Spoiler Why Are You Doing This, Duke?

Spoiler: Part 13. What are you like, Duke? 13

"I don't know why I'm there, but I waited because I thought I shouldn't scare you."
"Did you know I was there from the beginning?"
"Did you wait for me to leave?"
His voice was soft, so I was less embarrassed, but I felt embarrassed because I felt like I had peeked at the duke.

Erin looked around and murmured.
"That's not true. Um... I don't know what you're doing here either."
"I'd like you to come down now, then. It looks dangerous."
Erin, who was shaking her head, tried to lift her skirt like a habit, but got embarrassed and got off quickly. But going back safely, I don't want to embarrass him downstairs.

Eventually, she came down from the ladder facing forward and stepped on the skirt in the middle because she was so nervous. "Oh!"
As soon as Erin faltered, the Duke, who was watching carefully, quickly stretched out his arms and hugged her as if he were receiving her. Erin, who was tightly held in his back and suddenly hugged him, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Maybe it's because you called me a bird, but it's really flying into my arms."

I didn't know how many days it's been since I heard something cheesy. I can't believe a bird sounds so happy. Erin tried to give him a big smile when she pulled hetself off and stared at him.

However, the duke, who gave strength to her waist-wrapped arm, reached out first and stroked her head. Erin murmured as if she were making an excuse when her eyes met at a distance close to each other's breath.

'I usually come down on my own.'
'I know, I surprised you.'
The Duke, who persistently pressed her face with an angry, stiff look on his face, replied without an accent.

But why is it so serious? Erin was looking at his eyes, and the duke raised his hand, her upright tooth. She gently swept her bangs down her forehead with the forehead with the back of her hand.

When Erin was embarrassed by the unexpected gesture, she hugged him more tightly. And she lowered the back of her hand on her forehead and carefully drew her forehead, nose, and lips along the line.

The touch was so soft that I could feel the stinging heat along the place where his hand passed. Erin held her breath and made eye contact with him.

His blue eyes, which he encountered between his fingers, persistently held her eyes and did not let go. He hesitated and stopped when his finger, which had been moving so slowly, touched his thick upper lip.
"Your highness... .."
the heart began to beat faster and faster, and Erin began to run out of breath. When she called her pleadingly small, the duke soothed her cheek.

"Huh? Tell me anything."
His words were as soft as fluff, but his touch was not. The Duke wrapped his face around her thumb and her mouth.
I stammered the alcohol line.

"Hold my hand...…"
As soon as he said …, the tip of his finger penetrated through Erin's lips and touched the moist mucous membrane. From the part of the lips where the fingertips touched, the numbness spread chillingly, and Erin stopped talking and trembled.

"Why are you shaking? I haven't done anything yet."
The slow-talking duke bowed his head over her face. His soft and warm lips kissed softly along the nose from the forehead where his touch had passed. In the meantime, because his thumb kept touching her soft lips, Erin felt like kissing him, too.

What's this? The lips that his hands touched were numb, and fever blossoms bloomed everywhere on his lips.
"Yeah... this... this is weird."

Unable to hold his breath to the end of his chin, Erin walked in public, and the Duke slowly looked up as if he was sorry.
"This is why I'm impatient."
"What?"

Nervous? The Duke held her shoulder tightly while Erin reflected on his words. He let go and grumbled.
"I'm in a hurry. For now, I'm a man, too."
I vaguely understood what he said, but Erin couldn't answer back. While she was breathing, the duke, who held her hand, took a step.

"Let's go out and have a cup of tea. I think I'll be a wolf brother if I stay here longer."
He took his hand and carefully swept his chest as he saw his back walking ahead.

I pretended not to, but I almost died of trembling when I was in his arms. What the Duke just did seemed like nothing and very boisterous.
Erin put her hand on the lips that he had touched. It was so hot that it was burning. One thing was certain. It was very embarrassing and embarrassing, but it was so good and exciting that I couldn't even think about throwing it away.

*****

Roan asked again several times about the schedule he had already checked.
"I hope this inspection will be perfect from beginning to end."
"We can't allow anything like the last time when the road is flooded and we don't know what to pass by without knowing it."
"Yes, sir. By the way, I'm sorry, ma'am, but if it's "like last time," when are you talking about?"

When Lawrence suddenly asked, he frowned. Seeing his cold expression, Lawrence gave up listening to the answer and hurried out of the room.
Roan leaned against the chair and looked out the window. Damn it, you're making a slip of the tongue now!
Perhaps because I was with Erin, the memories of sinking dimly gradually came to mind. When I tried so hard not to forget, the memory easily slipped between my fingers like sand in my hands, and when I was with her, the "past" came to my mind as vividly as yesterday.

Roan was still unsure. Gradually, Erin believed in him and opened her heart. I know it was a grateful thing, but as she began to remember the "past," her nervousness grew.

Erin was the only one for him. As Roan began to rise to the surface of reality one by one, it became increasingly difficult to treat the two separately.

Her memories seemed to come back when she went through the same place as in the past or something similar. That's why I took him to the lake because I was greedy, but I almost got in trouble. It's not a warning from magic to him, but when Roan was about to fall into shame, ironically Erin, who knew nothing, comforted him.

["It's not your fault. No matter how great your highness is, you can't help the weather."]

The situation is different, but it was exactly what Erin said in the "past." I couldn't say why I felt sad at that time. It seemed like she was talking to me in the past.

Yeah, Erin from the past would want to get her memories back. The present Erin also chose the painful truth. I wanted to believe that it was just his greed.

Roan hoped that she would quickly regain her memory and enjoy happiness in her arms. However, I wanted to enjoy the whole process of getting close to her this time.

How can I bring back only good memories? If it is impossible, when can I tell you the truth so that you won't become a madman? Now that was the key.

Spoiler: Part 13. What are you like, Duke? 14

Not knowing that Roan was watching over the fence, Erin was digging hard with a shovel in the corner of the garden. He asked the gardener without taking his eyes off her.
'What are you doing?'
'The lady said the greenhouse needed more extra soil. I tried to help you, but you'd do it alone."
"So? You're just gonna watch her put dirt on her hands?"

When Roan stared coldly, the gardener, who was already restless, was frightened and tried to run right away. But Roan called him up.
"Wait."
"What?"
"I mean, don't even put it out of your mouth."

When the gardener who ran sweated and dissuaded, Erin, who was having a scuffle for a while, nodded to me that he knew. Soon, he moved to another place and hung around the garden.

He seemed to be digging the soil without the gardener knowing.
"Who's going to stop that stubborn man?" Roan, who was laughing, accidentally walked by pretending to be passing by there and spat out a false cough.

Surprised, she looked back and waved her hand loudly when her eyes met. Her bright smile was more dazzling than the sunlight pouring through the leaves.

The smile of Erin, which was so identical to the memory, made Roan heartbroken.
Unlike before, even if she hated cleaning, even if she climbed the ladder well, and even if she could swim, she was definitely Erin.

My own woman, my wife. A woman who turned a long way and returned to him like fate. How can I not love you?

Roan pretended to be going away, then watched endlessly from a short distance until she entered the mansion.

*****

For several days after the library, Erin was busy avoiding maneuvering. Whenever I saw his face, I was so embarrassed that I couldn't face him straight.

His fragrant body, warm breath, and soft lips came to his face with fever and heart beating. But I'm curious what you're doing if you can't see it.

"To get rid of miscellaneous thoughts, sacred labor is the best."

Erin circled around the duke and repeated hide-and-seek, avoiding when he encountered him. Surprisingly, the duke only watched her but did not act or speak. In the end, Erin was excited and decided to throw away his studies and use his body.

I'm sorry to make people who seem busy with their work do their job, and when she spade herself, all the employees around her hated it and said they would do it.

As soon as Erin picked up the shovel, the horseman's complexion became muddy. The place and people have already changed, and it was repeated several times.

This time again, Erin has a scuffle with the horseman. I'm back. I think three shovels would be enough, but it was a waste.

'I'm gonna sneak in at night and steal it!'
Erin complained to Mary, who brushed her hair.

"I just wanted to grow mushrooms. Is it just my feeling that things seem to be getting more complicated?"
"Don't do it if you're having a hard time. You can do something easy."
"Tough? It's a mushroom. It's just a mushroom. It's just a mushroom."

Mary smiled and when she saw Erin's serious expression, she swallowed her laughter and carefully advised.
"If I dare say, you're going back to the easy way."
'Huh?'
"There's someone in this castle who makes everything possible."

When Mary winked out of the room, Erin was speechless and shut up. It was a contradiction.
I'm sure she's the Duke's guest, so everyone's going to come forward and treat her with respect, and ask her to do it.
Now, Mary, who succeeded in playing her rich and curly hair at once with her history, whispered quietly.
"But please don't ever say that I gave you any advice. I honestly disagree with what you do yourself."

'I want to do it myself. I used to do this a lot when I was in Sadaguk."
"But it's not good if you put soil on your precious hands. I'm telling you because I thought you'd do it secretly if I stopped you."
Erin looked back at Mary in surprise.
"How does Mary know me so well?"
"That's the look on your face."
"Huh? Why don't you just stop talking? It's my curse, isn't it?
"Hooray, never. I love how you look like this."

Eventually, while talking to Mary, Erin, who had been agonizing for a long time, knocked on the door of the office.
At first, the Duke, who welcomed her, asked as soon as he heard the request, fiddling with his ears as if he was suspicious of what he heard.

"What? You're going to take a horse shit out of the stable?"
He went with a firm heart to build a wall, but when he saw him, Erin was about to turn red.
She answered with her eyes on the peacock's neck.
"Yes, I'm going to make a badge to plant the seeds of the mushrooms."
"Don't do it yourself, just call someone."
'That's what I'm going to say. I want to do it myself. The mixing ratio is cumbersome because it has to go through trial and error a few times."
"It's their job to be your hand."

Erin faced the Duke with a stern look on her face.
"If I ask you, you'll be a nuisance to busy people, and I'm sorry. So this is about who you're looking for. Do you think I'm going to do something that I shouldn't have done?"

The thoughtful duke gave a vague answer. "Then it's because of me. I don't want you to work hard.'
'Okay, I promised you I wouldn't do what you told me not to do.'
Erin, who was trying to get out of his way, turned sourly behind.

When I faced the Duke closely, my firm heart collapsed. What are you going to grow and use them for?
That man is the most urgent and important problem right now.
I felt like I didn't know what was important.

'Erin.' she took a few steps, and the duke called from behind. When Erin turned around, the Duke strode to her wrist lightly.

"Call my name, not your highness. I can't give you a line as a man of dignity, but it's a different story."
My man. When his voice sounded serious, the tone was very heavy.
Erin, who had been lost in thought for a while, responded lightly, pretending she didn't know anything.

"Wow, you're the master of the world. You're good at dealing."
"So? If you just call my name, I'm on the condition that I can do anything as long as you don't overdo it."
"Okay, make a deal."
Erin's worries were short. In fact, I liked to hear him say that he could do anything. "Ro.......an."
Erin, who had first called out five times in his mouth, carefully uttered his name.
The Duke, who tilted his head toward her, frowned subtly.
'Again.'
'Roan,'
the Duke asked again, and his name came naturally out of her mouth. It was difficult to talk for the first time, and the second was easy.
As if I had sung it a lot, the round pronunciation stuck to my mouth familiarly. The duke, who made me call his name three times more, rushed me with a subdued voice.

"Now, you have to promise me that the deal has been made."
Erin hesitated, but put my lips on his forehead, bent down to the fullest extent, and pressed slightly.

The Duke groaned low as soon as her lips were frozen on her soft, warm forehead. As soon as Erin, who held her breath, took off her lips, the Duke wrapped his hands around her face.
And as in the library, she began to rub her lips with his thumb. His hands, which were thicker and more secretive than before, drew sensitive wrinkles on his lips along the thick line.
"Ah... ..."
The Duke's finger penetrated the inside of her lips, and Erin, who had been looking at it, shook her shoulders. I instinctively raised my hand to push, but I lost my strength and held his arm as if it were supporting him. "Crazy."

Spoiler: Part 13. What are you like, Duke? 15

The duke pulled her face gently and bowed at the same time. in a flash His lips touched her lips like a brush.

Erin opened her eyes wide and held his arm by force, and the Duke paused. With his eyes on her lips, he whispered, making an impression.
"No?"
What do you mean, key, kiss? What if I ask you now?
Surprised Erin's heart fluttered. With her head pulled back, she opened her eyes round and stuttered in protest.
"You, it's so sudden."
'Really? I don't know the order. Maybe it's because I learned how to date through writing," said the duke, who twisted his lips.

Still, his gaze was blatantly touching her lips. Erin was also considered with her eyes fixed on his red lips.
'I heard you haven't seen the books!'
"To be honest, I've tried a few books. It's really hard to understand."
"This is my first kiss anyway. It's too much to exchange your first kiss!"

"I'm the first kiss, too. Then next time, choose a good time and try it. It will be possible before I die of old age."
The Duke's ears were red at the end of his reply as if he were falsely accused.

Erin's face turned red as well. The peacock stroked her cheeks with a touch of regret. I held her in my arms.
Erin murmured against his chest.
"But I think you're doing better than the novel."
"That's a great compliment."

The Duke hugged her closely and laughed in vain. When she buried her face in a wide, solid arms, his fragrant body odor was deeply smelled.
It wasn't bad. No, it was very good. The mind seemed to be stabilized as if it were being protected, but on the other hand, the unfamiliar arms of the man trembled.
Even though it only touched him like a brush, his heart beat fast because her lip touch left on his lips rarely fell off.

The Duke's soothing touch on her back was very friendly, but he wouldn't let her go for a long time.

*****

'I don't know about love like fire, but I'm sure your curiosity is on fire.'
Erin followed the Duke and approached the butler carefully.
"May I go to your sword training camp? I was on my way for a walk, and suddenly I was curious about the training ground."

She asked, somehow blushing, avoiding her eyes. The butler with a kind smile was lost in thought for a moment and answered gladly.
"Of course. Your Highness said that you are like the owner of this castle. There's no place you can't go.'
'Thank you.'
'Can I show you around?'
"No, the mountain. The book. The road. I'll just watch from afar so that it doesn't disturb you. I might not go."

Erin, who was embarrassed to face the butler after making an awkward excuse, came out of the mansion.
The swordsmanship training ground was unexpectedly close to the back garden of this mansion.
Erin stood at the corner of the building and glanced at the Duke wielding a sword with several knights. It was amazing that he wasn't scared to see him with a sword.

It was rather cool. It was a painting of a tall, long-legged man wielding a sword in a passion.
The straight neck between the loose shirt collar, the veins and fine muscles on the raised sleeves, and delicate back-bone movements that stand out over the plaid shirt.
Erin laid out his figure with her eyes. However, the Duke, who was wielding a sword with a frowned brow, paused.

Erin, who was stabbed, hid behind the wall, and he glanced back and threw the sword without hesitation. And I came to her with a quick step.
Erin, who was embarrassed by herself looking at the width, turned around and tried to go, but the peacock approached as if she was running.

"Erin?"

She looked around pretending it was a coincidence and looked back as if she had called me.
The peacock, who soon got close, smiled brightly, even folding his eyes. It was a lively smile that I saw in a few days. The Duke looked like he knew everything, so Erin gave up acting awkwardly and asked.

'How do you know I'm here every time?'
'I don't know, but your eyes are quite plain.' 'What?'
"I'm kidding. I'm a knight, so I'm sensitive about being popular. Everyone was so determined to look good to you."

"Well, I just bought a book. Ha-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da. I'd like to have breakfast with you on the street, so I'd like to try it out. Is it going to be okay?"
"It's good for me. I feel like I've been in a windfall since the morning."

The Duke, who was approaching her with a happy expression, asked Erin with concern as he tried to reach out his hand.
"But why did you wake up so early? You look tired. You're not going to overdo it, are you?"
"If you give me the right questions for the exam, you don't have to worry about my studies."

Instead of answering, the crooked smiling peacock shook his head.
"No, I don't think you'll do me a favor if you fail the test."
'Do you have another favor?'
'No end. As much as I want you.'
"Then maybe I'll just take the test until I get old and die."
'That means you'll grow old with Me? One of my wishes is to see you old."

'What kind of wish is that cringe?'
"I don't think you'd have any wrinkles even if you were old. I'm so full of innocence."
"You're saying I'm childish right now,"

When Erin opened her eyes, the duke was more like a boy with his shoulders rattled. Then he wiped the sweat off his sleeve, and Erin hurriedly pulled a handkerchief out of his arms and stuck it out.
The Duke, who readily accepted it, raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Do you know what it means to give a handkerchief to a driver?"
"It's not a knight. It's for you."
"Because you're a knight and a man."
"Yes. You're so manly at first glance."

When the word "man" came out, Erin, whose lips got hot, said it as if she didn't know. The duke, who had seen her, tried to wipe the sweat off her forehead and put her handkerchief into the product.
"I want you to use it."
"I'm cold-hearted."
Erin, who brought a handkerchief as if he was taking it from his grumbling hand, turned her back while the Duke looked elsewhere, buried his nose in the handkerchief and thumped.
'Oh, I can't smell the sweat!'

"Erin? I'm just about to finish my training, shall we go back together?"
When the Duke turned around, she pretended not to be a sign and walked to the mansion.
"By the way, Your Grace."
As soon as Erin brought it up, the duke, who had been following him, grumbled.
"Your Grace? Ten times the penalty for breach of contract..."

End chapter 13

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 1

seasons passed at a rapid pace, before we knew it was halfway between late spring and summer. As the days went by, the sun got hotter and more green.
The Duke was in a uproar to prepare for the Duke and his valued guests leaving for inspection on the western border.
Erin was amazed at Mary, who took clothes from the bedroom dressing room, folded them up, and put them in her bag.
"Wow, you're really good. But do you need a fancy dress like this for an inspection?'
'Yes, ladies should pack a fancy dress even if they're going to the field.'
'Thank you very much for your help. 'Cause I'm really bad at packing.'
"Oh, you're welcome. You're helping me with my work."

Erin was so excited that she couldn't sleep well for a few days ago. I used to travel a lot with my mom, but this time I felt different. The duke was only on his way to the inspection, but he was still excited as if it were his first trip.

On the morning of leaving, all the employees came out and lined up at the entrance of Bonzer.
"Lady, have a safe trip."
The people who came out to see her off politely as well as the peacocks and knights. In three wagons, Erin and employees were on board, and the other one was loaded.
When the knights on the horse escorted the front and back of the carriage, all preparations for the start were completed.
"The weather is so nice. I feel like I'm choosing a blade on purpose, miss."
Mary puts Erin in the carriage and talks to her, grooming her travel clothes.

Answering with a smile, Erin looked at the duke who simply gave instructions to the knights. He was not dressed as a perfect nobleman as usual, but in a light shirt, leather pants, and a long cape on the outside.
'It's the exact opposite of coming.'

I felt completely different when I arrived here. It was only two days away, but I felt like I was leaving home and going a long way. Before I knew it, Erin seemed to be attached to this castle.
Until her first arrival at the Duke and Duchess, the Duke of Perca itself was a horror. He seemed like a crazy man who was single and constantly talking about marriage.

Erin, who was frozen with fear, could not even look around, let alone look at the scenery.
However, I was excited as if I were going on a trip, so I was amazed by the scenery that I always saw.

The duke on the wagon naturally sat next to her and said, "I heard you don't like the carriage because it's too narrow when you're going a long way. Are you okay?"
"No matter how big the world is. You're not around."
"....."
"The narrower I am with you, the better I am with you in my cage."

The Duke's sly replying expression suddenly appeared. And he looked out the window and murmured as if he was grumbling.
"I mean it, but it's not good for my mental health."
"Why don't you not do it if it's painful?"
Erin asked, wondering more sincerely about him.

The duke replied with his eyes still turned outward.
'It's because I'm sorry I couldn't express it.'
'I think you're worried about expressing something that doesn't fit your personality.' 'You like it.'
'Me? When?'
'You're smiling right now."

When the Duke pointed at me with his chin-jaw, Erin, who touched my face, shouted. It was true. She was smiling. Oh, my God, was he enjoying his cheesy words without realizing it?
While Erin was confused, the carriage escaped the duke and passed through the dry plains unique to the west. She glanced out at the window and exclaimed her admiration.
As the carriage entered the path through the rugged mountains, Erin opened his eyes wide.
"I didn't expect to see the famous Perka Way with my own eyes!"

Between the trees, there was a road wide enough for two wagons to pass through. In just a few years, it was unprecedented on the continent for the duke to make a path through the mountain range. That was why his name became widely famous.

He said he did not only break through the road, but also destroyed all the bandits and pirates. Looking at it in person, it was a tremendous thing that no ordinary person could ever imagine.

The duke, who leaned on the chair and did not take his eyes off her, replied as if it were not a big deal.
'The palace had all kinds of objections, but I finally won.'
'Why are you against it?'
"I and the palace don't get along very well. More than the enemy."

Erin rolled her head at an unexpected remark. Rumor has it that the relationship between the Duke and the Emperor against the war is not good. With her hands together, she said sincerely, shining her eyes.
'I admire you for ending the war.'
'Respect?'
'Yes, Your Grace has saved thousands and tens of thousands of men! Even the people of Sadaguk who don't care were almost conscripted."

The duke, who raised his eyebrows as if unexpected, raised his shoulders.
"I don't care about anyone else. I just didn't want a single person to be swept away by the war."

The Duke looked at Erin with a stronger meaning than words. At that moment, she thought of why, the word 'Poro' he used in the lake.

["Think he's the only one who's ever been taken prisoner to another country, and he's the only one who can give it to him."]

You ended the war for me? Do you think I'm going to be a prisoner? Well, that's too grand and out of the blue. When Erin looked suspiciously, the Duke kicked his tongue.
"Did I have to cut the score with my own mouth? I should have said it was because I wanted to save the world."
"No, I wouldn't have believed it. Well, you're very good, but I don't think you're doing that for anyone."
'I believe I did it for you?'
'Well, that's a little too,'

the Duke glanced at her and grinned.
"As a result, you moved me to save the world."
Erin, who saw the duke's blue eyes twirling, turned her eyes away. I felt strange because I knew he was serious. I'm not that great of a person.

Erin looked at the straight road and suddenly thought of it and asked.
"I don't know if I can ask you this, but why are you rich?"
'Why?'
'It's a business and this way, and it's a way to be rich, but I don't think your majesty enjoys the money itself.'

"Money is not a prerequisite for happiness, but it's a shortcut. Well, it used to be."
"What about now?"
"For you."

The duke turned the subject to her exceptionally today. But it seemed to be all his true feelings, so Erin became increasingly embarrassed.
'Well, I don't like rich people?'
'Then you can use it all and get rid of it.'
'I can't use it all. No matter how much money I have, I won't be a freaky old man who lives full of emeralds."

When Erin shook her head and replied, the Duke suddenly made a sharp impression.
"If you hear the General Manager and you think you're going to invest in Emerald, throw it away."
"What?"
"Because the price will drop sharply in the future."
Erin nodded embarrassingly as she looked at him with her mouth up and answered back mischievously.

The Duke, who held her hand, leaned against the chair and closed his eyes. Looking out the window, Erin was secretly looking at him.
A man with the ability to penetrate the mountain range, I realized how great a man the Duke is. But I can't believe such a man is my husband.

'Oh, husband?! What was I thinking?'
Erin, who was lost in thought while watching the Duke, was surprised. After a series of thoughts, the word husband naturally flowed out, and I couldn't believe myself.
'Now that I know, this road looks familiar. I'm used to going to the carriage with your highness through the mountains.'

She looked around like a ghost and stretched her neck out of the window, and she opened her eyes.
The last question asked. "What's wrong?"

"This road is ripe. It can't be, but it's weird."
I think I've seen a valley next to the road, and that eagle-like peak is also memorable. It's my first time! As she was scrutinizing the surrounding landscape and stuttering her memory, Erin didn't know that the Duke didn't ask any more questions.

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 2

The wagon ran through the mountains and crossed the mountain range before I knew it. There was a huge gap between the villages beyond the mountain range and the appearance of the duke. Passing through small villages of shabby and old houses to the western border, the place where people gathered became closer to the slums.

Looking back at Erin, he said briefly.
"I'm just going to look around today, so don't get off the wagon, just watch."

As the wagon entered the middle road of the slum village, the view of the village from up close was quite shocking. People are all skinny, dressed in ragged clothes.
There were people who had lost their homes and land in other areas because of harsh taxes.

"This is what people who lost their land everywhere look like."
Erin, who was heartbroken when she saw them, sniffed. The townspeople of Silver, who settled with their mother, were at first like this.
Fortunately, large buildings were being built on one side of the village. The Duke pointed and explained there with his hand gesture. "I'm building public buildings and schools. That's the only time I could afford money and supplies, but it didn't do much in the long run."

"Wow, you're wise," she said, shrugging as she admired.
"Until the development of the port of De An, this was what the whole west looked like, except for some of the duchy. I'm the only one who can save this place."

I looked at the duke as if he had finished explaining and waited for an answer. However, Erin was distracted from looking out the window and couldn't notice his gaze.
The frowned duke patted her shoulder with his fingertips and turned to me, followed by an explanation.

"My charity is rumored, and not only Mercia but also the poor in other countries are flocking to the West. I thought I'd take them all mercifully."
"Oh, I've heard that. By the way, Your Grace. How many public buildings are you building now?"

'Five.'
'Then what's that for?`
The Duke frowned instead of answering whether he did not know the detailed construction process. Erin, who had been looking at me half out of the window, looked back at him and asked.

'Well, can't we get off and check?'
'Why?'
'I think we're headed in the wrong direction.'
'What?'
Just in time, the carriage stopped at the construction site. Erin looked at him, and when the horseman opened the door, he got off first.
Roan followed Erin's footsteps, fiddling with his wiggling eyebrows.

Usually, I never wanted to brag about charity work to others, but I wanted to hear a "slight" compliment from Erin. This is because I remembered that she, who looked around here in the past, praised him for being a merciful monarch. But something was going wrong even before she got a score.

Hiring inexperienced people in the slums to fill the shortage of construction workers and create jobs, their skills were poor.

Erin, who took the lead in looking around the construction site and carefully looking at each one, ran to somewhere. Sitting next to the man cutting the log, she gestured at the log.

"I'm sorry, but you can't cut wood like that. Can you see the grain here? You have to cut it according to the grain. Otherwise, the trees will turn easily later."

