NOVEL NEXT Chapter 61
“McLion, are you going back just like this?”
“Yeah. Grace is calling. I should go.”
McLion, who received a call from an attendant that Grace wanted to see him, left the cafe as it was.
His close friend, Silton, who was with him, followed him and expressed his discontent.
Silton Polford, the Count.
He was the only friend of the dragon, McLion.
Few spirits wanted to become friends with McLion, who was so indescribably prickly, yet Silton was different.
Since he had been very interested in dragons since he was young, he persistently stayed by McLion’s side and was able to become close friends.
“Isn’t this the place I’ve been talking about for a few days? Can’t you at least show your face to the club members?”
“I should go see Grace.”
“You really. Haa…”
Silton sighed as if he was fed up with McLion, who was playing blindly.
He decided to introduce the club members to McLion today. Because Mac Ryan wanted to meet more diverse people and become social, not just see Grace.
However, today, too, Grace caused a fuss.
Since this wasn’t the first time something unusual had happened, Silton decided to be forgiving. If he couldn’t understand, McLion would obviously choose Grace over his friend.
“Did you bring a carriage?”
“No.”
“Then I’ll lend you my carriage. I heard it’s parked behind here, so let’s go there.”
“Thanks.”
“Don’t mention it. Huh? Isn’t that the guy who was called the Beast of the Night?”
McLion’s head turned at Silton’s voice.
In front of the magnificent white central library, not far from the café they came out of. There stood the guy called the Beast of the Night.
He looked even more handsome than before.
“Wow. Even from afar, he looks so handsome. He must be the object of my sister’s great interest these days.”
“Your sister?”
“He’s already famous among the noble ladies. He’s such a man, and his swordsmanship is such. There’s even a rumor that His Imperial Majesty the Emperor is interested in him because of the monster incident last time.”
“The world is going crazy.”
McLion stuck out his tongue in disbelief at Silton’s words.
Although ordinary people might not know, he wasn’t someone ordinary. The aura he felt when he met him at the boutique had a wicked quality.
What’s wrong with everyone’s brains? How can they be interested in someone so obviously sinister and dangerous?
“Oho. Isn’t that Princess Basin next to him?”
“What?”
Silton’s words were enough to catch McLion’s attention as he was about to walk away.
It really was her. Sellonia naturally stood next to him, as if they had come to the library together.
“Looking at them like this, they look pretty good together.”
“Are your eyes crooked?”
“If you just look at their figures, that is. What, regarding the difference in status. if his swordsmanship skills are that outstanding, wouldn’t he be given the title of baron even if it’s just a single title?”
When Silton seriously said something that was realistically possible, McLion glared at him with angry eyes.
How can that shameless ignorant guy be a match for Sellonia?
Even if they go beyond their statuses, that guy is no good. It’s really a waste of Sellonia.
“Don’t talk nonsense.”
“Why are you being so angry? Weren’t you on your way to see Lady Bennett?”
Seeing himself overreacting, McLion frowned. Was he feeling sorry for the fish he missed?
It was hard to understand why he was so interested in Princess Basin now.
“…”
McLion’s mouth closed tightly at Silton’s words.
He was right. It was funny that he let go of Sellonia’s hand first and then meddled like this.
Right. He should stop paying attention. He has Grace now.
McLion thought back to the comfort she had given him when he had just met Grace.
[Miss Sellonia is too much. She held Sir Reyev and you, Sir McLion, in her hands while she had the Duke. She used you by pretending not to know even though she knew your feelings.]
[There’s no way Selly…]
[Sir McLion, don’t you know yet? Sir McLion was used… Poor Sir McLion. Now I will always be by your side.]
Those words that she would always be by your side were engraved in his heart like an imprint.
He came to his senses and started walking again. Yet he kept thinking about Sellonia and that guy.
In particular, that guy’s energy. It was an energy he had felt somewhere…
“Mac, are you going there next week?”
“Where.”
“I heard that Viscount Horey secretly captures monsters and brings them back.”
Silton followed him and snickered.
Even though he heard that Marquis Denroha paid compensation for the monsters, they’re still capturing them.
McLion was disgusted by the foolish and stupid nobles’ extravagance.
“Monster…?”
He stopped in his tracks for a moment and turned his head.
He then looked at Tan standing in the distance with narrowed eyes.
A pitch-black and intense aura. It was similar to the aura he felt when he entered the forest of monsters.
His golden eyes flashed sharply.
***
Inside the carriage that returned empty-handed.
Sellonia was heading to the store ‘Blorence’ without getting any hints from the library.
The dream she had that night kept lingering in her mind, so she asked the librarian about black magic.
[Do you have any books on ancient magic?]
[All materials on ancient magic are banned and only His Imperial Majesty the Emperor can view them.]
They say it disappeared into the back alleys of history, yet no one but the Emperor could know about ancient magic.
Is there no other way than to capture Gillian and make him burn tonight?
‘Or let’s just Tan…’
Sellonia suddenly thought of a way, but decided to hold off for now because it was too dangerous.
She’ll look for it and if it doesn’t work, she’ll think about it as a last resort.
‘Hmm?’
At that moment, Sellonia looked at her hand at the sudden warmth she felt. Tan, who was sitting next to her, was holding her hand that she had absentmindedly placed on her thigh.
And very tightly. As if he didn’t want to let go.
“Are you in pain?”
“No.”
“But why…”
Ella was in front of her, so she didn’t say everything, but she spoke with her eyes.
Why did you hold my hand when it didn’t hurt?
He raised the corners of his lips as if he had read her gaze.
“It’s just.”
And then he gave a shameless answer.
Sellonia’s mouth dropped open.
Why on earth has this person been like this since last night?
Although She was dumbfounded by his incomprehensible actions and words, she then realized that Ella was in the carriage with them, thus she looked straight ahead.
“Ahem, ahem.”
Then Ella hurriedly coughed and slowly turned her head. With an expression that said, “I didn’t see anything.”
It was a situation that anyone could have misunderstood.
Of course, the moment Sellonia opened her mouth to say something, the carriage suddenly stopped with a squeak.
“I-I’ll look into it!”
Ella, who had been watching them closely because she thought she had to get out, quickly got out of the carriage at this moment.
Knock.
When the door closed, the two of them were alone in the carriage. Sellonia turned her head sharply and glared at him, snapping.
“Why are you doing this, really?”
“Doing what?”
“I mean why do you keep grabbing my hand without permission”
The question she wanted to ask the most was why he kissed her hand, yet she couldn’t bring herself to ask that question.
She doesn’t know why.
For it felt like something would be irreversible if she asked that question.
“Because I want to. Can’t I?”
Tan looked straight at Sellonia and spoke so. It was quite enjoyable to see her flustered expression.
“Of course not. My hand isn’t yours, and you can’t grab it whenever you want.”
Sellonia retorted sharply.
In the first place, she said he could grab her hand whenever he felt pain, but she never said I could grab it whenever I wanted.
“Really?”
Tan’s red eyes flashed with a strange strangeness. The corners of his lips went up in a refreshing way. Unable to understand the meaning of that smile, Sellonia unconsciously flinched, but soon answered calmly.
“Yes. That’s right.”
“Then what should I do if I want to grab your hand whenever I want?”
“…Pardon?”
“What should I do if I want to grab your hand whenever I want?”
At that moment, his red eyes filled with obsession burned like the sun.
Sellonia’s eyes, which met his eyes, shook violently.
Today, she felt particularly strange.
His affectionate smile and his gaze that refused to leave her gaze felt like they were engulfing every nook and cranny of her body.