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“Didn’t we meet before?”
“Why did you, the information merchant, bring the master?”
“She came to me alone in the middle of the night, how can I just let her go?”
“She came to you?”
“Yes.”
Oscar glanced at Damian. He tried to predict how much he knew about Rachel.
However, Dustin was the one who survived by sense. Quickly recognizing the signals of the two, he put his hand on his chest as if surprised and asked.
“By the way, aren’t you two subordinates of the Miss? Why did you attack the Miss?”
Oscar was taken aback by his question. It was a situation that could be misunderstood by someone who did not know the circumstances.
In addition, Oscar had been quite concerned with the way humans see him lately. He drew a line saying that he was different from humans, but after hearing Rachel’s words, he tried to think differently about humans.
Oscar, who had tried to change his mind somehow at the master’s words, burst out in surprise.
“What kind of attack is this?! We protected her!”
While it was an ambiguous word, Dustin was able to infer the situation from the words. He could understand why Cassandra, whose magic power was superior to his, still suffered.
“Ah, that’s right. Miss was startled, and she fell…”
“No way!”
“Oscar, stop.”
Damian, who was still watching with his wings out on the carriage, intervened and asked Dustin.
“What did the Master ask?”
When Damian asked why she went to the information merchant, Dustin gave a concise answer.
“She asked about Count Erlando once, and she made a request saying that there was someone she wanted to find.”
“Who is that?”
“Derek de Erland. He is Miss’ uncle. Do you two know?”
Dustin shamelessly sold himself. Noticing the slightest bit of doubt in Damian’s eyes, he lowered his head with a big smile.
“We will just go back. Let’s listen to the details from the Miss.”
Not only that they knew about Cassandra, but they even controlled Cassandra so she couldn’t take over that body. Because of that, when her body was taken, they would know that Rachel couldn’t remember, and that was why he must have asked.
Then, no matter what the excuses were, they had no way of finding out, except Cassandra confessed.
Shocked for a moment, Dustin quickly judged the situation and relaxed. Even if he left, Oscar and Damian couldn’t hold him. Conversely, it might end up like Rachel telling something strange.
Oscar asked Damian as he watched the carriage disappear quickly.
“Did he notice?”
“I don’t think so.”
“Is that right? Is it common for this to happen?”
Oscar, who was worried as he held Rachel in her arms, burst out when he saw the colorful trail.
“This woman…! Did you eat something strange? Master, why is your body like this?”
Hearing his words, Damian hurriedly examined Rachel’s body. Seeing the naked nape of her neck, he silently took out his handkerchief and covered it.
“Hey, why are you covering it? Shouldn’t you show it to the doctor?”
“You can tell Miss Amber. Stop talking, if you shout like that above her head, it hurts.”
“…Tsk.”
He wasn’t wrong, so Oscar quietly shut his mouth. The two talked on the street for a while over Rachel and returned to the mansion.
It was because of the man in the mansion.
“Ah, have you seen Miss’ brother’s eyes? He’s crazy.”
“….”
Damian wanted to do whatever his master wanted, but he doubted whether he could hand over his master in this state.
And Oscar wasn’t wrong.
Demian, the hawk, did not sleep even in the middle of the night. He used to have a sleep time, and the rest of the time, he would climb up on his roof and watch over the mansion.
First of all, the fact that a woman named Cassandra existed in his master, Rachel’s body, was enough reason to keep an eye on her. Perhaps benefitting the efforts, Damian saw someone who came out with odd steps. He didn’t pay much attention at first, but soon he felt uncomfortable with the change of appearance.
Nonetheless, he couldn’t pursue it based on the circumstances alone, so he only thought of going to the master’s bedroom to check.
Damian was relieved when he saw Rachel lying on the bed on the balcony outside the bedroom and then sneaked into the room with a strange feeling. However, when he looked at Rachel, who was enveloped with red magic, his eyes trembled.
Noticing that something was wrong, he hurried to get Oscar.
Oscar woke up and grunted, but when Damian said that the master was strange, he jumped up and ran. As he took out the red orb and slipped it into Rachel’s phantom body, the image of Rachel created by the magic was easily scattered.
