Don't Get Caught by Your Husband!

Escalion looked down at Belladonna’s finger pointing at him and then opened his mouth.

“If you’re asking about my wish……i really don’t have anything special. I hope we’ll have one or two more good horses next year, and I hope a lot of delicious meat from other countries will come in through the newly renovated port.”

Escalion answered, shrugging her shoulders.

Wow, that’s really simple.

Bella shook her head as if she had expected something in vain.

In that case, I should make it as simple as possible….

“ah. one more. I hope a useless war doesn’t break out. I don’t want His Majesty to need me again.”

Escalion looked at her with quite serious eyes.

“Now that you have a wife, i should value her life. I can’t just go to war and turn my wife into a widow overnight. is not it?”

Escalion’s soft golden gaze fell upon her.

Belladonna forgot to nod her head and she looked up at him blankly.

Intense gaze was intertwined.

Every time this happens… I don’t know what this feeling is.

“Then go ahead and write it down.”

Escalion pointed to the lantern she was holding with her chin.

ah…..

I was writing down my wishes, my wishes.

Belladonna, who belatedly came to her senses, also lowered her gaze to the balloon she was holding.

‘Well, so…..My wish is……’

Belladonna brought the tip of her pen to the side of her lantern and began to think again.

“Write down what’s on your mind right now. The more I think about it, the more undecided I become. Let’s write it and blow it away.”

Then the first thing that came to her mind was…..The funny thing was, she didn’t want to go back to where the Pope was.

‘Haa ….’

Three months later, when I always spoke like a hypnotist.

She knew that after those three months, she would have to return to Astanya and live as the Pope’s only daughter and eternal saint.

In that case, I would lose my freedom again and be locked in the confessional, listening to the heavy stories of many people….

‘I hate it……’

Belladonna quietly exhaled.

She hoped that three months would quickly pass and her uncomfortable and sorry relationship with Escalion would end, but she also hoped that those three months would never pass by.

‘Even when I think about it, it’s a really contradictory feeling…….’

She glanced up at Escalion standing next to her.

He raised his head and looked at the balloons that other people had written down with their wishes and were sending out into the sky.

Bella, who made up her mind only after seeing his indifferent profile, lowered her head and diligently moved her hand.

‘Tuk-tuk.’

Finally, after writing down her wish, she tapped Escalion and called to him.

“Did you use it all?”

Escalion raised his hand and called back to the young merchant and took the lantern from her.

A young merchant noticed his call and followed him, holding a match to light the fire.

Meanwhile, he read the writing on the side of the sky lantern he was holding and frowned.

“What’s this.”

That is my wish!

Belladonna became somewhat embarrassed and looked away.

“Now shall we light it on fire and blow it into the sky?”

The young merchant who approached asked.

Escalion nodded her head hesitantly and handed the lantern to the merchant.

The young merchant lit the wick under the lantern with his familiar hands, and held both ends of the lantern with his small hands to adjust the direction of the wind and send it up into the sky at the right time.

A light blue sky lantern floated up and began to fly toward the sky.

“It seems that the saint doesn’t listen to other people’s wishes in vain.”

Escalion, who was standing nearby and looking up at the balloon rising in the sky, blurted out.

“I never thought you would take my wish away and write it down.”

Uh, it just so happened that our wishes overlapped, well…..

Belladonna quietly ignored his words as she watched the sky lantern moving further and further away.

Her handwriting was also moving away along with her lantern.

[May there be peace throughout the world. In this way, I hope that there will be no regrettable and disappointing separation.]

After flying the sky lanterns, Belladonna continued to enjoy the year-end festivities with Escalion.

We stopped on the street for a while to listen to the music played by the musicians, and bought a variety of snacks other than warm fish-shaped snacks.

We sat down in the open-air theater in time to watch a play about the goddess Eliza and chose a cute gift to give to Cindy or Wolff.

‘That’s fun……!’

Belladonna followed Escalion around with a happy smile on her face.

lol…..

“wait a minute! There beautiful girl! We’ll draw your portrait for just 20 blanc!”

At that time, a young painter in front of a large easel waved his hand at Belladonna and Escalion.

portrait?

Her interest aroused, Belladonna slowed her steps, and Escalion followed her gaze.

“I have really fast hands! It won’t take long at all!”

“Do you want to do that?”

Escalion asked, pointing to the painter.

Belladonna shook her head firmly.

She had never had a portrait in her life.

In my previous life, I had never even imagined having an expensive portrait equivalent to a week’s worth of living expenses, and during the past year that I lived as a saint, I had no particular opportunity to paint a portrait.

Of course, even now she didn’t really have any desire to have one.

