Chapter 230

Do you want me to be happy?

The moment I heard those words, I blinked. And soon burst into laughter.

Because it was cute rather than funny. His face blushed as it turned red, holding on to my clothes and giving me advice like warning me. How could it not be lovely?

“Why are you laughing, Iana?”

The hoa.r.s.e voice came upon me. I brought my uncaught hand to my lips and laughed out loud.

“No, it’s not something someone who might die tomorrow would say.”

Then Ricdorian looked at me with a red face and said,

“…… I don’t think Iana’s words were an offer to give to someone who is going to die tomorrow either.”

“So you don’t want it?”

Ricdorian shook his head.

“That’s not it.”

Perhaps that wasn’t enough, he quickly added.

“Absolutely not.”

Like telling me I couldn’t take back the offer.

There was a contrast between the slightly anxious eyes and the hand holding me tightly. Hearing this, I felt a sense of satisfaction and pride for unknown reasons. And love swelled in me.

“Iana?”

Did he also feel that my smile had changed? Ricdorian called me in a question. I grabbed his hand and put it to my cheek.

“Our conversation a while ago. It seemed like what ordinary lovers would do.”

I lowered my eyes and brought them back up again.

“I think I’ve always wanted that.”

From the beginning, it was not an ordinary relationship. I woke up in prison, and it was by no means an ordinary place.

“I wanted us to be ordinary.”

And layer by layer, my ident.i.ty was stripped away from ordinary. Then, in this world, at least for some people, I was made absolutely indispensable.

I realized that.

Still, I wished that my love could be ordinary.

At least, to be in the same position as ordinary people, no one will be looking up to or obsessing over the other. Just the love that sees me as me. Calm and peaceful.

It was also for me that I asked Ricdorian not to put obedience in love.

Ricdorian went quiet. He just glanced at what I was doing.

Tap, tap. The b.u.t.ton on his torn shirt went off. Some had already been unb.u.t.toned, and the rest were tattered, so there were only a few left.

He was an excellent warrior. He has the innate ability of a beast that overwhelms and destroys, and after leaving this place, he must have made great efforts. It could be seen in the beautiful upper body, which was full of tightly knit muscles. Truly, like a masterpiece sculpted by G.o.d, it was a body with ecstatic perfect proportions.

Oddly enough, though, he had skin as white as snow. As if from a snowy winter land.

As I undressed him, the gaze was holding me tenaciously. The blue eyes were full of unspoken desire. Suddenly, one of his hands grabbed my leg.

Perhaps he had asked for permission, I nodded lightly. Soon after, the hand that went inside my clothes gently brushed my thigh. His rough fingertips rose little by little and brushed against the tattooed area.

I bit my lip and held back my moan. Then I raised my head.

“Listen to me, Ricdorian.”

I sat gently on his thigh and pressed our lips together. I felt the ferocious flesh between my legs. He put his hands in my skirt. Soon, my underwear fell to the floor. I sat down slowly. The feeling of digging into the flesh was vivid.

“Hu, I’ll never let you die.”

I never thought of leaving him like that, but it felt like my will became stronger when I said it out.

“…… Yes. Iana.”

My clothes fell under my feet. It was the clothes that covered my body. Ricdorian lowered his head and placed his lips on the nape of my neck. His exhalation tickled my skin.

“Haa, a long time ago. I never once thought, hu, I want to live.”

He whispered softly.

“I just left my body, to the flow.”

“Ah! Ung, ah! Hu-uht.”

Kiss. Kiss. He left a long kiss along the neckline. The heat filled my throat, so I couldn’t get my answer out.

“…… Until I meet you here.”

The voice left by the deep regret gradually ceases. He buried his lips in the hollow near my collar bone. His moist tongue wet it. His large hands teased the peak of my chest.

“Haa, I’ll be your, ordinary lover…….”

“Uh, Ahng, Ri, Ric…….Huhng!”

“Ah, hoo, I too, wish I could be with Iana for a long time.”

His confession seemed to say: I also didn’t mean to let go of your hand. I didn’t even know he was so desperate. He seduced me with his sweet breath while begging for forgiveness.

The scorching heat bursts out. My eyes were white and my toes curled. Soon a heavy breath broke out from him. I felt something hot down there. A feeling of fullness in my stomach.

“Haa, I won’t die leaving you behind.”

Raising his head, he immediately came to my ear and whispered into me.

“I love you. Even these words couldn’t comprehend my heart.”

The breath filled my heart like deep water.

“No matter what I give in my life, it’s not wasted.”

He sounded as if he would dedicate even the world if I wished, and the deepened eyes were like an awl. It was a thorn that pierced as much as it could go and could no longer be pulled out. The blue eyes in the red face, stabbing through me, was telling me this. You can never live without me. The words were stuck in my heart. As soon as his lips touched me again, I closed my eyes.

