Chapter 16

That day, I decided to stay the night in the infirmary.

As a person who treasures his sleep, it’s not a joke to sleep on a simple and thin bed.

“It’s because I talked about it, huh.”

Perhaps Caesar was looking for me who wasn’t returning to the room, but it was that very night that Caesar came to the infirmary.

So…So fast.

“No, uh…”

“That’s…If it’s something you don’t want to talk about, we can forget about it, I don’t mind. Since I don’t know what happened.”

It’s really just a groundless lie, rather I’m the victim…

I’m just considering how people will treat the chief if the truth is made public.

Moreover, he’s Caesar’s distant relative, so I shouldn’t say anything unnecessary.

I mean, this guy will definitely be hurt, right?

“You’re…I know that you’re doing this job properly. I can’t think of you as someone who would do evil for no reason.”

“……”

I’m happy that you think of me like that…

Feeling touched, I gripped my chest tightly.

“……Could you tell me about it?”

The man looked at me solemnly.

I could only look away.

“Then……I’m not going to talk about this anymore. Won’t you come back to the room?”

“No…I’ll sleep here. If you need to look after me, you can send another knight over.”

“No!!”

I was startled by the sudden loud voice and my whole body jolted.

“Sorry,” Caesar apologized meekly as he scratched his head vigorously.

“…Please. I’m worried about your health and it’s dangerous to sleep in a room like this alone. I can’t leave you here.”

“Danger you say, but it’s in the base…”

“How many men do think there are here! It’s as if you don’t know what you’re like.”

But, I’m a guy too…

What exactly am I to Caesar?

“If someone like you stays in a room together with those people…”

“Uh…”

“……No. Even when I say that…Well, I’m the same as well.”

He grabbed my hand with a serious look.

”

”

I felt a sense of security when his big hand wrapped mine.

He held my hand to his mouth and pressed his mouth on the back of my hand.

His lips grazing against my hand, nuzzling it.

“I beg of you. Don’t reject me…I don’t care about what you do, and I won’t pursue it. Please, I want you to sleep on the same bed as me.”

I was so surprised, I froze in place.

For this man to say such a thing.

When I wasn’t responding, Caesar came closer as if he was panicking.

“Even if you don’t want to, I won’t back off. If you want me to do something for you, tell me. If you want another gift, I want you to wait until the merchants come next time.”

“I-I didn’t say I didn’t want to…”

As I was dumbfounded, I managed to open my mouth to say something to the impatient man who was arguing vehemently.

D-do you want me to return to the room so badly?

Maybe it’s because it was Harith’s order…Or…

No, but he thinks of me…as the person who committed a crime in the royal capital, right…?

Thinking about how he felt saying this, I felt perplexed.

“I-I have never felt…such an irresistible feeling before.”

“Uwah-”

I was suddenly pushed down onto the thin bed in the infirmary

I-it can’t be, he wants to do something in such a place!?

A place with such thin walls!?

What would you do if someone was still working now?

“Wait…”

As Caesar pushed my shoulder, he squinted his eyes and caressed my cheek.

“…Return to the room?”

“……O-okay.”

Caesar seemed relieved as he saw me nodding, and sat up.