I Was Given a Political Marriage

28 – Knights’ Oath (3)

Scarlett was a better talent than we thought.

When she swung her sword, enemies fell like autumn leaves, and she even showed off her eccentricity by carrying me on her back when climbing a mountain.

“Whoa, ha…! How far are you going? Is there a cave?”

“What, are you tired of this already? Heh… There are a lot of caves I’ve seen, so don’t worry.”

At the end of Scarlett’s India, we found a small cave.

The entrance is well hidden by trees, and the exit is in one place, so it is a perfect structure that cannot be attacked from behind.

She had been aiming for this place from the beginning.

“You knew in advance. Did you know there would be a test like this?”

“That’s… I’ve been looking around for something else.”

“Something else? Something suspicious.”

When Eileen, who was sharp, looked at me and pressed me, I turned it back to me.

And Scarlett looking at me and smiling broadly. At that moment, I could see why she knew the geography of the mountain so well.

‘The last time you asked me to run away…’

It’s a simple reasoning, but she probably memorized the geography that she would use if she ran away with me.

“Once that happened, go in quickly. Wait for them to set a trap.”

“Trap? Isn’t that too serious?”

“It’s just a simple alarm trap. And I have to work hard. Wouldn’t it give me a high grade?”

Regarding the grades, Eileen nodded as if she understood, agreeing with Scarlett’s opinion for the first time.

There was no enemy attack while helping to set up simple traps.

After safely completing their work, the three passed the time slowly in the cave.

“I’m bored… Ha, you mean if you just waste time like this, you’ll get a grade?”

“For this task, it’s important to just survive, so there’s nothing special to do.”

“I don’t know who thought it, but it’s a really annoying task.”

It was funny to see the three of them sitting side by side in a cave, but it was inevitable for victory.

Sitting down did hurt my back a bit, but it’s much better than dropping out and having a headache because of my grades.

“Right, I remember that there was a lake when I went inside… Do you want to go?”

“lake?”

I was intrigued by the fact that there is a lake inside the cave.

It’s a previous life, but if you look at something like an encyclopedia in your childhood, the lake in the cave was a mysterious space.

Numerous living creatures and their own ecosystems. If you are lucky, you may be able to emit a soft light in harmony with beautiful ores.

“Let’s go! I wanted to explore the cave.”

“Then I should go. How about that way?”

“I can’t be here when my fiancé goes.”

So the three of us lifted our heavy hips and slowly crawled into the cave.

Naturally, as you go inside, the light decreases and it gets darker.

I felt the hairs on my body stand on end at the eerie sensation, but I leaned on Scarlett’s back as she calmly walked in front of me.

Kwak.

“Eileen?”

Eileen was obviously the same as usual, but for some reason she was biting her lips and breaking out in a cold sweat.

‘Where are you sick?’

It’s unbelievable to suddenly feel sick when you didn’t have any prodromal symptoms.

The deeper I went into the cave, the more I could see him holding my hand tightly and trying hard not to fall.

“Is Eileen sick?”

“Actually… I’m weak in a small space.”

“Huh? Then, are you okay?”

Only now, the puzzles of all the cases have been put together and a masterpiece has been born.

claustrophobia.

A disease in which the body becomes heavy while complaining of discomfort when confined in a narrow place.

‘Then I have to leave quickly. Are you really going to be okay?’

“Scarlett, are you still far from the lake?”

“Hmm, there’s still a lot more distance than I thought… Will it be okay?”

Aileen, who was taken aback by the word that there was a lot of distance left, seemed to be thinking about something, as if she knew that it would be difficult for her to endure.

“Okay. Xian, go first.”

“What should I do… No, can I go back alone?”

“The way back is fine. And he said he wanted to see the lake… So have a good trip.”

“thank you.”

Eileen didn’t like the fact that the two of them were moving together, but she decided to send Xian anyway.

‘I want to see you like that. You can’t stop it.’

I decided to close my eyes just this time, hoping that the person I like would do what he wanted to do as much as possible.

“But, you know if you get caught doing something weird, right?”

flinch! Xian flinched at Eileen’s words.

He nodded and reassured Eileen.

‘Please don’t do anything.’

Eileen, who wants to be with her, but slowly goes back down the road with a sad heart.

Each step was heavy, but what weighed more than that was the heart.

‘draft… I will believe Please don’t let me down.’

