After fuming at his past self for a long while, he exhaled what must have been his umpteenth sigh and turned around.

The door opened silently, and as he entered the office, he saw Lysith sitting quietly on the sofa waiting for him, apparently having finished examining the display case while he was fuming.

“Was it urgent?”

“Ah, yes. A little.”

Lysith glanced at Ashites’s complexion. He looked a bit more tired than before, making her wonder if he really did have some business to attend to.

‘But the timing is a bit……’

She was uncertain. Lysith had no knowledge about this matter, which was frustrating. It would be strange to ask if his reaction was because of her when he had said it was work-related.

‘If my guess is right, it’s because of jealousy. But even so, there’s no reason for him to look that exhausted……’

This was a thought she could have because she didn’t know they had met once before or what conversation they had.

She couldn’t press him, and it would be strange to ask more. Lysith eventually decided to let it go, though with a subtle feeling of unease.

“Did you really not prepare a room for me?”

“……Do you hate sleeping with me?”

Seeing his face with drooping eyebrows that looked uncharacteristically sad, Lysith pressed her lips together. As had been mentioned many times before, Ashites’s face was closer to pretty than handsome. In short, he perfectly matched the younger man concept that he seemed to have decided to push.

“……That’s not why I asked. I was just wondering if it was true.”

There were things she could learn by staying together. For instance, figuring out exactly what that strange uneasiness she felt earlier was. Lysith decided to think positively. But on the other hand, she felt bewildered, thinking she had escaped from the emperor only to face another commotion here.

At Lysith’s words, his expression brightened again, and with relief, he sat down beside her, took her hand, and began to fiddle with it.

When her puzzled gaze fell on him, wondering why he was suddenly acting this way despite being used to it, he smiled once and then raised her hand to rub against his cheek.

Being like this made him feel good, as if his familiar affection had fallen back into his arms, and he found himself grinning without realizing it. In the past, such a smile would have been met with strange looks, but now that his expressions had become more diverse exclusively for her, Lysith, who had naturally grown accustomed to this, thought nothing of his expression.

The man smiled contentedly at what could only be described as tremendous progress.

* * *

Before she knew it, Lysith had been staying at the Magic Tower for two weeks.

As Ashites had said, she had to stay with him in his room, so it might have been natural that they joined bodies every day.

“S-stop it……”

“This is really the last one, okay?”

“You’ve said that… three times already……”

His blonde hair stuck to Lysith’s sweat-soaked back. She didn’t remember putting honey or anything on her back, but for the past two weeks, he had been pressing his lips against her back as if he had left something there.

When she unconsciously hunched her back because his hair—long on one side and short on the other—tickled her back, the two hands holding her waist instantly moved up to grab her br*asts.

“Nngh.”

“……”

Despite her small moan, Ashites was busy silently leaving marks near her shoulder blades and the nape of her neck. Usually, he would follow her wishes and immediately pull away when she hunched like this, but something must have changed in his mindset.

“Let’s sleep a bit……”

“Let’s.”

How was she supposed to sleep when he was still inside her? Moreover, the position was problematic too. How could she sleep while lying face down with him inside her? It might be possible if she fainted during the act.

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, Lysith reached out with trembling hands and pulled his long hair on one side, and only then did it end.

“Ah! Okay, I’ll really stop now.”

“Hnngh……”

Feeling the man’s c*ck leaving her insides, Lysith trembled and closed her eyes.

‘He’s crazy, he’s crazy…… They’re all definitely crazy……’

An R-rated game couldn’t be the same when played as text versus experienced in reality. If the creator had experienced this, they would have been horrified and deleted the basic setting of superhuman stamina attached to all the male leads.

Sometimes, as she endured, it was a mystery how she could withstand it with this noble lady’s physical strength.

Suddenly opening her hazy eyes to check the system window, she saw the level 9 quest that had still not appeared.

[Loading next level sub quest……]

39/100%

‘What on earth is coming.’

