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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 24
Chapter Title: Chapter 7 Searching for the Corpse (4)
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"B-Bellison!"
The most surprised among them was Elajan herself. The one who emerged from behind the tree was none other than her son, Bellison.
"..."
Bellison couldn't answer Elajan's call. He simply stared with trembling eyes at Jestin's corpse lying to one side.
"You... why are you here?"
Elajan quickly rose from her spot and approached her son, beginning to press Bellison with an urgent voice.
"..."
"Bellison."
"...I did."
"What?"
Then, at Bellison's voice, slowly uttering words with a trembling tone, Elajan looked at her son with a surprised gaze once more.
"I... I killed him."
"...What are you saying right now?"
"I... I killed my brother!"
"!"
And at his subsequent words, Elajan's expression turned blank.
What is this child saying? That he killed Jestin!
"Are you... trying to cover for your mother?"
Thinking Bellison was lying to cover for her, Elajan sighed and shook her head.
"There's no need for that, Bellison. Don't make your mother, who is sorry for showing you such a pathetic side, even more sorry."
"No! Really... I really killed him!"
"..."
"That day... the day Mother tried to kill my brother, I was there too."
"!"
But as Bellison's words continued, Elajan had to look at her son with a surprised gaze once more.
"When Mother and those people knocked my brother unconscious, tied him up with a stone, and threw him into the lake... I was there too."
"Bellison."
"And after Mother left that spot..."
"..."
And at Bellison's final words that followed, a quiet silence suddenly began to flow around the lakeside.
"My brother... my brother came out alive from the lake."
"..."
"..."
At his words, that Jestin, who had been thrown into the lake, was alive.
