Chapter 51
Chapter 51
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Dielo seemed surprised.
As were the servants trapped in the fire.
I met the eyes of a maid whose eyes were instantly filled with tears.
Before I knew it, I stepped into the middle of the flames that were still blazing.
I felt like I had to.
“Are you going to burn down all of Argenta?”
The water energy flowing through my body blocked his fire.
—Papat!
A chilling sound echoed as power clashed against power.
“……!”
Dielo’s Magical Power was definitely strong. As the power of the head of the family, even if water was more advantageous against fire, there was a limit to suppressing his power.
Was that why?
—Pat!
A blue flame that splashed onto my clothes began to singe the hem.
It was when I gritted my teeth.
“……Krua?”
He called out to me, his eyes wide with surprise.
—Clang!
The sword in his hand fell to the floor.
At the same time, the flames surrounding us disappeared as if they had never been there.
The flames that had been raging as if to devour the servants also vanished.
All that remained was the heat.
—Poof!
Before I could even properly see what was happening, Dielo hugged me.
The skin touching my exposed flesh, his heavy breathing. Everything about him was hot.
“Are you alright?”
Dielo asked urgently.
“Yes, Sir Nias said there’s no problem.”
Of course, I couldn’t help but sound a little hoarse.
But perhaps that voice stimulated Dielo.
Dielo’s arms around me tightened.
“I was trying to find out who made Krua like that.”
It seemed so.
But this wasn’t Dielo’s usual way.
[Emotional Overload draws out the true nature of the one who is overloaded.]
That’s what was clearly written in the original work.
Is this Dielo’s true nature?
This unbelievably brutal atmosphere?
His still-uncooled heat enveloped me.
“I was truly worried.”
Not just saying it, but truly.
The moment I widened my eyes at the small voice that only I could hear, he said.
His main voice was audible.
“I’m relieved you’re safe.”
Then, as if not caring about the trembling servants, he swept me up into his arms.
“Dielo!”
I was startled and flinched, but Dielo smiled faintly.
A strange light still lingered in his blue eyes.
“Let’s go rest.”
“Are you really alright, Krua? What happened?”
Dielo, who had been asking me that all the way to the bedroom, seemed a little calmer now.
He had seemed somewhat breathless earlier, but now he looked almost serene.
But his eyes were still emitting a faint light.
Which meant he was still in a state of emotional overload.
“Surely, Nias……”
Said Krua was in danger.
His voice trembled as he said that.
I patted his shoulder to calm him down.
—Poof.
Dielo gently laid me down on the bed and stood beside it, his gaze fixed on me.
If his eyes weren’t glowing faintly, I wouldn’t have believed he was in a state of emotional overload, he looked so calm.
“Well, it seems like it’s the kind of poison that spreads through the blood.”
Like most poisons, I suppose.
Dielo nodded slightly at my words.
“Yes, that’s why he said it was more dangerous.”
I smiled confidently at Dielo’s words.
“But blood is, after all, a liquid.”
The Magical Power of Alloze sparkled in my hand.
“A liquid under the control of Alloze.”
Dielo’s eyes widened.
“Ah……”
Only then did he let out a deep sigh. He seemed relieved.
“To be able to selectively remove only the harmful things from the blood, even though it’s a liquid……”
He sat down on the soft bed as if collapsing.
And after wiping his face with his hands, he said as if muttering.
“That’s a coveted ability.”
A grimace-like smile was on his face as he lowered his hands.
“The problem is that I’m not the only one who covets it.”
Dielo’s voice echoed through the bedroom.
I paused.
“……Pardon?”
Dielo’s strangely glowing gaze turned back to me.
His eyes looked complicated, but it was clear that he was worried about me.
Ah, it must be because of the emotional overload.
Certainly, Dielo, who had revealed his true nature, seemed a little more…… his expressions were more daring.
Then Dielo sighed.
“I wish you were my real Pero.”
His voice was filled with deep regret.
It was said that one rarely lied during an overload, so it must be genuine.
As if to prove it, his gaze was intensely fixed on me.
As if he really didn’t want to let me go from this place.
I looked at him and opened my mouth.
“……Don’t get too attached to me, Dielo.”
I felt like I had to make this clear.
Dielo immediately asked back at my words.
“Why, because you have to leave soon?”
It was a smooth answer, as if he had thought about the answer to my question many times.
I nodded slightly to him.
“……It hurts to get attached to someone who has to leave soon, doesn’t it?”
