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The eyelids that had been asleep due to exhaustion fluttered slightly, and then soon lifted, revealing purple eyes.

It’s not just the eyelids.

My whole body felt heavy. My body needed rest as if all my energy had been drained from it.

That’s why, when I opened my eyes, a lot of time had already passed.

Dark and gloomy sky.

Night had already come.

“…”

Even so, Harnie was lying comfortably in a comfortable position, even if he had slept for several hours.

I was lying in bed without any dirt on my body, without getting covered in dust from outside.

I was able to sleep soundly until the sky became so dark… I can only assume that someone was by my side and brought me to the inn.

Thanks to this, memories from before I fell asleep began to return.

Clearly, Harnie had cried herself to sleep.

Before I fell asleep from exhaustion, I tried to send someone away.

but.

In the end, he didn’t go back.

It’s not a dream.

It’s not a delusion.

The reality was that you couldn’t even gamble.

“Sigh.”

Harnie sighed with a heavy heart.

When I thought about what would happen next, I felt lost.

My chest felt heavy with guilt, as if I had caught it with my own hands.

But on the other hand, I wasn’t thinking that way.

Ironically enough, my feelings of joy coexisted with mine.

I was even more delighted that he didn’t go back.

Even though I clearly grabbed his ankle.

Even though I abandoned my purpose right before your eyes and ended up staying here because of you.

In a corner of my heart, I had a selfish thought that it was fortunate.

“Carcein is…”

The lights were on outside. Karsene was usually awake at this hour. So we could at least have a conversation.

Harnie dragged his heavy body out to the living room.

“Are you awake?”

Karsine noticed the movement at the table and said.

“You must be very tired. Wouldn’t it be better to sleep a little more?”

In this situation, instead of worrying about yourself, you are thinking about me.

I want to be angry, but I don’t have the energy.

“…Now, what are you going to do?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Don’t beat around the bush. If you stay here and don’t leave, you know how hard it’s going to be.”

The door to reality is closed.

Even if we leave aside the possibility of reopening, the road ahead is bound to be difficult.

He became a wanted man.

He has committed such a heinous crime that the entire empire is after his head.

As long as I stay here, I’ll be chased every day.

The moment you are caught, your neck will inevitably be cut off. You will have no choice but to live a life where you are chased by the world, where you can never live in peace.

However, Karsine answered in a calm tone.

“What should I do? I have to get rid of the guy who planned this.”

“Don’t take it in such a playful way!”

Harnie shouted in frustration.

“You can’t even dream of a comfortable and easy life. You have to live in fear, always on the run. And on top of that… you could actually die!”

But why are you so calm?

That sight made my heart feel even more suffocated.

“Why, why do you have such foolish thoughts…”

It was complicated.

I can’t deny the fact that this happened because of me.

You start to beat yourself up about what on earth went wrong that led you to make this choice.

“What’s left for someone like me… After all, I’m someone who would be forgotten after just one night in the original world…”

Then Karsain came over and lifted Harnie’s face, which was about to burst into tears again.

“…!”

It was close.

So much so that I don’t know when it came.

‘no way…’

I found myself taking a step back.

I stepped back to get away from him.

But the more this happened, Carcein came closer, step by step.

Eventually I was pushed to the edge of the wall.

Harnier, who was cornered by a wall with nowhere to run, was trapped under Karsain’s two arms.

There have been cases like this in the past too.

When I was backed up against the wall and close enough that my breath could almost reach him.

However, that didn’t mean anything.

This man is dull. He is far from emotions like romance or love.

He was just a doll-like man, living surrounded by calculations and formulas, looking only at his future.

But that’s a story of the past.

The look in his eyes now… wasn’t the same as back then.

You shouldn’t expect anything.

Having expectations is something you shouldn’t do.

It was a sin in itself to have given a person who had to leave a bad feeling.

But I still have high hopes.

I close my eyes with that expectation.

─.

Soft lips are covered.

It was sweet.

It was endlessly sweet.

It was on a whole different level from when we secretly locked lips in the middle of the night.

The kiss he had given himself erased all the negative thoughts he had been having.

The short, awkward kiss ended.

Her lips part and her eyes open.

After what felt like an infinitely short time, Karsain asked Harnier.

“Do you understand now? Why I was foolish.”

“…”

That wasn’t a question.

It’s just a question used with a completely different meaning.

Hearing those words, Harnie blushed.

This is definitely not the time.

Instead, I should have resented him, scolded him, and scolded him for not going back.

After hearing that, all those thoughts disappeared.

Now I have no desire to blame or resent him.

Now that it’s filled with something else.

***

The heat that had been flowing through their skin and bodies began to subside.

However, an awkward silence flowed, separate from the overheated atmosphere calming down.

Harnie was clearly worried about me.

