Resban approached Esika, who was sitting on the bed.

In the darkness, her eyes were calm as she slightly raised her chin to look at him.

Resisting the urge to stir up those lake-like dark blue eyes, Resban brushed Esika’s hair aside.

The silky soft touch entangled in his hand.

For a moment, Resban’s hand unconsciously tightened.

“……”

With her head tilted slightly back, Esika looked at Resban without changing her expression.

After staring into her eyes for a few seconds, Resban quickly lowered his head diagonally and kissed her lips.

Esika’s blue eyes rippled for a moment, then her eyelids closed.

His breath, invading between her lips, began to intertwine more intensely.

“……”

Resban tasted her lips as if indulging in an oasis after wandering through a desert.

It was the most intense and passionate kiss Esika had ever experienced.

When their lips parted for a moment, Esika exhaled a short breath.

It wasn’t a breath that should be disturbed by just a kiss, but his energy was so intense.

Resban’s golden eyes met Esika’s gaze like a fierce beast in the darkness.

His lips moved.

“Give yourself to me.”

It was a commanding plea that needed no permission.

Esika smiled faintly and nodded once.

The dress skirt was lifted too easily, and there was a loud snapping sound of something breaking.

Resban was wearing a neat uniform, but his touch seemed to lack self-control.

“Beautiful.”

Resban’s low voice was heard, as if appreciating her figure.

The silk dress fell to the bed floor like liquid.

Esika covered part of her exposed body with her own hands.

She was as noble and beautiful as a goddess shining in the moonlight.

After looking at Resban for a moment, Esika extended her hand that was covering her body and placed it on Resban’s collar.

The corners of Resban’s lips twitched slightly at the tickling sensation flowing through her fingertips.

“Now it’s Your Highness’s turn.”

Resban took off his uniform jacket with his rough hands and unbuttoned the first button of his shirt.

The firm muscles below his Adam’s apple began to reveal themselves.

He always wore uniforms or light armor, and this was the first time Esika witnessed his completely bare body.

Resban’s shoulders were broad, and unlike his fair and cool face, he had firm muscles.

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Resban unbuttoned the rest of his shirt while watching Esika staring at his exposed body.

He liked her reaction of not turning her head away or blushing, but subtly flickering her eyes.

Esika’s boldness intensified his thirst and stimulated his possessiveness.

As the last button popped off, his abs were revealed.

It was a body that seemed impenetrable by ordinary daggers due to its firmness, but there were scars here and there from the wars of his childhood.

Esika touched one of them.

As she gently stroked the rough one located just above his hipbone, Resban’s eyebrows twitched.

Resban took Esika’s hand and placed it on his firm chest.

“Should I endure more?”

After staring into his eyes for a long time, Esika shook her head.

Resban gently pressed her shoulder with his other hand, applying force, and Esika’s back touched the bedding as she fell backward.

“…Mmm……”

At the soft sensation touching her skin, Esika tilted her head back.

Her collarbone, every inch of skin that his lips brushed against, felt as hot as if burning in undulating flames.

Esika sometimes put her hand in his hair, gripped his shoulders, and he felt like an unyielding, solid rock.

She wanted to pull him closer yet push him away at the same time.

Unable to understand even herself, Esika exhaled short breaths and entangled with him in this strange and mysterious sensation.

Even as his patience was wearing thin, Resban carefully observed her every reaction.

His eyebrows furrowed as the threshold of stimulation filled up, but he gently prepared Esika.

“I’ve found your weakness.”

Esika couldn’t hold back a moan at Resban’s voice breathing dizzily.

Then his mischievous voice was heard.

“I like that affirmative answer.”

She looked at him as if protesting, but the kiss that followed immediately blocked her complaint.

It felt like hot and dizzy heat haze was rising in her head.

Was a night with a man always like this?

It felt like all her previous experiences were erased.

Resban’s touch was somewhat rough, but he meticulously found the points that gave Esika pleasure.

As if reading her thoughts, he figured out what she wanted and gently teased her.

Esika reached out to grab Resban’s shoulders, kissed him, gripped his arms tightly, and embraced his neck.

Minutes felt as long as tens of minutes at times, and at other times, she regretted that this moment of being loved was passing by.

