In the midst of all this mess, Seth, the person involved, pulled me away to eat.

There’s no way I can eat.

Since the day Seth asked me about my favorite food, dishes that suited my taste kept coming out of his kitchen, but today I couldn’t bring myself to eat anything.

The villainous chancellor merely rummaged through the salad as usual. At most, he might have eaten a small piece of fish?

I wonder what he’s thinking right now.

I set Seth up to be an intelligent character, but I’ve never actually been intelligent, so I don’t know how intelligent people’s brains work.

“So, Master.”

“Mmh?”

“What were you doing with that damn bastard earlier?”

Clink.

Shouldn’t we avoid discussing delicate matters?

I quickly reached for my water glass, but Seth, who had his chin resting on his hand, put the glass away. I choked on a lump in my throat, but he looked at me with an unreadable expression and questioned even further.

“You were planning to abandon me, weren’t you?”

“What nonsense.”

I immediately denied it because if I didn’t have Seth as his ‘Master’, I’d have to become his employee.

He also knew when I was groveling.

I made a gesture for water, but he only asked what he wanted to know. Like he wouldn’t give me water if I didn’t give him the answer he wanted.

“It’s true. So, you’ve been checking the walls every day, right? Were you looking for holes to crawl out of or something?”

“What are you talking about, Seth?”

I felt embarrassed, but I activated my special skill of acting calm. I deliberately moved my eyelids slowly, trying to appear nonchalant as I attempted to move quickly.

“I was thinking about how to change the pattern on the walls because I didn’t like it.”

Taking advantage of Seth’s stillness, I took the glass from his hand. I slowly drank the water to buy time and calm my racing heart.

But I almost spat out the water at his next words.

“Lies.”

I swallowed with difficulty. 

“Why do you conclude that it’s a lie?”

“Master, you’re always scheming to leave me whenever you get the chance.”

What a sharp guy, I must say.

“Hoho, hohoho. What are you talking about?”

“Whenever you’re flustered, Master, you laugh with ‘hoho’.”

I was flustered again, but I pretended not to notice and changed the subject. Maybe now is the chance. It’s a chance to hear what that dark chancellor is planning to do with me!

“Seth, what are you going to do from now on?”

“Huh?”

“You’re supposed to get married and live happily ever after, so you can’t stay with me like this.”

When the heroine shows up, you try hard to be loved by her. Whether it’s kidnapping, confinement, obsession……

As I drank water, I saw a terrifying change in Seth’s face.

Seems like I pressed a switch. It appears I’m the one who made Seth unhappy, after all.

“Uh, Seth. So, what I mean is-“

“–I mean, if I’m not with my master, who am I with?”

“Eh?”

“I’m supposed to live happily together with my master, right?”

His firm tone confused me. It’s impossible that the villainous chancellor is the one who wants to live happily with me, not someone else.

He must have something else up his sleeve.

“The reason you brought me here,” I began, narrowing my eyes and staring at him. “Was it just to live together?”

“Yeah.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re my Master.”

A moment of silence.

Seth was the first to speak.

“Why do you think I went through the trouble of bringing my master here?”

“Why did you do it?”

“What, I thought you already knew the answer, didn’t you?”

“I don’t know, so I’m asking.”

Seth smiled mischievously as he put on a confident expression.

“I want to live with you for a long time, Master.”

‘…..What kind of plan is this to trap someone?’

I am determined, and I will live a long life on my own.

Since I wasn’t sure how much Seth knew about the heroine, I tried to turn the conversation around as much as possible.

“Seth, someone good will appear for you, someone better than me. You still have a lot of life ahead of you, right? Someone will come who can keep you from having nightmares, or who can make you feel good just by being around them.”

“When I see my master, I feel happy. And when I’m with my master, I don’t have nightmares. Didn’t you know?”

I didn’t realize it because I was always tired from wandering around the garden and falling asleep deeply.

A moment later, a servant came and cleared the dishes, setting up the dessert. After the servant left, Seth reached out and took my hand, clasping his fingers around my palm.

His long fingers, devoid of any imperfections, enclosed my hand, and for some reason, my heart was trembling, out of place with the situation.

“Master, look at my face. Hmm?”

“Why?”

“Am I not to your liking, Master?”

“Um, uh?”

“I’m handsome, aren’t I? You like me.”

He definitely heard me muttering about him being handsome. I should have recognized it from the way he kept sticking his face in my face!

“So, what about it?”

“That’s why you should live with me.”

“Um, Seth.”

“What about my body? Isn’t my body to your liking? Master, haven’t you properly seen my body?”

Seth took off his shirt and approached me.

“Oh, my goodness!”

Why is he suddenly doing this? It’s crazy!

I covered my face with my hands and peeked through my fingers at Seth’s upper body.

Wow, who’s the one who set it up to look so lean and muscular?

Oh right, it was me.

“You don’t like a body like this? Huh?”

As Seth pulled the tablecloth away, the dishes on top fell, making a loud noise. Ignoring that, he quickly picked me up and sat me on the table.

“Seth!”

Then he asked a question as he wove his body between my legs.

“Can I see yours down there?”

