Chapter 72 – Paynt Fee
Kiehl liked every aspect of Bella, but he didn't like how she sotis laughed like a naughty girl without awareness.
She said she was thinking of him, yet she didn't co.
When he asked her to co, she laughed. In addition, it was annoying that she kept saying he was cute.
“Kiss if it’s cute.”
“…What?"
“If you think I’m cute, pay a fee.”
“Kiehl…”
“If you can’t do it, don’t say cute.”
As Bella gazed at him in bewildernt, Kiehl then released his hand that was on the tip of her chin.
‘She won’t make fun of anymore.’
He had hated being treated like this since he was a kid. He wanted to look like a man, so why did she keep treating him like a chick in his arms?
However, there was another reason for Bella's embarrassnt.
‘Do you think I can’t do it?’
At the thought, she grabbed Kiehl's chest with both hands and stood on tiptoe.
Chu.
The sound dominated Bella's room, and all the sorrows ran away like a shadow that had seen the light. Now, the center of all Kiehl's thoughts rolled around his cheek where Bella's lips t. His cheeks were burning like his heart.
“So, now that I kissed you, can I say you’re cute?”
Bella poked Kiehl's cheek with a playful face.
“I get to say you’re cute for the day.”
Even though he disliked her adoration for him, he liked the word ‘for the day.’
“Then, will you stay with for the day?”
"No. I am busy.”
Kiehl looked at Bella coldly.
“Then, don’t do it for the day. Just do it once.”
“Ten tis.”
"One."
“Five tis.”
"One."
“If I kiss Pur, she’ll keep her mouth shut all day!”
Kiehl raised a corner of his lips and pinched Bella’s cheek, “Are you treating Pur and the sa now?”
Bella replied, babbling.
“Nnhoo, heenn foohh temm." (No, then four tis.)
"All right. Three tis."
Bella grunted as she shook Kiehl's hand away.
"Huh. How expensive are my kisses?”
“My cheeks are expensive, too.”
Bella smiled with a playful face.
“So, can you get rid of the pout?”
“…Yes."
Just a little while ago, he thought the sorrow he was holding in was about to explode. However, just being by Bella made it feel like a thing of the past.
“Have you eaten lunch? Shall we eat together after a long ti?”
* * *
Usually, everyone ate lunch separately. Since the Cruelle people usually eat in their own rooms, Kiehl said that he didn't want to be noticed by the Cruelle family, so he ate separately. anwhile, Bella usually dined with the demons.
“Oh my, why did the Young Master co down to the dining room?”
Iwer looked at Kiel with a sinister look. She also seed to think that this was the result of the nagging earlier.
“The Miss, too?”
“Iwer. You look like a pervert.”
“…Sheesh.”
When the twins ca down, the dining room was quite crowded. Even though everyone was seated, sothing was strange.
“Where’s Jenkins and Zanbar?”
“They say they’ll go out and eat!”
“They are a bit suspicious.”
Everyone looked at Bella in surprise. Did she finally find out about their relationship?
“Are they going out hunting humans?”
And, as soon as she had finished speaking, everyone turned their heads away as if it was in vain. The twins shook their heads as they had already adapted to the atmosphere.
“I don’t think that person would know even if Juan Cruelle did his best.”
Rio looked at Kiehl and whispered in his ear so he would be relieved. Because of that, he didn’t have to be a gentleman.
After a while, Juan Cruelle appeared with a relaxed smile.
“Miss, good to see you again. If you happen to et three tis a day, it's fate."
"Ah… Silvert—”
He suddenly changed his clothes again, and from his head to his toes, he appeared dressed in white like the sumr festival ten years ago. Bella tried to say ‘silvertail,’ but then she shut her mouth and replied back.
“It’s the second ti I've seen you today.”
"Haha. If we et just one more ti, it's fate.”
Bella frowned at those words. Even now, she ran into the demons several tis a day. She didn't want to call it fate.
“It’s only natural to bump into each other in this small space many tis…”
Juan listened to her and sat down next to Bella.
It was Pur’s place.
At that ti, Iwer saw the new man and smacked her lips.
“Oh my, who is this person?”
“Don’t touch.”
Bella warned Iwer straightforwardly. It was because there were people to touch and people not to touch. However, when she stopped Iwer from trying to seduce Juan, he laughed as if it was cute. Then, he gave Kiehl a triumphant smile.
‘…Sir Juan. He must be mistaken.’
He couldn't even say that Iwer was a dream demon, so Kiehl just ignored it.
“Rember? Ten years ago, we t at the sumr festival in Daisy.”
"Yes. You wore the sa clothes as back then.”
“It’s an honor to even rember the clothes.”
Bella was very surprised by Juan.
‘How co the silvertail was the sa as he used to be…?’
At the thought, she then turned to Kiehl with a squint. Even though he was similarly dressed in a white suit and gilded decoration, he had a different atmosphere enveloping him.
Light blonde hair reminiscent of a wheat field full of sunlight, and amber eyes that sparkle more than jewels. His long, slender fingers were holding a cup and pink lips as he took a sip of water… In addition, the light was reflected off the long, long eyelashes that glanced down.
