“What... did you do to me that you feel sorry about?”
I felt something strange, so I pulled away from his embrace and asked with a glare.
“I’m sorry I can’t go with you.”
He said, lightly pinching my cheek with sleepy eyes.
“But will Magic Tower Lord come with me?”
“We’ve already finished talking.”
‘Oh? The master is leaving tomorrow morning?’
Moiya, who had returned from playing with butterflies in the forest, had been eavesdropping on the conversation between the three of them in Rosie’s room, and his ears perked up.
‘Then I should go too, Moiya~?’
Moiya flew straight to the monastery kitchen.
Before leaving for the Tebello Empire, he had to eat all the sausages left in the kitchen to fill his stomach in advance.
“Sniff, sniff, huh? That smell is sausage?!”
Moiya, flying outside the dark monastery building, stopped flapping his wings in front of a window and flared his nostrils.
In the room where the smell of sausage wafted, several knights were bustling around and drinking.
Moiya clenched his fists and trembled with disbelief.
“They took my sausages!”
Sausages were on the table as a side dish.
Moiya slowly opened his mouth. He began to seriously contemplate whether to spit fire at the knights left in the room and roast them all.
Fortunately, the drinking party was coming to an end before he could draw out the flames deep in his stomach. The knights left one by one.
Now, only two knights remained in the room, sitting across from each other at a round table, chatting.
On the table were four whole sausages left on a plate.
“Those are mine. Just eat them...”
Moiya’s fiery ruby eyes were grilling the sausages with their eyes.
The two knights sitting across from him thankfully seemed uninterested in the sausages.
They continued their conversation, pouring the remaining wine into a silver cup that seemed to have been used by the priests of the monastery.
“Do you know what this pill is?”
The larger knight took a small vial out of his trouser pocket and placed it on the table.
“What is that?”
“It’s medicine my wife gave me before I left for the hunting competition.”
“Really? Good things should be shared.”
The relatively small knight laughed as he held his palm out to the large knight.
“Do you know what medicine this is?”
The large knight laughed heartily.
“What medicine is that?”
“It’s medicine that prevents the lower body from functioning.”
The large knight lowered his gaze to his lower body and tapped his thigh.
“...What, what? Why on earth did you give me that medicine?!”
“I meant to keep you from looking away during the Continental Hunting Competition.”
“But if you take that medicine, your wife will suffer in the end, right?”
When the small knight asked seriously, the large knight laughed and shook his head.
“This is it, except for the last person you had sex with. So it’s a drug that makes you unable to react to other women except yourself. Instead, it makes you more horny when you see the last person you had sex with?”
“Oh my. So you took it? Oh, you didn’t take a single pill because the bottle isn’t empty?”
“Of course! Am I crazy? Aren’t you curious? What do women in the Southern Continent feel like?”
The big knight licked his lips.
“Hahaha, your wife really understood you and gave you the drug! But how did you know this drug had that function?”
“At first, she said it was a nutritional supplement. But something felt off, so I went to a nearby clinic and found out that it’s a drug that makes you unable to react to other women. I almost got fooled.”
The big knight pretended to wipe his forehead with his hand and wiped the sweat off his face as he acted cute.
The small knight looked at the bottle with curious eyes.
“It’s not a drug that completely loses its function, but a drug that only makes you react to the last person you had sex with... how strange.”
“I should just tell my wife that this is a nutritional supplement and take it all. That way I can live more freely.”
The large knight, who was slightly drunk, turned around, stood up from his chair, and opened the door unsteadily.
Then the small knight shouted while holding the vial.
“Hey! Are you just going to throw this away? What if I leave it here and other people eat it?”
“That’s what you want. Hahaha!”
The small knight also burst into laughter at the large knight’s words, placed the vial back on the table, and followed him out.
“Oh? The vial is Moiya~?”
Moiya, who had been secretly watching the two knights outside the window, came in through the window as soon as they left.
Moiya flew straight to the table and picked up the small vial that the large knight had left behind.
He looked around with a profound expression before smiling faintly.
If you eat this, you won’t be able to mate with anyone else, right?
“Then I should feed it to Cold Body and go?”
Before chasing Zelda tomorrow morning, he has a present to give to Linel.
Moiya, who was excited, held the remaining sausages on the plate in both hands and ate them, shaking his shoulders.
“They say it’s a potion that doesn’t react to anyone except the last person you had sex with.”
The big knight’s words came to mind again.
