Ｐ𝕖є𝕜Ⓘᶰ𝑔 ίภŦσ т𝐡Ẹ ᖴยＴ𝔲𝐑𝕖 | L.K Adaptation

C17

"What? Jungkook is here now?"

Lisa was startled by her maid's message. This was because, unlike herself, who came and went easily, Jungkook came only after obtaining permission before visiting her mansion.

"Where is he? Take me to him. Wait, no. Can you bring Jungkook over here? Let me prepare some tea."

"To my lady's room? Yes...... All right."

Lisa and Jungkook would often be in each other's rooms together. The lady was still a girl who was in talks to be engaged, so the maid thought she should pay more attention to these issues. However, the lady did not yet officially have a fiancé, and Count Deborah and Countess Deborah also trusted him, so she erased her worries and obeyed Rachel's order.

"Jungkook, sit this way."

Perhaps he came in a hurry, but Jungkook looked disheveled as he sat down at a table with warm tea with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"I'm sorry."

"......."

Jungkook apologized to her. It was too short a sentence to resolve the confusion of everything in the past, but his deep voice was overflowing with remorse. I was begging Lisa sincerely for forgiveness.

Lisa didn't bring her story right away, but took a sip of tea to calm her muffled mind.

"Jungkook, why...... should you be sorry. Rather, it is me who should apologize. I was too frivolous, right? It's a sensitive issue for you, but went ahead with my own plans....... Well, I thought you'd like it, stupidly. I'm sorry for doing it without asking you just because I'm your friend."

Lisa lowered her head and offered her apology. Did Jungkook know how nervous she was during this time without him, and how she felt like a pathetic child? Her self-reflection made her burst into sad tears from her eyes, which always seemed to be full of joy.

"Lisa, no. Not at all."

Jungkook hurriedly left his seat at her tears, which he had not seen for a long time, and ran to her. Bending over to one of his knees, he made eye contact with her. He cautiously reached out to her hand, fearing that if he touched her, she might leave and fly away like a spore. Lisa did not refuse Jungkook's soothing hand which gently wiped away her tears. Jungkook has to stop his urge to lick away her tears.

"You don't know how happy I am that you made such a gift for me."

Just thinking about Lisa, who would have made the magic potion while thinking of him, Jungkook couldn't stand Lisa because she was lovely.

"...... But why then, in the meantime......."

"......."

"Jungkook?"

When she asked why he had unilaterally avoided her, Jungkook quietly kissed the back of her delicate hand without saying a word. Although it was a common greeting with courtesy to a Lady, Lisa couldn't dismiss the it as a simple meaningless act, because of the intense heat that was transmitted through the back of her hand which puzzled her. She had been kissed many times, but it was the first time in her life she had ever felt this way.

"The future me that I saw through the magic potion didn't become the cool knight you hoped for."

"What? No way!"

Lisa retorted that absolutely could not have happened. She fully believed in the potion's powers. So then, did she make a mistake in the process of making it herself?

One of the ingredients in the magic potion was the golden powder extracted from the antennae of Rapha, a highly hallucinatory monster that could not be separated without great insight. And it also contained ingredients that induced the user to create illusions that happen through dreams as if they were real without any doubt.

Until she told him the truth, Jungkook believed that he had gone to the future. That means that there was no choice but to say that there was a problem in the process of bringing out the desire in the deep unconscious.

'So I gave Jungkook a terrible memory instead of a dream.......'

Lisa's face turned white. Jungkook didn't become a knight. He told me calmly, but how vividly he must have tasted failure during those desperate times. She couldn't even imagine how confused hr must have been when he later learned the truth about her potion and how resentful he must have been for causing this to happen.

"Jungkook, I'm so sorry. I must have made a mistake. You, you are someone who will be a great knight no matter what......."

"Lisa."

Jungkook's heart ached again at the sight of her crying out of guilt with tears dripping down. He stretched out his bent knees, wrapping his big hands around her wet cheeks. With his hands on her cheeks, he broke through her flower like red lips to share each other's warmth.

"...... Jungkook?"

"I'm sorry I kissed you."

At the sudden kiss, Lisa stopped crying and tried to figure out what was inside his blue eyes. Excessive contact, which was usually not done to stop someone from crying, was not something he would normally do. This was an act absolutely rude enough to slap him on the cheek right now.