# 30
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“Wow.”
The maids who were styling my hair shouted excitedly, and brought a mirror and placed it in front of me.
“You are so beautiful.”
“You are eye-catching.”
In the mirror, a beautiful woman stood in a soft purple dress, but her face looked tired.
Yes, it's me. Kay, who is wearing the tenth dress for this day only, which Dabin chose.
“Miss Dabin...”
“I told you to skip the formalities, Kay.”
Dabin interrupted me lightly as she selected jewelry from the jewelry box.
The twins were constantly pressuring me to talk to them as a friend at no cost.
“Okay, Dabin. When will this end?”
I asked Dabin while I was wearing expensive-looking shoes that the maid had given me. She simply ignored my question as she placed a huge crown on my head and said:
“I don’t know, isn’t it beautiful?”
My white hair, adorned with a sparkling crown, shone dazzlingly under the sunlight.
Well, it's really pretty.
“All of these things I bought with money I pulled from Lloyd’s private safe, behind his back, of course. Ha, ha, now, it’s all yours.”
It seemed to me that the price of the crown on my head alone was worth dozens of gold coins.
If we add the shoes and dresses I was changing, we would have spent hundreds or even thousands of gold coins.
Even if it was Lloyd's money, was it right to waste it like this?
At the moment when I was drinking tea and thinking bitterly:
“Since you are Lloyd’s fiancée, this amount of spending is considered frugality.”
Because of Dabin's words, I spat out the tea I was drinking.
“KKKKKK!”
“You, are you okay?”
Oh, I forgot for a moment.
The reason I'm here.
I only slept with Lloyd, but he kidnapped me, claiming he would take responsibility for my life.
Because of this damned ring, I cannot return to Geronia until Lloyd's business is finished.
In this helpless situation, I started to think that maybe I should close my eyes and marry Lloyd, but at that moment I remembered a character in the novel.
The hero of the novel! Dabin love!
According to the original context of the novel, Dabin should now have established a spy organization, cutting off Rosebelia's financial resources in collaboration with the "Master of the Magic Tower" to strangle... Eveliana.
She should have fallen in love with the master of the tower she works with and shared feelings with him, but after Eveliana disappeared, what happened?
It looks like she's on vacation instead of creating a spy organization.
Moreover, the Magic Tower Master, who was known to be Dabin’s contractual fiancé and had caused a stir in the empire, had not been seen since I arrived at the palace.
Isn't the preacher supposed to at least come to check on him?
I want to see you two courting in reality!
I asked Dabin about her fiancé’s condition, but the response was shocking:
"Huh? Engagement? I called that off a long time ago."
What...what?!
Did you cancel it a long time ago?
A long time ago...?
Do you know how much I paid in “cookies” (the currency of novels) to see your love story! I pre-ordered the paper copy too!
I even bought the webtoon version!
I, who was supporting the duo (Dabin x Tower Master), was screaming inside while thinking about my money that had evaporated into the air.
“Pfft, your facial expressions are really funny.”
Dabin laughed hard when she saw my despair.
It was good that the study hours decreased and Dabin’s style became kinder and we became friends, but the problem was that the twins treated me as a patient.
They treated me like a glass doll that might shatter if touched.
Lloyd, who heard that a person might die due to severe cold, left his work and brought a giant tree larger than the palace.
Then he chopped them up for firewood and stacked them in front of my room's fireplace and diligently raised the temperature.
Because of Dabin applying the heat preservation charm and saying that Lloyd's words made sense, the room became like a steam bath.
When I could take it no longer and said that the great disparity in temperature increased the risk of disease, they tried to make the whole palace hot, but the duke's wife forbade them.
One day, Dabin brought a straw doll, saying it was an amulet to strengthen the body.
Since the doll looked exactly like a curse doll, I hid it in the depths of the office and this is a secret that she did not know.
And today...what else will they do?
My days were going crazy because of the strangest things they did to check on my health.
“Kai, we brought fortifying food!”
Is it a fortifying food today?
The twins' faces were puffy with expectation.
When I sat at the table, Dabin offered me a bowl.
“Oh?”
Inside the bowl, there was clear white broth.
It was exactly like the bone broth I used to eat in Korea.
I was very happy with this sudden appearance of Korean food.
“Wow! This looks really delicious!”
How long have I not seen this bone broth?
I wanted to mix the rice in this hot, steaming broth.
