“What are you going to do any more?”

Zagnac couldn’t reply Lane’s query. It was good till he realized that this sense he had was ‘love’ within the human phrase. Nonetheless, there was no specific resolution. He, a satan, couldn’t even confess that he cherished Azela, a human.

Moreover…

“I don’t love you.”

Greater than something, she stated she didn’t love him herself. As he recalled what Azela had stated to him, he felt his temper getting worse as his chest tingled.

…The particular person she ought to love was a fellow human being, not him.

“Any further…”

Zagnac carelessly eliminated Lane’s hand and grabbed his collar. He then uttered in a heavy voice.

“I’ve to discover a strategy to launch Azela.”

* * *

It was unusual.

All that had occurred recently was unusual issues. Azela tilted her head as she swung the sword evenly within the air over her, dismissing the blood. She evenly crossed the physique of a fallen murderer and entered the mansion.

“Are you okay?”

Day-after-day, day and night time, assassins raided Zagnac’s mansion. Amongst them, there have been proficient individuals with wonderful abilities although there have been additionally assassins who have been very poor.

It wasn’t simply the mansion. She didn’t know the way they knew it, however it was additionally widespread for them to sneak up on him and assault him when he was out. Because of this, she needed to transfer busily with out time to relaxation.

“I’m okay.”

“…Your arm is bleeding. Aren’t you damage?”

When Baharf pointed it out, Azela checked out her left arm with an informal face. There was a lightweight wound that she didn’t know when it was minimize. It appeared small wounds like this have been frequent these days.

Azela replied with a smile as she checked out her wounds.

“Small wounds like this heal with saliva.”

“It’ll get contaminated. I’ll name the physician.”

“I don’t assume…”

Earlier than Azela might end her sentence, Zagnac appeared out of nowhere and grabbed her left arm with a tough gesture. Sure, that was the second bizarre factor.

“…Are you damage?”

her scars, he frowned. As he was analyzing her wounds right here and there, Zagnac crumpled his face and spoke to Baharf,

“Burn that bastard’s corpse proper now.”

“Understood.”

“And name the physician.”

“Sure.”

As he ordered Baharf, Zagnac grabbed Azela’s wrist and climbed towards the bed room. Usually, he would have reacted calmly, however he had modified so much recently.

He was very pleased with her small wound, and generally, he cried that he was accountable for the wound. Although that wasn’t all… he used to nag even when she solely tried to go down the steps and would present up from someplace whereas being cautious taking place the steps.

Like she was a child simply beginning to stroll…

There have been instances when she tried to exit alone, and he would attempt to put an escort for her, saying that there are various dangerous individuals amongst people.

To Azela, his escort knight.

“…What the hell is incorrect with you?”

Earlier than the physician arrived, she requested, frowning on the sight of Zagnac agonizing over Azela’s injured arm. Sure, come to consider it, just a few days in the past, he gave her a cash bag to stop being the escort knight and moderately play and eat as Duke Ferial’s enterprise companion.

“…What?”

“Why are you overprotective of me?”

“Me? When?”

Zagnac shrugged his shoulders.

Even at a look, he appeared suspicious. There was no method that he, a satan, would have realized his emotions for her within the first place… so did she do one thing incorrect? Or was he hiding one thing from her?

As she thought so, Azela glanced round at him with narrowed eyes.

“…People are too weak in our eyes.”

“What?”

“It appears like it’ll break in case you contact it. So, as a contractor, it’s a easy matter for me to guard you.”

Zagnac checked out her bleeding wound with a bitter expression. As she adopted him, Azela additionally noticed the bruises on her arms.

It wasn’t a severe harm.

It wasn’t a wound so huge that she couldn’t use her arm, and to magnify it somewhat, it might heal in just a few days with saliva. Whereas he might not realize it, it was nothing to her as a result of, prior to now, she was extra injured than this daily throughout coaching.

“Don’t fear. People will not be as weak as you assume.”

“….”

“How laborious are these bones? We’re not a species that may break in case you contact it like that. If we have been going to interrupt simply, we might have already gone extinct.”

Azela laughed as she eliminated her arm from him. Though it was subtly good that he cared about her, she hated it.

There was silence for a second at her decided voice. Regardless that he was apprehensive for her, she questioned if she had advised him off too sternly. When Azela turned her head barely, he nonetheless remained the identical.

‘Sure, it’s now.’

Azela wiggled her fingers.

From the day Livia left, there was one thing on her thoughts. She needed to inform him what she needed to say, however she seldom bought the prospect.

Nonetheless, it appeared that she appeared capable of do it now.

“I’ve one thing to say.”

“I’ve one thing to let you know.”

Zagnac and Azela opened their mouths on the similar time, and the following second, the eyes of the bewildered two met within the air.

Azela smiled calmly on the scenario that appeared to solely come out in books.

“What is that this? Zagnac, you communicate first.”

“…No, you communicate first.”

He set free a lightweight breath and held out a hand to her. Seeing that, Azela nodded her head with out rejecting it. If not now, she didn’t know when she would be capable of do it. It was one thing which will change.

Placing a smile on her face and laughing, she pretended to be as calm as potential.

“Zagnac.”

“Sure.”

“Marry Princess Livia. That is my request for you.”

Azela laughed as if she was glad she was capable of erase the rising emotions in her thoughts.

“…What?”

However, Zagnac crumpled his face at her phrases. Maybe he hadn’t even considered it. She had already anticipated such a response from him, so it didn’t matter to her.

Azela continued her phrases with an unconcerned smile and informal tone as she had practiced.

“You stated you’d grant me something I needed?”

“It’s for our contract. I don’t assume my marriage will have an effect on our contract.”

“There are various assassins coming to kill you nowadays. This wound can be brought on by that. Should you marry Princess Livia, this gained’t occur.”

When she spoke, holding out her injured arm, Zagnac had no phrases to retort. He pressed his lips collectively and frowned. She was right if this was an murderer despatched by the Emperor.

“It’s not troublesome. In spite of everything, the human lifespan is brief to the satan. After Princess Livia dies, the emperor dies, and the one who is aware of all of this dies, you can begin a brand new life once more.”

“However I don’t prefer it.”

“Moreover, if that occurs, you can be serving to Princess Livia. How good. It’s good for one another.”

Saying so, Azela smiled and squeezed her injured arm. The injuries that had barely stopped bleeding have been bleeding once more although she felt no ache. It was as a result of an excellent higher ache was crushing her coronary heart.

“….”

Zagnac, who gave no reply, silently lowered his gaze and touched his personal hand, which had been holding her arm a second earlier than. He thought possibly that was factor.

If he married Livia, the Emperor would not goal her, and Azela wouldn’t be at risk. Whereas she had been getting away with minor cuts on her arm or elsewhere on her physique now, there was no assure that she’d keep that method endlessly.

“…I’ll give it some thought.”

After her temporary reply, Zagnac raised his hand and gently positioned his hand close to Azela’s coronary heart. People have been too weak. As a result of if this coronary heart have been pierced, it might be over. All he might give her was ‘security’ in order that she might reside a protracted, completely happy life.

Azela nodded her head, unable to bear a smile.

* * *

Finally, after just a few days, he invited Princess Livia to the mansion.

“Even when I used to be humiliated like that, I don’t have this a lot pleasure… Duke Ferial, you referred to as, and I nonetheless got here working like this.”

These have been the primary phrases Livia uttered when she arrived on the mansion. When she stated that, Zagnac laughed out loud.

“Let’s discuss concerning the unfinished marriage matter once more.”