This worry was further a reproach to herself, and she had to tear it down.

So, I wanted to express that there was a reason to stay here.

I felt that I needed to show it, not just say it.

In order to do that… I guess I’ll have to show my sincerity.

I took courage.

Clumsy and rough, though.

Still, I thought I did the best I could.

We just acted like fake lovers and never showed ourselves as real lovers.

So I had to take the real lovers’ approach.

…kiss.

With the kiss of true lovers that cannot be imitated.

But… after our lips parted, this awkward atmosphere continued.

“…”

I glanced at Harnie, but… there was no response.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

Since I haven’t said a word since a while ago, I’m scratching my head for no reason and even thinking that I did something wrong.

Since he didn’t say anything like that, I started to get worried too.

What should I do?

I wish there was a formula for this.

It was too difficult.

In the end, I was spending my time like that, racking my brain.

-Tiring!

▶Episode XLIV. Five Treasures in Progress◀

▶The episode will be updated because the five treasures were not used.◀

‘what?’

The episode suddenly starts here?

‘No. Wait. It was just an episode window that suddenly appeared… but it contains some pretty important information.’

I didn’t use any of the five treasures.

It contained very important information in itself.

▶EX Episode. This episode is included in True Enemy.◀

▶Acquire the five treasures to stop the Yggdrasil Project.◀

Yeah. It wasn’t strange to have questions up until now.

The five treasures exist, but what are their uses? The question is.

It was said that it was simply for the purpose of creating a portal to reality, but that was already gone and was no longer usable. It wasn’t even actually consumed.

So what exactly are they used for?

Its identity was revealed this time.

“There… Carcein.”

Suddenly, Harnie called me. But.

“…That’s only visible to your eyes?”

He must have noticed my gaze, or he must have noticed that I was staring at something in the air.

It was a question that would have made me cringe and send a chill down my spine if it had been like before.

I would have tried to cover it up somehow and said something else… but that’s not the case now.

‘Okay, that’s good.’

Let’s reveal everything now.

“Yes, that’s right. I was looking at this floating window. Not just this time, but every time.”

“Every time…?”

“You were nagging me at the salon one day, asking why I was hitting you. Actually, I was watching this at the time. That’s why I knew. Daggers were going to fly around me.”

“Oh my god…”

I’ve been hiding a lot from Harnie for a long time.

Even if there was something uncomfortable, she didn’t ask or inquire.

Even though he knew I was a foreigner, and that I came from another world, he didn’t say anything.

For me, that is.

But now I will reveal it myself.

I will reveal everything without exception.

So as not to produce the same results as before.

***

The quiet Shiren Villa.

A girl’s cries echo from there.

The door didn’t open today either.

The period of strict confinement continued to increase, and Flora was unable to leave this place, even though it was only called a convalescent retreat.

“Idiot… You’re really an idiot…!”

I never had a family that strong.

Just being right next to him gave me strength.

A family you can proudly introduce to anyone.

A family that anyone can understand and exclaim in admiration.

That person was my eldest sister.

But at this point, it’s just a story of the past.

Arina has become someone I no longer want to call my sister.

I became a family member that I didn’t want to introduce to anyone, and a person that I didn’t even want to call my older sister.

That was Arina.

“Arina, you idiot! Idiot! Dog! Earthworm! Black, black…!”

But even if you cry and say bad things, nothing will change.

I can’t do anything.

It’s been a while since the Surren Villa became a place for surveillance rather than rehabilitation.

During that time, the only news we heard was that the search had been strengthened.

Flora must have burst into tears in her helplessness.

That is, if it were a time when we simply ignored reality.

“…Haa. The youngest is crying again.”

“What should we do? If we keep doing this, we’ll get hit…”

“What are you going to do? Let’s go down. You’ll get scolded later for irritating the young lady for nothing.”

“That’s right. It would be more difficult if the butler said that.”

The low-level knights hired to watch over Flora, who is in custody at the Shiren Villa, whisper and go down.

Whenever Flora cries like today, they leave the room for fear that the sparks will fly to them.

That was Flora’s trick.

‘Okay…! If it’s this far, I should be able to get out soon.’

We can’t just wait for Karcein to be caught at the villa like this.

I had to search and search again to see if there was another way.

I read books day and night, pretending to cry.

It was a terrifying concentration. It was only yesterday that I was slacking off and reading a book that should have taken at least three days to read in nine days, but now I can read it in one day, down to one-third of that amount.

By reading and studying like that, I found a solution. From the books I hated so much.

It wasn’t difficult to distract the servants and knights with smoke.

Flora soon escaped from the villa without being caught and started running, holding a document in her arms.

[Approval Request for Re-determination of Succession Order within the Family]

‘If I can just convey this somehow…!’