‘Whatever he does, he looks like a picture…’
Although she knew, when she compared it with the silvertail, Bella realized for sure.
Kiehl was handso from head to toe.
While he was still as pretty as a boy, he wasn’t delicate. His tight chest that she felt when the carriage turned over. The muscles she touched when she tried to treat his wounds. It was a completely different feeling from Kiehl, whom she had teased a while ago for being cute.
After Bella said nothing, Juan spoke again.
“That sumr festival was really impressive.”
"Hmm… I think so, too."
Bella smiled as she rembered that mont.
‘Even then, Kiehl’s was really cute. Pouting all day long.’
He said he was going to do sothing cool, so he beca so cool all of a sudden.
“Then, the Miss…”
“Oh my God, what is this?”
Bella took a fork and a knife in her hands as the employees put delicious food that was more eye-catching than the handso Kiehl's.
“The Miss…”
When Juan was about to talk again, Iwer raised her hand.
"Miss! Do you want to eat and go shopping with ?”
"No. I have a lot of work to do.”
“Just trying to see the Miss’ face is like picking stars in the sky!”
“You don’t even have to look at my face. Can you please let go?”
“Zanbar is also grumbling.”
Iwer cleared her neck and poked out her chest, pretending to be Zanbar, “It was the first ti in my life that the Princess of the Animal Kingdom studied! He said so.”
At that, Rinne nodded her head, finding it funny.
“It’s exactly the sa. Do you know the way of talking of everyone here?”
Bella smiled as she listened to their conversation. It seed that it was that bastard was the one who started the rumor.
“Oh my, when Zanbar cos ho, be sure to tell him to co to .”
Let’s skin the leopard Zanbar and make a coat?
anwhile, Juan stared at Bella and smiled.
“The Princess of the Animal Kingdom… It’s cute, it suits you.”
Did he know what happened in that cute Princess's head?
“What kind of place is the Animal Kingdom?”
At his words, Bella didn't really want to answer since she didn't even want to think about the underworld.
“It would be a fantastic place for such a beautiful Princess to live.”
It was Iwer, not Bella, who answered Juan's words.
“It’s absolutely fantastic.”
‘…It was an absolutely crazy place.’
Juan changed the question again as Iwer kept interrupting.
“Have you ever been to the Imperial Palace?”
“…No."
“Because it is the place where His Highness is…”
Juan continued, but Bella was chopping up the beef without saying a word.
‘If you co here to eat, let’s just eat…’
The next mont, she unconsciously placed the cut at on Kiehl's plate, as she had used to do at the mansion.
Juan read the strange atmosphere as he looked at it.
‘Hmm…’
Ever since he first t her at the sumr festival, she was soone he wanted to see again. Since the woman he liked had never co over, he spoke with the thought of getting rid of the obstacles first.
“By the way, Miss…”
Juan didn't know how much pain Kiehl had been through. Whenever he tried to flutter even a little bit, sothing happened around them.
“Young Master, Stuuu-pid!”
…Suddenly, the world's number 1 senseless Pur, appeared vaguely.
“I was in the closet! Stuuu-pid!”
As Bella listened carefully to Pur's words, she turned to Kiehl and asked him, "What is she talking about?"
“She kept asking to play, so we played hide and seek.”
And, he didn't find her. Who was the stupid one?
"What? Pur, did you ask Kiehl to play with you again? I told you not to disturb him.”
However, Pur did not respond to Bella's words and stared at Juan.
“That’s my seat!”
Juan, who had been silently staring at the scene, was sowhat perplexed. When Kiehl said, ‘We have a bear at ho,' at the sumr festival, he thought it was a lie.
"Ah… A… real bear.”
"Move! Next to the Miss is my seat!”
Bella pressed her finger against Pur's forehead.
"Hey. I told you not to disturb Kiehl, didn't I?"
“Iwer also plays with the Young Master every day! Why can't I?”
"What…?"
Bella turned around, and Iwer slid down like lting from the chair and sat down on the floor.
“Iwer leaving…”
Even Zanbar, who she thought would be disturbing, was quiet like a mouse, so why the two of them!
In Bella’s mind, she wanted to open the summoning circle to the demon realm and put the two of them in. Nonetheless, her magic has not returned yet. She did not know why though the wound on her back hadn't healed.
“Get away! That is my place!”
Without knowing how angry Bella was, Pur continued to growl at Juan. He watched the cute teddy bear get angry before his eyes were drawn to the familiar handkerchief wrapped around her neck.
“…No way that handkerchief, that handkerchief?”
Bella, who frowned slightly at those words, turned her gaze to Pur.
"Ah… it…”
‘It was this person’s…’
Pur was quite obsessed with it.
‘Should I give it back?’
Bella started sweating from her hands. If she wanted to take it from the bear, she could take it, but Pur would cry loudly.
“It was pretty valuable to you. You kept it around the teddy bear. As expected, you are cute.”
"Haha… Should I…give it back?”
At her question, Juan grabbed Bella's hand.
“Or, how about giving ti instead of the handkerchief back?”
At that mont, despite the fact that he knew Kiehl was staring at him, Juan just raised a corner of his lips and kissed Bella's hand lightly.
He shouldn't have done that.
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