Surprising Even Breathing

40 – If you get scared, you’ll die

It was an early night after dusk, when the whitish darkness covered it.

Selina and Chase were sitting in the wagon with a lighted candle and a magic board between them.

“So you were always talking with the Dragonian Prince through this magic board, you mean?”

“Yes, unlike the others who are afraid of Demesis-sama, I am a bit special. I can use this board to say anything I want to say.”

Chase stroked the magic board placed on the carriage’s center table with his left hand and adjusted his round glasses with his right hand.

When she feels confident or focused on a situation, she holds her glasses close to her eyes.

He spoke to Selina in a rather proud manner, as if bragging about it.

“You say you can say anything you want to the Dragonian prince?”

Selina’s eyes widened.

Chase’s insistence was embarrassing for her, who couldn’t imagine talking to Demesis.

Being able to talk to a man that even dragons avoid is great.

“Okay, so can you stop saying you can’t communicate with him? Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean I can’t.”

After a while, Chase, who had something to brag about to Selina, emphasized with clear pronunciation.

Having been rivals for a long time, they were busy keeping their opponents in check and showing off whenever they had a chance.

“Do you know what kind of relationship I am with Demesis-nim? We met before entering the academy, and even after entering the academy, we go to the common room together, take classes together, and we are friendly.”

Seeing Selina shocked, Chase swelled up even more.

The sound of being close didn’t come out at once, but other than that, I wrapped it up like a special meeting and explained it.

“Why would he want help from Yuren Merchant when he visits the Mage Tower? it’s all because of me I was very close with Demesis-nim, so he asked for it comfortably.”

When she finished speaking, she smiled and smiled at the corner of her mouth.

Someone hides in the carriage and trembles in fear of him, but when he says that he is favorably treated like this, the situational superiority is very refreshing.

“Are you friendly? But why do you keep stuttering when you say you’re close? Are you friendly?”

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Selina found a loophole in what Chase was talking about.

According to her intuition, it is impossible to be friendly with Demesis.

How can you be friendly when you’re so scared you can’t even approach him?

“Chi, I don’t know if they’re close, but it’s true that it’s a trusting relationship.”

“trust? You can trust that dragon? change your mind again? Are you lying again?”

Selina squinted her eyes at Chase sarcastically.

Chase, who was often cornered and subjected to all kinds of pressure from a young age, had a habit of exaggerating his words to defend himself.

dig the gap

“You can’t even believe this magic board? If you can say whatever you want to the Dragonian Prince, prove it right now. You liar.”

He lifted the magic board with one hand and held it out to Chase.

“What to do?”

“Try talking to him with the magic board.”

“no. Why should I?”

“Are you close and trustworthy? You said you could say whatever you wanted?”

Their expressions changed to the opposite.

This time, Selina’s eyes are shining with a face that says she took a chance, and Chase’s face is troubled.

I was trying to brag about my relationship with him, but at this late hour, I had to talk to him on the magic board.

“Ha, you can. do you think i can’t Aren’t you lying?”

“Then do it. Have a conversation using the magic board. You can check with this.”

“Yeah, but why should I do it? It’s night now, so there’s nothing to talk about.”

“It’s friendly. We’re close but can’t we talk at night? Can’t you talk?”

Chase slowly pulled his butt back. I could do it, but talking to him was always scary.

*

“I can’t, I can’t. Are you lying again? You fool.”

“Hey, can you? What if I really do?”

“If what you said is true, I will go outside and take off my clothes and dance. Is that okay?”

“what?”

“Or you can go out and dance, okay?”

Chase’s expression twisted at Selina’s confidence.

Doesn’t he believe himself enough to bet such a disgraceful bet?

She was bent on denying Chase’s words and embarrassing her.

“Where did you bring a man-eating dragon and tell a ridiculous lie? The fact that you tried to shove the Yuren Merchant into the monster’s jaws, I’ll write it down and report it to my father. You should also tell me what kind of lies you told.”

Selina really didn’t believe Chase at all.

He makes a look of contempt and laughs at her.

“I will. I will, so you swear keep what you said Now go out of this wagon, take off your clothes and dance.”

Chase couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows and glared at Selina.

The mean stepsister is always eager to humiliate her.

I was afraid of Demesis, but this time I wanted to prove her words and, conversely, disgrace Selina.

“Oh, are you really going to do it? Can you talk to that dragon with this magic board? this night?”

“Okay, let’s prove whether I’m right or whether you’re right with this.”

Their eyes were cold as they stared at each other.

“If you touch that dragon the wrong way, you die. Isn’t it a lie to use this magic board?”

“Really. Everything I say is true. So let’s swear We will definitely keep what we said to each other.”

Chase drew a voice storage magic circle on the table.

Anything spoken to this magic circle was recorded as magical energy and could be heard again at any time later.

Also called the magic circle of oath, magic used mainly to prove one’s words.

As she confidently drew even the magic circle, Selina’s eyes shook.

