Chapter 821 – The Thread of Fate, the Finger That Spins Happiness (4)
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A few days after returning to Atlantis.
I finished the contract and took a slightly lighter leather pouch. To be precise, it wasn’t me, but the Valkyrie who followed me like an attendant.
“As expected, the cash headbutting is tough.”
With a hearty smile, I returned to Atlantis with the help of my friend, the Bicon Wizard.
Since the movement ends with one warp, it looks addictive. Smiling happily, I looked around the room and opened the note I was carrying.
─Squeak.
I drew one more line in the preparation list.
The stage was equipped and actors were called. I also practiced. Now there is only one thing left.
It was called Lalilura.
‘Perhaps he noticed it too.’
It was our junior who seemed to intuitively feel how things were going, like getting excited and turning his eyes around when his birthday approached.
‘Thanks to that, I was able to pay less attention to Alexandra.’
I’m sorry I missed the surprise, but I can’t help it.
This other world is different from the earth I grew up on. It is a place where there is little confession culture. Maybe that’s why Lalilura was more surprised than anyone else by my splendid confession to Fran.
That’s why I also thought of adapting to Ralilura’s taste today.
I clench and straighten my fists, take a deep breath, and spend a few extra hours setting things up.
─Break it!
With the help of Vicorn Raitling, he
When I touched the dress, he bent down.
“Have a good time.”
─Nod.
Say hello and let him go and wait a few minutes.
No, maybe it was several hours.
I’m not used to waiting like this.
“… Yes… ?”
On the bed wrapped in flowers, Lalilura opened her eyes.
Our junior, who had been practicing powers in the dream world for several days, had woken up. She woke up rubbing her eyes and was startled by the unfamiliar space and darkness.
He didn’t say a word, but he seemed shocked enough just to look around.
It took no time for my eyes to adjust to the darkness. The bed Ralilura was lying on was a shallow puddle with flowers, and the puddle was mysteriously glowing.
Cautiously, she rose and dipped her feet into the glowing water at her feet, murmured as the large flowers bloomed to keep her feet from getting wet.
“… The fairy king’s wand?”
It’s quick to notice.
Larry Lura looked down at her, and she must have noticed that this was a strangely large stage. The hall, like an orchestra performance hall that had been rented out, was empty.
I snapped her fingers just enough to hear the lari lura. The stage surrounded by blackout curtains became brighter.
As the light scattered, the dreamy colors shone the spotlight even on the stage of the play.
Loki in a clean clown suit like new, Crown Crown.
“Tonight. I dedicate this stage to my one and only precious audience.”
“Uh? Yeah?”
This time, Lalilura smirked as if understanding hadn’t caught up.
The Crown Crown, who was politely polite, bowed his back and said.
“It is an honor to be able to decorate the final performance of Crown Clown, the court jester, with such a joyful stage. Then please stay tuned. 〈The Night Presented a Dream〉.”
I took one more breath and pounded the keys.
─♬~ ♪~.
The backs of the stage were pouring down on me as well, and Crown Crown showed the stage in line with the tune I had practiced. The skills she had practiced even in her lifetime, all the arts that Lari Lura knew or didn’t know, shone in the tune.
The acrobatics moves to a dreamy atmosphere in line with romantic songs.
The last performance of Crown Crown, which Ralilura loved so much. It is the last concert.
Sitting on a bed that had been renovated from the stands close to the stage, Lalilura stared blankly at the scene. Beautiful acrobatics and all kinds of fantasies unfold that even she can’t even dare to do now.
As Loki, he had nothing left to show his juniors.
But not as a crown crown. The artistic spirit she created, which Loki could not leave, skipped centuries and unfolded here.
It was a stage promised in exchange for showing the images of Odin and Sleipnir, whom Loki wanted to see again. It was such an overwhelming art that even I watched it without saying anything for about an hour.
However, one hour is too long for a prelude.
The protagonist of the day wasn’t Loki, it wasn’t Crown Crown, much less I wasn’t.
─Poof!
Rocky naturally led the atmosphere of the performance and gradually changed it to a brighter and more upbeat one.
