[BL] I Will Be Your Number 1 Devotee!

Warning: This chapter may contain violent content for some readers.

Everyone who looked up at the sky frowned, confused as to why they were staring at a dark sky filled only with stars. Everyone returned to what they were doing. Some went home after working all day, some were still opening shops, and some had their hands dyed blood red.

It was all a lie.

Bubble after bubble in the living room signaled the arrival of someone. At that moment, two people stood in the living room. A golden-colored light appeared right in front of the woman, and she reached out her hand to grab the light. Meanwhile, the man next to the woman closed his eyes again with a white cloth.

Ariadne, who saw the light, already realized something and sadness could be seen in her eyes.

'Farewell, Aria.'

The quiet voice that said the end of everything. A story of friendship that can only be seen in old albums. 

"...Eri!?" Louise, whose sense of smell had returned to normal, was immediately surprised. The smell of thick blood was very strong in the depths of the forest, but there was no smell of Eros. It was as if he had disappeared. Ariadne realized immediately and grabbed Louise's hand and they both rushed out of the house.

Her old friend was someone who always thought outside the box, someone who had realized the end of her life. 

A long time ago, when they were punished for pulling weeds, her friend said to her in a joking tone.

"Every action has consequences. For every crime there is karma. And for every wish, there is a sacrifice."

This was said to her on the very same day that she died.

As if she had predicted everything.

In a place filled with mana, where everything is seen with the eyes of perfection. Filled with the deception hidden in that perfection. The elven race, said to be the embodiment of perfection, jewel-like, and loved by nature, had one wish they had always hoped for.

Destroy the nymphs.

To them, the nymph was just a failed product of theirs. Their arrogance led them to believe that every creature was made in their image. 

A pride that led them to ruin.

A story passed down through the generations says that elves were born from immortal trees. To think that nature loves them so much. When they see a creature called a human that looks so much like them but is so weak, they believe that the world created this creature called a human because it was inspired by this perfect elf.

Unlike the nymph who was said to have been born for atonement. Indeed, these were only words spread by the elves who did not like the nymph's existence. The supposedly polluted and despicable nymph was born from the Immortal Tree. Giant eggs would appear around the Immortal Tree to signal their birth. The lunatic of the past.

Unfortunately, the protection of the Immortal Tree prevented the elves from destroying the eggs, which they considered ugly. The nymphs that successfully hatched would immediately leave the place and go their own way, unlike the elves who looked at them hatefully.

Nymphs who died by their own hands and elves who died of jealousy.

People who knew the nymphs mostly felt fear, sadness, and pity. This is why the world tries to give warmth to the lunatic of the past.

When a nymph died, people flocked to place the most beautiful flowers on their graves.

Even if their legs are missing, their heads are broken, their mouths are torn off, they will never stop.

They are the lunatics of the past.

The ones the world loves.

Unlike the elves. Every look they receive is nothing but disgust, mockery, and absolute hatred.

Their arrogance made the world hate them.

Their arrogance destroyed them.

Even their own race was destroyed because of what they did to themselves.

I, Reliun Myes, really, really hate the elven race.

500 years ago, unrest began to grow. The nymphs were hated, and all propaganda was written to bring them down. It was the day the world looked up to the elves. They stared at the elves with contempt. Almost all of the world defended the poor nymphs, and half of it tried to help the elves destroy them. 

The brain-dead elves thought the world would look up to them because they were one of the only races trying to eradicate the world's pests.

Propaganda was always heard in the town square, a recording of how vile and horrible the nymphs were was always played, the radio always told the ugliness of the nymphs. In the elven kingdom, only they were brainwashed. Only then did a sermon from the church praise the elves, who were said to be imperfect.

I still remember the words of that sermon: "The Eternal Tree refers to us as perfection, we, the elves, are perfect creatures! Creatures that are desired! Everyone is now looking to us to save them from these disgusting pests."

"So you imperfect ones can become perfect by killing those pests!"

"Perfection is now before your eyes!"

"This is your last chance."

