How to Run Away from Obsessed Men

Chapter 10

‘What are you doing?’

Raysis let Lindsey grab his hand. He knew she couldn’t harm him in any way.

He was just curious about what she was up to.

After Lindsey didn’t make any move for a while, he tried to pull his hand away.

“Don’t let go of this hand....”

Raysis couldn’t finish his sentence. Lindsey gave him a seductive smile.

And in that moment.

A very faint power was felt. It was a strange power that Raysis had never felt before. He forgot to breathe. The weak power seemed to shake his soul.

“What, what the...?”

Raysis looked at Lindsey.

His pupils were trembling incessantly. Lindsey stiffened her smiling face. She brought her lips close to Raysis’s ear.

A sweet voice that seemed to melt into his ear was heard.

“Do you believe me now? That I awakened my sacred power.”

Lindsey passed by the bewildered Raysis. When Raysis regained his senses and turned around, Lindsey had already disappeared.

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Lindsey arrived at her room.

The time Lindsey spent guiding Raysis was very short. She only used the minimum guiding ability. But even with that, Raysis should realize that she awakened her sacred power.

‘Maybe he can notice that I’m different from other clerics.’

Lindsey glanced around her room. The room, which seemed to have not been cleaned for months, was pitifully shabby.@@@@

Nothing had changed.

Even though twenty years had passed, it seemed like time had stood still here.

‘It’s inevitable. I was the only one who went there.’

Lindsey momentarily questioned whether her life in Korea with Han Ji-yoo was real.

Was it not an illusion created by her loneliness?

Wasn’t the fantasy she created dying in front of the Radian Marquisate’s castle?

There were transcendents who awakened at the brink of death.

In fact, her guiding ability might have been obtained by awakening.

Lindsey shook her head vigorously.

‘No, my life with Han Ji-yoo was real.’

The people who were so kind to the point of bringing tears to her eyes.

The espers who believed in her and fought alongside her. It couldn’t all be false.

Lindsey searched under her bed. Eventually, she found the secret compartment she had created.

She carefully opened the space. There was a box placed there. When she opened the box, the first thing she saw was a small note.

It was the note she had written before leaving Kesion Marquisate.

-I will never come back here.

Unfortunately, her pledge was not kept. She had walked into this dreadful mansion herself.

-Erasing my name from the family registry and becoming free... Finding a way back to Korea.

The money needed to seek asylum in another country. The power to find a way back. And most importantly, freedom.

All of that existed in Kesion Marquisate.

‘After erasing my name from the registry and freeing myself from the Kesion Marquisate’s slavery, I will return to Korea. Definitely...’

After that, she would never return here, just as she had written in this note.

Even when dealing with others, it would be warmer than this. Raysis found it hard to believe what he had heard.

“What did you say?”

“Was I wrong?”

Lindsey tilted her head, looking at him.

If he had worried about her when he considered her family, he would have understood. But now they were nothing to each other.

Didn’t Raysis once tell her that he had expected something from her?

“I was wrong to expect anything from you.”

“I don’t have anything more to say to you.”

Lindsey said, looking straight at him.

“We’re not on speaking terms like this.”

Raysis couldn’t reply.

In fact, since meeting Lindsey again, he had been struggling with confusion.

After being disappointed in Lindsey, he had decided not to care about her. In fact, since then, he had almost never seen Lindsey.

And yet...

He couldn’t understand why he was concerned about her.

‘But I am concerned.’

He admitted his state.

Lindsey Kesion was bothering him. His face became pale.

‘Did Lindsey Kesion really do it?’

Did Lindsey really take his mother’s memento?

Raysis’s heart began to beat faster. Just thinking about building a home made his chest ache.

He hadn’t properly listened to Lindsey’s words. The sense of loss at that time was too great.

But if what Lindsey said wasn’t true...

No, it wasn’t true.

There was no way. All the evidence and witnesses were saying that Lindsey was the culprit.

He couldn’t possibly think that she wasn’t the thief who stole the memento just because of Lindsey’s words alone.

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became. Raysis tried to control his emotions with a stern face.

‘It was just to confirm the fact that she’s a priestess...’

Raysis tried to find his calmness. Haven’t his teachers always emphasized that he shouldn’t be swayed by sudden emotions?

There was an ideology emphasized in Kesion Marquisate. A calmness that doesn’t succumb to the power of the goddess. He had to maintain his composure.

Realizing his own insignificance, Raysis stiffened his face.

He spoke to Lindsey.

“I guess you don’t even have the courage to open the door, do you?”

After regaining his composure, he felt doubtful. Lindsey was afraid of her father... and yet she dared to walk in by herself?

Lindsey laughed at Raysis’s words.

“No courage?”

“You’re afraid of your father. Especially after rumors spread that you might be incompetent.”

“....”

“I don’t know what you’re thinking, but... for now, go back to your room. I’ll talk to my father...”

Before Raysis could finish his sentence, Lindsey immediately opened the door.

And she spoke in a sharp tone.

“You know nothing about me.”