Trap (9)
The tears wouldn’t stop.
Yulia cried and cried in the embrace she had longed for.
What on earth had I been struggling for all this time?
For happiness.
Yulia could definitely say that.
However, looking back, Yulia realized that she had been on the wrong path.
Happiness wasn’t far away.
It wasn’t in a difficult place either.
It was right nearby.
Right in front of her, within reach.
But greed had gotten the better of her.
Her excessive desire to monopolize Eugene had ruined everything.
‘Eugene has been reincarnating······ How many times has he been hurt by me······.’
Yulia didn’t know the exact number of Eugene’s reincarnations.
But she could easily deduce that she herself had been the biggest obstacle in all those times.
Because that’s what she would have done.
If she were greedy and not good at relationships, like she was in her foolish days, she would have hurt Eugene and yearned for him as if it were natural.
She didn’t need to see it to know.
But Eugene never brought up such stories.
About what the Yulias of previous turns had done.
About the wounds he had suffered.
He didn’t say a single word.
Instead of talking about past turns that had already passed.
He talked about ‘from now on’.
How much more our relationship could improve.
And what kind of future we would draw from now on.
It was a dreamlike story.
A story that she had thought she should have given up on long ago.
Yulia felt a boiling joy just knowing that she was in the future that Eugene was drawing.
‘It took too long······.’
It wasn’t a difficult path.
It wasn’t a long way.
Such a path had taken her a long, long time to circle around.
Despite walking in the opposite direction.
Yulia couldn’t stop her tears at the fact that she had finally arrived at the place she wanted to be, led by Eugene’s hand.
She wouldn’t do anything stupid anymore.
She would stop being greedy for too much and ruining herself.
Because countless of me have failed.
Because Eugene’s reincarnation proved it.
It was as easy as a test with the answers given.
‘By the way, what’s going to happen to the Saintess······.’
Suddenly, 질’s thoughts came to mind.
Such a prickly woman.
In the previous turn, they had gotten on each other’s nerves and eventually exploded into a war.
She wondered if it was only in the turn she had experienced that they had such a bad relationship.
But seeing that 질 was also treating Yulia a little awkwardly, it seemed that the turn she had experienced was similar.
She felt a little dizzy thinking that she would have to be close to such a woman from now on.
“Is it over?”
“······.”
Outside the door.
Yulia clicked her tongue slightly as she came face to face with 질, who was waiting like a small animal.
‘This child will have a harder time than me.’
Just a moment ago, she had been worried about what would happen if she got upset as soon as they bumped into each other.
Now, she felt sorry for her.
No matter how she looked at it, the woman named 질 다이너 seemed to have a hard time accepting Eugene’s declaration that he wanted to take all three of them.
Yerina was also confused and resentful.
But that was anger directed at the outside world.But in the case of 질, it seemed to be directed inward, further eroding her already low self-esteem.
That’s why Julia.
Decided to tell 질 only one thing.
“Jo, Jo······. I, I’ll go in after······. Yu, Yu-jin······. I need some time to······. Organize my new thoughts about the saintess······.”
“······!”
If she went in right away, the conversation might not go well.
Yu-jin was in a heightened emotional state from talking to me.
And 질 was in a state of utter terror.
Julia, who had given 질 some advice in her own way.
Only after returning to the round table did she realize that something was amiss.
The words she had just said.
As she retraced her hesitant, gloomy words, her eyes widened.
She belatedly realized that they could be taken differently by the listener.
“Ah······!”
The moment Julia turned around in a panic.
By then, the door was already closed, and the saintess’s sacred magic had enveloped and sealed the room.
‘Oh no! I didn’t mean to restrain her!’
Julia’s mind went blank.
Lack of communication had once again caused a problem.
.
.
.
Next is 질.
I tried to recall my past memories to reflect on my feelings for 질.
But all that came to mind was a flood of memories of my time with 질.
질, running around helping people on her feet, not caring if her clothes were covered in mud or soot.
질, riding the transcontinental train, happy as a child.
And 질, crying as she said she hated commoners, not as a saintess, but as an ordinary person.
No matter how much I thought about it, I could only remember good memories, so I shook my head, thinking it was pointless.
At that moment, I heard the door quietly close with a click.
I hadn’t heard the sound of her coming in.
Before I knew it, 질 had come in and closed the door behind her.
“It’s been a long time. I’m sorry I left without saying goodbye properly.”
“······.”
It was a statement with multiple meanings.
In the first round, I had also left behind only a note.
And in this round, I had left 질 unconscious and stolen only the dagger.
“Do you know······ how much I missed you?”
“······.”
