Can You Save Me Duke? - 1

Behind the palace where a dazzling party was being held, a woman was quietly walking in the garden.

Her shiny silver hair shone under the moonlight.

Her strange, unrealistic features and her violet eyes that emitted a mysterious light.

The woman’s elegant presence seemed somewhat mysterious.

“I should rest here for a while.”

The woman let out a sigh mixed with a sense of frustration and annoyance, as she walked in the garden and muttered.

Rena’s feelings of excitement for the party had completely disappeared.

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She couldn’t enjoy the party because of the men’s prying glances and touching her since the moment she arrived, and the cheap shoes she had gotten in a hurry made her body even more tired.

Rena no longer felt like she could enjoy the party or even be in good shape, and she was looking for a place to rest her swollen legs.

“Where can I sit…?”

As Rena looked around, she suddenly noticed a voice coming from not far away.

‘The sound of water? Is there a fountain nearby?’

She thought about sitting by the fountain and quickly headed towards the source of the sound.

A short while later, she began to see an ivory-colored fountain with water gushing out of it.

Then.

‘Who is this?’

She saw a man with black hair who seemed to have swallowed the moonlight.

‘Is he a knight…?’

The victory celebration party featured knights who were either middle-class or nobles with simple titles.

For this reason, Rena thought the man was a knight, and she looked at him thoughtfully.

But the man, as if unaware of her presence, was standing in front of the fountain with a frown and his eyes closed.

‘I wanted to sit there for a while. I don’t think I can.’

Rena decided to turn back after seeing the strange man.

‘I’ll go somewhere else.’

At that moment, her eyes met those of the man who had turned his gaze towards her.

His golden eyes were as hot as the midday sun.

Knock knock knock-.

‘What is this…?’

When her eyes met the man’s, her quiet heartbeat began to increase dramatically.

‘Why is my heart…?’

The loud heartbeat surprised her, and she raised her hand to touch her heart.

‘Is this how it beats…?’

A few minutes of silence passed. The man seemed to start moving to give her his place.

One step. Then another.

The closer he got to her, the faster her heartbeat grew.

‘This must be a man I’ve never seen before…’

She was probably feeling dizzy under the shimmering moonlight. She couldn’t control her body as if something was pulling her.

Crackling-.

It seemed as if her fingers were automatically grabbing onto the man’s.

The man stopped as well, drawn to the soft feel of her hand that was encircling his finger.

Looking at their intertwined fingers, he raised his head to look at Rena.

Her trembling violet eyes met his golden gaze in the air.

His golden eyes, shining in the darkness with only a little moonlight, were intense, like the eyes of a predator hunting its prey.

And suddenly, as if her hands had moved without her will, words escaped her lips unconsciously.

“Would you like to take a walk with me…?”

On a summer night, when the scent of grass was moving in the air. She spent that night with him.

On an early morning when the sun was still asleep.

The clothes lying around the bed showed the traces of the hot night before.

Tearing.

Under the crumpled bedsheets, something began to move, and suddenly a long object emerged from the side of the bed.

His slender arm moved over the sleeping man’s face like a bare tree branch in the middle of winter.

But when the man lying beside her did not respond no matter how much she shook him, she began to poke her round head out from under the covers and examine the place.

‘No way….’

The woman who was staring at the man while tilting her head to the side thought ominous thoughts in her mind, she gently placed her hand on her nose, but she felt his light breathing through her fingertips unconsciously.

“Ah…!”

Surprised by the sound of her breathing breaking the silence, she raised her shoulders and quickly covered her mouth with her hands. Then she looked down again with concentration.

But her tense gaze felt strange when the man who was still with his eyes closed didn’t move.

‘He must be sensitive to the presence of people….’

A normal knight was expected to respond to the movements of the person close to him.

But this man didn’t move even once even though she was rolling around beside him and waving her hands in his face, and even made not insignificant sounds.

‘…Ha.’

An involuntary sigh escaped her.

‘I thought he was a knight. Was I wrong?’

A thought of reasonable doubt about this man passed through her mind.

