Payne didn’t know either. The day wille when he will be alone with Dn.


    “Charlize?”


    As soon as he saw Dn, Payne asked urgently. Although it was ufortable to wear the mana restraint like a shackle around his ankle.


    He was more worried about Charlize.


    Seven people of the Alperier were locked up in separate rooms.


    It was hard to be sane. Istion drives people crazy.


    But Dn went inside indifferently and responded.


    “I’m the only one who can call that name.”


    As if the emperor alone had monopolized Charlize by the name. Payne felt a sense of murder and instinctively lowered his gaze.


    Because he didn’t want to die.


    “Is, is the leader doing well…”


    He heard Dn pulling a chair.


    He sits down.


    That alone was an overwhelming presence. Payne’s words could not be concluded.


    Payne nced up. It was as if he was being interrogated.


    Anguid voice was heard.


    “I’m the only one who asks questions.”


    Dn said.


    Payne stopped breathing for a moment.


    “Or Alperier may have two lives.”


    Dn, who smiled briefly, was very attractive even for the same man. But just as predators and dangerous creatures are the most beautiful. Beauty is just a warning sign in nature.


    Payne was nervous because he was told to cooperate if he didn’t want to die.


    He doesn’t know what he wants.


    However, he quickly moved his lips, wondering if there was any misunderstanding.


    “Excuse me, I…”


    “Talk informally.”


    “Pardon?”


    “Are you going to use honorifics for me after talking informally to my Master?”


    Payne was dumbfounded.


    Dn was about to kill.


    Considering that the hierarchical order was so thorough, Charlize’s mutiny was no joke.


    Payne obeyed with his eyes down without saying anything.


    “Ye, yes. That’s not a big deal. I, I used to say that you, you, you and Charlize. Oops, no, when I said you were dating the leader.. I congratted both of you by giving you a bouquet of flowers. It’s not grand. Anyway, uh, congrattions.”


    Although Payne stuttered heavily.


    Dn had no expression on his face.


    “So, in thest three years, nothing has happened. Between us. I. I was just the leader’s subordinate! You know, subordinate?”


    “Do you think Master will nce at you? I already know even if you don’t exin it.”


    Thinking about it, Payne was right.


    ‘Of course, she couldn’t look at him because I was her lover.’


    He felt oddly bad, but he was more afraid of Dn.


    At that moment, Dn smiled brightly.


    He was a handsome man who captivated the gaze of the same man, Payne. Even the expression of beauty looks natural.


    “If you cooperate with me, I won’t do any harm.”


    Even this change in attitude seemed to be Dn’s calction.


    Payne’s eyes became sharp as the fists clenched with tension were released.


    ‘He’s a decent opponent.’


    What kind of monster did you raise? Charlize Ronan.


    Payne muttered to himself.


    Depending on the asion, ording to the intention. He could be indifferent and cruel, but there was also a scene that eased people’s alertness like a boy.


    Dnughed.


    “In your opinion. Why do you think Master left me?”


    It was aplicated psychological warfare.


    At first nce, he seemed to be talking to himself, but he seemed to know that Payne recruited Charlize in Alperier.


    Dn already knew a lot to deceive. And he said, ‘please cooperate’.


    “…I recruited her.”


    “Is that all?”


    “Yeah. I don’t know, but it was easy to recruit her because she seemed to want revenge.”


    It’s not wrong. Payne was also careful about subtle changes in facial expression.


    Of course, if he had to answer more precisely.


    He should answer.


    ‘Charlize only came over after hearing the information about Ehyrit’s real piece.’


    “But why?”


    When Payne asked the question, Dn responded indifferently.


    “Isn’t the Alperier the original Kiera project failures?”


    Have you already figured it out so far?


    Payne hardened for a while.


    As the emperor said, the Alperier is. It’s just a legendary secret organization that studies Ehyrit.


    The new conditions are humans who have been experimenting with the Kiera project.


    “What did you see in Charlize and decided to ask her to join?”


    It was a question he knew woulde up.


    While he was in prison, Payne knew Dn would ask about his lover.


    “Because she’s strong. No one is that strong.”


    “Well.”


    Strangely for a moment, Dnughed.


    “Wasn’t my dear Master an experimenter of the Kiera project?”


    Payne paused. With limitations unknown, he was momentarily frightened.


    As a child, Charlize had no record of going out of the Grand Duchy. That’s why he thought she would have been tested, at least as a child. But the more he thought about it, the more it was a mystery.


    To have the energy or state of Charlize, you have to feed it from the time you were a newborn baby.


    ‘Since she’s a real piece, she must have all the genius regardless of experimentation.’


    Said Payne, hiding his true intentions.


    “If you be an experimenter at a young age, you will die because you can’t stand the magic of the pieces. Charlize Ronan came to you at the age of 15, and if she had experimented before that, she was already dead.”


    “Well, that’s true.”


    Dn agreed.


    “The existence of the leader itself proves that there has been no experiment. Because there is no possibility other than that.”


    He’s not lying. So his facial expression, naturally.


    Payne muttered to himself and looked at Dn. But even if he had that kind ofughter, he was a tyrant who didn’t know when to raise his sword.


    “So, you don’t mean to say it.”


    Dn seems a little unpleasant, or he doesn’t even care. After frowning for a while, he casually passed it over.


    Dn put a document on the table.


    “What is this…”


    “Your sister was an experimenter for the Kiera project.”


    It was a fact that even Charlize did not know. Because Payne has been hiding it.


