When Jella returned to the pharmacy holding Cail’s hand.

“Gasp! Big sis is back!”

The underworld organization members… no, now the guild ‘Jella’ members who were huddled in front of the closed pharmacy, rushed toward her with enthusiastic greetings.

“Big sis! We missed you!”

“Where on earth have you been, big sis!”

“Huuuuk, big siiiis!”

Just as the rough-looking members were about to reach Jella.

“Stop.”

Cail pulled Jella’s waist with one arm and stopped them.

“Don’t come any closer.”

“Uh, huh?”

“Sir C-Cail?”

The members who had been rushing forward stopped in their tracks at Cail’s fierce threat.

They looked back and forth between Jella and Cail with wide eyes.

Cail, who had pulled Jella into his arms and was glaring at them with fierce eyes. And Jella, who was comfortably nestled in his arms with an embarrassed smile.

Felitz, who was the first to sense something in the strange atmosphere between the two, had his eyes shake violently before he shouted in a loud voice.

“N-n-n-n-no way…!”

To this, Jella scratched her cheek with an awkward expression and said.

“Hmm. Well, that’s how it is.”

“…!”

The surprised members froze in place, momentarily speechless. Then, they burst into a huge cheer.

“Woooooah!”

“Oh my goodness, big sis…!”

“Congratulations, big sis!”

Jella’s face turned bright red at their excitement, making such a commotion that the entire street could hear.

“Q-quiet down! You’ll let everyone in the capital know because of you!”

True to her words, people on the street were peeking out to see what the sudden commotion was about.

Why was the embarrassment all hers? Jella felt like crawling into a mouse hole.

But the members, not noticing Jella’s feelings, went even further and added their comments.

“Oh, that’s a great idea, big sis!”

“We’ll spread this joyous news so everyone in the empire knows!”

“Just trust us, big sis!”

“Trust what? If you don’t shut those mouths right now, I’ll chase you away from my pharmacy!”

Unlike Jella, who spoke primly out of embarrassment, Cail tightened his arm around her with a subtly proud expression.

In the end, Jella sighed in resignation, but her expression didn’t seem entirely displeased either.

Despite everything, it hadn’t been long since she and Cail had connected hearts, and though she didn’t show it, Jella, who was secretly quite possessive, didn’t dislike announcing to the world that Cail was her man.

“But what were you all doing here?”

“We were waiting for you, big sis.”

“How did you know when I’d come back?”

“We’ve been sweeping in front of this place every day, waiting for the day you’d return.”

The members held up their brooms and dustpans in response to Jella’s question, their eyes twinkling as if asking for praise.

At this, Jella smiled and gave them the answer they wanted.

“My goodness, thank you.”

“Please don’t leave without saying anything like that again. Do you know how much we missed you?”

“Yes, yes. I won’t do that again.”

Jella comforted the whining members in a much softer voice.

Cail silently watched their conversation for a moment.

A little later, Jella sent the members away and entered the building with Cail.

She planned not to open the pharmacy today and instead go up to the second-floor sanctuary to rest.

“Those guys, how long are you going to keep them close, Jella?”

Cail, who had been quietly walking beside her, suddenly asked.

“Those guys? Who?”

“…”

Cail pressed his lips together with a displeased expression at Jella’s question.

“Don’t tell me, Felitz and the organization members?”

“…They are too disrespectful and too familiar with you.”

Cail answered in a chillingly low voice.

At that voice, which sounded like he might grab those ‘disrespectful and familiar guys’ and beat them at any moment, Jella quickly waved her hands.

“Oh no, it’s not like that. They’re just… yes, loyalty! They’re bound to me by loyalty!”

But despite Jella’s defense, Cail’s expression didn’t soften. Instead, his already cold face darkened even more.

“…I too once pretended to be a loyal and faithful servant before you.”

“No, what are you saying…”

“Especially Felitz. I didn’t like Felitz from the beginning.”

