The Tyrant Won’t Let Me Go

When I opened my eyes, I was floating in a strange space.

Looking at the background of the Milky Way floating in the deep blue night sky, it seemed that the world I lived in was definitely not this space.

‘Where am I…?’

Just then, a beautiful woman standing straight in front of me caught my eye.

Her thick black hair, which was long down to her ankles, slowly swayed in the windless space.

Wearing a sky blue dress embroidered in gold, she looked like a goddess.

The blue eyes reflected under the long eyelashes glistened like a star, and the tightly closed lips were lively like the juice of fresh pomegranate.

‘Black?’

Then she held the sword’s handle with both hands with the tip of the sword facing down, as the Deamant Emperors did.

The face of the woman with a huge sword in harmony with gold and white looked very solemn.

Nevertheless, no threat was felt in the sharp sparkling eyes.

Overbearing, but at the same time benevolent.

She had an expression that such a being could take.

“Uh… Hey…”

When I spoke, the woman silently raised her sword and moved slowly.

However, there was no change in her expression.

“I’m sorry but… Who are you…?”

The moment I spoke those words, the woman was already approaching me.

With an ambiguous face running between expressionless and solemn.

“You…”

Finally she opened her mouth.

I listened to the small voice that came out through her red lips, which was barely audible.

‘I think I heard this voice somewhere.’

The woman, who was staring at my face, put her hand on my cheek and began to come closer and closer.

As the distance between us narrowed enough to touch the woman’s fluttering hair on her forehead, I instinctively pulled back.

“Hey, we’ve never met before! What’s wrong with you?”

But at that very moment, a tremendous pain came rushing through the top of my head.

“Argh! Ahhㅡ! Why are you doing this! ahh!”

Despite my screams, the woman did not stop and rubbed her fists painfully on the top of my head.

“Why am I doing this to you? It’s because you don’t listen to me!”

The moment the woman shouted, I stopped struggling.

‘This voice…?’

“And it’s not our first meeting, you know.”

Only then did she let me go freely.

She shot me like that, and then she set me free.

My head was still sore, caressing the top of my tingling head, I leaned my elbow against her sword.

“Caliberne?”

“Yes, it’s me, you brat.”

Caliberne replied with a crackle.

After erasing her solemn expression she had built up before, Caliberne had a bad expression that was nothing more than like a school bully.

“You weren’t a sword…?” (Ciel)

“Think however you want.” (Caliberne)

“It doesn’t seem like a dream with the pain I felt when you hit me before…” (Ciel)

Caliberne was a person, not a sword, I still couldn’t believe it.

Cognitive dissonance was almost coming.

‘I always teased her about having hot love with a Rapier Sword but…?’ (Ciel)

But now it’s not a sword, it’s a person. Then what do I become that I’ve been teasing her so far?

“You’re clumsy anyway. Are you thinking about whether I’m a sword or not without thinking about yourself, even though you almost died from a shock?” (Caliberne)

“Huh? Ah…” (Ciel)

It was only then that I remembered Caliberne’s pressing voice.

After the lightning strike I couldn’t move anymore.

I remember being unable to breathe at the last minute.

“Then am I still sleeping?” (Ciel)

“Well.”

“Am I still alive?” (Ciel)

“Yes, you must have been dead for three or four days.”

Calibernet, who replied bluntly with a crumpled face as if in anger again, and strode towards me.

“Oh, it makes me mad just thinking about it again. Hurry up and come here.”

“No! You’re going to hit me if I do!” (Ciel)

“You deserve to be beaten! I told you not to use a lightning strike!” Caliberne screamed and clenched her fist.

“Give me your back. You have to get hit to get your senses together.”

“Then, the lion couldn’t stay still with his mouth open!”

At those words, Caliberne stopped.

Grinding her teeth as if in deep anger.

“Then why was there a wizard? He would be able to stop the lion by using the capturing spell!”

“The attacks of the magic swordsmen didn’t work well either. If that’s enough, the capturing spell might not have been enough.”

