Emile moved his quivering chin as he asked Noel, confirming one thing.
“You kissed the Princess before you even confessed to her… Are you… Lord Mayer?”
“What?”
The sudden question was enough to catch Noel off guard.
Not only did Emile find out his identity, but he somehow knew about Noel kissing Rieta?!
“Wh, What?!”
“What are you pretending not to know? That’s what the Princess said! She was kissed by someone who she had been living with for a long time, but who wasn’t her lover!”
Noel wanted to scream that it was nonsense!, but he couldn’t.
This was because Elisha’s sword, which had been aiming for Emile’s neck, quietly moved through the air and slid under Noel’s neck instead.
“I thought… I could be friends with the Young Lord. Honestly.”
Noel’s eyes shook.
Looking at Elisha’s calm expression, it was clear that he was beyond anger— he had lost his reason.
“What on earth did you do to the Princess? Is that the behavior of a gentleman that the Empire is proud of?”
Emile nodded his head repeatedly next to Elisha.
“Even mercenaries don’t do that. You attacked her with your lips without even confessing!”
“I can’t even imagine how deeply hurt the innocent Princess must have been.”
Noel looked at the two people suddenly working together to attack him and shouted in astonishment, “I’m the victim here! I don’t know why the Princess said that in the first place, but I haven’t done it yet!”
“Did you hear that?”
Elisha asked, looking back at Emile.
“Yes, he said he hadn’t done it ‘yet’.”
“I don’t even want to think of him as the same man anymore.”
“It’s a shame. A man’s shame that transcends status and nationality!”
The two people worked together so well that it made him wonder if they had practiced somewhere in advance.
“Elisha! Why are you suddenly doing this to me? Do you really think I’m the type of person who would do something like that without even confessing? Do you think I would be that impatient?”
“Yes.”
Noel was left speechless by Elisha’s immediate answer.
“…”
But he couldn’t just stay still like this.
“Well, then you don’t think the mercenary might lie to avoid the situation?”
Noel countered again, and fortunately, it seemed like it was persuasive. Elisha looked back at Emile.
Of course, Emile shook his head.
Elisha, relieved to hear that it was not a lie, questioned Noel again.
“Fortunately, this person’s lips speak the truth.”
With a clang, the sharp tip came closer to the tip of Noel’s chin.
“Young Lord, you should also tell me the truth.”
“I mean, I—!”
“Can you really swear that those lips have never touched the Princess’ precious body?”
Noel was about to shout, “No, never!”, but his mouth remained open for a moment. He delved into the past.
“That’s… It’s not that I haven’t touched her…”
The men on both sides raised their eyebrows again at the hesitant answer.
Noel felt unfair no matter how much he thought about it, so he decided to reveal the exact facts.
He wanted to keep it to himself forever, but it wouldn’t be strange if he was killed by Elisha if he stayed silent.
“That! It wasn’t the lips. It was her forehead.”
“Is it just the forehead? No more?”
“Uh, well… The back of her hand… and her hair…”
Shouldn’t this be okay? Noel looked at the two people in turn, hoping that their doubts would be alleviated.
“If you kiss her forehead or the back of her hand with sinister intentions, it’s no different from kissing the lips!”
“If you kiss her forehead or the back of her hand with sinister intentions, it’s no different from kissing the lips!”
However, the two people said these words at the exact same time, still glaring at Noel.
“…”
At this point, Noel began to suspect that Elisha was the one who hired the mercenary.
If Noel were to be asked if he sometimes harbored ulterior intentions toward Rieta, he definitely did.
To be honest, wouldn’t a person be crazy if they didn’t harbor ulterior intentions in such subtle atmospheres?
“Ah, forget about it!”
In any case, that wasn’t what was important right now.
An irritated Noel screamed. “Alright, fine. I am an insidious bastard, who has nothing but ulterior intentions towards the Princess. What a terrible pervert! What about that? Satisfied? Are you both satisfied?! So now—”
He suddenly stopped yelling.
“Uh, uh, uh?”
And he started repeating the strange sounds over and over again, like a broken instrument.
Elisha, puzzled by his strange appearance, followed Noel’s gaze.
Rieta, who had been sleeping on Emile’s back, was blinking her eyes slowly.
“…Uh.”
After wandering around for a while, her eyes finally landed on Noel.
“…”
“…”
At that moment, Noel prayed that at least Rieta hadn’t heard what he said because she was too deep in her sleep to wake up.
Of course, there was no way God would respond to his shallow faith. Rieta’s lips moved cautiously.
“… Noel… pervert?”
“…”
Noel wanted to bury himself in the ground and never come out.
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