The Tyrant Won’t Let Me Go - Chapter 37

The coachman approached immediately as I shut the carriage door and stared at me in surprise, pointing towards the carriage with my head like a person in agony.

‘Now I could see him everywhere.’

I grabbed the carriage door handle and started to wonder seriously.

It was because there was no reason for that person to be sitting inside this carriage unless…

‘No, I must have been too tired these days.’

As I thought so, I opened the door again, thinking he wouldn’t appear this time.

“Ciel, if you keep opening and closing the carriage door, it might break.”

But I realized it wasn’t my hallucination when I saw Cedric’s unyielding face and voice again.

In the end, I still denied the reality in front of me and closed the door again.

“Come on, wait! Captain Minerva, where are you going!”

Thinking to myself that ‘I would never ride that carriage ever again’, I resolutely ignored the coachman’s call.

Then he opened the carriage door, which stood behind him and was also marked as headed to the city.

“Oh, Captain.”

“…”

At least it wasn’t an empty carriage either. And the person in it was Paul, Cedric’s closest servant.

In front of him, who was awkwardly looking at me as he greeted me was…

“His Majesty told me to…”

“Ah! No-no. I just have something to do in the city.”

“Paul, I always say this, but you never lie for anyone else. It’s so obvious, Paul.”

Having said that as if giving up, I let out a deep sigh.

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“So, you thought you’d go out on a secret trip, but just submitted a permit to leave, didn’t you?”

“Yes.”

Cedric smiled brightly and nodded.

“Do you think that makes sense? I didn’t even think about hiding it, didn’t you just follow me?”

“No, it’s true.”

Cedric looked around and said.

“Because the Emperor couldn’t help but watch over the people’s lives forever. I couldn’t just keep hiding. I decided to take a look around the area. I wanted to, but I was unable to do so, due to the previous attack. It’s been so long since I’ve been hiding.”

Apart from following me, he seemed to be sincere about inspecting the city.

‘Was it okay for now?’

At first, I wanted to stop Cedric, but the number of individuals assigned to protect was quite enough, and they were all pretty talented, so I set my mind at ease.

Also, when looking at them hiding in every corner now, it seemed that there were quite a few more people deployed than at a glance.

It was difficult to have so many people deployed at once without preparations.

Seeing that the manpower was quite planned, I would have been deployed as one of those personnel if I hadn’t taken a vacation today.

‘Cedric was dressed more modestly than usual, and because of his hat, he doesn’t stand out that much… It’ll be fine.’

“Okay, I got it. So where are you going first?”

“Oh, you don’t have to move as I want.” Cedric smiled and tilted his head.

His red eyes sparkled brightly even through the brim of his hat.

“That’s fine. You were going to the market first, didn’t you?”

“Ciel knows me really well.”

“It’s easy to blend as a regular person there.”

With that said, I turned towards the agricultural market.

Then I saw Hillac and Sera move along with us.

Besides them, the guards who were close to us also followed us.

‘Let’s see, could we have gone faster if we turned left over there?’

It was then that I was slowly thinking of a shortcut.

Cedric’s voice came from the side.

“Ciel, be careful!”

However, before he even said that, a devastating shock was felt on my left toe.

“Ouch!!”

The pain threw me off balance, and my body collapsed forward in an instant..

“Huh?”

I could see rough ground with stone beaks protruding from it all around.

Cedric’s strong arm wrapped around my waist the moment he reached out his hand to protect me.

As I was about to fall to the ground, I was grabbed by a strong forearm.

When I opened my eyes, there were stones right in front of my face.

“Are you okay?”

Cedric asked in a surprised voice as he wrapped his arms around my waist tightly.

All kinds of thoughts rose like clouds in my head.

I considered myself fortunate that Cedric caught me before I fell to the ground.

‘It’s embarrassing…!’

At this age, falling in front of a student without noticing a stone beak sticking out was embarrassing.

“Ciel, are you okay? You didn’t get hurt, right?”

Cedric asked anxiously as I looked around, my face turned red at the thought of wanting to bury my head in the sand.

Lifting my head, I endured the embarrassment and answered..

“Yes, I didn’t get hurt…”

When I slightly turned my head to the side, the transparent red eyes caught my gaze.

The hair that was half combed to the side was shiny.

The eyes that gleamed through the rest of the hair, which were slightly disheveled, burned as if they were swallowing up those who looked at them.

Like a dancing flame.

The flame, which blazed brighter than any other flame, seemed to sway over my ever-growing body.

At the same time, he constantly reached out to me, and he seemed to only stare at me blindly.

‘If it’s a flame like that…’

Maybe it’s okay to jump in.

At that moment, I came to my senses.

“Huh?”

What was I thinking just now?

‘It’s okay to jump in?! What’s’ that…?‘

When I recalled what I had just thought, my heart began to beat crazy.

