34 – The Night Before the Storm (2)
“Hmm….”
“…… Why?”
Cain Valencia, at the age of 18, is in a state of panic.
I looked at Illensia, who was squatting and touching my forearm, with a puzzled look on her face.
Despite my question, she just looked at me without saying anything. The hands that groped my body did not stop.
“This is s*xual harassment.”
“It’s okay.”
“… I’m not okay.”
Let’s look at Illensia’s weak talk, and she continued her words as if nothing had happened.
“I’m fine in the North. Who can say what?”
My body trembled with a sense of crisis at the sight of her bewitchingly licking her lower lip.
This is him.
Who the hell taught this kid?
I tried not to do it because it seemed like a pad lip, but there was no doubt that this was a problem with home education.
No, in the first place, since I’m the one who sticks with him the longest, it can be said that it’s my problem, so, strictly speaking, isn’t it a pad lip?
Even in the midst of useless worries, Illensia didn’t stop groping her body.
I came to my senses and stopped the strangely stimulating but not overstepping touch, then took a deep breath and asked.
“So why are you doing this?”
As for stimulation, the longer the action continued, the more tolerance developed.
It was said that just as you get used to seeing Illencia’s beautiful face every day, you also develop some resistance to Illencia’s physical attacks.
… In the case of her face, it was rather a problem that her eyes were raised so high that I didn’t think she was pretty unless she was as beautiful as Illencia.
Anyway, I just talked at length about how Ilencia was no longer as flustered as before by being hit with her body.
“… Chet.”
Illensia finally stopped her hand and opened her mouth.
“I just thought there were results from training.”
“You have to touch it to know?”
“Would you show me if I asked for it?”
“…… Not that.”
Even I was confused whether this woman tilting her head in front of her eyes was as innocent as her expression, or if she was not him, or if she was a coquettish woman like her words.
It was to the point where I was a little afraid of seeing Illencia, who was calm and calm, as Illencia gradually raised the level as the days went by.
Is it an intention to make me dull by gradually raising the threshold of stimulation?
It was a feeling that I could not stop even though I knew that I was gradually being drawn into Illencia like a frog in slowly boiling water.
“So I touched it once.”
“No matter how you do it, you can’t touch the body of an extramarital man.”
Even though it is always a line that can be pierced and fall without hesitation, it was the law to draw it at least when holding on to reason.
Illencia smiled lightly at her firm words, and nodded her head coolly for some reason.
“Okay.”
“… That, yes.”
I was taken aback by her meekly agreeing.
“That’s why I won’t act like this to an ‘outside man’.”
Do you know the definition of an extramarital man and talk like that?
I definitely felt that I wouldn’t be included in the definition of an extramarital man that Illencia was talking about.
Even so, my grand princess, who boasts of bull stubbornness only for me, would not listen to me, so she kept her mouth shut.
“Whoops.”
Illensia looked at me with satisfaction. She shuddered at the feeling of her thoughts slowly sinking in and moved with Ilencia.
“Is the Grand Duchess still noisy?”
“It’s always like that.”
Even if Illencia seemed relaxed without doing anything, she was steadily taking the steps to become the head of the household.
She seemed to be taking care of herself since she was a brilliant child in the first place.
Of course, no matter how little she expresses emotion (except when she is with me), even if she is Illencia, her stress is bound to build up, so she relieved it by taking a walk with me.
I don’t know if this will help relieve Elencia’s stress.
“… How did you know?”
“What?”
Ilensia tilted her head at the sudden question.
“The thing I asked Evan Sang Sangju.”
“Ah… that?”
It was a simple story.
Anyway, I didn’t expect Illencia to know.
I blinked for a moment and answered her question.
“At first, I thought about who would benefit from this situation.”
Who are the people who benefit from spreading rumors about the war?
Merchants and merchants who have been able to trade goods at high prices due to soaring prices?
If it’s not him, are they pseudo-sages taking advantage of confusion to spread their doctrines to the world?
I thought that this problem was not so simple to approach. That’s right, because the timing was subtle.
In fact, the North was a place where there were frequent clashes with barbarians.
That was a story about ten years ago, and even though it was simply a tacit truce, they were always keeping each other in check and biting each other behind the scenes.
Rumors suddenly spread in a situation where both the barbarians and the northern part gradually regained their strength, repaired the damage, and now regained the strength to collide with each other again.
