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Before dinner that evening, the head of Bertium in Huang and the people from
Fedelian in Qing arrived at the castle.
Noel Bertium was stuck in a room without greeting and could not see his face.
In Fedelian, head Lichelle and his daughter, Sylvia, who became adults this year
were present.
This meant that all the major characters of the novel were gathered in one place
except Orca, the beast of the white.
I wasn't surprised because I already heard the news that Sylvia was attending this
meeting.
Is she finally the appearance of a female protagonist?
I went with Rand to see the Fedelian chief Lischel.
When I just got to the first floor, I noticed someone disappearing down the stairs
on the other side. Like an afterimage, the long hair left in my view was obviously
a silver color resembling that of someone I know.
“You're here, Richell Fedeliyan.”
Land's voice ringing in her ears, I lowered my head.
Land's greeting was not a greeting, but rather sarcastic.
Last year, he approached Richell first and spoke to her like this. The reason was,
of course, not because I was happy with the person in front of me.
“Land Agriche.”
A middle-aged man with a solid, heavy rocky feel turned to us.
He also said he couldn't deceive blood, his face resembled Cassis Fe Deli's eye.
However, if Cassis was delicately drawn with a thin brush, the Richelle side felt
like a bolder drawing with a thicker brush.
The inside of the chilly wall, which has a different color from Cassis, first
reached Land Agriche.
“I see the chief of Qing.”
After that, Lischel's glance touched her greeted me briefly and was nailed back to
Land.
Seeing that Sylvia's figure was not visible, it seemed that she was the one who had
disappeared up the stairs a while ago.
Like her last year, Richell stared at Land with her eyes so cold that her hair was
screaming.
People who walked to share her greetings with Lischel stopped feeling the
atmosphere flowing between the two.
Some of them had an expression of "It's starting again."
Land, like her last year, tweaked her mouth, first struggling with Richell.
“I still have a face I want to grind.”
“If you hit with the face you want to give each other, would you do it? I want to
tell you to look in the mirror.”
Surprisingly, Lischel was also attacking Land with a cool voice.
If Land is fire, Richell is water; if Land is boiling lava, Richell is close to the
cold frozen deep sea.
Rand, who had crumpled her face at her Richell's words, again pulled up the tail of
her mouth and picked up her words.
“So it turns out that your daughter also came with me this time, right? In the
meantime, you only went around inside the Fedelian and why did you bring it out
this time?”
It's really bad taste.
The meaning of Landt's words was so clear.
He has been mocking Lischel, who has been specially guarding her daughter Sylvia in
Fedelis since Cassis' work.
Even last year, he did a sloppy thing to Lischel Fedelian asking how he was to
Cassis.
Probably, not only at the reconciliation meeting, but also at the meetings of the
heads separately, it is clear that they always talked about Cassis in this way and
angered Lischel.
Land was the one who had kidnapped Cassis, and I knew that Cassis was dead at my
hand. Nevertheless, he deserved to say that to Lissell that she was indeed a bad
taste.
Of course Cassis was still alive, contrary to Landt's idea, but that doesn't mean
that Lischel's anger is lessened.
It was true that Landt tried to kill his son, and Richell will never forget it for
the rest of her life.
I stepped forward, feeling the sharply frozen air that made my skin aching.
“Then, it turns out that the nobleman of Qing did not come together this year.”
As she smiled and said, a glass-like transparent and cold wall slid at me. At the
same time, a lowly bliss came from Land, who was next to her.
“… … I think I'll be late because I'm busy with other public affairs.”
Lyschel, who quietly looked down at me with unknown eyes inside her, finally broke
a short silence and she replied.
Landt laughed at him and groaned.
“Don’t you say so last year? Come to think of it, it's been three years since I saw
your son's handsome face. I'm curious how many years it's such a great public
affair that it doesn't look like a peep.”
But instead of responding to Rant's resentment, Richelle just looked down at me
without a second.
I looked up at Lichelle with her smile and took her step back behind her.
"Ok. You're just late, so you'll have to wait with anticipation for the rest of the
time.”
“Yes, I'm looking forward to it. I hope I can meet your precious son again during
this reconciliation meeting.”
Landt laughed and sympathized with me.
He and I first left, leaving Lichelle Fedeliyan behind.
“Fool. How can I bring a man who has no flesh left after he died, and he is still
bragging about it.”
“But it’s fun to be struggling.”
“That's right.”
As if he was reminiscing about what was a while ago, Land suddenly laughed with his
eyes.
I also smiled as if I was happy next to Land.
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As expected, Landt went straight to the building where he was going to meet Noel
Bertium.
But Noel was heading to the banquet hall earlier.
Of course, Roxana knew it, but didn't tell Landt.
Roxana took a step after checking their position through the butterfly.
Hot!
It was at that moment when a strong force snatched her arm.
Roxana realized who she was hiding her body in the dark and she did not shake her
hand.
Her rough force, pulling her arm, pushed her behind her this time. On her back
touched a hard wall with a cold flowing behind her.
At the same time, a body with a cool energy approached her.
“… … what? It’s too harsh for a greeting.”
Even in the sudden situation, Roxana did not show a point of agitation.
She gazed coldly at her face, with her unbridled pupils in front of her eyes.
Red eyes, with a temperature similar to that of that gaze, looked down like a
piercing Roxana.
The light flickered in my sight. It was a light leaking out of the banquet hall.
As I was almost facing the terrace on the first floor, I could hear the sound of
music and gossiping voices from the inside.
“Cassis Fedelian came back to Yangji.”
Deon's face, stained with light, was frozen cold.
He had just arrived in Yggdrasil, and his outfit was not a tailcoat.
Roxana glanced at the faint blood scent on the tip of her nose.
Then I saw Theon's left arm, half-covered by her cloak, stained red. Perhaps she
hurt her while taking care of her work that she entrusted to her.
However, she did not feel any inspiration for Roxana.
"Is it nice to see your face after a long time?"
Rather, it was this way that caught her interest.
She wasn't even aware that Cassis was alive, and she was so emotional.
Roxana's lips moved slowly, so she finally drew a small line.
“Why are you asking, knowing so well?”
Even in her drowsy eyes, her laugh was young. The air surrounding Deon became
sharper with a smile that rose like a flower bud.
“… … I want to kill you sometimes.”
Unlike his characteristic cold and monotonous voice, the emotions stuck in his eyes
were much more intense and fierce than that.
That way.
It was then that I could hear someone's footsteps from the side.
“I didn't know there would be anyone who didn't even know the purpose of the
reconciliation meeting.”
A quiet voice pierced the eardrum across the cold night air.
At the same time, a strong grip penetrated the wrist of Deon, who was holding
Roxana's arm.
Roxana cut her gaze facing her Deon and turned her head.
I could see the silver hair smeared by her light scattering finely in the air. The
shaded eyes had a more intense glow than in her memory.
Her straight gaze was standing in front of Roxana threateningly, looking straight
at her Deon.
“Is it only Agriche's personnel to scare the other person in that way?”
It was Cassis Fedelian who appeared in sight.
She said she didn't feel like this until she got close. She couldn't be.
Deon's body, who was forcibly removed by Cassis, rose to life. However, it did not
happen once in the person who was hitting it head-on.
Cassis, undressing her boy's shirt, grew surprisingly in many ways. At this moment,
the pressure that flowed out of him was as great as the deon, which was about to
choke him.
Looking at this, it was clear that neither Land Agriche nor Cassis Fedelian could
be suspected of being a fake.
Of course, there will be no other talk of Land with Cassis at this conference. It
was impossible to meet Noel, the head of Bertium, as he wished.
Because Roxana would have made it that way.
“Theon.”
Finally, Roxana's lips were small and sweet.
Her little call that touched her ear, and the cold glance stuck in Cassis once
again turned to Sana.
Deon looked down at her with her eyes, drawing her cracks due to her various
emotions, and then took away her energy from her wild run.
After Deon turned around, Roxana also raised her body upright.
“Thank you for your help.”
She greeted her politely at the person in front of her, grasping the hem of her
with her one hand.
“My name is Roxana Agriche. What is the name of the nobleman?”
If someone else saw them now, it was obvious that they would think this was the
first meeting of the two.
Cassis looked at Roxana silently for a moment.
After a brief silence, Cassis slowly moved her lips, which had been bitten.
“… … I'm Cassis Fedelian.”
A low voice with a deep reverberation flowed out of his mouth.
“You are a scion of Qing.”
“If you allow me to say hello.”
Cassis did not just introduce herself, but reached out her hand to her with an
unshakable appearance like her Roxana.
"Gladly."
Her hands in her gloves overlapped.
As her Roxana raised her hand, Cassis grabbed it and buried her lips on the back of
her hand.
An unfamiliar heat spread shallowly over the cool skin.
His gaze clashed close. The eyes I met from the front were familiar, but they had
an unfamiliar feeling that was enough to offset the familiarity.
It wasn't just the eyes that made me feel that feeling.
Roxana first pulled out her hand that had been held by him.
“I know well if it is the prestige of Qing's scion. It's embarrassing to show the
childish struggle between siblings.”
Then Cassis' still golden eyes slid beside her.
It coolly passed through the dark space that swallowed the image of Deon a while
ago.
“It's a childish struggle between siblings.”
“Yes, so it is not necessary for the nobleman of Qing to care deeply.”
"Is that so."
Cassis murmured like that to himself and then stared at Roxana in front of him
again.
To celebrate her banquet, Rok Sana, dressed in fancy dress, was truly beautiful
enough to blind her, and stood out in her darkness alone.
At the same time, however, she had a strange feeling that she would fall silently
in the night air.
“The night got deeper. I have to go back to my room. The nobleman of Qing will
enter the banquet hall again.
Roxana first indicated her doctor to leave her place. Cassis didn't catch her like
that.
However, a calming sense of weight, as if she had experienced it somewhere else,
sat down on her shoulders of Roxana.
“Don’t wear it on the night air.”
Wearing her sheer dress, the warmth of her body warmed to her cold. Roxana looked
up at Cassis with her robe over her shoulder.
The distance between the two was closer than before.
It hasn't been a long time since I face Cassis' face like this. For some reason, I
felt a strange feeling that was difficult to explain in words.
Again, his eyes were entangled in the air.
“Like I gave you last night… … .”
A low whisper spread in between.
“You don't have to return this either.”
When I heard that, I was completely sure of who I met last night.
It was Cassis who turned first.
Roxana stood still for a while and stared at his back, moving away.
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They left Wigdrasil right away.
Jeremy, who had left the banquet hall first following Roxana's words, had prepared
the servants in advance.
So they could get ready right away and head for Agrice.
"Rand Agrice has just left the castle."
The news came to Cassis, too.
Before he knew it, he had taken off his robes at the banquet hall.
"Ready?"
"We've already finished as instructed."
"I'm leaving right now."
Instead of glossy shoes, rugged leather boots stepped on a red carpet laid in the
hallway. The deep blue cape on the shoulder shook along the restrained steps.
Cassis, who took off his robes, looked more like a disciplined knight or an
experienced hunter than a noble.
Today was the last day of the harmony meeting, and now the banquet was still in
full swing. Maybe that's why there was no one wandering around the accommodation.
Then suddenly, Cassis saw his younger sister Sylvia.
Sylvia, who changed into an outdoor suit like Cassis, approached Cassis.
"Oppa, be careful.”
The gold eyes, which resemble Cassis but give off a much warmer and softer feeling,
looked up at him with a weak concern in them.
Cassis reached out and disheveled her sister's hair.
"Go back with your father. I'll go straight to the fedelian when I'm done."
He didn't have to meet his father, Richel, now because he had already finished
talking.
Cassis left Wigdrasil as quietly as he did when he first came here.
The destination was Agri£e, where the old long-cherished desire remained.
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After a while, the besieged Pontine was dragged into the referee's room.
"Pontine, you creep...…!”
Rant approached Pontine, who was kneeling on the floor, grumbling like he was.
Fontaine, who had been arrested for plotting a rebellion, had been seriously
injured.
Deon, who overpowered him, hurt his arm, so it was obvious without having to check
with his eyes what Pontine would be like.
"Oh, Father!"
Pontine hurriedly opened his mouth when he saw Rant approaching him.
"It's all a misunderstanding...… kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
However, as soon as he opened his mouth, the leader in Rant's hand swung.
It was the judge's room where Lant had so far sentenced sinners to death in
accordance with the gravity of their wrongdoings, and sometimes made a summary
decision himself.
It was here that he ordered his children to be disposed of.
Puck! Puck!
Rant waved his hand as if he was about to beat Pontine to death.
Blood splashed on the dazzling marble floor whenever a hard stick decorated with
metal at the end hit Pontine.
There was not an ounce of mercy in his hand.
"How dare you!"
Puck! Puck!
"To put a knife in my back...…!”
Puck!
Rant's eyes, looking down at Pontine, contained blazing anger. I could even feel
life from him.
Although he was in middle age, Lant's presence and power were second to that of
Pontine.
Furthermore, Pontine was tied to his limbs and had suffered major injuries due to
rough handling before then. Therefore, he was helplessly beaten by Rand.
Puck!
Eventually, the leader in Rant's hand broke. Only then did Rant stop beating
Pontine.
"Burgey-ass. I gave birth to a man who was less than an embargo. How dare you try
to get behind this father.”
Rant threw the broken leader on the floor, staring at Pontine, who had been sagged
with blood, with a grim look.
"You didn't think I knew you were secretly behind my back? But I tried to give you
a chance, but you dare betray me like this...…!”
Fontaine fell to the floor bleeding and covered Rant's anger from the top of his
head.
His eyes were burning while he gritted his teeth and endured the pain.
Damn it, how'd you get caught? The whole plan was perfect.
Deon, if he hadn't just popped up in the middle and interrupted...…!
Fontine's eyes, filled with hatred, shot Deon at the door.
"Father, this is...This is all for you, that bastard! He's trying to frame me! I
feel wronged....”
"You're still talking nonsense."
Rant remained aloof despite Pontine's vehement appeal.
"You thought I didn't know your shallow trick? I was the one who put Deon under
surveillance when I knew you were secretly gathering soldiers from behind."
The words forced Fontine to glare.
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Finally, Deon, who was standing like a shadow in front of the door, moved.
His steps were directed to the front of the referee's room as both Rant and Roxana
wanted.
But instead of raising his arms and blowing Roxana's neck, he held her hand out in
front of him.
In fact, it was the betrayal of his son and daughter that he trusted the most.
Rant watched the scene with incredible, puffy eyes.
Knock knock!
"Sister!"
At that very moment, the door that had been tightly closed opened. It was Jeremy
who jumped in between.
"You've been waiting, haven't you? I'm here...….”
But as soon as he came in, he saw the inside situation and hardened his face.
"What, what's this crap?"
Lant had some hope for Jeremy's reaction.
However, Jeremy's subsequent remarks shattered his expectations once again.
"Deon, you punk. Aren't you going to let go? Sana's right hand and left hand are
all mine.”
Jeremy gritted his teeth at Deon and ran towards Holang Roxana.
Jeremy seemed to have no interest in him, although he briefly looked at Rand, who
had fallen to the floor.
"Unfortunately, Father. There's no one on your side in Agrice."
Roxana sat arrogantly as if she were a king from birth and looked down at Rant
coldly.
"But don't worry too much."
Subsequently, a sweet smile rose on her face, contrary to her eyes.
However, a series of incoherent remarks were tantamount to a death sentence.
"He's still useful, so I won't kill him right now."
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It's coming on.
A fierce wind blew through the deep forest where coniferous forests grew thick. It
was a cold and sharp north wind as if it were flesh.
The red sun, which used to have an ominous feeling somewhere, has died, and night
has come to the forest one step earlier than other lands.
There were those who waited for the right time quietly under the cover of darkness.
They were surrounding the mansion before Land Agrice returned.
There was a well-drawn example in the eyes that flashed cold like a broken piece of
the moon.
"You're here."
Finally, the owner they were waiting for arrived.
A man who appeared without a rumor in the dark nodded his head small.
As he moved his arm, the scouts he had handled on his way here fell to the floor.
On the cold floor where the hay grew, there were Agrice's sewage workers who had
been treated first.
"What's the situation?"
"It's been a little noisy inside."
Cool gold eyes watched the distant light.
"Shall we move?"
"Waiting for a moment."
Isidor, who was in charge until Cassis came, resigned in obedience to his master's
order without expressing any doubt.
Cassis stared at the front with his cold eyes.
It's coming on.
The sound of the rough wind hung around my ears. The sound was just like an
animal's howling.
It was a night when even winter animals in the forest huddled.
The fierce drive shook the branches of the tree.
Standing in the dark, however, the man did not shrink his shoulders once.
His cheeks and hands and feet were understandable in the cold as if they were
freezing to the bone, but he didn't even feel the cold.
Like a hard rock wall, the body stood motionless, and there was a sharp energy like
a beast on the verge of hunting. The same was true of his eyes staring straight
ahead.
Those around him were quietly waiting for his order.
Suddenly, white dust like dust fell down in the dark, and snowflakes began to fly
from the sky.
Like an illusion, a butterfly out of season quickly disappeared while touring the
snowy night sky.
The cold gold eyes gave off a precocious glow.
Finally, the long-awaited order was given. Those who were waiting for the right
time in the dark began to move with agility.
It was time to cut off the old bad relationship.
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News of the success of the rebellion and the fall of Rant quickly spread throughout
Agrice.
It was less than an hour after the party who attended the reconciliation meeting
returned.
Naturally, the house was in great confusion.
Furthermore, it was not Pontine, the eldest son who had cluttered the mansion until
just before Agrice took control.
"Everyone's running around like crazy. It's like a bunch of ants.”
Agrice's eldest daughter, Griselda, laughed as she looked down at the busy people
on the terrace.
She was one of the few to know that all this was Roxana's inner circle.
It was Griselda who set up a trap to trap him in the referee's room while Rant was
away.
She didn't stand out in other ways, but she was talented in the designs of the
sorcerers. Thus, most of the sorcerers currently used in Agrice were made from her
hands.
"Roxana, she's not normal either."
Griselda's current situation was very exciting.
If I had known Roxana was such a funny girl, I would have been next to her sooner.
It was Roxana, Deon, and Jeremy who actually took control of Agrice now.
Deon was the representative of the revolt known to others now, but Griselda knew it
was Roxana who moved him.
She had already taken over the real power of the mansion.
The soldiers that Pontine tried to raise were not really following his orders. The
missing soldiers were also in the hands of Roxana.
Griselda also helped drive Lant out after her.
It's not because there was another reason, but because it would be fun.
In a way, he betrayed his father, but he didn't feel anything like guilt.
He didn't have any loyalty to keep anyway.
Lant was a man who could kill his own children if needed. In fact, there were
several children who he disposed of and killed.
Then isn't the opposite possible enough?
Born and raised under such Lant, the children of Agrice, including Griselda, did
not know family love.
In particular, it was hard to find friendship between brothers and sisters.
It was natural that they were thrown into the competitive structure of the jungle
and had to survive with their own abilities.
To be honest, they had a family, but it was only natural.
Perhaps if there were no rules banning murder among families, the mansion would
have remained a scene of slaughter.
For that reason, none of the brothers decided to save Lant's death.
At first, they were greatly surprised and embarrassed at the news that Rant, who
they thought was the absolute ruler of Agrice, had been dismissed.
Soon, however, most of the brothers were very interested in this new game that they
had never imagined before.
Among them were brothers who offered to put Rant in the room of punishment as they
had been.
However, the housewives of the mansion seemed to be somewhat confused by the
current situation.
Griselda was an axis in which the head was quite extraordinary.
So she soon noticed that all this was going back to nothing meaningless.
"There will be one of the greatest parties in history tonight in Agrice."
Griselda left the terrace smiling happily.
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"What? Is that true?”
Sierra tried to calm her surprised heart.
However, the pounding heart did not sink easily. This is because what I heard from
the maid a while ago was so surprising.
Of course. What she heard was that Rant, the absolute power of Agrice, was detained
by Deon.
However, Sierra's opinion was that her daughter must be involved in this.
She got up from her seat, walked around the room anxiously for a while, and then
decided.
"I need to go to Sana right now.”
Beth, Sierra's maid, dried her with a puzzled look.
"Madam, the interior of the house is quite crowded right now. It's better to wait
until the atmosphere calms down a little more...….”
knock, knock
It was then that a knock was heard outside the door.
Sierra, who was standing nearby, shook Beth and opened the door herself.
She subsequently paused at the sight of the woman.
"You are..."
The woman standing outside the door bowed politely to Sierra.
"It's been a long time, madam."
She was Emily, the shadow of Roxana.
Emily, who raised her head, opened her mouth again and said to Sierra.
"I came by the order of Lady Roxana."
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"This is so fatherly to the very end."
Roxana smiled bitterly with a crumpled letter in her hand.
There must have been no time to contact other people separately, but someone is
trying to take Rant's message out like this.
Does that mean you've always been prepared for a contingency?
In addition, it was not Lant's usual subordinates or his usual guests, but an
unnoticed servant who could not even tell whether he had been in the mansion or
not.
Those who had devoted blind allegiance to Rand had already been removed, so it was
worth saying that using such a non-existence person had their own brains rolled.
Of course it was when I didn't get caught.
Roxana's cold gaze fell on the man lying under her feet.
As soon as he met Roxana closely, he fell unconscious.
Lant did not let her daughter Roxana to seduce other men as she did in the novel.
It was more accurate to express that he failed to do so.
The reason is that Roxana's whole body was like a deadly poison.
It was because he had been steadily consuming a large amount of poison while
becoming the owner of a butterfly.
Therefore, a person who was not immune to poison could lose his mind by showing
symptoms of addiction just by mixing his breath close to him as he is now.
Of course, as a result of training, I was able to grind my body's poison to a
certain extent, but that was when there was no close contact.
In contrast to Sylvia's kisses in the novel, Roxana's kisses could kill people.
"By the way, Bertium again."
Roxana tilted her head slightly.
I knew early on that Lant wanted to build a friendship with Bertium, but was it a
relationship that would require troops in this situation?
At least it was clear that Rant thought so.
If so, it meant that the two families were connected with secret ties that others
would not know.
At least enough to ask for help in this situation, it meant that Lant had given
something to Bertium.
However, he had already suspected Bertium of Cassis's work at the Society of
Harmony.
Oh, but since Lant had learned of Roxana's treachery, it was not unreasonable to
distrust every word she said.
Roxana thought about this and that for a while and soon stopped thinking about the
relationship between Agrice and Bertium.
It's because I feel like I'm useless now.
It was useless to send troops from Bertium anyway.
Besides, Roxana felt like it was all bothering her now.
"Sister."
Then, Jeremy appeared at the end of the hallway.
He approached Roxana holding a letter.
Jeremy's eyes glanced at the man lying on the floor.
"What's Emily doing? Is she alone?”
"I sent it to my mother."
When Roxana answered, Jeremy looked into her face without saying a word.
Jeremy's eyes were a little dimly dim.
"Noona, I did what you told me to do."
Unlike when he faced his father Lant in the referee's room earlier, Jeremy was
feeling somewhat confused.
He was ready to follow whatever Roxana ordered.
It was a complaint that Deon, who was unlucky, was clinging to Roxana's side, but
Jeremy had never touched Deon in the past three years because of her name.
Unlike before, Roxana didn't want to lose to Deon anymore, so she grabbed her
itching hand and held back the favoritism.
The last time I acted unruly was three years ago when I accidentally put Roxana's
toy, Cassis Pedelian, in danger.
Now Jeremy wanted to be a truly useful person for Roxana and stand by her side.
So I wanted to fulfill her wish with his hands.
So if Roxana wanted to have Agrice, she would bring it to her heart's content.
She was willing to take the lead if she wanted to kill her father, Lant, miserably.
However, after Roxana drove Lant out of the way, something was wrong with Jeremy.
It's like...
Just as having Agrice wasn't the goal in the first place...….
"Yeah, good job. Can you take him to the last of these people?"
Roxana spoke in a strange manner as if she didn't know Jeremy's agitation.
So Jeremy swallowed questions and anxiety that soared to the top of his neck.
"Yes, I will."
Anyway, he wanted to help Roxana do whatever she wanted.
Jeremy carried a fallen man on the floor and walked to the annex where he summoned
the passengers.
Roxana looked at Jeremy's back and turned away after he completely disappeared from
sight.
She burned the letter in the candlelight on the wall.
And he brought the paper that still had the embers to the curtain by the window on
the opposite side.
Flattered!
The fire quickly spread to a thick cloth.
Roxana looked at the flame slowly expanding its territory with a face without a
facial expression and turned her body back.
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Just in time, an alarm to inform the intruder rang out in the hallway. There was a
loud noise from afar.
However, Roxana's steps in between did not shake an inch.
The butterflies, who were ordered, scattered throughout the mansion.
Behind her back, a bigger fire opened her mouth like a door to hell.
As always, survival in Agrice was up to everyone.
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In the first month of the new year, at the end of the year, the Chinese fedelian
broke through the gates of Agrice in the Black.
The sound of weapons and armor crashing broke the stillness of the night and ran
through the frozen winter wind.
Fedelian stormed from all sides, surrounded by Agrice, with no water leaking.
Agrice was unable to respond quickly to the unexpected surprise. At the right time,
he was confused by internal strife, so it was largely due to not receiving proper
instructions from above.
Cassis, who cut down the blocker at once, ordered.
"Don't go after those who run away! Grant Agri£e's recruitment is the highest
priority.
Those who did not take up arms and those who ran away did not attack. The purpose
was not the extermination of the people in Agrice.
In the midst of the uproar, who opened the door to the breeding ground, and inside
Agrice, the magic and humans were mixed up and became a mess.
Cassis did not stop once and swept away everything in the way.
As I raised my head, the building where the flames spread caught the end of my
eyes. Cassis knew who was there.
It was the greatest patience and courtesy he could see that he did not invade and
attack the castle in front of him even though he had already completed all
preparations.
Even if Agrice surrenders, the Cassis will not stop. It must be the same thing that
the person beyond the fire wants.
Kiaaaaah!
The object from the front fell from the top to the bottom as if it were tearing
apart the air, breaking into two pieces on the blade of the sword.
Cassis opened his mouth coolly, looking down at Agrice's trembling floodgates
covered in the blood of the beast.
"Where is Rand Agrice?"
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How to Protect the Heroine's Brother Episode 67
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"This way."
Sierra hurried after Emily. Beth was following behind her.
They were avoiding themselves to safety as Emily led them.
Let's go!
In the distance, there was a noise that came close to the sound of friction and
shouting. But the sound fell under the louder alarm.
The hallway they are walking now was deep in the mansion, and it seemed like it
would take time for the invaders to get here.
Still, Sierra hardened her face and bit her lips.
"Madam, don't worry too much. You'll be able to escape safely without encountering
intruders.”
Beth, who followed, spoke as if she were reassuring.
But what Sierra was worried about was not her own safety. In the end, Roxana, who
did not see her face today, continued to be seen.
But looking for her here now...….
"If you're really for me, don't create a situation where you can't help me, but you
can't just burden me. Don't think I'm embarrassed about my mother."
As soon as I remembered a voice that was still deeply embedded in my heart, I
slowly put strength into Sierra's hand, which grabbed the hem of her clothes.
She closed her eyes tightly and walked behind Emily.
Meanwhile, the acrid air passed by the tip of her nose.
"What's this smell?"
Smelling it being pushed into the hallway, it seemed like a fire broke out
somewhere.
"I think we need to hurry."
After saying so, Emily took the lead faster than ever.
Chaeng-gang! Quang!
"Whew!"
Just then, someone was thrown out, breaking the door in front of him.
He was instantly thrown across the front and into the opposite wall.
Quack, a broken bone was heard, and the decorations hanging on the wall fell to the
floor and shattered.
"Get out of here."
Emily stood in front of Sierra.
Because it happened so quickly, Sierra could not identify who had plummeted to the
bottom.
Bang!
However, the face of the man shot out of the broken door was visible.
He immediately raised his hand and tried to stab the fallen man with a weapon
against the wall.
"Oh...!"
The man's bleak gaze slipped for a moment when he heard the sound of breathing
vomit out of Beth's mouth.
Sierra's blue eyes and the man's red eyes met at a very instant.
But it was enough for her to realize the immediate situation.
The two men in the hallway were Lant and Deon.
And Deon was about to stab his father with a sword in his hand.
At the same time, Lant, who was lying on the floor, moved his hand.
Clavicle! Puck!
The next moment, red blood splashed in front of Sierra's eyes.
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The same time went by even if it was young or just like that.
"In the end, it's a bone-and-neck race."
Clap.
Cassis stepped on a pool of blood like a red carpet and stood in front of the
intended person.
It was not too late or too early.
The man Cassis wanted was still looking up at him, breathless as he had hoped.
"It's been three years since I've seen you face to face like this."
A low voice rang in a quiet space.
Rand Agrice, who was leaning against the wall with blood, shook his eyes to sleep
when he saw Cassis.
"You're the one, chuckle...…. How can I be here…….”
