episode_0009

“Who on earth beats their daughter in the morning…? ?”

I was dumbfounded and nervously opened my mouth. Kailon, who had used clean magic to clean his body and put on his clothes, smiled and wrapped himself in light clothes.

“No, it’s because I can’t adapt. Isn’t it normal to solve it right away when you write it?”

“Not at all… ”

I don’t know what kind of sexual knowledge he has, and I don’t want to know, but the smell of ignorance seeping through those lines was so creepy.

So I just pretended not to notice and moved on, and began to change into my nun’s clothes.

Slowly wrapping a soft black cloth around the body, stockings covering the legs, and even a garter belt to keep it from falling down.

After shaking it off and checking it once or twice to see if there was any dust on it, I was only able to walk after putting the veil on my head.

When the elegant shoes clicked again, I looked up, thinking that Kailon was also fully dressed, but instead of changing his clothes, he was raising the corners of his mouth when he saw me.

“… What are you doing?”

“Appreciation.”

“Crazy… Why do you look so closely at people changing their clothes?”

“Well, if a saint is changing clothes right in front of you, why would anyone bother to avoid their eyes?”

There were no separate rooms, and in places like this, bathrooms were not provided in each room, so there was no space to change clothes.

So I thought that we would just turn our backs to each other and change our clothes without any thought, but I didn’t know that they would look at us closely and without manners.

What was even more outrageous was that he didn’t change his clothes at all just to watch me change.

As I was looking at him with a dissatisfied gaze, Kylon shrugged his shoulders and moved his mouth as if he was giving me a chance to get revenge.

“Well, if I tease you, you’ll see it too. I’m happy to see you.”

“Ah, that’s enough. I’ll turn around and sit down.”

But it wasn’t like an opportunity for revenge for me, and at the same time, I tilted my head at the thought that it would arouse the guy who might have an exposed castle wall that would hit my daughter outside.

I saw it, so you saw it too. What kind of psychology is this?

With that thought in mind, I pulled out my chair and sat there with my back to Kailon, when a voice came from behind me.

“What is the reaction like a virgin?”

“No, it’s not that I’m embarrassed to look at a man’s body, it’s that I don’t want to see it… !”

It’s unnatural for men to look at each other’s bodies, but I couldn’t understand what they were thinking when they arbitrarily judged me to be a virgin.

As I was holding my aching head and sighing, he had just changed his clothes and called my name.

“Veronica.”

“… Uh.”

“I wore it all.”

I, who had my head down like that, groaned, then raised my head and slowly looked back at him.

What was then seen was not a warrior wearing fancy iron armor, but simply a warrior named Kylon wearing rough clothes.

“What is the armor?”

“In the beginning, I wore it with a lot of energy, but now it’s just too heavy so I’m thinking of quitting. Let’s go.”

It was only after going through all the commotion in the morning that I was able to come out.

How can a person be this tired in the morning, when it’s not even lunch yet? It was a surprising start.

*

After eating, I went out to the royal capital, and there were many guards walking around the royal capital.

After watching the numerous guards walking around for a while, Kylon was the first to speak.

“… Was there really this much expense?”

Since I didn’t know what his usual security was, I was dumbfounded and could only raise my eyebrows at the sound of his voice.

Then, after thinking about it for a while, I realized the reason.

“Isn’t it because of me?”

“Oh, I guess so. I had forgotten that the king had locked me up and stolen it without a word.”

Wow, are you saying they released soldiers to find me?

Because I had goosebumps, I suddenly felt like I was itching even though Kylon was next to me.

So I raised my trembling hand and scratched my neck.

shit.

The itch that didn’t go away even when I scratched it kept crawling over my body.

I was breaking into a cold sweat, and soon my fingernails were scratching my neck, causing blood to flow down.

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“No, just… Ugh.”

I need to stop, it was supposed to be resolved a bit when Kylon was next to me, but why isn’t that happening now?

My brows narrowed as I wondered if it was because my anxiety didn’t just go away just because Kylon was next to me.

I wanted to say that it was nothing, that there was nothing special, but my body couldn’t respond.

Even though Kylon was watching, my hands raised my nails and scratched the skin to relieve the itch, scratching the wound on the skin, scratching the inside of the wound, and drawing blood.

When the white scarf around my neck turned red, Kylon grabbed my hand and pulled it away.

“Stop it… ! Your neck is bleeding!”

It’s itchy, it won’t go away. Kylon.

“I feel like I can’t breathe.”

The symptoms became so severe that I burst into tears.

I’m out of breath. I felt like I couldn’t even speak properly.

I tried desperately to let out my breath, but it was just painful as I couldn’t breathe at all, like when I was hanging on a rope and being strangled.

