92 – The princess promises.
When is the most embarrassing moment in the world?
When a situation you never imagined happened right in front of your eyes?
When you realize that the person you thought you knew better than anyone else is actually a different person?
There may be many situations, but in fact, this premise was not that important.
“…”
It was clear that this was all the case for my fiancée, who was now turning her head away and ignoring me.
At first, it was very absurd, but now it’s also a bit strange.
Rebecca was someone who could do this.
To think that the lofty and cold Princess Rebecca of Valencia was someone who pretended to be drunk and clung to her fiancé.
It was a refreshing shock.
“…”
Rebecca was still silent.
Only the profile, which had been dyed red, accurately conveyed Rebecca’s current feelings.
“······Princess.”
“…”
“Princess?”
“Why are you calling?”
“I won’t say much, so could you look over here?”
I had no intention of blaming Rebecca this time either.
If I had been in Rebecca’s position, I would have reacted no differently.
I even acted cutely, which I don’t usually do well, but if the person in charge caught me doing it, I would really want to hide in a rat hole.
I’m still not sure what the reason why I acted like I was drunk.
“…”
Rebecca slowly turned her head this way when I said that she would not say much.
If it was positive, it was a situation to see positively.
Turning her head away even slightly meant that at least Rebecca’s shame wasn’t to the point where she pretended not to hear me.
“You move so slowly, when do you plan to see me?”
“…”
“At this rate, it will be faster for me to approach the princess.”
It was just a little too slow.
It’s like an ant walking toward a house. Little by little, very slowly.
“······ha.”
And, I wasn’t very patient enough to wait for that.
As soon as I heard the truth, I approached Rebecca, who had been distant from me, and grabbed her blushing cheek and pressed her face closely.
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Naturally, Rebecca’s face became more red, and the heat seemed to be transmitted to me who was holding it.
“Now you’re showing me.”
“…”
“Why does the one with the most beautiful face always cover his face?”
As always, I didn’t pay attention to those details.
The important thing is that he was a person who was making a cute expression with his face blushing in front of me right now.
“······You really are.”
“yes?”
“How can you say that without blinking an eye…”
Rebecca closed her eyes as if she would avoid my gaze.
“Are you closing your eyes this time?”
“······I don’t know.”
“It’s okay. If the princess doesn’t open her eyes within 5 seconds, I’ll kiss her until she opens them.”
“…”
“You don’t know, since you’re closing your eyes right now. I could really reach my fiancée if I moved forward just a little bit.”
“······You can open it.”
Although that rebellion gave in immediately to simple threats (?).
“…”
Rebecca was now looking ashamed and mad.
I want to avoid it somehow, but I can’t avoid it because of the threat, not the threat that I’ll kiss you right away.
With only her face dyed red, her eyes as red as her face were moving around as if to avoid my gaze even a little.
“I always feel it, but you’re pretty.”
“Why are you suddenly anxious?”
“That’s because what I’m going to do next is to break my promise.”
“no way······.”
“Now you can close your eyes.”
“······You really are a liar.”
“So you don’t like it?”
“······no.”
Of course, I didn’t mean to stop kissing Rebecca just because she didn’t close her eyes.
It was a common lie told by a fiancé to his fiancee.
***
after a few kisses. I added a clear explanation to clear up any lingering misunderstandings.
“That wasn’t a dream…”
As before, Rebecca wore a shocked expression whenever she heard this truth.
Well, the situation at the time was like a dream, so I was the same.
Rebecca, who believed it was a perfect dream and kissed her herself, would be worse than me.
“Have you cleared up all the misunderstandings now?”
“······Do you think I’m an idiot? After you’ve explained it that far, where are the misunderstandings that remain?”
“You don’t have much reaction than I thought. I expected that the princess would not come to her senses if she heard the truth just this morning.”
I’m a little sorry for Rebecca, but it was sincere.
My fiancée, whom I knew, was more intolerant of embarrassing situations than anyone else.
The moment I heard the truth that he had stolen my first kiss, of course I expected him to run amok without being ashamed.
“······I’m also the next duke in my own way.”
Rebecca’s cheeks puffed up, as if asking if she had only seen herself as that kind of person.
“You’re really the only one in the Empire who ignores me like this.”
“It’s amazing that the person who imprisoned his fiancé by giving him a sleeping potion because of a ridiculous misunderstanding would say such a story.”
“…”
“Speaking of which, why did you keep my arms tied?”
It was half a joke, but it was also a bit curious.
Why did Rebecca, who was superior to me in all areas, in terms of grip, magical power, and general abilities, tied my arms.
“If that’s what my fiancée likes…
“Don’t get me wrong. Dorothy just recommended you to try it.”
“…”
What the hell did Dorothy teach her lady?
One day, it occurred to me that I should check with my own eyes the novels that Dorothy had lent to Rebecca as well.
“It’s never been my taste.”
“······That’s true. Then why did you pretend to be drunk?”
“I didn’t pretend to be drunk.”
“yes?”
“There’s no way I could have said that soberly…”
Rebecca shuddered as if recalling the nightmarish situation from earlier.
