Translator: Jade
Editors: Cheonsa & Pigeon
Chapter 73
My body was forced down onto the lower deck. Rhine approached my direction, and I immediately lowered my head, just in case he could see through my disguises.
I had an urge to turn towards the guy who was forcefully pinning me down with both of his hands for a confrontation. But I swallowed my words and resisted the urge. I was certain that this person was Agares by those pair of eyes that would never admit their wrong even if they burned to ashes. I didn’t know why Agares was doing this, but it was certain that he had his own reasons. If I were to panic now… It would probably reveal his identity. But then again, he should’ve at least said something—it all happened so suddenly that it caught me off guard!
My mind was thrown into a small turmoil. Then my gaze fell onto Rhine’s nearing leather boots projected by the floor’s deck, and my nerves became racked by the cold sound of his approaching footsteps.
“Who are you? What were you doing sneaking up there?” Rhine stopped walking and stood about one metre away from me.
“Looking… Looking for the toilet.” I deliberately suppressed my voice to a lower octave, even going as far as to speak in English. I didn’t know if he’d find my voice familiar, but I prayed that he wouldn’t think that it was.
“Lift your head.”
My breathing hitched and my heart dropped, but then the hands clamping my two wrists to my back suddenly tightened. It was perhaps some sort of a hint, but I couldn’t make out the meaning. I knew I couldn’t keep my head down forever. The base of my neck felt greatly rusted, feeling very rigid. I slowly lifted my chin with great difficulty, feeling every nerve in my face twitching from the tension. But then inspiration struck, and I quickly made myself appear to be a drunkard by lazily tilting my head to look at him while giving a tipsy giggle. “Hey, don’t be so nervous. I need to take a leak, that’s why I’m looking for a toilet. …”
His eyes centered onto my face. His gaze was so sharp that it could pierce through my sunglasses and make my confidence on my disguise falter. I could only hope that his ability to recognize people wasn’t like an FBI agent’s. Fortunately, to my relief, he didn’t show any sign of recognition after seeing my drunken act, and merely looked at me vigilantly like I was a thief, “I seem to have never seen you before. Are you Kolov’s or Licciardi’s henchmen?”
“Huh, what are you talking about?” I said, swaying my head, before lowering it down again. “Tsk… Oh, God, I’m gonna pee! You guys don’t mind if I go empty myself here on the deck, right?”
“Is there anyone here that recognizes this fellow?” Rhine called out loudly. Soon, what followed were sounds of people gathering onto the deck and so I could only summon up my courage and continue this act by leaning unsteadily against Agares’s figure with my body swaying from side to side. I had a sudden thought that if this were a movie, I could perhaps win an award, but unfortunately, it seemed that I had only put myself in a predicament and couldn’t get off the stage. In the background, there was also a male lead who was clearly not cooperatinging with me at all.
This certainly made it super bad.
There was nobody in the crowd that responded to Rhine. It was obvious that Kolov couldn’t even recognize my current appearance.
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Just as I was lost in my thoughts, the cabin door opened with a click and I lifted my head timidly. The second the figure entered the room, goosebumps ran all over my body, but in the next moment, I became stunned once again. The person who came in the room was Rhine, but following behind him was another person——Agares, who was disguising himself as a human adult. He looked like a loyal thug or, rather, an entourage, with a blank face on his lowered head. But the metal items he held in his hands could make anyone shudder with fear. Those items looked like torture instruments from what Nazis would use when they were interrogating their captives; there were pliers, a pair of scissors, a barbed brush and something that looked similar to a ladle for digging someone’s eye out. Looking at all these items made me shudder. I definitely did not want any of these small items to make any pits or holes in my body, my God!
I casted a pleading look with my eyes at Agares’s unfamiliar face, but his eyes were hidden within the shadows of his shades and did not make any eye contact with me whatsoever. He was like a walking corpse being controlled by a Taoist priest. In an instant, panic rose and a sense of impending danger clogged my throat, like if a centipede was making its way up my heart to inject its venom. Perhaps, this person really wasn’t Agares? No, I don’t think I’m wrong. Could it be that he was being controlled? But what kind of force could control this highly intelligent extraterrestrial creature?
My thoughts sped through my brain chaotically, and my breaths laboured. Rhine’s shadow loomed over me, and the shadow of his coat engulfed with the unpleasant scent of tobacco and alcohol, blocked all the light. “So my friend, you sobered up enough, right?”
Rhine spoke in a low, cold tone. My hair was then grabbed roughly, forcing my entire head to look up, while my neck was choked by his other hand. In the next moment, my body was knocked against the wall. The sudden movement made me cough from the impact. Next thing I knew, my face suddenly felt light as the sunglasses slipped from the bridge of my nose. Immediately, I cast my face to the side in fright, but it was too late. I could feel his coarse, large hands that were choking me become rigid before he loosened it with a tremble. He then caressed my cheek, forcing my head over so I could face him directly.
