But contrary to Lea’s thoughts, Akkia was also feeling quite perplexed.

‘I’m going insane.’

Initially, Theo going to Lea was bothersome, so he blindly followed. However, upon actually meeting Lea, he didn’t know what to say.

‘What on earth have I done…….’

He let out a deep sigh beneath his expressionless face. It was all because of that young guy.

That guy, that night. If he hadn’t been babbling strange things, he wouldn’t have done such a thing.

‘That day was surprisingly impulsive. And…….’

The memory of impulsively kissing Lea as if being enchanted by something kept him from getting proper sleep.

Every time he lay down on the bed, it seemed as if Lea’s face was floating on the ceiling.

Right. If that event had been the end, he wouldn’t have been so bothered. But the biggest problem for him right now was…

“Why Theo?”

Akkia looked at Lea, who was grumbling with a dissatisfied look. No, to be precise, he was looking at Lea’s pouting lips.

‘I must be insane.’

Either someone had poisoned the food he was eating. The biggest challenge he was facing was the impulse to kiss again.

He had to admit it. That day’s kiss was impulsive, but it wasn’t bad.

No, it was rather so good that he wanted to taste it again.

Lea’s lips were softer and warmer than he had thought.

There was a sweet scent even with just a fleeting touch. If he were to pry open the tightly closed crevice and dig into it, what would it feel like?

And this impulse tormented him endlessly, from the moment he opened his eyes to the moment before falling asleep.

Even last night, the woman appeared in his dreams to the point of waking him up.

“What? Count!!”

Lea raised her voice, perhaps angry at being ignored. While he should have responded, only her still pouting lips caught his eye.

Akkia crossed his arms deliberately to hide the sweat on his palm.

“I was just curious what the two of you were talking about.”

He had come worried that Theo might confess to Lea. But he couldn’t honestly say that.

But even with the count’s answer, Lea couldn’t shake her suspicious gaze.

“Count, you don’t mean…….”

Lea, who had come close to Akkia, whispered just loud enough for him to hear.

“You didn’t tell Theo about… what happened that night, did you?”

It seemed like a secret conversation. She seemed to be worried that he had told the story of their kiss.

Akkia, who was hurt, spoke sharply.

“You seemed a bit concerned about that night? Considering you’re worried about that.”

“That, that’s……!”

Seeing her flustered gave him some relief. He had thought he was the only one conscious of that night.

Seeing Lea as usual made him even doubt whether he had dreamt that night.

But looking at her reaction now, it seems that the incident did bother her. He barely held back a grin as he looked at Lea.

“Was it your first time?”

“No! Of course not! I was quite popular. Unlike you, count, I received a lot of confessions!”

Well, she does have a pretty face. That was acceptable, but it annoyed him again.

‘I was the first one to kiss her, but it wasn’t Lea’s first?’

The thought of having done the same thing with another man made him feel nauseous.

The man who kissed Lea would surely have felt the same way. The thought of a man whose face he didn’t even know having felt that suffocated him.

But Akkia, who had skillfully hidden his emotions, casually said.

“Well, I’m not much different.”

Pretending to brag about a nonexistent fact.

However, Akkia still didn’t know. Why he felt this way.

The issue on top of Magnolia was somewhat resolved, and there was no longer any need for Lea’s help.

In addition, it was agreed to help produce the emergency medicine to distribute to the villagers on top.

‘It’s a better place than I thought.’

Moving so actively for something that is not helpful to the top.
Thanks to Magnolia’s active support, her mind was lighter than when she first arrived here.

‘Now I can focus on finding the antidote in the remaining time.’

Although it was a vacation, it was not something she could postpone the development of the cure indefinitely.

So, from early morning, Lea was in the central library of Tren. The library of Tren had a separate corner for herbal medicine, as befits a village where herbs were developed.

All she had to do now was to look for materials on the antidote here at her leisure.

‘Why!’

“The library is bigger than I thought.”

Akia, who was following her, asked as if surprised.

‘Did that human follow me too?’

She didn’t particularly want to see the man’s face at the moment.

However, she let out a sigh inwardly at the count who insisted on following her, saying that he might goof off here.

Besides, ‘more than I thought.’ The library of Tren, although not as grand as the palace library, was quite famous in nearby villages.

For a national library, it had a large scale and a variety of books.

‘Tren is not such an insignificant city.’