[BL] I Will Be Your Number 1 Devotee!

Chapter 52: 46 - Astilbe (17)



"Catch him, quickly!" 

To be a predator or to be preyed upon. 

This is probably the most frightening thing we humans feel. Fear of being caught by the predator and fear of not catching the prey.

The wounded man kept running. Under the falling stars he prayed.

Please let me live.

The only hope for the success of all his plans.

DORR-!

A sniper from the far end aimed straight at the young man's feet and pulled the trigger. With the help of magic, the bullet moved fast, so fast that the man didn't realize that his leg had been hit.

Immediately, the pain engulfed him and he struggled to his feet.

Praying and praying.

To the shooting star, to the false hope, to the fate that always closed its eyes.

Whoever it was.

Please hear my prayer.

Let me live!

Let me live now, let me avenge my sister, let me free her!

Please...

"!?" The two people who were on their way home paused in shock. Suddenly, an injured man appeared right next to them. 

The man raised his head to stare at the miracle with his own eyes. Those brown eyes glowed with faith once again, faith that Deus Sacrifice had heard his wish.

The false hope, the fate that closed his eyes, the sentence, all became a lie before the man's eyes.

At that moment a hand reached out in front of him, "Are you all right?" The man's voice was calm. The hood that covered the face of the person in front of him fell, revealing the sheet that covered his eyes.

At that moment, the man with the dark brown hair fainted, leaving two people standing in confusion.

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"Are you close to your siblings?" Eriu asked. 

After what Amiley had said to him earlier, it made him wonder. What were Noah's two brothers like? Were they related to the twin brothers or not?

Questions and doubts kept swirling in his mind, making him unable to sleep.

Why?

Because the story of these two twin brothers is quite disturbing.

If their story were shortened, it would go like this.

They are two twin brothers. One became the incarnation of Uriel and one became the incarnation of Asmodeus.

One was a White Swan and one was a Black Swan.

The Black Swan was always the center of attention, the loving gaze always directed at him made the White Swan jealous. The question is, what does the White Swan do to get the attention back?

He lies.

Knowing that many elven children are sold and thrown away, the White Swan will deliberately make up a lie.

A lie that will make the Black Swan disappear forever before reappearing as a new identity.

If the player chooses the Asmodeus incarnation route, the happy ending will occur when the protagonist drinks the potion he gives them. The Asmodeus incarnation will then harass the protagonist and kill him in a remote tower.

For the bad end of the Asmodeus route, the protagonist will leave the incarnation of Asmodeus alone, knowing that he never existed. The incarnation of Asmodeus, desperately in need of love, will come to the grave of 'Eriu Grith' and decide to kill himself by stabbing himself in the heart.

The inscription at the end of these two endings reads:

Astilbe, I will continue to wait for you until you see me.

Astilbe, even if spring doesn't come back to me, it doesn't matter. 

Astilbe, because I only have to freeze myself into this waiting flower.

Astilbe and the morning will be a new dew, just like my love for you.

So I will continue to love you.

Forever and ever.

Making you my cosmos.

The happy ending of Uriel's incarnation route is when the protagonist finds out the evil that Uriel's incarnation did to his twin and leaves him. At that moment, Uriel's incarnation, of its own free will, enters the Will Flower. He melts into the closed flower.

To get to the bad end of his path, the player has to make this incarnation of Uriel believe that what he is doing is the truth. The same event will repeat itself, where he lies to tell the world that the one who killed 'Eriu Grith' was the protagonist.

After that, the protagonist will be kidnapped and auctioned off, and the incarnation of Uriel will come and buy the protagonist.

Written at the end of the final route is written:

Don't let a flower close your eyes.

Don't let a root come out of your ear.

Singing in the church hall is the echoing voice of a girl's life.

Pray to those who will never look at you.

People are just weak creatures who only have someone to blame. That's why they have only two choices for their future.

Kill the demon for the sake of life;

Or,

Kill an angel for freedom.

Unfortunately, he had always gotten the bad end of those two paths. And what was worse, he was not very curious about these two twins, so he only knew the endings of these two incarnations. Even with the help of 001, he could only get this information.

The Will Flower, the Elf in Love with Perfection, the two opposing twin brothers, and the Rain Flower.

If only he could ask the demon to check his memory. It would be very helpful.

Unfortunately, the demon alone did not know about the game he was playing.

What was still on his mind was why did the incarnation of Asmodeus killed himself in front of the grave of 'Eriu Grith'? Hoping that the protagonist would continue to visit it, even though it wasn't his grave?

