I Will Disappear, Grand Duke | LK Adaptation

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"Your Highness! What are you doing! Hurry up and grab him!"

About four knights grabbed Jungkook, who had lost his reason, and pulled him over from the edge of the cliff.

Even then, he was unruly, so it was only when several more people pulled him that they were finally able to bring him to a safe zone.

"...Let me go! Ah!"

As Jungkook, who had thrown the knights violently, tried to jump off the cliff again, the knights shouted as they blocked him with their whole bodies.

"Your Highness, please calm down!"

Jungkook, who was caught by the knights, stared down the cliff with a mad gaze.

Water current, roughened by the winter wind, in a dark river with no visible bottom.

There was no sign of Lalisa anywhere.

It was difficult for anyone to survive a crash from such a height. Even if they had barely survived, they would not be able to swim in this strong current, and there was a high probability that they would die of hypothermia after a while.

But Jungkook was in no condition to make such a calm decision.

Unable to control his soaring emotions, he hurried past the knights and mounted his horse.

The knights rushed after him, who was riding without hesitation.

"...Lalisa, please."

From the moment Lalisa pointed the knife at her neck, Jungkook could not keep his composure.

He had to stop her. He was too scared to make a decision.

He didn't think for a minute that she would throw herself off the cliff.

No, he was scared. He saw the blood flowing from her neck, and he was afraid that if he got too close, she would pierce that thin neck...

So he stopped. He thought it'd be okay if he didn't get closer. She would stop then...

But Lalisa defied his expectations and threw herself down without hesitation.

The figure was painted before his eyes one after the other like afterimages.

Jungkook stared ahead like someone who had lost half of his mind. His lips began to tremble. He lost all sense of reality. He couldn't turn his head as if it was frozen in place.

It all seemed like a dream. The sight of Lalisa falling in front of him, and the faint smile on her face at the end.

*

From then on, the search continued, day and night.

They searched all over the forests and towns leading downstream from the river, and even in the nearby areas. However, Lalisa was nowhere to be found.

The severe cold weather continued, and even a blizzard began to blow over the territory.

Lalisa would freeze painfully even if she was in it for only a short while in that river.

And so half a month, a long time, passed.

At that time, a robe presumably belonging to Lalisa was found on land.

***

Jungkook looked down at the damp robe for a long time. There was no light in his eyes.

He stood tall as if he was left alone in a world far away.

"Your Highness, we will search the remaining areas. So please take a break even if it's just a little bit...."

Jungkook did not respond to the repeated requests of the knights.