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Published at 17th of April 2024 05:19:46 AM


Chapter 18

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Date

“……Ah”

Before I knew it, I was asleep. It seems that I was asleep so as to lean on the door, and my body spleen hurts.

“All right?”

“…… っ!?”

Camellia was watching me worriedly from the iron grid beside me. That face is as beautiful as usual. But, I felt the color of fatigue only a little.

I hide slowly while concealing my anxiety.

“It’s okay … that, the camellia is late to come back, so I am worried about you”

“Well, you say, I do not say that I am childish”

“Haha, sorry … So, you just went to the toilet?”

“……Yup”

I gently nodded. There was somewhere in the shade, but I could not pursue. Somehow, I do not want to know now, so I whispered.

Rising while pulling power and spine. It seems that the whole body got overwhelmed thanks to sleeping with a strange posture. Especially my back hurts.

“Excuse me, is it waking up?”

The door was knocked. As soon as I noticed, the morning sun was shining through the window, most of the people were in the time of being awake. The maid came to confirm it.

“Yes, I am awake.”

“How about breakfast going? You can prepare at any time.”

“… Well, what do you mean, what about Trel?”

“I am still fine now”

Tsubaki muttered, I asked for maid to have breakfast. I stood at the washbasin while washing the face, while checking the footsteps going away.

“Well then, what are you doing today?”

“You can not do anything in particular, you can not do it, maybe you can leave this room, but you can not leave the mansion.”

“That’s right, there seems to be a courtyard or a library in this mansion, so why do not you date in the mansion?”

In the mansion,? It is anxious to walk in the stronghold of Mammon, but I’m glad that we can date. Somehow, if I am able to entertain camellia, I may be able to soften my memories of yesterday even a little.

It was a habit of being admitted to each other, but I did not want to leave it asleep.

“Excuse me, I bought breakfast.”

“Oh, please.”

Like the dinner last night, the maids arrange their meals in a convenient way. Bacon egg baked crunchy as much thickly cut. Fruit yoghurt served in a glassworking machine. They are accompanied by milk and bread.

As ever, it’s gorgeous.

“That’s delicious”

“Yeah, the eggs are fresh, and milk is superb.”

Regrettable, most of the dishes that Mammon arranges are exquisite. If you treat like a guest like this, I will think for a moment if I can make a bit of misunderstanding.

No, let’s stop it. Even if it is decided suddenly, today is the date of a date. Let’s be in a pleasant mood.

“Very … … very … … like, it was delicious”

“Eggs were exceptional in particular”

“Yeah, it’s completely different from the egg you ate in the village.”

As camellia finished drinking milk, I also finished eating. The way you breathe while stroking your stomach, you can watch forever.

When the maid finishes cleanup, she started to change clothes with me. Separately I just need to lightly change clothes, there is no need to make a draft, but camellia is still in a sleepwear, so I will switch to a problem-free appearance even if I go out.

…… Is it an illusion that I feel slightly different from what I did yesterday?

“I was ready”

“Okay, let’s go”

All this time was really a feeling of going out on a date.

I suddenly take the hand of camellia. It’s a small, soft hand. I feel like I had never touched the camellia skin since yesterday. It was forbidden to touch the skin when wiping the body.

If you think so, the casual behavior of grasping hands is felt deeply.

“… …. It’s warm, I can understand it even with the palm of your hands”

“When I finish all, I will warm up my whole body”

“Haha, I’m looking forward to it”

While muttering that there was no other love, we left the room.

It was the courtyard that went a little lost. If you open the double door, wind that contains dazzling sunlight and the aroma of young grass will come in. And you can see various kinds of trees and flowers. It mixes like a salad bowl but grows with order.

“… … the courtyard, or almost it’s outside”

“This is amazing”

The walls are visible on all sides of the courtyard, but there is a feeling of opening to the extent that it does not feel it. When I thought of it unintentionally, Camellia suddenly started running down.

“Hey, is not this a flower of chamomile?”

It points to a white flower that grew on the ground and says so. It was, Tsubaki started out looking for flowers without fail when playing outside.

While remembering old-fashioned feelings, I step by step and peek.

“Yeah, it’s a chamomile, since we grow a lot, we can make herb tea.”

“Do not get angry if you do it?”

“It will be fine if you do it secretly”

“Eh … … something got tremorous?”

Well, it is a joke. Camelli also knows that. Originally you can not make herb tea with only flowers, you need to get a reasonable amount. In this way, it is not enough in the amount that grows in the courtyard accent.

“But you can remember things about the village, are not you?”

“Oh, there was a large flower garden near the village”

“I got lost there and I was saved by Trel.

“… … And then, who am I?”

“No, I liked it a long time ago”

I laughed quietly. It seemed that the memory that erased my heart yesterday was being purified.

However, the camellia suddenly rises.

“Hey, let’s hide away, Trel is a demon”

“Why, all of a sudden, hidden ……”

“Okay, I am planning to return to my childhood”

Nothing but a childhood, we have not yet grown up. No, it is certainly not old to play hide-in, but I did not understand why he did it go so long to bother.

However, I invite him to try camellia. I exhale with a small sigh. I had no choice but to do as long as I could show such a carefree smile.

Place your head in close contact with a thick tree planted nearby.

“Well, will you count?”

“Well”

Really, since it was a hidden baby. I feel nostalgic, but as I do, it’s kind of ticklish. I do not think Tsubaki should think so, but I wonder if I still wanted to do it.

……I wonder what. I felt that cool wind was blowing in the core of the body without meaning.

“… … ten”

Counted, I turned around behind. Sure enough, I can not see the appearance of camellia. It is natural, because it is a hiding place. But you really wanted to have a hide-in? Such a question runs to the mind.

