77 – The Real Counterattack

“Why is the ring still on?”

“····.”

“That’s where I put it myself.”

The fiancé hangs his head as if he can’t answer her question at all.

‘······Finally.’

It’s not that I haven’t been through a lot of situations like this.

The situation where someone asks an embarrassing question and someone else doesn’t say anything embarrassingly was a daily occurrence between her and her fiancé.

It’s just that I wasn’t used to the fact that the person asking the question and the person receiving it were the exact opposite of what they usually were.

Her always shy side was her, not her fiancé.

Her face was always hot because of her fiancé’s embarrassing words and actions that always popped out without caring about her surroundings.

Her and her fiancé were delighted to see her like that. What an unfair world this is.

······That doesn’t mean I didn’t like her fiancé’s words and actions.

It was she who always swung at her fiancé with her smirk.

“Why don’t you say anything? You’re usually so talkative.”

“····.”

However, the current situation was completely opposite to the usual.

Unlike her, embarrassing words are coming out of her mouth, and her fiancé is speechless at the sudden change in her appearance.

I don’t know how the situation got to this point, but she knew better than anyone else in the world that her current opportunity was an opportunity that never came easily.

“As you said, the ring you gave me was so precious to me that I slept hugging it.”

“····.”

“I say this too, but why can’t you tell me why you’re wearing a ring like you’ve never taken it off?”

Her fiancé, still with her head down, unable to say anything.

Her fiancé’s ears, peeking through her dark hair, were a little blushing, as if embarrassed.

“Are you ashamed to say that I didn’t want to remove the ring I put on myself?”

She felt that her self-confidence, which had previously grown, grew even more when she saw it.

How long has it been?

The fact that she took the initiative in her relationship with her fiancé, that her fiancé couldn’t budge at a word she said.

Although even her cheeks were blushing from the embarrassing sentences flowing out of her mouth, it was she who was taking the initiative now anyway.

“Why don’t you say something? Don’t keep your head down.”

And even a three-year-old would know that this rare opportunity shouldn’t be blown away.

For the sake of the future that has already been decided, even for the future self who will have to live with this nasty person for the rest of his life.

She had to make good use of the long-awaited opportunity and create a cause not to be swayed by her fiancé.

If I couldn’t make it up, it was clear that I would have to live a terrible (?) Life where my heart was pounding and my heart was pounding at every word my fiancé said.

“Did you like me that much?”

In order not to face such a life, she calmed down her cheeks, which were getting watery like maple leaves, and continued her words.

“······Pushup.”

“…?”

Until she heard laughter out of nowhere from her fiancé, who had been still with her head down.

“I tried to just listen for the sake of the princess, but… I can’t possibly do that.”

“····.”

“No wonder I like her fiancé so much.”

Her fiancé’s face, which had been lowering her head for a long time, had already turned into a playful face.

***

At first, she tried to stay still and listen.

Rebecca’s behavior, which has changed considerably since she expressed her feelings, was also interesting.

Her fiancée, whose face turned red as she spoke sentences that seemed far from her usual self, was also cute.

She just listened quietly, thinking that she would lose at least once.

“Did you like me that much?”

“······Pushup.”

“…?”

She couldn’t stand it any longer as she watched her fiancée ask if she liked her with her blushing face.

“No wonder I like her fiancé so much.”

Whatever she said, the truth was that she only hurt her mouth.

If I hadn’t liked Rebecca, she wouldn’t have been with her bad-tempered fiancée for three years.

If I hadn’t loved Rebecca, I wouldn’t have gifted her a ring on Rebecca’s birthday that clearly meant her.

But I’ve been bickering with Rebecca for three years, and I gave her a ring for her fiancée’s birthday.

The reason is, of course, that I fell in love with my fiancee, ‘Rebecca Valencia’.

And that fact wasn’t a secret that only I kept, it was a fact that Rebecca knew as well, her pupils shaking as if she was embarrassed in front of me.

“You asked why I didn’t take off the ring?”

“····.”

“What the princess said earlier is correct. I didn’t want to take off the ring that the princess put on me herself, so I didn’t take it off.”

“······But why earlier…”

Rebecca looks at me as if she’s going to answer well, but why didn’t you answer earlier?

The two red eyes, which were bigger than usual, were cute, and as a fiancé full of consideration, I couldn’t help but answer.

“Isn’t it to make fun of the cute fiancée who, of course, thinks he’s in control of her?”

“····.”

“Did you really think that the princess won like I said?”

“······No.”

“Then why is she turning her head away? She was the one who said to her fiancé earlier, “What are you doing with your head down?”

“····.”

Rebecca tried to deny it, as if it wasn’t true.

The cheeks that were already flushed and the head that was turned away because I couldn’t meet my eyes perfectly expressed that Rebecca was lying.

“As I said before, it is a matter of course.”

“·······What is it.”

Maybe if it was me in the past, I might have made fun of her fiancée more here.

‘Alberger Nias’, who was immature before checking each other’s feelings, could not judge properly and may have bothered her fiancée more because he was excited for nothing.

However, there was a clear difference between me now and me in the past.

Has it been said that people grow up through various experiences?

After experiencing Rebecca so far, I had already figured out how best to act in the current situation.

“The fact that I like the princess more than anyone else.”

“····.”

“It’s clear that the truth has been revealed like this, but does the Princess know that I have to express it in words?”

“······That’s not it…”

In a situation like this, it’s more effective to pretend to be upset and make her fiancé fidgety than to push her further.

Then my fiancée, who is weaker than she looks, will slowly approach me and give me another chance.

“······This is a joke.”

And, seizing the opportunity given by God is entirely my role.

I whispered that I was joking and kissed Rebecca lightly as she approached to see if I was really upset.

“Hey! Did you see the butler?”

“Yes, I did.”

“Young master kissed the young lady!!”

“Since I’ve seen it, raise your voice…”

“Kyaaak!!!”

“····.”

Immediately after the kiss, Dorothy’s fuss is heard and the butler’s voice tries to calm her down somehow.

“······!”

Rebecca was startled by her totally unexpected kiss and was looking at me with her blushing even more than before.

That expression was as if what the hell were you doing in this public place where everyone else was watching?

“Why do you look at me like that? Did you not like it?”

“····.”

It didn’t matter to me at all.

What’s wrong with two engaged people kissing each other?

On the contrary, it was strange that Rebecca and I, who had been together for three years and had hardly progressed, were not treated strangely.

Besides, there was a legitimate reason to kiss now.

The reason is not to lose in a game with her fiancée.

The reason is to scold her fiancée who is trying to win by embarrassing her fiancée with cowardly and arrogant words.

This is what made me kiss Rebecca.

“······ Eh.”

Perhaps the kiss just now was so effective that Rebecca didn’t come to her senses until I finished organizing her thoughts.

It’s said that it happened suddenly, but I can’t come to my senses this far.

I thought that I should increase the frequency of skinship with my beloved fiancée in order to develop her mental strength.

“I’ll do it one more time if you keep mesmerized.”

“····.”

“So come to your senses. Before you really do it one more time.”

“······ Eh.”

Rebecca still can’t come to her senses despite my words to come to her senses.

Is it really that you couldn’t come to your senses, or are you pretending to be unconscious because you want to be kissed by me?

I had no way of knowing the truth as I couldn’t read people’s minds.

At least, one thing was certain.

“······You stay as you are.”

“····.”

Today, too, my fiancee failed to defeat me.

The sound of the kiss that resonated lightly again proved that fact more clearly than any other evidence.