“Your Majesty… you must rest for a bit. Haven’t you been without sleep for days? Please rest your eyes until Sir Duran returns…”

Karaf was about to refuse the head servant’s earnest request but accepted it, looking completely exhausted.

“Your Majesty, lean on me.”

The head servant, with a face full of concern, supported him as he trembled with cold and anger.

Karaf leaned on him and shuffled towards the bedroom.

Just in front of him, just out of his fingertips, he had lost the butterfly…

His outstretched hand did not reach her.

Somehow, he felt a déjà vu, like this wasn’t the first time.

(This is a time separator.)

“……Captain! Are you okay?”

The lieutenant had the members of the organization move away, and when the time was right, he approached Jackal and Asha alone.

Their sudden appearance slightly surprised the two, but fortunately, it was after their intimate act.

However, the lieutenant’s eyes widened as he saw Jackal’s injured side.

“Captain!”

Jackal calmly said, sweating.

“It’s okay. Almost died, but Asha healed me.”

The lieutenant bowed his head to Asha beside him and sincerely thanked her.

“Thank you for saving the Captain, Miss Asha.”

He lowered his eyelids with regret.

“And I’m sorry……. We acted on our escape plan without asking for your opinion, Miss Asha, even though you left to save us. You must have been very surprised.”

“I was surprised. A little angry too.”

Her words darkened the faces of the two men.

Asha narrowed her eyes and glanced at Jackal.

“How can you act so innocently like a wild horse in front of me? I embraced Shepi without knowing, nuzzled my face into its neck, caressed its naked body, closed my eyes and hugged it tightly to my chest……”

Asha’s eyes widened, and her face turned red, unable to continue speaking.

But Jackal was the same.

He also lowered his head, blushing.

The lieutenant shook his head as he looked at the two of them.

Asha sneakily glanced at Jackal.

Now that her rational mind had returned, Jackal was openly displaying his sensually animalistic body.

Asha’s face turned irretrievably red.

The memory of nuzzling Shepi’s neck, caressing its bare body, closing her eyes and hugging it tightly to her chest made her unable to regain her composure.
Somehow, every time he behaved that way, Shapeshi looked confused and acted humanlike, and now it seemed that everything was understood.

When she realized that she had hugged him many times without him wearing a single loin cloth, Asha could no longer look at him…….

The lieutenant also then discovered Jackal’s naked appearance and his eyes widened.

He was just barely covering his important parts with Asha’s torn dress.

Furthermore, while stemming his wounds, Asha was also wearing a tattered dress that revealed her skin as much as his attire.

The lieutenant quickly offered them a black robe, turning his head as he spoke.

“Please put this on. Let’s return to the hideout and treat the wounds right away, Captain.”

“……Okay.”

Struggling to get up, Jackal dressed himself with Asha’s assistance.

As her touch reached his solid trapezius, Jackal looked at her for a moment and then bowed his head to rest his face near her collarbone.

Asha’s eyes slightly widened.

“Captain……?”

“Call me by my name. Now, there’s no one left to call me by my name…….”

Jackal said so and closed his eyes in her arms as Shapeshi used to do.

He felt relaxed and so comfortable that he acted unconsciously.

But then, from the side, the lieutenant yelled with a disgusted face.

“Captain! This is not the time for this!”

“……I know. Why are you getting angry?”

Jackal looked at him nervously, then put on his clothes and went outside.

As the three of them came out of the cave, the organization members waiting a short distance away cheered with joyous faces.

“Captain! Miss Asha!”

Seeing them calling her by a name other than ‘Vanessa’, Asha also smiled softly at the corners of her mouth.

She understood Jackal’s feelings a little.

But then it happened.

“……Sister!”

Asha unconsciously laughed out loud at Gev’s harsh screamlike shout.

With his eyes wide open and even tearful, Gev rushed to Asha.

And with both hands on her shoulders, he shook her frantically and looked over her body.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

“I’m fine, Mr. Gev. Calm down.”

Asha answered, her body shaking like a branch.

Jackal looked at Gev, who was engaging in uninhibited physical contact with her, with apparent disapproval, but decided to let it go this one time.

Today was a joyous day when Ricaioun had seized victory from the tyrant.

Everyone was overly excited and happy, and they had every right to be.

Seeing Najji suddenly rush to Asha and cry ‘boo hoo’, he couldn’t blame the organization members even a little, thinking that everyone must have been mentally distressed until now.