Chapter 1

Translator: Nox

Chapter 1

Episode 1

"Please......"

At the hoarse, cracked voice as if his throat were parched, I snapped back to my senses.

"......I beg you."

Looking down toward the source of the sound, a beautiful man was desperately clutching my ankle.

My ankle hurt a little where he gripped it.

What in the world was going on here?

Was this a dream?

The man's silver hair, sparkling as if spun from sugar, lay messily scattered at my feet.

The man possessed an extraordinarily beautiful appearance. I stared at him in a daze, mesmerized, forgetting to even respond.

His lake-blue eyes trembled fiercely.

"Um......"

"......Speak. But before that, I'm in a hurry, so please give me the medicine first."

Medicine? What medicine?

"......I beg you."

His tone was polite, yet laced with desperate urgency.

Utterly confused and not understanding what he meant, he seemed to misinterpret my expression. He gritted his teeth with a faint grimace.

"......It's already been days since I last had my medicine. Please...... I beg you."

The man's complexion was deathly pale.

He breathed in ragged, labored gasps as if he might collapse and die at any moment. I thought I should save him first and worry about the rest later.

"Where's the medicine?"

I asked, intending to fetch it quickly, but the man frowned ever so slightly.

However, perhaps worried about offending me, he quickly softened his expression.

"It should be in the inner pocket of your frock."

Why would your medicine be in my pocket?

Thinking it was absurd, my hand was already rummaging through my pocket anyway.

My fingertips brushed against something cold and glassy.

Only then did it sink in. This had to be a vivid dream. I had no idea why I was dreaming something like this, though.

"Is this it?"

I shook the small glass vial filled with a colorless liquid in front of his eyes.

A spark of light flickered in his blue pupils.

"Yes. The medicine, quickly......"

"Rosie! What the hell are you doing?!"

Just as I was about to hand it over, a woman in a maid outfit—similar to mine—burst in unnoticed and shouted at me in horror.

The woman, with her lovely golden blonde hair, was beautiful herself. While I stood there stunned, her green eyes twisted in anger.

"Are you bewitched by that monster right now?"

"......Monster?"

"Yeah! Have you forgotten? You can't give him medicine without the master's permission!"

Wait a second.

Silver-haired man with blue eyes, medicine, monster, master's permission...... Why did all these keywords feel so familiar?

Suddenly, scenes from a novel I'd read not long ago started flooding my mind.

A certain BL novel.

But that realization was abruptly shattered by a sudden tug on my arm.

I whipped my head around in shock, my body tilting in the direction of the pull.

There stood the woman, who had snuck up without me noticing. Who was she?

"Come on, let's go, Rosie. If you stay here any longer, that monster will bewitch you."

She yanked my arm, and in my bewilderment, I followed her out.

Glancing back, I saw the man gritting his teeth, his face flushed with humiliation and frustration.

Would he be okay without the medicine?

Worried for him, I casually dropped the vial onto the carpet floor where the woman wouldn't notice—out of sheer whim.

Then, with a subtle nudge of my foot, I sent it rolling toward him.

As if he hadn't expected it, the man hurriedly snatched up the vial rolling to him, his eyes widening in surprise.

Drink it.

I mouthed the words silently and gave him a kind smile before leaving the room.

He watched me go with half-dazed eyes.

I had no idea back then.

That the beautiful man was the yandere seme from that BL novel I'd read before.

And......

"From now on, you can't go anywhere without my permission."

......That he'd end up treating me like that.