Cold Body is our master’s mating partner. So,
“You have to wait carefully until the master comes back, Moiya~.”
Moiya stuffed all the remaining sausages into his cheeks, held the vial tightly in his hand, and flew out the window to the room where Linel and Zelda were staying.
“Haa... It’s nice to love like there’s no tomorrow...”
It was around the time when their heavy breathing had quietened down.
Zelda spoke while playing with his sweaty bangs.
When Linel whispered, “It’s not enough yet...” she shook her head in surprise and pulled the blanket up over her chest.
“When you come to the Tebello Empire, please love me then. I’ll be waiting.”
Her pretty voice struck his heart.
“Yes.” It was hell because he couldn’t say those simple, easy words.
So instead of words he couldn’t promise, he gave her the truth that didn’t need explanation.
“I love you, my whole life...”
Even if she were erased from his memories, his soul would continue to love her.
He was sure of it.
Zelda was falling asleep in his arms.
“Is it hard? We still...”
There’s so much to share. There’s so much he wants to share, so much he wants to give.
Linel shook her shoulder gently to wake her up.
“Um... I think that’s enough now...”
Zelda mumbled in a sleepy voice.
In fact, he was also feeling sleepy.
He had stayed up for two whole nights without sleeping.
But he would hold out as long as he could.
However, contrary to his resolve, he was already reaching his limit.
It was understandable because he had poured all his energy into Zelda, so his stamina was drained more than usual.
He never let her go when her eyes were open.
Except when he was talking, Linel’s lips were always touching some part of her body.
The smell of her skin, the corners of her mouth that smiled. Her kind eyes that would glare slightly whenever he talked nonsense, and eventually turn into half-moons.
Her wrinkled eyebrows would frown slightly when she was at a disadvantage after playfully arguing. Her laughter started quietly and gradually grew louder.
Her coquettish expression would wink and flirt whenever she wanted him.
The power of her rough and strong grip called his name and gripped his shoulder tightly when she was filled with joy while making love.
He had to remember all of those things... He wanted to remember them...
Is there even one thing left in his mind?
Linel was afraid every time he blinked.
For a split second, he wondered if he would fall asleep. Whether he slept for a few seconds or a few minutes, once he fell asleep and woke up, that was the end.
Zelda would disappear from him.
The impossible would soon become reality...
Did he tell her to stay healthy? He definitely said he loved her.
Linel began to quietly organize the things he had already said to Zelda and the things he wanted to say but could not say.
Ah, I never told you that you were the prettiest woman I've ever seen.
I should tell you before I leave tomorrow.
Yes, I should definitely tell you.
Linel held her hand.
Her body was trembling slightly even in her sleep. His heart, which had made up his mind strongly, was also trembling.
Morning was coming.
The morning when they were waiting for them to part...
He let out a long sigh as heavy as the weight of his sadness.
Linel, whose throat was choked at the end of his sigh, carefully got up from the bed.
He picked up the glass of orange juice he had left over from dinner with Zelda.
He closed his eyes and took a sip of the juice, then stopped. He opened his eyes again, startled, because the taste was strangely different from before.
Moiya was staring at him, blinking his ruby eyes in front of his nose.
“Drink it, drink it.”
“!”
Startled, Linel tried to take his mouth off the juice glass. Then Moiya held the glass in both hands and spoke to him as if soothing a child.
“Moiya, when did you come in... Huh?!”
Linel spoke while holding the wine glass to his lips, but Moiya lifted the edge of the juice glass up with his hand, causing all the juice left in the glass to go down his throat.
“Now I'm relieved, Moiya~.”
I felt something strange, so I pulled away from his embrace and asked with a glare.
“I’m sorry I can’t go with you.”
He said, lightly pinching my cheek with sleepy eyes.
“But will Magic Tower Lord come with me?”
“We’ve already finished talking.”
“Did you threaten him? You won’t let me go if he doesn’t make my cure?”
“Of course. I said I’ll kill him.”
He answered calmly.
As expected, my hot man.
“Then I’ll definitely be cured, right?”
“You will. If not, I really...”
Linel clenched his jaws.
His firm determination to really kill him if he couldn’t make my cure stood out.
I feel relieved.
His expression made my steps as I left feel much lighter.
Seeing the anger directed at someone made me feel proud and happy for no reason. I suddenly loved him so much.
Is this also the effect of being infected with evil energy?
