Nox Renerio.
Episode 12
“This is not a place for the likes of you.”
“Get lost.”
Puh, someone spat next to Khalid’s head. And as he watched the gatekeepers entering, Khalid stood up with a twitch in his body. Just one last time. Just one time, he wanted to see Nox.
If he burdened himself by liking him too much, by loving him, and thus rejected himself, he had thought that he would disappear obediently. He just wanted to see Nox one last time. Even from a distance.
He walked around the walls of the mansion, dragging his aching body. Going right and then turning, he soon came across the garden of the room where the lord resided.
“My lord…!”
And there, in the garden, Nox was standing at the right moment. His hair shimmered green in the sunlight, his waist stood straight. His cruel lord, who hadn’t changed even though Khalid had disappeared. Khalid grabbed onto the iron bars attached to the low wall and called out to him. No, he tried to call out.
“……”
If only there were no small spirits running towards Nox in the garden, he would have done it.
“My lord! I have brought what you asked for!”
“Yes.”
Nox seemed to have acquired a new young servant. The child with ordinary brown hair and freckles couldn’t be called cute even in empty words, but Nox received the item brought by the servant as if treating Khalid and petted his head.
“You did well.”
“Yes…”
The young servant’s face turned slightly red. Khalid felt his heart ache as if something inside was brightening.
Because he loved the lord, he endured such things. And a boy of the same age as Khalid came into the place where he used to be after he was rejected. When Khalid saw the boy’s face, he knew. How much he loved him. And the fact that he was showing it without any restraint.
The hand holding onto the iron bars trembled. He wanted to break the hand that brought the item to the boy standing next to Nox’s side. That place belongs to me. Not anyone else but Khalid, his own place.
But he was driven out of that place by Nox’s hand. How, how could he do that? How can he so easily fill that place after kicking me out? How?
Khalid began to gasp for breath. Soon, he started to dry heave. Khalid grabbed onto the iron bars, sat down hesitantly, and dry heaved several times in that spot. He felt like his stomach was shrinking.
He spewed out a lot of bile. Khalid took one more look at Nox and the young servant. And soon, his eyes widened.
Nox was smiling towards the young servant. As if smiling at me. Just like he used to look at me. Khalid tightly gripped the iron bars. So, does that mean, it doesn’t matter who’s in that place?
“…Even if it’s not me, it doesn’t matter?”
Something boiling could be felt inside Khalid’s belly. Khalid didn’t properly know the name of that emotion. It was the first time he felt it in his life. The upper part of his stomach hurt. He held his upper belly and watched until the two disappeared from the garden.
Until Nox took the young servant and disappeared into the mansion. Khalid stupidly sat there and as soon as Nox disappeared, he stood up from his spot. And he started to walk unsteadily. The wounds on his back didn’t burst, fortunately, but the parts where the knights struck him throbbed.
“My lord… You are truly a cruel person.”
He muttered words that couldn’t reach anymore, heading towards the inn where he had temporarily stayed. He felt no strength in his whole body.
Khalid returned to the inn and leaned against the door, slumping down. The image of Nox and the young servant didn’t leave his mind. Khalid raised his knees and buried his face. His hands trembled. Even though he thought that he would be satisfied just by being able to see his face for even one more time, even from a distance. But his stomach felt warm, as if something inside was boiling.
“…Why.”
Why, how, and why. My lord, how can you do this to me.
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