75 – Summer Break – 8
I waited until the three girls had washed up and left. In fact, although each room had a decent bath, of course, it was a bit of a waste to pass over the bathhouse that Cordelia had so strongly recommended. I wanted to try it right away when it was recommended. No matter how wide a bathtub is, there are things that feel different from a bathtub.
“I think you can go down now.”
I heard from the maid that the bath was finally over for the three of them just before I lost my throat from waiting. I quickly followed her to the bathroom.
I was able to meet the three of them who just came out at the right time when I went to the bathroom. All three of them had the unique dry feeling of a person who had just come out of a wash. The scent of shampoo wafted from them.
“Oh my, were you waiting?”
“They say it’s so good, I want to try it.”
Hestia looked at me and asked a little surprised.
“How good was it that you washed it for so long?”
“Ahahahaha…. I guess it’s been a while.”
Hestia smiled awkwardly at my question. The other two behind her also looked a little awkward. What is this atmosphere?
It seems like something obviously happened. I approached Hestia and asked softly so that the other two could not hear.
“What happened to the three of you by any chance?”
“No, nothing happened?”
Hestia denied it, but my intuition was saying something happened 100% while the three of them washed up. Even so, they said nothing had happened, but it was ridiculous for me to ask questions, so I had no choice but to take a step back.
It could be a secret story that only women want to share. It’s not like I’m their protector, and it’s impossible to know everything about what happened between the three of them.
“Really? Then what I’ll go in to wash my teeth.”
So I went to the bathroom without regret.
The bathhouse was literally similar to a Korean bathhouse. In the first place, I have never been to a public bath outside of Korea, so I have no way of knowing if this is a Korean standard or a global standard.
There is a changing room in front, and after taking off your clothes, you enter the bathroom. I wonder if even such a trivial part that the writer couldn’t have set up was influenced by it. Perhaps these empty settings are all constructed as the artist unconsciously thought.
“Yeah.”
As soon as I entered the bathroom, I exclaimed. Various types of baths were placed throughout the spacious bathhouse. Something like a bath with petals floating on it. There were statues of lions carved out of marble spewing water from their mouths.
To put it a little easier, it was like an expensive bathhouse where you had to pay more than 10,000 won to enter once.
“You deserve to be proud.”
This is understandable. After roughly washing my body, I threw myself into the largest bath that looked like a warm bath.
“Ugh….”
Unbeknownst to me, an exclamation like an uncle came out. The bathtub in the dormitory was big enough, but it felt different from a bathtub this big. As if I had become a slime, I relaxed and melted into the water in a mushy state.
Just as I was warming up for about five minutes, the bathroom door burst open. A cold wind blew in from outside the bathroom. Who is it? No one comes in I looked back, frowning because of the foggy steam.
“hahahahaha! Is the water temperature okay?”
“Hup.”
I gasped for a moment and jumped up.
“Why are you so surprised? Is there any reason why I shouldn’t wash with you?”
“No.”
The Duke of Deneb walked proudly, naked and not wearing a single thread. Should I sit still or stand up?
“Until something happens. If it’s his son, then it’s my son… It’s not too far, but I guess it’s about my nephew anyway. He thinks he’s just an uncle and he’s comfortable.”
“Yes, yes.”
I said so, but inside I felt indescribable discomfort. Who wouldn’t feel uncomfortable in a situation where the father of a friend whom he hadn’t seen for the first time, even with a huge mogul, was alone in a situation where the two of them were naked? Uncle freezes to death.
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Moreover, that sense of intimidation emanating from the Duke’s body. Mikhail’s body wasn’t a body that would go anywhere, but that size, that muscle. If my body had muscles toned like an athlete’s, his was like a bodybuilder’s. His back, swollen like it was about to burst, had the shape of a demon.
And that monstrosity that roams about without even thinking about hiding it. I never thought that there would be another person in this world as tall as me.
I wonder if such a duke is an old man who can’t help it, he started showering while humming an unknown song.
“Okay, let’s see.”
After a while, the duke came over to the bath where I was sitting and put his hand in it.
“Is it too lukewarm?”
Duke Deneb dipped his huge body in the bath and approached the statue of a lion spouting water. He touched the statue a few times, then sat next to me with a satisfied face. What did you just do?
“Well, it feels a little cooler now.”
The answer came quickly. Because I felt the temperature of the water rising rapidly with my body. I almost cursed at the moment. What kind of neighborhood bathhouse grandfather is this? Even turning on the hot water and saying it was cool was like a grandfather.
This is an act of violence to the level of arbitrarily adding radish kimchi soup while eating soup. It was just a comfortable temperature, but didn’t it feel stuffy in an instant?
Of course, this was his last name, and I didn’t have the guts to say sorry to my friend’s father, whom I hadn’t seen before.
Duke Deneb didn’t say anything, closed his eyes and enjoyed the bath like I did. To be honest, I just wanted to get up, but to see him leave as soon as he came in, I’m uncomfortable with you, and he’s declaring.
