Despair (3)

The dimly settled night sky was unrealistically beautiful at any time. The dark blue surrounding the Imperial palace even looked dreamy.

The moon was still shining brightly, and the surrounding area was filled with calm stars.

When she reached out, she was mesmerized by the night sky, which looked clear as if it would be touched at any moment. Above all, she liked the quietness.

The subtle sound of the wind and the cool night temperature made her feel better.

Now that she felt it, she laughed in vain. The Imperial palace looked calm and colorful on the outside, but the inside was different. The invisible fierceness and cruelty are hidden.

“…….”

She saw the guards who bowed their heads and stood guard. Even if many people protect like that, they will appear in front of her anytime they want through strict expenses.

“Did you wait for me?”

Just like now.

She couldn’t even scream when she saw Nox smiling in front of her casually. Somehow, she thought the scenery was so beautiful.

Instead of what he wanted to hear, she brought up what she wanted to say.

“Contract with me.”

But Nox’s eyes flashed as if her words were not too bad. The red eyes felt unusually creepy, and the slanted corner of the mouth was revealing the feeling of Nox today.

“You wanted to sign a contract with me, too.”

It was Nox, who constantly tried to seduce her every time. He refused her offer due to his contract with Arthur, but there was no reason for him to worry now that everything was over. Just as Arthur became free, Nox was not bound by anything.

Rather, he may need more contracts when he has lost something now.

“Aren’t you mad at me?”

Nox’s eyes sank in an instant. She reached out to him, looking at him but not getting close enough to reach him. Her hand, which was approaching Nox’s cheek, changed its orbit and grabbed Nox by the collar.

“Ugh.”

Nox, pulled close to her with a short moan, fiddled with her hair and smiled. The strange air flowing between Nox and her, burned her mouth.

They stared at the gaze still.

“You said it’s okay to die in my hands, right?”

“I did.”

Nox’s fingers slowly climbed up her hair and stroked her face. She was exhausted when she saw his face, who was not afraid of death.

She thought she should make a bet with him and look for loopholes. One, maybe this is an emotional and unreasonable behavior?

“You’re so pathetic.”

More than Arthur, perhaps a poor man. To live by imitating others and eating human fear without feeling emotions.

“Let’s pretend there was no contract.”

Everything is over anyway.

As long as Arthur goes to Viblant, the space will soon disappear, and he was the only one who shared Nox’s secret.

She felt like her blood was cooling down. She let go of the collar she had grabbed while looking at Nox’s fierce distorted face.

“Why don’t you get angry?””

“…….”

He looked relaxed, straightening his disheveled shirt. The answer to what he asked her was very simple.

He continued to compare himself with Arthur, but he was mistaken for one thing.

“Of course.”

The wind passed by her words. She breathed in and inhaled because it was stronger than she thought. Sadly, he was showing her his feelings in a different way.

At Nox’s action, saying that he didn’t want to hear it, she picked up on it and smiled and etched it into his ear.

“Unlike Arthur, I don’t love you.”

Anger is something that occurs only when one is interested in emotions. The sense of betrayal was also an emotion she experienced because she trusted that person.

But if there is no emotion in the first place, there is no reason to be angry with him.

That was all.

“Do you understand? I mean I’ve never been angry purely because of you.”

It was a lie. Looking back on what she has done so far, it is easy not to be angry.

“Now you can tell lies. Did you erase Mary, who was angry at me that day, from your memory?”

“…….”

Nox is right. She expressed her anger without filtering the day Carl died. Nevertheless, she was silent.

When Carl died because of her, she was angry with Nox for deliberately teaching him how to break the contract.

However, when she realized that he would be happy to show such feelings, her feelings disappeared surprisingly.

“How does it feel?”

She heard a crackling sound of teeth. A proper emotion appeared in his eyes for the first time, and he was angry now.

A clear smile spread on her face at the first look on his face, which she had never felt before.

“That’s right. It feels like that.”

“……I don’t like it.”

Nox took out a letter from her arms and handed it over to her. She stepped back from his sudden behavior, but took a step closer to Carl’s signature on the envelope.

Why does Nox have Carl’s letter? He disappeared after leaving the words, ‘I bought it because of that guy.’

She had an intuition that this meeting with him would be the last time.

Sliding. She sat against the wall and opened the letter. Unlike the first letter she received from her father, it was a little longer.