“No, no, no, no!”

I slid back hesitantly, but he tightly embraced my waist, lifting me up. A round head nestled into my chest.

“Wait.”

I tried to grab his hair, but it was so soft that it kept slipping through my fingers. I tried to push his shoulders, but he didn’t budge an inch.

After settling down, Seth rubbed his face onto my body.

“Seth, ah.”

Seth’s lips grazed my exposed skin, and I grew even more desperate. I felt like things were about to get out of hand. I needed to detach him, but he wouldn’t move.

Whoever set up this unexpectedly strong strength stat, it’s so frustrating! Damn it!

Ugh, that would still be me!

“Pr, preference. It’s about preference!” I finally fumbled out an excuse.

As the movement of his head came to a halt, Seth looked up.

“Is that so?”

“Y, yeah.”

“Just the face?”

“No, the body too.”

“You haven’t seen the lower part yet, so how would you know? Ah, right, my master knows everything.”

Seth’s voice kept dropping lower and lower, and the red alarm went off in my mind like crazy.

Run, run away!

“Of course, I’m quite skilled in that department.”

“…….”

“Aren’t you going to ask me what I mean?”

No, because we all know I shouldn’t ask.

“Oh, does my master already know how I do it?”

I know, but I don’t want to know! I know very well that you are one of the best men in this world, so stop it.

“I may always do things my own way, but I’ll cater to my master.”

I know how skilled your techniques are, so stop it!

“I’ve been holding back since I found out about my master’s existence.”

His mischievous tongue licked his red lips. His narrowed crimson eyes looked at me and smiled.

“Holding back, holding back, and holding back again. I’ve been diligently holding back, thinking about a master whose face I didn’t even know. Don’t you want to ask why?”

No, I don’t.

“Because I want to give myself only to someone special.”

And that special someone is not me!

“For several days and nights, I will spend all my time with that one person.”

Without hesitation, his blurry silhouette raised the hem of my dress. His elegantly long, white fingers slowly glided up my thigh.

“S-s-s-Seth!”

I urgently grabbed his hand and shouted, “Seth, have you seen a beauty?”

Seizing the opportunity as his hand momentarily paused, I blurted out more information.

“Not extraordinarily glamorous, but a beauty! Simple, but undeniably beautiful! A woman who knows she’s beautiful!”

“…Huh?”

“You know, someone who’s beautiful but unremarkable, someone who really catches your eye, someone you can’t stop looking at?”

I rambled on about the heroine that Seth should be attracted to.

“Are you talking about you, master?”

No!

His hand began moving again.

“If you want to find that person, you need to give me an exact description. Hair and eye color. Height and body type.”

I don’t know, I really don’t.

I was so focused on describing the men, I’d just written the heroine as beautiful!

“Anyway, bringing up someone else while being in front of me, that’s definitely something the master would do.”

Seth ‘s eyes turned into crescent moons as he gently chuckled.

“It’s annoying enough that insignificant people are eyeing the master, and now the master is mentioning someone else besides me? Hmph, I’ll make sure you only think of me.”

I could just enjoy it by looking at his face, but his hand touching my body triggered an urgent alarm.

When his fingers, which were gliding on the outside of my thigh, slipped further and began caressing my asscheek, it was absolutely not the time to hesitate and analyze the situation.

I had been careful not to recite the plot of this novel or provoke Seth unnecessarily by mentioning it, but if I kept my mouth shut, I would be in big trouble.

“Seth, you have a destined partner!”

Finally, the hand gripping below my waist stopped, and I desperately blurted out, determined to detach him completely.

Although the female protagonist touching Seth’s ear did pique his interest, the real reason was elsewhere.

‘Seth Milan fell in love with the heroine at first sight.’

That’s why he didn’t kill her when she touched his ear.

“Somebody who will love you, and someone you will come to love.”

His irises slightly widened.

“A very cheerful, positive person who’s never sad, a very loving person.”

“…….”

“Soon, that person will appear, Seth. So please wait a little longer.”

The hand gripping my flesh loosened. Good, is the persuasion starting to work?

“I don’t know about something like that.”

My hopes were immediately shattered.

Seth’s red lips twisted upward.

“I’ve already decided that my destined partner is my master, so I don’t need anyone else.”

Once he makes up his mind like this, ruthlessly pushing forward is Seth’s personality.

Why is this madman so needlessly stubborn?

Oh yeah, because I stupidly made him that way.

“Seth, Seth–”

“It’s nice of you to call me by my first name, but don’t try to get away with it.”

“That’s not it, the table is for eating, so you can’t sit on it.”

I started to try to convince him otherwise.

“Aha.”

His affectionate snort gave me chills.

“So, what you’re saying is, you don’t want to sit on the table?”

Huh?

“Okay, let’s go to our room.”

Huh?

“You know, master? It’s even better during the day.”

What, what is?

“I’ll make you lose track of time…”

As someone who values each day, I’ll pass on that!

“Wa-wa-wait!”

Moving to the bedroom with incredible efficiency, Seth walked up to the bed and laid me down. Then pinned his body on top of mine.

“My master, what would you like?”