As I was stroking my hair, I still felt awkward.
First of all, I was talking nonsense that was so ridiculous, so I started with head-butting.
To be honest, I still didn’t think that the mature man in front of me was a young boy who had been chasing after me a few months ago.
All I could think of was that he was just sitting and admonishing an outsider.
“Kai.”
“yes.”
“How long do I have to be like this?” I’m going to lose my arm, really.
No matter how much he lowered his head, he was still high. It seemed that it would be easier for me to lie down like this than stroking my hair.
Kaiers, on the other hand, still rubbed his face on her shoulder and buried it.
“It hurts because you hit it.”
“Are you going to do my forehead? So, what did you eat to make it this hard?”
Leverticia muttered as she squeezed her swollen forehead. “Look.”
Kaius lifted her hand and stared at her blushing forehead.
Then he brought my lips to my forehead and kissed them briefly. Leverticia stood still, as if frozen, blankly, looking up at him.
‘… What is he really doing wrong?’
Contrary to Leverticia’s bewildered expression, Kaius’ expression was brazen.
“why? It was cute back then.”
“That was when you were young.” “What is different?”
“You are all grown up. You’re eighteen now, not eight.” “Eighteen is too young.”
“….”
Leverticia was at a loss for words. I couldn’t argue with what I had said in the past. Maybe that’s why he grew up so brazen…
“What are you thinking about?”
“I thought I was doing something seriously wrong.”
“Of course. Do you know what I have to say to you?”
Kaius’s hand rested on top of hers. His hand holding onto him as if soaking in was also the hand of a perfect adult.
Leverticia was surprised once again. “Tell me what happened.”
“Are you talking about me?”
“yes. To be honest, I still can’t believe it. Actually you… I wondered if he might have been caught by me after leaving me and living in another place for ten years.”
“Suddenly, what does that mean?” “….”
Kaiser’s eyes frowned slightly.
Then he spit out things he didn’t want to think about.
“Because I don’t want you to marry me. Because marrying a young child is a disgrace. So I thought I was gone somewhere I couldn’t find it.”
“no. Why do you keep talking nonsense? … Isn’t that what you thought?”
Leverticia looked straight into his eyes and said. The Kaius she knew was not a child who easily recalled such pessimistic thoughts. Even that
specific.
At her scolding remarks, Kaius flinched and averted his eyes. Seeing that, Leverticia was even more convinced.
“Who told you that? Did I disappear because I didn’t like you?” “….”
‘Then did you really think that crazy dog did such a thing for a little boy like you? He just used you to eat and run away. It’s like stupid garbage…. He
may have already started a new life without you knowing. Like your parents, he has abandoned you.’
The Duke of Everett came to Kaiers from the day Leverticia disappeared and laid out his hair like that.
At first, he didn’t believe Kaius either, but after hearing such accusations over and over for 10 years, it was engraved in his mind as if he had been brainwashed.
‘… Common sense doesn’t make it real.’
Kaius let out a small self-assured laugh.
He couldn’t shake the thought until she broke into his room, pathetic.
He didn’t even come out of the room, let alone talk with her for a few days, in case his words would turn out to be true.
Kaius stared straight into her burning eyes, then let out a low laugh.
“Letty. Do you think you are still my guardian? You don’t think I’m a kid who trembles because of other adults like I was back then.”
“I don’t know about anything else, but even as a kid and now, the way he talks is still cheap, no, I know it’s rough.”
“Can I still take it as a meaning of cute?” “Who do you want?”
Leverticia clicked her tongue. He had a physique that could no longer be called ‘cute’ even with empty words.
It didn’t feel as bulky and fierce as the knights she had encountered often, but Kaius was also tall, skinny, with strong muscles, and even when
standing still, he had the momentum to overwhelm others.
“You used to say you didn’t like being called cute. say you’re young But now that they are all grown up, what is disgusting?”
“… It’s better to be cute than to be creepy.”
Kaiers tried to bury his face in her shoulder again, but Leverticia gently pushed him away.
“ruler. Now the happy reunion time is over. From now on, I need time to explain.”
She sat him in a chair. Kaius sat down like a crooked student, chin up and looking at her.
“So what can I explain to you, who has grown up disgustingly? Noble Leverticia?”
There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice. Leverticia opened her mouth, ignoring it.
“For ten years without me. Tell me what happened.”
“iced coffee. If so, where should I start? It was so long ago that I can barely remember.”
Kaius tapped the table as if contemplating. Then he stopped and raised the corners of his mouth and smiled.
