“No, is this human real?”
The bewildered Ivan said something while swearing behind his back.
Damian sprinted down the corridor. The subordinates who were carrying documents hurriedly evaded His Highness and skillfully lowered their heads, but Damian didn’t notice.
The season was already summer.
Matteo and Ivan weren’t just busy. It’s because the date of the coronation ceremony, which was a problem in which all important national events were concentrated, was right around the corner.
Today, Damian was dressed in only beige trousers and a lemony cream shirt that matched his hair color and the weather.
It was a combination that matched well, but even if it’s inside the house, it was a bit plain to say that it’s the outfit of His Highness.
Damian, dressed too casually, stretched out his arm casually and quickly snatched a red peach from the fruit basket that decorated the hallway.
When he took a bite, the fragrant juice exploded in his mouth. Unfortunately, Damian Rupenwein was a seriously ill patient who perceived the world where his wife is missing as achromatic, so he was only calculating like this with an expressionless face.
‘I heard that my grandfather set up an orchard and brought all kinds of peach trees for my wife…’
The juicy peaches were mashed in his mouth as if it would burst in one more bite.
Peach trees brought in from a distant country by the former Great Feudal Lord Hemenlinna using a tyrannical abuse of power at the cost of much gold were perfectly rooted in this country after systematic and meticulous management.
The Great Feudal Lord was not satisfied with that. The old man, who was more likely to die than Lily, bought peach trees from all over the world before he died.
To put it mildly, the Great Feudal Lord took the social world by their feet with his bizarre hobby of collecting peach trees in his later years.
That’s how rumors went.
Even now, after the death of the Great Feudal Lord, peaches were sweet and delicious every season.
And even now, Lilian loved peaches very much.
Lilian was still Lilian, though her health had been slowly improving since she had some connection with Damian.
She lost her appetite easily when her fever rose over trivial things, or when she collapsed without even being in a fever.
Even in that situation, she did eat a few slices of peaches.
Mrs. Maureen and the others in the household worked diligently to reflect the tastes of their beloved mistress.
As soon as the full-scale peach season arrived, the mansion was covered with the scent of peaches.
Even now, in the kitchen, they were making jam, dipping blueberries, and boiling down the bottle, and a famous perfumer in the capital was preparing a special perfume for Lilian with the peach scent as the heart.
Damian crushed the precious peach with his teeth, as if chewing the heart of his enemy.
‘…it’s annoying.’
A reasonable inference that can generally be made in this situation was as follows.
‘Does His Highness hate peaches?’
It wasn’t like that. Damian neither hates nor likes peaches. However…
‘Why did my grandfather give my wife an orchard of her favorite peach as a present, is it because he knew my wife better than I did?’
There were only peach trees in the orchard.
‘The old man is real. Do it in moderation.’
Deprived of a chance, Damian couldn’t help but squeeze the nasty peaches and burst them, so he was chewing and crushing them all with his teeth.
It was then.
“Hm?”
Damian’s keen hearing heard Lilian’s faint voice.
‘This.’
It must have been because he’s too focused on crushing peaches. Damian grabbed the third floor window sill before people even had time to stop him, and he swiftly went over.
“Oh my, Your Highness…!”
People were surprised, but Damian stepped on the roof of the balcony on the second floor before he knew it and jumped to the roof of the annex on the other side.
Even if the Rupenwein Empire collapsed and he was dropped in a foreign country where he could not communicate, he could earn enough money with his body by stealing and killing.
Damian put a finger on his lips. As soon as the sign to shut up was given, Lilian appeared from across the hallway.
Even today, Lilian was with her fellow Sorority classmates.
‘The motive was to acquire knowledge of interior decoration and help to change the interior to welcome guests right after the coronation ceremony. Or something like that.’
Damian never missed or forgot what Lilian said.
He still didn’t like it when someone was invited to their nest, but…the feeling of just looking at his wife’s face from a distance, which he never got tired of looking at up close all day, was surprisingly not bad.
