CHAPTER 09
CHAPTER 09: Honey, honey, you.
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A low, gentle voice. But somehow it was strangely cold.
ARNE : 'It won't be. surely.
Not wanting to believe, she denied it a little, and then Arne, who had hardened, slowly turned around. She looked back like a wooden doll, but when Kassian's eyes met head-on, she was startled.
ARNE : 'Ruined.'
Kassian smiled sweetly. It's a bright and warm smile that seems to melt the snow that has accumulated in winter… … But why does it seem like the winter wind is blowing from somewhere so suddenly?
KASSIAN : "How can you be alone in a corner like this, My Lady?"
ARNE : "Uh.... ... That..."
Somehow, the title of "wife" contained something heavy. Arne's eyes glanced at Crave once. Crave was already taking the attitude of a perfect maid. She couldn't understand why he was so caring like a real maid, but Arne tried to focus on escaping the current situation.
ARNE : "That's it, so....
At that moment, Kassian's gaze turned to Crave. Reflexively, Arne was nervous. A sharp gaze glanced over Crave. Crave stood with his hands neatly clasped in a respectful manner. When Cassian's eyes twinkled, Arne broke into a cold sweat without realizing it.
ARNE : 'Did he even hear it...
It was when Arne, who had thought that such a disguise would not work from the beginning, put on a disappointed expression.
KASSIAN : "It's the first time I've seen this maid."
ARNE : "Yeah. So, actually, did this happened because... ... Yeah?"
ARNE : 'Does he really look like a maid?"
Confused, Arne almost bit her tongue. Crave politely greeted Kassian. It was a greeting from a maid who had been so perfectly trained, so Arne doubted her eyes for a moment, 'What did I see?' Kassian smiled softly as she looked at Arne, who blinked in surprise.
KASSIAN : "Because she doesn't seem like a maid of the Grand Duke's."
ARNE : "That... ... This is the maid brought. Perhaps."
KASSIAN : "So it is."
Really? Are you going to pass like this? Unbelievable even while watching, Arne was constantly suspicious and glanced at Crave. Meanwhile, Crave was satisfied with his disguise. Arne smiled awkwardly and broke into a cold sweat, and Crave, who noticed first, greeted him politely.
CRAVE : "Then, Your Majesty, Grand Duke, I will leave."
ARNE : "Uh? Yes."
Crave, who perfectly replicated the greeting methods of the maids who had infiltrated the castle for the past few days, left after saying hello. And Arne, who was left alone, smiled at Kassian. As Arne smiled softly, Kassian's eyes, which had followed Crave's back, turned towards Arne and became friendly for an instant. After some distance from the two of them, Crave let out a deep breath that he had been holding back. It was a brief moment, but Crave and Kassian's eyes met earlier. Crave, who remembered the sharp eyes that seemed to pierce everything inside, became shivering and trembled. Crave tilted his head as he seemed like a completely different person from the slender figure he had seen in front of Arne.
CRAVE : "Did I get it wrong... ...?"
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KASSIAN : 'She's gone."
As the suspicious maid completely disappeared from view, Kassian was able to smile comfortably. Arne, who seemed to be ignorant, continued to be puzzled with a puzzled look, but now a proper smile came out.
KASSIAN : 'You're cute."
It was cute to see Arne looking at Kassian in his heart. A person who seems to have lived his whole life without noticing anything is looking at himself… … It was because of Crave, but Kassian didn't know about it. Kassian, who smiled brightly to make Arne reassured, approached her. When he heard the report that Arne had safely resolved the small conflict between the maids, Kassian suddenly wanted to see Arne. It wasn't that Arne had any doubts about the problem he had touched. He was just wondering what the hell she was thinking.
KASSIAN : 'Isn't it like a cat that has no interest in others?'
So, he came here out of curiosity, but seeing the maids who were not there and looking for her, he had an ominous thought, and he came to a place where he could feel Arne's presence… …
KASSIAN : 'Wasn't he an assassin?'
