While Damian was gone, Lilian carefully looked around the barracks.
Lilian had never been to a battlefield. But she had been to hunting events, so she usually knew how to set up the barracks.
But Damian’s barracks were for wartime.
Even considering the circumstances, it was very simple.
Minimum furnishings for life during the war, tables and maps for command meetings and other things.
It was a desolate space with only the absolutely necessary items.
“…”
It seemed that young Damian would hate it if she wandered around any further. Lilian decided to wait patiently and sat down on the bed.
-How are you doing?
At that time, the voice of Zagreb reached Lilian’s ears.
“Zagreb?”
-Don’t speak. My voice can only be heard by you. And if you answer in your mind, I can hear it.
Zagreb warned her that if she answered out loud, she would be treated like a madman. Lilian sighed and answered.
‘I’m already being treated like a crazy woman.’
Could this really be the place where the piece of Damian that have the greatest attraction on Lilian, is located?
In response to that question, Zagreb calmly replied yes.
-He didn’t kill you right away when he saw you. I don’t know about you, but that’s really great.
‘You mean the other pieces might want to kill me as soon as they see me?’
-That’s not going to happen. Although the piece here is the most likely to fall in love with you right away given the situation, in fact, everyone likes you similarly.
And then Zagreb advised.
-Anyway, be careful not to die. What happened in this memory might remain in your husband’s memory when the soul fragment is returned to him.
‘You didn’t tell me that?’
If the experience of killing Lilian remained even in his memory, Damian would be very terrified. When Lily questioned, the mirror quickly answered.
-It’s a very slight possibility, just a possibility. Besides, I’ll help you. I mean, just in case, be careful.
‘Make sure there’s nothing you don’t know.’
-I got it! Anyway, you can rest easy now. You may not see him that way, but he’s already attracted to you. If you touch him once, it’s game over.
If she touched him, the game was over? Not only was it difficult to understand the content, but she also didn’t like the comparison of this serious situation to a game.
‘Don’t talk like that about His Highness.’
-Hmph, what great love.
Lilian sighed at the ironic grunt and spoke more sternly.
‘Wasn’t it your mistake in the first place?’
-Okay, I got it. Anyway, don’t forget my advice. In a little while, your husband will come back in a bit of a shock and sharp, but don’t worry, just reach out.
‘…’
-Trust me. Then everything will work out.
The mirror’s voice disappeared, leaving only unreliable advice.
For the first time, Lilian wanted to smoke her herbs for a reason unrelated to headache or dizziness.
Just then, she heard a noise outside the barracks.
Lilian raised her brows like a startled rabbit with its ears pricked up. The barracks door opened.
“Your Highness!”
“It’s okay, so shut up and get out of here.”
It smelled like blood.
Clearly, it was only a short period of time, less than an hour. However, Damian, who had gone out in one piece, appeared covered in his blood.
Strangely, that wasn’t the only thing.
‘He obviously didn’t go out wearing armor…’
As if half-armored, Damian’s arm and shoulder were swollen in a grotesque shape.
Ivan and a man who appeared to be a wizard hurriedly followed him in.
“Okay, let’s do something with that sword first!”
“That’s right, Your Highness the Grand Duke. Unusual evil mana is from that sword…!”
“I know that best since I was stabbed.”
Damian pulled out the silver dagger stuck in the other shoulder with his arm that seemed to be wearing a grotesque armor and threw it away. The movement was so rough that blood gushed along and splattered into the air.
“Your Highness!”
Damian growled and warned.
“Get out both of you before I kill you.”
Ivan looked at Damian and then at Lilian, who was sitting silently with confused eyes, but had no choice but to withdraw with the wizard.
Damian groaned in irritation and met Lilian’s eyes as he slumped on the bed.
“Your Highness…”
“What.”
Damian’s lips twisted ominously.
“Seeing this, did you finally want to run away?”
“Not that…”
Before she could ask to let her see the wound, Damian came closer to Lily. Huk, and a bloody smell emanated.
“…!”
As Damian grew closer, Lilian finally noticed.
He wasn’t wearing half of his armor all of a sudden in a place other than the barracks.
Damian’s skin, visible through the torn cloth, and the hand itself was deformed into a grotesque shape.
Steel-like skin that shone black. His hands were swollen to about 1.5 times.
It was a shape that looked sharp even down to the fingertips. It was also strangely beautiful to say it was bizarre. It was like the arm of a demonic beast specialized in tearing people apart.
‘Is…is it because of the knife?’
Lilian looked at the dagger thrown to the floor with a confused look. Her vision was limited, but she could see that it’s a familiar shape.
‘This is the knife that His Highness gave me before to stab him.’
But back then, Damian explained that she had to stab him with it to subdue him.
‘He said it’s has sealing magic from the Magic Era.’
He didn’t say that it would change his form into something like a beast.
‘Then this…’
“Why, didn’t the person who sent you explain that I’m such a monster?”
He was sarcastic.
Lilian shook her head to come to her senses. The important thing now was not that the shape of Damian’s arm had changed slightly.
“Show me your wounds, Your Highness.”
“What?”
“There’s a lot of blood. Sit here for now.”
Lilian casually placed her hand on Damian’s uninjured shoulder, where the shape had changed into a demonic beasts.
“…!”
Damian’s eyes widened.
But the moment Lilian saw Damian’s blood gushing like a fountain, she fogot Zagreb’s advice. With her bold side, she didn’t care if Damian was surprised or not.
“You…”
The moment Lilian’s hand touched him, the young Damian was doing the same out-of-body experience that he would go through in the future.
With half of his upper body already deformed in a painful state, he experienced far more intense sensations than the adult Damian experienced.
From where Lilian’s hand touched, an intensely soft sensation ran through his body. Damian let out a groan.
Damian’s brain was accustomed to pain. It’s like he’s being torturned every day. His brain, which was almost ruined, recognized the soft sensation Lily gave and the comfortable feeling of being wrapped in a well-dried baby blanket as intense pleasure.
What is this?
What are you?
Of course, Lilian had no idea what Damian was thinking or feeling.
She carefully moved the collar of Damian’s shirt and examined his shoulder. Then she let out a sigh of relief.
“It’s all right. Thank goodness.”
What are you happy about?
Damian was dumbfounded.
Isn’t it normal to scream and run away from a half-monster who heals so quickly?
Didn’t everyone do that?
Even Ivan, now with a fairly large liver, screamed at him at first. Even now, when seeing the speed at which Damian’s wounds were healing, they’d get a bit squeamish.
But she’s happy?
Unaware of how confused Damian was, Lilian just let out a sigh of relief as she withdrew her hand from examining the wound.
“I heard that Your Highness has good resilience, but it’s true.”
She wanted to quickly collect these soul fragments and return them to Damian. If so, the wound on Damian’s neck would soon heal.
Thinking that way made her heart feel lighter.
Damian’s purple eyes quivered with confusion as he saw Lilian, who was genuinely relieved.
“You…what?”
Could it be that he’s crazy? Could he be dreaming because he got caught in his second brother’s trick?
Is he seeing what he most desires in his dreams?
“…?”
Only then did Lilian feel puzzled. She thought he would be angry because she casually grabbed him and examined his wounds, but Damian was confused.
He didn’t have the same sharp hostility in his purple eyes as before.
Lilian was a little surprised when she realized that she touched Damian, following the mirror’s advice.
‘I see, it was really good advice…’
“…more…”
At that moment, a soft voice escaped Damian’s lips.
“More…please touch me.”
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