Sounds crazy.

And the other reason is that his mother, Ariadne Grith, had some connection with the twin, right? Besides, his mother used to be a nun who was banished so that the secret of the twins' birth would never be found out. 

Since 001 had told him, there was a 99.01% chance that his mother knew about these two people!

There was only one quick way to find out. Yes, through his new friend, Noah! Compared to Amiley, Noah was the easiest person to talk to. Noah often talked about how much she disliked the elves, and not once or twice did she say she wanted to run away with her mother.

The words alone proved how much she hated his own race!

Even though she said she liked her siblings, Noah never talked about them. 

All Noah would say was how competitive they were.

They made Noah the standard of perfection. They would both make delicious food in front of Noah and Noah would just have to point to the one she thought was the best. The same goes for toys and so on.

When Noah told him about this, only one thing crossed his mind. That her siblings might be Siscons. But hearing it over and over again made him wonder, who was Amiley?

Was she just a mother who had been betrayed by her partner? Or was there more to the story? 

But really, the information and the book that Eros provided were very helpful, but how could he not be caught eavesdropping on their conversation? Nah, forget it. 

But first, with the information from Eros and Noah's stories combined, some of Noah's stories were easy to understand and some were not.

So he decided to accept Noah's invitation to assemble the flower crown with her and make Noah rethink about him. Whatever it was, he wanted to make Noah think that he was his best friend.

Noah, who was assembling the flowers, immediately turned her head, "Not really." In order not to look suspicious, Eriu immediately put his flower crown assembly on top of the other flower crowns, making it look like he was idly asking, "Really? I thought both your brothers were Siscons."

"Siscon?"

Eriu nodded immediately, "Yes, siscon. It's a language I used to use, meaning an older brother who loves his sister too much!"

"Pftt-" Noah chuckled. 

Slowly, the sunlight was partially obscured by the clouds, leaving only the redeeming rays of sunlight from between the clouds. Amidst the rays, a peaceful silence was created between the two people.

"So what do you call a close friend?" Noah asked. Eriu, still holding his flowers, did not look at Noah, who smiled with red cheeks, "Friends forever? Partners in crime? Homie? Hmm, I'm not sure, usually, many words mean different interpretations..."

Noticing Noah approaching, Eriu stopped and immediately turned his head at the same time the flower crown was placed on his head, "What do you call us then?"

"...."

Wah, wahhh, wahhhh....

This girl has an Eros trick! 

Noah noticed how often Eriu froze every time someone came close to him and looked away as if nothing had happened. And that made Noah sure that Eriu experienced it often. 

At that very moment, when Eriu was tying up her hair, Eriu came closer and didn't notice anything. But if Eriu had noticed, he would have been frozen in place.

"Eri?" 

"Uhh, best friend forever..." Eriu immediately turned his face away and laughed softly, "Just like me with Eros, you're also my best friend forever!"

Noah paused and looked down, "Is the Eros you often mention that important to you?"

"???" 

Why is this happening all of a sudden?

"You often talk about him, you often say how good he is, so what am I? Am I not as good as him? Do you like him so much that you reject me?"

What is this 5 year old talking about? 

Looking at her again, Eriu realized how similar Noah was to Amiley, she could attack anytime and anywhere without the victim even noticing!

Eriu shook his head, "No, you're nice, but how could I talk about you in front of you? If I go back, I'll definitely talk about everything that happened here, about Aunt Amiley and you!"

"I don't like Eros enough to want to marry him, he's just like you."

"We are best friends forever! I'm sure when you get to know Eros, you'll like him very much!" Eriu sighed softly after saying all that.

It felt like his life story was about to change its title from 'I, who entered the Otome Game and became the protagonist's best friend, but will die as seasoning for the game's storyline' to 'I, who entered the Otome Game and got many harems, and even the protagonist became my harem!'

Now he had to parry all the troubles of even this young girl's love!

"Errr, Noah?" Noah, who ducked her head, made it difficult for Eriu to see her expression. Fearing that this would take too long and end up with no information, Eriu quickly changed the subject, "I've only known him for half a year..."

"Because I'm only close to Eros at home..."

"Unlike you and your siblings, you know each other. That's why I'm a little curious what you think of them..."

Noah lifted her head and she blinked before nodding, "Hmm!"

Seeing Noah cheer up again made Eriu believe he had succeeded.

Even if Eriu himself didn't know what he had just said.

Noah leaned closer and whispered, "I'm going to tell you a secret, but promise not to tell anyone." Eriu turned his head slightly and nodded. The atmosphere, which had been peaceful, became a bit scary.

