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There was a large, systemic prison in the basement of the Duke of Chade. There were many reasons for the confinement of those trapped there.

The assassins who attempted the assassination of Duke Cassius and Ain, the ones who betrayed them, the hostages holding them to threaten the confrontational family, and the annoying political enemies trying to block the emperor. There, many were trapped without knowing each other's existence.

Even, for purpose, there was a room that was underground, but pleasant like a room in a mansion, and there was a terrible space where the stench and rotten me vibrated and the rats and bees were filled.

And there was a torture chamber at the deepest of them. Over the past few days, someone had rented it.

“Jea ... Jea Johm ... give it ... give it ... give it ...”

He was begging for his death, which was not even properly pronounced, and the last time, the blood that Rogeria had seen, the man who was covered with blood, was trapped here with his life.

The Duke of Cassius, who had just been expected to kill himself, suddenly hardened his burrow and still held his life. Even though no one would touch him, the blood vessels in his body were as painful as they would burst.

He was suffering from pain at his feet, and he was a teacher who had taught Ain political science and economics not long ago.

He thought he was quite capable and he said he would pay his salary and treatment well, but he turned out to be a spy sent by Chancellor Yulien.

“Still, stupid people do stupid things, bother you.”

Funny, I dared to break into the house, and I wanted to do something interesting, so I had to hold on to what purpose he came for.

“You’ll be successful once, but you’ll have to do this positive delusion.”

Cassius came up with a crooked mouth, and as soon as he realized that he was a spy, he had finished grasping what he had done here.

But I tried to crawl here, but I was bored if I just finished it, and I was thinking that I would send only the shell of his body, which was miserable after enjoying it for the Chancellor of Ulyen who did this.

“But this is all this—”

I just saw a guy with a little blood on him. He's still scared, you know.

It just skipped by. He didn’t understand that she was shocked then, but he didn’t see her torture in front of him, and that still scared him.

...I suddenly remembered what Ain had said.

- If she gets scared and runs away, she won't be here.

He was afraid that the Duke of Cassius might threaten Roseria. That’s why, he was so afraid that he was afraid.

She knew now what had caused her behavior, which had been so unsettled that she had been choked.

 ..

But that didn’t make him feel sick, and he had long forgotten what had happened when he met her in the hallway. It was a daily routine that this was repeated every day.

So I didn’t even expect it. I knew the cause, but I couldn’t think of it.

Suddenly the presence of a spy sent by Chancellor Yulien was very disturbing.

I was going to enjoy it a little more until then, but if it was not for this guy then it would not have been so complicated.

The unpleasant eyes of Duke Cassius were once discovered to be a spy, a teacher of Ain, and turned to him, whose flesh and blood were not discernible.

It seemed that the death without the heart that he desperately wanted was impossible.

****

Roseria’s day was a series of stretches, and she had been resting in the sperm that had been in patronage for a long time, and her eyes were closed without knowing it in the sun.

How much I was asleep, and from a moment I felt cool without feeling the sunlight.

I opened my eyes slowly, and there was a big stretch in front of me, when I looked up at the time when the sun was still floating in the middle of the sky.

“Master...?”

I woke up in a moment. The cool shade of the stillness I felt on her face was Duke Cassius.

'What's going on with this...?'

I could see the maids around me, not just coming, not saying anything, but not just in the way of the house, and I could see that he was not here.

'You were watching him sleep.'

She wished that someone would tell her that it was not just that, but her ominous prediction seemed to be right, and she was suddenly depressed.

****

The Duke of Cassius acted as if he had found her by chance, but in fact he knew that she often took a nap in the sperm that was in her patronage, so he deliberately headed this way.

I hesitated several times to wake her up when she was asleep.

'Why do I care about Roseria?'

It was not like that to break down the busy time.

It didn’t matter what she hated to ignore, but it certainly did not until recently.

I have never thought about her and worried about her during my last marriage.

‘It’s simple if you don’t mind.’

The problem was that it was not. From a certain point on, Roseria’s disregard had changed blatantly.