“F-Felitz? Why? Weren’t you on good terms with Felitz? When we stayed at the underworld building, didn’t Felitz give up his room for you? That room five steps away from mine. And Felitz may look rough, but he’s not a bad kid. How cute…”

“That’s the problem.”

Cail cut off Jella’s words and ground his molars.

“That you find him cute.”

Cail’s eyes were burning as he said this. It was such a fierce look that if left alone, he might rush out and burn Felitz to ashes.

Jella unconsciously swallowed and thought that Felitz’s life was in danger.

“You’re worrying for nothing. Felitz isn’t even my type…”

To prevent poor Felitz’s death, Jella tried to calm Cail with a deliberately composed voice.

“Type…”

As Cail muttered, repeating her words, Jella nodded vigorously and continued.

“Yes, type! And I have very, very high standards! I like men this tall, with shoulders this broad! A chest this wide! Yes, exactly like Cail Aleret! Like you!”

“…”

Cail soon nodded quietly, appearing thoroughly convinced.

Jella pretended otherwise, but she had extremely high standards, and her preferences had been very firm for a long time.

And Cail knew well that he fit her type better than anyone.

Hadn’t he groomed himself to appeal to her according to her preferences since their reunion, even while being told by Helasio that he was lovesick?

Felitz, with his rough face and burly build, was not Jella’s type in any way.

“…I’m relieved. That Felitz is not your type.”

Jella breathed a sigh of relief at Cail’s much softened expression.

‘I should really make Felitz pay me for saving his life.’

She was grumbling to herself, forgetting that she was the very cause of Felitz’s life being in danger, when.

“Still… I don’t like you finding Felitz cute.”

Cail said, grabbing Jella’s face, which had been lost in thought, and pulling it toward him.

“Honestly, he’s not that cute.”

“Hmm?”

“I’m cuter than him.”

“…?”

“So please find me cuter than him, Jella.”

“…”

Jella stared at him blankly for a moment at Cail’s blatant jealousy.

Previously, Cail had engaged in strange tension with Niel and Yuphe over her, but he had never revealed his emotions this explicitly.

‘Cail… is jealous.’

His eyes that held her image were fiercely wavering, but his earlobes, which had just revealed such explicit emotions, were tinged red.

Discovering this, Jella unconsciously swallowed.

Could even his jealousy be this cute?

Swish.

Her raised palm gently stroked Cail’s face.

“You don’t need to say that. I only have eyes for you.”

“…”

“So don’t worry unnecessarily, Cail.”

“…Yes, Jella.”

Cail nodded obediently, feeling Jella’s touch.

Cail, who had looked ready to bite someone just moments ago, quickly became as docile as a well-behaved puppy.

The way he slightly leaned his cheek into her palm and lowered his eyes was somewhat fox-like.

He undoubtedly knew which expression, posture, and angle would make him look best to her.

But Jella didn’t dislike Cail’s cute behavior either, so she was grinning at him when.

Suddenly, a thought crossed her mind.

“But come to think of it, that statement just now, it’s not something you should be saying to me, is it?”

“…?”

Cail looked puzzled, not immediately understanding her words.

“You had quite the intense love affair with Yuria behind my back.”

“That’s unfair, Jella! I never did such a thing!”

Cail, who rarely raised his voice in front of her, protested with a truly indignant voice.

“You know better than anyone that you’re the only one I’ve held in my heart!”

Cail looked at her with desperate eyes, rubbing his cheek against Jella’s palm.

“Really? I don’t know about that.”

But Jella snorted and withdrew her hand. Cail looked at her departed hand with a dejected expression.

Of course, Jella believed in Cail’s innocence. Nevertheless, she felt petty for deliberately mentioning Yuria, but she couldn’t help it.

Because she was, in fact, a very, very jealous person. So jealous that she would even be envious of false rumors attached to her man’s past.

“And that’s what everyone seemed to think, too. That you liked Yuria.”