Seduced the Doomed Villain - Chapter 43

With each inhale and exhale, a curse of madness flowed into her.

As fast as her magic drained away into the void, it was quickly replenished through Rodrick.

Even so, the pain was severe.

“Ugh.”

Diana, who had been deeply inhaling his breath, suddenly struck Rodrick’s chest.

She hastily turned her head and coughed up blood.

“H-hey, sister-in-law. Why are you suddenly doing this?”

“Sister!”

“……”

“Shouldn’t we get her to a physician right away?!”

Felice and Noel leaped out of the carriage. Likewise, even the Buzz who was in charge of her escort surrounded them in confusion.

Helly just stood there, looking shocked.

“Don’t touch her.”

As Helly unknowingly reached out to her, Rodrick’s sharp voice stopped him.

“……”

Why had the procession stopped? Starting from the end of the long procession, the murmuring noise grew louder at the sudden occurrence.

She clutched Rodrick’s chest and muttered softly.

“My head hurts from the noise.”

Rodrick, who keenly heard it, quickly got up from his seat.

“We’ll camp here today. Set up one tent far away.”

“What? Where are you going?”

“Don’t come looking even if I’m late.”

It was Buzz who asked, but the order was given while looking at Felice. Felice understood and nodded.

Rodrick picked her up and whistled sharply to call his black horse.

The black horse at the front promptly ran over at its master’s call.

He turned around, picking up the simple luggage placed on the black horse. The black horse, which thought it would be ridden, looked dejected.

Noel watched his back as he left the rough dirt road and entered the forest, grinding his teeth. There was nothing he could do to help right now.

His red eyes traced the path of the magic seeping out of Diana.

The imperial capital. Noel was pinpointing the dark red magic flowing into the imperial palace located in the very center.

Why do tribulations keep arising for the Beatus family?

This time, at least Diana had to be protected.

Small hands clenched into fists. Beside Noel, who was reaffirming his resolve, Felice commanded the large group of people.

Although there was still time left, they had to move quickly before darkness fell.

“Hurry up. Don’t forget to set up the tent for my brother far away.”

Felice’s face was dark as he gave instructions. Could it be that Diana had an underlying illness?

Even before the duke left, he had the royal physician prepare a bundle of medicine.

He said it was a nutritional supplement, but was it medicine she should have been taking? Felice, who was thinking seriously, first retrieved the medicine from the luggage wagon.

He intends to personally make sure she takes it on time. I’ll take care of sister-in-law’s health.

Buzz hurriedly approached Felice, who was full of enthusiasm.

“Um, young master.”

“What.”

“Someone has come to see you.”

“Who?”

“I don’t know if I should say they came to see you. They say they’d like to get some food while passing by.”

The path from the north to the capital was deep in the mountains, making the road treacherous with many magical beasts. Especially in winter, even merchants rarely came.

Someone passing by at this time? Felice was suspicious from the start. It wasn’t the time to move from village to village either.

“Who is it?”

He strode to where Buzz was guiding him. At the end of the procession, there was a person surrounded by people.

“Oh, well. It’s this person.”

Felice was surprised by the person’s unexpected appearance. He had just thought it would be one of the passersby.

“Alone?”

It was an old woman with a half-bent back. The old woman was sitting against a rock, holding a walking stick as tall as her.

The old woman looked at Felice with eyes hidden by sagging wrinkles.

“Are you the owner of this procession?”

The old woman with extremely wrinkled skin and a hooked nose looked like an old witch from a fairy tale. Felice frowned at her rough voice with phlegm.

“Yeah. I’m in charge for now.”

“Hoho. No need to be so wary. I’m just an old passerby who came to beg for food.”

Felice gestured to the surrounding knights with his eyes.

‘Anything unusual?’

‘No, sir.’

‘No one else?’

‘Yes.’

Unable to shake his suspicion, Felice approached the old woman. The old woman lifted her body that had been leaning and bowed so deeply she almost fell forward.

“I was robbed by thieves and left penniless while on my way to see my granddaughter. Please show mercy to this old woman, my lord.”

At her pitiful situation, the servants loitering around let out sympathetic sighs.

Then they all unanimously looked at Felice, urging him to quickly help this poor old woman. Under the servants’ gazes, Felice let out a low sigh.

The sun was gradually setting. The old woman truly looked like she had nothing and might freeze to death on the road if coldly turned away.

“Hah, give the old woman some food.”

“Thank you. Thank you, my lord.”

The old woman bowed excessively, expressing her gratitude. The servants kindly escorted the old woman near the bonfire.

Watching the old woman, Felice tilted his head slightly and clicked his tongue.

With Rodrick’s mood already unpleasant, now an outsider had shown up.

He’d probably get an earful when Rodrick returned.

“Should we set up an extra tent?”

“Just stuff a sleeping bag in the maids’ tent and let her sleep with them.”

“But isn’t it strange? For an old woman to travel alone in these mountains. Looking at the direction she came from, it’s still quite a ways to the next village.”

That’s right. Felice’s eyes narrowed. The old woman looked like she had difficulty moving.