As soon as I opened my mouth, blood poured out from my stomach. Cassis's face,
looking down at such Lant, was just as cold as ever.
"Are you most curious about how I appeared before you?”
Rant's eyes fell on Cassis' feet with a sharp sword that was creating a new pool of
blood.
The blade facing down at the end was dripping blood. I couldn't guess how many
lives would have fallen over there.
Rant looked up again and faced the golden eyes, which were giving off an eerie
glow.
"You…… you're so real. It's not fake. Then you can't tell me that's...….”
If so, Cassis certainly did not die in Agrice three years ago. Roxana tricked him
again.
I didn't know how it was possible, but it was clear that Roxana was a trickster.
But the realization was too late. The situation had already gone out of control
like the flames that covered Agrice.
"Rand Agrice. You didn't know, but I've been watching you all along."
A faint voice fell over Rant's head.
"In the meantime, you have given up countless opportunities in front of you, and
you have done numerous evil deeds."
Fedelian watched Rant with the eyes of the referee for a long, short, or short
time. And finally decided.
"If I had seen any possibility from you in the last hour, I might have hesitated."
Rant quietly examined the opportunity.
He was almost exhausted from dealing with Deon, who came to stop breathing because
he didn't dare to hit his back, but he was still able to move.
Damn it, Sierra, if she had listened, she could have gotten out of here sooner.
In the end, he pushed him into the enemy's mouth alone and left, and it was hard to
tear his limbs to death.
In any case, he could not sit still and be beaten down by Fedelian's
"To be honest, I am pleased that your nature is evil. Thanks to him, I might not
have any hesitation now.”
As soon as Cassis approached closer, Lant moved like a flash and inserted a broken
blade into his heart.
Let's go!
Cassis, however, has made even Lant's last attack a nobody.
Rant fell to the floor and threw a handful of broken pieces of glass at the
decorations, not caring about the cut. And I tried to get up and run away right
away.
Cassis, however, raised his arm, cut out all the pieces of glass with his cloak,
and then put a sword in Rant's leg, which turned around.
"Argh!"
"You're doing something useless.”
Despite Lant's struggle, the black stuck on the floor did not move.
"Rand Agrice. Aren't you curious about what I'm going to do to you from now on?”
Cassis lifted his legs and crushed the body of the man who still tried to escape in
front of him.
"When I saw the many evils you've done without feeling guilty during your life, I
thought it was too lenient to kill you once."
Rant was staring at Cassis with a livable eye even in this situation.
He spat at Cassis and flashed his bloodshot eyes.
"Geez…... you son of a feather flock together. I'd rather die than die in the hands
of a dirty fedelian."
The word was Rant's will.
He really killed himself by tearing open the wound on his chest with his own hands.
But after a while, Rant opened his eyes again to see Cassis.
As soon as the eyes met with the still unwavering cold golden eyes, Lant felt the
tips of his fur standing on edge.
"What the...….”
"You said it was useless."
When I lowered my head, I saw the wound near the heart healed again.
However, there was still a vivid feeling of digging the wound with his own hands a
little while ago.
Cassis laughed as he lowered his wet hands with Rant's blood.
"You can't have chosen to kill yourself out of pride. That's how scared you must
have been."
There was a cold sweat on the back of Rant.
Because the words were true.
A man with those eyes could never have killed him completely.
Rand had already killed countless people, so he had no choice but to know that
Cassis Pedelian was serious.
It was already a foregone conclusion that he couldn't get out of here alive now.
Then, it would be better to just kill yourself cleanly to avoid further humiliation
and pain. I thought so.
"Rand Agrice. I can save you again and again."
The successive comments of Cassis were frightening and frightening beyond words.
"That means I can kill you again and again in the future."
Have you ever heard anything worse in Lant's life?
No. It couldn't have been. I assure you, there couldn't have been more terrible
words in the world.
Rant trembled without realizing it in front of a young man who looked as noble and
pure as the dawn light.
He was always a predator and hunter throughout his life. But now, it seemed like
the first cornered mouse in his life.
Cassis reached for such a lant.
His work was fixed from the beginning.
From the time I followed Rand Agrice to this place, and three years ago, I left
this place behind, leaving behind a silver that I couldn't solve.
Fire.
As it leaked from somewhere, the flames of candlesticks lined the wall shook at
once.
"Rand Agrice."
Half engulfed in black shadows, Cassis was like a lion from hell. What Cassis would
do in the future would not be much different from him.
"I will take your life."
The breath that swallowed the scream broke under Cassis' hand.
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"I'm retreating."
"Okay."
After some time, Cassis ordered Isidor, who followed him.
There was nothing more to see in Agri£e, who achieved his purpose.
The building that just escaped was burning and still noisy outside.
After a while, a red butterfly came into Cassis's sight.
Cassis looked at the red dot spreading into the sky and turned after him.
"Isidor, go ahead."
"Huh? Wait…".”
Isidor rarely caught Cassis's horse, but he had already become as far away as he
was.
Cassis' eyes were still following the trail of red butterflies.
There was someone to find before this night passed.
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It was a harsh season with harsh cold winds and snowstorms constantly.
After the night that seemed like it would never end, the first cold dawn light
shone on the ruined land.
The morning came to those who left the destroyed land.
rattling
The wheel, which was rolling smoothly, suddenly shook greatly, as if it had caught
a stone.
Roxana woke up from a deep sleep and lifted her heavy eyelids.
The dimness around me was reflected in the cloudy view, so I thought it was still
night at first.
However, while slowly blinking the focusless eye, a thin light that leaked from
somewhere was seen shaking in front of it.
It turned out that sunlight was coming in from a small window blocked by curtains.
rattling
Once again, the body shook, and the light stalk crawling through the curtain faded
before my eyes.
At that moment, I realized that this space is not her room in Agrice.
"You're awake."
At that time, someone's low voice rang above his head.
Roxana jumped out of her seat breathing in.
Knock knock!
At the same time, her space shook a little more than before.
Roxana lost her balance and reached forward.
However, there was nothing to support there, and the forward hand fell straight
down across the air without touching anything.
It was clear that if someone's arm had not wrapped around Roxana's body and held it
firmly, she would have rolled down.
"Be careful, I'm still in the running carriage.”
No wonder the low voice that penetrated my ears was not unfamiliar.
Roxana turned her head, not even thinking about pushing out her body.
The next moment, she met a golden eye looking down at her closely.
"……casis."
Roxana called out his name unconsciously. Then, for a moment, Lee Chae passed by in
the eyes facing him.
She couldn't understand what's going on right now.
I moved my hardened head to dig into the memories of last night, but I could not
think of any useful memories.
However, I could only see that she was moving somewhere with Cassis now.
Of course, it was a great confusion that filled Roxana's head.
8. Switch
When I opened my eyes, Cassis was next to me.
But somehow I didn't understand.
Why was I losing consciousness in the first place?
As if he had forcibly ripped or erased it, his memory was empty in places.
I didn't even know why or how I was here now.
"You'd better lie down a little longer."
Again, a low voice rang above my head.
Is it because of the whispering that is so low that the back of the neck is
chilling for a moment, or is it because of the face that the dark shade is too
young to check in detail?
I felt as if the person next to me right now was not the person I knew.
First, I decided to stay away from Cassis. As I moved, my arm wrapped around my
waist slowly tightened.
But as soon as I wanted, he let go of me by releasing my arms.
When the body that was close to each other fell, the hardened head felt a little
relaxed.
Come to think of it, I was lying on Cassis' leg as a pillow until a while ago.
"What happened?”
Why is your voice so hoarse?
Perhaps because he just woke up from his senses, his throat was sore. No wonder I
felt like I spoke for the first time in a few days.
I tried to think about what happened last night again.
"Why am I here? Why am I with you now?….”
At that time, a small piece of memory suddenly spread into my head, which was as
white as ink spread in the water.
"sister…Are you going to throw me away?"
At that moment, I had a throbbing headache.
I slowly closed and opened my eyes while touching my forehead.
…… somehow I didn't really want to think about it.
Cassis was looking at me like that.
It was dark in the carriage, but the snow, fully accustomed to the darkness, was
not disturbed by anything. So I could easily check his face.
It was the first Cassis I've seen since we met outside the banquet hall on the last
day of the meeting.
Of course, since I met him afterwards in Agrice, I'm sure he's staying in the same
space...I couldn't think of anything either.
He wanted to find out anything from his face, but he couldn't understand what he
meant.
Soon Cassis slowly opened his mouth at me again.
"For now, don't think about anything and just lie down and rest."
Then I doubted his ears when he continued.
"I found consciousness in three days, and it'll take time to fully recover."
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knock, knock
"Are you awake?"
It was when I woke up from a sigh and felt a little skepticism towards myself, who
was really sleeping.
An unfamiliar voice came along with a knock on the door of the carriage door.
It was a calm, medium and low-pitched voice that gave off a neutral feeling
somewhere.
I opened the door of the carriage myself.
Then, a person with olive hair and dark navy eyes came to my eyes.
"Excuse me for a moment."
The moment my eyes met, I paused, and my hard face in sight relaxed a little.
It was a subtle change, but I looked relieved that I was awake.
My hair was short and my voice was low, but it was definitely a woman who came to
see me.
It was not particularly strange or strange because Agri£e was a principle that if
he could do well, he would hire him regardless of gender.
It was for another reason that I stopped moving for a moment when I saw her.
"If you're hungry, would you like a quick meal?"
"What about Cassis?"
"Lord Winston has been away for a while. Lady…… she told me to make sure you're
awake and if you need anything, I'll give you something."
Is Lord Winston the man named Isidor?
Well, aside from that.
Listening to her, I was curious about my position and position here.
The person in front of me now seemed to be at a loss for a moment what to call me.
Likewise, I was a little worried about what kind of tone to use on them.
"If you want, I'll bring you something to eat here. I'm outside preparing my meal
anyway, so it won't take long."
"Then do it."
However, I decided not to think about it for too long and just use a lower bound.
It was strange for me to speak up to his men, who didn't use honorifics to Cassis
either. But I'm not going to use honorifics to Cassis again.
The person in front didn't seem to care much about what I said.
She lowered her head once with a face that still had little change in expression,
and then closed the door of the carriage.
“…….”
That expressionless face reminded me of Emily.
It was my last meeting that I sent her to my mother, and what I said at that time
was my last order.
The door opened quickly to see if the meal was ready earlier than expected. So I
didn't have to think about other things for a long time.
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"It's not a proper meal because I'm camping, but it won't taste bad."
"Thank you."
I've been feeling this since earlier, but the attitude toward me was more polite
than I thought.
It didn't feel like I was being treated as a prisoner either.
I wondered if I didn't know I was Agreech, but it was actually hard to do that.
"Name?"
"You can call me Olin."
Although she asked for her name, perhaps the 'Olin' she gave is a castle.
There's no way I could have told you to call me by my first name.
I accepted the bowl she handed me. Then, when I accidentally brushed my fingertips,
Ollie got a scratch.
Come to think of it, her attitude was a little strange besides being more polite to
me than I needed.
She didn't feel reluctant to me, but somehow she seemed to be careful not to touch
me.
"Thank you. I'll enjoy it."
By then, I had realized something, so I spoke calmly as if I hadn't noticed her
agitation. He also dropped his hand when he was being handed a bowl.
Olin looked at my face for a moment and closed the door quietly.
When I was left alone again, I breathed a shallow sigh.
Yeah, if you hadn't been conscious for three days, you wouldn't have been able to
control your body's poison.
Then perhaps it was impossible for others to come closer to me.
I might have caused damage to people outside without even knowing.
So you must have been careful not to touch me even now.
Oh, maybe that's why the Cassis was attached to me.
Based on my previous experience, Cassis would have been able to approach me.
So you think Cassis has been taking care of me for the past three days?
When I thought about it, my forehead gradually strengthened.
Come to think of it, it was natural that I couldn't wash properly while I was
unconscious, but it was strange that my body was clean.
I don't think anyone else would have washed him...….
Cassis couldn't have done such a shameless thing to me, so I thought it might be
part of his strange ability.
Even when he was in Agrice, Cassis was locked in a dungeon for a few days and kept
clean.
I wanted to ask you when Cassis comes later, but on the other hand, I was afraid
that I would get a harsh answer, so I wondered if I would just keep my mouth shut.
I took a sip of what Olin gave me and pushed it into my mouth.
As she said, it tasted pretty good for a simple dish cooked at a campsite.
But I put down the bowl without taking a few bites.
I'm not usually picky about food, and I didn't intend to do that in a place like
this. However, the food didn't fall into my throat because I didn't have an
appetite.
I called Olin with a sorry heart.
She confirmed that the contents of the bowl were almost intact and said she would
bring me something else if it didn't suit her taste.
However, I refused, saying that my body seemed to reject food because I was hungry
for a while.
After Ollie left her seat, I looked around briefly over the open door.
Cassis was not seen yet.
As if they were taking turns eating, people who were in the midst of eating and
those who were preparing for the camp came into view came into view.
In the meantime, they glanced at me indistinctly. Still, no one rushed to my side.
I closed the door again and pulled the curtains. And I looked outside for a while
through the window.
At that time, a familiar figure was seen beyond the people preparing for the camp.
Cassis was also with a man named Isidor.
I opened the carriage door again when I saw him approaching this way.
"Carsis."
Cassis's eyes flew straight when I called.
A similar sense of silence fell around as it did earlier in the day.
Cassis, who came up to me across the quiet campsite, asked.
"Dining?"
"I did."
Cassis' eyes brushed Ollie, who was guarding the carriage. It caught my eye that
she looked small at Cassis.
But Cassis turned to me again without telling me more about it.
"Do you need anything? Tell Olin when I'm not here from now.”
I shook my head small and said.
"Frustrated. I'd like to get some air."
After a short gap, Cassis opened his mouth again.
"It must be colder than before because the temperature dropped the temperature.”
Without a word, I put on the cape that Cassis gave me earlier and even put a
blanket on top of it.
He didn't say anything more, but he made a firm statement in his own way.
"Well, you're not feeling well, but you'd better just stay inside.….”
Ollie next to me hesitated a little and stopped me.
However, Cassis stared at my face for a moment and was bitten one step back by the
body blocking the carriage door.
Soon his hand came out in front of me.
I got off the carriage holding Cassis' hand.
Soon after, Cassis turned his head.
Then, the people who received his attention all looked away from me as if they had
been making a fake effort.
It was a fairly blatant sight, but I just pretended not to see it.
Several bonfires were lit in the campground. Cassis led me to the warmest of all.
Those who were where Cassis was headed moved to the campfire next to him.
So, only Cassis and I were placed in the bonfire we sat on.
They didn't look obsessively where Cassis and I were.
Even in this environment, the atmosphere was restrained and neat, so the word
knight was perfect for them.
Agrice's men were like mercenaries.
I wondered if there were so many different moods of people from family to family.
"Eat."
After a while, Cassis stuck out a hot steaming bowl to me.
I thought I'd call my subordinates to order something before I sat down, but I must
have been paying attention to how little I ate.
"I'm not really hungry.”
"Eat a little bit if you don't have an appetite. You haven't eaten for three days.”
I refused again this time, but unlike Ollie, Cassis did not back down.
He played me a bowl of soup and held a spoon in my other hand.
"You don't think you're a creature that can only feed on water."
The freedom of both hands was taken away in a trance.
I glanced down at the warm soup in my hand and narrowed the eyebrows.
No wonder this situation was a little strange. It seemed at least the first time in
my life that someone was so stubborn about starving me.
Maybe that's why I felt a little itchy in my face.
I stirred the soup by moving my hand with a dishware to hide my embarrassment.
But it wasn't enough, so I grabbed the pod of what Cassis just said to change the
subject for nothing.
"Well, I guess you haven't eaten at all, but you've been drinking water?”
At that moment, unexpectedly, a violent reaction popped out from the side.
"Whew, chuckle...…!”
Some of the people sitting around the bonfire next to them started coughing
violently as if they had suddenly sared.
Looking at the simultaneous reaction, it was clear that he was doing that after
listening to me.
What's wrong with her?
I said it without much thought, but suddenly I felt strange.
I narrowed my eyes and looked at Cassis. But he looked at me with an unchanging
expression.
"Eat it. It gets tastier when it cools down.”
Then Cassis slid his eyes sideways.
The people with cool eyes quickly bowed and hurriedly began to empty the bowl.
I felt that there was something definitely on the top of my head.
However, it felt uncomfortable to ask why.
Not too long later, the people next to me hurriedly finished their meals and were
away.
Before I knew it, the surroundings became quiet.
Maybe it was on purpose, but everyone was not coming close to the place where
Cassis and I were.
There was a small sound of grassworms crying between the sound of the patting and
the burning bonfire.
The sun was setting before I knew it.
Following the navy, purple, and purple, the yellowish red sky was seen spreading
over the horizon.
"If it's the Frederica Plateau, isn't it home to the spell?"
Cassis answered my question.
"The animal habitat is located at the end of the plateau bordering Lake Emerald,
and this is a safe zone. I'm going to pass by the habitat around noon tomorrow, but
there's nothing dangerous because I'm planning to take a detour.”
I thought so when I heard that.
Cassis stared at me as if to ask me again if he had any questions.
I looked at the fluttering bonfire and opened my mouth after a while.
"What happened to Rand Agrice?"
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"Ah."
Roxana's mouth let out a small sound of elasticity or moan.
The memory of falling down has just come back.
At that time she was thirsty.
While the fever went up and down repeatedly, the mouth became dry, and the lips
were parched to the point of stinging.
After a while, something warm pressed down on her lips.
Water soon flowed through her open lips as if she had noticed her mind.
The water that moistened the tongue was very sweet as if it were life water.
So I begged him to give me more.
Then someone soothed her head and cheek. The gentle touch seemed to melt my whole
body.
The warmth overlapped over my lips again.
Fortunately, the person next to her spilled enough water to satisfy her.
“…….”
And then I fell asleep again.
While reminiscing about the past, Roxana felt somewhat upset.
I knew myself that it was a little obsessive. However, it was still unwelcome to
show someone else an unintended weakness.
So when I was frowning alone, Cassis' words that I heard yesterday suddenly passed
through my mind.
"Give me the rest of your time."
"If you don't care where you're going, stay with me. Until you die."
Roxana's eyes slowly sank low.
Is it……. Is it okay to use it that way if it's worthwhile for her anyway?
While I was so lost in thought, the German butterfly that I sent earlier came back.
Roxana looked through the window at a flock of butterflies approaching where she
was.
Even from a distance, the wings were very powerful and energetic. The slaughtered
butterflies seemed excited after a long time.
Roxana sent the butterflies back to where they were before they got closer.
Originally, there was a risk of not being able to control them, so they could not
have taken out the slaughter butterflies in this way.
However, he was in such a good condition that he said, "The head of the household
in recent years."
In addition, as it was just passing by the habitat of the marmul, Roxana was able
to take out a slaughter butterfly and feed it for the first time in a long time.
But suddenly, the moving carriage stopped.
It was Cassis who came to Roxana after a while.
"Have you ever had a hobby of overusing your body?"
Looking at his face, Roxana noticed that he had noticed something about a poisonous
butterfly.
"You don't listen when I tell you to rest.”
Cassis came inside and closed the door.
Roxana stared at him with her chin on her hand.
Cassis treated Roxana casually even after yesterday's incident.
Of course, Roxana didn't have any significant changes in her attitude toward
Cassis, but...….
Maybe it's because Cassis remembered taking care of her who had been ill since she
left Agrice?
Something wriggled in me as I was facing him like this.
I don't know exactly what it was, but I felt like I swallowed a thorn.
"You've already turned pale.”
Cassis frowned slightly at the face in front of her.
I thought I shouldn't have followed her saying that I wanted to be alone if I knew
this would happen.
Soon after, he stretched his arm to restore Roxana.
However, her hand, which suddenly popped forward, grabbed Cassis by the collar
first.
He could have avoided or endured, but Cassis didn't do that and tilted his upper
body forward as Roxana wanted.
However, Cassis had no idea what she was doing.
The lips touched had a lower temperature than the Cassis, which used cold air
outside.
Roxana bit Cassis' lips open and kissed him.
It was short and shallow, but it was definitely not just lips but tongue-tied
kisses.
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When Roxana opened her eyes again, she was not in the carriage.
She was surrounded by a white, matte blanket. The place where I am lying now was a
soft bed.
The red eyes, which regained focus, quietly looked around.
Cassis' words and attitude had already predicted, but she was not locked up in a
prison or something.
The view of the clean and cozy room came into view.
It was clear that the person who decorated the room was quite elegant.
The room-filled furniture, decorations, curtains hanging on the window, and the
blanket she is covering now gave a generous impression.
Roxana finished her short observation and raised her upper body.
I can't believe I slept without knowing the world while I was moving here.
I couldn't tell if my alertness had become blurred or if I was still weak because I
had less energy.
……or both.
When I looked down, even my clothes were changed.
A cold chill briefly occurred to the eyes underneath and then subsided.
Roxana walked the blanket and got out of bed.
There was a soft indoor scene on the floor that seemed to be made of silk, but it
was not worn.
White feet crossed silently over the carpet.
Where Roxana was headed was a window that occupied one wall.
Sarak.
As I raised my hand and walked a little through the curtain, ripe yellow sunlight
poked in through it.
He was blinded and frowned for a moment.
Then Roxana looked out the window.
The climate here was warmer than Agrice, and flowers were already blooming.
The garden was filled with deep gold sunlight, which seemed to have melted honey.
It made the scenery outside the window more elegant.
Roxana's eyes were nailed to the bright brother and sister in it.
Cassis and Sylvia.
They looked face to face and seemed to talk. The eyes and expressions on each other
were warm like the spring sun.
Soon Sylvia left her seat with long hair scattered.
Cassis looked up while watching his brother leave the garden and enter the
building.
Roxana noticed that his gaze was directed toward her room and lowered her arm as
she was walking through the curtains.
The room became dim again.
Did you happen to see her standing by the window?
Roxana left the window and turned toward the door.
Click.
When she touched the door, the door knob turned gently and opened.
Roxana looked down at the unlocked door.
Then, just as I stepped out into the hallway, I could see a girl approaching from
afar.
It was Sylvia who was standing with Cassis in the garden just a moment ago.
Unexpectedly, her destination seemed to be a room with Roxana.
Sylvia, who held flowers as bright as her, opened her eyes wide for a moment when
she found Roxana.
"Oh! You're awake."
Sylvia then smiled broadly at Roxana.
For a moment, flowers seemed to bloom in full bloom in sight.
It was a bright and friendly smile like the sunshine that welcomed her.
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Cassis, who left his father's office, greeted his mother briefly and headed back to
the annex.
The users who encountered him in the hallway bowed quietly to him.
Cassis passed them and opened the door he had entered earlier and stepped silently
into it.
Roxana was lying on the bed as he lay.
The tangled hair on the white sheet painted a subtle group of light in the sunlight
from the window.
It seemed like a jewel was also placed on top of long, abundant eyelashes that drew
shadows on the face.
When I saw him lying still with his eyes closed, I could believe that he was a doll
made with all his might at Bertium.
Instead of admiring the beauty in front of her, Cassis felt a different emotion.
Suddenly, he brought his hand close to her face, thinking that Roxana was not
breathing.
After a while, a faint breath touched his finger.
It wasn't until I checked that that that Cassis was relieved.
He stared down at Roxana and moved his hand slowly.
A careful touch brushed Roxana's pale cheeks.
Cassis did not know clearly what this feeling was.
However, the person in front of me felt sorry and pathetic. But it was something
different from compassion or compassion.
He wanted to know more about her. And I wanted to keep an eye on him as long as
possible.
So if Roxana dies and says goodbye forever, there will be more regret than regret.
In addition, anger was likely to rise to the target who did not know exactly who it
was.
No wonder Roxana was a little upset when I saw her with a pale face like this.
I was relieved to see her trying to eat even if it was forced, and sometimes when
she looked into the air with her desolate eyes, a corner of her heart became
scattered without realizing it.
Roxana seemed unaware, but she sometimes shed silent tears while unconscious or
asleep.
At that time, it felt like a stone flew into Cassis' chest and drew a ripple on the
calm surface of the water.
A bigger buzz than he did three years ago eroded his plan.
In fact, extending Roxana's life span was a very cumbersome and challenging task.
Nevertheless, I wanted to do it all with his hands.
Maybe Roxana doesn't want to, but Cassis couldn't let her die like this.
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After a while, he quietly pulled up the curtains and left the room.
"Oppa!"
Sylvia appeared before me as if she had been waiting.
"Did you happen to wake up? Then can I come in?"
She was shining curious eyes like she did when we met earlier.
Sylvia has long wondered about Roxana and wanted to meet her.
This has been the case since Cassis told Sylvia the story of Roxana, whom he met in
Agrice three years ago.
"Later. Still sleeping.”
Sylvia looked disappointed at Cassis' words. But soon she smiled brightly and
bravely moved on.
"Then I'll wait and get the flowers ready. As a welcome sign."
Cassis smiled quietly at Sylvia.
While Roxana was in Fedeli, I wished I could smile like Sylvia.
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"Sigh…."
I exhaled a deep breath from the inside through my lips.
I felt my body in warm water relaxed smoothly. The fatigue accumulated seemed to be
relieved at once.
I slept in the carriage all the time and I just woke up. I don't have anything to
say.
I've never slept this much in my life, so it was kind of cool for me too.
Wouldn't it be to fill up the sleep time that you've been lacking?
I put my arm on the bathtub and slowly closed and opened my eyes.
I think it was a good thing that I came in alone after refusing to accept the bath.
Then, a laugh suddenly came out of my mouth.
I thought it was okay to die tomorrow, but it was somehow funny to take a bath in
such a satisfying mood.
The bathroom here was as big and tidy as the room I was in earlier.
The subtle scent from the water in the bathtub was all over the enclosed room.
While I smelled the scent of flowers, I suddenly remembered Sylvia's face that I
met earlier.
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"Whoa…."
I was wet with subtle mood looking at the ceiling of the bathroom.
Sylvia's clear smile, which I saw earlier, lingered in front of me.
In the original novel, Sylvia at this time was not a girl with such unquestioned
brightness and brightness.
The genre of the novel was a waste of neither dreams nor hopes.
And Sylvia, like the heroine of the waste, lost her innocence and brightness as the
novel progressed.
In the end, he even shed tears of blood and vowed revenge when he learned that his
brother was killed by Agrice.
However, seeing Sylvia so active, I felt strange. It was similar to when I saw a
grown-up Cassis.
Still, he seemed to be quite mature at the harmony meeting, but Sylvia still looked
young.
Come to think of it, you were the same age as Jeremy.
“…….”
Splash.
I dived into the water to the tip of my head.
Along with the bubbling, bubbling water that rises to the surface of the water, the
thoughts of the head are scattered.
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The sun had already set when I went outside after finishing my bath.
Maybe because I was in hot water for a long time, my whole body was tired.
I asked everyone a while ago that I didn't need to ask about the clothing market,
but I wondered why I did that.
I slouched down to the sofa with my gown on.
I was going to sit down for a while, but I think I fell asleep again.
When I opened my eyes again, someone was trying to move me to bed.
"…...didn't you do anything to me?"
Cassis, a small reciter with a locked voice, held me and lowered his eyes.
"It's not normal to sleep again when you open your eyes like this. You didn't do
anything to keep me from running, did you?
Or I wondered if Cassis forced me to fall asleep just to restore my energy.
Cassis then spoke in a calm voice as if not to think uselessly.
"That's how much your body needs rest."
Shaded Jin looked up at his eyes and I dropped my eyes.
"Get off me. I slept as much as I could today."
Cassis didn't drop me off right away and went back to the sofa and sat me on it.
Come to think of it, how long has it been?
Sylvia said she'd wait in another room to see you again when she's done taking a
bath.
"What about your brother?"
"I sent him back earlier.”
As expected, you just went back because it was too late. But I'm glad I'm not
waiting yet.
Of course, I didn't make a promise, but Sylvia just left unilaterally.….
But it's the same for me that I couldn't refuse after seeing that smile, so should
I say sorry next time I see you again?
"I'll get you a room to eat because you'll be hungry.”
Cassis moved without asking my intention.
He seemed to already know that I would say it was me anyway. I knew from my
experience that it wouldn't work if I said I wasn't hungry here.
"Is this a fedelian?"
"As you guessed."
Eventually, I had a late dinner as Cassis wished.
However, he still had no appetite, so he opened his mouth by fiddling with the
spoon in his hand.
"Your sister is very pleased with me."
"I think so.”
I couldn't read anything from Cassis's lukewarm response.
However, his eyes became a little softer.
Sylvia welcomed me more than I expected.
Now on one side of the table was a bouquet of flowers she had given me earlier. I
glanced at it.
I wondered what Cassis said about me.
Should I admire the extraordinary ability of Cassis, who made my younger sister
welcome me like this?
I didn't come to Fedelian for any other reason or intention.
As Cassis said, it doesn't matter where it is anyway.
I thought it was irrelevant if the destination was Fedelian because there was
nowhere else to go and where I wanted to go.
