"Does the meal suit your taste?"
Said Leonis, who sat next to her.
Even if I was feeling better than yesterday, I still had to hold a spoon instead of someone. Now that you're in Duke's house, you can have your maid do it, but Leonis was doing it himself.
That was close. It may be to contact under the pretext of serving. Celia noticed this, but she didn't feel so bad.
"Yes, it's delicious."
The meal at the barracks was watery, but the soup at the duchy was thicker and more savory. The crabmeat and egg soup was to Celia's taste.
"That's a relief.”
It was regrettable that stomach function weakened due to poison. If it wasn't for that, I would have eaten meat, meat, or meat freely.
'Ah... I want to eat meat.’
Crab meat is delicious, but meat was desperately needed for you to chew, bite and taste. I didn't mean that meat is better than seafood, but I wanted to eat seafood and meat.
'Well, recovery is a priority right now.’
Even if it was the daughter of the Marquis, I thought it looked ridiculous here, but Leonis behaved well, so there seemed to be no such danger.
Only in the original work did Leonis almost destroy the Marquis of Montague, taking Lily and treating her badly, but now she is ostensibly friendly. Marquis Montague would have been furious at the end of the wedding.
'More than that…'
Celia peeped at Leonis, thinking that she might join us tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, even if today is too much.
People may think I've already spent the night, but I haven't. Leonis wouldn't have come at her right away, as she would have to pay attention to Celia's physical condition.
'Kiss was good...… would that be good?’
Even if I got divorced when I got divorced, I wanted to go to bed once. I'm not rushing in, I want something, and it'll soften it, so I wonder what I'm afraid of.….
"It's too bad we didn't touch it properly when we took a bath together."
Leonis touched all kinds of places under the pretext of washing him, but he was falsely accused of not being able to do anything because he was frightened just by touching his hip. It's hard to see you again!
Even though a person's face and body are not everything...I've been married, and they're willing to do it! You should touch it!
Celia thought she had recovered a lot in just one day. On the wedding day, I just thought about taking a rest, but I'm looking forward to sleeping with Leonis.
Leonis' fingertips touched Celia's cheek, apparently caught peeking. Leonis also smiled as Celia smiled.
How many people smile at themselves like this.
Feeling ticklish, Leonis coughed silently. It was only a little, but my face seemed to burn.
"Duke."
A servant waiting outside the door came into the bedroom. I could see the servant standing in front of the door through the gap in the door. After recognizing his face, Leonis' face hardened. He took Celia's hand off her cheek and handed the spoon over to her maid.
"What is it?"
As Celia looked up, Leonis patted Celia on the head.
"……It's not a big deal. I'm eating."
He rose from his seat and went out of the room with his servant. Celia looked at the door closing and turned her head around.
"What's going on?"
I wanted something to happen in my seat after eating. The maids seemed to know each other but looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Why?"
"He's... he's in charge of the dungeon."
The answer they chose was this. In fact, the servant's job was to manage procured goods and men, but I couldn't go that far.
The Duke was already rumored to torture and kill people every night.
He's a blood-loving killer.…who couldn't say such a terrible thing to a new bride who had just married the Duke and had a good atmosphere.
Didn't the maid ask for it? Don't let the Duchess hear the Duke.
Celia had a hunch the moment she heard the word dungeon. I thought today was that day.
There was a dungeon in the outer basement of the Duke of Cardian. It was only natural that he was an Asylus, who had the same size as the capital, and a duke of the Cardian, who was no different from the king there.
However, Leonis was regularly procured for goods and sinners because of the curse.
It would always be nice to replace it with a horse, but it was not easy to catch a horse alive, if it was dead.
So it was the blood of sinners that Leonis was always buried in his hands.
Kidnapping, murder, robbery, arson, sex crimes...…. That's why the Duchy of Cardian was stricter in law than in other parts of the Empire. If Asylus's sinners were insufficient, he would receive death row prisoners from other provinces.
Well, it's been a while since the wedding last night, so it's time to see the blood.
Lily had the power to soften the curse, and Celia also had it, but it wasn't to lift it completely. Also, Celia's physical condition was like this, so for the time being, it had to be replaced by killing monsters or people.
Celia, who knew it, but in a terrible reality, wondered if it was in a novel.
It is only with blood on her hands that she can suppress madness that she has to live flesh to flesh.
I was suddenly afraid of that fact.
