When I woke up, I was on an unrecognizable bed.

Although it is a small bed, the sheets are clean and smell like washed soap.

And I wonder where this place is.

Looking around, apparently it's a small house.

In the room there is one small bed and a kitchen between the walls, two chairs at the table.

Even if I rinse my ears, I don't hear anything from around me.

The house is bright with demonic stone lights, but no sunlight enters through the gaps in the curtains by the bed.

I should have been out to church in the morning. I wonder how much time has passed and wind the curtains a little. Then there was darkness at the end of my sight.

It doesn't look like there are houses around, dark and hard to judge, but it looks surrounded by trees.

Nevertheless, the last memory is definitely over where I was talking to the priest.

It must have smelled sweet. But suddenly my body stopped moving as I thought...

When I think of that time, my body suddenly shivers and I accidentally clasp my arms with both hands.

I'm the only one in the room right now. It's hard to imagine that there are other rooms even if you have to look at how this room is going. I mean, there's no clergy here right now.

We have to find out anyway.

Where and how can I escape here?

Put your foot down from the bed. And move on to the door where there is only one in this room.

I hold my fist to scold you for feeling anxious and about to crush your chest.

All right.

I put my hand on the door knob, that's when.

Gi

I didn't turn the door knob I put my hand on to open it. Raising your fearful gaze.

There stood a cleric who opened his eyes as if surprised because I was there before he opened the door.

"Career!"

A scream pops out of my mouth about a cleric who suddenly appears. Immediately he flipped his body and moved to the corner of the room, distancing himself from the priest.

But the cleric enters the room with a troubled face, "You've been greatly frightened," without a bare gesture of concern.

"It's okay. I will not harm you. I promise."

"I can't believe it. Didn't you force me to bring you here?"

"Uh... you did. But it's okay.

Because I'm not going to do this to you. "

When the clergyman smiles peacefully, as usual, he heads to the small kitchen provided for his room.

And when I made the tea the way I was used to, I put two cups on the table.

"Would you like some tea?

"Fine."

"Hmm... Nothing in there, right?

The cleric sips tea when he sits at a small tea table. And tilted my neck with a glimpse of me still not trying to move out of the corner of the room.

I'm the one who wants to tilt my neck...

"... where are we?"

"Is this it? Behind the woods near the church...? Until a year ago, an old lady used to come to church, but she gave in because she thought she was going to her daughter."

"Why... bring me here?"

"Didn't I tell you? He wants a future with you."

"The future?"

"Yeah, if we're here, we can live together without anyone interrupting us.

It's a little small, though. Let's move to a bigger place if it seems difficult to live. "

I saw Nico and the priest who spoke more specifically about "you want a flowerbed in the garden," with incredible thoughts.

Is it true?

The clergy has no change in attitude or expression from when he meets in church. That's why I feel uncomfortable.

Is there anything in this situation that I can do with this attitude?

"Lie, is it?

"Why?"

"I think you cared about those visitors to that church, the children.

You shouldn't have to be with me until you betrayed them. "

"Surely that place is the first place I've ever felt comfortable. Maybe it was hard for me to live like that in the first place."

"Why?"

"You're gonna get me wrong."

Mistake…… what.

The clergyman is smiling in his face but not in his eyes at all. On the contrary, it's seeping in disgust somewhere.

I have no idea what you're thinking.

I say it's hard for me to live that life, hoping the church is comfortable.

Is it that he has the factors that make it difficult?

Rather than himself……, it is the kind of mouthpiece that exists where something has to be done against his will.

"Yes, the question I asked earlier was, why should I be with you? Well, can't you just wake up to love?

"Though I didn't think you were the one to say things that didn't feel responsible that way. … is there something more different about it?"

To me looking straight at the clergyman, the clergyman shakes his shoulder with a thinning of his purple eyes and a tingle of ridicule.

"You really are amazing. To those straight eyes, being attracted to character is not a lie. I even really want to live with you."

"Well, the purpose isn't to run off with me..."

When I say without distracting myself from the eyes of the clergyman, the clergyman mutters "ho."

And when I get up from the chair, I slowly walk up to me.

He moves jizzily against the wall in an attempt to escape from the gradually approaching clergy.

At that time, the clergyman's gaze was slightly directed out the window, as he noticed something.

Now!

Step out to escape to the door.

