Chapter 6

It was like a flash of lightning, but her eyes were as still as a lake. She looked just calm even when she saw the hostile look on Kayden’s face.

“You’re as terrible as the rumor says.”

Kayden burst into laughter at her provocation. What kind of confidence is that? She was too detached for a person with a knife in her throat.

Isabella looked into Kayden’s eyes. When their eyes met, she bent her eyes beautifully and smiled.

Who is this woman? Kayden’s bright red eyes shook slightly.

“Do you know who I am?”

“Monster Slayer. Mad dog.”

His forehead gradually wrinkled as she calmly recited his eerie nicknames.

“Nice to meet you, Little Duke Blake.”

Isabella didn’t care and spoke to him kindly.

What the hell is with this woman who seems unfazed even if she is threatened with a knife? Kayden carefully looked at the woman in front of him.

Her eyes were freezing blue. Her platinum blonde hair, which is as pristine as her pale skin, sparkled in the moonlight.

Her elegant figure looked like an angel from another world.

However, he couldn’t tell from her appearance. What is the identity of this woman who suddenly fell into this place that no one can access.

‘My barrier is no joke.’

Meanwhile, Isabella was admiring the iron fortification of the tower.

It was not that she didn’t understand why he stuck a knife in an intruder’s neck.

‘With such a powerful barrier, it would be difficult for most demons, let alone humans, to invade.’

If someone had tried to force their way in, their whole body would have been torn apart before reaching the top floor. It was a system he put in place to deal with intruders without having to get blood on his hands.

To enter the Mage Tower, you had to be either a very powerful demon with a considerable amount of mana or a mana stone that was the key to the tower.

“I guess you’re not going to kill me?”

“…….”

“Or you can’t kill me because you can’t feel magic in me.”

Kayden, who was stabbed to the core by a woman he didn’t know, laughed in despair.

She was right. The reason why he did not immediately kill his unexpected guest who appeared suddenly was because he did not feel magic in her.

Kayden was notorious as a natural enemy of demons and monsters, so he was often challenged by curious men.

If it was a demon strong enough to penetrate the barrier of the magic tower, he would have cut it without hesitation.

He instinctively felt mana before, but he became more sensitive after symptoms of mana explosion appeared in him.

It was strange that he could not feel magic from her even though she penetrated such a strong barrier.

‘She really helped me, didn’t she?’

The ring she held which was given by the demon seemed to serve as a key to the tower and a kind of pass.

“I’m sorry I’m not a demon.”

Isabella smiled leisurely and raised her hand. A red mana stone ring was shining on her white finger. After checking the ring, Kayden lowered his blade.

‘It’s probably from my father.’

Blake’s Tower, protected by a powerful barrier. No one could have had the key mana stone.

Only the owner of the tower could make a mana stone that could warp here.

That’s why it was only Kayden’s father, Duke Blake, who could get outsiders into this place.

“If you’re not a demon…….”

Kayden, who had approached, held out her face. It was rude given that it was their first meeting, but it was within reach.

Isabella, who was calm even when a knife came into her throat, stopped breathing for a moment.

His excessively handsome face was even more unrealistic up close.

“It’s a woman, of course.”

She was just staring at him because she couldn’t believe it, and the corners of his mouth smiled strangely.

“The Duke seems more concerned about his successor than his crazy son.”

Kayden loosened the string that was holding his shirt and said languidly.

“Should I meet your expectations from now on?”

His straight collarbone and long neckline were revealed through his untangled collar. For a moment, there was a calm wave in her blue eyes.

What was his father thinking to let a woman who looked like an aristocrat see him? Reaching a faster-than-expected conclusion, Kayden took off his clothes pretending to be crazy.

‘I think it’s working.’

He smiled oddly with his lips clenched deliberately.

The Duke of Blake’s only son was locked in the tower because of a mana explosion.

Unless he accepts the demon in his blood, Kayden’s life is bound to be cut short.

In rare cases, relatives or family members of the family took their adopted children and handed down their titles, but aristocrats obsessed with blood ties could not easily give up.

In the end, they would marry their sick child far away to produce a successor.

He can’t believe he put a girl in here. Kayden was disillusioned with the Duke, whom he had only thought was normal, doing this without his knowledge.

Furthermore, the opponent is a woman who doesn’t bat an eyelash even if a knife comes into her neck. In this case, the only way is to make her leave on her own.

Meanwhile, Isabella, who could not have known Kayden’s intentions, was busy thinking.

‘She only said he’s a crazy dog, she didn’t say he’s in a rut.’

She said it’s a style that demons like, but she didn’t know he would show it so blatantly from their first meeting.

The unexpected development made Isabella feel that her thoughts are about to shut down.

‘Are you scaring me for me to leave on my own? Or is it because of the demon’s damn instinct?’

Numerous thoughts ran through her head, but one thing was clear. The more this happens, the more she needs to get her head straight.

“Do it, then.”

“…what?”

“Let’s do it.”

A thin finger wrapped around Kayden’s cheek. Her eyes that looked determinedly into his seemed to penetrate within his soul.

Her long eyelashes fluttered slowly.

“…….”

The breath that touched his cheek felt ticklish, making him feel dizzy.

Kayden’s heart rate was slowly speeding up because of the strange feeling of bewilderment and astonishment.

She was a woman whom he couldn’t tell if she was serious or not, crazy or a fraud.

“Be my husband instead.”

“What?”

“I’ll let you do as much as you want only if you take responsibility.”

When he came to his senses, he was being proposed to by a woman whose name he didn’t even know.

He was completely manipulated by his own words; words he used to drive this woman away. Kayden burst out laughing in bewilderment.

“Shouldn’t you introduce yourself to me first?”

“Isabella Leonard.”

“…….”

“It’s my name. I didn’t mean to be rude. Please forgive me graciously.”

Isabella lifted her skirt lightly and bowed her head. Unlike her rude proposal just now, she has perfect manners.

“But the small Duke was rude enough first to greet me with a knife.”

She smiled softly and did not forget to rebuke him.

‘… Isabella Leonard.’

Kayden pondered the name he had just heard. Leonard was the royal family’s name.

No woman dared to use that name since the Empress died and the princess was deposed a long time ago.

Although the emperor had a mistress, he did not officially bring in a queen, and there was no other royal daughter except the deposed imperial princess.

Officially, only men were allowed to use Leonard’s last name.

Although he had been an outsider to the capital or the Imperial City all his life, Kayden was also the heir to the Duke.

Because he was educated as an aristocrat, he was not so ignorant that he did not even know the basic genealogy of the imperial family.

“As far as I know, there are no women in the royal family.”

“It’s my mother’s last name. Isabella Leonard, daughter of Princess Lily Leonard.”

Isabella replied in a calm tone. Kayden was still suspicious of the strange name.

“Do you mean Count Collins’ wife, the princess? The princess who was thrown out by the emperor for pushing ahead with a marriage he’s opposed to?”

“Your Majesty has great foresight. For your information, I detest the name Collins very much. That’s why I don’t like my mother being called that.”

“The reason is…”