Chapter 38

“Aren’t you embarrassed?”

“I am embarrassed. You’re the first person to see my body.”

Briseyes knew Callisten’s habits well. He doesn’t ask servants to help him dress.

“You mean ‘living’ person, right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

He did this because his life had been threatened several times by assassins who had infiltrated as servants.

One is naturally defenseless while changing clothes. Facing an opponent with a knife without having one himself was dangerous, no matter how great his swordsmanship skills were.

“How many have you killed?”

“On the battlefield?”

“No, servants who were helping you change.”

“I haven’t counted.”

That was also why he started dressing himself. He unconsciously looked at the scars that remained from those times, staring at the stab wound on his abdomen.

“Would you like to touch here too?”

He brought her hand to the scar that had reached his eye. She couldn’t bring herself to scratch that scar with her nails, so she remained still.

“Enough, go wash.”

“Alright.”

He said this and looked cheerfully at Briseyes who had pushed his hand away.

Strangely, even though Briseyes had averted her gaze, his afterimage seemed to remain under her eyelids. His rough upper body with large and small stab wounds, and even the insolent reaction of his lower body.

She could see his shadow as he took off his pants.

Then soon it seemed he was taking off his drawers too.

“I’m going to wash.”

“Yeah.”

“You should look at me, Bri.”

He smiled as he stroked her chin, but Briseyes couldn’t bring herself to raise her eyes to look at him.

“You should look at me, Bri. Okay?”

When he called out as if pleading, she unconsciously raised her gaze. Perhaps because of the intense desire she felt when their eyes met, she really felt strange.

“This is really disgusting.”

When she spoke with a cold expression while pointing at the chastity belt, Callisten chuckled.

“It hurts so much. When I’m with you.”

She looked into his eyes again, and the seemingly joyful emotion in his eyes made her mind go completely blank.

Soon she was led by his hand into the shower room attached to the room.

“If you come any closer than that, water will splash.”

He pulled her to sit down, set up the IV stand with her drip next to her, and then moved far away.

Briseyes was like wet paper with no strength at all, barely able to respond.

“How about taking that off?”

“Why? Want it off so you can play with it?”

“Are you crazy?”

“I can take it off anytime if you say you want to play with it. If not, I’ll wait until you unlock it.”

He looked at her with an amiable smile. She thought her face was so red because of the heat. Yet his face seemed equally red, which made her feel a little less resentful.

— Shhhhhh.

When he turned on the shower, water immediately flowed out.

As the water hit his body, he momentarily shrank as if it was cold, then stretched his shoulders.

“Wash with warm water.”

“Then it will get humid. You’ll be uncomfortable.”

“Watching you wash with cold water is more uncomfortable.”

“Are you worried about me?”

“Wash with ice water for all I care.”

At her words, he smiled broadly and said:

“I think the heat won’t subside if I wash with warm water.”

He said this honestly and then let the water hit his entire body. His body was so large that the shower head looked small in comparison.

Briseyes even lamented that the bathroom light was daylight colored. It would have been better if it were darker.

She tried to look away while suppressing a sigh, but her gaze kept turning toward him.

Perhaps because he kept looking at her, she had to watch him cautiously.

Water droplets were temptingly running down his neck, wetting his upper body. Transparent droplets flowed down from his neck, soon wetting his large pectoral muscles, and as she expected, when water splashed between his chest, it flowed down in a straight line.

The water that flowed down his chest soon ran between his perfect abs. It was flowing down through perfectly divided spaces like a valley of stacked stones.

As if to prove this wasn’t just a picture, the water droplets splashed more roughly with each breath he took.

Briseyes watched as he exhaled while looking at her and then caressed his own body.

“If I use this, I’ll smell the same as you.”

“Can’t you be quiet?”

She said this out of embarrassment. But her voice cracked at the end, making it more shameful. Finding her reaction amusing, Callisten squeezed body wash into his hand.

Then he applied it to a white sponge. He spread the foam from the sponge all over his body and let the water wash it away. Soon he applied shampoo to his hair and tilted his head back to rinse it.

“Do you often bathe alone? How do you know so well what to do?”

“I always bathe alone. What place is more dangerous than a bathroom?”

“What would you do if I had hidden a knife?”

She asked provocatively. Her heart was racing because she felt he knew she was flustered and embarrassed right now.

