Chapter 918 – Portrait of a Young Ruler (1)
“The morning breeze is so fucking refreshing.”
On such an amazing morning, after being separated from Nefertiti, I smiled happily.
‘The ring is ready. I’ve also decided on a place to propose.’
It’s not dramatic, but it’s pretty good timing.
As for what I like the most, the good thing is that it’s not too much of a surprise.
Maybe even Tyrsi? And expect a little bit. Originally a surprise gift, wouldn’t it be a disastrous failure if emotions or circumstances went out of order?
So me and she said, ‘You know? Did she get a rough idea?’
‘There’s no way Tyrsi would reject my confession in the first place.’
My shoulders shrugged as if ascending. You bastard, you’ve been paying attention to the weather. If there was even a shower, you almost had to clear the sky with the absolute sky area, didn’t you?
– Moongrak.
Looking out the window, I sighed at the freshly poured cold water.
“Welcome to Fucking Happy Day.”
─Gulp.
The cool water that goes over Mokuldae and the sunny weather that is not too hot.
It was a perfect day to propose.
***
The end of the day depends on the beginning of the day. It has been over the years that Tirshi Armashnas has had such beliefs, or jinxes.
Minor luck, such as the fact that breakfast eggs were twins, or that normally congested roads and traffic went smoothly today, were fortune-telling for the day.
Tirshi woke up from a sound sleep and looked up at the sunlight pouring down from a distance, with his hair tousled.
“… Weather breeder.”
Sunlight penetrates through the curtains.
It was a good day from the start. She woke up, encouraging her body to want to sleep even after her sleep. It is a day made by delaying and advancing the busy schedule. She had no time for sleep.
“… Hi.”
“Oh, Nefertiti. Hello?”
When I opened the inn’s private room and left, Nefertiti was also coming out of the room.
Were you brushing your teeth? It was her with a toothbrush in her mouth.
“A date today?”
“Yes, what. So I woke up early.”
Tirthy answered shyly, examining the toothbrush she had bitten.
‘… Even the toothbrush was a little different in Nordnes world.’
She hadn’t seen it a few times, but she was certain that it would be easier to use than the 【Middle Branch】 toothbrush made from alchemy by-products, trees, plant stems, etc.
‘I should remember this too.’
Nord might have gotten used to it, but if each of these inconveniences accumulate, you never know when they will explode. Let’s develop it and place it in the house.
Of course, being uncomfortable with being full of homesick stuff around you. Which was worse, though even Tyrsi couldn’t give a definitive answer.
Shoot aaaaa…
Wash yourself with cold water and wash your hair.
Full-length hair is annoying to be honest. There are times when I want to cut it short like Dana. It’s true that it takes a lot of work to wind and dry.
However, she steadfastly lathered, washed with water, dried with wind, and even finished combing. She put more effort into it than during the crowning ceremony of an honorary aristocrat.
─Tight.
Glancing her eyes at her watch, she twisted her hair into a ponytail.
It is a rather bold decoration that reveals the nape of the neck, which is difficult to see normally. Next, she picked up her neat one-piece and held it alternately to her chest, enough to match her revealing street clothes.
“Um…”
Tirsi, who was staring at her in her underwear in the full-length mirror, put down both of her clothes in her hands.
-Tup.
The final choice was a summer-style outfit that exposed slender legs and arms.
Her exposure was low, but Tyrsi was no fool to compete with her figure. She is confident in her narrow waist and her hips, but there are too many of her strong enemies in this family.
The order is second from the back. Her body is probably about the same.
At the very least, there is a chance of winning only when Nord polishes something that he thinks is ‘a charm that can only be found in Tirsi’. Tirshi threw off even her underwear.
‘… It’s okay if her underwear is a little naughty. Yes. No way.’
All of her clothes were worn with this.
Shall I wear makeup? No, let’s quit. I don’t like looking older and I don’t know how to use makeup to look younger. In her skin, she’s a bit confident, so let’s push it this way. Or the feeling of touch.
‘… They say the same thing when touched.’
Turning away from the white, blush-like woman in the mirror, Tyrsi took a deep breath.
She opens the door and goes to the one she’s been waiting for.
“Nord.”
“Yes.”
Seeing his happy smile on his face makes me feel a little better.
The tension wasn’t relieved, but I worked hard and cheered up. Tyrsi crossed his arms around him as if going through a routine.
“Go, go.”
He wanted to embarrass me by holding me calmly, but I stuttered his words. I want to die.
“Geuhup…”
“… Don’t laugh.”
“I didn’t laugh.”
“Don’t even lie.”
“There is no other man who is as close to the truth as I am.”
“Another lie.”
Tirshi held out a finger to him as he crossed his arms.
“Today, just follow me calmly. We’ll let you enjoy the full course of Romanians! Well, it’s more for the common people than for the aristocrats, but such trivial things are anyway!”
