Reniel couldn’t understand what this situation was about. The slippery sensation exploring her lips was very unfamiliar.

It was a novel pleasure incomparable to Felix’s occasional playful bites and releases.

Her body trembled more at realizing his strong arms were now embracing her.

She gently opened her eyes, but couldn’t see well, perhaps because they were wet.

However, even in that blur, Felix’s bright red eyes stood out clearly.

She thought his eyes looked like red diamonds.

Soon her vision cleared with a sigh. Then she could see more clearly how he was looking down at her.

Every time their noses touched, his ticklish breath was wetting her lungs.

She turned her head to move away from his mesmerizing eyes. He followed in pursuit, entangling her. As if to prevent her from escaping.

This situation where she couldn’t move as she wished, like a controlled marionette, was very embarrassing and shameful.

Her ears were hot and her throat dry, causing her to keep swallowing.

Her head was becoming fuzzy.

That strange wet sound she was hearing for the first time seemed to be the culprit making her mind dizzy and confused.

Yet when he moved roughly, she wondered if his intense movements might be another culprit.

She was now completely dominated by Felix, who was pinning her down as if to prevent her from escaping, interlocking their fingers.

If she gripped his hand in fear, it looked like she was clinging to him, and if she turned her head, he invaded deeper to share her breath.

Her heart was pounding wildly as if very pleased by his actions.

Although this act was unfamiliar and frightening to her, looking into Felix’s eyes, she didn’t think it was such a wrong thing to do.

Felix was the largest and most handsome person she had ever seen.

His large build made her wonder if it wasn’t a bear on top of her.

But his appearance wasn’t cute or dull at all, so she thought it might be unfair to bears to call him that.

“Thinking of other things during a kiss.”

Felix suddenly separated as if he had read her thoughts.

“When I’m, out of breath, strange thoughts, come to mind.”

Reniel was speaking her mind freely, perhaps because she had just regained her breath after being suffocated.

He remained still, continuing to look at her.

Reniel knew this was an absurd situation and something that shouldn’t be done in the workplace.

“… Are you going to do it again?”

Yet she also thought it didn’t matter since she was going to run away soon anyway. Besides, Felix was now not in his right mind, intoxicated by sleep.

What surprised Reniel was that Felix kissed her more tenderly than expected, and that he was smiling leisurely as if he would stop anytime if she resisted.

But she knew. That his eyes were already out of their right mind. And that abnormal gaze didn’t seem to be just because he was sleepwalking.

She judged that she might be experiencing these side effects because she had deviated from the original work.

In the original, he was homosexual. And Felix in his right mind also seemed homosexual, being more favorable to her male self.

She thought that perhaps his unconscious was accepting her as a man now, allowing him to kiss her. The Felix she had observed was definitely homosexual.

No matter if there was an assassin’s ambush, if he liked women, it didn’t make sense that he had no maids all this time and reacted with disgust whenever he saw women.

And considering he even framed her for stealing something when he thought her true appearance was a dream, he might have been trying to find and kill her, thinking she was a female assassin.

As that thought occurred to her, she felt bitter.

Once she left, Thanasis and Felix would end up together anyway.

Her first kiss, second kiss, and judging by his actions, her third kiss too.

In reality, it probably wasn’t that meaningful to Felix.

She tightly closed her mouth.

“What are you doing?”

“My lord, you’re too heavy. My ribs might break.”

“I’m trying not to put my full weight on you.”

“My goodness. This isn’t your full weight? I can’t breathe because my chest is so compressed.”

Felix then lifted his body slightly. It definitely became easier to breathe.

Reniel seized the opportunity to speak to the flustered Felix.

“My lord, I’m a servant who prepares your bed, not one who shares it with you.”

“… I know.”

Felix was about to say something more but then sighed and traced her lips with his thumb.

“Did it upset you?”

She didn’t know how to answer that question.

Although she could speak her mind since she was about to quit, if Felix used to be 100 percent scary before, he was now 90 percent scary…

In fact, the kiss itself was very pleasant.

What upset her was that it was obviously only special to her.

