Chapter 96 – Truth and Fury (4)
Russ was barely able to grasp the situation.
His face is not visible in the darkness.
It was difficult to read his mind as his expression his was covered.
The current action did not look like an injection.
I had to find out why.
Russ is cornered against the wall and panics,
To ease his mood
Conclude that the first
Slowly, she raised her hands and cupped his cheeks her.
“…Why is that…”
Whining and worrying
Because he was struggling so much, she felt like crying too.
-Widely.
“…Uh?”
Russ couldn’t believe it when she saw her own arm her slashed.
Starchis couldn’t have cut his arm her so hard. Something hidden in the darkness must have hit and passed through.
But how absurd that is,
Russ himself knew.
She just didn’t want to believe Starchis had knocked her out of her.
“Don’t touch me.”
He says.
A cold voice I had never heard before.
She never imagined that he would have something like this.
She couldn’t believe what he was doing.
“… It’s because of the alcohol? You’re very drunk, Chis.”
After a moment of hesitation, she denied what had just happened.
He couldn’t have done that to himself.
And,
Russ said she did not dare to ignore his warning her.
To get out of this position, you have to push him,
I just told you not to touch me for whatever reason, so I had no choice but to do so.
Frozen against the wall, she waits for his next move.
He asked after sighing for a while that smelled like alcohol.
“…Russ, are you our friend?”
“Uh..?”
“We.”
He repeats his words in her in a stiff tone.
“Are you friends?”
Russ swallows her saliva.
Her face so close
I was worried that I wouldn’t even be able to hear the sound of swallowing.
“…Chi…A friend.”
“Okay?”
“Yes.”
The mood changes once again
It seemed to be coming loose.
Unlike before, the tone and words were a little warm.
“Forever. Just friends, right?”
“…Uh?”
But his next words
Turns Russ pale.
Tension soars.
Same question, but
A completely different question arises.
Russ is no fool either.
What did he just ask
She could tell too.
Russ pondered her answer.
Why is he asking this?
I wondered if he might be turning his eyes away from Elsaine and looking at me.
Things like that won’t happen easily.
Then, unknownst to Russ himself,
Did he eat or sniff the aphrodisiac?
Russ sneaks his hand to find the bottle of aphrodisiac in his arms.
The bottle was still there.
If not, maybe he’s made up his mind.
Oh
This would explain it.
I understood what Lily looked like earlier.
She also knows at once that things didn’t go well.
Russ prepares to hide his heart once more.
If this was because of Lily’s sincerity of her,
He is in a situation where he has to hide his heart his.
“…Answer me. Are we friends for life?”
Starches urged.
She too opened her mouth, intending to answer.
“…That..”
But no words came out.
To him, we are friends for life.
I couldn’t speak.
I have told him a lot that we are just friends.
But first getting the word out,
Saying that in response was different.
I didn’t get the courage last time
What happened was experienced through the skin.
Russ didn’t know which choice was the right one.
Starchis cuts off his words her.
“…Wow…It was real…Haha…”
Silence is also the answer.
Starchis knows everything he wants to know.
Russ had a hunch that he knew.
“…Chis..”
Flinch.
Hovering in the air of her hand.
Even if I want to touch his cheek
I knew better than anyone that I couldn’t do that now.
“When are you?”
“…”
“Answer quickly.”
The look of him who always waited for an answer disappeared.
There is only one man who has given himself over to anger.
“..Since about a year after I met you.”
“…”
“…”
“… Uh uh uh uh… Has it been that long?”
Starches laughs.
It’s a laugh where everything goes wrong.
“…Chis… I didn’t want to say this, but I’m really serious..”
Russ also knew he was in no position to say such a thing.
But there is a hole in her heart to burst through,
I just wanted him to know that he was sincere.
Even Russ himself found the situation absurd.
I just wanted to show him the beautiful side.
Totally different from what I imagined
It was a kind of confession.
“…If you meet me, I’ll be really good. I’ll give you everything…Get angry-“
“We are friends.”
Starchis spoke calmly and calmly.
Russ was unfocused and blind.
Only his voice that I heard in my ears
Repeat
“…What..?”
“We’re friends, Russ.”
Is it right to be drunk, again and again
Say it to ring in this dark dining room.
He comes one step closer.
If each other’s body moves a little
It touched me like a brush.
“…Ah… That… That…”
Russ bit her lip.
She wasn’t going to be content with being her friend her.
Elsaine is a thief.
The relationship, the degree of sharing, the things we know each other
She knows more than Elza herself.
But she couldn’t take him away.
It can’t end as friends.
“You’re right, Russ.”
Everytime he says it
His heart breaks.
You seem to be saying no.
And the next moment,
His gentle voice his becomes chilly again.
