Chapter 11

After wiping off all the sticky jam, she took a step away from him and made it clear that, by all accounts, she considered me a pervert. Calix’s expression became serious enough to look spleen.

“Listen, Emilia. From now on, what I am saying must not be spoken anywhere.”

“Um, what are you trying to say?”

“Answer me first.”

“Yes, oh, I see. I’ll keep that in mind, Grand Duke.”

In addition to his determined attitude, Emilia  must have been nervous all the way, his face, which had been cold and salty, became serious. The sound of saliva going down her throat was heard.

“Actually… there is a secret in my chest that everyone says is perfect.”

“If it’s a secret, are you wearing a real mulberry?”

“No! How far have rumors like that spread! Look carefully. Where would you put something like that on your bare skin?”

Even Emilia, who had just joined as a maid, knew about that beggarly rumor.

That said, quite a few people in the castle must have already heard of it.

“Ah… that’s right.” She scratched her head in embarrassment, but pursed her lips and sulked. Calix paused for a moment and chose what he would say through his tightly closed mouth. Maybe it was because he had been hiding it for too long, but his mouth didn’t come out easily. Finally, as if he had made up his mind, his mouth, which had been tightly closed, opened. “The nipples of my breasts…”

“Nipples…, nipples?”

Emilia’s concave lips parted in bewilderment at the unexpected word. In broad daylight, she wondered if the Archduke was a nipple type. She was wary of whether he was trying to involve herself in that perverted act.

“Yes, nipples, they are out like this now, but in fact they are…”

“Box?”

“depression…!”

“depression?”

“Hmmm…,depression.”

“Hey, tell me properly. I can’t understand you either!”

In the end, Emilia’s patience peaked at his frustrating attitude of repeating the same words over and over again. She forgot that the Calix in front of her in the bubbling barrel was the Grand Duke, a high-ranking person, and threatened him.

“Inverted nipples! It is said that my breasts are inverted nipples that do not protrude properly at all!”

In the end, Calix let go of himself, as if bursting into anger, and closed his eyes tightly.

Golden eyes resembling the sun were hidden behind the eyelids and trembled. Although he screamed, he didn’t have the confidence to face Emilia’s face staring at him. However, once it fell, it did not close easily. He gave up in the yard after being caught with the tongs already attached. Or did he get some strange courage just because he pushed it once? At least for the moment, he didn’t want to hold his insides tight anymore.

In the end, a secret that Calix has never been able to tell anyone in his life. He confessed his inverted nipple complex, which seemed like an eternal shame, and the circumstances of the past to the woman he was seeing for the first time today. Even the circumstances of stealing clothespins to participate in winter cold water friction training.

‘Now they will mock me for having a stain on that perfect chest. But the words have already been thrown. Whatever happens now, no. It doesn’t matter what happens.’

They may not openly point the finger at himself as a grand duke, but they can’t hide their mocking gaze.

Somehow, he felt more relieved than he thought. Calix slowly opened his eyes and raised his head to look at the sky. He thought the world would collapse. The sky still held high in the cold winter air. Perhaps he wanted to share the secret he had been hiding inside of himself with someone. Calix quietly prepared his mind.

“….”

Emilia stayed still for a while even after he finished speaking. She seemed a bit surprised.

“Heh. I guess so…”

His self-deprecating self-talk mixed with self-ridicule came out. The taste was bitter. “I’m sorry, Grand Duke. Think for a moment. You must have been having a hard time.”

“What……?”

It was a different reaction from Calix’s expectation. When she heard the circumstances, she comforted him with a sense of pity.

Clearly thinking that she was mocking him, he looked into Emilia’s eyes in bewilderment. The clear green eyes were telling the truth. “But Grand Duke. I can’t use the same tongs as before.”

What followed was adamant. Calix also agreed with her words. His sunken nipples were protruding thanks to their swelling. However, the swollen top with red scars was more dangerous because it seemed to have a different meaning.

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