* * *
"……The wagon that was supposed to arrive from Randall was attacked."
Leonis frowned at the news of the vassal. Randall was a small town somewhat distant from the Duchy of Cardian. The wagon carried eight prisoners for Leonis.
A carriage painted black without windows would easily have caught on. The common people knew it was a carriage carrying prisoners, so the carriage was never mugged.
"Was it a beast?"
"I think it was a creature designed to escape some prisoners."
That was why some of the hard-purchased prisoners were dead. Both the escorting soldier and official, as well as the prisoner on the chain, had been killed.
The heinous prisoner had been released from the dukes, and could have harmed nearby residents.
"……It's under the jurisdiction of the Cardians because it's under the duchy's fief. You don't have to capture him alive, so tell him to cut his throat as soon as he finds him."
"Yes."
Of course, under the order, the vassal nodded his head. The vassal, who was listening, talked to the duke, looking into his senses.
"What about procuring prisoners? We've moved the remaining prisoners to the dungeon, but they're far little."
There were sixteen prisoners in dungeons. In some cases, the duke directly went to the forest and killed the beast to solve the shortage.
You can't do that every day, so you're being procured.
"First of all, I'll have to look in another city.”
Leonis said so with a mixed face. Before the wedding, he thought marrying Celia would completely suppress the madness, but he had to be prepared.
If his miscalculations hurt an innocent man in front of Celia...… the relationship with Celia might go awry forever. It was something he didn't want to do.
In addition, it was a terrible thing for Leonis to kill someone at the Duke's residence after overconfidence in Celia's power.
He never wanted to repeat his father's mistake.
He tracked down the goods last night and cut them off. But slaughtering the queen ant seemed to ease his curse, but in bodily fluids, madness broke out.
So…… it seemed necessary to kill and put down the curse before that time. To get to Celia's side.
Leonis was distressed at the sight of Celia smiling at him during the meal. He had been doing it since he was so young that he had thought nothing of wetting his hands with prisoners' blood.
But now he's afraid he can touch Celia with that hand. Even if he was cursed, he was overshadowed by a thought he was so proud of.
'Crap...'
Feeling as if falling into the abyss, Leonis hurried his steps. It was good to do it quickly if it had to be handled anyway.
* * *
That night, Celia naturally thought Leonis would come to her room and sleep with her, but he didn't come until late at night. When asked by a maid, the Duke said he hadn't returned to the room yet.
'Are you busy at work?’
It was Leonis who stood by Celia even inside the barracks. I knew we'd share a room, because he'd need me to ease the curse.
But Leonis did not enter the Duchess' room that night or the next day. He didn't even show his face at mealtime.
Why?
Celia is good to rest for a while, so she didn't pay much attention to Leonis not coming.
But it was only a day or two, and when I failed to see Leonis' face I began to grow uneasy after five days. It's nothing else, but a curse is at stake!
'I thought I'd replace it with killing people until I had a relationship, but...….’
It was also creepy to face Leonis, who had killed people.
I know this world is in the medieval period, and it is difficult for a lord not to get a drop of blood on his hands, but it was a different law to read directly.
'You're not avoiding me, are you?’
Although the Duke of Cardian is comparable to the Imperial Palace, the movements could overlap as the Duke and Duchess' residence were in the same building.
And yet it was strange that I could never run into him for five days. Celia wasn't always in the room, she went for a walk!
"Where's that man who embarrassed me by asking a priest if he could have sex?"
I thought I'd let you rest if you had a conscience on the day you arrived at the Duke's residence. I thought so the next day, and until the next day.
However, as the eagle battle continued for five days, I wondered if I could leave it alone.
Do you want me to look it up or not? I don't feel uncomfortable right now.’
Leonis' face and body are my tastes and I think I want to sleep once, but I didn't like him yet. Since I'm married, I just thought about keeping my marriage intact.
In the original book, He was involved and obsessed with Lily as soon as she was taken to Duke's residence, so I thought I would go similarly, if not in that situation.
Until you release the curse.
'Well…… is this a better situation for me?’
Still, the Duke's employees were being nice to Celia. Yesterday, the butler even explained the budget set for the Duchess.
“…….”
Whether we live together or not, the curse should be lifted. For that, it would be necessary to engage Leonis in the middle.
'Let's go out first. I need a birth control ring!’
When the rope was pulled, the maid came into the room silently.
"Did you call, madam?"
"I have to go out. Get me a carriage."
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