Chapter 20

“My Mr?”

“My Mr, then?”

“My darling?”

“Darling…”

Dillian, who was muttering along with me, covered his face with a big hand. His ears that revealed through the hair were red.

“As expected, it’s like that.”

“What? It’s like that? No. That’s not. This is not what’s important.”

I brought up the subject without hesitation. So that he can no longer avoid it.

“Sir Dillian, I know you were worried. You feel anxious because you have no memories. But you really need to go back to your home.”

“Miss Ria…”

Dillian’s face became noticeably darker. The desire to not leave has been strongly conveyed.

I know, because there’s no memories, he is anxious. He must feel like he is suddenly thrown out of the world.

But here is not where Dillian would be.

“May will safely take you to the capital.”

“… Are you really wishing me to go?”

“Yes.”

“Really?”

Yeah. Really. I nodded vigorously.

“Sir Dillian is not a person to be here.”

“What’s wrong with this place?”

“This place is too small and not enough for Sir Dillian. You have to go to a bigger place.”

You have a magnificent palace-like house. How can you live in a house as small as this booger?

The king must return to the castle.

“Then Sir Dillian’s family, your precious people will be waiting for you.”

“Then you?”

“Me?”

Dillian smacked his lips. It took a long time to pause on words that could not be easily taken out.

I waited calmly.

“If I leave, will you be okay?”

What does this mean? What does it have to do with me when Dillian goes back home?

I couldn’t understand his intentions. I, who was frowning, nodded.

“Yes.”

“Lies.”

“What?”

“Aren’t we in a kind of relationship?”

How can you suddenly come closer?

I bit my lips, at anger seen in Dillian’s eyes.

Ah, I see. Now I know from looking at that confident face.

‘He noticed. I’m sure.’

I don’t know what it is, but it was clear that he knew something.

I bit my lips gently out of nervousness. I blinked and looked at him with the most pitiful look.

He nodded as he looked at the sorrowful face with trembling lips, like saying he knew this would happen.

“As expected, we are lovers.”

“… What?”

“This clothes is originally mine, right?”

“Whaat?”

“Honey, dear, we use that kind of nicknames, right?”

“What the…”

“I forgot about you… you are disappointed.”

What is this, lover? Honey, dear?

“It’s absolutely not.”

I jumped up like a freshly caught live fish. I was so surprised that my heart pounded. Hot air* kept popping out of my open mouth.

*A mind that is carried away by an unrealistic and nonsensical event.

“Absolutely, absolutely!”

I waved my hands and denied it, but the more I did it, the more doubt came from Dillian’s face.

“… If not, why do you always make that face?”

Is he saying that my face is at fault?

At the moment, I was speechless and did facepalm.

“Sir Dillian, as I said before, we don’t know each other in the first place. I picked up Sir Dillian by chance.”

“Lies again, do you think I will believe that word?”

“What? What do you mean lying?”

“Please be honest with me. You don’t have to hide it for the sake of me anymore.”

Huh, what is he talking about?

Regardless of whether I am flustered or not, Dillian just spills out what he wants to say.

“Because I’m a noble, you are burdened, right? I know you pushed me because of our differences in status.”

“What?”

I really don’t want to do this, but the only thing I am able to say is only ‘what?’.

That means how ridiculous it is.

“Let alone Sinaize’s Lord. I know Miss Ria is burdened by it.”

“No, that, how… sure enough you get your memories back, right?”

I have never told Dillian that he is a nobleman. All the more so that he is Sinaize.

There is no one who will be able to tell him, because we are trapped at home.

The only way left is to think it himself.

‘Fuxx. I’m totally screwed.’

I guess he really remembered. Even if the memory did not fully return, it was clear that it came to his mind fragmentarily.

‘It’s only a matter of time before I get caught!’

When I faltered due to my survival instinct and stepped back, Dillian came closer as much.

The eyes that looked at me were burning gently.

The place where our eyes met was hot. As if it were going to burn me. It was a strong gaze.

“When I see you, my heart pounded scarily, my head hurts like it’s going to burst, and my mind feels dizzy.”

“Tha, that’s…”

Crap, I guess it’s an aftereffect.

“But still, when I’m next to Miss Ria, I feel at ease. It’s like coming home.”

For that, I don’t know about that either!

“If this is not love, then what?”

“What?”

Tuk, all the noise in my head stopped.

Like in the world full of misunderstandings, Dillian’s eyes that I met were sincere.

‘What the hell is he saying now?’

Love? Loovee? What nonsense? That, is because I smashed your head in the back!

I’m instinctively detecting an enemy and getting warned! Avoid it!

‘I can’t even say that!’

I’m frustrated! Panicked, I couldn’t do this or that, then Dillian, who made another strange misunderstanding, grabbed my shoulder.

“Please don’t hide it anymore.”

His face, which comes closer just around the corner, was distorted painfully.

Frowned deeply, droopy eyes, sorely biting lips, and those faint eyes that looked at me.

Looking at the pure face like dew, I swallowed my breath.

“Please don’t make me more miserable.”

Really, even if he looked desperate for me to tell him something…

‘We really aren’t in a relationship…’

I want to cry. I just want to throw everything away and then faint…

At the time I started to lose my mind, my savior miraculously appeared.

“I’ve heard it enough! This useless beast-like brat!”

“Nathan!”

“For someone who is trying to attack our Ria, how shameless you put love in your mouth!”

Nope. It was the snout of destruction.

“How can you say that! I told you it’s a secret!”

“I can no longer see you being used anymore!”

Another bomb exploded even before Nathan’s bomb could be resolved.

Bang, the door opened with the sound.

“What? Attack? Ria! Finally you found your husband!”

“May?!”

You didn’t come even if I waited for a month, and you came at this time?

May, who brought gifts in both hands, shouted with joy.

“So you do as this unnie* says! My little sister!”

*Older sister for younger female speaking to an older female.

Nathan, who screamed, and May, who suddenly appeared, added fuel to Dillian’s misunderstanding.

I felt a strong force on the shoulders he held.

When I forcibly turned my stiff neck, a face that was smiling brightly welcomed me.

“Di, Dillian…”

“It’s not a lover, we are married.”

“That’s not…”

“I’m sorry I forgot it, wife.”

“This crazy…”

When I muttered a curse word without realizing, a hesitant Dillian stared at me.

Dillian, who lowered his hands from my shoulder, pressed down his heart then soon smiled.

“I think I know what side that makes me fall for my wife.”

Dillian, who talked nonsense, took my hand and kissed it.

The back of the hand that gets touched, hot as if it gets burned. The more that happens, the colder my heart gets.

“Your heart is broken because I forgot the memories with you, right?”

“Dillian…”

“I will take the responsibility.”

“Please…”

“Yes, don’t worry. My entire life, I will pay you back to be beside you.”

Please! Listen to me!

My cry-like scream did not reach him.

I was dizzy.

Mom… What should I do… This crazy man really thinks I am his wife…

Crap, I’m doomed. Completely doomed.