[BL] I Will Be Your Number 1 Devotee!

Chapter 22: 21 - Bridge



After the smoke appeared, Louise immediately cast a spell that made them move not far from where they were and hide behind one of the giant statues. The giant lion-like animals just watched in silence as they appeared right next to them before falling back to sleep.

Before they all suddenly became lion food, Ariadne took out the robes that Eros had worn from the beginning of the journey until now and quickly gave them to Louise and Eriu before finally putting them on herself.

Eriu, already wearing the robe, lowered his head and held Ariadne's arm, "I'm sorry..."

"I made a mess of things..." Ariadne let out a small sigh and patted Eriu's head before putting on a hood that covered Eriu's face, "It's okay, they probably won't remember us either."

Ariadne turned to look at the person standing next to Eriu, "But not Eros." When Eriu heard that, his head lowered even more, "Sorry for causing you so much trouble..."

"If I had kept quiet, you wouldn't have had to follow me and the incident wouldn't have happened..."

If Ariadne and Louise hadn't caught up with them and taken them away, the possibility of Eros being kidnapped was very high, and there must have been several candidates for the love target who had already seen him.

The protagonist's charm must have reached their eyes and pierced their hearts with the dart of love.

Hearing that sad voice, Eros ducked down to match Eriu's height and looked straight into his eyes, "It's okay!"

Eros lowered his voice so that neither Louise nor Ariadne would hear him, "You should take turns chasing me instead.

...

"As long as you're happy, I'm happy!" Louise smiled lazily while Ariadne sighed, hearing Eros' cheerful voice as if it were no big deal. Louise nodded, "Don't repeat that, okay?" With an expression that couldn't be seen, Louise showed that the wooden stick that had become his trademark was broken and only half of it was left.

""..."" 

"This is also the umpteenth time, so..." If their escape were to be replayed, there would probably be a scene where Ariadne, whose heart was about to burst because of Eriu's sudden escape, unintentionally saw Ariadne holding the stick that Louise was holding and accidentally broke it.

Ariadne's smile suddenly turned stiff and even her voice sounded like a broken radio, "Hehe, I'll buy you a better one than this!" Louise replied, "Hmm, okay, I'll wait."

Louise put back the cane that was only halfway down his body before removing the cloth that was wrapped around his eyes. The cloth was then used to tie up his hair. Seeing this, Eriu realized his own father's charm for the first time in his life.

For the first time, he saw the color of those yellow eyes, but due to his blindness, the pupils were not visible and the color of the eyes was almost pale yellow.

"Let's get back on the road and remember not to separate." Ariadne reminded Eriu of the earlier memory.As they walked along the crowd, everyone seemed oblivious to their existence and only cared about the incident earlier.

Eros reached for Eriu's hand, making him turn his head to look at Eros, whose face was still normal, as if nothing had happened.

...There's no way this person doesn't know the consequences of just being stared at, right? The game itself says that they all fell in love for the first time when they were 10 years old, before they met again at school and their love grew immensely.

"Eri," Eros called to Eriu, nudging him with his elbow, "I don't think you should go near that crazy kid over there anyway." Following Eros' index finger, Eriu saw the child with the best seeds of the future laughing like a madman... 

Wait,

Isn't he one of the candidates for a love target?

If I'm not mistaken, the orange-haired one is the incarnation of the God of Greed, Mamon. 

...This child's route is the craziest and most unnatural route of all. One of the good endings is that he managed to cut off the protagonist's leg and put it on display in his mansion...

Even the bad ending is that he cut off all the hands holding the protagonist and the mouths talking to him.

For a normal ending, it doesn't even look like a normal ending...

"Hehe, you're right!" Eriu nodded happily at Eros' words. He must have felt it, that's why he warned his friend, who he thought didn't know anything. Ariadne, seeing Eriu back to normal, sighed in relief. The possibility of a relapse of his illness...

With his sharp eyesight, he inadvertently noticed the presence of someone standing not far from the laughing child. The way the person was still standing there, but trying to keep his distance, made him certain of something.

"The boy standing nearby must be mad too, he must have the same brain as that mad boy!" Eriu happily helped Eros recognize his enemy.

He must be Cleon, the second prince.

This was just his rough guess that he had been thinking about for a long time. This game does not rely on just one person, but other characters will be included to create a complex story about the character.

