The Woman Found the Will I Wrote

39 – Dinner Party 2

Shien’s behavior itself was not problematic.

The problem was my hand that Shien was holding.

I looked at Delia’s palms, which were somewhat wet from licking them, and she tried to tear them off before Sien noticed her discomfort.

In response to my actions, Shien held my hand tightly and spoke to me.

“… It’s not possible.”

I tried to say something to those words, but…

Shien started pulling me and dragging me to a corner as if she would never listen.

‘I don’t know.’

If you hate it that much, it would be better to leave it as is.

I have no choice but to give up and follow this path.

Shien pushed me against a nearby wall and spoke.

“Lord Dern. “I hope you look at me.”

Unlike usual, I made eye contact with a puzzled expression at his rather forceful side.

Shien looked into my eyes blankly, but soon lowered her face, unable to overcome her embarrassment.

I was laughing at the complete opposite of what I was doing, but Shien hesitated and spoke to me.

“… Sorry. She said it was better for the clerk to do it this way, so she followed suit, but… “I don’t think it’s right for me either.”

Then she lowered her hands and started fidgeting.

She held my hand again and continued speaking.

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“Lord Dern, I would like you to sit here. We cleaned it up before coming, so there won’t be anything dirty. “

As Shien was speaking, she stopped and her face blushed even brighter.

I pretended not to notice Shien’s face and slowly sat down in her chair.

“You should sit down too.”

“Yes.”

Then, as if it was natural, he sat right next to me and continued talking.

“Lord Dern, do you have any inconveniences while living at the academy?”

It’s a topic that doesn’t matter much, except that it’s dragged out in front of everyone.

I nodded silently at that topic and tried to take my hand away again.

“… Lord Dern. Are you sure you don’t like me holding your hand?”

She couldn’t help but stop when she saw Shien’s visibly sad face.

He looked like he was really going to cry, so I had no choice but to speak in a polite tone.

“It’s not that I don’t like holding your hand… “It’s because of sweat.”

There are many things that make it difficult to say it’s because of Delia’s saliva, so I say it’s because of sweat.

Shien looked shocked and apologized, wiping her hands with her handkerchief.

“I’m sorry… “I was probably very nervous.”

I guess he thought it was because of his own sweat, not mine.

I shook my head at that and corrected him by saying ‘my sweat.’

Shien blinked her eyes and looked at me, then she smiled brightly and spoke.

“That’s okay. If it’s Lord Dern’s sweat… “It’s not dirty at all.”

How on earth should I express this?

I was falling into deeper and deeper worries as the situation became frustrating in many ways.

When Shien saw me mulling over things in silence, she seemed to have misunderstood something and urgently called me and talked to me.

“Lord Dern. “I will prove to you that it is not dirty at all.”

Proof?

I looked at this rather strange word.

Shien hesitated for a moment, then licked her palm and spoke.

“… “If it was really dirty, I wouldn’t have been able to lick it like this.”

“…… “

If this were the case, I should have just told the truth.

I was nodding at Shien’s head, deciding that Delia was her first indirect kiss and that I would hold her in my arms until she died.

Shien must have finally come to her senses. Her face turns bright red again and she begins to panic.

“Ah… Well, this is it. That … It’s a misunderstanding. “It wasn’t because I wanted to, it was because this was the only way to prove it.”

Seeing how embarrassed he was after doing this made me feel strangely calm.

I spoke to Shien while lightly patting her on the shoulder.

“I understand.”

“… Yes.”

Shien smiled slightly and nodded, probably happy that her intentions and actions were understood.

Soon, she slowly looks at me and begins to wipe her hands.

“… So now that you’ve cleaned her hands, can I hold your hand again?”

“As you wish.”

“… Thank you “Lord Dern.”

When I gave permission, Shien held my hand as if she had been waiting and smiled softly.

She is looking at her Shien, thinking that she doesn’t know what’s so good about simply holding hands.

Sien talks to me while holding my hand tightly.

“This reminds me of my childhood.”

Is this a story from the past?

Unfortunately, the story of Dern’s past only described the ‘evil deeds’ he committed.

I had no idea what my relationship with Shien was or what she had been through.

