Chapter 406 – Ha-Ok (3)
“Tsk…!”
Sonya shook her shoulders.
She put out her hand to take the bowl – and again her finger was caught.
This time it was the smallest finger of the right hand – the ring finger.
The man shuts her mouth and quietly looks at her hands.
What are you thinking? Sonya’s mind went blank.
She is aware that it is dangerous to stay here for a long time, and her worries about Adela, who is anxiously watching her from above, are fading away.
I was curious about the meaning of his gaze as he looked at her hand, what he was thinking, and what he was feeling.
Very.
Only after a while, did the man move his lips with a blank expression.
“Sorry···. I feel lonely because I try to be alone… Sonya, when I look at her face, it’s a bit…”
The man didn’t try to add anything, but immediately shook his head.
“No. Come on, let’s go. Quickly before someone comes-.”
Even as the man said those words, he did not loosen his grip on her ring finger.
So she couldn’t leave her place either.
Heat rises from the tip of the ring finger. My heart is pounding without hesitation. It felt like my heart was on my ring finger, not in my chest.
Sonya bit her lip and barely opened her mouth, letting out a hot breath.
“Huh… Uh… “Hey, cow, put your finger on me…”
“···Ah.”
Only then did he let go of his finger.
Phew… Sonya held her hands to his chest and took a long moment to catch his breath.
His face probably turned red. In this state, she had no reason to see Adela when she went outside.
The man in front of him expressed his feelings to Adela.
And Adela also-, maybe she had him in mind.
‘I’ll watch. You go down I didn’t like that guy.’
Adela said so, but Sonya had been with her for over ten years. I was well aware of the subtle changes in her facial expressions when she lied.
However.
Even though Sonya knew the feelings of her friend, who was her most precious and all of her childhood memories, she pretended not to know and came down to her basement.
It was greed. I had a mean heart.
Even though she knows that, she holds on to her stinging chest and carefully goes down the stairs.
And when you face a man, those regrets disappear completely.
Two or three times a day, every day. Sonya handed the man a meal through her bars and chatted casually.
What is the situation outside, and how are the people in her group doing? How are the preparations for the jousting competition going?
With her finger held by him, she chattered softly and indiscriminately.
Her palms were wet with sweat and her mouth was dry, but she couldn’t pull her fingers out.
She only had one finger, at most-, and I just thought that I wish this moment could last forever.
I also thought that perhaps he was opening his heart to me little by little.
I knew he was a coward.
Because no one was there to help him in his difficult situation, he was just taking advantage of the fact that only he could come.
Nevertheless, just being alone in this space fills me with happiness.
Just making eye contact for a moment without saying anything. Just by quietly transmitting each other’s body temperature with just your fingers.
It felt like the world had become hazy and beautiful.
“Thank you always.”
He said this with a slight smile.
“Oh, no, what…”
Lowering her head to hide her flushed face, she held her throbbing chest and went up to her landing in no time.
“`
“Peuuuuu… Fuuuuu…”
The black-haired man, Seojun, held a stick in his mouth and sucked on it, then spit out a cloud of cloudy smoke.
There was no sunlight in the cramped basement, so the only source of light was a red lantern.
A woman standing awkwardly beyond her bars extended her white hand.
“···It’s enough now. Please give it quickly.”
“Just one more time.”
Seojun said that and sucked it in once more.
Adela, a tall woman neatly dressed in her maid’s uniform, clenched her fists.
“How many times have I said that already…! If someone comes like this…!”
“Fuuuuu-.”
“Ah, puhp…! Cough, cluck…!”
As Seojun spit out the cigarette smoke he had stored in his lungs toward her face, a dry cough broke out.
Just as Adela was about to vent her anger, Seojun held out the muzzle of her gombangdae to her.
“···W-what is it?”
“Do you want to smoke it sometime?”
“···Are you crazy? “What kind of cigarette does she smoke…!”
“What’s wrong with that?”
Seojun suggested again, bobbing the end of the gombangdae.
She quietly looked at his hand that had crossed over the iron bars and then shook her head with a silent look.
“···It’s okay.”
“Um, really?”
Seojun put the bear in his mouth again.
Looking at him like that, Adela stamped her feet. If it gets late, Sonya might get suspicious.
Today again, she came here without Sonya knowing.
It was because of something that happened a few days ago.
One of the guests who visited Young master Anvil accidentally spilled coffee on the hem of Young master’ clothes.
Because of this, Sonya had to remove the stains on the Prince’s clothes and repair them. All half a day.
Adela doesn’t have that kind of dexterity, so she couldn’t help Sonya.
So Sonya asked her dear friend.
“Can you bring Seojun some food today…?”
Sonya’s tone was calm, but the emotions in her eyes were turbulent.
