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Just the night before, Minwoo hypnotized Viscount Shelton with a light stick and made him confess.

“Isn’t there a single lie in the story you told me and Aisha earlier?”

“..There is.”

As expected, Viscount Shelton was lying. Minwoo had him tell all the lies one by one.

“Explain everything, where and how it was a lie.”

Viscount Shelton’s eyes opened under hypnosis and his mouth slowly opened.

“Recently… The part about the damage to the territory’s residents due to Line… Was not a lie, but it was an exaggeration. The damage is not serious enough to be said to be serious.”

“Rine? Ah, is that the beastman’s name? Hmm… And? What else?”

“..Nothing.”

“What? Nothing?”

Minwoo frowned and glared at Viscount Shelton. He was a little different than he thought. I was sure he was hiding something else… But that’s all he said was a lie?

Minwoo thought for a moment, and then he asked another question.

“So even if it’s not a lie, is there anything you’re hiding?”

“..There is.”

“Hoo… What is that?”

“I… Asked you to capture Rine under the pretext of the territory residents… But in reality, I had a different purpose.”

“What is that?”

“I … Am in love with Line. I want to capture her … And make her mine her.”

“Ah… That was it… This sneaky guy…”

Min-woo, who finally learned the viscount’s true intentions, laughed evilly.

“But that’s a little strange. How did she come to like that girl? Have you ever met her?”

“I… Was kidnapped by Rine when I was young.”

“Ha…”

The story that followed was quite interesting.

The man in front of you, the current Viscount Shelton, was kidnapped by Line when he was young. However, Line did not particularly harm him, and she sent him back after a day, so it did not turn into a major incident.

Lyné simply raped the young Viscount Shelton for one night.

She may have simply done this out of revenge on her mother. In fact, for Viscount Shelton, who was a young boy just beginning to discover sexual knowledge at the time, that memory remained a huge trauma.

However, as time passed and he grew older, the trauma unconsciously awakened Viscount Shelton’s wrong sexual impulses. He had finally opened his eyes to masochism, or masochistic sexual desire.

“So what’s the point? She wants to take that girl and have her raped like that?”

“Yes.”

“Oh my…”

Looking at Viscount Shelton, who was in a state of hypnosis and concisely accepting without any sense of shame, Minwoo looked fed up.

“What should I do with this pervert nobleman…”

Minwoo was quite taken aback by the fact that the truth was different from what he had thought, but he soon came up with a good idea.

“Is that girl named Rine pretty? How does she compare to Aisha?”

“..Aisha is a beautiful person, but I think Rine is prettier.”

“Oh… That’s a really nice story.”

Everyone has their own tastes, so I wouldn’t take Viscount Shelton’s words at face value, but I could at least know that she was a beauty that could not be surpassed by Aisha.

“At the moment, there was something I wanted to experiment with, and I found the perfect specimen. I guess I’ll start the experiment as soon as I catch that woman named Line.”

Minwoo smiled sinisterly again.

…

Line slowly opened her eyes. Inside the room I see for the first time. She was lying on a large bed. The interior of her room was also luxurious. It was an atmosphere that made her feel uncomfortable, as she had lived outside for decades, almost like being homeless.

“What the hell is this place… Ugh…”

A sharp pain was felt at the back of her neck. For a moment, Line was able to recall her memories before she lost consciousness.

“That woman…Who on earth is she?”

The woman I saw for the first time… Was clearly not a human, but a beastman. She seemed different from herself and her her, her her species her, her her …

Plus, she was incredibly strong. She was quickly overpowered without even having a chance to prepare herself. Seeing that the back of her neck was stiff, it seemed like she had been attacked in that area and lost consciousness in an instant.

First, Liné checked the condition of her body. She wasn’t particularly injured, and she wasn’t tied up anywhere. She doesn’t even have anyone watching. Of course, it was possible that her room was locked, but she could easily break down the wooden door and escape.

“For someone who was kidnapped, it’s so sloppy that it’s actually unsettling…”

Is she trying to catch me off guard, or is she confident that even if I run away, can she catch me back? She wasn’t in a very good mood either way.