I felt like I was entrusting the fish even though I knew it was a cat, but I comforted myself thinking that I would give it one last chance.

While Eileen was walking for a while. I feel something moving along with the vibration that I feel on the soles of my feet.

“What is it? An earthquake?”

Kurur, bang! Aileen ducked to the car and avoided the stone.

I felt chills all over my body thinking that I had just died.

But more important is the location of the stone. The problem was that the stone that had just fallen behind her was rather large and blocked the road.

“Oh, my God…”

***

The two of them let Eileen go and walk together. They were walking side by side, matching each other’s pace.

“Hmm? Something vibrates…”

“What did you feel?”

“No, that’s not it, did you not feel something under your feet?”

Since the distance was quite far, it was difficult to feel the vibration unless it was a sensitive knight like Scarlett.

Naturally, Xian couldn’t feel it, so he calmly went deeper into the cave.

“Keuheum, Xian… Since you don’t have a fiancée, would you like to hold our hands?”

“Hands? Uh, um… Do you want to hold them?”

“huh.”

Scarlett, who looked closely at the fact that Xian and Eileen were holding hands.

He quietly asked Xian as if he was envious of such skinships or ashamed.

“Then where do you grab it?”

“really?”

“Well, they said they would protect today. Then, shall we see our knight’s sincerity?”

Xian held out her hand in an old-fashioned way, and Scarlett watched as if she were looking at God.

He then lowered his head and took his hand. The warm and soft touch of your hand.

A soft, small hand different from his own.

“You made it really special because you worked hard today.”

“…thank you.”

Xian had been trembling in front of Aileen until yesterday. After he disappeared, he began to return to his original state.

But Scarlett, who didn’t know that, just felt like she was going to die of happiness at this moment.

It was because he could legally go on a date alone without his fiancee.

‘Would you like to see the lake? How hard I searched.’

Actually, I was going to hide here while running away, but my plans changed considerably.

“Now we’re almost there. If we go down from here…!”

Fire!

As they entered the road that looked like an entrance, a wind that they could not feel in a closed place greeted them.

It wasn’t completely open because it was a cave, but it was because there was a small hole in the ceiling like a breathing hole.

“Wow… is this really inside a cave?”

A small light leaked from a small crack in the ceiling and softly illuminated the lake inside the cave.

The lake wasn’t very deep, but the water was clear and the soft light was reflected.

There were no fish, so it just stayed calm and increased its beauty.

“Are you satisfied with this?”

“what…”

“Let’s get in the water and play.”

Scarlett runs to the lake, leading Xian by the hand.

Then throw him into the water and drown him.

Fuhuaak! As he jumped in, the water splashed like a fountain.

“Tweet…! What are you doing, Scarlett!”

“Move away! I’m going in too!”

Scarlett threw off her armor in an instant and plunged her body directly into the water.

“Whoa~ It’s cool!”

“It’s cool, huh, it’s fortunate that it’s a cave. If it was outside, I would have frozen to death, right?”

“It’s okay though. Take this!”

Scarlett just laughed and started playing in the water.

Not to be outdone by that, Xian dived into the water to avoid the water and slowly approached her legs like a piranha in the Amazon River.

“Fall!”

“Wow?! Fu, Fueh! I just slept and water got in my nose…!”

“You lose to men too? Didn’t Scarlett actually be a failing student?”

Cyan and Scarlett smiled meanly, putting their hands to their lips, and after seeing that nasty look, sprinkled water again and joked with each other.

The water is cold, but the two of them play non-stop to see if they have adapted to the temperature.

After that, Xian’s shoulders start to sag.

“Shall we stop now…? Seueueup, it’s a bit cold.”

“Your body is wet, so it’s good to dry it off soon. Let’s go outside and make a fire.”

It was the moment when the two of them were going back to the narrow road to go back after playing a lot in the lake.

Obviously, even though it went back as it came in, a wall that wasn’t there originally was created.

At first, they wandered around, wondering if they had come to the wrong place, but soon they felt that something was wrong.

“Uh, what should I do…”

“Sue… Scarlett, isn’t it a bit cold now?

‘It was a big deal. If I knew it was blocked like this, I wouldn’t have played in the lake!’

Wet clothes, of course, quickly take away a person’s body temperature.

Moreover, the weather right before winter arrives, not even summer.

The moment the body temperature started to be taken away in the cave where sunlight did not shine, the two intuition that a big problem had occurred.