The region's lords and field officials, who had been chasing belatedly, were embarrassed and greeted Roan. However, Roan, who did not even give them an eye, followed Erin, who was busy walking through the construction site.

Roan, who had been chasing her for some time, eventually blocked her and asked.
"How do you know how to build a house so well?"
"When I built a village in Silver, everyone built their own houses. Uh, wait a minute! Don't you have a design here?"
"Here you are."

When she was distracted by something else and answered Roan's words half-heartedly, one of the men who was following them jumped out of the paper.

Looking into it, Erin asked the man some questions, and the two began to talk by mixing unknown terms.
'What's he doing?'
It was a young and robust young man who came up with a blueprint. Erin and the young man put their heads together and discussed the blueprint and the building under construction, and eventually headed there with their shoulders side by side. Roan's eyes caught fire.

'Erin.'
'What?'
'Come here. I want to show you something."
As Roan approached and pulled Erin's shoulder, the young man's eyes widened. Roan, who stared at him horribly, succeeded in turning her attention, but only for a short time.

"You have to cut such a hard tree with a saw like this. Otherwise, the saw will break."
Erin, who was explaining how to saw a man who looked clumsy at a glance, took the saw away and tried to cut it himself. Hateful Roan took a nasty weapon from her hand.
'I'll do it.'
'Your Highness?'

When he repaired the saw to cut down the tree, people from behind exclaimed in surprise. Roan glanced at them and began sawing them.
But Erin, who was watching from the side and was about to say something, whispered softly in his ear.
"Uh, Your Grace. You can't put any force on that side, but you have to use the power of your wrist."
"Like this?"
"No, like this. Relax your shoulders a little more, with the recoil of your wrist."

As his clumsy sawing continued, Erin, who was explaining the ropes, stopped talking and shut up. His pride was cut off like a tree that was cut off suddenly, and Roan's face began to heat up. Stopping sawing, he looked back at Erin and blurted out.
"It's not that I can't do it. I'm not used to it because I've never done it before."
'Yes. You have no reason to build your own house."

She nodded her head gently and agreed. However, the castle was not occupied at all. He emphasized once more.
"I'm good at everything. It's because I've never done it before."
"Of course. He made a path through the mountains. You'll build a nice house, too." 'Are you teasing me?'
'Why me?'

Roan, who squinted his eyes, eventually threw a saw, hugged Erin's shoulder tightly, and moved his steps.
"I'll show you what I'm good at."
Should I learn to saw all night, but Roan, whose pride was greatly hurt, gritted his teeth inside. I forgot, but with Erin, little went as he planned.

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 3

The duke's dignified voice rang low in the tent made temporarily.
"I'll support everything you need, so finish the construction as fast as you can. Put the furniture with the children first, and repair the medical facilities first."

As the duke gave off a cold atmosphere, the lord and the people in charge were restless with cold sweat from earlier on.

However, Erin, who sat in a chair without a tent and listened to him, had to hold back her laughter. At first, he was greatly admired for his enormous charity work, unlike ordinary aristocrats. However, his crumpled expression kept coming to mind as he sawed in contrast to him.

In front of others, there was a very solemn atmosphere of leadership, and when he glanced at her, he was like a boy whose pride had been hurt.
Finally, the duke, who finished his instructions, approached and spoke quietly so that only Erin could hear him.

'I just built a village with a horse.'
'You're amazing. It will be of great help to people."
Erin snapped back. However, the Duke, who squinted his eyes, looked at her reaction for a long time. Then he raised his arm, tapped his finger, and called Youngjoo.

"Yes, Your Grace the Duke. Did you call?" When the nearly earthly lord came up and bent down, he ordered the little Erin with his eyes on him.
"We will move up the construction of other areas scheduled for next year. I'll send you the supplies and the builders you need."
"What? Yes, Your Grace. I'll execute your order."

As the lord hurriedly stepped back with a surprised look, the duke with his chin up hit Erin.
"Now I'm telling you, another village has sprung up."
At this point, Erin couldn't stand her trembling lips. Laughter and words that were beyond her will were about to pop out at the same time.
'Oh, my. This amazing man's ears are trying to look cute. I must be crazy.'

When Erin turned her face and covered her mouth, the Duke lowered his head and tried to look closely at her. Erin, who avoided his gaze, answered quickly.
"You're very good. This is the merciful monarch I dreamed of."
"You don't mean what you're saying."

The duke persistently moved his head around and made eye contact with her. As soon as het eyes met with him, Erin stuttered and spoke.
"I mean it. But, uh, uh-."
"But what?"
"The bluff is extraordinary."
Quickly whispering in his ear, Erin rose from her seat and roamed.

*****

Young-ju, who had been chasing after the construction site at the end of the sun, led all my family members to greet the communist party at the entrance of the village. Everyone in the line seemed nervous.
'Why are you so scared of your highness with all the help you get?'

The Duke only opened the window without getting off the carriage, and the middle-aged lord said hello in a row as if he had memorized it without making eye contact.
'Officially, you've come all the way to this humble place, and you've got a long way to go.'
'It's noisy. We don't have time.'
'What? Oh, yeah! Then this way..."

The duke stood up without knowing the carriage in the opposite direction, which the lord hurried to guide. Sitting on the opposite side as the carriage departed, he asked Erin as if it was not a big deal.
"I rented the best inn nearby because I knew I'd bother you with this and that. Will it be okay?"
"Of course, I'm fine. By the way, why does Yeongju here have a hard time with you?"
"When I saw you for the first time. You've only heard rumors about me."

Rumors? Oh, right. The rest of Erin, who was familiar with the life of the Duke, had forgotten about his vicious rumors circulating in the air. She grumbled, rubbing her lips.
"I feel wronged for some reason. Your Highness does a lot of good things. Why doesn't this rumor spread?"

Why isn't this rumor going around?"
'You said it was a bluff.'
'It's only for me. From what I saw today, Your Highness has already saved the lives and livelihoods of countless people."
The Duke, who was looking at her, frowned. 'Your straight face and compliments are making me embarrassed.'
'Really? Can you do that?"
"It's because I haven't, but I'm good at everything except sawing."

The red-eared duke suddenly hugged her. Erin, who was smiling, buried her face in his arms and breathed in body odor.
Erin's heart fluttered and laughed at the Duke's wonderful and bluffing unusual appearance.
The carriage stopped, and Erin, who got out of the carriage, couldn't shut up his open mouth. The accommodation was said to be an inn, but it was almost the size of a mansion.
But she was surprised because of something else. The house and surrounding it were full of flowers. From the neighborhood of the mansion, On the way inside the circle, bright spring flowers were in full bloom. The flower path was made of her favorite freesia and delpinium.

*****

After dinner, the Duke and Erin walked through the green, glowing garden in the moonlight.
Compared to the fortress, it was very small, but the garden filled with only her favorite flowers was so beautiful that she could not shake her eyes for a moment. How much effort did he put into planting flowers that bloomed earlier than the season at once? Erin looked around and whispered in an emotional voice as if she were dreaming happily.

"These are my favorite flowers. Did you know?"
The duke, who glanced behind her with his back, looked into her face and whispered face to face.
"Well, what do you think?"
"How did you know? It's so beautiful."
"I have something to tell you when I get back to the castle. Before that, I have to look very good to you."

You have something to say? Erin stared at the duke who looked at him as if he were blind. I wondered what happened because his tone was serious, but I wasn't worried about what he wanted to say.

The deeper the emotion of the flower garden, the more he came into his eyes than the beauty of the flower. There was no place to be desired, such as shining hair in the moonlight, eyes like the dark sea.

This feeling was clearly not the Duke's atlantic appearance. Roan Perka, surrounded by rumors of cruelty and cruelty, was a generous and merciful monarch the more she knew. Such things are already full of likes for him, and the Duke's actions and eyes brightened Erin.

He is a man who can build a whole village and make an early flower garden to look good to her. His consideration for her and his complete affection for her came to me every minute. I thought it would be good to call her a man just by her appearance so far.

Erin muttered in a dazed mood with her eyes on the bright moonlit garden.

"For me, I was very lonely after my mom died. No matter how many people there were around, there were only two family members."
"... Were you lonely?"
Erin looked straight at Roan, the Duke, who lowered his head to his best to listen to her little voice.

"I'm not lonely at all right now. Rather, every day is so fun and enjoyable that I feel sorry for my mom."
There was a soft and warm wind as if it encouraged her overwhelming feelings.
The flowers bumped into each other's petals and made a square sound, and Erin quickly confessed to the gap.

"It's all thanks to you. I think it's me."
"Huh?"
The duke listened closer, frowning in the middle of his brow. She blushed and said once again that she had been embarrassed.
"Maybe I've come to like you."
When the paused duke raised his head and bit his body back, he faced his eyes wide open in the air.

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 4

However, her reaction was different from what he expected.
The Duke, who had been hardened enough to make Erin nervous, quickly shook his hand, glancing behind him.
What do you mean? Is it too sudden? Or can't you trust me?
For her, she drew up all the courage and made a big confession, but Erin, who showed lukewarm response, clenched her fist. I don't know.
She clasped the duke's neck with her eyes closed and stepped on her feet.

"I like Roan!"
shouted Erin almost hopped and gave him a reckless push on my lips.
'What? Eup-'
'Ah!'
As soon as the lips touched each other, the Duke groaned embarrassingly.
They closed their eyes and bumped their mouths, and failed to control the distance, so each other's mouths collided, not kissing.

Surprised at how sick he was, Erin let go of her cuddled neck and stepped back. However, shame was overwhelming than pain.
What the hell is this? It's not a confession, it's an accident!

As Erin squatted on the floor with her head down with her sore mouth wrapped around him, the Duke's low murmur was heard above his head.
'Oh no.'
"Are you all right? I'm sorry!"

As soon as he heard his lament, Erin made a loud apology, covering her face. How painful would it be for you to be when I'm this sick? Oh, I'm going to die of shame.
"No, I didn't say that to you. Are you all right?'
the Duke hurried to his seat and asked with concern, at eye level with her.
"...it's okay. No, it's not okay."

When I hesitated and secretly looked at him with a slight turn on the face that had been buried in her palm, the peacock, who patted her head affectionately, whispered in her ear.
"It's not just the two of us here right now...."
"What?"
"Actually, I've prepared something for you. I tried to bite people before you told me, but I was late."
"What?"

People? Erin threw her head up at the unexpected words. When the duke, who made eye contact with her, waved his hand high, suddenly countless lights flew out of the surrounding flower garden.
In an instant, small green lights covered the whole world like snow falling upside down.

"Huh...??"
It was a breathtaking sight. Erin forgot the situation and looked at the fireflies flying like crushed emerald powder, losing their width. The duke who was looking at her murmured like a sigh.
"I thought you didn't like emeralds, but you told me what I needed to hear. I was embarrassed."

Slowly, looking at him and the fireflies, Erin replied bitterly.
"You know how to panic."
"I think I've only given you a discount today."

Erin was more embarrassed than anyone, but it had already happened. She couldn't think straight because she was drunk on the fireflies and flower beds in front of her.
I was so happy and thrilled that such a beautiful scene was prepared for her. It didn't matter if it was a minor mistake like a "mouth crash," at least for now.

"It's so beautiful... It's overwhelming."
The duke, who waved his hand, tilted his head as the fireflies glistening green like the fluttering snow flew around Erin.
He reached out slowly, touched her lips as if to check them, and smiled open.

"It was a really intense kiss."
Erin slowly stood up after cooling the hot balls with the backs of both hands.
'Give it to nothing.'
'What?'
The Duke, who stood up after her, frowned as if he were angry. Erin hurriedly added.

"I don't want to hit this with my first kiss."
"What's wrong with you? It's really just the two of us now."
The duke whispered in a subtle voice, wrapped her waist tightly in both arms and pulled her up.
Erin, who was pulled up close and looked down at him, held him by her shoulder and dissuaded him as if he were breathing in.

"...Roan."
"If you call a man's name at this time, you'll add fuel to the fire."
"But you won't burn more than my face."
Erin, who looked down at the Duke at an angle, opened his face.
He's handsome even from the top. Seeing her eyes harden as if she would never back down even though she was smiling in a good mood, she kissed her smooth forehead impulsively.

As her eyelashes trembled, Erin wrapped her hands around his face and bowed her head.
"Let's do this as our first kiss."
The lips and lips met smoothly as if they had met for the first time. When she pressed her awkwardly touching lips, the duke opened his mouth slightly and held her lower lip. The chilling sensation gave her goosebumps, and as she crouched her shoulders, the duke made her lips taste slow.

Erin, whose thrill-raising thrill improved, followed his moist lips. Roan, who hugged her waist tighter with instant strength, slid her hot, soft tongue deep inside her mouth and wrapped it around her.

This time, Erin's hand on his shoulder was hard. Erin, who was accepting Roan's move of rubbing and rubbing his tongue, soon began to move and covet his face like him. Kisses were ecstatic and overwhelming, just as the sense of lips exchanged with him was everything in the world.

As if exploring each other's lips and tongues, they looked up and made eye contact for a moment.
'Erin.'
'Roan.'
'My name, are you sure you set the fire on purpose?'

Putting Erin on the ground, he wrapped his hand around her face. As Roan's persistent gaze stuck to her eyes and did not let go, Erin hit him on the lips with her eyes open. After a few light bumps as if seeking permission, he soon swallowed her lips completely.
"Uhhhhh-."

Roan gently held her lips and groped them with his tongue, and began indulging her lips as if she had been soft. He did her upper lip and pulled hard on her lower lip. Erin hugged him on the back as that sensation chillingly scratched her spine. Roan dug deeper into her mouth and left her mark.
"Sigh-"

Long after he let go, Erin knew she was breathing hard. It was an intense and ecstatic kiss that was overwhelming to follow.
When she picked her breath, Roan patted her mouth with his fingertips. Erin leaned on his friendly hand and laughed straight away.

"You're really good at everything, except sawing."
"That kind of compliment also adds fuel to the fire."
"Focus on sawing.'
'Should I?'
'I don't know. I don't know what I'm saying either."
"Then you can do something else instead of words."

When Erin tried to turn her head with a grimace, Roan, who had his hands tightened, lowered his head again.
This kiss was very soft like fluffy. A soft and ticklish feeling spread from somewhere deep in the heart.
As Erin relaxed her body and fully accepted him, Roan, who laughed softly, covered his lips deeper.
A kiss with him, hot, warm, soft and intense, was an act of sharing breath and breath. Through kisses, we got to know each other better and sincerely accepted each other. The kiss was long and long until the fireflies, which had brilliantly embroidered the flower garden, were scattered, but Erin felt like this time could last forever.

*****

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 5

"Where should I put this?"
"Where should I cut this tree?"
"Lady, do I cut this tree in this direction?"
Many people were busy at the construction site. Erin, who became the busiest there, constantly answered people's questions and went through the construction site carefully.

And in the meantime, she glanced at Roan whenever she had time. When I left the accommodation in the morning, I was so ashamed that I couldn't see his face properly, but I was rather sad when I was busy and didn't have time to be with him.

Roan also smiled, bending his eyes every time he looked back at her and made eye contact with her, even though he was giving people various instructions.
'You look so handsome with a smile.'
'I know. My eyes are so good today."
Mary and the women who were following Erin and helping her work peeked at Roan and laughed head-to-head.

Later, I heard that all of the Duke's attendants were waiting in the flower garden with wooden barrels of fireflies in themselves.
In other words, I saw all Erin confess to the Duke.
I meant I saw it.
"Work, work," Mary whispered, covering her mouth with her hands, as Erin, whose face turned red, put her hand on her waist and spoke firmly.
'We're happy to see you both, miss.'
'Please forget about yesterday.'
'How dare you remember that? Don't worry about that, I just want to see the expression of your highness and your lady now."

Hmm, Erin, who was embarrassed, coughed in vain, but the smile that spread around her mouth was inevitable.
On the way out of the Duke's party, all the people, including Young-ju, came out and saw off Erin and Roan's wagon.

Young-ju, who looks much better than yesterday, appeared as a representative and posted a request after a long greeting.

"Why don't you name a village that was created at your mercy, such as Ha-hae?
The road will remain an honor."

Roan, who was staring at Yeongju with a annoyed look on his face, suddenly looked back at Erin and laughed.
'It's called a lark's grace.'
'Larks?'
"What do you think?"
Why do you think it is? Erin wanted to refute, but he whispered only in his ears because he had a lot of eyes.

"Pretty, but in the name of the town, it's a little..."
"How is it?"
"Well, it's very awkward."
"If you're not on a boat, you'll have to go through this village to get out of the duchy, but everyone should reflect on your virtues. Thanks to you, the world has become richer."
"What? Is it that grand?"

Who knows I'm a lark? No, I don't have any more grace than that!
Hatefully, Erin shook her head, but Roan, who started the carriage by knocking on the wall, snorted back.
"The truth is, I want to think of my first kiss with you every time I pass this road. How helpful would it be to walk away from home?"
"You're so bluffing."

Roan, who laughed aloud, grabbed her hand and kissed her on the back of her hand as Erin looked away and muttered.
Frightened by a pain in the skin, Roan kissed her forehead instead as she pulled her hand out.

"A woman who saws better than me, a man's pride is crumpled, but it's worth it. As expected, people must do good things to be blessed."
As Roan fiddled with his lips as if to see it, Erin shook her head and turned her eyes out of the window. The carriage carrying them began to run on the duchy, with hope and a romantic mansion surrounded by new towns and flowers.

*****

The villages on the way back home grew bigger and bigger, as opposed to going there.
Erin, who was relieved to see, forgot for a moment about her tiredness and looked at the scenery outside the window.
Roan, who looked out at the village he was passing by with, suddenly asked.

'Do you like circus?'
'No, I hate it. I didn't know why, but now I know why.'
'I'm surprised you don't like it. Is there a reason?"
Erin found him close behind her back and tried to bite her back. But Roan didn't show any signs of getting out of the way.

Erin replied, gleaming at him.
"You must have remembered your highness, who you met when you were a child. Just looking at the circus tent made me feel bad. Now that I see it, I think I was very hurt when I saw you,"

Roan stared at her.
"Unexpectedly, you're comforted. Graceful Lark."
"Don't make fun of me. Um, but could you move a little to the side?"
"Is it hard to walk?"
As she frown, the Duke who was walking ahead came back and asked. It was a low and cold voice. She shook her head and the duke called her again.
"Erin."
This time, it was a very sweet voice.
Erin opened her eyes as she tried to answer. She was in the carriage, not in the mountains.
The sound of rain that was constantly hitting the eardrum and the sound of the overflowing valley water flowing away quickly disappeared.
The rattling, the small vibration and sound of the carriage shaking were all. When I looked out the window, there was no sign of rain. Erin looked around the carriage, blinking in embarrassment.

"Are you okay? I woke you up because you looked uncomfortable, but you looked surprised."
Then Erin stroked her hair and raised her head when the membrane was soothing. Her eyes met straight with Roan, who was holding her in her arms while leaning against the chair.

"You have a long way to go, so you can sleep more."
Erin stared at him in surprise for a moment. A friendly and gentle voice felt unfamiliar. Roan, who looked at her face, asked anxiously.
'What's wrong, Erin?'
'Rain, isn't it raining?'
'It's been sunny since morning. Why, did you have a rainy dream?"

Erin picked herself up from his arms, pulled her head out of the window, looked out, and answered quickly.
"It rained a lot. The valley was overflowing and the wagon fell into the mud, so I walked up the mountain to the campsite."

The sun was setting, but the weather was so clear that it was blinding, let alone rain. Was it a dream? It feels so real.
Suddenly, I remembered that the carriageway and scenery I saw for the first time on the way were familiar.
However, such a sense of foresight was not enough for the dream. It was as vivid as what is happening now.
The feelings and feelings she felt were more detailed and distinct than yesterday's memory.

I could feel the Duke's attitude and his complex mind toward him. I'm sorry, but thank you, and on the other hand, I was really afraid that you might hate me.
What the hell is this?

I was looking out of my head in embarrassment, but I could feel the gaze, and Roan was making a subtle expression. He looked like he was smiling and frowning, but he didn't know what he meant.
Roan, who took her hand and made her look back on herself, asked in a hoarse voice.
'What happened in your dream?'
'Your Highness carried me on my back, who was having a hard time walking because of the mud. But it's weird because it's so vivid."

Roan, who was staring at her, gave strength to her knitted hands and wrapped her cheek with the other hand.
'You asked.'
'What?'
'Is it your first time carrying a woman?'
'Oh, how did you know?'
'What did I say?'
"Who do I look like to carry on my back?"

His answer at the same time as Erin was accurate as if he had seen a dream. I'm so confused that's all.
I opened my eyes wide and shook my head. He said clearly, patting his cheek soothingly.
"I know it's not a dream. It's a memory of us."
'Remember? But it was definitely me from the present, not from the old days. I don't know when I'm gonna--"

Erin, who was stuttering and trying to explain, belatedly realized that his eyes were sinking dark. As she looked at her eyes wide open, Roan slowly closed them. The hand that held her hand was painful and his eyelids trembled.

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 6

The bonfire lit up the dark forest as it darkened. I knew that drivers, Mary and other employees were setting up tents not far away, but Erin seemed to be the only one in the world with Roan.
The unique cold air of the forest, the sound of bugs, and the smell of grass were not the first, but a sense of wit.
I once camped with Sofia and Roan when I was young, but it was a time closer to the present than I remember then.

However, Erin, who was confused by the confusion of dreams and memories, gradually calmed down.
It was because Roan was more concerned. After he decided to get out of the carriage and camp, he didn't look good in deep thought with his mouth shut.
Roan, who was sitting on a temporary chair and staring at the fire, looked at her with his eyes on the bonfire and called her.

"Erin."
His voice was as low as a sigh, but it sounded like a lot of emotion.
Unlike usual, I could even feel deep sadness in his dark and soft voice.
Erin asked hesitantly.
"Why is your highness so painful?"
'Me?'
'I didn't know at first, but he sometimes looks very distressed. Here, is it because of the cold part?"

Erin pointed cautiously at one side of his chest, and Roan glanced down and smiled open.
"Yes, but thanks to you, it's gotten a lot warmer."
Erin seemed to know a little bit now. Roan's high reading and looking sick are closely related to her. Is this the painful truth that he said before?

Come to think of it, Roan had an unusually strange reaction that she would have made a ridiculous misunderstanding if she felt suspicious. Erin recalled that he answered her "memory" firmly in the carriage, unlike before, unlike before, and asked.

"Is it important for me to find a memory for you?"
"It is, and it is not."
"How?"
Roan, who looked away from her and looked straight back at the campfire.
His face, which was shaded by his frowned eyes, was not able to see the expression in detail, but his emotions were revealed in his voice.
"I'll tell you in advance, I like you no matter what you look like. I think it's a blessing to meet you again. So I hope you don't get me wrong in any case."
"Any misunderstanding?"
"Bluff, exaggeration, and lies."
Roan, who was staring closely, reached out his hand and held her hand nodding her head.

"What do you feel now?"
Erin took a big breath and closed her eyes. I could feel the scent of his body, the rustling sound of the forest, and his stinging gaze from him.
And her deep and desperate affection for Roan flooded in like a subtle mist.
"I remember sitting next to your highness in front of the campfire. But my mind is different from now. It's deeper and more complicated."
"Ummm."
When I lowered my eyes, Roan groaned low. Erin was suffocated for a moment by his look of suffering. Is her "memory" bothering him?
Erin became nervous by herself and swallowed dry saliva. Strangely, I was more worried about him than about his strange memories.
"I said I had something to say. I don't know where to start. I mean..."

Roan breathed out and stopped talking as if he were breathing. Erin tilted her upper body toward him and kissed him on the cheek.
"I can wait. You can speak slowly."
Roan smiled bitterly when he looked back at her.
"I, or we are living a second life," he said, but the words from his mouth pounded her heart harder than expected.
"We were dead. And then we came back to the past and met again."

*****

The word "magic" came from his mouth no longer came from books or proverbs.
The previous world existed. In the world, the duke participated in the war caused by the emperor. Erin was the illegitimate child of Count Samed, who was listed as a traitor in the Mercian province of Pavin. When the Duke, who came to suppress the rebellion, tried to execute her, who was left alone, the magicians started.

"Sophia had the power of Yeji. When I met young me, I saw the scene. That's why I went back to Saamed Street to draw a magic circle to save you."
The duke fell in love with Erin due to Sophia's magic, and the two became married.
"In the end, without magic, we fell in love from the bottom of our hearts."
However, he soon died of the palace's conspiracy. The magic team, who lost the target before completion, was broken and returned to the past.

Erin couldn't say anything for a long time because she couldn't believe it even after his words were over. However, her mind believed in him and began to meddle in every situation. Except for the part about 'magic' and the part about mom that I don't understand at all.

Given that Roan met and loved her in the "past," his words and actions, which seemed strange, gradually began to be understood. Until firewood burned itself naked in the flames and became ash, Erin didn't know how long she had been staring at the bonfire.
Roan slowly opened his mouth first.
"It's all because there was a moment when I tried to kill you, and eventually you died because of me."

Her guilt-ridden words made Erin's heart feel stuffy. While she was choosing her horse, Roan stood up from the chair and found one knee.
I sat on the floor and leaned my forehead on her leg. With his head down, he spoke as if he were making excuses.

"Just in case you don't like me. Waiting for you to give me your heart, I didn't tell you anything. You can curse at me for being selfish. But no matter what happens, I'll never let you go."
When I saw him with his head down, Erin was about to burst into tears. No matter where the sadness comes from, it wasn't all his fault.
"Please wake up!"
She tried to lift him up by the shoulder, but she wouldn't budge.
'Answer, I won't leave you no matter what happens.'
'Why am I leaving?'
'I don't know if all the memories come back.'

Erin eventually rose from her chair and lowered herself to sit opposite him.
"Honestly, I have no idea. But this is all I know. It hurts so much here because you're distressed."
Erin raised her hand over the fast beating heart. Roan looked at her as if he was speechless. My mind was confused and complicated, but now was not the time. I couldn't let Roan, who was distressed to buy time to organize her thoughts.

"So I want you to wake up quickly and hug me."
Roan, who hesitated, hugged her around his arm. Erin held her slender arms against his wide back as if she had waited.
When she was in close contact with Roan, her feelings and memories for him quickly flooded in as if she had her permission.

Her vision shook greatly as the world seemed to change in all kinds of confusion. It was similar to the time of the lake, but it was like a huge tidal wave that covered the entire emotion. But they sank gradually at the bottom of her unconscious so that it could not be easily seen.

