Only with Your Heart

Though I don't think he's doing anything wrong... Chizuru went down to the dining room for dinner with Alde, who picked him up, feeling softly backward.

It should be time for Luklov to come home.

But when I actually stepped into the dining room, it was more frustrating inside than I had imagined. The usual haste to welcome knights returning from inspections has yet to be seen, to the extent that apprenticeship knights and others with castle servants and guard outposts are scattered.

As Chizuru approached next to his seat for his usual seat, Nadal, who had been busy coming and going between the kitchen and the dining room, discovered it and rushed over.

"Dear Chizuru, please take your seats first. The news came early, and Mr. Ruklov and his men are returning to the castle a little later than planned."

"Really..."

Nadal gave a slightly meaningful grin to Chizuru, who clapped out and grated her shoulders.

"You don't have to look like that. You'll be home soon. Really, it's nice to be close."

Damn, at some point Nadal is totally growing up too. Thousands of cranes dyed their cheeks red again, teasing the couple to him as well as Alde.

After finishing a dinner of warm meaty pies and thick vegetable soup on the flavor and on the spot, Chizuru returned to his bedroom early enough without even socializing like this.

A little more normally, I would greet people in castles of various positions, or listen to them as Duchess. But this evening... I was concerned about the presence of a vial with green liquid that I gently hid in the drawer of my cosmetics, and I didn't feel that way.

Chizuru, who returned to his bedroom with Alde, was asked to prepare a barrel containing hot water for bathing after he had been helped to light some candles and start a fireplace fire.

Hot air with steam rises softly from the barrel.

Looking at the white-smoke-like twist, Chizuru made a small decision.

"Alde, stay back tonight. It's okay. Because bathing alone is okay."

"Really? Oh, right. Mr. Ruklov will be home soon, won't he?

Alde is smiling with a face containing something. It's like all the hot tubs tonight are going to be a little slutty, Master Ruklov is fierce when he comes back from afar... and I can't help but say it in my mouth.

Wanting to show as much majesty as possible, Chizuru stretched his spine and narrowed his eyes.

"Okay...... enjoy yourself. I'll clean it up in the morning, so you can stay put."

Alde's voice was slightly noisy.

And after I left him saying good night, he just left the Dukes bedroom.

Thousand cranes, alone, waited for the room's perimeter to quiet before sneaking off to makeup. When I gently open one drawer, I remove the cloth that was covered in camouflage and remove the glass vial.

Chizuru caught sight of it in the green liquid, whispering his breath.

─ ─ Great. In the meantime, that awful smell hasn't leaked outside. Drink up at once and no one will notice.

"Drink after dinner, before the night games."

That's what the old pharmacist said.

Dinner's ready for now. Before night games...... I mean take it before ruklov and I love each other, but it's not clear when he will be back. Maybe now, maybe another hour or so.

And this smell......

If you've been drinking since you heard the noise of Lucrov and his comeback castle, you might smell it all over the room. I drank it up by now, rinsed my mouth, and if I could, I wouldn't be left much of it if I didn't have a bath ahead of me. Maybe.

Chizuru put the glass bottle over the candle light and swallowed the thickness of the seemingly clear green liquid.

I saw it in a movie a long time ago, a scene between Romeo and Juliet crosses the back of my brain. It's an urgent moment when Juliette tries to take poison.

(Ko, this is... this is not poison! Healthy herbs that just make you feel a little pregnant...... should be!

Thoughtfully removing the glass bottle stopper, Chizuru poured the contents down his throat at once.

A unique stench mixed with a lot of smoke smell and raw odor makes me nose. But the flavor was surprisingly sweet, and the feeling around the tongue was thick and soft.

"Ugh..."

Nothing happened for a while, so Chizuru tried to walk back to the plug and to the wall where the barrel was located to start taking a hot bath.

The next moment - - Chizuru was struck by a creeping dizziness (dizziness) and knelt to the floor to collapse.

(hey... to...?

Without any signs, all of a sudden, the heart starts to pulse with enough strength for the ribs to hurt.

Dokun, dokun! Zukin, Zukin!

At first I just thought it might be a dizziness coming from anaemia. Chizuru has low blood pressure and sometimes feels mild anemia, especially during the cold winter season.

But such a hopeful observation was quickly betrayed.

I can't breathe harder and harder, and my palpitations strike me in the chest so much that I get nauseous.

Chizuru regretted that he had already lowered Alde. I can't even call for help, but I can't help but raise my voice.

Something important fell out of the core of my body, and instead, something, something hotter, was eroded by the feeling of intrusion. My whole body had a suspicious fever and my hands and feet trembled into small pieces.

Tears flood me.

It was certain that something unusual was eroding Chizuru's body. It's... so hot that my vision whites, so much that I want to squeeze my chest... so horrible, so intense that I can't hold it...

Succubus, was.

The end of a long day. It wasn't until about half an hour after Ruklov returned to the castle and the meal was there to the couple's bedroom.