‘Ooh.’
Lilian, who looked at the wallpaper, paint color, curtains, etc. that her subordinates showed her, and talked with her classmates, was wearing the face of a completely different person.
Damian realized that Lily’s kind, but polite and calm demeanor had become quite unfamiliar to him.
‘That’s because my wife now shows me more attitude than towards others like that…’
He felt like he was getting better.
‘Not bad.’
As expected, sometimes you have to look far away to realize something new.
Damian sat down like a cat on a roof.
Looking at Lily, he wasn’t worried about what to do.
It’s quite a distance, and his wife isn’t very sensitive to the surroundings…
Then he met eyes with one of the shortest of the women surrounding Lilian.
‘What was her name, Sol-something?’
Solaria was the most charming and smart. She was also formidable in the order of liking Lilian, making her the one most hated by Damian among the Sorority girls.
‘Uselessly sticking to my wife…’
It was the same with Solaria.
Damian and Solaria’s brows were mirrored, frowning in displeasure. At the same time, Solaria called to Lilian.
‘Oh no, damn it.’
It seems that she’s trying to reveal Damian’s whereabouts.
But Damian did not avoid it. Now, in many ways, he would be ugly if he ran away in a hurry.
Even in death, he did not want to be ugly in front of his wife.
Besides, in this place, he was relieved. Lilian couldn’t come to the roof to catch Damian. And Damian had no intention of being captured by anyone other than Lily.
Sure enough, when Lilian found Damian, she put on an absurd expression.
Just by looking at her expression, he felt like he could hear her voice saying, “Your Highness, why are you there?”
Damian decided to just laugh.
If he was a normal person, he would have just looked crazy, but Damian seemed fine because of his believable appearance.
In the end, Lily also gave upㅡDamian positively decided to think that Lilian was overcome by his beautyㅡand waved at Damian with a gentle smile.
Damian, who was enchanted by Lilian’s smile and tried to wave his hand in the same way…
‘Oops.’
Surprised, he hid his hand without realizing it.
“…?”
Lilian tilted her head a little in puzzlement, but her attention was soon distracted by Solaria’s cynical distraction.
It was fortunate for Damian.
‘…did she see?’
Damian thought, startled like a cat with a stiff tail.
Fortunately, his beloved Lilian was someone who’s insensitive.
‘Yeah, you wouldn’t have noticed…’
Seeing Lily’s back as she returned to the original topic of conversation with the people of her sorority, he felt both relief and sadness.
Perhaps he forgot he was running away.
Damian, his mood subdued, slinked away from the roof.
***
The summer days were long.
Until the sunset fell on the floor, Damian was hiding in a secret place only he knew.
Despite acting like a wild cat, no one was looking for Damian.
It seems that Lilian had forgotten him altogether, and his men didn’t look for him, thanks to having done his tasks in the morning.
Damian laid down on the rough grained floor.
“…could it be boredom?”
He and his wife were in perfect possession of each other beyond a normal married relationship. At least Damian thought so.
Damian was so happy and satisfied that Lilian alone couldn’t handle it, but Lily, who has a big bowl, might not be satisfied with just one person.
“Maybe she’s tired of me already. Or maybe she wants a thrill outside of marital relationships…”
Of course, Lilian Islar, who’s not only upright but honest, didn’t even dream of having an affair. Damian knew that all too well.
Nevertheless, the reason for saying these things is, of course…
“Is that possible?”
It was just to hear this answer.
Damian smirked as he closed his eyes. Lilian let out a sigh of relief.
Damian liked even that falling sigh.
“You’re here.”
“Yes, I am. I’m looking for Your Highness. You can’t skip dinner.”
Damian, who was more powerful than his tolerable spear and sword, wasn’t concerned about his own meals and didn’t bother to take care of them.
“How did you know I was here?”
At Damian’s words, Lilian looked around.
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