Chapter 14

Rafel's face her looking down at him was as cold as ever.The face exposed through the flowing black hair had a cold beauty, as if it were not human.However, the hand that trembled slightly seemed to represent Lapel's embarrassment her hidden behind the mask.

At that moment, Annette had a strange feeling.It was a hunch that even she could n't understand, but if she let out a weak sound now, it seemed that Lapel would accept it.Annette cautiously parted his lips to confirm her premonition. Of her

“I'm sick, Lapel….”

At that moment, Lapel's hand her, which was stopping the bleeding on Annette's forehead her, lost its strength. His angry face his looked down into Annette's weeping eyes her. Rafel tried to let out a mean grin as usual, but this time nothing came out. A few seconds later, he barely opened his mouth and replied.

“Of course it hurts. My forehead is torn.”

Even empty words were not friendly words.However, the thorns that usually stood out sharply softened in that slow reply.Encouraged by this, Annette cautiously reached out and grabbed the hem of his clothes her her.His hand her her, was warm as it held his body heat her.

Lapel's gaze naturally turned to Annette's hand and her holding the hem of her dress. There was still blood on her hand that hadn't dried. Annette, realizing this belatedly, took his hand her away in a panic. It didn't show, but there was blood on it, and Lapel couldn't like it.

“Sorry. I'm just a little dizzy…….”

Listening to Annette's words, the round lapel bent down at the waist her. Annette thought he was trying to shake off her hand from her from the hem of her dress. But Lapel unexpectedly supported the back of her knees, and he lifted Annette up. And toward her mansion she began to stride.

Annette was taken aback by his unexpected kindness to her. Suddenly, his feet lifted off the ground, and his eyes his giddy as he felt his vision her spin in a circle. Unknownly, as she groped for Lapel's shoulder her, she remembered the blood on her own hands and wanted to take a pity.

“I'm sorry, Lapel. Blood on your clothes…….”

There were so many things I'm sorry about today. Rafel didn't respond to her apology of her, but he accelerated her pace a bit more. Glancing down her gaze her, she saw bloodstains soaking Annette's blonde hair her. Like that, and the only thing I'm worried about is my shirt.

Annette's body her shaking in his arms her was extremely light. She was very soft, slender, and smelled wonderful of her. She was a woman who seemed needlessly weak, so she seemed to feel sorry for even minor injuries. Yes, it should have been.

Lafel focused on walking because she was unfamiliar with me, who kept softening up.Breaking through the front door at once, he strode up to the second floor without incident,even holding Annette in his arms her.The sofa is in front of Annette's bedroom.

“Thank you, Lapel.”

Annette, her face white, said in a thin voice. Rafel turned his back and left without answering. He ran away so quickly that the cold wind he had stirred up brushed Annette's cheeks her. Annette closed her eyes, looking at the back that she was used to.

After a while, as many as three maids hurriedly ran to look after Annette. It must have been from Rafel. They wiped off Annette's blood to her with a soft cloth soaked in warm water, applied a hemostatic agent, and applied a bandage. After feeding her with plenty of water, she put Annette to bed.

“Get some sleep, ma'am. You've lost a lot of blood, so you need to rest.”

Annette, already exhausted, nodded her head obediently. It was still afternoon, so the sun was shining through the window, but I didn't have time to open my eyes. Annette was sucked into a deep sleep like a swamp.

The moonlight was especially bright today. Annette woke up and rose from her bed, which was as white as snow. His injured head her was a bit throbbing, but he was feeling much better than before, probably because he slept soundly. Asleep in the afternoon, so he must have woken up at dawn.

'I'm thirsty.'

Annette thought blankly. Perhaps it was because he had lost a lot of blood. Bondianette was afraid of the dark, so he didn't go out at night, but the moonlight was bright today, so he was encouraged. By her bedside and cautiously stepped out into the hallway. She just drank some water and she came back and she thought she was going to sleep.

Wheein-

Through the closed windows in the hallway, I could hear the howling wind. Annette shrugged at the terrifying sound. Since the wind had been blowing unusually since daytime, it seemed that it would rain tomorrow. Annette, who was about to go downstairs without thinking of her, stopped suddenly.

“Lapel?”

It seemed like I could hear Lapel's voice mixed with the sound of the wind. As a couple, they shared the same floor, but their rooms were far apart at the end of the hallway.

The way to Rafel's room across the dark, dark hallway was scary.But Annette decided to show her courage her her.I was worried about Lapel, and she was helped by him today.Annette carefully took her lantern and took each step .

'I'm just checking to see if the lapel is okay.'

Lapel said she liked to drink. She drank more, especially at night. Maybe he was vomiting or suffering from alcohol. I heard that sometimes people get choked with vomit and suffocate, so what about Lapel?

Carrying the lamp, Annette cautiously walked toward his room.As he reached the door, he seemed to hear the faint sound of metal crashing and some shouting from inside.There was absolutely nothing you could hear in your bedroom at this late hour.Annette hurriedly knocked on the door.

