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Chapter 42
“…….”
…Damn it. This was a mess.
In the face of Caelus’s unexpected, sudden action, Richard had momentarily failed to hide his revulsion. He grit his teeth hard.
It was ruined. However, he couldn't just sit there. Swallowing his anxiety, he opened his lips.
“I believe you are mistaken, Your Highness.”
W е ḃ nо́v́е̃ l̆ Е̊ ń ǔm̌а
“Mistaken?”
Caelus asked back as if the very idea was absurd.
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“Exactly what part of this is a mistake?”
“…….”
Richard intentionally bit his lower lip hard.
“I… toward Your Highness….”
Ẁ ѐ ḃ n о̊v̄ е̊ ĺ Еn üḿ ȧ
He recalled the past that had repeated dozens of times. The day he confessed to Lady Daphne.
“I… love Your Highness.”
The days he was rejected by her, over and over again.
“Do you truly not know how much I hold you in my heart…?”
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“…….”
“How could you… to me….”
Еñ ú m а̃
Richard’s eyelashes trembled. His gaze fell sorrowfully toward the ground.
“How could you say such things to me…?”
With a face that looked as if it were on the verge of tears, he looked up at Caelus. Like a man who was truly, deeply wounded.
“…….”
However, Caelus wasn't buying a single bit of it.
“Ha.”
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He let out a short, incredulous laugh.
“Right. You truly love me?”
He didn't even twitch an eyebrow. His face was that of a man who had long since concluded that Richard was a suspicious character.
“If that’s the case.”
The hand that had been gripping Richard’s jaw let go. The white hand slid down and grabbed the upper edge of Richard’s cloak, slowly beginning to pull it open.
“……!”
Е̌ǹ um̃а̀
Richard’s body, his chest now starkly exposed, flinched and stiffened.
“Could you truly handle being ' underneath ' me?”
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Caelus twisted the corner of his mouth into a smirk, staring at Richard mockingly.
“…….”
Richard barely managed to suppress a string of curses. Could he be underneath him? Of course…!
‘I can’t…!’
Ěń ǔ m̄ ā
How could he possibly spend a night with someone like Caelus? Especially if he was the one being ‘pushed down’!
Richard hated Caelus. No, he loathed him. He despised the man who had made her miserable forty-nine times more than anyone else in the world.
“…….”
After screaming internally for a moment, Richard hid his true feelings and smiled softly.
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“…Doing it while tied up isn't exactly my preference.”
“……So that’s how you’re going to play it.”
Ẃ е̌ b n̊ò v̈ еl̃ Е̌n u m̂ а
Caelus let go of Richard and took a step back.
“Bring it out,” he commanded the knight to his right.
“Yes, Your Highness.”
The escort knight respectfully offered him a shimmering silver object.
“……!”
Richard's water-colored eyes widened. The Basvalica berries. While he was unconscious, the fruit had already fallen into his opponent's hands.
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“You seemed to be searching for this quite feverishly.”
Holding the pale blue stem, Caelus curled the corner of his lip.
“From now on, it would be best if you answered truthfully.”
He walked toward Richard, who was bound to the chair.
‘……!’
Richard turned his head, following his movements.
W.e b̄ n̆о_v̄е ĺ Е̇ ň u m а
“If you continue to tell lies,”
Caelus stopped at the edge of the cliff. The same dizzying precipice where Richard had just retrieved the berries.
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“I’m afraid something unfortunate might happen.”
He extended his arm straight out. The Basvalica berries dangled over the void, as if they might fall into the vast abyss at any moment.
“……!”
Richard’s eyes wavered violently, like a ship caught in a storm.
Ě ṅúm а
‘…Do you have any idea how hard I worked to get those…!’
Whether he knew Richard's heart or not, Caelus casually paced around the edge of the cliff and returned to stand before the wooden chair.
“Richard Friedrich.”
He spoke again in that unchanging, frigid voice.
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“I’ll ask again.”
“…….”
W̃ e.b̀ň оv̈ е̇l̀ Ë n u ṁ а
“What is your true objective?”
“…….”
Richard’s face contorted for a fleeting second.
‘It’s blackmail.’
It meant that if he didn't answer properly, Caelus would hurl the Basvalica berries down the cliff.
‘But….’
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After a brief silence, Richard opened his mouth.
“It is to marry Your Highness.”
Richard was no fool. Even if he told the truth, there was no guarantee that Caelus would return the berries. Furthermore, no matter how important the berries were, the goal of obtaining them was ultimately part of the process of seducing him. He could not abandon the objective itself for the sake of a single bunch of berries he might not even get back.
“Ha…….”
Caelus let out an increasingly sharp sigh and touched his forehead. It seemed things weren't going as he intended.
“Richard Friedrich.”
Ѐn ù m.á
He stepped closer to the chair once more.
“Whatever your objective is, it’s useless.”
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“…….”
Richard watched Caelus in silence. Their gazes intertwined in the chilly Northern air.
“You’ve seen for yourself that I am courting Daphne.”
“……Yes.”
W е b n̈ о̇v е.l̇ En u̇m̀_а̀
Caelus exhaled a heavy sigh before continuing.
“I….”
“…….”
“I love her sincerely.”
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……Ha. Richard let out a hollow laugh internally.
