Chapter 8
Whether it was a romance fantasy novel or a BL novel, obsessive male leads were always something Ruri from the real world liked.
She had heard that Shuindel had many emotional wounds, which was why he was so suspicious and possessive, but she never expected it to be this bad.
Souju, you bastard. Did you seriously set the male lead as some kind of psychopath?
No matter how much she liked obsessive male leads, controlling a woman he did not even have feelings for to this extent was not obsession anymore. It was madness.
Besides, he had apparently invited the woman who had a one-sided crush on him just to show her the lovey-dovey things he did with the man he was currently dating?
Normally, no matter how shameless a man was, wouldn’t he try his best to avoid getting caught cheating?
Well, technically it was not cheating since Luna’s love for Shuindel was only one-sided.
Even so, the original Luna would never have known about Shuindel’s intentions and gone there willingly…
If she had, she would not have fainted so badly that she could not come to her senses for three days.
And by now, Luna should have already found out about the relationship between the two men and started acting to harm them from her own point of view.
So why would he deliberately call her there and show her that scene?
What on earth is this guy’s intention?
“I really don’t understand why Sir Shuindel is acting this way.”
“You do not need to understand. A man, you say? It has never been like this before, has it? Young Lady only needs to continue as you always have.”
“As I always have?”
“For the past five years.”
What did he mean it had never been like this before? Continue as she had done for five years?
In 《Love, Promise of Flowers》, Luna de Mirage had fallen in love at first sight when she was twelve years old after seeing Shuindel’s beautiful appearance. He was an academy classmate of her older brother Proint, whom he had brought home.
After that, one year later, Luna’s mother died. The following year, even Proint, the person she relied on instead of her busy father, left.
For Luna, there was only Shuindel.
To Luna, Shuindel was both the person she loved romantically and someone she could lean on because of her loneliness.
Since she did not know how to hide her feelings, Luna must have opened up everything inside her like a transparent music box and shown it all.
If this had been the real Luna, even if she had seen Shuindel and Crown Prince Panen’s affectionate behavior and fainted from shock, she would not have changed her attitude so easily.
She would have clung to Shuindel again as if nothing had happened.
Pretending she had seen nothing.
Pretending she remembered nothing.
Even so, what did he mean by saying she should continue as she always had?
Is this man really a pervert?
“I made a promise with Proint. I promised him that I would take good care of Young Lady in his place.
I cannot just stand by and watch worthless flies gather around Young Lady. Proint would not want that.
Lady Luna has not even become an adult yet, has she? Therefore, until that time comes, I have a duty to carefully protect and look after Young Lady.”
So it is only because of my brother?!
Because of a promise with her brother, he planted spies in her household and controlled her like she was some kind of criminal?
Because she was not an adult yet and he could not tolerate random men approaching her?
“Ray is just a servant helping me with miscellaneous things. He is only called my attendant. He is not the kind of man Sir Shuindel is imagining.”
“If that is all, then you already have Lily, your maid, do you not?”
“My health has not been good lately, and I almost got hurt because of an unexpected incident. I thought having a strong slave beside me might help protect me. Ray happened to save me, so I made him my attendant and escort knight.”
“If that is the reason, the Mirage family already has the Silt Knights.”
“Are the knights not men as well? The knights have talented people, noble backgrounds, and even handsome appearances. Are they fine?”
At those words, Shuindel de Proint finally lost his ability to answer.
“I was grateful to him, and I felt sorry that he was a slave, so I wanted to help him. You know I cannot ignore someone pitiful.
What Sir Shuindel saw earlier… was just like petting a cute dog. Ray is not a man. He is merely a slave!”
Luna felt sorry toward Ray, but for now, she decided to lower herself as much as possible in order to keep him by her side.
Thinking carefully, if Luna suddenly changed her attitude overnight, it would make Shuindel suspicious.
If the real Luna had seen Shuindel kick a slave, she would not have become as furious as Luna had.
Besides, judging from Shuindel’s actions, taking Ray away from her did not seem like a difficult thing for him.
“Is that really all?”
Shuindel stared deeply into Luna’s golden eyes with his purple eyes that were impossible to read.
“Th-that’s all. What else could there be? I only have Sir Shuindel.”
Luna clung tightly to Shuindel’s arm and acted sweetly like a young girl.
She had thought she only needed to step away from Shuindel and Panen’s love story, but now it seemed things were much more complicated than she expected.
This guy is not simply a male lead who is blinded by love for the cute Crown Prince and living in a pink-colored world.
How am I supposed to smoothly escape from these men?
“Why are you not calling me the way you usually do?”
When Luna hung onto his arm and acted cute, Shuindel suddenly spoke.
