In response to Klaus’s statement, Roselia’s gaze unconsciously turned towards Johannes.

However, contrary to the expected confusion, he had a calm expression even though Klaus referred to her as Roselia while talking about Antonio’s condition.

While Johannes was staring at Klaus with puzzlement, he blocked Klaus’s path.

“Let me talk to her first.”

Seeing Johannes looking at Klaus with curiosity, Klaus wrinkled his impression.

“Do you happen to know?”

When Johannes silently looked at him without answering, Klaus spoke with a deeply sinking voice.

“I’m asking if you knew that Antonio is Roselia.”

Even with Klaus’s strong reaction, Johannes calmly observed Roselia’s expression.

It seems that Roselia, who mimicked a man, has been exposed to the Duke.

He sighed and spoke calmly.

“Lafellios’s blood relatives can distinguish each other by scent.”

“……?”

“Yes?”

Both Roselia and Klaus questioned with puzzled expressions at Johannes’s calm voice.

While looking at them, Johannes smiled bitterly.

“First, let’s have a drink and talk.”

Seated at the table with an unpleasant expression, Klaus and Johannes, who sat across from Roselia, calmly began to speak.

“The scent of blood relatives is similar to the fatal pheromones to the opposite sex. It’s even more challenging for blood relatives who are sensitive to scents not to recognize that intense scent.”

Upon Johannes’s calm explanation about the secret of the scent, Roselia’s face reddened as she had acted foolishly in front of him without knowing the secret.

Did he know from the beginning? How pitifully did he think of her?

While looking at her, Johannes, who smiled gently, spoke calmly.

“The pheromone scent of blood relatives is several times stronger in females than in males. That’s why in the history of Lafellios, blood relatives’ women were always involved in the center of politics and wars. Roselia is also a blood relative woman, so her pheromone scent is several times stronger than mine.”

Remembering the night he couldn’t regain consciousness just by the scent emanating from Roselia, Klaus mumbled quietly.

“As expected… Was that scent during the Reformation because of that…”

At Klaus’s muttered question, Johannes’s expression stiffened for a moment.

“…? Did you ignore my words and enter the room during the Reformation?”

At Johannes’s cold question, Klaus, feeling a slight prick, cleared his throat.

“At that time, the situation was urgent, so I had no choice.”

Meanwhile, Roselia, with an expression indicating she didn’t understand what they were talking about, alternately looked at Johannes and Klaus.

Sensing her gaze, Klaus, making an effort to avoid her gaze, was stared at by Johannes, who then opened his mouth.
“Was there nothing during the Reformation?”

The fact that Johannes asked about that night itself seemed uncomfortable, and Klaus, also feeling uneasy, stared at him with a cold gaze.

“Do I have to talk about that?”

Johannes, facing Klaus’s confident gaze, had a hunch that Klaus wouldn’t have done anything foolish to Roselia, who was not in her right mind.

Moreover, judging by the fact that Roselia’s fragrance was not in full bloom, it seemed that such a suspicious incident had not occurred.

As Johannes thought to that extent, he looked at Klaus unexpectedly.

To be able to maintain composure even after smelling Roselia’s fragrance during the Reformation, Johannes thought it was worth acknowledging at least in terms of mental strength.

While Johannes was re-evaluating Klaus, who was suspiciously looking at Roselia and him, Klaus, who had been glancing at the relationship between Johannes and Roselia, suspiciously asked a question.

“More importantly… Are you two really just close relatives?”

Roselia, who already knew the revealed truth, silently bowed her head. Johannes, looking at her as if finding her cute, replied bluntly to Klaus.

“It seems you already knew.”

With that one sentence, everything was implied, and Klaus muttered a curse under his breath.

“Damn it, no wonder, no matter how much I investigated Lord Yukiliod, there was no talk about an intimate relationship… Then, what is the relationship between you two?”

In response to Klaus’s words, Johannes, smiling calmly, looked at Roselia.

His gaze seemed somewhat tender, making Klaus feel uncomfortable.

“First of all… let’s say we’re distant relatives.”

“Distant relatives?”

Roselia had to keep her relationship with Lord Yukiliod a secret for the time being. In the current situation where there might be an attack on Lord Yukiliod anytime, she couldn’t involve herself. Moreover, being born with the strong fragrance of the Lafellios bloodline, she was even more…

While Johannes was having such thoughts, Klaus, whose answer was ambiguous, looked at Johannes suspiciously. Catching his gaze, Johannes, still gazing at Roselia, turned the topic in an elegant manner.

“Rather than that, didn’t you say there was something you were curious about regarding my bloodline?”

“That…,”