CH 99

I was reading the newspaper while drinking wine.

「The Prince of El Dorado — Invaded the Fris Empire and was victorious. Who is the ‘Annette’ he is looking for?」

Yes? Wasn’t this an article I had read before?

「Grand Duke Heinrich, the next Tower Lord, put a bounty of 5.8 trillion gold for the sister he lost when he was young.」

Excuse me. Looking at it again, the price was ridiculous.

「According to the available information, Larva declares war on Delphi, “You touched the bakery, so I will destroy your three tribes.”」

You didn’t have to destroy the three tribes just because they touched a bakery… Mr. Carnivorous Stag.

It was then. Bang!

The door was thrown open and a man appeared.

It was misty and I couldn’t see his face, but I felt like I knew who he was.

“You are here, Annette.”

That terrifyingly low voice with a strong obsession deeply ingrained.

As my spine tingled, he said.

“…I really missed you and thought I was going crazy.”

Excuse me, but it looks like you’re already crazy enough(?), Your Highness.

Soon, Sislin moved towards me slowly, but with wide strides.

“……!”

His sharp eyes looked straight at me, and he slowly unbuttoned his shirt.

‘Ahh, why are you taking it off!’

‘This is a dream. Let’s wake up quickly.’

Realizing that it was a lucid dream, I tried for a moment, but I couldn’t wake up from this <hell> dream.

After a while, Sislin took off his thin shirt with a large hand and tossed it aside.

My jaw muscles were trembling because I was clenching my molars.

It looked like I couldn’t stand it.

“…….”

‘Hell, cancel. This is a spicy <Fire Hell>…’

The nudity was suffocating under the moonlight.

Broad shoulders and chest, perfectly shaped muscles like a detailed sculpture.

Thick forearms with blue tendons stretched out like streams of water, and a belly that looked firm like a beast’s.

Pants that were barely draped across the long bones, which were located in a thick diagonal line.

‘Crazy.’

Exactly what I saw at the party.

“Annette.”

A low voice fell.

Shudder—

Sislin, who came close to my nose in an instant, wrapped my wrist with something.

“……!”

Unbelievably, it was ‘shackles’.

“Now if you want to run away…”

His broad shoulders leaned toward me. Inhaling, instinctively breathing in, I felt a thick body scent that made me dizzy.

“Cut off my wrist and run away.”

The man wearing the shackles connected to me, his cruel red eyes flashed to the fullest.

Badump, badump. That was when my heart was beating fast.

“Sister.”

Heinrich, who appeared from the window, jumped down and approached me.

‘Heinrich’s condition…’

Heinrich’s purple eyes had turned black like poison. As if possessed by madness.

He narrowed his eyes and whispered.

“You promised not to leave me.”

“Ah.”

Tak. I panicked and hurriedly stretched out my hand, hitting the wine bottle hard, making it roll.

—Clank!

Wine splattered like blood on his face.

The wine, as thick as red tears, passed through his brow bones and flowed down his cheeks.

“For the child who broke a promise… What punishment should I inflict?”

Heinrich’s eyes and voice, I could feel the suffocating concentration of obsession.

Kkwaak. His arms holding me from behind were like a prison that bound me forever and would never let me go.

‘Heinrich… I am getting really scared.’

When I was trembling…

“Owner.”

“……!”

As I looked down in surprise, I saw a man kneeling in front of me.

The man’s eyes were covered with a wide black cloth, and draping over it was his curled hair that was as soft as a field of wheat.

…Kyle Winston.

Having lost his sight, he licked the plump lips that were under his fine nose.

“Owner, please.”

Wistfully, his head lowered.

He grabbed my ankles with his big, pretty hands and kissed the top of my feet hotly.

“Please stay by my side forever. Please, please.”

Gulp—

I swallowed my saliva and loosened the black silk cloth.

Then, his usual soft green eyes disappeared, and crazy eyes that were boiling with obsession under long eyelashes appeared.

“……!!!”

Why did the stag become crazy?

‘You have to wake up. This is not the case.’

This dream was dangerous. It was too dangerous.

Moreover, the fact that it felt like a kind of predictive dream was even more dangerous.

“Annette, you can’t remove these shackles until I die. no… You can’t even get rid of it when I die.”

“Sister, you know? I love you… forever…”

“Please be with me for the rest of my life, Owner.”

Surrounded by madmen, I held my breath as I felt a black hand grab my ankle and pull me into the deep swamp.

Just then, I shouted to myself.

―Wake up, Annette!

━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━

“Ugh!”

When I opened my eyes, I saw a familiar ceiling.

‘What is this ominous dream?’

It’s a dog’s dream.

