Became the Escort Knight of the Villain in the Romance Novel

74 – One star for you (6)

It didn’t take long to figure out what I was hearing.

I need to fix it. I looked at Irene, thinking only of that idea.

However, as soon as she met those moist eyes, she felt short of breath, so she barely looked away and pursed her lips.

“You shouldn’t do this.”

“Why?”

As if she really didn’t know anything, she swallowed her drool at her voice asking innocently.

Her flowing hair was slightly wet with sweat and glistening.

Alcohol scent mixed with the subtle fruit scent,

My face started to heat up as if it were about to explode at any moment from the tickling breath in my ears.

Veins sprouted from her trembling hands.

It wasn’t too difficult for her to do as she said. However, it can’t be, can it?

I didn’t want to greet the ‘first’ in this way.

It was my… Mistake. I am acutely aware of this fact,

I carefully opened her mouth while holding Irene’s shoulder as she was close to me.

When I grabbed her shoulder, it was Irene who somehow strangely breathed at me, but I closed her eyes tightly and didn’t know the breath.

“hehehe.”

Her lips twitched at the pure laughter she had never heard before.

I thought that Irene was someone who could laugh like this.

She always smiled slightly, because I could count the genuine smiles on my hands.

The sudden sound of her laughter made her heart beat faster.

Before I knew it, Irene reached out her hand to me and brushed my cheek.

The touch of her cheek was soft. She thought that the soft touch that usually only touched her hand…So small.

“He is handsome…Really. That’s what she always thinks, but I don’t know how she is so good-looking.”

She was always thinking. I felt somehow ashamed.

She knew it herself, but when she heard Irene say that, it was hard for her to control her shame.

I managed to get her body away from her as she soon cleared her throat.

If ever there was a time to be born and endure, it would be today.

‘I didn’t know he’d be this weak against alcohol.’

Her novels occasionally describe her as holding her wine glass,

She thought she had some immunity to alcohol. But to the extent of getting drunk with a glass of fruit wine.

She patted her lips for a moment, then lifted her up from her seat holding Irene by the shoulder.

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She never intended to be here as she is. She said, but she had no intention of going back to the Duke.

If I take a drunk Irene with me… I’ll probably die.

Until she came to her senses a bit, she thought it would be nice to be with her.

Besides, this will probably be the last time I see Irene drunk, so she missed it for a little while longer.

“Let’s go, young lady. I think you need to cool her head.”

“…Don’t grab her shoulders.”

Having said that, Irene took my hand off her shoulder and replied coldly.

She was momentarily taken aback by her sudden change in attitude, but then she came close to me, and she casually crossed her arms and nodded her head in satisfaction.

“I feel better now. This is better Isn’t it?”

“Ah…Yes. It does…”

This is the first time I’ve folded my arms. She narrowed her eyes for a moment, feeling that her innocence had been taken away in an instant.

She let out her sigh before staring at Irene, who grabbed my arm.

She didn’t know what the hell to do.

When I think of one thing, her actions, which are already two steps ahead of me, were enough for me to be swayed.

…But even this wasn’t bad,

Irene started taking awkward steps to keep her arms from falling out.

“So, when are you going to kiss me?”

It would have been better if I hadn’t heard of this.

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The interlocking hand floated in the air.

The hand shaking regularly like the pendulum of a clock, what is so exciting about it?

I could even feel a sense of rhythm in her steps as she walked with her arms clasped and her hands untied.

It wasn’t bad. Sometimes I used to imagine what it would be like if she acted like this, but isn’t she a much better match than I thought.

‘I wonder if I’ve always wanted to do something like this.’

There’s no way she’d act like this after she came to her senses,

I thought maybe it wouldn’t be bad if I did this first.

But I didn’t think of swinging her hand like this,

I could have done as much as I could, just by folding my arms.

“Evan.”

It was Irene’s voice that broke her thoughts.

As if she was dissatisfied with something, I heard a slightly curt voice and turned her head to see Irene staring at me.

“…Focus on me. Today…it’s just the two of us.”

She laughs at that. After that, isn’t it quite difficult for the listener to control their emotions?

I nodded and looked into the air, holding my clenched hands tightly.

I tried to be honest with myself using that as an excuse, saying that alcohol brings courage.

She was the one who became honest, so her subtle emotions bloomed for no reason.

Could this be what she was thinking about on her own?

I didn’t believe all the drunken talk, but at least it didn’t look like she was lying.

Perhaps she was a bit disappointed, she opened her mouth with a light smile at her figure with her shoulders slightly stretched.

“I am always watching. Didn’t you tell me?”

Tuk-tuk, knocking on her eyes and chanting quietly.

“I think I often said that it contains only young ladies.”

“…Uh, um. Is it so.”

Laughing at Irene, who lowered her head to hide her blushing cheeks.

He was a really cute person. The lady I serve

When the stout starts, the number of people walking around the city is significantly reduced.

Perhaps because of that, it was difficult to find people passing by on the empty streets anymore, filling the void around them.

