Chapter 45.2

“What? How could you…”

The man threw the body suddenly and approached me who was shocked. He cleaned up my clothes which were messed up by the employee, and then brushed my tangled hair with his hands.

“Hey, when and how did you get in here?”

“I came in when the master screamed and kicked the pig out. It’s a bit difficult to tell you how.”

My mouth hung open as I asked, “Why?”

“Why? I’m here to save my master,” he replied.

Still covering his face halfway with a hood, he laughed with a whimpering sound. The man picked up the bundle of keys that the employee missed and continued to embrace me, whose legs had become weak.

“I am no prince, but I’m a beast who returns the favor.”

“Aren’t you even worried about the plague?” I joked.

I frowned at the man’s behavior as he held me casually. If he had heard the conversation I had with the slave trader, he wouldn’t have acted this way.

“Oh, the disease that the master was explaining while she trembled?”

The man shrugged and threw the keys down the stairs leading to the basement. Flick, a black hand popped out of nowhere and soon disappeared with the key as if it was a crab hiding in the dark.

“If I get caught, I’ll die with you.”

Crushing the iron bars with his bare hands, he laughed, inhaling the cool morning air that permeated through the cracks. His confidence left me speechless.

When I left the basement quietly in the man’s arms, the fishy smell of blood stung my nose. Noticing my reaction, the man covered my face with an embarrassed cough and quickly left the store.

“Uh, where are you going?” I asked.

“The slave trader that the master kicked in the crotch is a big guy named Pak, and has the largest guild in the Shamua Kingdom. If you want to live, you have to leave the kingdom as soon as possible.”

I opened my mouth in response to the man’s explanation. I was always in favor of leaving the kingdom, but I left something behind.

Rian!

“I have to go back to the inn.”

“Why?”

“Rian, I’ve hidden Rian in the closet.”

There was a possibility that the insinuation was released and he’d escaped, but if it had not been done, Rian could have quietly stayed in the closet as I told him.

“Hurry up. He wouldn’t have eaten anything today,” I insisted.

My heart was in a hurry when I remembered him, who was trapped in a closet all day long, starving. The man looked down at my nervous face and laughed coldly.

“Well, then…”

I looked at the man whose expression was barely visible, seemingly showing a little displeasure.

“Did the master eat anything?”

“No. I was stuck in the basement, but I didn’t eat anything.”

Earlier, the staff brought me water and a loaf of bread, but it looked suspicious, so I took a small bite and didn’t eat everything. It turned out to be a good decision.

“And that’s how you worry about him? A child who is twice as big as his master.”

My eyebrows furrowed at the man’s words.

“Are Rian and I the same?”

“Different. Very much.”

The man seemed to understand my anger, but didn’t seem to like turning the direction toward the inn. Still, at my stubbornness, he put my arms around his neck.

“Hold on. I’m running out of time, so I’ll speed up.”

As soon as I clasped his neck, he flew and stepped on the roof of another house. Then, wasn’t he stepping on the wall next door to him with another leap?

‘What is this? Isn’t this just flying around?’

I don’t know if I could just call it jumping. The man was now leaping over two roofs with just one step. Like a superhero movie I once saw, the scenery below under the dark sky changed quickly.

“Kyaaaa! Kyaaaagh!”

I tightened my clasp around his neck because I was afraid that if I loosened even a bit, I might fall down.

“I won’t miss it, master. Slave ears are about to tear, so could you shut up?”

The slave cheekily raised one eyebrow at me, telling me to shut up.

“I’m sorry…” I blushed with embarrassment and closed my mouth.

In an instant, the man arrived at the inn and looked down at me and tilted his head in wonder.

“…Master, why is your body so hot?”

I closed my eyes tightly at his question. It was originally a good low tone, but it sounded strange because it wasn’t attractive to me now.

The sensation that had been tickling me since earlier came creeping up the back of my neck.

That water.

I just took a sip and spat it out after holding it in my mouth for a very short time!