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While he didn’t answer, Cassian was already carrying her in his arms and heading for the bathroom. When Elysia arrived in the bathroom, she gave him a disapproving look at his undressed body.

“It’s embarrassing to look at it that hotly, wife.”

“I just want to know if this is how it feels for the traces to quickly disappear.”

It seemed to her that she was experiencing exactly what he had felt about the traces on her body quickly disappearing.

Cassian seemed to have come to an agreement with himself, saying that in the end, he would just engrave it often enough though she could not. She didn’t know when she would be able to get away again if he tried to engrave the traces on her again.

As she thought that it was unfair, Elysia took her eyes off his body and soaked herself in the bathtub.

“Wife, it feels like you’re rejecting me lately. Am I mistaken?”

Cassian sat down in the bathtub, lathering his hands and speaking softly.

“Because it’s so hard.”

Elysia pushed away his hand that was rubbing her shoulder, telling him she would not fall for it even if he seduced her with such a voice.

“This is a thought that comes to mind even after changing, but can vampires increase their physical strength?”

“…You’re kidding, right?”

“No way. I mean it.”

When Cassian had a serious face as he was contemplating what to do, Elysia shook her head and closed her eyes as she immersed herself a little deeper.

“Because in the past, it was difficult even after you drank my blood in between. Thinking about that, it seems that just sucking blood can’t solve it.”

“No, and when did I say no?”

In the end, didn’t he gently seduce her and do as much as he wanted?

In the past, when she was exhausted and tried to fall asleep, he would stop, but now even that didn’t work. It was because he knew that there was nothing wrong with not sleeping right now. In addition, he figured out how to make it so that he could break her reason and run with him.

Elysia felt she had reached new heights she hadn’t known.

“Ah, but I heard there was someone else that you were looking for besides me.”

She glanced at him, opening one of her eyes with a sneak peek at the sudden words. He must have heard about Lumiere.

“…I’m just worried.”

When she was looking for him, she made sure to find Lumiere as well. It was, of course, not as hard as finding him.

What Lumiere had done to her was unforgivable, but when she thought of Lumiere again after so much time had passed, she felt a little sorry for her. Before Lumiere became addicted to drugs and went mad, she blushed at the meeting to subdue monsters and said that she wanted to get along well with her.

“Were you bothered about her last death?”

“…It’s not like that.”

She had no other thoughts. If Lumiere got off to a bad start in her life, Elysia thought she had to change that a bit.

“Unexpectedly, I thought you would find Ryan or the Archwizard even if you went to look for people.”

“I haven’t even thought of that.”

She wondered that, no matter how long it took, if she just put in the effort, she might be able to meet them again someday. Elysia thought so, but she soon concluded that it wasn’t. She decided that she would be happy to make a connection if they met her, even if she didn’t have to look for them.

“Cassian. I have enough for now.”

“It’s the same for me, wife.”

Cassian stroked her hair affectionately and pressed his lips to her forehead.

* * *

Elysia, who had visited the Giovan Empire for a while as a diversion, wondered where she should go.

“Is there a place you would like to visit?”

“Um, not really.”

Elysia’s eyes twinkled more as she remembered the places she and Cassian had spent time together before.

“The temple!”

“Temple? Are you talking about the place where you met Der?”

She nodded her head, recalled her memory, and explained the way to the secret passage.

“The place where you said there was that ancient spell book.”

“I don’t know if it will still be there. Let’s go, wife.”

In the past, temples that were destroyed by Peloit cost considerable money to rebuild.

The temple reborn like that was more splendid than any other temple on the continent. Arbel boasted that the temple of the Giovan Empire would not be ruined because of that. Perhaps that was a correct judgment as many believers visited the temple of the Empire.

“Then, the money was ripped off.”

She thought the amount was large enough even for Cassian to say that. Elysia knew that it was just a lot, but otherwise, she wasn’t interested.

“Should I bring some sacred relics with me?”

“…Hmm.”

She smiled awkwardly and scratched her cheek while Cassian looked at her curiously.

“All that’s useful is Cardel already…”

Divine power didn’t work anyway, so what would they do with a holy relic? She could not understand the two father-and-son.

“Ack!”

Upon arriving at the temple, Cassian glanced around to see where the paladins were, and then he immediately lifted her up and held her.

“Then, let’s get a little excited then.”

After saying that, he ran lightly and headed for the secret area behind the fountain. While the scale and splendor of the fountain were incomparable at that time, the location was the same.

“Is it security magic?”

Cassian frowned and looked where the secret room was originally.

“How many layers is this?”

Elysia, who was glancing over his back, was taken aback. It wasn’t surprising that there were security magic, but the number was surprising.

“The Archwizard must have placed it.”

“Yes. Old Man must have suffered a bit.”

He looked at her as if asking what she was going to do.

“Wouldn’t it be okay to put it back up again similarly?”

Even if it was not the same thing, wouldn’t it be possible to match the level of security? Cassian smiled and started destroying the magic circle. Meanwhile, Elysia was speechless as she watched the spells begin to disappear in an instant.

“If we destroy the magic circle, who will come?”

“Hmm. I hadn’t thought of that.”

Elysia, who quickly exchanged her gaze with him, winked at him to hurry up.

Sure enough, she could feel the footsteps of several people approaching. As he carried her in his arms with swift movements and entered the secret passage, Elysia made sure the door was closed again and she began to unleash the magic layer upon layer.

“Ah… I placed it on really ignorantly.”

Elysia recalled Arbel, finding it troublesome and clenched her teeth.

“They saw, too.”

Although there seemed to be a bit of a commotion outside, after confirming that they wouldn’t be able to come in, Elysia followed Cassian and looked inside. Yellow magic lanterns were sparsely embedded in the floor.

After a while of walking, she saw a door so large that she had to tilt her head to see it.

“That’s…”

She smiled at the portrait painted on the door.

“Cassian. Did you know that?”

Elysia rolled her eyes as she grabbed Cassian’s arm and asked if he had let it happen without her knowledge.

“None at all.”

Had he known, would he have let this happen? Cassian swept his hair. He, too, looked puzzled. It was because on the door was a picture of her holding Der.

“They can’t compare with the real thing at all,” Cassian muttered to himself.

Elysia let out a sigh at the sight of herself as if Arbel had done it.

She knew that his curiosity about her was a bit morbid, but she never thought he would do such a creepy thing. She guessed that Ramote knew this and thus worked so hard to cast the security magic, so she didn’t know why he didn’t tell her.

It seemed that nothing else had been done to the door. Cassian lightly opened the door and beckoned her to enter.

“Hmm…”

Inside, the situation was even worse. The white marble space was tidy but equally creepy.

“…He made me a goddess.”

It was not a very pleasant feeling to see a statue that looked just like her. Elysia slowly looked around the space and went inside.

“I won’t leave the statue behind. I have to destroy everything.”

“Wife, I can’t do that.”