and raped her while blindfolded… Like a beast…! Hey, you’re such a dirty bastard…!
Stop···! It’s not quite accurate yet.
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Ian had been tied to her stable all day, her head bowed so that her hair hid her face.
She couldn’t lift her face.
People watching Ian flocked all day.
Monica didn’t show up.
People said that she locked herself in her room and cried, and would not come out of the blanket even when her family called. Sophia and Jack visited her from time to time to ask her the truth, but Monica locked her door and never came out.
She wouldn’t even drink water, let alone food, which was crazy for her parents. So, Jack and Sophia, who are no different from the perpetrator’s parents, were quickly kicked out and never returned to their house.
Ian, who had been staring blankly at the grains of soil on the floor, saw beads of sweat dripping from her forehead to the floor.
She couldn’t quite understand.
Why did things turn out this way? Why did this happen-. What should I do in the future…
Though I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer. Ian kept her mouth shut, only she was barely breathing.
Sofia begged to be released as she watched Ian get sick every hour, but the villagers shook her head. Until the situation was fully understood, the consensus was that it would be better to keep him tied up.
The people watching him kept changing.
After the elders of the village had left, it was the turn of the young men.
Among them, there were those who admired Monica. They glared at Ian for a long time, then spat at his feet. Sarcastically saying that they wanted to hit them, but the bishop told them not to touch them, they left the stable.
Jonathan was also mixed in. His eyes were very meaningful.
Ian wanted to throw out the fact that the author had taken advantage of Monica’s innocence and stole her virginity. But I didn’t have the strength to do so. He had to tell me that he knew no one would believe him.
Then there were the little ones. The little ones came in droves and just stared at him. While dripping his snot -.
Ian couldn’t bear to make eye contact with them.
Those transparent and pure eyes seemed to project the dark desire inside Ian and everything he had done yesterday.
After the kids left, the mercenaries came.
They said they would leave right after dawn, but it seemed like they had been putting it off.
A mercenary with a handsome goatee sat down in front of Ian.
“Hey… Is this bastard a man…?”
“You raped a woman? Shiva, we couldn’t do it because we were afraid we would be kicked out…”
“Your face is well-formed, so it looks like you’re fucking sinister on the inside. Huh? Is your cock big?”
The mercenaries giggled and looked at him. After looking at Ian’s sagging goatee, he added:
“Hey, yumma…! Your mom looks so damn hot, can I fuck her…? You also ate a bitch girl, should I eat some too? Yes?”
“Yumma David…!”
When the mercenary leader dissuaded him, he clicked his tongue and stood up, but Ian felt so sad that he was being treated the same as those chi-deuls. He was in tears because he was sad.
“What is this kid crying?”
“Wow···. Why do you cry when you fuck and cry? He’s such a fucking funny kid.”
The mercenaries giggled and left the stable.
And for a while no one came.
Except for occasional visits from Sophia to feed him food and water, Ian sat alone in the stable among the horse dung for a while, barely breathing.
Lily’s thoughts were all in his mind.
I remembered her looking at Ian with her empty eyes.
I also saw him trudging back and forth.
Her desperate calls to her were of no avail. Even if she said it was all a misunderstanding, it was no use. She’s so far away
Ian was so sad that he continued to cry. She cried and cried
Then when he came to his senses, a man was standing in front of him.
His legs were so long, Ian had to hold his head high to look up at the face.
“Ian.”
Standing there was Seo-joon, his teacher and brother.