I got up from the bed with a groan.

“Ah, I must have been through a lot the past few days.”

Seeing that my dream state was almost rotten, it seemed that the fatigue of the past had accumulated.

I poured a cup of cold water from the jug on the side table, drank it, and sighed for a moment.

But it was then.

Sparkle!

An unbelievable scene was unfolding before my eyes.

The locket was shining by itself, twinkling and shining.

‘Nonsense.’

I lowered my legs to the sides of the bed and walked slowly towards the locket.

Then I picked the necklace up very carefully (it was a fragile light that would go out if I blew gently) with both hands.

“…It’s really shining.”

It was no ordinary locket.

‘Why now?’

To be honest, I hadn’t taken this locket out often since I started running <Little Bakery> in earnest, but…

…I wasn’t before.

I thought it was a locket my parents gave me, and there were times when I wore it around my neck… When I was young, I took it out and looked at it whenever I had free time.

It was also because there was nothing like this locket to endure loneliness.

Although it didn’t contain a photo, I thought it was the only trace of my family.

Perhaps, there was hope that I could be happy with my family in this novel I possessed, unlike in my previous life.

‘But I’ve never seen it shine like this before!’

‘… I’m so excited.’

Really maybe, maybe I could find my parents with this.

I quickly tucked the locket away and picked up a piece of paper and a pen.

The only person I know who could track this locket.

The best intelligence guild in El Dorado.

—Kyle Winston.

「Mr. Kyle,

I would like to make a formal request to the Larva intelligence guild.

Can you investigate this special locket that glows by itself?

It’s what my parents left me.

If you take on this task, I’ll give you plenty of compensation.

I would love to see you and tell you more details.」

I whistled to the squirrel and carefully gave it the letter.

“Please, squirrel. Please give it to him!”

Kkyu.

The squirrel who greeted me looked at me with a twitching chubby cheek, waved its plump tail, and walked out of the window.

It was when I turned around after seeing the squirrel off.

“……!!!”

I was momentarily startled. Because of the man who appeared without notice.

‘When did you come?’

Under the black hair, his red eyes were looking at me indifferently.

Only one Sislin appeared, but the room felt cramped.

“…Your Highness the Crown Prince, knocking is basic!”

“Is that so?”

He narrowed his eyes playfully.

“The squirrel just came in and out, so I thought I could come in too.”

‘Sislin, a squirrel is the size of my fist and you are bigger than 100 squirrels combined…’

‘Anyone will be surprised when you suddenly show up.’

“…….”

Soon, Sislin’s head tilted slowly. An unfamiliar gaze pierced my bare shoulders and defenseless arms.

Without realizing it, I put an outer garment on.

Why?

―At this point, the content of the dream came to mind.

Sislin stared straight at me with a subtly thirsty expression.

“I missed you.”

“…….”

“I thought I would die if I didn’t see you right away, so I didn’t even knock before entering… I’ll be careful going forward.”

The corners of his lips rose smoothly.

It was strange that he sounded so ‘sincere’ while saying crazy things..

But it couldn’t be true. It was probably just like the fun point of a common ‘obsession maniac’.

I deliberately accepted it as a joke.

“Then I think you will live a little longer.”

He quietly moved forward. Hot fingers wrapped around my wrist.

The power of the artifact he had planted remained red on my wrist.

The feeling of a finger slowly rubbing the inside of my wrist… For a moment, I felt my chest tingling and breathless.

The pulse that was being sensed in my wrist suddenly accelerated.

Sislin looked at every minute change in my expression and said,

“Yeh.”

A terribly low, resonant voice rang in my ears.

“I think I will live now.”

“…….”

‘Oh my God, it’s getting dangerous again.’

I opened my half-lidded eyes fully, and slowly removed his hand.

Then I calmly asked Sislin.

“What did you come here for, Your Highness?”

“You don’t remember?”

He replied with a smile.

“You promised. Where are we going together today?”

Come to think of it, I made an appointment yesterday.

…With Sislin.

“Did you come to Bayonaire just to find me?”

“I didn’t just come to find you. I didn’t just come to pick you up.”

“…Then?”

“Well. After today’s party, I’ll let you know if you go somewhere with me tomorrow.”

Sislin whispered seductively.

“Let’s go.”

“…….”

—Could I really follow him?

To follow… I was so worried about the dream where crazy people became even crazier.

The feeling of the shackles on my wrist was as vivid as reality, so I touched my wrist.

‘I hope I’m not going to be really trapped this time after following along.’

I felt a bit anxious, but…

A promise was a promise.

I finally left the room with Sislin.

—And.

The ominous foreboding was always right.