Chapter 57 – Suspicious Elf

My relationship with Kiella continued after the day of her naked walk.

Kiella realized that when she became a gentle bitch in bed, she was rewarded with pleasure, and as the days went by, she became more accustomed to Ruina having sex with her secretly.

One afternoon after two weeks had passed without much incident.

I was deep in thought as I watched Kiella and Ruina chatting affectionately in the living room.

‘What should I do?’

First of all, I succeeded in completely eliminating Kiella’s hostility towards me.

Now she no longer had any doubts that I wasn’t so trash that I would even mess with innocent Ruina, and she didn’t feel any resistance to hugging me.

Her corruption status indicates that she is at the ‘giving up’ stage, with no will to resist.
It meant that she had come to accept and enjoy her life these days of staying with Louisa and having secret relationships with me.

But my real goal is not simply to make Kiera my sex partner.

I had to make her truly repent for her past misdeeds and make her submit to me to avenge her queen.

In that situation, the person who complicated my mind was none other than Ruina.

‘Should I just keep using it as a weakness? If you want to protect Ruina, help me get revenge?’

Although it looks simple at first glance, there was actually a problem with this method.

If Kiella follows me because of her weakness rather than willingly, then if that weakness becomes a problem, I will have no means of controlling Kiella.

To put it simply, if Ruina dies or is taken hostage in a situation where I am fighting against the royal castle, Kiella will take the royal castle’s side and not me.

‘Are you going to make Ruina on my side too?’

But she is too weak for that.
Rather than helping me with my revenge, it could have hindered me, so there was still a possibility that the problem I just mentioned would arise.

It’s a bit awkward to drag an innocent elf into a fight with the king in the first place.

‘Of course, it’s best if the relationship between the two elves ends without further ado…’

Actually, this problem can be solved if Kiella gives up her feelings for Ruina and just follows me.
That was my original plan too.

But even though Kiella was crazy about my cock, she never changed her stance towards Ruina.

There is no reason to believe that that position will not change in the future, but since there is no promise that it will change as I wish, some other action seemed necessary.

‘Shall I at least try to persuade you? If that doesn’t work, I have no choice but to threaten Ruina.’

The old saying about removing an ox’s horn as quickly as possible came to mind, and I approached the two elves who were talking to take immediate action.

“Miss Kiella, I have something to tell you for a moment.”

“Okay. Ruina, can you stay for a moment?”

“Yes, yes. Go slowly.”

Kiella entered her room with her and closed her door.
When Ruina was left alone, her landlord’s eyes changed.

“Are you going to do it again…?”

She lifts the bottom hem of her dress, revealing her underwear.
There was anticipation on her face because she had brought me here so many times, but unfortunately, she had other business this time.

“No, I really have something to talk about.”

“…What?”

“I will return to the capital soon. You should come with me.”

“What?”

Her eyes widened at her unexpected words, and she immediately responded in a stern voice.

“No. I have to stay with Ruina and her.”

“Even if you can’t have sex with me anymore?”

“…Still, I can’t leave Ruina alone.”

As expected, my feelings for Ruina are very strong.

‘Is there no other way than to threaten Ruina?’

I hate to leave room for Kiella’s betrayal, but she can’t help it.

‘No, should I be more careful?’

If I tease Kiella’s body even more than I already do instead of threatening her, will she eventually obey me?

It was a time when I was hesitant because I was not sure.

Sigh! Sigh! Sigh!

A loud bell rang from the living room.

It is a sound made when the front door opens or someone rings a bell outside, and it was a device installed so that Ruina, who is hard of hearing, can tell when someone is visiting or when Kiella, who was outside, returns.

For reference, when I took Kiella for a walk naked in the past, I took off her bell and went out.

“Look who’s here. I’m sorry, but can we talk later?”

She reluctantly nodded her head and Kiella walked out of the living room.

The people who rang the bell were Kiella’s servants who usually did her work.

The lord often came to the house like this when there was work that required his own attention, and now seemed to be that time.

“It seems that a wandering elf from outside wants to live in the village. I thought the lord should meet him in person, so I came to fetch him.”

“Understood, Deke? I’ll go out for a while, so can you keep an eye on Ruina?”

She was about to reply that she knew, when one of her subjects interrupted her.

“I… I think it would be a good idea for the driver to come too. Since he is an outsider, I don’t know what might happen.”

“Dake too? Then Ruina will be left alone…”

Kiella, who was conflicted, returned to Ruina and asked.

“I have some work to do for a while, so I think I need to go out with Dike. Can you stay alone?”

“Of course. You were fine on your own before Mr. Dike came. Don’t worry.”

