Chapter 120 – Episode 120. A Female Knight Who Has Already Been Captured.
Do you like it?
Verdia me?
“… Anyway, it would be embarrassing to say such a thing all of a sudden.”
No, it’s not like a crush as a member of the opposite sex.
Verdia also smiled bitterly at that, as if she had come to her senses, and even poured cold water on her while wiping the sweat from her body.
“Are you serious about your feelings for Celica?”
And the question that follows soon.
It was something that never came out of her mouth.
Because she was a knight and believer protecting the warrior party, and at the same time Celica’s protector and teacher.
“Yes.”
Even though she declared her relationship with Celica in front of her, she is grateful for her generous treatment in the end.
“Is it for Celica’s sake that you don’t show any intention of refusal to leave?”
At the same time, despite being deported, she still wanted to find out about me.
“… Yes.”
Maybe in this process.
Perhaps something on her part would have revealed something hostile to me, but I was already prepared for it.
Because what I did to her will never be forgiven.
If I can hide it to the end, I’ll have to hide it for everyone, but if I can’t, I’ll have to bear all the responsibility that comes back after that.
“… Is it.”
On the one hand, an answer that can be called resignation.
Hearing that, Verdia just stared at the light of the setting sun.
As if I was alone in my thoughts without scolding or pressuring myself.
“I have a place to go for a while, so you can rest here a little longer.”
“Ah yes.”
Verdia leaves the place alone and disappears from sight.
After her disappearance, her tension subsided and her mind became at ease, but on the other hand, she felt that a different complicated state of mind was also accompanying her.
The idea that even though she has an erratic side, she has the abilities to be worthy of being a teenage strongman.
Even when she realizes that she is such a distant person, she has the same kind of friendliness as the three people she has had direct contact with…
“… Is Verdia the same as the three of them?”
Yes, it was only a small amount of time that she interacted with her, but she was also a person in charge of the axis of the hero’s party.
She is the one who will act as a sword and shield to protect them in harsh places more than anyone else. There is no way that such a person would not have consideration for others.
Her attitude will surely be directed towards them as well. Like me, Verdia is the one who will give for those three.
Now that I feel that her kindness extends to me, I can no longer regard her as just a strong threat to me.
“She is also a warrior party.”
Of course not yet.
She may not yet be able to say that her feelings for her are the same as those for the three of them, but she senses the potential for them to develop.
If only we were given a little more time to get to know each other like when we crossed swords before.
If that’s the case, I’ll do her too, just like she did to those three…
“Lord.”
A familiar voice was heard at that moment.
Immediately out of my thoughts, I tried to look back to where the sound had come from, and then unconsciously straightened my throat.
Because I immediately recognized that the voice was Katarina hiding in the darkness. Perhaps even looking back at her, she would never see her face to face.
But she instructed her to return to her headquarters and gather her information.
“Katarina. Why are you here?”
“I came here because I had something to report urgently while I was about to head to the main base.”
“… Report?”
“It is information that a rebellion against the Argentine royal family will break out soon.”
A rebellion against the royal family.
It was information that the Anti-Human Alliance could not overlook. The cause of the birth of the Anti-Human Alliance in the first place was that the successor who had been defeated in the hegemony surrounding the Argentine royal family established it to usurp its authority.
And I also have a lot of resentment towards them.
What they did in collusion with the Church to strengthen their position was, in fact, what could be said to have prepared the opportunity for me to betray humanity.
“And the rebels have now approached our Anti-Human Coalition… I returned for a while to hear the lord’s opinion about this.”
A rebellion against the royal family that is about to begin.
A chance to overturn those who brutally executed my mother.
“If you give me an order, I will carry it out right away. Lord, orders.”
“…”
While Katarina, who taught me that the opportunity had come, waited for her answer, I stared at the spot where I had just exchanged swords with Verdia.
A member of the hero’s party, someone who might have the same heart as the three of them.
“… I am.”
And further.
To think about how to deal with the Argentinian royal family’s loyalist, who is no different from my enemy.
***
“Whoa.”
A place outside the training ground for a while.
Verdia took the time to catch her breath as she leaned against the wall and wiped her sweaty face with her hand.
Is it because I was exhausted from the previous training?
No, even though the time to move her body was over, she was sweating like this.
She wouldn’t be so weak herself. Sweating is due to external reasons, not physical strength.
“… It’s embarrassing.”
The moment her blue hair, which had grown below her shoulders, was tied back.
A cool breeze blowing from far away brushed the back of my neck and made me feel a cold sensation, but the heat I felt in my body did not subside.
No, even at this moment it is getting worse.
Moreover, as the rising heat filled her head and made her feel dizzy, her body began to stagger and shake in her seat.
‘I, I…’
It didn’t take long to realize.
When she had previously confronted Dave, what she had said was still running through her mind at this moment.
‘What the hell did I just say?’