The world, which was slowly revolving around her, began to spin fast enough to get dizzy. Dizzy, Erin held Roan tightly and leaned her head in his arms.

"Are you okay? You don't have a headache?"
"I'm fine. I'm just a little dizzy because I'm tired and I'm suddenly using too much hair."

Something has changed a lot, but even Erin himself could not know. I was confused and dizzy.
Roan, who belatedly noticed her exhausted and exhausted, laid her in a temporary bed in the tent.

"I'm sorry. I was going to tell you when I got back to my castle."
Hot and soft lips touched with a sweet sound. Sitting on the bed, Roan stroked Erin's face. Erin, with her head above his thigh, caressed Roan's eyebrows like a habit.
"You look like a puppy."
"Do you have hair, move around, warm, and feel good when you touch it?"
Erin opened her eyes wide.

Roan, who said what she was going to say first, continued.
"I remembered every single word you said every day to remember everything you said. Thank you. Once you hear it, it's hard to say. It's hard to forget these strange words."

Deep inside, the memories and emotions of the past are silent. Erin swallowed the horse and asked carefully.
"Is it okay if my memory doesn't come back completely?"

 

I mean she does know * him its more just it takes her memory forever to come flooding back - where as he had it since the beginning.. She was shocked by how much pain he must have had to endure. etc

 

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 7

"All I need is you. I'm not entirely the me of the past either. The evidence is that my body is pure."
"Is it pure?"
"As white as the first snow. I've been waiting for you, and I haven't spoken to any other woman."
"I guess you haven't before?"
".... Hmm, I didn't know you were my first love. The name of Sangguk was Emerald."
"Oh, you're changing the subject."
"At least since I married you, I've been pure."

Erin felt strange looking at Roan, who coughed awkwardly. The story before marriage seems to be getting worse, and it's a pity that he's been anxiously waiting for her so far.
"I found your aunt."
'What? Really?'
'I'll go find you when I get back.'

Roan finally managed to change the subject. But what he said could not come true. When he returned to the fortress, a ripe face was waiting for them first.
It was Juliana.

****

Juliana, wearing a scarf around her head, was still dressed exotic. After a welcome hug with Erin, she was busy alternating between Roan and Erin with her eyes shining.
'Your Grace, this is my aunt.'
'Never seen you, Your Grace. Juliana Otia."

When Erin introduced him, Juliana greeted him as if she had seen him for the first time.
Roan looked at her eyes and had no choice but to say hello as if he didn't know.

She looked calm on the outside, but she must have been shocked. Roan didn't want to cause any more trouble.
I was grateful that Erin didn't push him away even after hearing something ridiculous.
Juliana was an unexpected variable in a thin ice situation. It didn't seem like a good thing for her to come to the witch's forest.

"She's a woman who doesn't know what's going on."
Erin didn't fall from Juliana's side because she didn't know Roan's speed and was glad to see him.
So Roan also had no choice but to stand by the two in the drawing room, wondering if Juliana would say anything.
'Where have you been, aunt?'
'I've got something urgent to find out.'
'Is the trip over?'
'No, not yet. But I couldn't help but come because I was curious about you."
"Thank you, Auntie. I missed you so badly."

Roan was secretly jealous when he saw Erin's face full of welcome. He's got all sorts of things.
I managed to win her heart after a hard time, but Juliana was welcomed so easily just because she was a bloodstain.
Juliana, who noticed his gaze, smiles and talks to him.

"Your Highness, come to think of it, I heard a strange rumor on my way here. Your Highness is engaged to my nephew."
'Why is that strange?'
'Because a single woman who is in her marriage lives with a single man without the consent of her family's elders.'

There is a deep wrinkle on Roan's forehead. He frowned and replied, staring fiercely at Juliana, who was about to act as a guardian, behind Erin's back.
'I told you I'm engaged.'
'I'm afraid you don't have permission.'
'You're the one who's been missing since I've found you.'
'Then is it enough that you're here now?'

As the atmosphere between the two became sharp, the embarrassed Erin opened her eyes wide. Roan smiled at her and immediately spoke to Juliana.
"Again, we're already engaged."

"It's not even a marriage. Engagement."
"Aren't you worried about your single nephew's reputation?"
"She's not from this country anyway? Erin, can you blow the tea water for me?"

Also, when Juliana, who smiled kindly to her nephew, handed her a cloth wrapped in dried leaves in her bag and asked for it, Erin reluctantly left.
As soon as she went out, Roan slammed the table.

"What are you doing? Are you going to disturb me now?"
As soon as Erin went out, Juliana, who wiped her laughter, scattered him carefully and opened her eyes.
'As expected, the magic trail is thick."
"What do you mean?"
"Thomas was restless all night. He's sensitive to magic."

Thomas? As soon as Roan asked back, Erin shouted outside the parlor.
"Thomas! Long time no see!"

Roan, who woke up from the sudden appearance of a man, frowned harshly when he saw Erin holding a black cat. Juliana was smiling.
"You're very jealous. I don't like my possessive husband."

'Keep saying that. What do you mean by the traces of magic getting stronger?"
"Magic has begun to gain strength."
"Didn't you say the contractor disappeared and can't gain strength?"
"Normally, broken magic is normal when it disappears. Are you sure the contractor is you?"

Roan heard my heart drop under his feet. However, Juliana remained calm when she was surprised.
'So Erin could be dangerous?'
'No. But the world is definitely different."

"I heard magic is gaining strength."
"Yes, but the color of the sperm from your highness has changed."
Roan's patience has reached its limit, when he suddenly appeared and suddenly changed his words after only saying ominous things.
He stopped Juliana trying not to raise his voice.
"Erin knows everything. So don't make me worry for nothing."
Juliana opened her eyes wide with surprise.

'Unexpected. She didn't seem to be going all the way.'
'But she's coming back.'
'Why don't you look happy?'
'You just said something sinister and asked?'
'I've told you before, but it's a magic for Erin. I'm not going to hurt anyone."

Roan, who muttered the words, looked at Juliana.
"I ask you, why didn't you stop me from holding Erin when you knew Sophia's foresight?"
"Sophia tried so hard and we met again. How can I stop a relationship from heaven?"
"So you're allowing me to marry Erin ?"
"Oh, that's another problem."

Then Erin, who held the cat, entered the drawing room. While Roan and Juliana opened their mouths at the same time, Mary followed in and put tea and cookies down on the table.
"Aunt, did you say hello to Mary?"
When Mary greeted me politely, Juliana smiled and talked to me.
'Oh, I had something to tell this lady.'
'What?'
"Lady, soon there will be a man hanging on. It's a flaw that I don't know how to do it, but I think it's okay because he's kind and affectionate."

At the same time, Erin and Mary opened their mouths blankly as they saw Juliana speaking nonsense. I'll keep it that way.
Roan was comforted even in a small way. He's not the only one who gets beaten by a witch.

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 8

"Aunt. I want to show you the mushrooms I planted."
Erin has been restless since earlier and looked at Roan and Juliana.
I'm glad to see my aunt after a long time, but the atmosphere became ambiguous when I was with Roan.
Eventually, she had to bring Juliana out separately.
When only the two of them were in the greenhouse, Juliana talked to them first.

"Hey, Erin, how are you?"
"Your Highness is very nice to me. You don't have to worry. He's a very nice man."
"Yes, he is, of course, to you. I could see that from anyone's eyes. I'm so glad."
Contrary to appearance, Juliana didn't seem to hate Roan, but Erin was very relieved.

Erin looked at her with a confused mind. The Duke said Juliana knew about the "painful truth" he had revealed. But what do you want from her?
I didn't know what to do. It was even more so when I saw Juliana acting like she was nothing.

Erin hesitated and asked the first question. "Aunt, did Mom have any special powers?"
Juliana, who was looking closely at her, hugged her affectionately and patted her.
"You don't have to know that. We didn't say anything about it because we didn't want you to know.'
'Why don't I know?'
'It's very uncomfortable to have other powers.'
'My mom used to make dolls with me.'
'Yeah, that's why Sofia didn't tell you anything."
" But, Auntie."

"Fortunately, you don't have any strength. So you just have to think about what you can do. Do you like peacocks?"
Juliana let go of her hug and asked.
Erin, who was flinched and stabbed in the right direction, nodded right away.
'Yes.'
'Then that's enough. Sophia and I, who made the Magic Circle in the past, are responsible for everything. You just have to live with the reality and the present. I'm here to say that."

Erin carefully made eye contact with Juliana. The unfamiliar word "magical" came out of her mouth.
Juliana didn't deny anything about the Duke, though she didn't say much. It meant that everything was true.
When Erin looked at her confused face, Juliana patted her head and chose the horse as a child.

"Sophia always did her best for you, Erin. In a way, everything is the result of it. You only have to live as you want. That was Sofia's wish."
Erin nodded slowly, looking at her green eyes, which looked like her.
"Thank you, Auntie."
"If anything happens or you need my help, come to the Witch Forest."

"Witch's Forest? Were you that close?"
"I'm sorry I couldn't tell you in advance. I needed time to find out about this and that."
Juliana, who Erin has seen since childhood, always said and did something wrong that was hard to understand.
I moved around freely without settling in one place. So there were times when I was sad because I didn't see him often. But one thing was for sure.

Juliana loved her nephew Erin the way she did. I had a lot of questions, but I decided to ask later. I didn't even know what to ask anyway.
Erin asked the last question while asking about things around him.
'But how do you know about Mary?"
"No matter how much you want to hide your relationship, it's obvious. "
"Wow, who is it?"
"Oh, it's not fun to say in advance. Find it for yourself."
Yuliana was all good, but she was a bit mischievous. If you're going to do this, you'll be the only one who knows what others don't know.

Juliana, who looked around the castle and greeted the people, quickly walked away as she did when she went. You said there's still something to find out.

*****

On his way back, Juliana, who paused the donkey, stared at the far-sighted castle.
"How did that happen?"

Obviously, when we met at Pavin, the magic traces were not clear except for the Duke's reaction to the blood spilled. And not long ago, the peacock, who came to the witch's forest, was shadowed and followed by a magical energy that did not have substance. Now the shadow was huge and wrapped around the castle like a golden mist.

"Will the broken contract ever come back?"
There are four people involved in the Magic Circle. The sorcerer himself, Sophia, the implementer and master, and Erin, the contractor's duke and medium.
Except for Sofia, the other three met again. Is that why the Magic Circle is going to be built in the present world?
However, the Duke's wish came true earlier and the magic was broken. It was strange that the broken magic should have wandered and gradually lost its strength and disappeared into nature.

Besides, magic can't gain strength in this world of different dimensions, why. In a way, the magical energy surrounding the castle seemed to be waiting hard for something with a large beast quietly holding its breath.

"What are we waiting for?"
One thing for sure was that the magic that gained substance showed no ominous signs. It just exists.
Yaoong-
The black cat in Juliana's arms cried as long as it called someone. She looked down at the cat and clapped her fingers to make a noise. That Cat occurred to me that it is a relic that gives a glimpse into a different world.

"Thomas, I have a favor to ask of you." Juliana hugged her, and the cat slapped her wrist with its tongue.
"Not for free? Oh, what are you doing between us?"
Juliana laughed, as the cat laughed back when she was about to do a flapping hand with her tongue. Starting the donkey, she looked back at the Yonsin castle and murmured to Thomas.

"By the way, did Sofia have a great job preparing for her son-in-law?"
He's rich, handsome, and he doesn't have a in-laws. Although she has a strict personality, the Duke's eyes on Erin were lovely even her shadow, showing signs of embarrassment.
"Just looking at the burning Jung Yum makes you feel better, doesn't it?"

As Juliana whispered, the black cat turned its head and cried sharply.
"You're against it? Oh, why?"
Kiaang Yaoong-
As the donkey trudged along, the cat's fierce cry and Juliana's laughter drifted into the witch's forest.

******

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 9

'Mom drew a magic pearl?'
Erin couldn't sleep and tossed and turned. When I was alone, my thoughts and questions that I had put off flooded in at once. My head was very complicated.

There is another 'past'. Does magic really exist there? Erin imagined her mother riding a broomstick or wielding a wooden cane. However, I could only think of the ordinary image that I have always seen, such as hanging a field, cleaning a house, and making dolls.

She was remarkably pretty and special enough to persuade people to build a village in the mountainside.
And although she was popular that having a doll made by her would bring good luck, it was only that.

'But it's too much to say that you knew how to do magic.'

It was such a huge thing that there was no sense of reality at all, so it seemed like nothing was wrong.
The Duke's "past" work was nothing like the time she lived, so it was just like listening to fairy tales or novels, but Erin wondered herself, who was not questioning Roan's words at all.
Is it because of her memory that evokes a sense of foresight or because she believes in maneuvering?
'Then maybe my feelings for Roan aren't entirely mine?'

Is it the emotion that brings back memories of the past that made me like him? Does it hurt to see him sink?
What about Roan? He likes me just because he remembers himself.

As the thought came to this point, Erin's heart sank less. She eventually kicked out of the bed, paced around the room, and left the bedroom. Down the stairs, Duke.
When I looked in the bedroom hallway, it was quiet without any pretense of popularity.

Where should Erin go, he looked around and felt polite. In the middle of the night, I once walked around the mansion where such a calm silence fell.
It felt different from when I first came to the castle and when I met the Duke who was sitting on the stairs at dawn.

"I once went to the greenhouse at night."

I remembered that I mistook the carpet for a complex circle on the dirt floor of the greenhouse. If it was almost a "memory" in the past, would it be a magic trick?

"I don't think you're going for a walk,"

I was just crossing the hall to leave the mansion when I heard a loud voice from behind.
Surprised, Erin glanced back. Roan walked out slowly, staring at her in the dark in the corner of the hall.
He looked exceptionally bigger than usual, casting a dark and large shadow.
When Erin faltered back without realizing it, Roan stopped walking a few steps away.

"I couldn't sleep, so I tried to go to the greenhouse. But what about you?"

Roan, who had been looking closely at her and stroking my eyebrows, answered quietly, barely audible.
"I was wondering what if you didn't trust me."
"What do you mean?"
"Erin."

Roan called her name slowly. Seeing his heavily ringing voice and his darkly sinking expression, one side of his chest ached. When she frowned on her forehead, Roan followed her and asked, frowning.
'Are you all right?'
'What about your highness?'
Erin approached first, and she looked at him with her head tilted in place.
When she reached out to him with her feet on her feet, Roan, who turned one hand behind her back, lowered her waist.
Erin wrapped his hands around his face. There was a bottle of alcohol in his hidden hand.

As if she had been outside the chilly night, she wrinkled her nose at his cold temperature.
"Did you drink alone?"
Roan, who was leaning her head against her hand and covering her back, mumbled, avoiding attention.

"I have a lot of thoughts. I just watch to make myself feel better, I don't drink alcohol. I've already been drunk."
'You've been drunk?"
"I wasn't drunk. It means he's been out of his mind enough."
"Well, do you mean magic?"

Roan nodded, and Erin, who confirmed that he didn't smell like alcohol as he said, asked, letting him go.
"What does it feel like to have a spell?" Roan held her hand and looked closely at her face, smiling self-helpfully.
"I felt like I was drunk. As I thought, nothing went my way. At the beginning and the end of my thoughts, my everything is for only one person."

"Well, it doesn't feel right that you can't do what you want."
"No, it's better. I feel like I'm being forced into heaven."

Forced to heaven. Erin chewed back his words, Roan added.
"In fact, I haven't been out of my mind since I met you. As soon as the magic was solved, I fell in love, and I was drunk worse." "Well, then what about now?"
"What do you see me in your eyes?"

Erin hesitated to answer. At first, she thought the duke was crazy, and then she thought she was an over-imagined romance maniac.
When she couldn't bear to say it, Roan smiled low as she vaguely shut up. Feeling awkward, Erin beckoned the bottle in his hand.
"Give me a drink, too. Mom said drinking alone would be a big deal."
'Why?'
'It tastes really bitter.'
'What's wrong with bitter?'
"Of course. Why do you drink bitter alcohol when your life is so bitter? But I heard bitter alcohol becomes medicine when we drink together."
"You're smart."

Erin and Roan moved to the office. The moon was fluttering over the transparent window, and it was beautiful.
As we sat side by side on the sofa and talked about this and that, half of the bottles were empty.
'You're a good drinker.'
'A little. What about Jeon?"
"I haven't had more than one drink since I was a child, so I don't know."

Erin was pretty good at drinking. Aunt Sarah often gave me fruit wine she made herself for her husband, but she often drank it with her mother on cold winter days, increasing her drinking capacity.
But.
'There's something else you can't do besides sawing.'

Roan seemed to be weak in alcohol. Erin was embarrassed and peeped at him leaning languidly on the sofa. I learned a new fact.
I thought I didn't like drunk men, but when I'm handsome, I have a beauty in my drunk and disorganized appearance. It's because of the atmosphere.

Roan, who had his arms long on the sofa's armrest and bent his head at an angle, completely changed as he got drunk.
It was usually so thorough that it seemed ascetic that the gap between the atmosphere felt from the disorganized appearance was even greater.

The sweaty appearance I saw at the morning training camp was nothing to look at. The neck and collarbone stretched thin between the loose knot shirt collar were revealed.
My lips turned red with alcohol. Whenever I met Erin's eyes, I smiled with my eyes, and the eyes between the long eyelashes were fascinating.

'Your eyes are enchanting, but what's this feeling of distress?'

The more I saw it, the more thirsty I felt, so Erin picked up a glass of alcohol and drank it at once.
Tapping, she put the glass down hard on the table and said, "Never, never drink in front of other women."
"Why?"

Instead of answering, Erin shuddered and shook her head, seeing him caressing his glass with his long fingers strangely.
"Never."
"I won't do it if you tell me. Just name anything. The lark will listen to everything you want."

Maybe she was quite drunk, but her tone was much slower than usual.
However, when a faint smile with eyes caught on the tone that might seem vague, it sounded somewhere mournful.

"I actually have a confession to make."
The whispering Roan beckoned her to come closer.
When Erin leaned his upper body toward him, he whispered in his ear as if he were telling a secret.
"I wasn't a very good husband."
"Why do you think so?"
"I tried to tell you a happy memory that I should never forget, but I couldn't find it at all."
Erin, who was speechless, looked up quietly, and he continued with a sigh.

"But I will definitely take you as my wife. You told me you saved the world by ending the war, but you didn't."
'What?'
"I built up wealth and made knights for war. If you were already another man's wife, I would have started a war and taken it away."

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 10

"If you were already his wife, I would have started a war and taken it away."
'War?'
"Yes, I've been waiting for you. I would do anything if I could be with you. Are you disappointed that I'm such a selfish and bad guy?"
No. You look worse like this. The smell of alcohol from his hot breath was also sweet. Am I also drunk from a scary man who is willing to go to war?

Erin stared blankly at him.
Roan, who moved to her side and leaned against her, touched my chest with one hand and smiled.
"But you're so pretty. You were always pretty, but you're prettier and prettier because you've been waiting for me without seeing anyone else. Sometimes it hurts because I'm so excited here. Touch it, how fast my heart beats."

He took Erin's hand before it was over and led it toward my chest.
Surprised at this close, she pushed him halfway. Roan frowned heavily and grumbled.
'Larks, did you shake my hand coldly?'
'No, it's not. All of a sudden..."
"I've been waiting for you. You're too mean to treat you poorly treated poorly. Do you even know my abstinence time?"
'He, abstinence?'
"It's bone-cutting pain. No, maybe it's better to cut the bones."

When I saw him with a distressed look on his forehead and stirring his head, Erin replied in embarrassment.
'But you said you were pure.'
'Yes, but it's not pure here. Since you are already my wife to me, I've imagined everything I can. I'm sorry that your wolf brother is a real wolf."
He whined at me for tapping on my head.

"But believe me. I know from the head, but I can't breathe because I love just holding your hand. Can you touch it, how fast my heart beats?"
Holding her hand, he took her hand and put it on my chest. I wondered if I could feel the heart beating fast, but Roan, who got closer, pulled her and hugged her tightly.

"I just want to run, but I feel like I'm crawling. It's painful."
His smell was strong at the tip of his nose. Erin's heart was beating so fast that it was about to explode.
I confessed and kissed, but this situation was close.
Roan, who raised his head as if he had read her mind, covered her face and stared at her.
The eyes looking at her through the flowing hair were hazy.
He was grumbling and wetting his lower lip with his tongue as if he were thirsty, but his movements were slow and irritating.

Are you trying to kiss me?
Yeah, as long as it's a kiss. I'm willing to help you when you're so distressed.
Erin swallowed a dry needle. When I lowered my eyes, Roan asked me at a distance where my lips would brush.

"Can you do me a knee pillow?"
"What?"
"Knee Pillow?"
Erin, who was suspicious of her ears, nodded regretfully in a strange disappointment.
Roan, lying on her thigh, looked up.
"Look, I'm still nervous. Do you want to touch it, how fast my heart beats?"

Erin was embarrassed when a man taller than her said he was excited to lie on his leg, even kissing her.
Besides, how many times do you tell me to touch it, it's okay to be this seductive when you're drunk.
She was bumbling without realizing it.
'You're just a knee pillow.'
'My head dared touch you. It's not stubborn."
"I heard you can imagine everything in your head."
"Yeah. You've only allowed your heart, but I can imagine everything in my head. Hold hands, kisses, hugs, hugs, hugs, hugs, hugs, hugs, hugs, and you and I are bad?"
"No, I think it's natural."

His lips, whispering and getting closer, closed his eyes with two hearts. But my lips are as wide as they can be.
Around this time, Roan jumped up from his seat and walked toward the desk.
"What are you doing?"
replied Roan, who was rummaging through the drawer when Erin asked.
'It was dangerous just now.'
"What?'
" I'm looking for a place to hide my sperm. Because I can't believe me."
"No, but a kiss is not enough..."
Erin complained quietly, but Roan, who did not hear it, searched all the drawers of the gear nose. Finding an empty drawer, he stared inside and locked it roughly.

'Come on, key,'
Roan, who put the key in her hand, smiled languidly. It was a useless sensual smile.
"No matter how painful I am, I will protect you until you give me complete permission. Do you trust me?"
"But should I remember it when I don't have to live like the past?"'

Erin liked the current Roan. A man in distress watching her room with a bottle of alcohol in his hand that he didn't even drink.

A man who watched her room with a bottle in his hand, a man who was stuck waiting for her for more than a decade and never talked to another woman, said he thought his heart would burst.

"When did I keep him in my heart like this?"

The present was much more precious than magic, not even a complete memory.
And now Roan is a big part of her.
I saw you fell asleep before I knew it.
I didn't remember lying down, but my vision was tilted.

*****

The duke, who thought he had fallen asleep first, was looking down from above with her in his arms.
'...Roan?'
I looked around in surprise, and she had been lying in her bedroom, on her bed since some time ago.

It was hot in the room. His eyes, which were like the color of the sea under the sun, sank darkly and overflowed with the dark color of the night sea. My lips are as long as they're thirsty.
The sick duke stared at her with his head tilted.
His bare chest was solid as if it were dry, and his well-organized abs wriggled as if seducing her whenever he breathed.
Lying under his arm, she caressed his skin with her trembling fingertips.
The skin wrapped around a solid body was smooth and hot like a rough silk.

"Erin! '
As she caressed his sunken abs, a low groaned duke gathered her wrists together and pressed them on her head.
The Duke, who chewed her neck with his lips, whispered in a low voice as if he were angry.
" I can't stand it. It's not enough yet."
'But it's more painful to wait.'
The peacock, who laughed with a low voice, hit her body heavily.
Hugging him gladly, Erin moistened her lips.
Her saliva caressed the wet peacock's long stretched neckline.
When she reached his chest, she swallowed a soft chunk of flesh at once.

The loss in her mouth was rolled rough with his tongue, like biting, while the other was gently touched with his fingertips.
A different kind of sensual thrill and her distress.
When Erin shook her head, the duke smiled, kissing her lips.
'I like how you suffer because of me.'
"Um, you're mean!"
Her eyes were drooling, but she was also lowering her hand past his flat lower abdomen.
She finally reached the Duke's hot, hard, and bursting hand.
Stiffened, he let out a deep groan.

"Erne, I'm-- jack-jack-jack-jack-j"
Then, instead of the man's deep voice, there was a bird in my ear that I shouldn't hear.

Clink?
Surprised Erin opened her eyes. The sunlight poked her in the eye.
She stood up and looked around in a hurry, and she was the only one in the bed in the cute bedroom, where the dreamy atmosphere had disappeared.
"...!!"
Is it a dream? Is it a memory? Surprised by a brilliant, flesh-colored dream that had never been imagined, Erin screamed with her mouth closed. I think it just happened.

The vivid sense and touch felt real. The heat was still hot where he touched it in her dream.
She hurriedly lifted herself up and looked down, groping for my saliva.
Just in case, I looked inside the clothes and they were perfectly dressed.
And then she gave me an eye, and...

Yay! I opened my mouth as if I was tearing up and screamed silently.

This hand! My hand!

She shook her head loudly and shook her hands against the air. It wasn't a dream, it was a memory. There's no way you can make this specific in your dream.

I can't believe this is the most vivid memory! Ma'am, why are you doing this to me? Oh, oh, oh!

With her face bursting red, Erin struggled for a long time, stamping her feet in shame, wondering what she had seen and felt.

*****

 

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 11

And after noon, she ran into Roan in the hallway on her way out to the greenhouse. Scoop him in the face.
The frowned man opened his mouth with a heavily sinking voice.
"I was drunk yesterday. I'll apologize if I am rude."
'That was great,'
Erin sighed seriously.

Seeing him made my face hot again.
She shook her head quickly to shake off the memory of her dawn dream, and Roan made a full impression to make wrinkles in her forehead, perhaps misunderstanding her reaction.
Erin smiled awkwardly and quickly added. 'Promise never to drink in front of another woman.'
'Yeah. I'm sorry.'
'And enough.'
'What should I stop?'

Roan, who apologized gently, suddenly raised his head and opened his eyes.
Erin, who took a deep breath, spoke clearly to him.
"Magic or past, you're not dying or sick. So, Your Grace, stop suffering now. I'm fine and I'll be fine in the future."

Stopping breathing, Roan stared at her. Erin pushed in front of him, making a faint crack with her index finger and thumb.

"Moreover, you should be glad that you passed the electric charge at this close distance."
I was looking at her for a while and Roan coughed and asked.
'What did you pass?'
'Test.'
'What test?'
'I heard, you should never have one of three things when choosing a man to marry. One of them is an injection.'
'What's the other two?'
'I won't tell you. Your Highness gave me something I don't even have in the book for my exam."