My face immediately turned red as I was immersed in the flood of embarrassment. Nevertheless, I couldn’t take my eyes off Cedric’s face.

“Are you really okay? Your face is red…”

Cedric stroke cheek, looking as if he was genuinely worried.

“It’s hot, but I don’t have a fever—!”

“Ah, no!”

I was surprised and stepped back.

Until then, Cedric’s hand was still wrapped around my waist.

“Ciel?”

Acting surprised at the moment to hide my embarrassment since I stood with my back against him, as Cedric call my name

“The Imperial Knights Commander won’t have any issues with this.”

‘Arghh! It’s making me crazy!’

Trying to act as if nothing had happened, but it still feels humiliating and ends up biting my tongue.

As soon as I thought that I wanted to penetrate the earth’s mantle and sink to the inner core and hide, I heard Cedric laughing.

“You’re quick-witted.”

It was clear that he noticed that I didn’t turn red because I felt sick.felt

Cedric was originally quick to catch on to things, but when it comes to matters related to me, he was quick-witted even more.

This pounding heart of mine has not yet calmed, but a warm breath tickled my ears.

“Hmm, really?”

Goosebumps rose all over my body in the same voice like a beast who enjoys playing in front of a prey.

Cedric was smiling strangely with the corners of his lips curled up differently than before as I turned around.

At that moment, I realized…

‘This kid…’

Now I know that he’s determined to seduce me.

However, Cedric stated that he needed to purchase something from the jeweler and followed me with his hat pressed down so that the store owner wouldn’t see his face.

No matter how much anyone looked at it, it seemed like he was making up excuses because he wanted to be with me, but now I understand because of what he said.

And now I’m regretting entering the jewelry store with Cedric.

“Ciel, can you put this on for me? Just one more try.”

“No, I didn’t come here to buy a ring, I came to buy a magic stone.”

Having told Cedric to stay in the carriage because I’m going to the jeweler to purchase magical stones.

But Cedric was already calling the owner without listening to me.

“Would it be okay if I start with another one?”

No, the thing he really wanted to buy was my ring. I sighed, barely holding on tightly.

“Sure. Instead of just one, you could try on ten more.”

Cedric’s face brightened at the owner’s words.

“Thank you.”

No, this owner! He likes it because you’re so kind, but if you say so, this crazy guy only steps on the accelerator without brakes.

“Come on, we’ve got permission, so let’s try one more time.”

Cedric picked up a ring with a bright red ruby with bright twinkling eyes.

Then he stared at the ring and spoke in a serious tone.

“It’ll be 2 millimeters longer than your left ring finger, but that should be fine, right?”

“Hold on, stop!!”

Stopping him from putting on the ring to my finger and said,

“How do you know the circumference of the ring finger of my left hand?”

“I’ve been holding your hand every day for the past eight years. Don’t you know that?”

Cedric nodded and placed the ring on my left hand’s ring finger.

“Oh, it looks good on you!”

“That’s the fifth time you’ve said that.”

“Howeverㅡ”

Cedric smiled and pulled my hand to his lips.

“It’s really pretty.”

Then he kissed my ring finger aloud.

Ciel stared at the scene with cold eyes, but the jeweler looked at the two of them with a very intriguing look, as if they were spectators plucking popcorn at the cinema.

Sera, who was standing outside the window, was openly suppressing her laughter.

Ciel didn’t want to think about anything anymore.

‘How did he become such a master of flirtation today?’

Did you get nagged by your ministers to get married?

“I told you to refrain from going outside…”

“Why, there’s only the two of us here.”

“Couldn’t you see the owner standing over there at the counter?”

Cedric then turned calmly towards the owner and yelled.

“Could you pretend you didn’t see what you just saw?”

“Oh, of course! I could do that.”

When the owner responded enthusiastically with his eyes half closed, Cedric made a cheeky face and asked, “So, what’s the problem?”

“Should I buy another one?”

Cedric muttered, and I whispered in answer. In a very low voice that the store owner couldn’t hear.

“Again, I could not accept the ring that Your Majesty bought. So stop buying things.”

“Why not?”

“Since I’m a civil servant even though I look like this…”

“What’s wrong with that?”

I sighed and said to Cedric, who opened his mouth.

“It’s against the Kim Young-ran Act, arghh! not that, anywayㅡ”

“The Kim Young-ran Act? What’s that?”

“Ah, no. Anyway, if this became known outside, people who work for the country to be able receive such a big gift, there would be a lot of backlash.”

“Then don’t let anyone know. There’s no problem because I would buy it at my own expense, not funds from the national treasury.”

“That’s not the problemㅡ!”

Just then, the door to the store opened and Paul ran as he entered.

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Perhaps he had rushed in, but his face was red, breathing heavily.

Seeing that, Cedric’s expression changed in an instant.

“What’s going on?”