Young Master, Please Put Some Pants On! - Chapter 87

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Chapter 87

“Find it quickly. The auction is about to start.”

“Ah, stop rushing me.”

Their voices could be heard through the small gap at the top of the cabinet door. It seemed they had stopped by briefly to look for something.

‘Fortunately, it looks like they’ll leave soon.’

Mellis let out a small sigh of relief. Suddenly raising her head, Mellis discovered Kermanomon obediently trapped in her arms and her own hand still covering his mouth.

And at the same time, her heart began to beat slowly. She had become aware of the fact that she was trapped alone with him inside the cabinet. In the narrow, tightly enclosed cabinet, their bodies were pressed closely together without an inch of space.

In the darkness, his golden eyes gleamed brightly along with the faint light seeping in. Only then did Mellis notice that he hadn’t taken his gaze off her.

“S-sorry.”

When she felt his faint breath against the palm covering his mouth, she was startled and hurriedly averted her gaze while removing her hand.

However, Kermanomon seemed to have no intention of letting her go as he grasped her hand.

Mellis’s heartbeat pounded loudly in her ears. She knew she should pull away the hand he had caught, but she couldn’t move and could only bite her lips.

‘What should I do…’

It was such a precarious situation that even breathing felt cautious. She couldn’t easily move her body because of his thick thigh wedged between her legs.

Every part that touched him burned hot as if scorched by fire, and her mind became hazy as if covered in fog. It was a strange feeling as if her entire body from head to toe was throbbing.

A dangerous tension filled the space between them, and only the sound of someone’s heartbeat filled that silence.

“Grand Duke…?”

Unable to bear the silence, Mellis carefully called his name. Swallowing her dry saliva, she gently raised her head. Kermanomon’s gaze still seemed fixed on her. He opened his mouth in a low voice that only she could hear.

“…Sometimes when I look at you, it seems like you know my heart and are deliberately teasing me.”

Bringing her hand back to his lips, he gently bit her index finger and murmured.

“Why do you keep making me confused?”

The heat felt at her fingertips made her vision dizzyingly blurred. His tender side felt unfamiliar yet at the same time squeezed her heart.

‘…Dangerous.’

Unlike her wildly beating heart, a red alert belatedly sounded in her mind. It felt as if she would be instantly consumed by something she herself hadn’t even realized.

It was then that Mellis’s lower lip trembled.

“Intruder!”

A booming shout echoed from afar, and the two men guarding the office also hurriedly left their posts.

At the same time, Mellis, who had regained her senses, looked up at Kermanomon. Surely he hadn’t already called the Knight Order when they hadn’t even properly checked the lower floor yet.

As if reading her gaze, he denied it.

“It wasn’t me.”

“If not you, Grand Duke, then who…”

Sensing something strange, Mellis burst out of the cabinet and looked out the window. Sure enough, there was tremendous commotion centered around an unidentified group surrounding the building.

“Could there have been someone else besides me targeting this place? In any case, we need to get out of here quickly.”

Kermanomon was equally flustered by the unexpected situation. Naturally embracing Mellis, he sent a signal to the Knight Order through the brooch attached to his cloak as soon as they left the building.

Having quickly descended to the plaza, they naturally hid themselves among the other guests who were evacuating.

The expression of Mellis, who was looking around while being held in his arms, quickly hardened.

“Grand Duke, an enormous amount of magical power is gathering nearby right now!”

“What?”

“It doesn’t seem like attack magic, but something’s strange.”

She hesitated upon seeing vast magical power simultaneously blooming from among the crowds. But strangely, all the magical power carried the same energy.

‘This is one person’s magical power?’

Mellis wore a dazed expression, shocked by the unbelievable phenomenon. But peculiarly, that magical power’s energy didn’t feel unfamiliar. No, rather it felt too familiar.

Meanwhile, the trading post staff subdued the group of raiders wearing cloaks with drawn swords. Amidst the screams of the panic-stricken people, the sharp sound of the two groups clashing swords echoed.

“Aaah, sn-snakes!”

Then dozens of snakes that appeared from somewhere instantly crawled across the ground and tightly coiled around the staff. They tried to break free from the restraints, but whether the difference in strength was too great, the snakes didn’t budge and tightened around their bodies even more.

The snakes that had transformed into rope form firmly bound them, and thanks to this, the raid was easily finished in a very short time.

‘That magic is…’

Mellis, who had been watching that scene, urgently stopped Kermanomon who was about to leave.

“Grand Duke, wait a moment!”

“Why?”

“I, I think it’s someone I know!”

“Someone you know?”

Kermanomon deeply furrowed his brow. What kind of situation was this, having someone she knew in that chaos?

In the center of the plaza where all the people had evacuated, a man concealed in a black cloak stood blankly, and at his feet, the tightly bound staff were writhing as if in pain.

When the man, whose face was completely wrapped in a black hood and mask, pulled back his hood, his cool red eyes were deeply shadowed.

Mellis’s eyes widened as she became certain of his identity.

“Senior!”

“…Mellis?”

Mellis jumped down from Kermanomon’s arms and ran toward the man with a bright smile. The man also seemed equally flustered, showing clear signs of surprise.

“It’s been so long!”

“Junior, what brings you here? Have you been well?”

However, the moment that man embraced Mellis tightly, Kermanomon’s eyebrows quietly twitched as he watched the scene.

“Senior…?”

A murderous aura unlike any she had seen before flowed from behind Mellis.

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“Duke Severus, it’s an honor to meet you. I’m Vivian, the leader of Guild Bin. Mellis and I are old friends.”

“Yes, nice to meet you.”

A short while later, the three people who had moved back to the upper floor of the trading post were facing each other in conversation. Vivian cleanly admitted that Bin was responsible for the recent raid on the trading post.

Currently, the trading post was completely under the control of the ducal residence’s knight order, and accordingly, investigations of both the trading post staff and Bin’s organization members were being conducted together.

Unlike the serious situation outside, Vivian’s bright smile never left her lips throughout her conversation with Kermanomon.

‘Anyway, she’s incredibly kind to people with money.’

In fact, Mellis found this situation very uncomfortable. She had called out to Vivian on impulse, but who would have thought she’d end up in a three-way meeting with Kermanomon! She was just anxious that Vivian might make some careless slip of the tongue.

“…so, that’s why I visited the trading post.”

After listening to Vivian’s story for a while, Kermanomon spoke with his arms firmly crossed.

“In other words, your guild is also pursuing Revolity.”

“Yes. That’s correct. This trading post is a place we’ve been keeping an eye on for some time. We’ve been waiting for the right moment for a while, and somehow we ended up meeting you directly, Grand Duke.”

Vivian spoke casually, but this wasn’t such a light matter. After all, it was a case of a single Guild interfering in an investigation the Imperial Palace was secretly conducting.

Kermanomon’s questioning was also close to an interrogation.

“What was Bin’s reason for pursuing Revolity? Was it a commission?”

“No. It was for our personal reasons. We simply couldn’t just stand by and watch those bastards cause trouble any longer.”

Between Vivian’s gently curved eyes, her red pupils glinted menacingly. Watching this, Mellis realized that Vivian’s smile was fake. Vivian always forced an eye-smile whenever she wanted to hide her true feelings.

Though she couldn’t know the exact reason, it was certain that an unspoken tension was circulating between the two men.

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