chapter 39
39. It is no longer ‘I’ but ‘we’
1.
Since neither of the two families opposed it, it was a matter of seconds before the engagement was scheduled. It was decided to announce the news of the engagement at a birthday banquet to be held at Isvant Mansion in the Islands on August 5, Luke’s birthday.
Adele recalled the envy of the other noblewomen she was sure to receive when she announced the news of her and Luke’s engagement, as she did, and she put on a wry smile mixed with a bit of triumph.
Luke breathed a sigh of relief as he recalled the political aftermath that would come when the news was officially announced. It was because it was his father’s job to handle it, not him yet.
It was the union of the only two ducal families in the empire, no one else.
Those who are good at counting will pay attention to the enormous peon that can be wiped out when these two families unite.
The heads of several aristocratic families deeply involved in politics would have to figure out how this union would affect them, and how to deal with it in the best way possible for them to have the most favorable outcome. .
Actually, the parties to the union were more interested in messing around with each other than those things.
“My Luke, do you want to have a drink with your sister?”
“Adele, please…”
“Ahaha, okay, don’t make that face. Does that hurt Luke a little?”
Adele, wearing her wide-brimmed straw hat, ties the blue ribbon on her hat and lets out a playful laugh. When she saw a sleeveless snow-white dress that came down just above her knees, revealing her shoulders and bare arms, fluttering in the sea breeze, Luke saw that Adele was the heroine she must have appeared in a shoujo manga. I thought it was the same.
And the heart of such a beautiful woman points to herself, not to anyone else. Luke, who inadvertently raised her hand at that thought, gently lifted Adele’s chin and lowered her head.
“Yeah, chuup… Ha ha…”
Oddly enough, it was Luke who kissed first, but it was Adele who always took the lead afterward. To that extent Adele was sincere in showing the affection she had for her Luke.
“Umm… Ha, Luke…”
Adele’s dissatisfied attitude at the level of her simply leading her kiss changed a little more aggressively.
Raising her tiptoes and matching her height, Adele naturally lifted her arms, which had been clasping her Luke, along his back, and she grasped his shoulders with both hands. Her tongue invades Luke’s mouth, and she scolds the landlord for not showing up properly.
She was overly focused on her kiss, so she gently grabbed Adele’s hat, which was about to fall, as if she knew it would happen.
When the two men and women, who had been clinging together for a long time under the hot sun, separated from each other, surprisingly, not even a single drop of sweat could be found.
‘Magic is invincible. Temperature control magic is a god.’
It was Luke’s complete sincerity. How could he not praise the magic that can easily block UV rays? Although it was unreasonable for the current Luke to use her magic to show the same power as Adele, Adele was also jealous of the convenience.
Of the two looking into each other’s eyes with exhaled breath, Luke was the first to look away. It was because if I continued to look into Adele’s slightly relaxed eyes, I had a feeling that she would lose control and not be able to get out of bed all day.
If Adele knew, she might have asked back, ‘Is it really necessary to move here?’
Adele, looking a little disappointed, pouted her mouth, then turned to the side and tidied up the sticking out hair while she was preoccupied with the kiss.
“Hey, Luke. I’m so happy that I wonder if this moment with you is a dream I’m having?”
Adele’s fingers dug between her Luke’s fingers. Her gaze was following the horizon, not Luke.
“If this is a dream that I am dreaming, I will think that I do not want to wake up forever. I am that happy.”
She was probably laughing. Even without seeing Adele’s face directly, it was not difficult to guess that much. But Luke thought that if she was going to smile on her own, it would be better for her to smile at herself instead of looking elsewhere.
“Adele, this is not a dream.”
Luke, who gave strength to her hands that were holding her and conveyed his warmth, followed Adele, who had taken a couple of steps, and said,
Sabaksabak-
The grains of sand on the beach are crushed, and the two men and women move forward together.
With a person who is reliving the past,
A person who is living a new life, leaving the past behind.
“Rather, it’s not a dream, it’s a reality, so unlike a dream where you don’t know when or where it will jump… You can only follow the flow, we can decide our own path forward.”
The strides of Luke and Adele, who were walking hand in hand, matched neatly. I couldn’t tell if it was Luke, Adeligne, or both.
“The future has already changed enough, right? As long as you change it, you just have to make sure that every day is like that dream, and that future will inevitably come.”
“…Yes, that will work.”
A dazzling smile appeared on Adele’s face that would not lose its light among the stars even if it floated in the night sky. And that smile turned into a big smile at Luke’s words that followed.
“It would be okay to come here on your honeymoon. It wouldn’t be bad to live here at all, but realistically it would be a bit difficult… What does Adele think?”
“Uh, huh? I… I just like you anywhere.”
A woman who has been living in her past meets a man who lives in the present, and she moves forward for her future with him.
“…But if I ask you to go somewhere like a desert, you’ll get angry, right?”
“Oh, I got caught.”
Adele answered in a playful voice, and she stopped on the spot. She said and she said
“Luke, do me a favor.”
“What kind of request?”
“That’s just… Just to see if you could carry me while walking along this beach.”
“…Suddenly? It’s not a particularly difficult request, but…”
Luke quickly tapped the calculator in his head and replied.
So, after Adele reached the level of Master, she didn’t know exactly what had happened to her body. However, if she exaggerated her current Adele a bit, she had such a delicate figure that one wondered if she would be able to properly hold a sword.
