(Risking My Life) Proposing to Miss Hazel - Chapter 33

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Chapter 33

 

Axel, who met my eyes, twisted up both corners of his mouth simultaneously. His lips, forming an awkward arc, trembled violently.

 

“Miss Hazel, h-have you been well?”

 

“…?”

 

“Ah, I heard you were sick, so I w-was worried. I called the doctor too.”

 

“????”

 

I doubted my own eyes and ears.

 

Either I was still half-asleep and seeing hallucinations, or Axel was definitely being controlled by someone. Someone must have fed him poisonous mushrooms.

 

That’s how abnormal the Axel before my eyes was.

 

It would be better if he picked fights with me like someone desperate to devour me, but him breaking off expensive greenhouse roses and approaching me with cringeworthy greetings was even more horrifying.

 

‘Why is he doing things he’s never done before?’

 

My mind went completely blank with confusion.

 

I knew that Axel had a strange obsession and unhealthy interest in me.

 

But that was just a kind of ‘amusement’ stemming from his twisted tendency to find pleasure in controlling and trampling others.

 

His persistent advances despite frequent rejections from me were also just the lowly games of a young master wanting to eventually conquer a haughty maid.

 

That’s what I had thought all this time.

 

However, today’s Axel was different from before.

 

His hesitant lips, cheeks and ears flushed as red as roses, his right leg trembling frantically.

 

Anyone could see it was the appearance of a man nervous in front of a woman he was courting.

 

His characteristic arrogant gaze remained, but his hellish mouth was quiet, making it even more so.

 

Uncharacteristically cautious in choosing his words, he forcibly pressed the bouquet into my arms and said,

 

“Flowers, these are more precious.”

 

“…What?”

 

“I can give you as many of these as you want.”

 

“….”

 

I don’t need them though.

 

Confirming my lukewarm reaction, Axel immediately frowned.

 

Right, this is how Axel should be. He coolly threw away that pathetic smiling face and irritably ruffled his hair.

 

“Damn it, this isn’t right.”

 

What isn’t right.

 

He stamped his feet like a dog that needed to relieve itself, then suddenly raised his voice.

 

“Anyway, Hazel, you, you…. Move your shop to Cromwell Castle within this month. There’s really no time now.”

 

His tone, as if nagging about something already decided, left me speechless with absurdity.

 

While I stood frozen, he continued rambling.

 

“I even bought a house inside the castle. You said your dream was to buy a house in the village center. You know houses inside Cromwell Castle are more expensive than in Ruden Village, right? I’ll transfer it to your name if you want. But leave your brother here. I’ll allow you to send him money though….”

 

What is this crazy bastard saying.

 

Listening to the endless nonsense made my mind foggy.

 

I threw the rose bouquet back into his arms and cut him off.

 

“I can’t accept things like this. I won’t accept anything from you, Axel. Naturally, I have no reason to move to Cromwell Castle either.”

 

Axel’s eyes blinked stupidly. He truly seemed not to have expected my rejection.

 

However, soon his fierce eyes regained their original light and flashed menacingly.

 

His relatively gentlemanly attitude changed in an instant.

 

“Hey, I’m trying to help you here.”

 

Axel, back to being a scoundrel, ground his teeth. Veins bulged on his sharp jaw.

 

“Don’t you know the village tax is doubling starting next month?”

 

“What?”

 

“Oh, you didn’t hear the rumor? It’s true.”

 

“….”

 

My vision went dark.

 

As expected, ominous premonitions and sinister rumors never pass by.

 

Axel looked at me with satisfaction as I was distorted by despair, and pushed the bouquet toward me again. His sharp eyebrows twitched vilely.

 

“So think wisely while I’m giving you special treatment. You’re not so foolish as to not understand what I mean.”

 

Heat surged up in me.

 

If he weren’t the Lord’s son, I would have kicked between his legs and smashed those two fragile eggs, but I couldn’t, which was frustrating.

