'This is your fiancé. Your parents decided for you.'
Seliya raised her eyes wide at what Dietrich whispered.
Seliya grabbed the hem of Dietrich's clothes as he tried to walk away. And she desperately denied his words.
“That can’t be possible!”
“...”
“You are my fiancé? I never once heard of a fiancé until just before my kingdom was destroyed.”
Dietrich looked down at Seliya in silence, as if he really meant to say this just once.
The way he looked at her was one closer to sympathy rather than pity.
It was as if he was whispering that he and her were the same.
“Are you trying to shake me up?”
“What difference will it make if I shake you in this situation?”
That was it too.
No matter how much she thought about it, there was no reason for him to lie in this situation.
However, the fact that Dietrich was in fact her fiancé came as a huge shock to Seliya.
That was the difference.
Dietrich knew Seliya well, and Seliya did not know much about him.
What she doesn't know, he knows.
Who is the owner in this situation?
Dietrich spoke to Seliya in a friendly tone, as if he understood her confusion.
“No need to worry. Just because you were once my fiancé, our relationship won’t change.”
“...”
“You are the owner and I am your dog. That’s enough.”
Dietrich made eye contact with Selya.
Seliya glared at Dietrich with her cold eyes.
Soon, an ice-cold voice came out of her mouth.
“Are there any dogs in the world that kiss their owners?”
Seliya decided to no longer look like her former self.
Now that Dietrich knows her true identity, hiding herself will only end up making her laughable.
Before she knew it, Dietrich, who had returned to his dry face, looked closely at her and said.
“You were the one who kissed me while I was still, Sally.”
“Even if I tried to let you go, you were the one who didn’t let me go, Dietrich.”
Dietrich's brow furrowed immediately.
As expected, she was more familiar with his displeased face than with his smile.
Seliya was feeling a little better.
“Tell me about the Three Dukes. A valid reason why they is my real ‘enemy.’”
Dietrich stared at Seliya blankly.
“Unlike me, who was the author’s puppet, you know a lot because they were in the imperial palace."
Dietrich made an angry face at Seliya’s words.
The face seemed to be asking what you know about my pain.
“I’m so glad I didn’t marry you.”
“Who can say anything? Get to the point quickly.”
Dietrich gave Seliya a look that said he didn't like her, but he obediently got her point across.
“Do you know that Abelon worships snakes as gods?”
"No."
“In the great temple of Abelon, people are sacrificed to snakes every year in the name of a ritual.”
Dietrich lowered his voice and continued.
“Regardless of whether you are alive or dead, you receive prophecy in return for sacrificing to a snake.”
"Prophecy?"
"Yea. It is literally a prophecy. I don't know if it's God or the devil. Illeon seems to have great faith in that prophecy. When I see him grow his hair out and wear only white clothes every day.”
What does the prophecy have to do with the destruction of her kingdom?
Dietrich added as if he had sensed Seliya’s thoughts.
“Ten years ago, Illeon heard a ‘prophecy’. Then, he colluded with the other two Dukes and ordered a war against the Emperor, completely destroying the four distant kingdoms and my country.”
“...What kind of prophecy did he hear?”
“I don’t know that much. I finally figured this out.”
There was no lie whatsoever in those eyes. Seliya did not completely trust Dietrich, but she could trust what he was saying now.
He didn't know what had changed his mind and made him reveal the information he had been hiding, but this was by no means a bad thing for Seliya.
Of course, she was extremely shocked by the fact that it was Dietrich in front of her who she didn't even know existed, but it was also true that it didn't touch her heart because there were no signs.
In the end, Seliya gained a lot, but he lost nothing.
Upon discovering her true enemy, the tension weighing down Seliya's body seemed to melt away at once.
It's very convenient for her to have someone she can trust.
“...Thank you for telling me.”
Seliya smiled and said thank you.
Dietrich's eyebrows furrowed as if he was displeased with her sudden change in attitude.
“Just do one thing. Is it cold or warm?”
“This is me.”
Dietrich laughed at Seliya's confident attitude.
“Really, you are an unpredictable master.”
“You don’t even think of me as your master, but they only call me your master at times like this.”
“It’s because if I call you ‘master’ every day, I might actually think of you as my master.”
Seliya was disgusted by the words that came out of nowhere.
Seliya quickly changed the topic.
“But, that snake-like Illeon framed us as criminals. It looks like we’ll be hit right away before we even attack.”