But worrying in advance was useless. Whatever appeared, she would have to do it anyway. She closed the system window and closed her eyes again, thinking that the Tower Master would take care of the aftermath.

And the next day, Lysith found herself bedridden.

“……Noona, does it hurt a lot?”

“Go away……”

“Massage……”

“I said go away!”

What massage! Lysith, who was lying down, huffed and threw a nearby pillow at his face, but Ashites smiled slightly as if it didn’t bother him at all.

“With your back hurting like this, you won’t be able to go back. What should we do?”

So that was the reason he had been so persistently tormenting her yesterday. To be honest, thanks to her passive skill, it wasn’t so painful that she couldn’t bear it or had to be bedridden.

Still, realistically thinking, it should hurt, so she had been lying in bed, but with this attitude, she felt like she should just leave. Today was the day she planned to return anyway.

No sooner had she thought this than there was a careful knock on the door from outside.

“Tower Master, it’s time for the meeting.”

“Oh. I’m coming.”

Ashites tended to be less temperamental than usual when he was with Lysith. But at the same time, the aide, who had learned over the past two weeks that this late morning time was when one needed to be most careful, naturally spoke cautiously.

Still, he seemed fine today. Just as the aide sighed with relief, the door suddenly flung open.

He had no intention of looking inside the room, but the Tower Master, wary of something, came out while completely blocking the view inside with his body.

Ignoring the aide’s disgruntled expression at his behavior, Ashites walked away in a good mood.

Those who felt alive because of his good mood were the mages of the Magic Tower who were rolled around under him. Please stay like this forever! Please let every day from now on be like the past two weeks! We can live like this when Madam is here!

Unfortunately, however, their wish would not come true.

“You’re leaving?”

“What’s with that expression? Today was always the day I was going to leave.”

In truth, since nothing special had happened while she was at the Magic Tower, for Lysith, it didn’t matter much whether she stayed here or returned to the mansion. Although all sorts of magical devices he had given her were loaded onto the carriage she would take back, but that was that.

However, Ashites seemed to feel differently. He was narrowing his eyes into triangles, seemingly resentful that she had finished preparing while he was in the meeting.

But Lysith now knew how to handle him to some extent, so she didn’t think much of it. Even with his eyes open so fiercely, he looked cute—she was freshly realizing the importance of titles.

“Ash.”

“……”

“Are you going to make that face when I don’t even know when I’ll come next?”

When she pretended to be sad as if hurt, Ashites’s disgruntled expression slowly melted away.

“……If it weren’t for work, I would have gone with you.”

“You need to work, Tower Master.”

“Don’t speak formally.”

Ashites took a step forward and slowly embraced her, then sighed deeply. After saying things like he would finish work quickly and come, and to be careful of that emperor bastard, he sent off the carriage carrying Lysith and turned around.

The aide, who glanced at Ashites’s expressionless face that had returned to normal, carefully opened his mouth.

“I’ve put everything in your office, but why such things……”

“Did you search everywhere? Is there anywhere you didn’t look?”

“No, sir.”

“I see.”

It seemed like we might live when the lady was here, but thinking about returning to how it was before almost brought tears to his eyes. It would be different if he hadn’t known peaceful times. The aide unconsciously sighed silently.

More than that, why was someone who originally had no interest in such things suddenly looking for gods or whatever? The aide tilted his head and followed his superior.

* * *

“Hmm……”

“Miss! What are you pondering about!”

“Eve. The decision is up to Miss.”

Of course, she was welcomed back to the mansion by her beloved butler and maids… but there was one more thing that greeted her along with them.

“Should I just read it? At this point, I’m honestly curious.”

“Won’t it be nonsense?”

“Surely not. He is His Highness the Grand Duke, after all.”

Thinking back to their last meeting, it did seem like there might be some nonsense written in it. The fancy silver-foiled envelope in Lysith’s hand fluttered with a rustling sound as she shook it.