These past few days, Adela knew how happy Sonya was.
After hearing from a woman named Monica that they could find out Seojun’s whereabouts, the two maids dared to follow Serra Camelot.
Normally, I would never have dreamed of doing such a bold thing.
But I did it.
After following them, they found out that Seo-jun was locked in the basement of the mansion, and after that, they began going in and out of there to take care of Seo-jun.
Adela watched over her, and Sonya went down and gave him her food.
Adela couldn’t figure out what was going on down there.
But Sonya, who had just come up from her basement, always had a deep blush on her face and she was breathing hard. I was pressing my hand on her chest as if her heart was beating fast.
She would look at Adela and smile awkwardly as if nothing had happened, but there was no other child whose true feelings were as transparent as her.
I wondered if I would be that happy.
So, on the contrary, I felt relaxed. I thought, if you like it that much, I have no choice but to give in.
But the two women had a lot of work to do.
There was no shortage of guests visiting Young master, and she also sent letters here and there and invited ladies to tea parties.
It was the responsibility of the two maids to prepare and clean up the place.
That day was also an extension of that work.
Since Sonya had to wash, iron, and mend Young master’ clothes, she asked Adela if she could bring Seojun a meal.
“Hmm···. Still, wouldn’t it be okay if I don’t eat one or two meals…?”
She said that because she didn’t want to have an uncomfortable relationship with Sonya.
Her blood-curdling silence and awkwardness were something she had only experienced briefly before.
To her, Sonya was her family.
Even though they were not related by blood, didn’t they spend most of 24 hours a day together, 365 days a year?
Haven’t we experienced both pain and joy together?
So she said that –
Sonya shook her head and repeated her request.
“Bring it to me. Please, Adela.”
It was probably because he wanted the man not to starve more than his own discomfort or anxiety.
That’s why Adela went to see Seojun with her food on behalf of Sonya.
‘Adella…?’
Her expression looks surprised when she sees her.
Adela tried to silence her racing heart and suppressed her joy as she handed him her food with a silent, emotionless expression.
But as soon as her hand passed through the bars, he grabbed her wrist tightly.
The soup bowl fell over, and the bread rolled on the floor of the cell.
But Seojun didn’t even care.
But he pulled her to him suddenly and captured her lips.
Town-
For a moment she froze in shock, but then she began to struggle, but she could not escape his grasp. Seojun licked her lips and sucked her tongue ravenously, between her bars.
Adela felt her legs giving out and her mind becoming dizzy. She tried to push his chest, but she had no use.
After some time had passed, Seojun let her go.
Adela, whose legs gave out and hit her buttocks, tried to escape from there as if running away.
“I wish Adela would come.”
When he said that, my legs stopped.
“Continue in the future.”
Adela tried to ignore it.
She bit her lip and walked briskly.
But the next day.
Sonya, who had gone down to the basement with food, came back up carrying her food. Sonya was in tears.
‘I think Seojun is feeling low. They say they don’t even have the strength to eat…’
As she said that with tears in her eyes, Adela felt depressed.
After a day or two passed, my mind became completely blank as to what on earth to do.
Sonya sobbed every night and fell asleep, exhausted, wondering what would happen if he collapsed like this and what would happen if there was no one to help her.
So, in the middle of the night, when Sonya was asleep, Adela carefully woke up.
She came down to the basement carrying a small lamp.
‘···Adela.’
As if he had been waiting, he woke up smiling brightly – Adela could not blame him.
After that, I started eating the food Sonya brought me again.
Instead, Adela had to visit him every night.
I brought a children’s book with me to see if he could read to me. I recited the lines to him until he fell asleep, and when he said he wanted to smoke, I got him a gombangdae.
Like today.
“Are you going now?”
“···Yes. It’s late, so let’s go quickly.”
“Then come here.”
At Seojun’s words, Adela closed her mouth.
As always before she left, Seojun stretched out her large hands beyond the bars.
Adela knows she shouldn’t be like this, but her guilt pricks her heart – and she sheds tears because she feels sorry for Sonya. She gently took both of his hands and squeezed them.
“Huh…!”
A kiss like a beast.
Seojun furiously licked her lips and sucked her tongue, as if a wild animal trapped in her cage was revealing its suppressed ferocity. Until her legs started shaking, her eyes became moist, and her hands tightened as she held his.
“Paha…”
Eventually, her lips fell.
A long solid line runs between the lips of the two people and then abruptly breaks off.
Seojun licks his lips.
She came to her senses and tried to quickly leave, but today he wouldn’t let go.
“I’m sorry, I piled up so much…”
Seojun turned her hand over so that her palm was facing him, and suddenly took a step closer.
My palm touched his hard load.