Kassian fell into his thoughts as he remembered the overweight maid who was infinitely favorable to Arne. It must have been a disguise, but he couldn't figure out its purpose. Perhaps that's why Arne was embarrassed.
KASSIAN : 'Was he secretly talking to Arne?'
At first glance, he heard a quarreling voice and came in haste, but it didn't seem like a big deal. He was talking to Arne and there was no hostile spirit, so it seems that he wasn't the one who came to harm Arne in the first place.
KASSIAN : 'I'll catch you and kill you later.
Still, Arne was looking at Kassian at the first place. In the meantime, it was strangely annoying to see Arne barely at the window. As Kassian held out his hand, Arne took Kassian's hand without knowing. Kassian's eyes became cold as he pulled Arne into his arms. The half-open window behind Arne strangely offended him.
KASSIAN : 'Should I put bars on all the windows?...
Arne had already excused herself that she had no intention of committing suicide, but that's it and this is it.
ARNE : "… …?"
Arne, who instinctively noticed that Kassian's expression had changed in an instant, looked at Kassian, but in Arne's eyes there was only Kassian looking at her and smiling affectionately.
ARNE : 'What?'
ARNE : "Woah, are you angry?"
KASSIAN : "am I?"
ARNE : "Yeah. I thought you were kind of angry… …"
As Arne blinked, Kassian immediately remembered the first time he had arrived at this place. Did you notice that expression and presence that had been disturbed for a while… … Seeing Arne tilting her head with a face that she didn't know anything, Kassian laughed happily. He thought he should be a little more careful in front of sensitive cats.
KASSIAN : "Did you and your maid tell each other a secret?"
ARNE : "Yeah? No. Absolutely not."
Arne stubbornly denied it with an attitude of telling a secret from anyone who could see it. Arne, who can't lie, was so cute that Kassian couldn't stop laughing. Seeing Kassian smiling softly, Arne felt that it was absurd, but… …
KASSIAN : "Yes, I believe you."
Arne was visibly relieved by Kassian's sweet lie that followed. It was the first time he had honestly expressed his emotions through his facial expressions. A person who is fundamentally different from the snobs who wear the mask of hypocrisy and seek to eat each other like beasts.
KASSIAN : 'Do you like it.
Kassian didn't observe her for a long time, but Arne was born upright. A unique aura that can only be possessed by those who see only good things and grow up with good intentions. That transparent clarity, as if she had never used filth before, attracted Kassian. Literally, a kind of human who seems to be in a world completely different from himself. want to protect it, and he wants to pollute it. Kassian's smile deepened at the ambivalence that quietly swirled from the very depths of his own. He didn't have to do anything on his own. The two of them have to go anyway. In a huge trash can of desire named Imperial Palace. It was expected whether Arne would protect herself at that place or if she would get filthy and dirty with her. Still, he wished it would last as long as possible. It's the first time he's ever liked a person like this.
ARNE : "… …?"
Arne, unable to even guess what Kassian was thinking when he looked at her, simply tilted her head as she looked at Kassian's smile. What was important to Arne at the moment was not Kassian's thoughts. Arne, who was grunting at the feeling that her common sense was being destroyed, finally gathered up the courage.
ARNE : "There, there it is."
KASSIAN : "… …?"
ARNE : "About that maid....
The moment Cassian's eyes subsided, Arne asked.
ARNE : "Does she look normal?"
In an instant, Kassian's eyes changed. She was a maid from the Western Empire, so she probably wouldn't have any doubts, but he noticed that it was strange. Arne was different even if she grew up nicely like a flower in a greenhouse. noticing that
KASSIAN : "I do not know. Do you have any reason to ask that?"
ARNE : "No, a little… … It's okay to say this, but isn't she a bit manly? Are your muscles like that? Big too."
KASSIAN : "I don't know because I see maids like that often. There are a lot of people in the Palace. It is rude to doubt a gender based on appearance alone."
ARNE : "that's... Again.....
