208 – Lane’s sincerity
I stare blankly at the white torch burning.
Then, at the timing that 20 minutes must have passed by this point, I slowly got up and looked at the sky.
“what?”
I immediately doubted my eyes.
In fact, there were several times when my sense of time basically became a little strange when I hit a bruise.
by the way… .
“Isn’t this serious?”
Looking at the sky, I saw the sun passing through the middle and heading east, so at least the appointment time had passed.
I was planning on only bruising for about 20 minutes, but I overexpected it too much.
Real life doesn’t work out the way I want.
“Ooh… !! My leg hurts.”
“Yeah, no matter how clean it was, it couldn’t be helped because it didn’t change the fact that it was sitting on a hard, bare floor.”
If it was natural for Hestia to feel pain in her legs as she was sitting down rather than just stretching her legs out, it would be natural.
Hestia, who had been sitting for the first time, collapsed while trying to stand up, but then slowly stood up holding onto a pillar on the wall.
Bubbly Bubbly!!
“… … Ryan, help.”
“Ehh.”
Hestia’s legs, which had stopped blood flow after sitting for a long time, seemed to have difficulty even standing up, so she clung to the wall and asked for help while clinging to the wall like a newborn calf.
It can’t be helped that it’s already too late
In my heart, I want to go there as soon as possible, but I can’t leave Hestia in this state.
“Isn’t it more comfortable to lift?”
“yes.”
Without hesitation, Hestia leaned on my back and stretched her arms around my neck.
Wouldn’t it be better to leave it at the academy’s dorm?
“Take him.”
I was just thinking about what to do with Hestia for a moment, but Hestia came up from behind with her thin arms wrapped around my neck.
“Take me too!”
Do you do mind reading?
When I looked at Hestia’s face hanging from my neck, she looked at me with sparkling eyes, perhaps out of personal curiosity rather than out of jealousy like the other kids.
“… Why don’t we just go into the room and have a fire bruise?”
“Aphrodite’s fire bruising is important, but it’s a drama of love. It would be more fun than anything else in a situation where the majority of people are jealous of polygamy and polygamy, so I told them to go and see it. Bring popcorn and a drink if possible.”
The goddamn bitch?
I admit that chijeonggeuk is fun. Honestly, there’s nothing more fun than that from a third person’s point of view.
But now that I’m in the position I’m in, I’m not usually pissed off.
“Aphrodite told me to go no matter what.”
… Aphrodite is that goddess.
A goddess with a very strange name, ‘I don’t want men to sleep’.
There were a lot of problems with the name, but there was also a problem with the head.
Of course, compared to a bitch like Neiros, she’s pretty smart.
“But are you really going to follow me?”
“yes!!!”
Hestia smiled brightly and said that she would follow me to the chaos.
No, to be honest… Will there be a chaos until then?
Lane tends to be a bit jealous, but not to the point where she’s just obsessed with me and dramatically separates herself from women.
If he was that obsessive, he would have hated anything related to Minel or Neros.
“Then isn’t it a mess?”
“It won’t be.”
no… I guess?
Yes, he did show jealousy sometimes, but it wasn’t too much, and most importantly, since Lane was also a noble, the part about polygamy would be quite acceptable.
If it was the second daughter of the count’s family, there would have been a talk about it unconditionally.
Saying that, I walked to the meeting place, but what the hell is this cheap feeling?
“… No, this isn’t just a feeling, is it magical power?”
It was only after the sudden hair stood up straight that a chill broke out all over her body, and she belatedly realized that the identity of this uneasy feeling was caused by magical power, and she began to feel uneasy in a different sense from the increasing concentration of magical power.
To the all-too-familiar magic.
At first I was also in denial.
However, the closer we got to the promised place, the stronger the wave of magical energy informed us that the truth we didn’t want to believe was real.
How much mana did he scatter?
I unconsciously turned my head to the red magic wave that was so thick that I could see the subtle flow of magic.
“Uh?”
Even in this situation, Hestia tilted her head and looked straight ahead, but I had neither the courage nor the shame to do so.
That’s right, if you look at this situation objectively, if you know what kind of situation it is, you won’t be able to bring up such a thing.
The man who promised to marry was late for the appointment and appeared carrying a woman he had never seen before.
In addition, Hestia’s appearance is beautiful and suitable for the name of a god, and rather than a child-like appearance, it gives off a slightly mature atmosphere, so no excuses can be made.
“You are finally here.”
He was obviously saying the same thing as usual, but the fact that he was in a bad mood right now was probably not enough for a person seeing him for the first time in his life.
I wanted to run away, but… . Maybe if I really run away, I probably have to run away not to escape love, but to avoid becoming the king of the former lord who is now trapped in my image.
“Yeah, isn’t it a bit late?”
Speak as naturally as possible and look at the complexion of people other than Lane.
… However, all of them seemed to be a little afraid of Rain’s appearance, so they were focusing on Rain rather than me.
“You were exactly 1 hour 12 minutes 34 seconds late. Well, first of all, that doesn’t matter, so first of all, can you tell me who the boy is carrying on his back? If possible, I would really appreciate it if you could explain in detail, starting with your name and where you are from.”
“uh… yes.”
Everyone was surprised to see Rain exuding a sense of intimidation beyond expectation, but they didn’t ask why.
No, in fact, it’s because I’m completely bad, but it would be impossible even for Neiros to be able to look at Lane’s face and ask questions casually.
“Why are you like that? Normally, you would have answered me right away, but today, why are you trying to look at my complexion while looking around me instead of me?”
“No, I’m not looking at the complexion… .”
“No, I believe you, Bocchan, but I can’t be fooled by such an obvious lie.”
Unlike usual, he stares at me with red eyes that have lost their light and spits out words.
In the meantime, the part where he kept questioning me while smiling softly felt somehow scary.
“young master. please tell me soon what is the woman’s name what about birth? Where and how did you meet? And looking at it earlier, I saw that he was using the same flame as the Bocchan. Did the Bocchan share his divinity? Oh, anyway, this seems like my delusion. There’s no way that the young boy, who will soon have to fight the goddess of amusement, gave his divine power to a woman he hadn’t introduced to me yet. If so, what happened? If it was just my illusion of a white flame? But did the White Flame have such a purifying ability to get rid of dirt? I couldn’t remember it though. If I discovered a new property of the white flame without my knowledge, can you explain it to me?”
“No, that… .”
“It’s okay if you don’t have to answer this question if you’re having trouble answering. It’s not something trivial like this that I want to ask the young master anyway.”
Lane slowly came towards me.
Lane, who arrived right in front of me with his jittery shoes, smiled at me with his eyes closed and opened his mouth.
“You’re not going to be late because you’re hanging out with a girl I don’t know, are you?”
“… sorry.”
“No, it can’t be. It’s not just me, Miss Minelle, Ciel, or Neros, but you’re late because you’re playing with a woman you’ve never seen before.”
Wait a minute.
i’m really scared
why is he doing this
“Can I ask you one more time? young master.”
really.
not for any other reason.
‘I don’t know’
Did you come late after hanging out with ‘the opposite s*x’ and forgetting your promise with me hahahoho?
“Isn’t it?”
“… .”
No one was able to open their mouths at Lane’s words.
Not only the ladies behind her, but even Hestia, who had just smiled and said to go quickly, was trembling with her face stiff.
How am I?
“… . Please save me.”
I’m desperately hoping that the ending where I fall asleep on the boat after Lane cut my throat is not the same.
Isn’t this something the Goddess of Yugi made up!?