Chapter 35 – 35
“By any chance, do you have something like a deodorizer?”
“What on earth are you talking about?”
The dragon, who had been opening a drawer to take out a bottle of love drug, asked while merely turning his head. In response, Euro flopped down onto a worn wooden chair and stared at him.
“I asked if you have a deodorizer.”
“What is that? Are you talking about something like perfume?”
“…Never mind. Forget it if you don’t know.”
Euro waved his hand in front of his face as if it were a nuisance, and at that sight, the dragon slammed the drawer shut and stood with his arms crossed.
“Listen. You keep talking about things I don’t know every single time, and it’s getting really annoying. Does this stuff actually exist and I just don’t know it, or are you making things up as you go?”
The dragon looked extremely displeased. Then again, he was a being close to immortal. To find that there were still things he didn’t know must have been quite a blow to his pride.
In this world, there were no middle fingers and no concept of deodorizers. He wasn’t making them up; he was asking about things that actually existed, but that was strictly limited to the world where ‘Kim Euro’ had lived.
“If you can’t even tell whether I’m making it up or if you just don’t know, why bother asking? Isn’t it all the same to you anyway?”
“It is not!”
“Why? If I say I made it all up, on what basis would you believe me? I could just be saying I made it up because I’m too lazy to explain something that actually exists.”
“….”
“Or, conversely, I could insist something exists when it actually doesn’t.”
The dragon wore a strange expression at Euro’s words. If translated, it would mean, ‘What the hell is wrong with this guy?’
Euro turned his head with an indifferent expression despite that look. With his legs crossed and toes tapping, he was intentionally acting mysterious in front of the dragon.
“You really…”
“‘What the hell am I’?”
“….”
“No need to know. Then, by any chance, do you have any scented oil that has no scent?”
“Scented oil means oil that has a scent.”
“I know. So, do you have it or not?”
When Euro asked irritably, the dragon reluctantly turned around and opened one of the stacked drawers. He then pulled out a long bottle and tossed it.
Catching the bottle as it flew in an arc, Euro examined it slowly. A transparent liquid inside a transparent bottle. When he opened the cap and smelled it, there truly was no scent at all.
“Wow, this really has no smell at all. What is it made of?”
“I’m not telling you.”
“Why?”
“Do you tell me anything?”
The dragon spoke in a blunt tone, and Euro let out a hollow laugh inwardly. It seemed the other was pettily sulking.
At this, Euro let out a small sigh and spoke.
“It’s not that I don’t want to tell you, it’s just that I don’t know how to explain it. That finger thing is just a kind of sign I made with my sister when I was a kid.”
Euro sold out Clope, who wasn’t even there. Since the dragon and she would never meet, it was a viable excuse.
“I mostly do it when I’m annoyed.”
“Then why did you teach it to me?”
“In life, there are times when the heavens feel cruel.”
“That’s blasphemy.”
“Well, if it’s annoying to see, I guess a lightning bolt will strike me.”
“….”
“I’ve done it a few times, and nothing happened.”
It was a lie. Since coming to this world, he had flipped the bird in his mind dozens of times, but the only time he had actually done it toward the sky was when he taught the dragon.
Well, nothing happened then, so nothing would happen now. Euro gave a vague nod.
“A deodorizer removes smells. You spray it like perfume, but instead of covering a smell with another smell, it completely eliminates the stench.”
“Something like that exists?”
“No. I just asked because I wondered if it did. You’re good at making everything, aren’t you?”
“So you did make it up.”
“It’s not making it up, it’s an invention. An invention.”
“….”
“Try making it; it’ll probably sell well.”
Euro chuckled as he spoke. If a concept didn’t exist here, he could just have it made and sell it. A deodorizer wasn’t something that required grand technological prowess to create; it was well within a dragon’s capabilities.
After answering so nonchalantly, the expression the dragon wore while looking at him became more intense. It seemed he was successfully stimulating the dragon’s curiosity.
“What’s your name?”
Euro asked what he hadn’t been able to ask before. The dragon answered readily.
“Larry.”
“Larry?”
“Yeah. Originally Rayley, but you can call me Larry.”
Larry pulled over a chair and sat opposite Euro. It seemed that since things had come to this, he wanted to have a conversation with him.
“And you?”
“Don’t you know my name? There shouldn’t be anyone in Silon who doesn’t know I’ve become the Duchess’s husband.”
Although there was no separate wedding procession or invited guests, a red flag was raised at the mansion on the day Euro and Melione wed to announce the event.
Naturally, Euro’s existence was passed from mouth to mouth among many people. Stories of a prince from the North, who was said to be an illegitimate child, named Euro Leches.
“Even if I know, you should introduce yourself properly.”
