The Story Is Not Over Yet

the devil smell like this when he’s drunk…?

“It will not take long, and the business will be successful.”

“I know.”

“Are you going to take it from Count Todd?”

“Everything is ready.”

Responding to Zagnac’s question, Azela turned her gaze towards a distant place as the wind blew.
While preparing her business, she took her time to prepare to turn everything that was in Todd’s mansion, from Daniel’s to hers.

She was introduced by Zagnac and hired competent advisers and lawyers that worked in the Imperial Palace.
Even if problems arose, they would protect Azela with all the connections and powers that they had.

So, Daniel would lose everything.
All that was left would be her words.
If he agreed, he would turn all of his future assets into Azela’s.

“Are you hesitating?”

“No way.”

When Zagnac asked, Azela shook her head and turned her head to glance out the window of the terrace.
Without knowing it, her eyes caught Daniel, surrounded by the noble madams.
It looked funny.

“On the day the business preparation ends, I just want to be reborn and to commemorate that day.
I am waiting until then.”

She looked at Daniel with an emotionless gaze before turning her head again.
On the day this business had completed its preparation, the day the business succeeded, she was planning to take everything from him.

…That day, Azela was to be reborn as ‘Azela Vellista,’ not Countess Todd.

She felt refreshed and thrilled just thinking about it.

Azela, who had been absorbed in her thoughts, tilted her head to the sweet scent that kept tickling her nose and gazed at Zagnac.
Even though he looked better than before, strangely, a sweet scent was constantly flowing out of him.

“Are you drunk?”

“No, I think I’m sobering up.”

Following his words, his pronunciation was certainly clearer than it was just a moment ago.
But what was this sweet smell that got more and more clear as time goes on…?

Azela, who tilted her head to one side, asked Zagnac with a curious face.

“You smell very sweet.”

“…Ah.”

At her words, Zagnac let out a brief exclamation and he sniffed the scent of his own body.
He nodded his head as if he understood why she had a puzzled expression.

“I told you.
In order to blend between humans, constant human energy was needed.
I drink alcohol and try to detoxify it, so it seems that I consume more energy than usual.”

“That, that’s why it smells so sweet?”

“Yes.”

Astonished, Azela opened her eyes wide and stared at Zagnac.
He was still just smelling the sweet smell from his body with an insignificant look.
Her face turned red in an instant.

“Well, then what should you do?”

“I have to say I’m not feeling well and go back to the mansion.”

“However…”

The party had just begun.
If he said he would go back now, it was obvious that the nobles who like gossip would put him on the hot gossip line.

Zagnac took a deep breath and raised his hand to her forehead.
A sweet scent that was stronger than before a moment ago stimulated her nose.
It was similar to the sweet feeling she felt when he came to her and kissed her.

Thinking back on that time, her body felt strangely twisted.
Azela hurriedly looked around her.

It was the terrace, but the structure was invisible from below, and the window was completely closed.
Azela pulled the cord and closed the red curtain.

Those inside the party hall now would not be able to see the two of them.

“What are you doing…”

“…Because this is our contract.
I have to do my job properly.”

Azela, who made sure the curtains were properly drawn, stepped forward in front of Zagnac and grabbed his collar.
And she pressed her lips to his.
She put her soft tongue first through his gaping lips, and Zagnac reacted and grabbed Azela’s waist.

A cool wind blew.

‘…Crazy, Azela.’

The warning sign kept ringing in her head.

This was a party hall, and now she was on the terrace… That meant, she was standing outside.
Even if people couldn’t see it from below… By any chance, if anyone could see it? What if someone opened the window of the terrace and came in?

Then, everything would be over.

Knowing this, Azela only accepted Zagnac, instead of pushing him away.

She put her hand around his neck and opened her lips to crave him in every corner.
As he carefully pushed her against the wall, her body trembled at the feel of the cold wall against her back.