As if he also remembered how embarrassing and embarrassing sentences he had uttered.
“If it’s true that you were drunk at the time… how are you sober now?”
“Because of magic.”
“If it’s magic… Ah.”
There was a piece of memory passing by.
The memory of using clean magic, not believing my words that drunken Rebecca was okay.
“Could it be because of the clean magic that the spirit of alcohol disappeared?”
“······It’s because of you.”
“…”
“If you hadn’t told me useless lies… you wouldn’t have used clean magic.”
Rebecca clenches her fist as if she wants to hit her past self for using magic without thinking.
It would not be an illusion to think that it would be nice if the target of that fist wasn’t just me.
Rebecca, who was clenching her fists, gave me a finger and said,
“Make a promise with me.”
“······Is it because you feel like you know what the promise is?”
“At least you won’t lie to me in the future.”
“…”
“I will never tell a lie to me right now in front of you, and I will always tell the truth.”
Rebecca’s expression with her pinky finger out was the most serious expression I’d seen of Rebecca today.
As if he would never allow jokes this time.
As if there is nowhere for you to run away from this promise.
At that moment, I felt the dignity of the next Duke of Valencia, not the usual shy fiancée.
I said with a small smile at Rebecca’s charismatic voice.
“I don’t see any particular reason for rejecting this promise.”
“Then give me your finger too.”
“However, one provision must be added.”
“······What is it?”
“It’s not just me who always tells the truth, the princess also always tells the truth to me.”
“…”
“Isn’t it illogical to promise only one person?”
“······She said she was a fiancée whom she loved every day. She really never lost.”
“Apart from loving you, I’m overflowing with a competitive spirit.”
“······all right.”
“great.”
“ha.”
Rebecca shook her head as if she couldn’t stand it.
“Reach out your hand.”
“Here I am, dear fiancée.”
“…”
“If you don’t like my fiancée, I’ll call you the next Duke of Valencia.”
“······ It’s okay. Make an appointment quickly.”
With those words, Rebecca’s and my fingers, which were the smallest but the most weighty, touched each other.
The ending feels a bit futile compared to the results of the commotion that preceded it.
Rebecca started glaring at me as if she had read my expression of futility.
“Why are you making that face? You don’t like what you promised me?”
“No. I’m curious about something.”
“What else is this time?”
“I was wondering if the clothes my fiancée is wearing right now were worn after getting drunk or before getting drunk.”
As I said before, Rebecca’s outfit was very light.
It was also a light outfit that made me, who normally only looked at my fiancée with a healthy eye, have unwholesome thoughts.
“Why? Are you conscious?”
After hearing my words, Rebecca had a mischievous smile on her lips.
“…Isn’t it strange that you’re not conscious? In a situation like this.”
“is that so?”
“Yes. What would you do if I did something strange to the princess the moment my arms were untied?”
“…”
Rebecca was looking at me with an unreadable expression.
There is a slight trembling of the lips. There was something I wanted to say, but it seemed like I couldn’t.
“…it doesn’t matter.”
“yes?”
“It doesn’t matter if I do strange things.”
“…”
It felt like being hit in the back of the head with a hammer.
That would also be the case, since what Rebecca was saying now was encouraging me no matter what.
“Do you think I would have planned this without even thinking about it?”
“…”
“Don’t forget that I’m smarter than you.”
Even so, provoking me made me feel like a very determined person today.
He decided that he would end up with me sitting in front of him.
Because it is strange and new.
“·······························.”
I burst into a small laugh.
Rebecca’s face hardened, of course, at my sneering laugh.
“Why are you laughing?”
“No, because my fiancée is funny.”
“Are you looking at me funny?”
“Doesn’t the princess know better than anyone that that can’t be the case?”
“…”
“It’s just that the fact that the princess and I, who had a bad relationship at first, have already developed a relationship of this level, was amazing.”
Who would have predicted
Me and Rebecca, who had been fighting boldly since our first meeting, would whisper love in the same space just the two of us like now.
Me, my parents, Rebecca’s parents, and Rebecca’s maid, Dorothy.
Even Rebecca wouldn’t have expected it.
“······First meeting is what’s important.”
As proof of that, there is a person who started blushing cutely in front of me right now.
Most of my expectations were right.
After looking at Rebecca for a while, I warned in a low voice.
“I’ll give you a chance to cancel right now.”
“Cancellation?”
“Yes. An opportunity to cancel the bold provocation that the princess spit out earlier.”
“…”
“It may be different from the princess’s thoughts, and you may regret it.”
So, this is your last chance.
“…”
Hearing my declaration that no more opportunities were given, Rebecca looked at me with the same puzzled look as before.
And, as someone who has been watching Rebecca up until now, when I saw it.
I already knew what Rebecca’s answer would be as she looked at me with her bright red eyes like now.
“… there’s no way you’ll regret it. I’m the Duke of Valencia, no one else.”
“I’ve definitely warned you.”
“I told you for sure. You won’t regret it.”
“…”
“My choice doesn’t change.”
My choice to love you is never.
Along with the last declaration that I heard from somewhere, though I couldn’t hear it with my ears.
That night began to deepen.
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