It was very difficult to follow her tune as she conducted and taught. It was barely possible because I focused all my nerves on my eyes and fingers like when I was fighting.
I sang the song of this world while beating the piano for the first time in my life.
‘Ah, boy! Do you remember the day you kissed me with blushing pink cheeks? The first day we held hands~♬? A part of my soul still flickers in the same color as your eyes.
He had the audacity to slander or swear, but he didn’t have the audacity not to blush while singing an embarrassing song. Even thinking about it myself makes me feel bad.
‘If there is a place for me in you, please listen. Serenade just for you♪〉
Still, the song continued.
Crown The thread of the crown entwined the puppets born from daydreams and danced merrily. It was a neatly coordinated yet free-spirited dance.
I’d rather dance Confession through song, I wonder if it works well.
Maybe it’s an old feeling. I think confessions like this are common in this world. Wouldn’t it have been better to just leave the stage from one to ten to Loki?
My worries and regrets almost made me twist the keyboard. But it was thanks to her wagging her legs across the bed laughing at the edge of her vision that she was able to sing all the way.
Right. I’m not the type to cry at times like this.
So I laughed and relaxed. The belief that you won’t be rejected and not belittled was hard to get, so once you got it, it became a great will.
〈Serenade only for you, serenade only for today~♬!〉
♬♪~ ♬~…
I let go of the keyboard while singing the last lyrics.
“Aha! Ahahaha! Ahahahahahaha♡!”
After the long confession song, he ran to the stage called Lalilu and hugged me.
─Side, side!
Lalilura, who frantically kissed me on the cheek and rubbed her face against my chest, smiled broadly.
“What, really! When I asked what you were decorating, you and Loki were preparing something like this? Ah, the suit suits you better than that♡! Are these your worldly clothes?”
Now I could get a sense of his mood by the speed at which he chattered.
Judging by the speed at which he speaks and his intonation, he seems to be in a pretty good mood. I laughed haha
“What do you think? Are you okay?”
“No~? It’s a deduction! I almost couldn’t concentrate because I was worried that I would wake up without makeup and look ugly! It was fortunate that my face was reflected in the surface of the water!”
“Keep.”
Lalilura speaks with a completely relaxed face.
If you see him smiling, he’s kidding, but he’s not wrong. We have the trust that makes it possible to exchange jokes like this, but I couldn’t fathom women’s feelings.
As for Rari Lura, she might have been more concerned about her appearance than focusing on her stage. She should have intervened in the process of showing the mirror like Gongdu-sama.
She hugged me around the waist, Lari Lura, who didn’t seem offended at all for what she said.
“But if she hadn’t woken up, she wouldn’t have been so surprised and excited ♡? I’ll add extra points equal to three times the deducted points! Take it generously!”
Larry Lura twisted her waist and then looked around at her clothes.
“Oh, but the clothes are pretty♡? Seeing that your face was clean, did you prepare while I slept?”
“… I tried my best to decorate it.”
“Who? Are you a senior? Aren’t you the senior who will ask her sisters to help her confess?”
“Of course I am. She used her god as a handyman.”
Loki sitting on stage props and shaking his legs.
The clown, who had been called in for a daydream full of memories, kicked his chin and giggled. For the first time, this guy was me who looked like the god of pranks people think.
“Don’t look too bad. How wonderful and cute it is to say that you are preparing hard.”
“Taeng. Won’t you share it even if I praise you?”
“Don’t take it. Muscular girls are not my hobby.”
I let go of Lalilura’s arm holding me while screaming. Lalilura quickly moved away. I guess so. Because there are still important steps left.
Sarah Rock-.
He knelt down on her knees and added a stage effect.
The halo spinning in her hand formed a box. The contents inside are obvious, but I tried to match the color and shape of the box to Ralilura’s taste.
“I love you, Priscilla.”
After all, as a K-macho, the comment made me cringe no matter how many times I spit it out, but thanks to that shameful accent, as if her sincerity was conveyed, Lari Lura often put her feet on her back with her hands on her back.
“Sorry for being late. Have you been struggling for a long time?”
