How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

37. Do you know how to drink?

1.

“…Is it okay if I don’t tell you?”

After a long and short silence, Adele chose not to tell Luke about her troubles.

To be precise, it would be more correct to say that she no longer needed to speak.

Because Adele admitted that Libra’s pranks were having a bigger impact on her than she thought.

She

She was, of course, something she couldn’t help admitting, but deep down, she might have wanted to deny her that it wasn’t.

From the beginning, the reason why Libra’s unreasonable tricks could have had any effect on her was that Adele herself said, ‘Could I have prevented Libra from retrieving the holy relics from her holy place?’ It’s because I had a question for a very short time.

Even after thinking about it calmly, Adele came to the conclusion that she had nothing to do with it from the beginning.

Her At the moment, if there is one thing in common between the first and second playthroughs of her experience, it is that she knows very little information about what happened within the Istvant estate.

While she did not even know that the identity of her nemesis, the apostle Aquarius, was the leader of the knights of Isvant, Adele found out the exact location of the holy place hidden somewhere in the Isvant territory. I couldn’t have known

So it was only natural that he couldn’t stop it.

But it was true to some extent that she was preoccupied with her sweet days with Luke that seemed to drip with honey.

That’s why she had the idea that her work might have turned this way because of the time she wasted like that, and that was the root cause of her deep distress.

Adele When she thought about it herself, she couldn’t help but laugh at it. The chances of her locating the Holy Land she’s aiming for in the zodiac are infinitely close to zero, even if she invests only a few days of her time.

If that happened even once in a lifetime, it would have been a miracle.

Apart from that, the main reason Adele wanted to stop the Zodiac now was basically putting Luke at the center. Of course, that didn’t mean that Adele’s family and Loggia’s existence were not precious to Adele now.

However, it was an obvious fact that even Adele herself could not deny that Luke was the most important factor in adele’s driving force.

She would have to start by asking whether or not she intends to deny it in the first place.

Suppressing the Zodiac was like ending a resolution for Adele. With her responsibility for the task she had twice failed at, she chose to move toward her goal once again.

And what happened after that was a complete blank slate. The woman who was carried by her Luke, until she became aware of her own mind.

So he is her savior. The future he envisioned with him was the same as hers.

‘Luke is one of the apostles after all? What is it?’

Even if one of the apostles said such a thing when it almost cost Luke’s life, Adele couldn’t believe it. Perhaps Libra had no way of knowing about her background, so she was trying to shake her with such nonsense…

‘He said such unpleasant bullsh*t, so I have no choice but to repay him.’

What Libra did to Adele was literally fanning a house on fire. Even if it wasn’t so, it was safe to say that it was hastening my name, which hadn’t been left for very long.

However, there was one thing Adele had to do right now, internally burning her hostility toward Libra.

“Yes, well… It was me who said it was okay not to have to tell you…”

When Luke said that, it was clearly visible that he was slouching enough that anyone could easily spot it.

“Still, it’s a bit embarrassing… I just got a lot of form.”

In the end, it was up to Adele, the one who made him pout, to ease Luke’s mood.

Kook-

“I heard that even Luke behaves like a child once in a while. You get pissed off so easily.”

Adele, who wrapped her arms around Luke’s body and hugged her, whispered in his ear, hiding her laughter as much as possible.

Because of the breath of his lover right next to him, feeling pleasant goosebumps running up the nape of his neck, Luke let out a playful sigh and said,

“Haha… I’m sorry if you thought Adele would react the way she wanted just because I said that. Even so, I’m not that easy of a person.”

“Yeah, he’s so hard-working and cute.”

“…I don’t think that’s something a person who clings to me like a cicada would say.”

“You call cute things cute, what?”

“Whoops,” Adele said with a laugh and took a deep breath. Luke smiled bitterly inwardly, thinking that even a trivial action could be handled in a very captivating way.

“Thank you. All.”