"Erin!"
Roan called urgently, but Erin turned around and left with a snort. When I looked at him, I saw a drunken, slutty man smiling at me in my eyes, and I saw him in my dreams.

A wild and sexy man took turns growing up, making it very difficult. I'm in a lot of trouble.
"In return for locking the drawer for me, I'll lock it."
"What?"
Erin, who slammed the door in front of him, who chased him to the bedroom, put the key she had in his hand in a jewelry box, inside the dressing table.

Key, wait a minute. You are also my memory, but it's not my own.
If Roan had put her sperm in the drawer, she would have been better, too.
I was very pleased with his consideration, which he remembered all the hot and seductive things, but never touched her easily first.

Erin also wanted to make tea with whatever memories he had with him.
I laughed thinking about it belatedly.
A man who said he would go to war to get her as his wife locked the drawer and was proud to put in his sperm.
Erin couldn't stand the gap.

****

"Why isn't the mushroom growing?"
Erin crouched and looked into a nail-sized mushroom.
The mushrooms did not grow at all the size they were first brought in.
When mushrooms grow and sow seeds, the seeds grow on the soil roots in the soil.
Why doesn't it look any bigger?

"Are these your mushrooms?"
Roan, who was watching closely from behind her with only her waist bent, crosses the horse.

"It shouldn't be cute. It's cute. You have to grow up and be captivated."
Erin sighed and answered, and he tapped the mushroom's gat with his fingertips.
She looked at Roan with disgust.
His expression, which seemed to be sorry, gradually became grumpy as he avoided his dream all day long until he forgot it.

"Don't touch it. They're sensitive.'
"I'm sensitive, too. It doesn't mean you're okay as long as you're sick or dead."
'I'm telling you, I'm not the one who locked the drawer.'
"Give me that key."

"No, I don't want to. You said you would protect me, but where would you use your royal salt?"
"Now, to you."
When Erin looked into the mushrooms pretending she didn't hear, Roan, who stretched his arm over her shoulder, snapped off the mushroom's gat with his fingertips.
'Ack!'
she shrieked low, hating and raising her hands as if Roan had made a mistake. 'Sorry. I was just trying to scare you.'
'Me?'
"No, mushrooms. You make me jealous." "What?'
'I want a look.'
'Are you still sober?'"
I can't believe you're jealous of the mushrooms, and when Erin looked at them suspiciously, Roan replied with a fierce frown.

"No, I couldn't be more sincere."
She stood up from her seat, alternating between mushrooms and Roan.
He was stuck and unintentionally stood close together.
Roan, who looked down at the tip of her chin, raised one eyebrow and smiled.
Erin shot back with her hands on both sides of his waist not to back off.

"If you pay me back, I'll give you a discount on mushrooms."
"I will repay you 100 times the debt of my heart."
'What debt of my heart?'
'Because you've relieved me of my distress. I'll pay you back with generous interest for the rest of my life."
"It's the truth of all things that the present is more important than the past. I'm just following a sweet reality rather than a painful truth."

Reaching out, Roan looked persistently around Erin's face.
"Are you sure you're okay?'
"No matter how unhappy I was, I don't remember. Above all, I think it's a hundred times better than your imagination because you've read novels so much, or lying to me to attract me."

"You'd only say good things to be possessed."
"We are destined to go beyond death, there is no such strong suggestion."

Smiling and kissing her forehead softly, Roan whispered in her ear as if she had a big secret.
"Sometimes I don't know if you're optimistic or imaginative."

Erin also slightly turned her head and responded to his ears.
'I don't know if your highness is cursing or praising you.'
'That's a compliment. After learning about magic, compared to the reaction I showed, you are a great person."
Erin , who paused, squinted at him.
"How did you react? Why do I feel so bad?"

Roan, who briefly shut his mouth and frowned, turned around, letting her go.
"Suddenly something urgent came to mind."
"Roan?"
He left the greenhouse in a hurry. Erin followed and urged an answer.
'Can't you answer?'
'It's as urgent as you can't answer.'
"What's the matter?'
"Running away before you can cut your score further.'
As Erin, who had a ridiculous excuse, left the door just to chase, drew Roan, who was waiting at the door.

"I love it so much that I'm going crazy."
"I heard you were running away?"
His smiley lips sank to Erin's lips warmer than the sun.
Unlike the words that seemed calm, Erin closed her arms and eyes on her back as the kiss deepened rapidly and desperately. At the moment, I felt a sense of courtesy and heard a familiar voice in my head.

"Really? Then you won't leave me again?"
It was a slightly different voice than usual, as if he was acting like a childlike. Is it your voice when you're under a spell? But yesterday it sounded very similar to his drunken voice.

"Erin? Why are you laughing?"
Roan bit his lips for a while, but Erin shook her head and pulled him instead of answering.

His clear lips, body temperature, and this feeling were real. Always, everywhere, everywhere.

*****

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 12

Originally, the Duke's daily routine was simple. He wakes up before dawn, trains for swordsmanship, and works in the office after breakfast. And lunch, back to the office, and then go to bed after dinner. But these days, it's organized into one.

"What about Erin?"
Benjamin, Duke Perka's faithful butler, answered intently.
"sHe's out of town."
As soon as his words were finished, the Duke reviewed the schedule.
It seemed to be already heard the aide crying, saying that the work was not going on because the top approver was away.

Soon, the Duke, who threw away the schedule without sincerity, asked without an accent.
'Are you done with the preparations you mentioned before?'
"Yes, when will we meet the deadline?'
"Summer Festival.'
There is only a month left before the festival.

Jewels, silk, flowers and bands. There was a mountain of things to prepare, but I also had a hunch from the time the lady appeared.
Benjamin answered politely without expressing his feelings.
"Yes, I'll prepare as you ordered," Benjamin whispered to Lawrence, who was waiting for my turn.
'Finally in a month, aide.'
'Then when will the ceremony be?'
'I think it's fall.'

"What are you talking about, you don't know your highness, you don't like being perfect? Moreover, the marriage of the Duke of Perka. It takes at least a year."

"Three months for me."
Mary, who was also waiting for her turn, talked secretly. Lawrence glanced at Mary and corrected her words.
"Then I'll be three months too."
"The difference between one year and three months is very big."
When Benjamin subtly criticized, Lawrence, who turned slightly red, made excuses.
'Mary has never been wrong.'
"I have never been wrong.'
"Mercia's about to turn upside down."

The moment Mary muttered between the two conversations, the door burst open and the Duke came out.
Scattered coldly with three flinching mouths, he unfolded three fingers and shook them.
"Three months. Be prepared so that there is no trouble."

*****

Unlike the large but quiet and regular castles, the city has always been noisy and bustling with countless people. I've lived in a quiet place all the time since the Sadatang.
Erin looked around the crowded market and downtown whenever she had time. Outing around the city became her fun hobby. But she didn't think it would be easy for her anymore.

"Did you hear about Duke Perka's engagement?"
"Yes, you refused to marry me at the palace and announced your engagement, didn't you?"
"What great woman in the world has captured the Duke?
'A beautiful woman with a wide-eyed eye. You even refused to marry Miss Feradine, who was very beautiful."

Erin, who was looking at the ceramic dolls in a toy store downtown, almost dropped what she was carrying.
"A beauty that will open your eyes?
That won't be my story. You have to.'

But Feradine? Why do I feel so bad when I've never heard of it before? Are you jealous?
Erin listened to the girls, pretending to look after the dolls.
The ladies, who looked like ordinary aristocrats, were chatting and talking about the rumors they had heard.

Everyone was talking about the rumor. Rumors of the Duke's engagement were enormous. In particular, the fiancee candidate who captured the duke appeared in all kinds of beauties, from princesses in unknown countries on the eastern continent to the powerful yobu.

Erin was embarrassed not to know that such rumors spread and went publically to spy on the Duke and to go around the market.
On the other hand, nevertheless, she admired how thoroughly the Duke had been in the game and not a single word about her was leaked.
What you like about craftsmanship is connected to marriage. Is his marriage so important that everyone talks about it? Being a man whom he could always meet for granted, Erin often forgot his noble status.
Should I not have thought about whether I could be the right woman for him, but whether I could be the Duchess or not?
Erin felt like she was hit straight from an unexpected point.

There is only one reason why she is more special to Roan than other prominent women.
Magic. And the past that's intertwined with it. However, it did not make much sense to be worldly.
Things about secular things didn't come to much. He died and survived by magic, and I wondered if the difference in status was a big problem.

' It's a problem, you idiot. It's a big problem, you're a duchess!'
Erin walked in thought and then suddenly got out of the main street. Unlike before, however, I was not too worried to know that the Guardians were following me far away.

As soon as I tried to go back to the way I came again, I saw a man and woman standing face to face inside the alley.
As their voices grew louder, Erin, who was about to pass by, listened to their conversation. The woman begged in a tearful tone.
'But you said you loved me."
On the other hand, the man was friendly, but he looked embarrassed.
"I still love you. But I Can't Marry You"
"You can't get married? Is that why you're meeting other girls without me?"
"I'm not marrying anyone. But I can't just love you."

At first glance, the woman was a bad guy who hung on, and the man was openly flirting.
Get rid of that bastard! Erin looked fiercely at the man, cheering for the woman inside. However, the blond hair of a man shining in the shade was ripe.
'Cayenne Zebahun?'
Erin, surprised to find out the man, turned her head sharply. The other woman wasn't the red hair I saw last time.
But Cayenne, who looked around with an embarrassing look on his face, found her.

'Lady Otia!'
he opened his eyes at Erin and even called her name gladly.
No, there's no one who's so tactless! Sure enough, the woman's eyes, which were looking at him mournfully, turned fierce.
"Excuse me for a moment."

Erin waved her hand and walked fast, but Cayenne, who asked for a woman's understanding, immediately followed her.
"I haven't heard from Madame"
he crosses the line with a sad look on his face.
I thought about ignoring it, but no matter how much I winked, Cayenne followed me to the end, so Erin thought it would be better to finish talking quickly and break up.

She answered politely without stopping walking.
"Fortunately, I met my aunt and now I can communicate with her in person. Thank you for all this time."
"Oh, is that so? That's a relief."
"Then goodbye,"
Erin said in a hurry, but Cayenne, who stood in the way, said seriously.
"As I told you before, I want to be a friend that I can meet often without Lady and Madam."
"I think you already have a lot of friends."

I can't believe you're saying this about a woman staring at you in the back.
Erin, who was in a hurry, shook her hand.
"I'm going to get going. I shouldn't have kept her waiting for me."
"I have a present for you."

Erin said in a snap, and Cayenne suddenly waved his arms in front of her. While Erin was looking at it curiously, roses appeared from his empty hands as he shook his sleeves wide.
Surprised Erin opened her eyes wide, and he pushed out the flowers and laughed.

'I've used the magic I learned from Madame.'
'No, I won't take it. Especially in this situation."
Magic is fascinating, but it's not what you're supposed to do now! Erin looked at him, rejecting the roses. Then I remembered that he said several times that his hobby was magic. I also said that my aunt is a tarot expert. I belatedly thought that magic was strange, but that was all.

Cayenne, who was putting roses in his arms with a disappointing touch, suddenly asked seriously.
"Why is Miss Otia different?"

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 13

"What's the difference?"
"Lady smells very good. And every time I look at it, I feel familiar. Like a nostalgic memory."
Now that I see it, you're making excuses for me to avoid a difficult position?
When Erin, who couldn't stand it, frowned and tried to say something cold, the woman who chased him from behind shouted sharply.

"You bastard! How can you do what you did to me to another woman?"
Whirlick, an object flying through the air hit Cayenne's back hard.
Ugh, screaming, he stumbled and bent down. Surprised Erin turned around, the woman who took off her shoes and threw them was also taking off the other shoe. Cayenne hurriedly shouted to Erin, touching her back with a grimace.

'Shall we go somewhere else?'
"I have nothing more to say! Don't be cowardly and take responsibility for what you've done."
'Where are you going!'
Puck. The shoe that flew with the new yell hit Cayenne's leg this time.

Surprised Erin fell far from him. Now the woman started to throw her bag in her hand and hairpin and so on.
"Calm down, Sarah! This is just Madame's niece. I'm just a friend- Ugh!"
Cayenne shook her hands and made excuses to the woman, but it didn't work. Having been beaten by an object that flew in one after another, he stumbled and tried to grab Erin by the wrist.

"But it's still dangerous, so let's just--"
"What kind of man is this? Don't run away, but if you do something wrong, you'll forgive me!"
As Erin, who was amazed at trying to shield herself, tried to pull her hand out, a black shadow fell over her head like an ink cloud.

'How dare you,'
Roan, who suddenly appeared, pushed Cayenne hard and attracted her. The touch was so strong that the hem of the skirt fluttered, but the touch of her wrist was soft.

"Roan."
Surprised Erin opened her eyes and Roan tilted his head as if he was looking at her face.
At the moment, a cold light passed through his eyes, but his eyes caught laughter while he was facing Erin.
He kissed her lightly on the forehead and asked.
" What are you doing here?'
'I was about to go home.'
'Home? That's a nice thing to hear,'
Roan let Erin go and pushed her behind me.

He walked to the front of Kien, the Nading army, on the floor and stood there threateningly.
Cayenne, who was looking at them alternately, trembled when his eyes met with him.
In the back, escort drivers were comforting a woman crying.

Roan, who was slowly bending his neck from side to side and shooting at him as if he was annoyed, kicked his tongue.
'Why do you freeze around us all the time?'

"No, Your Grace! There must be some misunderstanding!"
"There are only a few misunderstandings, but at this point, it's a bad relationship. It's time to cut the messy strings."
"Not once or twice? What do you mean? I'm just- Hyuk!"

Roan flicked a dagger drawn from his waist and aimed at the nadding Cayenne on the floor. Whenever the dagger faced me, he shuddered.
Erin looked at Roan, who threatened Cayenne harshly.

Are you more angry than you look?

As if to prove her thoughts, Roan swung his hand and threw a dagger hard. A dagger that flew through the air was stuck on the floor between Cayenne's crotch.
"Ahhhh!"
Cayenne, who was contemplating, screamed. Roan shook his hand and snorted and warned.
"I was lucky to miss this time. It's perfect for being so messy and getting stabbed in the back."

Erin wondered what he said. I used to think of it as a vice, but somehow the weight came with his words. Isn't it because of what you're doing now that you're angry with Cayenne?

Roan, who glanced back at Erin, said small, raising his mouth corners.
"It's not a bad word, it's a fact. But it was better than now before."
When Roan beckoned back, the escort took the woman and Cayenne out of the alley.

Erin looked up at him, scratching his head, muttered.
"I ran into her."
"I know,"
Roan replied as if it was no big deal, grabbing her arm and putting it on my arm. 'But how did you know?'
"I was looking for something to ask you.' 'What do you want to ask?'
" A summer festival is held at the port of De An. It's hosted by the Perca family. I'd like you to join me."

"Summer festival?"
"I think you'll like it. Set off fireworks and refrain from killing the spectacle this and that is a lot. "
Summer festivals would have been a long way off. But this is a quick question?
Erin, who had been absent-minded for a while, belatedly nodded hard as he raised his eyebrows as if he were urging an answer.

When Erin readily agreed, Roan's face caught a good smile.
"Is there anything you want to do at the festival?"
"I want to play a claw machine and throw darts."
I also want to eat sugary snacks. Uh, but when your Highness left--"
Erin, who was excited about what she had seen with her mother, paused. Aside from the fact that such things did not suit the duke, participating alongside him in the festival was tantamount to officially revealing his relationship with the duke.

'Why? Did you think of something else?'
"That's not it. I'm concerned about the rumors circulating in the market. The engagement story has been very inflated. Are you all right?"

Roan looked down at her with a frown. "Don't you want to be rumored with me?" "Well, it's not that I don't like it, it's that I'm actually stuck with I'm not worthy of your status at all. The imperial palace as well as the nobility will take issue with it,"
asked the Duke, who had been lost in thought for a while, without an accent.

'Shall we give up all the titles?'
" Can we?'
"Feel free.'
" Wow, that's exciting! It's great that you can do that!"
When he saw Roan responding without hesitation, Erin clapped and pretended to be cheering.

Soon, he looked straight and shook his head and muttered.
" No, it can't be that simple.'
"I'm not kidding. I've been considering it seriously for a long time. I'll throw it all away if my title interferes with us. I still think that way. All you have to do is marry me without caring about anything."

Roan, who lightly wrapped her cheek and fixed her eyes, strengthened her words. Erin was suffocated by the heavy sincerity of his words. After several breaths, she asked with a trembling voice.

"Why? What am I doing to that extent?" Roan, who smiled crookedly, replied as if it wasn't a big deal.
"Well, I fell in love with you so naturally, like time flies even when I don't see you. Just as breathing makes me get older, what should I do with all I can think of you when I open my eyes?"
"Roan........."
Erin was so cheesy that her legs were relaxed by endless touching words.
Roan added in a more languid and sweet theatrical tone.
"I want to be your bird.jang. I want to be your world, the widest and largest, with no end to flying and no end to me in the end."

Eyes met and a deep silence fell between the two. Erin asked, stroking my arm with goose bumps.
"Are you all right?"
Roan shook his head with a distorted face and answered as if he was distressed.
"No, it's not okay. My mouth is so sweet that my mouth hurts."
"It's so good to hear."
"I sacrificed my mouth, but it should be worth it."

Erin, who blushed and Roan, who frowned, smiled face to face. Three of Erin's escort groups, who returned from taking Cayenne and the woman far away, shouted head to head behind them.
"Wow, my hands are shaking. I don't think you'll be able to say such a luxurious thing."

"I didn't believe in Yunhoe, but don't you think you saved the country in your previous life? How else can you be loved like this?"

The youngest with black hair from the eastern continent muttered with envy. The first one answered with a smile.

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 14

"Then do a lot of good things."
"I think this life is wrong. I'll just make a lot of money."
As if he was determined, the youngest, who stroked the sword of the waist dance, suddenly made his eyes look ugly.
"But am I mistaken? I think they're shining."

"Lovely women shine."
"It's not that, it looks like it's really gold."

"Your beauty is always shining. You must be really jealous of our youngest."
When the youngest rubbed his eyes, senior articles went ahead, saying they were looking at him. Their figures hovered around the Duke and Erin, quickly disappearing as the faces of the two men and women overlapped.

*****

'Will I marry him even if I don't do anything like this?'
She passed it like a joke, but Roan's words that she could throw everything away for her were sincere no matter how hard I looked at it.

The more I thought about it, the more strangely I felt a sinking memory deep in my heart. I felt the weight of the past that should never be taken lightly.
'You've been thinking about it for a while? What the hell did I do that for you?'
Erin lay on the bed, tossing and turning and reflecting on Roan's words several times. Then she slowly fell asleep. Deep in his mind, his subdued memory led Erin to answer questions as if he had been waiting.

*****

Erin was trapped in a dark, narrow secret room with her hands tied. She'll be burned at the stake when the day comes. I was afraid that the distant despair that everything was over weighed down.
"Erin."

You shouldn't be here. The Duke has already lost a lot of things because of her.
Following a flop, rattle, heavy and dull sound, the iron door squeaked open.

My eyes met in the air between the open doors. Roan's dark, deep-seated eyes were distinctive the moment his eyes met her. Erin covered her screaming mouth with her hands and shouted breathlessly.
'No, Your Grace!'
'Did you forget my name?'

All blood-soaked Roan stood at the door. Her hand stretched toward her was also full of red blood. But Erin held his hand without hesitation.

Then he stepped back and hurriedly released her hand. It was all my fault that she had to go through before he came here.
"No, Roan," she faltered, and as she stepped back, Roan, who approached her, embraced Erin in her arms without hesitation.

"Don't make me repeat what I've said so many times."
When Roan spoke in his ear, Erin trembled. I could see it instinctively. Let's see what you've prepared.

"Why are you doing this?"
With resignation, sadness was overwhelmed and she was strangled.

Tears welled up, but I should never have cried as much as now. I was never sad to see him for the last time.
Roan smirked as he scattered her figure quickly.
'Because I miss you.'
"Roan, you can't let me--'
'Never. I'm not going back without you."

His voice was sincere. Erin stopped talking and peered into his face.
"The intruder!"
A harsh sound was shouted from behind. The two began to run hand in hand. Every step out of prison, her vision turned upside down, showing broken pieces of memory.

His hands, which were sweaty but never let go, his shouting after them, the hell of a fire, the bloody smell, the livable eyes, and the arrows that flew toward them.
'No!'
Erin shrieked and opened her eyes. Cold stone walls, cold frosty darkness, and the smell of blood disappeared without a trace.

The rising sun was shining on the familiar bedroom. Unlike the brutal scenes we just saw, the decorated room was comfortable.

However, no matter how hard I looked around the room, I shook my head to get my head together, but it was useless.

Hot tears burst out and soaked my cheeks. His last appearance in her eyes was still clear, making my heart ache.

The more I tried to calm down, the more painful my heart was. It is also a cruel memory, but she knows Roan's life after their death. I've been waiting for you.

Why did he finally know that one word contained all the pain he had to endure?
Did he think what he held was his fault and blamed himself?

"Roan, hhhhhh, Roan..."
'Lady!'
the maid who was walking down the hall found her and called her, but she didn't recognize her.
Erin hurried around and ran toward Roan's bedroom.
'Roan!!'

I knocked on the door and opened the door, but no one was there. Her eyes were blurry with tears flowing down, so Erin wiped away the tears roughly with the back of her hand. My heart was breaking and I couldn't think properly.

Right now, she felt like she could breathe properly only when she saw Roan.
"Lady, are you all right? Lady!" asked the restless maid, but Erin grabbed the skirt and paced across the hall.

As soon as she came out of the entrance to the mansion, the sun just came up and poked her in the eye. At the moment, he escaped from the dungeon.
At that time, numerous sunbeams overlapped with memories of brightening everywhere. I was dizzy because I thought a live-in arrow would fly.

As soon as the frightened Erin closed her eyes, the long-awaited voice called her.

"Erin!"
Roan, who was walking toward the mansion, found her barefoot and in pajamas and ran.
"Roan!"
Erin, who choked with tears and couldn't even call him properly, ran down the stairs and hugged him as if he was throwing himself into his arms.
"What's wrong? Why are you crying?"

Her heart was pounded hard by the affectionate voice of concern, her arms tightly wrapped around him, and the body temperature felt in her body. I was choked with tears and my heart was about to burst. Erin sobbed his name as if he were praying.

"Roan. Roan. Roan."
"Yeah, I'm here. Why are you crying so sad?"
In response to Erin's call, Roan sat on the top of the stairs and hugged her harder. Wipe the tears off her cheeks with his fingertips, he whispered sadly.

"Please, Erin. If I just cry without saying a word like this, I think of all sorts of things."
As Roan's voice, which looked at her, gradually became trembling, Erin managed to swallow her tears and wear them.
"Because of me, because of me, because of you..."

'Why am I because of you?'
'Because of me, you're dead.'
Erin, who couldn't even finish his speech, gasped with emotion. At a moment, Roan, who was looking at her hardened, breathed a long breath and asked.
'Did you remember our death?'
'Yes. It's so, so, so, heartbreaking.'
"Why, why?..."
Roan, who put his forehead together, sank as if he were choked and murmured with a hoarse voice.

"I remembered that I didn't want you to remember the most."
Erin grabbed his hand wrapped around my face and bit her lips to stop crying.
She didn't visit Roan to mourn her past death. I just wanted to make sure he was okay. After a few deep breaths, Erin barely managed to continue.

"Your Highness, did you live with these memories by yourself?"
Roan stared at her for a long time and answered reluctantly.
"Because I've been waiting for you."
"But, but it hurts so much. I don't even remember everything, but it's so painful... that you, you, you, you alone, spent all that time alone...."

"Because I believed we'd see each other again. To me, your last appearance was not death, but good. And since we met like this, that's enough. I'm not sick anymore. Because I told you not to suffer."

Then suddenly, I missed him, so I looked up at him and cried. Everything about Roan was so sad.
I can only guess from the blood-soaked appearance when I visit the prison, but I don't know exactly.
What he lost and what he went through. But I could know one thing. Erin had left him alone for a long time since.

Roan, who laid her on the bed, sat next to her and waited until she calmed down. With some sobbing, Erin stretched out her hands to him. When Roan leaned down, he wrapped her hands around his face and kissed her.

'You lied to me.'
"Me?'
" It was all because of me.'
Roan shook his head with a bitter smile.
"It's my fault. I didn't have enough time to save you for just one day. I should have bought time at all costs, not recklessly come to you, determined to die."
"You did it for me."

 

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Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 15

"No, it's because I'm blinded by love and I've lost my mind. But the funny thing is, the same situation repeats itself. I'm not sure I won't do it the way I did."

Erin, who tried to hold back tears, smiled faintly at the end of his words. I like this man so much.

Why did I just argue about this and that like a fool? I just had to endure it for one day, but I was so sorry and happy for him in the past when he was ready to die because he wanted to save her quickly.

He was madly ill-tempered now that he had waited for her with terrible memories. In the past and now, she can give up her title and life for her sake.

How can I not love a man like this? Am I in love with him? When Erin closed and opened her eyes, tears flowed down. Making eye contact with him who wiped the tears with his lips, she vented her true feelings.
"For me, it's far from enough and far from enough, but if you just need me. I'll love you more."
".........Erin."
"I promised you when I was a kid. I'll keep my promise. I'll be by your side. No matter what happens, until when."

Erin kissed him and whispered.
"Now I'll protect you."
Love came to a man who had been waiting for her for a long time, turning a long way around.
Now it was her turn to reach out for him. Roan bowed his head with a low groan.

His hot lips swallowed hers as if he were thirsty. Erin closed her eyes and held his neck and pulled him hard toward me.

His lips, which crumpled to the nape of her neck, were infinitely hot and persistent. Roan held her hand next to her head and kissed her forehead, cheeks, and lips alternately.

Lips and lips met to covet each other's affection, and tongue and tongue intertwined to indulge the opponent's heart. The fingers of the fingers intertwined and moved each other.

The two had long eye contact with each other to share their sorrow over the painful memories of the past and to say goodbye.

*****

The entire western part of Mercia was excited by the summer festival. Everyone who met the festival was so excited that tourists from other countries gathered.

Mary, who was brushing Erin's hair with great care, smiled and said.
"All the western inns are already full."
"Who is Mary going to join?"
'Well, I don't know yet.'
'Is my aunt the man she was talking about?'"

