Being on the brink of fainting at the castle’s appearance, I couldn’t say I was okay.

“It’s a cultural difference.”

“Thank you so much for understanding……!”

It seemed better to beat around the bush, but rather, he looked moved, which was embarrassing.

‘Now that I think about it, I fainted because of Dracu earlier, didn’t I……?’

It didn’t seem to have anything to do with drinking human blood in the bright light.

“Sir, you were vomiting blood earlier, and now again…… Are you okay now?”

“My goodness, you were worried.”

Dracu looked up in surprise.

Soon after, he fumbled in his pocket and pulled out a bottle.

‘Blood.’

It was the same color as the liquid I had fainted at earlier.

I wanted to run away, but I was stuck in Kashar’s arms, and there was no escape.

‘He’s clearly after my blood.’

It was clear that he had invited me to move for this reason.

This wasn’t the time. I began to worry about Prince Huang and Emma’s wellbeing.

“Behave yourself.”

It sounded like I was struggling, and a low laugh came from above my head.

‘Don’t laugh, let me go!’

Kashar’s cheeks were still red.

In a moment when he couldn’t even drop his mouth because of the crime he had committed, Dracu revealed the truth.

“It seems there is some misunderstanding, but what I vomited was not blood.”

“……Yes?”

“Would you please look at this for a moment?”

Dracu opened the bottle cap and showed me the inside.

Thinking he might feed it to me, I clenched my eyes shut, but the smell rising from the bottle stimulated my nose.

It wasn’t a metallic smell.

It’s.

“……Vegetable smell?”

Yes. It was the smell of that juice.

“It’s a drink made by grinding a plant called Kashara. I really like it, but I can’t eat it……. ”

What does that mean?

‘From what I know…… mine only eat meat?’

The black land of Barahan where the mines live is incredibly barren and cold. For that reason, the carnivorous mines did not even consider vegetables as food.

But the housekeeper shattered all my common knowledge.

“I am a vegetarian.”

Dracu, who was also a mine, had only eaten meat for a long time.

He never imagined that just one taste of vegetables would completely turn his diet upside down.

“It was so delicious. Vegetables are the best.”

Dracu raised his thumb. It looked like a lion praising the taste of grass.
“……Is it alright to only eat vegetables? Seeing you vomit often, it seems like it doesn’t agree with your body.”

“It would have been fine in Barahan, due to the dark energy, but it’s difficult to be a vegetarian here. My body keeps rejecting it, so I was spitting out the juice.”

The dark energy rising from the land of Barahan was like a protein source that the Mains could absorb through their skin.

So, the Mains enjoyed eating meat but did not necessarily have to eat it.

But outside Barahan, things were different.

‘So, the lion ended up feeble from only eating grass, huh?’

Earlier, the body had collapsed from rejecting the vegetables.

Misunderstanding the bloodlust, thinking that people drinking blood was my mistake, it just felt absurd.

‘Should I be glad or not?’

Feeling relieved about someone fainting from dietary preference felt really strange.

“You should eat some meat.”

“How can I, when it has no taste?”

“But it’s better than looking sick like a patient, isn’t it?”

“But still…….”

Although Kashar scolded Dracul, the vegetableloving butler only held a bottle of vegetable juice dearly.

Seeing the situation with no answer, I suddenly felt very sleepy.

‘Come to think of it, where is this place?’

The place where I fainted earlier was a restaurant, but this place was filled with luxurious furniture and a large bed.

‘It looks similar to my room, somehow.’

It was particularly splendid, too.

Well, whoever the owner of this place was, all I wanted was to return to my room.

‘I’ll find out why there’s a Main beside Kashar later.’

For now, I felt like I needed to sleep.

Barely opening my eyes that were rolling dizzily, I carefully spoke.

“Excuse me, Kashar. I need to go to sleep.”

Kashar looked down at me and generously allowed it.

“Go ahead. Sleep.”

But the arm that was holding me remained as it was.

“Don’t you think I should go to my room to sleep?”

“What’s the use of going far? This is your lover’s bedroom.”

Hey, you should add ‘fake’ in front of that lover.

Soon his arm loosened, and my body tilted towards the bed.

Thump. The soft touch of the bed and pillow embraced me.

“Hey, can you hear me?”

A dark shadow loomed over my face. Kashar was on top of me.

“Hmm, I think I will leave now.”

“Goodbye.”

Kashar waved at Dracul as he backed away.

Soon the door closed.

In the duke’s bedroom, there were only the two of us.