I couldn’t hear people talking loudly. Wind blowing,

The sound of the wind scratching and brushing the leaves. The sound of grasshoppers crying, the sound of water droplets falling to the ground.

The world did not allow silence. Even if all those sounds disappear,

The sound of the beating heart would remain, leaving a feeling of awkwardness. I took a small breath.

Under the brilliantly twinkling stars, I immerse myself in the afterglow to savor this moment.

“Do you like stars?”

In the meantime, she turns her head at the sudden voice.

She stood there blankly, staring at the sky as Irene asked me.

If you ask me if I like stars, well. To be honest, she thought the stars themselves were beautiful.

But if she were asked to become a star, wouldn’t she refuse?

“I don’t like it.”

The stars that lit up the sky were beautiful. She wasn’t emotional enough to deny it, but

When I looked at that star, I could only frown at the sudden thought that came to my mind.

It was a star that filled the sky like this, but weren’t the stars separated by a distance that was difficult to estimate?

In the pitch-black darkness where nothing can be seen,

The only basis for distinguishing each other is the faint light that is hard to catch.

“Doesn’t it look lonely?”

“It’s unusual.”

At her words, she just shrugged her shoulders. Isn’t everyone’s impression different?

I looked at her thinking that she was a little bit her mind now, by the way.

The light blush on her cheeks showed her the rest of her drunkenness.

I wonder if all the drunkenness will go away in just a few minutes.

Jerobeok, jeobeok.

Even as they walked for a long time holding her hand, her gaze was still directed to the night sky.

Is there something special about it?

However, all I could see was a half moon and a cluster of twinkling stars, an ordinary night sky with nothing special about it.

“I like stars.”

“Is that so?”

“Exactly, I liked it.”

She smiled with a very relieved expression,

As she entered the entrance of the park she clung to me and crossed her arms again.

Are you a little tired? Feeling a little tired on her face, I found a large chair and settled down there.

“…It’s hard. Lol.”

“You deserve it. It’s been quite a while since you’ve been around for such a long time, isn’t it?”

Hib.

After a brief hiccup, Irene leaned her head on my shoulder and let out a quiet breath rather than answering her.

The breath that was exhaled thinly and quietly dispersed into the air.

She thought her cheek was tickling, perhaps because of her hair on her shoulders.

…It was quiet. We can hear each other’s breathing intermittently,

In the midst of this, only the rustling of the leaves in the wind can be heard. Irene opened her mouth slowly.

“Alcohol is worse than I thought. It’s dizzy… Hazy… I don’t know what I’m talking about.”

“Isn’t that a good thing? Sometimes you can use alcohol as an excuse to openly pour out your heart.”

“…You talk like someone who has had a lot of drinks. Because it’s the first time.”

As expected, let’s smile shyly.

Looking into my eyes, Irene smiled and turned her gaze back to the sky.

When she asked what she thought there was so much to see, Irene, who was still, pointed at one of her stars and parted her lips.

“Isn’t it pretty? Even in such a dark place, it shines like that.”

“It is pretty.”

Contrary to the impression I get from looking at the stars, Irene just stared blankly at the stars.

Wouldn’t it be funny if she felt jealous of her like a person who fell in love with something?

Her feelings, however, were so honest that I had no choice but to ask her in the end.

“You seem to really like stars.”

“Because I wanted to be like a star.”

She shut her mouth for a moment at that. Because it took her a long time to understand that she wanted to be like a star.

But as if I thought that would be the case, Irene glanced at me and opened her mouth with a light smile.

“I really hated the position of Sogaju. No, is it the same as hating it now?”

She looks at her for a moment. Now, it occurred to me, was not the time for me to open her mouth.

Maybe it’s time to just stay silent and listen to what she has to say.

I brush her hair gently against her shoulder.

Irene looked at her still, her shoulders slightly lowered so that she could talk more comfortably.

“… As a child, I think she was lonely. So is her father, and every day he wants so much from me. Even doing one of them is daunting, but if I can’t do it, they will scold me. I don’t even understand why he did this to me, and there were many times I just cried alone.”

“……”

“As she was curled up alone in her attic, when she looked up, I saw a tiny crack. Do you know what I saw between them?”

“It’s a star…isn’t it?”

As I replied, Irene nodded once and took a deep breath.

“Yes, it was a star. I could see the light so well even in that gap… She always stared into it crouching over her body. I was envious. That star I’m in a dark place like this, but the stars can shine alone. And since other stars are with you, the stars won’t be lonely. I thought so.”

I couldn’t come up with an answer to that.

She seemed to be able to sympathize with her feelings a little bit.

When she is alone in a single room. Didn’t I, like her, stare blankly at her sky?

However, what I felt while looking at the same scenery was a different feeling,

Without saying anything, she held her shoulders and looked up at the sky.

Soon, Irene’s hand pointed to the sky.

“I put one person in one star. There’s Lopena, there’s Sir Chris. And Rize on that star. And if you think of the remaining star as me… Strangely, I wasn’t very lonely.”

Eyes reach. At a very close distance, I met the shimmering blue eyes.

