Chapter 66

The lips that met were getting hotter and hotter.

My chest went up and down because I was out of breath.

Lexion persistently followed my lips as I was about to move away and bit them.

He held onto my back, which was about to collapse, with one hand and held it in place.

The strength of his hard hand was transmitted down the spine of my back.

It was a thin chemise dress-type pajama, so the place he touched felt very hot. 

My body suddenly shuddered.

Still hanging onto his neck, I kissed him breathlessly. 

The sweet flesh gently swept through my teeth, invaded the inside of my mouth to his heart’s content, and fled.

The spots that Lexion passed through turned into fire as if they had been burnt.

Without realizing it, I grabbed his hair and let out a hot breath. 

“Heul…”

The lips that had been following me relentlessly stopped moving.

TL/N: AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Black eyes stared intently at me.

The glistening lips caught my eye.

What had just touched me was visible through the gap of his lips.

He whispered softly.

“Promise me you won’t go.”

“…”

“Say you won’t leave, Titi.”

Lexion let out gasps of hot breath and begged.

I gently swept away his sweaty hair.

I don’t know.

Now, I doubt whether it is true that I really want to go back to the original world. 

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Where should I go back?

Oh, come to think of it, I… Who was I?

“!!”

I was startled at the sudden oblivion.

I was flustered, collected my thoughts, and rummaged through my memories.

But no matter how much I looked, I couldn’t find my name. 

I lost my name.

The moment I realized it, I felt like a boatman who lost his key in the open sea. 

‘I don’t remember my name.’

Maybe it’s because I lived too long in Tiarozety.

I can’t remember my original name. 

‘Have I been completely assimilated into this place? Enough to forget my name?’ 

It was terrifying and eerie.

I feel like I’ve completely lost myself.

“Titi?”

Lexion called me with a quizzical face when I looked overly agitated.

I looked at him in the face in a daze.

Unlike him who found himself, I had forgotten about myself.

‘How the hell did this happen…?’

“Zion. I, I don’t remember my name.”

“…”

“I don’t remember who I was…!”

Then he hugged me in his arms, rubbed my back, and comforted me.

I could hear his heart beating as loudly as mine.

“It’s all right, Titi.”

“Heueug!”

Tears flowed profusely. 

I couldn’t bear the thought of losing myself.

He hugged me tighter and spoke.

“It’s all right. Really. You just have to remember that you exist here in this world. Then you’ll never lose yourself.”

“……”

“I’ll protect you. I’ll block it for you. I’ll carry it all for you so you don’t force yourself to do what you don’t want to do.”

Lexion comforted me without hesitation.

To not force me to do it meant I didn’t have to do what the book instructed, and to take it on his back meant he was willing to bear the penalty.

‘What’s that…’

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I didn’t want him to carry all the burden alone.

That’s too much work.

I lived my life acting in this world alone.

I endured the lonely time alone.

I was terribly lonely, scared, and wanted to die – not just one or twice.

“Zion.”

After regaining some stability, I called his nickname softly. 

I fell out of his arms and made eye contact.

I gently clasped his cheeks with my hands and gave him a soft smile. 

Yeah, I’m not alone.

Unbeknownst to me, he was traveling with me. 

With me on this long and grueling journey.

“I’m curious about your story.”

“……”

“How are you here?”

Lexion’s eyes seemed to widen, but they calmed down again.

After a while, he opened his lips and started talking to me.

“I…”

***

From the beginning, Lexion did not recognize himself. 

He was just a puppet that was not much different from the humans in this world.

As if everything was set from birth, his life was smooth sailing.

Born in Bael, the northern part of the country, where the rugged mountains and swift waves flowed, he studied at the academy in the capital city from an early age and walked the path of succession to the Duke. 

Naturally, the people he met were the children of celebrities, the rich, and even the royal family. 

After the succession, after meeting Seirin at the debutant, a mechanical encounter continued as if she was his destiny. 

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Lexion had taken his normal life for granted.

He never had any doubts about it before meeting Tiarozety. 

[Lexion’s POV]

TL/N: This part switches between first and third person but it’s all from Lexion’s POV.

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“Esol?” 

I happened to meet Tiarozety Esol at the slave market.

The blue eyes that were wary of me with a frightened face were very beautiful. 

As I held her in my arms, I did not hate the way she looked at me with a confused face, even though I was shocked.

By the way. 

“I, I’m fine.” 

“…?”

When did you start stuttering?

Obviously, when we first met, she was scared, but she had a rather stubborn expression on her face.

