Chapter 67 – Episode 67 the First Vacation Is the Demon Castle (15)
“Ha….”
Lena finished her day and returned to her room.
“… Did I expect too much?”
Lena carried dinner to her room, full of her anticipation.
She was a bit uncomfortable eating together, but she felt better than she thought to eat calmly with the man.
However, the woman she accompanied was in the room she entered happily.
The girl’s name is Viola.
“… She must have been the hero’s sister.”
Even Lena didn’t know the exact reason why the hero disappeared.
She lacked the information she could find now.
Lena deduced the situation from the information she had heard, that Viola was one of the culprits behind the disappearance of the hero.
But that was already past.
“In the first place, seeing that she is with that man without hesitation, it seems that she is not being taken by force….”
Lena, who brought her food, ended up standing beside her and she had no choice but to watch the two of them eat.
Lena felt jealous for the first time as she stood next to the two of them.
‘Because of her….’
In her heart, she hated the viola that suddenly squeezed into her seat where she should have sat.
Lena, who was uncomfortable with her planting, still stood by her side without revealing her feelings as much as possible.
And when Lena listened to the conversation between the two of them, she almost lost her mind.
(Suho, when are we going back?)
(Um…. 3 days later?)
(….)
I knew they wouldn’t stay here long.
But when I heard the exact date, I started to feel empty inside.
A book lying on her table caught her eye.
I was delighted to receive the book, but the man went into the room in awe.
Lena, who stopped by the library today, noticed a book that should have been kept in the library of the Principality of Peron.
Originally, she only pretended to go around, trying not to get nitpicked.
But I just couldn’t pass up the book.
It was one of the books containing the records of Peron IV.
Although it was only a part of the written book, it was a book containing only political records.
But even as she read those hard, insensitive records, Lena could feel the vividness of her father facing her right in front of her.
Lena carefully stroked the book.
“… Let’s say thank you tomorrow.”
Lena left her room and, as always, headed to her supervisor to get her Rev Herb.
Her day was over, but the noble children were busy running around.
Lena moved carefully out of the eyes of her children.
Even though she felt guilty for ignoring her children, she didn’t want to mess with the feelings she received from the guy until tonight.
But when Lena arrived at her supervisor, what she heard came as a shock.
“Sorry, but I can’t give you sleeping pills for the time being.”
“That… What could be wrong….”
“No. Suddenly, the executive asked for everything, so she had no choice but to give it.”
“Ah….”
While Lena was relieved, she began to feel uneasy.
Without Rev Herb, she could not sleep through the night, which could interfere with her work the next day.
“And I took all the powerful sleeping pills with me, so I have nothing. I’ll tell you when I come in later. Go.”
“… Okay. Thank you.”
Lena greeted her politely and headed back to her quarters.
Lena’s steps toward her dorm were not so heavy.
‘Wouldn’t I be able to fall asleep if I felt like this?’
Lena took a cup of her honey water just in case she didn’t know.
Before she went to bed, she wondered if it would help her sleep a little.
When she arrived at the dormitory building, she found a group at the entrance grumbling and conversing.
They were female aristocrats.
It was the entrance, so the way to enter was completely blocked.
‘Let’s leave for a moment. It’s rude to eavesdrop.’
As she thought so, she was about to move to another place when a conversation flowed in that tied Lena’s feet.
“What is this! You’ve been scolding me for days!”
“Because Lena isn’t there, it’s really hard.”
“But what are you being called for?”
Lena couldn’t move her feet, even though she knew it was rude to eavesdrop.
“One of the guys visiting this time is serving a man.”
“Doesn’t a man who is close to demons have something like parasites in his body? Dirty….”
Lena gritted her teeth and closed her eyes tightly.
I was angry.
‘I’m a much better person than you….’
Rather than insulting herself, Lena felt her anger toward those who were slandering the only person she had treated kindly in this place.
To Lena, she thought that a man who calmly gave her reassurance was a much nobler figure than those who flattered her in front of her every time.
“Ah! I heard last time That man is said to be such a great person that even the demon lord would cringe!”
“Really?! How should I approach it?”
“Me too! If it’s a human man, I’m really confident that I can seduce you in 5 minutes!”
Lena eavesdropped on the girls in the back of her dormitory until they left.
Not hearing the gossip of her women, Lena looked around her own body.
‘… You don’t like women like me, do you?’
Lena never judged her own appearance as a woman.
Her palms were callused from countless swords and spears, and her tall stature made some men feel burdened.
Her height was around 172, and although she had a body that drew attention in the modern age when Seong Su-ho lived, she belonged to the tallest here on the continent of Illunia.
She said yes, and that she listened to men’s compliments, but she didn’t particularly like it.
She was always thirsty for her father’s praise.
On days when her father praised her, she was so happy that she couldn’t even sleep.
