Stigma Effect

lar for a long time, looked at Yuriel’s fainted face and slowly pulled himself out.
As a cloudy liquid spurted out of the wide open hole, it felt as if his heart, which had been racing wildly, had calmed down a little.

But that was also for a while.

Seeing Yuriel’s stomach, which seemed to have swelled more just now, made his chest feel cold.

Raphlet cleaned out Yuriel’s disheveled outfit and carefully organized the hem of her clothes.
Her skinny body drooped down as he hugged the fainted Yuriel.

Raphlet furrowed his brow and hugged Yuriel’s body again, not feeling so good.

All of Yuriel’s small belongings were thrown into the fire.
There would be no important things, and he had no desire to take things that contained the hardships of the escape.

Yuriel showed no sign of waking up even while he was packing up all the belongings and cleaning up the traces left in the cave.

After finishing the cleanup, Raphlet came out of the cave.

Despite Yuriel’s concerns about what to do if the monsters would harm people, the monsters were quietly guarding the front of the cave.

It was then that the monsters entered Raphlet’s gaze.
Raphlet looked at the monsters that seemed unwilling to attack him.

“… There doesn’t seem to be any difference from normal monsters.”

Rather than attacking, he couldn’t believe it when he saw how they were protecting Yuriel like their own baby.

Raphlet, who has been trained to kill monsters since joining Albraka, and spent most of the time doing that afterwards, lost his fighting spirit when he saw the gentle monsters.

As long as it didn’t harm Yuriel, he didn’t care whether it was alive or not.

Raphlet carelessly passed through the monsters.
The remaining monsters started following him at a distance that did not disturb Raphlet’s nerves.

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As soon as Yuriel woke up, she looked around where she was and was shocked.

It was Raphlet’s room in Mogris Castle.
It was a more familiar place than her own room to Yuriel, who cleaned his bedroom even after he left for Albraka.

She jumped and tried to get up, but recognized her throbbing body and collapsed onto the bed.

“Oh, I’m bruised….”

Yuriel lifted the hem of the soft robe and looked at her waist, and murmured gloomily.
There was a blue bruise where Raphlet had grabbed her.

She didn’t feel any pain other than bruising and throbbing like muscle aches.
The head felt rather refreshed.

Yuriel got up from the familiar bed and walked through the room.

“… It’s really Mogris castle.
What to do… .”

She opened the door slightly and looked into the hallway with her eyes.
There was no way that only Raphlet’s room could have fallen into a mysterious space, so this was, of course, Mogris Castle.

The fact that there weren’t many servants passing around Raphlet’s room was a factor that allowed Yuriel to relax.

In this building, where Raphlet’s room and the Grand Ducal couple’s room were located, the servants’ access was strictly controlled.

It was because this was the place where the office of the Grand Duke and his wife was located.
Because the servants didn’t come and go, it was possible for Yuriel to sneak into Raphlet’s room when she was young.

Among the many servants and knights of the Grand Duchy, only Yuriel received special treatment.
Having received permission to enter and leave Raphlet’s room even after he left, it is possible to guess how much Raphlet loved Yuriel.

Looking around the quiet hallway, Yuriel carefully closed the door and sighed.

She was worried because it seemed that Raphlet had brought her here.
It would be a disaster if it ever became known that he had brought her here.

Yuriel leaned against the wall and sat down, covering her face.

“I haven’t cleared myself yet.”

After giving birth safely, she was thinking of getting help from Helio and Baraha.
Helio would know why Yuriel had left, and since she was Baraha’s old friend, of course he wouldn’t believe the rumors that she was a terrorist.

She was also strangely friendly with the princess, so she would have been able to get her help.

Of course, she wants to avoid the princess’s help as much as possible.

Yuriel thought, raising her face buried in her palm.

Yuriel, who put her head against the wall and stared blankly at the ceiling of Raphlet’s room, heard footsteps from the hallway and stiffened.

There’s nothing but Raphlet’s room here.
There was no reason to go through the hallway except to come to Raplet’s room.

She thought it was a Raphlet, but the sound of the steps was light.
The sound of the clicking was definitely the sound of a woman’s shoes.

While Yuriel was running around trying to hide herself, a person approaching quickly opened the door without hesitation.