Chapter 206 – Summer Vacation
#206.
After the meal, Chorin, who had been drinking champagne and chatting, cautiously stood up.
“I’m going to go to the bathroom.”
As she said that, Hayeon stood up as she took a step forward.
“Oh! Me too!”
“Then I will go with you. How is Louisena-sama?”
“… I’m okay. Let the three of you go.”
I don’t know if Youi happened to come at the same timing for all three of them, or if they were just going together to fix their makeup, but the two disappeared across the aisle at the party, leaving Lugiena and Gaon behind.
Silence fell around the table where the two of them had been noisy for a very short while. Only soft melodies flow gently throughout the party hall.
After taking a sip of champagne, Kin Ga-on thought for a moment, then she said, thinking that there was no need to postpone it until later.
“Lougiana, you said you had something to talk about after the party.”
“… It did. But why?”
“I was wondering what to do now. There are no other people around.”
Just in time, the playing of the orchestra changed. The rising and falling of the note is dramatic and bouncy, and it is often used to announce the beginning of a ball.
As if to prove him, the aristocrats who were having a conversation after the meal took their partners on stage and began to dance gracefully and gracefully.
After confirming that no one could eavesdrop on the conversation, I thought that there was nothing wrong with what she was about to say.
More than anything,
‘Maybe now is my chance.’
Depending on her answers to the questions she will ask, their relationship will change dramatically. Maybe you can dance happily in the middle.
When I imagined that, my heart naturally skipped a beat.
Rougiena worked her words out in her head and opened her mouth slowly.
“What I want to ask is your relationship with me.”
“A relationship?”
“Yes, to be precise, it is a relationship from a previous life. Did you say that before? That you owe me I want to know what that debt means.”
It’s a topic I’ve been thinking about ever since. I wondered how deeply in debt he had gambled on talking about regression.
If it was a special relationship. If you whispered love to each other. If so, I thought I would be able to accept that heart in this life as well.
Gaon, who had been silent while receiving my eyes on Rouge, who was filled with her expectations, suddenly smiled bitterly at her.
“That is what you were curious about. I’m sure I would have been too. Because it was completely hidden. Actually, it’s not such a big deal, but…”
“I would like you to tell me though. What does that debt mean?”
Gaon realized that he could not escape this question. Lujie’s desperate eyes somehow made him stare at the distant night sea through her window and tell her about her past.
“… In my previous life I was a criminal. It was a situation where I was being chased by many people with nowhere to turn to. Perhaps, Rougiena, without you, I would have lived a miserable life without knowing that the world would end.”
“… Okay? But you’re a regressor. You may have died quickly in that life, but you would have learned about the end of the world later, right?”
“That was actually a lie. I don’t know if I’ll be able to regress if I die now. There is a possibility that you will end your life in vain.”
Rougie I felt that one of the obstacles that had been blocking her thoughts all this time was dissolving.
She has dismissed several predictions under the condition that she can make multiple regressions, and since she knows that they are false, she cannot help but greatly expand the range of predictions that come to her mind.
“Once I get it. You’re not sure about the regression, are you? But so what? What did I do exactly? They say they saved you, but is that the end?”
“Haha! Wouldn’t it be great if it saved your life? Of course it wasn’t free, but you still treated me as a guest. They were willing to hide the information if they paid. Thanks to that, I was able to avoid being caught and caught. It’s already late, but thank you. I always wanted to talk.”
Gaon meant that she would repay the favor she received in her previous life now, but that was not important to Lujiena.
‘That’s the end?’
There are countless nights when I pretended not to have been excited, imagining how affectionate the relationship would have been in her previous life.
However, when the truth was revealed, the two were just a business relationship. In some ways, the present is better than the past.
“… Other than that? Anything else? Anything personal other than business?”
“If it’s private… Even then, I noticed that I was strange. I didn’t even know it was regressed, but it seems that I was interested. In fact, I regressed twice. So it seems to have helped. Haha!”
Why is it so nasty to laugh casually without knowing what others are thinking? Lujiena felt the urge to hit Gaon for the first time, and she confirmed it again.
“… Okay. So you meant that I owed you a great debt for treating you as a guest without discrimination. Nothing else.”
“Yeah, what… Yes, but isn’t that enough?”
Suffice. It’s not a big deal, but for some reason, it’s deeply embedded in my heart. To Rougiena, it felt like drawing a line.
