Summer embraces the blue (4) illustrations
When it comes to dating courses in the capital, there are several representative places, but among them, Beit Royal Park, located near the capital, is considered a must-visit attraction for all citizens of the kingdom.
It all started because the trees and flowers that sheltered the persecuted believers in the early days of the kingdom by digging underground caves and hiding in them were transformed into a great garden.
From the denomination’s perspective, it is historical evidence of their faith, and for the kingdom’s citizens, it is a meaningful place with a double meaning, with a blooming garden providing a refreshing walking path.
Bate Park, which had this story and was later turned into a royal park, may have changed a lot from the past, but this is an adult’s situation.
The Royal Park is a tourist attraction in the royal capital. This is also the place where Hwaran went out with Corin and chose it as the main course of their date.
“Uh, uh······.”
The ticket booth in front of the park where admission fees are collected. The black-haired girl had been restlessly moving around the same spot since before.
“fury. “Honestly, I’m crazy.”
“Ugh…”
Hwa was unable to refute the point made by the sisters who shared the same body. That means the girl is nervous.
“Are you going to come?”
“There’s no way not to upload it.”
“still······.”
What if Corrin hates him? Even if you don’t like it, what if you don’t think it’s someone you can date?
When I think about it now, I regret it. Why did they do that? Why did you say that?
Corin seemed a little taken aback by my sudden date request, but quickly accepted.
“good. I want to go, do you have it?”
After that, everything went smoothly. Corinne set the date, and the girls returned to the hotel Marie had booked.
If it’s fortunate, is it fortunate? Alicia and Marie don’t even notice that they are dating Corinne.
So on the day of the date. Hwa’s attire is noticeably different from the usual dull attire of a nun.
If you’re going on a date, you need to wear pretty clothes. A phrase confirmed from Josephine’s romance novel.
After finding gold coins in the Zeon Church’s gold coin storage, the two went to a clothing store.
First of all, this is not my first time buying clothes. Sometimes he saw Estelle taking him to a clothing store and throwing gold coins at him.
But this is my first time going to a clothing store alone. She blindly bought clothes that the clerk said were good and pretty, but…
“This. This… is too, too exposed.”
「······Everyone does this at least here.」
Hwaran’s outfit is an open shoulder dress that exposes her shoulders. This country’s standards for exposure are excessively liberal, but for two people from the East, their skin gets red when exposed to the wind.
“Marie and Alisha also dress normally. “Isn’t this… normal?”
“Everyone… is out of their minds.”
Let alone exposing the navel or thighs, women in this country act as if it is a characteristic of a lady to show at least one part of her upper or side breasts!
“Yeah, you’re pretty.”
“······Pretty?”
“huh. Wow, you look really pretty now.”
“Korindo…do you think so?
“It was like that in Chief Professor Josephine’s romance novel. They say men are dogs that are in heat all year round, so if you expose a little bit of skin, they can’t come to their senses.”
“What is heat?”
“In the next scene, they were holding hands in bed. Isn’t this a ritual step to call a stork? But why did it say dog?”
“······Did a dog need to come for the stork to come?”
“Uh… Then, even if we’ve been holding hands and sleeping, the stork hasn’t come home…”
Unbelievable. It wasn’t just that the stork’s habitat was far away.
After realizing the shocking truth, the sisters felt the need to save the dog.
“······It’s still early for the stork.”
“But think about it. I imagine a stork carrying a baby who looks like my brother and us. How handsome and pretty is he?”
“······Not us.”
“It’s happening again.”
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Ran is the one who likes Corrin. Hwa once again emphasized such a defense mechanism. This is just for confirmation. It’s a date to convince himself that he never likes Corrin.
“Sorry, I’m late. Oh, you bought new clothes?”
“Uh, uhh…”
Hwa swallows his saliva when Corin arrives 10 minutes earlier than the scheduled date.
It is clear that Hwa is also nervous about wearing civilian clothes for the first time.
What would Corinne say? Should I say it’s pretty? Would you say it suits you? I think it would hurt me a lot if I said it wasn’t good.
“You’re pretty. You’re always pretty, but seeing you dressed up today looks different. You should have dressed like this a long time ago.”
