chapter 10
I’ll never let you go
Tossing aside the stack of papers that were over hundreds of pages, I lay down.
“It’s finally over.”
I worked every single day for several days.
Serena seems to have been struggling, so she tried to help a little, but she didn’t have any real physical torture.
Still, Serena, who plucked the hairs of her enemies like a meal, felt like she was a fairy who tortured this much.
Yeah, is there anything wrong with giving them food and sleeping?
…… It’s complete slavery.
I feel like I’ve already adapted to this kind of life, so I’m afraid of myself.
‘Rather than that, what’s the guy who’s trying to kill Serena do so he still doesn’t notice anything?’
Almost a month has passed since the poisoning of the food.
Serena didn’t even seem to notice that there was an assassination attempt, but she didn’t even try.
This is impossible unless you are an idiot.
‘I wonder if I believed it for nothing.’
As expected, I guess I have to find my way to live.
While she was thinking about her escape plan, which had been put off, in her head.
“Did you wake up?”
“Huh? Eh.”
Serena appeared out of nowhere and thrust her face into her.
“Your complexion doesn’t look good.”
Serena looked at my face carefully and said.
She’s that.
“……Maybe it’s because I’m tired.”
“Is that so?”
She hurriedly excused herself, but Serena’s gaze didn’t leave.
On the contrary, he stared at me in more detail than before, as if he was trying to find even the slightest commotion.
“What have you been doing all this time?”
“Me? I just finished the job you asked me to do.”
Serena’s gaze shifted from her staring gaze to her papers on her desk.
“……Didn’t you leave it yesterday?”
“This time it took a long time because it was a bit large.”
“You mean that?”
“I did it all night.”
“As expected… Was it like that?”
Did I say unnecessary words out of conscience?
The atmosphere of Serena running her hand through her hair was unusual.
This… Do you feel like you’re screwed up?
I don’t know how far she’s noticed, but that’s when she thinks she needs to apologize first.
“Do you need anything?”
Serena’s tightly closed lips opened, and she heard something completely different from what she expected.
“Is that what you need?”
“I didn’t do it specifically for you, but I worked hard in my own way.”
Serena pulling her own hair crosswise from side to side.
With her face half-hidden, she spoke in an exasperated tone.
“If you want something, I’ll do whatever I can.”
As soon as she finished her words, Serena lowered her head.
She doesn’t say anything as if she’s waiting for my answer.
I don’t know what caused it, but I think we can escape if we use this opportunity well.
‘Serena is not good at drinking.’
She said that according to her description in the novel, she would pass out after just one drink.
So if she made her drink her drink and then took advantage of her sleep to steal her Demon King’s Stone, it was her success.
“Is alcohol available?”
A moment of silence.
Anxiety filled her head, wondering if she had noticed my intentions.
“Are you really okay with that?”
Serena’s rapidly blinking eyes let us know that she was embarrassed.
Her face was as if she never expected to ask for such a trivial thing.
“If you think it’s not enough, let’s have a drink together.”
I asked because I thought I could solve it all at once without taking risks if I did well.
“I’m fine.”
Serena also knew that she couldn’t drink her alcohol, but she refused right away.
“Didn’t I tell you something more?”
“She just said that she would listen as much as possible.”
I wanted to solve it at once if possible.
Suddenly, it dawned on her mind that Serena had a strong ego.
“You’re not trying to avoid being caught drinking less than me, are you?”
“My, am I for you?”
Serena’s hands trembled, as if to vent her anger.
“I’ll never lose to you, so I’ll drink with you.”
She gnashed her teeth and shouted that she would bring it to her right away, and went outside without looking back.
I didn’t think so, but this is what happened.
It might be easier to deal with Serena than I thought.
In Serena’s hand, she returned, holding an ink-colored glass bottle and two wine glasses.
“Wine?”
“Do you hate wine?”
Serena asked, with a moment of uneasiness in her eyes.
She didn’t hate wine. She must have drank it before to know.
“Isn’t wine low in alcohol?”
“……Did you want something higher?”
Will Serena get drunk after drinking that?
“Is this too difficult for you?”
“I was worried about you, so I brought it with uncounted alcohol.”
They said he brought it with the weakest drink because he feared he would die from eating it.
Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any variables.
“Let’s sit down.”
At Serena’s urging, as we sat down at her table, I remembered what had happened a few days ago.
“…Let’s go and have a drink.”
“Okay.”
Escape is just around the corner, but useless thoughts come to mind, so what should I do?
Shaking her head, she hurriedly poured wine into her glass.
“I’ll drink well.”
“Yes.”
There was no toast. All they did was raise their glasses and tip them over their lips.
‘It’s written.’
The scent of grapes spread in my mouth more than the taste of alcohol that disturbed my head.
