chapter 8
008. Where are you going…?
Selene came to her room after refusing breakfast and was out of breath. Perhaps because she came at a fast pace, she took a long time to catch her breath.
“Why… why didn’t you do it?”
Now she was reflecting on the embarrassing situation from a moment ago, as if she had calmed down a bit.
She Of course, she hasn’t been with Endymion for a long time. Rather, compared to the years she had lived, she had been with him for a time when she was not even a speck of dust.
But in that short period of time, it was enough to figure out what kind of person he was. Selene was very upset because the behavior she saw this morning was different from usual.
‘Of course I spilled it here and there, but… ‘
I’ve never been so blatant before.
After all, it was only the wrong shirt, but in Selene’s head, she was already moving to the stage where she imagined him naked.
‘No… What am I thinking now.’
She belatedly tried to come to her senses, but her brain already seemed to be out of order. Sensing the need for rest to cool her complicated head, she laid her body down on her bed.
‘This is not like me… Why am I doing this?’
Covering her eyes with the back of her hand, she struggled. Then, suddenly, why did I recall a story I heard a while ago?
-What is love?
To the question that came up at the time, Freesia said many things, but she had only one answer that lingered in Selene’s head.
-At some point, the thought of him didn’t go away from my head.
Selene’s condition is like that now.
‘That guy’s thoughts… It doesn’t go away.’
But if you ask me if this is love? Selene would vehemently deny it. No matter what, it can’t be love. It’s just that she’s just passing by.
Still, she was the one with a slight blush as she couldn’t help but think of Endymion.
* * *
After gaining permission to roam the mansion, Endymion refused to eat and tried to leave immediately, but-
“…….”
The temptation in front of me was not that easy to shake off. Eventually, he emptied the bowl neatly and then left the restaurant.
‘Which way should I go?’
I’m moving as soon as my feet step on it, but I felt like I had to decide on a rough destination.
‘Shall we go to the front door?’
If I were to say that the peculiarity of this mansion was that the outside world was so ordinary that it did not feel like an alien world where the Wizard’s Tower was located.
‘It’s really difficult to escape from the other world.’
This may be the biggest problem. I slowly went down the stairs with a lot of worries about him. Eventually, he reached the empty, wide center, and he had the front door in front of him.
“…….”
I heard all 50,000 complicated thoughts. Endymion struggled as he looked at the doorknob that was still hanging.
‘Don’t open this.’
It may seem hasty to open it, but Endymion was just thinking of an excuse of his own.
‘Because she said she could go around…’ It’s enough to say I was curious about what it was like outside.’
Because he had never given him any reason to doubt, Endymion thought that Selene would understand if he answered like this.
‘I have to try it at least once.’
A necessary prerequisite for escape. In order to take a step forward, Endymion decided to grab the doorknob and push it all the way—
Chijik?!
At that moment, as the electric shock rode through his hand, Endymion hurriedly removed his hand.
Chiig….
“…….”
The hand that touched the doorknob a moment ago was red as if it had been burned. Endymion then looked at his arm, the marks of which had been burned from his hands to his elbows.
In the moment Endymion frowned at the bewildered shock and brushed off his numb arm as if paralyzed.
“What are you doing…?”
“…Selene-sama?”
The atmosphere quickly becomes chilly. Endymion slowly looked behind her at the sound of her voice in his ear.
A large staircase leading down to the floor below. The sight of Selene standing there was like a scene from a horror movie.
Another-Another-Another-Another-
One step, one step… Selene started to come down slowly. Endymion couldn’t bear to do this or that, and she stood nailed to the spot.
“Didn’t I ask you?”
Ttogak-
“What are you doing…?”
Ttogak-
The sound of her heels being exceptionally loud must be because of her mood. Endymion carefully observed the condition of Selene, who had come close to her.
Life is full of black eyes. The choppy breathing indicated that Selene was very excited. Even her house chew marks are visible on her lips.
‘More than expected… The reaction is more intense?’
