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A week ago, Duke Barry Winter couldn’t refuse an invitation from the Elders to come to the Marquis of Stones banquet.
There was a woman who gave him a glass of wine. That woman was Lady Heather, the only daughter of the Marquis of Stones.
Was it an aphrodisiac effect that he wasn’t aware from a lack of alertness?
However, he was an outstanding wizard, and he quickly awakened his mind and body.
When he woke up, he made eye contact with Lady Heather, who was unbuttoning his clothes in a vacant room.
[Gasp! Duke
 This
 !]
Lady Heather tried to make an excuse, but he didn’t listen.
Instead, he just left her alone in that room. And he didn’t take it seriously.
‘I think it will be annoying when things get bigger.’
Lady Heather, who was making trouble for giving him an aphrodisiac, perhaps, would have done something even strange.
He had no idea that the wedding with that woman would be scheduled because someone saw the two of them entered the room.
Lady Heather seemed to have lied to the Marquis of Aviin that she had spent the night with him, and he should marry her.
It was annoying, so he let it go, and he did what she wanted.
Duke Barry Winter accepted the wedding.
“After giving me an aphrodisiac, you lied about spending the night together and you wanted me to marry you.”
Lady Heather fell silent.
He pointed the truth properly, then he continued.
“Of course, I remember clearly that nothing happened that night. I wasn’t drunk enough to grab any woman and ask for it.”
“Hah, but in the end you even accepted the marriage.”
“Once I accepted, I didn’t say I would finish it clearly.”
Duke Barry Winter smiled, as if mocking her.
From the moment he accepted the marriage with her, he never thought that he would end this wedding successfully.
If that funny woman didn’t ruined the wedding, he would’ve done it himself.
The limit set by Duke Barry Winter was until the inauguration. But in the end, that woman appeared and fulfilled his role. It was a satisfying result.
Lady Heather bit her lower lip.
There was nothing to say, Duke Barry Winter thought.
“If you don’t want something you’ve done to be known, you should quietly disappear from my sight.”
“I can’t finish it like this alone.”
Despite Lady Heather’s pitiful voice, his response was consistently cold.
“Do it yourself. Today’s wedding ends here.”
“
 Duke!”
“I have a child without my knowledge.”
He slowly folded his arms, and said to himself.
“I should to see it with my own eyes.”　
*****
At the same time, as she felt like her body was floating, her surroundings began to change.
The splendid cathedral, the harmoniously planted gardens, all were disappear.
When she opened her eyes, her surroundings were completely changed. The movement magic was successful.
She was inside a room. A classic room that’s quite spacious but barely furnished.
She knew the owner of this room, and the moment she saw him sitting at the desk by the window, she began to lose her consiusness.
He also seemed to recognize her, who appeared suddenly in his room.
“Maria?”
He raised his body and called me.
I stumbled and fell completely on the floor. It was a side effect that followed when I used the ability to amplified magic power.
When I poured out the energy that was in my body at once, I would’ve lost nine out of ten. So I didn’t use it carelessly.
Soon, he approached me and lowered his body.
He gently lifted my body, which was lying on the floor.
I wasn’t embarrassed at all. Because this isn’t happening once or twice.
“I guess there was something wrong with this request.”
‘Ugh, there was a huge trouble.’
I wanted to say that, but my lips didn’t move properly. Just before my eyelids completely closed, the last thing I saw was his golden eyes with a smile on his lips.
“Please have a good dream.”
There was a gentle voice that contradicted to Duke Barry Winter’s cold voice.
The voice slowly disappeared and I completely lost consciousness.
*****
When I came to my senses after passing out a while ago, I focused my mind, then I lifted my closed eyelids. I saw a familiar ceiling.
I immediately realized.
Oh, this is the guild leader’s room.
Before I passed out, it was still bright, but now the surroundings were quite dark. It was because the sun has already set.
It wasn’t that difficult to figure out why I was inside the guild leader’s room and why I was lying in his bed.
I was asked to break the wedding of Duke Barry Winter, an A++ class mission with a tremendous amount of payment, and I performed it successfully. With my excellent acting and sense. It was obvious that his wedding would be neatly ruined.
A woman other than the bride appears and yells that she has a child of the groom, but how can the wedding be maintained?
Even if that woman’s words weren’t true, they wouldn’t be able to ignore the impact she had brought.
If I were to be the bride of the wedding, I might have smacked the groom’s cheeks coldly. Then I will tell him,
‘We’re breaking up now. It would be better if you prepare for alimony.’
What did Lady Heather say to Duke Barry Winter?
At that moment, I suddenly remembered the strange words that Duke Barry Winter had said.
[Honey, why are you so late? I almost got married.]
[
!?]
[And I almost left you and our child behind.]