“You are… Desharow?” Under the cold, white light, Rhine’s pupils dilated so wide from the shock that his pupils almost filled his entire eyes, full of disbelief. Every line on his face was twitching with excitement, and his alcohol and tobacco riddled hot breath exhaled onto my face. “My God, just how are you here…” He muttered, his lips curled with a sneer. “Is it because you missed me, my darling…”
“Don’t be disgusting!” I resisted the urge to vomit and pressed my head against the wall as an attempt to get rid of his finger. Yet unavoidably, as his hands went to mingle with my collar, he roughly broke some of the buttons. So, my lapel was split wide open before his eyes. I could sense Rhine’s scorching gaze on my body, making my goosebumps rise all over. Instinctively, I looked towards Agares, but my view was blocked off completely by Rhine, and there weren’t any movements in protest from the other side either. Agares’s silence made me feel more anxious than being confronted by Rhine. I knew it would be wiser/better for me to find a way to get rid of Rhine myself, but another stronger thought made me clench my fist and not move an inch. I wanted to see when Agares would finally give a reaction. I just wanted to know what’s wrong with him.
At least move a little, Agares. What exactly is the matter with you?
“What are you thinking about, my adorable student? Right now, I seriously suspect I’m having a beautiful dream, for you so happened to drop into my hands once again, my little moth…” Rhine lowered his head and closed in on my lips, staring into my eyes almost obsessively. I forced myself not to struggle, but my mind was like a ball of thread hanging by the edge of a cliff on the verge of snapping. All my senses to hear was focused on where Agares was.
Suddenly, I actually heard a noise. In an instant, murderous intent came toward us. I saw that before Rhine could even turn around to react, a pale hand reached out from behind him, and like a poisonous spider attacking his face, fingers nearly dug into his eye sockets. The veins protruding out from Agares’s hand looked like it was full of faint, blue electric current shining through his almost transparent skin. At the same time, I heard a sizzling sound like a wire cackling. It was coming from where Agares’s palm met the skin of Rhine’s face.
In shock, I stared at Rhine as his body jerked and shuddered like he had gotten electrocuted. Almost immediately, his body slumped down but was being held up by his collar by Agares. After that, his unfamiliar face looked down at the already paraylzed Rhine, and from his mouth, a familiar low voice sounded. “Where are the things now located at? The blue stone that you guys fished out from the bottom of the sea, I need to know exactly where they are located.”
“It’s… On the plane that’s heading for Hiroshima. It’ll reach the port of Hiroshima after three days.” Rhine’s eyes drifted in and out of focus, and as he stared at the ceiling, his hands and feet kept twitching. It was obvious he had no idea of what he was saying, and was just instinctively spitting out the information that he already knew.
I seem to be somewhat aware of the reasons for Agares’s course of actions, but what came after wasn’t relief and enlightenment. Rather, a huge surge of pain and fury—like a bottle of spoilt blackcurrant wine blocking up my throat and making my internal organs feel like they were burning. The pain was hot and fermenting, turning even my breath acidic.
“So was this your grand plan on a whim, Lord Chief?” I swallowed, my gaze staring daggers at Agares’s unfamiliar face. With a mocking laugh, I continued, “Using me as a bait, to control this guy? What an excellent plan.”
“He had undergone special training, his mentality is very strong. I could’ve only done it when his guard was at its lowest. I didn’t tell you in fear that you would reveal our cover by a flaw, Desharow.”
Agares grabbed onto Rhine’s collar, dragged his entire body with ease, and tossed him like a rag onto the wall. After picking up the key that fell from Rhine, Agares walked towards me to help me uncuff my restraints. Once my hands were free, I immediately grabbed onto Agares’s collar and threw the shades he was wearing onto the floor. At this moment, I was staring at the only medium that allowed me to feel the soul hidden under the body, so that I could capture what I wanted from inside.
His eyes drooped, concealing his emotions, “I won’t let that guy touch a finger on your body.”
He grabbed my wrist, and pressed his lips onto the joints of my fingers as usual, before using his tongue to lick the injuries caused by the handcuffs. Yet his unfamiliar face left me feeling conflicted. Like it was some sort of catalyst urging my emotions that were repressed for two days to rush forth into my head Instinctively, I pulled back my hand and asked in a low voice, “Tell me Agares, did you originally plan on abandoning me and leave without looking back, or have you already planned this for a while and waited for me to look for you so that it could be implemented?”
After saying this sentence, I inhaled deeply, and leaned back against a wall, putting some distance between us as I stared at him.
God knows that I really didn’t want it to be the latter, because I had enough of being used. My whole life, I had been struggling in a conspiracy web, being measured by everyone and anyone, and was trapped in all sorts of lies and deceit. When I look back at all the faces of people that I had trusted, I found that they had become indistinguishable, like masked people during Venice’s balls. Whatever lies they whispered behind their backs, whatever sweet candy they held in their hands, whatever they did to move people’s hearts with their pleading, were all things I dared not to touch, listen to, or even comprehend anymore.
