How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

31. Do you know love?

1.

Luke, do you know love?

Love is actually not that great.

When I was little, my mother told me that falling in love with someone is as natural as spring following winter.

So when I was young, I asked my mother.

How do I know if I fell in love with someone or if I fell in love?

When my mother smiled warmly at my question and replied that she would know when it was time.

When I was young, when I heard that, I wondered where in the world there was such a thing. Are you kidding me right now? I puffed out my cheeks and gave my mother a hard time.

Actually, the last time I went to see her mother, she confessed that she had a boyfriend she likes. And that’s where my father and older brother are together. Seriously, looking back, I did something so embarrassing that I wanted to go into a rat hole and hide.

I think my mother must have smiled when she remembered what I said when I was young.

I’ve come to like you.

If I had to point out when it was like this, well…

Maybe I can trust you. When you asked me to swear that the promise you made to me, that you wouldn’t let me carry all the burdens on my own, was true without a single lie. Maybe it was from then? I don’t know exactly.

This is what happened that day. Do you remember when you said to me how could I ever let go of an elder?

It’s a bit embarrassing, but when I heard that, I cried. I didn’t want to see you cry, so I kicked you out.

If I hadn’t really liked you, I wouldn’t have shed so many tears. So, at that time, I was already in a state of being taken away as much as I wanted to be taken away by you.

And then… To be honest, if you compare your age after all the discussions, you’re older, aren’t you? Joy.

That’s what I mean. After everything is over, I plan to live a very selfish life. Come to think of it, it was a little bit embarrassing. At such a blossoming age, why do I have to hunt for strange gods or fanatics who believe in something wrong?

So, the amount of time already lost will be compensated in this round. I want to live like you, so I decided to live like that.

Maybe you haven’t been through the same experience as me, so it could have been easier said than done. But still, no, it was better that way.

The comforting words you gave me gave me such hope that I would be able to go back to my life before the terrible memories I had to endure.

Perhaps you think of me as some noble hero.

But you know what? You probably don’t know, but the real hero is actually different. At least for me.

If you didn’t exist in this episode, I might have lived a life like a doll. Because I was so tired, a person like me.

You, who raised me up, established yourself as my own hero. Ever since then.

I fell in love with you.

My mother said that we would all know about love when the time came, but I never expected it to be real. So, in my heart, my trust in my mother went up two steps.

I can tell you exactly when this happened.

Do you remember that night we were together at the library? After scolding me for being unconscious because of that one stone slate that suddenly disappeared, he didn’t let me go while holding onto my face.

If I stayed like that for a little longer, my face might have exploded. It was such an embarrassing situation, that. To be honest, it was good enough that I wanted to stay like that all the time, but it’s embarrassing to be ashamed.

Me, if I get a chance later, I’d like to learn the violin. It’s never too late to learn something new, right? And since I’m good at anything I do with my body, maybe my skills will improve quickly.

I want to sit next to you and play the violin while surrounded by flowers on the flower bed. Personally, I really like purple hyacinths, and imagining myself playing the violin with hyacinth flowers in the background on a warm spring day makes my heart thump. If that day comes, can I look forward to your impressions then?

Come to think of it, the other day Luke’s mother loved lilies when she was alive, did she say that? When I saw it yesterday, it bloomed so beautifully that my heart was shaken a little. But I still think hyacinth is better.

How long do you plan on sleeping? I want you to sit side by side with me and drink tea and notice my desire to see flowers. A man who makes a woman wait a long time is not attractive.

Still, if it were you, you would smile and wait.

I mean, I thought you were going to die leaving me there. How long has it been since you said that you would value your life?

Still, I mean.

Thank you for being alive. Really.

There are many things I want to ask, but since you’re alive like this, that’s enough for me.

So, please. Now stop standing up and smiling at me. It was like that every time…

“Like…? Uh huh?”

A warm touch, and a light green that shines warm enough to match it.

It’s his color.

2.

Raising his empty hand, he held his other hand tightly and lightly stroked Adele’s weeping head. A light pink wave that follows my hand catches my eyes.

“Luke!”

Adele’s bright expression, which had been lowered with his eyes shining, subtly changed after a while. She runs all over her place with her blue eyes nowhere to go and then she fixates on me again.

“Wait a minute! How far have you heard? No, since when have you been awake…?!”

Adele must have bit her tongue during her flustered speech, and after she closed her mouth, she started glaring at me. Seeing the tears welling up in her eyes, she inadvertently thought that it looked like a wounded kitten.

“Um…”

To be honest, I am reluctant to answer.