His expression relaxed again, and he grabbed my hand and asked,
“In addition to the Magic Tower Lord, we need to choose people to accompany you to the Tebello Empire. Who would be good?”
“Well...”
Rogie, Sharon, and Bonis had been arguing heatedly for an hour about who would go to the Tebello Empire with Zelda.
“I think it would be most comfortable for Her Majesty the Empress if I were to take care of it.”
Sharon said confidently.
“You don’t know, Sharon.”
Rogie immediately retorted,
“Yes. If it’s just about being comfortable, I would be the most comfortable.”
Bonis, next to her, nodded and added a word.
The three of them had all gathered in Rogie’s room after visiting the room where the Emperor and Empress were staying an hour ago at the call of Linel and Zelda.
Linel relayed to them what he had told his aides.
In the current situation, it seems like they won’t be able to arrive at the Tebello Empire during the Continental Hunting Competition. So, she and Magic Tower Lord said that they would leave for the Tebello Empire first to collect 'Yakante', the main herb of the magic potion that the Empress was taking.
Of course, he also lied that the herb that would cure Zelda, who was infected with evil energy, was in the Tebello Empire.
They all agreed with Linel's idea and actively volunteered to go with Zelda.
However, due to Galaco's sensitive hearing, only a minimum number of people had to leave.
Only one of Zelda's three close associates could leave with her.
Then, Rogie, Sharon, and Bonis each raised their voices, saying that they would go.
In the end, no conclusion could be reached with Linel and Zelda. So the three of them decided to meet separately and come to a conclusion.
However, for an hour, no one wavered from their opinions, saying that they wanted to go to the Tebello Empire with Zelda.
"No matter how much I think about it, I think I'm the most suitable! I have to take care of Her Majesty the Empress, but I think it'll be difficult for you two."
Sharon emphasized once more.
At that point, Rosie nodded in agreement, but Bonis did not agree.
“Sharon, Her Highness Rosie may be like that, but I am different. I have been like real sisters with Her Majesty the Empress since the Kingdom of Shattonil. So wouldn’t I be better at taking care of Her Majesty the Empress than you?”
Rosie and Sharon were left speechless when they brought up the time they had known Zelda.
“Oh, that’s true... but still... haa, can’t you just ask them to take all of us?”
Sharon asked with a sad face.
“That won’t work. We have to reduce the number of people to make it as inconspicuous as possible.”
Rosie replied with a sullen face.
Rosie was accepting the fact that she was of little help to Zelda compared to the two of them.
“Of course. I said I’ll kill him.”
He answered calmly.
As expected, my hot man.
“Then I’ll definitely be cured, right?”
“You will. If not, I really...”
Linel clenched his jaws.
His firm determination to really kill him if he couldn’t make my cure stood out.
I feel relieved.
His expression made my steps as I left feel much lighter.
Seeing the anger directed at someone made me feel proud and happy for no reason. I suddenly loved him so much.
Is this also the effect of being infected with evil energy?
His expression relaxed again, and he grabbed my hand and asked,
“In addition to the Magic Tower Lord, we need to choose people to accompany you to the Tebello Empire. Who would be good?”
“Well...”
***
Rogie, Sharon, and Bonis had been arguing heatedly for an hour about who would go to the Tebello Empire with Zelda.
“I think it would be most comfortable for Her Majesty the Empress if I were to take care of it.”
Sharon said confidently.
“You don’t know, Sharon.”
Rogie immediately retorted,
“Yes. If it’s just about being comfortable, I would be the most comfortable.”
Bonis, next to her, nodded and added a word.
The three of them had all gathered in Rogie’s room after visiting the room where the Emperor and Empress were staying an hour ago at the call of Linel and Zelda.
Linel relayed to them what he had told his aides.
In the current situation, it seems like they won’t be able to arrive at the Tebello Empire during the Continental Hunting Competition. So, she and Magic Tower Lord said that they would leave for the Tebello Empire first to collect 'Yakante', the main herb of the magic potion that the Empress was taking.
Of course, he also lied that the herb that would cure Zelda, who was infected with evil energy, was in the Tebello Empire.
They all agreed with Linel's idea and actively volunteered to go with Zelda.
However, due to Galaco's sensitive hearing, only a minimum number of people had to leave.
Only one of Zelda's three close associates could leave with her.
Then, Rogie, Sharon, and Bonis each raised their voices, saying that they would go.
