“Take them off!”

“Hurry up!”

I urged Dietrich, who returned back to his room after half a day, but he just smirked.

“It suits you quite well, don’t you think? Why don’t you keep it on forever?”

“You! So, I got punished by you?”

“Hmm.”

Dietrich’s amused face twisted after a moment. He did the same thing like he did in front of me this morning and then took off the chain.

He stood at a distance and looked at me, as if I had done some magic and made him feel uncomfortable.

I didn’t do anything wrong, did I?

Treating me like a criminal was unpleasant, but I endured it since he had just shown me something good.

After a while, Dietrich came back with boxes of all sizes. He brought a table and stacked them on it.

“Look.”

“What’s all this?”

“If you need them, you can take them all.”

“Huh?”

“Weren’t you in need of money? Shouldn’t these be yours to keep?”

What Dietrich laid out in front of me were all sorts of jewelry. There were even items that belonged to the former duchess who was already dead.

I don’t know about the rest, but the blue diamond necklace, earrings, and bracelet set had been described as a treasure that had been in the Beluga family for generations.

By the way, it’s precious stones, not the money that I had asked for.

“Seth won’t give me my money?”

Silence returned.

“You haven’t even asked, right?”

I probed just in case, and it seemed likely to be true because he really winced.

“What, you brought me here on your own accord and you can’t even do such a simple thing?”

The face of the knight commander, who had a harsh mouth but never broke his promises, turned red as if it was going to explode.

“Then let me meet Seth in person.”

“I don’t want to.”

“Why?”

Only silence returned instead of an answer.

“Why on earth would you or Seth want to keep me around?”

“…Because we are curious about you.”

Right, it’s finally time to talk about common sense.

“Now you’ve seen me. Isn’t that the end of it then?”

“…….”

“You said you didn’t want to see me. Am I not someone who makes you uncomfortable?”

“…….”

“So, can I disappear from your life?”

The reason I can escape from this world and return to the original world is because there is a theory related to it in this world, although I haven’t tried it myself.

The heroine from another world initially wants to go back to the world from where she was born and raised in. While describing the heroine, the method of returning to the original world is explained.

In the novel, the world where the heroine lived and this world are of equal dimensions, making it possible to return back.

A world where you can open and close a ‘gate’ to leave. If you find the passage, it’s similar to going next door.

In terms of practicality, it’s something you don’t know until you experience it yourself.

But if a world that I thought was printed exists in reality, and there’s a way to get from here to there, doesn’t it seem likely that it’s also possible that there’s a way to get from one world to another?

“Dietrich?”

You have to go to a place called the ‘end of the world.’ I was working at a general store to earn money to go there…

I’ve been thinking about it, but I know this world is not where I belong.

I am not the one who can save these men.

Although I caused the pain, unfortunately, I cannot take it away. I don’t have the strength or determination to do that.

All I can do is exit this story and wait for the male leads to meet the heroine.

“No.”

Confidently waiting for the other person’s answer, a different sound was heard than expected.

“You can’t go anywhere.”

…Déjà vu?

“I won’t send you anywhere.”

Wait, Dietrich?

You’re not this kind of person.

“You have to stay here. By my side.”

“Now, now, now, wait. You, look at me again!”

Dietrich gritted his teeth. Then, glaring at me, he moved his hand.

“Isn’t it your responsibility since you made me like this?”

Wait a moment, the change in attitude is too fast.

For a minute he got annoyed, the next minute he was begging…?

“Hey, Dietrich. What’s the current year in the imperial calendar?”

This is not a place where a calendar is commonly used, or even understood by the common people.

People live their lives according to the year they were born, but they don’t really recognize what year it is.

When there was a big issue or event of national level, an official would post a notice in the village, or someone like the village head would go around and give guidance.

Dietrich’s condition was terrible, but he was able to answer this.

“It is the 123rd year of the imperial calendar. “

My head spun at the casual date announcement.

The year the heroine appears.

In this place where there are four distinct seasons, the current season is between spring and summer.

“Uh…?”

The heroine should have met the main characters a long time ago. But no one knows the whereabouts of the heroine.

Something is seriously wrong.

“Dietrich!”

I grabbed him by the collar, while he was in the process of composing himself. Something touched my body.

It worried me, but I pretended not to notice.

“Really, didn’t you see her? The woman who captures your gaze. The woman you want to hold, the woman who made your body like this!”

Dietrich gritted his teeth.

“Yes! And it’s, You.”

“Huh?”

“It’s you!”

Brushing off my hand, he stripped off his blue uniform. Picked me up and carried me to the bed, he set me down roughly. After getting on top of me, he shouted as if he was angry.

“You… looking at you has forced me into doing this. In fact, I’ve wanted to hold you since the first moment I saw you.”

Dietrich, who is not the type to gasp as a sword master, breathed heavily.

“I want you.”

…what?

“At first, I was angry at the fact that the unlucky bastard Seth took you away. So, with the intention of giving him a hard time, I snatched you away from him.”

His sapphire-like eyes stared at me without any movement.

“You probably know it better.”

“What?”

“What kind of body I have.”

I turned my head to the side, unable to meet those cold eyes, but a large hand grabbed my chin and forced me to look at him.

“By the way.”

I found myself staring blankly at him.

“The moment I saw you, my body started to heat up. The urge to kill that bastard who monopolized you until now boiled up within me.”

“Dietrich.”

“Even when I went to the palace…….”

His handsome face contorted.

“All I could think about was you.”

“…….”

“I couldn’t stay any longer, not with my body like this.”

That’s why you came home early.

“But you can’t fix it? You are utterly incompetent.”

I had nothing to say because I was stabbed at a painful place.

Dietrich looked down at me, still handsome, but now was not the time to be distracted by his face.

People concluded that Dietrich, who had no interest in the opposite s*x, would never live to see his own future generation. Even the former duke and duchess were crying over it.