I did not like to laugh at Ain and get blue for myself.

So I kept coming. I’d have to look at the look I’m making on Ain.

She had been so excited to see her, her mouth still, pale, and still, with no idea, and she had opened her eyes.

“How do you...?”

Roseria found Cassius and asked, her eyes as if she had broken a feeling.

“....”

I thought I knew why she was afraid of herself and avoided her, but I came here, but suddenly I asked her, and she had nothing to say.

When the Duke of Cassius did not answer, the surroundings became silent.

“...is it still scary because of the man the knight brought in the last time?”

“Yes...”

I didn’t mean to say anything like this, but it was only that I said that I was going to come out of my mouth.

“You can take that much for yourself.”

“Yes?”

He looked as if he had broken down. When Roseria said nothing, Duke Cassius continued to talk to her to persuade her.

“I thought you were ready when you were already Roseria Chade.”

The Chade family was a notorious family, and she could not have known that it was unusual to see blood from the moment she lived there.

“It’s hard at first, but it’s nothing if you keep looking.”

He’s dull when he looks at anything. He’s been training repeatedly as a child, and the smell of blood and death is like air.

And if she didn’t come to his office or to Jiha, she wouldn’t see him as often as she did.

"I didn't know it, but I can't be afraid of it that much."

I no longer wanted to see her running away from him.

"Rogeria...Chade... yo..."

She recited her full name quietly, and even though she was chewing on her name, she seemed to be spooky.

Roseria Chade—she had the last name of Chade—so he was warning her that she shouldn’t be reeling from the blood.

But it was too much for her.

“...I’ll try.”

It was too much, but this was the only answer Roseria could give.

She was not sure how many times she had to look like that until she was okay.

'I can be dulled by the appearance of it.'

I felt that she was great, as I had read in the novel now, because she did not blink at anything in the house.

But now Roseria was a very ordinary person, so she was choked by the humidity.

"I'll-- I'll-- I'll go..."

I was no longer looking at him, so I was going to say hello and turn around, or I would stand here and sit on the floor.

"Do you...do you want anything?"

Cassius’s voice caught her foot. He suddenly asked her what she wanted.

It was not a word that would have been a warning to the woman who had just been frightened by blood, but I could not ignore him and looked at Duke Cassius.

“Yes?”

I can’t understand what you’re thinking, but I can’t understand what you’re thinking.

“If you want anything, you can talk to me.”

“....”

"I'll do everything I can."

He could not understand his intentions, either by giving him bottles and medicine. By giving carrots and whips.

However, the first thing that came to mind was that I was.

'I hate the smell of blood.'

Even now Cassius smelled of silver, and if the smell of blood was enough to fit his body, how long had he been in the place where the blood was vibrating? He felt more dangerous, I thought.

“So don’t bring me another one of those who’s been in such a misery again, or let me smell blood in my tack.”

I wanted to say that, but...

“I don’t want anything, my lord.”

He couldn’t say this. He thought maybe he was testing himself.

Maybe he was trying to see if he was greedy not to fit the fountain. It was even more difficult to say, as I remembered that in the novel, Roseria had been angry with excessive greed.

“Why there’s nothing.”

The Duke of Cassius’s reaction was so bad, his face seemed complicated, as if it were not the answer he wanted.

“I’ll raise the cost of maintaining my dignity a little bit.”

“I’m already getting enough for my entire use.”

“Or, I’ll give you the authority to manage the duchess.”

At the beginning of the marriage, I remembered that Roseria had been angry at the first time that the users had the right to the duke.

“No, I don’t need it.”

‘What?’

Roseria refused, strong and certain. She didn’t want to leave any room, and her voice rose. And then her answer raised the hawk of his eyes as if he were offended.

“I thought it would be better to trust it because the people are already doing well.”

“Well, I need something.”

“I’m very happy with my life.”

His eyes narrowed.

'Go what you don't like about my answer.'

Why, there is an ideal answer more than that, because nothing is greedy and it is full.

Rogeria was suddenly confused by the Duke of Cassius, who came to test her.