She was thinking as she pressed her fingers on the bed, but she quickly pulled her hands back.

‘But… regardless of whether he’s a knight or not, I won’t meet him again anyway, so what difference does it make to me?’

She took on a worried look as she thought about this, and stared at the man’s face.

“But what was that confusion last night…?”

Rena muttered as she stared at his sharp facial features with black hair.

Perhaps it was the charm of his appearance that made her body move on its own and attract him.

“I just wanted to enjoy the party and go back quietly….”

As she stared at his face for a long time, her gaze slowly began to move towards his body as if she was contemplating a piece of art.

When she saw his defined muscles that appeared from between the bed sheets, she recalled the hot events of last night, causing her face to blush.

‘What am I thinking now…! I have to regain my focus!’

She shook her head in both directions and stroked her cheeks that had turned red hard.

Although she thought about slowing down a bit in getting out of bed, she knew that if the man woke up, it would be a mess.

Leaving her nostalgic feelings behind, she carefully got out of bed.

“Oh.”

As she sat on the edge of the bed, the effects of her drunkenness from last night came back all at once.

Her face wrinkled from the headache that was making her headache like it was going to explode. She felt nauseous from the strong smell of alcohol that was emanating with every breath she took.

She pressed her head with her fingers, trying to regain her cloudy expression.

“Oh.”

As she tried to quietly get out of the room, every movement of her body caused involuntary screams, as if she was in pain.

She felt like she was

She had been beaten by muscle pain and a hangover since morning.

Finally, when she was able to regain her balance, she put on the clothes she had taken off yesterday, and headed towards the mirror near the bed.

But the woman looking in the mirror was not the same beautiful woman she had been last night.

As she stared at her reflection with an unknown gaze, her brow furrowed.

Her beautiful body, which had acquired a perfect shape yesterday, now looked as if it were naked and neglected, as if no one could distinguish whether it was male or female. Her thin silver hair, which seemed to melt when touched, looked like a dust-covered broom.

Even her height, which had dropped by an inch from yesterday, made her look like a little girl.

“Ah-.”

However, there was one thing that had not changed. Her glowing violet eyes were watching herself in the mirror motionlessly.

The bright violet colors were the only thing she had in common with the beautiful woman last night.

“If only this damn eye color could change, it would be wonderful…”

She muffled her groan as she looked at this color that she hated more than anything.

She felt that all this misery was reminding her that this was nothing but a long nightmare, but reality.

She had been cursed, and this curse would never be lifted, this was the boring, painful reality.

‘Will I be able to escape this curse if I find true love?’

She only thought about this, and approached many men, many of whom rejected her without hesitation.

‘A total of 43 times.’

She had realized after being rejected for the forty-seventh time.

I could no longer lift this curse.

‘I have lived alone well for centuries, there is no reason why I cannot live more.’

Even the small spark of hope that had been shining in my heart for a long time had been extinguished.

My enthusiasm for getting rid of this curse had already been sent to the other world. When I put down the heavy burden that I had been carrying for so many years, I felt relieved.

As she stared into her eyes, she nervously used her hands to place the lenses.

As she did so, her violet eyes in transformed into regular brown eyes.

She felt as if she was living in a beautiful dream but was forced back to reality, turning her cold gaze towards the still sleeping man.

“How was I?”

Last night, he had hugged her more passionately than anyone else, but what had ignited this man’s heart was not him, but another beauty, “me.”

‘How was she? She must have been similar. Stupid.’

While mocking herself who still thought that the man’s reactions might be different, she slowly approached the sleeping man.

She then sat down beside him, looking at him and moving her fingers to trace his facial features.

[Obliyoyo.]

As she muttered those words as if she was speaking in a whisper, white lights began to stream from her fingertips.

As she touched the sleeping man’s forehead, the white lights began to slowly fade towards his forehead.

After gently touching his face, she planted a short kiss on his forehead.

“Think of it as a dream in a summer night. My handsome knight.”

In a soft and affectionate voice, as if a mother were singing to her child.

And so, she erased the man’s memory. She hoped that she would never meet him again, even if it was by chance.

But that wish did not come true.