Chapter 76
Chapter 76
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Whether I flinched at his words or his touch, I couldn't tell.
His hand, which had been massaging my shoulder blades in a circular motion, swept down my back.
"If I say I'm in pain, you won't turn away, will you?"
Between his words and the heat, I couldn't properly indulge in either.
Was it because he needed to release the accumulated Magical Power?
Just as the heat spreading from his hand was about to steal my mind, his voice, like a ringing echo in my head, poured down.
While I was struggling to understand it, he touched another sensitive spot.
A place where Magical Power was concentrated.
"……!"
And as if knowing I would flinch, he thoroughly loosened the area around it.
Each time his straight fingertips touched the concentrated spot, a groan escaped my lips.
"Excuse me for a moment, Krua."
Before I knew it, my body, already melting, was trapped between his knees.
The moment I thought I could see his shadow even in the dim light.
"Ah……!"
His fingertips strongly rubbed my back.
The hand that ran down my back muscles sent a thrilling sensation throughout my body.
He seemed to know exactly where each muscle connected.
Otherwise, such a detailed massage would be impossible.
No, more than that.
"Are you sure you're covering your eyes?"
How can he do this with his eyes covered?
I couldn't look up because Dielo was behind me.
I heard Dielo's low laughter.
It didn't seem like he was laughing close by, but it was as hot as if his breath was touching me.
Whenever I felt something touching me, a sensation not created by my own movement.
It was only after a while that I realized it was the feeling of his clothes brushing against me.
But perhaps because I couldn't see, all my senses were heightened, directed towards him.
My breath smelled sweet.
"Would you like me to bring you a mirror if you're feeling uneasy?"
With those words, Dielo stepped away from me.
Turning around, I saw him touching the surrounding furniture.
"Ah."
Then, as if realizing where he was, he quickly brought a mirror and placed it in front of me.
"Will you be able to see with this?"
I slightly adjusted the angle of the mirror.
Then I could see his face clearly.
A man completely covering his eyes with a black cloth, dominating my back.
And my flushed face looking up at him.
"……Ah. Um."
I unconsciously covered my face.
Oh my god.
Dielo smiled as if he felt the breeze from my fanning.
"Are you hot?"
"A little……."
Was massage always this hot?
When the maids massaged me, there was heat around, but not this much.
The feeling was completely different from then.
"Muscles loosen up better in a hot place."
With those words, he spread out his hand.
—Whoosh.
The red light that bloomed from his hand enveloped us.
The air around us became cooler than before.
"How is it now?"
It was definitely cooler. But.
"……."
My face was getting even redder.
That was because. Lowering the temperature made it even more obvious.
My cheeks were flushed not because of the Argenta's heat, but because of something else.
And the area around where he was touching felt even hotter.
But there was no time to feel it more.
Because Dielo's delicate fingertips touched my body again.
"You're very tense. Not just the muscles, but the Magical Power……."
Dielo's hand moved up to my arm.
A soft, strong movement swept down my arm.
"Krua doesn't seem to have used such strong Magical Power before. Right?"
At Dielo's words, I nodded unconsciously.
Of course. The Krua before the possession wouldn't have been able to use such power.
"So you overdid it for Argenta."
Dielo said with a pitying tone. His touch became even gentler.
"Ah……."
Was it because of fatigue and the massage? I felt like my body was melting.
But there was something that kept me from falling asleep amidst the fatigue.
It was the strange sensation that had been lingering behind my neck the whole time.
I could see the corners of Dielo's mouth, covered with a black cloth, curving into a smile.
"Are you comfortable?"
He asked.
"Yes……."
Who wouldn't melt like this, relaxing in a warm place?
Dielo whispered as he leaned slightly over me.
"Then you can fall asleep, Krua."
And he lightly kissed the back of my exposed neck.
"……!"
And at that moment. I exhaled briefly.
The strange feeling that had been concentrated behind my neck flowed through my entire body.
My fingertips unconsciously scratched the bedsheets.
I woke up completely.
"Dielo."
As I exhaled briefly, Dielo laughed.
"I'm sorry."
Sorry for what? Before I could ask, soft words followed.
"I won't tease you any further."
Tease? Before I could ask that, either.
—Kiss.
From the moment his lips touched the back of my neck, it felt like something, something I had barely been holding back, was being released from within me.
A different sensation surged up from the places he had been massaging.
It was clearly just a touch to relieve tension.
As he said, he was moving within the 'range of not being rude' so that I wouldn't have to draw my dagger.
"Ah."
But I couldn't stop the hot breaths that escaped from time to time.
"You can fall asleep."
His words made me feel like he was being mischievous, and all the nerves in my body were becoming more and more sensitive.
And each time he touched my body, that feeling gradually accumulated throughout my body, bringing rough waves to my mind.
Those waves covered me with a strange heat and humidity.
"……!"
Unable to bear looking in the mirror, I lowered my gaze, and it felt like I could hear Dielo's low laughter again.
So I couldn't fall asleep even after he finished the massage.
Instead, I just pretended to be asleep with my head bowed.
"……."
Only after he covered me with the blanket, thinking I was asleep, did I slightly open my eyes.
—Thud.
Dielo was turning away from me, untying the black cloth.
Before the surrounding lights, which had been slightly maintained by his ability, were completely turned off.
I clearly saw that his cheeks were also flushed red.
* * *
—Click.
Dielo, who had left Krua's bedroom, leaned against the wall.
It's so hot, I feel like I'm suffocating.
It was an un-Argenta-like thought.
But that was all I could think.
If I just moved according to my instincts, this suffocating frustration would disappear.
"I had the desire."
I even had the confidence to seduce her.
'Would you please allow me?'
The gaze she gave me when I asked that. And.
'If I were to commit an unforgivable discourtesy even in my dreams…….'
I remembered her putting away the dagger as if to say that would never happen. Her straight gaze, as if saying that she knew I wouldn't treat her carelessly.
'Just stay like this.'
Had the night that was so desperate for him been truly forgotten like a dream for her?
From the moment I entered the room with that fragrance, I had to struggle to calm my wildly beating heart.
What if she asked me to pay for the sin of taking a deep breath without permission, what if she looked at me with betrayed eyes.
On the other hand, there was also a terrible expectation.
That she might have condoned that night.
But she had mercifully, or perhaps cruelly, forgotten everything.
As I had hoped, fearing that she might not forgive me, that night was just a dream for her.
"……."
He felt like he was trapping himself in a narrow space.
Although fire would swallow anything it could get its hands on, Dielo couldn't bring himself to devour the fragile woman in front of him, even if it meant burning himself instead.
'Dielo?'
Her voice calling my name with such bewilderment, I was afraid it would be filled with betrayal or disappointment.
I felt like I wouldn't be able to bear it then.
I felt like I would collapse.
—Thump.
He knocked on the innocent wall. His fingertips and mind, which had suppressed desire, were blank.
It was only after standing in the cool place for a long time that he could return.
Not to where Krua was sleeping, but to his office.
It seemed like I wouldn't be able to go in there today.