“Though I have hurt her deeply, there hasn't been a single day I haven't regretted it.”
W е b ṅ о v̆еl̀ Е nu m̈ а̀
“…….”
“I want to win Daphne’s heart back… and I must make her happy.”
His voice sank heavily. Caelus slowly lowered his gaze, as if lost in thought.
“…….”
On the other hand, Richard’s lake-colored eyes turned ice-cold.
‘This son of a bitch….’
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The intention behind the words was clear. Since he loved her that much, whatever Richard's goal was, he should stop trying to seduce him. Fine. That was all well and good, but….
‘You want to make her happy?’
It wasn't even funny. How many times had she taken her own life because of a man named Caelus le Regnantia? Because of him, Lady Daphne had…….
“…….”
Without thinking further, a question blurted out.
“Do you truly believe, Your Highness, that you are capable of making Lady Daphne happy?”
Е̄ n ǔ m̈а̌
Someone like you thinks he can make her happy?
It wasn't a good question to ask. Richard was supposed to be acting as if he loved Caelus. Nevertheless, the statement that he wanted to make her happy was so utterly ridiculous.
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“…Of course. No matter what it takes.”
Caelus answered with an unwavering gaze, as if he truly meant it.
“…….”
Richard’s lake-colored eyes widened.
Еn̂ u m̈ā.іd
‘…Should I just kill him?’
He couldn't stand the loathsomeness of the man before him. He felt so much pity for the woman who would have married him, believing those words with all her heart. Forget the objective—he wanted to reach out right now and snap that white neck in front of him. …Are there only two escort knights? Then I’ll just kill him…….
‘…No.’
Richard barely managed to keep his sanity. He knew it was useless. The moment the male lead dies, the probability of this ‘story’ collapses. No matter how many times he killed him, the ‘story’ would endlessly return to the beginning.
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“…So, whatever your objective is, give it up now.”
Caelus looked at Richard with cold, distant eyes. An image of snapping Caelus's neck flashed through Richard's mind once more, but he dismissed it. It was a meaningless fantasy.
Е̊ñ u m̄ а . і̃ d̄
“Don't you love her as well?”
…Well, of course. I love Lady Daphne. I love her with a heart so deep and infinite that someone like you couldn't possibly fathom it.
“You do not love me.”
…This, too, was a given. There’s no way I could ever truly love someone like you. You should be grateful I don't tear you apart right here. I want to butcher everything from your soul to your body.
“Yes, it’s the same even now.”
Looking into Richard’s lake-colored eyes, Caelus let out a cryptic laugh.
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“……Pardon?” Richard asked back.
Caelus brushed his hair back roughly, as if he were going mad.
“While your lips say you love me, you’re looking at me with eyes that want to kill me this instant.”
…Had he? He thought he was hiding it perfectly….
“…….”
Why…? His lake-colored eyes wavered. He was surely acting thoroughly and deceiving him. But why….
En̆ùm̃ ȧ
“Though I may not know your objective,” Caelus began, looking straight down at Richard. “You… loathe me.”
His red eyes were entirely devoid of doubt. At some point, he had become certain.
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“It is clear you have no intention of spending a night with me. The same goes for your words about trying to produce an heir.”
……Ah.
A faint smile escaped from Richard’s lips. So, that was it. He understood now why Caelus had noticed.
He hated Caelus. He hated him as the male lead. He hated him to death for taking her away from him every single time. He despised him more than anything else in the world for making her miserable.
Е̇.ñ ùm̌ а̇
‘My hatred for you is so great….’
No matter how much he tried to push it down, no matter how much he tried to hide it, it ended up overflowing. Like a river bursting its banks in a heavy rain.
“…Haha, ha…….”
Richard hung his head low. A series of laughs, whose reason could not be known, leaked through his teeth.
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I seem to… hate you much more than I thought.
No matter how much one tries to deceive and sugarcoat, a lie is a lie. In the end, it all shows and is revealed. Just like now. In that case, wouldn't the truth as it is be better than a well-crafted lie?
Ŵ ébnо̂ v̈ ёl Ѐn ů_m̄а
“……?”
When Richard suddenly began to laugh, Caelus narrowed the space between his brows. Only after a long while did Richard stop laughing. He raised his head. His platinum hair fluttered in the cold wind.
“You’re wrong, Caelus.”
He willingly tore off the wrapping paper. What was the point of hiding what had already been discovered?
“I will spend a night with you, and I will produce a cute heir.”
Perhaps he had been thinking about it wrong from the beginning. Why did he have to act as if he loved him? He just had to bind him through marriage, by any means necessary.
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“But, you got one thing right.”
Richard pulled up one corner of his mouth in a bitter smirk.
“……?”
He saw Caelus’s face stiffen.
The edge of a cliff in the North, where the chilling blade-like wind raged. Amidst the sunset drenched in red light, the gazes of the male lead and the sub-male lead locked precisely. For a brief instant, it felt as if time had stopped.
“…What,”
Е̇ n̈ u m а̂
Looking at the damn male lead,
“Caelus.”
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Richard smiled radiantly in the red sunset. He willingly flipped over the card he had been hiding.
“Yes. I loathe you.”
He kicked the ground beneath the chair. The chair tilted at the edge of the cliff. He disappeared into the sunset.
And thus,
Е nù mа
The fall.
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