289. Distress (3)
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“…So something like that happened.”
“…I guess so.”
Elijah answered in a voice that made his bones hurt.
In front of me was Feinol, who seemed to have just arrived and was carrying the bag he had packed and brought with him.
‘Sir, hasn’t it been even a day since you arrived at the territory…?’
Of course, she had heard from her servant a while ago that people were flocking into Baekryeong, but it was too fast.
“But.”
While she was thinking about such thoughts, Fei Nor continued speaking while running her fingers through her hair.
“Mr. Daoud suffered a fall accident.”
“…Yes. “I’ll find it soon, so don’t worry too much-“
“Does it make sense that we can’t find it until it gets dark like this?”
“…”
“In a place where Princess Tristan, a warrior, and even a margrave are gathered together?”
“…”
Elijah, who didn’t have much to say about that part, silenced her.
Still, she was going to try to go out herself or Elnor herself as the search was becoming sluggish.
“…It will come back soon, so don’t worry too much about that-“
“I’m not worried. “From the beginning, I never thought that something big would happen from such an accident.”
At Elijah’s words, she said, running her hand through her hair.
“Then why do you have to be so picky-“
“No, just. “I thought of a better way than doing a search or something.”
Painol said this and looked at the forest below the castle wall where Daoud had fallen.
“That one.”
“Yes?”
“Is it necessary to have it?”
“…”
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The body shakes back and forth with the sound of snow piling up and the footsteps of a man walking on it.
Beatrix, covered under a coat, is being carried by Daoud.
“…”
“…”
Not a word of conversation was exchanged between the two.
Is it because of the heat, or is it because I don’t have the strength to speak?
‘I owe this guy a lot-‘
Only such thoughts passed through Beatrix’s mind.
I think I’m drunk.
It was clear that the state was not much different in the larger context in that the mind was extremely blank.
“…”
So.
The strangely warm feeling in my lower abdomen from earlier was clearly an influence of that.
‘…This guy is very well trained.’
Even while being carried on a piggyback, the hard back and tightly held muscles of the entire body are clearly transmitted beyond the body.
As you walk while carrying yourself, the heat rises sharply in your body, and you can feel the texture even more clearly as sweat comes out in droplets.
I don’t know, being close to skin with a guy like that, wearing only underwear.
I keep feeling like something is rising from the bottom of my body.
“…!”
Of course, Beatrix suddenly opened her eyes and screamed in her head.
Oh my god.
What on earth did she feel about not just another guy, but her best friend’s fiancee? Wake up, Beatrix!
Then, with her eyes wide open, she came up with sentences that were not at all aligned.
“…Good job. “I managed to find a place with a ceiling even though there was no visibility.”
“…”
“If I can just keep warm inside, I’ll be able to recover pretty quickly.”
“…”
“…Why don’t you answer something?”
“…Yes.”
After just saying those words, Daoud went into the cave and took a deep breath.
Only then did Beatrix suddenly come to her senses and cautiously opened her mouth, observing her gaze.
“…Was it difficult?”
“No. “Not really.”
After clearing the place, making a place for Beatrix to lie down, and arranging the firewood that he had somehow brought with him, Daoud opened his mouth.
“…Just, yeah. It’s a physiological reaction. “It was just difficult to bear it.”
“What?”
“If you keep fighting with your senior, everyone will have a similar reaction.”
“…”
After saying that, Daoud wiggled his legs.
As if she was trying to hide something about her from being seen by her.
“…”
“…”
An extremely awkward silence passed between the two.
‘Uh, well, so…’
That’s it?
That’s right, right?
Which side do men gravitate towards?
The thought occurred to Beatrix as she looked dumbfounded.
What can I say, it’s just an ordinary woman’s body.
It’s ridiculous to think that a guy with so many beautiful women around him is attractive enough to say something like that.
“…Your senior is also a beauty.”
“What?”
“If you say something like that, ordinary girls will be really angry.”
Not only that, but Beatrix is also a beauty that will definitely attract a lot of attention if she is put on display anywhere.
Everyone would have a complex if the target of comparison was Elnor, but she was a person who was sufficiently mature and showed off her intellectual charm.
“Uh…”
Hearing those words, Beatrix’s head spun again.
However, it was not due to her physical strength depletion like before.
It was a physical phenomenon accompanied by a torrent of emotions that soared so violently that even I did not know what they were.
“…Thank you.”
These words were spoken sincerely.
When he stood next to Elnor, the spotlight always went to that side, so he thought that he was someone who was always overshadowed by that side and did not receive much attention.
