The Duke Stole Everything (1 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 14
Sharti glared at the man.
The letters trembled slightly.
“I…….”
The man frowned at the corners of his eyes. He couldn’t neatly express his own conflicting feelings.
Just as the man, in frustration, ran a hand down his face.
‘……Shh.’
Sharti raised her index finger to her lips.
From not far away, the sound of flapping wings echoed. A flock of birds was flying up into the sky as if fleeing.
‘Already narrowed the distance this much?’
Sharti hurriedly rummaged through her bag.
Small pouches familiar to the man appeared.
“Are you planning to throw those at the soldiers too? If you do something like that……!”
The man spoke in a lowered voice.
Sharti shook her head and opened the pouches, scattering their contents around the spring water.
“……A sweet smell?”
Immediately, Sharti grabbed the man’s hand and started running.
‘Ugh!’
The precarious right leg finally sent its signal. Sharti gritted her teeth and ran as fast as she could.
At that moment, the man’s gaze was fixed on Sharti’s right leg, unable to look away.
‘Please!’
Sharti threw the open small pouches onto the ground, scattering them.
Traces began to appear on the ground wherever the two passed.
“-There!! Chase them!!”
At the clear, booming shout, Sharti gritted her teeth.
Since they were running, footprints were messily imprinted, making it easy for the soldiers to pursue.
The only consolation was that the ground was entirely a damp mudfield.
“……I can’t see clearly!”
“I’m not sure, but it’s huge.”
“Capture it first and confirm!”
The soldiers’ voices grew closer.
At the same time, she used up all the pouches she had.
“Hold on tight.”
As soon as Sharti panted, the man scooped her up and ran quickly.
Before long, the mudfield ended, and a grassy area appeared.
‘There! Hide there!!’
They had finally arrived at the place Sharti wanted. It was a spot with large boulders scattered about, as if a massive stone wall had collapsed.
Rustle-. The man hid behind the sturdiest-looking giant boulder that Sharti pointed to.
Sharti urgently took out fruit jam from her bag, held it with both hands, and prayed.
‘It has to work!’
Sharti threw the fruit jam with all her might behind the boulder.
Clang-. Luckily, it hit a rock among the grass and the jam jar shattered.
“……!”
The man was startled by the sound of the jar breaking, but only for a moment; Sharti threw herself over him.
‘Endure it even if it’s stifling!’
Sharti removed her robe to cover them both, hiding the man and herself.
In an instant, her hair came close enough to touch his face, and the man drew in a sharp breath. At the same time, the soldiers began to appear one by one.
“Squad leader! The trail ends here!”
“What, what is this. Where did they go?!”
Perhaps because it was a place full of bushes instead of trees, the soldiers’ shadows stretched long under the moonlight.
The long shadows covered the boulder.
“Search! They couldn’t have gone far-.”
Crunch……. The soldiers’ squad leader, Doddint, checked what he had stepped on.
It was a shard of the glass jar that Sharti had thrown and broken.
“What is this?”
“Isn’t it a jar?”
“Hmm? There’s some sticky liquid mixed with grains…….”
“The dirt is stuck, so I can’t tell?”
The soldiers murmured.
Sharti, eavesdropping on their conversation from not far away, felt her heart was about to burst.
The man’s heart was also pounding rapidly, as if it might break down in a different sense.
“Enough. Ignore it and search the surroundings immediately!”
“Yes!”
At Doddint’s command, Sharti squeezed her eyes shut.
‘Hurry!’
The man firmly embraced Sharti’s trembling body.
Rustle rustle.
“……!”
“……!”
“Whine…….”
Sharti and the man held their breath at the crying sound coming from right beside them.
Something was tapping the robe they were covering with.
Sniff sniff. Then it sniffed more and gradually moved away, passing the boulder.
“S-Squad leader. That…… isn’t that a bear?”
What had touched Sharti and the man and emerged from behind the boulder they were hiding in was a black bear.
“It looks like a cub?”
It was indeed a bear cub.
The cub buried its nose in the bushes and kept sniffing.
“Could the thing we were chasing be this cub?”
One soldier asked with a dumbfounded face.
The cub lowered its body entirely and stuck its nose under the feet of several soldiers.
“No way! It was definitely a huge one!!”
“But the direction this bear came from is ahead. If what we were chasing was a person, why would this bear come toward us?”
The cub fearlessly stuck out its tongue and licked the soles of their boots.
“Damn……. It was definitely a person.”
Doddint ground his teeth and scanned the surroundings.
[This is the timeline separator]The man hiding behind the boulder was in agony.
“…….”
In a situation where even breathing had to be cautious, heat was rising not only in his body but also in his head.
The curly strands of hair tickled the tip of his nose and cheeks, and the faint breath she exhaled brushed his nape.
‘I’m going crazy.’
The man awkwardly bent and straightened only his finger joints.
Before the soldiers appeared, Sharti had abruptly removed her robe and was now sitting on his thigh. She had spread the robe to hide and unhesitatingly positioned herself on top of him.
