Chapter 919 – Portrait of a Young Ruler (2)
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Doing anything for the first time is clumsy and awkward.
It would be a genius to overcome that, but perhaps Tirsi Armasunas was a genius in magic, but not a genius in love, because he gave up one hundred steps.
“It’s hard to tell, but it’s great again.”
“Under. Haha. Haha… “
It was a laugh that sounded like the wind was blowing away, but it had to be.
Tirshi’s dating plan, based on statistics and research, was a tabletop affair. To be precise, he forgot all the variable elements that should not be subtracted in his calculations.
Tirsi shed tears again when she saw lovers flocking to the next tourist destination.
“Yeah, but next time… ! The following is fine! Because this observation point was tipped off by high-ranking officials in the capital while I was working!”
“Mmmm.”
“The small restaurant in this building… Ah, no, of course, it is premised that it is open, but it is said to be a frugal restaurant that only accepts customers through referrals!”
Nord looked over his shoulder at the map that Tyrsi was looking at.
“It’s an hour and a half from here?”
“… Swimming?”
“It will be around 3:00 when I get there.”
That’s right. The time spent to reach this complicated tourist destination was also a problem, but I overlooked the travel distance because I was sold by the advantages of the introduced tourist attractions.
‘… Are you stupid? Is there a hole in the head?’
Thinking of the white-haired idiot wizard who had been excited about being perfect until the day before, Tirshi was stunned and let out a miserable laugh.
“Go, with
“Have you ever been here?”
“… Do not have…”
You can’t go if you’ve never been.
No, if she was a great wizard like her, she would be able to do it, but isn’t she a pathetic forced marcher? He is a noble who shakes the heavens and the earth with high-level magic and warps to the dating site.
Maybe I don’t know, but it will be left in the history ad. If she’s a celebrity she’s like, sure.
“… Heck heck heck.”
Nord led her as if Tirsi, who had gone crazy like that, thought she was cute.
“Would you like to go? The round trip would take three hours.”
“Since you made a reservation for lunch, let’s go. There’s nothing to be in a hurry about. Do you have any other reservations?”
“I, a restaurant for dinner… “
‘… Oh I shouldn’t have said it.’
Tirsi, who had told her secret, shook her head, but Nord nodded.
“We can’t break our promise, so let’s cancel the remaining plans except for the meal plan.”
“… Yes. I know.”
It’s a plan that doesn’t seem feasible. It’s natural to be rejected. Tirsi was so depressed, but at that moment Nord’s face came close to him.
“Instead, come next time.”
“… Again?”
“It is a city built over hundreds of years. If I say that I will enjoy it all in one day, I will be scolded.”
Nord held her finger as she clutched at her pathetic date plan.
“Next time, I will suggest a date first. Places I’ve been to, places I haven’t been to yet. There are plenty of places we can go around together, right?”
“… That, if so.”
It’s a phone call Rather, it is a good thing.
I will definitely make up for today’s ugliness next time or the next time. Tirsi was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn’t even know the lunch was going up her nose, then came to her senses when she saw Nord eating.
When I gave up my obsession with the plan and became calm, the ugliness from earlier seemed to make my head dizzy.
“I’m sorry. It’s a date, but I can’t even focus on Nord… “
“Hehe. There are many apples today. He did it because he wanted to leave good memories for me, but he’s not a bad guy to say the least.”
─Shock. A Nord who is thrifty but skillfully prepares meat dishes. It was a neat dismantling like a master’s swordsmanship.
“I had fun. I also saw a different side of Tyrsi. It wasn’t a date to show off to others, but we just had to enjoy it. Compared to a bloody fight, even this kind of jumble is peaceful.”
“… Do you want to?”
“Nevertheless. Let’s go on a date again. It’s nice to see that you look relaxed now. You put some sauce on your red cheeks cutely.”
My heart was pounding, so I quickly wiped it off with a napkin, but nothing came out. As I rubbed his face just enough to not look out of place, all I could see was the coy smile of the man I loved.
Waves wave…
She covered her mouth with a napkin and sighed.
“… Oh, that was a lie You tricked me.”
“I joked about it to ease the tension. Even if you are buried, I will look at you cutely.”
“It’s not that you’re nervous, it feels like your hamstrings are about to loosen up, right?”
And I want her to be seen as a mature and mature woman rather than a cute kid.
“Is it good? When the leg is free, I will carry it with me. Or would you like me to pick you up?”
“I will tighten the screws so that they will never come loose.”
“Tirshi’s hamstrings were fixed with screws. Uh, then maybe the hair… Uhm, nothing.”
“I was thinking of asking me if I had a screw in my head! Yes!”
She said so, but even when she thought about it, it was right that it was missing. It would be more accurate to say that she pushed herself to be singled out.
‘But is that what the person who pulled it out is going to say?’
Like pruning a bonsai tree or pulling out small roots of food ingredients, she pulls things like calmness and screws out of her head and plays with them.
If she took her body and mind, what would happen if she had a sense of ownership?
‘… If I had to question it, I took the initiative and offered it, but what I received is what I received!’
How did you make me look like an idiot and make fun of me for being such an idiot?
