Chapter 4 – There’s Always a Reason Behind Each Rule
It was the next morning. The day has finally come to enter the Forest
of Needles; the capital wasn’t that far
away. Our fates will probably be decided
today.
With that in mind, my heart inexplicably asserted its
presence. Jess seemed nervous too as she
kept biting her lower lip. Brace
remained silent as before, like a doll.
It was as if nothing had happened at all last night.
─Did something happen last
night?
Jess inquired with keen ears. Uh oops.
(I had a short conversation with Brace, that’s all.)
No matter how she asks, I won’t tell her that we were secretly
watching and smiling about Jess’ sleeping face.
─Eh, my sleeping
face…? How embarrassing…
(I was just messing
with you. I fabricated a monologue. If you don’t want to be fooled, don’t read my
mind without permission.)
Jess covered her
mouth in surprise before looking at me and puffing her cheeks out.
─Then please don’t look at
my underwear without permission either.
Even though what I’m wearing today is one that I particularly like.
Eh, really…?
I panickingly wanted
to take back what I said, but the smart me notices that the premise of being
able to look at her underwear without permission was abnormal in the first
place.
And the even smarter me realizes that we were having such a silly conversation because we were desperately trying to avert our eyes from the fear of death.
…
2 comments:
I'm afraid the only words you spoke that she acknowledged were "use your own hands to grasp happiness." She won't become part of the king's bloodline, because she won't be happy like that. She will seize her own way: she will send herself to you. If you're lucky, she'll even be a human.
Fuck I'm crying
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