09 - You are my Ramiel (5)

If this continues into the next day, it's all over. Eriu sat lazily on the sofa, staring at the ceiling and sighing like an old man. 4 days had passed and everything was still the same, even night had fallen. 

Only one day left...

And I still don't even know the 'secret place' and the connection to this family history.

Nom nom.

Eriu moved his head lazily in the direction of the chewing sound. His face turned sour when he saw how Eros ate the caramel pudding without looking like something was wrong. 

Even though he was the one who made things happen now.

In the past, when he saw Eros eating his food with gusto, it made him wonder if the food he made was that good and even his heart raced to see Eros who seemed to like his cooking.

But now he was annoyed that the boy next to him didn't seem to care.

Feeling the look directed at him, Eros turned to look at Eriu, who looked like a dead fish, "What?" 

"You lied to me." With a sour face, Eriu added, "You said you would tell me about this 'secret place'. But I didn't know anything about it even after I made you food for four days."

"I already told you." Eriu immediately sat up straight and made an incredulous face, "..."

"That family?"

"Yes."

"Hahaha..." Eriu laughed flatly before getting up from the sofa, intending to return to his room as far away from Eros as possible. It felt as if his brain would explode in an instant if he saw Eros. 

"You're leaving?" Eros smiled and put the plate on the table, "But it's about to start."

"Huh?" 

Eriu immediately smelled the smell of fire, the window near the door slowly emitted a reddish-yellow light. His pink diamond eyes formed a crescent moon, and the sound of knocking at the door called out to them.

Hearing a familiar voice from behind the door, Eros greeted her and looked at Eriu, "Let's go outside. The door opened to reveal Ariadne, looking tired as if she had run with all her strength to get here.

"Eros, Eri, let's go out right now!" 

Catching her breath, Ariadne hurriedly ordered them.

"After that, you have to stay close to your father. No matter what happens."

***

The day passed like any other. Some people played cards while guarding the cave, and others slept.

AHHHHHH- HELP! HELP!

They all looked pretty normal before the sound of screaming startled them all. Surprised, everyone immediately stood up to prepare their positions, grabbed their weapons, and those who could use magic immediately cast spells.

The sounds of fear and screams came closer and closer. The outsiders could even hear sounds like explosions and cries for mercy. The sound of them running made everyone outside who heard it tremble.

If they ran like that, what kind of horrible monsters would they face?

Louise immediately ordered everyone to retreat from the cave. Louise tried to cover her nose with her hand to reduce the strong smell of blood. Just smelling it made her nose hurt. 

Strangely enough, this strange smell mixed with blood was very similar to the strange roses that grew near this cave.

Cruuach-!

In the dark cave, people were soon seen running as if their lives depended on their feet. But some of the people who were running soon fell down, and their legs suddenly exploded. Blood spurted everywhere, creating nightmares for the people outside.

Their hands that held their weapons were shaking. Their fear made them want to run right away. Run away from the monster that caused all this chaos...

  The people who had finished casting the spell immediately attacked those who came out of the cave. Some created a ball of water around their heads, and some used the wind to blow them away. 

After waiting a few minutes and making sure that no one was coming out, they tried to get closer while Louise immediately noticed that the strange smell was gone. 

The strange smell was like flowers that had all their scents mixed together.

"Oh my God..."

Fear had overtaken them, causing them to fall to the ground with pale faces. Seeing someone explode was enough to scare people.

They couldn't even forget the screams of people running out of the cave.

The screams of people trying to escape death. 

Had they now accidentally made the nameless woman angry?

...

Louise helped a couple of people up and punched them in the shoulder, causing them to vomit before they saw the worst of it.

"Thank you, Mr. Grith..."

"That's okay." After preparing themselves, they tried to approach the people coming out of the cave. 

Their clothes and bodies were full of blood, their flesh even looked like it had been chopped off. Some of them couldn't stand it anymore and vomited right away.

Some people immediately told those who couldn't bear the sight to prepare a stretcher, and those who could bear their queasy feelings to go check it out.