First of all, I followed Cassis and now I'm in Fedelian, but I didn't think this
was my last stop.
If it wasn't Cassis who told me to go with him, I wouldn't have refused.
"Here, it's pretty quiet. I don't think there's a lot of people because I don't
feel anything."
"It's a guest annex, so I don't usually use it."
It wasn't the main building.
There are probably two reasons why you took me to the annex.
First of all, because of the poison in my body that is at risk of losing control
and going wild again.
Secondly, I couldn't help but pay attention to other people's attention by bringing
me into the fedelian as a member of Agrice.
Of course, Cassis acted without hesitation on his way here, but it was outside
anyway.
Now that he came inside the fedelian, Cassis didn't know if he needed to be careful
with his behavior.
I glanced at Cassis at that thought. Then he fixed his eyes.
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"Your hands are slowing down. We still have more than half left. Eat a little
more."
"I'm eating...".”
For a moment, I thought, "Why should I do this?" but I didn't feel like I was
struggling, but I just silently moved my hand.
Since I met Sylvia earlier, the other family members of the Federation probably
knew that I woke up.
So what do they think?
Me who helped my family fall and took the lead in tightening my father's breathing.
I thought that as much as Rachel knew what I had done, no one else knew.
That's probably why he gave me such a strange look at the fellowship.
Therefore, it was highly likely that I would not be happy from his point of view.
What I did was no different from what I did, and it would be against Federian's
beliefs.
Sylvia's response was surprising as she thought she would be reluctant to do so.
But no matter what they thought of me, it wasn't really that important.
It didn't matter whether Cassis succeeded in convincing them about bringing me or
not.
Even if Cassis is in a difficult position because of me, I won't get involved.
It's his choice.
And to be more honest, on the other hand, I felt like I wanted to see Cassis in
trouble because of me.
Blood doesn't seem to go anywhere. I can't believe I had this bad taste.
I still couldn't see clearly what Cassis wanted to do with me here.
What I heard from him was that I would never experience it again in my life, but...
….
I didn't know if I should define it as a heated confession.
Do you have any sympathy for me? That could be why he brought me to pick up all the
dying animals from the street.
However, considering the persistent kiss during the day, I thought it was right
that he liked me.
But I started it earlier.
Isn't it impossible for a woman like me to seduce someone who doesn't come over
from the spot?
"I'm gonna stop eating. I want to be alone, so please leave."
Well, it didn't really matter.
I didn't even know how long I would stay here in the first place.
I don't know how good Cassis is at healing, but it's impossible to save a person
who's rotting and dying from the inside.
So Cassis was able to make it relatively easy for me to say a tremendous amount of
words to ask myself for the rest of my time.
Still, Cassis was the first person to say such a thing to me with such complete
sincerity.
So I thought there was nothing I couldn't give him for the rest of my life.
As Cassis said, it was right to throw it away anyway.
"I've ordered people in advance, so they won't be uncomfortable staying for a
while. Call the user if you need anything."
Cassis saw what I had eaten and called people to clean up the table because he
thought this was enough.
"If you need anything else, tell me anytime. 'Cause my room is right across.'
"What?"
After hearing what he said, I questioned his ears without realizing it.
"Is this your room across the street?"
"Yes, I'll stay in the annex for a while."
"Why?"
Cassis stared at me when I asked.
"Because I'm in trouble if you go wrong without me."
Cassis said calmly, not a single glance changed.
I asked him out of the blue.
"Just in case, who else is staying in this annex?"
"Nothing."
Cassis replied with a monotonous voice that made him feel calm again.
Therefore, it meant that Cassis and I would use the annex alone in the future.
I think I need to correct my previous thoughts.
I guess he doesn't care a wink about other people's features.
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The next day, the main entrance of the fedelian was somehow chaotic.
"What's going on?"
Cassis asked Isidor who came to him.
"Orca Whiperion is asking for a visit, claiming to be acquainted with the Lord of
Soga."
Cassis frowned at the words.
"Send it back."
"Yes."
Isidor turned around as if he knew it.
A personal visit at a time like this.
I couldn't figure out whether there was another plan or just no thought.
Of course, it was not that he was not acquainted with Orca Whiperion at all.
However, this did not mean that they were close enough to be allowed to enter such
a situation.
In the end, Orca was not welcomed by the Fedelians and was beaten to death.
Then about an hour later, Orca was caught crossing the gate using flying objects.
"Oh, my God. You're being rude unintentionally."
Naturally, he was captured and besieged by the defenders of the fedelian.
"I was searching nearby for a magical habitat, and the wall that rose in front of
me fell over without even realizing it was the gate of the fedelian castle."
Nevertheless, Orca laughed and said such absurd things without showing any signs of
nervousness.
"Orka, you...….”
Pandora, who was caught with Orca, gritted her teeth next to him.
Until Orca asked her to hand over control of her enchanted Turobe for a moment, I
didn't know she would do such an extraordinary thing.
So now Pandora felt like she was severely hit in the back of her head.
"Are you telling me that?"
Then, the Cassis entered the place where they were held.
He recited coolly to see if he heard Orca outside.
On the other hand, Orca was delighted to see Cassis.
"Princess of the Blue House! My friend who shared half the soul! How long has it
been? I was so sad that you refused my request for a visit. I'm so glad to see you
again."
"Chinwoo, since when have you and I been friends?”
Orca smiled unabashedly at Cassis' cold reception.
Orca's frivolous words and actions were not surprising, as they were always like
this when faced with each other.
Cassis recited in a businesslike tone without being drawn into Orca.
"First of all, tell me what the purpose of your visit to the Fedelian was. I'll
consider the treatment afterwards.”
"Oh, that's. It's nothing, I was just trying to say hello to you when I was
around."
A smile appeared on Orca's face, and in comparison, Cassis's face cooled cold.
"Well, that's really all, so there's no more explanation for the situation. But
he's an intruder, so we need to investigate him, right? Then I'll be indebted to
you for a while."
In the first place, Orca's purpose did not seem to be to hide inside the Fedelian
without being caught.
He seemed satisfied that he had put himself in here.
If he had tried to act secretly in the first place, he would not have used flying
creatures as if he were open.
Cassis squinted for a while and asked Isidor.
"What's that thing?"
"They've locked us in."
Pandora, who suddenly became an accomplice, opened her eyes to Orca next to her,
feeling falsely accused.
Cassis did not forget to collect all the items used as a medium for magic.
He already knew what it was like to cast a spell at the Whiperion.
Orca still relaxed and released a string of accessories.
How many were there, only a pile of Orca's body.
Pandora also handed over bracelets and necklaces as if she was crying and eating
mustard.
"We will detain you until you hear back from Whiperion."
"Yes, there's a principle, so there's nothing we can do. My sister and I both
understand that. Right, sister?”
Orca smiled in a gentle manner, asking Pandora's consent.
Cassis looked down at the uninvited guests and left.
"By the way, is the rice here delicious? I feel empty because I've been eating beef
jerky and grass for days.”
After Cassis disappeared, Orca brazenly asked the people who were dragging him.
Pandora and other people laughed in vain, feeling embarrassed by Orca's composure.
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"You got a visitor, didn't you? It's a bit chaotic out there today."
Cassis's eyes flew to her when Roxana spilled like she was passing by.
He seemed to have noticed that Orca was in a troublemaker's mind for a while.
"It's not a guest, it's an uninvited guest."
Cassis spoke as if it were insignificant.
"Then why don't you use the annex?"
"As I said, I'm not a guest."
Cassis' attitude was so determined that Roxana almost laughed without realizing it.
But isn't this too trivial a treatment?
"First of all, it's a Whiperion. Can I do that?”
Cassis' hand, which was stretching out to a glass of water on the table, stopped.
He looked at Roxana as if he knew how.
Soon after, he remembered what he had forgotten for a while and breathed a faint
breath.
Roxana blinked her eyes naturally.
Cassis's guess was that she had heard of Orca Whiperion's visit to Fedelian via a
German butterfly.
Of course, I don't know if I can describe it as a visit.
"Well, it doesn't matter to me."
Soon Roxana lowered her head again and continued eating.
Cassis said nothing else about it.
There was a reason why Roxana didn't ask for an explanation, but even if it wasn't,
Cassis didn't want to tell her about Orca.
But I couldn't figure out why I felt this way.
No...
In fact, it wasn't really something I didn't know. I'm just pretending I don't
know.
Somehow, his appetite dropped and Cassis looked down at the plate in front of him
with a slight frown.
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How to Protect the Heroine's Brother Episode 85
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"Head is…."
Cassis, who came into Roxana's room shortly after Sylvia's visit, dimly hardened
his face.
His gaze was fixed on Roxana's head.
"Silvia tied me up."
The long gold hair was loosely braided in one, tied with a dark red ribbon similar
to the color of her pupils.
"Strange?"
"No."
There was nothing that didn't suit Roxana, so I could answer that without
hesitation.
However, Roxana's hairstyle now looked like Orca.
Of course, Sylvia had never seen an orca, so she would have done it without
knowing.
But Roxana...….
Cassis briefly stood still and caught Roxana in sight before approaching her.
Soon a slow touch touched her hair hanging down.
"……did you ask Sylvia to tie you up like this yourself?"
Perhaps because of the mood, a barren voice passed by my ears.
"No, I said you can do whatever you want, and Sylvia did this."
Roxana replied calmly as if she didn't know what Cassis was thinking.
Cassis' hands wandered covertly around the ribbon tied to gold hair.
It's as if I'm going to take it out right now and throw it away somewhere.
The eyes looking down at the red ribbon were also fierce and sharp like a hungry
beast in front of its prey.
After a while, Cassis managed to shake off the intense temptation and put his hand
down.
Then he returned to his usual calm appearance and told Roxana.
"I can't have dinner with you tonight.”
"I heard it from Sylvia.”
"I'll be back as early as I can, so don't think about starving."
Cassis pretended not to know that Roxana's face was full of complaints.
"Then I'll be back."
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"Hey, I didn't know there would be such a beautiful woman in the city. "If I had
known that there would be such a fateful encounter, I would have attended the
fellowship."
At dinner time, only Orca was bright among the four people present.
Every time he opened his mouth and threw a word, everyone but Orca cooled down.
He looked like a municipal jubilee who was flirting with a woman he liked.
His clear and transparent appearance, like a piece of glass, was quite inexpensive.
"Fate, I have no idea.”
Sylvia struck down Orca's words in a cold manner. Still, he didn't give in.
"No, think about it. Sylvia is as beautiful as a flower and I'm as beautiful as a
butterfly, so we can be a perfect match. Oh, but my beauty is as bright as a
flower, so I'll play the role of a flower and Sylvia can play the butterfly.
Sylvia, do you like butterflies?”
As Orca continued, the expressions of the three people sitting around the table
changed in various ways.
Cassis cooled down, Sylvia couldn't hide her absurdity, and Pandora looked at Orca
as if she was talking about something crazy.
"The white sorcerer. If you keep talking to my brother frivolously, I'll send him
back to where he was yesterday."
Cassis warned coolly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm usually very shy, so the more nervous I get, the more I talk.
If you're offended by my rambling remarks, I apologize, Miss Sylvia."
Orca apologized politely, but the content was still absurd.
To be very shy was to be laughed at by people and magicians all over the world who
knew Orca.
"One more thing. I never allowed a name. Call me Miss Fedelian."
"Haha, I will. But I want you to call me Orca."
But after that, there was a rather normal conversation.
Orca spoke to Sylvia quite frequently, apparently interested in her. Sometimes
Cassis stopped him when he was being too outspoken.
While exchanging stories a few times, Orca's speech gradually decreased.
Later on, he shut up, somehow disappointed.
However, Sylvia seemed just relieved that his attention had drifted away from her.
"Ugh, suddenly my stomach...….”
Then, he suddenly swept his chest and stomach, complaining of discomfort as if Orca
was lying on his stomach.
"Did you get sick from eating only grass outside for a while and eating something
greasy?"
Like that, Orca was even sweating.
"Oh, all of a sudden, Mother Nature's energy in the colon...….”
'Don't say dirty things, run away if you're in a hurry!'
Pandora shouted to Orca in fear.
Orca rushed out of the restaurant in a hurry to ask for his understanding.
"Huiperion's family style must be quite free."
"Orca's the one-of-a-kind thing...….”
Pandora groaned and murmured as Sylvia turned around and talked.
She wanted to go in there if there was a rat hole.
Cassis winked as soon as Orca left the restaurant.
The two men standing by the door of the dining room were silent and disappeared
behind Orca.
"I apologize for Orca's rudeness."
Pandora gritted her teeth at Orca inside and defended him to the brothers and
sisters of Federlian.
"Maybe I haven't fully adapted to the new environment because I've been living
outside for a while."
Miuna Gouna Orca was the successor to Whiperion.
"We also feel responsible for this intrusion. My ability to control the water was
somewhat insufficient, so I and Orca were searching the area's habitat and
unintentionally crossed the fedelian gates."
So he couldn't let the family have a shameful impression.
"I'm sorry that I missed the timing earlier, even though I had to get permission to
investigate the Masu habitat in advance."
I don't know why there's a person who pooes and someone who cleans it, but anyone
had to fix it anyway.
Furthermore, Pandora was deeply moved by the fact that the harness used to cross
the gate of Pedelian belonged to her.
"Fedelian is familiar with the unique disposition of white Masusa. I've already
finished writing with Whiperion, so I don't need to explain this."
Cassis spoke in a formal tone as if he were not interested in Pandora's personal
excuses.
The voice was so dry that I felt heartless.
Listening to what he said, he seemed to have already seen through the fact that
this happened by Orca's arbitrary decision.
"Thank you for saying so."
Of course, what Cassis said was not to defend Pandora, but she pretended not to
know.
Cassis' dry eyes briefly touched Pandora and soon fell.
After that, however, Pandora stared at the Cassis for a while.
She was secretly admiring.
"Looking at this, the prince of Qing has become very nice, right?’
When I saw him a few years ago, he was a softer and more finite impression, but the
atmosphere changed like this.
Of course, even then, Cassis Pedelian boasted a beautiful charm like the light of
dawn, not lacking in the word of a noble.
However, looking at Cassis now, I could see that he was a half-baked fruit at that
time.
Pandora looked over the Cassis secretly.
In fact, she was busy peeking at Cassis since she first entered the dining room.
Until now, Ryuzak Gastor was my favorite. But the prince of Qing was surprisingly
very...….’
A strange light flashed through Pandora's eyes for a moment.
'Then shall we make it mine while we're here?’
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Orca walked out of the dining room, clutching her belly and walking down the hall.
When I explained the status to the user, he kindly told me where to go soon.
Orca expressed her gratitude and hurried back.
But he wasn't suffering from stomachache, feeling a real need for excretion, as it
appears.
The sharp silver bullet moved his eyes with a keen eye.
Cassis Pedelian was quick to sense. I can't believe you're sending someone right
after you.
However, Orca was specialized in sneaking away from their eyes, the landowner, in
the realm of the object.
He easily managed to get rid of his pursuers.
"It's been a long time since they've been suspicious."
Orca stepped on the shadows and stared at the distant building.
It was a place with an annex.
Somehow, strange energy seemed to flow out from there.
Orca's animal instincts were remarkably advanced during the pursuit of the spells
and living among them.
Facing Sylvia at the dinner, she was convinced that she was not the owner of the
German butterfly.
Above all, the unique clear energy of the fedelian was not compatible with the
poison butterfly.
In addition, Sylvia herself did not seem to be interested in taming the beast.
At first, he suspected that he might be pretending to know nothing and taking it
away.
But as we talked more, I didn't think it was right.
"That way!"
Jeez.
Orca started running away from those who had already followed him.
As expected, his destination was an annex that touched his five senses.
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Is it just my feeling?
No wonder her eyes looking at Cassis were unusual.
I've been talking to you since I've been telling you to eat, but I've been peeking
at Cassis.….
No matter how much I looked at it, it was definitely black-hearted.
The real Pandora doesn't like Ryuzak, does she?
It was already after quite a lot of changes to the novel, so there was nothing
strange about it.
But why? While I was thinking about it, I felt a little upset.
Of course, there was no reason for me to do that.
It was probably because I shared a fairly long time of view with the German
butterfly after a long time, and I had a headache.
I watched the four people sitting around the big table for a moment and soon cut
off the connection with the German butterfly.
After that, I opened the door of the terrace and went out.
Where I am now was Cassis' room.
I had nothing to do anyway, so I was just going to wait here until he came.
Night sponsorship had its own style.
I leaned my upper body against the railing of the terrace and captured the view
outside.
Then suddenly, the low whisper that I heard not long ago was pushed by the subtle
scent of sponsorship and flowed into my ears.
"That day, when you left Agrice...….”
You wouldn't have cared if I wasn't the one who gave up.”
"But I wouldn't have said that if it weren't for you.”
I exhaled slowly.
……I shouldn't have followed you.
Things that I didn't consider much at that time have now slowly weighed down my
mind.
While I was with Cassis, I felt like I was getting some footprints one by one.
That day, I thought I shouldn't have just followed Cassis.
I raised my arm on the railing and leaned my face on it.
The hair hanging down on the back slipped under the shoulder.
Perhaps the red ribbon that Sylvia tied to me had been loosened.
Sarak.
Suddenly, a ribbon released from my hair was pushed away by the wind that followed.
Oh. Sylvia gave it to me, so I don't think I should lose it.
Sylvia's face, who was happy to tie a ribbon by braiding my hair, suddenly came to
mind.
When I just lifted up my body leaning against the railing, I heard a rustling sound
from below.
"What, suddenly a string came from somewhere...….”
It was a beautiful man with light blue hair who appeared in the shadow of a tree
with a red ribbon.
He was definitely Orca Whiperion.
There was no question as to why Orca was here.
The next moment, the eyes facing each other widened.
He looked up at me as if he had even forgotten to breathe.
There was a great embarrassment inside the big floating frozen silver circle.
"……Water?"
Then I frown at the whisper that leaked from Orca.
"Is it an animal...? The new evolutionary species, the human-type marmul?"
Orca had a puzzled look on her face and was still talking about that crap.
"No, I've never heard of such a thing...….”
"Orca Whiperion."
At that moment, a cold voice like a lump of ice fell heavily over Mi-sung's voice.
What appeared this time was Cassis. There was a chill blowing in his face.
"I can't believe you've been poking around in the fedelian without permission, I
didn't get the warning.”
Looking at the situation, Orca, who was in the dining room, seemed to have sneaked
out of the place.
Cassis noticed it and immediately followed.
However, Orca still looked at Cassis with a bewildered face.
"No……...the prince of the Qing, can you see that in your eyes right now? I don't
think that's a human being at all...….”
Cassis's eyes were lifted when he heard him.
He made eye contact with me for a moment and dropped his eyes on Orca again.
"What, is it really only visible to me? So that's the spirit?"
"You must have preferred where you stayed until yesterday. Then I'll do whatever
you want."
How he interpreted Cassis' inaction, Orca opened his mouth with his signature.
"Take me."
Cassis ignored him and ordered his followers coolly.
They held Orca's arms at the command of Cassis.
But Orca was still looking at me with a face that she didn't know what was what.
Eventually, he was carried away by Cassis' men in rapture.
"Why are you out there?"
Cassis' attitude toward me was distinctly different from when he faced Orca.
I felt clearly that the coldness was deflected by the voice handed to me.
The men who were still behind him quietly withdrew.
I found something like the remains of a piece of cold glass still stuck in Cassis'
eyes.
I somehow knew what he was thinking now.
It wasn't my feelings for me, but I wanted to comfort myself because I thought I
was in the cause.
So I said.
"I've been waiting for you.”
Then Cassis shut up and looked up at me.
"Are you all here now?”
"……yes."
"You're here really early, as I promised."
I pulled out of the railing on the terrace and added.
"Then come up. I'll be in your room."
Cassis stared at me without an answer and finally got out of his seat.
Only then did I leave the terrace and enter the room.
After that, we had a late dinner time together in Cassis's
Cassis had already roughly filled his stomach at the dinner hall, so he didn't eat
properly and watched me eat in front of him.
Cassis and I didn't say anything about the Orca we just saw.
Another day has passed like that.
Then the next day, the owner and hostess of the fedelian who were away returned.
* * *
As Cassis said.
It was true that the owner and wife of the fedelian were away from the mansion.
They returned to Fedelian, marking the gap that lasted for about 10 days.
I stepped into the main building of Pedelian for the first time at the call of
Richelle.
The thought I had so far has been overshadowed by him wanting to meet me as soon as
he returned to the mansion.
So I was guided to the place that appeared to be Richel's office.
It was surprising that I was put into such an inner space.
Perhaps it implies the importance of the story to be shared from now on.
knock, knock
"It's Miss Roxana Agrice."
The person who guided me stood in front of the door, knocked, and announced my
visit.
After a big breath and enough time to exhale, a response was heard from the inside.
"Come on in."
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After a while I got out of Richel's office.
And as soon as I did that, I ran into someone who was coming towards me. The
distance was less than 20 steps away.
She was a woman with a graceful and elegant atmosphere.
I and she both faced each other and stopped moving for a while.
My eyes opened wide for a moment.
However, the woman soon cleared her expression and came straight to me.
"You seem to have already finished talking."
Perhaps she was going to visit Richelle's office.
I noticed without difficulty that she was a fedelian's mistress.
After that, I said hello to her first.
"Yes, I just woke up from my seat. I'm sorry I couldn't say hello to you earlier."
"Name?"
"This is Roxana."
"Yes, I'm Jeanne."
Like me, she took off her surname and introduced herself by name only.
I realized that it was a consideration for me and felt strange feelings again.
"Why do you blame yourself for the delay in exchanging greetings? There's a reason
why we've been away the whole time. It's just that the situation wasn't right, so
don't worry."
Jeanne's eyes glanced at my face for a moment. The calm eyes slowly looked at my
appearance and passed by.
Then she smiled small in time.
"I'd like to talk to you a little more, but I just saw Cassis said Cassis."
When I heard it, I unintentionally moved my eyes to the hallway behind her.
But Cassis was nowhere to be seen from where we stand now.
"I'd like to treat you to tea soon as a welcome gift. I'll send you a message
soon."
Feeling impossible to define exactly, I gave a long look to the person in front of
me.
But he managed to whisper.
"……Thank you for your hospitality."
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The view quickly increased. It was because Cassis hugged me just as he did in the
annex.
"…...I didn't mean I couldn't walk right now."
What the hell is this?
When I protested with embarrassment, Cassis glanced at me.
"Really? You must have misunderstood because you made it unclear.”
No, what the hell was unclear...….
"Now that you know, I'll drop you off, right?
"Your stride delayed the journey between the annex and the main building by about
five minutes. It's faster to just go like this.”
After an insensitive voice, Cassis began to move.
It was not fair to say anything because it was a monotonous accent that seemed to
simply weigh efficiency and inefficiency.
It was clear that even if I said something more this time, I wouldn't listen to it
by ear.
"Sigh."
Yeah, it's comfortable to give up...….
Eventually, I sighed and put my chin on Cassis' shoulder.
As a result, I could see Orca and Pandora, who naturally turned their backs to me a
while ago.
They were opening their mouths bigger than before when they saw us. The round eyes
seemed to roll down right away.
When I saw their faces, I was speechless again.
"You really don't care about other people's eyes at all...….”
After a while, somehow I also murmured with resignation.
"It's just that I don't put that part first in this situation.”
Cassis replied calmly.
I put my head on his shoulder and looked up at the clear sky.
Perhaps because of the mood, the weather seemed clearer and brighter now than when
I went backwards on this road earlier.
Then, when I looked down again, I could find that each person who was going back
and forth inside the fedelian was looking at this side, embarrassed or hardened
like a rock.
Sylvia, who appeared just in time, was also shocked to see Cassis and me.
She soon smiled merrily and crept back again disappear.
Oh...
I buried my face in Cassis' shoulder, feeling in an indescribable mood.
* * *
I went out on the terrace to get some fresh air and found an unexpected person
there.
The round top of the persimmon was well blended with the grass and leaves around
it, just like a protective color.
Maybe she felt my presence, so she looked up under the terrace.
"Oh, hello!"
Ollie greeted me in a polite manner.
Even if she pretended not to be, I was embarrassed by her behavior, whether she was
shaken by her encounter.
"Okay, bye."
I said hello to Olin first and asked him.
"Why are you here?”
She saw it as she moved from Agrice to Fedelian and had never met Cassis since.
I've been confined to the annex except for a short visit to the main building when
I met Richel.
So it was natural that we didn't have to see each other's faces.
But for some reason now she was standing like a sentry under the terrace of my
room.
"There was an order to increase the security of the annex."
Oh, is it because of Orca?
When I heard that, I remembered the past and nodded as if I knew.
"I don't think it's enough to just be on guard around the annex, so I'm going to
stand guard three layers from now on. That's why I'm in charge of this place."
Olin explained so, blurring her expression.
Somehow she seemed to feel ashamed. It was because of Orca's work.
When Orca sneaked into the annex, they were standing guard under the command of
Cassis.
Nevertheless, it seemed to bother me that I was allowed to infiltrate the inside
because I missed the orca.
But it would have been inevitable for them.
Because isn't Orca the hero of the novel?
First of all, there was a stigma of being a white masquerade.
Orca's physical abilities have to be great, as he has been a man who has not died
in the midst of the creatures.
In particular, it was clear that his agility and ability to hide signs would be the
best of the three male protagonists.
Therefore, it was natural that it was difficult for others to catch Orca as long as
he decided to.
Then, a small noise flowed from far away.
I don't know what it is, but there seemed to be a disturbance on the back of the
annex.
Orca again? I heard you got caught trying to hide in the annex.
Why do you want to crawl in here like that...….
It was even more uncomfortable because the area where he appeared was on the
sponsorship side.
It's not far from the terrace where I ran into Orca last time.
Seeing that I kept looking for the back of the annex, I thought I was mistaken for
my room in Cassis' room last time.
Did you happen to notice that I am the owner of a German butterfly? Is that why
he's trying to get into the annex?
Thinking about that, I fixed my eyes to the place where the noise came from.
"No matter what happens, we'll protect you, so feel safe."
What he thought of when he saw me like that, Olin looked at me with a stronger look
than before and said.
She even had a sense of duty on her face. It was also very reliable.
She seemed to think that she should protect me from orcas and other dangers.
I didn't know that she thought I was vulnerable because she saw me struggling like
a sick chicken all the way here.
Or it could have been because Cassis treated me like a sick man.
Well, I somehow felt a little subtle either way.
I smiled faintly and thanked her and went back into the room.
* * *
It turned out that Olin wasn't his last name but his first.
Originally, her full name was Olly Olivia, similar to her last name.
As a result, he has been called "Olin Olin" or "Ollie Ollie" since he was young and
has been teased.
So instead of doing so, I told him to take off his castle and call him Olin until
today.
As a result, he said that it is now more comfortable to be called by name, not by
last name.
I heard it directly from Olin, who will stand guard under the terrace of my room
from now on.
For your information, Cassis calls all his subordinates by their first names, not
their last names.
It was not a very useful conversation, but this was surprisingly not bad either.
Whenever I talked to him, he was embarrassed, but he answered me every time I
asked.
Of course, that didn't mean that I talked to her often.
When I sometimes go out on the terrace and get some air, it's a bit hard to ignore
even though I know there's a post underneath, so I just used to say hello lightly.
Furthermore, the conversation with her was somehow okay to change the mood.
This is because I have often fallen into thoughts by myself since I met Lee Shell.
"But I think we should talk about this now. It's about Agrice."
The words I heard that day resonated in my head several times a day.
"I told you to do whatever you want for Cassis, so choose your own. Do you want to
hear?"
If I had given a different answer at that time, I would have felt lighter than now.
But I will definitely make the same choice even if I go back to that moment.
Therefore, this burnout was definitely my responsibility.
For that reason, I often get lost in thought alone whenever I was on the terrace or
in the room.
Then in the late afternoon, I went into Cassis' room.
He was away from the annex.
Cassis has been keeping me alive these days.
I still didn't know what else to explain to him what he was doing to me.
When Cassis put his lips together and let go of the clean energy that resembles him
in me, the warmth slowly circulated in his body and his head became clear.
In some ways, the dirt on the chest seemed to be purified.
A while ago, Cassis did the same thing to me before he left.
However, he did nothing more than simply put his lips together.
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I had a dream.
It was the last night in Agri£e that finally reached the point where we went back
in time.
I didn't even know that I was dreaming like this because I met Richelle.
I was in Lant's office.
The frosty air there and the smoky scent of herbs that were soaked like black
stains in it were still clear.
But in the meantime, a different smell was mixed.
It was a refreshing and clear scent that was different from Rant's usual awakening
agent.
Oh, yeah, I was wearing Cassis's clothes.
I was drinking in the outerwear given by Cassis, whom I met in Wigdrasil.
Jeremy was tasked with evacuating the passengers and disarming the soldiers.
Then, Deon opened the tightly closed door and came inside.
Even in the dark, the red eyes that glowed immediately caught the eye.
He approached me with a low sound of footsteps.
