The Survival Strategy of the Contract Duchess - Chapter 106

“It was thanks to Sasha, her, that I was able to dare to speak of feelings.”.. of love. That’s why I’ve always avoided and ignored His Majesty’s feelings, but now I can face them head-on.”

This was the first time she had seen Kyler speak so much in front of her. The thing that had been stopping him until now was her own feelings, and the one who allowed him to show this side of himself was that eyesore of a woman.

“So, I can even speak for Lydian’s heart.”

And another name intruded into their story. Lydian. Kyler even spoke of him as a friend, not as the lord he served.

Was it that he wanted to put aside all positions and convey only his heart?

Kyler looked down at the small woman before him. Not every heart thrown at him could be sincere and heartfelt, but conversely, he couldn’t say that there was no true sincerity among those many hearts.

But looking at her shedding desperate tears before his eyes, he couldn’t force even the calm resonance of his heart to waver.

She even knew how her heart would reach him, and she had seen with her own eyes what impact it had on him, yet she was only busy resenting the situation where her heart was blocked, and envying her who caught his eye.

At least now he knew. That her heart was not a true sincerity that loved the other person wholeheartedly. So he wanted to tell her that. Because he had found someone to whom he wanted to convey his sincerity. Because that person was also giving him the same heart.

“I am grateful that you thought well of me, but you should have stopped there. If you had as the wife of the lord I serve for life, as the Empress, my second lord, I would have protected His Imperial Majesty and Her Imperial Majesty with all my body and heart.”

Kyler stopped there and closed his mouth. Even so, if she didn’t realize and was only wallowing in her own emotions, lost in self-pity, that was not something he could do for her.

He was also worried that he might have conveyed Lydian’s feelings too excessively, even though he had brought them up only because he had no choice.

Did she know that Lydian was always behind her, the one who only looked at others? Was she so caught up in her own emotions that she couldn’t even see that?

Even Kyler, who was ignorant of emotions, knew that they were both caught in desperate unrequited love, looking elsewhere but it was meaningless no matter how much others told them. It was something they had to feel themselves in order to take a step forward.

Lydian had done his best, so now the rest was up to her.

“Then, I’ll be going now.”

Kyler bowed. Believing that things wouldn’t change for the better all at once, but that they could improve little by little.

“Kyler!”

But was that too much to hope for? Her dazed voice caught Kyler, who was about to pass by, once again.

He really had nothing more to say. Kyler was about to just walk away, but Midienna’s voice burst out from behind. And the content was enough to stop him in his tracks.

“Sasha! Duchess Ignote is now heading to the mountains.”

At her sudden words, Kyler stopped everything for a moment. It was an unbelievable story, but he couldn’t not believe it. Kyler clenched his teeth and immediately kicked off the ground and started running.

Nothing bad will happen. She was the one who stopped the attacking monsters with a shout. Kyler, running like lightning and jumping on his horse, had to do his best to calm himself, without even looking for Dylan, he whipped the horse and galloped away.

“Hyah! Hyah!”

The voice that he couldn’t even raise when his mother and father had that incident burst out.

It was too dangerous to believe in that and suppress his heart.

Sasha just wait a moment, please wait for me!

The horse he was riding began to gallop at an incredible speed, barely touching the ground.

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Kiiiiik!

The sound of the monster roaring in the air was deafening, but she couldn’t cover her ears. Ugh, I think my fingers are going to break!

Sasha squeezed all the strength in her hands and screamed.

Save me! Please! Don’t drop me!

Sasha couldn’t come to her senses as the speed and height were so dizzying, and the sound was bursting out.

She was probably flying in the blue sky. Hoping to return to the ground as soon as possible, she squeezed her hands even harder and closed her eyes tightly.

She felt somewhat good when the monster soared almost vertically and glided through the sky. The mountain range below, which she looked at with squinted eyes, was more magnificent and wonderful than anything else, stretching upwards.

Seeing the white top, she could guess its height. Looking down at the scenery she would never have seen in her life, she could forget for a moment the height and the wind that was hitting her body fiercely.

