I Have No Intention Of Training The Male Leads - Chapter 13 Part 5

13. The Hunting Event in May (5)

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“I don’t know what kind of assholes they are, but I’ll search them all.”

Before Alberic could even say anything more, Eve had reclaimed the reins of the horse, which she had left with an attendant, and was leaping onto it.

It was then that William and his attendants, who had only been watching the attack from the front, began to panic.

The hail of arrows dwindled to a trickle.

“Wait, my lord!”

“Lady, what the hell are you doing…!”

Eve shrugged off the men’s jeers and urged her horse to quickly gallop eastward.

She could feel the arrows scattering and the creepers retreating beyond the bushes.

The corner of Eve’s mouth twitched.

‘Look at these bastards… Are they running away?’

We entered a wooded area, but it was basically an artificially created area for hunting, so it wasn’t too hard to run on horseback.

Eve lowered her stance even further, while patting the horse’s nape as it picked up speed at her command.

“Evelyn!”

She heard the sound of hooves behind her, and William was trotting up behind her.

Eve glanced behind her with an impassive gaze, then jerked her head forward again to follow the fast-fleeing assailants.

She urged her horse as hard as she could, but the unknown raiders scurried away like cooked rats, as if they knew the terrain of the hunting grounds.

Eve, who was new to the Imperial hunting grounds, was forced to stop and retrace her steps as the terrain and layout changed in an instant.

The distance never closed, and the moment she realized it would be impossible to capture them alive, she didn’t hesitate to draw her dagger from the small leather scabbard that hung from her thigh.

With the dagger in hand atop her running horse, Eve drew back her shoulder and hurled it with a neat form.

Bam!

Eve clicked her tongue as she slowed her pace, she heard a sound of the dagger hitting hard against something.

It was pointless to follow them any further.

Eve,who gave up on trailing the thugs, halted her horse, dismounted, and searched the area for the dagger.

“What the hell, I yelled at you to stop right there…!”

“What are you doing here?”

William’s lips curled in amusement at Eve’s manner of cutting him off and asking for a reason.

He sensed the man dismount, but Eve paid him no mind, while scanning the nest of trees.

“What do you think you’re doing, going off alone, it’s dangerous!”

“Come here.”

“Hah…Yeah, err.”

“I said come here.”

With William’s nervous ramblings out of earshot, Eve stepped under the tall white pine and bent down.

As William walked up to her, his face crumpled, he realized what she was looking at.

Eve, who was picking something up off the ground, turned and showed it to William—-it was a few stiff strands of dark grayish fur.

“What do you think these are?”

“Animal fur.”

“Even in the eyes of your highness?”

It was not human hair.

It was animal fur, which was a little stiffer and coarser in texture.

“You cut a man, and you got animal fur.”

“It must be a beast native in this forest….”

“Didn’t that bright-eyed aide tell you that the only animals kept in the imperial hunting grounds are white or black-furred beasts?”

Eve opened a pocket on her breastplate and placed the fur she had picked up into it.

“Let’s go back.”

“I need to talk to you first.”

The man who had restrained her from climbing back onto her horse turned to her with a complicated expression on his face.

“That body movement from earlier. Where did you learn it?”

“…I’m not obligated to answer that.”

“……It was a practical martial art that my senior taught only to me and my classmates, and my senior told me that it was a technique she perfected by taking bits and pieces from existing martial arts to deal with special people, not ordinary people. How do you know that?”

“What?”

After ignoring the man’s words, Eve’s body stiffened as she turned away.

William didn’t stop, he slowly closed the distance between them.

The man’s voice began to tremble with a hint of bitterness.

“It’s a hunter’s custom to pick up bits and pieces when the target is out of reach. Even the smallest clue is better than nothing.”

“You–”

“Please.”

Eve turned to face the man, with her face tense.

William, who had stopped moving until he was within reach, bit his lip hard.

“…What are you implying?”

“Please, don’t pretend you don’t know.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. It can’t be–”

“Senior.”

“Oh, f—ck.”

The distance between them was gone in an instant.

He lunged towards her, his arms intertwined with hers.

He held her tightly in an embrace as if he was trying to catch his breath.

No, more like he clung to her than embraced her.

Eve could see the desperation in the man’s body language as he clung to her breathlessly.

“…Is this real?”

“Sen–senior…….”

“Don’t cry. I’m not going anywhere.”

“I missed you, I missed you……!”

A stifled sob escaped the man’s lips before he could finish his sentence.

She could feel a lukewarm sweat trickle down the back of his neck. Eve was gripped by an indescribable feeling.

“Yoo Sunho.”

“Ugh, huh……. Huhuh…….”

“Holy sh—t. How did you come to follow me here, you crazy bastard?”

‘I never thought I’d be reunited with a dead man like this.’

Eve thought.

She cautiously lifted her hand and gently stroked the man’s shivering back.

Eve felt William’s trembling body stabilize a little, after taking in the man’s desperation and inability to swallow his sobs, she raised her hands to grasp his cheeks and pull him away from her body.

“Ugh, look at the tears and the snotty nose. You’re so ugly. Stop crying and tell me what happened.”

“…I don’t know, I don’t remember.”

“Since when did you come here? Don’t you remember that either?”

“About two years ago…. I think, but I’m not sure, I just woke up and I became like this…”

“Okay.”

It was literally an unimaginable surprise.

Eve nodded and made a pained groan, she felt her head swim with the unexpected information.

“Wipe those tears out of your eyes. Let’s go back.”

“…Yes.”

“Get your emotions under control. Don’t act weird in front of people.”

“Yeah.”

“When did you start to notice?”

“I kept suspecting it, but… About 80% the last time you picked a fight.”

The two people exchanged a few words, each climbing onto their own horse.

William wiped his face with the sleeve of his shirt and rode slowly beside Eve, who seemed to have noticed his actions.

“When we get back, we’ll take care of this matter, and then we’ll meet later, when we have time. I think we have a long story to tell right now.”

“Yeah.”

“Ha… I don’t know what the hell is going on here.”

As they retraced their steps, they soon ran into William’s entourage, who had followed them.

Eve and William’s expressions turned a little strange when they told Eve that there had been no second attack since they had chased the raiders away, and that they had found a body nearby.

William turned to the man closest to him and asked in a low voice.

“What is the identity of the body?”

“Unknown. There don’t seem to be any markings to indicate his identity. For now, we’re trying to figure out how it got into the hunting grounds.”

“Is it … A man?”

“How do you know?”

After listening to the two masters talk, Eve couldn’t help but interject, and she asked the question she’d been harboring all along.

“You hunted a wolf, right?”

“…Yes, that’s right.”

The man’s attendant was taken aback by Eve’s sudden interruption, but he nodded.

Eve’s expression turned cold at his acknowledgment.

Things were taking a strange turn for the worse.

With William’s instructions, the cleanup at the scene of the crime was somehow taken care of, and when Eve was told that Alberic had been moved to the waiting area at the entrance to the hunting grounds, she parted ways with William with a quick bow.

There was a certain wistfulness in the man’s eyes as he said goodbye, but there was no way she was going to be able to soothe the Archduke’s back in a place with so many eyes on her, so she chewed on her lip and turned away.

She had to hurry back to take care of her patient, report the incident, and announce her intention to return home.

She felt the stares on her back tickle her, she then tried to recall her way back to the waiting area.

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