Thank You For The Confinement, Grand Duke! - Chapter 5
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 5
I was laughing and thinking about what to do when I heard an urgent voice. Even though I’d heard it somewhere, it was a voice I wasn’t familiar with. When I turned my head slightly, Enfrise was standing there.
“Oh, uh, well…”
I just got some water on me….
…Was what I wanted to say. However, when I saw the golden eyes wide in surprise, I was speechless for a moment.
His cynical, sharp-looking face was full of bewilderment and concern. Looking at it, for some reason, my lips didn’t move. We looked at each other and exchanged glances, but soon, he looked around with a lost face.
“What is this…”
Oh… I get it.
Someone suddenly said that she had memory loss, and now her intelligence seemed to get lowered…
He left me alone in the room for a while, but out of the blue, I screamed and got soaked wet. It would be absurd for him who knew the original Chaperil. She was so graceful and elegant that she could be called a saint. I wouldn’t be a match at all.
“The water…”
“The water?”
Enfrise’s gaze stings as he asks with a rather serious face. Was it because of the thought that I hit something, or was it because my gaze was really hurting?
Reflexively, he turned his head to see the object hanging next to the sink.
“…I turned on the sink faucet to use water, and water poured out of the shower.”
…I never thought I’d see a shower in a romance-fantasy world.
No, it was a bit strange in common sense.
This wasn’t even Korea… Let’s assume that there was a shower though why was the faucet for the sink and shower connected? In a Western romance fantasy, wouldn’t they have a separate bathtub and separate sink…?
I screamed because it was completely unexpected. Ugh, when I think about it, it was very embarrassing.
“…Ha.”
Enfrise, who paused for a moment as if trying to understand my words, let out a low sigh.
Ugh, do I look that pathetic? Seeing him shake his head with a serious expression, my face flushed without realizing it. I admitted I was stupid, but he didn’t have to sigh that much, too…
“I’m sorry.”
Even though I smiled and said to him, he didn’t even look at me. Instead, he brushed his messy bangs back.
It looked so picturesque that I stared at him blankly without knowing it, and then I shuddered.
It was cold. I just got drenched in some water, but why was it so cold? Could it be because of the chronic illness that Chaperil had? If it were my original body, I wouldn’t have been this cold even when I was drenched in water in midwinter street.
A chill creeping up through my spine covered my body as if it exploded at some point and soon tickled the tip of my nose.
And…
“Ah.”
“….?”
“…Ah, ah-choo!”
…Sniff.
A strange silence hung between him and me.
“Ha. Please do not do anything useless and wait patiently here.”
What did he mean useless?!
How was it useless to look around where I might spend the rest of my life? That was a given!
Although I wanted to shout back at him, the person offered no excuse, so I could only nodded quietly. I thought Enfrise would get out of the bathroom, but he went to the chest of drawers and pulled out a towel.
This was familiar, too.
Originally, in Western romance fantasy, did nobles put towels or something like that in a drawer like that? Wasn’t there such a thing as a separate room for laundry?
‘Ugh, I don’t know.’
Usually, the handmaid did it, or they started out as a commoner. However, there were many things that felt strangely Korean here. Did the author just write the details roughly because they were too lazy to research it?
Well, what do you expect from a male-oriented novel?
Enfrise tried to hold out the towel he had brought to me but stopped in shock.
Um, please don’t tell me he was going to wipe me right now, was he? While I didn’t know exactly when this was, after the fifth escape, the two of them did something that could only be in an R-rated novel for the first time…
Did we do it already? I wasn’t sure.
If we’ve already done it, he’d be able to just do skinship naturally. Ugh, I don’t think my heart would be spared if such a handsome man did that.
Get yourself together. He was crazy… crazy b*stard! He was that same crazy b*stard you cursed at so much.
“Take it.”
Enfrise held out a towel to me.
Giving it to me meant that I had to wipe myself, right? So, it also means that the two haven’t crossed the line yet. That was a relief…
Ah, wait…
Unh, the nose. The nose again—!
“Ah… choo!”
Ah.
I didn’t know that earlier, but Chaperil’s sneezing sound was also cute.
It sounded like babies sneezing… Was there anything ugly about this person? As expected, as expected of a romance-fantasy face. Because of this, a man who had everything went crazy, kidnapped and confined her.
Putting it that way, the romance-fantasy female lead was scary.
I nodded my head earnestly with useless thoughts as he strode closer. It became dark as if a shadow had fallen over my head,
“Oh.”
I let out a thin sound, unknowingly feeling the weight over me.
“…You really do look like a child. I can’t believe it takes a lot of work.”
What I felt behind the weight was warmth and softness.
When I raised my head slightly, his hand lightly pressed my hair through the towel, almost like telling me to stay still.
