105 – The princess accepts.
The garden of Count Xernias’ residence, where the moonlight pours in and the flowers shine brightly.
“······What else this time?”
“Are you refusing a walk that your beloved fiancé asked for?”
After dinner, I visited this place holding Rebecca’s hand as she was about to start getting ready for bed.
“······You know that it’s time for me to sleep.”
“You know better than anyone.”
“But why is someone who knows that better than anyone else suddenly doing that?”
“Suddenly, I thought that I would like to see the most beautiful flower in the world bathed in moonlight.”
“What nonsense…”
Hwaak-
Rebecca, who soon realized the true meaning of my words, dyed her face red.
“If you’re going to see flowers, wouldn’t it be nice to see the most beautiful flowers?”
“······It’s lethal.”
“I’m not sure what’s mean.”
“If you talk like that, I can’t go back.”
“That’s what I said.”
“······Really. Not losing a single word is the same in the past and now.”
this. I was thinking of bringing up the story of the past naturally first.
Rebecca also seemed to find us in the past in our present appearance.
“It was like that the day I first came to this garden.”
“Are you referring to the day I got angry because I guessed the name of the saintess?”
“I’m not pissed off.”
“You’re obviously pissed off.”
“…”
“There’s no way someone who claims not to be angry would throw away class and run away to the garden.”
Tzzle-
A very menacing gaze was fixed on me.
The unspoken pressure that if you say no more, I won’t speak to you for the next week.
Seeing that gaze, I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut.
“······Anyway. It was the same the first time I came here.”
“…”
“Even though I showed off that I was in a bad mood, I didn’t say a word that I would write a wish.”
“As I said before, wish is to say the impossible.”
“Well, it was impossible. At that time, if you hadn’t said it was a wish, I might have lived without seeing you for the rest of my life.”
I think I just heard something very scary.
“Then you begged me to do something wrong.”
“······This is really. It’s a pretty shameful memory. I prayed for the princess.”
“It would be nice if the you now resembled you a little more then.”
“Do you want me to be captured by the princess?”
“it can not?”
“I can’t.”
“That’s too bad.”
Rebecca let out a long sigh as if she was really sorry.
“Whoa. I’m really sorry. I liked you back then too.”
“You don’t remember what happened after that?”
“yes?”
“After I apologized to the princess for mentioning the saintess’ name, I must have apologized one more time.”
“······no way.”
Rebecca is startled at the thought.
Very sadly, that hypothesis was that hypothesis.
“At that time, I apologized to my fiancée, whom I love, for hurting her heart.”
“…”
“And then I listed how much I love my fiancée. Upon hearing that, the princess declared defeat saying that she was wrong…”
My words did not carry on to the end.
“······Stop it. Stop it.”
Because Rebecca covered my mouth with both hands.
Her face was stained red as if it were reenacting the situation at that time.
“Are you admitting that you lost again?”
“······Will you stop talking if I admit that I lost?”
“Well, maybe, if my fiancée does pretty things.”
“······That’s not good. Really.”
After talking, Rebecca kissed me.
A light kiss that I couldn’t do because I was shy or awkward at the time.
It was after it became more natural than eating breakfast for us now.
“······Princess.”
“Why are you calling?”
“But I definitely asked for something pretty.”
After a short but long kiss, I proudly held out my flippers.
“I don’t think I ever said kissing was pretty.”
“······Are you saying that right now? You’ve already received everything.”
“Isn’t that right. I said that I wanted to see the Princess’s pretty actions, but I didn’t say that I wanted to see the Princess’s actions.”
“…”
Even if you deny that kissing is not a pretty thing. Rebecca does not deny at all that she wanted to do it.
He looked at me as if he was indignant, but his closed lips, as if he was not going to retort at all, stimulated a lot of desire.
“······Why are you coming all of a sudden?”
“I think this is similar to that time.”
“That’s some kind of bullsh*t… Hmmm.”
