Angela turned her gaze toward the place where the two beasts, presumed to be people, were located.

It was dark and hard to see clearly, but she couldn’t see the shapes of beasts that had seemed to be standing on four legs just moments ago. It looked more like people standing.

Realizing they weren’t beasts, Angela took a step forward, trying to confirm whether they were people or animals.

At that moment, she covered her mouth again.

The man was thrusting into the woman with such force it seemed her body might break, and far from feeling pain, the woman was moaning with a frenzied expression.

Angela had mistaken the s*xual act of the two people, who were mating like beasts, for wild animals, and the lewd sounds of flesh meeting flesh and the woman’s moans for bizarre noises.

‘Kyah! They must be crazy. What are they doing in the sacred imperial palace?’

She quickly averted her gaze, feeling like she had seen something she shouldn’t have. Apart from the relief that they weren’t wild beasts, Angela screamed again in her heart.

She felt like she needed to escape this absurd situation where she had seen something she shouldn’t have seen.

She tried to leave as quietly as possible, minimizing her footsteps, but at that moment, the sound of stepping on fallen leaves disturbed the two people.

Oh no.

The sound wasn’t even loud, but the man and woman’s actions stopped, and when the man turned his head, his gaze met Angela’s.

Angela’s face turned red instantly.

She didn’t know where to look. She lowered her head and began walking hurriedly, staring only at the ground.

But what stopped her steps was the man’s voice coming from behind.

“Oh? Miss Huntley?”

Hearing her name, Angela unconsciously stopped walking and turned toward the man’s face.

The darkness was thick and the distance quite far, so it shouldn’t have been easy to recognize her face. Yet her name was called, so she couldn’t help but be surprised.

Meanwhile, the man approached with quick strides, and their distance narrowed instantly.

‘I don’t know this face at all.’

Even as he came close, Angela couldn’t tell who the man was.

She didn’t think she had even exchanged brief greetings with him, yet he approached with a welcoming face, seeming to know Angela. Seeing that he wore the same design uniform as Dion, he appeared to be an imperial knight.

Kyah!

When the man came within close range, startled Angela’s face turned red instantly. He was walking toward her wearing only his upper garment, holding his pants without wearing his lower garment.

Especially the sight of the man walking confidently while dangling that thing was too terrible.

‘Please put on your pants. Does this man have no sense of shame?’

His attitude was so shameless that Angela wondered if she had been receiving wrong lessons from Mrs. Seymour all this time.

She quickly covered her eyes with her hands while shouting.

“C-could you please put on your pants?”

“Pants? Ahaha.”

At the word pants, the man’s gaze turned toward his lower body.

She hoped he had forgotten to put on his pants and would hurriedly put them on, but instead he laughed. His hearty laughter seemed to make the awkward atmosphere between them even more awkward.

“I’m not finished yet, so I have no intention of putting them on. We have something to do together, don’t we?”

The man who had approached right in front of her stopped walking and spoke welcomingly. He seemed to know she was coming here.

Something left to do. What thing to do?

Angela glanced at the man’s face through the gaps between her fingers covering her face. She looked to see if he was someone she had greeted even once, but no matter how she looked, he wasn’t someone she knew.

“Did we arrange to meet?”

“Didn’t you come here after reading the marriage proposal I sent?”

“Marriage proposal?”

Angela’s head tilted to one side at the incomprehensible words. She had never replied to any of the marriage proposals she had received so far, so what.

Ah. Could it be…

The half-n*ked man’s appearance, and the lewd scenes she couldn’t bear to watch with open eyes just moments ago… she could roughly guess.

“Mark Craven. I wonder if you remember my name. Didn’t you come looking for me because I suggested we meet at this time, at this place today?”

“…”

Hearing the man’s introduction, Angela realized her guess was correct. The name of the man who had sent her a marriage proposal full of s*xual harassment was Mark Craven.

It was so terrible that she had read only one line and torn it up on the spot, but apparently it contained instructions to come to this place at this time today.

At that moment, she felt strange. The young ladies who had talked about the tree of fate in the lounge earlier, the man’s marriage proposal to meet in front of the tree of fate at the same time… could it really be a coincidence?

“What? You proposed to that woman?”

While Angela was grasping the situation that had just occurred, a woman’s voice expressing displeasure was suddenly heard. She too had apparently approached after arranging her clothes.

“Of course. You have a husband, don’t you?”

Then Mark’s gaze, which had been directed toward Angela, turned backward.

“You lecher!”

The woman tried to punch Mark, but his hand blocked her. The woman, whose both hands were suddenly caught, struggled and spat out harsh curses.

A husband… Angela’s head began to get confused hearing the conversation between the two.

This lecherous imperial knight was enjoying secret meetings with a married woman while also proposing to Angela, and asking her to enjoy together too…

Crazy.

Angela’s face instantly flushed red with the humiliation she felt. She regretted even having a brief conversation, so she tried to quickly escape from this place.

“Where are you going? Didn’t you come to have fun?”

But at that moment, the man’s hand grabbed her wrist. She shook her wrist to break free, but couldn’t overcome his strong grip.

“Let go of this. I didn’t come to meet you. I only came because I had other business. I didn’t see anything, so please let me go like this.”

“Come on. What do you mean you didn’t see anything? Now that you’ve seen it, how about it? Don’t you want to do it?”

The man’s face, wearing a relaxed expression, seemed to have some scheme.

“No, not at all. So please let go of this hand.”

How could he be so shameless while doing immoral things?

Since she couldn’t bear to look at the man’s half-n*ked body, Angela’s gaze was directed toward the sky as she shook her hand. But the man still didn’t seem to have any intention of letting go.

“I said let go of this hand!”

When he seemed to have no intention of letting go, Angela’s voice rose.

“Oh ho. I thought you were gentle, but you have a temper. Interesting. I like women with temper, so let’s enjoy together. Okay?”

Even when she got angry, the man didn’t seem to care at all.

Rather, seeing him repeat the same words and seemingly hide another face behind his smile, Angela became frightened.

He looked as dangerous as the bear she had encountered in the forest. Even if she offered him money, the man’s behavior didn’t seem like it would stop. So the moment she realized she couldn’t escape from the man’s grasp, the emotion of fear rushed in like a tide.

“Help…”

The only way to survive here was to scream for help. She could only hope that a patrolling guard or knight would come.

But even that became impossible as the man covered her mouth.