Everyone was asleep, and the main building was eerily quiet, and only the sound of Kishian's footsteps echoed.
He walked quickly through the hall on the first floor to the bedroom where the Grand Duchess was located.
Wrapped in the cold air of the night, he opened the door as soon as he arrived in front of his bedroom.
Contrary to the fact that no one was allowed to enter, the door was not locked.
He stepped through the door that opened easily in vain and immediately looked at the bedroom scenery.
The bedroom was clean and tidy. Even the bed sheets were neatly arranged, so there was no sign of human habitation.
As if the owner of the place had left.
"...Wife."
Feeling an eerie sensation as if his heart was falling, he hurriedly searched for the Grand Duchess's appearance.
He wondered if she was in the bathroom, so he hurriedly opened the bathroom door.
"Have you finally thought of meeting me?"
The Grand Duchess' voice came from right next to the door.
The Grand Duchess, who had not been noticed because she had been standing quietly behind the wide-open door, was staring at him silently.
Kishian turned his head toward the window without looking back at the Grand Duchess properly.
"I heard that you skipped meals and stayed in your room."
"Yes. Otherwise, you'd have been in hiding."
"I hid. I was just resting."
"You put the guards at the entrance of the annex like a guilty person?"
When he didn't answer, he heard the Grand Duchess walk.
Before the sound got any closer to him, Kishian spoke again.
"Don't come."
"..."
Even though he said that, the footsteps didn't stop.
The Grand Duchess's walk without hesitation stopped only right behind him.
"I thought you might have been hurt."
"..."
"I already know your condition, but, strangely, you don't show up."
"...I'm not hurt."
"Then why didn't you come to me?"
Kishian was silent, and it gave the Grand Duchess confidence.
"You're contaminated."
"..."
"If you were not injured but you were hiding alone, that's the only reason."
He felt the Grand Duchess reach out from behind.
Presently, a thin, white hand touched his shoulder.
"Look back for a moment."
"..."
"Check it out..."
"Can you afford to care? You seem to be busy planning to kill me."
The Grand Duchess' hand, which had been gently touching his shoulder, fell again.
He dropped his outstretched hand helplessly and slowly turned toward the hardened Grand Duchess.
When she looked at him with the red eyes that he had been hiding all along, the Grand Duchess's face instantly turned pale.
"As you say, it's tainted. I was caught off guard for a moment."
"..."
"Well, isn't it a good thing for you? After all, the human being who was determined to kill him ended up like this. I heard that you worked hard with that vicious bastard sent by the Emperor."
"... You heard it. Is it Walter's doing?"
Not feeling the need to answer, Kishian only sneered.
The Grand Duchess looked surprised for a moment, but did not show any embarrassment.
He immediately spoke again without any signs of panicking.
"I said I would leave it up to me to find and execute the assassins. To do that, I had to let you off guard first."
"So you pretended to cooperate with him, did you act?"
"Yes, I already agreed, and you didn't even hear about some of my plans?"
He didn't go into detail about the details of her plan, but she had clearly told Kishian that she was going to deceive Albrecht.
Why did he express such suspicions after she had given her a warning beforehand? The Grand Duchess asked him again and again.
A twisted smile bloomed on the corners of Kishian's lips.
"Yes, I heard a little about your plan. But when I was dealing with you, your acting was so vivid that I thought about it for a moment."
"..."
"Is this really acting? I thought."
The Grand Duchess's expression was still calm.
But the white fingertips that had been stretched out to him were trembling slightly.
Even though it was contaminated, a handful of reasons still remained, shouted at them. She shouldn't say it anymore.
The trust they had built would collapse in an instant.
But she couldn't stop. The pollution that permeated his mind pushed him into the swamp of disbelief without end.
"You may never have been on my side from the beginning."
"..."
"Everything you said you would stand up for me might be a lie."
The reason for this distrust was the fault of pollution.
However, the distrust itself had been in his heart for a long time.
Regardless of the pollution, this is the kind of old feeling that the Kishian has had since the beginning.
As if she had noticed this, the Grand Duchess's blue eyes were filled with bitterness.
"That's what I've always thought. That was your true intention."
"What a surprise. The relationship has already been twisted to the point of twisting from the moment you betrayed me."
Reaching out, Kishian gently grabbed the Grand Duchess on the back of her head and the nape of her neck.
Then he bowed his head as if to kiss it and whispered it in her ear.
"There's no way there's any trust left in a relationship that's already like dirty."
He could feel the Grand Duchess' body trembling through his hands.
He slowly moved his hand to the nape of her neck and scanned the Grand Duchess's cheek.
It was damp.
The moment she realized that the Grand Duchess was crying, his hand twitched.
The sadness that he thought he would never feel again stabbed his heart unknowingly.
However, the pain was only temporary.
Many times, thicker and more intense resentment and distrust dominated him again.
Crying about what she did well. He said she brought it on herself.
As he trampled on the sadness that had welled up in his heart, the Grand Duchess's lips opened.
"Then... If only you would continue to distrust and hate me like that... Why were you so kind to me?"
"..."
"Just to catch me off guard and hurt me even more? Was that why?"
When he heard the Grand Duchess's voice trembling uncontrollably, she suddenly gasped.
It was a voice that felt desperate, hoping that he would say no.
He said that it wasn't like that, that all the kindness he had given her was sincere, and that she would stop crying.
However, all that flowed out of his succession was a blade in the form of language.
"You already know everything, so what do you ask? Did you really believe that I did it for you? Since when have you been so naive?"
Facing the cold words, the Grand Duchess slowly backed away.
She made a desperate gesture, as if she wanted to flee at any moment, but after a few steps, she was caught by the Kishian.
He grabbed the Grand Duchess by the forearm with a strong hand, and Kishian pulled the slender body back into his arms.
"Don't ignore me now, you're the one who decided to bear all my grievances. That's why you became the Grand Duchess."
"..."
"Accept it."
The kisses that followed were relentless.
Their lips relentlessly pressed together, as if he didn't want to give her a chance to escape.
As if the tears that drenched the cheeks of the Grand Duchess were invisible, he pushed on without stopping.
A slender hand touched his chest as if to push it away, but it was nothing but nonsense.
As if to mock the slightest resistance, he hugged the Grand Duchess even more harshly.
He finally ignored the pain of those who were suffocating with grief in his arms.
***
It was a particularly long night.
Kishian did not let go of the woman who must have hated him throughout the long night.
He trapped her small body in his arms, burrowed endlessly into it, leaving traces.
He did so even though he knew that the act would be painful for the Grand Duchess.
No, it was even more so because he knew it.
He wanted to punish her, and he wanted to tell her at the same time.
He wanted to let the Grand Duchess know that even if she hated Kishian so much that she wanted to kill him, she would not be able to escape from his arms in the end.
She has to accept him, even if it's painful, even if it's terrible.
He whispered in her ear several times and buried himself inside the Grand Duchess.
He climaxed so many times that it was pointless to count the number of times, and then he fell asleep as the dim dawnlight hit the bedroom.
It was like he had fallen asleep so deeply that he didn't even have that common dream.
When he woke up, it was already a slow afternoon.
"...?"
When he woke up, he felt a little strange.
The headache that had been tormenting him endlessly since he was contaminated by the monster disappeared completely.
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