“It’s crazy that it’s for the common people. She almost came in a new dress. Because I can’t dress nicely like Tyrsi.”
“… The compliments come out so easily.”
She tried to speak bluntly, but even when she thought about it, her voice was crackling and excited.
“Eww… Norse clothes are cool too.”
“Thank you. I only wore it neatly so that Tyrsi would not be ashamed.”
“You were never ashamed… Never… Um, sorry. Not at all.”
“There were a lot of moments where I figured out myself, so I wasn’t particularly hurt.”
Taking him with a grin, Tirthy unfolded a small map from her bag. The place I went to after folding it like a pamphlet and glancing at it is a popular restaurant for the common people.
“This shop is a traditional restaurant that has been open since before I was born! Unfortunately, the store owner passed away due to old age, but his son took over the skill and opened it 24/7… All year round… ?”
The words crawled in towards the end, but it was worth it.
—Close.
All the chairs put out were inside, and the door was closed and locked.
Chairs were placed on tables in the dimly lit store, which anyone could see was a holiday store.
“Uh? Uh? Hey, 24/7… ? Now, wait a minute?”
Tirshi was so flustered that he couldn’t do this anymore, and pulled out a small notebook.
It’s a new notebook, but his hands are stained from how many times he’s taken it out. At a glance, Nord turned his head, suppressing his laughter.
Then a small signboard caught my eye.
“
“Yeah?!”
Surprised as if he had kicked his butt, Tirshi clung to Nord’s side, examined his billboard, and looked at the notice as Nord had read it, and only smiled.
“Why, why, why today… ?”
“It is the last day of the festival. He must have wanted to rest or play.”
“… Ugh… !!”
His comforting words sounded as if he was trying to patch up Tirsi’s sloppy plan by saying, “It’s a common mistake,” And she trembled with shame.
‘Everyone, don’t panic! I have to cool her head once… !’
If she wasn’t careful, she would get caught. She says it’s the first time she’s ever scheduled her date!
Even if you’ve never had any dating experience, even if you’ve been out with her friends, if you find out about even the things you can count on your hand, pityful eyes will fly away!
‘Calm, calm… ! I don’t think Nord will have an image of me as an idiot… !’
She cooled her face indistinctly—only she thought so—and Tirthy calmed down.
Until she started dating her in earnest, she acted like a woman who knew how to lead men in her own way, so she still believed that her evaluation of herself would not change much from then.
She turned with a timid, graceful turn.
“… Uhm. Well, it happens often. I have a secondary plan in case of this, so I will follow it from now on.”
It’s a lie.
Plan? Does not exist. I have to think of it from now on.
“Big… ! Well, then I only lightly fill the morning.”
Nord grabbed her shoulders so she couldn’t see her laughing face.
Fortunately for each other, as her husband approached from behind, Tyrsi was in a hurry to hide the plan, so she didn’t have time to look at his expression.
“Looking at it, it seems like a restaurant with a lot of food, but it might have been a bit too much to have a late breakfast at the level of brunch. Shall we have a good meal at a cafe in moderation?”
“Yeah? … Oh yes yes! Also, right? That’s exactly what I thought!”
I heard and saw it. Tyrsi stroked her chest. It’s nice to have a restaurant that combines cost performance and taste, but it was a restaurant that would be a burden at lunchtime for a late breakfast at 10 o’clock.
‘Bird, I didn’t even think of it… ‘
This is the weak point of the desk-bite dating plan.
Practice is ruthless. Tirshi giggled and pulled out her map again.
“I know. But no cafe. I can’t afford to go to a good store.”
“Yes?”
Nord asked without thinking, then shut her mouth.
The map was densely packed with information. All in Tyrsi’s handwriting.
“A place to eat lightly at a nearby store… Oh, there are sandwiches! Let’s go here! It’s a block next to each other here, and it overlaps with the moving course, so there’s no time wasted!”
“Yes.”
This is serious. Nord laughed, but Tirshi seemed busy thinking of the most perfect plan, putting his face on the map.
‘He’s very zealous.’
Nord soon enjoyed seeing her like that and sent a warm gaze.
“Ah, Tyrsi. Watch out for the streetlights.”
“Yes.”
“It’s the last day, so the roads are dirty. Here.”
“Yeah? Yeah.”
─Swish, swish.
Compared to the woman who is preoccupied and has no room for looking at her guidance and distance, the man who cares for her by following her leisurely and occasionally pulling her shoulder.
Despite being transcendental beings comparable even to the gods, the appearances of the two were the same as the couples widely spread during this festival.
“You’re young, you’re young.”
Passers-by whispered and laughed as if they were cute at the behavior that anyone could see that it was a young virgin’s first love, but Tyrsi didn’t even notice the power of the archmage.
‘Meh, I can’t see the names of nearby buildings because of the memo! Where are you now?!’