Did I face him straight back then or close my eyes as if I were turning away?
I don't remember what I was like then, but now I was on the latter side.
Something cold came suddenly to my cheek.
Somehow beyond the distant consciousness, I felt someone's cold hand lightly
brushing my face.
There was a person who was associated with the cool temperature above the skin.
But he never touched me this way.
He and I were not that kind of relationship, and he and I both knew very well that
he would not try such a thing to me just as I would not allow him to.
The gap slowly returned to my mind.
Already, the sun had fallen completely, and his son-in-law was dark.
A black figure was reflected in the dim view.
Oh……. Is it finally here?
At that moment, I thought so casually.
So I called out the name of the person I saw in my dream.
"……Deon?"
The hand that touched my cheek stopped.
Only then did I realize something was wrong.
Finally, it was Cassis who came into my eyes that completely disappeared.
"Deon?"
A low recited voice fell heavily from the head.
The cold energy that Cassis had been buried outside spread to me. His hand fell
completely off me.
"……I've never thought I looked like him."
There was a sharp wind blowing from Cassis' eyes looking down at me.
"I don't know why that name came out of your mouth that was asleep in my room.”
Whispering so low, Cassis smiled dimly.
But it was definitely not a smile made out of pleasure.
I looked up at Cassis and took a deep breath. After that, he slowly exhaled and
lifted his lying body.
"It doesn't mean anything else. I just mistook it in my sleep."
I hoped the Cassis would let it go, but this time it didn't go my way.
"Then you called me Deon in Wigdrasil."
On the last day of the harmony meeting, it was still a deep night before dawn.
As Cassis said, I mistook him for Deon at that time.
But it was because I saw Cassis after three years.
In addition, at that time, his face was eaten by the darkness, so he misunderstood
the atmosphere and body type.
"You must have had a dream of him coming out.”
A dry voice stuck in my ear.
I felt this situation was heavy.
The thought of not being able to explain what is inside me with any words made me
silent.
So I tried to get out of bed completely to get out of my seat.
However, my hand on the bed was pressed against Cassis' hand from the top.
Then the distance between him and me narrowed.
I was bitten backward reflexively, but the Cassis tilted its upper body forward,
making it closer than before.
So I ended up looking like I was trapped by him.
"You've been waiting for Deon Agrice so far?”
Frozen gold eyes penetrated me from the front.
I gently bit my lips.
He was caught by Cassis and tried to move his tightly fixed hand, but it was not
cringe-worthy.
It was natural for Cassis to react like this.
In my opinion, my voice, which I called out Deon's name in my sleep a little while
ago, gave off a feeling of welcoming what I've been waiting for.
But whatever Cassis is thinking now, it was different from the truth.
I didn't know what happened to Deon, who broke up on the last day of Agrice.
Whether he's dead or alive.
But if he was alive somewhere, I thought he would definitely visit me.
No matter where I am, if I'm Deon, I won't give in.
When I woke up and saw the black figure in front of me, I thought it was now.
That was why I inadvertently said Deon's name.
"……not like that."
At that moment, I resigned myself, and, funnyly, I felt my heart sink.
Even while I was in Fedeli, I always had the idea that Deon might come to visit me.
So I didn't consider the side of the Cassis to be my real destination.
Somehow, in my own ending, which I have sometimes painted myself, there was me
dying at the hands of Deon.
"……there's something strange about your relationship with him."
A heavy, cold, and sharp voice pierced my eardrums.
"You never asked me about anyone but Rand Agrice. About Deon Agrice."
My breathless eyes were looking deep into my eyes. As if I'm not going to miss an
inch of loopholes.
"So that day, I said, It's all up to you."
But after hearing that from Cassis, I couldn't decide anything.
Because I still didn't know whether Deon died there that day or lived there.
"Do you want to go back to Agrice?”
The whispering low and small voices scattered in the air with breath.
The power of grabbing my hand became stronger.
Cassis said at a close distance as if his lips would touch him right away.
"But I won't let you go.”
As soon as I heard it, my heart was tight.
While everything else was opaque, Cassis seemed clear enough to grasp what he
wanted and what I wanted.
So inevitably, I ended up smiling vaguely.
"Yes."
Without a single point of shaking, the straight eyes became closer.
Every time we spoke to each other, lips with similar temperatures bumped into each
other.
"If you go somewhere else, I'll bring you back.”
"Yes."
It was strange.
If it was Cassis who was chasing me, I just wanted to get him.
Obviously, not everyone feels this way in life.
Cassis kissed me on the lips like biting.
I usually treat myself so carefully, but at least kisses were as wild and
persistent as a storm as I did last time.
What should I do……. I felt a little sad about dying.
I felt like I became a very precious person when I was with Cassis.
He made me feel like I deserve to live in this world and be loved by someone.
Everyone I met here welcomed me rather than kicked me out, so I wondered if I could
really stay here.
So this guy, you want me to keep it?
Even if it's not that long, why don't I just collect it until I die?
With that thought, I wrapped my arm around Cassis' neck and pulled him closer.
Anyway, I was a selfish person, and I was a woman who did anything to get what I
wanted while living.
So let's just bury everything else under my chest like a grain of sand and just do
what my heart moves...….
After shaking off my worries so far, I finally decided to do so.
Then, like the flying dandelion hole, the heart that had been floating in the air
for a while and could not sink anywhere began to fall slowly with weight.
Yeah, I should have it.
Maybe Cassis would regret his decision to choose me in the future, but...….
I'm sorry, that was none of my business.
* * *
The next day, I woke up with the most refreshing feeling ever.
Cassis was not in the annex again.
It was not unusual, but I felt a little dissatisfied today.
I went out to the terrace of my room.
"Lady, good afternoon."
Oh, was it afternoon? I didn't know that time had already passed.
I frowned faintly at the greeting Ollie gave me.
Cassis used to tell Olin in advance if I had any other work that was not scheduled
while I was asleep.
I knew that I often talked to her, so I tried not to wonder.
"What about Cassis?"
"You said you were going to see the Lord. He said he'd be here by 1 o'clock, so
he's probably on his way back by now."
When I heard that, I thought about it for a while and soon decided to pull out of
the railing.
Then Olin, who felt something from me, asked.
"Are you going to meet me?”
"I just wanted to walk."
"Then I'll follow you from behind."
So I left the building and walked along the vegetation road with Olin.
Whether it was true that he was guarding the annex in triplicate, he was able to
run into several security guards while moving.
They were very surprised and embarrassed to see me.
It was impressive to see them trying not to show off, but their nursery rhymes have
been conveyed to me.
Still, they greeted me neatly. Although I couldn't face my face straight.
I also greeted them face to face.
Then passed them and went out of the annex.
It seemed that the security was also intended to prevent Orca. They didn't stop me
from leaving the annex.
However, some of the people who stood guard behind me followed.
I suddenly wondered how much Orca has done outside of common sense in general, so
he was so vigilant.
Well, I saw something in the novel, so I was convinced to treat him as a character
of caution.
Whether he intended to keep his promise that he would return soon, he was able to
find Cassis shortly after leaving the annex.
But he wasn't alone.
Blue hair, which resembles the sky on a clear summer day, meandered down on a
voluminous body.
The black yose-like eyes smiled agnosticly at Cassis.
Cassis was with Pandora.
I wondered what the two were talking about while standing face to face.
It was even more so because Pandora was smiling the whole time as if we were having
a very pleasant conversation.
Of course, Cassis' face was very dull, as opposed to Pandora's.
I narrowed my eyes to a little by little.
Pandora's cunning gesture and intentions contained in her eyes were too blatant.
She was definitely a seductive woman.
So if I saw her in a different situation, I would have thought she was pretty
without any grudges.
But now...….
At that time, Cassis turned his head to where I was, as if he were trying to
identify someone approaching him.
At the moment of eye contact, the warm gold eyes were different in color.
Cassis had never imagined he would meet me now.
His eyes, which showed signs of surprise for a moment, calmed down like a calm
current.
It was soft and sweet as if young emotions would melt in it.
I felt satisfied when I saw it.
Pandora, who had been looking at Cassis' face all along, seemed to have witnessed
the same thing as me.
The black eyes that slipped on me away from Cassis were clearly alert.
I approached Cassis without a rush.
Soon after Cassis found me, he left Pandora alone and turned to me.
So the distance he traveled was much longer than the distance I moved.
Pandora was also seen following Cassis without going back immediately.
"Carsis."
"Why did you come out? You must not be feeling well yet."
He opened his mouth almost simultaneously.
Cassis' face, looking down at me, was a little stiff. The faintly young feeling
there was concern for me.
Instead of answering, I looked at him and rather asked him a question.
"Why did you just leave this morning? Without waking him up."
At that moment, Cassis shook his eyes small for a moment.
When I heard my voice melted sweeter than usual, I looked stiff.
I didn't stop there, but I put my hand on his arm and gently adhered it to him.
I felt the muscles of the arms in close contact hardened a little.
After a short gap, Cassis took off his closed lips.
"………I think it's better not to wake him up because he's asleep.”
I exhaled a faint breath and spoke a little grumpy.
"It's because you didn't let me sleep too late.”
At that moment, Cassis was silent, and the air surrounding the audience became more
relaxed.
It was understandable that what came out of my mouth was a mysterious word that
would leave me with a strange suspicion.
It's not a loud voice, but it probably didn't reach the ears of the minions who are
far away, but it must be Pandora who was right near me.
The evidence showed that she looked alternately at me and Cassis with her mouth
wide open.
Of course, Cassis and I didn't do anything last night that would have to be labeled
red.
Well, as the atmosphere flowed like that, I kissed a very dangerous level.
And then he lost control and let his upper body relax a little bit or not.
And I think I touched a place that was a bit far away.
The reason why I'm saying this unclearly is because I was doing a lot of that with
Cassis last night, but suddenly I got a fever again and my mind went back and
forth.
After that, I remembered that Cassis pushed me in a lot of clear energy.
For that reason, I slept like a log all the time and opened my eyes at this time of
sunrise.
So even now, Cassis spoke to me in a worried tone as soon as he saw me.
Anyway, so just to get to the point, Cassis and I didn't play dangerous games last
night, this was it.
"Yes……. I think I passed by last night. I'll be careful next time."
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I don't know what Cassis thought of what I said, but for now he didn't contradict
me.
It was satisfying for me to prove what I said was true as I intended.
"Hmm, hm."
Pandora, who was listening to Cassis and my conversation, coughed as if she had
managed to regain her composure.
"You're the guest who was staying in the Fedelian one step ahead of us."
She pretended to know me and turned the tide of conversation.
I said with a smile as if I had finally found her now.
"Oh, we met in front of the corridor last time."
Pandora's eyes became hazy when she saw my smile.
It seems that Whiperion's cousins were born with a constitution that was
particularly vulnerable to my beauty.
Still, Pandora quickly came to her senses compared to last time if she had any
learning ability. And I quickly cleared up my expression.
"I'm Pandora Whiperion. Your name?"
"It's Roxana."
He did not give his last name.
Perhaps that's why Pandora seemed confused.
I even felt her deducing my identity hard in her head.
There seems to be a lot of speculation, but it seems to be still in a stage where
we are not sure.
Cassis' eyes also fell on my face. But he didn't say anything about my words and
actions.
"I can't see the other one. I want my ribbon back."
Watching Pandora agonize, I calmly continued.
This time, the response was first drawn from Cassis, who was next to Pandora.
"It's a ribbon?"
"Yeah, the one Sylvia tied to my hair. I was out on the terrace, and the wind blew
me away."
"Then I'll have Sylvia return it right away.”
Pandora has been changing her expression every minute watching me talk to Cassis.
But soon she smiled and talked to me as if she had never done it before.
"Roxana, why don't we take a walk in the garden if you don't mind?”
In Pandora's eyes toward me, there was a black poison hidden in secret that she
could not hide.
I tilted my head slightly looking at her like that.
You're a weird person. Why do you look at me like that?
It's like I was about to put the ingredients in my mouth when I was about to steal
a bowl from others.
But the Cassis was mine from the beginning.
Now I could see why Pandora, who peeked at Cassis at the dinner, felt nervous.
Perhaps I've been thinking so ever since I first met Cassis in Agrice three years
ago.
I have ownership of Cassis.
And the connection between him and me has never been cut off while we were apart.
"It's fate that we met like this, so I'd like to have a friendly chat with you."
"Just the two of you?"
"Yes."
Pandora asked me with a very friendly attitude, but her eyes looking at me
contained the meaning of challenge.
I accepted with a big smile.
"Yes, of course."
Then Cassis, who was watching me, frowned at me.
"I'll accompany you."
"No, you're busy."
But I resisted him with a more determined attitude than usual.
Cassis' eyes narrowed for a moment, but I pretended not to see it.
After that, I smiled with my eyes at Pandora.
"Go, Miss Whiperion."
* * *
Roxana was a woman with such dazzling beauty that she wondered, "Is it really a
person?"
Obviously, she must be made up of bones, flesh and blood like everyone else, but I
couldn't think of her on the same line as other humans.
Her beauty was so unique that she felt as if her eyes were opening.
Looking at him walking in the garden with a sprout of sprouts, he said, "If I shape
the scent of spring, will it be like this?I even thought, 'I want to.'
Even the sunlight on her head felt like a sacred halo.
"No, what are you going to do because you're so impressed by the beauty of the
enemy?’
Pandora watched Roxana blankly and came to her senses.
After that, he wanted to slap himself in the face.
Pandora made the same mistake when she first saw her in the corridor.
When I remembered Roxana and Cassis making pathetic noises in front of them, I was
still shuddered with shame.
Oh, I know. I shouldn't have listened to Orca.
Orca, who had recently disappeared from the dining room and had been captured by
his men, was somehow mesmerized.
Then, as if he had eaten something wrong, he said that he saw a woman like a beast
in the annex, and that she was like a spirit, not a person.
As soon as Pandora saw Roxana, she said something similar to Roxana out of
realizing it.
Yeah, I never had the same idea as Orca!
"What were you talking to Cassis a while ago?”
Oh, damn it. Your voice is fantastic.
Is this the sound of dew rolling on grass?
"I was expressing my gratitude for getting back the seized object."
"Oh, you mean the spell you used to cross the gates of the fedelian."
How could there be someone like this in the world?
I could believe it even if the Creator had completely destroyed food and beverage
for days and days to make Roxana.
Perhaps that's why she didn't even feel defeated.
For example, it is completely out of specification and cannot be compared at all.
However, when I think of Cassis and Roxana talking affectionately with each other
like before, I get heated up from the inside.
This time Pandora asked Roxana.
"How long have you known the noble of the Qing Dynasty?”
"It's been three years in terms of the sun.
Cassis Pedelian was very greedy to give up without doing anything like this.
Before meeting Orca, Turobe told me that the woman's identity must be Agri£e that
the prince of Qing took her.
However, it was not understandable how the Fedelian Cassis and Agrice's Roxana
became such a close relationship.
But fortunately, Roxana looked very thin and soft as if she would fall down even if
she hit her once.
Even if someone bothered me a little bit, I felt like I was going to suffer from a
tearful wind right away.
When even Pandora thought of such a scene, she felt that her protective instinct,
which she didn't even know existed inside her, was stimulated.
Last time, I remembered that the prince of Qing walked with her as carefully as a
glass doll.
He said he was not feeling well enough to worry about him today.….
"It's because you didn't let me sleep too late.”
At that moment, it became difficult to manage their expressions because I
remembered their conversation earlier.
Anyway, all of that together, Roxana and Agri£e seemed to be quite a fragile woman
as they seemed.
Then why don't you scare him a little bit and he'll just walk away?
Cassis, of course, seemed to have Roxana in his mind quite deeply, but...….
In any case, the affection between men and women was often distant from the mind
when they moved away from the body.
"So it's been three years since you became as close to the prince of Qing?"
Roxana's eyes were moved by Pandora's question again.
Then she bent her eyes and laughed.
And Pandora solidified her mind with the following answer.
"Yes, the Cassis were mine since we first met.”
When Pandora stopped walking, Roxana also stopped and faced her.
"Miss Roxana, I don't really feel bad for you, but I have to have whatever I want
to be.
Oh, me too.
Roxana thought so inside and stared at Pandora with a helpless look on her face.
"So it bothers me that you're stuck next to the man I dot."
It was the same with Roxana.
"So I need you to get out of my sight.”
Pandora called in her magic.
The jewelry bracelet I got back today sounded clear as if jingle and glass were
bumping into each other.
Come on.
A small wind appeared in front of him, and shortly after that, a huge black figure
appeared in sight.
Mamul Durectus, who looked like an ominous black flame, opened his mouth
threateningly as if he would swallow Roxana right away.
Coooh!
Roxana seemed surprised as Pandora expected.
She opened her eyes round and looked at Pandora's magic.
However, Pandora's voice, which tickled her ear, was far from being frightened.
"Oh, sorry."
After a small whisper, Roxana exhaled a shallow breath.
It looked like a sigh somewhere, but what came to my beautiful face right after
that was a smile that seemed to have melted honey and applied it.
"I didn't mean to do this. But I don't have a hobby of avoiding fights that other
people walked in first."
Unexpectedly, Roxana was smiling deeply regrettable.
The smile before I realized what it meant was thickened in front of me.
Argh!
The next moment, Roxana was buried in a red afterimage that covered the view.
"Then I'll enjoy it."
A sweet whisper that gave off an eerie feeling attached to the ear.
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"Oh, my God."
A drowsy smile formed at the end of the gaze.
Pandora couldn't believe what happened now.
A sweet whisper flowed again to Pandora, whose lips were only pouting in the
dimness.
"You're trying to intimidate me with nothing.”
Butterflies, who ate Pandora's magic in an instant without leaving any trace, flew
toward Roxana.
The ripple effect was enormous, considering that it happened in only a minute.
Pandora murmured in a daze when she saw the red butterflies lurking threateningly
behind Roxana.
"Dog butterflies..."
Shortly after the communication with Mamul was cut off, a blue jewel of the
bracelet on his arm cracked with a crackling sound.
Pandora couldn't blink and looked at the scene in front of her.
Roxana, standing in a flash among the red butterflies, was displaying a noble and
dangerous beauty like the queen of the spells.
I didn't understand how I could think of this woman as weak until now.
Anyway, Pandora's takeout was a low-grade object, so even if he died, it was not a
waste.
Rather, the surprise, shock, and awe of the owner of the German butterfly were much
greater.
There are rare creatures that any Masuja would covet with curiosity, and the German
butterfly was one of them.
Even Pandora lent Turobe to Orca when she heard that she had found a poisonous
butterfly before entering the fedelian.
So Pandora forgot for a moment that Roxana's poisonous butterfly had eaten her
magic and stared blankly at her.
Meanwhile, Roxana thought it was lame.
I thought there was something else to get the magic out.
Pandora's magic was less than a bite to the extent that the German butterfly
complained that it was not enough to distinguish the liver.
However, nowadays, thanks to Cassis, the German butterfly can be controlled as
before.
So the butterflies did not go wild without her permission.
For some time, it seemed to be due to its predation by sweeping the outer marmal
habitat.
"I'm sorry to hear that, but Cassis is already mine, and I can't stand anyone
else's greed for mine."
Roxana said so and smiled at Pandora.
At first glance, he looked gentle, but he seemed to hold a sharp piece of glass in
it.
It contained the meaning of a thorny warning.
Then suddenly Roxana realized that there was not one eye watching her.
As I moved my eyes, Cassis stood tall and looked at her not far away.
Behind him was Orca.
Orca was dressed more splendidly today as they wore a series of accessories.
Somehow he looked thrilled and looked fiercely at Roxana as if he would swallow it.
However, it was not Orca that caught Roxana's attention.
Roxana quietly sent the German butterfly back.
Oh, my. Did you all see it? So where did you start?
I couldn't figure out when Cassis was standing there.
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How foolish of you to focus on threatening Pandora and not knowing that someone
else is coming.
Cassis and Orca, of course, both of them have no clue.
No wonder, I felt something similar to the gaze earlier, but I thought it was not
just an illusion.
Cassis was staring at Roxana with mysterious eyes.
It was a strange look that seemed to have sunk so murky and dark that it didn't
know the end, and on the contrary, it seemed to have an unexpected brightness.
At last, the moment Cassis walked away from the stop, Roxana was stabbed without
realizing it and made excuses.
"I didn't do that first."
Cassis, however, silently hugged Roxana without saying a word about what she had
done.
Roxana suddenly fell into Cassis' arms and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Pandora Whiperion."
Then Cassis looked back at Pandora and said.
"I have treated him with respect in consideration of his trust with Whiperion, but
I have abandoned it first and threatened my people, so I will regard him as an
uninvited guest from this moment on."
Pandora still had a blank face as if she were still lost in the lingering imagery
of the incident.
So Cassis' words seemed to be hard to reach.
"We will not condone and hold you accountable for bringing in the beasts from the
inside of the Fedelian."
Before I knew it, the men standing at the entrance of the garden approached me at
the call of Cassis.
"Hold Pandora Whiperion's spell back and keep her out of the room for a while."
"Yes, sir."
Cassis recited in a cool tone to the end and left the garden with Roxana.
While heading for the annex, a clear energy flowed from the body that came into
contact.
"I'm going straight back to my room because I might have been strangled by a German
butterfly.”
Roxana blinked as she heard a low voice ringing in her ears.
Cassis seemed to have no intention of blaming her for what happened a while ago.
Listening to Pandora's story, it seemed that she already knew that she had pulled
out the spell with the intention of intimidating Roxana first.
So, was Pandora in the garden from the moment she took out the object?
If so, it means that he heard everything Roxana said.
No wonder you looked at her earlier and had a hard expression to explain. If you
say so, I understood everything.
My body was still hot.
Roxana was difficult to tell whether it was heat transferred from Cassis or the
heat that began to spread in her.
The words of Cassis, which I heard in the garden a while ago, were rewound again.
"I have treated him with respect in consideration of his trust with Whiperion, but
I have abandoned it first and threatened my people, so I will regard him as an
uninvited guest from this moment on."
My dearest.
I said she was definitely mine.
Somehow the mouth of my heart tickled.
Perhaps because he has received so much pure energy from Cassis these days, he has
not been hit by such a bad joke.
I didn't even know it was because I recovered too much last night.
Roxana's eyes slid downward.
"If you're really worried...….”
Finally, she slowly opened her lips and whispered in a sugar-coated voice.
"You can heal him. Just like I did last night."
At that moment, Cassis's step stopped sharply.
Soon after, eyes met on the spot.
Roxana smiled beautifully at the intense thirst and longing in her eyes.
As expected, she didn't seem to be the only one who felt sorry for what she
couldn't do last night.
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As soon as he came into the room and closed the door, Roxana kissed Cassis gently
on his chin as if a bird pecked at him. Like you're begging him to do something.
In response, Cassis swallowed Roxana's red lips without any delay.
Breathing and breathing were mixed. The muddy sound of the hot tongue stimulated
the ears.
Heat shot up from the body in one breath.
In a blink of an eye, Roxana lay on a fluffy bed. On top of it, Cassis' solid body
came over.
"Yeah."
Roxana's throat leaked a groan-like groan that seemed to be splitting cats.
The hand on Cassis' shoulder slid down his back.
Cassis' arms, which were wrapped around Roxana's slender waist, were also tightened
stronger.
Cassis fiercely coveted the person in front of him as if the reins had been lifted.
When he finally buried his lips on the white neck of his neck, which was finally
revealed through the loosening of the front leaves, his ears filled with a small
groan.
Even it was so fragrant and sweet that I felt like I was going to get drunk.
At this moment, instinct overwhelmed everything else.
Cassis left a deep mark on her neck, as if she were a predator who carved her mark
on a female.
There was already a trace of his inscription last night. Cassis laid a new trail
next to it.
His hot lips gradually went down through his collarbone.
His big hand covered his round chest.
"Oh, Cassis...….”
As if to seduce him, a heated voice whispered his name as he had a mouthful of the
peak that gave off a sweet fragrance like a ripe fruit.
A hand that didn't know if he was pushing or pulling held his hair so that it
wouldn't hurt.
"Tell me what you said earlier."
Cassis moved his hand and swept Roxana's legs down his waist.
The hem of the clothes on the hand gradually pushed down to reveal white flesh.
"I'm yours?"
Roxana, who lay with her gold hair tangled on a white sheet, showed her dazzling
naked body half-exposed, and her heart was beautiful.
Flowers seemed to have spread on the heated eyes and moist lips.
The red eyes looked up at him from below.
However, the misogyny in her eyes made her feel as if she was looking down from
above.
"Yes, you're mine."
Just as a sweet whisper recited a single truth in the world, it penetrated through
the eardrums without a single shake. Cassis paused for a moment.
"It's been mine for three years.”
A feeling similar to joy devoured him from head to toe.
The remark, which was confirmed again by Roxana's mouth, was terribly satisfactory.
Cassis kissed her again, feeling like a full beast.
All sorts of things without shape poured in as if to swallow the two.
What they were doing was extorting and extorting something from each other with
great greed.
Cassis and Roxana made a mess of their opponents by releasing their desires to the
point where they were horrid throughout the overlap without a single concession.
I felt as if I melted from head to toe with hot heat and became a lump.
The boundary between the two gradually disappeared.
I couldn't think of anything else, just as the only person in contact was each
other's world.
Perhaps we should call it the most complete and perfect fulfillment in the world.
Cassis and Roxana left themselves to their dizzying senses again and again.
Oh...
At this moment, I thought it would be good for the world to end like this.
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"Oh, shit...….”
Jeremy Agri£e looked at the house with almost a skeleton left, and recited abusive
language from the inside.
His face was crumpled as it was.
The time when the sun is slowly setting.
The dark sky showed its majesty and set up a wide tent over its head.
The red-colored Agrice was still a desolate ruin.
The annex that evacuated the users remained intact, but nothing remained in Agrice.
Those who originally stayed in the mansion left and those who would leave remained.
Jeremy gathered people who chose to stay in Agrice and started rebuilding Agrice.
But nothing was easy.
Suddenly, a laugh broke out at the reality that he, who helped make Agrice like
this, is now trying to do the opposite.
Especially at this time of year, the old glory seemed to be the king of the dead if
he saw Agrice, which had collapsed suddenly.
"Oh, shit, but it's not bad to be a king."
Jeremy muttered to himself and smiled fishyly.
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More surprisingly, after a while, Roxana's mother, Sierra, entered the room.
"You're really awake."
She looked at Deon when she opened her eyes and changed her expression small.
But soon, he quickly erased his appearance and spoke to him.
Beth, Sierra's maid, quietly stepped back, and Emily stood next to Sierra.
The outward energy was calm and desolate, but Emily felt a willingness to stop Deon
immediately if he did anything dangerous.
As evidence, Emily stood at an angle between Sierra and Deon.
His eyes looked as if he was looking at a beast on the verge of capture.
"When I saw the senator, he said he was in danger because he was stabbed deep in
the vital points. I heard that if I was a little late, I would have really died.”
Sierra's tone was just monotonous and desolate without warmth.
The same was true of her eyes looking down at Deon.
"They say you need enough rest, so lie down a little longer."
It was a strange situation.
Deon tried to break the shackles that were restraining his limbs, but he rarely
moved as his body wanted.
Every time Deon moved even a little, Emily's eyes caught on him.
"Where am I?"
A horribly cracked rough voice scratched the vocal cords and spit them out.
"What happened to Rand Agrice?"
Everyone didn't answer Deon's question.
The maid standing at the back was covered by Sierra's back and could not see her
face, and Emily still had an expressionless face.
And Sierra's expression was hard to tell.
She watched Deon quietly with eyes that seemed to embrace both soggy and dryness.
"……I think you'd better get some more sleep."
Finally, Sierra clapped her lips, recited them small, and moved on.
Beth, who received her gaze, moved.
Deon slowly opened his mouth again, looking at Sierra's side face.
"Why did you bring me here?”
A long gaze was nailed to Deon's face.
Beth put the lit candle down on the table.
Eventually, Sierra left the room without giving a response to Deon.
The strong scent of sleep was mixed with the air inhaled and swept into the lungs
like a tide.
Being swallowed by an irresistible and intense humiliation, Deon slipped his
eyelids down.
……yes, the smell of the water, and the shackles that bind his body.
Maybe she brought him in for revenge.
It gradually became distant.
Deon closed his eyes without refusing a soft touch that pulled his body under the
deep water.
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Before I knew it, the room was filled with dark darkness.
"Sigh…… yeah."
The wet sound rang out from the lips we faced.
A heated groan was raised like a sweet water as the movement of rubbing the weak
mucous membrane and twisting the tongue.
Roxana's hands were tangled between Cassis' silver hair.
The two were still entangled on the bed.
From day to late in the evening, I was exhausted by the storm of enthusiasm.
I didn't know how many hours had already passed and how many times I had already
accepted Cassis.
The sun, which had risen to the top of the sky when it was last recognized, is now
hidden and cannot be found.
It was bright daylight outside during the political affair, but neither of them
cared about it.
As soon as Roxana's arm, which was wrapped around Cassis's back, slid down, the
movement stopped.
