Chapter 121 – Then kiss me as much as you’re sorry.
Chapter 119
Before returning to Estelle and the duchy, I asked Alicia.
“Alicia, didn’t the demon king command anything?”
In case I was being honest, I deliberately showed the holy sword. Then, Alicia spoke in surprise.
“Hey!! Oh no!!! If there was, I would have said it sooner!”
“Really?”
“Gee, it’s real! Really!! I’m as scared of Estelle as you are, would I lie!?”
“Okay.”
You wouldn’t have lied under these circumstances. I believed Alicia’s words and inserted her holy sword.
“Celine, if Alicia tells me anything, please let me know right away.”
“Yes, I will. Be careful, warrior.”
“Yes.”
Estelle handed Celine the key to her inn, she said.
“I told the innkeeper that Alicia is her sister. She should be able to treat Celine similarly.”
But when Celine heard that, she tilted her head.
“A younger sister?…You shouldn’t have said a daughter, saintess.”
“Daughter!?”
“That suits me better…”
“I-I haven’t even gotten married yet!?”
“That’s right.”
Easily affirming, Celine nodded her head and took Alicia’s hand. Seeing Celine like that, Estelle screamed loudly.
“Don’t make fun of me, Celine!!”
“Puha, I got caught. Let’s run away, Alicia.”
“Ugh, huh?”
Heh heh, it’s fun.
As I saw Celine and Alicia walking away, I said to Estelle.
“We go back too. Again tomorrow…”
“Before that, you have work to do, Abel. Did you already forget~♡”
“What?”
Is there anything else I need to do? When she tilted her head because she didn’t know, Estelle said with her characteristic cheeky eye smile.
“You idiot♡”
“…What is it?”
“You decided to go on a date with the person you’ll be staying with♡ You said there was no swordsmanship class today, right?”
“Ah.”
You want to do it now? As I looked at her with those eyes, Estelle nodded her head lightly.
“You have to have fun♡”
“I will try.”
To have fun playing with me… To be honest, I don’t know that kind of thing, so I’m not confident. But….
I asked, carefully holding Estelle’s hand.
“Ah…”
“For now, this must be basic, right?”
“…That, I don’t know~♡”
I have to work hard.
#
I took Estelle to various places in Bonaparte City. The city of Bonaparte was so developed and huge that there were many suitable places for a date here and there.
“Estel, shall we go over there?”
“Yes~♡”
I was worried that it might not be fun, but it was fortunate that Estelle looked happy too. She felt my gaze and glanced back at me.
“What’s wrong, Abel~?”
“…Oh, no.”
I almost twitched at the corner of my mouth when I saw her smiling briskly. Because it’s really pretty…
The place I asked Estelle to go to was a plaza full of people. I thought I was doing something, so I said let’s go…
“Oh, is it a performance?”
I wondered why people were so crowded, and they were performing on the street. A clown dressed in ridiculous makeup and a man wearing a mask were making people laugh by making slapstick jokes.
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A man dressed as a clown fell down while making exaggerated gestures. I don’t know if that was an intentional gesture, but it succeeded in making people laugh out loud.
Estel, who was next to me, also said with a light laugh.
“Aha! He is like Abel.”
“…Yes?”
“Don’t you remember? In the beginning, Abel fell like that. At that time, I must have caught the goblin…”
“That, that was when we first met!”
“Right. Abel was really cute back then.”
…Do you still remember that time? I honestly don’t even remember. There were so many things, and it was a trivial thing that happened more than 5 months ago.
Does Estelle remember everything that happened with me?
“Estel. You know when I first caught a kobold.”
“Yes.”
“Where did I get hurt then?”
“Shoulder. You got an arrow in her left shoulder. It was only for kobolds♡ If you think about it now, Abel was pretty crappy at that time~♡”
…I remember it well.
“You remember everything.”
“I remember everything that happened with Abel♡”
“…Why?”
“Yes?”
I asked her.
“Even if I forgot something trivial, no one would say anything.”
“…That’s right. But to me…It’s nothing small.”
“Yes?”
“How trivial are the memories with Abel. They are all precious memories to me.”
“…I honestly didn’t remember all of them.”
“It’s okay. Abel is an idiot, so I will understand~♡”
“Ha ha…”
As expected, I feel sorry for Estelle. I shouldn’t keep doing things I’m sorry for like this… Even if I feel sorry for Elfriede and Elena, would it be right to just leave them as they are? After all, that’s their life…
“Abel.”
“Yes?”
“Go ahead with what you have already decided to do.”
…Isn’t this enough to read my thoughts?