"It's okay. I won’t let anything happen to you.”
To me?
Seliya didn't like what he said as if he was treating her like a burden.
“You can use me, right? Use my abilities.”
“...”
Dietrich said nothing.
Instead, he looked down at Seliya with indescribable eyes.
"Huh? Use me.”
“If you use this ability, your body will be ruined.”
A look of confusion appeared on Seliya's face at his completely unexpected words.
“Shelly, there is no dog in the world that uses its owner as a shield.”
“...”
“Get some sleep. You must be tired.”
Although Seliya was grateful that he was trying to take care of everything on his own, she was also dissatisfied with him.
There is an easy way, so why take the difficult path?
Using this ability doesn't mean Seliya will die right away. When she used it briefly earlier, she felt a little nauseous, but she didn't vomit blood like before.
'I guess I can use it if I have to.'
Seliya thought so, and she recommended it to Dietrich.
“How about you sleep?”
“I barely sleep.”
Seliya was amazed to see if Dietrich was the same person.
When she lived in the Viscounty, she herself could hardly sleep because of the men from the Brillion family who came in at the door every day, but Dietrich seemed to sleep even more than she did back then.
For some reason, the area under his eyes always seemed dark, and it was because he couldn't sleep.
Seliya asked Dietrich again.
“I’m going to sleep for now, so you can close your eyes too. Is that all right?"
“It’s okay because I got used to it.”
“It’s because I feel frustrated watching it.”
“...”
As Dietrich seemed to be concerned, Seliya firmly nailed him.
“If you don’t sleep, I won’t sleep either.”
Dietrich let out one of his many sighs and he accepted Seliya's request.
"Okay."
After giving his answer, Dietrich lightly hugged Seliya.
Seliya's eyes widened as he suddenly hugged her.
“What are you doing now?”
“To take you to bed. There is no bed in this room.”
“I can go alone.”
She struggled to get her out of his arms, but Dietrich remained silent and held Seliya in his arms as he went to the room where the bed was.
Seliya felt so comfortable in his firm embrace that she immediately went limp and gave up her resistance.
Seliya's feather-light weight was so annoying that he frowned the whole time he held her.
Dietrich laid Seliya down on a spacious bed and pulled a white blanket up to her neck.
Dietrich himself lay down on the hard floor, not the bed, and closed his eyes.
Seliya looked down at him, asking why he was sleeping there.
Dietrich, feeling the gaze, spoke to Seliya with only one eye open.
“I’m sleeping here because I don’t know who might break into the mansion. You may not like sleeping in the same room, but just wait for one day.”
“No, that’s not it...”
This mansion belongs to Dietrich, so why does he sleep on the hard floor?
Seliya was not such a shameless person.
She whimpered as she looked at the hard, cold floor.
“The floor is cold. The bed is large, so we can sleep together.”
Dietrich opened both his eyes wide at Seliya's words.
On the other hand, Seliya's eyes were infinitely clear. Those innocent and clear eyes made him feel like a child looking at the world roundly.
Dietrich was uncomfortable sleeping with Selya.
After all, wasn't that the moment they kissed?
Although he pretended that nothing had happened in front of Seliya, Dietrich remembered the feeling at that time very vividly.
Hot breath, a hazy face looking at him, lips shiny with his own saliva.
There was nothing that was not stimulating.
It was strange to him that he felt good about her being so down to earth with him.
It seemed like he would lie down on the floor panting when Seliya told him to lie down.
'Why did this happen?'
Even though he thought about the reason, he couldn't find an answer.
All he could think was that he was completely wrong from the beginning.
When Seliya found out that he had a supernatural ability, he tried to deal with it without her knowing, but he left and instead held her hand and gave her peace of mind. He got her answer.
He was already a dog, and Seliya was his master.
It was fortunate that only the owner was unaware of this fact.
Dietrich barely suppressed the curse that threatened to escape his throat.
It must be crazy.
It's not enough to explain his true identity, and he sees that he's attaching unnecessary meaning to every action and word.
All of this is because he was too close to that woman.
Dietrich closed his eyes and turned his back to Seliya.
Then a rustling sound was heard from the bed, and Seliya shook her body and said,
“It doesn’t work because it looks cold. Let’s sleep together in bed.”
Is it his body that is shaking? Or is it his heart?
Dietrich became unknown.
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