Now neither of them was wearing a thread on their bodies.
When Cassis lifted his upper body slightly using his arm as a support, his upper
body with balanced muscles came into view.
On the neck of the Cassis, the traces of Roxana biting off the excitement were
engraved.
Cassis was more severe than Roxana, so it was clear that her body would be worse
than that now.
"……Hard?"
A voice that sank low enough to make the back of the head tremble flowed into my
ears.
Her eyes looked down at her with a fever that had not yet faded.
Cassis washed and put Roxana's lower lip, which breathed with colorful breaths.
Then he swept her tangled hair and lowered his head to lick her earbuds.
In the meantime, clean energy flowed through the body in contact.
The series of acts were very affectionate and gentle, but I should not have been
deceived.
As a proof, Cassis fixed Roxana's legs to make it wider, and this time washed her
neck thoroughly.
"You're gonna do whatever you want anyway...…, why would you ask…… oops."
A huge stimulus came back strong.
It's not like I'm giving you a bottle or a pill.
What do you do when you get your energy back? I'm pulling the camp out of that ship
again.
When she was criticized for such an idea, a shallow smile spread over her face.
"That's true, too.”
After that, the body overlapped deeper than before, and Roxana breathed out a
suppressed breath.
Really, if you say you're tired, you're going to quit right now.
But that was all a lie. Already a few times, he was ignoring her intention.
I didn't know that she only finds and stimulates places where she responds to such
a topic like ghosts.
Even now, as soon as Cassis touched his body a little bit using his hands and lips,
a groan that was far from the meaning of rejection came out of his mouth.
Roxana fought back because the Cassis got a little disgusted.
"Ugh…."
Then Cassis' eyes were frowned at once. The harsh sound of the leak from him
scratched my eardrum.
Cassis, who was so ascetic and neat that he usually felt holy, was nowhere else at
this momentarily.
Only a man obsessed with lust looked down at her with a burning gaze and poured out
wild kisses as if he were going to eat her.
Eventually, she was released from Cassis only after she reached the apex of
pleasure once again.
Roxana was so exhausted that it was hard to lift a finger.
I looked out the window with a dim view.
The outside, which was revealed through the curtains, was as dark as if it would
not be visible.
I wanted to sleep without thinking about anything.
However, Cassis grabbed a slender ankle and chewed on the tender flesh as if she
had no intention of putting her to sleep.
It was the same part that I touched without realizing it when I was overwhelmed by
impulses when I put on a god to Roxana last time.
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His eyes looked down at Roxana, leaving a tooth mark on his ankle, and there was a
dim glow.
It was still lacking.
I thought I could be satisfied only when I engrave my traces on Roxana's body from
head to toe.
"No more..." Ugh, do it."
Roxana couldn't stand it anymore, so she pulled her ankle out of Cassis' hand.
Of course, it was not until the beginning that Roxana enjoyed this activity,
showing similar activities as Cassis.
But in the end, she picked up the white flag first.
The completely out-of-control Cassis was really no joke.
On this topic, I had no idea how I had endured it until now.
When Roxana pushed out as if it was really too much, Cassis followed her intention
relatively smoothly this time.
Roxana's touch to let go of her ankle remained regrettable.
So far, Cassis has avoided contacting Roxana to the point of being somewhat
decisive.
Of course, the contact was not merely a sign of meaning.
Until now, Cassis would always put her lips together every day to share her
vitality, and carry her in her arms as if she could not even allow Roxana's feet to
touch the floor.
However, except when she was really impatient and gave Roxana a rare deep kiss, she
has been extremely careful about contact with the meaning of sex.
The reason was that I thought it would be just like now.
Cassis had never thought in his life that he knew nothing of moderation.
However, such thoughts have been completely broken by today.
Cassis lay face to face with Roxana and swept the hair off her forehead.
A loving touch and eyes poured down on her.
Roxana's face was loosened up after feeling it.
Cassis's expression when he saw her tired became mysterious.
"Did I bother you too much?"
No, what do you mean you just realized...….
"You don't know that now?"
Instead of reflecting on himself, Cassis said with a shallow breath.
"I need to build up my stamina, too. It's too easy to get tired.”
…...are you crazy?
Roxana unknowingly opened her repulsive eyes and saw Cassis.
"It's not that I get tired easily, it's that you're not normal...….”
But I didn't even have the strength to argue.
So she just clapped her brain like that and buried her face in Cassis' chest.
Cassis also pulled Roxana closer and hugged her.
His hands gently swept up and down her head and back.
"Roxana."
Soon after, Cassis called her name in a drowsy tone.
Somehow, I didn't want an answer, but I just felt like I was alone confirming that
the person next to me was her.
So Roxana didn't answer.
"Roxana."
However, she seems to have been wrong.
He called her in once again.
So this time, Roxana also answered.
"Yes, Cassis...….”
Cassis' arms were big and warm as he lay in bed and hugged her. Maybe that's why my
eyes are closing.
But is it just my feeling?
It's okay that the hand that was sweeping the head went down a little bit, but
somehow it feels like it's moving strangely as it's going through the back of my
back.….
As soon as the slow-sliding touch stimulated the sensitive area, as if to outline
the body, Roxana trembled.
I didn't think it was her mistake. I suddenly fell asleep.
"Wait…. You're not going to do it again, are you?
Roxana asked because she didn't think it would be possible.
Do you mean you still have the energy to do you?
It was ridiculous. You've been doing that all this time.
No, of course, I've just shown my lingering attachment to her ankle, but...….
However, Cassis whispered as if Roxana was not mistaken, with her hair rolled up
and her lips clipped to her white neck.
"Just once."
No, that one time should be...….
However, as soon as the eyes met, there was no objection for some reason.
The Cassis of the night was full of deadly charm than of the day, and it seemed to
be a dream that came to fascinate her.
While Roxana was speechless, Cassis kissed her. It was a very sweet and elaborate
kiss.
The mixed saliva quickly heated up as if it had become an addictive drug.
At that point, Roxana just doesn't know...I felt a sense of
So eventually she gave up rejecting Cassis and accepted the kiss.
The hands of Cassis, who swept his thighs strangely and dug deeper inside, touched
deep.
Roxana groaned small, then pushed Cassis' body and climbed on top of him.
The view was reversed, and this time Roxana looked down at Cassis.
Cassis grabbed Roxana's waist and looked up at her with his eyes slightly frown.
There was a faintly satisfying smile around Roxana's mouth.
As expected, it was a scene that I liked more here.
"This time, I'll do it up there. You are…."
Roxana's hand touched Cassis's eye.
Her hair flowed over the Cassis as she lowered her head. Gold and silver threads
were mixed in one place.
Roxana whispered arrogantly as if ordering Cassis to put his lips together.
"Just groan under my thumb."
At that moment, a hot flash passed through the eyes full of desire that was so dark
that it felt dark.
The golden eyes with regular salt seemed to sparkle.
Roxana really pulled herself in that state.
At the next moment, Cassis, who had pulled Roxana's back somewhat roughly,
hurriedly swallowed her lips.
Roxana enjoyed the reaction of the Cassis and began to move anxiously slowly.
Yes, so it was in a sense Roxana's own gain that eventually the affair that began
again did not end with just one time.
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After a while, I thought about the conversation we had a while ago after breaking
up with Jeanne.
There was something else to think about in her words.
Most of all, Cassis' ability didn't seem to be much more green than I thought.
If it was the power to kill someone by reaction, on the contrary, it was in line
with the word "power enough to revive someone."
Of course, I've seen the power of Cassis before, and I've experienced it several
times in person, so I've known it to some extent.
He did not know that if he breathed in energy, the body would be warm and
energetic, and that the cut with a knife could heal and neutralize the poison in
the body.
But isn't there a level of maturity in everything?
So I've never thought that his healing ability was so unrealistic, apart from being
so great.
But if Cassis makes up his mind now, there's no one he can't find.
The word felt very significant.
Besides, didn't you say Sylvia was completely out of breath?
But she was alive and well now.
So how the hell did Sylvia come back to life?
Cassis said he failed at that time. Then, do you think it's Lee Shell, the head of
the Qing Dynasty?
Then again, Cassis's power was fedelian heredity.
Wait, so what Cassis is doing to me right now might not be just recovery...….
The thought that passed by suddenly made me move around my flinching eyes.
"Miss Roxana?"
Then at one point, a voice of beauty suddenly flowed into my ears.
I glided my eyes without agitation in the direction the voice came in.
"Oh, I haven't seen you in a long time. I heard you've been sick. Fortunately, now
you're all up, huh?”
Orca Whiperion's bright smile permeated the view.
It was a clear and transparent smile like glass, which seemed to disarm anyone.
Of course, it didn't work for me who knew what he was up to.
"You're a hundred horseman."
I let out a slow voice at him.
Behind me was Olly, who followed me from the annex, and behind Orca stood Isidor.
He was giving an ugly look at Orca.
There's no way he's escorting Orca. No matter how hard I look at it, it seems to be
watching Orca.
Perhaps Isidor played the role of following Orca and watching every move.
Until now, he had not done such a thing because he treated him as a guest, but it
seemed to have lost trust after Pandora's work.
"Oh, you know who I am? Well, that's what the prince of Qing called me."
Orca shined her eyes as if she were very happy that I knew her.
"Let me formally introduce you. This is Orca Whiperion. Please call me Orca."
"Well, I think the title of the white masquerade is enough."
Orca spoke in a friendly manner.
But I just smiled once and then refused.
Then, an exaggerated disappointment came to my face.
"Last time, I was rude. I hope you will forget my shameful remarks and actions."
It looked really plausible to apologize while pretending to be depressed.
Maybe it was because he looked so innocent, but if he didn't know that there were
about a hundred Neunggoongs in there, everyone would feel sorry for him.
"I don't care, so don't keep it in your mind. Did you come to me to say that?”
"Oh, I was taking a walk because the sun was nice. But I can't believe I ran into
Miss Roxana like this."
It was an obvious lie.
There's no way that a person who's smiling like that would have any plans.
The reason why Orca is so interested in me is because of the German butterfly.
Suddenly, the eager eyes I saw in the garden three days ago passed through my mind.
At that time, I also remembered the awkwardness I felt.
"If you don't mind, I'll bite people around me and have a good and pleasant
conversation with them."….”
"It's impossible."
"It's impossible."
"I want to share, but I guess it's not possible."
As soon as Orca started, Isidor and Olin simultaneously struck his words.
Orca didn't seem to have expected it in the first place.
Isidor and Orca, who made a gloomy face again, were staring on guard.
I felt a little subtle when I saw it.
As expected, I felt right to be branded as a vulnerable image by the people of
Fedelian.
Since the first meeting, the situation has unintentionally passed by itself, and it
was also because Cassis treated me like a sick man without paying any attention to
other people's eyes.
But on the other hand, I couldn't say that I didn't have much will there.
Perhaps I was unconsciously showing them a military and pitiful image that might
appeal to them.
Still, it felt strange to be in such an open protected position.
"Because I'm not very good at calling myself a masquerade."
On the other hand, I also felt like giving them a place to go as they wanted.
"It would be more beneficial to have a conversation with Sir Winston behind you."
I looked back at Isidor as if Orca was unexpected.
"Sir Winston? Were you a masoo?"
"No."
Isidor didn't seem to understand why I said that.
I tilted my head sideways looking at him.
"I've heard from John that Lord Winston has a wide range of insight into the
object."
"I don't have that much knowledge.If you'd like, we can be some contacts."
As soon as my eyes met, Isidor nodded softly and told Orca whether I read what I
intended.
Isidor seemed to think Orca might as well just use himself as a scapegoat rather
than bothering me anymore.
"Well, no, not really."
However, Orca refused, not hiding her nervousness.
I don't know, but while I was with Isidor, there seemed to be a lot of things that
could have been done to him.
"I want to have a conversation because I'm the owner of a German butterfly."
As expected, Orca was not out of expectation.
I've guessed, but it was the poison butterfly.
"No matter what I think, I'm curious. How you imprinted a hornet."
Isidor and Olin seemed to be just trying to talk as they were, as they were
unlikely to leave their seats.
Hagi, you even tried to break into the fedelian in search of a German butterfly, so
the enthusiasm must be great.
I also knew how much his tenacity and desire for magic was.
"For now, finding a habitat for a German butterfly is a matter of the stars in the
sky."
Originally, the German butterfly had to be his share as a product of the effort.
But I stole it in the middle of it.
Perhaps if Orca finds out about it, he would want to throw me into the water.
"And even if you're looking for eggs, you've had a hell of a hard time hatching
them in front of a lady. You have to put so much effort into it anyway, and isn't
it significantly unlikely that you'll succeed?"
Suddenly, I felt a little pity for Orca, so I thought I would listen to her for a
moment.
"And to imprint a horny butterfly that hatches like that is to pass through the
needle."
I think I was very lucky, too.
The poison butterfly and my imagination were better than I imagined, and I was in
an environment where it was easy to procure a large amount of poison.
And I was able to live a symbiotic life without being eaten by a German butterfly.
"But the greatest masterpiece is...….”
Orca kept talking on her own even if I didn't respond.
Already, what he said felt almost like talking to himself.
"And you raised it as a slaughtered butterfly.
Soon, Orca giggled as if she couldn't hold back her excitement.
His eyes folded thinly. A thin smile resembled a fox.
"Loxana, have you heard that all the owners of the German butterfly are missing?”
Of course I've heard of it.
"Do you know that the reason is that it was eaten by a German butterfly?”
At that moment, I felt Isidor and Olin flinching.
I closed my eyes slowly once without any agitation and then recited in a drowsy
tone.
"Do you think I don't know what you know?"
It was exactly what Orca said.
Although the owners of the German butterflies in the record were small enough to
count themselves, their ending was usually the same.
He was seen being eaten by a German butterfly, or suddenly disappeared one day
after disappearing.
Of course, the missing persons did not reappear later without a rumor.
Perhaps not witnessed by anyone else, but the end was the same as the hosts of
other poisonous butterflies, most mashers were guessing.
Although a German butterfly was not an object that could be imprinted just because
it wanted to, it was extremely rare for a magician to start imprinting a German
butterfly in the first time.
This is because the imaginable end is obvious.
It was the same reason why Rand Agrice didn't take the German butterfly's eggs from
me even though he gave me a greedy look.
In that sense, Orca in the novel was also an unusual man.
He was so eager to be a German butterfly that he eventually succeeded in imprinting
it.
Orca already had a large number of top-notch moles, so there was no reason to hang
himself on a butterfly.
In addition, he was the successor to Whiperion. How can you make such a precious
body the host of a German butterfly?
It is not what I, the owner of the German butterfly, said, but it was not what I
was going to say in my right mind.
"Oh, that's so funny.”
The next moment, a voice in my ear that seemed to be funny and unbearable.
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A pear-flavored smile hung on the young man's beautiful face in front of him.
On the other hand, however, Orca's eyes were young with a precarious look.
It was seen as madness in some sense.
I was surprised for a moment whether Ollie saw it, too.
However, when Olin then took a step closer to me, raising the alertness from his
body, the dangerous light on Orca's face faded away like a wash.
"Loxana, I'm afraid you might misunderstand, but what Pandora did this time has
nothing to do with me."
Orca, who went back to smiling face without knowing it, said with a light attitude
as if she was flying away.
"If I had known that my sister would make such a big decision to Roxana, I would
have taken the lead and sent her back to her family. You don't believe me? Oh, I'm
serious.”
When I narrowed my eyes slightly, Orca trembled.
Eventually Pandora returned to Whiperion.
Officially known as Pandora, the main culprit behind the use of magic objects to
cross the gate, she was immediately called by the head of the White House and
returned to Whiperion.
However, Orca chose to remain in the fedelian until he was monitored without
accompanying Pandora to the Whiperion.
It is said that he even returned the magic he possessed on his own.
So now Orca wasn't wearing any jewelry, unlike the last time we met in the garden.
Not all masusa were like that, but Whiperion was using the magic secretly handed
down from the family as a medium for imprinting on jewels.
It was to minimize the burden on the body when imprinting with the devil.
But I can't believe I'm still in the fedelian, taking them all off my body.
"I apologize for the mistake Pandora made to Miss Roxana. 'Cause that's why I'm
left in the fedelian."
You're lying with saliva on your mouth.
Perhaps the real reason why he still remains in the fedelian is because he couldn't
give up his lingering affection for the German butterfly, I thought.
"Of course I have a personal interest in Miss Roxana."
Orca paused there and stared at me gently.
The next thing that came to his face was a secret smile that apparently seduced me.
It was so blatant that Isidor and Olin, who openly knew about my relationship with
Cassis, crept their faces.
"So don't be so wary. Unlike Pandora, I'm a gentleman."
Orca insisted on her harmlessness in front of me.
It looked like a wolf hiding its sharp fangs and claws and luring sheep.
"There seems to be a misunderstanding.”
I opened my mouth looking at such an orca.
"I don't want to be acquainted with you apart from what I've done so far, White
Masquerade."
Orca flinched at the monotonous voice that flowed out of my mouth.
Perhaps my eyes staring at him now were as emotionally dry as my voice.
"Why? Did I hate Miss Roxana for anything? Oh, if you're still keeping in mind what
I said to Roxana at the time.”
"I said I didn't care about that."
"Then why?"
I tilted my head obliquely, staring at the questioning orca.
"The reason is simple."
Then, he smiled by pulling up the tip of his lips.
"Because you're not interested in yourself at all."
At that moment, Orca's face became stiff.
A faint wriggle around his eyes was in sight.
"Unfortunately, I don't feel anything about meeting you. But isn't it your duty to
respond to it without your heart just because you're interested in me?”
Isidor and Olly seemed a little surprised.
They will never see me speaking in such a arrogant tone that I feel arrogant
because I am not arrogant in this way, nor have I seen such a ridiculous smile
without the virtue of humility.
"So I want you to pay more attention to me than you need to. Don't waste your time,
Mr. Baek."
Orca seemed to be embarrassed inside.
He had an expression on his face that he had never dreamed of hearing this from a
woman.
"Well……. I thought Miss Roxana and I would get along well."
Orca couldn't pick his words easily and stammered a little.
Looking at the response, it seemed to be the first time that I heard a direct
rejection in this way from the opponent who expressed interest first.
Isidor and Olin, who were next to me, looked somehow savory.…it wasn't just my
feeling.
Orca looked at me with a strange look.
It was a complex look mixed with subtle displeasure, embarrassment, confusion, and
strange heat I saw in the garden last time.
After a while, Orca broke the silence by opening his tight mouth.
"Then I had something for Miss Roxana.”
Still, I don't know if Orca understood what I was saying, but he took something out
of his pocket.
It was Sylvia's ribbon that flew off the terrace last time.
I raised my hand and received what Orca put out.
I looked for a moment, but I didn't think I did anything strange with the ribbon.
"In this situation, it would be rude to stay in the Fedelian for a long time, so
I'd better go back to Whiperion."
Orca said with a smile as she twisted her mouth small.
"I see. It was a short meeting, but it was nice to see you."
I also said goodbye to him in a casual manner.
Orca, who thought he would be more persistent, stepped back more neatly than
expected.
But I felt a little more suspicious of it.
"I hope to see you outside the Fedelian next time, Miss Roxana."
Orca smiled back with a bright face as before.
However, the strange greeting he gave sounded somewhat significant, perhaps just in
his mood.
"Oh, how are you both?"
Then, Sylvia appeared.
I wasn't sure where I came from orca and I heard the news, or if I just bumped into
him while passing this road.
However, given that the spirit of her slender body was somewhat combative, it
seemed to be the former.
"Good afternoon, Roxana. And the white masquerade."
"Good morning, Miss Pedelian. You're as beautiful as ever."
Orca greeted with a smile in a casual manner as usual.
However, instead of flirting with his smooth tongue, he announced that he would
step down.
"I'd like to have a longer conversation with Miss Pedelian, but I have to get ready
to go back to Whiperion."
"Oh, you're going back to the White House now?"
"Yes, that's what happened. Then I have to stop by the head of the Blue House, so
please excuse me. Have a good time, both of you."
Orca really left after saying hello.
Isidor also made a small silent salute to me and Sylvia before following Orca.
"What's going on?"
Questions arose over Sylvia's face looking at Orca's back.
She seemed rather drained.
I came to the full-fledged position of battle at best, but the other person
disappeared so quickly that I felt a little lost.
"I'm afraid I've been greatly shocked by the rejection of Miss Roxana while ago.”
said Olin, who had been quiet beside him so far.
Somehow her voice seemed to be filled with the feeling of being able to shake off a
troublesome fly bug.
"Rejected?”
Sylvia's eyes opened round.
I smiled at her as if she were just nothing.
Sylvia seemed very curious, but she asked something else first.
"Oh, Roxana. Are you feeling better now? I feel like I'm half-faced."
I took a quick look at Sylvia's face looking up at me with worried eyes.
After that, it was almost impulsive to raise her hand and stroke her hair.
"Silvia."
Sylvia's cheeks blushed in an instant.
"Can I have the ribbon you gave me then?”
There were not many strange traces left on the ribbon returned by Orca.
However, I felt uncomfortable and didn't want to give it back to Sylvia.
I needed to take the ribbon and take care of it just in case.
"Of course, as much as you want."
Sylvia smiled joyfully and clearly.
She was lovely and pretty not because she was the heroine of the novel, but because
she was Cassis' sister.
And strangely enough, every time I saw Sylvia like that, I thought of Jeremy.
It was so even though there was no resemblance between the two.
The number of times has become more frequent since I visited Richel's office last
time.
The story I heard then came back to mind.
Jeremy said he remained in Agrice.
Therefore, I heard that instead of making Agrice disappear, he is moving to become
the representative of the family and reinstate her.
"If I were to..." Will you come back if I make Agrice a place where you can laugh?”
* * *
[Ms. Roxana Agriche. With desperate desire to see you again, I send you something
you will miss.]
[The traces of blood and flesh seen in faraway places are even more special, so
they melt the frozen heart and make you feel deeply nostalgic. If you like my
gift, I look forward to accepting your invitation.]
As I read the words written on the paper, my mood gradually began to cool down.
* * *
* * *
Then, after the blazing fire extinguished without knowing the end, Cassis
undoubtedly pushed the energy into my drooping me.
I was always tired first, and I was secretly overwhelmed by that fact.
But… … okay.
If you think positively, it's better than having the person get tired out of bed
first before I'm satisfied enough.
“Isn’t it that every time you use your strength in this way it hurts you?”
I looked up at Cassis' face and asked.
Then Cassis stared at me for a moment.
Soon he whispered, burying his lips on my cheek.
"no. So you don't have to worry about that.”
I focused my attention on Cassis to see if his words were real.
It seemed like he wasn't lying to me.
I was forced to close my eyes and open my eyes, feeling a sense of relief in my
heart.
“I would be tired, but sleep.”
A friendly gaze and a kiss fell on his face.
The soft whispers in my ears sounded like a lullaby.
As he said, my whole body was working hard.
I fell asleep as it was being held by Cassis.
* * *
* * *
"let's go?"
It is the day that Cassis leaves Fedelian.
"I will be back."
Before he left the annex, we greeted shortly.
“Cassis.”
I looked at Cassis quietly, then quietly called him.
Then Cassis stared at me quietly as if waiting for his words to follow.
I looked at his face and opened my mouth.
“As you say, if the person who found me that day was someone else, I might have
followed.”
It was an answer to what Cassis said to me one night.
“But if it wasn't for you… … .”
Cassis didn't dare ask me for an answer, but I wanted to tell him before he left.
“I’m glad I didn’t die then and I’m alive now, I wouldn’t have thought that way.”
At that moment, Cassis' eyes changed.
Shallow rippled golden eyes contained only me in them.
“So in the end, I would have hated it unless it was you.”
I looked at Cassis' face and slowly lowered my eyelids.
“I just wanted to tell you.”
And he shouted in a careless tone.
As if what I said now doesn't mean anything.
Then I looked at him again and laughed.
“Then go well.”
Cassis stood by the door and stared at me without even moving.
“Roxana.”
Soon there was a soft voice from his lips.
Just like I did a little while ago, this time Cassis called my name.
Then he again opened his lips to talk.
“Even if I hadn't met you that day, I must have found you.”
A voice with a firm tone of conviction echoed in my ears.
His eyes, facing me, were just that straight.
“In the future, if you disappear before my eyes, I'll search the whole world to
find you.”
Eventually, Cassis moved from his place.
He came close to me and moved, looking down at me.
“So you do whatever you want.”
His body struck tightly.
Cassis hugged me shattered and whispered quietly, putting his lips to my ear.
“I will do that too.”
It seemed like the hot stigma was pressed.
The warm warmth wrapped around my body.
I didn't know if Cassis knew something and said this, or if he just gave another
answer to what I said a while ago.
I didn't know... … .
'Oh yeah. I don't think I can't be a person now.'
As if a fine wind blew through a small gap in the window that was open without my
knowledge, such thoughts soaked into my heart as if suddenly.
Soon I raised my arm and held him tightly, just like Cassis.
I didn't mean to leave him in the first place... … .
Again, the place I had to return was next to this person.
Stronger than ever, I was convinced.
* * *
This was the first time Cassis has been away from this position since coming to
Fedelian.
It was the same that I was separated from me so long.
Perhaps that's why Cassis has been stuck with me for almost all day since a while
ago and breathed life into it.
Thanks to that, my body was the best of the best.
Probably, it was clear that at least he could live without problems until Cassis
returned.
So Cassis could have left Fedelian without me.
So Cassis left, and the promised time came.
I finished preparing to leave the annex and left the room.
Olin came to see me.
“Are you going on a walk?”
After Whiperion's guests left, Olin no longer had to guard my terrace.
Still, she did not return to her original mission again, but at Cassis' command,
she stood by my side.
“No, I’m going to go far this time.”
“What if you say far?”
“Bertium.”
"Yes?"
The eyes we faced opened wide, as if startled.
“I was invited.”
I have already communicated the situation to Jeanne.
Fedelian's head Lischel and Cassis left for Uggdrasil together.
So, I had to inform her, her hostess, of the news about her.
Of course, that couldn't tell me the content of the letter from Bertium or the
real purpose of my decision to go there.
So I just explained the situation in the sense that I was invited by the head of
Bertium and decided to make a short visit.
It could have been enough to leave secretly, but I decided not to use that method.
If I disappeared silently, the people in Fedelian would be quite upset and
worried.
Above all, I didn't want to make Cassis think I had left him.
If I recall the attitude Cassis showed me before leaving the annex... … .
He seems to have been thinking that maybe I might leave this place without
confidence.
Still, he told me to do whatever I wanted.
Of course it never meant to let me go.
Cassis said he would definitely pick me up wherever I was.
Cassis said that... … Even though I thought about it a few times, each time it
made me incredibly full.
On the other hand, when I recalled the contents of the letter sent by Noel
Bertium, a fishy laughter rose from within.
“Then I will serve you.”
“No, it doesn't. People will come from Bertium.”
Olin said he would accompany him, but he had no intention of taking the Fedelian
people to Bertium.
But despite my refusal, Olin didn't give up easily.
I left the annex with Ollin, who encouraged me to take myself again.
* * *
"Hello. It is said that it is Danterra, the heart of Noel Bertium, the head of
Hwang.”
That afternoon, a group of people arrived in Fedelian.
“Welcome, Bertium's Lion.”
Not only me, but Jeanne and Sylvia were also present.
Jeanne, Fedelian's hostess, greeted people from Bertium in front of him.
“Is Bertium not going to attend this meeting of Yggdrasil?”
“Yes, the head of our company has no relationship with such an official position.”
The white-haired young man, who seemed to be the representative of the group,
greeted us politely and said.
Lischel and Cassis are on their way to Yggdrasil for a meeting of the five
families, but as Hwang's chief leisurely invites me, Jeanne may have doubts.
However, seeing Dante's words and prompt acceptance, it seems that Noel Bertium
wasn't able to show his face to such meetings.
Dante moved his gaze to me after a brief greeting with Jeanne.
“Thank you very much for accepting the invitation, Miss Roxana. We will take you
to Bertium comfortably and safely.”
Seeing that she wasn't calling me Miss Agriche, she seemed to have noticed the
least.
His face looked familiar.
The man who introduced himself to Danterra was the one who appeared in the banquet
hall with Noel Bertium during the last reconciliation meeting in Yggdrasil.
Ah. However, when I think about it now, he had face-to-face once more than that.
I think he was the man who came and handed me flowers before he left Yggdrasil
that day.
However, at that time, he was so keen on the work of Agriche, so he immediately
forgot about it after receiving the flowers and turning around.
I can't remember it, but at that time it seemed that this man had said to me that
he was "the chief's gift."
What, then you mean it was Noel Bertium who gave me the flower?
“I am very pleased with Bertium's invitation.”
But I lifted the corner of his mouth without outwardly expressing what he was
thinking inside.
“It is not enough for the head of Hwang to write a personal letter to reveal the
intention of the invitation, so it is so grateful that he even sent a close
hospitality in advance.”
Dante's eyes, when he saw my smile, tapped.
