‘Don’t come at dawn anymore. It’s bothersome.’

Ianathas, who had been reporting at the same time every day for almost 5 years due to Felix’s orders, was now banned from entering the duke’s residence at dawn.

He had to check if Felix was alright around 5 o’clock, avoiding 3 o’clock when Felix’s madness was at its peak.

Among those skilled in stealth, none were as excellent as Ianathas.

Above all, since there had always been assassins targeting his lord, he stood guard near the mansion.

However, for an additional 5 years, whoever the assassin was, they were torn apart by Felix’s hands faster. And his lord was someone who never moved outside the third floor.

Although recently he seemed to go up to the fifth floor as well, originally he never went to other floors when he moved after falling asleep.

He would roam around the third floor to his heart’s content, and when it became 5 AM, he would return to his room, and soon at 6 AM, he would lie on the bed with a blank stare into space.

In reality, it was clear that he had blocked his consciousness and left only his subconscious due to the side effects of drugs, but for Felix who couldn’t sleep at all, even that was a precious time.

“Kyaaah!”

Thud!

Just as he was about to sink into contemplation, he frowned at the sudden scream of a woman.

“Kyaak! Look at this!”

Thud! Rustle rustle!

“Ahaha!”

“Kyak! Oh my!”

Ianathas looked at his room with boredom.

Outwardly, he was the general manager of Felix’s casino.

However, his original job was to train female assassins. That’s why all the dealers in the casino he ran were women.

Although minor security and cleaning might have been done by men, the dealers, who were the flowers of the casino, were all handled by women.

They were very open-minded and often used Ianathas to gain satisfaction.

They were all people without connections, and most were very beautiful women from the poorhouse.

They could amass wealth as much as nobles despite being commoners with the enormous money earned from the casino and the aftermath handling.

However, since their main purpose was assassination, they were often dispatched for assassinations requested by the imperial family.

And these assassins, though outwardly fragile and beautiful, were in fact all talents who had absorbed at least one magic stone each.

“Kyaak!”

Thud! Whack!

They were having a pillow fight in Ianathas’s bedroom, bursting pillows.

This kind of night play was familiar to them.

“Jamie! That’s cheating!”

“You should have known better, unni!”

“Ahaha!”

Because they wanted to relieve the hardships of their work in this way, they naturally often came to Ianathas in groups.

Ianathas never refused them either.

He didn’t stop women who approached him, nor did he stop women who said they were leaving.

From the beginning, what was important to him was not such superficial relationships, but his loyalty to Felix, who had helped him get to this position.

“Let’s stop there, everyone. It seems you think my room is a chicken coop.”

As this spacious room became full of feathers, a sigh escaped from him. This wasn’t why he got a penthouse.

He brushed back his dark brown hair and smirked.

“It’s because Ianathas-nim keeps thinking about other things that we played among ourselves.”

“That’s right.”

“Why do you keep thinking about other things?”

“Do you really want to play with us?”

“Isn’t that why you called us here?”

Ianathas tried to focus on this situation with a bitter smile.

“Then it’s my turn today.”

Jamie, who had instantly sent out the other women, said so and put her hand on Ianathas’s lower garment.

She held his belt and looked at him with a seductive smile.

Ianathas smiled at Jamie. Meanwhile, the shock that his lord had prevented him from coming at this time and.

“Ianathas-nim?”

Perhaps because of the thought that he might be with the Nirnberg princess.

“Is something wrong?”

Unlike usual, he wasn’t responding at all.

“Did you take any medicine?”

Ianathas was surprised. He opened his eyes wide in shock.

“I heard this can happen if you take hair loss medicine.”

“No way.”

Ianathas sighed in disbelief, confirming that he wasn’t aroused at all despite the beautiful woman in front of him.

For some reason, he wasn’t excited by looking at other women.

“Damn, good grief.”

At that moment, Ianathas recalled the naked body of Reniel he had glimpsed last time.

“Oh? Are you feeling better now?”

Jamie giggled as if it was funny.

“No. You’re taking hair loss medicine, right?”

At that moment, Ianathas realized.

That he had broken down.

He remembered how he acted as if enchanted whenever he smelled Reniel’s scent and saw her eyes, and how he hadn’t felt any other lust for women lately.

He felt like he was about to break into a cold sweat at the ominous feeling that he wouldn’t be able to live happily and promiscuously like before.

‘Then Ianathas-nim should undress too.’

That impudent voice remained like an afterimage, only tormenting his body.

“I think Ianathas-nim is broken. That’s why you should have used it sparingly.”

It was an unbelievably terrible night for Ianathas.

****

Feeling like he couldn’t possibly fall asleep at his own home, Ianathas decided to work instead.

So, to find out rumors about the Nirnberg ducal family, he headed to where another confidant of the Le Pelique ducal family was.

Of course, there was someone working like a night watchman at this dawn.

Originally, most of the Le Pelique ducal family’s business was mainly night work, so it wasn’t strange to be awake at dawn.

The Le Pelique ducal family wasn’t called the Lord of the Night for nothing.

“Give me what you investigated about the Nirnberg princess.”

“Ah, Ianathas-nim. That’s not ready yet.”

This was the most competent information broker in the empire. They only dealt with fast and accurate information for any request.

“Why isn’t it ready yet? Hasn’t it been a week since I assigned the task?”

“There’s something strange about this. The Nirnberg ducal family said they were looking for their daughter, but there’s something suspicious about it.”

“Tell me in detail.”

“It seems like they might be hiding the princess somewhere only they know and trying to prevent anyone from finding her.”

“…Pardon?”

Ianathas glared at the informant, wondering what he had just heard.

“They say they’re looking for her, but when we went in with information, they chased us out.”

“What does that…”

“And even when we leaked the information you gave us, Ianathas-nim, they didn’t go to that place.”

Originally, Ianathas had planned to inform the Nirnberg duke about the poorhouse where Reniel had been, and then leak her current location.

However, according to what he heard, the Nirnberg ducal family hadn’t moved according to his plan at all, and they didn’t even show any willingness to find the Nirnberg princess.

He was perplexed, unable to understand the reason for this.

Then, he wondered if Reniel wasn’t the Nirnberg princess, but.

Considering the scent she exuded, her beautiful appearance, and how those with abilities seemed to be enchanted and desire her touch…

She was clearly the Nirnberg princess, the only person with magic purification ability existing in this century.

“Please investigate again for now. And if there’s anything suspicious, please tell me immediately.”

“Yes, Ianathas-nim.”

Ianathas left the information guild with that.

He checked his pocket watch, confirming that it was 6 AM and it was now time he could return to the Le Pelique duke’s residence.

So he headed to the Le Pelique duke’s residence.

He had to interrogate Reniel more and persuade his lord to dispose of Crown Prince Thanasis as soon as possible to eliminate the evidence.

****

Reniel was surprised when she opened her eyes in the morning. She saw the ring that Felix had removed placed near her pillow.

But Felix was holding her waist very tightly in his sleep, making it difficult to move.

It was at that moment when she was reaching out her arm to grab the ring.

“Ha…”

There was a person standing near the bed. It was Ianathas, smiling while somehow suppressing his anger.

“I didn’t know you were doing the job of a bedchamber maid rather than a bedchamber servant.”

Even as he said this, he couldn’t take his eyes off Reniel.

Too surprised, she couldn’t help but cry out.

“Ah!”

Forgetting that Felix was sleeping beneath her.