Parents who like to differentiate their children will naturally send the ones they don't like away. After all, it was a praiseworthy deed for them to send their child to be perfect, and they also earned a good name for sending their child to die in the middle of the war. And he was this imperfect child. The son of seven brothers and sisters. The bastard son of a priest. While his other siblings were also like him, children born out of wedlock, unwanted children, but they managed to survive thanks to their talents. 

All of them had never even touched a broom, so they stared right at me. Declaring that I'm useless.

A writer, a general, a painter, a singer, a pianist, and a philosopher. Only he was a nobody. Not a swordsman, not a priest... just a 14-year-old boy sent to the military to die.

Rigorous training, unfair treatment, mocking us as useless creatures to be useful, physical abuse, harassment, death, severe punishment, and being fed stale food.

Worse, every morning we had to listen to the propaganda screaming at us.

"If you want to be perfect, kill those vermin!

"They are less perfect than you!"

"You should be happy that we still want to take you in, you useless bastards!"

The harsh training that broke us mentally and physically. We were trained like animals for a year and released from our cages as soon as the war began.

While they were free in the sun, I... all of us saw the nymph they called useless for the first time. Of course, this propaganda had already entered my brain, it really stuck, just by looking at those blood red eyes, I was already furious, a feeling of hatred arose in him. 

The hatred I harbored was poured out on the nymphs who looked at us with pity.

While the nymphs looked healthy, we were like bones being told to run to our deaths...

Even though their gaze was full of compassion, they still destroyed us in the cruelest way. Just by looking into those blood-red eyes, I was sent to a world more terrible than hell. The shrill screams of pain, the laughter of someone who no longer has vocal cords, the cries of a baby being eaten by a family.

My fear of the priest was nothing, I would rather be whipped than feel that overwhelming fear.

The first day of the war ended without casualties.

"YOU PEOPLE ARE USELESS! YOU CAN'T EVEN KILL A VERMIN!"

Those of us who returned were severely beaten.

Because they didn't kill me, because they felt sorry for me... right, because they ruined my life. Because of them, all this happened because of them!

"WHY CAN'T YOU JUST KILL ONE OF THEM, YOU USELESS BASTARD!"

If they didn't exist, I wouldn't have to suffer like this.

"ARGHHHH, DISGUSTING, GET LOST!"

Day after day was just hellish torture.

"This is a gift. So work even harder." A priest walked in front of them with a naked girl who was grabbing him by the hair. She was covered in bruises.

The girl closed her eyes as if certain of her end.

Unwilling to remain in this shabby place, the priest threw the girl in front of them all before turning to leave. Only silence fell upon them and sinful looks were directed at the girl.

"..."

Tap-tap...

The girl closed her eyes even more, but a warm embrace was felt on her. Even for a full 5 minutes, no one did anything to her.

The man, whose body was nothing but bones, hugged the girl as if he wanted to protect her.

A kindness, a compassionate look, and a life forgiven made him realize that fear.

And fear became comfort.

Month after month, more and more children were brought to this place, more and more of them thrown directly into the war without training or weapons. It is disgusting that these people laugh as if they got what they wanted. Slowly, the disgusted look of the humans at the elven race turned into cooperation between the kingdoms. Even he and the girl realized that the church people already didn't care about our existence, but still, if they were caught escaping, we would be punished. That's why the girl and I made a plan to escape when the other kingdoms weren't coming, no one was on guard at all, and even if there were guards, they would be asleep.

That's why the girl and I made our escape plans on different days, because if we both ran away at the same time, the chances of getting caught were very high. The girl was a gift, that's why her name was never in the book of abandoned children. 

Even after the girl disappeared, no one looked for her.

And this war will be the day I escape.

"REMEMBER, YOU ONLY HAVE TO KILL THEM!"

Hundreds of children stood before the priest who gave the order, their eyes filled with nothing but darkness, none of them sure they could survive after seeing their own comrades die.

The disgusted nymphs killed them without even touching them, killing nearly half of the elven army.