Everyone immediately checked their faces to identify some of them. 

"It's Mr. Dorbe, isn't it?"

"Why is this merchant here? No way..."

"Lei?" Someone tried to calm himself down and immediately called out to everyone, "Lei is here!" Upon hearing this, they immediately swarmed around the place and were shocked.

"His feet and hands..."

Louise immediately realized the situation and cast healing magic for first aid. His healing power was not as strong as that of a renowned witch, and this might not help.

Cold sweat broke out on Louise's forehead and he frantically ordered the others, "Quickly call the village chief and mrs. Maya!

***

"How could this happen?" the village chief, Reliun and his wife could only cry when they saw the terrible condition of their first son, Lei Myes, both hands and both feet were damaged and they could even see the bones sticking out. The red color of the blood that filled the young man's entire body.

Despite his bad condition, the boy was still breathing. 

Reliun held his forehead, feeling as if his head would explode at any moment. All the doctors in the village were immediately called to heal the 8 survivors of the cave, and the rest would be buried.

Although they survived, there was one person who had both eyes broken inside and even had her mouth damaged, just looking at that, one can only be thankful if they can still survive.

"Ha..." Reliun sighed tiredly, Maya, Reliun's wife who was next to him, immediately prepared water for him.

Maya said nothing and returned to sit near the bed where Lei slept. Her eyes looked dead with no light behind them.

Because Lei was there with the merchant who had been expelled, the others immediately made a conspiracy out of it. He suspected that Lei had also participated in the kidnapping of Eros and was being punished by the nameless woman for his evil deeds.

Reliun, of course, rejected this idea.

He and his wife had checked the background of the place where his son worked! His workplace only sold antiques, not human trafficking!

People immediately realized that Reliun seemed to be working with a merchant they didn't know. They angrily questioned everything.

Reliun immediately pointed to his wife as proof of everything and she nodded and said that the merchant used to be where her husband worked before moving to this village.

"Yes, that was the last place my husband worked before he moved here."

"See! It must be all of you!" His eyes were full of anger as he judged everyone looking at him, "It must be one of you!"

"You must be jealous of my son's success!"

"He was chosen out of all of you!"

"Stop all this!" Maya, who had bowed in silence, raised her hand and pointed at Reliun. All anger, sadness, and fear mixed in the portrait of her eyes.

"Stop this nonsense! They are helping us!"

The hoarse voice was filled with hatred.

"All you can do is get angry and shout!"

"Could you just shut up for once!"

Everyone immediately fell silent and looked at Maya, who immediately closed her mouth and cried in silence. Reliun, seeing this, just clenched his hands before walking over to his wife and hugging her. Those who saw this knew that they could not disturb them anymore. This could destroy someone's marriage.

Knock knock.

Hearing a knock at the door, Maya immediately got up and opened it, "Good evening, Madam Quela."

"Good evening, Mrs. Maya." The old woman called Quela returned the greeting. Though she looked to be in her seventies, Mrs. Quela could be considered the oldest and wisest of the others, so they respected her. 

She was also someone who had once saved someone with her potion, so Reliun called her. Reliun, noticing Quela's arrival, got up from his chair and greeted her.

"Please help me, Mrs. Quela. Only you can save my son."

Hearing Reliun's request, Quela of course nodded slowly while looking at Lei's condition as he lay on the bed. Maya also touched Quela's hand, as if hoping for her son's recovery.

"I can save him. But not his legs and hands."

"Ah..." Reliun's face turned pale at her answer, but not for Maya who seemed to come back to life: "It's okay, as long as Lei lives, it doesn't matter!"

"Alright." Quela touched Lei's chest and immediately took out the things she was carrying in her small basket, "Please come out for a while."

Reliun nodded, "I leave my son in your care." After that they both went out. With the slowest of steps they walked together, as if carrying a burden that looked the same and yet different.

Ariadne, along with Eriu and Eros, went to the place where she and Louise had agreed to meet. Louise noticed the presence of the three and approached them. Louise immediately hugged Ariadne with a sigh of relief, before finally stroking the heads of Eriu and Eros.

