Episode 92

Elisha lifted herself from the bed. It was early morning.

Lucerne has been in a good mood the past few days since she came out of prison after seeing Merha. Maybe that's why she didn't let her go in bed for days.

She wept and sobbed to the point of exhaustion, and several times she begged him to stop. Eventually, by the time her legs tingled and her hillsides swelled red, Elisha was able to rest.

After that she would fall into a restless sleep. There were times when she couldn't wake up until morning and there were times when she only slept for an hour or two and woke up at dawn.

'What time is it?'

When Elisha opened her eyes, Lucerne was sitting back on the bed, looking at her papers. In her dark room, only one lamp containing magic stones was turned on.

“Are you awake?”

“…… Are you not sleeping?”

“I have some work left.”

Elisha leaned on her chin and looked at him. She rubbed her eyes. She was terribly tired, but she couldn't sleep again. After she watched for a while, Lucerne stroked Elisha's hair with her big hand.

“Continue sleeping.”

“Lucerne.”

“Yes.”

Elisha suddenly had a question that came to his mind as he looked at him.

“When dealing with this, you made it easy because you know a lot about Listralpo. Were you very close to him?”

“Is it compensation time again?”

After Elisha had slept for the past few days, she asked me about Lucerne. She didn't want secrecy.

She asked about her childhood memories of Lucerne or her feelings at the time. Lucerne was dumbfounded, but answered most of them.

“I'm just curious. You said that Listralpo wasn't a bad guy. I don't think it's rare to express someone like that.”

“…….”

Lucerne seemed to recall the past for a moment.

“Merha looked down on him because she was from a lowly class. He didn't learn much, but he was a pure person in my opinion. At the time, I was isolated in the temple because of Merha and Marco, but Listralpo didn't care about that and was good to me.”

“…….”

“One day I was hiding by myself because I was not feeling well, and he took me away and comforted me.”

'Lucerne. Look at this gold coin Don't be disappointed if there are flaws. These are gold coins minted in ancient times, so they cost five times as much as normal gold coins. Look I, a real saint, will cast a blessing spell on you. This will really work.'

'To me, this is very precious. Ancient calendar 566 There is only one gold coin. Give me this Later, when you become an adult and find a girl you like, use this to seduce her. If you give it as a gift, any girl who knows how to look at things will like it.'

Elisha's eyes wavered.

“What did the gold coin look like?”

“The year 566 is written on the surface, and three wings are drawn. An angel with closed eyes was carved in the middle.”

“…… Did you? It is a valuable item.”

“I don't know if the blessing really worked. When I was a boy, I always carried it with me when I went to the battlefield.”

Elisha knew he always survived any hellish war.

She said, “If everyone survives the battlefield just because they have something that the saints have blessed them with, how easy would life be? That's what makes you great.”

Elisha spoke frankly. Lucerne looked at her as if her words were surprising. But he didn't look bad.

“Come to think of it, the butler found the gold coin yesterday while cleaning out my library.”

“Can you show me?”

Lucerne returned the gold coins without showing any signs of annoyance.

“Is this it?”

Elisha rolled a gold coin in her hand for a while. It was a familiar object. There were long scratches on her corners.

'He gave me this gold coin in my previous life.'

The gold coin was none other than what he had paid for the carriage. The one Marco gave her when he let her run away from her house. Elisha couldn't figure out why he gave it to her.

“It's an ancient gold coin with such memories, but it's unfortunate that it was wasted. It would have been nice to use it on a girl I like.”

Elisha murmured softly without her knowledge.

“What?”

“No.”

Elisha shook her head.

“Nothing……. No. It is a beautiful gold coin.”

Lucerne said nonchalantly.

“Take it.”

“…… Why?”

“I think I like you. Besides, I got married, but now, how can I use it for a girl I like?”

Elisha felt her heart throb again and the skin of her head tickling.

“You never know. You just have it.”

Elisha watched Lucerne's red eyes slowly cool.

“Okay.”

Lucerne said quietly.

“Do it.”

“Yes.”

And Elisha remembered one night from her previous life.

In order to get rid of the feelings that have sprouted in affection. Crying, she dug up the soil at night and buried the locket and gold coins there with the pieces of the cloak in it.

'There were days like that.'

Her Lucerne's hands overlapped and pressed her half naked. Elisha closed her eyes as she felt their lips slowly move together.

Her heart could be blocked, but I couldn't help but open my lips towards him.

After all, her body was quicker to adapt than her mind. As always, savagely accurate.

*​ *​ *​

Lucerne was looking out his window. Behind him, Ian was reading the information from Gakgak. It ranged from the movement of the disquieting local army to the trivial, unique news from the capital.

“It seems that Merha is constantly conciliating the surveillance officer. He seems to be asking Marco to deliver a note. I stole the note and brought it back.”

Lucerne flipped through the note. It was about taking revenge on Lucerne's weakness.

“You haven't come to your senses yet. Was my filial piety lacking?”

“I will instruct the Heretic Questioner to serve Merha more appropriately from tomorrow.”