The next moment, he gently brushed the remaining dampness from my hair. Even though I knew it, his hand that touched me was enormous. I could tell just by feeling it in my head. He probably would be able to fit Chaperil’s face in one hand.
Even so, his hands were gentle.
His movement as he wiped off the water with a towel was so gentle that they felt like rustling feathers. I closed my eyes at the gentle hand movements I had never felt before.
It had been a long time since someone washed my hair like this. So long ago that I couldn’t even remember…
“…Ha.”
A hot breath flew over my head.
The wind that reached my ear protruding through the towel was strangely hot and tickled me. Was it because our distance was close? A scent that I couldn’t tell, whether it was body scent or perfume from Enfrise, tickled my nostrils.
I always buy my cosmetics at the lowest price on the internet, and I’ve never put on perfume, so I wasn’t sure what kind of scent this was.
Nevertheless, the image was clear.
“It smells like a forest.”
“….”
“It smells really nice.”
Refreshing and cool.
I thought it would be something colder and more transparent… like ice. As I closed my eyes while leaving my hair to him, I felt sleepy for some reason.
‘Oh, I think I’ll fall asleep like this…’
Thinking so, I desperately held on to my tilting head, but suddenly the weight on my head disappeared.
“I will ask them to bring a change of clothes. They’ll take care of the rest.”
The soft, cold voice.
With that, he backed away from me and stormed out of the room, just like how he left me alone when we first met.
As I gazed at his back and put my hand on my head, the slightly wet towel still felt soft and warm, left with his warmth. However, it was a pity that my hand was so light that it didn’t have the stable weight that his hand gave me.
Hmm, let’s try the water again next time.
While I was thinking such useless thoughts, someone knocked on the door.
“Hello, Miss. I brought a change of clothes.”
A middle-aged woman’s voice.
‘The handmaid has finally appeared!’
Most of the handmaids in romance fantasy play an important role. They took on a part of the story as a supporting character, took on a villainous role and harassed the female lead. Sometimes it gave satisfaction when they begged and were put into place by the possessed female lead after harassing the original female lead.
Unfortunately, the handmaid in this novel did not have much presence since she rarely even appeared. Still, it was very important to me.
“Yes, come in!”
I was so glad that I called her in an excited voice. Oh, was it too much?
In this case, what did the female leads in the novel usually do? Well, of course, I’d be excited. She was the one who would take care of everything! This person cooked, cleaned, and did the laundry. I would be thankful for this person!
I had to look good to this person to get delicious food!
“Excuse me.”
Chaperil begged the handmaid to let her go, criticizing her, then she tried to use violence against the handmaid. Maybe that was why the handmaid entered the room very cautiously.
The woman, whose age seemed to be halfway between middle-aged and old-aged, didn’t look nervous even though she was skinny. She had a gentle and warm impression and a thin smile on her lips.
How to say it? When I saw her in the book, I thought she was a bit older, but when I saw her in real life…
She looked almost like my mother’s age.
“Oh my, you’re still wet… If you catch a cold, it’ll be troublesome, so you’d better clean up and change your clothes.”
Even though she must have heard about me, she smiled nonchalantly before carefully reaching out her hand. The noble Chaperil might be familiar with this, but I was a K-worker who grew up in the Eastern Country of courtesy.
It was a bit burdensome to be treated like this by someone of my mother’s age.
I took a step back and reached out my hand with a smile.
“It’s okay, I can do it myself. Give it to me.”
She hesitated for a moment before putting the clothes she had brought on the bed. In the meantime, I wiped the ends of my hair and body, which were still dripping with water, with a towel.
“I don’t want it to get wet, so I’ll leave it here. Do you need anything more?”
“That’s okay. Thank you. Uh…”
What was her name?
No, it was strange if I remembered her name in the first place. After all, remembering the handmaid’s name when I couldn’t even remember my name?
Right.
I let out a strange noise, and she laughed and opened her mouth.
“You can call me Tambor, Miss.”
“Ah, that’s right. Thank you! Lady Tambor.”
She was of the same age as mother, but completely different from mother.
The mother I remember… No, I didn’t run into her much in the first place since I was so busy that I came home five times a month. So, the existence of mother to me was not that different from other people.
That was why it felt weird. Although I didn’t even put it into words out of my mouth, she seemed to understand my thoughts.
I didn’t want to say this, but….
‘I feel bad.’
My heart ached.
“You haven’t eaten yet, have you? I will bring it to your room soon.”
She didn’t say anything, but she must have noticed something. Tambor just smiled and left the room.
At the same time, the pounding in my chest subsided. I blankly looked at the door she had left and raised my hand. As I stared at the now warm towel I held in my hand, an important fact suddenly came to my mind.
“Ah.”
I forgot to ask for a dress.
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