What should I do? I can’t look straight at that man’s face.

Originally, Irene had difficulty looking at people’s faces, but it became even more challenging due to what happened last night.

Irene hoped Carlos would leave now, but unfortunately, he seemed to have no intention of leaving.

However, she couldn’t dare to ask him to leave, especially with Duke Esper’s presence.

If this weren’t her bedroom, she could have made an excuse to escape.

Even that was an impossible situation, so Irene couldn’t do anything but lower her head.

Please, anyone, just save me.

At that moment when Irene fervently wished, there was a knock.

Tap, tap.

“Are you awake, my lady?”

Jessie’s voice poured into the dim world like a beam of light.

Irene, as if asking when she’d die, smiled brightly and raised her head.

“…….”

Carlos, dismissing such Irene, answered Jessie, saying it was fine for her to come in.

After polite greetings to Carlos and Irene, Jessie asked, “How would you like to have breakfast?”

“Eat it here.”

“What?”

Yes, have breakfast here? Irene reacted with surprise, and Carlos turned to her with a puzzled look.

“What’s the problem?”

“…….”

Unable to say, “It’s awkward to eat while looking at the Duke’s face,” Irene just closed her mouth.

Carlos casually turned his head.

“If there’s no problem, have breakfast here.”

Before having breakfast, Irene thought she should wash and change clothes, so she moved to the dressing room with Jessie.

As soon as the door to the dressing room closed, Irene grabbed Jessie’s arm and asked, “What’s going on? Why can’t I remember anything after eating the red fruit? Was it poisonous? But Jessie said it was okay to eat. Moreover, why did His Grace sleep here?”

The last question she already knew the answer to, but due to her hasty questions, it came out together.

Understanding Irene’s reaction, Jessie lightly smiled and held her hands.

“I’ll explain everything, so please calm down, miss.”

“…….”

“Shall we change clothes first? I’ll explain while you change.”

Helping Irene change into a new dress, Jessie detailed what happened yesterday.

Of course, she didn’t mention things Irene shouldn’t know, like Allegria being a fruit of the underworld.

She also didn’t reveal that Abel knew Irene would end up like this and intentionally fed her Allegria.

Carlos had told her not to say anything.

This kind of problem needed to be explained so that Irene could be cautious and careful around Abel.

Although she was curious why she shouldn’t say, she faithfully followed the Lord’s command.

“……I don’t know why the master slept in the lady’s room.”
Jessie tied the strap of Irene’s dress and began speaking.

“After organizing the situation and returning to the bedroom, both of you were already sleeping on the same bed.”

The same bed.

The word had such a tremendous impact that all the information heard earlier seemed to evaporate.

As expected, Irene’s face turned red as memories of her actions from last night resurfaced.

Even if she wasn’t in her right mind, she couldn’t believe she had done such a thing.

She wished she couldn’t remember at all, feeling so vividly that she wanted to stick her nose into the hot water and die.

Fortunately, the only solace in her misfortune was that Carlos knew she wasn’t in her right mind.

So he probably treated me calmly as if nothing had happened.

“…….”

But I can’t do the same. Irene sighed deeply, covering her face with her hands.

It was embarrassing enough just thinking about Carlos’s face; there was no way she could face him as if nothing had happened.

And she had to face him and have breakfast in this situation.

“I want to run away.”

“What?”

When Jessie, surprised to hear the sincere expression she unconsciously let out, looked at her, Irene awkwardly smiled and lowered her head.

“It’s nothing.”

While Irene changed clothes, Carlos also changed.

“…….”

Standing behind the screen, Carlos hesitated not just to take off his pants.

The transparent left leg had returned to its original state.

It could be naturally due to a long time passing, and his strength naturally recovered, or maybe not.

He, the person involved, knew it wasn’t that simple.

Unknowingly, it seemed he had absorbed her power in his sleep.

“…….”

Carlos blushed even to his ears, recalling Irene who had been staring at him in bewilderment.

There didn’t seem to be any pain or visible issues.

If there were, he might have fallen into self-reproach, but fortunately, that wasn’t the case.

Carlos sighed deeply and moved his left leg.

When the leg was transparent, he had to rely on the shadow to move, but now that it had returned to normal, he could move it freely.

However, after a long time, it felt a bit awkward to move.

It was like moving someone else’s leg rather than his own.

Carlos moved his leg in various ways, as if doing rehabilitation.

“Shall I help you change into your clothes, Your Grace?”

Dewey, who had been waiting outside the screen, asked when Carlos didn’t come out.

“…I’ll be out soon.”