“Do it yourself.”

Lucerne indifferently nodded his head. Needless to say, starting tomorrow, Merha's treatment in prison would become even more miserable.

Ian thought that Merha would not live long. If a person from the noble Cartier family lived like this, he would die even if a vase broke out.

'Well, it's new blood compared to what our general went through.'

Ian laughed and thought to himself. When a grown-up abuses a child, he never imagines that the child will grow up to be strong and retaliate. But the child he abused is the seed of the Cartier family, and it has grown so hard.

“Then what about the note? Shall we have it delivered to Marco?”

“Do it. If you send her a note about her father's hardships, Marco will get excited and reveal some loophole. There is nothing wrong with stimulating it.”

Lucerne's tone of answer was indifferent. He didn't take his eyes off the window even as he listened to Ian's report.

'Looks like you're watching the madam.'

Ian took care of his expression. Lucerne's office had a good view of the front garden. In the garden, Elisha was taking care of the flowers.

'She really is the most diligent madam I've ever seen.'

Elisha was quiet and quiet in everything she did and never caused a fuss. But she had a knack for finding something to do. She seemed to be taking care of the flower garden in her spare time today.

“What kind of woman do you think my wife is, Ian.”

“Yes? How dare I evaluate it.”

“…….”

“Why are you like that?”

“It's strange that you rarely say something sane.”

“What are all those compliments? Thank you.”

“It happened. Just tell me this time.”

Ian was silent for a moment.

“You are perfect. Whatever you do, you're good at it. Even the manners teacher and piano teacher who come and go to the house these days said that the madam is a genius?”

The quiet and dignified madam respected her employees in everything, and there was no one in her house who didn't like Elisha. Lucerne knew that.

'It's perfect.'

It was a very appropriate word to describe Elisha.

She was beautiful and perfect……. Perhaps now that you have come to a world that suits you, you will shine for the rest of your life and be admired by others.

'But it's really strange.'

If it's perfect, that's it. If it's good, you should be happy with it. But I kept feeling like something was missing.

Even if Lucerne was still, it was tantalizing.

Yesterday afternoon, Lucerne saw Elisha innocently smiling for the first time in a long time.

'Did you really fix this? How……. It's obviously faded and dented, but it looks like new. And it's got a ribbon too. I'm so glad.'

He had never heard Elisha say 'I'm so glad'. She had never seen her smile without any hints. It's a very small smile, but it was definitely blooming.

At that moment, a strange thirst came. Her stomach was burning and her heart was uncomfortable. He wanted to hug her right now and bite her lips. She just wanted

By the way……. What?

Do you just want a body? Lucerne could not be defined either.

That evening, Lucerne found Elisha tidying up his study. He impulsively put her on her lap and held her hastily on her chair in her study.

Elisha did not resist. At first she said it was difficult, but later she opened her lips on her own and she sucked his tongue silently.

Only then did she feel a shudder run down his spine. Slowly, stably. Then he was able to put to rest the ferocious feeling he had felt that afternoon.

Her heart beats for her several times a day. Even now, the moment I saw her cutting her flowers, I thought, strangely, that she was an illusion of her.

'I can't catch her as if I could catch her. I can touch her outside at any time, but I can't know what's inside.'

Something as beautiful as the midday sunlight shimmering outside the window. It's just, something that can disappear anytime when night comes.

“General?”

She called out to Ian as if he were curious. Lucerne took her eyes off the window and looked at Ian indifferently.

“Did you order the new furniture?”

“Yes. As you said, everything was ordered with the highest quality. But why are you suddenly decorating a room in the basement?”

“Just in case I go crazy.”

“Yes?”

Lucerne thought, looking at Elisha as she placed her flowers in her basket, instructing her maid to do something of her own.

'You can't ignore the old man's touch. Sometimes it hits me.'

The head of the family was worried that Lucerne would do something strange because she was possessed by Elisha.

Once Elisha's existence proves to be dangerous. Once she does, her presence turns out to cover both his eyes and ears.

Lucerne will lock her up in her beautifully decorated locker room.

'If that happens, my heart will be completely filled.'

Lucerne thought indifferently.

It was rare indeed. Elisha said she made him ride, she bothered, and she made her a little desperate.

'What the hell is he hiding?'

His instincts noticed and shouted. Underneath Elisha's soft and white body lies a hidden inside. There are parts that haven't been shown yet. There is a part of her that has not been given to him.

So Elisha stimulated his greedy serpentine instincts. She wanted to make it all out, swallow it in one bite, and possess it.

Maybe it's because the picture Elisha draws is getting clearer.

'If I become the head of the family, it will be a divorce.'

Lucerne is a very down-to-earth person, so she didn't believe in Elisha's 'how he would become the head of household'.

It was the nature of not taking things seriously without evidence in front of them.

No, maybe it doesn't matter. He had already lost her thoughts of letting her go.

'So, right now, all I can do is score points?'

At any rate, I had no choice but to entice her into walking into her cage on her own feet, as far as possible. And taming people with abundance wrapped in money was the specialty of the Cartier family.