Even if she encountered thieves, common sense dictated she should have either turned back the way she came or at least hitched a ride on a wagon in front of the checkpoint.

“Watch closely in case she tries anything.”

He assigned two knights to stay beside the old woman. When it came to preparing for the unexpected, Felice was thorough.

But his preparations were useless in the face of magic.

It was late at night. A night when both people and beasts were sound asleep.

The old woman, who had been poking the burning firewood with a walking stick as big as her body, grinned.

“Hoho. Too easy, it’s bland.”

The old woman, who had put everyone to sleep without exception, even the insects settled in the bushes, made her eyes hidden by sagging wrinkles gleam eerily.

“Child.”

Noel, who had been gathering magic behind the old woman’s back, flinched.

“Why didn’t you fall asleep, hmm?”

The old woman, who had seemed to have difficulty moving, swung her walking stick with unbelievable speed.

The fireball Noel shot out was instantly destroyed and scattered in the air.

Tak- tak. The falling small sparks were sucked into the bonfire.

The old woman’s magic was superior to Noel’s. The child’s small body froze on the spot.

His red eyes shook this way and that, looking at the old woman from whom he couldn’t even sense magic.

“Hoho. Child. You shouldn’t play with fire at night.”

The old woman with a bent back held her walking stick and struck the ground with a thud-, causing a vibration.

“A child who does bad things should be punished, right?”

Noel bit his small lips. Should he run? No. It’ll be dangerous when Diana returns. Fight to the end.

Reading the firm resolve in the red eyes, the old woman laughed unpleasantly, kukukuk.

“That’s not spirit, it’s recklessness. This is why men… Tsk. Should you get hit first to come to your senses?”

The old woman’s voice, which had been nothing but rough, gradually transformed into a beautiful and smooth woman’s voice.

Carrying Diana, Rodrick walked through the mountainous forest without hesitation.

Having memorized the entire northern geography, he headed to a place where a natural hot spring gushed out.

Arriving at a location with hazy steam rising and gushing heat, he quickly undressed her.

He too, wearing only a towel, headed to the hot spring.

As he entered the hot spring holding her, Diana let out a moan at the hot water. Clinging to him even more in a dazed state.

“Diana. You need to absorb more.”

As he lowered his head to kiss her, Diana pressed her lips tightly together and shook her head.

“I smell blood.”

On the way here, her condition had somewhat improved through contact with him.

She frowned at the fishy smell filling her mouth.

“Open your mouth.”

“Mmph.”

Rodrick reached behind his back and pulled out a clean cloth from his bundle.

Wrapping the cloth around his finger and dipping it in the hot spring water, he thoroughly swept the inside of Diana’s mouth.

Diana was startled and slapped his arm repeatedly. She bared her teeth as if to bite the large finger that entered without warning.

At her sharp action, he raised one eyebrow.

“Why.”

“You can just rinse your mouth with water!”

At Diana’s weakly shouted words, Rodrick quietly looked down at her, then this time he scooped up water from the water pouch and swallowed it.

Spitting the water out, he took another mouthful of water and this time kissed her.

Diana, who ended up drinking the water he passed over, frowned as if annoyed.

“Rodrick!”

“I’m supposed to be your medicine.”

A single kiss from him made magic flow in, giving her strength.

“That may be so, but…”

“You can barely lift a finger right now. Am I wrong?”

That was also true. She had no strength to do anything right now. It wasn’t that she didn’t like the way he made her drink the water.

She got irritated without realizing it.

Diana, who had puffed out her lips defiantly, quietly rested her head against his thick chest.

She felt like she had needlessly vented her irritation at someone trying to help. Her heart fluttered strangely. As if someone’s emotions had been transferred, it was out of her control.

“I’m sorry. My mood is weirdly up and down right now.”

As if it didn’t matter, he kissed her forehead with a smack-.

“Get as irritated as you want.”

His lips descended from her forehead to her adorable nose and then settled again on her moist lips.

“You’re lovely no matter what.”

“You’re totally infatuated.”

The firm lips dangerously close to her soft lips curled up deeply.

“Aren’t you the one who made me this way?”

The low, reverberating voice added to the heat.

The defiant heart that had been fluttering at the heat he emanated disappeared as if evaporating.

The pink eyes that had been blankly staring at the man chiseled like a sculpture narrowed languidly.

“You’re right. It’s all my fault.”

Having absorbed the strength to move her fingers, she poked his firm, thick chest.

“It’s a sin that I’m so attractive. Don’t you think?”

Touching foreheads with her, he laughed pleasantly. How could he win against her with words?

He grabbed her hand poking his chest and pulled it underwater.

“Rodrick. We’re outside.”

“Your hand seems honest though?”

Her touch ignited his desire.

“Oh my. This is instinct.”

At the lasciviously busy touch, he let out a rough groan.

The desire to have her in the damp humidity raged fiercely.

“Then I’ll also follow my instinct.”

A beastly voice, thickly flowing out, settled on the fair naked body. His gestures, carefully checking her physical condition, gradually became intense.

The faint splashing sound of water gradually grew fierce, echoing in the moonlit open air.