I wanted to be f*cked, so I stayed still, but Selene didn’t let him stay still, her silent answer.
“Did you tell me? What were you doing here…?”
“So…”
You have to speak carefully. Endymion took out her excuse, which she noticed and which she had thought of beforehand.
“They said I could go around freely, so I was curious about what was going on outside, so I tried to leave.”
“Who cares?”
“Yes?”
“Who tried to get out?”
“Uh… you gave me permission earlier-“
“No, I never gave you permission to leave here.”
Selene said firmly and scanned Endymion with her jet-black eyes.
“Really… Did you have any other ideas?”
“What do you mean different thoughts?”
When he asked naturally, Selene kept his mouth shut, then grabbed his wrist.
“Let’s go. In the future, don’t even think about opening that.”
It was a good ending for a somewhat uneasy atmosphere. Endymion wondered if she thought it would be okay to season him a little more, so she implied a question.
“Selene-sama, can’t we go outside? I don’t have any other intentions, I’m really curious…”
“…….”
“Okay.”
Yeah, that’s no good.
I thought I was getting better, but after seeing that his eyes were getting cold again, Endymion gave up early. So she was thinking of quietly following along, but Selene glanced at him and opened her mouth.
“If…if you listen to me, I’ll let you go, on the condition that I attach a condition.”
“…….”
What a lot. I wondered if it would be that difficult to pass through that door, but from Endymion’s point of view, it was something I had to bow down to.
“Thank you.”
“…….”
Selene said nothing more. She only took her lead by the wrist of Endymion.
* * *
Selene has been worried lately.
‘He keeps bothering me.’
Originally, it bothered me, but it seemed like it was getting worse and worse.
-At some point, the thought of him didn’t go away from my head.
“…No, I’m not like that.”
The cause of everything lies with Endymion.
‘I’m trying not to care… That guy keeps bothering me.’
Seeing her liver often causes her sudden behavior, but the other day she suddenly came with her disheveled appearance and gave her confusion.
‘That’s not all.’
Perhaps it was a problem that she told her to take care of herself in the midst of her madness, but she heard a loud warning sound in Selene’s ears, who was resting in her room at the time.
‘Trying to go out….’
Recognizing at once what kind of alarm it was, Selene left the room and headed for the front door. Before long, she found Endymion standing in front of the door.
The moment Selene realized what he was trying to do, she even thought it was reprehensible. He said he was just curious about the outside to make an excuse, but who would be a fool to believe that right away?
‘Even if it’s true, there’s nothing wrong with being careful.’
I have taken action. He hadn’t originally intended to do this… It was all because of Endymion who made me uneasy, Selene had long since finished rationalizing herself.
‘What is he doing now?’
Actually, I could tell that much just by turning my head. Because this is the library right now, and Endymion, as always, is sitting on one side and reading a book.
However, Selene focused her attention for a moment to check the measures she had taken.
Her gaze shifted from the journal in her hand to the back of Endymion’s seat in an instant.
‘What are you reading?’
A floating eyeball. By the way, it is invisible to Endymion’s eyes.
A surveillance book. She was the familiar that Selene had attached to him because of her insecurity.
‘The moment he heard her confession, Kamiel was silent for a while. Leahian thought he was organizing his thoughts…… This is what… Ji?’
Was there a book like this in the library? I knew the only books Endymion could read were the ones on the bookshelf here, but Selene didn’t know all the books in the library either.
‘It’s just randomly selected… I have no choice but to know.’
Because of that, books of all sorts that even she doesn’t know are sleeping in the library. That bizarre book that Endymion is reading right now must be of that kind.
‘Is this a romance novel?’
I haven’t read it in depth, but I do remember that it wasn’t my taste.
Selene turned her head back, shifting her vision back to her own. Then she gazed at Endymion with a grotesque gaze.
‘I really like… ‘
At this point, maybe it’s really boring….
She was confused about whether or not the true meaning of what he said the other day was now true.
‘Why are you looking at that….’
It was a fact that Selene was completely unaware that Endymion was collecting data to seduce me.