I Pretended To Be Dead And Ran Away - Chapter 68

“Ah, no, why……”

Reniel soon began to feel her body gradually losing strength.

Her entire body felt heavy, as if gravity was pressing down on her. As she fell to her knees on the floor, Princess Jeiren approached nearby.

“Ah……”

Princess Jeiren stepped on her thigh with her high-heeled shoe and said,

“If you don’t answer obediently to what I’m about to ask, I’ll cut your throat.”

“I’ll answer everything you ask……”

Reniel tried to ignore Felix, who kept talking to her as she listened to the princess’s words.

This vivid hallucination felt too strange. The drug she took and the vision she saw through the window earlier must be the same kind of magic.

Perhaps due to the shock of seeing Felix at the window earlier, she was able to pretend not to notice him now.

If she hadn’t seen him at the window, she probably wouldn’t have been able to stay this calm.

Yet her body’s reactions were flowing completely differently from her reason.

With every breath, it felt hot and difficult as if a flame was engulfing her body.

She felt as if her body temperature was rising endlessly like a fire.

Her head felt hot, her face was burning, and her ears felt like they were on fire.

Additionally, her body becoming slippery felt as if she had suddenly stopped after running for a long time.

Cold sweat flowed endlessly.

“What are you seeing in your hallucination?”

“My… master.”

“Hahaha.”

Princess Jeiren laughed, looking down at Reniel as if finding her words amusing.

However, the master Jeiren was thinking of was Thanasis, while

Reniel, who had just fled after quitting her 10-year job, unconsciously considered Felix as her master.

For now.

“Why did it bring you here?”

Jeiren thought Reniel was completely intoxicated by the drug.

It included a truth serum that made it difficult to think and made one say anything.

Nevertheless, the knights around Princess Jeiren were on guard, ready to cut her throat if Reniel ever acted threateningly.

“Because… I thought he would kill me.”

Reniel ran away because she thought Felix would kill her.

“Did it threaten to kill you?”

“He often did. He said he would kill me if I didn’t listen… And every time in the bedroom… even when I said no……”

She recalled how she had always been afraid, but he always tried to listen to her heartbeat.

“Even when I said it tickled, he always put his ear there.”

“Where?”

“He tried to listen to my heartbeat.”

Her thoughts were really all coming out in words.

She didn’t realize she was in a state where she couldn’t feel anything complex beyond primal emotions.

“Did you spend nights together?”

“Yes.”

“How often?”

“He… did it often.”

Seemingly satisfied with Reniel’s answer, Princess Jeiren soon removed her foot.

Although there was a bright red bruise on her thigh, it didn’t hurt.

She was not in a state to focus on such minor pain right now.

“Tell me in detail how that monster treated you.”

Reniel began to speak fluently about what came to mind, feeling embarrassed.

“He took me to bed. And… he said clothes were in the way……”

“……”

“His hair touching my chest was so ticklish. It was strange that his hair was so soft even though he looked fierce……”

As Reniel continued speaking in a daze, silence enveloped the surroundings.

“Every time he bit me, it felt really strange.”

She frowned slightly as she recalled those times.

“And I don’t understand why he pretends not to have bitten me after doing so. It hurt every time he bit with his canines.”

“……”

“And then when he pretends not to have bitten again… it’s strange to say it hurts… Why does he always grip my hands so tightly……”

She recalled how Felix always interlocked their fingers and pressed down.

“My knuckles hurt.”

Then, as if something else came to mind, she said,

“Last time, he bit my ear and I thought it would be torn off. And it was heavy……”

“That monster really did that?”

“…Yes. But the heaviness was rather better. When he leaned his body on me, he slept quietly… When he was awake, he kept tormenting me, so I was scared.”

Reniel said so without knowing what she was saying.

Soon, after hearing all of her words, Jeiren seemed shocked and wore a strange expression.

The Thanasis that Princess Jeiren knew was not someone who could do such things.

He was a person who rejected women to the extent that misunderstandings about him being homosexual arose.

How many women had Jeiren sent as assassins?

And how many bedchamber servants had her mother sent to give him the pleasure of embracing a woman?

