Welcome to the Demon’s Cabin - Chapter 59

“Why on earth does the conversation leap like that?”

“But it was a line that felt exactly like that.”

“Ha…… I did not wish to speak to this extent, but Miss Irene, you are far too open.”

Now, Idris’s face went beyond the point of his soul escaping and was bleaching out. From a while ago, his skin showed no sign of the redness fading due to the excessive visual stimulation and the cold water temperature.

“Why do you not deny it? Could it be that you truly grew up that way?”

“It was not to that extent.”

“Really?”

Irene tightly grabbed his arm with both hands. As soon as the slender fingers touched him, the muscles of his thick arm twitched, and the tendons strained heavily. From behind her, the sound of teeth grinding could be heard.

“……Please, do not lay a hand on me.”

“But Mr. Idris, you are holding me. How can we not make contact?”

“Do not distort another person’s pure intentions. Is it not that I am simply holding you so that you cannot move?”

“Ahahaha! Mr. Idris, do you know that the more your reaction is like that, the more I want to play pranks on you?”

Irene laughed out loud as if she were dying of amusement. An exasperated gaze landed on her figure as she even slapped the surface of the water with her palm. The finely splashing water droplets reflected the moonlight and sparkled pure white.

When water splashed mercilessly onto his already heavily soaked hair and body, Idris frowned. A sharp tone escaped from his mouth, as he lacked the mental composure to cater to Irene’s whims.

“What on earth is so amusing about this kind of low-quality prank?”

“Low-quality? It is not a stranger, but Mr. Idris, so what does it matter?”

It was the same for her, but in any case, Mr. Idris would feel nothing other than embarrassment, so what did he mean by malicious? He was merely reacting that way because he was so completely rigid.

“Haah. Miss Irene, since I know your personality to some extent, it is fine for me, but generally, it is perfectly easy to misunderstand it as a deceptive advance.”

“Why? It is correct. I am making an advance to play.”

Idris’s body flinched. Before he could even hide his feelings, a long sigh leaked out once again.

“Please stop making statements that carry such a risk of misunderstanding…… I am begging you like this.”

He seemed truly desperate. Irene lightly leaned her head against Idris’s firm chest and raised her gaze as much as possible. Eyes of completely opposite colors met at close range. Idris’s eyes shook frantically. His mouth, which had been pouring out passionate speech, closed tightly. Under Irene’s gaze that watched him without a word, Idris’s face gradually flushed red.

Irene smiled brightly, just as she always did. When her heavily soaked long hair was felt explicitly through a single layer of his thin shirt, Idris’s body stiffened rigidly.

He, who had been looking at her as if possessed, startled violently as if burned the moment he saw Irene’s lips part, and pushed her away with all his might without mercy.

“Pff-ha!”

Irene, who was suddenly pushed back by a powerful force and had her face struck by the water’s surface, swept her hair back in absurdity. Irene’s sharp gaze, which had been briefly contemplating whether to give him a piece of her mind, softened instantly upon seeing Idris’s appearance. Her eyes opened wide into circles.

Idris was turning his head away with a face as crimson as if it were burning. He remained like that for a long while before his eyes met hers for barely a brief moment, but his blue eyes instantly distanced themselves from her again and were hidden behind tightly shut eyelids.

He, who had even begun to take deep breaths, soon raised his hand and suddenly slapped his own cheek. A clear ‘slap’ sound echoed cheerfully. He had struck himself so hard that his cheek turned into a red mess in an instant.

“What are you doing!”

Irene tried to approach him in horror. A splashing sound spread as she parted the water.

Idris, on the contrary, snapped his head away and stuck tightly to the edge of the lake.

“Please. Please stay still! Is it that difficult not to move? Your upper body is on the verge of being completely exposed!”

“……No, to that extent? But in the first place, the water was clear, so was it not all visible? Now of all time?”

His eyes seemed to be at a level slightly inferior to mine.

Idris slowly turned to look at her with an expression of shock. His face looked as if he had just heard news that the world would end tomorrow.

“You knew that? Knowing that, yet you still…… How can a person be like that……”

No, first of all, she was not even a person, and it was not such a shocking matter either. Irene reached out her hand to refute him, but Idris, filled with disgust, instantly poured strength into his arms that gripped the ground. Shaking off even Irene’s hand and displaying superhuman strength, he landed on his knees outside the lake in a single motion.

‘What is it, why is his strength so immense?’

Irene looked down at her hand, which had been struck away helplessly. She had not put any strength into it, but it was not a hand extended lightly or carelessly either.

‘He is certainly no ordinary knight…….’

“I shall take my leave now! Since it seems you will not even sink, please wear something while swimming! Preferably alone!”

Idris picked up his outerwear that was strewn beside him and glared at her, filled with resentment. His heavily soaked trousers, hands, and shirt were a mess, stained with dirt and grass, but as if he did not care, he lightly slapped his own cheek a few more times.

His body, which was turning as if to flee immediately like that, suddenly stopped. Ruffling his hair repeatedly as if going mad, he bent his knees and sat down. He began to pick up the fragments of the lamp that had fallen and shattered earlier. His heavily soaked trousers, hands, and shirt became an even greater mess with more dirt and grass smeared on them, but he seemed not to care.

Having gathered all the pieces in no time, he quickly turned around and kicked off the ground. Idris’s retreating figure distanced itself with astonishing speed. Irene, dumbfounded by this series of events, opened her mouth slightly.