Chapter 49 – The Kidnapped Knight
It felt like something was tightening my body and shaking me.
Even though I tried to move my body without any force, I couldn’t move it.
I was just being held by someone who was moving and shaking and moving on my own, but my whole body had no strength and I couldn’t come to my senses.
It felt like something hot was flowing down my arm and dripping onto my fingertips.
She tried to raise her mana, wanting to struggle at least, but her mana was in a bad state like her body, so her mana could not be concentrated and disintegrated in the air, and she realized once again that she was unable to do anything.
Thanks to the aftereffects of the accident, my dizzy head became more and more severe, and soon I began to be unable to continue my thoughts, and soon I felt like I had fainted.
“Uuuuu…”
Earlier, I was being carried by someone on my back, and after falling asleep on the way, I stood up again, and it seemed like I was inside a huge tent.
All the items in the tent were luxurious-looking furniture suitable for use by nobles, and even if incense was being burned in the room, a sweet scent seeped into my nose, and it felt as if the fragrant smell was penetrating into my brain.
Perhaps it was because of the good smell of the incense, or because I wanted to smell more of the scent that touched my nose, my nose automatically started to sniff and chase after the scent, and as I gradually came to my senses, my head began to turn to judge the current situation.
The hands and feet of the body were tied, as if someone had tied them, and there was no feeling of blood flowing, as if all manifestations from the body had stopped.
Rather, it felt like someone had wiped the dirty things off my body.
However, the brooch on his head was not touched, so he continued to dress as a woman.
Who on earth kidnapped me?
“Ha… What should I do with this?”
I tried to use mana in my body to cut the rope, but the rope that was tying me absorbed what little mana was left, making it a misfire.
I guess it was because I used a special rope used to subdue violent criminals to absorb mana, so I was just waiting for someone to come in so as not to waste power.
Most people, if they were going to kidnap someone and use them as a hostage, would tie them up in a corner or behind bars, but on the other hand, I was lying down on a soft bed in a tent with a comfortable and good scent.
What is the purpose of interest, why are you treating me like this?
As I was thinking about this, I suddenly heard footsteps coming from the entrance and a blonde woman came in.
A woman with blond hair and blood-red eyes that suited her quite well and looked somewhat noble was coming inside.
The sword she was wearing had the symbol of a falcon with large wings on it.
Golden Hawk… I saw it somewhere, what kind of knightly order was it?
“Ranell!! “You finally woke up!”
“That name!”
It was clearly the first time I had seen him, but he called my real name and when I woke up, he ran to me and slowly put his arms behind my back and hugged me tightly.
As I was hugged, his soft body pressed against mine, and the sweet scent of flesh seeped into my nose, but this wasn’t important right now,
How on earth do you know my name?
“Lanelle… Didn’t you miss me? I almost went crazy because I missed Ranel so much… Let’s not leave now and stay like this for the rest of our lives… I’m sure my parents will understand.”
“Who the hell are you… My name…?”
“Why?… Why are you talking like you don’t know me, Ranel? Why, why… Why? Don’t play around… Ah?”
It seems like someone who knows me has met me in the past, but I can’t quite figure out who they are from what I remember.
Obviously, since the day I started taking lessons as a knight from my mother, I haven’t debuted in society or met any other noble ladies, so even if there are people who know Rine, not many people know about Ranel’s existence…
“Why… Why on earth!!! I don’t remember!! “I’ve been looking forward to this day and missing it for over 15 years!”
He placed his slender hand on my neck and slowly began to apply pressure, controlling my breathing at will.
I started to feel suffocated by the tightening hands.
“Ugh… Stop…”
“Ah! I’m sorry Ranel… I lost my mind again… So maybe you don’t remember… Ranel must have always been busy… I’m sorry… I’m sorry… Furthermore, I’m sorry…”
No matter how you look at it, this woman was not normal.
He just focused his red eyes on mine, apologized over and over again, and slowly started stroking my head with his shaky hands.
It was a hand that was clearly caressing her gently, but instead of calming her down, it seemed as if her body was becoming increasingly stiff and a primal sense of fear was emerging, perhaps due to her madness.
