Having hesitated, hesitated, sometimes turned away, and suffered during that anxious time.

He stood before you with his difficult steps.

Although it was a challenging step for himself.

If you come to me.

As you walk a flower path.

Happier and more comfortably than any other day.

It would be great if you came to me with joy like that.
Hmm. Cedric took a deep breath and a smile formed on his lips.

“First, there are things that need to be addressed to do that.”

In an instant, the eyes, which had changed color, sank heavily.

“No. Why on earth are you doing this?”

Lamain briskly walked down the corridor, holding her stinging cheek with both hands.

The man, who began to reveal his feelings, seems to have no hesitation.

“I barely adapted to the handsome face without any immunity, and now, what’s going on?”

It feels like encountering one challenge after another.

She slowed down the pace of her hurried steps, swallowing a deep breath.

And then, she recalled the conversation she had with Cedric a while ago.

Everything has been revealed.

Except for one thing.

“How can I say that…”

She sighed softly, speaking in a low voice.

‘I love you.’

With eyes that seem to see only her in the world.

‘So please stay by my side.’

I’ll wait for you until you come.

Looking at the man saying that.

I might die soon.

… How can he say such words?

Hoping it would pass like the wind flowing through.

But it stopped, trapped in the stagnant wind.

Her tangled heart in the meandering wind.

Now, I don’t know where it will flow.

Once again, Lamain, who exhaled a deep sigh, slowly raised her eyelids.

Roberto, who was walking from the opposite side of the corridor, slightly bent his waist in greeting.

“Ah, Roberto. I had something to tell you.”

“Yes, madam. Please speak.”

Roberto approached and stood straight in front of her.

“Can you get some cold medicine by any chance?”

“Madam, do you have a cold?”

“No, not me, but Jane.”

Roberto, who slightly raised his eyelids for a moment, spoke right away.

“Using medicine for maids is prohibited.”

In response to the firm refusal, Lamain raised her eyebrows slightly.

Understood. Of course, she understood.

“I’m asking for Jane. I think it’s better than her cold spreading to me.”

But the overly sharp refusal was slightly perplexing.

‘Did he have feelings for Jane?’

The cold expression and words of Roberto made her feel quite upset.

“Then, I’ll arrange for another maid for the time being.”

“No, I don’t want anyone other than Jane.”

As Lamain raised her voice, a perplexed look crossed Roberto’s eyes.

“I’ll make sure Jane receives her share of the medicine.”

In the eyes that told her not to say anything more.

“Yes, please do that.”

Roberto replied with a solid voice.

Cough, cough.

Holding her cough with her hands, Jane hugged the blanket.

Knock, knock.

At the moment she raised her face, buried in the blanket, at the sound of a knock.

“May I come in for a moment?”

Roberto stands between the wide-open doors.

“Yes, Mr. Roberto.”

Jane quickly raised her upper body, tidying up her disheveled clothes.

Roberto, who approached right in front of her, stared at Jane in silence for a moment.
“What brings you here?”

As Jane moved to get up from the bed.

“Just stay like that. And take this.”

Roberto extended a small bottle containing medicine towards Jane.

“Oh, medicine…”

Recalling Lamain’s words, Jane slightly raised her eyebrows.

“Take it.”

Roberto, observing Jane hesitating for a moment, exerted some force in the hand holding the medicine bottle.

“Thank yo… Cough, cough.”

The space between Roberto’s eyebrows wrinkled slightly as he watched Jane.

“Madam is worried. Get well soon.”

But soon after smoothing his expression, he turned away.

“Rest.”

Jane, holding the medicine bottle in her hand, watched Roberto, who was moving away towards the door.

“Thank you, Mr. Roberto.”

A voice that seemed to be heard, almost like a murmur. Roberto stood still as if caught by the ankle.

And then, he sighed briefly and slowly turned his body.

“Jane.”

“Yes, Mr. Roberto.”

The tangled gaze silently passed.

“How long are you going to endure like this?”

At the softly spoken words, Jane’s eyes subtly shook.

“How long are you going to endure?” he asked, but it sounded more like telling her to stop.

“Is my path wrong?”

Firmness hidden in the black eyes where the hesitation disappeared.

She also asked a question, but said she couldn’t.

“I just…”

“It’s the path I chose.”

Roberto, who had been looking at her as if he had stopped, let out a sigh.

Like trying to catch the wind in the palm of his hand.

You might be such a child.

“So, please don’t say anything more.”

Trying to confine the freely flowing wind.

He would sway in the wind for a while and eventually let it go.

A bitter smile spread on Roberto’s lips as he gazed fixedly.

It feels strange to see a you I’ve never caught.

You have never come to me even once.

Why does my heart ache like this?

“Well, rest.”

I couldn’t figure it out at all.

A few days later.

In a deep forest where even the wind feels melancholic.

Thud, thud.

The footsteps of Cedric and Sylvia echoed in the quiet space.

The two, who were walking silently, stopped their steps.

Next to the waterfall where a strong stream fell, there was a small cave.

“It’s over there.”

As Sylvia’s words ended, Cedric, without a word, stepped into the cave.

In the cave where the light flowing down made the front barely visible, the shadows of the two were cast.

“Ugh! Ugh!”

“Gah! Gah!”

With gags in their mouths and bodies tied up, the two men and women who had collapsed on the floor began to struggle.

Cedric, who had stopped walking, looked at the two alternately with narrowed eyes.

A calm but eerie smile spread on the straightened corners of his mouth.

“Clara Yeong-ae. The first meeting is quite memorable.”

He stared at the face of the instigator who deceived Lamain and put her life in danger.

“I heard you swindled nobles for a living. Seems like that money wasn’t enough.”
A swindler who pretended to be a noble and deceived people.

“Ugh! Ugh!”

With desperate eyes that seemed like there was nothing else in the world, the swindler looked at Cedric.

“Oh, is that a plea for mercy?”

Cedric, tilting his chin slightly, one corner of his lips rose with a hint of sarcasm.

“You should have hoped for that before doing such things. Don’t you think so?”

Under the eerie cold voice, the struggles of the two men and women became increasingly intense.

The expression on Cedric’s face, who had been silently observing, disappeared.

“Such resentful eyes should be shown in front of Sion. Wasting time on trash like you is not worth it.”

The moment Cedric finished speaking, Sylvia took a step forward and grabbed the handle of her knife.

“Sylvia.”

At the moment of the restraining voice, she stopped her movement and turned her head.

Mercy seems to not exist in this world.

“Leave.”

The man with eyes filled with a chilling vitality whispered coldly.