This was a phenomenon that repeated almost his entire life, and he believed that he had always been an ordinary human being.
But.
The fiancé of such a guy is now saying that she ‘lusted’ him because he was ‘attractive’.
“…”
Uh.
Oh.
What is this feeling?
Beatrix slowly closed her eyes, confused by the inexplicable sense of victory that welled up in her chest.
Meanwhile, Daoud, who has finished lighting the fire, comes back to her side and hugs her tightly.
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“…I don’t want my body temperature to drop any further.”
“…Yes.”
To Dowd, who spoke in a hard voice, Beatrix answered in a hushed voice.
Perhaps this guy really doesn’t mean anything more than that. The next day, I’ll act like nothing happened, like it never happened.
But now she is.
Her spirit.
“…”
The flames in the cave sway back and forth. Just like her heart.
“…”
“…”
“-Yes.”
Beatrix muttered in her heart, uttering a single word that broke through the silence.
I didn’t know why I was doing this.
Probably because my body is not in perfect condition.
In fact, it was a sentence that lost its meaning at some point, but Beatrix kept repeating it like a spell.
Compromising with herself is something that most people do on a daily basis, but for her, who cannot easily find someone to follow her due to her uprightness, it is an action that is not very memorable even throughout her life. Am.
In short.
She said that she needed to do that much work in order to be able to endure the actions she was going to take from now on without feeling guilty.
“…Can I help you?”
“Yes?”
“…It looks like it’s difficult to move.”
Daud’s movements stopped.
She looks like she doesn’t know what she heard.
“…Yes?”
“Ah, no, no, it’s just, what is it, it’s uncomfortable to look around like that, I can see it-“
Stutters a lot. Considering how straightforward she usually is, she seems like a world away.
She is aware that what she is doing is not honorable.
‘Elnor, this is not like that-‘
Even if I said it, it was an excuse that couldn’t be reached, and if I did, the trouble would increase exponentially, but still, a guilt that I couldn’t bear without expressing it in my heart was stabbing deep in my chest.
Nevertheless.
“If it happened because of me, Chae, should I take responsibility?”
“…”
While Daoud listened to her with his mouth open.
Beatrix moved carefully and pressed the back of her head against Daoud’s chest.
“It’s just like this.”
“…”
While Daoud was silent, Beatrix grabbed one of his hands around her body with both hands and lifted it up.
‘…What are you doing, Beatrix?’
I don’t know.
If I had been able to explain things clearly in the first place, I wouldn’t have started doing this.
And.
“…”
By sticking out your tongue.
Wrap it slightly and suck it.
The softness of marshmallow and the sweetness of whipped cream.
At first glance, it is a sentence that could only be used as a slogan for a snack advertisement, and most people would probably react quite a bit when they heard that their body was described in this way. It must feel like it means you want to eat something.
So, for her to think of things like this while sucking someone else’s finger, it must have been a situation that disproved that she was seriously insane.
It tasted slightly sweet.
It’s not a bad taste to lick someone’s skin, especially the skin of someone who was just working hard, but in this crazy situation, I felt like it would be polite to at least get that level of delirium.
The hallucination that a miniature Elnor with angel wings appeared somewhere on her shoulder, whimpering and pulling on her ears, bloomed into her spinning brain.
Soon after, a mini-Beatrix deformed into her own image, wearing her demon wings, appeared and disappeared, dragging her mini-Elnor with her.
“Then I can make it warmer.”
That was not the answer that came back from Daoud.
Soon, the surrounding area was brightly colored in red.
It was a sight caused by boiling flames that made my eyes feel cold just by looking at it.
“…”
“…”
Both Dowd and Beatrix looked at the place where the voice came from, both at a loss for words.
Beyond being simply hot, flames similar to lava were pouring down in all directions, dispersing enough heat to evaporate and evaporate the surrounding snow as soon as it touched it.
“…Painol?”
And, in the middle.
Painol, who seemed to have condensed such flames and was spewing out murderous intent, was trotting along.
As evidence of demonization, the horns sprouting from its head are engulfed in flames and are radiating heat.
“Yes, it’s Paynol. “I’m looking for Mr. Dowd, but I heard it’s quite difficult to search because it’s a forest.”
“…”
“So, I heard people say that this was an important asset, but I was too lazy to burn it all…”
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“Who are you?”
Painol’s red eyes, who calmly admitted that he had committed a terrorist act on someone else’s territory just to see his face quickly, went to Beatrix, who was still clinging to Dowd.
“Who are you tailing Mr. Daoud?”
“…”
Well.
I don’t know what it was, but it was clear that the atmosphere was not that friendly.
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