‘Why is she sticking so close…….’
Every time he inhaled, the rich herbal scent emanating from Sharti’s body stimulated his sense of smell.
All the medicines she made had various smells. Yet, from Sharti’s body, where all those scents clung, only a pleasant fragrance could be detected.
‘I thought I lost my memory, but did I lose my sense of smell too?’
But there was another problem.
‘I’m strange, but this woman is just as strange.’
Though they communicated through writing, Sharti grabbed the hand of a stranger—whose identity was unknown—without hesitation. Moreover, for the sake of treatment, she showed no embarrassment in examining the man’s body.
‘Same as now.’
He was wearing the robe Sharti had provided, but his upper body inside was bare. Yet Sharti, clinging to him in a position as if pouncing, showed no reaction.
Truly just a patient. Nothing more, nothing less.
‘……No, so what?’
The man reflexively hid his displeasure.
Sharti had no unnecessary contact or unpleasant intentions. Rather, it was a welcome and fortunate situation.
If someone intending to harm him had been in charge of his care, he might have woken up to torture instead of treatment.
‘Get a grip.’
The man closed his eyes.
He ignored the sensations drawn to Sharti as much as possible.
‘……But I didn’t get a proper look at her face when she took off the hood earlier.’
Since Sharti had her back to the moon, shadows fell on her face.
Still, thanks to eyes that could see well in the dark, he could vaguely make out the outline of her face.
‘There were no scars.’
He had vaguely seen and known, but he was curious.
Why Sharti hid her face like that.
‘Ha…….’
He hesitated with his veined hand, as if to clench it or not, and continued useless thoughts. Otherwise, he might bury his nose between Sharti’s nape and shoulder and sniff madly.
Like the cub that had tapped the robe earlier.
“Then, squad leader, what should we do? Keep searching?”
“We found nothing, so of course we continue the search!”
“But going deeper into the mountain like this is dangerous. They say to be more careful in the mountains at dawn than at night. Coming back during the day would be…….”
“Are you scared?”
Clang-. Doddint drew his sword and aimed it at his subordinate soldier.
His eyes, reflected in the blue blade, gleamed fiercely.
“This search has more at stake than your lives, and you want to go back like this?”
“N-No! I meant we should come back once it’s light…….”
“If you’re a soldier, listen to what your head says!!”
They had already climbed the mountain once, so the target might smell them and flee.
His desire for promotion brought impatience, making his pupils glisten.
“S-Squad leader!”
As the soldiers hesitated, Doddint gripped his sword tighter.
“What’s with this!”
Doddint swung his sword down toward the cub.
“……Whine-!”
The cub barely dodged and cowered in fear. The pitiful bear’s cry began to echo through the mountain.
“The mountain, the mountain has!”
The soldier who had been skeptical of the search shouted with a pale face, eyes tightly shut.
“If there’s a cub, of course there’s a mother bear!”
“……What?”
Doddint, who had been smirking at the trembling cub, flinched.
Rustle-.
“……!”
The gazes of the soldiers opposite him all turned beyond Doddint’s shoulder. It was the direction they had pushed through the bushes.
“Why suddenly…….”
With a chilling sensation on his nape, Doddint slowly turned his head.
His gaze, the soldiers’ gazes, all rose upward in unison.
“Grrrr…….”
A massive bear, twice the size of an adult man, approached with sharp teeth bared.
“Th-This!!”
“Draw your swords now!”
“Argh!”
As the soldiers, stumbling back from the bear, reached for their scabbards, the bear’s roar covered the mountain. The deafening roar turned the soldiers’ faces ashen.
“……!”
In that gap, Sharti quickly pulled back the robe. At the same time, the man who had lifted Sharti fled with his back to the boulder.
Sharti silently admired the man’s quick action. In response, the man smiled as if sighing.
“You erased our scent and used the sweet smell as bait.”
While running quickly, the man frowned as if incredulous.
“I didn’t know you meant to lure that huge beast.”
He had already recognized Sharti’s reckless and dangerous planning from the cave.
Since Sharti always scattered beast-repelling herbs in front of the cave, the man could also anticipate the dangerous beings in the mountain.
“…….”
Sharti tapped the man’s arm as if to put her down, but the man turned his head away sharply. At the clear snort, Sharti made an exasperated expression.
“How many soldiers do you think would face the bear? They must have scattered and fled.”
“…….”
“Ha. Just guide the way like this. I don’t know how far you can run with that leg.”
At his gaze toward her leg, Sharti quickly pulled down the robe.
Watching Sharti carefully fasten the robe, the man checked her breathing first.
‘It’s gotten a bit better.’
Sharti had limped and panted the whole time escaping from the soldiers.
She seemed to endure without showing it, but the man strangely noticed the other’s condition keenly.
Besides that, he found it odd that he fluently predicted the soldiers’ simple range of actions, but the man didn’t delve deep.
Matters about himself could be pieced together slowly later.
‘For now, I need to get this woman to a safe place.’
Strength entered the arm muscles supporting Sharti’s back and behind her knees.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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