How Can You Pay Back The Kindness I Raised With Obsession?

“What?”

“Well, that’s… What saves lives…”

Oh, it couldn’t be. The Grand Duke found it more difficult than before to follow through on his words, and then he rolled over with his forehead on his back.

“You seem insane.”

“It’s because the painkiller potion contains sleeping herbs. Take a deep breath.”

Picking up the quill and deciphering the magic formula again, the Grand Duke, who had thought he was sleeping because of the silence, suddenly spoke.

“Miss Hazel.”

“Yes?”

“What potion did you use on me?”

A painkiller potion?! It was the moment she was about to answer the Grand Duke’s back of the head.

“It would be better if you used a potion.”

He didn’t even know who she was… He continued to make incomprehensible noises, and soon fell asleep due to the strength of the medicine.

‘I have to decipher this magic formula…’

It was difficult to take her eyes off the Grand Duke’s sleeping figure. Hearing the rough breathing he exhaled and inhaled regularly, she thought of the hot breath that had just brushed her skin, and she flinched involuntarily.

It was difficult to keep the genre as a fairy tale sometimes.

‘Oh no. Me, I was just trying to nurse. This makes me think I had bad thoughts.’

She covered her burning face and closed her eyes tightly.

‘Damn it…’

Then, like the Grand Duke, she muttered bad words. This morning, the events in the woods began to flicker vividly before her eyes. The Grand Duke swung his sword with the pod in her hand so as not to let her go, and hit the bee stinger. The situation was so urgent, but she just stared at it like an idiot, stunned. What about in front of the cliff? When he dropped the troll off the cliff and landed in front of her like a knight taking an oath, she thought her heart was going off the cliff.

There…

“I like Hazel too.”

It was a torture to be isolated alone with a man who was ignorant and kept shaking her heart without knowing.

* * *

When cornered, they say they show off their superpowers. She guessed that would be her story. In order to end the torture named ‘To the forest alone with the Grand Duke!’, she studied and deciphered advanced magic formulas with concentration that she had never had in her senior year of high school. As it turned out, the password for the moving magic circle was ‘cannibal bees’. To set a password with the monsters planted in that area. 

In her past life, the Wi-Fi password for math academy was a complex formula, so it’s a futile feeling, like ‘1234’ came out as an answer after struggling to solve it? Could the magic formula be something like that? Anyway, she was able to return safely to the Grand Duke’s residence, and thanks to that, her magic skills improved in a short period of time.

‘If I was like this in my 3rd year of high school, I would have gotten the 1st grade in math.’

She smiled more proudly as she handed over the high-end magic-type book, where the contents were now visible, instead of ‘black is writing, white is paper’.

“I’ll buy this too.”

The magic merchant who came to the Grand Duke’s palace became a flower.

“Are there any books about monsters?”

After the last incident, she felt keenly that she needed to study monsters.

“Of course there is.”

She opened the book that the merchant had given her after rummaging through the chest. As she read the passage about cannibalistic bees, she wondered.

‘Is it said that normal humans die instantly with just one bee sting the size of a little finger?’

However, only the thumb was hit by the Grand Duke. Even so, he was sick for just one day, and the next day he woke up brushing himself off as if he was sick. So she thought that the man-eating bee wasn’t as scary as its name, but the Grand Duke’s physical strength seemed to exceed that of a normal human?

“If you are interested in monsters, I also recommend this.”

This phrase came to her eyes as she was also reading a book on antidotes. Those with magical powers were immune to monster poison, and those with holy powers could neutralize poisons according to the nature of their abilities. At that moment, she suddenly wondered if the Grand Duke had something like holy power, but… If he had holy power, wouldn’t he have to fight the monster himself? As she was flipping through the bookshelves full of recipes for antidotes, she came across the word “snake poison” and suddenly remembered it.

“Do you know about snake legs?”

She received a snake’s leg as a gift from Mr. Harold last fall. She wondered where it was written, but no matter how much she searched through the books she had and the books in the library, she couldn’t find anything about snake legs. So she inquired with the Wizards Association, and they said if they were carrying such a precious thing, they would analyze it and let her know if they sent it to her. For some reason, she didn’t reply because she was aware of stealing it.

“Snake legs… You mean that rare thing?”

Fortunately, the merchant seemed to have heard of it. She nodded and asked.

“Do you know where it is written?”

But perhaps she didn’t know that, the merchant went back saying he would inquire.

“Look at this. I now know how to see things this difficult.”