So, Adele’s request to carry her on her back for a while wasn’t too much of a burden for Luke. She wouldn’t be saying that her superhuman, of her size, suddenly had pain in her leg. Luke couldn’t even fathom what she was in the mood for to ask.
“Yes. Ever since I read a novel in the past, I’ve always wondered what it would feel like. Of course, if you’re having a hard time, that can’t be helped, but…”
Luke pursed his lips at Adele’s remarks that subtly touched his pride.
“Hurry up before I change my mind.”
“Hehe… It’s a bit of an unexpected request, but thank you for listening to me, Luke.”
Adele gently put her body on Luke who crouched with his back turned away. Luke, who supported Adele’s thighs with his two hands, raised himself up, and Adele, who had lightly rested his hand on Luke’s shoulder, hurriedly wrapped her arms around him and hugged him.
She looked a little embarrassed as her dress was rolled up, but Adele thought she didn’t have to be ashamed on a private property where no one would see her anyway. If he’s like Luke right now, he’s carrying himself so I can’t even see him at all, but he’s separate from him.
‘It doesn’t matter if I show it to Luke… Ah, I’ll have to play around with this a little later.’
If it was Luke and no one else, Adele was ready to enjoy a little s*xual tension in her. Rather, Adele’s side might be more active than Luke in the line of not breaking premarital chastity.
With her head buried in Luke’s nape, Adele, who had her eyes closed very tightly, tapped his leg lightly and spoke to him.
“Hey, Luke. Do you know that your heart has been beating ever since?”
“I don’t know.”
There’s no way Luke himself didn’t know that. I also knew the cause of it.
Adele’s softness felt at her own fingertips, yet firm against her thighs and back…
‘Good thoughts, good thoughts.’
Luke, who struggled to shake his head and drive away his thoughts, was just as cute, so Adele hugged him as if she would crush him. Of course, she didn’t mean that she really did. She was always saying that, because she might catch someone who really did.
Adele knew to the extent that her own actions would only irritate Luke more. That was exactly what she intended.
It’s a reaction that you won’t be able to see even if you want to see it in the distant future, so it was a mindset to enjoy it while you can enjoy it. Of course, apart from making fun of Luke, she meant it when she said that she wanted to be carried on her back like this at least once.
“My lovely horseman, let’s go.”
“…Where shall we take you, lady?”
With Adele on his back, Luke walked leisurely along the beach, not even guessing what awaited them that evening.
2.
Right before the sun went down, Adele was in a better mood.
Throughout the afternoon, she and Luke spent time at the beach, exchanging simple and slightly deeper skinships, and enjoying moderately playing in the water, so the time flew by. She did so while she was returning to her villa in time for dinner.
“…Scorpio.”
The well-forged murder of the assassins, very faintly detected in the direction of her villa, touched Adele’s heart. It was an instant for her good mood to plummet.
“Why is this all of a sudden?”
Luke asked, looking nervous at the sight of Adele frowning at her, suddenly getting on her nerves. The distance to her villa was at least 500m, so it was because there was no way Luke could detect the presence of extremely trained assassins at that distance.
For that brief moment, an inner conflict raged in Adele’s mind about whether it was safe to take Luke with her or leave her here. If Luke was left alone and he caught the assassin’s eye, there was no guarantee what would happen.
I didn’t question Luke’s skills, but dealing with an assassin trained to kill people most efficiently was a whole different story.
“They are the assassins of the Assassination Brigade commanded by Scorpio. The goal is probably… my family, I guess.”
Adele, biting her lower lip, gritted her teeth. Adele, closing her eyes, hardened her heart. Adele still has a vivid memory of the moment when Luke almost lost his life in the dungeon of Isvant Castle that day. So it would never have been possible for her, not for anyone else, to bring Luke into a situation where there was even the slightest possibility that he might be in danger.
“Luke, I just-“
“There are a total of 7 intruders inside the villa right now. There are three more people waiting outside.”
“-Take care of it… Huh?”
Luke closed his eyes and said calmly. From the moment ‘Scorpio’ came out of Adele’s mouth, he felt something unusual, so Luke was able to use detection-type magic without any hesitation.
“Not moving yet-, damn it!”
Adele was the first to sense that the assassins were starting to move, but Luke, who was aware of the situation in real time with detection magic, was the first to react.
“Wait a minute!”
Luc, who grabbed Adele’s hand, used space movement magic to shorten the distance to the entrance of the villa in an instant.
If Adele was alone, it was close enough to cover in a few seconds, but if Luke moved her body directly, it was also a distance that would take a minute even if he took it to the minimum.
“Listen to me, Luke! It’s dangerous! If you leave it to me, I’ll take care of-“
Luke, who held Adele by the shoulder, interrupted her.
“My mother-in-law is on the 1st floor, and my father-in-law, older brother Sien, and my father are on the balcony on the 2nd floor. It seems that the servants are already late, except for a few people in the kitchen, and the knights have just been beaten. Don’t procrastinate, let’s go before it’s too late, I’ll do something about the assassins outside!”
“You, you really… See you later!”
If she continued to argue here for no reason, she might not be able to help her family in time, so Adele had no choice but to silently follow Luke’s words.
‘If you have even one scar on your body, you’ll die from me, Luke.’
Wow!
As Adele gnashed her teeth and disappeared, the sound of one of the windows on the first floor of the villa being shattered echoed.
“My family, what the hell are you talking about? It must be our family.”
After muttering that, Luke untied his hands and began to prepare a spell that would devour the entire villa.