Regardless, Louise went straight to their main point, "We're going to Paecan Kingdom." Ariadne frowned, "Isn't that a bit dangerous compared to Werliasthlist Tower?"

"Paecan Kingdom has internal problems, maybe we can sneak in there and hide for a while before we find a suitable place."

Eriu himself actually knew why they were in such a hurry. It must be because of Eros and the human trafficking issue.

Although that was only his rough guess. Eriu deliberately held Louise's hand, "Why do we have to move? Isn't this our home?"

Ariadne made a sad face and Louise sighed, Ariadne realized that Louise didn't know where to explain it, so she immediately crouched down in front of Eriu and Eros while stroking Eriu's face, which was full of questions in his eyes, "We can't stay here forever. Mom and Dad also move around a lot and if we stay here, we'll get caught. "

"We could cause a lot of trouble for the others."

Moving around a lot? 

Is that why there are so many strange equipment and storage bags that cost so much?

Eriu did not question it and only guessed that it was not because of Eros either, maybe his family was also on the run?

Hiks...

Eros suddenly burst into tears next to him, making Ariadne and Eriu look over.  Eros' hand kept trying to wipe the tears from his eyes, "Is it because of me?"

"I'm sorry..."

Ariadne shook her head and wiped the water from Eros' eyes with her hand, "We didn't move because of you, you don't have to feel so guilty." Eriu immediately grabbed Eros' hand as if to reassure him that her mother's words were true.

"Yes, mom is right!"

Louise patted Eros on the shoulder and nodded.

"We just have a lot of problems and they have nothing to do with you." 

"We have problems?" Eriu frowned and made a surprised face. 

No way, is it because this 'Eriu Grith' was burned and therefore never introduced to the parents of 'Eriu Grith' because they...

"Yes!" Ariadne nodded, "If we get caught, Father could be in big trouble." Louise grumbled, "It's not like that."

"I won't get into much trouble. Looks like."

"See." Ariadne chuckled and immediately stood up to pat her husband lightly on the shoulder, "That's why we can't get caught 100% of the time." 

Louise realized immediately that Ariadne was about to leave, "Do you have to go? We can check our house later."

"No way! Our house will be ruined before we get home!" Although Louise was still sulking, he respected Ariadne's decision. Eriu stood there surprised, as if he had discovered something new. 

While Eros surrounded Eriu with wide eyes, as if curious what he was thinking, his eyes were still red, but no tears came out of them. Eros immediately whispered next to Eriu in a low voice so that only the two of them could hear, "I'll tell you everything on the train.

"So, whatever it is, don't let the atmosphere be ruined when it all starts."

"?"

"The secret place is the most precious place for the God of Hope." Eros' eyes sparkled with the secrets behind them. Eriu could only remain silent, trying to keep her heart from beating faster.

Badump

Eriu's focus was distracted between his thoughts and his heartbeat. One was full of questions and the other made his heart race like an old motorcycle. 

Ariadne, who was about to give them some advice, immediately stopped and looked at them with a smile on her face. With her elbow, Ariadne nudged Louise, "Eriu really looks like you."

"?" Louise, who couldn't see, remained silent in confusion.

"Eriu is definitely going to propose to Eros!" Louise understood immediately and nodded, "But I think Eros will propose to Eriu." Louise let out her thoughts and Ariadne immediately disagreed with his words, "Who proposed to me?"

"///"

"Ekhem!" Ariadne clapped her hands and called to them, "You should be careful!"

"Remember, don't leave Father's side no matter what!" With calm steps, Ariadne quickly walked away waving her hand, Louise responded and waved his hand at his wife.

"Be careful too, Mom." Eriu waved his hand and Eros also gave Ariadne a milk candy, saying it was a good luck charm. 

Ariadne giggled and took it. Her silhouette soon disappeared. Louise held both of their hands and walked out after Ariadne. 