“…It’s something Estelle doesn’t want.”
“It’s okay. I don’t like it a bit, but it’s because I like Abel who acts like that.”
“…….”
…Now I get it. How much the excess person was liking me. How I fell short of the attention she gave me.
I slightly lifted her hands, which were clasped together.
“I’m sorry.”
“Why are you apologizing, Abel? It’s not like you♡”
“I just feel like… I do too much to be sorry for.”
“You know what?”
Ugh.
Estelle smiled and then pointed to her lips and said.
“Then, as much as I’m sorry, kiss me.”
“…You can do it a hundred times.”
“…Did you do that much to feel sorry for me?”
“No, I’m kidding.”
Estel took me out of the square. And she went into an alley that was sparsely populated.
“Estel?”
“Do it here. Aren’t you a little embarrassed in a place with a lot of people?”
“…Can I do as much as I want?”
“Yes~♡”
Estelle put her hands behind her back and held her head up, her eyes closed. Her eyelashes, neatly laid down, were very pretty. Her pointed nose and pink lips were still attractive.
I cautiously kissed her lips briefly. As her lips touched and parted, Estelle raised the corner of her mouth slightly.
Of course, I didn’t intend to end it once. But this time, he kissed her blushing cheeks lovingly. Estelle opened her eyes slightly, probably because she felt the touch somewhere other than her lips.
“… Huh?”
While Estelle tilted her head, she lowered her head again. This time over her forehead, then over her cheeks and lips again, she ran her hand through her hair and down her neck.
“What’s wrong, Abel…?”
Side, and kissed her neck heavily. This person was mine, and left a thick mark as if to engrave it.
Then he raised his head again and covered Estelle’s lips. She eagerly covets her lips, then she slowly sticks out her tongue and mixes hers with hers.
Estelle, naturally, untied her hands from behind her back, lifted her toes, and hung her arms around my neck as if hanging on. I grabbed her tight waist and slowly parted her lips.
I stared into her eyes as if asking permission. Estelle then spoke as she exhaled her slightly heated breath.
“More…&”
#
Abel and Estelle got out of the alley and tidied up their clothes. Their faces were incomparably more red than when they entered the alley.
What the hell did they do? The two of them were breathing heavily and were sweating. Estelle’s legs were also shaking slightly.
“…Estel, should we go back now?”
“…Yeah, yeah.”
Estelle answered while wiping her sweat with her hands. Without thinking, she raised her head, then she noticed something and slightly widened her eyes.
“… Huh?”
“Why is that?”
“Abel, hey…it looks a little tough.”
Estelle pointed her hand somewhere around her, and Abel turned her gaze in the direction Estelle pointed. Estelle was simply pointing at men whimpering and carrying something into an alleyway, but Abel saw it differently.
“That…”
Abel saw clearly. Something on the forearm of a man struggling to move a heavy cart. It might have looked like a simple tattoo, but Abel had already seen it before.
That’s…
“…Why are they here?”
When she was chasing the distribution route of the metamorphic magic stone in Athens, it was the pattern she saw then. When Abel’s reaction was strange, she asked Estelle to ask him.
“Why is that?”
“…These are the guys I saw in Athens. The patterns on the body are the same.”
“…See that?”
“Yes?…Yes, I can see it.”
Estelle roughly estimated the distance between the alley the men were entering and where they were.
‘…I can see it from here? Did the divine power affect Abel’s body too much?’
Estelle put that thought aside for now and asked Abel.
“…By the way, the gang I saw in Athens…They were the ones distributing metamorphic stones, right?”
“Yes, it has the same pattern on it.”
“Then the cart you just entered is…”
A gang of people who were distributing the Metamorphic Stones I saw in Athens appeared here. That fact pointed to one thing.
The fact that ‘variant magic stones are being circulated in Bonaparte City’.
“How the hell are these guys here? Did you sneak in like you did in Athens?”
Estelle tilted her head slightly at Abel’s question.
“…I can’t do that.”
“Yes?”
“The city of Bonaparte is directly managed by the Bathory family. If the metamorphic stones were being illegally distributed here, the duke who saw and received everything directly would not have known…”
“Estel, that means…”
There’s no way Duke Bathory didn’t know. That meant only one thing.
“Duke Bathory…!”
Variation stone. It was a terrible thing that could turn normal humans into monsters. Whether the duke led its distribution or neglected it… Either way, it was unforgivable.
Estelle quietly whispered to Abel who frowned at her.
“…There’s a third way.”
“Yes?”
“I must go out often even after I return to the duchy.”
Estelle smiled at Abel and said.
“This, we secretly investigate.”