As soon as she woke up because her body complained of fatigue, she closed her eyes again and lay down. In the meantime, Adele came in and she started saying a lot of embarrassing words to herself, which was the beginning of the gay affair. So if you ask where she heard it from …

“Should I say all of them…”

Kwaak-

Adele quietly closed her eyes without saying anything. Even so, her two hands, which were holding mine tightly, were gaining more and more strength.

Hey, it hurts a little bit, Miss Adele. Could you give me some strength…?

In fact, it’s somewhat understandable that Adele couldn’t open her mouth. She thought I was sleeping, so she brought out all the words that she had stored deep in her heart, but the person in question was actually listening to them. If I did that, it would be 1 stack of blanket kick.

Aside from that, as she was receiving a confession of love that was so explicit that her heart was pounding the whole time she was listening, she wondered if Adele would notice that I was awake at some point. She said it all because she wondered if she was deliberately ignoring it until she saw her genuine embarrassment.

After a while, Adele relaxed her hand, which was causing me devastating pain, and narrowed her eyes to show off a bewitching smile.

“I would like to tell you to forget everything I just said, but maybe this is better.”

Adele, with a bewildering smile that made her salivate unconsciously, spoke to me differently than before, she said.

Adele, who has moved from the chair next to her bed to the top of her bed, leans over to me and rests her head on my chest. She naturally raised one of her hands and brushed my cheek, then she glanced up at me.

I felt like I was about to be burned by the heat from her gaze, so I averted my eyes involuntarily.

Yes, this is definitely the charm of association.

Regression, reincarnation, etc. If you look at it all, Adele is definitely a woman one year older than me. The aura of a sister that radiated from a woman of the age when her appearance had just begun to bloom properly was like that of irresistible violence.

Adele’s hand runs down my neck.

“Since the lady expressed her heart so fervently, isn’t it courtesy of a gentleman to tell you your answer?”

Her hand went down even further along her arm.

“If you are struggling because it is difficult to choose an answer, there is nothing that I cannot provide you with a model answer.”

It intertwined with my hand, and snuggled up.

“This is an easy multiple choice answer. Yes or yes How is it, simple?”

Although she has been boldly expressing her affection, Adele’s face, which is now slightly flushed, tells me indirectly how courageous she is.

As her breath tickled her throat, a smile came out of her mouth involuntarily.

“What is that? Where did the no to the option go?”

“Actually, there is no such thing as a choice.”

“…Yes?”

“I have to be without you now. Luke… You’re something I can’t be without. Therefore…”

Are you going to take care of me?

At her words, the accident stopped completely for an instant.

As if starting her broken engine, I stared blankly at her for a long time, then I lightly lifted Adele’s hand, which was still clasped between mine and hers, to her mouth.

“To be honest, I don’t have any experience in dating, so I might be frustrated at times.”

“Then we can learn together, so I think it’s better.”

“…Is that so?”

A silence ensued after that, but it wasn’t a particularly uncomfortable kind of silence. If so, should I say pleasant silence?

I touched Adele’s soft hand, which was wearing a pod, and lightly kissed the back of her hand.

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“…Luke?”

“Originally, I was going to try to set a romantic atmosphere, but things in the world really don’t go my way. Yes?”

“Huh, that’s what I heard.”

Perhaps the corners of her mouth went up and the corners of her eyes began to curl because she knew what I was going to say.

“What?!”

Without warning, she pulled herself up, wrapping her remaining arm around her waist. Even so, she had no intention of continuing to lie in such an atmosphere. She didn’t show any particular dislike of Adele either, although she did get a little grumpy in the process.

Just like that, Adele’s back touches my chest, and the sweet scent of her pale pink hair numbs my sense of smell.

“I don’t know when exactly I started to have this feeling. It just happened so naturally, just spending time with you.”

But as if Adele wasn’t satisfied with that position, she climbed completely onto the bed and sat down on my thighs. She was the one who usually looked up at me, this time she was holding her breath and looking down at me.

As if preparing for the next event, his eyes were shining brightly.

And I was looking forward to that moment just as much as she was. To the point where she uses magic to clean my mouth without her knowledge.

“Can you do me a favor?”

“…Just say anything.”

“Please smile.”

“Good.”

Her smile was so loud that it was hard to believe that she had been asked to do it, and it was also infinitely more endearing. Looking at the person I have come to love more than anything else and want to protect forever.

“I love you, Adele.”

“One more time.”

“…I love you.”

“Up to the name, again.”

To her with a mischievous smile.

“I love you, Adele.”

“Again.”

I conveyed my heart.

“Love- Eup…”

And she gave it back. With breathtaking passion.

I think there is one thing wrong with what you said, Adele.

In fact, love is such a great thing.