In the sea of flames, a female elf dressed as a nun walked where the nymphs should have been. The woman with long black hair and eyes looked at the children with a look of pity.

It was just her.

Against millions of elven children.

She stood with her eyes closed, holding a single white staff with her arms wide open as if to embrace their grief.

The higher-ups, sitting on horses in full regalia, immediately shrank their eyes, filled with fear, when they realized who the woman was.

Only one word came from the higher-ups.

"RETREAT!"

Retreat... 

After this sentence, the roots of the Immortal Tree immediately surrounded the entire Elven kingdom and destroyed all the people in it, crawling and wrapping around the priests and destroying the church that the Elves were so proud of.

The immortal tree, which was said to love the elves, killed them all at once.

That day, only hundreds of elves survived, including himself, who had fled before the war began.

Almost all the elves knew this woman, the woman who was always told in the old stories, even a statue was made in honor of this sad woman.

The woman who was betrayed by her husband.

The end of this woman's life was when she gave birth to the child she was carrying and named it after her.

Amiley.

After the woman gave birth, she walked in front of the statue of Deus Uriel, a shabby church with not a single follower, an outcast church.

The woman prayed in front of the statue and died while praying.

The woman's story ended there, until a woman named Amiley reappeared on the war front.

A nun devoted to Asmosdeus. The devotee who longed for Uriel.

The serpent that corrupted the holy woman.

The child they had discarded returned to destroy them to the core. Trouble of their own making, a destruction that made the elves despised by the people once again.

With a prayer that worships Uriel, but with the name Asmosdeus.

After that, the woman disappeared as if she were an unfilled part of history.

The history of hundreds of years was still full of secrets. The elves reunited and began to rebuild their kingdom... I managed to get a job, to buy a house, I could eat without having to hunt. The days were full of peace.

After what happened, the elves seemed to disappear from the world, their existence became vague and I had to cut off my ears to keep the humans from getting suspicious.

Of course, old memories cannot be changed. I went on to the fairy world to look for clues to the girl's whereabouts. Even though I was afraid to enter my hometown, I just wanted to know if she had survived.

It felt stupid.

And for another reason, I just wanted to see the day when the elves suffered again. The hatred for myself still burned within me, the recurring nightmare.

Maybe seeing the scene where they were destroyed will make me happy again... 

In the end, I didn't find the girl, but I heard the stories that had been circulating that the nymph girl had destroyed half the castle just to kill Amiley.

Although no one was hurt, the losses from that attack were enormous.

This girl named Amiley also managed to survive. 

Amiley's appearance certainly confused the elves and even other fairies. Since her face was exactly the same, it was as if she was Amiley herself.

The arrival of this girl changed everything, and the harrowing stories of children being used as war slaves began to be heard again.

The war was designed to make the nymphs look evil for cruelly killing the elf children who tried to protect their kingdom. The day the Immortal Tree destroyed the elves was the day the nymphs flocked to save the last egg born from the Immortal Tree.

That is why none of the nymphs appeared there.

After the Immortal Tree gave birth to the egg, the Immortal Tree became a withered tree that was no longer full of mana.

The story unfolded, but in the end, I was just an elf child who was thrown into the war and couldn't forgive everything.

"An egg roll and coffee."

"Okay.." After the cashier said that, Reliun went back to his seat. He sat at the end of the room, reading the newspaper in his hand, and soon the tea glass was placed on the table.

"Here's your drink, sir, uh, Rii...?" Hearing his name called, Reliun immediately raised his head to look at the person calling him.

"Oh... I was right, you are Rii!" The woman smiled and called his name again.

Their first meeting after hundreds of years.

He came with the intention of just saying hello, until it became a habit to meet in this restaurant. The small encounter of 10 years turned into a declaration of love, where he nervously gave her a ring in front of her.

"...Sobb, of course, hikss, of course I want it!" The weeping woman rushed to hug him, crying.

142 years of marriage.

Because of the difference in life between humans and elves, my wife and I decided to move around. Until one day there was good news from her.

