63 – Each other’s sincerity
As soon as he confirmed that Edgar had entered, a look of bewilderment was clearly visible on Ariel’s face.
“… Why are you here, you idiot? If you have any idea, why don’t you come today.”
“I came to tell you something. Besides, when did I care about your circumstances?”
“Chit, anyway, you can’t even hear what I’m saying.”
Edgar wondered why she was saying what he wanted to say, but it wasn’t particularly wrong, so he went over to the empty seat and sat down without refuting it.
“I didn’t tell you to sit down.”
“To leave your friend standing still? Very tight, you too.”
“Chit.”
Ariel knew better than anyone that he wouldn’t wake up with a twist like this at most.
When she turned her head with a slight click on her tongue, Edgar lowered his gaze slightly and remained silent before opening his mouth a beat later.
“That candy, the effect lasts until tomorrow?”
“Did you come knowing that? You really have a bad personality.”
“Has my personality been bad for a day or two?”
To Edgar, who replied with a cheeky grin, Ariel said, ‘I’m proud of it, very.’ He said to his face, and once again cast a sarcasm.
‘What the hell did he come for?’
Ariel had a chimney-like desire to leave the room at once and escape, but for some reason, her feet couldn’t come off.
Maybe it’s because I don’t have time to pay attention to anything else because I’m still in the middle of the day. Ariel alone guessed that.
“The moon has risen so beautifully today. is not it?”
Meanwhile, Edgar, who got up from his seat and headed toward the balcony, let out a low exclamation as he saw the round moon rising.
A line that would normally have felt casual.
But today, Ariel thought it was a way to divert the topic, glared at him with eyes that didn’t seem funny and said in a sharp tone.
“Pretending to be lucky. You don’t even care like me.”
“Sometimes there are days like this. Would you like to come and see?”
“It’s okay, so let’s get out. I am sleepy and want to sleep.”
Still, the fortunate thing about Ariel was that, unlike right after eating the candy earlier, it was quite comfortable to spit out the words at will.
If I don’t deal with him as much as I can, he’ll get fed up and leave the room.
Contrary to that thought, Ariel stabbed Edgar with cold words on the outside, contrary to her true intention of wanting to stand next to him.
“… … .”
“What, what? What is your reaction?”
When Edgar, who would normally have trembled and replied as before, stared at Ariel without saying anything, she felt strange and shrank.
In response, Edgar trudged toward her without even replying, and then stretched his hand behind Ariel’s neck and bent over himself. Then,
“It’s okay.”
With his hand tucked behind his knee, he balanced the force and lifted her up with all his might.
“What, what are you doing, you idiot!”
“If you don’t come, I will take you. Is the moon very bright today?”
“Noisy! Didn’t you wonder! Put this down!”
He said so, but there was no strength in the hand to hit him.
Edgar took that as a sign of acceptance and walked to the balcony with a grin and hugging Ariel.
“Can I hold you like this? Will you come down smoothly?”
“… Hey, that’s annoying.”
Ariel knew full well that he wasn’t weak enough to pant if he held her for a moment.
In the end, even if she chooses the former with a burning desire for revenge, it means that she will sink in reverse with the shame and shame of being held by him.
“Okay, put it down. See how bright it is.”
When Ariel admitted defeat and asked to be put down, Edgar smiled mischievously and carefully put her down to the ground without a moment’s hesitation.
“It’s good to hear when you say that.”
“… Do you want to die?”
“Hey, it’s okay, but that’s a bit… … !”
Hwareuk. As a flame rose violently from Ariel’s hand, Edgar hurriedly stopped her and appealed.
Ariel also extinguished the flames with a snort because she didn’t really show off the fireworks and it was only for threats.
Then he gave his gaze to the moon, then turned his head to Edgar again and brought up the main topic.
“So, what is your reason for coming?”
“I’ve been looking at the moon at most, so I don’t have any taste, do I really have to ask the main topic?”
“That’s your problem, not mine? quit if you don’t like it You will sleep really well.”
“Ehh, how can I beat you?”
Edgar didn’t even think that she would wait patiently for him to waste time like this.