It was an easy inference that someone was behind it.
And it’s a video even if you don’t see who’s behind it, it’s something even a child can tell.
The question is how the barbarians infiltrated the interior of the North….
That wasn’t too difficult considering Illencia’s 11th birthday party.
It wouldn’t have been difficult for those who had enough numbers to break into the Grand Duchess’s birthday party and hide inside the North.
“We’ll hunt down the traitors soon.”
Should I call him a traitor, a traitor, or a spy?
Bloody winds will blow in the north.
Illensia’s appearance as she said that, well, had a strong feeling that it was a world that had nothing to do with her.
I looked at Illencia in a complex and subtle way before opening my mouth.
“… I hope it ends well.”
I knew very well that it was inevitable.
Since the North and the barbarians cannot coexist with each other, it was a fight, a fight, and a war that would inevitably happen.
However, while Illencia was alive, there was also a wish that the war would not happen.
It was a selfish thought, but at least Illencia wanted to live peacefully and without worries.
But, I instinctively felt it.
That this calm is the calm before the storm.
“… What are you thinking about?”
For a while, I was bruised, but I was able to come to my senses at Illencia’s question.
“No big deal.”
I hoped it wouldn’t be a big deal.
When I smiled with such hope, Illensia reached out and put it on my cheek.
Because of my height, Ilencia had to look up at me and stretch out her hand.
Thanks to the cold northern wind, a cold hand touched my cheek.
I unknowingly startled and met her eyes with her. I could feel the red eyes staring into my black ones.
“You are always.”
“….”
“They worried about me.”
“What’s wrong with that?”
A different atmosphere than usual.
It’s always been like this, but back then it was kind of playful, but now it’s serious and heavy.
Looking at her eyes, nose, and mouth, Illensia continued her words.
“I am no longer a six-year-old child… Do you still see me that way?”
Wouldn’t it be the same whether you were 6 or 18? I am already over forty.
She thought about that, but she couldn’t say anything. It wasn’t because I was worried about her simply because I was looking at her young.
Throbbing—— Throbbing——.
Irregular heartbeat.
My heart, which normally beats fine, started beating wildly as if it had broken down.
It was always like that when looking into Illencia’s eyes.
It wasn’t because I was afraid, nor because I was scared. Even I could now understand what this trembling, this beating, meant.
“How can I stop you, Cain, from seeing me as a child?”
I don’t see it as a child.
I couldn’t get those words out.
Illencia’s eyes, nose, mouth, words, atmosphere… She was so overwhelmed by everything that she couldn’t say anything.
I was just watching.
Ilensia’s hand caressing my cheek, nose, and finally her lips.
‘Hand… It’s pretty.’
Every time her fine and slender fingers brush, a strange heat rises.
I didn’t know if it was the flames from my heart or the warmth from Illencia’s fingers.
“… It was coming.”
“Huh?”
Only then was I able to question Illencia’s vague words.
“Because I thought it was against the law to push with my body.”
… Wasn’t it already pushed?
The fact that what I thought was a physical attack was actually not a physical attack made me saddened.
“I tried to keep you from seeing me as a child….”
Gulp.
At Illencia’s words, the slightest sigh left my dry saliva.
“If it is still the same….”
After stopping her words for a moment, Illensia’s face slowly draws closer. I have to block it, but her body won’t move.
Like a prey frozen in front of a predator.
Sweet breath brushes the tip of her nose, and Ellensia’s hair tickles her face.
Illensia’s lips passed mine and approached my ear, opening it.
“Are you going to attack me?”
The moment the voice pierced my ears, my heart started beating wildly.
As if it would explode through this thick skin and trained muscles.
“…… Whoops.”
While listening to her words in a daze, I blinked in regret as Illencia got farther away.
Illencia looked at me and smiled contentedly, then reached out and touched the back of her nose with her finger.
“Whoa….”
She let out the breath she had been holding back at the same time.
Illensia burst into laughter and moved her steps slowly and leisurely.
“Just kidding.”
That’s… I’m making fun of people….
I breathed out and put my forehead on the illusion that the tail of the desired fox was rustling.
“Not yet?”
That’s it….
“… What is desired.”
The words that flowed like laments did not reach her ears.
It was still cold and cold in the north.
It was summer-like heat today.
At least for me.