However, all of them were either burned to death by Thanasis who woke up startled, or dragged out in a state that seemed barely alive.

“What about you?”

Jeiren soon came to her senses and asked for Reniel’s opinion.

“I… was scared.”

“Is that all? The hallucination you’re seeing now should be making you feel lust, right?”

At that moment, Felix’s touch caressing her cheek felt more real to Reniel.

“Ah… so… But it’s also true that I’m scared……”

She felt so strange because of Felix looking down at her as if he wanted to kiss her.

“Ah… No, master.”

She said so in surprise when Felix traced her lips with his thumb.

‘If you don’t like it, avoid it.’

“Even if I avoid it, you’ll still do it.”

‘That’s my choice.’

She became more flustered as Felix approached. It seemed like he was trying to kiss her with so many people around.

So she closed her eyes tightly and turned her head to the side.

Seeing her like this, Princess Jeiren became convinced that she and Thanasis truly had a deep relationship.

Jeiren thought about killing Reniel for a moment.

But it wasn’t time yet to reclaim her place from Thanasis.

“What are you so afraid of?”

Princess Jeiren said so while grabbing Reniel’s chin to make her look at her.

“I……”

Reniel found it too difficult to continue her thoughts, perhaps due to the drug’s effect.

“Hypnotist.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Then Jeiren ordered the hypnotist standing behind, who wore a deeply lowered hood due to side effects from absorbing magic stones that melted his face.

“Cast a hypnosis on this woman.”

Meanwhile, the hypnotist found the strange purifying energy emanating from Reniel odd.

Yet he decided it was better to just do as told rather than interfere in royal affairs, so he kept his mouth shut.

Princess Jeiren wasn’t a very nice person either.

“Make her kill Thanasis when I command.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Then Jeiren said with an amused smile,

“And make that maid forget everything that happened today.”

“…Yes, Your Highness.”

After saying so, Jeiren looked down at Reniel again.

Then Reniel’s exquisite beauty caught her eye.

It felt like she had only confirmed that no matter how noble Thanasis pretended to be, he was ultimately helpless against a beautiful woman.

Yet at the same time.

“She’s quite different from the preferences I’ve been sending.”

She realized that Thanasis wasn’t avoiding women’s charms, but merely had incredibly high standards, given that Reniel’s beauty was surprisingly superior compared to the women sent before.

“Take that back.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Soon, Reniel felt as if something was rummaging through her mind.

Her mind soon became blank, and she began to fall into a deep sleep again.

****

When Reniel opened her eyes again, she was in some grass field.

All her memories after being kidnapped were gone.

So she thought she had fallen asleep in Thanasis’s bedroom and woken up in a grass field.

The problem was that the drug’s effects hadn’t fully worn off.

‘Am I sleeping in a place like this?’

Felix was still visible.

“Master.”

Reniel thought she was seeing things because she wasn’t fully awake.

“Something must be wrong with my head. Why am I seeing master……”

She felt too overwhelmed by her body strangely heating up. Moreover, she didn’t know where this place was.

She was confused, wondering if perhaps Thanasis had brought her here, but if so, she couldn’t understand why.

“Master, why are you dressed so casually?”

Reniel found it strange that the Felix she saw was only wearing pants.

‘It seems you wanted to see me like this.’

“Me? Your chest, master?”

‘That’s right.’

“Ah… I see.”

She was strangely accepting of those words.

In fact, she thought Felix’s excellent pectoral muscles looked quite nice.

‘Don’t you want to touch?’

It was a bizarre situation. It felt like a dream because she was dazed, but the strangely felt sensation seemed real.

“Master, do you want to touch me? Is that why you appear in this illusion?”

‘Yes.’

“But I’m too tired.”

She said so and was blinking her dreamy eyes slowly.

Perhaps because the night was still deep, most of what she could see was the dark night sky.

Soon his hand brushed her cheek. Then it traced her lips.

‘What would you do if I said I want to embrace you?’

She answered dazedly to those words, still intoxicated by the drug.

“…If you do, then that’s what happens.”