…… There is no doubt that I will save you.

Ricdorian, with his face buried in my chest, descended slowly. I hugged his head.

Suddenly, his flesh that had entered me changed its size again. I lowered my head as I moved up and down to his rhythm, dripping with sweat.

“Ricdorian, uhk……. You, hoo, do you want me to be happy?”

The flesh that had gone deep inside me paused for a moment.

“Iana, hu, that’s……. so obvious.”

He grabbed my sweat-drenched hand and kissed it.

“Maybe more than my life.”

The sweaty face was sublime, and I couldn’t even say a word.

“I wish you peace and happiness. I’m always hoping for it. My Iana.”

The words I couldn’t say escape into my heart like smoke.

Ricdorian. Even if I save you.

If I disappear from this world, will you be okay?

***

Kambrakam.

The prison, which may have been built for well over a thousand years, was huge and had a complex structure that the average person could not imagine. In addition, although it was very old, in some places it was old and decrepit, but in other places it was clean as if it had just been built, creating a sense of mystery and ominous fear.

For ordinary people, this is the infamous prison, famous for being the place where some of the worst criminals imaginable go.

“Ugh, what a creepy feeling.”

This was no different for the Imperial Guard’s ‘Duable’, the most capable knights of the Empire.

“Didn’t you say this was your first time in Kambrakam?”

A fellow knight sitting next to him threw a word.

“Right. It’s infamous, so what’s the point of coming?”

“It’s my second.”

“What? Were you a criminal?”

The Imperial Guard Martin looked at his colleague with astonishment.

“What are you talking about? I came here once when I was an apprentice knight.”

“Oh, I see. I heard that apprentice knights were sometimes called out as guards?”

“Right.”

The fact that most of the guards here were from the official knights was something that all knights knew. However, to go into detail, there was only a difference between the knight dispatched by the imperial family and the warden of this place, who belonged to Marquisate Valtaize. In this way, the Marquis was able to train armed personnel within the prison, which was also the authority granted to Valtaize by the imperial family.

“Here, what is it? Rumor has it that an ancient power resides here? Aren’t all ancient powers mysterious? Especially here, it’s creepy for no reason.”

“That rumor is famous. Ghosts appear.”

The colleague shrugged.

“Why, there was a saying that this was not a prison but another building a long time ago. Did anyone die then?”

“Well, it doesn’t look like a prison in terms of size.”

It was. There were iron gates and gratings here and there to indicate that it was a prison, but the antique wall patterns and columns that were occasionally seen caused a strange sense of incongruity.

Thanks to that, Martin shuddered even more.

“Then what if it wasn’t a prison?”

“Well. I don’t know either, but as you know, my younger sister is crazy about this thing.”

“Ah, that younger sister who is obsessed with archeology?”

“Yes. How is she going to get married? Anyway, she likes to stop me and explain. I think she told me that this place used to be a temple?”

“Temple? Aren’t the Light Foundation more centered in the southern part of the Empire?”

“It is. Before that, she said, they worshiped a n.o.ble G.o.d from a very long time ago……. As you know, it hasn’t been long since the Light Foundation entered the Empire.”

“It is.”

Martin, who remembered the Light Foundation, the largest temple in the Empire, to which Francia belonged, calmly agreed.

“I heard that a long time ago, they may have worshiped some n.o.ble G.o.d, well. I don’t know the details, but I’m worried about my sister. She doesn’t date and only cares about things like this.”

“It must be a problem for sure.”

There was a moment of silence between the two knights. In fact, Martin had something to say while looking at this gloomy landscape.

“…… By the way, Her Majesty the Empress.”

In the dark night, the wide area was so wide that they were forced to take charge of it. The prisoners who had fallen asleep were far away. At least they knew that there were only two people here, so the words could flow out.

“…… Do you think she is all right?”

“What? Crazy! What disloyalty are you talking about now?”

“Not that…….”

“If you weren’t my best friend, I could have drawn my sword. Do you know?”

Martin hardened his face.

“Don’t do that, think about it. Don’t you think the situation is strange?”

As he became more serious, his colleague also stopped getting angry. Rather, his expression was like he was stabbed in the corner.

“Currently, the imperial castle has been attacked in the capital. Don’t you think it was the Duke’s army? There are even rumors that a rebellion might have occurred. But we…….”

The heart of the country is the capital. Among them, the imperial castle where the Empress resides has an importance as a leading political and administrative base that cannot be overstated.

“However, Her Majesty was only obsessed with this one place even in this dire situation. …….”

That was when he was about to talk about it. Martin shut his mouth.

“What? Ah.”

The puzzled colleague quickly stiffened and turned around quickly. It was a dark hallway, where there should obviously be nothing, but soon footsteps were heard. It was an urgent sound, like running from a distance.

“Guards!”