"Eros, don't listen to anything they say." After Louise said that, Eros nodded and soon it was quiet, no one spoke on the way.

The three of them would be the decoys to let Ariadne finish everything.

Then we'll leave here.

After the three of them were seen in front of the hospital, Reliun, seeing Eros, immediately got up from his seat with a face full of confidence. Eros could heal his son!

He was the god's favorite son, so he must be able to heal his missing hands and feet.

Maya was shocked and stood up immediately, "What's going on?"

"Eros gave life back to his friend who was on the verge of death." 

"Ah..."

"We are blessed!"

Eros was given to them from the beginning.

God gave him to us so that we could ask him for forgiveness.

Reliun immediately ran into the crowd that had gathered around Eros and the others. But Louise, who was standing in front of them, blocked them all with red magic around her.

Without hesitation, Louise also pointed the staff in his hand at everyone to stop.  Reliun was certainly not happy and shouted angrily, "What the hell are you doing!?"

"Let us talk to Eros!" Everyone around the trio nodded. Let Eros bless us all!

Purify all our deeds!

May the gods see only the best in us!

The red color that surrounded the trio soon spread, becoming darker and darker, filled with an aura of menace, "Eros is not an object to be used for your benefit."

"He's just a child." 

A frown appeared on Reliun's forehead, showing how annoyed he was by Louise's words, "What do you mean, huh? We don't consider him any different and we're just asking for a favor!"

"A favor he has to give!" 

The few people who weren't in on it soon realized the madness of some people and rushed to Louise's aid, "Village Chief, stop it!"

"You guys stop it now!" They immediately held the hands of the people who wanted to go through the circle.  Reliun showed resistance and pointed at Louise, "Do you not realize that the Grith family has used Eros from the beginning?"

"They used it for themselves and you were deceived by them!"

Eriu peeked out from behind Louise and pointed back at Reliun, "Don't you realize what you're saying?"

"Eriu?" Louise was surprised and tried to push Eriu behind him.

"Did you just see the world coming to an end?"

"You should have been nice from the beginning, not apologize like fools now." Eros, hearing this, chuckled and nodded. Eros immediately pulled Eriu behind him. Eriu looked unhappy but remained silent and let Eros pull him back.

Several people froze in silence, their hearts now pierced by sharp objects. Those who did not participate also felt the sensation of their hearts being stabbed. 

Unbeknownst to anyone, purple shimmers flew above them, gradually forming a tree that seemed to be surrounded by purple water. 

Eros walked forward and his eyes slowly turned a dark purple.  Louise immediately grabbed Eros' shoulder, but was stopped by Eriu, who was behind him. The sparkles descended like a waterfall and gave way to Eros. Everyone was immediately mesmerized by the beautiful sight.

Their eyes could not leave the old tree. 

Eriu immediately whispered in a voice that only she and Louise could hear, "Eros is possessed."

"Huh?"

"He looks different..."

"I am so afraid to look into his eyes."

Eros was standing exactly where the tree was. On the trunk of the tree was a woman with bright red hair and a knight's outfit. She stared at them all from above. 

Eros laughed mockingly, "Pftt. Do you want your son to be healed or do you want your sin to be invisible?"

"Why do you think I blew them all up?"

The woman who was watching from above immediately jumped down, causing a small earthquake. Eriu himself was held by Louise to prevent himself from falling.

"I, as the representative of the God of Hope, will punish you with my punishment and my method.

"If you run, you die."

Reliun's body instantly cooled, and he was terrified when he saw the cold sword and the mysterious woman.

Suddenly, there was a scream from the hospital, "Lei, stop!"

"You're not cured yet!"

Lei took a slow breath, looked around, and immediately walked over to Eros and kowtowed to him.

"Thank you."

"Really thank you."

"Thank you for giving me a second hope."

Mrs. Qulea, who was outside, gasped and looked at the woman, her eyes flashing with surprise.

"Sister Grace?"

To me you are a hero.

Your hands save all from harm.

I want to be like you when I grow up.

You are my hope,

Ramiel.