But until now, there was no one who could support her like her father.
Here, receiving compliments from her co-workers made her feel rather miserable.
It occurred to Lena that she wanted to get her compliments from the man she wanted to lean on.
But Lena soon corrected her sanity.
“Ha… What am I thinking…. Let’s go in.”
Her brooding, she made sure no one was at her entrance, and cautiously headed for her bedroom.
When she reached her bedroom, the sun was setting outside her window.
It was time for her to do a personnel check.
Lena knocked on every door from the first floor, and had a brief conversation face to face with the children living inside.
She greeted Lena with a smile.
‘… Everyone is so kind when they’re in front of me.’
Sometimes she felt the men’s eyes go down, but she tried to ignore it.
Lena knocked on Berryus’ door for the last time.
Knock, Knock, Knock.
As soon as I knocked on the door, a boy half as tall as Lena jumped out.
“Princess!”
“Did you work hard today?”
Lena asked while sneaking through Verius’ vision.
Berryus started talking about what happened today.
The pattern was simple.
He rebelled because he was ordered to do strange things, and he was scolded.
It was over.
“Those guys… You said something harsher to me because the princess wasn’t there!”
“… You’ve worked hard. I will ask for the key today.”
“Go, princess! Hey, the key! Uh? Princess?”
“Please. Then….”
Lena, who did not want to listen to Berryus any longer, left her key with him and returned to her room.
Lena lowered her head and said with a wry smile.
“Okay…. I ruined that child like that…. It’s because of me….”
Reflecting on her self-reproach, Lena headed to her closet.
Lena, who was changing into her nightgown, came to mind in an instant.
“Ah…. Today’s key….”
There was no reason for her to entrust the key to Berryus, since she had no drink to sleep anyway.
As she tried to avoid Berryus’ complaints, she habitually left her key.
“… It won’t be a big deal.”
Lena decided that she wouldn’t be able to sleep anyway, and that she wouldn’t have a big problem.
She put on a one-piece, loose-fitting nightgown and headed to her dining table.
Without a sleeping drink, she would normally not be able to go to bed anxious.
But in Lena’s gaze, there was someone who made her smile.
“… Shall I read it?”
It was a book containing her father’s records with no return date set.
After she lit a candle on her table, she carefully turned over her bookshelf.
There was not much content on a single sheet of parchment.
There were only records related to state affairs, such as how many days and what duties Phermon IV served, and what orders he gave.
However, Lena looked at her open page for a long time and was immersed in her remorse.
“Father…. I’m sorry I couldn’t keep my last promise.”
Lena, unable to take her eyes off just one page, closed the book rubbing her reddened eyes.
“… See you later.”
She was getting sleepy now.
Her feelings of remorse and the bliss of sleep flowed through her bloodstream at the same time.
Lena brushed her pink hair to the side of her and blew out the flame burning on her wick with her mouth.
She moved carefully through the darkened room and lay down on her bed.
She drank the honeydew from earlier and put her cup under the bed.
Lena muttered as her drowsiness slowly came on.
“… Thank you.”
..
..
Awesome….
‘… Yes?’
Lena regained her senses with her eyes closed at the sudden sound of metal grinding.
‘Verius?’
Tuck, tuck, tuck.
Lena heard her footsteps and she recognized it at once.
‘… I’m not that kid.’
The sound of heavy footsteps was closer to that of an adult.
She had her mind on edge for a moment, her nerves sharpened all over her body.
Lena, who had recently overheard men’s gossip, became convinced that way.
‘I really didn’t think he would do something like this…. But if you go on a rampage now….’
If we subdue the intruder here, it won’t be a problem.
But what if you miss it?
As it spread into a big commotion, the anxiety that I would not be able to wait on the man began to bloom.
‘I can overwhelm them enough if I get close.’
Lena waited until he was near her, then she decided to subdue and issue a warning.
She intended to give her a prickly warning so that later she would not even be in the mood to act like this.
However, when the man’s voice was heard, Lena’s tension was relieved.
“… Good night.”
“….”
‘What, what is it? Now the voice is clear….’
Lena thought she had heard wrong, so she quietly listened to the intruder’s voice one more time.
While listening to her like that, a man suddenly dug into her blanket.
‘Wait a minute!’
Lena was embarrassed, but she couldn’t do anything recklessly.
‘Should I catch it now?’
If she woke up now, she was confident that she would be able to subdue her at once.
‘No, Joe, when I’m more certain….’
Once she felt that Lena should listen to her counterpart’s voice again, she didn’t have any objection.
Lena couldn’t understand her at all.
An extraterrestrial man broke in.
She said she wasn’t doing the naughty thing she thought she was, but she started cuddling.
‘What are you doing? Why the hell would you do this….’
While Lena was confused, the intruder took her head with both hands and said,
“Ha… It is really pretty.”