In the end, he turned around as Ariel requested and opened his mouth as calmly as possible while facing her properly.
“Ariel, how many years have you and I known each other?”
“Two years… No, to be precise, did you say that you saw him from around 8 months after he was born? It must have been 17 years.”
Unlike Edgar, Ariel couldn’t clearly remember their first meeting, so she calculated the time based on the story she heard from Helen and answered.
“Seventeen years… If it’s long, it’s long, if it’s short, it’s short.”
“It was long for me. I don’t know how you are.”
“why?”
“Anyway, it was long. Why do you ask the reason in a nasty way?”
When Ariel said it in a snap, Edgar nodded moderately while laughing without trying to ask further.
17 years. Certainly, as he said, if it was short, it was short, and if it was long, it was a long time.
However, one thing is certain, that it was enough time for them to change their gaze and change their emotions.
Edgar thought for a while, recalling the many things he had experienced with Ariel.
Going to the mountain with her and having a hard time meeting a wild boar, burying a time capsule together, and spending the night looking at the stars together.
At the time, even what I felt was a page of ordinary, ordinary life, only things that were so clear when I looked back over time.
“Do you remember? The thing you told me about ‘the story of a star’.”
“Well, why are you asking all of a sudden? You didn’t tell me in detail in the first place.”
“Well, I just said there was such a thing. I said the wrong thing.”
The story she told while lying on the shed in the backyard of the Billhark family garden and watching the falling stars.
At the time, Edgar didn’t know why he hadn’t told the story in detail, or what the meaning of the story had made her, who had no interest in stars, come to like them.
But if you think about it now, wouldn’t that be a really simple and easy reason?
“Actually, I heard from Mrs. Helene. What is the story about?”
“what? heard… Dany?”
Ariel, dazed for a moment, asked again with her eyes wide open.
Helen herself, who told the story of the star, nailed it as a story that could only be told to two people in her life.
But how could Edgar hear that from Helen? It didn’t make sense.
Edgar, noticing Ariel’s question, raised one corner of his mouth and placed his hand on her head.
Is it his misunderstanding that his hair, which he has always stroked without much thought, feels particularly soft today?
“Of course, I didn’t hear the contents. When I helped a little with something that happened to your family in the past, I got a glimpse of what symbolism it had.”
Edgar didn’t think much of it at the time.
It was because he was in a hurry to solve the problem in front of him, and he was bored even knowing that ‘The Story of a Star’ is a story that can only be told to two people in a lifetime.
However, for him now, the fact that Ariel only told him about his existence, even if not all of the contents of ‘The Story of the Star’, was a big clue.
Perhaps it was the confession of a lifetime that a young girl, who was only 10 years old at most, endured shyness and expressed her courage.
‘It might be a delusion, but.’
Edgar had never thought that Ariel would see him as a member of the opposite sex.
However, in other words, even a small change in the direction of her thoughts can lead to a different view of the landscape and her words and actions.
“Of course I don’t know what you really think of me. Maybe now all my guesses are nonsensical delusions, and you may slap me on the cheek right now.”
“… … .”
Ariel finally understood what the man was trying to say, and looked straight into his eyes while remaining silent.
what a stupid man
Do you notice it now? Come and look back now.
Isn’t it too late at the latest? Even though I know better than anyone how much I hate people who can’t be on time.
“But you haven’t always been honest. Even if I said it this way, it seemed like he would just try to escape somehow.”
“… Right, you are wrong. you stupid.”
Ariel, who had come to understand her heart, hated him so much that Ariel scolded him, spitting out words that were not in her heart.
Edgar recognized that it was time to take out the secret weapon he had been hiding from Ariel’s actions, and put his hand into the bosom of his coat.
Eventually, Edgar, who had picked up the item he wanted, spread out his palm and proudly presented it to Ariel, and her eyes shook violently.
A small pink candy that shines like a piece of star in the night sky that we looked up together that day and boasts its majesty.
It was also a cheeky thing that constantly bothered Ariel throughout the day.
“That… What are you going to do?”