 

As if he had never worn the skin of a gentleman, Axel ran his unrestrained mouth without knowing limits.

 

“Surely you don’t want to become the next Lord’s wife with your status? If you know your place, you should be grateful to be taken as a mistress….”

 

“Axel.”

 

My eyes flipped completely.

 

Even a worm wriggles when stepped on.

 

No, wriggling wasn’t enough. I wanted to become a snake and bite him hard.

 

Finally, my tongue, having lost control, moved on its own. I couldn’t bear it anymore.

 

“I hate you, Axel. Wife, mistress, whatever – I don’t want to be by your side. Living in Cromwell Castle is also horrifying. Are you in your right mind when you already have a fiancée?”

 

“What…, what?”

 

As I fiercely pressed him without thinking of consequences, Axel’s momentum faltered.

 

He seemed momentarily shocked by my words that I hated him, moving his lips slightly before asking a bizarre question.

 

“You…, so you were concerned about my fiancée after all.”

 

“Ah, I’m going crazy.”

 

We can’t communicate.

 

This is Axel’s problem. As befitting a young master who has only had one-sided communication his whole life, he has an excellent talent for self-centeredly distorting situations.

 

That’s why he comes to such conclusions that make people’s blood boil.

 

“Hazel, be honest with me too. You’ve been keeping me in your heart, that’s why you haven’t married.”

 

Flames rose in my chest.

 

I screamed at the top of my lungs in frustration.

 

“No! My marriage has nothing to do with you, Axel. I haven’t married because I haven’t met my ideal type. Even if you were the only man left in the world, I wouldn’t marry you!”

 

This bastard really…, what stage of development must have gone wrong for him to grow into such a defective human? I was too tired to even be amazed anymore.

 

Still, if there was any silver lining, it was that Felix wasn’t here.

 

Felix would have definitely knocked down the Lord’s son the moment Axel mentioned mistress.

 

And then he would have been locked in the cold dungeon of Cromwell Castle.

 

When I properly threw a fastball at Axel, his stupid mouth gaped open.

 

His face showed he hadn’t expected such a reaction at all.

 

“That can’t be…, I appear in your dreams every day….”

 

Axel was muttering nonsense in a dazed voice when-.

 

“Miss Hazel?”

 

A voice like a ray of sunshine brushed my ear like salvation.

 

Turning my head, I saw Baron climbing up the hill. He approached me holding a paper bag in one hand and a potion bottle in the other.

 

“I heard you were sick.”

 

Baron passed by the Lord’s scoundrel son as if he didn’t exist, slipping between me and Axel.

 

Very naturally, as if this narrow gap had always been his place.

 

“…?”

 

My bewildered gaze traveled up from his solid feet. His red eyes, which met mine as if he had been waiting, curved beautifully.

 

“You still don’t look well. Have you taken your medicine?”

 

Hidden behind his massive body, Axel’s face was no longer visible. Only his reddish-brown hair was faintly visible beyond that strong neck.

 

Axel, who had been hesitating at the sudden appearance of this wall, seemed to come to his senses and raised his voice confrontationally.

 

“Hey, who are you?”

 

However, Baron didn’t respond at all.

 

He treated Axel like a completely invisible person and pressed the medicine bottle into my hand.

 

“You should take the medicine first and get some sleep.”

 

“Hey, I asked who you are!”

 

Furious, Axel kicked Baron’s leg.

 

Thud!

 

But Baron’s iron-rod-like legs didn’t budge an inch.

 

Judging by how Axel was shaking his foot, it seemed the one who kicked had taken more damage instead.

 

Despite that, Axel, who was all mouth, started yelling at the top of his lungs.

 

“How dare you ignore me? Do you have any idea who I am? Are you crazy enough to want to die?! If you don’t kneel and apologize right now, crushing a nobody like you would be nothing.”

 

Despite Axel’s threats, Baron continued to act as if Axel was neither visible nor audible to him until the very end.

 

‘Wow…’

 

Baron really is an amazing person.

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