But.

─ ─ Don

The cleric, who stood in the front as if to cover my body, placed his hands against the wall just beside my face.

"Become what!

I am hardly touched by my body, but I feel terrified at too close a distance.

I feel my legs tremble, but it's a situation I'm managing to stand on.

"You're a boulder. Yeah, it has a purpose.

I just don't seem to have time to explain that, unfortunately. You arrived much earlier than I thought. "

The clergyman stays in position and looks sharply at the door when he moves only his face.

At that time.

With the slight impact of the house, loud noises crumble my ears.

The door of the room is kicked through and I accidentally meditate my eyes hard on the sound.

And I open my eyes lid and stare at the end of the sound, wondering what happened to the footsteps for a few people.

"Rachel!"

"Ah... Your Highness!

Oh, it's Your Highness. It's not like I didn't think about it. But I gave up somewhere that there was no way it was convenient for me to come.

But His Royal Highness came.

"You! What are you doing!

His Highness rushes straight to me and punches the priest in the cheek with all his might. With that shock, the cleric hits a nearby chair and falls to the floor.

And His Highness immediately touches me as if to check my face, shoulders and fingertips. And when I knew there was no injury, I hugged me strong and strong.

I feel my arms around my back shaking slightly. And from His Highness's face, which was placed to press against my shoulder, I heard a fuzzy sigh of relief.

My heart, which also kept me distracted just by a glance at His Highness's face, loosened for a moment and, as I was impressed, came out of my eyes as a grain of tears.

Warm.

It gives me the kind of relief that His Highness says in his arms, "I'm fine".

I still can't stop shaking my legs. But earlier anxiety seems to disappear once and for all.

And His Highness stares into my face after raising his face. He seemed to notice tears and could see him taking his breath all the time. Immediately he shifted his gaze to the priest and glanced at him with such a ghost shape that he had never seen before.

"What have you done to Rachel!

"Don't you see? You're the one who gets out of the way of your lovers."

"Tell me what! To a fiancée of a person…"

"How long will that engagement last?"

"Ku..."

The clergyman wipes the edge of his lips slightly seeping blood with his fingertips, laughing with his nose to ridicule him when he stood up, even though he could.

His Highness wrinkles between his eyebrows to reveal his discomfort.

As the two stare at each other, a light voice echoes into the room that does not fit this situation.

"Yes, yes, shall we calm down a bit? And the clergyman there."

Lady Theodore peered into the cleric's face and mumbled "You've been flashy" when she laughed all the time.

Behind Master Theodore, Roger lowers his eyebrows as if he was relieved to see me. And immediately tighten your gaze to alert the clergy with a crisp look.

Even Cyril seemed to be rushing. Looking at the kicked door with his pulled face, he stood still near the entrance and refrained.

"Calm down and wait! This is the one who took Rachel. I'll put you in a cell right away."

"If you can, go ahead."

As if to forgive the two who are still staring at each other, Master Theodore pounds his highness on his shoulder as he stands between them.

At that time.

"Nyer."

"Cro! Why are you here?"

There was a ringing noise from Lady Theodore's feet, and when he turned his gaze, there was a clown figure there. Calling his name, Crowe came to my feet.

Release the body from the loose highness arms, and I kneel down and lift the clo. When I lean my nose against Cro's body, which I make dear in my arms, I can feel the warm scent of the day poking from Cro.

Oh, what a relief.

I felt my cheeks loose, which I had stretched hard until earlier, in a clo that looked adorable as ever.

Seeing how I was like that, Master Theodore raises his mouth angle and laughs gently. Then, moving his gaze toward His Highness and the clergy, he caught a grim eye.

"Even though Miss Rachel is involved, Louis needs to be a little more calm.

And the clergy there. Stop imitating all the futility you stir up too. "

The praised lord speaks remorsefully.

Conversely, the clergyman looked at His Highness boringly without looking concerned.

"Come on, shall we get down to business in a calm place?

Let me start by telling you why you caught Miss Rachel. "

"... you think it's easy to talk?

"I'll talk to you, you.

'Cause you're the one who lured us here. "

"" What?

"Huh?"

His Royal Highness and Cyril's voice overlap Master Theodore's words.

And Roger also opened his eyes and stared at Master Theodore as he was surprised again.

"I know most of it.

Now, let me tell you what your plan is. "