‘Now that I think about it, there wasn’t a single portrait of Escalion in that large castle…..’

Perhaps it was a very faint sense of responsibility.

A very faint sense of responsibility that came from the mindset that she had to play the role of hostess, even if it was only for three months.

Belladonna raised her hand and pointed to Escalion.

I want a portrait!

“Draw me portrait?”

Nod.

Belladonna raised both her hands and drew a large square representing the portrait frame, then pretended to hang it on the wall.

As he stared down at her doing what she was doing, she opened his mouth.

“Hang it on my castle?”

Nod! You’ve become more perceptive!

After thinking for a moment, Escalion approached the painter, leading Belladonna.

‘Do you think it bothers you that there is not even a lord’s face hanging in that spacious castle?’

Belladonna quickly felt elated and she followed him.

Escalion stood across from the painter’s easel and opened his mouth to him.

“Portrait of me and my wife. How long will it take?”

huh? Me?

Belladonna, who had been sneaking up behind the artist with the intention of watching him paint the figure of Escalion in real time, stopped in her tracks.

“An hour is enough! Instead, since it’s the two of you, you have to give me 40 blanc.”

“The amount doesn’t matter, just draw it as quickly as possible.”

After she finished speaking, he grabbed Bella by her wrist and dragged her across the easel.

Me, why me? I don’t like it!

“But what? I only have one chair prepared…I will draw the husband first, so please wait a bit for the wife. I will draw them separately and then naturally combine them on one canvas….”

“There’s no need for that.”

He sat down on the only chair, grabbed Belladonna and made her sit on his lap.

what! Put me down!

Embarrassed, Bella Donna stamped her feet and protested, but she could not overcome Escalion’s power.

“Are, are you okay?”

“If you struggle like this, wouldn’t it be very difficult for an artist to paint?”

Ugh…..It’s disgusting…..

Belladonna stopped resisting, observing the artist’s gaze.

As she obediently relaxed her hold, Escalion smiled in satisfaction and tightened his grip on his hands, which were placed on her waist.

“Then let’s begin!”

“If you’re bored sitting, lean on me.”

That won’t happen.

Belladonna shook her head with a sour expression.

The artist across from the easel looked closely at Escalion and Bellana’s faces, then began moving his brush as if possessed.

“…….”

Belladonna was so nervous and stiff that she couldn’t even blink.

Can you move around a little? You should have drawn a portrait before…..

However, as I held my breath, I suddenly began to recognize his body that was close to me.

Her firm, thick thighs that she was sitting on. The back of his hand gently wrapped around her waist and the veins rising darkly above it. And the sharp jawline visible before her eyes….

‘…..A unique masculine scent felt from hot breath.’

As soon as I realized everything, my heart began to beat quickly despite my instincts.

Why, why is it so uncomfortable and awkward?

“Where is it uncomfortable?”

Belladonna was startled by the sudden low voice, and her whole body trembled as if in excitement.

“Come on.”

Oh, it’s embarrassing….

She quickly shook her head and fixed her gaze on the painter, who was focused on the canvas.

Wow…..

After an hour, which felt like half a day, the artist’s passionate brushwork finally stopped completely.

He twirled the easel filled with dense colors to show them and smiled proudly.

“Well, how about it!”

wow…..

Belladonna involuntarily opened her mouth and looked at her picture.

‘Is this really of a quality that can be hung in a castle hallway?’

On the artist’s canvas, the figures of Escalion and Belladonna were depicted quite nicely.

It was a painting that clearly showed Escalion’s unique confident eyes and Belladonna’s calm feeling.

Moreover, the sensible painter even changed the old plain clothes they were wearing into luxurious clothes.

Thank you for not drawing the rabbit-shaped earmuffs I used….

“My wife likes it. Keep the change.”

After observing Belladonna’s reaction, Escalion raised the corners of hiz mouth and responded.

He took a gold coin from his pocket and flicked it at the painter.

The artist, who nimbly caught the gold coins with both hands, opened his eyes wide and bowed deeply to them.

“Thank you!”

When Escalion stood up and made a gesture, someone walked out from the crowd behind him and approached the painting the artist had completed.

What, what? Since when have you been following us?

Belladonna, startled, looked back at the employee who had no idea where he had come from.

He wordlessly took the picture, placed it tightly at his side, and turned around indifferently.

At that time, before he disappeared into the crowd again, carrying the picture, he approached Escalion and whispered something in a low voice.

Escalion’s brow furrowed immediately after hearing the servant’s story.

“ha….”

He let out an exasperated sigh and looked back at Belladonna with an embarrassed expression.