Edit met Walter, who approached as if his nose was about to touch, and their eyes locked.

Originally, it was difficult to refuse when he spoke in this low, enticing tone. However, now, with the added information that he was my first love, it was impossible to reject him.

“Yeah. Just a bit more…”

As she didn’t refuse, Walter tilted his face and promptly captured her tempting lips.

There was nothing different from that night when Edit had come to me. Even though I knew there must be some complicated circumstances, if Edit asked for her lips, she gave them; if she asked him to exhale his breath, he did so—a playmate who obediently followed her requests.

His veiny hand enveloped Edit’s face. As her body temperature rose as if she were intoxicated, the blood coursing through his body also heated up.

He pressed his lips tightly to prevent her breath and sweet voice from leaking out.

Instead of pushing him away, Edit gently stroked his cheek and nape of the neck. As he swallowed the dry saliva, the humidity inside the carriage increased.

A moment when their breaths tangled as if they would swallow each other. Walter, who was about to press her against the carriage wall, hesitated.

“The carriage is over there.”

It was very far away, but Cassius’s voice, explaining the location to Helen, could be heard.

Although he already had a keen sense, enhanced by Reinhardt’s assistance, of capturing things more easily after opening up his magic, Walter suddenly stopped, trying to call Edit, and his lips froze for a few seconds.

“…”

Throughout the response to his kiss, he had been chewing over the information that she had been my first love, so he almost called out Isaac’s name.

Having witnessed Edit about to call my name in real time as she struggled to say something, Walter bit her lower lip.

“Did you confuse me with someone else?”

“…”

Although he had thrown the words, half in jest, he noticed that Edit’s expression strangely stiffened. In a different sense from when he was angry with Duke Lexion, his expression twisted with a new meaning.

“Who? Your kid’s dad?”

Even if he spoke lightly enough to be felt as a provocation, as he began to imbue it with jealousy, it grew more intense.

Isaac, this brat, was gradually invading her mind, and Walter couldn’t figure out what kind of make-believe game he was playing with Edit, popping up out of the blue.

Even if she stumbled in embarrassment at the bizarre question, it wasn’t a reaction he liked.

“When you do this kind of thing, you should only be thinking about me, Edit.”

The moment his breath touched her neck, Edit, who had her hand on his neck, tightened her grip. For a moment, she became alert to the sharp and tingling sensation.

“Edit must have been very surprised…”

Helen’s worried voice reached her as well.

Fearing that they might get caught, Edit, who abruptly regained her composure, gently pushed the heavy Walter away and said, as if making excuses.
“I was thinking about you, Walter.”

“…”

To prevent him from misunderstanding that she was thinking about another man, and because she disliked the idea of unnecessary misunderstandings causing a rift between them, her honest feelings came out.

“You know. When you kiss me, I can’t think of anyone else.”

As she wiped his slightly flushed cheek with her usual touch, Walter wanted to gather his thin wrist immediately.

If they stayed like this for a few more seconds, it felt like his body would reject rationality.

“I’ll bring some water.”

With a clunking sound, he went out to fetch water without even being asked. The traces of the kisses they had carelessly left on the moist glass window of the carriage were swept away in an instant as the door opened.

“…”

Before the party approached, Edit tidied up her disheveled clothes, and sitting up straight as if nothing had happened.

In contrast to Walter, who left the scene as if escaping, Edit’s face was so calm that the guards couldn’t help but chuckle again.

‘What could have made her stick out of the carriage like that?’

‘Did she get scolded by the madam for Duke Lexion trying to use magic, and then get kicked out?’

As Edit and Walter returned to the carriage they rode in, the knights of Lexion were tongue-tied, looking at three bodies lying on the ground with their breaths cut off.

“Judging by the location of the calluses left in the hands and the dagger with rust in the embrace, it seems clear that they are the assassins of Gouturk.”

“Do you think they took advantage of the confusion at the party to invade the Duke’s residence?”

Now it was after they had been moved to a different location, but judging by the first discovered location, it seemed that the assassins tried to sneak into the weapons warehouse attached to the mansion’s banquet hall but died in the process.

The main facilities of Lexion were equipped with security devices that emitted powerful magic if unauthorized individuals tried to invade, which was why it happened.