That she was pregnant.

The Eternal Tree blessed her. The woman who became his wife should not have been able to conceive. Because the organs in her stomach were damaged by them to prevent her from conceiving...

This... This is really like a miracle.

A very small baby boy, we cut off the earlobe hoping that the past would be the past. So that this little boy would not be bullied by elves or humans.

For happiness to continue with her.

Slowly the little baby grew up.

Our habit of constantly moving from one place to another made us want a home where we could fully occupy the place. Soon his wife suggested a place she knew. Te Amo Village.

The village was not too far from where the elves were, it was just that the entrance to the village required the native blood of the villagers, and his wife was one of those villagers.

After deciding that, we immediately traveled to the village, and with each trip, the little baby grew slowly.

When I saw that little boy in the arms of the woman he loved, I made a promise to myself: I would make everyone happy without a word of perfection.

"Are we going the wrong way?"

"Um, no, right, this way." 

The dense trees surrounding them instantly disappeared into a square where the villagers turned their heads toward them.

"Maya, is that you?" One of the villagers asked as he approached them.

"Yes, Gamma, and the people beside me are my husband and my son."

This sentence made everyone turn their heads to them. Where their arrival was greeted with joy. His wife, Maya, said she had been rescued by the villagers. The village was so closed to the outside world that they didn't know that hundreds of years ago there was a war near their village. The villagers, who were mostly elves and other races like rats and even humans, were there.

Not to Uriel or Asmosdeus, but to Ramiel. The god the elves hated so much.

They were supposed to know the name of their god, but they said that knowing their god by his deeds was not his name, so they decided not to say his name, but to pray to him.

...

If I could have met them then, would I have suffered this terrible fate? 

A question that soon faded with time, like a boy who slowly crawls into adulthood and is able to walk while warmly embracing them.

This happiness is the most beautiful memory for him.

Until I met her.

The blood-red eyes that looked at him seemed to know the sad secret he was hiding. All the memories of his past came back to haunt him. 

Soon a second child was born.

" Papa, Papa, Linda's walking, look!" The little boy pointed to the baby who tried to walk before falling down.

"Linda!" Panicking, Maya immediately rubbed the baby's head, but the baby girl continued to cry. Maya quickly stood up, "Lei, go get Mommy some milk from the kitchen."

"Oh, uhm!" Lei, who heard the order, replied immediately. On the other hand, Maya immediately put the baby girl on the big bed. However, the baby girl did not stop crying, which confused Maya. 

Crang!

There was a sound of breaking glass coming from the kitchen, Maya, who was panicking, turned to Reliun, who was frozen in silence.

"Rii, stay with Linda for a while, I'll be back."

"Um." Reliun answered quietly. When no one was in the room, Reliun approached the bed and rubbed the child's head.

The girl had a face similar to that of the 14-year-old child ... the crying baby made him remember the day the 14-year-old child was abandoned by his family.

Although he had been elected village chief, there was no sense of excitement or small happiness, only fear that now surrounded his mind.

The fear that he would tell on himself, the fear that he was no longer perfect.

The more I heard the child's cries, the more fear arose in him, and I unconsciously slapped the little girl...

BRAKKK-!

"Rii...! What are you doing, are you crazy?" Maya was startled and immediately hugged the baby whose head was hit so hard that blood and a large gash were visible on the baby's head.

"HUAAAA, HUAAAA!" The baby's cries grew so loud that they echoed.

"Daddy? Mommy? Why? What... was it because the glass broke that Linda got scared?"

I just stood there confused before I realized what I had done.

The fear was overwhelming me.

Maya really panicked and tried to take her to the clinic, but since I was afraid that people would know that I had beaten my own child, I quietly took her out of the village and looked for the nearest clinic. The beating eventually took its toll on the little girl, her brain didn't work normally... Forever she thought like a child, even if she became an adult, not with her behavior.

From fear to worry. The fact that their daughter was not perfect made him even more afraid. He unconsciously kicked out his daughter and his own wife, and even worse, he hit Lei, the most perfect child in this family.