Ruina smiles brightly to ease her partner’s worries.

Kiella, who saw this, did not ask any more questions.

“Okay. I’ll bring you something delicious when I come. Let’s go, Dake.”

It had been a while since Kiella and her subjects left the house and started walking.

“But, knight. The sword…”

“Yeah!”

Thanks to the words of a servant, I realized that she came out with her bare hands.

“I’m sorry, my lord. I’ll get it right away and follow you, so please go first.”

“Okay, Dake. See you at the village entrance.”

Since it made no sense not to take a sword while acting as the lord’s guard, I separated from the group and returned to the lord’s house.

As soon as I open the door and enter the living room, the bell rings loudly.
Then, Ruina’s voice was heard.

“Key, Kiella?! You came earlier than expected…?”

“It’s me. I forgot and left my sword behind.”

“Ah, it’s Mr. Dike…”

“I’m sorry, you must have surprised me. I’ll get it and leave right away.”

“No, hehe.”

She waves her hands and laughs as if she is embarrassed.

But for a moment, I felt a sense of discomfort.
The source of that sense of discomfort was the white cloth that Ruina, who was blind, was covering her eyes with.

‘Was that cloth crooked even before I left?’

The cloth, which was normally neat, was visibly disheveled for some reason.
As if it had been taken off and hastily rewritten.

‘That cloth is definitely something Kiella puts on every morning. And very meticulously.’

There’s no way Ruina, who is blind, would do strenuous exercise, but it’s somehow unsettling that she’s so out of sync.

At that time, Ruina asked, wondering if she could hear anything.

“Mr. Dake? Are you there?”

“Yes? Oh, yes. I was confused about where I put the sword and was thinking about it. Now I remember.”

“Aha, that’s a relief.”

In case the other person thought it was strange, I quickly grabbed my sword and came out.

Ruina was unable to erase from her mind the unpleasant feeling that she was writing about.

—

That same night, I sat alone on the bed in my room, lost in thought.

It wasn’t because of the wandering elf problem in the afternoon.
Since they were just good elves who wanted to move here from another village, it was resolved without any fuss.

What I’m thinking about right now is the sight of Ruina that I saw in the afternoon.

‘Why was the fabric crooked?’

Normally, this wouldn’t be something so unusual.

However, looking back, there were quite a few things about Ruina that were slightly suspicious.

First of all, he refused to let anyone else into the house until I came.
Although she said it was because she was very shy, she actually started talking to me comfortably from the moment we met.

Another thing is to not allow others to enter her room.
This included not only me but also Kiella.

When Ruina was cleaning Kiella’s house, she would tell Kiella that she felt embarrassed when others saw her room, and that she should never go in.

Honestly, they are all not that big of a deal.
If it weren’t for what happened today, I probably would have ignored it.

But after seeing Ruina’s embarrassed appearance and the crooked fabric that seemed to have been written in a hurry over her eyes, I couldn’t shake the thought that she was hiding something.

‘Let’s check.’

She couldn’t bear the feeling of discomfort and left her room.
The place she carefully moved her feet towards was Louisa’s room, not Kiella’s room, which she visited every night.

“…”

I slowly grab the door handle and turn it, and the door slowly opens.
The fact that he doesn’t lock the door while he doesn’t like anyone coming in means that he trusts Kiella and me.
Or maybe they couldn’t keep it locked for fear of raising suspicions that they were hiding something.

“…”

Just like last time, Ruina was sleeping oblivious to the world.

Her room is like that.

‘… ‘Is it too ordinary?’

If she was shy and told me not to come into her room, shouldn’t she have something to stand out that much?

I wondered if I had missed something because I couldn’t look closely the last time I came in with Kiella, but it was still just ordinary.

‘There’s nothing there, so why didn’t they let me in?’

As nothing catches her eye, her suspicions grow that something unseen may be lurking there.

I started searching around, making as little noise as possible.
Although Ruina is hard of hearing, she still looked carefully and opened the drawer of the desk.

‘There’s nothing special. … Uh? For a moment.’

Looking closely, I noticed that the bottom height of the drawer was slightly higher than the one in my room.

After feeling diligently, she found a notebook sandwiched between the real and fake bottoms of the drawer.

The moment I unfolded it, which looked unusual at first glance, I couldn’t help but believe my eyes.

‘Diary… ?’

A diary written by the blind Ruina.

As I was already quite surprised, the contents written inside were even more shocking.

‘Unbelievable.’

My body completely stiffened from the unexpected discovery.

But the more I read, the more a smile came to my face.

‘I guess it won’t be as difficult as I thought to separate the two elves.’