Chapter 108

After returning to the villa, we washed our dirty faces and were immediately examined in Nanabi’s room. Fortunately, there was nothing wrong. Sihael was in excellent health thanks to the empty wish from the guardian deity.

“My Lady, just in case, take a good rest before you leave.”

“Thank you. And I’m sorry. Nanabi.”

“If you really care, please tell me about that guardian deity next time.”

Nanabi winked her eyes and smiled coolly, saying that she would forgive me then.

“Rosetta, go and rest first.”

“Yes.”

After completing the test before Sihael did, I returned to the room first, leaving him behind. I wanted to lie down in bed right away. But it wasn’t the soft bed that was waiting for me, it was Leonard who was exuding a cold air.

“Rosetta Katzel. Come here right now.”

An angry Leonard pointed in front of him. Knowing that I did wrong, I quietly shut up and went to him.

It wasn’t enough that I suddenly disappeared without a word, but I also fell off a cliff, risked feeding my own blood to cure Sihael, and even met the self-proclaimed guardian deity.

Leonard gripped his throbbing forehead recalling the incidents that happened in just one day.

“Next time you will always tell me wherever you go next time, and promise never to go alone.”

“Yes, I promise.”

I was not a child, yet I was only released after I made a promise with my pinky with Leonard. I laid my exhausted body on the bed. I turned over my right hand that Leonald had been holding for a long time and then glanced at my wrist. A flower-shaped figure was visible beneath the reddened skin.

“What the hell is this?”

It was like a tattoo, but to think that a tattoo that I had never done before could be created overnight. It was a series of strange events. It was strange to notice it while I was washing it.  After all that fuss in the cave, how could I not notice it?

‘Thank you, I prepared a present for you. Use it wisely.’

It seemed like a gift from my grandfather, but I couldn’t figure out what kind of ability it was. Even when I asked Nanabi, she shook her head, saying it was a form of magic she had never seen before. It was a gift from the guardian deity, so I knew it wouldn’t harm my body.

“If you are going to give it to me, please tell me at least what kind of gift it is.”

I grumbled and burrowed my body into the soft mattress. I would go home soon, but I wanted to sleep well until we had to leave. As my body relaxed, I suddenly remembered what had happened in the cave.

‘Don’t cry. If you cry, I don’t know what to do.’

Surprised by Sihael’s face, which was getting closer, I opened my closed eyes.

‘No, don’t remember it. Erase it from your mind. Pretend it never happened.’

I pulled the blanket over my head and tried to block my thoughts, but it turned out to be a bad choice. As my vision darkened, the memory came back more clearly. I kicked the blanket and struggled.

“Ugh! Don’t remember!”

Boom, Boom.  I kicked and rolled across the bed hard enough to shake off all the dust from the blanket.

“Why do I keep thinking about it?”

After rolling for a long time, I collided with the bedpost and quietly crouched down.

‘What on earth was Sihael thinking?’

His gesture was too intense to be trying to appease me, and the atmosphere was too subdued to be trying to tease me. Kissing the eyes is something that only a lover would do.

“Ah! No way.”

I shook my head wildly. I’m sure he is fond of me. The gestures and actions that Sihael did to me were impossible without fondness.

And I was also fond of Sihael. He was a person one didn’t want to let go, as well as someone you shouldn’t let go. That was Sihael.

He always puts my safety first.

But could it be more than a feeling of fondness?

“No way!”

I must be delusional. The door swung open at the same time as I buried my confused head on the pillow.

“Rosetta!”

I closed my eyes when I saw Sihael running towards me calling my name.

‘This is why I’m confused…’

Her doubts grew as she saw his worried and anxious-looking face.

‘Why do you do such things to muddle people?’

I was going to kick him out right away, but I collected my emotions. I couldn’t send him away like this. I felt like I would feel better if I gave him a good beating for complicating my thoughts by acting strange for no reason.

“Your Highness… please come here.”

When I held out my hand to him and mumbled weakly, Sihael rushed over and grabbed my hand.

“What’s wrong with you?””

“…Just a little closer.”

The moment Sihael’s face came near my face, I jumped up and hit his forehead.

“Ugh!”

My eyes widened and tears welled up. That’s weird. It was said that Rosetta was a knucklehead. In her diary, she definitely wrote that she made Lanoa cry with a bump. I believed in that and hit him once, but it hurt terribly. If it hurts like this for me, then what about Sihael?

When I lowered my head, I saw him collapsed on the bed, groaning.

“Why did you, ugh?”

He couldn’t speak properly because it was really painful. Feeling relieved by his appearance, I smiled at his red forehead like I had received a medal.

“It’s revenge for bullying me!”

“…I bullied you?”

Sihael frowned as he rubbed his red forehead.

“I don’t know what… Oh, are you mad about me leaving you?”

Right, that happened too. My anger rose.

Bad guy, how could you leave me?

When I jumped up and grabbed the pillow, Sihael’s neck twitched.  Seeing my eyes gleaming eerily, Sihael slowly stepped back.

“Your Highness, do you remember?  We had a lot of fun in the duchy.”

“I don’t remember having any fun.”

Sihael, who had been hit until the pillow burst, must have foreseen that he would be hit again this time.

“Rosetta, calm down.”

I chuckled as I watched desperate Sihael.