Extracurricular 25
Chills.
Goosebumps rose.
The voice digging into my ear made my throat tighten.
And that look.
Ruatisha couldn’t move.
It was as if she was pierced by Sidrian’s gaze.
Unlike Ruatisha, who seemed to be under a spell, Sidrian’s movements were smooth and fluid.
Like a beast, silently, secretly, and accurately, even in the dark.
A large palm burrowed under Ruatisha’s palm.
The hard, large fingertips of a man slipped between the sensitive and soft spaces between her fingers.
Slowly, languidly.
Fingers interlocked completely without a gap.
Ruatisha helplessly followed Sidrian’s lead.
Sidrian whispered, never breaking eye contact.
“Even if Master pushes me away today…”
With a soft *smack*, hot lips touched her fingertips.
“Even if you cry…”
This time, on her eyelids.
“Even if you beg…”
At the same time as those words, her lips were swallowed.
It was a kiss that was thirsty and impatient, unlike his languid and slow movements.
A kiss that constantly desired and craved Ruatisha, a kiss that knew no satisfaction.
Ruatisha’s fingertips curled at the deep, intense kiss.
Her pale, slender neck trembled.
“Hiss, Sid…”
Normally, he would have let go at this point.
But Sidrian didn’t take his lips away.
Rather, he demanded all of her more greedily, pressing her harder.
As if even a single breath was precious.
After a long, deep kiss, his lips finally fell away.
Feeling his lips slowly falling away as if regretting it, Ruatisha lifted her trembling eyelids.
She immediately met Sidrian’s eyes.
He was still looking at her with eyes that were darkly swirling with desire, as if it wasn’t enough.
“I’m going to do as I please,” Sidrian said, caressing Ruatisha’s wet eyes.
“As punishment.”
Ruatisha blankly stared at Sidrian before parting her lips.
“Sid…”
“You can’t even call me that.”
“I-”
Ruatisha’s words were cut off.
With a *thud*, the position changed in an instant.
A soft bed touching her back.
The ceiling visible before her eyes.
Sidrian leaned over Ruatisha, who was now completely lying down.
Sidrian paused for a moment.
Ruatisha was lying on his bed, looking up at him.
He frowned and smiled.
“Or are you being impatient?”
That was the only way he could think of it.
Just lying on the bed filled with his scent was already too stimulating for Ruatisha.
Ruatisha raised her hand and wrapped her arms around Sidrian’s neck.
“Well, which one do you think it is?”
Even that small whisper made his head spin as if it had been ransacked.
“Ha.”
Sidrian swallowed Ruatisha’s lips as they were.
* * *
*Click.*
Ruatisha slowly came out of Sid’s room.
Her feet were floating in the air, and her face was dazed.
It was as if she was floating through a dream, not walking.
‘I need to get married soon,’ Ruatisha thought.
‘I really need to get married soon. I need to get married right away. I need to get married even tonight.’
Only that thought filled her head.
‘So Sid and I, just the two of us, only the two of us-.’
Ruatisha covered her nose.
“Whew, I almost got a nosebleed.”
Just imagining their newlywed life suddenly made blood rush to her nose.
It’s all Sid’s fault for being too sexy.
No, how can a person be so sexy?
‘Our Sid is definitely not human.’
“Anyway, I have to enjoy my honeymoon soon. Just the two of us every day without any interference…”
That’s when it happened.
“Honeymoon?”
“Enjoying a honeymoon?”
Ruatisha turned her head at the sudden voice.
Across the dark hallway.
Her family was standing there with the same expressions.
“You’re already talking about your honeymoon when you’re not even married yet…”
“Saying you’ll be alone together every day without interference.”
“…You don’t mean we’re an interference, do you?”
At the last words, the faces of the five men darkened.
Ruatisha reflexively shook her head at the sight of her family’s fierce appearance.
“N-No, that’s not what I meant, it’s just that-”
Ruatisha stopped as she ran towards her family to make excuses.
‘Why do I have to make excuses?’
It had been three years since she got engaged to Sidrian.
Ruatisha was now seriously thinking about getting married.
Besides, Sidrian had endured harsh in-law life even before marriage!
“Yes! I’m going to get married soon and enjoy my honeymoon with Sid without any interference!”
When she opened her eyes wide and shouted confidently, Ixion was dumbfounded.
“This little fluffball is already doing this!”
On the other hand, Ares smiled.
If you could call such an insidious thing a smile, then it was definitely a smile.
