I turned my gaze without giving a reply. It seemed like a signal to handle it on my own.

Sikar, sensing that I wasn’t satisfied with that, said again.

“Let’s keep in touch to the point of annoyance.”

Once he spoke those words, he was the type to keep his promises and genuinely stayed in touch to the point of annoyance.

After hearing those words, my mind seemed to clear up.

“I’ll pass on that.”

“You don’t need permission. If I do it, I’ll do it.”

It sounded like an explicit warning of obsession, but it could be otherwise.

Normally, I would have just thought that and said it, but in my current state, affected by the medicine, I said something I wouldn’t have said if I were sober.

“If you get obsessed, you’ll die.”

Even if I were drunk, I probably wouldn’t have said such a thing.

I was looking straight at Sikar with a clear mind, declaring my audacious threat.

Sikar, hearing my bold threat, raised one corner of his mouth.

“As expected, you have the disposition of a wicked woman.”

“You seem to misunderstand. Wicked women don’t speak like this.”

“If not with words?”

I chuckled and stomped Sikar’s foot with mine. I did it with all my strength!

Then, I showed an apologetic expression, pretending it was a very innocent mistake.

“Oops, such a mistake!”

Although Sikar, whose foot I stepped on, frowned a bit, he didn’t seem too pained.

“It doesn’t seem like a mistake.”

“Ignore it. I’m saying that wicked women pretend to make mistakes like this.”

Sikar either found it not painful or found something amusing, as he smirked.

“You seem to know nothing. Usually, people won’t let their feet be stepped on so easily.”

“Are you saying you let it happen on purpose? Why?”

“Consider it as an expression of supporting your transformation into a wicked woman. Next time, stomp on Count Hamel’s foot like this.”

“Will there be a next time I see Count Hamel?”

“Of course, there will be. Thanks to your threat, this marriage won’t be annulled just like that.”

Perhaps due to dancing for quite a while or because of stepping on Sikar’s foot, I felt the effects of the medicine gradually wearing off.

After the effects wore off, I was curious about what Sikar saw in the Queen.

After dancing for quite a while, Hersia suggested having another cup of tea, but I bid farewell to Hersia, promising the next encounter, despite her disappointment.

As soon as we got on the carriage, Sikar knew what I would be curious about.

“You seem quite curious about what you saw from the Queen.”

“If there wasn’t anything special, you wouldn’t have pushed me to dance with the Queen. What’s going on?”

After thinking for a moment, Sikar spoke with an unwilling expression.

“Fortunately, Queen Diane is quite interested in politics. She likes to eavesdrop on Gillian’s stories and prefers to report to Lafe, so I was able to find out a lot.”

Lafe was Queen Diane’s brother and Gillian’s spiritualist.

It is said that the king attached a supervisor because Lafe does not support the current king.

And not long ago, he witnessed a suspicious scene, and it was none other than Han Seo-yeon.

The surveillance guards who were monitoring Lafe’s successor reported to the Queen after seeing Seo-yeon coming out of that house.

These days, the Queen, seeing that the king trusts Parsium more than her own brother, wanted to turn the blame completely on her brother Lafe, who was truly her brother.

So, after torturing and killing the surveillance guards, the man discovered by Vica was one of those guards.

“So, since then, they say they’re looking for people with black eyes?”

Sikar nodded approvingly.

“But the more difficult thing seems to be something else.”

“Then?”

“Princess Veronia is in the North.”

“The North? What do you mean by the North?”

“You’ll have to search the entire North to find out. It seems like that’s all Queen Diane knows.”

Due to the king knowing about Han Seo-yeon’s existence and Veronia hiding, the situation became complicated.

No, Veronia could be dangerous, or Seo-yeon might become dangerous. Anyway, the situation was complicated because Lafe was expressing hostility towards the current king.

“Could it be that if Lafe gets along well with the king, and I say I’m a sister to Seo-yeon, things might be smoothed over?”

Sikar sighed deeply and shook his head.

“If that happens, it would mean that our relationship with Lafe is close, and the king might start doubting Kian again. Anyway, I have to go to the Lafe’s successor tomorrow.”

It seemed like he was going to warn Lafe.

If only he hadn’t called it a ducal residence back then, Seo-yeon’s existence might not have been exposed.

“Then, Kian shouldn’t be sent to the Lafe’s successor now.”

“No. We’ll continue as before. We have to pretend to know nothing, send him back to his ordinary daily life, and I’ll go to the North for a bit.”

“Are you going to personally look for Princess Veronia?”

“If Veronia is in the North, and since we know that Easterners are appearing, I can’t just leave it to Dureon. It’s much faster to find people through people’s memories.”

Although I felt a bit sad that he was leaving again, considering the situation, I couldn’t show any signs of being upset with Sikar.

So, I said with a very comfortable expression.

“Take care.”

“I’m not leaving yet.”

“It’s a farewell in advance.”
“Then, is there no advance greeting for our reunion?”

“Advance greeting for our reunion?”

“Can’t I give the greeting I would give when I return in advance?”

This crazy guy is saying weird things again.

“Why give that greeting now?”

“You also said your farewell now.”

“That’s because I’m leaving soon.”

“I’ll be back soon too.”

Saying such unreasonable nonsense.

“If it’s a greeting for our reunion, what do you want?”

“Something like this.”

Sikar abruptly kissed me as he finished speaking.

Whether it was because I had drunk wine or whether he had too. The sweet aroma of grape wine wafted gently.