Is this the dryness that appears in those expensive wines?
Maybe it’s because I’ve only drank soju and beer my whole life, but wine didn’t suit my taste.
“Ugh.”
Serena also frowned, as if it didn’t suit her mouth.
“You don’t have to drink if you can’t drink.”
Now that Serena took a sip, there was no reason to encourage her to drink more because she was already a successful operation.
“……It’s because it’s been a while since I drank. It’s absolutely not that I can’t drink.”
That’s what kids who don’t drink always say.
I thought this ideal would be her poison, so I reached out to snatch her wine glass, but she lightly avoided my hand and poured her wine into her own glass.
At the same time, I proudly shouted out the words.
“Drink quickly.”
“Are you okay?”
“……Of course.”
Does she know that her white cheeks are already burning red?
Before she could say anything, Serena proudly drank from the full wine glass.
“Hey, how is it? Can you still say that I’m weak in alcohol?”
Serena looked mad as she slapped her wine into her mouth like her soju instead of savoring it.
I’m drinking to come. People who can’t drink are always the most dangerous at that time.
“Aww…”
As expected, Serena bowed her head down as if the aftermath had struck.
You’re not going to faint like this, are you?
She tapped her on the shoulder just in case.
“Are you okay?”
“Because I’m fine… Be good to yourself…!”
Serena’s words got longer, as if her tongue had loosened.
“I think you’re drunk. Why don’t you get some rest?”
“Really… When I was with the dragon… Demons like you couldn’t even raise their heads…”
Pretending not to hear me, Serena poured wine into her own glass.
“You seem very drunk. Why don’t you put down the glass and talk?”
“I don’t like it. Why should I… Listen to the devil’s dog…?”
Filling her glass again, Serena sipped her drink, sarcastic.
Should I just let them drink until they become rice cakes?
But even if my conscience is pricked as much as I did, I won’t let it go that way.
“Give me this.”
“Poohye, do you dare to say yes?”
She hurriedly tried to snatch her wine glass, but she was no match for her power.
“I’ll show you how well you drink… How well you drink… So just watch…”
Serena knocked the wine out of her glass with one shot.
“Ugh…”
The action is quite bold, but after a while, he covers his mouth with his hand and retches.
“Still… I can drink more…”
It was clear that if I drank even a little more, I would spill out everything I ate today.
Serena knew it in her head, but she reached for the bottle of wine.
With about half of the wine left, I couldn’t let her drink it all.
“What, what are you doing?”
I grabbed the wine bottle before Serena by a short distance. Serena, who struggled in the air as if to give her, placed her bottle in her mouth to avoid her hand.
Gulp, gulp, gulp.
The more she moved her neck, the stronger the bitter scent of grapes rose in her mouth.
It has no taste buds to the point where you want to stop swallowing it right away.
“Give me, give me! If I do this, I can prove it…!”
But that doesn’t mean you can’t entrust the fish to the cat.
After pouring every last drop into her mouth, she took her mouth off the bottle.
“Whoa… f*ck.”
It’s filthy hard to run away.
“You are… Cowardly…!”
I was just trying to catch her breath when Serena lunged at me.
Still, assuming that what I just drank was alcohol, I couldn’t resist properly and fell backwards, pushed by her weight.
Fortunately, there was a bed right behind her, so she fell and was not hurt.
“Drinking it all by myself… Not even giving it a chance… That’s too much…!”
However, the problem is Serena, who gets on top of me and acts like her.
“I can drink well…! Why… take a chance!!”
She’s completely drunk, but she’s filthy.
I couldn’t figure out how to get this off.
Should I just leave it alone? Serena, her eyes half-closed, didn’t seem strange that she would pass out at any moment.
“If you come out like this… I also… Have a way.”
But as if he still had enough strength, he pulled on my collar and climbed up.
In one breath, she reached near my neck, and her gaze met with her.
I don’t know if it’s because of her blushing face, but it felt like there was a light pink glow between her deep blue eyes.
They had such beautiful eyes that I stared blankly at them without realizing it.
“Stay still… stay.”
Before she knew it, she got close enough to face her.
Chuup─
She licked my lips with her tongue.
“This… I can eat as much as I want…!”
Like licking her candy, her tongue tickled my lips.
The hot breath mixed with the scent of grapes that followed immediately stopped the accident.
The tip of Serena’s tongue slipped between her lips through that gap.
Her strength slipped from Serena’s grip on my shoulder, just before her last line of defense was breached.
“I didn’t lose… Even if I lost… I will… Never let you go…”
Even with her eyes half-closed, she threatened that she wouldn’t release me, but I wasn’t afraid.
Rather.
──I thought it was cute.
It looks like I got drunk too.