I like it.
She apparently had told him that.
Even though you can evaluate him without having to express it that way, you dare to say that you like him directly.
‘Does not make sense…’
Should I say that I wasn’t aware when I said it? No, at the time, the only thing I could think of was to be honest about my feelings.
What was spit out at that time was clearly his true intention.
I don’t know what Dave would think, but Verdia herself couldn’t deny it.
‘…Really?’
I was conscious of him while he was gone.
But that was because I showed him my naked body and felt my body heat up as I imagined what I had done when I first tried to seduce him.
Even after that, he thought of him and comforted himself, but that was because he was not used to the opposite sex and the thing that stimulated him the most was in front of him.
That’s right, that was the only reason I had for him.
Even if it’s not him, I think it’s fine no matter who is in that position.
The reason why he suddenly expressed a rational feeling that he likes Dave…
‘… Is it because I saw his extraordinary appearance in my previous endeavors?’
He was only sword to sword, but Verdia learned a lot about Dave from him.
Although I don’t know the details, I could tell how difficult the life he had been through was, and that he had made a lot of determination to survive such a tough journey.
He was straight and strong, but he looked precarious and timid…
‘Nevertheless, he learned that his feelings for Celica were sincere.’
Just like yourself.
After going through such a life, he realized that he was a man who could give for that child like himself.
What if that realization was sublimated into a crush as a member of the opposite sex toward him beyond a sense of homogeneity?
“No, that…”
Verdia couldn’t bear to affirm that.
More than the reason that he has never experienced a man, it is because he is considerate of the child he cherishes.
Even though he knew exactly how the boy felt, he now had a heart for him himself. Hey, is that really what he did?
‘Yeah, this isn’t good. At least you have to be careful about what you reveal…’
For a while, trying to calm her pounding heart by firmly eating her heart like that.
“Mr. Verdia.”
“Wow!?”
The moment your heart beats again at the voice you hear from behind.
Uncharacteristically, his body stiffened, but soon he faced the main character of the voice, who did not express himself and heard the same face as usual.
“Oh yeah. Dave, is that you?”
Dave stares at himself with the sunset light behind him. His face was hard to see because the shadows were getting darker, but Verdia couldn’t bear to look closely at his expression.
Just in case his feelings are revealed, he carefully avoids his gaze and continues his words.
“I told you to rest for a while, but in case someone came here because they were worried about me…”
“Just one.”
However, Dave only narrowed the distance with her, making her efforts go unnoticed.
“Can I ask you one question?”
“… Dave?”
“Did you say you liked me?”
Verdia’s breath hardened in an instant at the words that followed.
The words he had been conscious of and conflicted with until just now had come out of his mouth.
“Oh, no. That…”
“Is that what it means as reason?”
Dave narrows the distance, ignoring his words to make an excuse for him.
The words that came out of his mouth felt different from when he faced swords with himself before.
If you don’t cut it, your spirit will be revealed right away.
“As a member of the opposite sex, did you mean that you like me?”
Yes, Verdia didn’t get it right away.
I don’t know why he’s coming out like this, and I feel so embarrassed that he just backs off from his seat.
“Why, all of a sudden…”
Soon after, when his body was pushed against the wall, the question continued belatedly.
-Thud!!
As if I couldn’t allow that, I felt my heart sink into the hand that hit the side of my head, and my head turned white.
Something, this situation.
Up until now, he was the man he was pushing, but why is he acting like this all of a sudden?
‘Is this man really Dave?’
The moment when the sweat that I had barely wiped off dripped down my forehead again.
But despite realizing that, Verdia couldn’t bear to shake off the man in front of her.
As if he were shouting from the bottom of his heart that he couldn’t be that way, even though he could easily be pushed away just by reaching out his hand.
‘Am I dreaming?’
Yes, if this is a dream, then there is no need to resist.
I’m sure the fever suddenly rises and I feel dizzy, which is why I’m seeing something like a hallucination. Otherwise, the man she trusted would never come out like this.
‘Trust, really…?’
Something.
Although he felt that something very important had been obscured and forgotten in his heart for him.
“You can shake it off if you don’t like it.”
Words urging him to be faithful to that heart came out of his mouth, but Verdia just stood there frozen.
His lips against the setting sun.
Even in the midst of the sweet whispers that flowed from him gradually narrowing the distance, rather as if he was expecting it.
‘Reject.’
The moment his fingertips placed on the wall tremble with resistance.
‘I have to refuse, why…’
But in the end, her hand didn’t move, and soon she closed her eyes and accepted his lips that closed the distance between her and her.
The moment I allowed my lips to the opposite sex for the first time in my life.
The moment you allowed someone to be your first so easily.
-Fuck!
The consciousness of the female knight who was engulfed in such a shock.
In the end, oblivious to the malice hidden in the ecstasy, she sank into a deep darkness.