“Sure, whatever. My name is Euro Leches.”
Euro pronounced the name that had now become as familiar as Kim Euro. Inwardly, however, he still clearly distinguished between himself and Euro Leches.
Though he was living a life in this body, in place of the original, Euro still felt a bit strange about the fact that he was Euro Leches.
“You said you came from Norden, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Rumor has it that the person who was supposed to marry wasn’t you, but your sister. Does that have something to do with using this love drug?”
At Larry’s question, Euro paused for a moment. He remembered telling him on the first day they met that he had fallen for him and wanted to sleep with him once, but it seemed the dragon didn’t believe it.
That made sense. He was someone who had personally placed a curse on the Spioren Dukedom and didn’t hesitate to act the fool just to watch it unfold.
Since he knew what the curse he had cast was, and even knew that Euro had entered its sphere of influence, it was only natural that visit our site[visit our site]a simple excuse like ‘I fell for him’ wouldn’t work.
Even the party involved, Melione, always suspected him.
‘What a shame, I can’t tell him the truth.’
He couldn’t say yet that his goal was to break Melione’s curse. It was still too premature.
He didn’t know how much closer he could get to Larry, but there would surely be a more appropriate time than now. Of course, the problem would be his own condition the longer he dragged it out.
“My sister has someone else she wants to marry. I didn’t.”
“So you came instead? To help your sister marry the person she wants?”
“Yeah.”
“Do you know you’re risking your life doing that?”
“I told you before, I know.”
“….”
“And it’s also true that I fell for the Duke. His face is my type.”
That wasn’t a lie. Of course, at first, he had pushed for the marriage without time to consider types or anything, but it was hard to dislike a face like that.
“So you use the love drug to try and do it before you die?”
“Ah, about that love drug.”
“….”
“I don’t think it’s working well. Last time I used it, I used a bit less of the sleeping pill. So I thought he woke up quickly, but thinking about it now, I don’t think that was it. He passed out completely after finishing his business.”
If using less medicine was the only problem, it wouldn’t make sense for Melione to fall asleep immediately after intercourse. Furthermore, although he had managed to brush it off with improvisation, after waking up, he seemed convinced that what happened in the early morning was reality.
Larry, who had been listening silently to Euro’s unauthorized copywords, slowly stood up and picked up the [visit our site]love drug he had placed on the table.
“It’s not that the drug is ineffective. The problem likely lies with the Duke’s body.”
“What problem?”
“A curse isn’t something that can be cured with medicine; you know that, right?”
Euro nodded at Larry’s words.
“Even so, he’s probably taking many medicines to alleviate various symptoms. Whether they work or not, he just takes them anyway.”
“….”
“When you indiscriminately take various medicines for something that isn’t a physical ailment, problems arise. No medicine will work well anymore.”
It seemed to be a kind of resistance. Melione took various mysterious, unidentified medicines, including sleeping pills. He even distinguished between taking sleeping pills and smoking them, practically abusing them.
“I’ll re-mix the formula. unauthorized copyIt’ll take a few days, so if you don’t need it immediately, come back later.”
“It’s a hassle to get out, so I wanted to take some in advance.”
“I told you, didn’t I? If you use it too often, he’ll find out.”
“I know, I’ll regulate the use better.”
Euro indifferently packed only the scented oil and stood up. He had spent too much time here to engage in a longer conversation.
As Euro turned to leave without hesitation, Larry spoke in a somewhat serious voice.
“If it’s simply that his face is your type, why not look for someone else even now?”
“….”
“In my opinion, it’s not something worth risking your life for.”
Euro snorted at Larry’s words. It was unauthorized copyabsurd to [Read on Read BL Novels]hear such a [unauthorized copy]thing from the very person who had cast the curse.
However, without showing it, Euro simply turned and stared at him with a bright, smiling face.
“It’s too late.”
“….”
“If I was going to quit, I shouldn’t have started. That’s how curses work, isn’t it?”
Nothing would change by running away now. The moment the Duke’s blood and his own mixed within the holy water, the curse had already effectively begun.
Now, everything was just a matter of time. Though he would use them with intervals, he needed to be more aggressive with both the use of the love drug and their thief-like encounters in the early morning.
There was one reason. Euro’s body, having entered the sphere of the curse, was likely to break down at a faster rate than the Duke’s. The healing ability was strictly for others; it was a power he could not use on himself.
The more he treated him, the closer he got to the curse through their relationship, the more Euro was essentially dying.
“Make it quickly.”
“….”
“Just think of it as helping a pitiful person.”
Saying so, Euro left Larry’s house without hesitation. Then, he suddenly stopped his steps and muttered.
“If I was going to quit, I shouldn’t have started…”
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