Erin secretly asked, but Mary only smiled vaguely and did not answer. However, rumors spread widely in the city. Lawrence Regill, the senior adviser, who knew nothing but work, often appears in front of the maids' quarters these days, and there are different gifts in front of Mary's room every day.

Erin smiled and turned away, pretending she didn't know anything.

"At the festival. I'd like to give you a present, but I'm thinking about what to give you."
"Oh, you'll like even the common stones if you give them to me."

'But I can't give you a stone.'
'Then play with your heart.'
'I'm really bad with my hands. It's not too much of a fiancee to give her a mushroom or a hundred-point test paper."

Mary, who was thinking together and fixing Erin's hair, hurriedly teased her hand.
"Oh, I need to hurry. You said you'd go to the Duke and the Highlands, right?"
"Yes. I'm going to learn no matter how busy I am because they told me not to neglect my studies."

"You're so mischievous when I see you. Why do you say you're taking an exam without giving me time to study?"
"It's interesting that I'm in trouble."
"Misunderstanding. I'm just making one more excuse to see you."

Roan, who suddenly appeared, intervened in the conversation between the two. Erin smiled happily, holding the hand he put out.
I felt like I had met the general manager of the Emerald World in a very long time. Maybe it's because there's been a lot going on.

Although it was a contemplation, the general manager laughed out loud so that the office would ring, not as much as the last time.
"It's a great honor for you to make such an unexpected visit. If you had given me a pre-announcement, I could have served you even more, hahaha! But that doesn't mean we're taking care of each other roughly, hahaha!"

Roan sat Erin down first and received his greetings in a sour manner.
'If you give me a heads-up, I'm afraid you'll at least manipulate the books.'
" Operation, you're so funny with jokes, hahaha! Of course, the size of our emerald business is huge, so dust can't help but come out if you shake it. But I've never cheated on a duchy tax!"

Wow, that's bold. Admit that you're cheating behind the scenes. While Erin was deeply impressed by the general manager's handling, Roan, who snorted, waved his hand.
"My dear guest is looking for a place to invest, so I'll recommend a suitable sport."

Erin secretly groaned when he was finished. I remembered the torture that sounded like a foreign language last time. But it was unexpected. Throughout the manager's explanation, I could understand half of what he was saying.

Erin, who was amazed that she knew the term rather than the content, listened intently with sparkling eyes.

She whispered to Roan while the general manager briefly stopped explaining that she was going to get the data.
'I can definitely hear you after learning and listening to theory.'
'In fact, theory and practice are often completely different. But if you know the theory, you can read the flow of the market."

"If theory and practice are different, what was your secret to being rich?"
"I want you to teach me this easily?"
When Roan raised one eyebrow and raised his shoulder, Erin rubbed his lips to imitate his behavior.

"I have a hunch that it's something I can't understand or do anyway."
"It's easy to know if you live twice."
"What? Then will I be rich soon?"
Erin gradually recalled a lot of memories, but they weren't as real as Roan. It was mostly memories related to Roan.
Still, when asked half-confidently, he held a smile.

'I think it would be faster to receive my gift than that.'
'I'll just take that heart with thanks. I'm sure I'll be rich on my own.'
"So did you decide? Where to invest?"
"Yes, but my investment is very small, and I'm not sure I'm interrupting the general manager's time."
"What do you mean, it's an honor for the Duchess to visit."
"Not yet."
"Oh, Duchess?"
The general manager, who was just bringing the data, was surprised and raised his voice. Erin grabbed the general manager and tried to explain.

Tired of it, he bent over and over again, saying, "I'm sorry that I'm not aware of it."
"You've been good enough so far." Half-refused Erin replied, looking at Roan, but he smiled and pretended not to know. The general manager put his hand near his mouth and whispered softly to her.

"Madam, I'll give you a top secret. Invest in silk. Rumor has it that the emerald falters, and this time another pawnbu buys silk."
"Sandan?"
"Yes, especially the golden silk."

Roan, who listened quietly, squinted and glared at the general manager. He, who didn't know English, asked with his head tilted.
'Your Highness? Did you already know?' 'When I see you, I have a good feeling, but I don't know how to be slow.'"
"What?"

The prickly words made the general manager cry, but Roan hit a series of fatal hits.
"You have more time than I thought. Good. Bring all the books this month."
The frustrated general manager slumped to the floor.

*****

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 16

On the day of the festival, heavy rain poured down from the morning. All the people who were excited looked disappointed.

The Duke's people who were on vacation during the three-day festival were no exception. But people cheered as the festival's organizer, Duke Perka, and his fiancee, announced that they would dance in the square as scheduled.

Roan got angry early in the morning because of the festival preparations.
Erin also woke up early, but was groomed by Mary and other maids all day.

As the departure time approached, her hands were all cold with nervousness. She was getting used to her fiancee role, but it was her first time to officially admit it in public.

When I tried to recall memories of the past, the memories did not come back to my mind.
In fact, I didn't feel that it would have helped even if I had a billion won.
Perhaps because of her unhappy childhood, she was much timid and intimidated than she is now.

Erin told Mary, who was grooming my hair over the mirror on the dressing table.
"Oh no, I'm so nervous.'
" You should get used to standing in front of people, but I'm glad it rained since it's your first time. The cape will cover your face even a little bit."
Mary comforted me kindly. Erin wore a black cape over a colorful dress made of gold and green silk and lace.

As Mary said, the small woman was not noticeable.
Many people were already waiting for the ball in the rain when Erin arrived at the square in De Anh Port in a carriage with Mary. There are tents all over the square, and there are many shops selling beverages and food below.

Erin, wearing a cape under the pretext of rain, looked around. I was curious about Roan, who still didn't look for her unconsciously.

There were plenty of cages big enough for Ram to enter. Mary pointed at the cage and explained.

"Sitting alone in that cage means saving your lover."
It was obvious who ordered it. Erin blushed secretly.

Under the strict guard of the Duchess of Perka, the eyes of curious people were all focused when she got off the carriage.

The knights lined up and escorted her to the middle of the square. Band members from all over the square began to play music on the signal.

It was a hymn of love with a bright atmosphere.
"Larks, my larks. "No matter where I fly, no matter where I fly, no matter where I come back from."

The singer changed the name of the woman he loved to a lark. It was obvious whose order it was, too.

Erin, wearing a cape under the pretext of rain, looked around. I was curious about Roan, who still didn't look for her unconsciously.

I was only half a day away, but I already missed him. When did my heart become so deep? When you start to realize how much you like someone, your feelings for someone seem to deepen endlessly.

Roan walked from far away as if he had heard Erin's call. He stood out even though he was not surrounded by the Knights like when she arrived, but just walking alone in the crowd.

Even in the midst of numerous cloaks, Erin recognized him wearing the most plain black cloak at a glance. Her heart began to beat hard. The sense of wit was glad to find him.
I've done this before. It was a time when I saw so many people. Erin couldn't take her eyes off him.
With eye contact, every time Roan got one step closer, Erin's heart also hit the beat. People also welcomed the Duke with joy.

Erin approached him and stepped on him impulsively, giving him a short kiss on his lips under the cape's hat.
"Thank you for inviting me."
"Thanks are my words."
He smiled with a crooked mouth.
"I prepared a lot of words to get married, but I quit. To show my heart in life rather than all at once."

Before Erin could answer, Roan wrapped her waist and pulled her close into her arms. Oh, in surprise, he hit her on the lips roughly. Even before I felt the hot and moist lips, my soft tongue penetrated between my lips.

While gasping and breathing hard, Roan, who let her go, locked her under his arm and stared. Numerous emotions came and went through the eye contact.
I felt like I was going to be sucked into the blue eyes that showed affection only her affection.
As Erin looked up, cooling her swollen lips with her hand, Roan smiled brightly and sweetened her lips.
"Erin, marry me again..."
Hiding Erin in his arms before he's finished,

Erin took out a small box that he had hidden in his arms before his words were even finished.
"That's my answer."
Roan opened the box she shyly gave and burst into laughter. Inside the box was a key with a fine ribbon.

Firecrackers burst over the sky in time. A beautiful flame embroidered with colorful black skies revealed the future of the couple.

*****

Before I knew it, the rain stopped and the moon fell in the night sky. Sitting in a chair in a cage decorated with flowers, Erin turned her head coyly. Roan, who was hovering around outside the cage, put his hand through the bars of the cage and stabbed her in the arm.
'Open the door, my prospective wife.'
'No. Give me your password."
'Larks.'
'Wrong.'
'I love you.'
'Well, I'm wrong, but I like it.'

Roan, who raised his eyebrows, hurriedly took off his cape and threw it on the floor.
"If I keep doing this, I want to have a plunder marriage."
"You have a lot of eyes, Duke?'
" Good for you. No one will be able to take you on their back from the sight of everyone."
" Oh, my God, beast. I don't know who's the wolf's brother."

Erin made a fuss, gently touching his hand over the bars. Since it was a hint to keep the first meeting always going, Roan said quickly, shining his eyes.
"Can't you just touch it a little bit? It's because the fur is pretty."
"Wow, correct!"
Erin grabbed the bars with both hands and poked out her face, and Roan, who patted her head, giggled.

"You told me not to bite you back then, but I say the opposite. Bite me."
"Oh, you're talking dirty."
"You must have taken my sperm out of the drawer, too, ma'am."
Roan, who opened the cage door, rushed inside and hugged Erin. Bowing in a narrow cage, he sat on a chair, hugged her and shared a long kiss.

The expression of the knights standing guard around the cage turned one by one like a withered apple.
When others were resting, they were surprised by the word "three times per person" and claimed to be a security guard.

They had to walk the path of asceticism for a long time, closing their eyes to the cringy love affair of the prospective couple, covering their ears, covering their mouth with sighs.

The Moonlight Festival was hot and grand to greet the coming summer. Duke Perka's huge firecrackers embroidered the sky all night long, revealing his courtship to the whole world.

***

 

So her memories never return?

 

She remember little by little, sometime its happen in her dream, sometime its happen when she doing the same thing as she done in the past.

Spoiler: Part 14. For me, Duke. 17

A dreamy atmosphere filled the room with a group of warm orange lights flowing from candles everywhere.
The atmosphere was exuded. Outside the window, colorful fireworks exploded, reflecting the lover's in-young lying on the bed, burst into laughter, reflecting the image of a lover lying on the bed.

Roan hugged Erin's shoulder and kissed her lips, cheeks, and forehead alternately. Then, without saying anything first, the two preciously wrapped their faces around each other and exchanged deep, sticky kisses.

"Roan."
The face of the man who looked up at Erin's call and made eye contact was so wonderful. Such a beautiful man becomes my husband.
He would love, love and love her more passionately and blindly than the main character in the novel she had dreamed of all her life.

Erin was moved and moved at the moment, and her eyes were all hot. Roan stroked her arms as if she wanted to confirm all of her things, and bit her fingers gently. His constant touching of her seemed to melt the whole body hotly.

"Roan,"
Erin called again, frowning, kissed his forehead and whispered.
"I want to be with you a little longer."
"Did you all spend your vacation like this?" Roan, who had never taken his eyes off her, slowly turned to the ceiling. It was a more definite answer than words.

You look cool even when you're awkward. Erin looked up admiringly at his manly but delicate appearance.
Suddenly, I thought he was going to put strength in his chin, but Roan, who turned his eyes back, looked at her and grumbled.

"I just wanted to be with you all night without anyone interrupting me. Of course at first."
Laughing impatiently low, he pulled something out of his arms and shook it before her.
It was the key that she gave me as the answer to her proposal.
"But you gave me this."

For a moment, each other's eyes met in the air. And when he was given his hot stare, Erin was as thirsty as he was, his mouth was dry and his lower abdomen was lumpy and heated and engulfed in a strange heat.

Roan wants himself. The expression, eyes, and hand gestures showed desire.
Dreuk, his regular salt, who was released freely after the drawer opened, felt like he was gesturing sweetly. She wants him, too.

Erin promised him the past, the present, and the eternal future. There is no need or reason to wait for each other so much when they want each other so badly.
Already, Roan has been waiting for her for too long. Erin touched the key with her fingertips and smiled openly and replied.

'A deal?'
he tried to sound like his usual joke, but his voice trembled. Her face was about to turn red, but Roan answered sincerely.
'Of course. I bet everything on me.'
'I bet everything on you, too."

Erin bit his fingers into her lips as he did.
Roan, who looked into her eyes for a while, groaned and buried her lips on the back of her neck. And slide your lips to the neck.
After brushing her shoulders with her neckline, she pressed down as if she was stamping on her dress.
'Here?'
'Yes.'
"Here?'
'Yes, ...yes.'
The heat from where the hot lips touched to every corner of the body was strange and ecstatic.

When Erin touched his chest, feeling at a loss, Roan, whose hands overlapped on the back of her hand, laughed and joked.
"Do you want to touch it? How fast my heart is beating right now"
It was what he said because he was drunk. Roan's expression was as sexy as it was then, so her heart was strangely excited.

"Yes, I want to touch it."
Erin unbuttoned his shirt awkwardly with trembling hands. When the wide, solid breasts were revealed, She patted the bottom of her collarbone with her fingertips. He had no fat at all. He seemed to be hard.

The body was as elegant as a delicate piece, and the skin was smooth and hot. As she was savoringly sweeping his chest, she held her palm still and touched the sound of his heart.

Roan also touched her heart over the dress. The vibrations of his fast-running heart were connected to hers and seemed to flutter together at this moment.
'I'm so nervous before I do anything.'
'Oh, you don't look like it at all.'
'It's because of your usual disciplined bravado.'
'Can you lend me that?'

Roan, who laughed low, threw off all my clothes. The body of a man like an elaborate statue made her embarrassed enough to not be able to look straight at, while it was also familiar like a dream.

Erin slowly carved her darkly shaded body into his eyes because he turned against the lamp.
"Erin."
As the button on the tight dress loosened and loosened, Erin shook her body and closed her eyes tightly.
I felt awkward and embarrassed when I was bare, even before I cringe, Roan wrapped her waist in one arm and hugged her.

Hugging her big, ample heart, she gasped. The man's bitter and hot body felt blatantly, and it seemed as if he was shaking his soul with unfamiliar excitement.

As Roan was soothing, he slowly patted her dry back with his big hand and overlapped her body. Erin, who looked as if she had been possessed by a wide and solid upper body that was completely exposed, suddenly gave a sad sigh.

"Oh, Roan."
On the other side of his heart, a finger-sized scar caught his eye. When I was young, I realized belatedly that it was an arrow mark that was hit by an assassin.

Erin, who was heartbroken at the moment, drew a scar with her fingertip and put her lips impulsively. Roan, who had been flinching and hardened, gave a deep sigh, held her back of the head, and kissed as if to suck the saliva.

"I don't care anymore. You don't have to worry."
His lips, heated with a kiss, swept the neckline, suffered from the collarbone, and lightly washed the tenderness of his pulse.
"Haha."
When she grabbed the sheet without realizing it and groaned, Roan grabbed her hand and pressed the pod, lowering his lips further down. His moist and soft tongue drew a small circle along her chest line and rolled up the small raised loss.
Erin trembled greatly at the dizzying sensation of making her mind white.

"Ah!"
"It's all right."
Unlike her meltingly sweet voice, he repeatedly jolted, rolling her two threads alternately in her mouth. As his caress deepened, the deeper inside his body, which he had never been aware of, began to be infested. Roan's sweet senses seemed to overflow inside.

All she had in her world was the sense he gave her now, and she wanted him even more.
"Roan······."
Erin shuddered and stuck her body close to him.
Roan soothedly stroked her flat lower abdomen and slowly slid her hand down. His fingers swept the blunt force covered by a heated conspiracy, dug through the wheat paper, and carefully touched the secret place. Erin realized that the center of his hand was soaked.

"Huh..."
Feeling unfamiliar, she sobbed tearfully, and Roan pulled her hand down to her alter ego.
"It's okay, I'm adding."
Erin opened her eyes wide to the naked desire of the man in her hand. His veins were exceptionally bulging, hot, hard, and very large.
"Ummm..."

When her hands were strengthened in surprise, Roan frowned and groaned into her throat. The feeling of swelling and getting harder at her touch.
Her touch made me feel as if it were connected to her rising wheat.

Eyes met and no one said anything first, the two put their bodies close together. Roan gently pushed his long finger into her vagina.
"Ah..."

As the hot place inside was gently and carefully torn, Erin shook her head and bit her lips. It was so clear that the wet and flowing love juice wrapped his fingers tightly around him.
She sobbed as she instinctively wrapped her legs around her own. The stimulus, which started deep inside, heated the lower abdomen and spread a sharp sense all over the body, which seemed to happen right away.
Roan hugged her waist and patted her slim leg carefully, then frowned heavily.

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"It must hurt."
The deep concern in his voice made Erin nods willingly. Roan looked nervous and slowly pushed her back.
As the pelvis opened, something hot and hard dug into the place that had never been opened.

"Argh!"
Erin screamed unknowingly in the torn gallbladder. I was in shudder pain as if my legs were burning.
"Does it hurt a lot?"
Roan, who immediately stopped moving, asked with a perplexing voice. I tried to say something, but I couldn't remember the right words because of the pain.
When Erin, who grabbed the sheet, just stomped and breathed, Roan swept her tearful eyes.
"Shall we stop?"
His voice was a deep regret, but he tried to bite him back as if he would step down right away. Erin shook her head and held his arm tightly.
I was prepared, but it hurt a lot more than I expected. But instinctively, I knew that if I put up with this, I would have extreme pleasure. And most of all, I wanted him so badly now.

"I don't want to stop."
And when Erin said it in a determined way, Roan, who was staring at her in trouble, kissed her on the lips.
He caressed every inch of his heart with great care. The sweet sensation of melting at the tip of his soft tongue slowly pushed the pain away. When Erin relaxed from her body, Roan whispered with his lips together.

"Sorry, I'd rather get used to it quickly."
As soon as Erin nodded, he quickly took his waist back and hit it again.
"Giggle-."
The inside contracted painfully as if trying to push away his alter ego, which was digging inside. However, Erin bit her lips and swallowed a groan.
Roan frowned heavily as if he were feeling her pain. Biting her teeth so tightly that her jaw was swollen, she continued to move her back, poking her lips together all over her face. The pain subsided at a rapid pace due to the movement to dig quickly and widen the inside.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
At one point, whenever his alter ego, which stirred the inside, reached the depths, a sense of lowness came to him.

The shiver that spread around the wheat paper spread a mysterious sensation from head to toe. Her sense of ecstasy grew bigger and bigger, stirring and shaking her whole body.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."
As Erin now shuddered in a different sense, Roan, who stopped moving for a while, asked, sweeping her flat belly affectionately on the back of her hand.
"Are you okay now?"
"Yeah. It's okay. Uh-huh, no. It's too hot inside."
"Oh, my God."

Roan smiled brightly, spreading his deep-cut forehead. While Erin was possessed by the laughter, he buried his lips in her chest and completely removed her alter ego. Then she mumbled, stroking her face.
"Sorry, I'm running out of bravado."
"...What? Ouch!"
Before I could understand what he meant, he moved his back wide and put his genitals violently in the push. Although the small body was so strong that it was pushed back, Roan grabbed her by the waist and pulled her closer to me. While Erin was breathing hard due to the strong shock of internal penetration, Roan continued to stab her inside.
"Oh, there you go, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Roan, who found Erin's unusually shudder,
He sucked in his chest, moved his back, and persistently dug up and down. Every time he inserted violently, his whole body came up and became dizzying as if he were falling.

Only the original instinct remained, and the five senses became extremely sensitive, and every stimulus turned into pleasure. Roan's cool body odor mixed with sweat, smooth skin wet, breathing sound rough, sweet kisses, eyes filled with joy because of her, and Erin accepted, felt and enjoyed every hairline of her body as if it had become a sex band.

"Yes, Roan. Roan!"
She grabbed him by the shoulder and bit him with her arms in line with his movements. The endless overflow of pleasure was driving me crazy. She groaned and called him out because she thought her whole body would melt away from the wet center.

"Erin , Erin ."
He grabbed her hips and pulled her in as if he was going to root her genitals.
"Hahhhhhaha!"
The narrow interior is tightly packed with his. The head was tilted back and the back was bent greatly due to the electrifying waves hitting the inside.
At the same time, Roan stiffened his flinching shoulders and put his forehead on her forehead. This sensation, this feeling of being one, was more thrilling and intense than any stimulus ever experienced.

"...my woman, my wife."
Erin elongated his lips when he mumbled as if they were choked together.
Roan was so awkward that he wanted to share both his words and breath.
"Thanks to you, I feel like I'm in this world now."

Roan's eyes, which slowly looked up and looked down at her, were wet with water. Erin smiled happily, sweeping his eyes with her fingertips.

"I think I was born again in this world thanks to you."
Erin, who buried her nose in his sweaty chest, added with sincerity.

"Thank you for letting me live in such a beautiful and full world."
Roan crumbled breathlessly and hugged her. Erin held him tight on the back, too. In each other's arms, memories of the past, memories of the present, and promises of the future were mixed brilliantly.

Throughout the night, their own rituals of promising eternal companionship continued.

*****

For a year after Mercia's defeat in the war, there has been a series of unconventional news in the Mercian Empire. At its center was the Duke of Roan Alexei Perka, the younger cousin and right-hand man of the emperor, nicknamed "The Messenger of the Sea."

The duke was perfect in all conditions, including wealth, power, status, and appearance, and there was nothing lacking. However, his personality was cranky, perhaps because he inherited his parents' titles at a girls' high school early on.

The duke, who refused to participate in the war caused by the emperor, took the lead in ending the war and pretended to be the imperial palace. Sure.

The power of the duke, who gained enormous wealth by reviving the duke as a trading center, surpassed the imperial palace.

In the imperial palace and the noble family, the duke was known as a rude and insolent exile, but his actions were huge enough to keep the noble family nervous every day.

The Duke of Perka suddenly announced his engagement. The woman who would become a duchess was a commoner from another country, and she was strongly opposed by the nobility in the empire. However, the duke did not care at all and even married her. The shock of the noble family, who did not hesitate to criticize it as destroying the status system, did not go away easily, but that was not the end.

All women dreamed of proposing, and the duke practiced himself day after day, shaking the hearts of women throughout the country.

For the woman to become his wife, the duke laid rose petals on the road from the gate to her room. Three days and nights, there was a constant parade of wagons full of silk for her. The musicians hired by the Duke played serenade for a month.

The price of jewelry in the country soared without knowing that it was high because of all the jewelry that the Duke bought in bulk as a wedding gift.

Although the grand wedding was over, she became the Duchess of Erin Perka from Erin Otia, the center of rumors in the country.

However, she disappeared and did not come out of the castle. The shy Duchess of Perka is known for her small body and common brown hair.


*****

End chapter.
Ehem.. Since this spoiler is their first night so pardon me if im being rude.

 

Spoiler: Part 15. I love you, Duke. 1

"I don't want to admit it, but I don't want you to be a duchess."
Lying on the sofa, Roan narrows his eyes and crosses his horse as if he were grumbling.
He was looking disapprovingly at Erin, who was practicing walking with a book on his head.
However, as she was concentrating on walking, she did not even give him a look and responded as if it was not a big deal. "Oh, I'm late. I can't get bitten because I've already held a wedding and reported it to the law office."
"You know what I mean, I'm bitten."
Roan, who was persistently staring at her, wriggled her eyebrows fiercely.
Erin said she would become an unashamed duchess, so she was busy studying history and manners day and night.
And I took some time to study commercial.
In addition, I grew mushrooms.

Before the wedding, I was busy preparing for the wedding and refurbishing the detached house, and at the time of the wedding, because of the long and long wedding, and now I'm feeling better, so this is what happened.

'Why the hell are you busier than I am?'
Roan blamed himself for the past when Erin accused him of lacking aristocratic skills. He finally realized how fed up he was with the pretense of nobility.

The lady's pretentious way of speaking and behavior did not suit Erin at all. Erin couldn't be better 'now'.
Roan didn't want her to change at all. He murmured with remorse.
"I thought he was out of his mind and didn't teach me anything, but you were my cup of tea."
"What? What do you mean he?" asked Erin, who dropped the book while looking back at him.
Roan, who jumped up, kicked the book far away, then grabbed her wrist and faced her.
And he kissed on the forehead and whispered.
"I like you to walk distractingly often."
"……Distracted?"
"I like the way you talk like a bird. It's childish, but it's like you."
"Well, no matter how much I hear it, I don't know if your words are praise or curse."
"It means I like it the most."

Erin, who looked at him suspiciously, shook her head in Roan's arms sitting on the sofa. "But the celebration of Mercia's founding day is not far off. I don't want to be scratched just on the spot."

Roan, who secretly stroked her neck and kissed her, frowned.
'Who dares to find fault with Duchess Perka?'
"Not in front, but behind the scenes.'
'You don't have to mind what you say behind you. The nobility is the ones who were born to find fault with others anyway."
"You must have forgotten, but you are the most aristocratic of all."

"That's why I, the highest aristocrat, tell you. "You don't have to spend any precious time pretending to be an aristocrat."

Erin looked at him for a moment and shrugged her shoulders. At first glance, it was a very cold word, but Roan's meaning was clear. It meant that it was impossible to be seen well by noble families who put birth status first. You don't have to do that. It was convincing enough to reflect on the aristocrats' strong opposition to the marriage of the two.

As soon as Roan announced his marriage to her, a native of another country and a commoner, after the festival, the nobles fiercely protested, calling it a destruction of the status system or pollution of imperial blood.
Laurence even told me that most noble families would not attend the wedding and sent a petition to the palace.
However, Roan put various pressures on opposing families, raising taxes and tightening the purse strings, as he had prepared in advance.

Then in time the emperor abdicated, citing the defeat of the Continental War. The Crown Prince, who ascended to the throne, announced in his official appearance that he was celebrating Duke Perka's marriage.

At least on the outside, the resistance of the noble family disappeared. But Laurence sighed and added that Roan had not yet taken the knife from the opposing families. Thanks to you, work is not decreasing.

"That's why I don't want others to find fault as a duchess,"
Roan, who was looking at Erin's expression of concern, said clearly.
"And it's good to be a duchess, but above all, 'Madam' should come first."
"You're always my top priority."
It's all for your sake to try and save your face right now.
When Erin, who was a little upset, swallowed the rest of the horse and replied, Roan frowned.
"I'm your number one priority? I've been running all the way to work, but I haven't given you an eye."
"Well, the aide asked me to let him work just today.'
"You're such a tough nut. I could have worked without going on my honeymoon. If it comes out like this, I'll cancel my wedding leave."

