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Chapter 68

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Oh, I'm tired. It sucked to open the labyrinth again every other week.

I succeeded in chasing away Isabella but failed to defend my strength to the death.

I lay still in bed until I opened the labyrinth and recovered my strength.

'Still, I was glad Reynos had helped me, otherwise I would not have been able to open my eyes.'

After I escaped from the prison and hid in a safe house, Reynos was the first person I met.

I talked to Reynos before I was kidnapped. He said he had some business to attend to and would not be available for contact for a while.

When I contacted him a few days later, he looked tired and I wondered if Reynos had been kidnapped like me.

"What happened?"

Reynos asked me what happened as soon as he saw me.

"It's a family affair. I'll tell you as soon as I'm done."

I didn't want to worry him by saying something unnecessary when the work has been in progress for a while.

Instead of agreeing willingly, Reynos told me to take it absolutely easy. After that, well, you all know what happened.

'I pretended to be a ghost to get a confession from Isabella.'

When donating the proceeds from the grilled chicken, I bribed a priest who turned up and disguised Leather as a fake priest.

While Leather lured Isabella to the empty building, other guild members wandered around looking for me, Gerald and the people of the family, and the priests.

Reynos and Rublet, who knew roughly what was going on, were an added bonus.

The audience was ready, and now it was my turn to set the stage.

Having put Isabella in a tight spot, I opened the labyrinth for more credible threats.

The labyrinth itself had been invisible.

... so the real world would only have seen Isabella howling alone, rolling on the ground and making a fuss.

But still-

'It's strange.'

He told me that he could take care of the trauma and labyrinth-related issues himself. True to what he said then, every time Reynos came and went, the labyrinth would open up and my body that was tapped on like a rag would gradually get better.

What this felt like was that when I was with Reynos, the evil spirits that had been beating my body, wanting me to let them out, seemed to quiet down. It was as if they were observing Reynos's condition.

"The marks on your neck... I'd like to make them go away."

Reynos, with a dark expression on his face, gently stroked my neck.

I was still sleepy and still had the marks of Isabella's hand on my neck.

Lying in bed, I squinted up at Reynos.

My body was not feeling well and I slept and slept, but I had to talk about this.

"No. I'll be angry if it's gone while I'm sleeping."

Reynos had to place his lips on the traumatized area in order to treat the trauma.

This meant that he would have to kiss my neck to remove the marks left by her hands on my neck.