When the Black Moon Rises - Chapter 237
Chapter 237
The quiet and large ancestral shrine inside was very bright.
The altar table where incense should have been offered was visible, but right now there was only one Spirit Stone and two alcohol glasses above it.
White cloth and white lanterns symbolizing the Baek Clan, and also red cloth and red lanterns symbolizing the Ju Clan were full there.
She, looking around with a dumbfounded face, asked,
“What’s all this?”
“…….”
“?”
As he didn’t answer and she looked back, he had a bit of a sorry face.
“What’s wrong?”
“……You’re not angry?”
Realizing that it was the same question as when they went up to the altar, she laughed.
“I told you I wouldn’t be.”
“You can be.”
“No. Why would I do what you told me to do just because you want me to?”
While she had said it as a joke, his eyes sank a little.
Seeing that appearance, she quickly approached him and held his hands.
“I’m not angry because I know why you did that. I’m not angry.”
Since even before hearing from the three sisters, she had been thinking that there would be a reason.
After hearing from the sisters what Baek Giha’s intentions had been, and why he had forced this ceremony, she couldn’t be angry even more.
Because she really would have been like that.
Even if those around her were noisy saying that the one with the Red Dragon’s Spirit Orb had to get on the Mystic Ruler's seat.
Even if they tried to make her, who had revealed the original form of the first Red Dragon, the Clan Head,
As long as her father was there and the other older Clan Heads were there, she wouldn’t have gotten on the seat of Ju Clan Head, or the Mystic Ruler’s seat.
Because she couldn’t like the rule itself of getting on the highest seat by the size of Spiritual Power.
“……I also didn’t want to forcefully make you get on that seat.”
Baek Giha whispered, carefully locking her small body in his arms.
Body temperatures touched with the red cloth between them.
“That seat is too high, far,”
Each other’s heartbeats mixed through where their skin touched.
He breathed calmly into Sehwa’s shoulder, and continued his words.
“And so it’s a seat that might not be reachable even if I run with all my strength and hold my hand out.”
His tender voice warmly caressed her ears.
“But.”
Soft breath passed the red cloth and reached her cheek.
“Because you shine so much. Because the one who suits that necessary seat is only you. So I couldn’t help it.”
“Because I am the Red Dragon?”
“No.”
“Then, because I can change into the Sacred Water that people talk about?”
“No. Because you will never unjustly abandon anyone like what you went through.”
Baek Giha’s strong arms embraced her body a bit more forcefully.
“Even I sometimes think like that. That there’s no perfectly fair law in the world. That if it’s the one above, they sometimes have to accept even unjustly treating someone for a great cause, for more people.”
“…….”
Her fingertips slightly caressed his strong arms surrounding her body.
“But that fact was never natural for you. You tried not to make anyone go through what you did.”
That the seat given to her was a seat where such a person should sit.
While he felt sad that you were not just his,
While he felt worried that you would eventually go to a place that his hand wouldn't reach like that,
He still couldn’t help it.
Listening to the low voice confessing like that, she asked,
“So, you prepared this?”
This prepared inside the ancestral shrine was a wedding ceremony.
“Even if it was a necessary task, since I ruined our important ceremony.”
“When did you prepare it? I didn’t see anyone coming and going.”
“I did.”
“You did it yourself?”
He wove the white lanterns and red lanterns himself and hung the curtains himself?
He held the hands of Sehwa who was surprised and led her in front of the altar table.
He made her stand on one side, and he stood next to that.
“I’ve already done the oath with the Baek Clan’s sacred object. So it had to be the ancestral shrine. Because an oath done in the ancestral shrine can never be broken.”
Baek Giha, looking at her warmly, put one alcohol glass prepared beforehand in her hand.
He added while blocking the hand trying to lift the red cloth covering his face.
“Don't drink this, just wet your lips.”
“The wedding wine?”
“Yes. Wet only your lips and give it to me, and I will drink it.”
She was about to ask why, but she just nodded her head, remembering that today had been full of strange things.
Watching the red cloth shake a bit at that movement, Baek Giha quietly lifted the alcohol glass and drank it.
The alcohol glass that she had lightly touched her lips above the red cloth was also received and drank by him.
Her hand and his slowly reached the Spirit Stone.
He lifted his gaze to the front and opened his mouth toward the existences of numerous ancestors.
“The seventh day of the first month of the year Myeongshin. A lacking descendant of the Baek family stands in this place to prove the direction of his life and the weight of his heart under the auspices of the heavens and ancestors.”
Sehwa’s eyebrows rose up slightly there.
‘Why is he saying different things from the oath again? Weren’t you going to do the binding?’
