Don't Be Kind Rashly (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 109

Since His Imperial Majesty had arrived, Lu, who had been slowly rising from the sofa, paused briefly in thought and then slowly nodded her head a couple of times.

“Oh.”

Had Cedric Lambert come to see him? Various idle thoughts floated lightly through her drowsy mind. Did even such a trivial piece of news—that she’d had a visitor—reach His Imperial Majesty? Was it because she was still a young Sage?

“Is that all? Just ‘Oh,’ and that’s it?”

Hayden, who had been striding freely through the Ashelot Palace in a loose robe, gently pressed Lu back down onto the sofa as she tried to stand. Then he himself sat atop the table, facing her.

“I came here absolutely furious, and all I get is a single ‘Oh’?”

“Why are you so furious…?”

Utterly exasperated, Lu murmured weakly and slumped back onto the sofa.

“Marriage proposals have even come up—why would you think I wouldn’t care, Lu?”

Hayden, who had closed the distance between them the moment he approached without maintaining any proper social space, asked softly.

He reached out and began carefully gathering the unraveled curse that had spread up to her forearm. Lu, gazing blankly at him, suddenly pressed her forehead against his unusually broad, perfectly shaped shoulder. Hayden froze for an instant.

“Well… I have no reason to accept that marriage… Though I suppose it would still bother you.”

Under Hayden’s hands, the curse began to be neatly tidied away once more.

“…I think I need to take off some clothes.”

“Mm.”

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