I always made sure I kept a safe distance from other people, including those on the Posiedon.
I admit that right now, I am having trouble trusting anyone, and that Agares was the only last fortress that I could depend on. But now, the fortress standing in front of me was starting to fade. I was enveloped with a sense of uncertainty—like, behind me was an abyss that, if I were to step into it, my whole body would fall into it and be shattered into pieces.
His pitch-black eyes locked onto me, “No, I didn’t know that you’d come.”
“Then your reaction was really fast.” I also didn’t know what had gotten into me and had bit back sarcastically.
“It’s the truth.”
Agares muttered to himself softly, seemingly irritated by my attitude. Furrowing his eyebrows, he came forward, his cold hands that were almost like the temperature of seawater grabbed my arms firmly, restraining me. I clenched my fist and attempted to break free away from him, but his arm that went behind my back tightened around my waist, using his beastly strength to bring me closer to his chest.
He grabbed my jaw with his other hand, making me incapable of moving my neck before he lowered his head to kiss me forcefully.
“Ngh!”
Just die, you stupid asshole!
I stubbornly resisted his advances and raised my knee against his stomach, but he was a step further as he grabbed both my legs, and by using his strong arms to make me weightless while making use of his waist to squeeze in between. In an instant, I lost my center of gravity and had to no other choice but to lean against the wall, with him supporting me by my butt, and my hips knocking into his lower body from above—
That place was clearly hard already.
“Fuck, you scoundrel, always thinking of doing it as soon as you see me!” I scolded. Using my elbow to firmly push his shoulder so that I could move my butt a little further from that danger zone, but I couldn’t help but be surprised when my eyes landed on his face. The muscles on that unfamiliar male face shifted slightly like waves, and his entire facial appearances seem to be shifting. The features that I was most familiar with were struggling to penetrate from the bottom skin. It was like two different faces were trying to rip each other apart under one skin. This strange, unusual occurrence could be described as horrifying, making me dumbfounded.
“It’s starting to be unstable again, Desharow… I shouldn’t have touched you.”
Agares squinted his eyes, practically saying it through gritted teeth. He faintly lifted his head, looking as though he was in severe distress. Small veins spread from his ear to his cheek, even the whites of his eyes began to grow, and the blue veins sticking out from his neck looked like they were on the verge of bursting. His silver hair grew out from his head and replaced the blonde hair, almost like germinating plants. I don’t know if this process hurt or not, but my heart also felt like it was being pricked by the same tiny little hair strands, feeling difficult to bear.
I reached out, thinking of touching his head, but he captured my wrist and pushed my entire being away, while he was shaking so much as he knelt on the ground, his fingers spreading across his thigh, scratching at his trousers, resisting from tearing it apart.
I eyed him nervously, worried that his fish tail might suddenly come back.
Fortunately, Agares’s body seemed to stabilize again because he was far away from me. He breathed in shallow pants, and leaned against the wall beside me, using the silence to build an invisible wall between us.
“So the reason why… is because when you see me, you can’t hold back your sexual desire, and so you feared that I would cause you to reveal your identity, right?” I couldn’t help but break this frozen atmosphere. There was nothing for him to say when I placed this reason on him. I stuffed my hands into my pocket and spat out. “Sorry. I caused trouble for you. I should get back to my own ship, and be as far from you as possible. Only when the leader can do me again, then shall I appear.”
I lightly spat out these last few words and stalked towards the only sliding window located in the cabin. Pushing it open, I had only stuck one leg out before a powerful force pulled me back in. Pale white arms held onto me tightly, with silver strands of hair rolling down from my shoulder. Feeling his lips against my neck, he said with a low hoarse voice, “Don’t go.”
TBC
Woooo, long time no see guys :’> I heard from Cheonsa that some parts in the world, Google and Youtube was down, hope it’s all good now! (Btw why is python hard, pls i wanna d-word from sch)
Thanks for reading <3
thanks for the chapter<3
That gif had me laughing so hard.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
Guh that gif is me agains Rhine too 🍳 —- Thanks for the update 🐉
Thank you so much for the update:)
By the way i cant find the raw chapter because it said it either banned or stolen..can you give a link..i really want to read the raw chapter..
rhine rhymes with slime kinda
The gif reminds me of the metal bucket that was thrown at Rhine’s head by Agares.
I somehow lost interest in reading, it’s feels like the story plot shift from different story in this arc. Although I’m happy that Agares and Desharow’s relationship is getting better.
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Whoop my previous theories were all wrong haha, i jist didnt really expect Agares to even be willing to have Rhine touch MC, but i guess he made a impromptu plan
What on earth was that gift? 🤣🤣
*gif??