I smiled and opened the box as I looked impatient because I didn’t know what to do.
“From now on, I’ll make you happy and smiling while waiting for anything.”
The answer that was decided is still more powerful by saying it.
Spells aren’t necessarily magic.
“It’s far away anyway, so I wouldn’t just wait for my senior to come, but… Well, good.”
Lari Lura held out her wedding ring on the ring finger of her left hand and held it to her chest, sticking out her tongue.
“I will have some patience! Because I’m an adult♡!”
I hugged Ralilura. Laughing softly, Loki whirled down from the balloon and slid down the slide made of fire.
We went back to our bed seats, held hands, and watched the stage of the most famous clown in history for tens of minutes and hours.
***
Our junior seemed to want to wear a hanbok at the wedding.
“If I had my country’s traditional wedding ceremony, it would stand out a bit, wouldn’t it?”
“All I have to do is make my clothes look like this!”
Lari Lura, who hadn’t stopped laughing since the proposal, said, showing a picture that had been depicting her magazine. It seems to be enough if only you can wear it.
“Okay. I will prepare it for you.”
“Senior is the best! It’s cool and cool♡”
I can’t bet until when I can call you senior. We found her tailoring guild with Lari Lura’s skewed cross-section of her. It was a unique outfit, but it was not difficult to cut.
“Eh, Countess? I’m really sorry, but it’s a unique outfit, so it’s difficult to make it until the period–“
“Cash! With gold coins!”
“We will do our best in our branch!”
It was completed in an instant thanks to the money he had earned, saying it was a coma fund.
“Because I buy at least the clothes.”
“I don’t like it. It’s been a long time since I’ve dreamed of tailoring Seo-Bang’s clothes.”
“It’s a frugal dream.”
Lari Lura pulled out a shabby notebook and opened it, her eyes shining. Inside, she was filled with strange drawings and dozens of lines worth of girlish handwriting.
“My goal is to design the wedding itself from start to finish♡!”
Like the idea of a wedding hall?
It’s even drawn in the shape of a wreath… No, this was written when I and Veronica got married.
Very thorough I really made you wait and became garbage itself!
─It’s noisy.
It took a long time to prepare for the wedding while subtly accepting the Ralilura-like dream.
Alexandra, who had been to Britannia at the request of my wives, was seen in a suit at the wedding. Not the ones who won’t perform at Lari Lura’s wedding, like her daughter.
“Well. I’m busy, but I can’t not come this time. I have to get a coma for my grandson’s wedding.”
“You’re fresh. It’s okay to look awkward… Come to think of it, how many times have you been married?
Don’t come down because we have prepared a VIP room in a high place.
Pop! Bang-!
Petals exploding like firecrackers are gorgeous.
The two of us walked arm in arm along the wedding road, clearly showing who we were.
Calling people in, slicing the cake with lari lura without any tension, and Mr. Alexandra weeping loudly during her officiating ceremony. It was a shame that Lady Hennesses, whom I had sang for the officiating ceremony this time, dashed into the VIP room.
“Braided! Lalilura! Who did we bring!”
In place of Alexandra, who went to fix her make-up that was ruined from crying until the performance, members of the Flangungkula Circus brought a girl.
A girl who walks with an upright posture for being hesitant.
The clothes design is similar to Ralilura. Have you ever found a successor?
‘I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere… Ah.’
Erica. It’s Erica.
Who are you? She is a child who was once kidnapped by the leg-fucking partner of the Cream Sauce Circus. The girl who learned her acrobatics skills from Rari Lura.
She was startled as Lari Lura covered her mouth with her hanbok, which was decorated like her dress.
“Uh? Uh? What is it? Perhaps… “
“Yes. After persuading the orphanage director and the lord there for a long time, we decided to come to our circus. We’ve been talking about it for a long time, but it finally worked out!”
I thought it might have been because the orphanage director had heard news from me and my junior about that—rumours from Count Wolfheddin.
I thought about it, but didn’t say it.
“Uh, uh… Oh. Pear, Countess!”
“Aha♡! No one catches me even if I call her sister.”
It has to be. How can you say such heartless things when you are so happy?