“Excuse me? The way I usually do?”
What did she usually call him?
Souju, what embarrassing thing did you add to the novel this time?
In the real world, Ruri was kind, but she had never been good at acting cute. She had never called anyone by a sweet nickname.
“Th-that’s because Shuindel oppa-nim doesn’t seem to like it…”
Luna tried to casually pass it off using her experience from working life in the real world.
But Shuindel was not an easy person.
“I never said I disliked it. I simply never said anything.
You can call me that. When we are alone, it is fine.
Though that Shu-Shu oppa thing is a little embarrassing…”
What? Shu… what?
Shu-Shu oppa?
Did Souju seriously lose his mind from too much cuteness?
Wasn’t it enough that he acted charming in front of others?
Why did he put this kind of thing into the novel?
Ah, damn it. My entire body feels like it is shrinking from embarrassment.
Did he hear me call Ray a bear cub earlier?
I only wanted to try something cute in the novel since I could never do it in real life.
But even so, Shu-Shu oppa was too much!
No!
I have to endure it.
I have to endure it.
You are Luna de Mirage!
You are a seventeen-year-old immature girl who is crazy about Shuindel oppa!
Red sun!!
“Sh-Shu-Shu oppa, you’re not angry, right?”
“Now you finally look like the Luna Young Lady I know.”
After telling her to call him that, Shuindel did not even pretend to be happy. He simply removed Luna’s hand from his arm.
Damn it!!
“Ray is just like a big dog I raise. So I can keep him, right, Shu-Shu oppa?”
Luna widened her golden eyes as innocently and pitifully as possible and begged him.
As her ultimate move, she twisted her beautiful red hair around her finger.
Shuindel stared at her for a while, then let out a helpless sigh.
“Keeping one dog should not be a problem. But you should be careful that the dog does not bite its owner.”
“Of course, Shu-Shu oppa.”
Luna showed him the brightest smile she could make.
Ugh. My face is about to cramp.
After Shuindel left, Luna lay down on her bed.
She had believed that if she simply stayed out of the male leads’ love story in this BL novel, she could easily protect her life.
But she never expected Shuindel to have such strange possessiveness.
If he is a male lead, shouldn’t he be obsessed with the man he loves? Why is he obsessed with some useless one-sided-love girl?
Is this a different kind of obsession?
Well, it’s not like I have ever received obsession before.
She had always been left alone.
Anyway, if she wanted to live comfortably in this world without losing her head, running away somewhere seemed like the best option.
The reason she had insisted on keeping Ray by her side was because he came from a strange country called Paradiso.
Souju never told her what country Ray was from in the real world, which probably meant it was not an important setting.
That meant Shuindel and Crown Prince Panen, who lived here, probably had no interest in a tiny country like Paradiso.
Then she could somehow collect money in the Line Empire before her life was in danger and disappear without Shuindel’s knowledge.
There already seemed to be a spy planted by Shuindel in this household, so she could not easily trust anyone.
If her plan to run away was discovered, the day she died at the hands of that strange couple might come even sooner.
Besides, Count Mirage was a complete daughter lover. If his daughter suddenly said she wanted to move to another country, he would not simply say:
“Okay, go safely.”
How could she quietly endure everything, save money, and disappear like the wind?
In the end, whether it was the real world or this world, money was always the problem.
She could not openly ask Count Mirage for money, and living in another country for the rest of her life would require a considerable amount of money…
Thinking about all kinds of problems, Luna’s head began to ache.
Come to think of it, she had been lying in bed for a long time, but her eyes were wide open and sleep had not come at all.
It was not like there were bright skyscrapers outside, so the room was pitch-black.
A seventeen-year-old girl who should fall asleep the moment her head touched the pillow could not sleep in this darkness?
Was the insomnia she suffered from in the real world following her into the novel?
Thinking about it, after waking up here, she could count on one hand the number of times she had felt she slept deeply.
She had thought she simply could not sleep because she had suddenly fallen into an unfamiliar environment.
But was it really insomnia?
Once she became aware of it, sleep became even farther away.
“Good morning, Young Lady!”
Tiny Lily and huge Ray opened the door wide and entered.
Ah… in the end, I barely slept and practically stayed awake all night.
Regardless, Ray walked toward the window and pulled open all the long curtains.
“It is still dark outside, so I will light the candles for you.”
Lily approached Luna’s bedside and took out a small fire pouch from inside her apron.
Then she pulled out a fire striker, tinder, and flint from inside it again.
She created a spark and lit the candle placed on the bedside table.
They really light candles like this?
Is this a setting where matches have not been invented yet?
Candle…
Candle?!
