History at the Library

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However, reality was cruel.
Vivian tamed her heart and will with the feelings of a religious cleric.
“Ahem, it’s alright.
Why should Ray go to such trouble?”

She cleared her throat and slowly moved to the side.
That man who oozed sex from his very pores seemed to continuously test her.

“Would you escape if the young master utilizes a method that escapes the eyes of the Royal Palace?”

“What?”

Vivian blinked blankly as though she didn’t understand what had been said.

“It appears you are unaware how easy it is to slowly destroy Vivian’s life from under your feet.”

Ah, the young master’s intellect was rather below average, so it seemed unlikely for him to be aware of such a method in the first place.

“Can you bear a life where your feet are chained so you can’t run away, and it is so torturous you want to die, yet you’re unable to die?”

A prickly gaze scanned Vivian up and down.
Why do these sudden words sound like threats? Vivian’s eyes moved this way and in that astonishment, then let out an exclamation — Ah! — as though she had realized something.

Then, with an expression free of confusion, she brightly smiled and nodded.

“You say words of worry quite brutally.”

“Worry?”

“You’re worried that I’ll later be harmed after having stood up against an aristocratic young lord, right?”

The hand that was about to touch her cheek abruptly stopped.
Then the brutal atmosphere slowly began to recede into something more leisurely.
Was it because she had hit the core point of the issue? “It does bother me.”

Ray let out a sigh and obediently acknowledged the fact.

“It seems I’ve grown to desire.”

“Yes, what? What?”

“Vivian.”

At those words, the heart that I had attempted to soothe was immediately unchained and scattered wildly.
Vivian’s face grew red and she repeatedly opened and closed her mouth.
She had grown so flustered by the sudden development that she was unable to say anything.
It appeared as though she lacked discipline.

“That…?”

“Would you like to go out with me?”

“That……! That…….”