“My sister, how did you come to think that way?”
“The youngest said she would marry me…”
“Ugh…”
When she saw Zeon’s sullen face, Ruatisha felt her heart weakening.
‘No! If I weaken like this…!’
Ruatisha put strength into her toes and held on.
“I’m going to marry Sid right now!”
“…!”
“!!”
“!!!”
The faces of the three men collapsed at the same time.
Who are the three sons of Phaeraton?
They are men who would stand indifferently even if they heard that the world was destroyed.
But now they were shocked like sunfish.
It was a life-threatening crisis.
“M-M-Marriage…”
Of course, they fully understood that their beloved youngest would get married someday.
But they never thought she would say it so suddenly (?) and forcefully (?).
If they get married…
‘She won’t live with us!’
That thought made their minds go blank.
“Father!”
Ixion called Duke Phaeraton with a desperate face.
The only one who can stop the youngest in times like these is Dad.
Duke Phaeraton pressed down on his daughter’s head.
“…Ruru, if you want to, of course you have to get marr…ied. But.”
Duke Phaeraton’s eyes shone more sharply than ever.
“If that guy dares to have another woman while he has you…”
*Gritting teeth!*
A savage sound was heard from Duke Phaeraton’s teeth.
“I will never allow such a guy.”
Ruatisha immediately realized what her dad was talking about.
He was talking about when Sidrian pretended to be brainwashed by Clottie.
“That was all a plan.”
“Even if it was a plan, he’s a man who fools around with another woman in front of our fluffball!”
“At least he should have stopped after seeing my sister’s shocked face.”
“I can’t even pretend to do that in front of the youngest.”
At the last words, Ruatisha looked at Zeon with cloudy eyes.
‘Zeon… was actually brainwashed and couldn’t recognize me, not acting.’
But Zeon looked like he was about to cry the moment she said it.
Ruatisha, who was weak against her brother’s tears, kept silent instead of fact-checking.
“Even if you pretend to be okay, Dad knows everything. You were really hurt back then.”
“Ah, that…”
Ruatisha scratched her cheek with an embarrassed face.
“Actually, it wasn’t Sid back then.”
To be exact, it was Cain pretending to be Sid.
That’s why she was able to recognize Cain right away when he pretended to be Sid and seduced her earlier.
Of course, she was very shocked.
Even though she knew it wasn’t Sid, just seeing a fake who looked exactly like Sid with another woman.
Her heart ached so much that it was hard to breathe.
‘Especially when Clottie asked for a kiss and hugged him, I really wanted to slap her head hard enough to make a *clang* sound, regardless of the plan.’
Well, wasn’t it the same as not being able to refuse the seduction even though she knew it was fake?
“…It wasn’t Sidrian.”
“Sid said he didn’t want to touch another woman even as part of a plan.”
“…”
“It was hard to appease him because he said he didn’t even want to stand within 10m of her. It was the real Sid at the celebration.”
“…”
Duke Phaeraton was silent.
He couldn’t find any fault in Sidrian’s words and actions.
“Anyway, does that mean you allow it? You said I could get married if I wanted to earlier.”
“That’s-”
“Our dad is the most handsome, coolest, and wonderful dad in the world, so he never says two things with one mouth!”
“…”
Duke Phaeraton closed his mouth again.
Ruatisha smiled brightly.
Duke Phaeraton could only watch his daughter, who was humming and walking away.
Helplessly.
Pitter-patter.
Marquis Tarenka quietly patted his son-in-law’s back.
As if he understood everything.
“Cheer up. Still, it’s better than when Inais packed her bags and ran away saying she was going to get married.”
“…”
“Come to think of it, you were the culprit.”
Marquis Tarenka’s eyes became fierce.
“You even said you didn’t love my daughter.”
Duke Phaeraton of that time, who coldly said that he didn’t know such emotions.
Recalling that image, Marquis Tarenka left the place with a *swoosh*.
Leaving one last word,
“Compared to you, His Highness the Crown Prince is a hundred or a thousand times better.”
Only then did Duke Phaeraton realize the feelings of Marquis Tarenka, who had his daughter stolen by some thug.
He never thought that the karma of the past would come back like this…!.
“Even if Father has karma, what about us…”
“What sin did we commit to have our sister taken away…”
“…Thug.”
Zeon muttered softly towards his father.
Even with the filicide [killing of one’s own child], Duke Phaeraton could only stand there in silence.
Erkel, who was watching the scene from afar, thought.
