Chapter 46

“… That’s why he told me to take the dog chew.”

“What?”

“Because he gave me some dog chew. Well, to be precise, to our Lang.”

Lang, lying on the floor with her chin on the floor, quietly opened her eyes to the words referring to her.

Then Annie shook her head.

“I’m sorry, Lang. I wasn’t calling you. You can sleep again.”

“You can even take your own dog chew. He must be a really nice person.”

“Hmm.”

Annie smiled without knowing it. She can still see the young man who was surprised and started hiccuping as soon as he saw her.

He was like a child who got caught doing something naughty.

There’s actually such an innocent man in this big world.

“Lang even made friends with him, so he must be a trustworthy person. Like a big dog.”

As Annie giggled, Carla narrowed her eyes. Wasn’t this a pink atmosphere?

She asked in a subtle voice.

“My Lady, do you like him?”

“No.”

It was better to nip it in the bud before it sprouted. Annie, who answered without a doubt, hung the laundry again.

Tak tak.

There was a scent of silvery soap from the straight white cloth.

It turned out that the body of the dog chew bachelor smelled deeply of a rose scent.

‘It’s the scent of roses… Yes. Even that tyrant…’

There was a strong rose scent. It was as if rose perfume was sprinkled all over his body, and it was mellow and fragrant.

‘Oh no! Let’s stop thinking of the tyrant.’

Annie shuddered. She sometimes couldn’t sleep at night because of the tyrant in her dreams. Holding his sword with a fearsome face, he was more terrifying than a ghost.

As her master shuddered, Carla tilted her head.

‘Why are you doing that?’

Carla, clinging sneakily next to Annie, asked her.

“My Lady, you haven’t finished talking. So, what is that about the dog chew bachelor?”

“Well… it’s curious that he knew my name.”

“My Lady, it must be thanks to your precious eyes.”

Violet eyes as rare as amethyst were the pride of the Dsev family. At Carla’s words, Annie’s expression became a face that said, “Is that so?”

In fact, there were some aristocrats in the social church who saw Annie’s eyes and noticed that it was the Dsev family. Annie was convinced then.

Well, though it wasn’t likely that she’d see him again, Annie was interested.

The important things are the people that she loved.

“Shall we go back home?”

At Annie’s words, Lang replied, “Bark!”

Unlike just now, Annie and Carla laughed with a lively appearance.

*

“Hey, Ejed.”

There is only one person in the world who can talk informally to the Emperor of the Great Porcaus Empire.

Ejed did not raise his closed eyelids, but only opened his dry lips.

“… Go.”

“You said you have been sick these days. Are you okay?”

He would like to ignore it and just take a break, but the other person’s mind wasn’t like that.

When Ejed grabbed the bed sheet and didn’t even open his eyes, the other person snorted.

“What do you see the messenger of the gods as? Do you think Robbie is going to have a cold?”

Robbish Abge.

He was a long-time friend of Ejed, and he was like an older brother or a parent. Sitting on the bed, he swept his bright white hair and opened his eyes.

The women were so envious of his eyelashes, which were delicately positioned at the tail of his long eyes. The eyes that look like sapphire hidden beneath it darkened.

He had heard of it from Doher roughly, but Ejed was in worse shape than he thought. His white face turned pale enough to see all the veins.

Robbie asked anxiously.

“You were sick seven years ago. Did it happen again?”

The reason why he was sick at night seven years ago was purely because of lovesickness.

Now, his face was burning red, and Ejed denied it as his voice cracked.

“It’s not like that.”

“No, man.”

Robbie stretched out his arms, talking with strength, and arranged Ejed’s hair. The tip of his nose frowned as his black hair, wet with cold sweat, got tangled in Robbie’s fingers.

It was Robbie himself that had been with Ejed since he was still wearing diapers.

It was Robbie who watched his unhappiness with anxiety all the time and suffered.

“The damn girl. I’ve made up some silly settings.”

“… What?”

“Nothing. Hey, by the way, don’t get sick.”

“Huh.”

“Don’t just answer me with ‘huh’.”

It was best to put up with it because ten words would just become one word.

In Ejed’s silence, Robbie sighed as if the ground was gone.

“If you’re like this, how will I look at your parents’ faces?”

“… You will live the longest.”

“Hey now. I will always be here until you have children.”

Robbie murmured with a serpentine smile that was out of harmony with his angelic appearance.

“First of all, I will order two ramen in the Internet cafe and stay up all night, then order all the chicken every day of the week, and I would alternatively eat tteokbokki at each meal.”

These are weird words he heard for the first time, so instead of reacting, Ejed spat out shallow breaths.

Robbie, the messenger of the gods, often told unknown stories, like those who had gone to heaven.

And the conclusion was one.

“Hey, Ejed, wait a bit.  This brother will let you walk on the flower road. Next to you, the nice and pretty empress will be with you.”

“…”

“Brother will do you well, so cheer up. You are the most precious thing to me.”

When Robbie spits out the last word, Ejed’s vision dimmed. Feeling the cold touch on his forehead, Ejed fell back into darkness.

That day, Ejed had a dream of having a conversation with Annie for more than ten words.

Until he woke up in the morning, the corners of his mouth did not go down.

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Note:

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