Kiiiiiii-!

Surely the cry of the monster she first heard in the Uhalin Forest was terrifying enough to give her goosebumps, but not now. The sound echoing in the vast sky felt like the cry of a beast enjoying freedom, like nature itself, so it felt wonderful.

It couldn’t be helped that the back of her hand, which she was holding tightly, was bulging white, but anyway, it felt so good to be able to fly like this without trembling in fear.

“It would be nice if Kyler could ride with me!”

She even felt a sense of relief that made her want to shout, “Yahoo!”

And after that joy passed, an enormous sense of foreboding came. And it wasn’t going to end with that foreboding.

The monster had soared up steeply just now, and its landing was also rough. She had seen it plummeting to the ground with a whooshing sound, as if a bomb was falling from the sky, or as if an arrow was being shot.

At that speed, the problem wasn’t whether it would plummet to the ground. She might be blown away from the back of the monster descending at a terrifying speed before it even touched the ground.

“Kyaa! Monster! What should I do? What are you going to do? Are you going to fall? Huh? I, I’m going to be blown away!”

The monster seemed to be slowing down its glide and looking down. No, no, no! I’m going to die, no!

Sasha screamed and hugged the monster’s long neck. The only thing she could hold onto was the monster’s neck.

Please save me, please save me! Please don’t let me lose this neck! And please don’t let me crash into the ground! Please don’t let me explode and die from the falling pressure!

Feeling the monster’s body slowly tilting forward, Sasha gave strength to her whole body and clung on, unable to even scream.

Kiiii-!

It’s going!

Huh?

Sasha felt her body suddenly relax, as if she had been giving strength to her whole body to the point of paralysis. Like the electricity that rises when you hold your clenched wrist tightly and then let go, a tingling sensation flowed through her whole body.

Perhaps the monster knew that she wouldn’t be able to withstand the descent with her on its back, or perhaps it had even understood her words properly, and it began to descend at the same angle, with its body tilted diagonally downwards.

The speed was only enough to create a strong wind, to the extent that not even a single strand of her hair was pushed forward.

She had seen people riding roller coasters on TV, and she thought that this was roughly, what it would feel like, and Sasha screamed with joy.

“Kyaaaaa!”

Perhaps the monster noticed her excited voice, it maintained that speed and instantly fell to the ridge of the mountain range. And instead of crashing straight down, it suddenly raised its head on the ground and flew horizontally along the ridge, gradually slowing down and landing gently.

“Wow!Wow! You fly really well! Wow!”

Sasha enjoyed the thrill to the point where her legs were trembling, and then she got off and praised the monster first. It was a truly unforgettable and touching flight that would never happen again.

Even if she had flown on an airplane in her previous life, would she have been able to feel this? No way.

Thanks to the amazing flight it had given her, she stroked the monster’s forehead diligently with her palm, even though she had been standing far away and talking to it before the departure. She felt that this monster was also happy with her touch was it really?

For some reason, Sasha even found this monster cute, thinking that they had experienced and felt something together.

Kiii-!

But that was then. At that moment, when the two beings were communicating with each other, squealing, the cry of a monster echoed from beyond the peak in front of them.

This was a completely different cry from the somewhat childish sound that the monster in front of her was making. She briefly felt that there were differences even in the voices of monsters, and then she hardened her face with tension.

Finally, the monster is coming!

The monster in front of her might have been so friendly because it was young.

The monster that had stopped at her words before might have been because it was the first time it had heard the voice of a woman shouting like that.

If she imagined all sorts of bad things, that cry would be terrifying to her.

Even so, ironically, Sasha went behind the wings of the monster that had just dropped her off and hid.

It wouldn’t be safe even if she went behind it, and it was also a monster.

But the monster didn’t seem serious and just looked happy. Could that cry be from its mom and dad? The monster cried out slightly excitedly, “Kiiikii,” and then turned to Sasha and cried out lightly again, “Kii.”

What kind of harmony was it that she felt relieved by that cry?

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