“If you’re scared, you’re going to die.”

Chase brushed Selina with her dark blue hair.

Selina’s orange hair paused in bewilderment.

Hesitating, she bit her lip and glared at Chase.

He said to the magic circle that he would keep everything he said.

Likewise, Chase also recorded in the spell that what he said was true.

they look at each other.

Chase raised his hand on the magic board, promising that it would be better than dying in shame even though he was afraid of Demesis.

“Really? Are you going to talk to him with that?”

“Because it is. You won’t believe me, and you’re going to be very embarrassed today.”

Selina was looking at the magic board with nervous eyes.

Chase was also afraid to call Demesis, so her fingers trembled as she touched the magic board.

“do. Send him a message.”

She said as if she were determined and put strength in her hand.

What would you say to Demesis without any business?

How can I have a friendly conversation with him?

I wonder if he won’t be angry if I talk to him at this late hour.

Various complicated feelings and anxieties stirred inside him, but he ignored them, covering them all with vengeance toward Selina.

With trembling fingers, type a message on the board.

[what are you doing?]

There was nothing to say to Demesis.

She closed her eyes and sighed carefully.

*

Wei Ying-

It was the moment I was about to fall asleep while sitting on the threshold of the carriage and admiring the starlight that gradually became clearer.

A vibrating sound came from the magic board.

“?”

It will arrive at the magic tower tomorrow. It was an unexpected call to the car that was organizing thoughts and things.

If it sounds like that, it must be that Chase sent me a message.

Naturally, she rarely messaged me first.

There is no reason for a woman who is usually busy running away to attract attention by talking to her.

Curious about what was going on, I immediately brought the magic board with telekinesis and placed it on my hand.

[what are you doing?]

It was a strange sentence.

Has this woman ever asked what I do?

No, no one, including Chase, had asked me how I felt so comfortably.

[What’s going on?]

I wrote it down there and then I deleted the message I had written.

She was asking what I was doing.

You shouldn’t ask questions in reverse, like asking why you sent a message.

I was looking for a more appropriate answer.

It was my first time asking a question like this, so I felt strange.

what was i doing

I was just staring up at the sky.

I had nothing to do, I couldn’t sleep, and as always I was reading a book and admiring the scenery outside before falling asleep.

[Demesis. what are you doing?]

When I don’t answer, Chase sends a message faster.

I stared at the magic board with my eyes wide open.

Is this woman so curious about what I do?

[I was thinking about what to do tomorrow at the Magic Tower.]

[Oh, is that it? Didn’t Demesis say you were looking for items in the Magic Tower? You were thinking about that.]

[Yes.]

Chase’s tension is high. The reply was quick and the reaction was kind.

what? Have you had any alcohol?

I was bewildered when a woman who scared me every day talked so kindly.

[I was sitting in the carriage and resting. How is Demesis? Did you have dinner?]

“????”

Are you really crazy

Why do you ask about my meal?

Not the chef or maid.

In fact, neither the chef nor the lady-in-waiting would ever ask me about these things.

It’s just that the food is served on time.

[I ate dinner. Why do you ask that?]

[no. It’s nothing. I was wondering if Demesis is comfortable.]

[I am very comfortable.]

Could this woman be watching my assassination scene?

To poison your food?

I couldn’t figure out the intention of asking for dinner and comfort.

Still, it felt good to ask him how he was.

The meaningless, random conversation was subtly fun.

[Hee hee, right?]

Are you laughing? why are you laughing

Was there anything funny about what we said?

I don’t know why Chase is laughing.

Could you have laughed if I didn’t see you?

I wanted to see with my own eyes what kind of expression she was making.

[Yes.]

[…] … .]

When I spoke briefly, she did not respond for a moment.

I wondered what kind of conversation this was.

Messages that came and went without a thread.

It was the moment I was writing a new letter on the magic board, wondering if this was the end.

[Shall we meet for a while? I have something to say. Will you listen?]

do you want to see me What do you want to say?

Isn’t this woman afraid of me?

It was amazing how she called me out in this gloomy weather.

Having no reason to refuse, I replied.

[You can talk. Where will we meet?]

[Let’s meet at the center of our tent, Demesis.]

After checking the message, I got up from my seat.

I will listen to anything you want to say to me.

He seemed happy even if he attacked me as soon as he was summoned.

Wearing a gray hood and cape with his magic board in hand, he walked between the camp where the dragons were resting and the camp of the top Yuren.

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“Excuse me, Demesis, but uh, where are you going?”

Wilekka lowered her head and asked.

“I have something to do, so I’m going to visit this area for a while.”

I reassured him and moved to the promised spot.

A campsite dimly lit by torches.

A dark-haired woman approaches from the other side.

Chase was smiling brightly as if he was really happy that I was here.

I stopped and stiffened my legs at the first sincere hospitality.

Her dark blue hair glows vividly in the orange light of the torch.

On the other hand, behind Chase, the orange-haired woman hiding in the shadows, her expression turned to death.