Chapter 61: Nail it to your taste.

It was a bit late when Karat and the Aisha sisters were starting to feel anxious, but Signa fortunately returned.

However, before everyone could even breathe a sigh of relief, they all noticed that Signa’s complexion was deathly pale.

As expected, she locked herself in her room as soon as she returned to the villa.

Signa’s complexion was so bad that no one could ask where the dress she had been wearing had gone.

“You haven’t had dinner yet, have you?”

“Sorry everyone. I’m not hungry…”

No more words could be heard from beyond the door.

“I don’t understand. Didn’t she say she just went for a walk?”

Minon muttered worriedly.

As she said, this was really the most beautiful resort in the world, but everyone couldn’t understand what she had seen to be so shocked to come back like that.

“Besides, isn’t this place the safest place after the Solenas mansion?”

“Yes, that’s true, but…”

But the thoughts of others besides Minon were a bit different.

Signa was the one who had personally proven that she could be kidnapped even in the supposedly ‘safest Solenas mansion’.

‘If this is a talent, then it’s a talent…’

Karat muttered bitterly.

“Si, since she’s in puberty. Maybe there are various things going on.”

“Is that the problem… I think I know…”

She said that, but Minon didn’t seem very convinced by Aisha’s words.

“Could it be that she came in after crying secretly, or something like that?”

“Yes?”

“Like, she was walking alone on the beach and reflecting on her eternally changed fate… Maybe something like that?”

Was the changed gender remaining as a mental trauma? That was what Minon was worried about. But Karat chimed in there.

“I can’t say it’s absolutely not, but… I don’t think so. She didn’t show any signs of that at the mansion.”

As far as Karat knew, Signa had always been a woman.

He had no way of knowing about her first life, so it seemed strange to him that she was having identity problems now.

“Anyway, I think it would be good to talk again tomorrow. As Aisha said, if it’s a problem like puberty, overstimulating her might be counterproductive.”

“If, if even you say that, I’ll listen, but…”

Minon slightly shrugged and agreed with Karat’s words.

That was because Minon didn’t want to hear words like ‘I really hate you, sister’ from Signa, who might have become twisted.

Minon was a bit scared of such an imagination.

“As Karat-nim said, I think you should rest for today too, Baroness. Aina? Let’s escort the Baroness to her room.”

“Yes, sister. Minon-sama. Let’s go back to the room.”

“Ugh…”

In the end, that was all the conversations that took place.

Leaving behind the people outside who couldn’t know the inside story, Signa, who was in the room, was lightly trembling.

After ‘that’ happened, Ilesha had sobbed and left the basement.

After that, Signa had covered her mouth and held her breath for a long time, and only after she was sure that it was really safe, did she secretly open the basement door and come back here.

Her heart felt like it was going to explode. What if she was found to be here…

‘If I’m found? What will happen?’

She didn’t know.

That she didn’t know was what she was most afraid of.

At that moment, Signa was more nervous than when she was risking her life to sneak into enemy fortresses or ancient ruins.

Fortunately, Ilesha seemed to have gone up to the bedroom on the upper floor.

She really thought her heart would stop when the wyvern she called Dodo stared blankly at her, who was running away, over the open balcony. But as Ilesha had said that it was a gentle creature, Dodo just lightly puffed air from its nose and didn’t scream or run.

As soon as Signa returned to the villa’s bed, she was immediately released from her tension, and she pulled the blanket over her head and didn’t move from there.

The first thought that came to her mind was ‘What face am I supposed to make when I see Ilesha again tomorrow?’

Having witnessed such a secret, Signa didn’t have the courage to face her in her right mind.

‘It’s strange. Everything is strange…’

The odds don’t make sense. She had just thought that a little while ago.

She had never actually seen someone who was ‘that way inclined’ in her life, but everyone surrounding her was all that kind of person.

It was really absurd.

Yukomis. Even Signa thought she was a bit of a special case.

She was a very unfortunate case where her parents’ bad home education, trauma, and dependency were all complexly exhibited.

Silissa. Bisexuality was originally common among elves.

Manya. When you think about it, she wasn’t even a surrounding person.

The holy sword…? The holy sword wasn’t a person in the first place.

‘So… I guess Ilesha isn’t that nonsensical.’

She thought that for a moment, but Signa soon shook her head.

‘There’s no way that’s possible. Leaving aside what their tendencies are, the fact that all of the subjects are me is the strangest thing.’

Anything like ‘maybe they’re mistaking the subject’ was completely out of the question.

Even Signa, who was so insensitive, wasn’t unaware after seeing those creepy portraits and various collections.

From the beginning, she was doing ‘that’ while shouting her name.

“Haa… hahaha… It’s not just that my luck with love is a bit late.”

Signa laughed self-deprecatingly.

There were already three people in the Wyvern Knights, whose members weren’t even that numerous, who were in love with her.

When she was living as a depressed and negative office worker, women’s luck was something that would never follow her, no matter what.

She never thought that her wish of ‘please at least in the next life’ would be fulfilled so earnestly.

Was this something like a monkey’s paw?

She was receiving all of everyone’s affection like this. And she alone wasn’t even aware of it.

She had roughly answered that she ‘liked women’ because she couldn’t resist Yukomis’s semi-coercion, but

After seeing Ilesha’s unbelievable sexiness, Signa realized for the first time that she could perhaps ‘see them in that way too’.

Every time she closed her eyes, she kept remembering the scene of Ilesha arching her back and letting out rough breaths.

Her chest, which was pressed against the holy sword, was shaking, moans were flowing out, and her shoulders were trembling…

The sight of her doing such a thing with that beautiful body was much more stimulating than she had thought.