“Lapel, are you okay? I am Annette.”

No answer came from inside.Annette stamped his feet and kept knocking on the door, but Lapel was silent.But I could hear his moaning her faintly through the thick door, so it was clear that he was inside.

“Lapel, where are you sick? I'm sorry, but I'll go inside.”

Annette mustered up the courage to push open the door and step inside. Unlike her fear of the dark, Lapel didn't particularly turn on her lights. Fortunately, today was a bright moonlight day, so the interior of the large bedroom was exposed.

Annette looked around and found Lapel's figure inside.But neither on the couch nor on the bed he was there.This made Annette wonder if she had heard the wrong wind.If it hadn't been for the strange sound coming from the corner wall, she Annette might have left the room.

Visor-

There was a small, strange grinding sound, like stone and metal colliding. Annette turned to the corner hidden by the shadow of the bed. This strange metallic sound was heard in the darkness. Annette's hands her trembled with fear, but he mustered up the Courage to take the lamp and approach it.

“Lapel?”

Fortunately, the man standing in the corner was a man she knew well. Hesitated. Something was strange.

Rapel was currently considered the best swordsman in Deltium, and was very sensitive to his presence. But he seemed unaware of Annette's existence her now. A longsword was in Rafel's hand her, and he was swinging it against the wall with a limp motion. Grinding noise Annette heard was the sound of the blade hitting the wall.

Surprised by Lapel's eccentricity of her, Annette involuntarily drew in her breath and stepped back from him. It must have been quite a loud gesture, but he still stared at the wall with unfocused eyes. Every time Lafel's sword struck the wall, the blade scraped long and made a creepy sound.

“… What are you doing, Lapel? Are you okay?”

Annette trembled and asked.But Rafel didn't seem to understand what she was saying.The blue eyes that could be seen through half-opened eyelids were blurry, unlike usual.His face was expressionless, but he was somehow mesmerized.The moment Annette saw that abnormal appearance, she was able to think of a disease similar to this one.

'It's sleepwalking.'

Annette gasped. She had been married to Rapel for five years in her previous life, but she had no idea that he had this disease.

He must have never slept in the same bed as Annette.After spending her night with her, Lapel would go back to her own bedroom as if she had nothing to do with her.Lapel's cold attitude in drawing her her line her hurt Annette quite a bit.

But now that she thought about it, Rafel did n't know that maybe she did n't want to see herself like this.Because he was a very proud man.As she thought about it, Annette felt a bit emotional and involuntarily grabbed her chest her.

Chaeng-Gran-

All the while, Lapel continued to flinch and brandish his sword against the wall. At first, I didn't know because it was dark, but it didn't seem to have happened once or twice. With knife marks. Lapel's forehead of hers, which repeated the same action with her stressed expression of hers, was wet with cold sweat.

'What should I do?'

Annette hesitated, but she couldn't leave Lapel in this condition. She knew that if she left him alone, Rafel would repeat the act alone all night long. In a large, dark room with no one around, she suffers from endless nightmares. When I thought about that, I couldn't help but take a step back.

“Lapel….”

Annette very carefully reached out and wrapped his hand around the hilt of the sword. Then Rafel looked back at her with her dazed eyes, her dazed eyes. The face his looked terribly confused, and Annette was n't sure if he was awake or not. So she continued talking to Rafel in the softest voice possible.

“Stop it and come here, Lapel. Yeah? This way Take my hand and follow me.”

Annette led him to a nearby sofa. Fortunately, Rafel meekly followed her lead her. Annette tried to accept the sword first before sitting him down, but Lapel refused to let go of it. Lapel, who had been looking at her with her swaying eyes , opened her mouth before long.

“Robert, how are you…… You, you must be in the frontline defense battle…… No, no. Were you alive? That's right, it would have been. I knew you would.”

Lapel's hazy pupils could n't recognize Annette directly.Annette was taken aback by the gibberish that flowed from his mouthHer.Right now, Rafel's mind must have returned to the battlefield from a few years ago.To that mountain hell full of blood , shouts and deaths.

Rapel was just an illegitimate son of the royal family of Bondi. Wise King Celgratis had quite a few children whom he saw from the outside, and he was nothing particularly special. However, Rapel was a natural swordsman genius, and he confidently demonstrated his skills Because of this, Selgratis directly acknowledged Rapel as his parent his and gave him the title of his.

Among old aristocratic families, rappels were unique.He always held his chin up aggressively, even when he was pointed at by nobles who valued his lineage.However, behind Raffel's dignified back his, there was a soldier in distress who had not completely es the battlefield.

“Where are the enemies? They are… Alas, I hear their shouts. That's too loud, Robert. I must kill them all.”

Rafel's brow his his twisted painfully and his grip his his his tightened He raised his sword so suddenly that Annette almost cut his arm his Fortunately the sleeve of his fluttering dressing gown was slightly cut but no blood was seen .

'What should I do?'

Annette bit his lip hard.