Her eyes, full of stars, sparkled. What was contained at the same time was sadness, and loneliness that had faded.

Longing, now recalling her lost longing, she slowly pulled the corners of her mouth together.

She liked the stars, she said.

Does that mean that I don’t feel lonely anymore?

I wanted to ask, but I didn’t. Until she speaks for herself.

She just kept her mouth shut while lending her shoulder like that.

“Isn’t it childish? Even when I grew up, it was like that.”

“…That’s not true.”

Even though she was much older than her, it was me who had similar imaginations.

How can you think it’s childish? He took her hand off her shoulder and grabbed her hand again.

Irene’s hand on my lap was warm. Could it be because she was drunk?

Because the strangely excited breath was also hot. I tried to ignore the heat and stared into the void.

“But now I don’t see the stars very often.”

“Why?”

“Because I am no longer lonely. There are no maids who glared at me, no people who expected perfection from me… Anymore.”

She stretched out her hand towards the sky, and she burst into laughter.

Irene, who had been laughing so hard for a while, lowered her hand and quietly pursed her lips.

“As a star, I wanted a lot of people to look at me. To cherish me, to cherish me, to love me. I hoped so. Now I wonder what is the use of all that.”

“Is that so?”

“It’s good that you don’t shine yourself anymore. I don’t think about wanting to become a star anymore. Because of one person who came to me, at some point I forgot to look at the stars.”

Irene stood up, having put her head on her shoulder, and she slowly started to come towards me.

Wrapped around her shoulders and touched her chest with her free hand. Her breath touches her again at very close range.

It was a faint fruit scent, but my heart beat at the heat that came through like an aphrodisiac.

Thump, boom. Heat rises. Summer hadn’t arrived yet, but the heat around here was hotter than midsummer.

Hot, hot. It was hard to even focus on the opponent in front of him.

“Do you know who that is?”

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Those slender fingers tickled her chest.

Took, took. The movement that started from the pit of the stomach touches his chest. Touches the collarbone

Then it touches the neck, touches the chin, and then to the lips.

Her fingers that had touched her lips soon came off, and then she let out her breath and looked at her.

“…This is Evan.”

I knew. She vaguely knew who she was talking about.

But she wanted to answer herself, so she deliberately kept her mouth shut and waited for her answer.

I could see the stars behind her. It was a really bright star.

Isn’t that why she said she wanted to resemble that star?

But at this moment, the thing that caught my eye the most was the woman in front of me.

Moonlight streamed her gray hair and touched her face. In this empty park, in the flowing silence, I could hear my heart beating.

He laughed at the sound of his heart beating at the same time.

In a medieval park without a streetlight, in this darkness where only the moonlight illuminates the surroundings, it was the blue eyes that could be clearly seen.

Our eyes meet. A red cheek was visible.

I couldn’t tell if he was drunk or if he was just ashamed of the situation.

How can I not know what this atmosphere means? It was time to be brave.

But it wasn’t as easy as she said, so she raised her trembling hand and slowly ran it through Irene’s hair.

“…This time I can’t be as patient as I was last time.”

“I know.”

Looking at her firm answer, I smiled lightly.

The distance is getting closer. At that distance, if you move just a little bit more, your skin will touch it. It was Irene who opened her mouth this time.

“Evan said earlier, that she can pour out her heart with her candidness under the guise of drinking.”

“…Yes.”

“I spoke frankly. Now…It’s Evan’s turn.”

Be honest. Unfortunately, I was not very talkative.

I couldn’t speak well enough to let her express my feelings into words, as she wanted.

I gently caress Irene’s cheek as she approached me.

Wanting to relieve her tension a little, her flowing hand brushed past Irene’s ear.

Her hair reached her hand. The pure white hair tickled her hand, and then pulled her back slightly.

It was a very close distance. They were close enough that if they moved just a little, they could touch each other’s skin.

It felt like an eternity.

Our eyes meet. Their hot cheeks met, and before long their lips met.

The warmth overlaps. Her hand, which was holding her back, went down and hugged her slender waist.

Irene’s hand, which couldn’t find its place, also flinched as she grabbed my shoulder.

Like a dream, like a dream.

I thought it was very soft.

Irene trembled slightly at the awkward touch of her lips.

She added strength to her hands wrapped around her waist so that she wouldn’t fall in surprise.

A warm wind began to blow in the space where the heat lingered.

The warmth of spring, which is now over, makes you feel better just by touching it.

Tongues touched slightly parted lips. As if we want to feel each other’s warmth even a little more at this moment,

The desire to covet each other got entangled. As if he longs for his heart that he has not been able to express, he urges an answer, saying that he will listen to his heart next time.

I wasn’t good at it. It was something no one had ever experienced, so I was just naturally guided by my instincts.

What’s next? I didn’t think of that. I just hoped that this moment of touching each other would last forever.

I hope time stops, ignoring the trials that will come next. I only hoped that this happiness would last for a long time.

The stars no longer twinkled.

In this moment, in this moment when we are touching each other.

Because the only thing that shines the most is the person in front of you.

The only emotion that filled his empty heart was happiness.