Chapter 34

Callisten seemed to know what medicine Briseyes had taken.

She appeared to have taken a painkiller that allowed her to step back from all pain. The name of that painkiller was Arpen. Arpen had low addiction potential but was an excellent drug that dulled most pain.

However, the drug had a side effect. It required being in a semi-sleep state for a long time.

That was Briseyes’s current condition.

The pain had dulled and was no longer felt, but she was in a state where she was dreaming yet couldn’t fully fall asleep.

“My body feels strange……”

Callisten was happy that Briseyes, in such a defenseless state, wasn’t rejecting him.

Generally, people who received Arpen would say everything on their minds.

Like a drunk person who doesn’t know what’s right or wrong, what shouldn’t be done, and what can be done.

Arpen also had that effect.

He slowly released her tongue that he had been holding and looked at her.

Though blood rushed to his lower body causing pain, he had become accustomed to such pain.

An excitement incomparable to what he felt roaming battlefields made his heart pound mercilessly.

“You’re pretty, Bri. So pretty even when you’re sick.”

When he spoke playfully, Briseyes smiled slightly.

“You’re crazy.”

He felt good despite her harsh words.

Callisten knew better than anyone. Briseyes’s words weren’t everything. Even when she spoke harshly, one had to look at her expression and actions.

Even now, when she spoke as if despising him.

Her expression rarely matched her words.

“This is truly a strange dream.”

At her words, he smiled and met her eyes.

“Do you like me enough to dream about me?”

“You’re really crazy.”

She couldn’t tell whether she was saying this to him or to herself—it just came out.

“Hahaha.”

Callisten looked at her expression and laughed ecstatically.

Then he soaked the towel in water again and said:

“I’m going to clean your ears.”

“Okay, do it.”

When she spoke so casually, he smiled happily again. The squeaking sound pressing on his lower body no longer gave him intense pain.

If he focused only on the pain, he would feel pressure that might make him faint at any moment. But thinking that he would stay by her side even if he died right now made it quite bearable.

He wrung out the towel appropriately and touched Briseyes’s ear. She still seemed sensitive there, shrinking her body. Callisten watched her reaction with his eyes open.

“Hiss……”

She closed her eyes tightly as the hand cleaning her ear tickled.

When he cleaned her other ear, she unconsciously sighed. Seeing Briseyes’s disturbed breathing, Callisten unconsciously swallowed.

He rubbed her earlobe with the towel, then lightly touched her earlobe with his finger.

As if proving that the sweet scent coming from her wasn’t from perfume, a pleasant fragrance emanated from near her neck.

He soaked the towel in water again and this time wiped her neck. Despite having wiped away some sweat, she still had a nice fragrance.

“The clothes are in the way.”

“Why?”

“You’ve sweated, so I need to wipe inside your clothes too.”

Briseyes stared at him blankly. She wondered if this was really a dream, but perhaps because she felt good, her thoughts wouldn’t connect.

Still, she didn’t think the chastity belt-wearing man could do anything improper to her.

At his words, she said:

“Do you want to see my body?”

“Yes.”

“How much?”

“I want to see it like crazy. If I could, I’d tear off all your clothes.”

At his honest words, she actually relaxed.

“Go away now. I hate this anymore.”

When she answered with a drowsy expression, Callisten unconsciously stiffened as he looked at her.

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Briseyes felt strange when she saw his reddened ears. His face was pale, but his eyes were as red as blood. His neck was also red. Soon his pale face had also turned red.

Perhaps she thought a madman like Callisten wouldn’t be embarrassed by such things.

“This is truly a strange dream.”

“What’s so strange about it?”

“Why is it you, of all people? Why am I dreaming about… being nursed by you?”

At her words, Callisten smiled slightly. Then he got up from the bed.

“Where are you going?”

“I need to lock the door.”

“Why?”

“Just, because I feel like I should.”

She smiled at his absurd logic. Callisten locked the door securely and untied his cape to strongly tie it between the doorknob and hook so it couldn’t possibly open.

Now, unless four strong men came and tore the door apart, it absolutely wouldn’t open.

He thought this and pulled the door once.

— Thud!

Indeed, it didn’t open.