No wonder he knows there are thorns in my words.
In fact, the situation now would have been very different from what Noel Bertium
had initially expected.
In the beginning, Bertium wanted to meet me in secret.
According to the plan he conveyed, I had to get out of the Fedelian, and contact
the people I sent from Bertium, in secret without anyone else knowing.
But what am I supposed to do with what they want?
Although I decided to visit Bertium because I had something to confirm from
Grizelda's letter, it was a big mistake if I thought that I would follow their
opinion.
First of all, I made Bertium's invitation official, contrary to Noel's wishes.
This was what I asked Noel Bertium to send people directly to Fedelian.
He seemed embarrassed by the unexpected attitude I had shown.
I would have thought I would follow his opinion unconditionally, but rather than
that, it was worth it because I had asked for something first.
However, when he strongly said that he would not go to Bertium if he did not
follow my wishes, Noel quickly responded that he would know.
It was a reply in a somewhat gibberish tone, giving a distinctly impatient feeling
to the extent that he might be a different person from the person who wrote the
previous letter.
He expected it from the time he was threatening, but he seemed to want to bring me
to Bertium.
“In addition, you prepared a precious gift for me, right? I'm looking forward to
it."
So, Noel officially sent a person to Fedelian, where I was, and welcomed me as a
guest.
I still said to Dante with a smile.
But it was clear that my gaze at him would be cooler.
Dante politely bowed his head to my words.
“You probably won't be disappointed.”
It should be.
Noel did a pretty big job. It made me feel like moving myself after a long time.
So, if he disappointed me, I would be quite upset.
“Roxana. Wouldn't it be better to accompany you when your brother comes?”
Sylvia, who was out to see me off, looked at me without worrying.
Even the voice whispering to me was filled with concern.
But she couldn't take Cassis there.
This was my personal affair, and I didn't want to bother him and the people in
Fedelian because of me.
I smiled and said to Sylvia, as if to be relieved.
"OK. It won't come in that long.”
Sylvia said she hadn't given up yet and she snapped her lips again.
But Dante's words were faster.
“Sorry, Ms. Fedelian. The only person our chief invited was Roxana Yang.”
At that moment, Sylvia's eyebrows wriggled.
As if to persuade me, she turned her face in a pathetic light to Dante and opened
her eyes fiercely.
In the meantime, I had only a gentle face in front of me, so I didn't know, but
looking at this, it seemed that Silvia wasn't just as gentle.
She did, she said she was a tomboy since she was a kid.
“Then I'll be back.”
I left her last greeting to Jeanne and Sylvia before leaving.
“She is also a valuable guest in Fedelis, so she believes she will treat her well
at Bertium during her stay.”
Dante bowed her head saying she knew what Jeanne said.
Before lowering his head, I witnessed a young glance of perplexity in his eyes.
It was clear that this would limit my actions, whatever I wanted from Bertium.
Then it will be difficult to do crap.
I was cynical in the heart and got on the wagon prepared by Bertium.
So I left Fedelian for a while without Cassis.
* * *
"Im here."
Finally reached Bertium.
The moment I opened the door of the carriage, the smell that was so sweet that my
nose was so sweet first stimulated my five senses.
Next, white petals flew through the open door.
As I pushed the door a little wider, I could see the flowers in full bloom
fluttering like snow in the air.
All over the place were flowers, like a paradise on earth. A distant scent flowed
through the flowers in full bloom.
I stepped on the petals laid like a thin carpet on the floor and stepped down.
After all, I thought there was a big difference in this appearance between
families.
If Agriche was somewhere in the dark and closed, Fedelian was a calm and neat
atmosphere.
On the other hand, Bertium had a different splendor from Agrichena Fedelian.
“Welcome to Bertium, Miss Roxana.”
As “Welcome to visit.”
When Dante talked to me first, Bertium's warriors who had approached me quickly
bowed a and bowed to me.
The atmosphere of the people was also warm and lively to match the scenery of
Bertium.
But as I looked at them, I frowned.
“You will be tired from a short journey, but first take a rest.”
“I would like to say hello to Hwang’s chief first.”
“In the evening, there will be a welcome banquet for Miss Roxana. The chief said
that he would greet him formally.”
Dante spoke to me.
“Also, he told us to talk about what was written in the letter at that time.”
When I heard that, I decided to step back now.
As I nodded a little, Dante glanced at the people next to him.
“Our maids will guide you to the room.”
“Come this way, lady.”
“Then, please have a comfortable time.”
Dante stepped behind her, and instead three women came to me.
Like the rest of the people here, they too were smiling friendly.
They were all extraordinarily beautiful, and they all had a subtle sense of
incongruity.
I walked along them without saying anything.
* * *
At a glance, they guided me to a room where I thought, ‘It was very elaborately
decorated.’
To be more honest, I felt like I was vomiting because of the extravagance.
However, I didn't intend to stay here for long anyway, so it didn't matter what
the room was.
After the people withdrew, I called in the butterfly.
I don't know which way, but Noel Bertium found out quite quickly that I left
Agriche and was in Fedeli.
So I thought maybe I could know that I am the owner of the poison butterfly.
However, seeing that the earring did not respond, it seemed that he did not do
anything weird in the room.
I was wearing earrings on my left ear that reduced the effect of magic by a
certain amount.
If you were going to Bertium, you might need it, and Grizelda sent it.
She was the one who helped me even while in Agriche.
Grizelda's personality was peculiar if he was peculiar, and odd if he was odd.
The reason was that it would be simply fun for her to help bring Agriche down.
Again, Gri Zelda was very interested in her work with Bertium.
Probably by now, she too must be hanging out near Bertium with me.
Anyway, it was convenient for me.
I sent poison butterflies very secretly all over Bertium.
You're so anxious to meet me, and you're going to show your face at a dinner party
or something?
In the meantime, I was thinking of finding out what I was trying to do.
Also, about the bait he used to bring me here.
I wasn't sure if Bertium knew about my poison butterfly, so I thought I'd be
careful with both of them in mind.
I walked a little wider across the glossy purple curtains and looked out the
window.
It was still a beautiful scenery outside, even if it was Mureungdowon.
But my feelings of looking at it were still cold.
* * *
"Sorry!"
The employee immediately knelt and apologized.
Red blood was dripping from my ears where she touched her.
I looked down at the man at my feet with cool eyes.
Even the people who were choosing shoes and gloves were surprised by the sudden
situation.
I cried coldly.
“At Bertium, it looks like you're serving guests this way, right? I couldn't
change one trinket straight and hurt her body.”
The woman holding her head apologized again for my words.
“You are wrong, lady. I was immature and hurt my precious body. Please forgive
me... … .”
"done. Give me something to wipe the blood.”
The owner who was arranging the accessories next to her quickly handed over her
handkerchief.
I pressed the bleeding ear with it to stop bleeding.
In fact, this was a wound I deliberately inflicted so that if I touched my ear, I
had no intention of condemning them any more.
“It’s cool. Let's do this.”
I woke up from my seat with an expressionless face.
In my words, I quickly removed the earrings and bracelets that the users had not
yet worn.
"It's okay for anything else, and if you have any gloves you've chosen beforehand,
give it to me."
“Yes, I have it ready.”
After I put on her gloves, I told her maid who was in charge of wearing her
jewelry.
“This is a mistake, so I'll just skip it. Be careful next time.”
“Thank you for forgiveness, lady.”
She expressed gratitude as if relieved of my words.
There was joy and reassurance in the face of her hair curling and looking up at
me.
The same was true of the other users around.
But the moment I saw it, the strange sensation that I felt outside passed by me
again.
I left the room with a slight frown.
* * *
Orca did not return directly to Whiperion, but was hiding at the Fedelian border.
“I think you have started by now.”
He was waiting for Richell and Cassis to leave Fedelian.
Orca also heard of the fact that the five family members are scheduled to gather
at the Yggdrasil sooner or later.
Of course, Whiperion's liaison had given him the news to bring him into the
family.
However, Orca had no intention of attending the meeting of Yggdrasil, nor was he
willing to return to Whiperion.
So he pretended to be leaving Fedelian, hid around him and was looking for an
opportunity.
However, he had already been left without work for a few days, so he began to get
itchy with boredom.
However, compared to when he was struggling to explore the monster habitat, this
did not require too long patience.
Besides, usually, sweet rewards await after waiting.
Of course, no matter how thoroughly the plans were made, it was almost impossible
to cross the Fedelian city gate.
However, it was worth a try at least once Lischel and Cassis were away.
Of course, it was Roxana that Orca was trying to do something dangerous like a
fire moth.
The owner of the poison butterfly he was searching for so much.
Until now, Orca used to do without hesitation to kill its owner to get the monster
he wanted.
But he didn't want to do that this time, even if he said it was possible to kill
and take away.
Yes, Orca was feeling a tremendous interest and charm in the woman herself,
“Roxana, the owner of the poisonous butterfly,” she had never had with humans
before.
When I recalled Roxana's poison butterfly in the garden in Fedeli, her back was
stinging.
These were the feelings Orca had usually felt only with demons.
Unbelievable to himself, he wanted not only the poison butterfly, but also the
woman who was its owner.
However, she is a woman of Qing's nobleman, so her opponent was not good.
'Even though I seduced myself by using a beauty class openly, I didn't blink an
eye.'
A wrinkle appeared in her eyebrows as she recalled her conversation with Roxana
before leaving Fedeli.
She just said that she wasn't interested in him. It was unpleasant to think
again.
But Orca was a man who had to have what he wanted to have.
To do that, he first had to pull Roxana out of Fedeli.
'To meet the schedule of the meeting, I wonder if at the latest, we will leave for
the Yggdrasil until the sun sets. Then I will move around in the evening.'
Orca chewed on the dried jerky and recalled his plan.
Then, after a while, he crumpled his face and spit on the floor what he was
chewing.
“Ah, just throw your mouth away. After tasting the seafood from Fedelian, I can't
eat it.”
Orca refreshed his appetite, recalling the dishes he had eaten in Fedeli.
Suddenly, a strange sensation passed by behind him.
Like… … It felt like something was standing behind him.
For an instant, the downy hair of his whole body stood sharply and a goosebumps
grew on his forearm.
But it couldn't be. I certainly didn't feel any signs... … .
Wheeik!
The moment he turned his head and tried to confirm, a dull force struck his back
neck without any reason.
Orca lost consciousness without even being able to cheep.
* * *
Blah!
Orca, who was unexpectedly struck by a vital spot, fell to the floor without a
pulse.
Cassis looked down at him with cold eyes.
As he rolled Orca's body with his feet kicked, a face with his eyes closed came
into view. He was completely stunned.
Cassis' eyes glanced around for a moment.
Jewels with simple techniques were drawn in a round circle around Orca.
“Are you a shaman who erases your spirit?”
Rather, it would have been more useful in the current situation to use magic that
detects creatures approaching a certain distance.
Crisp.
Cassis stomped on the jewel at his feet.
Cassis' gaze toward Orca was consistently cold.
Even if it wasn't, Orca continued to do something that bothered Cassis' eyes all
the time.
However, he discovered that this time he was secretly hiding in the border, so the
planting of Cassis could be fierce.
In fact, Cassis didn't believe him even when Orca offered to return to Whiperion
smoothly.
He was Orca from the start trying to access the annex where Roxana was located.
In addition, it was not enough, and Isidor also told me that Cassis had been away
from the side for a while, and that he struck out with Roxana.
So, the reason why Orca was pretending to return to Whiperion and hiding in the
Fedelian border this time was obviously an unwarranted purpose.
Cassis stared into his eyes, aiming for the time he was away.
“I have been generous and let go of it, and I'm not afraid.”
Cassis looked down at Orca with cold eyes, then leaned over.
After that he moved his hand without hesitation.
Quazzik!
The jewels of the ornaments removed from Orca's body were brutally broken in
Cassis' hands.
Glittering pieces of jewels and powders fell on the blades of grass.
The engraving between Orca and the monsters was cut off at once.
It was something that any Masusa would flag and shed bloody tears and wail.
The medium for engraving inscribed with magic played a role in reducing the
physical burden of the beast, but it carried a different risk.
That was the fact that if an object used as a medium is damaged as now, there is a
problem in connection with the monster.
Of course, as much as that, it is basic to select a medium that will not break
easily.
This gem used by Whiperion was also specially crafted.
Therefore, there was generally no risk of damage due to external reasons.
As an internal factor that could damage a jewel, a representative case was the
destruction of the magic engraved on the jewel due to the disappearance of the
engraved monster.
But Cassis smashed all Orca's jewels with his bare hands. It wasn't too difficult
to put some strength into his hand.
The precious monsters that Orca had successfully engraved with difficulty regained
their freedom one by one in Cassis' hands.
Had Orca remained conscious, Cassis would have been left with a bubble and stunned
by Cassis' brutal brutality.
Pasasak!
At last, even the jewels that hung on Orca's last trinket became fine powder and
fluttered in the air.
Cassis shakes his hand and gets up from the seat.
If you know from Perion, his body trembled, and even though he committed a heinous
act that left him swearing for being a shame, there was no shade on his face.
So far, Cassis has also had restrictions on behavior in Fedelian.
Of course Orca seemed to think the opposite was true, but if Cassis had put
everything aside and acted as he pleased, Orca would not have left Fedelian with
such a fine smile.
It was his own work that Orca became this way now.
If Orca had gone back to Whiperion, he wouldn't have encountered Cassis here right
now.
Still, he hadn't crossed the dangerous line yet, so he decided to finish at this
level.
But, if it bothers me more than this, then Cassis couldn't guarantee the future.
Cassis glanced down at him at his feet, feeling the urge to throw Orca into the
monster habitat.
Then he finally reached out again.
* * *
* * *
“… … 'My brother'?”
Roxana whispered sweetly to her lips.
The words I said in a quiet voice echoed in her ears, dizzy.
As soon as Roxana took off her lips, her surroundings became bizarrely quiet.
Everyone in the banquet hall was watching them without even breathing.
“That means, do you mean you really know?”
The boy in front of him looked exactly like Asil, who died at the age of 16.
A gorgeous, wavy gold hair. A straight white forehead. The arched eyebrows and
clear blue eyes underneath.
The delicate features embedded in the slim face and the peculiar soft smile draped
over it were similar to the acquaintance in the memory, which was creepy.
So it was difficult to tell whether the tooth in front of me was a doll or a
person.
It seemed as if he existed in a paused time alone.
To Roxana's question, a boy with her Asil's face replied with a smile.
“Noel raised my dead body.”
It was an answer to her question, but in its essence it was a misleading
explanation.
“Unfortunately, I do not have any memories before death.”
The boy said Roxana turned her water subtly without her answer to her own source.
But she was Roxana and she could instinctively know.
He must know, but not.
As if his name is'Nix', not Acyl.
Nevertheless, he was drawing her children's rhymes from her to the extent that she
could not but be surprised by her roxana and even herself.
Roxana's lips, as she stared quietly at her face as she faced her for a while,
finally opened again.
“To bring the dead body back to life, it must be the realm of the necromancer, not
the puppeteer.”
“Oh, not that. The principle itself is different between puppetry and necromancy.
If you're curious, I'll explain in detail, Luna.”
Noel interrupted, who was happily watching the meeting between Roxana and Nicks.
“But do you know the old nickname? After all, the nickname is more suitable than
such a polite name.”
He had a face that seemed to feel proud of her siblings' long encounters.
The eyes that looked at the two were innocent and bright.
“By the way, seeing them standing together like that, they seem a lot more alike
than I thought. Really cool. It's a perfect picture!”
Noel's exhilarating voice spread through the hall like a song.
A while ago, while dancing around the hall, the people who split on both sides
spit out as if they were united.
Then they started clapping one by one, as if they were very impressed.
Clap clap clap clap clap!
A thunder-like noise poked through the eardrum without any reason.
It was like an audience who praised the actors on the stage.
Really... … It was a skit that wasn't even funny.
Roxana closed her eyes as if covering her smiling Asil's face from her sight.
“Noel Bertium.”
Her eyes, which appeared again after that, were cleared of the remnants of
emotions that had been left before.
His gaze at Noel was as cold as the ice sea.
Noel, who faced it face to face, halted her hand, which was enthusiastically
clapping her.
"Yes?"
“I think it would be better to end today's banquet at this point.”
It was a one-sided notification, not a solicitation or seeking understanding.
“I'll share the story I can't say right now.”
After saying so coldly, Roxana turned around.
Again, again.
The sound of her shoes hitting the marble floor resonated in the hall.
The hem of her white chimes and long dangling gold hair left an afterimage like a
shadow.
She walked straight out of the banquet hall without looking back.
"uh?"
Noel stared at Roxana's back, but she woke up belatedly and stupidly opened her
mouth.
* * *
“Dante.”
Her welcome banquet for Roxana was dug earlier than expected.
“Yes, Noel.”
The fun music stopped, and the audience that was filling the banquet hall also
escaped like a low tide.
Noel stood alone in the middle of an empty banquet hall that felt enmity.
She said that only an hour ago, she sang her song that she was finally meeting
Luna, and it seemed somehow colorless that she had been elaborately dressed up.
“Describe how this happened.”
Noel's voice calmed down.
His face, which I glanced at, was the same.
Dante glanced at the Knicks.
He sat down on a table in the corner of the banquet hall, leaning his glasses on
his own.
Under his feet, the ridiculous parrot-shaped mask he was wearing was laid like a
pedestal.
As the eyes met, Nicks folded his eyes and laughed at Dante.
Seeing it, Dante frowned at her and kicked her tongue small.
It has always been, but the Knicks didn't help either.
“After saying that, I have been out there all the time, so I don't know the
details.”
Normally, I would have been a little more aggravated, but now I felt that Noel was
not feeling well, so I refrained from doing it.
She only knew that Dante, she just knew that Roxana she had entered the banquet
hall had come out much faster than she expected.
And the feeling of her biting cold breeze coming from her just passing by her
eyes.
Then, the dolls filling the banquet hall poured out the door.
Dante saw it and she came inside.
Noel was looking at it that he couldn't understand how it happened.
“When Luna spoke again tomorrow, she did, and she went back to the room.”
Seeing that serious face, Dante tilted her head to the side.
“I guess I was tired because I was less tired.”
“No! I thought I was angry.”
Noel finally raised his voice in response to Dante's reaction, which seemed to
take the situation insignificant.
Anxiety grew slowly in his face.
“I looked at me with incredibly cold eyes.”
“Oh no.”
“I just introduced the Nyx, but suddenly the chills blew away, as if she wasn't
necessarily a goddess of the moon, but a goddess of winter or frost... … .”
Dante frowns her eyes when she hears Noel explain her restless and hard work.
No, as it was, would she have been planning to show the Knicks at the end of the
banquet?
Unfortunately, she said that Dante seemed to be able to find out why Roxana left
her place before she had even ripened the atmosphere in the banquet hall.
However, Noel chewed her lips anxiously and then suddenly raised her eyes toward
Dante.
“Did you not make any mistake with Luna?”
"Yes? Why does my child become a spark for me?”
“You have been by your side since Fedelian. Besides, you have a good idea to
upset people even when you are still.”
“What kind of unfair words… … .”
“Honestly, I’ll forgive you, so I’ll just speak without hiding now.”
“Speaking of Miss Roxana, it didn't look pleasant before I arrived and said hello
to Fedelian.”
"okay? So Fedelian is the cause? Dare not to go against Luna's planting...
… .”
“But, of course, isn't it because of Noel-sama that Miss Roxana is not feeling
well?”
Dante's words made Noel dazzle.
"What? What are you talking about? What am I doing?”
He was an expression he didn't really understand.
We prepared her gift for Luna and even held her welcome banquet.
Dante opened her mouth, staring at Noel as though she saw her poor rebirth.
“Think with common sense. First of all, the letter from Noel will remain
unpleasant.”
“Why is the letter I sent?”
“No matter how much I wrap it, it's not a blackmail letter in the end. Where in
the world would there be someone who would like to receive it.”
“Tong, blackmail, I, I intend to… … .”
Noel stuttered to see if he was speechless.
Like a clear water surface, the embarrassment was clearly revealed on his face.
Dante looked at Noel with her eyes full of humiliation and annoyance.
I didn't listen to it when I dried it so much next to me, but now I feel like I'm
regretting it.
Suddenly, Noel opened her eyes again fiercely at Dante.
“Look, it’s also because of you!”
* * *
[Achille.]
At first she saw the name in her letter from Grizzelda, and couldn't understand
what she was seeing right now.
Apparently Roxana thought that the person she referred to in Bertium was her
mother.
That's why she just asked Grizzelda for information on her to confirm.
She replied that Gri Zelda, who also claimed to be Roxana's helper in Agriche,
would be willing to recognize her.
But why did Asil's name come up in this situation?
But soon after, the pieces of the puzzle that had been scattered so far gradually
came to their place and felt like they were being put together.
A strange link that felt to exist between Agriche and Bertium.
Land Agriche was obviously interested in Bertium's puppetry during his lifetime.
Of course, Roxana has yet to know the details behind this.
But she seemed to be convinced that at Agrich she somehow had somehow involved in
the part of Bertium's puppetry.
So she was Roxana and she had accepted Noel's invitation.
She really wants to see with her own eyes if she knows this place.
<flashback><i>“Hello, Roxana.”</i></flashback>
But the moment I see him, who really looks exactly like you know... … .
Even though he was already anticipating his existence, he couldn't help his
fluctuating mind.
<flashback><i>“I wanted to meet you, my sister.”</i></flashback>
While reminiscing about what was happening in the banquet hall, Rok Sana's red
eyes reflected in her mirror became incomparably colder than ever.
Roxana sat hungry for a while after that, and she soon moved her hand slowly.
She took off her gloves and took off her own accessories one by one from her body.
She said that the employees would serve, and she came to visit, but she wanted to
be alone and sent them all back.
Suddenly, Rok Sana felt her subtle incongruity and raised her hand.
She touched her hand on her left ear, where she had seen my blood on her
deliberate wounds.
But, for some reason, I didn't feel any pain.
She couldn't do it, so she touched her hand directly like this, but there was no
tingling sensation.
Roxana felt her strangeness and looked into the mirror.
Then it came into her eyes that the wounds on her ear had been healed.
At first she thought that her room was dark so she was mistaken, but it wasn't.
Her Roxana's eyes fluttered finely.
Like this, she said her wounds disappear without a trace in a short period of
time. Whatever she thought was unnatural.
Of course she was Roxana and she was with someone who made this possible just a
while ago.
But now Cassis was not with her. But why... … .
“… … .”
After a while, Roxana picked up one of her trinkets from her head and stabbed her
sharp tip against her finger.
In her natural procedure, red drops of blood formed on her fingertips.
But after some time, the acute pain felt at the tip of her finger disappeared.
As she rubbed her fingertips to wipe off her blood, it came into her eyes that she
had healed the wound that had just been washed away.
“Cassis… … .”
Roxana, she used a small gap in her lips, and she dubbed the name of the person
she passed by in her head now.
While she was with her, I remembered Cassis, who had not wasted her moments and
gave her her own energy, and gave her a lavish breath.
Then I felt as if the traces of Cassis were still filled in her body.
Roxana hugged her flirting heart and closed her eyes.
Somehow, at this moment, I felt like Cassis was next to her.
* * *
* * *
* * *
* * *
The next day, Noel, who was fully prepared for her meeting with her Roxana, could
not see her in the end.
“Wake up, Noel. The sun has already risen in the middle.”
“Wow.”
“Ms. Roxana, whom Noel looked forward to meeting her so much, is waiting in her
parlor.”
“Drowning… … .”
Noel had yet to get out of his dreams despite Dante's efforts.
Finally, she was thrilled that Roxana was coming to Bertium, so she stayed up all
night for a few days in the aftermath.
Yesterday, due to Nix's persuasion, I still wanted to go to bed early for some
reason.
Noel, who was inherently vulnerable to lack of sleep, was asleep coolly with his
taste buds.
“Noel. Noel?”
No matter how much Dante was concerned about her, no matter how hard she tried,
Noel's eyes couldn't even open.
Eventually, she had blood on Dante's forehead.
“Stop wake up, human!”
“Well… … .”
* * *
“Roxana.”
Then, a friendly voice called her name.
Roxana quietly stared in the face before her eyes.
“I feel a little weird because we look at each other so closely.”
Indeed, as he said, the Nicks had an awkward look somewhere.
It was too lively to be a doll's.
Roxana's eyes sank slightly lower.
She, too, was in her mood.
Like this, she never even imagined that she could actually see Asil in action
again.
She said she dont have seen her Acil's illusions only once, when she evaluated her
fifteen-year-old monthly.
However, at that time, he was not such a fine figure, and at the very least, he
was an illusion, not a real being.
The doll in the form of her acile opened her mouth again toward Roxana.
"Okay. It feels like I've met someone I've known for a long time.”
At that moment, a shallow laughter spit through her lips.
“To talk about a doll subject as if you know people’s feelings… … .”
A clear, mockery smile bloomed on her face, resembling Nyx.
“This is also funny.”
Roxana leaned a little deeper into her chair in cold arsenic.
“Would you even argue that not only that body but also her soul belongs to you?”
No matter what sweet words the Nix lures, she won't believe it.
She thought, though, that she would laugh at it if she dared to put her crap out.
Knicks glanced at her Roxana without a word for a moment.
Her crystal clear blue eyes encapsulated the face of her Roxana with her chilly
chill.
“Well, to be honest.”
Shortly thereafter, the Nyx showed a light embarrassment and dazzled her lips.
“I've been ordered from Noel to pretend to be your brother and somehow hold you to
Bertium for a long time.”
Should I say it as expected?
Noel's flimsy slogan struck me with cynicism.
Perhaps it was because they knew that Roxana would not believe no matter what kind
of remarks they made, and the Knicks unexpectedly frankly confessed Noel's plans.
“As I said, my memory starts when I open my eyes from this body. So no matter how
much you ask me to pretend to be your brother, you don't even know what to do.”
“Sure. Because you don't know.”
“Actually, I don’t know well when I hear it because it’s too complicated to say
“puppetry” So I don't even know the source of how I became who I am. So, I don’t
have anything to explain about it even though I want to answer it.”
When Roxana listened to the added Knicks, she bit her mouth.
“But the moment I saw you, I felt very happy. Strange story, but it is.”
Her Nyx's eyes, looking straight at her, seemed really true.
What he said now felt far from lying.
“It's true that I said yesterday at the banquet hall that I wanted to meet you.”
Roxana was able to cut off her Knicks' words, but she didn't.
“I came here today, not to obey Noel's orders, but because I wanted to meet you
separately.”
His frosty eyes looked at the faces he faced, as if trying to sort out the lies.
“I was curious to hear about you from Noel.”
"curiosity?"
Then Roxana's eyes flinched at the voice piercing her ears and moved slightly.
“Yeah, curiosity for a doll, don’t you think it’s ridiculous?”
The Knicks smiled calmly as if they understood Roxana's reaction.
“But really. I've been curious from the time I opened my eyes with this body.
What kind of person was “I” before coming back to life?”
Roxana bite her mouth firmly.
“Because my life began with this body. So, you may think it's not worth it, but I
feel that this body is completely mine.”
Her face, looking at the Nix, was hardened like thin ice on her water surface.
“This body is not growing at all the way it was 8 years ago when I opened my eyes.
Needless to say, that must be proof that I am a doll made by Noel.”
As he said, the man in front of Roxana's eyes now, or her doll, was keeping her
asyl as it was before her death.
A detailed explanation should also be heard from Noel, but it was proof that he
wasn't really human, as Nix said.
No matter how much the Nyx's vessel was a real human body, the body could no
longer be said to be a complete human, as long as the eyes were reopened by Noel's
puppetry.
“But, unlike other dolls, I feel emotions, and the real heart restored by Noel is
definitely beating inside me.”
The Knicks' words were unexpected, and that was quite surprising.
Obviously, dolls do not feel human emotions.
The other Bertium dolls Roxana had been through seemed to simply mimic human
emotions.
Their smiles were obviously beautiful, but somehow unnatural, and their actions
were strangely rigid, giving off a hard feeling.
“Dante said I was a defective product.”
But obviously the Knicks in front of her right now looked different from them.
“When you see me, I think I'm close to humans or dolls?”
“… … .”
“And if I say that Asil, the master of this body, is my source, how many percent
of the elements that make up me today is what Asil occupies?”
Nix asked Roxana, looking straight ahead.
“I'm not sure. How about you? Can you answer here?”
A doll who has doubts about his identity.
It was certainly unprecedented.
Roxana, who didn't know how to hear this story, kept her silence and looked into
the eyes of the Nix.
There was stillness in the room.
Roxana stared at Nyx with an unknown face she was thinking.
Finally, the Nix looked at Roxana and smiled lightly.
“I don't think it would be bad to stay here for a few more days and observe me.”
Instead of a voice with a strong appeal like a while ago, a soft, beautiful voice
tickled my ears as if the spring breeze fled.
“If you accept Noel's invitation, you also have a desire to learn more about me.”
‘Is that right?’ and the Knicks tilted her head.