“… I don’t know.”

She said that and pushed Felix’s chest. Somehow, he moved away quite easily.

“Please go to sleep now. I’m tired.”

He seemed flustered but slowly began to lower his body as she said. But at that moment.

“What’s this?”

When the bite marks on her neck became visible under her shirt, Felix roughly grabbed her clothes as if to tear them off.

Reniel looked at him in shock at the sudden rough handling.

Then she realized. The person who had persistently bitten that area was Thanasis.

He wanted to leave marks…!

“Answer me.”

Reniel vividly witnessed Felix’s eyes, which had been listening to her words just moments ago, once again losing reason as they filled with madness and anger.

She sensed danger.

Seeing the veins bulging on his jaw, she began to fear him 100 times, no, 1000 times more now.

Her chest was pounding, and she could hear her heartbeat racing out of sync with her breathing.

“Ah, is this why kissing me wasn’t great? Because there’s already someone you’re doing it with? A man? A woman? Tell me who it is.”

What would happen if she said “man” and mentioned Thanasis?

She imagined it for a very brief moment. Then they might try to kill each other as in the original story. She would surely die in the process too.

She didn’t want to die like this when she was so close to escaping the original story.

But if she said it was a woman, there was no one she could name.

To begin with, all the women Reniel was close to were servants who feared their superiors.

They were not at all the type of people who would leave bite marks on her neck.

“Reniel.”

Reniel felt her liver shrink as she heard Felix grinding his teeth with a ‘crunch’. Perhaps that’s why a lie flowed out without her realizing it.

“Y-you did it, my lord!”

“… What?”

She punched his shoulder, pretending to be upset to act innocent. But her cotton fist couldn’t possibly hurt him.

“You don’t remember again? Again?”

“… I did?”

“Forget it! Move aside.”

As she struck his shoulder again, he gently grabbed her wrist and said,

“I apologize.”

“… Pardon?”

“It hasn’t been long since I quit the medicine, so my memory is spotty. I apologize for that part.”

Reniel was surprised that he apologized so easily, but she also pointed out that he was still pinning down her limbs as if to restrain her.

“Have you forgotten that I said you were heavy too?”

“No. This is because I think you might run away.”

“Oh my goodness.”

She sighed and shook her head.

“I’m really tired.”

“Be careful.”

“Please go to sleep now, my lord.”

“If you swear you won’t run away.”

She wondered if he could read minds, but then thought it wouldn’t be difficult to say such things when they would part ways soon anyway, so she looked into his eyes and said,

“When have I ever run away?”

“You’ve run away every time.”

“I’ll always be by your side whenever you look for me, my lord. So please let go now. I’m a bit angry at the moment.”

“If you’re angry, then be angry. You can hit me, bite me, despise me.”

“… Really?”

She looked at him as if asking if he really meant it.

“Yes.”

Perhaps because she had been afraid of him all this time, those words were quite comforting.

Even though it was obvious he would think he was dreaming.

“But don’t run away. I want to kill everyone who shows me their back.”

“I won’t say it, then.”

As Reniel gently pulled her arm from his grasp, he let go.

Resigned, Reniel embraced his head.

He hugged her waist and then rested his ear against her chest, closing his eyes as if about to fall asleep.

“Don’t show me your back, Reniel.”

“… You’ve seen my back often.”

“Don’t betray me. Don’t leave me either.”

Reniel found it strangely difficult to answer, feeling too guilty about why he was asking such things today.

“I might run away if you forget that you bit me too.”

“Then I might leave bite marks all over your body. So I won’t forget again.”

“Shouldn’t you normally say you won’t forget?”

“Do I look normal to you?”

“… Not really.”

But when he laid his ear on her chest and looked up at her, she found herself saying,

“I won’t leave you, my lord. So please sleep.”

However, she planned to deceive Felix and leave this place that afternoon.

“Promise me.”

“Alright.”

She said that while stroking Felix’s hair.

The sleep-intoxicated Felix also gently stroked her long hair.

As he was falling asleep, she sighed and put on the ring she had picked up.