No, no, no, what if you get caught?

No, no...

The couple stood at his door with his wife and daughter. Those blood red eyes stared at him, even though the wife's words sounded like mothers giving advice to fellow women, those eyes looked at him as if they knew his secret.

Secret...

All the secrets he tried to bury deep. The meeting between me and them was just to make my first child successful! That's right, it's all for them!

It's okay, what I'm doing is also for their sake...

The happy news of the Grith family was heard, they were blessed with a son, one year younger than the daughter. The neighbors were very complimentary about the Grith's child, he could already read, walk and even write in less than 3 years. 

"Good morning, village chief." The young mother greeted Reliun immediately. 

"Good morning, Mrs. Niana. What brings you here so early?"

"Ahh, I want to meet Maya, she asked me yesterday to invite her to the mothers' meeting, as usual, want to gossip."

"Ohh, wait, I'll call Maya."

Niana immediately stopped the rally, "Oh, you can invite Lei and Linda, it's rare that Mrs. Grith and her children come to such meetings. All the mothers brought their children as well. Usually mothers want their children to be like Eriu, he's smart, obedient,".

"If my child was like him, I'd be calm!"

Maya, who heard the voice in front of the house, immediately came forward, "...Mrs. Niana."

"Ohh, Mrs. Maya, come on, we're waiting, just bring your children." Niana immediately turned to Reliun, "Is that okay?"

"...Um, of course."

The child who stole their attention. It should be his son, Lei, who is being praised like this, why should it be her son? He's just a nymph child!

An imperfect child! 

Her thoughts became more and more broken.

Until the day Eriu was left alone, that day the man from the group wanted to kill his wife and the child she was carrying. He deliberately prevented people from passing that way. But the man was caught by the child with blood red eyes. He saw everything but pretended not to know.

Compared to his mother, this child looked at him with a straight look, as if he knew everything. The man who tried to escape was impaled on a branch of a tree...

As if the tree of the world remembered him.

His fears and worries disappeared when the boy named Eros came. This child could bring down the Grith family. Soon false rumors spread that Eros was the son of Eriu's mother's infidelity.

They should have left after that, this village is theirs, they should consciously stay where they are!

I wasn't wrong...

I'm not wrong...

"You have to apologize to them, you hurt them." Reliun said. Eriu, while holding Eros' hand, looked into Reliun's eyes and said, "I was just playing with them. Is playing not allowed?"

"That's not playing! You're bullying them!" Reliun shouted. This anger made him want to hit the boy who still looked relaxed. Eriu looked elsewhere before looking back at him, "So you're saying that hitting someone is okay as long as people don't see it, is that it?"

That sentence made his skin crawl.

Did he know?

No way... 

Yes, only his family knew, there was no way this boy knew!

Immediately, Reliun's gaze became very dark, and there was Eriu's expression, smiling broadly with those blood-red eyes, looking at him with a pitiful look.

"As long as what I do doesn't get caught, I'm safe, right?" In an instant, the view disappeared, leaving only Eros standing in the room, hiding behind Eriu, who looked at him sarcastically.

Knock-knock.

Finally there was a knock and the door opened immediately. Ariadne and Louise immediately opened the door without greeting Reliun at all. Ariadne approached Eros and rubbed his face before taking a gold coin out of her pocket, "Snack on whatever you want, spend this money, got it?"

Eriu immediately grabbed the gold coin and smiled broadly, "Sure!"

"Come on, I'll spoil you today!" Hearing this, Eros replied, "Since when do you spoil me?"

"..." Eriu blinked, not knowing what to say.

"Pfftt-" Meanwhile, Ariadne was holding back her laughter. Louise just smiled quietly. 

Reliun realized that they were doing it on purpose, just to mock him. Only they knew that he had thrown out his wife and children.

"... Alright, I'll use the money for myself!" Eriu immediately held Eros' hand and walked out while saying his sentence, "But if you beg, I'll buy you anything!"