“I missed you so much, I wanted to hold you······. But the situation was urgent, so I held back······. But then you just disappeared······.”
“······.”
“Even now······ I’m sure I had a lot to say before I came in······. But as soon as I saw your face, I forgot everything······. I don’t know······. I can’t do it now······.”
질 turned away, her eyes red with tears.
Then she walked briskly to the doorknob again.
“Where are you going?”
“······!”
But just before she could turn the doorknob.
I quickly approached, grabbed 질 around the waist, and lifted her wrists.
I held her tightly so she couldn’t escape, and her feeble struggles, whether in resistance or not, tickled me.
“Let go······.”
“If you leave now, you may not get another chance.”
“I’m not in the mood to talk right now······.”
“Then when would be a good time? Tomorrow? Three days from now? Or a week from now? We don’t have that much time. Look at my face before it’s too late. Don’t regret it later.”
“······.”
Then even her feeble resistance gradually ceased.Instead of running away from me, Jill…
She leans on me, and starts sobbing again, hunching over.
“I’m sorry. I’m so late. I couldn’t keep my promise to come back.”
“Sob…”
The other guys come close enough to be a burden, but Jill is different.
She acts wild and gets hurt on her own, and distances herself on her own.
If I don’t approach Jill then and hold her, there might not be a next time.
I learned that in the first round.
I shouldn’t give her time.
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Jill, who tells me not to come close, was actually screaming inside for me to come close.
I realized that too late.
The dull and foolish me back then left Jill, thinking I’d give her time to cool down.
And that was the last time.
If I had known that future, I wouldn’t have made such a mistake.
I open the locked door and go in.
I grab Jill’s wrists as she hits and kicks me in surprise, and hold her down.
I hug her warmly and apologize.
Just like now.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry… Sob, sob… I was too harsh… I said things I didn’t mean… I didn’t want it to be like this… Hoo…”
If I had done that, Jill would be hugging me and crying like she is now, apologizing.
I should have held her like this.
I shouldn’t have let her push me away so easily.
Both Jill and I were so foolish back then.
“I love you… Sob, I love you… I didn’t know how to express it… Uhh, no. I was scared to express it… I wanted you to confess first, to fill my little pride… I wanted you to apologize first… I just wanted you to accept all my nagging and annoyance… I didn’t think that you’d get tired someday, that your patience would run out…”
“…”
“After I regained my memories, I kept thinking. I have to confess first this time… I have to be the one to pull you in… But I guess people don’t change that easily… When I heard that there were other women, jealousy and anger came up first… That’s why I almost ran out as soon as I came in… But, but… I don’t want to lose Eugene anymore… I don’t want to be abandoned by you anymore…”
Jill turns around and hugs me tightly.
As if she wants to be even closer, she wraps her legs around my waist.
As a result, I end up holding Jill’s butt.
Jill, who finally met my eyes, rubbed her cheeks against mine, sobbing incessantly.
“That’s why I wanted to say it first… But you suddenly came out of nowhere and started acting crazy… If you were going to confess, you should have said so first…”
“I forgot.”
“Pretend I didn’t confess. Cancel it, quickly. Cancel it now.”
“Cancel? How do I do that?”
“Just say you’re canceling it. Say that the confession never happened.”
“Okay. I’ll cancel it. The confession never happened.”
“Yes… Then I’ll confess first?”
Jill stops sobbing and her face brightens.
To think that she could make something that had already happened into something that never happened so easily.
As expected, the power of a saint is immense.
She sniffs on my shoulder for a while and catches her breath.
Jill, who had loosened her arms around my neck, looks me in the eye and says, her lips trembling.”Whew… I, I love you… I love you. Please stay with me for the rest of your life, as long as you have left… aaah! I said it! I said it!”
Then, her face flushed like a tomato, and she hugged me again, hiding her face.
Her appearance was so cute that I couldn’t help but feel mischievous.
As I walked briskly towards the bed, I felt something strange and heard Jill make a sound of “Huh?”
“Huh?!”
I threw Jill on the bed and forcibly pulled her arms apart.
Then, I grabbed Jill’s shoulders and pinned her to the bed, leaving her no choice but to show me her face.
“Whew… Don’t look…”
Jill begged me, her face even cuter than I had expected, shaking her head wildly.
I couldn’t help but grin and laugh.
I gently wrapped my arms around Jill’s cheeks, which were flushed with embarrassment, and said softly,
“Okay. I’ve been waiting to hear those words. I love you too.”
“Whew…”
And then, quietly.
I gently kissed her lips.
I could feel the strength in Jill’s legs wrapped around my waist increasing.
It should have been her first instead of Cornelia…