After the merchant had left, she showed off the thick books she had bought today to Lady and Daisy, who were lying around in the sunlight by the window in the drawing room. Daisy sniffed the corner of the book and asked expectantly.

[So now you can make beef jerky rain from the sky?]

“Uh… no?!”

[Huh…]

The sullen Daisy was spread over the Lady’s, no, her own.

[Then, will we be able to give our bodies back someday?]

Lady, who thought she was sleeping because she didn’t open her eyes, asked. It’s a questioning tone in passing, but deep down she knew how much she wanted that, so her heart ached.

“They say the caster has to break the spell.”

They two knew best that it’s not her. Lady’s tail, which had been swaying gently, fell quietly to the floor.

“Or the caster dies.”

At that moment, Lady’s tail stood up.

[Wait a moment.]

“Why?”

[So that wicked witch isn’t dead yet?]

Lady opened her eyes and looked at her. Maybe her eyes were shaking like Lady’s. Come to think of it, Lady was right. Her body and soul were different from that wicked witch, so when she was possessed, the black magic on Lady and Daisy should have been lifted. That meant… Was that witch still alive somewhere? It was a time when the three of them were exchanging confused glances amid a chilling silence like frost.

Ding, Ding, Ding.

When the old clock set in the corner of the drawing room rang, all three of them flinched in surprise. Looking at the clock, she exclaimed with a rather exaggerated smile.

“Now, furry nannies, it’s time for class to end!”

[You’re the one who got the job as a nanny.]

Lady grumbled that she was dereliction of duty, but got up. After class it was playtime. It was cool weather with moderate clouds, so we went out to the garden and started playing house. Daisy yawned in Luna’s lap as she sat at the tea table rattling a toy teapot. When Luna said that guests should bring gifts, Luca started picking flowers in the garden. She followed Luca with the eyes that Lady would die from anxiety.

[Don’t break the rose. That guy will be stabbed by the thorn again…]

“Ah!”

[Look at that. What did I say? Ugh.]

It really surprised her every time she saw these four. She thought that if these four got close, they would hang out with people with matching personalities, but it’s the opposite.

[Where did Hazel pick up such a daisy?] [What am I… huh…]

Lady followed Luca like Daisy, and Daisy followed Luna like Lady. It meant that the group cared for each other every day.

‘Anyway, I’ll have to release the black magic.’

Where the hell was she? It was time to revisit the idea that the Wicked Witch might be alive somewhere.

“Hazel.”

Luca gave her a bunch of flowers and he asked, her cheeks flushed with anticipation.

“When is the baby coming?”

“What?”

“I mean, baby. The baby boy.”

“I like twins too. One boy and one girl!”

“…what? Whose baby?”

“Hazel and brother’s baby.”

“What is it?”

She didn’t know what to do, so she only blinked, and finally opened her eyes in amazement.

“What is this sound?”

Luna held out a toy teacup to her and told her the whole story of this strange question.

“The maids were whispering. They think brother and Hazel slept together in the woods.”

“Well, my brother said that. If you sleep with a grown man and woman in the same bed, you will have a baby.”

“No! No!”

She was startled and waved her hands loudly and shouted.

“We didn’t sleep in the same bed! We slept in a different sleeping bag!”

“Huh… Isn’t the baby coming?”

“There is no baby coming. There is no such thing.”

When she flatly denied it, Luca sulked, drooping his shoulders and the corners of his mouth, as a sad puppy lowering its tail. Come to think of it, she remembered the time when she came back from the forest. Everyone asked if everything was alright in the forest, so she thought it was a question of whether there was anything dangerous like a monster, but wasn’t it? She didn’t know the real intention, so she answered like this.

“His Highness the Grand Duke told me to keep it a secret.”

It was obvious that these words had fueled the bizarre misunderstanding. Everyone had a shocked face. She didn’t know that. She didn’t know, so she waved her hand and said this.

“There was nothing to worry about. Your Highness is in very good physical condition. Even if he stays up all night, he can’t help it.”

It was ruined. Who could solve this misunderstanding and how could the rumors be put to rest? Rumors of an affair between the Grand Duke and she were spreading. No, it’s strange to actively deny this.

‘I swear, Your Highness and I didn’t do anything that deserved a red ticket!’

She’s not like a celebrity clearing up rumors, and she’s not holding a press conference with everyone in the hall. The Grand Duke shouldn’t have heard this rumor. What if he had heard it? She was holding her head and contemplating, but Luca pointed at her back and shouted.

“Uh? Brother!”

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