65 – Double-edged Flower (1)

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“Finn, I don’t think you’ll ever smile at another woman somewhere. If you promise me you won’t smile like that at another woman… I’ll pretend this didn’t happen. As promised, he’ll tell you about me too.”

Lily spoke in a small voice that only I could hear, turning her white jade-like face red like a carrot.

I couldn’t tell the exact expression because she was turning her head insinuatingly, but the pitch and tone of her voice suggested that Lily’s anger was completely resolved.

I can’t find words to describe it other than fortunately.

Even if it’s a web novel, is it because I’ve been studying all the romance novels?

It wasn’t my intention, but it was the fact that I seem to have quite a bit of romance in this era.

At the end of my line of sight, Ripre and Bianca, who had their mouths open and couldn’t contain their surprised expressions, said this.

“…Humans, do all lovers exchange words like that?”

“No, from my point of view, that guy must have seduced the princess with his words.

“Isn’t that right? The human men I’ve seen are normal, and I-that man is weird?”

Don’t point your finger at people. Like Irene, you can give them true education.

I couldn’t say that openly, so I just lived a little.

“Hey!”

Perhaps the event during the tournament had become quite traumatic. Faced with my death, Leafre lowered her head like a frightened mouse and looked away from us.

“What’s wrong? Leafre.”

“Shh, shh! Bianca, turn your head too! Don’t provoke that man for nothing…!”

“Why, what did he do?”

Bianca turned her gaze to me from Leafre, who was frightened and lowered her head.

It doesn’t matter if you say what you want, but at least I made letters with a mirage and made it visible only to them with the hope that it would be done in a place where they could not be heard.

[It’s noisy, so be quiet. Don’t ruin the atmosphere.]

I thought that this was enough to understand, but it seems that it was not so that they accepted it. Or the events of the tournament still have a core.

“How does that bastard understand what we said on this street and do that?”

It wasn’t until after he said one word of complaint that he began to rest his chin reluctantly as if to turn his head.

‘What did we kiss in a public place?

After hearing the complaint, I wonder if there was anything I didn’t come up to, it seems my eyes were fixed too far away.

“…What’s wrong with Finn?”

Lily’s gaze, which had been staring at me, followed the direction of my gaze, and her eyebrows twitched.

“Couldn’t it be?”

To be precise, looking at Leafre, who was proud of the off-white color unique to elves, and Bianca, who was wearing clothes that showed off her strong body, she turned her gaze to me again.

“Of course not. It’s just that those guys were glaring at me…”

“What, was that so? Wait a minute.”

“The princess?”

Leaving my question behind, Lily discharged magic from her hand and shouted an incantation.

Shouting the chant meant that the level of proficiency in the magic he was currently preparing for was insufficient.

Maybe it was something I learned right before summer vacation started.

“Seclusio.”

Seclusio.

The moment the word came out of Lily’s mouth, she couldn’t help but admire it.

In the original work, it was only possible for Selina to acquire that magic after becoming a sophomore.

Saaak-

Magical power dissipated from Lily’s hand, and a large shield was created between us and them, cutting off our visual field of vision.

“What, what is this…!”

“…Calm down, it’s the princess over there Bianca. Well, doesn’t that mean don’t interfere?”

“What? They do all sorts of things, really. It’s not for nothing that they say that they play with each other.”

I still heard a voice so small that Lily couldn’t hear it, but since I can’t see it, let’s not worry about it anymore. It was because if we focused only on the other side of this, our princess might vomit properly.

“But I don’t like something… Looking at another woman when I’m in front of her. Although it was an unavoidable reason.”

Lily, who pursed her lips, said that while rubbing her face against my chest.

“Then I shouldn’t smile at women other than the princess, but shouldn’t I look at them too?”

When I smiled and asked if I should be careful about walking with my eyes open now, Lily punched me in the chest and puffed up my cheeks.

“That’s not what it meant…!”

And, quite naturally, there were several in the study in my head even how to deal with a man in this situation.

Our relationship as a princess and a servant was not a very common subject, so I had no choice but to come up with the lines on my own, but I was able to figure out an appropriate action.

I grabbed Lily’s wrist, who was continuously pounding my pectoral muscles with her slender fist, and slowly moved my hand from her wrist to the blade that had been striking me.

“Your hand must hurt. I said it as a joke, so please don’t be so angry.”

As my large hands gently caressed Lily’s small, slender hands and rubbed them as if to wrap them around her, Lily immediately blushed and then started looking at me with a complex and delicate expression on her face.

“The princess?”

“pin.”

“Yes, please tell me, Princess.”

“I think so many different things whenever Finn does this to me. You know?”

It was a completely unexpected answer and reaction. Is my choice of action wrong?

It wouldn’t be. If that was the case, I wouldn’t have had to blush like this until now.