It was Duke Deneb who broke the uncomfortable silence for a moment.
“So, are you getting along well with my daughter?”
“Yes. Friend… I think.”
He asked, opening one eye slightly.
“Friend, friend. That’s right, so you came to another woman’s house like this.”
“… “
I kept my mouth shut. What, what did you mean by that? Did you dare to touch my daughter?
“Why are you so nervous? Friend, friend. Yes, even me and my wife were friends at first.”
No. This is not a story in that sense. No matter how you look at it, the duke’s atmosphere was close to that of a father at a meeting, saying, “Take good care of my daughter.”
“hahahaha… , Is that so.”
I laughed awkwardly. I lifted my butt slightly. I wasn’t brazen enough to sit around in this atmosphere. Even if it meant being rude, I just wanted to stand up.
“Sit down.”
“Duke.”
“It’s not that long, isn’t it?”
How did the Duke know that he caught me like a ghost? After thinking about it for a while, I finally put my butt back on. Okay, let’s hear what the hell you want to say by setting the mood like this.
“Do you remember the story we heard at dinner earlier?”
“Are you talking about dinner?”
“The engagement story.”
How could I forget to hear such a story while eating? I don’t know what he was thinking when he said that, but it was a very uncomfortable story.
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My current fiancé, Hestia, and even her daughter’s best friend, both eyes wide open next to me, said that she originally planned to get Cordelia and me engaged, and that if she had known this would happen, she would not have sent her to the imperial family. I’m doing it.
“Yes, what. I remember.”
“Then the story will be fast. How is it?”
“What do you mean?”
“Pretending not to know when you know. The engagement to Cordelia.”
Are you serious? Even though I tried my best to pretend that nothing was wrong, I couldn’t hide my twitching eyes.
“I have no idea what you mean by that. Her fiancé is Hestia, and I have no intention of betraying her. Besides, she is Miss Cordelia’s best friend.”
“Sometimes friendship turns into nothing in the face of love.”
“The relationship between the Duke of Deneb and the Count of Gracia… “
“That is none of your concern. Besides, if anyone in the empire could form a blood alliance with the Sirius family instead of turning the Gracia count family into enemies, they would.”
Is this crazy old man seriously telling me to get engaged to Cordelia instead of Hestia? In the end, I had no choice but to take out the cheat key even though I knew it was cowardly.
“And most importantly, isn’t it Miss Cordelia’s doctor?”
Your opinion is the most important thing. It didn’t seem like this man would be able to throw out these words in front of Cordelia. After all, it seemed certain that her daughter was an idiot, and Cordelia wouldn’t be happy to see her father’s lead in such a mess.
However, the answer that came back was completely different from what I expected.
“That’s the easiest problem. Well, if I say it outright in front of you, you’ll jump in fright, but if I tell you after everything’s been done, you’ll be angry at me about why you did that, but you’ll be happy inside.”
“How can you be sure of that?”
“Are you saying you don’t know? He doesn’t seem like such a dull friend.”
I kept my mouth shut. As the duke said, I knew that Cordelia liked me. But knowing that the Duke is a different matter. How are you so sure? I don’t think Cordelia would have said that.
“How did you know?” Not sure what Like what Cody wrote in her letters, or the way she looks at you. Originally, authors called parents sometimes see through even the most trivial things of their children like ghosts. My father also said that if I had an accident and pretended not to know, he would notice it like a ghost. So what’s the answer?”
I jumped up from my seat.
“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear what you just said. It’s not something I can decide on my own in the first place, and even if it were, I have no intention of breaking up with Hestia.”
To be honest, I didn’t have the confidence to take his words any longer. Had I known I would hear this in the first place, I would have run away before he spoke to me.
It doesn’t matter if it’s your friend’s father, your father’s friend, or an imperial duke. I didn’t want to betray Hestia like this.
Duke Deneb and my gaze collided in the air. After a brief snowball fight, he opened his tightly shut mouth.
“hahahahaha! It’s a joke, it’s a joke! Circle, facial expression too. I’ll give it a shot, just. Anyway, isn’t it a story to be told lightly naked in a place like this?”
“That… Is that so?”
I laughed awkwardly in line with Duke Deneb’s boisterous laugh.
However, it was more like taking it out because it seemed like it wouldn’t work after stabbing it in moderation for anyone to see. I know, and the Duke knows, too, but he just doesn’t bother going deeper.
Anyway, I decided to get out of here. Aside from the fact that he dismissed the conversation we had just had as a mere joke, this place is suffocating.
It’s unfortunate, but I’ll have to give up using the public bath next time. I’m thinking of preventing the two of us from happening together. I don’t think they would intrude while taking a bath in the bathtub attached to the room.
“Mikhail!”
The Duke called me to turn around and leave. I tried hard to suppress the feeling of why and why.
“Why is that?”
“No, I just wanted to tell you that the item is great. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen anything similar to me.”
No, what a manly compliment like that… !
But honestly, I felt good.
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