“Yeah, really?”
A great answer for the man I’m dating. Hwa played with his short hair and made a shy expression.
“Next time we get a chance, let’s go shopping for clothes together. You’ll look pretty no matter what you wear, but I’ll buy you clothes and accessories too.”
“Yes······.”
Corin holds Hwa’s shy hand. She was very surprised by that sudden action, but her surprise didn’t end there.
Corin kisses the back of Hwa’s hand. He did what he had been taught.
“Would you like to go, Lady? I will be happy to escort you.”
“Uh, uhh… Ugh…”
Unable to shake off or push away the outstretched hand, Hwa suddenly grabbed Corin’s hand and entered the park.
The inside of the park is crowded with people as it is a famous spot in the royal capital.
“There are a lot of people. Don’t you like it?”
“are you okay.”
Hwa, who hated crowded places, leaned into his arms like a kitten snuggling into its mother’s arms.
Palms and palms joined together. Naturally, it extends to the arms, without realizing that the heat transmitted from the skin in close contact is heating up even the hair below the ears.
“It smells good. This is why everyone should check out the Royal Park.”
“Yes······.”
“This place is famous for the Pigeon Cave. It was originally a place where a refuge cave was built underground. I heard it’s a good idea to start from there, so shall we go there first?”
“uh······.”
We arrived at the Pigeon Cave, which was hidden in the past, but now follows a path with helpful signs leading to the inside.
As you go down the stone steps leading to the residence of the persecuted believers, a spacious cave appears.
Even though expensive magic lights were installed everywhere, the cave was decidedly dark. The two naturally walk together as if they are close to each other and rely on each other.
Inside the dark cave they walk through. There are round grooves of the same size all over the wall.
“Woah, look here. I think this is the dovecote that the pigeons were in.”
“Uh-uh…”
She was now heading towards Corrin’s forearm, where all her nerves were touching.
My heart, which was usually pounding, was making a roaring sound in the quiet cave.
‘Can you hear me? Can’t you hear it?’
“Oh, you won’t hear it.”
Hwa-ran is not sure and just hopes that the sound of her heart won’t be heard by the person next to her. She was just… drunk in this moment.
* * * *
It seems that the state of anger is not very good.
Throughout the cave exploration, instead of looking around, he held my arm tightly and kept his head down.
‘Do you hate dark places?’
If I had any claustrophobia, it would be my big mistake.
“I think I’ve seen almost everything… shall we go up?”
“······.”
Hwa just nods and shakes his head up and down at my words. The best part about the Royal Park is laying down a mat, eating food, and smelling the flowers.
Take a seat and spread out the mat. It’s a bit of an odd time to eat lunch, but let’s call it brunch.
“······.”
I sit down on a mat and lay out the food I brought with me. Actually, I would eat kimbap on an outing, but since we don’t have kimbap here, I just packed it as a sandwich.
I’ve been to the Royal Park once before, but it’s such a mysterious place.
Tulips fill the large hills. The variety of tulips, each selected in its own area and their colors shining, reminds me of a well-maintained tulip farm in the Netherlands.
I chew and chew my painter’s sandwich against a beautiful background that is pleasing to the eyes and nose. That look is so…
“cute.”
“uh···.”
Anger at recognizing words that came out inadvertently. I look at this with a downcast gaze, wondering what is so shameful.
“······me?”
“Of course. It’s cute, it’s pretty. The eyes are all gorgeous.”
“Uh…”
The earlobes were flushed and the blush slowly spreading over both cheeks. What I am saying now is sincere without any lies.
“Of course. I heard you are the prettiest and cutest today.”
Eyes that get bigger instantly. It makes you wonder how Hwa’s eyes can get so big.
“Well… you too, cool, cool…”
“Huh? Can’t you hear me?”
“······It’s enough to look after.”
“Ah… not so good? I prepared hard…”
As soon as I lowered my head in despondency, he immediately became restless. The reaction was really cute and funny.
“No, that’s it… that’s it…”
“It’s a joke.”
“Tsk…!”
When I raised the corner of my mouth playfully, he realized that he had been tricked and his anger heated up. The retaliation was intense.
