38. It’s because of you that DT is misunderstood!
The cold, sharp sensation glided across my neck, completely different from the feeling of this clearly foolish yet exceptionally well-built Ikusis straddling me! I hadn’t practiced any kind of invulnerability technique; if Ikusis really had any intentions, with just a casual “shake,” my life could be carelessly surrendered on the bed during the moments when Kephiel wasn’t with me.
Moreover, I realized that Ikusis was acting a bit off tonight, and it was definitely not just for fun to scare me! Because the moment she pressed the knife against my neck, the script revealed more content, indicating Ikusis’s current state.
[Ikusis stole a dinner knife during dinner.]
I mean, why would a fool steal a knife for no reason? To peel an apple? So, Ikusis isn’t foolish right now; she… is doing this on purpose.
Having experienced this “death is just around the corner” feeling countless times, I wasn’t too nervous. I reached out to push the knife aside and looked into Ikusis’s eyes, which sparkled in the night, showing not a hint of “foolishness.” “
“After thinking about stabbing me for so long, you finally have the guts to make a move?”
Given the close proximity, I quickly sensed Ikusis’s “nervousness.” She trembled slightly while straddling my waist, her face turning away in guilt.
“You… you know?”
Of course, I knew. In fact, from the moment this fool Ikusis first appeared with the intention to “stab me,” I had seen it all clearly. It was just unexpected for me, a coincidence perhaps, that Ikusis really wanted to do it today. By the time I realized she was serious tonight, it had already turned into the current situation.
But I couldn’t quite understand: to me, Ikusis’s death script seemed more like a child’s sulking game. Why did her recent scripts and behavior seem genuinely hesitant?
I didn’t have the chance to figure it out, because the next moment, Ikusis had tossed the “weapon” aside, placing her hands on my shoulders, slowly leaning down with a serious expression.
In this situation, any normal man would think Ikusis wanted to do something like “this” or “that,” right!? However, just as I was feeling a bit flustered by Ikusis’s actions, I realized this time it was I who was being overly sentimental.
“Ogirid.”
I saw a seriousness in this fool that I had never seen before, as if the girl straddling me was not some single-celled foolish maiden, but a true saint of the church.
“Let me go. I need to leave the Great Yīng Empire immediately, whether to the church or elsewhere, you don’t need to worry.”
This was the purpose Ikusis had been droning in my ear like a mantra for a long time, but at this moment, combined with her demeanor, I couldn’t dismiss her thoughts as mere childish antics. The script revealed some reasons I was eager to know, yet still vague!
[Ikusis is hesitating!]
Is this saintess really just wanting to go back because she’s lazy and afraid of death!? Could there really be other reasons!?
Seeing that I didn’t respond, Ikusis reluctantly shifted her gaze back, mumbling with a shyness I could clearly hear, her words lacking even a trace of foolishness.
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“Well, in exchange, I really can let you…”
“Your Holiness, I am a man with a fiancée, already half a foot in the grave of marriage. That day, Ke Fei’er actually slapped the marriage certificate on your face, didn’t she?”
I… definitely cannot accept this. Simply put, while Iku Xisi’s appearance and figure could indeed be described as “pleasurable,” as she claimed, setting those aside, and even without discussing Ke Fei’er, I would never do anything out of line with this “foolish saintess” who is pretending to be clueless, even under the clearly stated conditions of exchange.
Although my identity remains unredeemed and I am still a notorious villain, I have not sunk to that level of shamelessness. Where is the logic in black eating black?
“Tell me, who is it that makes you so afraid? As far as I remember, no one dares to run wild within the territory of the Great Ying Empire, right?”
This position really made it impossible to push Iku Xisi away, so I could only turn my face aside and pretend to be a saint. I just wanted this fool to get through this period safely and honestly, without leaving me with a bad impression, so that by the end of the summit, she could actively help clear my name.
It was supposed to be mutually beneficial, but her sudden desire for “meat compensation”—let’s just forget it. First, I fear for my life, and second, I fear the washboard.
“It’s…”
All I wanted was to ask Iku Xisi the reason for her “nervousness” and then eliminate it. That would be good for both her and me, but…
Iku Xisi, who was almost about to blurt out an answer, ultimately fell silent, and when I looked back, that foolish expression returned to the face of this true saintess who had only been in the role for a few minutes.
“N-nothing! Just that I want to run away! If you won’t let me go, then fine! I won’t eat the meat that’s right in front of me!”
While grumbling, Iku Xisi jumped off me, complaining, “Fool! Virgin! Pure! DT! Just wait! I’ll definitely say that Oujili is a big bad guy! If you don’t believe me, come fight me! Hehe! “
And then, in a flash, she ran off, leaving the knife on the ground. Does she really think, “I wanted to kill you but didn’t, so let’s pretend nothing happened tonight”?
But it’s pointless to dwell on it; isn’t Iku Xisi just that kind of capricious fool?
In exasperation, my troubled heart turned into a single sentence: “Shut the door!”
This might be one of the worst decisions I’ve ever made, making me regret: if only I could have forcibly tied Iku Xisi to the bed and kept her there until tomorrow!
Because the very next day, when I lazily woke up, everything became “tense”!
Iku Xisi, the saintess of the church, had vanished, slipping out of the Ke Fei’er family’s manor just like that!
Moreover, on the second day, when we mobilized all our forces to search secretly and found nothing, an even stranger scene unfolded! If Iku Xisi’s escape the previous night could be attributed to everyone being too lax in guarding against this fool, then on the second night, as I struggled to find Iku Xisi and wearily returned to my residence with Ke Fei’er, I unexpectedly discovered a letter in my own room!
A letter… from Iku Xisi! It hadn’t appeared until today!? How did Iku Xisi “send it in”!? With a tense heart, and to prevent any danger, I opened the letter when Ke Fei’er wasn’t ‘t paying attention, glanced at the contents, and then…
Clenching my fists, I immediately dashed out!
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