He wakes up in the morning, does light exercise, washes up, goes to have an early breakfast, and then goes to work.

This pattern didn’t match Serena’s at all.

Because Serena plays under the covers until dawn, sleeps, wakes up around noon, eats breakfast-slash-lunch, washes up out of conscience, lies down all day, has dinner, and then sleeps again.

It means that one of them is bound to be extremely frustrated due to how poorly they match each other.

“Why?”

“Because you’re too diligent and I’m not?”

“It doesn’t matter. As long as you wake up and eat breakfast on time.”

“That’s what I’m saying, your breakfast time is too early.”

Magnus opened the door and entered with her.

Serena’s eyes widened slightly at the faint heavy wood scent.

The room decorated in low-saturation navy tones was as calm as his exterior.

Except for the large bed, the room only contained a small desk for handling documents, a table near the window seemingly for drinking, and a bookshelf.

‘It’s as bleak a room as mine.’

Serena thought as she rolled her eyes.

“I think it’s my first time coming to this room.”

“…Is that so? Well, you hated even touching me.”

“Hmm.”

“I didn’t know it was because you were shy. Is this what they call… hating something because it’s too good?”

What the hell are you talking about, you fool.

Serena frowned. She couldn’t understand at all.

It had always been like this. Even when they’re together, Magnus has his own world.

Of course, Serena herself was the same, but she was the only one who didn’t realize it.

“Pamel will bring all the necessary things for now. The arrangement should be done by tomorrow.”

“…Are we really going to share? Won’t it be uncomfortable to share your room after using it alone all this time?”

Black Rabbit was entering through the slightly open door with sad eyes.

“……”

Serena turned her gaze away from the rabbit trudging in.

“Yes, it’s fine.”

“…I might be uncomfortable too.”

“Are you uncomfortable?”

“No, I don’t know… I’ve never slept with anyone before.”

She has a lot of experience sleeping in one room with many people.

They used to sleep in their own blankets, closing their eyes amidst all kinds of sleeping habits of numerous children.

Serena thought, recalling a quite old memory.

“Then who knows, unexpectedly, it might be fine.”

“……”

“Serena.”

“Y-yes.”

Magnus sat Serena on the bed and knelt on one knee.

“I love you.”

“……”

Serena’s face turned bright red.

Seeing this, Magnus felt a bit strange.

‘So this is how it looks when one can’t control their emotions.’

It was the same when he asked to be friends before, and it’s the same now.

Magnus felt newly strange as he looked at Serena, who couldn’t even pull her hand away or raise her head to meet his eyes.

‘Looking like this, she really is just an ordinary woman.’

It feels strange to think that he once thought she was vicious.

“That……”

Serena opened her mouth with a choked voice after a while.

Carefully raising her head, her cheeks and eyes were so red that anyone would think she had been crying.

“Can’t you… not do that?”

“Why?”

“Because I feel strange every time you say that…… I won’t divorce you even if you don’t say it.”

Magnus chuckled at those words that sounded like she was trying to make a deal.

Then he shook his head.

“I don’t want to.”

“Why?”

“Drukan told me to say ‘I love you’ to you often. I’m just doing as he said.”

“Drukan……”

Serena gritted her teeth with a face full of betrayal.

To stab her in the back like this.

In this world, everyone is really just an enemy.

“Of course, I’m not lying.”

Magnus added one more sentence.

Serena’s face now puffed up like an apple. Magnus took a deep breath as he quietly looked at her appearance with flushed eyes.

She tried to twist her wrist to pull it out.

“Serena.”

“What now……”

This time Serena didn’t meet his gaze.

‘So she can’t meet my eyes when I call her name while facing her like this.’

It means that being called by name is very unfamiliar to her.

“Can I kiss you?”

And Magnus was now overwhelmed with the urge to kiss her.

He wanted to devour all the warm flowers blooming on her reddened face.

Even though he knew they wouldn’t fade but rather spread more.

“W-what are you saying!”

Serena shuddered in surprise.

“I want to kiss you.”

Saying so, Magnus, still kneeling on one knee, leaned his body a bit more towards her.

Slowly, from bottom to top, he brought his face closer.

So that the frightened beast wouldn’t run away.

“If you really don’t want to, you can say no.”

He could hear her breathing becoming rapid, but that was all. There was no hand pushing him away.

At that, Magnus lifted his upper body and kissed Serena.

He bit her lips once, which were clumsily blushing red.