In the end, no conclusion could be reached with Linel and Zelda. So the three of them decided to meet separately and come to a conclusion.
However, for an hour, no one wavered from their opinions, saying that they wanted to go to the Tebello Empire with Zelda.
"No matter how much I think about it, I think I'm the most suitable! I have to take care of Her Majesty the Empress, but I think it'll be difficult for you two."
Sharon emphasized once more.
At that point, Rosie nodded in agreement, but Bonis did not agree.
“Sharon, Her Highness Rosie may be like that, but I am different. I have been like real sisters with Her Majesty the Empress since the Kingdom of Shattonil. So wouldn’t I be better at taking care of Her Majesty the Empress than you?”
Rosie and Sharon were left speechless when they brought up the time they had known Zelda.
“Oh, that’s true... but still... haa, can’t you just ask them to take all of us?”
Sharon asked with a sad face.
“That won’t work. We have to reduce the number of people to make it as inconspicuous as possible.”
Rosie replied with a sullen face.
Rosie was accepting the fact that she was of little help to Zelda compared to the two of them.
‘Oh? The master is leaving tomorrow morning?’
Moiya, who had returned from playing with butterflies in the forest, had been eavesdropping on the conversation between the three of them in Rosie’s room, and his ears perked up.
‘Then I should go too, Moiya~?’
Moiya flew straight to the monastery kitchen.
Before leaving for the Tebello Empire, he had to eat all the sausages left in the kitchen to fill his stomach in advance.
“Sniff, sniff, huh? That smell is sausage?!”
Moiya, flying outside the dark monastery building, stopped flapping his wings in front of a window and flared his nostrils.
In the room where the smell of sausage wafted, several knights were bustling around and drinking.
Moiya clenched his fists and trembled with disbelief.
“They took my sausages!”
Sausages were on the table as a side dish.
Moiya slowly opened his mouth. He began to seriously contemplate whether to spit fire at the knights left in the room and roast them all.
Fortunately, the drinking party was coming to an end before he could draw out the flames deep in his stomach. The knights left one by one.
Now, only two knights remained in the room, sitting across from each other at a round table, chatting.
On the table were four whole sausages left on a plate.
“Those are mine. Just eat them...”
Moiya’s fiery ruby eyes were grilling the sausages with their eyes.
The two knights sitting across from him thankfully seemed uninterested in the sausages.
They continued their conversation, pouring the remaining wine into a silver cup that seemed to have been used by the priests of the monastery.
“Do you know what this pill is?”
The larger knight took a small vial out of his trouser pocket and placed it on the table.
“What is that?”
“It’s medicine my wife gave me before I left for the hunting competition.”
“Really? Good things should be shared.”
The relatively small knight laughed as he held his palm out to the large knight.
“Do you know what medicine this is?”
The large knight laughed heartily.
“What medicine is that?”
“It’s medicine that prevents the lower body from functioning.”
The large knight lowered his gaze to his lower body and tapped his thigh.
“...What, what? Why on earth did you give me that medicine?!”
“I meant to keep you from looking away during the Continental Hunting Competition.”
“But if you take that medicine, your wife will suffer in the end, right?”
When the small knight asked seriously, the large knight laughed and shook his head.
“This is it, except for the last person you had sex with. So it’s a drug that makes you unable to react to other women except yourself. Instead, it makes you more horny when you see the last person you had sex with?”
“Oh my. So you took it? Oh, you didn’t take a single pill because the bottle isn’t empty?”
“Of course! Am I crazy? Aren’t you curious? What do women in the Southern Continent feel like?”
The big knight licked his lips.
“Hahaha, your wife really understood you and gave you the drug! But how did you know this drug had that function?”
“At first, she said it was a nutritional supplement. But something felt off, so I went to a nearby clinic and found out that it’s a drug that makes you unable to react to other women. I almost got fooled.”
The big knight pretended to wipe his forehead with his hand and wiped the sweat off his face as he acted cute.
The small knight looked at the bottle with curious eyes.
“It’s not a drug that completely loses its function, but a drug that only makes you react to the last person you had sex with... how strange.”
“I should just tell my wife that this is a nutritional supplement and take it all. That way I can live more freely.”
The large knight, who was slightly drunk, turned around, stood up from his chair, and opened the door unsteadily.
Then the small knight shouted while holding the vial.
“Hey! Are you just going to throw this away? What if I leave it here and other people eat it?”
“That’s what you want. Hahaha!”