“I, a descendant of Yuksan of the Baek Clan, Giha, accept Sehwa, daughter of Yeonghwi of the Ju Clan, as my partner, and will never block her path, at any time. Even if that brings the result of perishing with her.”
“!”
She blinked her eyes at the incomprehensible oath, and turned her gaze that had been watching the front and looked at him.
His large hand gripped her hand forcefully above the Spirit Stone.
“I will always give assurance to her who will repeat many worries on the Mystic Ruler’s seat, whether she’s going on the right path right now. That your decision is always right. Even if the framework of the Mystic Realm becomes disordered due to those decisions.”
“…….”
His calm gaze also touched her quietly.
“Whatever you do, even if anyone criticizes that deed, I will always protect you from all of their hands. So that you may not get hurt at all, at any time.”
“…….”
“I will walk the long road with you without fear in that place where you hesitate, even if this woman becomes a tyrant. Forever.”
“…….”
“I will not spare my whole heart and devotion throughout my life so that you do not regret your engagement with me.”
“…….”
“So I’m confessing clearly this oath before the heavens and ancestors. If you would, I wish for all these pledges to last and be carved in heaven and earth so that they may be protected.”
“…….”
Somehow inside her chest, or perhaps near her throat, felt stuffy.
Even her fingertips trembled a little at this strange oath.
When she was biting her lips inside the red cloth, Baek Giha’s hand that had fallen from the Spirit Stone slowly approached and lifted the red cloth.
It had been fine when it had been covered by the cloth, but the moment she saw his two soft eyes, her eyes got wet for an unknown reason.
“That……”
She, whose expression could not be hidden anymore, complained with wet eyes revealed.
“What kind of foolish oath is all that? If… if I happen to disorder the framework of the Mystic Realm, you should be stopping me.”
He, who laughed a bit, shook his head.
Watching her two reddish-purple eyes, he whispered,
“I told you back then. That I would let you do whatever, whatever you wanted to do.”
“Whatever it is. You don’t have to persuade me. Do everything you want to do.”
“If you happen to walk the wrong road, someone would come to break us anyway. But even at that time, don’t worry. Because I will protect you.”
Baek Giha's lips landed on her forehead.
He left a hot mark on the white forehead, and shared his body temperature even on both her cheeks and the tip of her nose.
“I’ll always protect you even from Madam Jang’s and Father-in-law’s scoldings.”
She laughed a little while shedding tears.
It’s strange.
Why did this man.
How did he always tell the words she wanted to hear?
Those words of supporting her even if she became a tyrant, rather than saying that he would protect her to go on the right path.
Those words of how he would be together with her whatever road she walked, did he perhaps anticipate beforehand that they would make her this relieved?
Her face got wet even more fiercely.
He, who was flustered, asked,
“Wh, why are you crying. ……Did you not like this kind of wedding oath?”
What should she do with this foolish man who was asking this kind of thing even at this moment.
She embraced his neck.
She pulled him close to herself and, like he had done, she pressed her lips against his forehead, both his cheeks, and the tip of his nose.
Her tears were on his cheeks too.
While she knew that he was flustered, these tears didn’t stop easily.
“I also will love you like that.”
She whispered in a wet voice like her cheeks.
“Whatever you do. Like that. Like that.”
At those words, he, realizing that she didn’t hate the oath, relievedly loosened his expression that had been tense.
That emotion was so clear that her heart was stuffy.
“Don’t say things like how your fingertips can’t reach.”
Her voice didn’t come out properly as though her throat was being strangled.
“If I went to a high place.”
“…….”
“That’s because you lifted me all the way there.”
Everything was possible because of you.
I always wanted to say these words.
Because you came to me who had given up on everything. So I could come all the way here.
While she wanted to tell him many things. As if she had become a fool, she couldn’t properly think of what words she had to say.
As if knowing that heart, he organized the words she wanted to say in one sentence.
“I know your heart.”
His warm hands came and wiped her wet face.
“Me too.”
Warm voice flowed from between his lips, pressing his forehead on hers.
“I’m happy because of you.”
She thought.
All that time when she had to walk long and rough roads would have been for today.
That if so, she could understand everything.
Of course she could understand.
His lips came to her lips that were wet from tears.
It wasn’t even their first kiss, but why was her heart trembling more than the first time?
Lips touched.
At that moment, all sounds and scenery disappeared, and only the heartbeats of the man in front of her eyes seemed to be left.
She had a premonition.
That the road she would walk with this man from now on would only be happy.
Inside this small wedding hall where white lanterns and red lanterns were mixed, everything that she wanted was there.
She closed her eyes, satisfied by that.
She gladly welcomed the hot breath flowing in between the gaps where their lips met.
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