It was a very short time, but the answer didn’t come out even after thinking about it, so I asked the reason.

“As I said, it’s a difficult problem for me to understand. Could you please tell me?”

“…Don’t look so anxious. It’s not that I hate it.”

Did my expression show on the outside? Lily met my gaze and slowly raised her hand to caress my cheek.

“First of all, you know I owe you my life, right? How many times.”

“…that,”

As if not listening to my objections, Lily shook her head and continued.

“No, no matter what anyone says, my life has been saved many times by you. Even if I have been saved once, my life has been saved many times without knowing how to repay it. That includes the life of Obama. So far, it is an undeniable fact, right? ?”

“That’s right, but…”

Lives were saved. You saved Obama’s life. gave grace worn

As I, who has all the facts that have now become untrue in a book called memories, I put words in my ears that I would not dare to say.

As a result, the sentences I spit out become words, and words break into syllables and words become blurred. My consciousness is clouded by memories that do not even exist in the memory of this world.

It is because what I am discussing is a reversal of words and a contradiction.

What was the reason I was able to enjoy life in this world in the first place? What gave me the strength to live on?

it was all you Lilithiana Ekaterina.

It’s simply ‘after saving the princess here, I’m going to have to eat the ice water while fanning my favorite character.’ I am the one who made you die in a more painful situation than the original.

Nevertheless, you devoted your life to me even though you knew that the opinion and report to go find that elixir came from me.

Trash like me didn’t have that qualification. I didn’t deserve to be taken care of by you. I shouldn’t have given you such favor.

Of course you didn’t know No, I’ll never know for the rest of my life.

That the enemy who made you live a more unfortunate fate than the one originally given to you is me. The fact that you were the one who unknowingly gave love and grace to that enemy.

Even if you tell me, you won’t know. You won’t understand.

Even if he said it, it would be fortunate if he wasn’t treated as a delusion, and even if he believed it, he wouldn’t even pay much attention to it because it didn’t even have a sense of reality to Lily now.

‘I’ve never given you anything grandiose like grace.’

Grace was to say what you did to me, and what I have done to you is a simple return of grace.

If you were born as a human, it is a natural duty to do.

So even though I knew what Lily was trying to say to me, I couldn’t bear to hear it. No, I didn’t want to hear it.

That’s what Lily wants to say to me right now.

“Even so, if you continue to care for me like this… If you treat me like this, when will I ever have to repay the favor…”

Unlike Finn, who left after repaying the favor, these were words I shouldn’t have heard, as I hadn’t even repaid the favor yet.

I haven’t shown you a happy ending yet.

It’s a situation where you can’t even guarantee that your future will show a better ending than before.

“I know Finn wants a relationship like this. But, I don’t know what to do if you treat me any more nice than this…”

So, a bit cowardly, Lily spat out lines that she had no choice but to accept.

Because I can’t tell Lily my true feelings.

“I’m just a man, and I just want to pretend to be cool in front of the woman I love. So…”

“This is the second reason.”

Lily gave me an affectionate, somewhat sad expression and ironically smiled.

“It would be nice if it was my mood, but for some reason, sometimes I feel like a wall from you, Pin. I can tell that you love me, but everything you say is so sweet that sometimes I forget too… Why, your sweet words Sometimes it just doesn’t touch my heart.”

“…”

Now I was completely speechless to the point where I couldn’t even form a syllable.

Since when? Because the question called began to circulate in my head.

Lily caught my momentary hesitation in her eyes, and the result was so obvious.

“I guess that was the answer, I wonder how I figured it out?”

“…No, this.”

“I didn’t notice when you were Berry, because I didn’t care for you. But ever since I knew you were Pin, I kept holding you in my eyes and heart, so I could see you even if I didn’t want to see you. It’s because I really like you. Is it?”

“…”

“So I thought about it myself, but… are you reciting lines from romance novels? Do you think I’ll be happy then?”

Lily asks if my feelings and words don’t touch me because I recite the lines of a romance novel.

Perhaps it was guessed from the remark that I had read romance novels before and did the same to Lily.

That reasoning is half right, but half wrong.

But in the current situation, it was a very happy illusion and half-accurate reasoning.

“It’s embarrassing. I’m sorry. I just want to see the princess happy…”

So I put it in my mouth. My whole mood and mind, without using any knowledge.

Hide what needs to be hidden as much as possible.

“No no, if it’s like that, it’s fine. Rather, if it’s for that reason, I’m glad. I’ve heard that men have that side to some extent, so I’m rather glad. Sorry, I acted carelessly.”

hehehe

Lily shows the kind of immature smile she’s seen before.

Lily probably misunderstood that I acted that way because, like any other boy, I want to show off myself in many ways in front of a girl I like.

Really, I just felt lucky.