CHAPTER 103- SOMETHING FOR YOU

"Edith."

Killian called my name and hugged me. His body scent a mixture of seductive musk, and the scent of the bark always made her heart flutter.

"It won't take long. You just need to stay safe for about a month. Try not to go out of the mansion as much as possible and do not communicate with others."

"Don't tell me, Are you afraid that I might go out and have fun when i see my father come here, because i was so excited?"

Killian laughed again when she complained.

"It's not like that... I mean, you can go out once in a while, but don't go out too often in the city for a while. I'm sorry to tell you this."

His touch that patting on my back was so sweet. It almost made me cry.

"Chiish. . . . Don't you know who she is? Be careful not to get hit by a blind arrow."

Even though she was being playful, I got goosebumps as I remember the scene of the original when he was hit by an arrow out from somewhere.

'Another thought! another thought! this is like a dead flag!'

I jumped up to relive my anxious feelings.

"Oh, by the way! I made something for you."

"For me. . . . ?"

I pulled out the shawl I had put aside and opened the dresser drawer. As soon as I heard that a territorial battle had been declared, I started knitting a pair of wristlets. I barely finished it yesterday, laid out in clumsy form. I was amazed that it floated in a cylindrical shape and spun itself into a whirlwind. I tried to fix it by pulling in the opposite direction, but the vortex shape stayed the same and just stretched in the opposite direction. In short, it is very messy, but if you use a good thread and wear it, it is expected to have a heat effect. . . .I mean, it's a failure.

"Ummm. . . .It's not that pretty, but I think it's just a kind act of faith. . . .No, just throw it away if it gets dirty while using it."

I held out the ragged thing to Killian with a face of embarrassment. Killian, who approached me wearing a robe, looked like a muscular male model from the 21st century in America. The woolen wristlets in his hand lent a sense of reality to his otherwise unrealistic appearance.

"Puff!"

Yea, it's funny. It's funny even to me. Killian looked back and forth at the wristlets I'd given him, his eyes glazed over, and then he shook his head.

"I've been thinking about it since the embroidered handkerchief at the bazaar, but you're not good with your hands."

"Oh, did you see that too?"

"I bought all three of them because I was afraid someone would see it."

"I wondered who bought it, and it was you! Thank you. Actually, I was nervous that it wouldn't be sold until the end."

"Ahhahaha!"

It was good to hear his cheerful laughter. At the same time, he kept touching the wristlets I gave him and didn't let it go.

"Even the shape is a bit messy, I think it still pretty warm to look."

"Actually, I use a good one. I'm not good at it, so I'll invest in the material."

". . . . I'll use it well. While thinking of you."

It's kind of cheating to say that with a happy face. I was so dazed for a moment and lost a word. And Killian didn't miss that opportunity. He grabbed the back of my head and kissed me. His smile lips that not yet faded, playfully moved over my lips, then slowly pressed our lips together, and his soft lips parted the gap and pushed his tongue inside me, gradually making a wet sound.

"Ha. Killian. . . . !"

"Hmm, just one more time, umm. . . ."

Killian held me tighter as he lifted me up and led me back towards the bed.

"Kil-Killian, we are going to be late."

"I'll do it quickly, just once, hmm?"

I can't stand it when a person who always uses polite language treats me with informal language like this.

"Hmm. . . .I can't . . . ."

It was a typical 'No, no, no' . . . .scene. We were nervous as we stared out the bright window, but shivered by the cold air, we quickly took off our clothes and began to crave each other's body heat. While remembering the heat last night, our body quickly warmed up, and Killian and I hastily overlapped.

'It's okay if Killian just wants my body. I think I'll be happy living like this'

I know it sounds like i have low self-esteem, but Killian is too sweet and charming person that enough makes me think such an idea. Even though he hates me so much, he tries to accept me as his wife, and he even treats me nicely, which makes me calm my anxiety to fulfill his responsibilities. If the original Edith had been more gentle, she wouldn't have suffered so much. Because Killian wasn't a person who could coldly cut off someone who clinging to him.

'If this territory war ends well. . . . If i can greet his returns without an incident. . . . I might really avoid the ending of the original!'

The level 3 exception condition was something I couldn't figure out, and I couldn't be relieved just by avoiding the ending of the original story, but I'm so confident that I can achieve my goal of survival.

"Ha, ha. . . . . Killian, we're really late if we don't stop here."

