“My wife is not a toy of Duke Sion, is she?”

The slightly sharp voice of Cedric could be heard.

Lamein blinked her tense eyelids slowly.

And looked at her husband standing next to her.

‘What does this man know to say something like that?’

Lamein was puzzled at that moment.

“Earl. What did you say?”

Sion’s subdued voice rang out.

A strange current intertwined between the two men facing each other.

“The word ‘sister who used to delight my brother’ somehow irritates my ears.”

At the end of his trembling voice, Cedric lazily pushed up one side of his lip.

Sion, who had been meeting his eyes slightly, stretched his mouth wide.

“My words have not even finished yet. It seems the Earl is rather impatient.”

Ha ha ha. The laughter that followed his words greatly irritated Lamein, and she glared.

Meanwhile, Cedric was looking at Sion with unmovable eyes.

“Now it’s not me but someone else. So, I was about to say that it looks good to have become someone who delights Earl Cedric.”

Are you babbling like a cheap liquor with that gaping mouth?

……Where is the bow?

At that precise moment, wanting to shoot an arrow right into Sion’s philtrum.

“You must think of her as a toy that lost a sibling.”

Cedric said coldly enough to make Lamein feel guilty.

Sion’s face began to twist at that moment.

“Why does Lamein have to be the delight of both Duke Sion and me?”

“……”

“Is Duke Sion thinking of welcoming his wife with such a heart?”

Failing to answer the consecutive questions, Sion could not respond.

“What is so good to look at? I think it’s not just me who doesn’t understand.”

“……”

“Am I wrong?”

The excessively calm voice sounded all the more threatening.

“It would be best not to let such annoying inner thoughts out again.”

Sion’s face, now completely crumpled, turned red.

Cedric’s intention behind those words was unclear.

But looking at Sion’s bewildered face, which had to be acknowledged, she felt refreshed inside.

“Then have a good time and leave.”

Cedric looked at Lamein with a curt voice.

“Lamein. Let’s move over there.”

And he gently pulled her waist towards him.

“Yes. All right. Cedric.”

She responded with a tender voice, softly closing her eyes.

“Then. That’s all.”

And she spat those words out in an indifferent voice, without even looking at Sion.

She could guess what kind of expression Sion would be making without looking.

With the most affectionate expression, she moved along with Cedric.

“Cedric.”

Lamein called him when the distance from Sion was far enough.

“Yes.”

“Why all of a sudden…”

Just when she was about to ask why he said such words to Sion.

“Cedric!”

Elina’s voice came from behind.

Both of them stopped.

“The hunting competition is about to start. Lamein. We should go and get a seat quickly.”

Elina, who had come up to them, said with an excited expression.
“Right. I need to get ready now. Let’s go to Lamein and watch comfortably.”

Cedric said, looking at Lamein.

“Right, Cedric. I’ll be cheering you on.”

Elina replied with a big smile.

Next to Elina, who seemed to be shaking the glow stick on her behalf, Lamein just nodded her head.

Cedric left his seat.

“Lamein, let’s go where the young ladies are.”

He headed towards where the young ladies who had come to watch the hunting contest were sitting.

They exchanged light greetings with the young ladies and sat in front of a table placed under the shade of a large tree.

“I’m looking forward to seeing what beasts will be hunted today.”

“The one who hunts the biggest beast will take an enormous prize, won’t they?”

“Shouldn’t it be given to the one who catches the most ferocious beast?”

Excited voices could be heard here and there.

‘How joyful they seem about taking a precious life.’

Lamein, who just felt that this contest was barbaric, kept her mouth shut and her place.

“It looks like it’s starting now.”

Enthusiastic participants climbed onto their horses to search for today’s target.

‘I’ll sit here for a while and then go looking for herbs.’

At that moment, when she was thinking only of her target, her eyes sparkling,

“Lamein, I think I saw Prince Sion Caliphs earlier. Did you meet him?”

When was that seen?

“Yes. I met him with Cedric.”

Lamein replied sulkily.

“I see.”

With an innocent expression, Elina nodded her head and didn’t bring up Sion’s story again.

Lamein turned her head and looked at Cedric, who was riding into the forest.

‘My wife is not a toy for Prince Sion, is she?’

‘The words “a brother who pleased my brother” somehow annoy me.’

She remembered what Cedric had said and slightly narrowed her eyes.

It was something that could be annoying as a husband if you looked at it closely,

‘Was it a word that made you look like that?’

Cedric’s words and actions were slightly strange.

Lamein, who had been lost in thought, frowned suddenly.

‘I must never meet that unlucky child again.’

In the end, while wrapping up her thoughts with anger towards Sion,

“Oh my. Look over there.”

“Oh! I didn’t even think he would come today.”

The surroundings began to buzz.

When she slowly turned her gaze, the young ladies sitting around were staring at one place with their backs straight.

The lips pressed up as calmly as possible to hide the excitement.

Eyes opened as prettily as possible.

And eyes shining with anticipation.

‘Where have I seen this scene many times before?’

While she was confused by the strange feeling of déjà vu,

“Duke Haribo has arrived.”

Elina said, smiling slightly.