Chapter 215
Yoseph carefully wrapped his arms around Roina’s shoulders and laid her down. Roina’s back touched the sofa cushion. Swish, the hem of the light dress Roina was wearing fluttered.
Roina quietly looked up at him.
His usually neat blonde hair was disheveled, his skin was rather pale from not seeing much sunlight, and his body was on the lean side. He was taller than Roina, but without speaking, he still looked like someone who had just come of age. Yoseph had a tearful expression.
“…Yoseph.”
Roina raised her hand and placed it on his cheek. She felt his warm body temperature and soft touch. Yoseph closed his eyes and rubbed his cheek against her hand.
“Yes……”
Plop. A single drop of water flowed down his cheek.
“You’re a good younger brother.”
At Roina’s words, he lowered his head deeply. He knew. Just what kind of existence he was to her. Even so, hearing these words only made his heart ache. It seemed that all she could allow was a kiss.
“If we go beyond this, you know we can’t be like that anymore.”
“……”
Yoseph stubbornly kept his mouth shut, his eyes behind his glasses painfully contorted. He lowered his head as it was and pressed his forehead against Roina’s shoulder.
“…Is it really impossible for me?”
“……”
Roina simply raised her hand and hugged him. His shoulders shook at her gentle caress. Roina felt bitter. It wouldn’t be difficult for her to accept him once. She had already crossed the line, hadn’t she? But if their relationship changed because of that, it would be extremely painful for her. In the end, she couldn’t accept him.
The two of them stayed like that, embracing each other for a long time.
After Roina left, Yoseph took off his glasses and wiped them, sighing tiredly. Since he had fallen in love with her, heartache had been constantly tormenting him, but today, the area around his heart ached even more.
He had decided to stop here today, but he had no regrets. Among the men she kept by her side, he was probably the one she considered the most intimate.
‘I will stop here today. But.’
His eyes sank darkly. He knew from her that the people who remained by Roina’s side were people she needed. He didn’t know the details of those conditions.
‘Next time, you won’t be able to refuse me.’
Then there was a way for him to stay by her side. All he had to do was make her seek Yoseph out herself. Yoseph had enough patience and time to do that. And knowledge of ancient magic as well.
In the end, he would be the one who stayed by her side until the very end.
Yoseph put his glasses back on and adjusted them. The surroundings came into focus again. It was time to work again.
Tok, tok, tok.
In a solitary room deep within the Academy’s magical creature isolation zone, a man was hanging his head, listening to the sound of water droplets falling regularly.
His appearance was pitiful, like an angel with broken wings, with his clothes crumpled messily and wounds all over his body that hadn’t been properly treated. His blonde hair was matted with dried blood. He was Crown Prince Roberto.
“…Ha.”
He had dared to deceive him. Promising to give him everything, he had ruined everything. He gnashed his teeth in anger. He wasn’t someone who should be huddled in a corner like this. That devil who had deceived him had twisted everything.
But one thing had become certain.
[It’s a good deal. Pretending to give you a little power and taking the blood of Kailum. Thanks to your interference, it’s not a perfect form… but this is good enough.]
Roberto raised the corner of his lips and smiled. ‘The blood of Kailum’.
The price of the contract was his own bloodline. That meant that, in the black dragon’s judgment, Roberto was ultimately of the Kailum bloodline.
He had been denied like that, suspected like that. In the end, the being that had cast him into the abyss had confirmed it. That he was the rightful successor.
The Crown Prince leaned his head back against the cold and damp wall. He felt something crawling past in the distance. Goosebumps rose on his skin, and at the same time, he let out a hollow laugh at his own situation.
“You think this is the end?”
No. He was alive, and power was still seething within him. He was just resting a little from the aftermath of the severed final contract ritual. The black dragon’s power still remained with him.
His last words bothered him, but wasn’t he in a situation where he had lost everything anyway? And it was she who had made him that way.
“Roina.”
Keuh, the Crown Prince burst into laughter that seemed almost painful at first glance. Roina Roina Roina Roina!! His clawing voice echoed through the stone walls like a madman.
He was feeling himself slowly being consumed by the black dragon. He was probably gradually becoming one with the black dragon. However, there was one thing that had integrated most quickly.
It was his obsession with Roina.
It was something that both the Crown Prince and Ryuhyeon had in common.
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