“How do you feel.”
“…Uh?”
“How does it feel to be treated as a friend by someone you like?”
“…”
Russ bites her lip.
This moment is so painful.
“Do you know what happened?”
“That…What…?”
He lowers his head and whispers in Russ’ ear her.
“… You did that to me.”
Russ loses strength in her legs.
Took.
I mounted her whole body on the wall behind her.
The angle at which she stands keeps her from sinking.
Starchis raised his head again.
The clouds hanging in the sky moved,
The moonlight illuminates the restaurant again.
It was dark and I couldn’t see well
Starchis’s face is revealed.
Unlike his cold voice her,
His face his was distorted in pain and looked like he was going to cry.
“…I don’t know if it’s someone else, but you shouldn’t be like this to me!!”
He cries.
Voices echo through the empty dining room.
“… I trusted you, Russ..”
“…Eww…”
“It was sad when we drew the line because we were friends… “
“…Ugh…”
“You, the second person I believed in after my brother… How can I… “
Russ braces her leg again.
She knows
Starchis, rather than wanting to be angry right now
Wanting consolation
“…I didn’t have the courage…Huh…”
She confesses
“I was afraid of losing you forever if you were rejected… !”
“So you hurt me?”
Russ lowers her head.
Tears fell to the floor.
“Push me away, make a fool out of me? I don’t know if I was just hiding it..!”
“…Sorry sorry..!!”
“How many times have you drawn the line for being a friend!! I told you not to like you!!”
“…Ah…Please…!!”
“I…! I…!!”
He struggled in agony, barely audible.
He barely exhales in a voice.
“…I mean I liked you once..!”
He eventually conceded.
Recalling the past, why did he leave the kingdom guard
If you think about it, I suggested that we work together only to Russ.
Deep in her heart, she wanted her.
She wasn’t longing enough to be without her, but
I wished I had
Sion, of course, noticed that part.
That’s what I told Russ.
Russ already knew the story, but
Hearing it from the person concerned doubled the shock.
Her own fears erased her happy future her.
“Lie!!”
“It’s not a lie. As a result, I gave up.”
“Lies…Lies..!!”
She repeated her words like a parrot in her shock.
“I told you not to cross. We are friends.”
“Ugh..! Lie..!!”
“Russ.”
Starchis grabs Russ by the shoulder.
He still had his anger her unresolved.
If you drive her to this extent, her heart will be relieved.
I thought I would be out of breath.
But the more she did it, the worse her mood she got.
Nerves only sharpened.
So I couldn’t stop his raging mouth and actions her.
Stachis wanted to make an excuse that it was because of the alcohol.
“Are we friends?”
He once again takes revenge.
A word Stachis had heard hundreds of times over the years.
Russ said that he was a friend only then
She realized that it could be a shackle.
Russ knocked.
As if collapsing, he leaned his head against Stachis’ chest.
I hate her so much now
Starchis wanted to push Russ away, but
His hands his don’t move.
It’s as if your body has gotten used to Russ.
It was a feeling.
Starchis brings back another memory.
-‘I had no intention of becoming a gatherer until you said it.’
The day we camped out after hunting the sword monkey,
That’s what Russ said.
“… You still… Hated this job?”
He asks.
“To say you like me sounds different. Have you been doing this only because of me? Didn’t you have the desire to throw an A-class party?”
“..I wanted to make your dream come true..”
“My dream is.”
He pushes Russ away her who leans her head,
She pats her touched part of her.
“…My dream, as important as an A-level party, was to meet someone I love.”
Russ started shaking her head.
I didn’t want to believe this moment.
This moment away from Starchis
There’s no way it’s happening
“I told you many times, many times, many times!! I want to meet only one person and be happy!!”
Anger flares up again.
She pushed Russ leaning against her and grabbed her by the collar.
Her Russ her swayed as he led her.
“You know best!! I don’t know if it’s someone else, but how could you do this to me!!”
“… Starches?”
Not in the direction of Russ,
A voice is heard elsewhere.
I turned to see Rose standing there holding a candle.
“What’s going on…?”
In her swaying candlelight, in her face
I was full of worries.
-Tingurrr…
And at that moment, in Russ’ arms
Something fell off
“…?”
Reflexively, Starchis searches for the object that made the sound.
“Ah..!!”
She calls Russ.
She bent down to hold the bottle, but
She couldn’t because she was caught by Stachis.
Instead of her, Starch
Move her body her to catch the bottle.
The bottle glows in the moonlight.
A transparent bottle with beautiful craftsmanship.
It contained a pink liquid.
“…This…”
“…Ah no…”
A look that cannot be mistaken.
Starchis’s eyes trembled.
“Isn’t this weak?”