"Hahaha..." Ariadne laughed as if her soul had been healed.

"Oh, sorry for our rudeness, chief." Louise turned to him and immediately sat down on the bench without asking his permission. Ariadne followed, sitting next to Louise.

The horror was palpable in the room, the cold stare directed at him. Before he could speak, Louise reproached them.

"We don't care if you're the head of the village or not, even if you have connections with extraordinary merchants. As long as there is a problem, and if it concerns Eriu or even Eros, we will not hesitate to eliminate it."

"This is not a negotiation, this is a threat, please remember that."

Louise stood up immediately, followed by Ariadne who remained silent before turning to Reliun who was frozen with a very pale face.

"Shameless bastard."

[Whether hundreds of children or gods, as long as you cross the line, be prepared for the worst].

Bang! Bang!

The roar of thunder was accompanied by pink lightning that instantly struck the masked people.

The whisper he had never heard before, the words of one of the nymph race as they destroyed the children, killed their opponent. 

Linda continued to stand at the door, watching the pale, wheat-haired boy's back as he walked away. Reliun, seeing this, paused for a moment before walking over to Linda.

"Father..."

"Did the boy say something to you?"

"He was just asking for directions to Aunt Emma's house."

He asked subconsciously, "What was your first impression of Eros?"

"...Eros?" asked Linda, still staring in the direction Eros had gone while hugging the doll Lei had given her.

"That boy."

The lightning struck like it was going to destroy this village, the people who were hit by the lightning were completely burned to the bone. Horror could be seen in the eyes of everyone there.

It was then that Reliun realized that it was only he who was staring at him under the giant statue of a man. The upper part of his face was filled with eyes, and even when the giant statue's mouth opened, an eyeball with three pupils was visible.

Stares at him.

The giant statue man wore a cloth covering his body. He stood surrounded by human-sized statues staring at him.

Judging him.

A person standing in the center of the judgment room immediately fell limp as this mouth uttered its crime.

[Damage to the victim's property.]

As the woman's frightened eyes looked up.

[Defamation]

The statuesque people who had just stared silently down at the people on trial opened their mouths, wearing the judge's cloth but with their eyes closed, sentences labeling those on trial under the law.

[One by one they began to open their mouths and recite the crimes of each person. It was the witness who would make the judge choose the final sentence for them.

When the lightning struck again, a woman in a black robe immediately turned toward the forest. Her robe flapped in the strong wind, her long black hair with a hint of dark purple fluttering. Not caring about the person behind her who fell.

Half of the area near the village could see a huge scale slowly falling to the left. Every root of the banyan tree immediately moved closer to the scales as if to protect the scales of sin.

Everyone who saw the scales immediately fell asleep on the spot.

A huge long sword appeared to the right of the judge. Only then did each person realize that above them was a huge scale weighing their deeds.

[We have given you the punishment you deserve.]

"So-" Linda moved the doll's hand over the doll's mouth, "Almighty!

"?" Reliun frowned. But he said nothing and led Linda straight into the room. 

[Maya Myes.] 

The pale looking woman just stood there like a ghost. The person who was still trying to survive even created a false illusion for the sake of her happiness. The children who disappeared in that village. The victims were named Nois and Reni. 

[Killing a minor and trying to erase the traces by eating them... Do you think I don't know that your victims are still many?]

"I did it to make my husband happy!"

[You are not making Mr. Myes happy, because the spirits of the children you killed are attached to him because of you. Destroying his brain is like destroying yourself.]

[If Mr. Myes knew what you were doing, he would still stand by you.]

[Because your selfishness led you to destroy your husband and even your children].

Maya Myes just stared up with a menacing look at every sentence the judge spoke.

[I will give you 5 more years to reflect on your actions before you die.]

The child sitting by the river immediately opened his eyes, dark black eyes staring into the distance. An ignorant smile appeared before he disappeared into the darkness.

"I think I should pay her a visit, don't you?" The hideous puppet turned around and nodded.

"I will visit you as well, my future incarnation!"