“Anyway, this place… Is this guy’s house?”

As far as Rine knows, there is only one house in this estate with such luxurious interior decoration. This was the mansion where the owner of this estate, Viscount Shelton, lived.

It is the home of the enemy who killed her own mother.

Indeed… Only then did Rine seem to understand the situation she was in. She ended up being captured by her viscount. What was coming, she thought, had come.

In fact, until now, she has been causing a lot of trouble within the territory. Because she was powerless, the only revenge she could take was that. Now that so many years have passed, I was just doing it out of inertia and not having anything else to do.

In fact, it was strange that she was still alive without being caught. Because the Empire has absolutely no forgiveness for criminals of other races. If Viscount Shelton had his way, he would have been captured by the Imperial Guard long ago and executed.

But for some reason, she had not been caught even after so many years. If it is a territory directly governed by a noble, security is maintained only by the viscount’s private army, unless a separate request is made to the empire. And the soldiers did not actively try to capture her.

To be precise, she was willing to capture it, but she was reluctant to cause harm to her body. It is very difficult for her to subdue a beastman without injuring him. Of course, capturing her was bound to be an arduous task.

As she lived like that for a year, two years … Before she knew it, Line realized that she had lived longer than her mother. At this rate, she has lived more than half of the lifespan of a prisoner.

But now it seemed like that was over.

“Then that woman…Is she a dog of the Empire? She was indeed…Of great skill.”

Just that. There wasn’t much inspiration. In the first place, she had no regrets about her life herself. She says it’s time for her to die, she just does it.

“But she doesn’t want to sit back and suffer like this.”

I don’t know what she was thinking when she left her without even tying herself up, but I’ll make her regret that complacency, she said. Line thought so and got up from her bed.

No, she tried to wake up.

“Eh..?”

The moment she was about to lift the blanket covering her her body her her her her her her her vaguely nostalgic scent her tickled the tip of Line’s nose her her her her. In fact, the scent had been coming from the moment she woke up, but her nose had gotten used to it and she just wasn’t aware of it. But when she tried to lift the blanket, a stronger scent wafted through her and it was only then that she recognized it.

I definitely don’t remember it… But it’s a very familiar scent. It was a scent that was warmer and more nostalgic than anything else… The kind of scent that made you want to be held in your arms.

That scent caught Line’s feet her her her her.

And then the visit opened.

“Oh… You’re awake, Rine. I’m so glad you did.”

“Are you… “Viscount Shelton?”

Viscount Shelton came in through the door and spoke to Line in a friendly tone, as if he had been talking to her for a long time. The way he came to her side and placed his hand on her forehead she showed no hesitation as if he was treating his lover or his wife her her her her. She was so natural that Line was mesmerized for a moment.

“W-what..!”

She belatedly slapped away the Viscount’s hand that was placed on her forehead, but the Viscount continued to speak as if nothing had happened.

“Hmm… Fortunately, it looks like you don’t have a fever. Are you in any particular pain?”

If it had been a normal Line, she would have definitely avoided Viscount Shelton before he could approach, or conversely, subdued him. At least she wouldn’t have allowed him to touch her.

But she couldn’t take any action.

To be precise, there was no hostility towards Viscount Shelton. And that fact came as a big shock to Line.

‘Why on earth am I doing this?’

The scent that had caught my attention just now had become even more intense. A scent that makes you feel at peace just by smelling it and makes you want to let go of everything.

Line soon discovered the source of the scent.

The scent was coming from Viscount Shelton’s body

That’s why there was a strong scent when I pulled up the blanket. The bed she was lying on was the bed where Viscount Shelton usually slept.

‘But why… Why do I feel this way? This bastard is just… A bloodline of hateful people… And why is he being friendly to me just now?’

I figured out the source of the scent, but that was it. She couldn’t figure out why the Viscount had such a scent, and why it shook her emotions.

It was natural.

There was no way for her to find out that Minwoo had hinted that Viscount Shelton’s harvest would be mistaken for her dead mother’s.