After taking several breaths without saying anything, Adele spoke in a voice so low that she couldn’t hear it unless she listened intently. It’s because I was a little ashamed to reveal my inner feelings.

If Adele hadn’t said it right next to Luke’s ear, maybe Luke wouldn’t have heard it either. The reason she spoke as if she dared to whisper softly was because she knew that she would be able to hear it anyway.

“…If you know it, it’s good.”

Luke answered in a gruff manner, but the corners of his mouth rolled up to the fullest revealed his true intentions.

And Adele, who noticed it through Luke’s thumping heartbeat, thought with a smile that Luke couldn’t see it, she looked just like him.

Even if she didn’t have to say it, she would do better than anyone else, so it would be okay to put those worries aside.

2.

The Barthes Empire has direct borders with only these two countries: the Kingdom of Eldnorus in the west and the Religious State in the southwest.

First of all, there is the Paluchis Mountains, one of the three major demonic landscapes on the continent, to the north, so exchanges with countries beyond the mountain range are basically infrequent. The reason was that it was not so easy to pass through the mountains without the permission of Bingryong Scadia, the ruler of the Paluchis Mountains.

To obtain Scadia’s permission, he had to pay the toll by paying a satisfactory tribute, but finding an offering worthy of the castle of an ancient dragon that has lived for thousands of years was a very difficult task.

To the east lies the unnecessarily wide Orcs-infested Belleton Plain, so most of the exchanges with neighboring countries are made through the sea to the south.

Just as the sea occupies about 70% of the Earth’s surface, the area of the sea on this planet is infinitely vast, so the Ludmeier estate adjacent to it was naturally rich.

In addition, Ivena, a trading city that grew based on the empire’s largest port, perhaps more developed than the vicinity of the Duchy of Ludmeyer, and Meltis, a popular resort that is visited overseas regardless of the season.

Now I was in Meltis among them.

If the purpose of visiting Meltis was to enjoy a vacation alone with Adele, I would have been truly happy.

“Yes, the thief who possessed our precious daughter… No!”

“Whoops, I’m sorry. My husband is so obsessed with things related to Adele… He is called Roselia Ludmeyer, Adele’s mother.”

“Oh, no… This is Luke Isvant. It’s a lacking body, but I hope you take care of it.”

Somehow, except for the two dukes who are familiar with each other, it has become such an awkward place where people from both families who are new to each other gather in one place.

Among them, what caught my eye was her older brother, Cien Ludmeyer, who, unlike Adele, inherited bright red hair reminiscent of the burning flames of Duke Ludmeyer.

It was her mother, Roselia Leude Meyer, with the appearance of Adele shouting with her whole body that this is what she will look like when she gets older.

Rosellia Lud Meier has hair close to platinum blonde, a little different from Adele, but her blue eyes and similar face shape just like hers prove that the two are unquestionably mother and daughter. Was doing

“…”

Shien, who had been observing me without a word until now, seemed to be thinking deeply about something, then she nodded and held out her hand to me.

“This is Xian Ludmeyer. Please take good care of her brother… Brother-in-law.”

I dropped a bomb on the field.

“Oh, brother?!”

“Hehehehehehe!”

Adele, who expressed her embarrassment, did not like her words, but deep down, whether she liked her brother’s words, the corners of her mouth trembled as if she would burst into laughter at any moment. She was easy to notice because she was used to her smile.

“Ah! Of course, bro. I have heard many stories from Adele about her brother.”

“…Are you Adele?”

I was a bit puzzled by his attitude of asking back with his eyebrows slightly furrowed, but I put that mind aside for now and answered.

“Yes. Adele praised her brother until her mouth was dry.”

“I see…”

I wondered if I had said something wrong at the sight of Sien hyung-nim glancing at Adele with a subtle reaction and Adele glaring at me subtly.

Anyway, that’s it.