The small knight also burst into laughter at the large knight’s words, placed the vial back on the table, and followed him out.
“Oh? The vial is Moiya~?”
Moiya, who had been secretly watching the two knights outside the window, came in through the window as soon as they left.
Moiya flew straight to the table and picked up the small vial that the large knight had left behind.
He looked around with a profound expression before smiling faintly.
If you eat this, you won’t be able to mate with anyone else, right?
“Then I should feed it to Cold Body and go?”
Before chasing Zelda tomorrow morning, he has a present to give to Linel.
Moiya, who was excited, held the remaining sausages on the plate in both hands and ate them, shaking his shoulders.
“They say it’s a potion that doesn’t react to anyone except the last person you had sex with.”
The big knight’s words came to mind again.
Cold Body is our master’s mating partner. So,
“You have to wait carefully until the master comes back, Moiya~.”
Moiya stuffed all the remaining sausages into his cheeks, held the vial tightly in his hand, and flew out the window to the room where Linel and Zelda were staying.
***
“Haa... It’s nice to love like there’s no tomorrow...”
It was around the time when their heavy breathing had quietened down.
Zelda spoke while playing with his sweaty bangs.
When Linel whispered, “It’s not enough yet...” she shook her head in surprise and pulled the blanket up over her chest.
“When you come to the Tebello Empire, please love me then. I’ll be waiting.”
Her pretty voice struck his heart.
“Yes.” It was hell because he couldn’t say those simple, easy words.
So instead of words he couldn’t promise, he gave her the truth that didn’t need explanation.
“I love you, my whole life...”
Even if she were erased from his memories, his soul would continue to love her.
He was sure of it.
Zelda was falling asleep in his arms.
“Is it hard? We still...”
There’s so much to share. There’s so much he wants to share, so much he wants to give.
Linel shook her shoulder gently to wake her up.
“Um... I think that’s enough now...”
Zelda mumbled in a sleepy voice.
In fact, he was also feeling sleepy.
He had stayed up for two whole nights without sleeping.
But he would hold out as long as he could.
However, contrary to his resolve, he was already reaching his limit.
It was understandable because he had poured all his energy into Zelda, so his stamina was drained more than usual.
He never let her go when her eyes were open.
Except when he was talking, Linel’s lips were always touching some part of her body.
The smell of her skin, the corners of her mouth that smiled. Her kind eyes that would glare slightly whenever he talked nonsense, and eventually turn into half-moons.
Her wrinkled eyebrows would frown slightly when she was at a disadvantage after playfully arguing. Her laughter started quietly and gradually grew louder.
Her coquettish expression would wink and flirt whenever she wanted him.
The power of her rough and strong grip called his name and gripped his shoulder tightly when she was filled with joy while making love.
He had to remember all of those things... He wanted to remember them...
Is there even one thing left in his mind?
Linel was afraid every time he blinked.
For a split second, he wondered if he would fall asleep. Whether he slept for a few seconds or a few minutes, once he fell asleep and woke up, that was the end.
Zelda would disappear from him.
The impossible would soon become reality...
Did he tell her to stay healthy? He definitely said he loved her.
Linel began to quietly organize the things he had already said to Zelda and the things he wanted to say but could not say.
Ah, I never told you that you were the prettiest woman I've ever seen.
I should tell you before I leave tomorrow.
Yes, I should definitely tell you.
Linel held her hand.
Her body was trembling slightly even in her sleep. His heart, which had made up his mind strongly, was also trembling.
Morning was coming.
The morning when they were waiting for them to part...
He let out a long sigh as heavy as the weight of his sadness.
Linel, whose throat was choked at the end of his sigh, carefully got up from the bed.
He picked up the glass of orange juice he had left over from dinner with Zelda.
He closed his eyes and took a sip of the juice, then stopped. He opened his eyes again, startled, because the taste was strangely different from before.
Moiya was staring at him, blinking his ruby eyes in front of his nose.
“Drink it, drink it.”
“!”
Startled, Linel tried to take his mouth off the juice glass. Then Moiya held the glass in both hands and spoke to him as if soothing a child.
“Moiya, when did you come in... Huh?!”
Linel spoke while holding the wine glass to his lips, but Moiya lifted the edge of the juice glass up with his hand, causing all the juice left in the glass to go down his throat.
“Now I'm relieved, Moiya~.”
Moiya muttered, sneaking a peek under the gown Linel was wearing.
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