“Esika, I love you.”

The sweet words mixed with somewhat rough breathing flowed into her ear, and Esika tightened her grip on him with the new sensation that came with it.

As if all the nerves in her body were focused on one point, her eyes lost strength and her vision blurred.

“Your High……”

“Call my name.”

“Resban…!”

Esika called out to him in a trembling voice.

She felt like she was about to lose consciousness from the feeling of fulfillment rising throughout her body.

Resban’s breathing had also become very intense, as if it was difficult for him to control himself.

He kissed Esika again.

Like lovers drowning in water, intertwining and yearning for each other, they exchanged breaths.

The back of Esika’s hand, tightly gripping Resban’s shoulder, was trembling.

This feeling of near-death ecstasy… was a first.

His body was like a solid and rough rising tide.

In her fading consciousness, he called Esika’s name several times.

In this dreamlike moment, she responded to Resban’s call.

Another kiss followed, and her mind grew hotter.

A hot and intense sensation spread from inside her body, like a volcanic eruption.

Her waist, the back of her neck, and the tips of her hands and feet tingled as if a potent poison was spreading.

The last thing Esika remembered was Resban’s thick exhale as he roughly inhaled and lightly bit her nape.

Amidst the sensations swarming like a swarm of bees, Esika lost consciousness.

**

“Don’t die, elder brother.”

In the summer when Dook Young was eight years old, he saved Young Ryeong from some stupid dogs of a nomad tribe, and the battered Dook Young heard Young Ryeong cry and say,

“…When I grow up, I’m going to marry you, elder brother. What if you die?”

Ten-year-old Dook Young looked at Young Ryeong with an indifferent expression.

Why did I save this crybaby, even I don’t understand.

Just seeing her being chased, my body moved on its own.

“I won’t die from something like this.”

“But the nomad dogs have poison stronger than vipers!”

“I still won’t die. If I say I won’t die, then I won’t die.”

The demonic cult raised children who lost their parents in the war as elites, and Dook Young stood out among them, being considered a candidate for the next Cheonma cult leader.

And Young Ryeong was… a child living alone in a flower world as the daughter of the cult leader, despite growing up in the survival-of-the-fittest Cheonma Cult… a child living a completely opposite life.

“And I’m not marrying you.”

Dook Young said, turning his back on the sniffling Young Ryeong.

“Huh? Why not?”

“Just because. So don’t say things like that to me. If you say it one more time, I’ll really…”

Young Ryeong chased after Dook Young, asking.

Still with reddened eyes, and looking with clumsy eyes at Dook Young’s wounds from saving her.

Her life will be bright, and these moments will be meaningless parts that flow by.

“I like handsome men, and elder brother is the most handsome in the demonic cult. So I must…”

A life completely different from his own, where just the warmth of the girl’s hand falling makes his heart flutter unreasonably.

Dook Young moved away from Young Ryeong with quick steps, as if running away.

“Elder brother!”

Young Ryeong, finally giving up on following him, wiped her nose once with her sleeve, then looked at Dook Young’s diminishing figure.

And she muttered worriedly, sighing.

“Your face is red. Looks like you’ve been badly poisoned.”

“……”

Esika, who had been muttering in her sleep about a dream from her past life, slowly opened her eyelids.

Bright sunlight was pouring into the bedroom through the window.

When she tried to move her body to the side, she felt a sharp pain near her waist.

Only then did she slowly start to remember what had happened last night.

Esika’s eyes, still not fully awake, gradually became clearer.

Esika sat up, pulling the blanket up to her chest.

“…You slept soundly.”

He, lying next to her, turned his body slightly and moved his lips while looking at Esika.

High bridge of the nose, brilliant golden eyes, a face like a sculpture. There was a faint smile at the corner of his lips.

What happened with him on this bed last night… seemed like something she would never forget for the rest of her life.

Resban, with his neat and cold exterior, somewhat cruel inner side, and yet another face.

His love was intense, passionate, and almost overwhelmingly deep.

If Esika’s physical strength hadn’t been strong, it would have been difficult to even raise her body from the bed.

Because he didn’t end it with just once.

And even now, his gaze is somewhat dangerous.