—Puck, puck. Tirsi took off her shoes under the table and kicked him, paying attention not to offend. Nord giggled at the dainty display of anger.
“… I don’t know anymore. I’m going to eat something.”
For a while, Tirshi focused only on the meat and immersed himself in the meal.
Tables were narrow in the frugal shop, so that was okay.
Tight… ♡
I could have messed around with him and his feet under the table. Nobility was something you couldn’t find without washing your eyes, but Tirshi didn’t care.
If you’re an idiot, you might forget some manners.
After I gave up my needless obsession with perfection, the next date was enjoyable.
“Tirshi. I’m a doctor fish from another world. Do you want to soak your feet?”
“… I do not like it. It’s a fish that eats keratin. If they flock to me, it’s like I’m dirty.”
“Oh oh. They say it can carve a wooden statue in 10 minutes just by sitting down? Is it a caricature sculpture of a master elf?”
“It’s good. Please sit down. It must be a present for me, right?”
“If it’s my statue, they’re also selling Veronica.”
“… Where?! How many per person?!”
“Lehu?”
Planning without a plan is fun. Even if you wander around as far as your eyes can see, on the last day of the busy festival, it was so full of fun that you didn’t even notice the time passing.
“… Since Tyrsi is hugging my chewy figure like that, I also want a Tyrsi figure.”
“It’s exciting. It’s fair to get this much. I am already your toy in that I can play with it however I want. But why do I need to make a doll that looks like me… Please forget what I just said.”
“It’s great, puff… !”
“You asked me to forget you?! Can I make you forget?!”
Nord solemnly held out his palm to Tirsi, who was packing a figurine of Naudiz, a fictitious character, while running amok.
“Uh-huh, it’s Tiffany. Can’t you be quiet Chucky is sad to hear.”
“Who is Tiffany!”
“It is the name of a famous doll comparable to Annabelle. Yeki than that! Tyrsi fairy! A doll is supposed to fight against its master!”
“… Oh, is that so? I’m sorry for arguing.”
“… Det?”
“… ? … ?! No, no, kidding, kidding!”
“Hmm… True or false, I will request an experiment on the sponge.”
“I don’t know what it is, but never do it! More than that, I heard Dana and Lari Lura are doing a show, so why don’t she go and have a look?!”
Tyrsi hurriedly changed the subject.
She looked at her, but Nord, who couldn’t say her words, ‘I’ve been with her other wife’, followed her.
Fortunately, it was not boring even after watching it twice or thrice, but it was impressive that the pink-haired circus girl, who had been missing Loki, made an expression like, ‘Wow, that senior changes women every time he comes.
“Whoa… “
That performance must have been stimulating even for Tirsi, who had tasted the culture of the modern earth several times. After her performance, she seemed satisfied as she sat on her bench and let out a sweet breath.
She glanced at the rising moon instead of the setting sun.
“It’s night, already.”
“They say summer is late at night. That’s why I didn’t even have time to look at my watch.”
Receiving a paper cup from Nord, who had bought something to drink—paper cups are common due to the unit price issue—Tirshi put on a slightly sullen expression.
“Isn’t it rude to glance at the watch while on a date?”
“I don’t think it’s rude to only look at the map.”
“I’m really sorry. I won’t mess around again.”
“Hehe. It’s a joke, a joke.”
As Nord sat down on the bench, cheers could be heard from the Vesta Main Church in the distance.
“… Oh, I heard there was a contest of knights today.”
Regardless of what was going on, Tirthy remembered today’s schedule and noticed it.
“Didn’t Nord want to participate?”
“I’m not a knight, but an agent of the lord, and the tournament prioritizes equestrian competition, and ultimately, if I participate, I’ll feel sorry for the landslide victory, so I quit.”
“It is. If I’m an alchemist, anyway, participating in a magic tournament feels a bit lowly.”
“You’re right. It must feel like beating a normal person in a boxing competition and hearing the sound of a champion. His father will say, ‘North Ho, have you hit anyone again?’ And take the cane.”
“… Whoop whoop. Can I throw myself in and say, ‘Father, please forgive him!’?”
“You can see my father’s ghostly cane skills. I’m sure you’ll only hit me, avoiding Tyrsi.”
Tirshi deliberately laughed and took a drink.
It is a habit of nobles who show when they try to hide their expressions.
When he tried to look back to see if he suddenly noticed a sense of incongruity, Tirshi spoke as if turning his words around.
“Shall we go to dinner? I will be late for my reservation.”
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Dining etiquette is a fucking nuisance.
But there are also advantages. Once you learn it, you can say ‘Kiyoyoyo! Britannia table manners!”
For example, even in a luxurious restaurant where you change your clothes and enter, you can say, ‘Ah! A yellow monkey knows how to distinguish between a fork and a knife!”
“I have nothing more to teach the Nords. It’s okay to descend.”
“I didn’t learn much from Tyrsi.”
“Whoops. Because that’s a pity. If I had been late in learning, I could have used that as an excuse to have more alone time.”
“I didn’t notice. Please teach me something next time.”
After a decent meal, we aristocratically put down our napkins.