-puck!
“Ugh…!”
Even though I said I was going to hit him gently, it hurts like my shoulder was crushed after being hit. I did something right, but if I make fun of it again, my regenerative power won’t be able to keep up.
“I’m not going to apologize.”
“hehehe, sorry.”
After lunch, we looked around the park.
“Look at this. The rose is golden. This must have been made by magic, right?”
“Shall we buy some souvenirs? How about a hairpin? The equipment is fine, but I think a red tulip hairpin would be good.”
“Oh, they’re having a concert over there? Should I go listen to it?”
“······.”
It seems that I was the one who was excited about seeing flowers for the first time in a long time. Whenever I looked back while looking at the various flowers and souvenirs, my eyes kept meeting my eyes.
Well, I don’t know if it’s Ran, but Hwa might not be interested in seeing flowers. Did I choose the wrong location for this?
We had an early dinner at a restaurant in the park, and before we knew it, the stars were starting to light up in the night sky.
There is a good spot for stargazing around here, but based on the response so far, it doesn’t look like there will be a good response.
“Shall we go back soon?”
“············no.”
An unexpected answer came back.
* * * *
In the end, we walked to a cave that was good for stargazing.
Not exactly the Royal Park, but the end of the park. Bell-shaped caves were scattered in the area connected to the plain toward the west of the distant horizon.
A place that only appears as a background in the game and has no interaction whatsoever. In reality, it is just one of many caves that have been neglected.
Unlike caves managed directly by the royal family and turned into tourist attractions, this one has its raw form.
“Here.”
I walk through a dark cave past an entrance where several people can enter at once. And before long, I discovered a trail of light.
“Where?”
Inside a large cave. A ray of light shined through a hole in the ceiling in the middle of it.
This narrow place is the only place in this cave where there is light. I lay down in a place where all the light was monopolized.
“I stayed here before for some reason. To be exact, I was hiding out. It was a famous spot I discovered back then. I wanted to show it to you now that I’m here.”
When I advised him to lie down, he gently laid his head down next to me on the mat. When I offered my arm as a pillow like I did a few times, he didn’t hesitate.
Above us as we lay on the floor, a cluster of stars was visible from the arched hole of the narrow cave. A sea of stars inside a narrow hole, much smaller than it appears from the outside.
“······Small.”
Hwa must have thought the same, so he expressed his honest impressions.
“It’s narrow. If you look from the outside, it’s much wider and you can see a lot of stars.”
“But why?”
“Sometimes I think about it like this. It’s nice to see something beautiful with everyone, but sometimes I want to have it all to myself.”
Nature belongs to everyone. I have no intention of interfering with this. But is the selfishness of wanting to have good things all to yourself really a bad thing?
“People looking at the stars from outside look up at the vast universe without knowing where they are. But right now, we are only seeing a cluster of stars filled in that narrow hole.”
We have exclusive access to that group of stars.
Stars filled in a small, narrow space that no one can perceive. Only we are looking up.
“Just us?”
Perhaps because my theory was interesting, I pointed my finger to the beyond and their eyes followed.
“It’s ours.”
“It’s ours…”
Although this is an extremely egocentric interpretation, this memory was quite memorable even in the previous episode.
Just like I did, I hope that this moment will remain in Hwa’s memory and become a memory that she will recall at least once.
“······.”
For a moment, stars appeared in her red eyes. I watch such anger.
My eyes, immersed in a cluster of stars, sparkled like jewels.
Let’s realize that the stars in our eyes, which are much smaller than the narrow hole in the cave, are so close that our breath can touch…
“······hmm.”
I swallowed a small cough. As if looking at my own small work of art, this moment is all I have over her.
wee. About 3 seconds. One-sided exchange continues.
“why?”
Hwa’s head turned when he felt my gaze, and the exchange ended sadly.
“It’s no big deal.”
As I avoid the gaze directed at me and head toward the sky, Hwa’s gaze follows.
We looked up at the sky in silence for a while, our eyes fixed only on our own stars.
Silence continued for a long time in the cavity where even the slightest chatter resonated noisily.