"No, your assistant is in a hurry for her wedding in two months. Mary's looking forward to it."

It's still daytime and there's a lot of work left to do, but of course, there's no way you don't like the sweet joy of sharing with him.

Erin laughed and shook her head and wrapped her arms around Roan's neck. His hot, soft tongue glided into her mouth. Then she immediately clasped her tongue and sucked it up.
Roan seduced her sweetly as if she were melting down, but she always began with a rough and violent kiss when she got consent.
"Oh..."
When Erin shook his body to flinch with the pain of pulling his tongue, Roan gently patted his cheek as if he was sorry. However, the kiss deepened and his tongue persistently indulged deeper inside. As Roan let go for a while as if his thirst had eased, Erin, who took a breath for a while, bit his lips slightly. And he washed his lips and suffered from a soft mucous membrane as he did, turning back his Kisses.
The kiss with Roan may now be familiar, but the taste and sensitivity were different at the time. Sometimes it's like a fragrant fruit in the sun, and it's a poison that's distracting.
Sometimes it feels like a drink. Now there is a sweet orange scent.
Roan, who was going to hold her on my lap and lay her on the sofa, paused.
"Why are you so light? Did you lose weight?" "It looks the same to me."

Roan, who was holding Erin's wrist with a serious look, kicked his tongue.
"You're a little thin. It's a pity that I'm already small, but what if I lose weight?"
"Don't you like that I'm skinny?"'

I want it to be tight and heavy in my arms,' Erin said jokingly, leaning against his arms. 'Then your lark is too heavy to fly.'
'I know. You shouldn't fly, you're busy now, where are you going to leave me behind?'

Erin, who was laughing at his words, briefly looked at his head when he felt a sense of intimidation.
"Oh, I think we've had this conversation before. Did you hate me losing weight in the past?"
"I said something similar before the wedding. You lost too much weight because of your wedding dress."
The embarrassed Erin blushed slightly. Just a few months ago, he/she adjusted his/her diet to match his/her waist-length wedding dress, but Roan chased him/her with sweets and cocoa and tortured him/her, not torture.
I can't believe you've been beaten like that and forgotten about it.
"I'm confused because I often dream these days."
The memories of Erin's past, which had been dormant by her unconscious mind, were constantly flooded like waves.
It was so vivid that it was often confused with reality as it is now.
Surprisingly, however, all I remember was Roan. Juliana said it was because she was influenced by her magical contractor, Roan.

Roan, who had been stroking Erin's wrists, arms, and collarbones with frowns, bit and put his lips as if he were punishing them.

"I told you then, but if you lose weight for ridiculous reasons, you'll be angry."
If I lost weight, I felt like I lost weight because I got busy these days. But with the prospect of not saying it, Erin turned it around like a joke.

 

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But with the prospect of not saying it, Erin turned it around like a joke.
"Oh, I couldn't imagine you'd be mad at me before marriage. Lovers and husbands are different, too.'
'It can't be different. Because you have always been my wife to me. Whatever you do, it's fine, but you can't hurt yourself at all."

"Well, you look like bitter chocolate with alcohol in it."
"What kind of metaphor is that?"
"It's very sweet, bitter, and there's no middle ground. But it was strangely delicious, so I got drunk after eating a lot."

Roan, who kissed her forehead and laughed, crushed her shoulder.
"It's only your cup of tea that I'm your type. Whenever I was under the spell, I changed as you wanted. To be loved by you. I got used to copying it."

"Then why was the magic solved?"
"Honestly, I don't know either. At first, I thought it was because of your eyes and tears, but it wasn't. Perhaps every time you truly accepted me, following my wishes, the magic was lifted."

Erin, who had been chewing on his words for a while, shook his head excitedly.
"The more I love you, the more magic I unraveled, the more I revealed my original personality? What should I do?"
"Well, what?"

I spoke casually and frankly.Erin, embarrassed, turned around and slightly tucked his finger in his mouth as Roan did. Roan, who was urging an answer, stiffened his flinching body and grabbed her wrist and pressed it on the sofa.

"That's good. I don't have to be shy anymore because I know my personality well."
Roan, who had been eyeing her, smiled with his eyes. As if asking for your understanding in advance.

While Erin was in the middle of a laugh, his rattling tongue poked around the neck and slipped to her collarbone.
She closed her eyes tightly with the thrill of spreading all over her body.

'It's going to be a bit of a pain today.'
'What?'
'I was very upset because I was shunned by you. I'll never let you go until my heart calls."

Roan made making love in bed similar to kissing. She melted her with all kinds of soft caresses and whispers, and drove her violently from the peak.

It's usually like that, but if you say it like this. When Erin couldn't find anything to say back to and her mouth was open blankly, her sweet but persistent lips swallowed all of her lips.

*****

'How many times has the season changed and why is my mushroom the same?'

Erin crouched down and looked at the cute mushrooms. Tooth Jen-don is not the problem, but there is a sense of arrogance. I'll make sure to see the grandchildren of these mushrooms. Erin gently sprayed the manure she had prepared and used to the badge.

"You were happy that you weren't taking etiquette lessons, so here you are you?"
With a low voice, she turned around and saw Roan with a horse whip leaning against the greenhouse door.

When Erin's eyes met, he folded his eyes and laughed, but his eyes were not good enough to see how it was. As Roan strode toward him, Erin blocked the front of him, fearing that he would take off the hat of the mushroom as before.

"Don't bother me. They're like my children.'
'I don't like it.'
"You're going to bother me?"
"I don't like it. If it's your child, it's mine, but it's small for my children. Is it because I look like you?"

"No, they're small now, but they're going to grow up and sow their own seeds like playboys."
Roan, who looked dumb, kissed her forehead and listened to the whip.

"If you want to build a true aristocratic knowledge, you can use it for practice."
"Riding horses?"
"I'll teach you personally, so you'll be honored. Because no one can follow me from the west."
His kindness slowly faded from Erin's face. I knew well that Roan was a teacher just by studying commercial together.
When Erin looked at him with a tired face, she approached him with a grumpy-looking smile and reached out his hand.

"It's my fault. Please stop,'
Erin begged with a sad look. But Roan pulled her horse's reins and handed it over in a minor way.
'There's not a nail in the horse, but it's not wrong.'
'But it's too scary!'
'Horse?'
'No, Your Grace!'
Erin recalled an afternoon of riding lessons. SHe had to repeat the same pose hundreds of times and was nagged by Roan every time.
Listening to the same thing hundreds of times, I felt like I was going to get stuck in my ears. His strictness as a teacher was no match for commercial studies.

Roan frowned, holding her firmly down from the horse.
"You're scared of me? Did I get angry at you without realizing it?"
"No, you'd rather get angry. Please know that I'm not doing what you taught me, but I'm not good at it."
"Never. If you get the basic posture wrong, there's no danger."

Erin turned her head and murmured quietly, avoiding his sharp eyes.
"Then I'll learn from another teacher."
'No, I can't see you with someone else.'
'I'll ask Yuri.'

Roan frowned when Erin mentioned the youngest of the group.
"I don't think I'm the only teacher.'
" Your relationship with me is a married couple, not a teacher and a disciple.'
'But you only scold me or have two things.'

As Roan was stabbed, Erin held her hand with both hands as if she were begging. Roan, who raised his hand and kissed her alternately on the back of both hands, grumbled low.
'I feel like I'm losing money.'
'What?'
'I thought we could always be together when we get married, but you're thinking about something else.'
"What?'
"Yes, you do as you please.'

As Erin looked embarrassed, Roan kissed her on the forehead.
"Then I'll go to work and see you at dinner."
His voice was as soft as ever. But why is my back chilling? When Erin let go of his hand, which he had grabbed in a hurry, Roan, who smiled open, went away.

Looking at his back, Erin realized belatedly. That her husband was angry.

*****

'I don't think you're just angry because you don't want to learn from your highness.'

Come to think of it, Roan seemed to be in a bad mood from the greenhouse. Erin thought hard and asked Mary, who brushed my hair carefully, over the mirror on the dressing table.

'Do you think I've been neglecting you lately?'
'Your Grace? No way."
"Your Highness seemed not to say that I was too busy during the day,"

Mary stopped combing and looked suspicious.
"But you're always with me. There's already been a lot of rumors that your wife and your wife's gold thread are so good."

"Oh, is that what you heard?"
Erin, who was smiling for a moment with joy, recalled Roan again and became sullen. To put it into perspective, the reason why Erin was busy was all because of Roan.

I wake up late because they rarely let me sleep at night. Then the day was very short. SHe missed the morning and had to take etiquette and liberal arts education and study commercial during the day.

It is for the sake of the dignity of Gong, and commercial studies are what Roan expects from her. Erin had never lived so busy in her life.
It would be nice to wake up early along Roan, but I couldn't keep up with his stamina, which only slept for three or four hours.
'I just want to be the right wife for you. I think I'm still lacking in effort, so I'll try harder!'

Erin failed to reach a conclusion of her worries and only strengthened her will. Then she crosses the horse, patting Mary on the back of her hand.
"Mary, I know you're busy preparing for your wedding, but you're done handing over your work to another maid."

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'No way. It's one of my favorite things to do to get my wife's hair done."
Mary must be busy preparing for her wedding, but Mary was not negligent in serving Erin.

Roan came into the bedroom when Erin, who was sorry and grateful, smiled at Mary. When Mary left the room, he took Erin's hand and led her to the bed.
'Roan,' Erin asked cautiously, glancing instead of answering.
"Are you upset?"
His eyes were strangely subdued at dinner, as usual. The same was true now, but Roan hugged her affectionately and asked her back as if nothing had happened.
"Why would I?"

Erin snorted in his arms leaning against the bed and breathed in her breath.
'I'll stop studying commercial.'
"Why? You wanted to.'"
"Just. I don't think I need it now."

When Erin tried to slip over, Roan laid her down, put her hands on both sides of her head, and looked down.
"You seem to misunderstand something, but I don't like it when you overdo it.'
'But if I don't overdo it, I can't be a duchess.'

'I don't want that and get married.'
" I'm married to the duke, so I have to be the right person for the job.'"
When Erin looked up straight at him, he bowed his head and put his forehead together.
'You're getting very complicated.'
'Why?'
"Because my wife and my woman have different desires."
"So I'm trying to be the same person."

Roan gently patted her rich hair as if to comfort her.
"Honestly, it's my greed.'
" Desire?'
'I thought marriage would do everything, but no.'
Erin covered her face with both hands as she looked at his face getting serious.
Roan, who turned hed head and kissed as if he was sucking the tender skin of his wrist, smiled.

"I'll be honest with you. I don't like to see you in front of other people."
'What?'
'I especially hate that you're taking your time to care about the eyes of the unbecoming aristocrats."
" Well, the butler once said, When I was young, my lord kept it hidden the more he liked it and enjoyed it alone. Is that so?"

A strange frowning Roan laughed in vain. His ears turned red when he looked closely.
"When did the butler start grilling? You're talking about everything."
"I begged him to do it. I wanted to hear about your childhood."
'You can ask me yourself.'
'Well, you're so bluffing... So I don't know where it's true... "

Roan kissed deeply on her lips with a smile as Erin grumbled softly, barely audible.
'Because you're small, you're more greedy.'
"Small makes you want to be greedy?"
"It's easy to hide. I want to see myself in my arms."
"Roan, it's very strange when you hear it wrong."
"I know. Sometimes I think I'm crazy, too."

Erin suddenly frowned at his eyes.
"Well, I don't like it when other ladies see you. His eyes were glaring at what he was imagining."
"Slap?"
'Your majesty's mood has been soft and languid lately.'
"When did you do that?"
"In the dressing room last week. I went to see Mary's dress and heard the women chatting."

Erin recalled a group of noble ladies praising Roan and smeared their lips. Therefore, there is a reason why I took the liberal arts class harder.
I wanted to press down on the women's nose like I can see from Roan's side.
Don't you dare look over this man because he's my man.
Erin mumbled half jokingly and half serious. "He's a little less handsome. It's too popular for nothing.'
'What are you talking about? I was chosen by you for this face."
"Then what was I chosen by you?"
"This hair? Once entangled, you can't get out of it."
Roan mischievously patted her hair.

"If you're going to quit, quit your liberal arts class anyway. I'm so determined to do business with my country."
"You're going to make me do it? Your Grace, I'm very sorry. And I'm telling you that the best relationship between me and my wife is the same"

Erin, who was thinking of Lawrence's face, which became a reflection every time he went to the office to report, was horrified.

"Oh, Roan. No matter how much I said no, you didn't grab my hair, did you?"
Roan kicked his tongue while moving his hand at her low scream.
"It's not time to joke.'
" What?'
"I got a wedding ring tangled in my hair."

Damn it, Roan chewed the curse in his mouth. When Erin opened her eyes wide, he looked closely and giggled, shaking his shoulders.
"That's a hell of a hair. It's just like you. I can't get out of the wrong place.'
'Roan, don't laugh like that. Can you solve it well this time? What? Can't you cut something like last time?"

Erin, anxious to recall the past, urged me to answer, but only after a long laugh did he get tangled hair began to solve She was holding her breath with her head out, but she ended up laughing out loud.

My daily life with Roan was new and enjoyable. It's like living in a different world. Did you say it felt like you were forced to throw it into heaven? After getting married, Erin seemed to know that feeling now.

*****

Along with the annexes, the residence of the Duke and his wife, the library of this mansion was one of the major changes in the castle.
Erin used a small study-like room in the middle of a large library as her own office.
Erin, who was looking at a book piled up on the desk, gave a long sigh.

"I can't believe you're in charge of the business, so I think Roan's expecting too much from me."

Eventually, she stopped studying liberal arts except for the required etiquette classes. It was dizzying to think of what Roan expected for a moment that he was happy to be freed from studying with only a headache.

knock, knock

Lawrence with papers in his arms came in. Erin crossed the horse after receiving his greetings.
'Your Grace is not here.'
'I'm here to get approval from the wife.'
'For me?'

Lawrence replied, putting the documents down on the desk with a emaciated face.
"Your Highness said that the charitable sector would hand over its authority to his wife, didn't you know?"
"What? Charitable work?"

Erin, who opened her eyes, was astonished by alternating piles of documents and Lawrence. It would have been better to take liberal arts classes.
Ahn knew what was inside and didn't know what she was looking at and putting a huge amount of responsibility on her. She hated it and waved her hand.
"I can't. I don't know anything. What would I do?"

When Erin pushed the document to the end of the desk as if it were a dangerous substance, Lawrence stepped back in front of her on the road as if she were running away toward the door.

"I'm just following the orders."
"Tell someone else to leave it to you."
"Your Highness says you're the right person. You can't trust anyone in the charity sector because they're so lucky. Well, then I'll go now."
I would have nagged at least briefly if I were a regular fastidious Lawrence, but seeing him in such a hurry, he looked busy. It would be better than me who knows nothing.

Just as Erin was about to protest, he hurriedly said hello and left the room. She gazed blankly and sighed long as she looked at the document.
"Why aren't you coming? I've been waiting."

I was rummaging through the papers when Roan opened the door to Vulcull and came in.
Erin got up from her seat and answered quietly.
'I have a hunch that if I ask you to step down, I'll take on more work.'
"That's not funny. I was expecting you to whine with your overwhelming, biting eyes."
Roan, sitting at his desk, murmured low.
"You don't want to see me cry, do you?"

 

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"There are so many ways to be a great Duchess. I'm just presenting you the way. "Your crying face is just an incidental pleasure."
In the end, Roan said he wanted to see her face whining because she was overwhelmed by the passing of the work. When Erin spilled, he added, shrugging his shoulders.
"It's also a process of finding common interests between you and me."
"Was it such a huge scale of finding common interests?"
"I'm not a normal person."

Is it an illusion that Roan's bluff is developed specifically?
When Erin pouted her lips, he explained, covering her cheek gently and looking around her face.
"Anyway, the details are done by your subordinates, and you have to make a final decision. Only people can do it well. It's very easy. You're the only one who doesn't want to pay me around, so I'm the right person."

"Oh, is that so? That must be true."
Laughing and nodding, Erin grabbed his hand and bit his finger.
"That can't be true. Are you sure you're going to do this?"
Ugh, Roan, who groaned low, grumbled.
'Did you just die?'
"Yes, but I want to hurt you, but my heart hurts more.'

He smiled, wiping her lips with his fingertips first, without pretending to see my left hand.
"You shouldn't be sick. Should I pretend to be sicker? Would that make you feel better?"
Erin went blank for a moment. This is because the sense of wit was strong.
"Oh, this has happened. The place was a greenhouse. It's not the first time I've bit your hand."
Roan also briefly remembered and raised his eyebrows.
"Why do I have to remember him?"
"Don't call me that. I'm feeling pretty bad."

Erin copied his expression and put his hand on my waist.
'I'm doing this to me, why?'
'I know. You can only curse at me. You can't either," said Erin, who raised her chin, snorted Roan lightly on her forehead.

'Don't stand by him.'
'It's all you?'
'No. Just focus on me in front of you."
Erin, who was speechless, only pouted her lips.
Roan, who wrapped her face in both hands, kissed her by surprise. "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
In an instant, hot lips swallowed her lips as if they were breathing violently. Erin, who grabbed him by the arm with a breathtaking kiss, soon returned the kiss.
After a long kiss, Roan whispered with his lips together.
"What's the taste of a kiss now?"

It was a question about Erin's passing words that the taste of a kiss he shares with him is different every time. She answered while pretending to be lost in thought.
"Taste of salty chocolate.'
" What is it?'
"It must taste like a man's jealousy.'
'It's not spicy, and my jealousy is barely salty? Why don't you taste it again?"

Roan was just hugging her..
Yaoong-
The cat's long cry was heard out of the blue through the open door of the study.
'Oh my!'

Surprised, Erin unknowingly pushed Roan away and looked up. The cat sitting in front of the door looked at them with amber eyes and cried once again, meowing sharply.
"Oh, Thomas."
Erin, who escaped from Roan's arms, happily hugged his cat Thomas.

A small piece of paper was tied to a silver necklace around the cat's neck like a ribbon. It was the origin of Juliana.

***

The view of the forest in full spring was beautiful. The green, green leaves have become darker, greenish, and the flowers of natural colors gradually embroidered the mountains.
"It's your mother-in-law's birthday soon. I'm sorry that my honeymoon was delayed because of the Emperor's coronation. You must miss your mother."
She suddenly opened her mouth as if she remembered Roan, who was driving a horse and looking at the scenery with Erin sitting in front of her.

Erin, who was thinking of Sophia's tomb just in time for the spring flowers, replied brightly.
"It's okay. Your Grace sends people to take good care of the grave. And I'll be there after Mary's wedding."
"Speaking of which, I have instructed you to lock the door of the house."
"Thank you."
"I could move the whole house of Sylbourne if I wanted to, but Erin, who was lost in thought for a moment, shook his head small," he said,
"Thanks for your words. I think it's good to leave memories as memories."
As if comforting, Roan, who kissed her neck, reached out and pointed to the forest in the distance.
"That's the Witch's Forest," Erin, who had been looking closely at the forest for a long time, murmured sadly as she looked back at Roan.
"Why live alone in the woods alone? I wish you could live with us."
"I'm your aunt, so I'll refrain from giving you details, but I've always had a unique taste."

Erin met Juliana often, but she had never been to her residence. Juliana came to the castle whenever she wanted, so the place we meet is always the ball.
It was written. She only said that she didn't want people to come where she lives.

However, Yulia left only one line in the note she sent through Thomas.
Roan, who was opening the note as if suspicious, complained and emptied his schedule the very next day.

Roan, who used to treat Juliana as a witch before the wedding, was polite to her at the wedding.
Erin's family also called Juliana their only blood relative to themselves. In other words, the abdicated emperor or the now crowned emperor was blood to him, but Roan called the palace an enemy.

When the emperor, who was wandering around the periphery, died of a disease that would be very useful, he was forced to refrain from any condolences in the west, let alone attend the funeral.
The same was true of Erin. Sadaguk has relatives or two brothers, but I have never thought of them as blood.
Those who have been strangers since childhood have been worse than others since they learned about the past.
"From here, we have to walk."

I reached the entrance of the forest. First, Roan, who jumped from the horse, grabbed Erin's waist and lowered him. As soon as she put her foot on the ground, there was a strong wind as if she had waited.

Roan grabbed Erin's waist and lowered it. As soon as she put her foot on the ground, there was a strong wind as if she had waited.
Shootaaa-
Just like invisible people whispering, the trees in the forest made a dreary sound. Because of the thick trees, the sun was not shining, and the forest, which was intertwined with the sinks, looked somewhat insidious.
Erin murmured as she looked over the path hidden by the grass.
'Now I can see why people are reluctant to come here.'
'Don't you remember this place?'
"I think I've been here before, but I can't believe what I did.'
Roan, who squinted and looked at the forest and Erin alternately, hugged her.
"I love you, Erin."
"Me, too."

Though he did not know English, Erin answered silently, holding him in his arms. Roan, who had been hugging her for a long time and kissing her face from place to place, held her hand and led her.

I answered back. Roan, who had been hugging her for a long time and kissing her face from place to place, held her hand and led her.
"Let's go now."

Juliana's log cabin was covered in a blackish mist. Yuliana, who was waiting in the yard with a long spatula, ran to welcome the Duchess.
"Operating, Duchess. Thank you for coming a long way," asked Roan, who took the place of the silent greeting.
"Can't you tell me what it is?"
But Juliana, who guided them into the house, smiled and answered casually.

"I'm here because I missed you. It's when mushrooms taste the best. More than anything, it's good for men's sperm."

"All of a sudden?"

Why does this witch tell me that she's Jung Yum? Roan stared at Juliana smiling, but she pretended not to know and led Erin to show the inside of the log cabin.

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I stared at Juliana smiling, but she pretended not to know and showed me the inside of the log cabin with Erin.
In a large pot in the middle of the living room, there was still an unidentified liquid bubbling up.
Juliana, who stirred the pot with a spatula she was holding, immediately put liquid on a plate and put it in front of the two. And I asked Erin to put it on another plate.
"Erne, will you find Thomas? He'll be in the front yard."
"Yes, of course."
When Erin was away for a while, Roan raised his chin and pressed right away. 'How could you have given me cat food?' 'It's hard to get for a billion dollars. Manna heard it."
'Manna?'
"It's the power of nature. That's why I stay in this forest. Simply put, I boiled a hundred-year-old mushroom and various herbs."
Roan suppressed a sigh of excitement as he looked at Juliana, who was still speaking nonsense even after becoming a family member.
It was a little unusual for his nephew, but he acted like an ordinary aunt and didn't know why he was only showing off his witch.

But the important thing was that she was a magic thread and, more importantly, Erin's aunt.
Roan drank the bitter liquid at once and asked.
'What's the matter?'

Juliana, who was looking at the plate he had emptied, said an amazing thing.
"Maybe the magic energy that follows you is related to Erin's wish.'
" Is Erin's wish?'
"I thought you might know."

Roan frowned as he fumbled through his memory.
"How did you know you had something to do with Erin?'
"It looks like Erin's blood was mixed in the past magic lines. And the magic energy grew significantly after His Majesty met Erin again."
"You said I was the contractor."
"Yes. However, if Erin, who has a strong medium power, risked his life and made a wish, he could have met your contract."

Roan recalled the scene where the Magic Circle was being implemented. Erin, who was desperately boiling his knees, and himself, who was aiming at the sword in front of him.

The moment he tried to take her life, a white light flashed and everything changed. It was heartbreaking to hear that Erin made a wish at that time.
Roan choked and barely spit out the words in a subdued voice.
"I heard it's a wish to stay alive, love, marry, and be happy."
"Hmm, that's weird. Isn't that wish already fulfilled? Then what are they waiting for?"

The two, who were lost in their thoughts, turned their heads to Erin's voice, who came in with a cat.
"Auntie, did you know there was a hole in the outside wall of the house?"

When Erin offered to repair the outer wall, Roan dissuaded her. And he said he would do it himself with an expression of reluctance, but Juliana answered quickly.
"Oh, will you? I don't think the noble Duke has ever done this before, is that okay?"

"It's because you don't do it, there's nothing you can't do."
"Oh, man, you'll see if he's bluffing or not."

Erin was nervous and looked at Roan's color. It was surprising that he said he would do chores that he had never done before.
When Erin stopped him, he laughed bitterly. "I don't want outsiders coming in and out of this forest. And let's take this opportunity to build up my self-esteem, which had been crumpled by sawing."

But unfortunately, Roan's self-esteem was even more crumpled.
"If you do that, you'll have to sleep here tonight."
Juliana, who was watching Roan nail a board against the wall with a clumsy touch, criticized him for being slow. Frowning as soon as the words were over, he replied with his teeth clenched.

"There are so many places to fix that it would be faster to throw away Bush and build a new one."
"Oh, that doesn't mean you're making the hole bigger to break it down at all, does it?"
"If it rains or winds leak, it'll feel like camping. He loves nature."

Erin alternated between Juliana and Roan, who were rolling their eyes and engaged in a war of words. Every time I saw them, I was confused whether they were good or bad. It's a grudge just by looking at the conversation, but Roan looked around the house after the repair of the outer wall and did all the necessary chores.

Juliana, who was following him and watching closely, spoke to Erin in a small voice, unlike her complaining that she could not work.
"I didn't expect you to do this yourself, though. Whose niece is this? It's really okay. There's a saying on the eastern continent that if your wife is pretty, you can bow to the pillar of your wife's family. Doesn't it fit perfectly?"

"Your Highness says that my aunt is now the only blood in our couple."
"Me too. If Sophia were here, she would have loved her son-in-law."
"Yes, I'm sure Mom would have loved it."

For a moment, the two were lost in thought with memories of Sofia in the sky. Soon, she followed Roan, who seemed clumsy no matter how hard he looked, and nagged him.
Roan, who was angry at first, stood behind me with the same posture and facial expression, and eventually burst into laughter.
When Roan, who threw a hammer into the yard after finishing work, approached, Juliana held out a glass of black liquid to him as if she had waited.
Roan made an impression, but she didn't care and recommended it.
"Have a little more. It's enough for the man's temper."
"It's already overflowing without that."
"So, Erin?"

When Juliana asked mischievous questions, Erin blushed. When she didn't look like she was going to collect the glass to the end, Roan drank the black liquid with a frown on his face. Juliana smiled and strengthened her words.