What Kassian said was so right that Arne was speechless. Anyway, She was glad Crave didn't get caught, but she felt like something was missing.
ARNE : 'Does that disguise work? Really?'
No matter how you look at it, it was weird. Arne couldn't understand Crave's disguise no matter how much she thought about it, so she grunted. Or was she just weird… … Kassian just wanted to keep Arne's secret, no matter what, he didn't want Arne to know. So, he was deliberately pretending not to know, but Arne had no way of knowing that. In the midst of deepening misunderstandings… … As the day grew longer, the sun poured through the wide windows of the castle. At the moment when everything glittered in golden light, Arne's red eyes pierced deeply in Sian's field of vision. Red eyes that shine redder than the summer sun.
KASSIAN : "I've thought about it before, but those are beautiful eyes."
ARNE : "Yeah?"
At Cassian's words, Arne's eyes widened. Arne was surprised at hearing this.
ARNE : "Really?"
KASSIAN : "Why would I lie?"
ARNE : "Everyone was afraid because they were the eyes of a slayer."
Arne was stunned at the compliment she had never received before. Also, Kassian seemed a bit strange. She always thought he was strange from the first meeting, but....
ARNE : 'He's handsome, but he seems to be missing something.'
These eyes are beautiful, are you serious?
KASSIAN : "I'm serious."
As if looking into Arne's heart, Kassian answered. Kassian narrowed his eyes and smiled. Her heart stung, was she offended? Feeling something tickling her, Arne blinked blankly. It was never a bad feeling. An ominous red-eyed slayer. Executioner of Lewellgosa. It's something She's always heard since she was a kid. Among those who were surprised by even just making eye contact, Arne knew from a very young age that she had strange eyes. Even her only sister, when fighting, denounced these pupils as cursed pupils that draw blood. Of course, after that, she was beaten hard every time. Due to her innate strength, they have reigned as the guardians of the Western Empire for a long time, but the people of the Lewellgosa family have always been treated as monsters cursed because of their blood-red eyes, and they have kept their distance from the general public. No matter how young she was, even if she was a child of the emperor's younger brother, she could not escape the fearful gaze.
ARNE : 'Well, it doesn't matter.'
She didn't care what other people thought of her. If there was an argument, destroy them; if not, just ignore them. Because of this, Arne was never particularly hurt or distressed. It was just a little boring. What's special about those red eyes?
ARNE : "Since I was little, everyone was afraid of making eye contact with me, so no one looked me in the eye."
KASSIAN : "I see."
Kassian nodded, unable to take his eyes off Arne, who had become accustomed to being hurt.
ARNE : "A kind of family curse in Lewellgosa? It was the same, so there was a lot more to say. Usually there is only one person in each story."
KASSIAN : "By the way, my mother-in-law had blonde hair and green eyes." (T/N: referring to Arne's mother.)
ARNE : "My mother is like my grandmother."
KASSIAN :"Then what about your grandfather?"
ARNE : "Yeah. The same."
Arne nodded her head.
ARNE : "Grandpa and uncle are Sword Masters."
Thanks to this, Rosaria, Duchess of Brillhit, became the world's strongest lady, with her father, younger sister and children all being Sword Masters. As soon as you touch the Duchess, three Sword Masters will pop out, so naturally, the power of the Western Empire has become the Duchess of Brillhit. Even though two of them went on an adventure and were absent.
KASSIAN : "Is your uncle him, the one who killed the catastrophic dragon that woke up 30 years ago and ended the war with the Eastern Union 10 years ago."
ARNE : "Ah, um....
It is true that her uncle is a Dragon Slayer, but it was Arne, who was 16 at the time, who ended the war with the Eastern Union. Arne looked into the distance. It was a misunderstanding that she had now been freed from, but it was ridiculous every time she heard it.
ARNE : 'You guys from the Eastern Kingdoms, how far have you spread this nonsense... ...'