“First of all, let me tell you what you are most curious about, Celsior is fine. Viscount Celsior is fine.”
“… ha.”
Leverticia breathed a sigh of relief.
At her reaction, Kaiers laughed and snorted about what else the judges had to do with it.
“Did you come to me to ask that in the first place? Because Celcier and my brother came to mind before my worries.”
“I was worried about you. But Rudel is my family.” “I am your family too.”
There was a really bitter feeling in the words that were added afterward. Before she could make any excuses, Kaius raised his head.
“But only the Viscount Celsior is okay. If you have other close friends, prepare your mind in advance. There is a high chance that he will not be safe now.”
“What does that suddenly mean?”
“The ten years without you, the warlocks have ruined the country.” Kaiers said with a self-helpful laugh.
“I told you. Shortly after you disappeared, the warlocks grew like worms. Thanks to that, there are a lot of people who died in the very early stages of the chaos. The situation has changed a lot in the past.”
“then… chaos? What else is that?”
“The first year the monster of chaos appeared. Call it chaos. In other words, from the moment you disappeared to the present, the period of chaos is.”
“What else is the monster of chaos? under… What’s so complicated?” Leverticia grabbed my hair as if ripping it off.
Apparently, a lot had happened while she was away.
Her original purpose was to wipe out the warlocks, but instead, she was locked in a barrier and did nothing for ten years.
In such a disaster-like situation, no matter how hard the emperor tried to rectify it, it would have been in vain. Her vacancy must have been huge.
As a close friend of the emperor, as a knight, and as the leader of the operation that wiped out the warlocks. A sense of guilt rose from the depths.
Kaius grabbed her hand as she ripped off my hair.
“don’t do it. No one expected that these children would burst out suddenly. Besides, even if you were there anyway, I would have saved a few more people, and the essence could not have been stopped. It’s the warlock’s side that deserves to be ripped off.”
“What the hell are these guys for? …. ha, no I don’t need to know what other people think.”
Kaiers reached out and ran through her tangled hair to tidy up.
“right. Besides, unlike in the early days, he is in a very stable state now.”
“Didn’t you say that it was still a chaos period? But how do you become stable?”
At her question, Kaiers smiled softly.
As he spoke serious words, his gaze was focused solely on Leverticia, and he felt strangely relaxed.
“As our noble Leverticia-sama said, it is because I have grown disgustingly.”
*
Seeing once is faster than hearing a hundred times. Leverticia followed Kaiers to the outskirts of the capital.
To be precise, while they were talking, an urgent scorpion came and moved. A monster of chaos appeared near the capital.
Fortunately, it appeared from an empty ranch, so no other casualties have been reported.
However, since you never know when an accident might happen, they were moving there as quickly as possible.
As they moved, Leverticia looked out over the surrounding landscape. Obviously, a lot had changed from her memory.
Ten years is by no means short.
After waking up, whenever this fact touched my skin, I felt various
complicated emotions, but not as much as when I saw Kaius as an adult. “why. Where are you uncomfortable?”
“no.”
“But why are you looking so shaky?”
… It’s amazing how well you drive a horse. Leverticia swallowed the answer.
Although I thought I had adapted to him as an adult, it was unavoidable for me to keep thinking of him as a young man.
For her, just a few months ago, she was a child who was almost in her arms and rode to the wedding hall.
“Hey, this is it!”
The guide who was guiding the way pointed to a wide meadow.
Let’s go in the direction he is leading, and we will see a wooden sign with the words ‘Pempi Ranch’ and… There was a living creature chewing on the sign like a piece of paper.
‘Life?’
Can you really call it a living thing?
I’m sorry, but the name ‘failure’ seemed more appropriate. Dark skin, churning tentacles, foamy body.
The monster of chaos that Rebertisha saw before her eyes was literally chaos and a monster.
“What are you thinking about?”
“… Once again, I think people are very intuitively good at attaching names.”
“but. You have no talent for naming things.” “Did you finish talking?”
“no. I will do more.”
Leverticia narrowed her eyes and turned her head towards him.
A long gun was already in Kaius’s hand. He loaded his bullets with ease. “What would you do if I killed that one in one shot?”
“What?” shudder.
There was a clicking sound, and he aimed at the monster. He spoke slowly, as if he didn’t really care about that terrifying-looking monster.
“Will you marry me?” Taang—
Immediately after a strong gunshot rang in his ears, he whispered in disappointment.
“ah. We already did it, right.”
