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175I made sure Leo had firmly covered both his eyes and ears, then turned to face Sir Cherry. In his crimson eyes, I could see emotions seething like a volcano on the verge of eruption. All I had done was meet his gaze. “It’s because I love you, my lady.” His confession from that day lingered in my ears, tickling them. It felt as if I were about to crush a red flower that had finally bloomed after a winter spent holding its breath, but I opened my mouth to speak. “Sir Cherry, to…
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Episode 174 Leo rubbed his cheek, mumbling as if the inside of his mouth felt strangely itchy. “Do you remember the morning after Sir Knight and Lady Belinda left for the Warded Forest, when I said I thought I’d encountered a demonic beast?” Cesar didn’t reply, but Leo went on speaking. “At the time, I thought it was a demonic beast—but now, I’m not so sure. Because, just now, he touched my cheek behind the curtain, just like you did. So, if that person is really my…
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Episode 173 Leo went on to explain the reasoning behind his assumption. “That’s why I could walk freely through the Enchanted Forest.” There are two families welcomed by the Enchanted Forest—the descendants of the First King, who created the forest, and the Valuashuten lineage, his younger brother’s house. Leo had chosen the former. While Leo’s expression was solemn, I had to bite my lower lip to keep from laughing. Whether he noticed or not, Leo leaned in with a very serious…
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Episode 172 Regrettably—or perhaps fortunately—Cesare never saw the expression on Belinda’s face as she looked at him. “You really are… hopeless, Sir.” Her words were a whisper, laced with a touch of laughter. “Why would you say something like that at a time like this? It’s just so…” Like a death flag. Belinda bit back the words. At some point, she realized Cesare was now lying with his eyes closed, exhaling faint, shallow breaths. The hand she held in her own was…
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Episode 171 Night descended upon the Enchanted Forest, without exception. Belinda and Cesare sat side by side, conserving their energy by speaking little. Cesare reassured her, insisting that if northern knights were on their trail, they would surely find them. For those knights, the forest was an ancient enemy—sometimes, they could see through its secrets even better than an old friend. The only problem was time. ‘They must find us before the poison reaches Sir Cherry’s…
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170 Something warm as a spring day’s sunlight kept tickling my eyelids. Frowning in my sleep, I tried to block out the light with the back of my hand, but for some reason, my whole body felt bound, unable to move a single inch. Groaning weakly, I gave up on moving and burrowed my forehead deeper into the bedding. “My lady! That’s the forest’s boundary!” Flash. At the sound of Penadel’s voice—the words I remembered hearing before losing consciousness—I snapped my eyes…
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Chapter 169 Soon, his aura chillingly cold like a shard of ice, his left hand touched my cheek with utmost care. “I’ve said this before, haven’t I? Lady Blanche is more precious to me than anything else in this world.” A whisper, tender as a lover’s secret words slipped into a beloved’s ear. But Sir Cherry had never spoken those words before. That night, on the balcony, his revelation, though desperate as a sinner in confession, was at once solemn as a knight’s vow. So I…
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168At that moment, someone stepped in front of Caesar. “Your Excellency.” Caesar and Penadel’s gazes met in the void between them. Though the whites of Caesar’s eyes, glimpsed through the mask’s slits, had not yet turned completely black, the signs were ominous. Once the whites went jet-black, the beast’s transformation would progress to the physical form; at that point, not even the Valuaachten family’s abilities could reverse it. Penadel placed a cautious hand on his sword…
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Episode 167 As with any beast wounded and driven to the edge of a precipice, the creature facing Caesar bristled with an extraordinary wariness. Yet, the reason it did not flee into the forest just behind may well have been instinct: somewhere, it sensed that the moment it set foot in the woods as a beast, it would never return. But Caesar, too, had no intention of letting the beast retreat to the woods. This was an affair that had to be ended by his own hand. Gazing at an old…
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166 ‘…Mion.’ Someone called Leo by an unfamiliar name, gently caressing the child's cheek with the back of their hand. Leo, still drowsy with sleep, murmured vaguely. ‘That’s not my name.’ Yet, the warmth of the hand stroking his face seemed achingly familiar. Leo even knew that the reason the person used the back of their hand was to keep the rough, callused palm from scratching his delicate skin. ‘En…on.’ ‘My name is Leo.’ At the very moment Leo…
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165The name Theodore had given soon became the child’s nickname. So time passed, and in the year Cherry turned ten— During summer, the only season in the North when snow is rare— Just like the first snow falling without warning, the lingering curse was suddenly lifted from the child’s eyes. The Grand Duchess, at last able to embrace her son with blue snowflowers blossoming in his gaze, did so; and the Grand Duke, placing his hand on the boy’s shoulder, spoke aloud, for the first time,…
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Episode 164 That evening was more delightful than any we’d had in a long time. Dame Cherry hurried back so quickly that she didn’t even bother to brush the snow off her shoulders, yet, as always, she ate her meal in silence. “So, the knights tossed me up into the air, and I flew so high that I nearly met Lady Belinda’s eyes from up on the second floor!” Leaving out the part where I scolded the northern knights so harshly that their ears must have bled, Leo eagerly chirped on,…
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