It was unfair that they lost to a young boy who didn't even have blood on his head, but the memory of people in the Eastern Union arguing that her uncle, who was absent at the time, had come, saying they wouldn't believe the truth that the boy was a woman came to their mind. All the bullshit bastards were sent to the other world with one blow in a one-on-one match, but was that so? The guys who were winning mentally by denying reality by saying that it couldn't be a woman spreading rumors at will. So, without Arne's knowledge, it was all her uncle's work. Still, it was okay because the Western Empire leaders knew all the truth, but the problem was the common people of the Empire. Due to this circumstance, Arne was the protector of the Empire and a protector whose face was never known. Of course, the other party said it was annoying and did not care about this situation.
ARNE : "Uncle....."
Arne, who remembered Gerhan, nodded.
ARNE : "He's a good person."
KASSIAN : "Is that the end?"
ARNE : "What more do you need?"
KASSIAN : "Well, that's that too."
Kassian burst into laughter involuntarily at the overly simple sentiment. As Kassian laughed, Arne thought about what she had done wrong. She didn't think there was.
ARNE : "Here, My Lord... ..."
At the awkward name of Arne who called him, Kassian's eyes became bitter in an instant.
KASSIAN : "Call me 'Honey'."
ARNE : "Yeah? Suddenly? that's a bit… …
KASSIAN : "Then, 'Darling'?"
ARNE : "That's a bit...."
KASSIAN : "Even though we are married now?"
Arne endured as she struggled to turn away from the blue eyes staring at her with a burden. She couldn't put it in her mouth at all because she was unfamiliar with it.
KASSIAN : "You."
ARNE : "Uh... ..."
KASSIAN : "Hypnotism."
ARNE : "Ugh... ...."
Seeing Arne in pain, Kassian was happy. Arne, who finally realized that she was being teased, looked at Kassian as if protesting.
KASSIAN : "Arne."
ARNE : "… …?"
KASSIAN : "I will call you by name from now on. Please call me by my first name, too."
When Kassian smiled softly, Arne didn't even have time to say no.
KASSIAN : "Arne."
When Kassian called her name as if to urge, Arne felt strange even though it was a name she had always heard. something tickles. He's just calling her name, why was she so shy? Ignoring the burning sensation on her face, Arne barely opened her mouth.
ARNE : "Ka... ... sian?"
KASSIAN : "Now put it together."
ARNE : "Kassian… …"
KASSIAN : "Yeah. Well done."
Kassian stroked Arne's head as if praising.
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[SINCE I CANNOT POST THE ILLUSTARTION THAT PIG CAKE(THE ARTIST) MADE, HERE IS A LINK:] (LEADS TO THE ILLUSTRATION...)
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Arne was contemplating whether she should get angry for being treated like a child. When Arne and Kassian's eyes met, Kassian laughed again, Arne became vague and stopped being angry. She didn't know why, but when she was with this person, it seemed like she kept forgetting her flow. Arne looked at Kassian while thinking about what that meant.
ARNE : "By the way, why did you look for me?"
It's late to ask, but for some reason Arne felt that Kassian had something to say. And that prediction was right. Kassian grinned.
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SORRY FOR THE BAD TRANSLATION, SOME OF THE WORDS CAN'T BE TRANSLATED BY G.TRANSLATE, AND I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THEY MEANT.
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ASSOCIATED NAMES : 칼끝에 입술
TYPE : Web Novel (KR)
GENRE : Adventure; Comedy; Drama; Fantasy; Josei; Romance; Shoujo
TAGS : Aristocracy; Arranged Marriage; Beautiful Female Lead; Comedic Undertone; Devoted Love Interests; Doting Love Interests; Enemies Become Lovers; European Ambience; Female Protagonist; Handsome Male Lead; Kind Love Interests; Knights; Male Yandere; Misunderstandings; Power Couple; Sword And Magic; Sword Wielder; Tomboyish Female Lead
LANGUAGE : Korean (translated to English)
AUTHOR(S) : 윤슬
ARTIST(S) : Pig Cake; 돼지케이크
ORIGINAL PUBLISHER : Naver
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