It’s a wonderful jaseungjabak. It’s a mistake that could be written down as an example in a textbook. He is a living teacher on the other hand.
Tirshi, who felt it himself, whipped his superhuman brain to the limit and barely found a way. A miracle of spatial awareness. It was a feat worthy of a great wizard.
“Whoa…”
─Well, well.
Nord smirked at Tyrsi, who was barely able to calm herself down and tasted the sandwich bit by bit. This young lady’s struggles were like a romance comedy in itself, so it was worth watching.
“This could be breakfast. Where do we go next? I look forward to it.”
“All right, what’s next? Wait. Wait!”
Tirshi, startled by her madness, opened her map again, hid there, and opened her notebook, unaware of the naughtyness of her husband, who wanted to see her flustered.
“It is said that after stopping by the Blessed Pebbles, an essential tourist attraction in Ravennapolis, we will throw a commemorative coin into the fountain to chase away misfortune… I will go!”
“It will be fun. Come to think of it, I only paid attention to the festival, but I remember not paying much attention to the sights of the capital itself.”
“Really? Relief… Hmmm, of course! Leave this day to me!”
After a few words, her face widens in excitement.
It would be embarrassing for everyone to see if you voted with your whole body that you could die so badly that you couldn’t live, but even though Nord was itchy, Tyrsi enjoyed her sandwich and smiled.
The appearance of eating with such a theme is also elegant and unbalanced.
“Shall we go?”
Having finished her snack, she graciously held out the back of her hand, and Nord kissed her hand comically exaggeratedly.
The Gravel Field of Blessing is a religious facility that collects the destroyed statues of Fortuna, the god of prosperity, from all over the world. It is said that their religion, which takes the flow of fate as its doctrine, made a road by laying pieces of stone.
“There is a rumor that if you walk this road from beginning to end, you will be blessed.”
“It is a regular tourist course. I’ve never been there, but thanks to you, it must be fun.”
When Nord said that, she was Tyrsi, who was as happy as a goddess who had been imprisoned by God, but her face went blank again exactly 15 minutes later.
─Clump!
─Bubbly!
A walking course that looks like a cave tunnel.
Citizens of various races and outfits stood in line there.
At a glance, the queue is twice as long as the gravel road.
It seemed like it would take at least 5 minutes for one couple to fall out, so if you lined up from now on, you would have to wait for hours.
“Well, if it’s a famous tourist spot, it’ll be like this.”
The misery doubled from his hand tapping on the back.
Tyrsi shook her head.
“… Would you like to go somewhere else?”
Tyrsi, who had lost her energy, asked. She had high expectations since it was her first time coming, but she didn’t want to keep him waiting for hours on this fine day.
“No, let’s go. Unless you hate Tyrsi.”
Still, he didn’t lose his smile.
Tyrsi hesitated, holding his hand and waiting in a long line.
“Have you ever been to the capital?”
“Yes Yes. To be honest, it has changed quite a bit from before.”
“Since the division is like this, it probably wouldn’t have changed much, but it must have been a bit of a bummer. When I went back to the place where I lived when I was young, about 10 years later, it was a completely different place——”
“Is it? Well, after about 10 years, Sargadis will be pretty—”
However, such a tedious wait melted away with a few words of conversation.
He did not have to worry about where to go and what to do, so he was able to observe and answer his every move with a little more leisure.
〈Next minute!〉
Tirshi, who had been talking with a smile before he knew it, noticed that his line had already ended and noticed himself quite disappointed. He then reprimanded himself.
‘Whoa. If it’s already like this, I’m going to have tears in my eyes when the date is over.’
Holding back a sigh, she pulled out a Romanian coin. It was a donation and an admission fee.
As I was paying for the entrance fee called the offering box, I heard a conversation behind me.
〈Still, Kaedi said he really wanted to hear it?〉
The two foreigners who looked like a couple seemed to be having an exchange of affection. The man smiled and looked at the entrance to the secretive gravel field.
〈If you walk hand in hand to the end of the road, those lovers will live for a hundred years… The concept is well thought out.〉
Tang and…
The fairy tale Tyrsi put in collided with the fairy tale filled in the donation box.
It was dropped rather than put in.
“… …”
Tirshi didn’t say anything and pulled the curtains at the cave-like entrance and entered. When Nord followed along, the inside was a single road lined with candles.
Standing on the cobblestones in a calm, windless cave, Tyrsi rubbed her finger on her skirt. Her white fingers wiggled.
─Talk.
Nord put a hand in her hand.
There was no hesitation. Tirshi held his hand tightly.
“Five. Let’s make it our 100th year.”
“… Do it or not, do whatever you want.”
“Yep. Then I’ll do as I please.”
It took 10 minutes to walk the short path in the gravel field.
Because I had the belief that I would never miss it, the silence of just the two of us was cozy.
