By Zephyria 
It may be a very presumptuous remark to mention in this situation.
“Hngh, uh, Lennox…, hngh, aah.”
“Mm, that’s good, Young Master. Just hold on like that for a moment.”
“I, I…. Lennox, I, just, hic…!”
Lennox had been having a really good time lately. It’s only been two days since lately, but let’s skip that fact for now, and to the point where I wonder if this is happiness. That elusive thing called happiness, which I thought was a pretense that only people with warm backs and full stomachs had the right to say. To the point where I doubted if it had finally come to me.
But while happiness for most people was simply derived from mental fulfillment, in his case, happiness came in the form of a very material representation.
“Do you not like it? Shall I stop?”
“I don’t want to, hic, I don’t want to.”
“What don’t you like? Being touched like this? Or stopping?”
His happiness was Noah Hamilton, with a hot and sticky body temperature felt under his palm.
“You’re really arrogant, hngh, you’re a mean bastard…”
“I’m honored that you think so.”
While leaving a soft kiss on Noah Hamilton’s cheek, who was sobbing as if he was wronged, the peerless genius deliberately put strength into his hand that was stretched downwards. The wriggling white body ejaculates a sticky liquid with a short convulsion. Soon, the magician becomes even happier.
Fortunately, the happiness that smells of cum was full enough to have plenty of potential for future growth.
‘Wow, I finally found it! Good. With this, I don’t have to worry about Carlisle’s □□□!’
Admiring the every move of his beloved benefactor through the Mana Stone was, no matter what anyone said, Lennox’s very first and most noble hobby in life.
‘□□□… When are you coming back? You’re coming back before the □□ starts, right? I hope so…’
Noah Hamilton, who looked like he had grown up without ever having suffered, sometimes muttered incomprehensible things with that noble and beautiful face. As soon as he sensed something strange about it and tried to find out more, the fact that he sensed something strange itself evaporated from his mind, so Lennox didn’t even realize it.
Noah Hamilton, who thought that the Mana Stone Lennox gave him was simply a convenient tool that made his body cool when it was hot and warm when it was cold, now always carried the Mana Stone with him wherever he went. Thanks to that, Lennox could admire his benefactor’s appearance whenever he wanted.
Just because he had one benefactor, Lennox’s life took a completely different turn. Of course, even if that benefactor was just a rich and bored nobleman, it would have changed, but because his one and only benefactor happened to be a Dominant Omega who was in the Crown Prince’s eye, Lennox experienced many mysterious things in many ways.
After Noah Hamilton first expressed his intention to sponsor Lennox, he followed Seymour, the second-in-command of the guild, and secretly had an audience with the Crown Prince.
‘Is this it?’
‘Yes, Your Highness. That is correct.’
‘There are no suspicious tags attached?’
‘He was under my care continuously after he came out of the facility, and the traces of the facility are clean. There seems to be no connection with the Duke’s family.’
‘Okay. If you say so, then it must be so… I also think it’s good to raise a trustworthy healer.’
The Crown Prince treated him very openly as an object. It was familiar treatment, and I was rather comfortable with it. Feeling offended or resentful was a luxury that only those who had even a speck of something could afford.
‘Tsk, somehow I don’t want to keep him by his side.’
It was then that my heart crumpled without even recognizing that I was offended. When the Crown Prince very naturally referred to Noah Hamilton intimately with his supreme position and authority, and showed a reaction that he didn’t want to keep Lennox near Noah Hamilton.
‘…….’
But at the time, Lennox, who was not yet a promising magician, let alone a disciple of a renowned healer, could only silently bow his head more respectfully and kneel. If the Crown Prince were to say whimsically that he didn’t like that guy after all and to find another smart guy, he would have to be replaced without any resistance.
The desire to have a firm position that could not be replaced by anyone began to sprout cautiously.
‘That’s enough, get up. Oh, by the way. So how is the Grand Duke? He’s currently out of the capital again?’
‘Yes, Your Highness. We confirmed that he was secretly leaving the castle gates as soon as he confirmed that the Duchess’s condition was stable.’
‘Hahaha. The Duke must have been quite anxious. Well, if the Duchess dies, the support from the North will be almost cut off… Is he scheming to solidify the connection with the young heir by making some excuse?’
Between the second-in-command of the information guild and the Crown Prince of the Empire, he was just a wooden furniture with eyes and a mouth, holding his breath. He bowed his head and closed his eyes even more deeply, lest any possible impudence be revealed.
‘Any words to Young Master Noah…’
‘There’s no need to make him worry unnecessarily. This incident seems to be a real coincidence, and fortunately, it doesn’t seem like the Grand Duke or the Duke’s family were threatened in any way. Well, the person himself seems to be doing well, but strangely, the surroundings feel complicated.’
‘Butterflies are bound to flock to beautiful flowers.’
‘Haha. Sure. What does it matter how many butterflies flock around? It’s not hard to catch and kill them.’
Lennox instinctively realized. He didn’t know Seymour’s intentions, but the Crown Prince’s were clear. He was nipping any potential infatuation in the bud, just in case Noah harbored any foolish desires for a tree he could never climb.
Having wandered the back alleys without a safe place to lean on, Lennox had experienced countless moments that were twice as humiliating and three times as insulting. But none of those experiences had ever stirred up such childish competitiveness as this.
So, for Lennox, this incident at the Ducal Palace was incredibly satisfying.
The Crown Prince’s plan to shake the stabilizing North from its roots and dampen the momentum of his political rivals was quite elaborate. From smuggling skilled subordinates into the North under the guise of guarding Noah Hamilton, without raising any suspicion or facing any restrictions, to encouraging and fully supporting the still-weak remnants of opposition forces, the series of events was very stable.
However, neither the Crown Prince nor the subordinates he sent could have guessed that Noah Hamilton had switched identities with his servant upon arriving in the North.
Perhaps he wanted to try a rare experience since he was out in a different place for once. Noah Hamilton, disguised as a servant, moved around like a squirrel, never resting for a moment. The sight of his skinny wrists, which had never lifted anything heavier than a novel in his life, diligently pushing a tray, was quite a spectacle to behold.
Noah Hamilton’s appearance, as he roamed all over Graham Castle, was certainly not as beautiful as usual. His low nose and scattered freckles made him look as approachable as the kid next door, but he was by no means pretty or elegant.
But his skipping steps, as if he was excited, and his bright eyes, constantly looking around in admiration at the lush gardens… they simply wouldn’t let go of people’s hearts.
‘Young Master!’
It wasn’t just the young child, presumed to be Grand Duke Graham, who was captivated by that bright appearance.
So today, as soon as Lennox confirmed that the Crown Prince’s knights, clueless and hampered by their incompetence, were heavily guarding only the servant who appeared to be Noah Hamilton at the appointed time, Lennox moved quickly.
The imitation he was diligently developing to steal Noah Hamilton from the world and replace him was not yet complete, but it was good enough for a few days of deception.
Then, he waited with bated breath. For the moment when Noah Hamilton’s life would be in imminent danger, very carefully.
He wasn’t a fool who would waste a precious opportunity. He wanted to extract so much from Noah Hamilton that, in order to increase the value of the favor he would bestow upon Noah, he had to act right before the very end. When the only value left for Noah Hamilton, other than himself, was death. That was the moment he had to seize.
In the end, Lennox succeeded.
“Don’t worry about anything, Young Master. No one will be able to harm you in my arms.”
Except for me, that is. His insolent and subversive eyes smiled with satisfaction. It would only be a heaven and happiness lasting a mere two days, but that was enough. For now.