In the past, when he played the second prince's route, he always wondered how the prince, who was on the run at the time, was able to get past the heavy guard and strike back at his family.

In the game, it was also shown several times that the second prince talked about help from someone, saying that he had saved many people, which made him get help from the hand of God.

But it's not that easy, just helping doesn't prove that the gods will pay attention to that person.

So he wants to check when the ceremony starts or when the school finally opens.

But today, after so much bad luck, he might be lucky. Now, he could know this and use it as a weapon to make that bastard stay as far away as possible.

But his decision to enlist the help of a noble who had a bad relationship with the current kingdom was a good choice, especially if that noble was more aligned with the God of Greed than the God of Sacrifice, who was a natural enemy. This would make it easy for him to sneak into Loss Paradise without getting caught.

Besides, the reputation of the family of Mamon's incarnation was so bad that many people cursed them, but unfortunately, they were never punished until now.

Louise used his large body to hide the two of them, and Ariadne walked in front of them as they made their way to the exit of the transwarp area.

"Um, as long as that's what you want."

His voice was so low it was almost inaudible, but with Eros beside him, the words that could have been a casual whisper were heard.

"How did they choose those stupid creatures to be their guarantors?"

...his resentment must have overflowed by now..

While waiting for the crowd in front of him, Eriu, who instantly felt a sudden increase in curiosity, turned his head to look around, searching for more potential targets for love.

The mages from the magic tower... Ah, there they are!

His round glasses make him look like a geek, but in the future he is one of those who will be chosen for marriage! 

The child who will be chosen by Gabriel as his incarnation, meaning that the child whose black hair covers his eyes is the incarnation of Belphgor. In the fandom of this game, they are always shipped by many fans of this game, but when they know the end of Gabriel's incarnation character, they close their eyes and pretend not to see.

Because if you play Gabriel's incarnation route, even though the given ending is different, he will still die at the hands of his friend.

"What do you think of the white boy?" Eriu whispered, causing Eros to turn his head.

"The white boy?"

"Oh, you mean the one with the magic robes?" Eros tilted his head and replied with sarcasm in it, "Stupid and naive." Eriu gulped in surprise at the unexpected answer, especially considering that Gabriel's incarnation was the character who always saved the protagonist whenever he was poisoned.

Eriu, who felt uncomfortable, immediately scratched his cheek with his index finger, "Haha, um, so the kid whose eyes are covered by bangs?"

"It seems that since his hair is covering his eyes, his brain doesn't seem to be functioning properly."

"...Ha.Ha.Ha."

This protagonist I'm dealing with must be fed up with them.

Haa, then this proves that the protagonist here is not innocent and gentle like that game. He must have passed the ending one candidate after another...

Is this really the secret ending route?

Trying to get rid of his nerves, he looked around and found people with blonde and cream-colored hair, of course, with earlobes like leaves!

Elves!

"Eros, look, there's an elf over there!" Eriu covered his mouth with his hand as if he saw a celebrity passing in front of his house, "They really are as the books say, so blessed!" Hearing this, Eros seemed displeased and lifted his hood slightly, allowing Eriu to see his cold eyes.

"You were on purpose earlier?" Although his voice still sounded normal, Eriu could feel sharp ice being aimed at his back. Eriu quickly shook his head, "No, no, no!"

"I'm just surprised to know that these people don't just exist in books, but in reality. That's all, really!" Seeing that his lies were not working, Eriu quickly used his trump card, "You're the best of them all anyway!"

"I even became your first fan!"

Eros' eyes widened and his cheeks suddenly flushed before he pulled Eriu's hand, bringing them closer together. Their shoulders touched until Eriu could hear Eros' deep breathing, "Listen to me carefully, blessed looks will not always bless their disgusting brains."

Seeing Eros, who didn't seem to be angry anymore, Eriu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, even though his brain was made to stop again, making him remember how cruel this game was.

To remember how cruel the Elven race was to people they considered imperfect. One of the victims was Lei and Linda, including one of the twin sisters who was a love target.

For him, knowing Lei and Linda was an oddity that made him think it was impossible for this family to be ordinary people.

Reliun and Maya, the two parents he saw that night, looked like they had just realized their actions. Moreover, Lei and Linda's eyes are light green, which symbolizes the fairy race, including elves.