Then she said to her in a calmly subdued voice.

“You know. I was the only one who could step up from that situation.”

Caliberne, who heard me, licked her lips as if she didn’t like it, but eventually bowed her head.

“I know, me too.”

A small, trembling voice came from her bowed head.

“But I didn’t tell you to sign a contract with that Emperor to…”

Ciel was a little startled by the voice that sounded harsh.

Because it was a voice I had never heard from Caliberne before.

“I made you do that to save you, not to die.” (Caliberne)

“Caliberne.” (Ciel)

“That’s why I didn’t like it.”

Caliberne turned her head and said bluntly.

However, even if there was a sharp edge in her tone of voice, I could tell that everything she said was sincere.

“Sorry.” (Ciel)

At those words, Caliberne turned her head.

The eyes, resembling blue sapphires, widened in surprise.

“I’ll be careful from now on.” (Ciel)

“…”

“As you said, I’ll try my best to increase the time I spend with Cedric as much as possible.” (Ciel)

With that said, she picked up Caliberne’s sword, which was thrown into the air, and handed it back to her.

“Thank you for taking care of me.” (Ciel)

As she quietly looked at the sword I held out, she immediately let out a ‘Tsk‘ and clicked her tongue, grabbing the sword.

As expected, you’re bad tempered.

“I don’t know. I hate you.”

‘Yes. That’s how it’s Caliberne.’

“I’m tired of it, but why do you resemble me? It bothers me…”

Caliberne, who was muttering like that, raised her sword and cut through the empty space.

Then a gap formed between the night sky, and light flowed out of the cracks.

“Go now. You’ve been sleeping for too long.” (Caliberne)

Caliberne dragged me by the arm and shoved me through the crack.

“Don’t come back here, ever again!” (Caliberne)

“No, wait, tell me why you called me!” (Ciel)

“I was just trying to scold you because you didn’t listen. It’s nothing.” (Caliberne)

The moment my body completely fell through the gap, Caliberne looked down at me from the crack and shouted.

“Call me when you wake up.”

That was the last memory I had with Caliberne.

✿

When I opened my eyes, I saw a navy ceiling.

‘This wasn’t my room…’

Rubbing my stiff eyes, I raised my upper body. As expected, the bed, pillow, and blanket.

It wasn’t all mine.

“Ciel!!”

As soon as I woke up, the first voice I heard was Cedric.

“You’re finally awake.”

His face, which I haven’t seen in a long time, seems to have lost some weight in a few days.

With his sharper jawline and shadow under his eyes, I could feel at a glance that he had suffered a lot.

“Your Majesty…”

But before I could finish speaking, Cedric pulled me into his arms.

“That’s a relief…”

My heart was pounding at the sound of a voice that seemed to be slightly sobbing.

My heart pounded because I wondered how much he suffered and blamed himself that it was his fault.

When I was trying to raise my hand and pat him on the back, something strange came into my eyes.

‘…What’s that?’

Cedric’s hand held something like a chain.

The chain that glistens in the light was beautiful, but it’s not something you’d want to have in your bedroom.

Thinking it was strange no matter how I looked at it, I gulped, swallowed, and opened my mouth.

“Your Majesty. What the hell was that thing you’re holding in your left hand?”

Cedric, who had buried his head in the nape of my neck at those words, raised his head.

“Because it’s dangerous outside.”

The moment I saw Cedric’s red eyes gleaming coldly as he spoke unfamiliar words, I realized that my senses were not wrong.

Immediately after that, I tried lifting the blanket.

“…”

As soon as I lifted the blanket, I was at a loss for words.

‘This novel, when did the genre change to a thriller?’

And this wasn’t a R19 gold novel, it’s a romance novel for all ages, right?

Just then, a cold voice came out of nowhere.

“…You couldn’t run away, right?”

The dead eyes looked back at me as if something had gone wrong.

A strong hand grabbed the chain as if it would never let it go, and the shackles and chains tied tightly to my ankles.