Of course, I knew that I was already screwed up for saying this.
From the fact that Dielo’s trembling eyelashes were particularly noticeable, and that I was concerned about how he would react, the business relationship had already failed.
But I still had to draw the line.
Because that was the way for us.
Eventually, Dielo would have Pero, and it would be troublesome if I were between the two people who were supposed to share true love.
The longer it took for Pero to become attached to Dielo, the later Dielo would bloom.
“……”
Dielo stared at me for a long time.
His eyes blinked slowly.
Then he opened his mouth in a gentle voice.
“When I was young, I caught a rabbit.”
It was a sudden story about a rabbit.
But Dielo’s gaze as he told the story had a power to captivate people.
“Back then, I was too weak to move quickly.”
Dielo continued, slowly clenching and unclenching his hand.
“I would almost catch it, but then I would miss it.”
His slightly frowning face was unfamiliar.
“The rabbit that seemed to be caught kept slipping out of my hands by a hair’s breadth, and it was driving me crazy.”
He turned to me.
Without blinking an eye, he said with sparkling eyes.
“I was going to give up, but I thought I would regret it if I did.”
He smiled beautifully.
“I burned down that mountain with fire.”
So that the rabbit would be surprised and run into my arms.
My eyes widened at those words.
I wasn’t so dense that I couldn’t understand what those words meant.
His eyes, which had always been like a shallow lake, suddenly looked like a deep sea.
I remembered something I had talked about with him once.
When I had said that his eyes were pretty.
‘They’re pretty because the light blue color is like the sea.’
I think he had answered like this.
‘The sea that isn’t the deep sea is, yes.’
I had brushed it off at the time.
What did those words mean?
Did it mean that the deep sea was a dark color?
Or did it mean that the deep sea wasn’t so beautiful?
As I looked at his eyes, which seemed to have turned pitch black, Dielo continued in a gentle voice.
“But.”
He leaned towards me, who was lying on the bed.
—Whoosh.
The lighting in the room, which had been maintained by his power, dimmed as if it had been turned off.
Under the dim light where we could barely make out each other’s faces, he whispered.
“I wanted to play with fire again, just like back then.”
I knew.
The heat coming from him wasn’t from Argenta.
It was only his.
His desire.
My mouth felt parched from the heat.
<The Three Duke Families>.
The original work of this book. That novel where only crazy people came out.
Was Dielo Argenta also a character from that crazy novel?
Or was it because of the emotional overload?
“What should I do, Krua?”
Dielo’s eyes smiled prettily as he asked that.
Even amidst the gentle gaze, the eerie light was not subsiding, but rather intensifying.
Oh my god.
Still, considering that he wasn’t doing anything bloody or imprisoning me, should I consider it a mild version?
……No, have I already seen blood?
I thought of the sword in his hand.
Whether it was because of the overload or not, there was definitely a side of Dielo that I didn’t know.
“……”
I knew that Dielo didn’t want to part with me.
Even if I wanted to pretend not to notice his feelings and gloss over it, I couldn’t.
He was saying that he would set fire to everything if I did.
That he wanted me to jump into his arms like a rabbit. That he absolutely didn’t want to let me go.
Right now, I had no choice but to somehow appease this man.
—Thump, thump, thump.
I could hear my heart beating in my ears.
I was trying to stay calm even as I was so nervous.
“Playing with fire is good, but.”
I raised my index finger and blocked his lips.
“Don’t forget the purpose.”
Dielo’s eyes narrowed at my words.
“We have to defeat Duke Alroze.”
Dielo didn’t deny my words. It meant that he hadn’t lost his reason to that extent.
I said to him slowly and clearly.
“We can’t die while catching rabbits, can we?”
It’s not like we started this relationship to catch rabbits.
Dielo stared at me for a long time at my words. Then he slowly opened his mouth.
As if deliberately trying to stimulate my finger, his lips rubbed against the soft flesh inside my finger.
Even as he did so, he was looking at me without blinking an eye.
I trembled from the strange feeling that was transmitted from my fingertips.
“You mean we should eliminate Duke Alloze, those who targeted Krua.”
His hot breath scattered right in front of me.
I nodded slowly.
“Yes.”
We have to survive to do anything, right?
Dielo was silent for a moment at my words.
Then, he quickly wore a soft and gentle smile.
It was the smile I knew.
But his eyes were still emitting a faint blue light. It meant he was still in a state of overload.
“I understand.”
Even so, his answering voice was only docile.
Like a tamed lamb.