My life as an adult was still a bit short for my taste buds to be high-end, but I still ate food and thought, ‘Det? Delicious des! This is the first time I’ve had such an amazing konpeito!’
Boom, puff-!
In the dining room, which was made of glass walls on all four sides, the finale of the festival that took place below resonated.
‘Fireworks. It’s like the 4th of July in America.’
Perhaps by now the Popes would have finished their eulogy and made Loki’s name known more widely. It was now realizing that it was the last day of the festival.
“… Today will be over soon.”
Tirsi muttered to herself, her eyes drawn to the flames.
‘Is it now?’
Yes, now.
Even while I was changing, I took the ring box I had kept in my pocket out of my pocket and put it on my thigh. Of course, what was inside was the wedding ring for the proposal.
‘Originally, on the way back, I was going to the prepared place… ‘
It’s not the place I prepared, but if Tirsi goes back drunk like this, won’t the situation become ambiguous?
A romantic restaurant. It was said that it was the Holy Empire, and there were few guests who prioritized meals over the Pope’s congratulatory speech on behalf of the 7, so it was almost a stage that was rented out.
It is only here that the situation has become like this.
Apologize to collaborators O, C1, and C2 later. I explained the situation to the staff using the bathroom as an excuse—in the process, I cast the super-high-level magic
〈Adet 56 Year Old Wine. I prepared light snacks.〉
〈… Alcohol? We never ordered.〉
A service of 3 silver coins. That’s when the table was cleared, and a drink was set aside, creating a friendly atmosphere. “Tirshi.” She, who was resting on her chin and staring at the fireworks outside her window, turned to me. And my ring box too. Her eyes widened to the point where she wondered if they could ever be this big. “Sorry. Originally, I had a lot more prepared, but I didn’t want to make you wait any longer.” Understanding will do You must have felt the fact that ruining it while trying to be perfect is not as good as being less perfect. “… Nord.”
“Did I ever ask? Is your past already over? Tirshi said it was over, and that was certainly true, but… In fact, it wasn’t until the end.”
Because the tragedy between the emperor and the children of the stars was not over.
Question, not revenge.
She searched for the reason why she had to live as an 8-star wizard of the wizard guild, not the daughter of the Marquis of Armashnas, the first senate family.
It is a process of finding the root rather than anger or hatred.
Whether it’s a thesis or a screenplay, if you want to skip a paragraph or write a new article, you must put a dot at the end of that line.
Pew-!
Just as Romania, which is being reborn as a new country, is taking a point of fire.
Kneeling at her, I opened her ring box to her as she sat there.
“But it’s no wonder we couldn’t finish it. Because the past doesn’t end. It piles up, and someone like me carefully removes the soil… Or wait for someone like you to build a better foundation.”
I am an archaeologist excavating the forgotten past.
The truth of the gods. Ancient truth.
The truth of the past that the woman I love longed for.
A job that finds out the truths in the pile of dirt that should be known someday and turns that ‘someday’ into ‘today’. Isn’t that the duty of an archaeologist who explores history?
“The past never ends, the future continues.”
And an archaeologist like me entrusts the past like passing a baton into the hands of someone as brilliant as Tyrsi. By continuing that step, people must have developed.
“If you are with me in my future, and I am with you in your future—I have no doubts that it will be a really wonderful day.”
I took her finger and held out her ring.
“So, Tyrsi.”
I said to her, who was white from holding back her crying.
“Can I spend the rest of the time allowed to me with you?”
I wasn’t afraid. Because it’s just a verification process.
There is no way you can be rejected Isn’t it Tirsi who confessed that she gave her body and heart to me, just as she herself had inadvertently confessed? So, there was only one heart in this confession.
I mean, I really want to make you happy.
“… Thank you very much. Nord.”
─Tuk.
But, why? Tyrsi covered my hand trying to put her ring on.
“Really… Ever since the day I fell for you. It’s better than any words I’ve ever wanted to hear. It made me happy just by listening to it, to the point where I accepted it without even realizing it.”
“… Tyrsi?”
“But… But.”
As I stared at it without thinking, Tirshi pushed her ring away with her face, wondering if someone would pull out her own heart and grind it in her mortar.
“A little bit. Because even a little bit is good… Give me time to think.”
Tyrsi lowered her head so that her hair touched the floor.
… Tadat!
She turned around so badly that the heels of her shoes made a noise and left her restaurant. She was sadly elegant with a musical accompaniment that rhymed for her only two guests.
〈… Customer.〉
As I stood still in my kneeling position, the employee turned his tightly closed eyes away from me as if he couldn’t speak to me and said to himself.
While handing over the ring, the employee slipped a bottle into his stiff hand and left as if to run away. That’s how long the statue is, no. Could it have been a figure? “… After, after.Hee hee!!Hee hee!!!!” ─Gulp gulp gulp!!!! I blew the bottle for the first time in a while and let out a shout that was full of the smell of alcohol. “Alcohol!!!! I can’t get rid of it without drinking!!!!” Proposal record, 4 wins and 1 loss. Fuck nimmy, yeah If you’ve won four games in a row, it’s time to lose once.