Perhaps it was a survival instinct, but my body kept pulling my butt back and trying to escape, but the more I moved, the stronger the hand pulled me, so I did nothing and just stayed still.
“Well, then… I don’t remember, I will help Ranel.”
“Yes…”
She smiled awkwardly and said she would help me and continued to stroke my head without stopping.
Her already neat hair had already become scattered, her brooch was on the verge of falling off, and her cross-dressing was on the verge of coming undone.
“Well, first, let’s start with the cross-dressing… Let’s do it!” “This was a brooch, right?”
When I removed the brooch from my head, my body, which had looked like a woman’s body in an instant, returned to its original face, and the hand that had been stroking me grabbed my chin and forced me to make eye contact with him from up close.
Her red eyes, unlike her hair that sparkled like gold, had already faded as if they would not tolerate even an inch of light, arousing a deep sense of fear.
“As expected… Uh, it hasn’t changed much since I was young! As expected, I grew up wonderfully… Eh!”
“Please talk to me quickly.”
“Oh, it was like that.? “Then let me tell you, when did we meet?”
She paused for a moment to tell me about her past and then slowly began to explain.
“Well… When we first met, we were 7 years old… At that time, compared to my older sister, who had a promising future, I was the second daughter and had less talent, so no one paid attention to me.”
“And then you met me?”
As she told her story about her past, her face darkened for a moment.
Even in her darkened face, the red inside was glowing red, and the more I looked into those eyes, the more I felt like my existence was being sucked in.
“Yeah… No one paid any attention to me, but that was the first time I saw you… Ranel, haven’t you been to a party before? For example, at a party held by a princess.”
“But… I’ve only been to a party once… No way.”
A certain person suddenly came to mind as I thought, “No way.”
In the past, there was a time when a princess-related party was held, and I went out for a moment to avoid strange women who were being rude to me.
At that time, she had not yet told her mother that she wanted to become a knight, so she had not yet been trained as a knight.
I was uncomfortable with people’s attention and women’s gaze, so I quietly went outside and saw a girl crying in the garden sparkling under the moonlight at night.
I remembered that I spoke to him first because he had golden hair, red eyes like magical eyes that seemed to tempt people, and even though he was still young, he already gave off a different feeling.
“Why are you crying?”
“Ah, ah! “I wasn’t… I was crying!”
“I’ve already seen it all…”
At that time, I just remembered comforting the girl and listening to her concerns, but I guess she wasn’t that girl.
“Is your name… Isabelle?”
“Also!! You remembered me!! As expected, my actions were not wrong! Since then, I trained desperately and beat her, and now I don’t get ignored, and it’s all thanks to you.”
When I thought I remembered, he suddenly started talking a lot, and soon he got excited and was laughing happily as he told me everything that had happened.
“So, Ranel… Now that I’m looking for my own place, so… Will you marry me?”
“I don’t like it.”
The word ‘dislike’ came out of her mouth automatically, and she rejected Isabelle’s offer.
When Isabel heard me, she opened her mouth in shock and couldn’t say anything, just blinked her eyes, and then suddenly her expression changed, and she cried.
“Why!!! Why? It doesn’t work!! “Now I have found my place and improved my appearance!”
“To begin with, I have no intention of getting married yet, and right now I am living under the name Line.”
She told me her reasons without a single lie.
It wasn’t that I didn’t like Isabel, but I just refused because I didn’t want to fall into the grave called marriage yet.
Even if her mother heard that I was getting married to someone, she would take a knife and cut off her husband’s throat.
“I don’t like it, but please let me go…”
“Then there’s nothing we can do about it… Then it’s the last resort.”
Suddenly, he put his hand on my clothes and started undoing them by tapping on the buttons.
She was startled and tried to stop her by shaking her body in defiance, but Isabelle seemed to be already angry and forcibly released her without making a sound.
“Put this down!!”
“I’m sorry… But it’s okay if it’s soon… Okay?”
She was already out of her mind.
But strangely enough, my body was getting hotter and hotter, and I realized that this smell was something I had smelled before somewhere.
“I made incense with the juice of the cauliflower flower, so it will definitely feel good!”
“Jeong… Jeong.”
My mind was becoming increasingly strange along with my body getting hotter.