That’s why she kept her mouth shut and looked at her Shien so that Shien wouldn’t get suspicious.

Shien recalled her memories in her calm voice.

“When I was young, I loved holding Lord Dern’s hand and going on outings. Of course, Lord Dern was annoyed… “But I still remember you reluctantly coming out for me.”

When I first met Shien, I was told that she had ‘become kinder’ even though I treated her quite rudely by my standards.

I couldn’t even figure out what happened to make us become so distant.

‘It’s not even a two-way dislike.’

I couldn’t understand it even more since Dern was the only one who hated Shien.

I was curious about that situation and wanted to ask about it.

‘If I ask for no reason, it will raise suspicion, so it would be better not to ask.’

No matter how much I thought about it, it was a bad choice, so I kept my mouth shut, neither confirming nor denying it, and closed my eyes.

“… “I’m really happy that I’m getting closer to it, even if it’s not as good as when I was younger.”

“I see.”

“Yes… “I often hear that because of this, their insomnia has disappeared and their complexion has improved.”

While Shien was speaking, she smiled slightly.

“I think Lord Dern is an elixir to me.”

He said

And held my hand tightly again.

I looked at Shien like that and looked at her without saying a word, with the intention of getting her enough to satisfy her.

* * * * *

‘Hmm. ‘We get along better than I thought.’

Delia thoughtlessly scribbled with a quill in the grimoire, remembering the missing Dern and Sien.

In fact, at first she wanted to see Dern and she wanted to embarrass her, but she wasn’t fooling around.

As her prank continued, she became serious, and although she may not have thought of it, at some point she realized that she was not joking and that she was serious about it.

‘… ‘I never thought I would end up like this.’

I’m a little embarrassed to say this to myself.

Even if it looks like this, it’s quite… No, it was extremely popular with men.

‘She has a pretty face, big breasts, and a good family name… My grades are good too.’

There’s no way you wouldn’t like it.

Although she usually appears easy-going and foolish, she knew her own value better than anyone else as the daughter of Herdiga.

To protect her own self-worth, she tried not to get involved with her boys.

‘Dern ruined all of this.’

I sighed at the scent of Dern that remained on my tongue.

Although there was a reason to like her… Still, what followed from that first meeting with her was to add the worst to the worst.

She rested her chin, wondering why she had come to like it so much.

‘I feel stupid.’

I am sighing as I think about myself doing too many stupid things.

Through her hallway window, she sees Dern and Sien walking amicably.

‘If it were normal, I wouldn’t have paid much attention.’

She is scratching the magic book with her quill, thinking it is strangely disturbing.

She sees Shien suddenly hugging her and then running away.

“…… “

She had no idea that Shien would do such a thing, so she was so shocked that she dropped her quill on her desk.

‘… No, the student council president is a person who is upright and chaste, and who only knows how to train as a knight.’

But why are you acting like a fox like that?

Of course, I was not angry at the fox act itself, but rather annoyed at the fact that he did such a thing to ‘Dern’.

I felt like I was losing just revealing these emotions, so I tried to suppress them and slowly act out my facial expressions.

“Derndern!”

Then, he clung to Dern, showing off the bright and lively, but slightly foolish side he usually showed to Dern.

“What is it?”

It was a cold reaction, no different from usual.

Still, unlike when we first met, I felt like he was focusing on me instead of looking down on me, so I continued talking, thinking it was good.

“I can still taste you on my tongue… “

“…… “

Hearing those words, Dern glared at himself in silence.

Immediately, he pulled his cheek and spoke softly.

“If you have so much energy, let me increase the number of things you have to do this evening.”

“… Huh?”

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“I won’t let you sleep at all tonight so you can look forward to it.”

If you listen to her, she was a little surprised by the rather dirty words and nodded her head.

Of course, Dern didn’t mean it that way…

She thought that it was inevitable that it would sound like that, and she pressed down on her quill.

“Well, anyway, let’s prepare for the dinner party in advance. “If there is anything to be careful about, please let me know in advance.”

“Something to watch out for… There is nothing in particular. “You just have to come physically.”

“I guess I know that.”

With those words, she watched Dern open her magic book.

A little… No, she thought she was quite looking forward to the dinner party, and she lowered her head in an unusual way.