“just. To play a joke that I do every time.”
Edgar also came here after thinking a lot.
And in the process, I asked myself questions and thought about what I wanted to achieve the most in the finale.
Do you want to be a lover with her?
Of course, that would be the best happy ending, but it wasn’t the most primitive thing he wanted.
All he wants is
‘I want to hear Ariel’s sincerity.’
her current heart.
Even if you liked him in the past, you may have changed your mind as you grew up.
That’s why I’m just curious about how he thinks of himself in front of him right now, and whether his heart is the same as his own.
That’s why I brought this candy.
Was the sweet whisper she conveyed to him today just a lie due to the effect of a candy, or was it the sincerity she conveyed with a lie covered?
Because he thought this was the only way to hear the truth without a single lie from her who was not honest.
“… … !?”
“The taste is good. Are you sure it tastes like something you’ll like?”
Edgar threw the pink candy that was rolling out of his hand into his mouth.
Ariel, who was watching this, was so surprised that he couldn’t say anything, and stared at him with his mouth wide open.
‘I don’t feel anything special.’
I thought Ariel’s body would undergo a tremendous upheaval because of her appearance, but surprisingly, Edgar did not change anything.
Could it be that there are individual differences from person to person?
It didn’t matter much to him anyway, since this was just a justification.
tight.
“Hey, why are you doing this all of a sudden? let this go… … !”
Ariel struggled as if trying to escape while muttering in a brusque tone at the act of eating the candy and hugging herself without saying anything.
“If you want to let go, you can get out. I didn’t have any strength at all.”
“… dummy.”
Are those words true or false?
It was a fact that Edgar couldn’t understand, but at this point it didn’t matter either way.
What he was going to say from now on was something he wanted to hear even more swearing at.
“I might have expected it if I had told you this far, but… I love you, Ariel.”
“… … .”
“Even though I don’t know how you feel. But even if I never see you again after tonight, I wanted to tell you this.”
Edgar felt her body tremble in his arms.
It wasn’t because the night air in Hespania was especially cold today, or it wasn’t just because she got cold a lot.
Ariel, who had been listening to his confession on a moonlit night with her face buried in his chest, belatedly opened her mouth in a sullen tone.
“… dummy. There is no mood, no style, what kind of confession is this?”
in a more romantic place.
In a slightly more plausible mood.
Even if you roll your head a little, there will be many situations that will be a hundred times better than now.
What the hell is this man going to say in such an ordinary place and situation?
However, even in the midst of this, the thing he hated the most was himself.
How can I be so excited about this confession, which is just a calm encounter with my true heart, without beautiful rhetoric or sweet embellishments?
Was she such an easy woman?
No, maybe it’s because he’s this guy.
Because he was a man who always sharpened his gaps.
“I thought there would be a mood if the moon was up, am I wrong?”
“Wrong. Even if it’s wrong, it’s been a long time since I’ve been wrong.”
He said that he would have to teach him from now on, and that he was embarrassed that he confessed with such a short thought.
Ariel again poured out words that were not in her heart and poured out criticism towards him.
Edgar, who had been silently listening to this, smiled mischievously, removed her from his arms for a moment, and bent down slightly to meet her gaze.
If the previous confession was just an outpost, from now on, it was the beginning of a real prank to hear her heart.
“Now, it’s your turn. Ariel.”
“It’s my turn… ? Heh, you should be grateful if I just accepted it. Do you really want to hear that I love you?”
I heard the confession anyway, so the moment Ariel was about to open her mouth obediently, thinking that it wouldn’t matter, Edgar instead shook her head slightly, blocking it with her hand.
“That would be fine, but… To be precise, I want to know whether what you did to me today was sincere or because of the candy.”
“That, that’s it, of course it’s because of the candy! If not, how could I act like that to someone like you… … !”
Since she couldn’t bear to tell the truth, Ariel reacted sensitively, startled.
As expected, Edgar also expected that he wouldn’t give an easy answer, but the reaction was more intense than expected.
However, I didn’t care too much. I ate that candy just in case something like this would happen.