When Lloyd saw my happiness with the food, he smiled brightly and replied:
“This is a soup made from dragon bones. It tastes amazing, Dabin and I made it with all sincerity. Nothing beats this to improve energy.”
Yes? Dragon?
I was amazed by the surprising ingredients in the food.
Dragon bone broth?!
What kind of food is this that combines the imagination of another world with Korean flavor?
It's a food that only dragon-hunting superheroes could make.
I asked Lloyd a little skeptically:
“Is this really food to eat?”
Dabin answered confidently:
“We've already eaten five bowls before we came. No problem, drink it! Swallow it at once. There's plenty of it, I'll give you more.”
At Dabin's encouragement, I tasted it.
“Cause...haaa!”
It was truly the taste of authentic bone broth.
As the hot broth flowed down my throat, I felt warmth in my stomach.
It seems that Lloyd applied the salt perfectly, it was delicious and salty.
I salivated at the taste of homeland that I had not felt for a long time.
"What do you think? Lloyd adjusts salt very well, doesn't he? Not only that, he's a very good cook."
I agreed with Dabin's words, remembering the taste of the soup that Lloyd made in the Dark Forest.
Yes, at that time it was delicious like that too.
Rich, handsome, and good at cooking. Even though he's a kidnapper who lacks sexual education, you're an otherwise perfect groom, Lloyd.
I looked at the twins who were waiting with shining eyes for me to eat eagerly, then I raised the bowl and quickly drank the broth.
The taste is great! I see...I want another bowl!
“Oh…?”
At the moment when I was about to ask for more, blood flowed from my nose.
And this time, from both nostrils.
“Kai!”
The twins jumped in fear due to the sudden bleeding.
Why does nose bleed? Why was I so weak...
While I was thinking about that, my head started spinning like crazy and I felt like vomiting.
“Awww!”
I could not bear the severe nausea coming from inside me, so I vomited on my place.
But what I vomited wasn't bone broth, it was a huge amount of blood.
When I saw my clothes covered in blood, my hands began to tremble from a mysterious pain.
Did you poison me to kill me?
No wonder you two were treating me so nicely...
Was that a ploy to reassure me?
The vision began to fade, and I lost consciousness as I saw the confused faces of the twins as they ran towards me and called my name.
Am I going to die like this?
How much time has passed?
In my blurred consciousness, I was lying in the fetal position.
I felt a strange warmth and nostalgia, and I wanted to sleep like this forever.
At that moment, someone shouted loudly in my ear:
_Wake up! Come quickly!
I woke up terrified by the sound of the urgent call.
I seem to be fainting a lot lately.
All because of those monster twins.
I wiped my face and looked around. I was in a place full of white.
White space that extends without end.
This is also the situation after waking up.
I quickly slapped my cheek because of this sudden imaginative development. I did not feel any pain.
Is this a dream?
It appears to be a “lucid dream.” While I was wrapping my head around the feeling of reality, a very urgent voice was heard from somewhere nearby.
_Run away. Come on, quickly!
I looked around in panic, and found a person with white wings standing next to me.
He looked like an angel.
I was terrified by his sudden appearance and stepped back while looking at him.
"Oh? Mr...Sandall?"
The man with big white wings behind his back was Sandal.
The therapist who preceded me by seven years.
But Mr. Sandall's appearance was strange.
His messy orange hair was gone, and instead he had shiny white hair like mine, and bright red eyes as he looked at me.
The features were certainly Mr. Sandall's, but the color of the hair and eyes was different and lonely.
At the moment I approached to confirm whether it was him, a noise was heard from afar in that quiet white place.
Sandal's face suddenly turned pale, then he hugged me and began to fly at great speed.
What in heaven's name is happening?
Sandal began to say something.
“Yes…?”
The problem is that his words came out like a distorted radio, even though I was in his arms.
_ ...Beware...of...Ka...Run away...Save your life.
What are you saying? I don't hear you, Mr. Sandall!
When I screamed hard, Sandal's face filled with sadness and began to distort, and suddenly he let go of my hand.
What...what happened suddenly!
And I fell straight away.
When I looked up, I saw Sandal looking at me from the white space.
He was now crying bitterly.
What kind of silly dream is this...?
I was looking at him and falling into deep, endless darkness.
I remembered those dreams in which I used to dream of falling when I would fall asleep in class during school days and wake up terrified.
As soon as I hit the ground in the dream, my whole body trembled and I woke up from the dream.