She looked spirited as if she would run away with her own feet if she was unsatisfied.

But she changed after she brought her luggage. 

She became visibly timid, often terrified, and did things she was told not to do, causing her to make big mistakes or get hurt.

What confused me the most was her appearance as if she was passing by.

“Zion!”

It was the day he returned from fighting a horde of demons stained with the evil dragon’s thoughts to save Seirin.

Drenched in blood and walking helplessly, she was visibly agitated and called me ‘Zion’.

It was different from the mechanical expression I had seen occasionally. 

I almost hugged her because I felt sorry for her trembling eyelashes.

But the armor I was wearing was bloody, so I just clenched my fists.

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It was strange.

I was obviously engaged to Seirin, and my body acted naturally as if urging me to love her.

However, from some point on, things that were familiar and natural kept feeling silly and uncomfortable.

Sometimes my body was stiff and I couldn’t move as I wanted.

‘Why am I doing this?’

Lexion thought he had a disease.

It had to be a severe mental illness.

Otherwise, it was not explained why the body and mind were different as if they had their own will. 

“There’s nothing wrong with the head.”

“Really? Even though it moves like it’s not my body sometimes?”

“I think you’ve been overdoing it lately. I’ll prescribe you a tranquilizer.”

The doctor only said he was in good health. 

But Lexion couldn’t believe what he said.

Yesterday and the day before, when he was with Seirin, his body moved freely.

He was obviously trying to follow Tiarozety.

However,

“Titi, please go ahead. I’ll take the Princess home.”

“Okay.”

I couldn’t hold on to Tiarozety, who was moving away with an ambiguous smile.

It happened many times, and Lexion wondered if he was going crazy.

In the meantime, there was a time when the will of his body stopped for the first time. 

When I was alone with Seirin, the atmosphere changed, and my body started to move on its own again. 

I was about to kiss her as if I were drawn to the atmosphere.

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Tiarozety was seen behind Seirin.

She had a painful expression on her face when she looked at me and Seirin. 

Lexion tried to stop by applying force to his mechanically moving body. 

I barely managed to stop at a distance my lips were about to touch. 

“…”

“Sir Lexion?”

Seirin suddenly stopped and softly called Lexion, who frowned.

Lexion clenched his teeth and endured.

How long did it last?

The force that controlled the body disappeared, and soon I was able to step back immediately.

I looked straight at where Tiarozety was standing, but she was nowhere to be seen. 

“I’m sorry.”

Lexion headed to Tiarozety’s room with those words.

And when he faced her, Lexion faced a strange sight. 

‘What the hell is that…?’

Next to Tiarozety, there was something like a book floating around.

It looked so bizarre that Lexion’s gaze kept moving upwards.

The moment I saw it, my breath stopped and my heart sank as if I learned the truth I never should have known.

Soon the book disappeared, and Tiarozety said to herself.

“Don’t laugh at me.”

“…”

Afterward, she muttered more, but I couldn’t concentrate. 

I was just flustered as I was chasing the afterimage of a book that had already disappeared.

“…I’m sorry.”

In the end, Lexion could not explain and returned in a hurry. 

After that, a book began to be seen around Tiarozety.

When she spoke to the book or made eye contact, it was obvious that she could see it too. 

And when the book was floating, Tiarozety started acting unnaturally. 

Passive and gloomy behavior that was completely different from the appearance she had when we first met. 

‘Is it because of that?’

Lexion could guess from her actions and the book.

That the book controls her. 

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However, it was a book that appeared and disappeared so suddenly, so I couldn’t check it properly.

Lexion wondered if he might be controlled by an invisible book and continue to do things he didn’t want to happen.

It was around the time when I was gradually getting to know about the book and Tiarozety.

At some point, Tiarozety kept trying to push Lexion.

It was very painful for Lexion, who made a lot of effort to even approach her when his body and will were in disarray. 

The relationship that was so close to being caught became even more difficult after Tiarozety went to the Imperial Palace. 

‘What the hell am I doing?’

Lexion felt powerless that he could not control himself. 

Then, he received an order from the emperor to form a subjugation squad. 

Thanks to that, he and Tiarozety were together again, and Lexion happened to find her carrying a certain book.

It was unexpected to see her while she was asleep, and I was wondering what she was carrying around preciously.

It was the Bible.

No, I thought it was a Bible.

But when I took it out, it was a completely different title.

As soon as he saw the book that read [The Opponent of the Dragon], Lexion opened the book as if drawn to it.