In the end, he couldn’t stand it and took his fiancee’s lips once again.
***
Unlike before, it took quite some time for us to distance ourselves from each other.
“······Are you satisfied now?”
“Yes. The princess accepting my kiss was very pretty.”
“It just means you just wanted to tease my mouth.”
“So. Didn’t you like it?”
“······You really are a pervert.”
Rebecca still spat out the sell-off, but didn’t deny it.
A cold selling that might hurt depending on who hears it.
I slightly pointed out that part.
“Hey, I know how you look like this, so it doesn’t matter, but… Why don’t you speak more warmly when talking to others?”
“You mean I look cold?”
“Is it no wonder that Princess is nicknamed the Beautiful Ice Princess?”
“······I had a nickname like that? It’s the first time I’ve heard of it.”
“No, I just made it.”
“…”
“Do you like it?”
Rebecca looked at me with a puzzled look.
Looking at those cold eyes, I thought that I had just made it, but it seemed to be very well made.
“It was just a joke, of course, but anyway, you have to practice making a warm expression in front of others.”
“Why me?”
“Isn’t the princess the next Duke of Valencia?”
“I don’t like it.”
I gave advice by taking out the position of Duke of Valencia, but Rebecca clearly expressed her disapproval.
The reason immediately became clear.
“······It’s enough to be warm in front of you.”
“…”
“Do you mean that I can be warm to anyone other than you?”
Rebecca turned her head away from me and told me that you were enough.
At that, I smiled slightly and replied playfully.
“Are you saying you’ll treat the Duke and Duchess coldly too?”
“······You know better than anyone that you don’t mean that.”
“It’s the princess’s heart. How could I not know?”
“······ It’s enough to know.”
Rebecca then turned her head, which had turned the other way, to face me.
Cheeks that look a little bit cold, oddly slightly reddened.
The figure overlapped with the pouring moonlight, and it made me have a different impulse than before.
So, it meant that it was none other than Rebecca who encouraged my future actions.
“Princess.”
“······Why are you calling us so seriously all of a sudden.
“No, Rebecca.”
“…”
Here, Rebecca looked at me with a slightly surprised expression, as if she had not known that she would suddenly release her honor and call me by name.
“Actually, I never meant to do it this way here… but it’s your fault.”
“I suddenly said that it was my fault that I had done something…”
“Wait, put your hand this way.”
He slightly pulled Rebecca’s left hand, which he had been holding.
Then, as she got down on one knee, she quietly took out the engagement ring, which had always been worn on the ring finger of Rebecca’s left hand ever since she received it from me.
“Why is the ring suddenly…”
Finally, in rhythm with Rebecca’s questioning voice.
“Albert Zernias of Count Zernias asks Miss Rebecca Valencia of Valencia Duke Family.”
“…”
“Would you please give me the grace to marry me?”
When he made the engagement ring, he handed out another ring he had made together to his fiancee.
“…”
Rebecca had the most stupid expression she had ever seen.
As if he had never thought that he would be proposed to in this way.
“……You didn’t tell me that I had to wait a bit longer this morning?”
“My impatient fiancée declared that she couldn’t wait long. I had no choice.”
“Why are you using honorifics again now? You just said it without respect.”
“Do you want me to speak without respect?”
“…”
Although Rebecca did not answer the question.
There was no way that I, her fiancé, didn’t know what that silence meant.
“Marry me. Rebecca Valencia.”
“I haven’t even answered yet, but you’re getting rid of the honor right away.”
“Answer?”
“There’s no way I could refuse your marriage proposal.”
“Seriously?”
“······I’m happy. That you proposed to me. And thank you. That you love me.”
“I love you, Rebecca Valencia.”
“Me too. Albert Xernias.”
I slipped a new ring, a wedding ring, on the ring finger of Rebecca’s left hand.
Rebecca accepted it with the brightest and most beautiful smile she had ever seen.
My birthday was just a week away.
😭. I’m lonely