KFBRV - Chapter 75


'Really? But how can you not laugh? I'm in a game right now? Wow, how did I not laugh until now knowing this? I've been reincarnated and returned to the game! I think I'm crazy. It's so funny.'

As Odette laughed bashfully, a voice passed by her head like tinnitus: “This is totally drunk.”

“I didn’t know that a formal dress would suit you so well because you have such a pretty face... you look really cool.”

Somehow, it feels like words are just leaking out of her mouth. 

Why can't I hold back my words? I can't find the strength to speak.

...I’m probably not drunk yet. I’m completely sane right now...

Well, she should just think about it because she might regret it later. She shouldn't say it out loud.

“Me? Me?”

“Didn’t you know? You’re a total punk. When you were put on the wanted poster, everyone must have been surprised. You had a montage that went so well with the wanted poster, right?”

“Oh my. Who was it that helped you up and showed you to the palace doctor? And now you’re calling your benefactor a punk?”

“Hey, I guess I can’t really call you a benefactor. To be honest, you brought me here because you wanted to watch me fall over for a longer time, right?”

“Ha... Really...”

“Do you want to hear the sound of a benefactor? Wow... You have no shame, and you have no conscience.”

Thank goodness I wasn't completely drunk... I only argued with my head and remained silent until the end.

Somehow it seemed like Victor was contradicting my thoughts, but that guy has really good intuition... It’s probably mind-reading. After all, those transcendent beings are monsters... Those damn bastards...

“You say there is no shame? This body?”

“But it’s worth it. If I were you, I would have expected to suffer. I would have prayed a thousand times for the death of that human being called Odette...”

Somehow, her last thought made her think that Victor's hand was twitching, but it was most likely because she was drunk.

“I’m sorry that someone like me... wants to live... ”

Yeah... Am I sleepy?

Her knees gave out as she hugged Victor.

***

“Honey, honey?”

Victor grabbed the woman with one arm as she fell to the floor, her body losing strength. Then he shook her body with a panicked voice.

“Huh? Huh... How can you say something like that and fall asleep?”

“...”

“Isn’t this guy a total drunkard?”

Yeah, she was laughing like she'd lost her mind earlier. She must have been drunk. That must be why she fell asleep.

Victor looked down at her sleeping face with a complicated expression.

“I haven’t met you, so I don’t know what kind of person you are.”

Victor muttered quietly, uncharacteristically.

“If I had known, I wouldn’t have cursed you.”

He must have hated her. He had been trampled and ignored for a year at his most desperate and vulnerable moment because he had longed for her so desperately. He had hated her as much as he had longed for her.

However, if he had known that she was this kind of person, he would have hated her but also understood her. If he had known that Odette's life was just as intense as his.

He thought she was like that noblewoman. Victor thought Odette would mock him, ignore him, ridicule him, and trample on him.

“What are you doing with a drunk person? Get out of here.”

Victor sighed and looked around the hunting grounds. Fortunately, he saw 'Aqua Mint' in his field of vision.

An herb that, thanks to its pungent aroma and spicy taste, will keep you sane for about an hour, no matter how drunk you are.

He supported the woman with one hand and tore at the aqua mint with the other.

'Anyway, I never get tired of it. Every time we meet, it gives me this unexpected feeling of being hit.'

Since meeting her in person, she's been surprising and colorful every time. That's probably why Victor keeps being curious and interested in this woman.

“Hey. Open your mouth, you drunkard.”

He put an aqua mint in the woman's mouth, but she couldn't swallow it.

'Ugh.'

Victor put the mint in his mouth and chewed it. Absolutely not with any ulterior motive.

Didn't you say you had to go back quickly and even hugged me, the person you hated so much?

It was decided that helping Odette sober up was what this woman wanted.

It was the moment when Victor's lips, trying hard to ignore his pounding heart, lightly touched the woman's lips.

“...!”

Victor felt an incredible joy.

The monster that had taken up residence inside him was the Phoenix. Ever since that damned intruder took up residence inside him, he had always felt a burning pain in his nerves.

This was a symptom that appeared because the compatibility between Viktor and the fire ability was the worst. Even if the contamination level was only slightly accumulated, he felt pain as if he was about to go berserk.

Because of that, he always lived feeling the pain of being burned by fire.

It felt like all those damned pains were melting away in the scent of peach blossoms.

A gigantic fire. The legendary bird that was like the fire of hell that would never go out was suddenly becoming docile. Like a well-tamed canary.

He felt like he was standing in the middle of a downpour. His brain was going to burst and he was going to lose his mind.

The pinnacle of ecstasy. No drug, no alcohol, no murder. Nothing has ever given him this kind of pleasure.

Victor's pupils dilated, he lost consciousness and tried to explore the woman's lips, but he barely managed to pull them apart.

"Ha."

This was also something that was not like Victor. If he were himself, he would have lusted after her without coming to his senses.

But the ability stopped Victor. He immediately told himself to take his lips off, and he even went as far as to act crazy.

The Phoenix, whose personality is as bad as his own, is worried that he will be hated by women.

“Cough.”

The woman opened her eyes, coughing as if she had swallowed an aqua mint.

Her trembling eyelashes slowly revealed her beautiful turquoise eyes.

“Are you awake, drunkard?”

"Ah..."

Odette looked around with a confused expression.

“Hands, hands off, please.”

As soon as she realized that she was in Victor's arms, she became thoughtful.

“What time is it now, Colonel?”

“Midnight.”

“Now that I’m all dry, I’ll go back. If you don’t mind, could you please take me to the banquet hall quickly?”

The woman moved away from Victor with an impatient expression. He looked relaxed on the outside, but inside he was slightly annoyed.

'Where did that relaxed attitude from earlier go and why are you so nervous all of a sudden?'

“Why the banquet hall? Are you hiding a handsome lover, my dear?”

Victor grumbled in vain as he thought of John.

“Don’t joke around. I need to see my mother soon.”

“Mother? Then we have to do as you say.”

He smiled and hugged her. It wasn't the way he hugged her like a piece of luggage, but rather the way he hugged her like a Princess.

“Go faster.”

But Odette showed no sign of being swayed by his tricks.

'Hmm, this face doesn't work?'

Victor felt his pride being hurt and moved his legs.

'Yes. You are correct.'

This is the first time he's ever had a crush on a damn phoenix.

He was just holding her for a moment and she was thinking like that, but if she had caught him licking her lips, he would have definitely been hated.

'Oh my. You're a newbie, but you don't have a brain. You've lived so long that you know a woman's heart better than I do, is that it?'

Victor always had an antagonistic relationship with this intruder. But once he has a common goal with Odette, isn't this stupid newbie pretty useful and cooperative?

'I can't share this purification with other people.'

Victor wanted to monopolize the woman. How could he seduce this woman?

'You danced with the Crown Prince, so do you like men of high status?'

Setting goals was out of the question for him, but it wasn't something he couldn't do.

'If it's wealth and honor, I can enjoy it too.'

His free-spirited nature and high social status did not go well together, but there was nothing he could not do if he wanted to.

Wouldn't it be okay to give her the position of Empress even if it means committing a coup?

Victor's plan to seduce Odette flowed without a hitch in his head. It was a plan that did not take Odette's opinion into account at all.


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