“Is it okay if I come out like that?”
“What, what?”
“The effect of the candy I just ate. You said it with your own mouth.”
“effect… … ?”
Ariel blinked blankly at the sudden story and tilted her head.
The effect of the candy she lied to Edgar.
Obviously ‘the effect of making up and spitting out words that are not even in the heart.’ I said.
And the candy Edgar just ate must be the same.
That means… … .
“You, you… … !?”
“Now, what do you do?”
“This idiot… ! Where in the world is this kind of confession… … !”
Ariel’s eyes widened at the reality she realized belatedly, and her hands and feet trembled.
Edgar is actually taking advantage of the lies she has told her today.
‘As expected, the candy was the problem!’
If Ariel doesn’t express her sincerity here out of embarrassment, he jokes, ‘I lied about the candy too.’ I’m going to talk about her intentions.
Even if Ariel knew the true effect of the candy, she couldn’t spit it out directly into her mouth.
Telling the truth is like revealing that all the humiliating words and actions that I had done to him all day were sincere.
Either way, she has to convey her true feelings to see the end of this unpleasant play.
“How are you, Ariel? I want to hear it from your mouth.”
“Eww… … !”
Ariel drooled as she poured all sorts of curses inside herself at the man who had just confessed her sweet love.
The confessions she had seen in novels or plays had a more affectionate, caressing atmosphere, so why did she end up in this situation?
But it didn’t make sense to let go of this confession.
She had been waiting for this situation with some kind of heart.
“Well, if you’re that curious… I think I might be able to tell you.”
He must have confessed anyway, so it was like winning the game against him.
Acknowledging and accepting Haru’s disgraceful behavior would be enough for the sake of the cause.
That’s why it was a last word with pride, but even in such a serious situation, this bastard always touched her heart.
“what? Can’t you hear me well?”
“Chi… … !”
I heard it clearly I listened carefully, and I even saw them smile softly!
The desire to scream like that was like a chimney, but in this situation Ariel was Eul.
Unless she has the courage to confront him with her heartfelt words, this fixation will continue.
Ariel looked up at the nasty man’s face with a heartbroken expression.
Even in this situation, I didn’t like that funny smile.
At the very least, it seemed that this directness would be resolved only if I somehow gave it a shot.
Swoop.
When she suddenly grabbed Edgar’s necktie, he turned his head away with a smile on his face, probably recognizing that he was ready to talk.
But what awaited him there was nothing like a girl’s sincere words.
“What is it, now I feel like answering… town!?”
‘Fool, idiot, Ed.’
As it was, Ariel pulled Edgar’s tie and stood up a little to meet eye level.
At that moment, their lips met and their shadows overlapped.
It wasn’t that kind of dense and sticky adult rapport that mixes tongue to tongue.
However, her actions are enough to convey the sincerity of a girl that she has not been able to convey until now and all the inside stories of today.
Could it be because of the candy he put in his mouth a while ago?
Ariel’s first kiss in her life faintly smelled of fresh strawberries.
Before long, their lips parted, and Ariel’s red eyes stared straight at him without an inch of error, bathed in moonlight.
As if Edgar was now his own, as if he were trying to carve the mark into his golden eyes.
“You don’t even know what a big deal you did.”
“… What else have I done wrong?”
“then. Are you sure?”
She had only confessed once, and Edgar, whose crimes had suddenly increased, responded as if it were absurd, but her eyes as she shrugged her shoulders were clear and unwavering.
Ariel walked towards the obstacle and enjoyed the cool night breeze all over her body, then turned around and put her index finger on her lips.
Edgar had never seen her bewitching smile.
It felt like a dream horse trying to seduce the prey in front of it.
“Because it made me unbearable. Now you can’t get away from me even if you hate it.”
I’ll make you feel that the times when I wasn’t honest must have been fun.
“Please, treat yourself well. My stupid sweetheart.”
Hearing the true feelings she had been hiding so calmly, Edgar involuntarily thought with a wry smile.
Maybe he fell in love with a really outrageous woman.
If they become lovers, then why did they have a master-servant relationship in prologue?