“Mmm……”

Serena seemed unfamiliar.

Her movements were clumsy, and she couldn’t control her breathing properly, so he often had to separate their lips to let her breathe.

Magnus stretched out his arms to wrap around her waist and laid Serena down on the bed.

He kissed her while trapping her between his arms with bulging veins.

After sharing breaths for a long time, Magnus slowly pulled his lips away.

In Serena’s appearance, panting and gasping for breath, there was no trace of the times when she was called a villainess or a madwoman.

There was only a lovely woman who didn’t know what to do because everything was so unfamiliar, covering her eyes with her hands, her face dyed bright red.

“Did you dislike it?”

Magnus asked carefully.

Although he had learned some theory during his childhood education, it was his first time actually doing it too.

“…It was… good. Why are you so good at it?”

Serena asked.

How could someone who didn’t even know about sharing a bed and proudly said it was natural to share a room be so good at this?

Serena had a somewhat disbelieving look.

“So you’ve done it with other women……”

“…I haven’t.”

Magnus answered with a quite displeased face.

Serena pressed her lips together and nodded at that expression.

“Noble families receive this kind of education from the beginning.”

Hmm, I don’t think I received that.

Well, I left before coming of age, so there’s no way I could have received it.

‘Then did the person who illegally entered my body receive it?’

She could understand a little bit why she became violent.

“And I… because of the risk of rampage, I had to learn better how to control my strength and emotions.”

“Ah……”

Well, you shouldn’t hurt your partner during the act.

“You’ve been through a lot.”

Serena said so while rubbing her eyes with the back of her hand.

Maybe because her back was touching the bed, she felt sleepy.

“If you’re going to sleep, you should take off your outdoor clothes.”

“Mmm……”

Her eyes were closing drowsily.

“Hey, Serena…? Haah……”

She heard Magnus sigh.

Serena just closed her eyes. Because she could just change clothes tomorrow morning.

If she woke up in the middle of sleep feeling hot, she could just take them off then.

So Serena just slept.

“……”

Magnus’s expression as he looked down at her distorted slightly, but then he faintly smiled seeing her sleeping like a child, breathing heavily.

‘Is this the first time that she’s acting so defenseless?’

He reached out and carefully brushed away her pink hair that had fallen.

Lovely.

He was enveloped in a strange feeling at this newly arising thought.

Because her outdoor dress looked quite uncomfortable, he carefully undressed her.

She was wearing a camisole underneath, so he left that alone and slowly took off her shoes, placing them under the bed.

He carefully lifted her into his arms and laid her on the bed, covering her with the blanket, and Serena naturally curled up into a ball.

She looked like a child with nowhere to lean on. Like a bird left alone in an empty nest, curling up small due to loneliness, overwhelmed by the too-large nest.

“……”

That appearance looked particularly small, so he reached out and stroked Serena’s hair once.

Knock knock.

He answered softly when he heard a knock, and Pamel came in. It seemed he had brought the necessary things, but she was already asleep.

When he pressed his index finger to his lips and gestured with his eyes, Pamel quickly arranged the necessary things and slipped out.

Magnus also came out after taking a light shower.

He got on the bed with his upper body bare and laid down under the covers.

The bed, which was always cold when first getting in, was warm because someone had already warmed it up.

“…It’s really strange.”

It’s a different feeling from when he slept with his parents in childhood.

‘Drukan’s words weren’t wrong.’

Although he had been doubtful.

He didn’t know she would feel the same way.

Magnus nodded quite proudly, caught up in his own delusion.

If Serena had heard, she would have snorted in disbelief and said it wasn’t true.

It was when he had just closed his eyes.

She, who had been curled up in a ball, slowly crept into his arms, seeking warmth.

“…Ah.”

Serena, who had come closer, buried her face in his chest like a child in his arms and breathed lightly.

The problem was that breath.

It was a problem that her breath touched his chest every time she breathed.

“……”

Magnus didn’t have much memory of being aroused by women.

In the first place, he was married, so he didn’t pay attention to other women at all, and his relationship with his wife Serena was almost the worst.

There were physiological phenomena, but that was all.

“…This is maddening.”

He tried to think of other things while hugging Serena, who was sleeping comfortably like a child seeking warmth.

It was because he was more instinctive than he thought.

‘…It’s fine.’

Magnus decided to try to endure his desire.

He quite liked that Serena was defenseless in his arms.

Magnus was a person honest with his emotions.

“……”

And his body was also quite faithful to desire.