"Your Highness, I hope you pay for a thousand years' worth of medicine."
"A thousand years' worth?"
"The life span of the mushrooms you took today is about that."
"I feel like I'm a serial mushroom killer."

Looking at Roan with a grumpy look, Erin had to pinch her hand to hold back her bursting laughter. This is because I remembered my mother feeding her healthy herbs when I was young.
Seeing her loved ones secretly care for each other made my heart overflow. They looked like family before I knew it.
No, it was the family itself. As I escaped from the foggy dark forest mixed with black pollen, bright lights poured out like the rest of the world.

After checking the horse at the entrance of the forest, Roan looked around and drew her to face him.
Then I kissed her forehead and asked with a low voice.
"Do you have any wishes?"
Erin, who made eye contact with him, answered gladly.

"Since I was young, my wish was to form a big family and live in the same place as Oh Soon-do. Now, when you have a child, it'll come true."
"A child? I want to enjoy my honeymoon with you more."

When Roan, who had been lost in thought for a while, answered lukewarmly, Erin asked cautiously.
'Don't you like children?'
'Of course we like them. But even now, you're busy, but I have a hunch that I'll definitely be pushed out of the rankings when I get kids," laughed Erin shook her head.

"No way. Jeon is always my top priority. Well, I'd like to have a lot of children, though."
"A lot? How much?"
"This much."
Roan opened his eyes in disbelief when Erin opened up all five fingers of both hands.
"That much?"
"Yes, I hope it's very noisy. I wanted to have a lot of family since I was young because I lived with my mom alone."

Spoiler: Part 15. I love you, Duke. 6

"When I think about what we've been through, I think I know. But, uh, let's just make it and say it again. This is why my aunt gave me energy pills."

Roan, who hurriedly turned the horse, hugged her and put her on the horse.
"What do you mean a stimulant? That's what my aunt said, but I drank it, too. It's very good for your health."

Instead of answering, when Roan tried to ride along, there was a sudden strong wind. The wind from the forest had a black glow. Loan, who had a flaw, tried to cover Erin urgently, but was one step behind. She opened her eyes wide after being hit by the foggy wind.

Blinking, Erin blinked and black dust fell down. Black and white, floating in the airy.
Erin, who became a face, looked at my body and asked me in tears.
"I'm used to this for some reason, right?"

Roan, who barely saved her face from the wind, felt her cheek with his fingertips. However, as the black dust spread and became more messy, he turned his head and muttered abusive language.
"Jesus, I let my guard down."
But his voice, which specializes in Erin's clothes, was filled with laughter. Just off the way back to the castle, the small lake was covered with dense trees.
The natural scenery was as mysterious as time stopped because people couldn't reach it at all.

"I've been here before."
Erin looked around in admiration and was surprised to see me reflected in the water. I tried to wash my face, but it was not a problem because my face was clean.
"Would you like to swim?"

When Erin asked, Roan, who had taken off his cape and thrown it away on the rock, looked around and nodded.
"Don't go deep in case it's cold.'

She took off her dress with his help and was completely submerged in water in her underwear. The water, which seemed a little cold, was clean enough to see the floor. squeeze the moisture out of one's roughly rinsed hair.
Realizing that his son-in-law was unusually quiet, Erin felt a stinging look and suddenly looked back.
'Roan?'
"Why?'
Roan replied sourly when she called, as he looked at her wet head to toe with eager eyes.
Erin, who noticed what the deep sinking voice meant, asked, stirring the water.

"Why don't we wash up together? Well, it feels weird to be here."
"How do you feel?"
'It feels like it's just the two of us.'
'Oh, you must be lonely."

Roan, who was staring at her, moved slowly, sweeping her wet hair. He unfastened his buttons one by one as if to look at them with his long fingers, took off his shirt and walked toward her. Erin looked at him as if she had been possessed.

Straight neck, broad shoulders, stretched collarbone, fine muscles and bloodline arms, solid abs and narrow waist.
The body, which was beautiful and well-mixed with strong power, was entirely her own sacred place.

He deserves to be used to the same bedroom, but every time I saw him, I was moved.
Roan, who was putting his hand on the buckle of his pants, smiled with a frown. 'Don't look at me like that.'
'How did I see that?'
"Guessle.'
'It was a desperate look of temptation!"
Splash-

When Erin, who was ashamed, protested quietly, Roan, who walked quickly through the water, reached out to her. As soon as Erin held his hand together, he was able to control it with great force.

I pulled it. Roan, who hugged her waist tightly, who was dragged through the steepness and the current, asked the bottom.
"You won't be more desperate than me,"

Erin, who blushed his cheeks, nodded, and he touched her neck with great care as if he could not reach. The lukewarm body temperature began to heat up wherever he faced it.
Erin said she wanted it, but Roan's expression was neck-thirsty and frowned as if she could no longer stand it. He was cynical and indifferent when he was with other people.
But my expression changed quickly when I was with her. Even if Erin smiled a little, even a little bit, her eyes turned into hunger. As if she were the only one in his world. Facing Roan's persistent gaze, Erin raised her hand and slightly followed the prominent veins from the wrist to the tip of his tongue.
It felt stimulating by a mixture of watery, bland taste and the man's complete body texture.
Roan squinted and raised his chin to stimulate.
"Do it a little more."
Erin stepped out of the water and suffered a little longer around his collarbone. Roan, who was flinching, began to do her body exactly as she did.

"Ah....."
Erin shivered slightly, and he suffered with his tongue up to his round shoulders and absorbed the skin deeply.
Red marks continued to the shoulder line, the neck of the neck, and the collarbone.

A man with a large, solid body, who overwhelmed her, smiled brutally as if he were asking for permission when his eyes met.
As soon as Erin blushed and smiled face to face, he gave a deep kiss on his lips and hugged him.


Walking out to the water, Roan unfolded his shirt and put her down. When Erin shook her body when his wet body touched the cold air, he took off all the remaining clothes and asked, covering it right away with his body.
'Do you want me?'
'It's not enough to say you want me."
"How much? Be specific enough to make me feel like I'm going too far."

Even though his large-sized alter ego touched her lower abdomen blatantly as he sat naked, Roan kissed her on the back of her neck and forced her to answer. Erin shook her head frowning.

"That question sounds too snobbish."
"Is snob a big deal if you're going to do something barbaric and primal?"
Roan's touch spread a seductive sensation, and Erin shivered and leaned her head on his broad shoulder.

I was so thrilled that I couldn't give a proper answer. Roan, whose neckline was long, bit her chin slightly and swallowed her lips deep.
Each other's tongues were violently intertwined and hot breaths came and went. While someone absorbed the opponent's tongue in his mouth and was swallowed on the other side, his heart was beating as if it were going to explode and the blood of his whole body was boiling hot.
"I always want you."

Roan always looked closely at her expression and treated her with caution. But I want her as much as I do in bed.

His body was always in a hurry. Erin loved the gap. When she responded with a willing nod, she confessed with a sweet smile.

"I want every day differently and more desperately. So this is the moment I love you the most."
"I like you every day. Tomorrow I'll love you even more."

As soon as she finished, Roan hugged her waist, spitting out a groan-like low sound. When the man's large, solid body weighed and leaned against her, Erin held him in anticipation.

"Ah...!!"
His heavy hot and stolen alter ego spread the entrance of the vagina to the limit and gently penetrated into the inside.
When Erin gasped out of breath, Roan stopped moving for a moment, stroking her waist and legs soothing waist and legs.

Even after filling her inside tightly, I felt an angry temper that wriggled because I wanted to stir the inside as I wanted.
Erin stammered and touched her lower abdomen. Somehow today, the whole body seemed eager to accept his stimulus.
Roan expression, who was looking at, followed him and touched a flat boat and asked in a worried voice.

Spoiler: Part 15. I love you, Duke. 7

'Are you sick?'
Erin shook her head quickly. As the inside of her got used to the size, she seemed to want stronger stimulation and fluctuate. Roan smiled low, perhaps feeling it. He looked rude with only one eyebrow and the other corners of his mouth raised. Soon Roan began to move again. There was no hesitation in digging through her background as if she had been worried.

Roan, who was digging with her legs wide open, suddenly hugged her.
'The floor is so hard that my back is going to hurt.'
"Ha...!'
Whispering, I could see. As he was still inside, I felt dizzy for a moment that a large, solid pillar scratched the inner wall starkly.

"Oh, are you surprised?"
As Erin gasped and sheds her eyes, Roan whispers and whispers at her earlobes as if he was pleased.
Erin mumbled, biting lightly on the neck.
'This really doesn't change.'
'Huh?'
'You're usually very mean when you make love like a feather.'
'...You don't change, remember?'

He squinted, and Erin smiled vaguely instead of answering. Well, Roan, who groaned inside her neck, suddenly grabbed her waist with both hands and raised it above her center.
'Sorry, I can't stand it any longer.'
'What more? What he's done so far- Ouch!"

He pulled down her waist and his alter ego flamed deep into the secret. Erin let out a small scream at the thrill of penetrating the whole body. Biting her loss with her lips, Roan began to poke the inside she felt.

When he accepted his weight, Erin caught him with too much pleasure.
"Too, too deep."
"Are you having a hard time?"

Roan kicked his tongue and put his arms under her lap to help her keep her weight off. However, he only moved his waist and pushed it up hard.
Breathtakingly intense pleasure came all at once.
"Roan, Roan!'
" Yes, Erin,'
she sobbed, calling him as if the senses he gave were all in the world. Every time he replied softly, but his gesture did not.

He penetrated the wheat as if he were being treated, leaving red marks on her skin wherever his lips were touched. The world was shaken and distorted by red and hot pleasure.
A little more. A little more.
When Erin was out of breath until the end of her chin, Roan gave her breath to her lips as if she were breathing.
She held Roan's shoulder and moved her waist in line with him. Water and sweat were mixed together and the skin slipped.

Erin, who felt sorry for falling apart from him at all, gave strength to his legs around his waist, and Roan wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh..."!

At some point, the peak was found as it turned white. When Erin floundered with a dizzying sense of wealth, he hugged her and made fun of her waist faster. "Ummm..."

Roan twitched as he hit his body hard enough to suffocate for a moment. When his body, which reached its peak, suddenly hardened, Erin hugged him on the back.
"Ha, Erin,"
Roan called her name in a possessive voice, trembling with the lingering sensation of pleasure. The sensation of hot water spreading inside, which was tightening like squeezing in the peak, was too obvious.

When Erin shuddered and sobbed, he suffered a long neck and his head was swollen. Until the climax died down, the two caressed each other in every corner of their bodies and enjoyed the joy.
Roan whispered with a reminder somewhere.
"I feel like I'm born again."
"That's not wrong. I'm naked like this."

Erin, who was jokingly replying, shuddered. His caress was getting stronger. Having absorbed the loss persistently while rolling it with his tongue, he frowned and mumbled.
"More than that, the mushroom water seems to be working. My mushroom looks like a new one.'
'What?'
'You said it was a thousand years' worth of mushroom life. That's the only way I can feel better."
"Oh, wait a minute-"

Erin pushed him off the shoulder, but Roan was faster. She pulled one hand out of her hand to catch her alter ego, which had already been taken away, and felt her secretions with her fingertips.

With his intense hand movements, Erin groaned and tightened his waist with both legs to urge him.

As their secret meeting deepened, the waves of the lake fluttered and overflowed. Like their overflowing affection or endless love.

Before I knew it, a golden fog surrounded the lake, but Erin and Roan did not know.

*****

"Are you almost ready for the wedding? Oh, I'm so nervous because there's not much time left."
Erin gives Mary, who comes to me after dinner and takes care of her hair, a word of anticipation.
Mary answered politely with a delighted look.

"Your majesty and your wife have done so much to prepare for. Thank you very much." The wedding of Mary and Lawrence was to be held in the duke's castle. Therefore, under Roan's direction, deacon Benjamin was preparing with Mary.

"The aide said it was a conspiracy under the guise of goodwill, to make your Highness do one more thing."
When Erin jokingly replied, Mary suddenly gave a long sigh.

"I guess my ability to work well has nothing to do with my usual brain."
Erin couldn't deny it and held back her laughter.

The day before yesterday, Lawrence was told off by Roan instead of working. Because he openly told Roan that he was comforting to marry despite the opposition of the family whenever he saw the duchess.

It was unfortunate that the difference in status caused serious difficulties, but it was not something to say to Roan, who suffered opposition from the entire empire.

Come to think of it, Lawrence was usually strict with manners and law, but he was tactless. The same was true of Roan's failure to take a break while working.

Erin clasped her hands together and said with sparkling eyes.
"I'm looking forward to it. I was so busy at my wedding that I couldn't really enjoy it." "Your Majesty's wedding was a dreamy, beautiful wedding."

At the endless ceremony and the hectic wedding with countless guests, Erin only remembered clearly.
It was Roan's eyes looking at her. Her eyes sparkled with joy, but she did not take her eyes off her face for a moment to express her true feelings.

Roan looked so happy that even Erin who saw him was impressed.
I was so moved. Mary, who was talking about Erin's wedding for a long time, asked implicitly as she arranged the comb.

"But madam, what's your problem? You look a little different from usual."
"No, I'm not worried."

When Mary, who was looking over the mirror at her, asked carefully, Erin shook her head with an open smile.
But when Mary didn't erase her worried look, she gently confessed.
As expected, Mary's sharp eyes could not be deceived.

"It's not a concern, but, um, I don't think I can say it easily. I haven't heard from Mary even after the dangling time."
"What?"

Mary must have been surprised, so she almost dropped her comb. Erin glanced at my stomach and said smaller.
"When the party is over, I'm calling a congressman. I'll let you know when it's clear."
"Oh, my God, how happy would you be to know this news?"
"I'm not sure yet. I've skipped the moon street a few times before."

Mary, who couldn't hide her laughter, said,
"I feel good for some reason," left.
Erin changed my face in the mirror with a flat belly.
"Is it a misunderstanding? I think my stomach looks a bit. I think I gained some weight, too.'
While she looked at my body and agonized, Roan, who entered the bedroom, hugged me from behind.

"It's a little late, but the night air is nice, shall we go for a walk?"
".. Yes, good."
Laughing broadly, Erin quickly got up, holding his hands together. Spring flowers were already in full bloom in the garden of the annex.

Since the annex was designated as the residence of the couple, the garden attached was filled with Erin's favorite seasonal flowers every time.

As Erin breathed in a breath of air that smelled like flowers, Roan wrapped her cheeks in both hands and bowed her head to kiss her.

 

Spoiler: Part 15. I love you, Duke. 8

'I'll give it to you, too.'
"The air?'"
"You look more delicious.'
After a deep kiss as if you were breathing, Roan touched her lips with a lingering touch. Erin looked at him and murmured vaguely.
"I think you're born with it."
"What?"
"Sweet words that shake women's hearts."

Laughing, Roan murmured as if he had suddenly remembered.
"Now, my father wrote her a poem that she wrote every day. I had to be forced to listen." "Wow, that's so romantic!"
When Erin admired it, saying it was touching, he shook his head with a bitter smile.
"It was terrible. Even a child would write better than that."
"Tell me something you remember."

Roan, who had been searching for a moment, gave a lot of impressions and lined up.
"You are the bunny feet that call me luck. Toshilto, your front paws have pounded my heart. Fluffy fur tickles my heart. One, two, three, I fall in ecstasy in your arms when you hop in and hug me."

Erin opened her mouth as she recalled a portrait of the former duke hanging in the hall. You did such a cheesy poem with a more manly and serious impression than Roan?
That's a handwritten one?

"You look just like your father!"
Erin couldn't bear to say to him, but turned his trembling eyes. Roan continued, hugging her shoulder.
"But my mother loved it. I knew then that there was nothing I couldn't overcome with the power of love. I had forgotten until I met you."

At the moment when Erin was stunned by his sincere words, Roan whispered in his ear with a cheeky expression.
"There's a movement along with a poem. Do you want to see it?'
'No, thank you, but no thanks. Keep your beautiful memories in your mind."
"Come on, look, every time you say a rabbit, put your hands on your head and shake them from side to side."
"Oh, please stop. I feel like I've crossed the forbidden realm of my parents-in-law!"

Erin eventually shook her head, covering her ears. Roan chased her behind her, who was running away as if she was running away, and persistently wrote poems in her ears.

"The rabbit only loves for three count, but my love for more than three thousand years-"
Cyaaaaaaa
Erin's scream of happiness rang loudly in the separate house. More than ever, a round full moon lit the whole world up.

*****

Mercia's National Foundation Day party was held in the historic Countess Rosana's mansion in the west with the support of Duke Perka.
From the early morning of the day, the Duke and his wife were busy preparing to attend the party. All preparations were focused on Erin.
"Don't mind me."
As Roan, who finished preparing early, watched Erin put on makeup, professional makeup designers helping her groom looked very nervous.
Erin also looked suspiciously into the tracks with her arms folded next to the dressing table.
It's because I felt like I was monitoring how it was. Sure enough, Roan shook his head firmly when she pointed to dark cosmetics that she usually didn't wear at all.
'No, you're an innocent beauty.'
"But today I want to be seen as a dignified and solemn Duchess."

Dignity and dignity. It was a word that was far from yourself, but Erin insisted. But Roan said straight away.

"Don't get me wrong, listen. No way." "What's the misunderstanding of the word 'never'?"

Somehow, when Erin grumbled, Roan kissed her forehead and whispered only to her.
"Because I'm only too young for you."
"'Is there anything you can't say?'
'Can't you hear my sincerity?'
'I'm never a dignified and solemn wife.'
'No, you don't have to. You are the prettiest when you are like yourself. Wearing clothes that don't fit will only make you far from what you intended."
"Well, I think it's a piece of advice from experience."

When she looked suspiciously, Roan, who shrugged her shoulders, looked stubborn. Erin reluctantly, When she nodded, he slipped a touch on her neck and left the room.
But Roan, who returned quickly after a while, added in a strong tone.
"No more exposure than under the collarbone. This is my absolute sincerity."

Other times, I said I was pretty no matter what I wore, and there were many demands today.
Roan, who pretended to be fine, also said, "The party seems to be bothering me today," and Erin smiled quietly to herself.

Erin's party costume was made with so much effort that a famous designer said he had devoted his soul to it. It was a dress with delicate blue decorations on a silver gray background, such as Roan's hair color. However, what Roan did because of this dress made the social world tumultuous.

Roan signed an exclusive contract with the designer for a year. And spend a lot of money on the same color as the dress, and the similar colors.
So did the hats, shoes, and ornaments attached to the costumes.

'You're usually frugal, but you're too big for me.'
Erne was angry about why she was spending money on Aman, so she managed to finish her job of buying all of Roan's money.
Even though the gifts I received at the wedding were still piled up in piles of rooms, another room became another warehouse.
Oh, wedding present. Erin recalled another luxurious nightmare. Most of the gifts were thought to be boxed, but Roan took her to an empty room, saying he would give her a gift of gratitude for accepting the proposal.

Erin was speechless all day long, shocked to see emeralds and other jewels spread like gravel on the floor.
'I didn't expect my husband to be a nerd who bought emeralds and golden silk.'

In addition to the wedding gift, Erin clearly realized Roan's spending on this incident and decided to voluntarily manage my own sweet money. a pile of clothes that I couldn't even wear.
They were going to give Mary some wedding gifts and the rest as a charity event at the summer festival.

"Madam, Your Highness is so sweet,"
said the designer carefully, who could not hide his envy while putting makeup on Erin. "You said so to your wife, but you gave us a separate message. Do whatever you want."

Erin laughed as she recalled her husband waiting for her somewhere outside the bedroom.
"Yes, he's very sweet. Please do the makeup that suits me as you say. I think that's right." She closed her eyes to calm her nervous mind and prepared for her almost first western social debut.


When the carriage left the castle, Erin squeezed Roan's hand next to him.
"Oh, my. I'm so nervous."
"Don't worry, I'll be by your side. I won't let the stings hang around you."

Roan, whose tendency to protect her after marriage has become more pronounced, sometimes seemed somewhat authoritative. But he never did anything she hated.

Erin also didn't want to do what he didn't want to do. Even though it has only been half a year since marriage, it has become so natural to adjust to each other. What kind of father would Roan be then?
Erin glanced at Roan's instructions, caressing his belly. His handsome appearance stood out, with a black tailcoat, pumpkin buttons tailored to her hair and jewelry decorations.
If she is a daughter, she will have to yield to Roan's appearance.
"Why do you look at me like that?'
"You look great today, who's your husband?' 'It's me, the duchess husband.'

You might become a father.
Erin swallowed a horse that tickled her lips and briefly forgot the tension.
If she was not pregnant, it would be her, not him, who would be disappointed. the laughter of noisy children full of Duchy. I was so happy just thinking about it.

Spoiler: Part 15. I love you, Duke. 9

"You said you were nervous, but why are you laughing? I think you're drunk because you laugh. Do you want to see how fast my heart beats?"
When Erin laughed without realizing it, Roan, who laughed along, dragged her hand over his chest.
The road in front of the Earl's mansion was blocked by constant flooding of wagons. However, as the wagon with Perka's golden sentence passed by, the wagons made their way.

Erin, who was looking out the window, smiled and muttered.
"Oh, you can cut in line with the high-nosed aristocrats."
"This is power."
"You're going to get addicted."
Roan replied arrogantly, shaking my shoulder.
"You can enjoy it as much as you want. "
'Oh, nice to meet you.'
'What?'
"Your Highness, please. Now I have to listen to it once a day to make my daily routine perfect."

"My routine feels like I'm completely finished when I'm one with you in bed."
"You can't say that to your solemn duke." "Why? I'm your husband before the duke."

Roan whispered affectionately as the wagon slowly stopped covering her face and kissing her forehead.
"Let's get out of here. The most precious and beautiful Duchess in the world."

When the Duke and Duchess Perka entered, people in the party hall were paying attention at once.
As if they had waited for them to settle down, the nobles flocked, and Roan dealt with the people who never left Erin's side and constantly flocked instead.

Roan replaced most of the greetings with a wooden one, cut the long horse with a single knife, and was later bitten only by a hand gesture. He's so cold-faced, he's got such a attitude.
He seemed like a completely different person from when he was in a carriage.

Erin was surprised to see the nobles retreat without replying properly to his annoying tone, but he didn't even see it properly.
Roan was writing very slowly on her palm with her arms crossed.
Your hand is a four-leaf clover. Give me luck with four leaves and poke my heart with the rest of my fingers.

The greeting of the crowd was so long that the fingerprints became a very long sentence.
Erin, who seemed to burst into laughter even though he tried to hold it in, slightly stabbed him with his elbow to stop.
But with a cynical look on his face, Roan shook his fingers slightly and swept his head away.
Eventually, Erin pretended to tidy up his collar and stabbed him in the chest with her thumb. When Roan smiles, the ladies will come up and stop him.

"Operating, Duchess, would you please honor me with an invitation to the castle? A place full of dignity and romance. There's a lot of talk about it."

"I hate outsiders coming in and out of my house."
When Roan said straight as he smiled, the ladies shut up. I wondered if the party was going smoothly, overshadowing the long preparation and nervousness.

Erin, who was relaxed by Roan's joking behavior, was able to talk naturally to the people who greeted her.
He received Lawrence's list of the Duke's closest nobles in advance and memorized them one after another, making it easy to cover people up and deal with them.

But things had to happen. Erin, who was drinking carbonated water instead of alcohol, quickly wore it because she felt nauseous when the smell of food came from the next table.
'Ugh!' the women around him stopped talking, embarrassed.
"Are you all right, Duchess?"
''I'm a little...!'

I've never done this before. Frustrated Erin tried to explain something, but as soon as she opened her mouth, the smell of the food penetrated sharply. I was deeply moved by the smell that felt disgusting like never before. My stomach turned upside down and I felt like I was about to throw up.

"I, the smell... ..."
Erin mumbled with her mouth closed to suppress her nausea, but the lady standing close by managed to catch her words and looked at her face.
"By any chance?" the lady asked as if she was surprised, but Erin, who was unable to stay in her seat anymore, hurriedly covered her mouth and turned her back.
Then, Roan's eyes met with Erin, who was watching her while talking to men a little far away. As soon as he saw her face with white crabs, he ran like a jump.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
"I feel sick all of a sudden..."

Before Erin could answer him properly, the lady who listened to her talked next to him, who bent down to ask him anxiously.
"It must be an early pregnancy symptom!"

People gathered to congratulate you as if they had waited for you.
"Your Grace, congratulations! The most precious light has become a blessing!"
When Roan heard the words, he looked at Erin and hardened his expression as if he were embarrassed.
"Erin?"
"Not sure yet..."
Erin's stomach began to feel heavy as she was interrupted and talked nonstop.
Roan's expression of not listening to her properly at the sound of people's words hardened.
He covered Erin's ears, glared at people and shouted.
"Get out of my way, everyone!'
The roar was wonderful at once.
Roan, who was shooting back at the people who were standing back, looked back at her and immediately changed his expression and asked softly.
"Shall we go home first?"
People who alternately watched the Duchess looked at Roan's expression, which was faster than light, with their mouths wide open. They looked like they'd seen a tooth ghost.

Erin nodded helplessly, and he whispered, pointing at his forehead.
" You look tired, but I'll hug you.'
" I can walk. And there's still a National Foundation Day speech left,"
she said, embarrassed and tried to dissuade her, but Roan gently wrapped her waist and pulled her into the product.
'It can't be important now.'
"But this is a little... Oops!'

Roan carefully held her, stroking her hair and crunching. When Erin hardened and only her eyes opened wide, he whispered affectionately.
"Well, if the smell of the food is disgusting, I'm burying my face in my arms. Are you okay with my scent?"
"......yes."

The eyes were on them all at once, with an indescribable astonishment.
I moved slowly. Those who rushed out of their way avoided eye contact with him first.

As the embarrassing and awkward Erin rattled, Roan kissed her forehead soothingly even while she was staring fiercely at people.
And he whispered quietly, only to Erin.

"If you want to throw up, do it in my jacket pocket. I can let no one know."
Erin was moved at a moment by Roan, who said she would accept her dirt casually. She leaned completely against him and buried her face deep in her arms.
His body odor was cool and good, so even though he was in a very embarrassing position, his lumpy stomach clearly subsided.
"But did he really have a child?"
Erin buried his nose in Roan's arms and inhaled his body as much as he could, calming his trembling mind.
Suddenly, I heard a sigh of envy from women in the humiliation of people. One side of her heart became strangely proud in the midst of anticipation.