To be honest, the reason we visited Meltys was, in name, a vacation for my father, who was feeling well. If it was simply a place for that, there would be no reason for Adele’s family to be together.

Therefore, this place is said to be a place prepared to officially announce the fact that Adele and I are dating, and to discuss the future, that is, the engagement.

Basically, when an engagement between noble families is involved in politics or interests, it tends to become a sacrament from the time of birth, or at the latest in the early teens.

However, Adele’s and I’s physical ages were already in our late teens, and we were on the late side. On top of that, with my birthday just around the corner, I will soon be 19 years old, and Adele will be 20 years old as well.

It was very rare for two aristocratic men and women in this age group to continue dating without being engaged. Since I’m older, it wasn’t strange if there were bad rumors going around in the social world if the end wasn’t good.

Usually, when an engagement takes place, it is rare for a fight to break out unless a serious reason for disqualification is found on either side or the relationship deteriorates seriously.

In other words, the reason this place was prepared was simply because I thought it would be okay to spend the rest of my life together with Adelena and I. After all, in weddings between nobles, where politics was more important than love, we were guaranteed a satisfactory marriage life.

So, to me, who knew right away that the heir to the family would soon have to find a marriage partner as the current heir to a fairly important aristocratic family, Adele’s sudden intrusion into my life made me very happy and grateful. .

Proposal… To be honest, I wasn’t sure I could immediately think of anything more than Adele’s confession when I didn’t know I was listening.

Coming to think of it, it was Adele’s side who confidently stepped out to ask for permission from my father to date, and now that I’m in the position of being courted this far… I’m so blessed that no one else will die.

“Oh my, Lee too… Did I accidentally drink the tea…?”

Mr. Roselia gave me a comical laugh that was just like Adele when she was playing a prank on me. No, her mother-in-law patted her father-in-law on the back, she said.

My father, who observes all these situations very leisurely and even closes his eyes while drinking tea, is also a great person in many ways.

“No… Daughter, I did say that I will let you choose the person you want to marry, but…”

Seeing the father-in-law lowering his head with a sad expression after he stopped talking, I was able to guess what he was trying to say to some extent. Wouldn’t it be something like ‘I hope you never mentioned anything like marriage in your life…’?

“…Do not make my precious daughter cry, even if you die.”

“But Dad, I want Luke to be with me forever, even when I cry.”

Adele, biting her lip and replying like that, must have been remembering the incident that almost killed me.

“Hehe…!”

But nobody knew about it except me, Adele, and her father. Seeing Adele silence her father by casually saying such unfamiliar words, Sien’s older brother widened his mouth in surprise, while her mother-in-law covered her mouth with her hand to hide her laughter.

“Heh heh, Charles. Please don’t kill my son like that. Even though he’s not as good as your daughter, Luke isn’t a son-in-law who would bow down anywhere.”

“Whoa… Yes. I’m sorry, Lakers. And I beg you, don’t take my words to heart too much. If you put yourself in the shoes of a father with a daughter… then you will understand my feelings.”

“Ha ha ha…”

To be honest, I didn’t know how to react to those words, so I chose to remain silent.

If I had a daughter like Adele in the future, I think most men would object to it unconditionally. But even so, isn’t it a bit funny that I agree with that statement, now that I have to say to my father-in-law, please allow me to marry your daughter.

“…Perhaps Adele won’t even listen to what I say.”

The father-in-law who said that while shaking her head asked me with a wry smile.

“Do you have the confidence to make my daughter happy, to value your life as precious as your own?”

And I, too, responded to his question with sincerity, even if it wasn’t so, with a more correct posture.

“I am not confident that I can make her Adele happy, but she will always do my best to make her happy. And, Adele already values her life as much as I do, so she doesn’t have to worry about that part.”

“…Yes, I see.”

The moment the father-in-law opened his mouth again as he let out a light sigh, and Adele’s complexion brightened at the same time.

“Son-in-law, do you know how to drink?”