I crossed my arms while watching the rehearsal of the circus starring Erica, who had practiced so hard. In the middle of that, I twisted my head at the back of the stage.
“… But don’t I have too many weddings?”
“Among the nobles, there are cases where concubines get married all at once, right?”
“No, the distinction between wife and concubine is a little harsh, but that’s Eva.”
“Yes? I tend to care enough about distinguishing each one, so there is nothing to worry about in strange places. Aristocrats are more moderate and self-centered than you think.”
A person from the palace sent by Elizabeth informed me.
You’ve probably heard of our relationship, so it’s not just lip service. Glad then
“Go quickly, senior! Let’s get started!”
“There are still 10 minutes left.”
I had to go back to the front to see the performance of the Circus Flangungula. We were about to leave the backstage, and found Loki standing in the middle of the street.
Lalilura stopped and waved her hand.
“As… Crown-nim, would you like to perform?”
“My performance in front of people is over with the last one. A clown who jumped back hundreds of years and came back to life, no matter how widely spread the name, the credibility itself will be lost.”
Loki waved her hand as if imitating Larry Lura. She looked back and forth between us.
“… I believe that you will be able to overcome any misfortune that may come your way.”
“Suddenly?”
“Shut up. It’s like a congratulatory speech for your sister’s successor and mine.”
She pouted at my reaction, then grabbed Rari Lura’s cheek and lightly touched her forehead.
“… I was born without parents in a sea of cold stars. It’s sad that you don’t know where you came from. The freedom you get while not knowing what you were born for and for what reason is just as hopeless.”
A word spoken with foreheads touching, even a little out of the blue. But as if something was being transmitted, Lari Lura closed her eyes and listened to Loki.
The gods of the beginning who were born to wish to be born themselves.
Can we consider them as orphans without parents? Loki’s words gave me a point of view I’d never thought of.
“Parents are the family that all creatures have even before they are born. But I… Odin and Henir didn’t have anything like that. No omniscient god can soothe loneliness alone.”
Even if he bought the feelings of others through pranks or provocations, it would not have been what Loki wanted.
Because there is no one to receive attention, they want attention from others.
People don’t go looking for what they already have. It was wishing for something you didn’t have.
So, the person who longs for the sound of laughter may be the one who can’t laugh himself.
That might be the origin of jokes and clowns.
“But just because you were born without having one, it doesn’t mean that you can’t even win.”
“Aha♡ It’s a matter of course from one to ten.”
Lalilura laughed. Loki laughed as well.
“It is only our clown’s right to seek laughter. Grasp the dream you pursue with full empty hands. If it were you, there would be no problem.”
The goddess who left the words of blessing gave me a glance and said.
“Fairy tales featuring kings and clowns are usually comedies☆ Just like my sister and I did!”
Piyuuung—.
Pew-!!
Firecrackers were lit at the wedding hall. People gathered in threes and fives at the concert hall.
“Oh?! I’m late!!”
Larry Loura was taken aback, and she grabbed my hand and hurried away. With the hem of her skirt fluttering, she looked back as she was led to the bride.
Loki gently waved his hand as if he wanted to stay there, but I wasn’t worried.
“Would you like to come with me? Loki.”
“… Uh?”
This is because the bicorns who helped prepare the stage gathered behind Loki.
Dressed in clothes from a different modern world, they beat their chests.
“It is a stage that we have prepared diligently for. In fact, I prepared a small performance behind them.”
“The human world… No, I thought I shouldn’t miss this opportunity to adapt to the new era.”
“We are also Loki-sama’s descendants, but we have to be bad at dancing and singing to use them!”
They are now free and will live in the world.
Even though I lost many things and failed repeatedly, there are things that have led to this future.
This is what Odin saw and what Loki wished for.
“… As for today, yes. It will be fine.”
Loki was awkward as if he couldn’t accept their feelings anymore. Having kept her mouth open, she raised the corners of her mouth.
“Is there anything left? I can’t forgive poor pranks?”
The god of fire and mischief laughed as he deserved his name, and daringly jumped on their shoulders.
Just like in the distant past, in peaceful times.