Roan paced nervously in the drawing room.
While the rushed lawmaker examined Erin, he intervened several times and pressed for the results.
After several deliberative questions and examining Erin, the congressman spoke carefully about the results.

Chalhan said the results carefully. "Congratulations, Your Grace, Duchess. You're pregnant."
Erin was so happy that she couldn't breathe for a moment. After many times of mulling over the lawmaker's words, I looked back at Roan as soon as I got to my senses.
However, he only stared at her with a blank look on his face, contrary to his urging for an answer from the lawmaker.

Roan, who breathed small, looked from Erin's head to his toes. The gaze that looked all the way was on her stomach.
Roan, who reached out his hand and touched his stomach slightly, suddenly took a big breath.
'My child?'
"Yes.'
" You little body?'
"...yes.'
" How can a child be so sick?'
".. Roan.'

 

THANK YOU

 

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"Huh?"
"She's pregnant. In eight months, my family will grow."
Erin cut off his words and said again instead of Congressman,
"I can't wait to share my joy with you." Roan's expression, which had been cloudy, began to be delighted as if he had seen a miracle very slowly. Then he asked in a trembling voice.
"A child?'
" Yes!'
"How can I have a child when I'm so sick? How can I--"
"Roan!'
" You're right. Erin, who had a hunch that he would not lay eggs, but with this small, tender body how-"

he would continue to sing the spinning song all night long, hurriedly blocked his mouth. It wasn't until a long time later that Roan collected his breath and hugged her tightly.
Then, he was surprised and quickly relaxed and gently hugged him.

Numerous emotions were exchanged between the eyes of each other.
"I, I, am ···· too····."
"I know. I do, too."
It took Roan three days to fully accept the fact. In the meantime, Erin had to answer that she was as pregnant as she was when she first met her name.
However, whenever she answered, her mouth burst out laughing with joy.

***

"Madam, Your Grace has sent it."
When Erin, who was sitting by the window in the bedroom looking out, answered the knock, the maid came in with a tray of tea sets.
The maid had to pay a lot of attention every step of walking through the stuff on the bedroom floor.
Items of various kinds were bought out of nowhere and presented to her.
There were various kinds. Flower bouquets, childcare supplies, maternity dresses, Books about parenting, even rare jewels.

The problem was that they were all delivered within the day. When the congressman told her to relax as she was in the early stages of pregnancy, Roan kept her stuck in her bedroom and sent her enormous gifts several times a day.

The nightmare about the dress of the founding celebration party has not yet ended, but a new luxury has emerged.
"Oh, thank you for your heart, but why isn't Roan in the middle?"

While Erin sighs at the gifts piled up without opening them, the maid approached and pushed out the hot tea.
"Madam, this is the medicine the Duke of England has personally sought. It is said to be very good for pregnant women."
Erin looked at the medicine for a moment, which does not smell anything, but she drank it all at once.
I couldn't eat because I had severe morning sickness, but the medicine was fine.

However, the taste was very bitter as expected. She frowned and put the candy in her mouth, which was prepared together, and the bedroom door opened wide and Roan strode in.
"Erin."

When the maid stepped away, Roan held her carefully and laid her on the bed. Then I lay beside her, leaned her against my chest and murmured.
"You have to be curious and be patient,"

Erin nodded gently, rolling a piece of sugar still in her mouth. I got used to it in a few days.
Roan opened her gown with a very serious look and rolled up her saliva. Then, he asked while stroking the flat belly that revealed his bare skin.
'Is that really a child in this little body?'
"Yes, at least not an egg.'"
".. How can I be sure? I can't even see it."

Erin asked Roan back with a serious look on his face.
'Do you love me?'
'Why are you suddenly asking the obvious?' 'How can you be so obvious when you can't even see it?'"
She wrapped her hands around Roan's face and tightened her horse.

"It's glorious, Duke. You're such a fool. You're going to be a dad now. How could you do this?"
Roan turned his eyes while caressing his eyebrows, coughing in vain.
"I don't know if you feel it because you're pregnant, but I really don't. It doesn't show on the outside. I can't believe what happened to the enemy, so I want to check it with my own eyes, but there's no way."

"Then it takes months to get full, are you going to do this until then?"
Roan, looking at her with a deep frown, burst out laughing.
Erin ended up laughing after him. Everyone in the Duke's castle was happy with the wife's pregnancy, but only one person, Tom, the general chef, was not happy to the fullest.

Thanks to the rich salary, honor of status, a duke who is not picky with taste unlike other aristocrats, and a duchess who does not spare praise for any dish, he does this.
He had thought of this place as a job from heaven.

However, the morning sickness of the pregnant woman became an important mission for him.
In the early stages of pregnancy, it was an important time for self-defense, but I felt as if it was my fault because my wife couldn't eat. It was very burdensome.

Tom, who bought other chefs' secret books for a high price, spent all night reading. He found good ingredients for pregnant women and devised dishes that were not irritating to smell and taste.

"I'm confident today,"

Tom served the Duke and his wife directly after finishing the deep-rooted cooking, which was enough to say that he poured his soul into it. The duke changed the seat he had sat facing for his wife, who had severe morning sickness, to the seat right next to him. It was to give her a hand-to-hand wait whenever she saw food and nauseated.

As the food began to come out one after another, the butlers and maids stood looking at the ma'am and were very nervous.

All of them had the look of life and death on their wives' morning sickness. It was for the health of the wife and the baby, but it was also because I was afraid of the restless and angry operation that I had never seen before.

There was no problem with the salad with fresh sauce. When the main dish, Steak, came out, the wife who smelled it very carefully nodded.
Fortunately, I didn't seem to be repulsed by the completely unscented dish.

Then, the Duke cut the steak with a knife with more heart and soul than during the sword drill.
The wife, who took a piece of meat and put it in her mouth, opened her eyes as if surprised.

"Oh, it's really good."
Tom couldn't hide his laughter when he saw his wife enjoying the food. I felt rewarded for staying up all night.
The Duke was also very pleased and diligently moved his knife.

However, the happy smile did not last long. The Duke, who was looking at his wife happily and cutting the meat, suddenly frowned and groaned low.
'What's wrong?'
'It's nothing.'

When the surprised wife asked, the duke smiled and shook his head.
"Ummm."
The Duke, who was putting a finely chopped steak in his wife's mouth with a suspicious expression, groaned again and hurriedly covered his mouth with the back of his hand.
Then he picked up his wife's plate, smelled it, looked at her expression, and asked.

"Does it taste good?"
"Yes, I'm fine. It's good. What's wrong with you?"
"As long as it's good. Eat a lot."
The equivocal duke swallowed his moans several times after that. After asking his wife for understanding, he called in a maid to wait for the rest and hurried out of the table.

The same thing happened the next morning at breakfast. The witch's morning sickness disappeared cleanly, but the peacock, who was not picky at all, was impressed by the food.
He was reluctant to cook all the dishes, not just meat dishes that he enjoyed every meal.

Others tasted the leftovers because the food for morning sickness did not suit the Duke's taste, but there was nothing wrong with the dish itself.
At the instruction of the wife, deacon Benjamin called the lawmaker with a very concerned look.
'I don't think anything happened to your health.'

"Are you all right?"
Feeling so worried, Tom grabbed the doctor who was coming out of the examination and asked. Other employees who followed were also nervous and looked at the lawmaker's mouth with breath. The lawmaker's face was covered with sweat as if something serious had happened.
Tom's heart thumped with an ominous foreboding waiting for an answer.
"Well, even if you're seriously ill..."
When Tom asked in a trembling voice, the lawmaker wiped the sweat off his forehead and gave a long sigh.

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And after hesitating for a long time, he said his illness.
'......my morning sickness.'
'My morning sickness? Didn't you examine your highness?"
"I mean. Your morning sickness is gone. It's very similar to morning sickness when the symptoms of charge started and when the symptoms were delayed."

"Well, you have morning sickness?!"
When Tom asked, the lawmaker looked into the air and explained.
"It's very rare, but I've heard that your husband sometimes replaces your morning sickness..."
The lawmaker added in embarrassment that this is the case in a very good case, saying he had only seen such a case in books, but had never actually seen it.

Even after the lawmaker disappeared as if he were running away, Tom and his employees could not say anything while only looking at each other's faces. I was relieved that I was not sick, but it was because of the strange embarrassment that cannot be expressed in words.

'My Highness...! Even if you love it so much, yes.'
Tom came up with a new dish all night again. But it was hopeless. The peacock's morning sickness was more severe than his wife's.
The peacock was stirred to all kinds of foods, such as foods with very weak scents, foods without condiments, and vegetables without meat.

"No, I'm sorry, but you can go ahead and eat. I'll do it later."
In the end, the duke, who had not missed mealtime with his wife, skipped meals.
A few days later, his wife implemented a special method. As a series of dishes came out in front of the peacock and his wife sitting side by side, the wife cut the meat herself.

'Come on, say 'ah.'
'What?'
'I used to feel less nauseous about the food you gave me too."
The Duke looked suspiciously, but opened his mouth as his wife asked. The lady put the piece of meat she cut carefully into his mouth. The Duke, who had been frowned upon and couldn't finish, paused and frowned.
"That's strange, it doesn't work at all."
A joy of relief spread over the lady's face. The same was true of all those who watched while swallowing dry saliva.

"Really? That's a relief. Have one more bite. You haven't had a meal lately."
When his wife cut the meat with an excited look on her face, the duke cut it and put a bite in it instead. Then he frowned and put down the tableware. It was definitely the same meat.

The wife alternated between steak and him with a subtle look and took a second bite and put it in his mouth. Despite his awkward expression, the duke ate it several times. It was a scene that made me doubt my eyes.
'Delicious,'
the Duke and his wife dined diligently.
They cut each other's meat and put it in their mouths, wipe their mouths, and smile at each other with lovely eyes.
Something seemed to have changed significantly, but it was a happy table view of prospective parents. Shame was up to the beholder, so all the waiting employees looked into the air.
Tom was finally able to sleep comfortably with his legs stretched out.

***

Gradually, Erin's stomach became full. Miracles that were not known even by the eyes were being realized in reality. It was like a dream day. In addition, there was also a growing sense of unnecessary impatience that this unbelievable happiness would be broken.

Erin drastically increased her sleep and spent all day on the bed. He skipped meals and only slept, so when Roan woke him up, he had to get a stinging look.
Sometimes he couldn't see her awake all day. Today, when Roan entered the bedroom, Erin, who finished taking a bath, was waiting for him.

Roan, who ran for joy, hugged her. And I kissed her on the eyelids.
"I haven't seen your eyes in a long time. I'm glad to see you, so I need to say hello."
Erin, who was smiling with a cringe in her throat, murmured quietly.
'I dream a lot these days.'
"What do you do in your dreams?'
"Let's look back on old memories. I can see a lot of the past."

After a moment of thought, Roan kissed her on the back of her neck and said something to her cheek.
"You're busy even if you stop studying. It's good to have a dream with me."
"I'm sorry to hear that's too bad. I can see you in my sleep."
"Just focus on me in front of you."
"Well, the more I see it, the more I see it, the more I see it, the more I see it, the more I feel it. I don't think it was the magic power that changed to my taste. Sei is just you."
"I don't even have time to be with him these days, but just talk about me, not him."

When Roan kissed her neck and stroked her stomach, Erin leaned back like a cat.
"What did you do today?'
'Thinking about you. Thinking about my child."
"Oh, we have to name him."

Talking about this and that, Erin fell asleep in his arms before she knew it. I felt sorry for her, and I felt sorry for her.
After confirming that she had fallen asleep, Roan tried to cover her with a blanket, but stopped.
'What?'
he doubted my eyes. Erin was shining gold. It was a familiar gold color, which looked like light mixed with white light.

The frightened Roan jumped up from his seat and hurriedly killed the flag for fear that Erin would lay it down.
While watching, the light gradually became clearer as if it were responding to him.

'Is the magic back? Why?'
But nothing changed. It just looked like Erin was shining. Looking closely, it wasn't as shiny as it used to be.
Only part of her body was flashing. As if you're wearing a lamp. The light was coming out of her convex belly.

"What the hell..."
Lost for words, he looked at the light for a long time. The twinkling light is more cloudy and open than before, but warm.
And it was dazzling. And as if it were alive, it became cloudy and bright, and the brightness of the light changed constantly.

Only after a long time did Roan realize that it was the light that the baby was emitting. He reached out carefully and caressed Erin's stomach.


Early the next morning, Juliana visited the duke's castle. She, who came just in time as she had known, didn't give Roan a regular salt for the first time. But he couldn't even afford to recognize it.
"I have a story to talk to you for a while."
When I talked about Erin's shining "ship," Yulia I nodded without showing any surprise.
"The magic that followed you was waiting for the baby. The baby's a magic completion.'
'Magic completion? So you knew everything?"

You knew everything, but you didn't tell me again? When Roan narrowed his eyes and stared, Juliana smiled, mixing her unique nasal voice.

"I have the power of sorcery. That's why we have to save what we can say. My words can give you strength. But I've been telling you that. 1,000 years' worth of mushroom water, did you forget? I emphasized that it's good for sperm."

How can it be a clue to the completion of magic?
This witch is Erin's aunt.
Our, my family.
Roan, who repeated the sentence several times as if he memorized the spell, sighed and asked.
'Then what happens when the magic is complete?'
'It stabilizes. It doesn't change anything just because a plant blooms."
"Don't compare my child to a blooming flower."
"Hooray, don't worry. The magic of this world is just a shadow, so no matter how natural this child is, it will be normal. It may be unique depending on how you resemble your parents,"

Roan looked at her with a suspicious look. Juliana reached at the end of the horse and held his hand tightly, adding, "The horse is tight."
"This is my beloved niece's child. I don't stay still if there's any harm to me too. I'm sure. This child is a blessing that will bring stability to the whole world."

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"That's right, a child is a blessing."
Juliana and Roan, who first agreed, faced each other. There was an awkward silence, but Roan did not take out the hand she held. "I heard your aunt came?"
A moment later, Erin entered the reception room with a full face of joy. Juliana jumped up and ran and hugged her.
"Oh, my God! Let me see, Erin's a cute full tooth. Hi, my lovely niece and grandson!"

Juliana, who had been chatting with Erin for a long time, left after giving her a bundle of things she didn't know, saying she had to go before sunset. Inside, there was a stone that contained water, medicinal herbs, and even a thousand-year-old manna.

"Thankfully, I get a lot of presents."
Erin smiled as she looked at the bundle. Roan had been glad to see her awake for a long time, throwing away all her work and not being away for a moment.

Sitting Erin on the sofa, she squeezed her arms and legs and arms. When I saw her small hands and feet swelling frequently as she got full, I felt numb in one corner of my chest.
"My stomach keeps swelling like this and it's going to explode."
Erin gave himself up to him and made a fuss, but his face was full of laughter.
Roan kissed her forehead soothingly and clasped her hands.
"You know what? On the eastern continent, there is an egg-derived sijo in the founding myth.More."
"Wow, it's an egg?"
"It's definitely not a lark's egg."
Laughing at Roan's joke, Erin suddenly shook his head seriously.
"A great man goes through a lot of hard times. I want our children to be happy even if they're normal."

"You don't have to worry about it if you raise it."
"What kind of kid do you want?"
"As you know, I'm greedy. There's a lot I want to do for you."
Erin thought for a moment and trembled to think of the harsh lessons he had taken. Roan laughed and crushed his shoulder.

"Actually, I'm just satisfied now. I feel like I'm in this world now. I feel like I have an inseparable connection with you."
Erin nodded and raised his knitted hand to kiss the back of his hand.
Roan, who kissed the back of her hand opposite her, suddenly suggested it.

"If you're a daughter, why don't you name her after your mother? It was all thanks to my mother that we met."
"Oh, my God, who's husband is he talking so beautifully."
Erin soon fell asleep because he was tired by his gentle warm-up touch. Lying next to her, Roan stared at her stomach for a long time. Blurred light brightened up and shook as if children were playing.

I repeated that I was nervous. It was a pleasant light just by looking at it.
"It's Dad."

The light brightened up for a moment as he stroked his stomach and spoke awkwardly. Roan, who was startled without realizing it, confirmed that Erin had fallen into a deep sleep and spoke to him again.

"It's hard for him to wait for you. I thought he was used to waiting, but he wasn't." Roan, who coughed awkwardly because he wondered what he was doing alone, smiled when he saw the light twinkling as if it were answering.

"Dad is making a plan for you. I'm going to do whatever you want, but I hope you study well. Now that I've tried it, it's kind of hard to have a talent for using your body."

Is that an illusion? The light definitely stopped and became cloudy.
Roan changed his words in a hurry.
"Hmm, of course, if you're healthy, you can't ask for more."

That was so bright that it lit up the bedroom as if you were confident.
Roan seemed to know whose personality the child resembled, if nothing else. Roan, who touched her stomach with a careful touch and kissed her, whispered sincerely.
"Mom, you should stay healthy and healthy. Have a happy dream."

Until the light dies down quietly, Roan talks to him as he thinks. It seems not long ago, but the dawn was breaking.

***

Erin looked down at himself full of despair. He looked pitiful and miserable. But she could know. This was a dream. And it was a memory. It was vivid and clear, but it was a remnant of the time that had already passed.
Now that I'm used to getting back memories of the past, I wasn't very shaken. I just sympathized with myself in the past. Most of all, she is different from what she used to be.
She's pregnant with such a precious child.

'Past' Her feelings were clear. Erin said, "In front of him, I have a very desperate and begging pathetic wish. Her wishes were very ordinary things.

There were so many things I wanted to do while living a life of persecution. I've never worn a pretty dress at a flower-like age. I had to wear that pretty dress and be courted by a man.
I wanted to get married. So I wanted to give birth to a pretty child who was born as a result of love and hold her in my arms.

"Please save me! I want to do this and that!' Erin looked up eagerly. Roan, who looked like an envoy, stood in front of him. I was heartbroken to see his expressionless face, which was dry as a dried leaf. Erin, who loved him more than in the past, felt much more sorry for his endless solitude than for his own despair. Erin wanted to comfort him in the 'past'.
Everything's going to be fine. Soon your terrible loneliness and pain will be over. Hang in there and you'll be very happy.

The frightened Erin of the past looked up and looked at Roan. The blue eyes, which were so dry that they were cold, and the green eyes soaked in despair hit the eyes straight.

At that time, a white light flashed like the door to heaven opened. Erin, who was submerged in a dazzling sea of light, fell asleep as if she were being dragged into reality. Someone was calling her out loud.

Who called me? I held my breath quietly, but I could only feel the temperature of Roan, who fell asleep holding her in the back. While blinking his eyes and staring at the lamp-flashing ceiling, Erin realized.

'All my wishes came true.'

As soon as I realized it, my stomach hurt like a tear. She grabbed her stomach and looked back at Roan, who was fast asleep. He fell asleep late when he held her in his arms and patted her, who had been tossing and turning all night because of a backache.

For a moment, the dry Roan's face that I saw in my dream overlapped. He looked tired now, but he looked so peaceful that he could not imagine the past. Erin looked at his face for a moment and took him by the arm begging for a sharp pain again.

'Roan ·····.'
"Erin?'
As soon as her touch was reached, Roan, who opened his eyes, hurriedly lifted himself up.
"I guess it's almost time to meet my baby."
I was sick and tired of him looking at her face stained with pain.
"I'll call the congressman."

After hurriedly pulling on the string on the bed and calling the lawmaker, Roan grabs her hand tightly and talks carelessly.
"Are you okay? No, you don't look okay. Does it hurt? Does it hurt a lot?"

Erin felt so sorry for him at this moment when she saw him with his eyes wide open and his face disappeared and looked more painful than her.
As the birth month approached, Roan asked, asked, inquired, questioned, questioned and questioned lawmakers about the risks that could arise in the delivery process.
The lawmaker explained the rock process and reassured it, but it seemed to be of no use when it actually came to him.

Erin said as calmly as she could, trying to suppress the surging pain.
"Roan, I'm fine. Everything's going to be fine. Just wait a little longer."

The water has already burst and the bedclothes have begun to get wet. Despite struggling in pain, Erin smiled openly, tapping on Roan's arm, who couldn't let go with him in her arms.

*****

Spoiler: Part 15. I love you, Duke. Last part

Erin looked back in impatience while getting her hair done. Over the mirror of the dressing table, you can see a child holding by a babysitter from behind, but Sophia was much prettier in person. Sophia was also begging her mother to hug her arms.

"Come on, it's done. Do you want to hang out with your mom?"

As soon as the maid finished grooming, Erin, who jumped up, took over Sophia from her babysitter and hugged her.
When she kissed her soft cheek, buried her nose in the back of her neck and thumped, the baby's unique smell of milk penetrated her nose so fragrantly. It was like a sweet fragrance that soaked the soul.

When the mud-colored cilantro disheveled, the baby smiled, shining blue eyes. Erin took the child out for a walk and headed for the greenhouse.

Sophia, who can now speak syllables and short words, repeated "pecked after woo" and "0 yeooho choa" while floundering her hands on the way.
The first word the child learned was "good," not even his mother and father.

'My mom said I did, too. Is your personality a day...? A very gentle child has not cried much since he was a baby and has always laughed. Thanks to this, it gained unrivaled popularity not only in the duke castle but also in every place. People even called 'Sophia A. Perca's middle name 'Angel'.

Erin came into the greenhouse and laid Sophia down on the soft dirt floor. The child liked everything, but especially the soil.

"Oh my, mushrooms have grown!"
Erin shouted with joy when she saw mushrooms that grew from the size of a finger to the size of a hand. When she clapped her hands and rejoiced, the toddler's babbling baby was like a brackish clapped with my hands. As Erin, who was cute, kept clapping, Sophia kept following.

"What are you doing? I hope I didn't miss anything in the meantime. Huh?"
Roan, who was just coming into the greenhouse, saw the two of them and walked quickly. Erin exclaimed proudly.

'My mushroom has grown!'
'Oh, mushroom. What else am I? More than that, our daughter already knows how to clap, so she's very athletic."
Roan, who opened his eyes, relaxed his shoulders and folded his knees to sit in line with Sofia.

"Canary, you don't like mushrooms, do you? Mom made Dad feel lonely because of that mushroom. You'll make this dad happy, right?"
Roan, who takes pleasure in learning new behaviors every day, stared at Sofia with anticipation. A child who is under the pressure of his father's eyes grinning and waving his head, listening to Wooray's babbling.
Roan raised his chin to Erin and said arrogantly.
"Have you heard? Now Sophia answered me, 'Yes, Father!'

Erin replied with a shrug.
'From what I hear, 'Yayyyyyyyyy."
'No, listen carefully. My daughter is not only beautiful but also very smart. You already know how to talk."

As Erin leaned down and put her ears on her face as if she was trying to listen, and the child screamed as if she were drooling on her cheek.
Erin nodded as if she was responding, then looked at Roan and said,
"That's right. My daughter already knows how to talk. Dad, what's the bluff? I think so."
"Bluffing, that's absolutely true. "Shall we teach writing from tomorrow?"

If we speak, we teach writing, and if we read books, we teach business. Teach swordsmanship and horseback riding.

Roan's plan for her daughter, who is now just able to speak words, was great.

Erin shook her head firmly.
"Never. I'd rather teach you than you. Okay, Sophia? You can't learn anything from your dad. Daddy turns into a scary nagging monster."
"It's a setup, Sophia. It's because the mother didn't understand the father's caring teaching."

Roan, who held the child up, grabbed Sofia's hand and poked Erin's cheek playfully.
"You must be a caring nag-ah!"
Erin, who was replying to Roan with his hand on his waist, grabbed his stomach in surprise. Surprised, Roan hurriedly looked at her complexion.
"What's wrong? Are you sick?"
Erin, who grabbed my stomach and held his breath, screamed with joy.
"Oh, my! The kid kicked me!"
"What? Where?"

Roan, who opened his eyes, held Sofia firmly with one hand and hurried Erin with the rest of his hand.
The child in Roan's arms smiled and touched her stomach.

"Can you feel the baby moving? You must be having fun."
Roan, who was holding his breath and focusing all his attention on my fingertips, closed his eyes tightly. Admiration flowed between his lips.
"What a miracle."


When Erin laid Sofia, who was asleep, on the cradle, Roan, who was watching from the side, grumbled, touching her waist.

"You must feel heavy, but I'll hug you to sleep."
"It's really weird. I can't hold anything else because my body is heavy, but strangely, Sofia is not heavy at all."
"But it's still close to seeing you from the side. I'm already sick."
"Sophia's really gentle at other times, but she's just a sleepyhead. I'm proud that I'm the only one who likes it."

"I can't sleep without you. Let's make some complaints."
When Roan spoke half-heartedly as if he were joking, Erin smiled, grabbed his hand, and led him to bed.

"Okay, let's take a break together."
asked Erin, who was in the arms of the long-lying Roan.
"Is Sofia still shining gold? Now I can barely see the light. But every time I see it, it still shines. Do you still dream?'
"No. I don't remember anymore. Maybe it's because I love you more than I did in my dream."

Roan, who was looking at her with joy, narrowed it down as if he were reading a poem.
'It was your mother's blessing that I met you, it was God's grace that I met again, and our children are miracles that we made.'
" I didn't know you believed in God.'
"I don't believe you, but I believe you. It's the creator of my world."

Erin, who burst into laughter, buried his nose in his arms and murmured, inhaling the smell as much as he wanted.

"It's really cheesy, but I love it. Now I feel like I skipped a meal if I don't listen to it even for a day."

'When did you say bluffing is like that?'
'If bluffing is bread, it's meat.'
'You ate so much, but you didn't gain weight. What are you saying? Did I feed you less? I'm going to build a new one every day like my father."

Roan and Erin looked at each other. They checked how bright they looked in each other's eyes and laughed happily. I'm happy. And this person can be happier because of me.
There will be no such strong restraint on each other. Like magic. No, like a miracle, not magic. As if you were caught in a dream that was more enchanting than a miracle.

<Complete>

Last spoiler. The end

 

Now that it's end, I teared up

So sad it's completed. And at last, both of them were happy

The difficulties they faced sobsob thank you for translating

 

Oh my god... 10 kids.... Nah, the more the merrier anyway. At least it has a happy ending after the tragedy
Thank you so much for the spoilers!!!!

 

Side Stories are releasing on April 28 KST at midnight
This may be wrong since I saw the news on insta.

 

My gosh!... @AidenF thank you so much for the spoilers!!!...loved the ending!

 

I saw it was a 3rd season tho, not side stories...?