The sunlight slowly faded.

Noah began to tell the story, "I'm not sure who one of them is, but one of my brothers is creepy."

Gulp.

Noah's serious look made him nervous now.

Like the previous questions that often ran through his mind, who was Amiley? Why did she have a divine servant cattle? What did it mean that she was half-elf and half-not? Why did many nuns often come to her house just to bring her food? She even had an artifact similar to the one in the village of Te Amo.

Isn't Amiley the strangest character besides 'Eriu Grith' and his parent?

How does Amiley know how to play the Diroskuroi game?

Although in the game {You're my Ramiel}, it is clear that everyone there looks unafraid when the protagonist starts this death game. That's because the name alone means death, so they don't dare, but some of them still work together to try to lie to death.

"These two brothers of mine aren't twins, but their faces are very similar! The way they talk, eat, and move is exactly the same, so no one can tell them apart."

The crimson eyes widened as if he could guess who the two people were.

"Last year I went home with Mom to see Grandpa."

"Grandpa didn't want to see me, so I was left alone in my room. I wasn't allowed to leave the room either. Mom knew that if I came out, I would be teased for not being perfect."

"Remember the story I told you?" Noah asked and immediately Eriu nodded, "Um!" How could he not remember that? This was the story that changed his opinion of these two people from two siscons to two scary people.

Those two people took her out to eat as usual, but the difference was that on that day, she ate with the elders, yes, just them, children surrounded by old people.

And even that was caught by Klien, the dwarf who was a servant there. 

Noah continued, "These two brothers of mine often give me food, and both of them must have the same taste."

"But the difference is that one of the meals tastes very bitter and the taste is very similar to sleeping pills."

Eriu immediately looked at Noah with a look of disbelief and conviction in his eyes.

"I know that because Mom likes to make it. That's why I was told to wake her up at 3 pm because that's the time when mom who took sleeping pills should wake up."

"...."

"I've tasted it before and that's why I know the taste."

"When my uncle brought me back, he didn't say anything. Usually, he tells about the unique items that he makes." Noah's hand trembled and when Eriu noticed, he placed the flower arrangement on Noah's trembling hand.

"I promise this will be our secret." What this girl needed was a listener.

A girl who was already labeled as imperfect by her surroundings, who had to be strict like her mother and couldn't even lift a finger to blame the person who insulted her.

For that reason alone, he felt sorry for this young girl.

"Uncle Klien's silence made me sad and I felt guilty. So, before I went home, I went to see Uncle Klien's room. But the Klien's uncle wasn't there, and since I just wanted to give him a cake, I went inside."

"At that time, I found out that all the items he sold would have a 'ring' on them. That's why Uncle could see exactly what the buyers were doing with the items he sold."

"And in his room was a picture of one of my brothers with those old men without any clothes on..."

"!!!"

"Those old men are just like the ones I saw that day."

Eriu was stunned, and his face was even paler than the one who told the story.

"Uncle, who knew I was in his room, came right away, and that's when I found out that Uncle had a granddaughter."

"The granddaughter disappeared after being thrown out by his son."

"That is why uncle worked as a servant and started selling these things, he really wanted to find his granddaughter. When uncle found traces of his granddaughter, he accidentally stumbled upon a cult living there." 

"Uncle also said that one of the members was one of my brothers, but because they looked so much alike, he didn't know who was in the photo..."

"That's why I'm cooperating with him, I'll continue to lure my two brothers with letters saying that I miss them, and Uncle will directly check which one of them is moving."

"..." Eriu was speechless, his head was now twisted in half.

The White Swan made up a lie to make the Black Swan disappear from his life, but what was it?

No way, right?

Really?

Suddenly, there were rumblings around the two of them.

Clouds blocked the sunlight and raindrops fell.

Amiley quickly got up from the chair and walked outside.

Footsteps echoed down the long hall.

The hand holding the papers balled into a fist and crumpled them.

Ariadne was silent, an angry look in her blood-red eyes.

This was a mother's love.

Her sacrifice.

Her fury.

4 seasons passed to forgive the end of her life.

Togetherness can make you see yourself.

A small wish can make you the happiest person.

Still, imperfections can make one blame everything on innocent creatures.

Even though gods are so unique, I don't like them.

They change shape just for their own pleasure.

And that is their disgusting thing!

Even though their behavior is copied by their followers, when something goes wrong, these gods close their eyes.

... Hey, I know you don't listen to me, but remember my words once in a while.

Gods are garbage.

Just like us.

Because we created you out of boredom.


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