I remembered his words and recalled the face of Duke Barry Winter, who smiled like a devil.
Why is he lying like that?
When I lied about having his child, I had imagined many future situations. And I also planned how to respond.
The most promising situation among them was that Duke Barry Winter would be angry.
He was a very cold person.
He was a man with a cold aura that just his presence could make his surroundings freeze.
So I thought he would say something threatening to me!
But what was that!?
He called me without embarrassment, in a low and profound voice.
[Honey.]
“
”
Even if something goes wrong, it looks like something was already wrong.
It wasn’t just his attitude that was wrong.
That creepy nickname called by him lingered in my ears for a while.
Is there something wrong with my ears too?
I lightly rubbed my ears.
“Maria. You’ve woke up?”
When I heard a voice calling me, I only raised my upper body.
The owner of the voice was the owner of this room, my employer, and the guild leader, Labrador, who was lay me down on the bed.
“Labrador, how long did I fainted?”
“About thirty minutes.”
Labrador, sitting at his desk and finding something he was looking for, stood up. He walked over to me and sat on the corner of the bed.
“Is your body okay?”
I answered while stretching.
“As usual, I went to sleep for a while and I became completely okay.”
“I don’t know for what reason you should use magic.”
Labrador smiled as he handed me what he was looking for.
“The mission is completely successful.”
I accepted it.
It was a newspaper.
On the front page of the newspaper, there was an article specially written.
<Duke Barry Winter, a shocking confession over the wedding hall. “I actually have a child.”>
I read the article aloud.
“
 It’s believed that Duke Barry Winter not only had a child, but also had a woman whom he called ‘honey’. In the midst of paying attention to her future existence 
”
When I read it dryly because it was all I knew, I was suddenly surprised.
It was because of Duke Barry Winter’s notes at the end of the article.
<Hey, come back to me. Here is where you should be.>
“Kughh!”
I got goosebumps as if I heard it.
What is this, this is another development.
Why is Duke Barry Winter looking for me?
I shouted to Labrador.
“I’m in trouble! He was looking for me!”
He replied.
“Who?”
“Who?! Duke Barry Winter!”
“Of course he will, it would be even strange if he wasn’t looking for you.”
“Is that so?”
Labrador calmly explained his opinion.
“An unknown woman came to the wedding hall and claimed to have his child. After breaking the wedding like that, she disappeared, but of course, he should find that woman. At least he wants to make sure, that you really have his child or not.”
Since he’s the guild leader, he knows how I ruined Duke Barry Winter’s wedding. And there was nothing wrong with his words. I admire Labrador’s clear theory.
“Fine. It will be a headline in the newspaper.”
When I fully agreed with him, Labrador laughed at me.
“Are you an idiot?”
He even laughed, as if treating me as a fool, but he looked a little cute when he laughed.
Wow!
I stared at Labrador’s face.
His untidy blonde hair looks beautiful, and his smiling eyes with subtle curves looked really good.
His golden eyes were transparent as if something touched it, it would break.
Not as much as Duke Barry Winter, but he was a really handsome guy.
Labrador was the guild leader, but he didn’t wear expensive clothes. He usually wore an ivory-colored loose shirt, but the buttons on the front were always unbuttoned.
The point is that you can see his white and smooth skin and his broad chest in between.
Labrador was also a man whose age is unpredictable.
When he was smiling, it gave him the feeling of a young man, but sometimes, when he was cold, my experience gave me the feeling that he was a grown man.
I’ve been with him for nearly five years, but I didn’t know much about him.
“Maria? I know that I’m handsome, but if you look at me like that, a hole will appears in my face.”
He said arrogantly.
The meaning of those words was very narcissistic.
I took my gaze away from his face.
“For the time being, I won’t wearing this wig.”
“Then what about the request?”
I answered straight away without worry.
“Of course I have to keep doing it.”
“Okay.”
Labrador pushed something to me.
What was in his hand this time was a check with a huge amount of money.
“Here’s the pay. That’s the money for the success of your work.”
“Great. Have you already got it?”
“Yes. You successfully ruined Duke Barry Winter’s wedding.”
When I received the check he gave me, I suddenly felt strange.
The payment process is too fast?
It was then that I felt goosebumps around my neck.
Of course, even though Labrador’s work was completed quickly, it seemed like he had never received a payment this fast.
I couldn’t think about it any further, because Labrador brought two glasses of wine.
He gave it to me, and he tilted his glass towards me. Looks like he’s asking for a toast.
After the toast, there was a pleasing sound from the glass that touched, and the wine in it drew a soft curve.
“Cheers.”
This is really well done, right?
I wanted to think that it was finished well. The anxiety I felt from the wedding hall of Duke Barry Winter still remains. My back feels stiff.