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Chapter 03
No, no, no.
What is this?
It’s strange no matter how I look at it. Strange!
This is something that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
‘That Lyxion Luhanes on a blind date?’
I couldn’t even think of greeting him and stared at Lyxion Luhanes as if I had seen a ghost.
Even the simple act of him lifting his teacup and drinking tea filled my entire field of vision like a painting.
When our eyes met, he lowered his beautiful blue eyes for a moment and then smiled.
It was a captivating smile.
Goosebumps erupted from the nape of my neck to the base of my ears.
Lyxion Luhanes. Who is he?
The head of the Luhanes dukedom, the only ducal family in the empire.
A genius who has stepped into a realm that humans can never reach.
The commander of the special forces unit of mages that made the continent tremble in fear.
The monster who made the Kaiden Empire known throughout the continent as an impenetrable fortress.
The great adjectives all belonged to Lyxion Luhanes right before my eyes.
Even the imperial family couldn’t treat him lightly. That was the Luhanes ducal family, the family of that man.
In other words, even if the emperor gave an order, if he didn’t feel like it, he would overturn that order no matter what. That was Lyxion Luhanes.
‘It’s just that now that his older sister, Serena Luhanes, has become the empress, he’s quietly listening to the imperial family and keeping a low profile.’
If not for Empress Serena, he might have turned at any moment and bared his teeth at the imperial family. He was a fearsome man.
Almost no nobles in this empire would be unaware of what the name Lyxion Luhanes meant or how extreme his misanthropy was.
He didn’t care whether the other person was a man or a woman, or whether their status was high or low. He simply hated humans terribly.
Except for his older sister, who had raised him like her own child since he was young, he treated everyone else worse than a pebble on the side of the road.
It was also until he met the original female lead, Ji Eunha, he had never voluntarily gotten involved with others.
Those who had approached the man without his permission had all met miserable ends without exception.
He wasn’t interested in others, but he didn’t tolerate anything that caught his eye.
That was Lyxion Luhanes, the official male lead of ‘The Saintess of Erendel’.
That Lyxion Luhanes was a blind date?
What was a blind date in the first place?
Wasn’t it a process in which men and women with the common goal of marriage meet, explore each other, and build a relationship?
Unless Lyxion Luhanes had gone mad or I had gone mad and was hallucinating, the man sitting before me couldn’t possibly be Lyxion Luhanes himself.
But the man before my eyes was definitely him. He had said so himself.
That silver hair and those blue eyes were like symbols of the Luhanes ducal family, and that inhumanely beautiful face didn’t exist twice in the world.
‘What? What’s going on?’
Did Michael give the Kristenner family’s territory as a dowry?
No, Lyxion Luhanes wasn’t the kind of man who would be swayed by something like that.
Then was it Empress Serena? She’s the only one who could move that man.
No, that’s not it either. I’ve never even met her in passing. Our family has no connection to the Luhanes ducal family in the first place.
‘What the hell did you do, Michael?’
My brother was a truly fearsome person.
I know that the Kristenner family has been at its peak ever since Michael became the head of the Kristenner family. It was thanks to Michael’s innate intelligence and fearsome that he had maximized the value of the family’s businesses and territory.
I wanted to run to the Kristenner Marquisate right now and grab Michael by the collar and shake him hard.
I knew.
No matter how pretty his face was or how polite he spoke and acted, a very brutal and fearsome monster lived within that beautiful shell.
The official male lead of ‘The Saintess of Erendel’, Lyxion Luhanes.
In the original story, he was a man incapable of loving anyone. All he had was that beautiful face and an insatiable possessiveness toward his partner.
When the woman he loved cried and begged to go home, he refused to let her go, and when she finally escaped and ran away, he relentlessly hunted her down and brought her back. As if that weren’t enough, he brutally murdered those who had helped her escape right before her eyes and then took her back again.
Thanks to the author’s madness, ‘The Saintess of Erendel’ was completed as an utterly cruel and desolate piece of work.
