<CHAPTER 36>

Why Do You Always Say You’re Fine

“To think there was truly a beautiful young lady here.”

Ugh, the smell of alcohol.

Evelyn’s brow furrowed involuntarily at the appearance of some young nobleman who had become completely drunk.

“Are you not listening to me?”

“Young nobleman, you seem quite intoxicated.”

Seeing him speak such nonsense.

She swallowed the rest of her words and clicked her tongue inwardly.

But the young nobleman jumped up and raised his voice as if to refute Evelyn’s words.

“Never! I am not drunk. Look now. The Moon Goddess has guided me here……”

He’s drunk, he’s drunk.

A shallow sigh escaped between Evelyn’s lips.

Somehow she had said her fortune was good today, but it seemed the heavens would not leave it at that.

No longer wishing to see the other’s disgraceful behavior, she decided to leave her seat.

The moment she was naturally trying to leave the balcony, the young nobleman’s rough hand grabbed her slender wrist.

Feeling the throbbing pain from her strongly grasped wrist, Evelyn twisted her eyes.

“What in the world is this?”

At her sharp voice, the young nobleman seemed to falter, but then put more strength into his hand.

As if trying to prevent Evelyn from leaving the balcony.

“I told you. The Moon Goddess has granted me a reward.”

When was this heresy founded?

Or perhaps this man was drunk and seeing things.

As if she had heard something outrageous, Evelyn let out a hollow laugh.

“It seems the Moon Goddess did not teach you character.”

Perhaps those words touched a nerve, as the young nobleman’s expression contorted fiercely.

“What do you mean by that?”

“Is treating someone who refuses so roughly also in your doctrine?”

When Evelyn countered with an even firmer voice, the young nobleman’s pupils shook mercilessly.

“But surely the woman with true pink hair is my fate…… Heup-“

As if he had spoken words that should never be uttered, the young nobleman hurriedly covered his own mouth.

The moment she doubted her own ears, she questioned with a suspicious face.

“What did you just say?”

The young nobleman dropped Evelyn’s wrist with a slap and tried to leave the balcony in a fluster.

Thud-

But he collided with someone and sat down on the spot.

The young nobleman’s face soon filled with fear as if he were about to be beheaded.

For a man emitting a chilling aura and radiating fierce eyes stood before the balcony.

“What in the world is this situation?”

A cold voice flowed from the man who had stiffened his expression.

There was only one house besides the Tower Master who possessed such overwhelming magical power.

His mere existence made one’s body tremble, and the young nobleman could not properly continue speaking.

“C-could it be, Young Count Valentino?”

Then with a terrified expression, he looked back and forth between the man before him and the woman behind him.

“Then this woman is…… Evelyn Inevassel?”

Aksion Valentino took one heavy step.

Then the shocked young nobleman began to retreat while sitting.

“I-I didn’t know. If I had known she was Young Count’s fiancée-“

“Evelyn, close your eyes.”

Aksion seemed to have roughly grasped the situation.

His red eyes shone as terrifyingly as blood.

At the appearance of her fiancé who looked as if he would do something to Young-sik, Evelyn cried out urgently.

“No, Aksion!”

When the man’s gaze, his eyebrows twitching, reached her, she spoke calmly.

“I have something to check with that person.”

Aksion stared at Evelyn for several seconds before nodding his head slightly.

Then he sent a cold gaze toward Young-sik once more.

“It seems necessary to remind you who you have touched.”

“Uheok”

The cowering Young-sik stood pressed against the balcony railing.

It seemed he thought that even if he jumped from the not-so-high railing, he wouldn’t be seriously injured.

As if finding Young-sik’s behavior laughable, Aksion let out a chilling laugh.

‘His expression is quite brutal……’

Perhaps due to the strange tension, Evelyn somehow felt her liver grow cold.

The man with eyes full of hostility soon muttered a small incantation.

Whish-

Then golden chains imbued with magical power wrapped tightly around Young-sik’s body.

“Heuk, uwaaack!”

Evelyn sent a bewildered gaze at Young-sik’s appearance of suddenly crying out in pain.

‘Why is he suddenly like that?’

As if reading her thoughts, Aksion spoke in a dry voice.

“It’s illusion magic. He’ll feel pain as if his whole body is burning.”

“Is it alright to leave him like that?”

Evelyn asked with a somewhat concerned expression.

If the investigation bureau learned of this matter, the situation would become much more complicated.

What if they called it excessive suppression……

Aksion seemed to hold a fishy smile, then spoke in a nonchalant voice.

“Well, I’ve been quite lenient with this much.”

At that moment, the man’s gaze reached Evelyn’s pale white wrist.

On her wrist remained the bruised marks from being roughly grabbed by Young-sik.

Having discovered the wound, Aksion furrowed his brow deeply.

“As expected, killing him like this-“

“Don’t even say such things!”

At least do the killing when I’m not around—Evelyn made an expression of shock and hurriedly covered her fiancé’s mouth.

Soon after she removed her hand, a strange glint flickered in the man’s red pupils.

“Were you worried about me?”

“Th-that……”

She simply didn’t want to be at a murder scene together, but for some reason Evelyn couldn’t deny it.

Only at this moment did it seem as if the ominous atmosphere surrounding them had vanished.

At the indescribable atmosphere, she was biting her lips when.

Ahem—Suddenly someone’s cough was heard, and Evelyn slowly turned her stiff neck.

Beyond the balcony curtain, the guard knights were watching them with awkward expressions.

She swallowed a sigh of relief seeing the knights who appeared at the appropriate timing.

Since she herself had no idea what to say to her fiancé.

“We came after receiving a report.”

It seemed some nearby nobles had heard Young-sik’s screams and reported to the guards.

Aksion spoke to the knights who were gauging the situation in a calm tone.

“Let’s have this Young-sik taken to the investigation bureau after receiving permission. I’ll take him.”

The man who had been staring indifferently at the questioning knight tilted his head crookedly.

“Must I repeat myself?”

“Ah. No!”

Perhaps sensing the unusual atmosphere, the knights bowed their heads respectfully.

Then following Aksion’s order, they dragged away Young-sik who was suppressed by the magical chains and left the balcony.

Left alone with her fiancé, Evelyn asked the question she had been curious about.

“Aksion, was the new guild matter resolved well?”

The man who slightly narrowed his brow wrapped her swollen wrist with his handkerchief.

“That shouldn’t be the problem right now.”

“But it’s important! What happened?”

When Evelyn urged for an answer.

He let out a long sigh.

“I resolved it well. Thanks to you.”

“Then that’s a relief!”

The man who watched her smiling gently spoke in a low, subdued voice.

“Go back and receive treatment first.”

For some reason sensing her fiancé’s mood, Evelyn nodded slowly.

Possessors of healing ability could not self-heal, so they had to receive separate treatment.

How much time had passed—heavy and long silence continued between the two.

Evelyn tried to say something, but words didn’t come out easily.

Aksion, whose eyes seemed to have sunk into an abyss for a moment, lowered his head onto her frail shoulder.

‘He was worried about me after all!’

Behind his cold and cruel disposition seemed to remain a very small sense of responsibility toward his fiancée.

Thinking she had caused him unnecessary worry, Evelyn spoke bravely on purpose.

“Aksion, I’m fine. You came to save me just now.”

But perhaps those words were not to his liking.

A cold voice as chilling as ice flowed from the man.

“Why do you always say you’re fine.”

“Because……”