Chapter 23

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“My lady.”

A low voice rang out quietly. Damian’s graceful fingers moved. He reached out his hand and grabbed the iron bars in front of him.

“Why are you so sure that I’m not the culprit? And one more thing.”

The corners of his eyes were curved like a crescent moon.

“May I ask why my lady came to this prison?”

Damian said so and looked at me from head to toe.

The way he looked at me with narrowed eyes seemed to judge whether I was useful to him or not.

“What do you think, Grand Duke? What’s the reason I have come this far?”

I looked directly into Damian’s eyes and asked a question. Then Damian tilted his head and opened his mouth.

“At least I don’t think my lady came here to play with words like this.”

Damian removed his hand from the iron bars and pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket.

Taking out a handkerchief, he wiped his hands as if they were dirty from touching the iron bars.

“Am I wrong?”

His gaze was fixed on me and Damian gently smiled.

“How do you know? Everything you said is true.”

I smiled at Damian and stepped towards him. Every step I took to approach him, it smelled like blood.

Finally, I arrived right in front of the prison where Damian was confined, and I grabbed the cold iron bars like he did before.

‘For this moment, I’m a woman in love with Damian.’

Actually, I fell in love at first sight with the man in front of me in my previous life, so it wasn’t that difficult to play a stupid woman who fell in love.

Arrogant Damian.

A demon with a beautiful shell that killed me who had cured his heart disease.

“Grand Duke.”

I closed my eyes and opened my lips.

“It’s like I fell in love with you at first sight.”

At those words, Damian stopped wiping his hands and burst into laughter. There was even a slight smirk on his face as he looked at me. It was a face that didn’t believe what I was saying.

“Alright, my lady. It was love at first sight, but let’s hear the reason why my lady came to this prison.”

“Does the Grand Duke not believe me?”

“Would anyone else believe that in this situation?”

“… Unbelievable. I came here at a risk to get the Grand Duke out of prison, how could…”

I blurted my words and lowered my head so Damian couldn’t see my expression.

“… My lady?”

Damian’s voice seemed to be slightly bewildered. I slowly lifted my head, trembling at the sound of his voice calling me.

My reflection in Damian’s eyes was pitiful.

How sad it looked to see me trembling and biting my lower lip.

I looked like someone who was shivering badly because drenched in the rain.

In fact, I didn’t know that this expression came out so naturally, perhaps because I suffered a tragic death and my purpose is unbreakable.

Damian also still had a bewildered look on his face.

I tried to smiled at him. And didn’t forget to drop my shoulders.

“I’ve only come all the way here to tell the Crown Prince.”

“…”

“If I had known that I would hear such words from the Grand Duke because I fell in love at first sight, I wouldn’t have come in the first place.”

Hearing my words, the tip of Damian’s lips fell down slowly. With a smile, he narrowed his eyes and looked at me and said.

“… Are you really saying you fell in love with me at first sight?”

“Of course! Otherwise, what kind of person would come to the place like this!”

I reached out my hand to hold the iron bars and shouted.

Damian furrowed his brows and he looked surprised that I suddenly shouted.

Either way, I continued what I had to say.

“I never believed in love at first sight. Until I met the Grand Duke.”

Damian held the tip of his chin as if he was contemplating about something.

The purple eyes seen inside the helmet were colder than usual.

I pretended I didn’t see Casadine’s gaze and made an expression like someone in love when I saw Damian.

I put the face of a shy girl who didn’t know what to do with my first unrequited love.

‘My lips are smiling and my cheeks are flushed.’

I said with an expression like I truly loved Damian.

“The black hair and the emerald eyes that look like stars in the sky. Even a sharp jawline and a voice with a calm and quiet resonance.”

“… My lady.”

Damian smirked, but I didn’t care and just continued what I had to say.

Please, I hope you think I’m stupid.

Please think of me as the stupidest person in the world. When you think you have everything, that’s the time you’ll lose everything.

Rather than finding the real culprit who poisoned the Crown Prince, I hope your curiosity about me will take priority.

For my own purposes, I can endure such shame. If I had to show Damian a small loophole, it would be best if I was seen as a stupid young girl who was easy to take advantage of.

“Do you know how heartbroken I was when you were suddenly dragged away by the Imperial Knights before we could even have a proper conversation? I mean, I came all the way here to persuade the Crown Prince to release the Grand Duke, who was unfairly imprisoned. ”

Casadine’s eyes, which were still felt cold, sank even colder with every words I said.

The clear eyes that felt like a calm lake went nowhere to be found.

“After persuading the Crown Prince, and seeing that ‘He’ escorted you to the entrance of this tower himself, you seem to have a good relationship with His Highness, right?”