“There will be explanations I want to hear from Noel anyway.”
There seemed to be no cheating or sneaking on that beautiful face.
In his eyes, he felt the pure goodness that seemed to be reconciled to white, just
by touching his fingertips.
Roxana still stared at such a nick with her untouched eyes.
“It was a more interesting topic than expected, but… … .”
Dalgrak.
Then finally she put down the teacup she was holding.
“It wasn't so informative enough to take the time on purpose.”
Then Roxana woke up.
“Let’s get up first.”
Leaving Nyx alone, she walked toward her door to Roxana.
There was no regret or regret on her back.
But just before she left the door, she said Roxana as if she was passing towards
the Knicks.
“Tomorrow, bring another car. It’s not my taste that the tongue is so sweet as it
is now.”
In fact, it was an indirect acceptance of the Knicks' recommendation.
* * *
At that time, Agriche was helplessly destroyed by Fedelian, and for that reason,
there were many who decided to leave in search of their own way of life.
The Knicks peeked for an opportunity and caught one of the poorest-looking men who
came out.
That said, he was kidnapped.
He initially thought he would ask about Roxana's whereabouts. But the man was
surprised to see the Knicks and faint.
Hearing the story, he said he was one of Roxana's half brothers.
It seems that her age is the same age as Roxana, and it seems that she is one year
younger. Other names seem to have been heard at first glance, but I forgot all of
them because they are not very important.
In any case, the Knicks got interested in the man's reaction to recognizing the
owner of the body, and attempted a deeper conversation in order to hear about him.
Of course, the method that the Knicks tried was the fastest and most effective
body conversation. It was torture.
However, no information was as useful as expected.
Agriche said that there was little exchange between his family and he had no
detailed knowledge of his other half brothers.
Moreover, Asil died early and had no more known information.
Still, the harvest wasn't exhausting at all, so the Nix was able to find out that
Acyl was a very sweet and friendly character.
Of course, that means that when you say it in a good way, and when the Nix thinks,
Acyl was a weak and pathetic human being.
For reference, the man the Knicks tortured didn't know about Roxana's whereabouts.
So, with regret, Nix had to find her own traces and move around.
He, of course, did not forget to give eternal rest to the man he had had a good
time with before he left.
Based on the information he had heard at that time, Nix tried to imitate the
appearance of Asil he had imagined until now in front of Roxana.
The results didn't seem too bad.
It was a trivial, trivial work, but it was also deliberate that she offered Roxana
a sweet tea and sweet cake.
A close brother and sister with age. Her brother is a good and friendly character
who cares very much for her younger sister.
Of course, young children will like foods that contain a lot of sugar.
Roxana could not have the memory of receiving even her candy from her brother.
As expected, when the Knicks invited her to pick up her refreshments, I could see
her hardened Roxana's eyes relaxed very slightly.
She may be denying herself, but she must be because Roxana came here because she
could not completely abandon her regrets.
Whether it's her vain hope or her modest self-comfort.
It seemed in the same vein that she decided to abandon her initial stubborn
attitude and remain here a little more.
Obviously, it was a stupid expectation.
“That's why I prepared poison. I think I can put in more tomorrow.”
Knicks wanted to see her classical face stained with disappointment and sadness,
and she laughed.
“It is good to proceed with care, but the amount prepared today was too small.
It's so absurd to say that even one drop takes effect immediately. Didn't you see
that girl walk out on foot?”
“But then if you make a mistake.”
The mistake meant, first, that Roxana became aware of her poison, and second, that
ingesting more than a dose of poison resulted in side effects.
“It’s not that there are so many opportunities anyway. To do what Noel wants, she
can't help it.”
Noel liked Roxana more than the Nicks thought.
So the Knicks planned to give him what Noel wanted.
Then, when Noel stood at the pinnacle of happiness, it seemed fun for her to
destroy what was held in his hand.
Perhaps Noel is very angry and frustrated.
Oh, what will Noel look like if he smiles in front of him when he sees it?
A playful smile like a child appeared on Nix's face.
She was the very expression Dante hated terribly.
I couldn't figure out what the Knicks were thinking and laughing like that, but
for some reason, his back was wrapped up.
Dante stared at the Nyx with her frown, and she soon spit on her heart because she
couldn't stand it.
“Probably the one inside you is the devil.”
“Thank you for the compliment.”
Knicks got up from his seat with a big smile.
“But be careful with your words, Dante.”
Drool, the gaze of the Nyx flying behind the sound of the chair being dragged
around Dante like a viper.
"While Noel's beautiful Luna is here, I'm her good brother, Asil."
As if dancing, Nyx approached Dante and patted him on the shoulder with a tender
attitude.
After that he first got out of the parlor.
Dante looked at the back of the Nyx with a crumpled face.
* * *
As Land, who was interested in the Corps of Immortal Dolls, was likely to be
interested in Noel's new research.
Or maybe he was just trying to match the assortment appropriately using the
obsolete corpse as a trading tool for roasting Noel.
It looks as if you are pretending to patronize someone else's garbage that cannot
be recycled.
Either way, Land Agriche was truly a disgusting human.
“Actually, I didn't expect much when Land Agriche offered to rescue me a beautiful
body that suits my taste, but when I received it, it was amazing than I thought.”
But what Roxana really wanted to hear from Noel wasn't just about the donors of
her body.
“Especially the Knicks were really beyond my imagination. As soon as I saw it, I
fell in love at first sight.”
The moment Noel added with her vague voice, Roxana's eyes flashed with a different
chill than ever before.
At the time, it wasn't until Asil died that Land and Noel met to talk about the
study of dolls.
Because Agriche does not store the discarded bodies.
if so… … In one case, is there any possibility that Rant killed Asil to rescue
Noel's favorite beautiful body?
Or is it possible that Noel first fell in love with Asil, who was alive and asked
Landt for his body?
“Noel Bertium. you… … .”
Roxana's hand gradually slipped and touched Noel's nape.
“Have you ever seen him while you were alive?”
There was still a smile like the spring sun on her face, staring at Noel.
However, there was a clear murderous intention in the hand that gently roamed his
neck.
Then, at the moment when her fingertips became upright as if breaking the flesh
that touched them right now and digging deep into it... … .
"no. All I saw was the body in the coffin.”
Noel answered with a regretful face.
“I just opened the lid, and I don't know how surprised it was that an angelic
person was inside it. So I wanted to see my eyes open, so I tried harder!”
Noel looked at Roxana like a child hoping for praise.
Roxana's red eyes sharply pierced her face, as if trying to grasp her true
intentions.
Until then, the hand that lurched silently behind Noel's throat finally slowly
removed.
okay. No matter how much Land Agriche was interested in Bertium's puppetry, he
would not have deliberately killed his children to prepare a body for Noel.
Of course, the reason was not believed to be because Landt had such a minimal
human conscience.
It was simply because the profitability wasn't right.
That wasn't the way Land Agriche would try.
It would have been much easier and simpler to find excellent off-white boys and
girls through kidnapping or trafficking.
It would have been a bonus to put the discarded children there.
Of course, it wasn't that there was no intention there as it was a sour land.
Maybe later, if there was a chance, I wondered if I was going to use it as a
pretext to do a trick on Noel.
However, Noel was also a very amazing human being like Land.
As her Roxana knows, Noel was about the same age as her.
So Noel at the time when he was handed over from Landt meant that he thought of
getting his hands on experiments with human bodies at such a young age.
Hwang's family was famous for being short-lived from generation to generation, so
Noel is known to be headed at a fairly young age.
Landna, who tried to cook such a child early for his own desires, and Noel, who
succeeded in tearing the body for study from him, were both truly extraordinary.
Listening to her Noel's words, Roxana felt her chest cooling off gradually in many
ways.
She then had another part of her mind that she was forced to ask.
She said, “When I say that there is not one body provided, does it mean that there
is another entity like this?”
"no. The only thing that succeeded was the Knicks. Well, I also succeeded by
accident, so I couldn't do it twice anyway. Still, it's the Nicks that succeeded,
so I'm really, really lucky.”
Looking at his expression, it seemed that everything he said was true.
Noel also explained the principle of puppetry that Roxana did not bury.
Awakening the body of a doll made by hand and making it a bell was a method of
magic that was passed down only to Bertium's successors.
It was said that dolls made in this way have the ability to perform orders as the
owner wants.
Among them, the things that became strong in subordination were said to be
possible to communicate like a real person, so it was really surprising.
However, they said they couldn't feel emotions because they weren't real humans,
their five senses weren't perfect, and they didn't even have a heart in their
bodies.
At the same time, he was excited to explain the difference between puppetry and
necromancy that he said yesterday.
Noel seemed to have forgotten even trying to capture Roxana, pretending to have
resurrected Asil who died using the Nyx.
Then he asked Roxana as if he suddenly remembered Noel.
“Oh hey, you said you met Knicks while I wasn't there? Did you two have a
conversation?”
"any."
Looking at his face, it seemed that it was after hearing the story from the Nix
first.
“I heard he decided to stay at Bertium a little longer. I'm a great welcome,
Luna! You can stay as long as you want! Just like this, let's live here with me
forever!”
Noel was terribly disgusted, grabbing Roxana's hand and shining her eyes.
Red eyes glanced into Noel's face.
He was looking up at Roxana with anticipation.
"Two days."
After a while, Roxana naturally smacked Noel's hand off and smiled thinly.
“I will only stay two more days before leaving. No more than that.”
Noel shook her eyes as if greatly disappointed by Roxana's words.
“Yes, yes. Then let's have fun with me even for two days.”
But he soon said, struggling with his heart.
Roxana looked at him with an expressionless face that was different from before.
* * *
The spring scenery of Bertium, where flowers are in full bloom everywhere, was
definitely a superb view.
"You mean Bertium, isn't it really beautiful?"
But when someone said this, I wanted to refute it.
So I said boringly.
“Well, it just looks like a common and missing landscape.”
Then they looked at me and smiled white, as if Nix was saying that.
A doll that feels beautiful by looking at the scenery. I had to say it was
unusual.
I still looked at the Nix, who was serving my car today.
Today, I was spending refreshment time outdoors, not in the living room.
This time, only the two of us were in this position, Knicks and I. It was me who
asked for it first.
Noel was more willing to do so than expected, but it seemed a little dissatisfied
in my heart.
In his eyes looking at the Nyx, there was an invisible feeling of jealousy.
It must have been Noel's tactic to use the Knicks to hold me in Bertium, but when
it comes to such a situation, he is jealous. It was quite funny.
Still, there was something promised to eat together at dinner, so Noel stepped
back.
“That left eye doesn’t look like a real human eye.”
I opened his mouth while watching Knicks pouring tea into the teacup placed in
front of me.
“Then is that a bill?”
The white flowers that bloomed in the flower trees on the ground looked like
jewels with grains.
Between the petals fluttering like feathers, Nyx looked up and stared at me.
His right eye was blue, resembling his mother, and his left eye was magenta,
resembling a flower on his back.
"Huh. When I came to Bertium, it was said that my body was already damaged and
incomplete. So, there was a need for recovery in several places.”
As Nix said, Asil died wounded.
Eventually, he was pierced heartily by Theon, but he had seriously injured his eye
in his last monthly assessment, which he took just before his disposal.
“When I searched for the best match among the eyes that Noel had at the time, the
colors of both eyes eventually became different.”
Whether you know something and do it deliberately, or just accidentally overlap,
the Nicks were often reminiscent of the dead Asil in front of me.
So, on the contrary, while I was with the Knicks like this, I meant to find out
the differences from Acyl one by one in him.
“I hope the car fits in your mouth today. This time I was more concerned.”
Sitting across from me, Nicks smiled kindly and offered me a car.
I silently lifted the teacup in front of him as he wished.
The tea I tasted after that was definitely less sweet than yesterday.
And, like yesterday, there was a faintly foreign taste in it.
* * *
Dante, looking at the figure from a distance, felt her head fell out.
When I thought about how to deal with this, I was in a very troubled way.
Currently, Bertium was divided into two areas.
People who inherited the blood of Bertium lived in this place connected to the
patronage.
Originally, they were those who lived in the main building where Noel was.
However, from some point onward, Noel began to pour a leaner affection on the
dolls he made rather than her relatives through her blood.
As a result, to this day, other Bertium people were pushed by more and more
puppets and moved to the building in the backing.
“You guys say that now… … !”
“You dare try to poison us, and if Noel knows about this, he won't let you go!”
"right! We will never just go over this time!”
As a result, the feelings for dolls among them now are of course not good.
However, among them, the Nyx, who almost monopolized Noel's favor, did this, so
the turmoil could not be easily subsided.
“Huh? What if I just don’t go over it?”
“I will ask you to destroy you right away!”
When asked by the Nyx, people got up like bees and started shouting as if they
were under evil.
“Yes, something like you should be disposed of right away!”
“You're a bad guy. Of Noel's dolls, I haven't particularly liked you since
before!”
“Do you dare to climb up to the top of your head without knowing the subject?”
Primary swear words poured out as if waiting for the size of the old emotions that
were usually suppressed.
However, the Nyx's face was calm.
Then finally a light laughter burst out of his mouth.
“Yes, I am a doll. You are great human beings.”
But what followed was a clear ridicule on Nyx's face.
“But it's also really weird. Why aren't you so good-looking that there's no
better part than me?”
"What… … !”
“You stupid humans. No matter how well you pretend to be, arrogant and trembling,
you are a failure made by God. I'm Noel's success story.”
An eerie glow ran through Nix's eyes.
The people who saw it were sullen, and I was swaying without knowing.
The Nicks laughed and shouted at them.
“Unfortunately, Noel cared me a lot more than things like you. I don't think I'm
going to do anything about killing a human being who didn't have a lot of
interest.”
“You only do that, Nick.”
Dante, deciding that it couldn't be anymore, came over and blocked the people of
the Knicks and Bertium.
He threw his cool gaze at Nyx. It was a warning not to stimulate people anymore.
“Okay. Do it this way, well.”
Looking at it, Nicks shrugged his shoulders, as if what had happened a little
while ago, and pulled the tail of his mouth.
“Then I'll leave the clean up to you, Dante.”
As if encouraging, he touched Dante's back lightly, and then walked lightly.
The enemy's young, intense eyes flew into the back of the Nyx.
In a moment, Dante felt like 10 years old and groaned low.
* * *
Even if it wasn't, she had heard at first glance that Roxana wasn't entrusting her
dolls to the detailed service.
In the meantime, listening to her speaking out now, she wondered if the new dolls
were sent to her because she didn't like it.
The dolls that were on the market first were already damaged, but it was not
difficult to repair them again.
If it seemed that it would take a long time to recover, it was possible to fix
only her face first and then send it to another doll.
Anyway, all the dolls on the market were very hard.
Roxana looked at her Noel's reaction, but she soon refused.
“You don't have to do that. It's troublesome for nothing.”
“It's not a hassle at all. Anything Luna wants, it can do anything.”
“I'm leaving tomorrow anyway.”
At that moment, Noel's mouth was shut.
Roxana moved her hands and swept her hair behind her ears as if she couldn't feel
her gaze on her own face.
Her little earrings sparkled beneath the red blossoms Noel had previously put in.
Noel's gaze stayed there for a while.
“Are all the people working here dolls?”
"how did you know?"
Then, Roxana's question followed Noel's eyes.
“Does it appear so much?”
The dolls that caught his attention laughed lightly. It was also a smile that
felt very arbitrary.
But Noel tilted his head as if he really didn't know.
“Everyone’s hands are as cold as ice.”
"Ah."
Noel fluttered, as if he hadn't thought about it.
The doll, which rubbed Roxana's arm, lifted her hand. The other dolls that were
serving her next to her began to be extra careful not to reach her with her hands.
Noel wondered if she wondered if that was the reason Roxana refused to serve her
new dolls, so she became gloomy.
“Okay, then from now on, I'll study to make a doll with body temperature.”
Noel burned her will so much, but she drank the drink placed in front of her in a
careless manner, as if Roxana had nothing to do with it.
Still, unlike the car that the Knicks brought out, there was nothing in it, so she
managed to eat.
* * *
* * *
Choreureuk.
Horse tea water wet the white cloth. But it wasn't the only thing that poured out
of the teacup.
Seeing something scattered on the damp tablecloth, Nicks hardened his face.
A black lump of only sugar or salt particles.
A little while ago, the sugar that Roxana put in and the poison that caused a
chemical reaction had become a solid state and were clustered.
The poison the Knicks prepared today was different from yesterday.
Yesterday, after confirming the efficacy of the sponsor directly on humans, for
some reason, he changed the type after knowing that only Roxana was not poisonous.
However, it wasn't a year or two that Roxana had been with her poison. In
addition, today's poison is more familiar to Roxana than yesterday's poison, so I
was able to determine what kind it was just by smell.
However, after all, it seems that the Nix was only interested in the performance
of the poison he obtained, seeing the barely exposed traces in front of him, and
stiffening his eyes.
“You are very good at lying on the subject of dolls. Indeed, it is like a unique
doll that has no place in the world.”
A smile, close to ridicule, ruthlessly sniped at Nyx.
“No, would the word “failure” match more than the word “unusual doll”?”
At that moment, Nyx's eyes changed.
Roxana's words got stuck in the part where she stabbed a while ago.
“… … It's a failure? I?"
"okay. You yourself seem to believe that you are special.”
A thick poison began to leak out of the open hole.
“But well. As far as I can see, you're just a mutant, or variant, born of Noel
Bertium's mistake.”
It spread slowly and eventually covered the Nyx.
"haha."
Finally, a sharp laugh burst out of Nick's mouth.
“Until now, no human being has been fine even though I was shouting in front of me
without fear.”
His face, facing Roxana, was also completely different from before.
The densely filled cold flew into Roxana sharply like an awl.
“When did you know that I prepared poison?”
Nyx's face, showing its true color, did not seem to resemble Asil in memory at
all.
Roxana was finally satisfied.
“From the beginning.”
Of course, it was still unclear whether Noel was behind it.
Other dolls must have acted only as directed by their owners, but the Nicks were
different from them. So he might have figured out her way alone, in the hopes of
holding Roxana here.
But if it was the Nyx's master who prepared the poison, Noel Bertium was a far
more mean human than Roxana thought.
It means that her Roxana pretended to respect her in front of her, pretended to be
innocent of her, laughed off her softly, and did her tricks on her back behind her.
Maybe when things went wrong, she didn't know that she was going to hand over all
the responsibility to the Knicks and be consistent with it.
“This time I ask. Is this your master's order, or is it your arbitrary choice?”
“You guessed it yourself. Like I pretended to be good a while ago.”
But instead of answering Roxana's question, the Nix bite her mouth full.
“Yes, you made the decision to kill me or not?”
Somehow, what Roxana said a little while ago seemed to stimulate him properly.
“Is arrogance a kind of your humans? I'm so excited to think that it's possible
for you to kill me.”
The Nix laughed sharply, sarcastically, as if you could be.
"And even if you succeed in killing me, do you think you can get out of this place
safely?"
However, Roxana was consistently relaxed.
After hearing the scornful voice digging through the eardrum, the Nicks did not
feel the need to bear more.
"then. I don’t think it’s that difficult?”
Ah, yes.
Let's flatten the nose of this cheeky human in front of you right now.
Thinking so, Nicks laughed lightly.
“Are you sure you believe in that one earring?”
Nyx's hand moved so fast that it was invisible to the naked eye.
Fook!
The knife on the table instantly cut through Roxana's ear and hit the wall.
Her broken earrings and red drops of blood dripping over her shoulders.
Roxana's face was consistently calm, and his gaze at the Nyx was cool.
Knicks laughed to reveal her teeth as she looked at her like her.
"Is it because of that the poison didn't work?"
The Knicks were early on that Roxana's earrings weren't commonplace.
“That's how the weak human beings aren't able to discern the world and are able to
eat.”
It was natural that I had been wearing the same earrings all the time since I came
to Bertium.
It was easy to understand because I felt suspicious and observed the puppets that
had been attended by her at the banquet hall.
“The only thing you have is those insignificant earrings and a swarm of
butterflies, right?”
The only force that I have is the only thing that I dare to kill on a subject that
has only one monster.
Moreover, I had no more hesitation because I removed those earrings that seemed to
be the only means of protecting my body.
“I didn't want to use radical methods because Noel said he hated hurting your
body.”
Nyx's eyes flashed brutally. He revealed his teeth and laughed.
“When I think about it, I think Noel will be satisfied as much as he regrets, even
if he gives only your body.”
Nyx triggered her Ma'an before Roxana called out her poison butterfly.
Hwaah!
Shamans emerged from the magenta eyes.
“Keep… … !”
But the next moment, it was Nix, not Roxana, who broke her waist with her blood
vomiting.
Poop!
Red blood wet the white tablecloth and clothes.
In an unexpected situation, he closed his mouth and opened his eyes.
It was then that Roxana kicked her table in front of her.
Quaang! Wow!
Nix grabbed a burning ship and hurried away.
He thought the attack would follow immediately, but Roxana just got up quietly.
"no wonder… … .”
Again.
The sound of a small shoehorn hovered in my ear.
She stepped on the broken pieces of glass and stepped on her leisurely, so
graceful that her figure was out of context.
Her fluttering hem, gently undulating like her shallow waves, finally covered her
slender ankles and sat down.
A classical voice pierced toward Nyx, who was straining her body while standing
against her wall.
“I thought it was weird because there was no device in the room, but you were a
variable. The eye itself was a medium.”
The Knicks still kept vigilant and spit blood that had accumulated in his mouth on
the floor.
This was a reaction when his witchcraft failed.
But why?
“Oh, that’s a surprised expression.”
On the other hand, unbelievably, she was standing still and staring at Roxana.
A little while ago, when the Knicks blew a knife, her hair was cut off and her
ears were cut, but it looked like she hadn't suffered anything other than that.
“What was this one earring so easily alert to you?”
In time, her red lips struck a sensational laugh.
“Did you think you discovered this because you were smart in the first place?”
At that moment, fire splattered in the eyes of the bloodshot Sun Nix.
"You're welcome. Unless you're an idiot, you should definitely notice this. I
meant to do it in a prominent place.”
Roxana was willing to appreciate her appearance with her open mind.
The whispering tone was gentle, but the content was not.
“Because the real thing that blocked your attack is hidden from view. But you
believe in what I showed you, and there will be more. How stupid too.”
It wasn't just earrings that Roxana got from Gri Zelda, which reduced the
influence of her magic.
Items that reflected the influence of magic in reverse were hidden secretly
invisible to others.
At the welcoming banquet, she deliberately prevented the owner from changing
earrings, so she may have been suspicious of that.
They were dolls, and that's why she thought that even the smallest things like
this would go into Noel's ears.
So, the current Knicks must have pushed her boundaries just by removing her
earrings.
Of course, I had no intention of explaining that to the Knicks now.
"you… … This girl... … .”
It was only then that the Knicks realized that Roxana had been tricked.
He glanced at Roxana's face in a serene glow that felt charitable at first glance
with her venomous right eye.
“At this point you will be curious. Why is this uproar and no one comes into the
room.”
And in the whisper that followed, the Nix suddenly sensed something strange.
“Don’t you think it’s strangely noisy outside? Ah, wasn't that excited about my
words and didn't even get into your ears?”
I didn't want to admit it, but it was exactly what Roxana said.
As I was sober and paying attention, I felt strangely cluttered outside.
Even though it's such an explicit noise, you haven't noticed so far.
The Knicks grappled when he noticed that this was also involved in her number.
Just then, a red bow appeared next to her Roxana. Knicks reflexively raised her
body upright.
“Oh, don't be scared. I'm not going to use it for you.”
Roxana smallly stirred her hand to carry out her orders and let her return her
butterfly.
“So, what did you say to me earlier? Did you say I wouldn't be able to kill you
without poison butterflies?”
Roxana laughed finely, closing her eyes as she heard a funny joke.
“Be funny. After all, you can't figure out the subject.”
However, her eyes sticking to Nyx were similar to those of raptors.
* * *
It was around the time Roxana and Knicks had just started talking in the parlor.
The air drifting among the people staying in the outbuildings in the backing was
very dark and heavy.
Not only that, there was a strange sense of tension, and if someone blows in a
light breeze, it seems that it will burst with a huge explosion sound.
Noel eventually refused their repeated requests for conversation.
The antidote was delivered yesterday evening to a man poisoned by the Knicks, but
that was all.
The Knicks weren't getting any punishment and was still holding his head around,
and Noel seemed to just condone this.
Even Noel expressed no regret to them for yesterday's events.
Of course, Dante, a spokesman for Noel, said he was very sorry for this, and that
he would punish the Knicks as well.
But no one knew it was a lie.
I couldn't even know that Noel, the head of them, was distracted by the dolls and
didn't care about them as much as gasol.
Therefore, the doll of Noel, who is not very arrogant, could be installed and
carried without fear.
Moreover, yesterday's work rang a new alarm on them.
How dare dolls try to poison people!
In particular, unlike other dolls, the Nyx was a doll that could move arbitrarily
without Noel's command.
At the same time, he was a dangerous being who did not have human moral ideas.
When I remembered yesterday's Nyx, who laughed casually in front of a person who
had fallen after being poisoned, I felt a goose bump on his skin.
Eventually, some people left the annex to once again ask for a meeting with Noel.
However, their steps soon stopped.
Someone who was half-hidden under the shadow of a flower tree also found them and
looked back.
Those who saw the beautiful shaded face twisted their faces harshly.
"you… … !”
“Why will you be here again… … .”
But they couldn't talk any more.
Several pairs of pupils flew into something in Nyx's hand and red blood spots
scattered like camellia flowers beneath it.
It was one of the people staying in the annex that was held in his hand and
stretched out like a corpse.
The rapidly frozen air vibrated sharply.
Nyx's smile, like a spring flower that slowly bloomed in the middle, was the only
thing that suits the season.
“Oh my God. I caught it.”
A clear, singing voice disturbed my ears like a swarm of roaming bees.
That was the decisive catalyst.
At that very moment, the deep-rooted resentment that had accumulated so far
exploded in an instant.
Salang.
Red butterflies, formed like drops of blood on the dazzling white blossoms, were
watching the situation silently.
The Knicks first escaped his patronage, pulling the body in his hand.
The resentful people turned openly and followed him.
However, the illusions that the butterflies had already shown disappeared, and
only the anger of those who had nowhere to come and go became an uncontrollable
flame and swept wildly around.
When they entered the main building where Noel was, they began to smash all the
visible dolls.
“Where did the Knicks hide? Give him right now... … !”
A fierce flame of emotion that will not be easily extinguished by anything.
That was the conflict and confusion that Roxana wanted.
* * *
* * *
A hot snoring spurted out of Noel's nose. He whispered quite angrily and ordered
the doll.
“You, go to warehouse 2 and get all the kids out there.”
All the dolls there were combat dolls.
However, I was not sure of the performance because there was no work to be used
normally and it has been quite a while since no maintenance work has been
performed.
Still, because of his temper, he couldn't stay still.
In addition, before Roxana knew about this, he had to resolve the commotion.
She was the prey that she might have misunderstood the beautiful Bertium if this
happened to her ear. That was something that should never be.
Noel groaned and grabbed her doorknob. And she wondered if she could hear a sound
in the drawing room nearby, so she opened the door as quietly as possible and went
outside.
Perhaps because of my mood, I seemed to hear a cluttered sound.
Noel's heart became more urgent.
We couldn't let the mob come to this place where Roxana was.
At any cost, I'd get the job done before I could do that, but in one case, it'll
be fine because there's a nick here.
The Nyx wasn't a combat doll, but he had a fairly good force.
He is a doll that he loves so much, so adding this and that function gave him a
reason that his stats were superior to other dolls.
Then, this time another doll came to him.
“Noel, Dante is injured.”
"what!"
Noel cried out loud without knowing it. It was fortunate that it was already
somewhat far from the reception room.
Flames fluttered in Noel's eyes when he said that Dante was hurt.
“Go ahead and get a doll with healing skills! Dante shouldn't die!”
He forgot the reason he had been quietly moving the corridor so far, and began to
run down the stairs.
A new doll called him again.
“Noel, Dante… … .”
“Okay! I'll go right now!”
Noel seemed to have no time to waste even a second, swiping past his doll and
running to the place where the fuss came.
The doll tilted his head as he looked back at Noel, who started to move away in no
time.
Since there was no other order from the owner, the doll went back the way he came
back to do his job.
However, the place he headed was not a place where dolls and people were roughly
intertwined, but in the direction of Bertium's main gate.
After a while, the doll said with a painted smile at the man who appeared in front
of him.
“Noel said he was coming right now.”
Cassis heard that and tilted his head.
What the doll was trying to convey to Noel was not news related to Dante's injury.
Contrary to Noel's thoughts, the words that the doll couldn't come up with
was'Dante-sama wasn't there, so I inevitably came to deliver the news to Noel.'
Originally, the order was engraved on the dolls to tell Noel, the head of the
family, what he deserved to know, to speak to his henchman Dante instead. It was
because of Noel, who bothers everything.
However, Dante couldn't be seen now, so he went straight to tell Noel the news.
