Chapter 20
(WARNING!! Thoughts of Death and Despair)
Why does she always have to run? What did I do wrong? I just wanted to stop living in hiding now.
‘Really, I want to end it all.’
Her breath broke white smoke into the air. Ariste could hardly take her eyes off the man’s gun as if possessed.
If he aims at me with that, and if he pulls the trigger…
Suddenly, her vision changed. Now, what was filled in front of her was a man with glowing red eyes.
He was sitting on one knee in front of her in a half-bent position, looking at her. On one side of his face, more and more blood seems to seep out of his red pupils.
Beautiful.
That was the only thought off when he saw the man for the first time. Hair shining silver in the cold winter breeze. His eyes were redder than blood, his pale skin that seemed to be made by melting ice, yet retained the strength…even the blood covering him could not cover his beauty. He was like a monster born in the snow and possessed people.
…
“The monster has a beautiful appearance. He looks like a woman to a man, and a man to a woman. And the human being possessed by that monster will be lost in the deep snow.
“You will be buried in it and die.”
Then her father added: “So even though they died from freezing, they said they retained a smile.”
When she was a child, her father had made up all sorts of scary stories so that her daughter would never go into the woods alone and put herself in danger.

The same monster that lives in the deep winter forest, possesses a lost person, freezes it, kills it, and eats it. The monster, filled with cold from head to toe, hugs the lost person, slowly makes it freezed, and then chews and swallows until now bones were even left.
And this man seems to come out from that story… The monster in that story is like this…
‘Am I seeing it now?’ Maybe death has come before her. As long as she saw something that’s not human; ‘Am I going to be eaten by this monster?’ It wouldn’t be as bad as she thought.
The man raised his hand and wiped the blood off his cheek. The long smear made the man look more cruel.
She thought it was the wolf’s blood, but the next moment, she remembered the strong wind blowing from the front. The wolf’s blood cannot scatter that far…
Then whose blood is it?
Ariste suddenly opened her eyes wide. The fog in her head, which had been hazy as if it was a sleet, was cleared at once.
This winter, the only person who could wander through the woods with a gun was a hunter who hunted winter beasts. However, this is the Snowy Forest. It was the winter hunting ground of Duke Icanus. Anyone who can walk freely and confidently in this forest with a gun could only be…
The man’s red eyes stared at her silently, as if watching the sunset in the far sky, it was an indifferent yet sentimental gaze. However, when Ariste made eye contact with him, her breath grew even harsher. Even when she made eye contact with the wolf, she didn’t feel like this at all.
Those eyes…those eyes…
It’s not human. She didn’t know but for some reason she thought that way. This situation didn’t make any sense.
“Anyone who enters the forest can’t come out alive.”
“Everyone will become hunting trophies and will be displayed at the Duke’s Castle.”

The noises from the villagers came to life at once. A crackling sound rang as her jaw rattled. Her hands and feet buried in the snow cooled much faster.
“The Duke…” She slightly muttered with her mouth.
As if listening to her, the man’s mouth lifted up into a smile. “I’m not the Duke.”
He was laughing.
“Shall I let you meet the Duke?”
The man surprisingly didn’t turn into a bad mood. He also seemed to be exhilarating like a beast looking at his prey for the first time in his life. Neither he nor Ariste could take their eyes off each other. However, the look at the other person was very different.
‘Please save me’, was what she wanted to say. But the moment she opened her mouth.
Click.
The muzzle was pushed inside her red lips.

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