I bit my lower lip and nodded my head.

“Of course. The Crown Prince directly ordered the imperial knight to escort me here. If you don’t believe me, you can ask His Highness.”

When I answered confidently with my back straight, Damian gave a thoughtful expression for a moment.

In Damian’s green eyes, I could see myself full of determination.

How stupid I look right now.

‘You must be calculating hard in your head whether I’m worthy of your use or not.’

Even in my previous life, the Crown Prince and Damian didn’t get along very well. To put it bluntly, their relationship is bad.

Damian seemed to have planned to approach the Crown Prince in his own way, but the Crown Prince often broke his promises to him.

Did he know that Damian was aiming for the throne?

Or maybe it was some kind of homophobia?

Maybe that’s why Damian showed interest in the fact that I was close with the Crown Prince rather than talking about I fell in love with him at first sight.

But nothing is free in this world. A life that only gave generously was enough for once.

“Grand Duke, may I know why you were late for the Crown Prince’s birthday banquet?”

“…Why are you asking that?”

“I need to know exactly what the Grand Duke did that day, so I can tell His Highness well that you aren’t the culprit.”

“I declare that I am not the culprit…”

Damian muttered a small sigh and walked to the bed inside the prison. Sitting on the bed, he opened his mouth, picking up the book he had been reading before I arrived.

“Then let’s do this.”

“?”

“If my lady tell me about yourself, I’ll tell you what I did on the day of His Highness’s birthday banquet.”

Damian, who was turning a page with his long legs crossed to his right, looked straight into my eyes and added.

“Because I want to know about my lady too.”

‘I want to know.’

Even if he said that, it was obvious that Damian wanted to take advantage of the situation, he would throw me away after sucking up all the information I had.

Instead, he was almost laughing at the current situation, the calculating and meticulous Damian tried to take the initiative.

Even if I die, he won’t feel guilty for doing something to hurt me.

As always, Damian was truly a selfish human being.

‘Then, what about this?’

I leisurely distanced myself from the prison’s iron bars and shook my head at Damian, who was waiting for my answer.

“Because of the Grand Duke’s words and responses earlier, all my feelings for you have evaporated.”

Damian’s hands stopped turning the pages of his book at my words.

“…What does that mean all of a sudden?”

“Grand Duke, I hate calculating people very much. I didn’t know that the Grand Duke I loved was such a person. Trying to use my pure love in this way.”

After saying that, I turned away without any regrets. As soon as I took a step, I heard Damian’s bewildered voice behind me.

“My lady?”

“How can you put my pure heart in that way? Thank you. Thanks to this, I was able to clearly understand who the Grand Duke is.”

Before even taking a few steps away, I could feel Damian getting up from the bed and walking closer to the iron bars.

When I paused for a moment, I heard Damian’s voice immediately calling me.

“I ended up being rude to you, my lady. I apologize for not considering my lady’s feeling properly.”

“…”

“I’ll tell you why I’m late, so please don’t leave. If you leave like this, I don’t feel at ease.”

I smiled softly at the voice I heard behind my back.

Damian would say something like that. It was clear that he had decided that it was a waste to let go of me, who was close to the Crown Prince.

When I stopped and turned my head, Damian, who took it as a positive meaning, opened his mouth.

“Actually, I was preparing a special gift for the Crown Prince.”

“You must have taken a long time to prepare a special gift before the Crown Prince’s birthday.”

“It was a gift that took a lot of time just to bring it to the duchy.”

“What’s that gift?”

Instead of answering my question, Damian stared at Casadine who is standing next to me.

Realizing the meaning of those eyes, I smiled and said to Casadine.

“I’m sorry, sir, but could you please stay away for a moment?”

“… Sir?”

Casadine pretended not to hear me and leaned against the wall with his arms crossed.

Damian’s eyebrows, who were watching this scene from inside the prison, frowned.

“Even if you are an imperial knight, you shouldn’t have such an attitude.”

“Oh, I think he’s a very loyal knight because he’s a knight specially assigned to me by His Highness.”

“… Can you be trusted?”

At Damian’s words, Casadine nodded his head slightly instead of speaking.

“Well, then it’s fine if you hear it, so I’ll let you know.”

It seems this talk is not that important. Instead, Damian seemed to want to convey the fact that he had prepared a present for the Crown Prince.

If it was such an important story, the man who wouldn’t say it even if he died was Damian.

“The present I prepared for His Highness.”

“Yes.”

“A slave with tremendous physical abilities.”

“A slave?”

“That’s right. A slave brought from a distant foreign land.”

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