The Story Is Not Over Yet

tinued her words with a blushing face, touching the papers in front of her, “No, no.
That day I slept with the window closed… Just in case you came, but it was for nothing.”

“Do you usually sleep with the window open while waiting for me?”

Zagnac’s voice sounded surprised.
At the same time, she was also startled by his surprised voice, and when she turned her head, she saw him with a mischievous look.
Azela frowned and shook her head with a disappointed look.

“No, no.
No way.”

“You said you just slept with the window closed? Then, it makes sense to think that you usually slept with the door open?”

“It meant that it was closed normally and that it was closed that day as well.”

As she answered so, Zagnac shook his head and smiled.
A happy smile was drawn on his face as he clasped his hands and clenched his chin.
At that, Azela cleared her throat and ruffled her well-groomed hair.

“I’ll go through the window today so that waiting doesn’t end in vain.”

“You, you don’t have to… And, right now, I have a few more questions for you.”

“What is it?”

Azela, who was fanning her red face, turned her body and glanced at Zagnac.
He was still smiling in amusement.

“Does my body smell sweet related to you?”

It was a simple question.
However, as soon as the question was finished, she felt the atmosphere quickly freeze.
Azela, startled by the sudden freezing atmosphere, lowered her eyes without realizing it.

Zagnac only smiled, still clutching his chin.
Nonetheless, unlike a while ago, there was no answer.

“Why?”

After a few seconds of silence, he asked a question back instead of an answer.
His purple eyes were dark.
Was it that color originally…? It was dark and dangerous.

“…Because the maids say my body smells sweet.”

“Looks like you’re using good supplies.”

“I have never changed the things I use.
They said it smells like flowers, like alcohol or ripe fruit… because it smells similar to the smell I smelled of you at the party that day.”

“It must be a coincidence.”

Although he was still smiling in that pose, the corners of his smiling lips seemed to be trembling.
Azela smiled unknowingly when Zagnac said it was ‘a coincidence.’ With her sudden smile, he tilted his head and hardened his expression.
His sharp gaze towards her was unfamiliar.

“Why are you smiling?”

“…No, because you used the word ‘coincidence’.”

“….”

“You used to say that everything has a reason, though using the word ‘coincidence’ doesn’t make sense.”

Zagnac did not respond to her sarcastic tone.
It seemed that he was deeply contemplating something, but in the end, he did not give her any explanation or answer.

Azela furrowed her brows as he drew a resolute line that he would not take any further questions.

‘…What did I expect?’

It was just a contract for mutual benefit.
There was nothing more or less between Zagnac and her, except for the contract providing the ‘human energy’ necessary for his life as a condition.

Azela bit her teeth.

He was not kind to her.
He just needed her… He needed human energy and only coveted a sweet soul.
In the end, he only found her for his needs.

Thinking that, she frowned and grabbed the papers on the table.

“…If you don’t want to answer it, you don’t have to.”

“….”

“The contract was made by me, and even if there are side effects from it, I have no intention of blaming you or asking you to take responsibility for it.”

Yes, that was right.
After all, she just gave her body and mind to the devil.

…That was just it.

As she lifted her body up from the sofa she was sitting on, Zagnac just followed her and raised his gaze quietly.

“Still, I would like you to inform me in advance.
It is my responsibility to bear any side effects.”

Azela, who glanced down at Zagnac with a cold gaze, turned her body and grabbed the doorknob of the study.
He still didn’t answer.
Opening the door of the study slightly, she exhaled a short exclamation, ‘Ah,’ before turning her upper body back.

Zagnac’s gaze was still on her back.

“You got along better with Princess Livia than I thought.”

“….”

“If you needed human energy periodically… After your marriage to a human, it wouldn’t be a bad choice to make a contract with her.
It’s legal, and you won’t have to sneak to someone’s bedroom window every night.”