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Damian belatedly realized that the strange person earlier was Cassandra, but she had already disappeared to a place he couldn’t find, and only confirmed that she hadn’t gone very far due to the magic resonance of each beast.
Just when he didn’t know what to do with this, Lucian returned to the mansion. He very easily noticed that Rachel’s presence had disappeared, and it became the current situation.
“What should I do, seaweed punk? He won’t harm master, will he?”
Damian, caught in his thoughts for a moment, raised his eyes at Oscar’s words.
“There’s really no other way, is it? If the Master had been awake, she would, of course, have stopped the Duke.”
Oscar pursed his lips at Damian’s words.
“Master only likes him so much.”
“….”
Oscar’s words weren’t wrong, so Damian shut his mouth in silent affirmation.
“I will take Master. You go back to your room.”
“…Do you think the Master wants to see him?”
Oscar knew why Damian wanted to go alone. He didn’t want to hand her over though he obediently gave Rachel into Damian’s arms. But before he could pass, his fingertips stiffened for a moment. It was because he just sighed as he realized the truth about his feelings that he quite didn’t want to let her go.
…He hoped that someday the opportunity would come.
He looked up at the flying Damian, hoping that only he would be able to dominate the Master.
Meanwhile, Damian hurriedly flew to the Master’s bedroom. Landing on the balcony with familiarity, the glass door opened before he could even open it. A shiver ran down his spine as the hideous golden eyes scanned him.
Damian gulped as he watched the black magic swirling inside Lucian’s body.
“Give me that.”
Of course, Damian couldn’t say anything to Lucian, who talked as if he had stolen something of his. He was amazed that even human eyes could emit such a light. Damian quietly left, hoping that the Master’s bright and beautiful white magic would not be stained by that person’s black magic.
It was because he had nothing to say to Lucian unless his master herself told that person about Cassandra.
As Lucian headed for the bed, holding Rachel dearly in his arms, his violently beating heart finally calmed down.
He thought that he had everything of her only today, but just thinking about her suddenly disappeared made him break into a cold sweat, and he couldn’t control his ferocious mind. He wanted to pursue and scold Rachel for daring to leave him, but seeing her soundly asleep, he couldn’t.
“Haa…”
Why did she leave the mansion?
If she had gone out, someone should have noticed, but no one did. Besides, she didn’t take her subordinates either. He couldn’t breathe at the thought of her leaving the mansion alone, with no weapons and unprepared.
…What if he lost her?
What if she couldn’t return to the mansion?
Even though he tried to leave the mansion and find her, her minions fortunately brought her back. Thinking that they were more useful than she thought, Lucian loosened the jewelry, which she usually didn’t use much, and took off her shoes.
“Ung…”
Rachel, who looked ill, frowned.
Lucian looked at her miserable feet and bit his lip. His expression darkened deeply when he saw the red instep and heels, where the flesh was completely exposed.
“Why?”
After caressing the painful-looking feet, he got up and walked quietly toward the door. Opening the door, he ordered Amber, who was waiting restlessly in the hallway.
“Bring warm water, bandages and ointment.”
“…Did you find the Miss?”
Amber, of course, didn’t know, as she had entered through the balcony, but she could have predicted it with the items he was asking for.
“Yes.”
Lucian answered briefly and closed the door again. He couldn’t leave her alone even for a moment.
Since she had disappeared while he was away from the mansion for a while, he hurriedly returned to the bed, sat down on the bed, and straightened her disheveled hair.
He was really happy during the day, but at night, all that happiness faded as if it were fake.
He thought for a moment and ran through her emerald hair.
While he wondered why she left the mansion, it didn’t matter. He focused on her future and making sure she couldn’t get out.
As Amber told the knight commander that they had found Rachel, the bright Duke’s house turned dark only then. When the lights disappeared all at once, only the soft moonlight illuminated his face. He stared at Rachel and roughly pulled the handkerchief that covered his traces.
It was a night of relief and, at the same time, a vicious desire for monopoly.