“If you want to kill me, I’ll die.”

“You’re crazy? There’s nothing you won’t say.”

“Why? I really want to have you. If you want to kill me, I should die.”

He spoke so calmly that she actually felt a little more composed.

Soon the water brushed against his iliac crest and fell.

— Creak.

“Was it a lie that you were in pain?”

“It hurts. But I’ve gotten used to it, so I can bear it. My head is a bit dizzy, I feel suffocated and like I might burst, but it’s not as bad as being stabbed.”

When he spoke with a childlike smile, she exhaled as if in disbelief.

“How many years have you worn it?”

“If counting by years, a little over 4 years.”

“Why do such a thing?”

“Do you think men who go to the battlefield keep their chastity? I need to do this to reassure you.”

“I have no interest in your chastity.”

“Then please be interested. I’m a virgin, Bri.”

He said this while touching his chastity belt with his hand. Since only the end was open and the middle was partially wrapped in iron.

She could fully understand what he meant about it being painful when the size changed.

“Why? Because you’re so interested in my chastity?”

Briseyes looked at him as if he were pathetic. He smiled as if her expression was lovely and replied:

“No. I don’t care whether you’ve kept your chastity or slept with numerous men. I just hope I’m the last.”

“What kind of contradictory statement is that?”

“That’s how I am. Rather, if there were many men, you would know. How sincere I am. And how good I would be.”

“Where does such confidence come from when you haven’t even done it?”

He replied with a childlike laugh:

“Mine is 12 inches.”

“……”

“Now that it’s bound, maybe about 10 inches?”

When he spoke confidently, Briseyes unconsciously looked at his hand. He smiled happily and said:

“Want to touch it?”

She should refuse.

She clearly thought that.

Perhaps because of the humidity, or because cold water was splashing a little.

Or perhaps her emotions had become damp and more easily infected by his words.

She unconsciously looked at his hand.

Perhaps because the foam had completely washed away, he was now emanating the same scent as Briseyes.

— Drip.

When he turned off the shower, his perfectly wet body stood facing her.

“Bri.”

At his words, she came to her senses but couldn’t part her lips.

His black hair was wet and dripping water, and the body scent emanating from him had changed to the same scent as hers.

And his tail that stood up as if greeting its master.

“Bri, don’t you want to have me?”

He said this and stood beside Briseyes. Then he took her free hand with his wet hand. Briseyes covered her mouth with her other hand that had the IV inserted and watched his actions.

His body was clearly washed with cold water but was still hot.

Even his hard tail.

Her fingers touched his split crevice. The sticky moisture adhered to her fingertips.

“I want to have you, Bri. Really.”

Her head felt dizzy from a flower scent different from the body wash.

“Move aside.”

She said this to him, trying not to stutter. Feeling a strange wariness, she lowered her gaze, and he obediently stepped back.

Her hand trembled as she felt the hot sensation and the slippery yet sticky liquid remaining on her fingertips.

“Cal.”

“Yes, Bri.”

She said as she returned to the room ahead of him:

“I’ll unlock your chastity belt tomorrow.”

Seeing her trembling shoulders, he said with a very innocent expression:

“I’ll look forward to it.”

⁕⁕⁕

“Ahem! Stop right there!”

Aide Memphis was watching for the right moment to leak information about Endar’s ruby mine as Briseyes had instructed.

“Former Grand Duchess Mays, Your Highness.”

“You, you said you were my daughter-in-law’s aide?”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

When Memphis bowed his head respectfully, the former Grand Duchess frowned deeply. Perhaps because she knew that no matter how accomplished he was, he was still a commoner, she seemed displeased just by having to speak with him.

“Hand over what you’re holding.”

“What? But this is…!”

“I said hand it over!”

Memphis looked fearfully at the knights gathering around him and handed over the document he was holding.

“Then you must only look at it! If they find out I leaked this, I’ll be killed…!”

Memphis was performing at a professional level, perhaps because he had learned quite well how to act from Ella.

“Yes, I will.”

The document that the former Grand Duchess was going to secretly examine was about Endar’s ruby mine.

It contained false information claiming that instead of having only 1 year left for mining, a larger deposit had been discovered below that could be mined for 20 more years.

“My goodness.”

Abenr Di Mays, the former Grand Duchess, went wild-eyed the moment she saw the amount.