It was completely different from Silissa, who was only simple, or Yukomis, who evoked fear or pity first.

After secretly peeking at that suffocating sexiness, it became the trigger to, should she call it desire…

It felt like something inside her that had been forcibly buried was awakening again.

It had been a really long time since she had felt something like that.

‘Really, am I supposed to… like women?’

Well, she herself thought that her identity had been established in her first life, and

Even she thought that it made a lot of sense that she, who had been a man, liked women.

Signa briefly imagined becoming lovers with Ilesha.

As she imagined Ilesha shyly pleading with her to spend one night with her…

‘Ah… maybe it’s possible…’

She didn’t know what was possible, but she felt like she knew now.

She had no choice but to admit it. At least, she didn’t feel much repulsion.

At this point, there was no meaning in the excuse of how could she look at her colleagues that way.

That had been the strongest motive that made her draw the line.

Because those colleagues were looking at her that way first.

‘I was going to honestly reveal myself from the beginning this time, but everyone’s affection is too heavy. Since when were they like that?’

Silissa said with her own mouth that it had been since quite early on.

Even if she asked Yukomis directly, it seemed like she herself wouldn’t know.

Then since when had Ilesha been liking her?

Was it triggered by her death, surely Ilesha wasn’t originally that kind of person.

She was such a trustworthy person. She was someone she genuinely liked.

‘Ho, perhaps, well, no way, could it be that since the days of the Knights. When no one was looking, she would look at my clothes, clothes and do, do things like that? That Ilesha?’

Thump thump.

When her thoughts reached that point, Signa, who had become embarrassed, pounded on the bed.

Thump thump thump thump thump.

And she buried her face in the pillow and let out a strange moan.

“Eiiiiiiiik! Mph! Muph! Hngh! What do I do! What do I do!”

Knock knock.

While she was flailing her arms and legs like that, she heard a knock on the door from outside the door.

So that only the person in the room could hear. With a small and careful force.

“Signa-nim. It’s Karat. Are you okay?”

Hearing Karat’s voice, Signa hurriedly stopped flailing.

“Minon-sama has returned to her room. I’m the only one here.”

“Is it okay if I come in?”

“Y, yeah. Come in.”

She answered a bit late after barely catching her breath.

What Karat saw as soon as he opened the door was Signa, who was covered in a blanket on the bed.

“What are you doing?”

“My world collapsed today.”

Signa suddenly began to ramble.

“Yes?”

“Blah blah blah… I ran away. She suddenly changed like a stranger.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Never mind.”

Perhaps this was also a silly joke that only she could understand. Karat brushed it off like that.

The Signa he saw looked very uneasy.

“Anyway… what’s wrong?”

“I had just heard from Parnen-nim that I should protect Signa-nim well, so I was worried because you came back a bit late.”

“Did you perhaps catch a cold?”

“Why do you think that?”

“Why? You’re covered in a blanket, and your complexion looks like it’s burning…”

“What about my complexion?”

Signa brought both of her hands to her cheeks.

As he said, that was the case. She could feel that her face was emitting hot heat without even looking in the mirror.

She had a dazed expression as if she was a bit shocked by that fact, and

“…I, it’s not a cold.”

She slightly avoided his gaze.

“Uhm… I’m really not sick…”

Karat was a bit flustered by Signa’s appearance like that.

That was because he felt somewhat vaguely that that appearance was very different from her usual atmosphere.

“Uh, ahem. I understand. Then did you perhaps meet someone while you were taking a walk?”

“Why do you think that?”

“Well, if you didn’t suddenly get sick, I thought that the only thing that could make you suddenly become so serious was something like that.”

Still, Karat was quite a smart knight.

“Well… I did meet someone…”

“Was it someone you knew?”

“It… it is… and is not…”

Signa, who was about to say ‘I met the princess’, stopped.

She had come on vacation secretly from others, so it didn’t seem good to just blurt it out as she pleased.

At least, it would be right to keep it a secret, even if it was awkward, until she revealed herself directly.

“I’ll tell you something now, just to you.”

Signa seemed to have made a big decision in her heart there.

“Yes.”

“I’ll probably go out for a bit tomorrow morning too, so tell everyone not to worry too much. No, just make the excuse that I liked the sea here too much, so I went out to look around again… I’d appreciate it if you could make that excuse.”

“Are they really not a dangerous person?”

“Maybe…?”

She said that, but Karat didn’t believe those words at all.

The title of ‘kidnapped from her own home’ was too heavy to just brush off.

In fact, Signa was also unsure.

“They’re definitely not someone with malicious intent. ‘Basically’ I can completely trust them, but… uh… well, there might be a bit of an ‘difference of opinion’ right now?”

“Yes?”

Those words didn’t explain anything.

“Let’s do this. Since you have your position too, I’ll leave a note in the drawer in my room. If I don’t come back by dinner tomorrow, you come find me at the place written there.”

He didn’t know who she had met in this deserted area, but

It wasn’t that bad of a feeling that Signa trusted him enough to share a secret.

So Karat just nodded.

Signa, who had succeeded in glossing over the most sensitive part, let out a sigh of relief.

“By the way, did things go well with my sister while I was gone?”

“Ah. That’s…”

Karat also stuttered for a moment when he suddenly got the arrow back.

“I… I couldn’t say anything.”

“What?”

“You seemed to be having too much fun. It seemed like there was a mood that I shouldn’t break by butting in.”

“What are you talking about, you idiot? That was the perfect mood. You really don’t know people’s feelings…?”

Signa’s voice rose a bit for a moment.

“No… I guess this isn’t something I should say.”

She soon timidly lowered her head.