After another climax, he licked my lips with his tongue again. Then, i grabbed Killian's shoulders hardly to make him stop. Killian glanced at the clock on my dressing table and clacked his tongue as if he didn't like it.

"I was already annoyed when my mind told me that I couldn't do this for a month."

"The other knights feel the same too, and you shouldn't stop doing this now."

"Do you really need to break the mood by saying such thing until the end?"

"Otherwise, I'm afraid your spirits won't subside if I didn't do that."

Killian swept his hair away and finally pulled himself away from me. After that, I needed to hurry, like a mother who wanted to send her child to a daycare center. I hurried, called Anna, to prepare a bath water, then bathed him in a hurry and dressed him. While I was getting dressed, I asked Anna to shave Killian. I prepared and went down as if I was grilling beans on a lightfire. Fortunately, Duke Ludwig came down late. As Duke Ludwig departed, he looked around at his family, and his servants gathered in the hall and spoke in a firm voice.

"Jocelyn. I will entrust you with the full power of this mansion while I am away. Philip! I hope you help Jocelyn and protect the mansion without any problems."

"I keep it in mind, Duke."

"Sir Gordon. I'm going to entrust you to guard this mansion while the territorial war takes place."

"We will protect it without any leaks!"

"Miss Louis. As the head maid, I will ask you to help Jocelyn and Philip in running the mansion without a hitch."

"Yes, Duke."

Duke Ludwig gave his command, starting with his butler Philip, to his trusted mansion escort knight, and his trusted head maid asked them what they had to do. And his eyes turned towards us.

"And Lizzy. Please take good care of Jocelyn. Don't worry too much."

"Yes, Duke."

"Then. . . . We are going to leave now."

Duke Ludwig said his last words resolutely, then turned around and walked away. He didn't even give a single word to me. Maybe everyone was there, noticing that. Because Killian's face hardened in a short time.

"Killian . You have to go now."

". . . . . "

Tightened his moral teeth, Killian looked like he was struggling to contain the anger that welled up inside him. If anyone sees it, they think Killian was ignored, not me.

"I'm sorry, Edith. When I get back, I'll make sure. . . .we leave to Ryzen territory immediately."

"Yes. I'm fine, so don't worry too much about it. I'm sure your father feeling complicated right now. Because I'm the daughter of his enemy."

"No. You are not the daughter of the enemy, but daughter in law of the Duke of Ludwig and my wife. Don't forget that your last name is Edith Ludwig."

I will never forget that. It's the last thing I can use to beg for my life later. But I just smiled and held his hand tightly for the last time before he left. The edge of the woolen wristlets touched my fingertips. I was so grateful that he was willing to wear my sloppy wristlets that i made it for him.

"Don't get hurt and come back. I'm sure you'll remember it, that you want to prove it to me, how great my husband are."

"Gladly."

Killian kissed me for the one last time and followed Duke Ludwig.

Finally, the final episode of Edith's has begun.

***

When the war began, newspapers in the capital became busy. Everyone must have been interested in the war between Count Riegelhoff, the richest of the count families, and Duke Ludwig, the emperor's right hand man.

-The cause of the territorial war was the unfair pressure of the Ludwig family on the price of iron ore! What is the truth?

-Is it a simple family fight or the beginning of treason?

-The silent imperial family. What are the emperor's honest feelings?

The titles that I usually saw in the hair salon's magazine are decorated on the front page of the newspaper. Meanwhile, there was a clear difference in hot topics between newspapers influenced by archduke Langston or Count Riegelhoff and newspapers looking at the royal family.

'The royal family was too quiet. Probably waiting for the rebels to reveal themselves.'

It also appears in <Home•Ivory >. The current emperor, Byron Iberia, wanted to use this opportunity to clean up the crimes that cause problems in his country. Since he ascended to the throne at 18, as a young emperor, he had to deal with people who constantly ignored and looked down on him. But he was never become a pushover. He grew up by seeing all the dirt and being in the middle of all those nasty power struggles.

'But humans who are drunk with their own power don't see that.'

Even Duke Ludwig has been hiding his force. It was also the will of the emperor. Sooner or later, Count Riegelhoff would say, 'Those crooks! you tricked us!' and I could imagine him running around in circles. But it was in the future. Now, in the social world of the capital, there must be some people who already have a thought that the victory will be the force of archduke Langston.