Reunion (2)
Grrr······.
Something was making a ferocious growling sound.
My consciousness gradually rose to the surface of sleep.
It had been a long time.
I hadn’t opened my eyes without trembling with anxiety.
I hadn’t greeted the morning without any worries or concerns.
“Jill······.”
The first thing that greeted me when I opened my eyes was Jill, who was sleeping with her arms around one of mine.
I came to my senses for a moment and wondered if I had been moved to the room while I was unconscious again.
We were lying in a comfortable and spacious bed, covered by the same blanket.
As I was happily watching her sleep soundly, feeling too sorry to wake her up.
“Grrr······.”
The sound that I had thought was a drainpipe or background noise suddenly stopped.
When I turned my head, I could see Yerina with a slightly sullen expression.
Yerina was standing stiffly beside the bed, feigning an indifferent expression.
As soon as I saw her face, I burst out laughing.
Yerina also twitched the corners of her mouth, but she glared at me with an angry face, or rather, a face that pretended to be angry, as if she would never laugh.
“How long did I sleep?”
“About 3 hours. You didn’t sleep much. Sleep more.”
“I can’t do that. I couldn’t sleep because of the wolf growling ferociously next to me.”
“······.”
Gulp.
Yerina failed to control her expression for a moment and swallowed.
Beside me, Jill stirred in her sleep and hugged my arm even tighter.
“Can you let go if you know?”
“I’m not the one holding it. If I pull it out forcibly, I’ll wake her up. Is that okay?”
“······.”
Yerina’s mouth was tightly shut.
Then she strode over, climbed up to the top of the bed, and crawled towards me.
Her expression, which had seemed angry, gradually crumbled and soon turned into something close to a pout.
“This isn’t it······.”
“What isn’t it.”
“I didn’t want to say this as soon as I got back······. I wanted to welcome you back more warmly······. But when I keep seeing you like this in front of my eyes, I can’t help but feel a fire burning inside me······.”
“On the contrary, I was worried because you were so quiet. I thought something was wrong with you.”
“I’m sorry. I’ll have to see this sight countless times in the future. Will you get tired of me if I keep nagging you······?”
Does this count as nagging?
Isn’t it just cute jealousy?
I felt dizzy as I looked back on the countless nagging I had endured during the past 12 episodes.
“So, I decided to change my mind. Since I can’t monopolize you anyway······. I’ll at least increase my share.”
“What do you mean?”
“······.”
As if to show me with actions instead of words, Yerina slowly grabbed my collar and pulled me closer.
She brought her nose close to my face and sniffed, then bumped her nose against mine lightly.
Then, she brushed her lips against mine and moved down to my neck, where she pressed her lips against mine.
Smack, peck······.
Rather than saying that she was kissing me, it would be more appropriate to say that she was sucking on me. The sound echoed in the quiet room.
It was so strong that I winced in pain every now and then.
Well, it’s no wonder, considering that she’s someone who can dismantle a building with one hand······.
After a long while, Yerina finally pulled away with a slightly satisfied expression and handed me a mirror.
She had left a work of art on my neck.
There was a large mark on the part of my jaw that was barely visible when I looked up.
If I wore a shirt that covered my neck, it wouldn’t be visible from the eye level at which I usually talked to other people, but it was an area that could not be hidden if someone like Jill came close and looked up at me from below.
“Ah. This is a bit······.”
“You knew I was jealous. You said it was okay. You said you liked me this way. Don’t you have to put up with this much?”
“Even so. It’s too-“
“Too much? I was thinking of something even more severe······. Should I just do that?”
Whoa.
Yerina whispered quietly, putting my ear in her mouth.
Yerina’s movements, which had been stroking my arm and slowly lifting it up to examine it, suddenly stopped.
I wondered why.
It seemed that she had found traces of another person on my arm.
Yerina looked at the bite marks all over my forearm and then at my eyes, and her expression turned sullen as she silently cursed.
“······Noisy.”
“Whoa?!”
Swish, the blanket was lifted and a monster with a pale face and glowing red eyes emerged from within.
Yerina, who was startled for a moment, jumped up and released her killing intent.But Yerina, who quickly noticed that it was her side, got out of combat mode and brushed her chest.
“What, what, what?! What’s going on······!”
“Huh, huh? Another raid?”
It became noisy with the wind.
The door bursts open and Julia enters with a worried look.
