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“Holly!”
Holly took a step back at the thrilled cry. The first thing she saw was a dot in the middle of the forehead of the man who called her name. Beside him was a middle-aged woman with tears in her eyes.
While the man wasn’t too tall, the woman’s height was such that her head barely touched the man’s chest.
“Mom
 dad?”
“You’re all right! Oh, my daughter
”
Ignoring her trembling voice, her mom came over to her and hugged her. Meanwhile, from over her shoulder, her dad looked at her with affectionate eyes, wiping away his tears.
Holly narrowed her brows in an awkward expression.
The two of them had never been so friendly in the ten years they had lived together, except when they needed money.
“We were going to settle down and pick you up, but you came first.”
“You were trying to pick me up?”
She asked in disbelief.
“Of course. You are our only daughter.”
“We also cultivated a small field. Let’s live happily here as a family of three.”
Saying so, her mom took Holly by the hand and dragged her through the trees.
Before long, a cabin with a small yard appeared. It was bigger than their original house. In the yard next to it, there was a field planted with various vegetables. Smoke rose from the chimney as if they were cooking.
“It’s your birthday today, isn’t it?”
“
Is it my birthday?”
She asked with a puzzled face. They had never celebrated their own birthday
 no, they didn’t even say when her birthday was. Even though she was sad, the situation was difficult and she was not their real daughter, so they didn’t know her birthday, so she tried to pass it on.
When she entered the house, the table was full of warm steaming food. There was also expensive food that was served only to nobles.
“Did you do this yourself?”
In the past, when Holly went to work, she had to prepare food for her parents to eat.
“Of course. Mom used her skills for our daughter.”
“This fish was caught by dad himself from the lake in front.”
“Come on, sit down. We should eat before it gets cold.”
Her dad pulled out a chair and dragged the hesitant her into her seat. Holly couldn’t move her hand easily, even with food in front of her. Her parents, seated across from her, were staring at her as if they had something to say.
* * *
“If you set foot in the land of the spirits, there is a very high probability that we will be scattered.”
Before the party set foot in the forest of death, as Adam prepared for the trip, he gave the information that he had been aware of.
Cahill’s eyes twitched as he wandered around as if he was on a picnic.
“What if we scatter?”
“You will have a dream. A dream so happy that you don’t want to wake up.”
Adam replied, lowering his voice in a coy tone.
“Why do they do that?”
Being away from Holly just to give him a dream
 Cahill grunted with a disapproving expression.
“It is said that when living beings feel happy, an aura that the spirits especially like comes out.”
Adam shrugged his shoulders.
“What if I don’t wake up from my dream?”
When Holly couldn’t overcome her curiosity and opened her mouth to him, Adam was startled when he saw Cahill’s face as he poked his head out next to her.
“
They will live by feeding the spirits until their lives end.”
Her eyes widened.
He seemed to want her to get scared and run away. Of course, Holly, far from getting frightened, only snorted and corrected her posture.
“Can’t we just freeze everything?”
Not wanting to separate from her, Cahill recalled a drastic way. He flicked his fingers as if he would use his ability at any moment.
“With Your Highness’ ability, you can freeze not only the land of the spirits but the whole of Lauriue.”
Adam was moved again by his master’s outstanding ability but said with concern.
“Then, our relationship with the Isen Kingdom will also be frozen.”
As soon as he said it, an unimaginable future unfolded in his head. Other members of the royal family might not know about it, but if it was Cahill, there was a high possibility that he would not care about relations with other countries.
Adam’s white face grew paler with anxiety.
“How to get out?”
Cahill spat out in a nonchalant way as if he would not freeze it for now.
“You just have to remind yourself strongly that it is a dream and try to wake up.”
Adam answered as if he had been waiting. He was afraid that Cahill would freeze the entire land of the spirits.
“And always walk out where the wind blows.”
He continued in a serious voice, but Bardin and Cahill seemed to regard it as irrelevant. Only Holly, standing next to Cahill, repeated Adam’s words and engraved them in her head.
Cahill gazed at her with a determined face and curled his eyes.
* * *
Cahill watched Holly approach him, and his eyes lit up. She was wearing a light, thin see-through dress like the pajamas of the Sharif kingdom. She was tempting him to suck her red n*pples, standing tall under the cloth.
“So, this is a dream.”
As he muttered, Holly climbed onto him as he lay on the bed. Her short skirt rose to a breathtaking position as she spread her legs to sit on his waist.
“What did you say?”
Leaning over and asking, she slipped her hand inside his shirt.
“No, nothing.”
Cahill raised his lips in interest as she watched Holly exude sensuousness. With her cheeks blushing, as usual, her hands boldly groped his body, and she rubbed his hard chest. Then, she pinched his n*pples between her thin fingers and twisted them.
“Aren’t you going to touch me?”
Holly rolled her eyes in disappointment.
Her eyes were full of coquettishness. She stimulated him as she rubbed their lower bodies against each other, but it was clear that she was not wearing anything underneath.
Cahill slowly closed and opened his eyes.
Maybe because the other person was Holly? Even though he knew it was a dream, it was so enchanting that it drove him crazy. When he raised his hand and caressed her cheek, Holly closed her eyes and rubbed her face in the palm of his hand.
“Holly is always warm.”
He gazed at her with affectionate eyes. Sensing the heat in her eyes, she pulled his hand between her legs with a bewitching smile.
“It will be hotter here.”
Cahill, who followed her as she led him, stroked the inside of her thigh with his hand and Holly lowered her eyes and let out a hot moan.
“Ah
!”
“I don’t feel anything.”
When he curled the corners of his eyes and whispered kindly, her expectant face went blank as he squeezed her thighs.
“It’s time to wake up from the dream.”
The next moment, he grabbed her shoulders and lifted her upper body. Holly’s face contorted as she looked at him with an incomprehensible look, and the middle of her face started cracking like a broken mirror.
‘I don’t feel good.’
Cahill narrowed his brow, having the urge to freeze the entire land of the spirits who had allowed him to see this.
At that moment, the view changed with the sound of a click.
He was lying on the ground. Cahill, who was about to stand up naturally, flinched. It seemed that something was blocking him from moving, so he moved his arm with force.
There was a cracking sound before his movements were freed.
He lifted his torso and looked at his immobilized legs. As his legs were wrapped in several layers of thick stems, the ends of the stems that wrapped around his body were buried in the ground. It looked like they were trying to bind his body.
Cahill, without hesitation, reached out and tore off his stem.
The air shuddered like a scream at the merciless tear. When he got up, the remaining stems rushed at him fiercely as if they were attacking though he grabbed the stem without changing his expression. The white ice spread from where he held it in his hand.
“Shall we go find the sleeping princess?”
He said as he threw the stem he had finally attacked to the ground. Contrary to his relaxed tone, his steps were urgent.