“What are you looking at?”

“I am looking at you.”

I responded back with a smile to the questioning gaze.

“Your good looks naturally catch my eye.”

Dietrich’s cheeks flushed. However, his red lips spat out harsh words.

“Do you even have a brain? Do you call every other guy you meet as handsome?”

“I always call a handsome man handsome, what’s wrong with that?”

Hehe, his ears turned red again.

While grumbling, Dietrich prepared to retort, but I interjected him with a request.

“Contact Seth and inform him to give me my money.”

“Money?”

“Yes, my money, a hundred gold coin.”

I don’t know why Dietrich brought me along, but let’s get the money back first.

Based on his reaction last night, I don’t think he’s going to explain everything he knows to me. So I have to provoke him a little bit.

Something like that happened yesterday, and when Dietrich spoke to him, Seth’s reaction was not very favorable. If he gets upset, Dietrich will say something to me.

Wouldn’t that give me something to speculate about?

“Are you sure? I mean I can give you that myself… Can’t I?”

“No, I want ‘my’ money back.”

My goal is to get Dietrich to talk to Seth, so I cut him off.

Certainly, Seth will irritate Dietrich, and with that irritation, he might reveal something to me.

“If you need money, I can provide it. Is there anything else you need besides money?”

“No. And that money is the fair compensation for my labor.”

“Labor?”

A wrinkle appeared on his smooth forehead.

“Did he make you do something? Did he make you work?”

“Not like that, it was related to a previous incident… Um, it might take a while to explain. Don’t you have to go to the imperial palace?”

Dietrich, who strictly adhered to palace hours, had no choice but to leave.

When the room owner, who was a sword master and had keen ears, disappeared, I counted to thirty. And opened the door.

Okay, escaping right now might not be an option, but I need to secure an escape route.

The opponent is Dietrich, so it wouldn’t be too difficult…

“Aaaahhhhhh!”

Dietrich, looking at me with a disdainful gaze, was right in front of the door.

“I knew you’d do something like this.”

He stepped back into the room, looked at me, and smirked before closing the door. I didn’t dare to go out again.

A moment later, the door opened, and the owner appeared, holding something in his hand.

I couldn’t make out what it was, but a sense of foreboding made me back away.

But before I could do anything about it, Dietrich strode over and stuffed something onto my ankle.

Clank.

“…..What is this?”

“I don’t want you to run away while I’m gone.”

With a very nonchalant, no, expressionless face, he shackled my right ankle to the bedpost.

“Dietrich!”

“They’re long enough. I made sure they’re long enough to get you all the way around this room.”

“But the toilet!”

“You can easily go to the bathroom too. There won’t be any problems with washing either.”

I know it looks like that, but I’m protesting. Unfortunately, the man with the navy-blue hair brushed past my intentions.

“If going to the bathroom feels burdensome, we can make arrangements for you to do your business in the room-“

“I don’t need that!”

I sat down on the bed, not bothering to argue with him anymore. Ironically, despite the circumstances, the feel of the bed and the blanket was quite pleasant.

Dietrich continued his explanation, still with an impassive tone.

“Above all, these chains are specially processed with adamantium, so they are very light. Therefore, it won’t be a burden on your ankles.”

Speaking of adamantium, it is a rare ore that can even cut diamonds. His sword is also made of adamantium.

In other words, it means, don’t even think about breaking it and running away.

He raised and lowered my right foot. If not for the slight coldness, I wouldn’t have noticed that there was something like this on my ankle.

“You, you, you! What is this?”

I moved my foot, pointing to a specific part of Dietrich’s body.

And then…….

“Damn it.”

Dietrich bit his protruding lower lip. He moved slowly, as he was no longer flustered.

“I’ll get it for you!”

When I handed him a dry towel, there was a resigned look in Dietrich’s cold eyes.

For now, he had to get to the imperial palace, so he unbuckled his c*ck and wrapped the dry towel around it.

“Haa……”

Although his face showed his youth, he was a good-looking man.

“Huh…?”

Yesterday, Dietrich couldn’t meet my eyes, but now he was staring directly at me. There was still a chill in his gaze, but he was looking straight into my eyes.

I felt a chill that was running down my spine.

It was as if he was entering into me.

I flinched, but my opponent continued his actions without any hesitation. When I turned my head away, a cold voice hit my ears.

“You should look at it straight. After all, it’s you who made me like this.”

Slowly, without breathing, I faced him. I felt like I could hear a creaking sound in my neck.

A creepy feeling crawled up my spine, and I curled up my body. I brought my legs together and raised my knees.

Occasional moans escaped from between Dietrich’s pale red lips. Somehow, it felt like he wasn’t going to hide it, and my mouth felt dry.

It was much longer than yesterday.

My body felt hot.

I couldn’t breathe until Dietrich finished arranging his clothes back again.

Despite being a knight captain who strictly followed the working hours like a clock, his movements were unusually slow today. As if this moment was the most important one for him.

When I slowly opened my eyes, I saw a pair of blue eyes staring at me arrogantly.

I changed the topic, slightly avoiding the eyes that resembled the color of the deep sea.

My voice was subtly trembling.

“If there’s a woman who catches your eye, remember her well. It would be good to know her name and where she lives.”

“I will remove your chains when I return.”

Without responding to my words, Dietrich left.

I counted to thirty again and I opened the door.

No, I tried to open it.

“This bastard has locked the door from the outside!”

I never described Dietrich as a master of confinement!

I take it back; I thought Dietrich was sane. But he is a true madman.

I walked around the room searching for something thin like a wire.

Luckily, I found a pen on the desk and used it to poke into the keyhole, but there was no sign of it unlocking.

As I lay on the bed, I could see the ceiling that I hadn’t seen last night. I cast my gaze on that ceiling.

“It’s fascinating.”

Dietrich made the ceiling of glass, in case of any possible assassin’s attack. He designed it like this to check who was nearby when he opened his eyes.

Each time I confirmed something I had described with my own eyes, my heart wavered. Should I just stay here?

At least, to see the end of what I’ve written and left?

“But the more I stay here, the more it seems to go wrong, doesn’t it?”

I already know that this story has deviated from its intended course.

And the cause for this change is me.

As I watched Seth who was getting a good night’s sleep, I felt proud that I was playing a positive role.

I felt like I was taking an unfortunate character out of his misery, at least a little.

But when I looked at Dietrich today, I knew something was wrong with him. His body reactions, like yesterday and today, shouldn’t happen to anyone other than the heroine.

As I kept thinking about it, a sudden surge of anxiety crept in within me.

“But where is the heroine…?”