A business relationship with you is enough. So don’t ask for more than this.
Maybe that’s why my inner feelings leaked out on my own.
“… It’s not enough.”
“Yes?”
“Not enough.”
Rouge I bit her lip.
Now I feel the distance from this man who takes a corner of his heart and doesn’t want to leave.
When she discovered that what she saw as the only way to bridge the distance was nothing, she realized that Rouziena felt a love affair for the first time in her life.
If the eyes are hot, it seems like it will look unsightly.
She quickly stood up and turned her back to Gaon.
“… I’m sorry, but I’m not going to talk about it here. I’m in a hurry to the bathroom.”
“Oh, that’s fine. Bye.”
“Yes, it’s a long-awaited prom, so enjoy it with your lovers.”
“Thank you for caring.”
After receiving her thanks, Rougeena finally arrived at an unpaved hallway with her horribly crumpled face intact.
“… Idiot.”
She was so pathetic to herself that her mind was so confused that she didn’t know how to react. It seems that she will not be able to face Gaon in the future.
She thinks that now she must definitely cut off her attachments, but the fever she suffered for the first time in her life spread everywhere and burned her heart.
In the end, the tears that were trembling in her uneasiness flowed down her cheeks.
Haha… Are you crying over a man? Really? I?”
Rujiena Calliope, the leader of Lucipeon and called the queen of the underworld, never thought that she would shed tears over a mere man.
She would not have expected it from herself or anyone else, even Gaon, who was involved in it.
Rougie I bit her lips to make sure not even the slightest cry escaped.
She suppressed it with all her might, thinking that if she cried out, she would make herself even more miserable.
While Lujiena suppressed her sadness, Gaon was having a friendly conversation with her lovers who had returned.
“Then, Hayeon lets you dance first. Priscilla will be next, and I will be the last.”
“Yes, sister!”
“I do. What does turn matter?”
Priscilla, the fact that she danced with Gaon in the first place was a big risk, and in the case of Chorin and Hayeon, both the first and the last were meaningful anyway, so I didn’t dwell too much on it.
Ha-yeon’s decision to do her dance in the first place was only for one very small reason that she hated waiting.
As opinions came together, Chorin and Priscilla took their seats at the table.
Then, Hayeon held her hand with Gaon and went out to the center of her stage and took her stance.
“Ha-yeon, have you ever danced?”
“No! But it’s okay. After looking at it for a while, it doesn’t seem that difficult.”
“Then I’m glad.”
As expected of her excellent motor skills, she seems to have noticed the outline of her dance by observing others for a while.
In fact, it wasn’t too difficult since it was all about taking her posture and giving herself to the melody in moderation.
Above all, even if you don’t know, if you have Gaon’s lead, there won’t be any trouble.
“Then Lady. Would you like to dance a song with me?”
Gaon’s words were a bit cheesy, but there was more than enough moderation and style to cover it up. The gaze of the women around her is fleeting, but she focuses on him.
“Of course.”
Ha-yeon raised her nose as if her man was like this, then she willingly held her hand and slowly began to follow her lead and melodious steps.
Her dress sways with her movements, highlighting her dancing lines.
With her straight, slender body, her gestures were refreshing and enjoyable to watch.
Gaon smiled happily and whispered.
“How was your summer vacation?”
“It was great. Come back next year with everyone.”
“Okay. Let’s come together next year and the year after that.”
Smiles fill each other’s lips.
Today’s event will probably never be forgotten even if it lasts a lifetime. It will remain in a corner of my heart as a happy memory and will always be a pillar that supports him.
Time passed quickly.
Moments later, Ha-yeon left and Priscilla came into her arms. Since she was a daughter of an aristocratic family, she was very good at dancing.
“Really, really… I remember the old days.”
“Is it so? Did you dance like this with another guy?”
“Whoops! Are you jealous?”
“Of course. Priscilla is mine.”
I want to paint her from head to toe with my own color. That was his idea and everything.
In response to her blatant greed, Priscilla hit her chest with her forehead! She was beaten
“Selfish jerk. He was with another woman just before.”
“So you don’t like it?”
“No. So good. I love you. Gaon.”
Whispering and receiving love is a very happy thing. Just the fact that I am enjoying this to the fullest gives me confidence that my path so far has not been wrong.
Chorin was next.