I do not want to remember, but yesterday the camellia took a lie like to go to the toilet. Regardless of the truth of it, now I have been attacked by the same feeling at that time.

“Camellia?”

There is no response even if you shout. I started running in a hurry.

You prevented my gaze and went out of the courtyard, and the destination could be Mammon.

There can not be such, chanting many times in my heart but impatience and excitement do not fit.

“Ha Ha”

Compared to the outside, a narrow courtyard felt extraordinarily broadly if I tried to find a camellia.

That was exactly right to earn time to escape from here. The dead angle is many due to the thick tree growing on the ground. Conversely, if it is hidden it will be a place with many blind spots.

“Where there are plenty of trees …!!”

Apparently, I rush to the area full of trees. It’s not as good as the forest but perfect for hiding. Make sure to go around all trees, one by one. I wanted to capture the appearance of camellia as soon as possible.

…… But it was not there. I will be discouraged and look for places that are likely to be hiding next time. Bushes, rocks, sinks. Hold your breath and just keep searching.

“Ha, ha … … Why can not find …?!?”

Perhaps, it is already that camellia has already left this courtyard and has extended to deeds with Mammon? Even such thinking begins to flow to the head, if so it means that I just wasted my time.

The opponent is a demon group, and is a demon army executive. It may be possible to force a camellia to forcibly lie or murder.

“Damn it …!!”

When I got big curse, shock hit from behind.

“Wow!”

“Ooh, it is, camellia!?”

Tsubaki who lowered his hands gently in front of the body and posed a ghost was standing behind me. I shouted loudly suddenly I turn around and get a rice cake.

My heart beat quickly in a different meaning from excitement.

Looking at me like that, the camellia begins to laugh with the future.

“Why, why …?”

“Why, because I am not good at finding Trell, I’d like to threaten you.”

“… … Where were you hiding?”

“Behind that tree, I secretly went around.”

What I pointed out is the location of the tree where I counted numbers. If I remember it well, I was not looking for the back side of that tree.

It is exactly the lighthouse. But I was relieved.

“What’s wrong?”

“No, that, sorry … I thought I went to Mammon … ….”

“… … were you excited?”

“…… I was impatient at the beginning, but I’m getting excited at all … No, I’m sorry, I imitate doubt … … I’m terrible.”

“Well, if it was so, it was good.”

“Huh? Have you been excited?”

“It was also good, but I was glad that I was able to make you surprised.

Perhaps, was I just used for stress dissipation?

Joyfulness fills the heart as soon as a faint anger gets caught. The camellia smile is genuine, just watching it, the dark emotions until a while ago wiped out.

“It’s true, it’s a terrible stress divergence”

“I can do refreshing, Trel can be excited and was not it good?”

“It will be tricky to be taken down as soon as the date starts”

I was laughing with a nonsmoking joke. That itself was funny, and we chuckled with couscous for a while. After all, having a camellia makes me feel uncomfortable in a good sense.

I was thankful for me who is troublesome at times because it provides me with nervousness and pleasures without cheering.

“… Well, Tsubaki, will you tell me one thing?”

“what?”

I do not want to destroy the warm atmosphere, but I have no chance to hear it unless I listen now. I forced my mouth.

“Did you say you are going to the bathroom yesterday? … That is a lie, is not it?”

“……why?”

“When I was little, Camellia lied in a similar complaint,”

The camellias stood firm as if faced with falsehood. However, I sit next to me as I decided.

“Yeah, I’m sorry, it was a lie … … Before I go back to my room, I was ordered by Mammon”

“Really……”

“……sorry”

“No, rather, I’m a little happy because it was because I did not want to mind lying.”

“Well, yeah, I’m excited to be taken down, but after all it’s really painful and I think Trel is suffering …”

I guess that is a lie because of kindness. In the first place, before the lie, the camellia confirmed whether I was awake. I would have planned to go secretly if I were asleep.

Whether you take the act to hide in love with a lover, go take cheating, take it, not to hurt your lover, or take it may be by people. But, I choose the latter. I could understand it if I looked at the eyes of camellia.

“I am truly sorry,”

“You do not have to apologize – first of all it’s a funny thing to get lost, and you will know how to handle it.”

That said, the camellia nodded powerfully. I like this kind of gentle but powerful place.

Somehow I got a delimiter. I could listen to what I wanted to hear, I started turning the story to change the air that made me cry.

“Well then, what shall we do next?”

“Huh?”

“Hidden bowl, what do you play next?”

“… … You still want to stay here, kana?”

“Well, why do not you flower?”

“You do not want to pick it?”

“There were plenty of flowers in the moment, and that we are having such a hard time because we are having such a hard time”

“Ah, there is another aspect of emergence”

While talking about laughing, the camellia pulled my hand and headed for the flower garden. When I think about it now, I wonder when I saw flowers and laughed, or when I quickly ran into the flower garden.

After all, the date just ended with love the flowers in the courtyard. Tsubaki who put the wreath made by me on his head is singing a humming next door.

“It was fun”

“But it’s already noon, I do not feel any time soon.”

“I was hooked, are not they?”

When a distant door opens, a maid appears and comes to us. Whether it is not to lose elegance or whether you are concerned about the length of the skirt or not, I’ve been doing it in a small distance.

“We were ready for lunch.”

“Okay, then, in the room …”

“Please come to the cafeteria this time”

“Huh……”

The expression of camellia became hard. I wonder if I was suddenly called to the cafeteria though I had taken meals in my room yesterday and this morning. For that, I feel like I’m frightened.

I did not want to go, it seemed to say so.

“I will guide you”

However, maid will start to guide us without saying the presence or absence. There seems to be no veto in the first place.

Then the camellia turned over for me.

“… … that, it might be a bit painful, is not it?”

“……all right”

I mean, that.

That switch put us in that line.





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