“Kek.”

Why is there nothing around my neck?

The reason was unknown.

All I could feel was the blood rushing to my head as I tried to breathe.

As the blood rushed to my head, I could no longer think, and soon my face felt as if it was going to burst, my skin trembled, I could feel my pulse, and I felt the sensation of being full.

“Hey, hey… Come to your senses!”

The field of vision becomes distant. I’d never heard of someone not being able to breathe due to trauma, but I felt like I was losing my mind because I thought I might die like this.

I heard Kylon’s voice as if from far away, and at the same time, I felt a touch holding my body.

It seemed as if he was grabbing my arms and shaking my body as if trying to get me to come to my senses, but even that touch felt far away right now, so I couldn’t react in any way because the touch didn’t really hit me.

Even though they said they wouldn’t die anyway, that didn’t mean it would make the moment of death easier.

So I swallowed my tears in pain and groaned.

And at the end of it all, I desperately wanted to endure the endless suffering.

Perhaps, I thought it was human psychology to want to go somewhere when approaching death.

So I prayed to God.

Please save me.

Please help me escape this pain.

There were more soldiers roaming the streets than usual, and if that was the king’s move to catch me, I couldn’t help but be scared.

The fear seemed to seep into my body and remind me of the painful experiences I had experienced before.

please. Help me.

I don’t want to get sick.

Should I pray to God? Or Kylon?

Or me?

As I prayed earnestly without knowing who I was praying to, it felt like something was seeping into my body for a moment.

What I felt at the same time was a gentle touch.

When I wondered what this was, I instinctively knew that it was a divinity.

I accepted the unknown knowledge as if I already knew it and narrowed my frowning eyes.

When I came to my senses, what I saw was a big Kailon running somewhere while holding me in his arms.

Where on earth is Kailon going, running breathlessly through the shaking vision?

“… Why, why are you like that?”

I finally let out my blocked breath and moved my mouth, and only then did Kailon seem to come back to his senses.

“You thought you were going to die!”

“No, it’s okay. are you okay… ”

“Cold sweat is no joke, right? I really wasn’t even breathing earlier.”

Hearing those words, I quickly realized that my body, which had been held in the princess’s embrace, was soaking wet.

I wondered if I had been pushed that far, so I let out a groan.

“It’s okay now, so please take me down for a moment.”

As I grabbed my dizzy head and placed my feet on the ground, I felt like my stomach, which had been upset before, was finally coming back.

“Phew.”

“Are you okay?”

“A little bit.”

After answering that, I carefully placed my hand on my neck.

The scars left on my neck, which I had scratched until it hurt, were nowhere to be found, and at the same time, the feeling of the rope that had been strangling my breath seemed to have disappeared completely.

It was an unpleasant feeling.

No matter how I held on, sometimes I felt so anxious that I wondered if I was going crazy, and my pupils shook.

But how did they come back? I came to my senses and searched for memories.

When I gathered up the faint remains of my memories and searched for the reason, I remembered that the answer lay in prayer.

It was astounding to see people say that they were believers, believers, nuns who served God, and even closer to God, saints with divinity, and that God also existed.

No, is it my mental state that is absurd?

Maybe I found stability by believing that there is a God.

Although it’s funny that you can find stability through something like that.

I held the cross around my neck tightly with one hand, caught my breath, and gathered myself together while receiving the cleansing magic given by the warrior.

“… Is it okay?”

“Maybe.”

“Did you say it was because of trauma?”

“It’s okay now… ”

I answered that and moved my tired eyes even more.

I felt like I was searching without realizing it, wondering if I could see any soldiers around me.

“Shall I sweep them all away?”

“Then the story is ruined. Don’t make our future dark.”

“… Our future? Why do you keep seducing me subtly? Is this a marriage proposal?”

“What bullshit.”

I was walking slowly, leaning against the wall, but suddenly I walked forward blindly, leaving behind Kailon, who was telling a strange joke again.

I just wanted to go somewhere and rest.

And soon I raised my head and looked at the sky, thinking that the sun shining down from above was quite hot.

It seemed to indicate that it was noon, not the cool air of the morning.

When I narrowed my eyes and looked back at Kailon, I caught sight of him looking at my butt again.

“Stop looking at my butt… Is it lunch now?”

“Uh, yes. It’s almost time to eat, but you looked tired, so I thought we’d eat later.”

“What are you going to do after eating?”

“Now that I know where Flora is, I have to go there. Even if you haven’t started the story, it will come to you quickly.”

“Yes, yes.”

As I said that, I wiped the sweat from my forehead.

Then, following the hero’s guidance, we headed to the restaurant.