But then, but then…
‘Is he trying to hook up his only sister with this psychopath, Michael!?’
No matter how capable he was, that’s just too much! How could he possibly bring Lyxion Luhanes to a blind date, Michaeelll!
“Is there something on my face?”
The man who had captured the attention of everyone in the restaurant the moment he opened the door and stepped inside, including my own astounded gaze, asked as if he were curious.
Only then did I come to my senses and hurriedly replied, “Oh, no, I’m sorry.”
“It’s fine. I’m used to it.”
An unexpectedly courteous response came back.
I was taken aback. If that had been the man I knew from the original story, he wouldn’t have even asked why I was staring at his face in the first place. It would have been more like him to glare at me with disgust and gouge out my eyeballs.
I unconsciously raised my hand to rub my eyelids and let out a sigh of relief.
‘Whew, I’m safe.’
I guess he’s not going to go all out on me since I’m Kristenner’s precious sister.
After checking to make sure my eyeballs were intact, I stole another glance at Lyxion Luhanes. He was taking another sip of his tea when he sensed my gaze and met my eyes. In his amused eyes and the slight upturn of one corner of his mouth, I detected a strange sense of him treating me like an idiot.
Well, I suppose that’s understandable.
As soon as Lyxion Luhanes showed up, I stared at his face for a long time, as if I had lost my mind. When I finally opened my mouth, I stammered and stuttered. I couldn’t make proper eye contact, and I was flustered and at a loss for words at his every remark.
Even I thought I looked pathetic. So how could he not?
‘Ugh, this is so frustrating.’
I was just so surprised, so flustered. I only stuttered a little.
A hint of laughter was evident in his gaze and smile, and a wave of shame washed over me as my face flushed red. I tend to blush easily, so I’m sure my face was as red as a ripe apple by now.
‘He must think I like him. This is so humiliating… or rather, it’s not.’
No, no, it’s not. What am I even doing here? It doesn’t matter who he is. Or rather, I should stick to my original plan even more. My goal is to make such a bad impression on my blind date that he won’t even want to look at me again.
I was flustered and nervous because of the unexpected appearance of my blind date, but I finally pulled myself together. I was surprised, but it was actually easier if my blind date was Lyxion Luhanes. All I had to do was act annoyingly like I liked him.
‘The thing that annoys him the most is when people show interest in him and like him.’
That good looks, that background, that power. Everything about Lyxion Luhanes made it impossible for people not to covet and desire him.
Naturally, countless people were drawn to him and desperately tried to get close to him.
If I remember correctly from the backstory in the original story, he was often kidnapped and held captive when he was a powerless child. Lyxion Luhanes, who already had little interest in others and didn’t trust people, seemed to have come to despise humanity itself after growing up among such people.
So the solution to getting him to stop looking at me with that strange interest was simple.
“I apologize for being late. I’m Elizabeth Kristenner. I didn’t realize that my blind date would be the Duke, so I was a little surprised.”
I glanced at Lyxion Luhanes’s face with a shy smile.
“I’m sorry to say this, but I’m so happy that you’re here right now. I’ve always dreamed of meeting you like this. That’s why I feel like I’m walking in a dream right now.”
I twisted my body as if I couldn’t bear with how much I liked it. I didn’t forget to look at him, blinking my eyes too often.
I felt sick and almost gagged a few times in between, but I thought to myself, what woman in the world would do this in front of the person she likes? But it worked.
The eyes that had been watching me with interest until just now narrowed slightly.
And as I continued to speak, and as I acted in a way that clearly showed I was interested in him, his eyes gradually grew colder.
I didn’t know why this man was interested in me in the first place, but if I kept going this way, it seemed like it would be resolved soon.
His interest disappeared, and his annoying gaze stared at me blankly before he snorted.
That was the look.
“Oh, is that so?”
As expected!
As predicted, Lyxion Luhanes’s gaze and tone of voice changed completely.
We had only exchanged a few more words, but his icy eyes said that he could no longer bear my presence.