Jill looks around in a hurry and makes a sleepy voice.
This commotion······.
I don’t hate it that much.
When I woke up, it was quieter outside than I thought.
Of course, I didn’t expect a big welcome party.
The world is very quiet for someone who was thought to be dead and came back through the dimensional barrier after 3 years.
The Union headquarters was busy repairing the damage caused by the fleet’s attack as if nothing had happened.
“I didn’t announce anything about you after you disappeared······. In fact, there are very few people in the Union who know about you, Eugene.”
In fact, it’s easier for me to move around that way.
But these days, I’ve been thinking that I should gradually reveal myself to the public.
When I said that, Jill looked up at me with curious eyes.
“Why? Didn’t you hate being famous?”
“I don’t hate being famous. But don’t you think I should prepare for it?”
“What kind of preparation?”
“Wedding preparation.”
“······!”
Jill’s face flushed and her lips parted.
If I don’t show myself to the public, people will be filled with questions.
Even if the saintess is like that, wouldn’t it be strange if both the witch and the frost lord didn’t marry?
That said, it would be strange to marry another family falsely and deceive them.
Yerina, Julia, and Jill all want a marriage that they can be proud of.
To do that, I have to show myself gradually.
If a commoner who came out of nowhere suddenly marries all three of the Union’s top executives, the social backlash would be no joke.
“Yeah. That’s right······. I think it’s the perfect timing. There’s no one in this world who hasn’t seen that pillar of light. It would be perfect if you showed up and revealed that you were the owner.”
“Yeah. But what are you doing······?”
“Shh. It won’t go away······.”
I wondered what she was doing when she kept touching my neck.
It seemed that she was trying to erase the mark Yerina had left.
Jill was working on it with an annoyed face, as it kept coming into her view whenever she looked up.
I found her cute, so I rubbed her cheek and she quickly smiled.
“I missed you······. It was hard······. But I believed. I believed you’d come back. Sob. I believed that you’d come back someday and wipe away my tears······.”
“It’s because you believed in me. I was able to come back because of that.”
There was no exaggeration or flattery.
I was really able to come back thanks to Jill, Julia, and Yerina.
Because the guys who remained in the present world remembered me, missed me, and believed that I would come back.
I was able to return with great difficulty through that force.
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“heheheheh······.”
I don’t know if she took my words seriously or as a joke.
Jill rubbed her cheek against my chest with a happy expression.
As if she would die if she left me for even a moment.
“Saintess······. Oh! I’m sorry!”
“No. Tell me. What is it?”
“The meeting has been convened, so I came to tell you······.”
Jill, who was still attached to me like a leech even when the secretary appeared, did not move.
The secretary seemed confused, not knowing where to look.
After reporting everything that needed to be reported, the secretary quickly left.
Then Jill smiled with satisfaction and wrapped her legs around my thigh.
“Slowly like this. If we gradually release information about our relationship to the outside world and then make a big announcement, it will be less chaotic.”
“Are you serious······.”
You’re going to spread rumors about the saintess clinging to a strange man······.
Does this guy want to destroy the saintess’s authority?
“Imagine. The saintess who is protected by the light of heaven. And a man who uses a technique that looks just like that light. Could there be a more perfect match? Who would dare to insult them? It’s as if they complement each other, defeating the enemies that threaten the present world.”
“······.””If we’re apart, we won’t be able to use our powers? If we don’t share our love regularly, we’ll get weaker? If we tell those lies, won’t it give the Saintess an excuse to get married? Oh, strictly speaking, those aren’t lies. I really will… if I’m apart from Eugene again, I might just pine away and die…”
“······.”
Definitely.
If you just look at the visuals, it might seem like my Extreme is connected to the Saintess.
In reality, it’s not related at all, but…
Well, it wouldn’t be bad to leave it like that for the time being.
“Let’s start with the meeting for now. It seems like it’ll be a bit long.”
“Yeah······.”
Only then did she seem to feel a little embarrassed, and Jill’s face turned bright red as she released her legs that had been wrapped around me.
How many people did she say were in the conference room right now?
Nameless’s return.
Linda’s betrayal.
My revival, and so on. This is a place to discuss everything that’s happened in the past few days.
There are just as many people involved, and the number of people attending the meeting has also increased.
I don’t know about anything else, but I can guess what Linda’s betrayal is about.
I guess they’re going to come up with a strategy for that…
I wonder if it’ll take all night.