‘It seems like the Duke has been caught up in the young lady’s scheme.’
As expected, the young lady’s scheme was bloody and flesh-tearing.
At least it was clear that Duke Phaeraton’s heart was torn and bleeding.
* * *
In the dark room.
Nabi was quietly lost in thought.
Whether he closed his eyes or opened them, the scene that revived and unfolded before his eyes several times.
*Kwa kwa kwa kwang!* [Sound of an explosion]
Ruatisha, who was at the forefront, splitting the power that was burning red and rushing in like a tsunami.
Hair like fluttering petals and slender arms stretching out without hesitation.
The power that bloomed from that hand.
‘That overwhelming power.’
The unique power that was exerted from Ruatisha’s hand was more than enough to be called overwhelming.
Even he, who had repeated his life several times, felt a tingling sensation.
Nabi looked down at his hand.
Just thinking of Ruatisha at that time made his hand tingle.
He didn’t even know why.
Dozens of regressions.
He had met powerful enemies several times.
But what captivates his eyes like this – the person who constantly comes to mind and grabs his mind…
“Ruatisha Phaeraton.”
Nabi quietly recited the name.
It was only that girl.
That’s when it happened.
“Wow, what day is it today?”
A clear voice echoed.
The girl who had been constantly running around in his head until just now was standing there.
In front of his eyes.
“Why is everyone making it so dark?”
Ruatisha opened the curtains that were covering the window wide.
The golden afternoon sun poured into the room.
Even to Nabi.
“Nabi is a patient, so you shouldn’t keep it dark. If you’re sick, it’s easy for your heart to darken.”
Ruatisha smiled at Nabi.
Was it because of the sun behind her head?
Nabi somehow thought it was dazzling.
“Come on, come here. Why are you being so uncomfortable?”
Ruatisha smiled brightly.
It was the same smile as always.
A smile that felt foolish because it was so hopelessly peaceful and naive…
A smile like a greenhouse flower.
The hand that held his hand was just soft.
As if it would break if he gave it a little strength.
A slender and weak woman.
But now Nabi knows.
This soft hand holds an explosive energy that is so overwhelming.
But the most surprising thing is-.
“Why.”
“Huh?”
“Why are you smiling like that?”
Ruatisha looked at Nabi with an absurd look.
He really spits on the face of someone who smiles well.
“Someone you trusted betrayed you, someone you put your heart into died, and you received all kinds of criticism.”
“…”
“People turned into monsters and disaster struck.”
“…”
“But why are you smiling like that?”
Ruatisha tilted her head.
“Hmm, now that I think about it, the things I’ve experienced weren’t ordinary, were they?”
“…”
“Still, there were so many better things than that.”
Nabi parted his lips.
He had a lot to say, but there were no words to say.
He, who had experienced disaster, knew best.
That wasn’t something that could be laughed off by saying ‘still, there were good things too’.
That was the same for the disaster that this girl had experienced.
“More… there were more good things?”
“Yeah.”
“The response that day was as smooth as flowing water. Even if you didn’t control the situation, everyone was perfectly fulfilling their roles. As if they had experienced this many times.”
“Oh, thank you?”
Nabi frowned.
“The countless things you’ve experienced to get to that point, you’re just saying ‘it wasn’t an ordinary thing’?”
“I met Sid.”
“…What?”
“I met Dad and my brothers, and I met Azle and Count Candor. Raphael, Jasmine, Tiriel, Claudia, Camellia, and even the Asheltain twins…”
“…”
“Well, should I include Cain and Crescentio, even though they’re a bit annoying?”
“…”
“I also met my precious friend, Ophelia Aizelle, who I miss so much.”
Ophelia Aizelle.
Ruatisha smiled at the name that made her heart ache just by repeating it.
It was a pitiful and affectionate smile that Nabi had never seen before.
A smile that looked like tears would fall at any moment-.
“So I liked everything.”
But the next moment, Ruatisha smiled brightly as usual.
Not made up, but sincerely.
‘Ah.’
Nabi somehow felt overwhelmed.
Even more so at this moment than when he witnessed the powerful force that Ruatisha had exerted.
‘Strong.’
This world was not as peaceful and comfortable as he thought.
This girl didn’t grow up in a kind world without knowing anything.
Just.
“Nabi, I was happy to meet you too.”
Just strong.
Enough to save the world.
That’s when it happened.
Something appeared in front of Ruatisha’s eyes.
[Congratulations!]
[You have saved the world!]