For elves, failure is the greatest sin, but if people who are considered elves do not look like elves, what will happen to them if they still live with other elves?

They will surely die.

Most likely Eros knew this because he was often with Madam Quela or because of his former life.

Eros' disgusting point of them is one of the traditions called Will Flower, a tradition that makes elves considered perfect.

This tradition was created after a civil war between elves and nymphs. To the nymphs, the elves were a cruel race that liked to oppress the nymphs. To the elves, nymphs are a cursed race because they have the power to make normal people go into a trance as if they were mad.

So it could be said that if the elf tried to disturb the nymph but was unlucky, the elf would immediately go into a trance. This makes elves really hate nymphs who are stronger than them, even though elves are one of the races blessed by the Eternal Tree.

This tradition requires only small unwanted children. The elves who have unwanted children will send their own children to the church to die slowly.

The gathered children would be pushed into a giant sunflower-shaped bowl. The petals will slowly close one by one, and once the petals are closed, no one can get out because the flower produces an acidic liquid that will slowly kill the children inside as their bodies slowly melt.

It is said that even their screams will sound like singing once they have entered the flower.

Over the course of 2 years, the flower that has finished eating the children will soon open its petals wide again and welcome new victims to become its food.

The reason for this tradition is that these children are imperfect, and imperfection is a symbol of the nymph who died of their own power.

Therefore, nymphs and elves are considered two different individuals compared to other fairies.

The first reason was because Ariadne explained the nymph's growth the day before, and the second reason, of course, was the fandom web.

It's useless to ask 001, who can only see my memories, because my memories play this game just for fun. Therefore, 001 didn't know the other endings except the one I played and could only look through my memories while scrolling down the screen to find out the other characters' stories.

That's why I asked 001 to check my memory about the character of the twin brother, and I took notes right away.

The twin brothers actually had a harmonious life before one of them was thrown into the flower and made him hate his own brother. 

Like the story of the black swan and the white swan.

And the black swan, which reflected the incarnation of Asmodeus, was the child who was thrown into the flower. Although it is not explained how he managed to survive inside the closed flower. But because he was the only one left there, he was considered perfect.

"It is better that such abnormal races be discarded from your list of favorites before you become their food." 

"You better not say that to me." Please look at yourself.

"Huh? Do I look like someone who would choose such people?" 

Immediately, the sound of an angry voice could be heard behind them. 

The angry voice made everyone turn around. It seemed to be the father of the child who died with the 5 slaves.

"HOW COULD YOU LET MY SON DIE?" His voice was full of anger as he pointed at everyone there. As if he forgot that he himself had let his son try to do something forbidden here. 

"FIND THAT BOY! HE MUST PAY FOR MY SON'S DEATH!!!"

As if listening to nonsense, everyone went back to their own things. Louise, who was behind, put his hand on Eriu's shoulder and Eros walked on, ignoring the noise behind him.

Huh?

Someone is staring this way...!

Before Eriu could find out who it was, Eros tightened his grip and whispered, "Be quiet and don't look anywhere.

"Stay calm, otherwise the curse will hunt you and not let you go after this."

Soon Eros felt an electric shock in his left hand.

In the crowd stood a woman in an elegant black dress. Her hair was disheveled and her eyes looked dead. She stood there smiling, showing the stitches in her mouth before disappearing into the crowd.

"Curse?"

"I'll explain later."

Ariadne, walking ahead of them all, handed the gold-leafed ticket to the guard. The officer took the ticket, tore it up, and let us pass.

The sudden feeling of relief made the sudden horror disappear.

"Be careful, we're still outside." Ariadne held Eriu's hand, waiting for any sign of the illusion reappearing as before. Louise quickly took out the folded paper and showed it to Ariadne.

With a quick glance, Ariadne put down the paper. As if as a final warning, Louise said, "Go as usual and remember not to let anyone get separated.

"They're here." 

Amidst the spreading stench, I stared at the ghosts running across the bridge as if their lives were at stake on the wooden bridge.

They kept running, not knowing if the bridge would collapse from the melting blood.

Don't stare behind you.

Keep moving forward.

Because I'm sure you'll make it without me.

Live and survive.

That's all I want.


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