He smiled and approached Briseyes.

“But is this really a dream?”

“Yes, it’s a dream. My Bri.”

“Then can I see what you showed me last time again?”

“Ah, that? Sure.”

At her cute words, he smiled broadly. Then he carelessly took off his coat. He threw his vest on the floor and removed his shirt.

When he tried to take off his lower garments, she looked at him and said:

“Don’t take those off.”

“Why? Aren’t you curious about my lower body?”

“No, I’m not curious. It’s disgusting.”

When she spoke as if criticizing him, he laughed happily again.

“Don’t you want to see the chastity belt?”

“No.”

“Why?”

“I think that would be even more disgusting.”

At her words, perhaps because his heart was beating too fast, he nodded as if understanding and approached.

Briseyes still thought this was a dream. She thought she was having such a vivid dream because she had directly seen his upper body before.

Suddenly, the soft patient gown she felt on her chest seemed uncomfortable.

Callisten smiled slightly as he saw the protruding traces on her clothes. Then he stroked her cheek and said:

“Can I touch you?”

“You’re already touching me.”

At her words, he grabbed the buttons with trembling hands. Then very slowly, he began to unbutton them.

When he undid the top button, her neat, straight collarbone came into view.

“Hiss……”

She inhaled in surprise as he came near her neck and seemed to smell her scent.

“What are you doing?”

“You smell nice.”

Callisten said this as he brought his head close to her collarbone, his lips almost but not quite touching.

Briseyes seemed slow to refuse, perhaps because she had an IV in her right arm. Also, thinking this was just a dream anyway and it felt good, so why refuse, she stroked Callisten’s hair with her left arm.

“Can I bite you?”

“No. Are you a dog?”

“I told you I’m a cat.”

“Just make cat sounds then.”

When she spoke as if warning him, he laughed happily again and wiped her neck with the wet towel. She felt his pinky finger touching as the warm towel passed by. It was ticklish, and the slow movement too.

“Why am I still sick?”

“I don’t know. If you’re still sick tomorrow, should I kill the doctor?”

“Yes.”

Briseyes uttered the irreverent words she normally suppressed and had to swallow. Callisten smiled brightly and said:

“Alright. How should I kill him?”

“Don’t kill him, just scold him. He seems like a quack.”

He smiled at her words as if pleased, lifted her hair above her head, and finished wiping her neck.

“What are you doing?”

“I was smelling to see if it’s cleaned well.”

He brought his face near her neck as if smelling her body scent. Briseyes felt ticklish when his breath touched her neck.

“You’re really…… strange. So that’s why dreams with you are like this.”

“Hahaha.”

He laughed ecstatically at her words and moved away. Briseyes, whose gaze met his, found him both dreamy and somehow alluring.

“Can you be less handsome in my dream?”

“I don’t want to. I was desperate to get what you like.”

“What kind of desperation are you talking about?”

“I accumulated military achievements to become the knight you like, and I built my body. I also made the arms you like, and I’m no longer ashamed of the red eyes you found pretty.”

Briseyes found this situation really strange.

She wondered how her dream could so perfectly recall his perfect upper body.

His upper body, strangely moist, was incredibly beautiful. His chest was so large that being close to him made him feel even more enormous.

“I’m hot.”

At her words, he gently took her hand, then released it and smiled again.

“You’re not like a cat, more like a fox.”

“A fox is good too. Should I play cute for you?”

“I don’t think I want to see that.”

Callisten smiled again and looked down at her very lovingly.

“Tell me what you like. Then I’ll change according to your words.”

“Disappear.”

“That’s not possible.”

Callisten put the wet towel to her ear again, like someone trying to do something bad legally.

“Hiss…… It’s cold.”

“I guess it cooled down already.”

He said this but continued to wipe Briseyes’s neck with the cooled towel. Then he wiped her collarbone. He couldn’t see below that because of the buttoned clothes, but he felt he could draw her body with his eyes.

Briseyes unconsciously blurted out when she saw the piece of metal touching her knee and Callisten’s intense expression as if he would devour her.

“I think I couldn’t tell anyone about this dream.”

Then he smiled again and said:

“Should we do something even more unspeakable?”