She didn’t have as much motor skills as Ha-yeon, so she would make mistakes from time to time, but whenever she did, Ga-on skillfully led her back to her inaction.
“Gaon, you dance very well. Have you danced a lot with other girls?”
“Does it look like that? It’s just something I learned by accident. Because she used to be a knight.”
“I guess you learned from that person called Hirencia?”
“Don’t be jealous. The person next to me right now is Mr. Chorin.”
With those words, the music reached its climax and came to an end. Her Chorin’s back fell behind and she swayed precariously as she leaned on Gaon’s forearm.
Gaon met her surprised gaze and kissed her on the lips.
After her light kiss, Chorin grunted as she raised her body upright.
“I was surprised! I thought she was going to fall.”
“I guess you didn’t trust me.”
“It can’t be! Go back at once.”
Gaon didn’t even feel the will to resist at her gesture of crossing her arms and pulling her, and she went back to her party.
Gaon looked at her empty seat and asked.
“By the way, hasn’t Rougiena come yet? She said she was going to the bathroom…”
There’s no way she can answer that question. Gaon also didn’t really want an answer from her, so she muttered that for a while and looked around her.
Just in time, the lord of Bellinoma is seen on stage.
“Thanks everyone for coming to the party. This time, the Bellinoma estate boasts a fireworks show! Please enjoy it until the very end!”
Pop! Pervert!
As soon as he finished his words, the sky on the balcony opened up in front was colored in five colors.
Firecrackers exploded and beautiful flowers bloomed in the sky. After the dance time, everyone sitting at the table and resting goes to the balcony and looks up at the sky.
Gaon, too, at the urging of her party, went out to her balcony to look at her fireworks while looking for me in Luge.
“How beautiful!”
“Gaon-san, this is the first time I’ve seen this!
Chorin and Hayeon were excited and chattered with excited voices.
Priscilla just quietly enjoys the atmosphere.
‘But where is it?’
The fireworks continued for a long time. Even after 5 minutes, the fireworks that are still exploding non-stop are a spectacle in itself.
It probably cost a lot of money. While thinking so, Gaon looked for Rougiena.
Meanwhile, Gaon found Rougiena in a dark corner smoking a cigarette and looking at the sky.
Her deeply sunken eyes gave her a feeling of emptiness.
Thinking about whether he could go, he hurriedly ran, remembering that now was the best timing.
“Lugiana. Why are you here?”
“… Are you on vacation? What happened?”
Gaon’s body trembled. A youthful chill in Rougie’s voice made her reluctant to approach.
He wondered if he had made a mistake, perhaps because he suddenly left his seat earlier, and awkwardly turned his head and opened his mouth.
“As I said, Bellinoma’s fireworks festival is really cool. Thank you for inviting me here.”
“… Don’t you have to go to the lovers?”
“…”
The words themselves were about whether we should spend such a good time with our lovers, but Gaon sounded like he was telling us to go somewhere else quickly.
Gaon took out a box from his bosom with the thought of just quickly solving the business and leaving, as he blatantly showed that he was uncomfortable with planting.
“Lugiana, take this.”
“… What is this?”
“I’ve thought about it, but it’s a bit like saying thank you with words. I have prepared a present for you.”
“…”
She carefully unwrapped her box.
What was inside her was a cigarette.
“It is said that the artisan of Bellinoma developed this cigarette a year ago. Rouge I said she saw her two years ago, so she hasn’t smoked yet? Actually, she also had a cigar type, but she bought a normal one just in case she didn’t like her. I hope she likes it. Then I’ll go back. See you later.”
Gaon turned around, but before he could take her foot off, Lujiena was caught by her outstretched hand.
“Uh? Why…”
And he couldn’t even finish his words, and he was dragged by a hand pulling his collar one after another, and he overlapped her lips with Luigi’s.
“Huh!?”
A luxurious fragrance fills the lungs.
The moment she came to her senses and rushed to push her away, Gaon came out of the wet luge and met her eyes and slowly let go of her hands.
The emotion in her eyes is desperate. And she was a very vivid affection.
The kiss didn’t last long. Said Rougiena, who parted her lips a few seconds later.
“Love you.”
“… Louisiana.”
“That’s right. It’s me. This Ruggiena Calliope loves you.”
Gaon’s head was filled with confusion at the completely unexpected confession.