There was no reason not to bring the people who came to deliver the contents of
the meeting of Yggdrasil, so the puppets immediately opened the door of Bertium to
Cassis.
Cassis took his gaze away from the smiling doll and fixed his gaze at the distant
feet.
Strangely distracting air was flowing to him.
“Then come this way. I will guide you... … .”
“I don’t need guidance.”
Cassis' steps moved in a different direction from the direction the doll was
trying to guide.
“Because I think I know where I am.”
Of course, it wasn't Noel Bertium he was looking for.
* * *
Originally, Roxana intended to kill Nicks after making her infight on Bertium.
In the end, however, her original purpose was unsuccessful, and it was
unreasonable to kill the Nyx, which belonged to Bertium, in front of them as long
as Dante and Noel were holding on.
Besides, at first I was simply thinking of killing him, but now my mind has
changed a little.
“In the first place, that’s my brother’s body, so it’s enough to get it back.”
And now, next to her was Cassis, Fedelian's successor.
From Bertium's point of view, he had no choice but to be conscious of his eyes,
which can be said to represent another family.
The situation was different from when Roxana was alone at Bertium.
“Even if not for that reason, the Knicks are the dolls who attacked me invited to
Bertium as a guest, so he thinks I have the right to ask for his recruit.”
Roxana's red eyes sharply looked at Noel and Dante.
At that moment, Dante's eyes trembled.
It was because Roxana pinpointed the fact that he was secretly paying attention
not to speak in front of Cassis by mistake.
In Bertium's point of view, a more serious matter than the Nix attacking Roxana
was the fact that his body was human.
Dante was shamelessly seized as if it wasn't even possible to lure Roxana with the
Knicks in the first place.
In the beginning, there was no clear explanation or designation for the Nyx even
in the invitation that could be evidence, so I thought I could take off the
prestige.
“Miss Roxana. I understand that you are angry, but there is a misunderstanding.
The Nyx is just a doll made to resemble Roxana Yang by chance... … .”
“Well, that can't be! The nicks were given to me by Land. He might have been
your brother before, but he's my doll now. Now it's mine. No matter how Lunara,
the nicks... … .”
However, Dante's lies were blocked by Noel's gossiping words.
It was a stupid thing he couldn't even imagine, so Dante stopped speechless.
Oh, this man is really... … .
I wondered if I could not do this even if I couldn't figure out the situation.
He wouldn't be able to fit, but Dante wouldn't have a tantrum like this if it was
a little bit different.
If you can't help, I'd rather keep your mouth shut!
“What does that mean?”
As expected, Cassis' subdued voice hit the ear.
“The story of using the human body as a material for Bertium's puppetry is very
early.”
Dante realized that the work was getting bigger and he felt the headache again.
“I think there is a need to clarify this part in Bertium.”
Cassis took out a crumpled letter from Yggdrasil and handed it over to Noel.
Noel picked it up and narrowed his eyebrows.
“It is finally decided that on the first day of the month, all five families will
gather in Yggdrasil.”
It was then that Dante realized what was the reason Cassis visited Bertium.
It was the first news that Roxana heard.
“At that time, I will formally request Bertium for a detailed explanation of this
matter. If that doll's body really belongs to humans, it's not easy for other
families to pass it over.”
Dante soaked low.
But Cassis' words didn't end there.
“Until then, I will keep the doll here.”
“That’s not possible.”
Dante refuted, hardening his face.
“Isn't there any evidence that the Nyx's body belongs to humans? There is no
reason to follow such one-sided demands at Bertium.”
“It was already testified through your cahieftain's mouth, is it denied?”
"that is… … Our chief confuses the memories.”
Although it was an excuse and it was hard to say, there was nothing else to say.
“It's a memory confusion. Did Bertium's chief have such a force?”
A smile, half mixed with sarcasm and ridicule, passed by Cassis' face.
At that moment, Noel couldn't figure out the situation again, but Dante stopped
him.
“Besides, the Nyx's body is now on the verge of being destroyed. Without Noel's
puppetry, we will never be able to recover.”
"right! Take it now and the Nyx will die!”
Noel, acting as if he had not yet figured out what was going on, shouted at
Dante's words, changing his eyes.
While Dante was eager to avoid taking the body of the Nyx, which is evidence of
human material, Noel was worried about dying because he couldn't fix the Nyx as it
is.
“If you're worried about that, you don't need it. There are technicians like that
in Fedeli.”
“That makes no sense… … .”
Dante refutes, but Cassis ignores him and steps away.
The next moment Cassis fell to the floor and lifted the bleeding Nix. It happened
before Noel and Dante could even stop him.
“Stop going back.”
Men Cassis said, looking back at Roxana, holding the Nix on his shoulder.
Seeing those two, Noel puffed his mouth.
"awhile! Who are you going to take Luna and Knicks with?”
Soon afterward, a bright blue glance stood in Noel's eyes.
His eyes, full of hostility, were pointing towards Cassis.
The battle dolls waiting behind him began to prepare for attack.
Quaang! bang… … !
At that moment, an explosion sound that was clearly distinct from the noise up to
now covered the whole Bertium.
It was a huge roar enough to shake the goal.
Dense dirt arose from the back of the main building.
At the same time, the sound of something falling apart and breaking filled the
eardrum.
“What is suddenly?”
“What is this!”
Noel and Dante were terribly surprised.
At first, I thought the people in the outbuildings that were suppressed were
trying to riot again and destroy Bertium altogether.
But soon a lightning-like enlightenment ran past Dante's head.
A sharp glance flew into Cassis's face and stuck.
“Do you have any company with you?”
Cassis asked calmly.
“I have one, why do you ask that?”
“I’m surprised, but where is he now?”
“Here you are.”
But as if Dante was waiting for him as soon as he finished speaking, a thick voice
rang in his ears.
“According to the situation, I was preparing to go back as it was not an
atmosphere to stay for a long time.”
At Isidor's words, Cassis nodded as if he had done well.
When he heard that, Dante crumpled his face.
Kwaang Kwang!
Again, a thunderous sound ripped through the air.
The explosion was quite simultaneous.
In Roxana's opinion, this seemed to be Grizelda's work.
“That way!”
Then, something worried happened.
As if there was a gap due to the explosion a while ago, the people of the patron
who had their feet tied up by making dolls broke through the line of defense and
were running toward this side.
Quaang... … !
“Noel! I won't let you go!”
bang!
“You treat us like this!”
“The Knicks are there too!”
Perhaps because of the fact that they were relentlessly suppressed by battle
dolls, people who were even more frantic than before, pouring a curse on Noel,
crowded.
Even those who had been quietly in the outbuildings of the patronage heard the
turmoil and joined, and the number of personnel was huge.
Dante had to feel like he was really going to change.
Noel felt serious too, and his face turned white.
Noel hurriedly glanced at the rushing men like crazy bulls and the Nyx on Cassis'
shoulder with shaking eyes.
In this situation, even if the Nyx was not taken away, it seemed that it could not
be protected from the people in the sponsorship.
If I didn't see the Knicks dismantle in front of him, that would be good enough.
“As the situation is like this, it will be difficult to see you off. Let's see it
in Yggdrasil.”
"awhile!"
Cassis said so and turned around.
There was no reason to be here anymore, nor had the time to do so. Dante urgently
tried to stop him.
Roxana had no more to see Bertium, so he turned without hesitation.
In time, a quiet groan flowed from Noel's mouth. Eventually he clenched his teeth
and ordered the battle dolls to attack.
“… … Stop them!”
But what they blocked was the people of patronage who were close to the front.
“Noel! Are you really going to let them go like this?”
Dante also screamed incredibly at Noel next to him, stopping those attacking him.
“Then what? In this situation, even the Nyx cannot be protected! Besides, the
walls are falling apart now!”
“But still!”
Dante was amazed by Noel's long-awaited common-sense judgment. But that was it,
and this was this.
Getting the Knicks out of Bertium like this... … .
Kwa-Aang!
But soon there was no room to waste time in this way.
Following the walls, the roaring of the building and the shouts of people struck
the eardrums.
Eventually, Dante couldn't afford to worry about anything else anymore.
The explosion continued until the guests who visited Bertium crossed the gates.
Bertium, who was as beautiful as paradise, became a mess with this incident.
Although they managed to suppress the raging mobs, their anger had already
deepened beyond help.
Even in a distracted situation, a doll was sent to search for the explosion, but
there was no human shadow there.
He just found the faint traces of magic that couldn't be known behind it.
Of course, no evidence was found that it was Fedelian's work, so Dante was forced
to quietly shout.
* * *
Although I had been at Bertium for only a few days, it seemed that a fairly long
time had passed.
The huge noise I still heard there seemed to be a loud buzzing in my ears.
As I moved out of Bertium, I kept thinking differently.
Thruk.
The warmth suddenly touched my cheek, which was indulged in thoughts.
As I lifted my gaze, Cassis' face staring at me came into my sight.
The place where his hand passed was where he was attacked and scratched by the
Nicks at Bertium.
The wound was already healed, but it seems that blood stains still remained.
Cassis moved his hand as if wiping it off.
Subsequently, his hand touched the previously cut ears and other minor wounds.
My Nyx's blood-soaked hands were also cleaned by Cassis.
“Cassis.”
I looked at him quietly and finally opened his mouth.
“Lant, who killed you?”
Cassis' hand, who had touched me with a still question, suddenly stopped moving.
Suddenly Cassis' eyes had changed a little.
His gaze clashed in the air.
Soon he took his hand away from me and his lips that had been closed.
"I."
Cassis' voice that followed was so low that it was felt without an accent.
“I killed it.”
I wasn't surprised to think that either Deon or Cassis would have killed Rant in
the first place.
I asked again.
“How was that person's end?”
Maybe this was something I shouldn't say to Cassis. But… … .
I couldn't swallow up the poison that had spread deep into my heart, so I spit out
the sincerity of this moment.
“I wish that person's end was very painful.”
Cassis wrapped my hands on both cheeks. Then he looked into my eyes from the
front.
Then, a quiet question, close to a whisper, ran over me.
“If there's anything you want me to do, tell me.”
It was a straight and sincere look as if I would do anything I wanted without
hesitation.
It was clear that he, too, easily inferred the reason for this through the
conversation within Bertium.
I closed my eyes in case my heart would be read by him.
I want to kill Rant Agriche, who has disgraced Asil until his death.
I want to kill Noel Bertium, who had to raise Asil's body and hinder his rest.
And at the last minute, I hesitated like a fool and want to kill me who couldn't
kill Nix.
The fiercely raging flesh stabbed like a thorn.
When I thought about the Nyx, who would be loaded like luggage at the back of the
wagon, a faint chill spread in his chest.
"Please hold your hand."
So I asked him what he needed now.
It might seem a bit absurd, but Cassis immediately reached out his hand to me.
But instead of holding his hand at my request, he pulled my body and wrapped it in
his arms.
Warm warmth oozes from his tight body.
While I was in Bertium, I felt my bones ache, but I felt warmth in my body because
I was attached to Cassis like this.
Cassis' arms tightly clamped my waist.
Slowly, the slow hand sweeping down his back slowly returned to his peace of mind.
I foreshadowed that the time of peace that I had been fully enjoying for a while
in his arms was over.
With the things I wanted to do and things to do, it was clear that I would be busy
again in the future.
“Cassis.”
I leaned my cheeks against my head as Cassis asked me to speak at my slow call.
“I will be Roxana Agriche again.”
Cassis' hand, which had been slow for a moment, supported my neck.
After that, a feathery kiss fell on my forehead.
"okay. Do whatever you want.”
Cassis said he would not let me go no matter what, and I trusted him.
I didn't mean to give up either.
“You keep by my side too.”
So, when I greedyly demanded, the power of Cassis that embraced me became even
stronger.
"okay."
Again, Cassis was willing to tell you what I wanted to hear.
“I will do that.”
I also hugged Cassis more tightly.
Unlike in the past when I was alone, I was fortunate to have him next to me.
It is true that she cannot cheat blood, and Sierra's face now resembles Roxana
very much.
This was especially the case with his disgusting cold eyes staring at Deon.
However, the words that followed were not in Theon's prediction category.
“But I pity you that much.”
At that moment, Deon's expression, which had never changed until now, moved very
finely.
Sierra was like that to her words without stopping towards him.
“Maybe I'm the only one who sympathizes with you in this world.”
That was the first word I heard of Deon's birth.
“And I deserve to despise you and to sympathize with you.”
Who dare to pity him so far?
“You’re funny.”
Moreover, that opponent is Sierra. While she was alive, she had never imagined
it.
“There have been times when I have been suspicious, but are you really insane?”
A ridiculed cynicism arose in Deon's mouth.
“Then, did you mean that you saved me because of that little compassion?”
But she didn't shake at all who drew her change from him.
“I'm not trying to say anything like forgiving you. It is impossible even if I am
born again.”
Like Deon just a while ago, this time Sierra shouted in an unfeeling appearance.
“But I… … .”
And with the added words, the more intense anticipation in Deon's eyes was young.
"okay. Because I know you who killed my son could die for my daughter.”
“It really turned. You're talking crap like that.”
“No, it's not bullshit, you're really Sana's faithful dog. If you bark, you will
bark, and if you die, you will pretend to die. You don't seem to know it
yourself.”
After leaving Agriche, Sierra seemed to have lost her fear.
“In any case, the reason why I didn't let you die is no different. Because you
still have use for my daughter.”
Otherwise, I couldn't put him in front of him like this and spit out without
hesitation.
“People who are useful survive. It's Agriche's way.”
If that's the reason why Deon was saved, it couldn't be helped.
“It's all that far to make fun of your mouth without fear. It's getting harder to
see.”
Deon coolly warned Sierra.
“Do you think it would be a great grace to bring me and heal me in Agriche instead
of leaving me alone? Well. I don't think it's enough to be able to live a life
even with a shout.”
At that moment, Emily, who was standing against her wall, stepped forward.
It was clear that he realized that the energy that exuded from Theon's body had
changed.
But even if it is, did you dare to stop him with your own strength?
Deon's smile was covered with thin ice.
“It makes me look ridiculous for being belittled by thugs.”
Shit.
He moved his hand to break the shackles that covered his wrists and ankles.
“Let’s finish the uninteresting game at this point.”
Until now, it was Deon's own unsuitable tolerance that had matched her rhythm to
Sierra.
Deon waited patiently for her to stab him with that knife now on her lap.
Perhaps there was a very faint expectation melted in that waiting.
However, she did nothing and consumed all the opportunities Deon had given her.
This was enough to pay for her life.
But she, as Sierra argued, that if she said from the beginning she had no
intention of killing him, she wouldn't be too disappointed in her position.
“Yes, go to my daughter.”
Sierra also seemed to know the worthlessness of the tools that bound the Deon.
She was not at all surprised or embarrassed by the current situation. The same
was true of Emily, who was next to her.
“Go to my daughter... … .”
Deon stepped down on her floor and looked down at Sierra sitting on her chair.
“Anytime I die for that child. Because it is the life that saved me.”
The gaze from the top was eerie and sharp like a blade.
However, Sierra seemed to feel no fear.
It seemed that her sad eyes would stab her like that at once.
Eventually, however, Deon ran past her without touching her finger on her Sierra.
Their curious time that was kept so over time was over.
In the meantime, there was no time to be aesthetic as much as I had consumed more
days here than I expected.
Deon immediately left the neutral zone and moved to Agriche.
* * *
Agriche, who returned after a long time, still has traces of the past.
As time passed, from late winter to early spring, the landscape of Agriche was
still desolate.
Deon briefly captured the appearance of the mansion that had a much more secluded
feeling than his memory.
That way.
Finally, his steps continued inside the mansion.
Deon returned to where he first stood after going through several rooms and places
where he had a battle with Land Agriche.
In the meantime, I didn't meet anyone because Deon killed the miracle to avoid the
hassle.
However, it was also because the number of people staying in the mansion decreased
to an incomparable amount.
“Wait, what are you there?”
About the time Deon was about to leave the mansion, the first person to find him
appeared.
Deon's gaze slid in the direction of the sound.
“Huh, Deon?”
The man who recognized his face took a breath.
He was one of Deon's half-brothers, and of course he was outside Deon's interest
until now.
So, without delay, Deon turned his expressionless face back to the front.
“What, it’s Deon?”
“Is that really?”
The voice I spit out a while ago was quite loud, and I could hear other people who
heard the sound groaning.
There was certainly no Roxana in the mansion.
In fact, although I thought it was unlikely that she would be here, he had only
seen it because he thought it was worth checking.
He had done what he intended to do, and he had no reason to stay here.
“Oh, wait a second!”
Deon left the voice calling for him and stepped out without hesitation.
He suddenly disappeared this time, just like when he first entered Agriche's
mansion.
* * *
After leaving Agriche, Deon looked around to find the traces of Roxana.
However, the time had already passed, and it seemed that it was too late to find
what he wanted.
At first, there were too many traces from outside.
In addition, the people of Agriche had a habit of erasing their own traces, and
especially Roxana was too adept at such work.
“… … .”
Suddenly, Cassis Fedelian, whom I had seen on my last day at Agriche, came to
mind.
<flashback><i>“I was told that I was chasing Rant from the underground prison, and
I tried to give you a chance, but was it not enough?”</i></flashback>
As she turned her head to her familiar voice, it was Mary who came into her sight.
She wore her dress as elegantly as when she was in Agriche and stretched out a
parasol.
However, Maria was running toward the side where the deon was in a hurry, so I
wondered if her high heels were broken.
The hem of her rich chimat spread like petals following the violent movement.
“You really are!”
Maria, who confirmed Deon up close, exclaimed in an exhilarating voice.
“Where and what have you been doing so far?”
On the other hand, Deon's face was still insensitive.
Even life and death were not confirmed with each other.
However, Maria was used to such deon, so she accepted it casually.
She glanced through her eyes from the tip of her head to the toes of her son in
front of her.
Deon also looked fine without any burnt place.
A look came to Maria's face that she thought it would.
“Are you with Sana?”
Mary asked, looking up at Theon again.
She figured out her answer from his dry face and before she even heard the answer.
“No.”
Immediately a second question followed.
“Then have you seen Sierra?”
The speed of her questioning was so fast that she wondered if the reason she was
glad to see Deon was actually to ask this.
“I think the mansion was cluttered that day and Sana sent it out in case Sierra
was injured. I can't find where it went.”
Maria spoke as if she couldn't waste a minute.
“Aren't you with Sana until the end that day? Don't you tell me where she sent
it?”
Deon looked down at Mary silently for a moment.
He remembered Sierra, who had stayed in the same space not long ago, and then
opened his closed lips.
“To the east.”
Deon left that one word and started walking past Mary.
"East? East from here?”
Maria shook her head as if she knew it, and then she started walking with Deon on
her back.
So, a short reunion ended in no time.
Maria and Deon had no more conversations than with Jeremy.
However, neither of them thought it strange, nor did they even care about it.
Deon went into the forest and moved for a while.
Then finally, at the end of the forest, his foot stopped high.
If it's a place that leads in this direction... … .
“Bertium?”
A soft voice crossed through the light that swept in the woods.
Just like the eyes of the person Maria was looking for, the sky was endlessly
blue.
Deon did not know of course what would be waiting for him at the end of his path
from now on.
* * *
* * *
* * *
The head of Whiperion decided that he could no longer overlook Orca's indulgence.
So, at this social gathering, he was going to take him at any cost.
Before that, it was Pandora's mission to somehow help Orca regain his energy.
Pandora wanted to say “Why am I?” but she also had a mistake, so he couldn't help
it.
It was quite inconsiderate even now that she did her rudeness and expelled from
inside her Fedeli.
Pandora used to kick his blankets every night in the intense shame and
embarrassment that comes every time he recalls it.
Somehow, so the head of Whiperion took his work at Fedelian as a reminder and
entrusted Pandora to work with Orca.
She had actually left her a job that no one else would have done.
Still, this time Orca reacted differently than before.
“Wigdrasil?”
“I told you yesterday! Are you closing your ears again?”
As if she remembered something she had forgotten, a twinkling light flashed in
Orca's eyes.
“Sister, do you know the list of attendees coming to Yggdrasil?”
But somehow, it wasn't a lively look, but a flickering look, so I felt the steamy
feeling of Pandora.
“How do I know that.”
“Then do you know your uncle?”
Suddenly, Orca showed the enthusiasm that had evaporated as if washed for a while
and lifted her body from her window sill, which had been sitting on her astride.
He casually put down the bottle of liquor he had in his chest and began to head
toward the chief's office.
Following Orca's flying steps, his long light blue hair, tied together, shook like
a blue bird's tail feathers.
Pandora looked at Orca's back with an ambiguous feeling.
'Anyway, I haven't put in much effort yet, but I feel like I've gotten up right
away.
Thinking so, Pandora stepped out of her seat to move back to her room.
However, for some reason, she was forced to look back at the place where Orca had
disappeared because of an unknown sense of anxiety that she climbed on her back.
* * *
As I entered the bathroom and soaked in the bathtub, my thoughts again shifted to
Nyx, who is now trapped in a Fedelian dungeon.
Cassis, guarding the prison front, said he'd let you know as soon as the Nyx wakes
up.
But, he said, looking at his condition, he wouldn't wake up at least until the sun
rises tomorrow morning.
As he recalled what had happened at Bertium, a faint fever ran into his head.
He said that sooner or later, all five families will be gathering at the
Yggdrasil.
There would also come Noel Bertium, whom I had seen a while ago.
On the way home from Bertium and back into Fedeli, I suddenly remembered the news
of Gri Zelda that she had received from her poison butterfly.
After all, she had escaped from Bertium.
Grizelda left a short message to me.
[See you at Yggdrasil.]
Grizzly, Zelda seemed to have heard about this meeting.
In the name of “Roxana Agriche,” I was planning to visit the Ugdrasil again, where
I started last winter.
Certainly the people of Agriche, represented by Jeremy, will also be present.
So, I will be able to meet Jeremy and her face again after a long time there.
Even if Bertium and the Knicks hadn't worked, Jeremy was thinking of contacting
Jeremy sooner or later.
If the child I knew, it was clear that she would wait for me forever, even if she
had no promise.
<flashback><i>“If I… … Will you come back if I make Agriche a place where your
sister can laugh?”</i></flashback>
She never gave up on me, who didn't answer me in the end, as if she was holding
Agriche alone like that.
So this time it was my turn to visit him first.
Aw.
I suddenly escaped from the lukewarm water.
* * *
* * *
The next day, I opened my eyes to the feeling of someone moving next to me.
As I lifted my eyelids, bright sunlight broke into my view.
In the meantime, I could see Cassis' back.
The radiance from the window made him feel as if his body was spontaneously
shining. Cassis' fine silver hair also shimmered in the clear sunlight.
He got up before me and got dressed.
He was in a position that turned back from me, so Cassis's back was visible at a
glance.
It was a pretty muscle even after several times. He felt it since he was in
Agriche three years ago, but Cassis was even handsome in his back.
But on his back, which was like a piece of marble, there were long nail marks that
I scraped last night.
Soon, a white shirt covered Cassis' back, and the red marks were obscured from
view.
"That, can't you get rid of it?"
Cassis looked back at the voice I let go.
"Woke up?"
Cassis, who took his steps and approached me, put himself on the bed.
“Did I wake up? You can sleep more.”
A friendly hand rubbed my hair and tickled my ears.
His eyes toward me were warm and soft like the sunshine from Sumi outside the
window.
Soon, Cassis, with his upper body bent, put his lips down on my shoulder, which
was revealed over the flowing blanket.
The damp warmth stayed on my body briefly and then disappeared.
“It looks like it's stinging marks on the back. Why don’t you heal it quickly?”
I told him again, recalling what I had seen a while ago.
It seems that it was not only today but also last time.
With Cassis, I would be able to get rid of scratches and cracks in no time.
But in the morning, Cassis was always wearing it on his body.
Not only in the morning, but also when we check back the night, and the next
day... … .
“I just like it the way it is.”
Cassis said, looking at me with a clean face.
“Because you left it.”
The tone was so cool and straightforward that I lost something to say for a
moment.
It wasn't that I wasn't thinking about it, but that was true.
Rather than that, this person speaks casually and embarrassingly.
But what makes me feel better there.
“Cassis. Come here.”
I lie still for a moment, look up at Cassis, and then lift my upper body halfway
up.
Then I reached out to him, and Cassis silently drew his upper body at my request.
I pulled his neck and kissed him. It was just a light kiss that touched his lips
for a moment and then fell off.
"Good morning."
Then he closed his eyes and whispered.
At that moment, the eyes of Cassis, who he was facing, changed slightly.
Cassis raised his hand and wrapped my hand in contact with him.
Slightly higher body temperature has been transmitted from the entire back of his
hand and from the hand covering his wrist.
A conflict was felt in Cassis. I woke up in bed before he put my weight back on
me.
“I have to go wash.”
As he sat straight on his back, the hair that had been messed up on the seat
spilled over his body.
Because she wasn't wearing anything, she felt the texture of her hair on her back
and chest.
The gown Cassis took off yesterday would have fallen under the table.
I got out of bed and headed for the table.
While walking, Cassis' gaze was felt behind my back.
I picked up a gown that had fallen on the carpet and turned my head, and suddenly
a familiar hand touched my body.
“I'll bring you.”
Cassis, who had approached, hugged my body.
“Can I go alone?”
“Because I was on my way anyway.”
Before I could say anything more, he walked with me holding me.
Oh, it seems that the fire was unintentionally lit.
no… … But did I really have no intention of that?
Although I was a little suspicious of myself, I just pretended to know nothing and
leaned over Cassis.
That morning, the time passed extremely quickly.
* * *
* * *
Benefit.
The sound of the opening of the iron door pierced the eardrum sharply.
Of course, I've never been to Fedelian's dungeon for the first time.
The sight reflected in the sight seemed to be similar to that of Agriche, but the
atmosphere was felt differently.
This is a bit of a saying, but is it because there is no torture device.
Besides, Fedelian's prison overall was a little more pleasant and neat.
So, the Nyx, which was in a bloody state inside the iron fence, stood out more
clearly.
"you… … !”
As soon as Nyx, who was leaning against the wall, saw my face, he jumped up from
his seat.
The chains of shackles that held his wrists and ankles shook greatly.
In the closed space, an unpleasant sound resounded.
“Hi, Nicks. I saw your face for a moment yesterday, remember? Still, it's been a
while since I've been saying hello like this.”
I greeted him gently.
I could see Nyx's eyes distorted at the softly flowing voice.
“Now you and I… … I don't think it's time for a conversation or conversation
like this?”
Contrary to his older look, the Nicks didn't express their feelings to me right
away.
He seemed to grasp the situation for a moment.
Now I was not alone.
The keen gaze of the Knicks first flew to me and stuck, then slipped one after
another at the other three people next to me. But at the end it was fixed to me
again.
I was talking towards such a nick.
“I'm glad you looked good. I thought maybe you were broken beyond repair.”
Of course, I wasn't really worried about the Knicks.
“You, you were injured a lot that day.”
At the gentle whisper, Nix shut her lips tight.
The eyes that stare at me were more intense.
It was obvious that I had noticed that I was scratching my nerves on purpose.
I lowered my eyes and smiled sadly toward him. Then he whispered quietly as if
savoring past memories.
“The texture of your left eye that broke out in my hand that day, and the screams
that rang in my ears every time your flesh was torn are still vivid.”
"Shut up… … !”
Reminiscent of the work at Bertium, which had been in crisis because of me, a
crackling sound leaked from the mouth of the bitten Nyx.
Cassis' cool gaze fell on such a Nyx.
But Cassis was just holding his place and he didn't move forward.
Before he entered the dungeon, he had something to say in advance.
So I was the only one having a face-to-face conversation with Knicks.
“You, what the hell is your purpose?”
After a while, the excitement subsided, Nix asked me.
Just an hour ago, the Nix was quite calm, as it was false to say that he had
rioted in prison.
“What was the purpose of bringing me and putting me in a place like this?”
But in his eyes, I found an afterimage of young emotions like a misty fog.
Although pretending to be calm, he looked a little nervous.
At that moment, an enlightenment suddenly passed through my mind.
The Knicks had been unconscious from an early age, so it was natural that he did
not know why he left Bertium and was here.
Besides, he wouldn't have heard the conversation between Noel and us afterwards.
If so, the last thing the Knicks remember is whether Dante, who heard Cassis,
showed a cold attitude and stunned him.
I looked at the face I encountered silently for a moment.
As my silence got longer, the little shallow ripples in Nyx's blue eyes were
getting bigger and bigger.
“For the purpose… … . Well."
Deliberately responding unclearly, the Nyx sprinkled a deeper chill.
“Don’t play with words and say what’s right.”
I tilted my head and looked down at him.
“What are you so afraid of?”
Then he nodded a little as if he knew soon.
“Hey, is it natural that there are things you did at Bertium?”
At my words, the Knicks crumbled. As I looked at it, I pulled up the tip of my
lips.
“Now the situation is reversed. Of course I'm not going to poison you like you
did. I know that doesn't work for you anyway.”