    “I heard that she was already dead, and she didn’t look very good when she died.”


    “…”


    Payne’s attitude, which seemed light at first nce, hardened and cooled down.


    It was Dn who was much morefortable to deal with, so the Emperor rxed and leaned his back deep into the chair.


    “Tell me the information.”


    “What?”


    “Everything you know.”


    Payne looked up slowly.


    The documents detailed how horribly his sister died. The testimony is the people in the magic tower. His head turns nk.


    A story that can’t be recorded without an insider revealing it.


    How the hell?


    “You hid your sister’s terrible death from your old parents. You even manipted her handwriting and sent a false letter saying that she was living happily and well while studying abroad.”


    “…”


    “The corpse. And the perpetrator parties. What would you do if I said I owned both?”


    Of course, he wants to get it.


    Because he hated the magic tower that carried out the Kiera project. He thought he wanted revenge.


    When Payne came to his senses, goosebumps ran all over his body.


    It was a proposal that had no choice but to be wielded.


    ‘But I have to protect Charlize.’


    If the real piece of Ehyrit is destroyed, Ehyrit cannot be revived. Only the evil god is revived.


    ‘If that happens, I don’t know what the world will be like.’


    Payne thought.


    Just imagining it made him feel tired and even hardened his vertebrae.


    Dn, who was looking at Payne that had stiffened, flicked his fingers for a moment.


    “There’s a lot of time.”


    Shadow, who appeared in the dark, put a cigarette between the emperor’s fingers. Rattle. With fire.


    Dn put a cigarette in his mouth.


    “For years, I only wondered why Master left me.”


    It’s just a natural thing to do. It was a shock in itself.


    White smoke soon spread from between the tyrant’s red lips.


    The smoke in the air is like a devil’s figure.


    ‘He’s crazy.’


    Payne realized firmly.


    The tyrant chews on the tip of the cigarette. Heughed.


    It waspletely different from the image of the emperor that Charlize often portrayed.


    ‘If there’s a magic sword, Kiera. I’m sure it’ll look like this.’


    Dn was evil.


    Charlize and Dn looked alike, but there was a crucial difference.


    Dn is. He could do anything for Charlize.


    ‘Why did you leave?’


    Dn thought while smoking.


    At the same time that Dn was utterly insane, he was so rational and sober. He only wanted to own Charlize.


    Charlize. Charlize. Charlize.


    Being Dn’s everything.


    So in order to hold herpletely in his hand, he will find out everything. Dn stared at Payne as if observing.


    The tyrant’s cold eyes resemble the indifferent and coercive eyes of the perpetrators who were once experimenting.


    Payne’s inner past was stimted.


    ‘Is it possible to drive people up here?’


    Payne felt a cooling sensation down his spine. Because he knew that it was all perfect Dn’s calctions.


    ***


    The Empress Pce of Charlize.


    Mary and the maids told Charlize that she should only wear the best and enjoy the best.


    It was such a busy day that she couldn’t even feel Dn’s vacancy.


    The maids wanted a deep conversation enough to ovee the three-year hiatus, and Charlize was sweet to the maids.


    “Everyone sincerely follows His Majesty.”


    “We praise His Majesty for being the best wise king, regardless of the nobles andmoners.”


    “His Majesty has never paid any attention to any woman. As if you were only his lover, Grandmaster.”


    The part where Charlize felt alienated was Mary.


    Oddly enough, Mary continued to lead the conversation.


    ‘Were you a child with this kind of initiative in the first ce?’


    Before she could deepen her thoughts, someone knocked over the closed door. The Empress’s Pce is no different from the off-limits to men area.


    Except for the Emperor.


    So, it’s Dn.


    Charlize noticed. All the maids bowed their heads and said.


    “We’re going to step back, Grandmaster.”


    Charlize suddenly felt sick to her stomach and stood up. As she approached the window, her memories of her old days came to mind.


    When taming Dn, who was a boy. That day she sang a song to the piano melody that came from beyond the window. The Milky Way sparkled just as it was in the beauty of the night sky.


    As time passes, everything changes and it is an illusion of eternity. The sky is always the same.


    “How do you look at the sky, Master?”


    Dn approached and hugged Charlize from behind. A sweet yet obedient voice.


    “Wasn’t it Master who destroyed my memories of that day?”


    “…Your Majesty.”


    Charlize abandoned Dn, and that day also copsed like an illusion.


    Dnughed.


    Even the sound ofughter was scattered in the distance and tickled her skin.


    It was a dizzying and dangerous atmosphere. The first night of their reunion in three years at the Empress Pce.


    Dn naturally held hands over the back of Charlize’s hand. Because if she touches his hand, Charlize will be swept away by the atmosphere without even realizing it.


    ‘All day, Master.’


    Dn knew she had no contact with anyone other than her maids.


    Charlize’s unconsciousness must have kept looking for Dn. Yeah, he was sure that she had been waiting.


    The fact is. Dn was very satisfied, and he was also numb.


    “Just tonight, you have to stay with me.”


    Dn kissed Charlize on the cheek.


    “…”


    Charlize quietly looked back.


    The gaze that met in the air was dizzying. But the next moment, Charlize’s eyelids fell strangely.


    Her white hand stretched out.


    Charlize grabbed Dn by the cor.


    And she kissed him roughly. The attractive eyes were provocative.


    Taut tension.


    But soon the burning fire.


    Lust.


    Passion.


    They began to covet each other.


    ***