How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

44. Because it’s you, I lose.

1.

Unexpectedly, Xian hyung-nim said he would take care of what happened last night. Perhaps it was part of the successor education.

So, only Shien-nim-nim remained in Meltis, and I decided to go to the island with Adele after staying with the Ludmeyer family for a while. In the case of my father, he said that the story about the vacation itself was a joke in the first place, and said that he would return to the manor to take care of the work he had been putting off half of his own will.

The bodies of the two knights who died while fulfilling their duty are scheduled to be moved to the Duke of Ludmeyer for a funeral, and the bodies of other servants will be taken by Sien after talking with their families in the area. Seemed to do it.

“Brother-in-law, can you do me a personal favor?”

“What kind of request…?”

“I hope that my brother-in-law will put the brakes on Adele in an appropriate way so that Adele is not seriously injured. I don’t think she’s going to get hitched by her younger brother anywhere, but she’s secretly hot-tempered and stubborn, so her father worries about her a lot.”

“I see…?”

I couldn’t help but tilt my head while listening to Shien hyung-nim’s words, wondering if this was right. This is a story about Adele that Shien-hyung knew, so you’re saying Adele from the 1st playthrough was like that, right?

And to be honest, it is true that my father-in-law loves his daughter extremely, but Sien hyung-nim is also very clumsy at hiding his thoughts. To me, when I think of the fact that Adele, who was her brother, was completely unaware of Adele’s praise for her older brother, I think that the two of them look alike.

“There is no need to worry too much, as I will do so even if you do not ask for it. I’m following, just in case, to make sure Adele doesn’t put her in danger.”

“I heard that, it’s quite… Ah, no. I think my father will be able to relax when he hears the story. Thank you, brother-in-law.”

“No, brother. As she is my future wife, isn’t that what I should do? I don’t think it deserves to be thanked.”

After describing Adele as my future wife, what should I say? I scratched the back of her head without realizing it, perhaps because I felt like I was being tickled for no reason.

“…You know it’s not too late, right? If you marry my sister, you’ll have a hard time. You should probably be able to bite it now without too much trouble. Maybe your father would rather like it.”

I answered with a smile on my face at the words of Sien, who sneakily raised the corner of her mouth and played a mischievous joke.

“I’ll tell Adele what she just said without missing a single word from her.”

Then, for a very short time, Sien-hyung opened her mouth wide with an absurd expression on her face, giggled, and raised both hands.

“For the sake of my life, I hope you will bear with it.”

“Just this once. And to give you a proper answer to the question from a moment ago… Unless Adele’s side declares separation to me first, I don’t think I will end this marriage.”

“…Let’s continue to get along well, brother-in-law.”

After saying that with a light smile, Sien-hyung reached out to me and asked for a handshake. Without the slightest hesitation, I also replied, holding my brother’s outstretched hand with strength.

“I’m begging you better, brother.”

After the conversation with Shien-nim like that. With the consideration of her mother-in-law, who lightly ignored her father-in-law’s objection, Adele and Adele were riding alone in the carriage heading to the Meltys branch of the Magic Tower, and Adele whispered very softly into her ear.

“Really, I don’t know how my future husband can talk so prettily… He keeps making people’s heart flutter.”

“…You could have heard that?”

“Well~?”

She made up her mind the moment she heard that.

In the future, I would rather not let gossip about Adele come out of my mouth, even if it means dying.

2.

I literally only stopped by the Duke of Ludmeyer for a short while. The goal Adele and I had set was to wipe out not only Scorpio, but also Libra and, if possible, Burgo, all at once, before my birthday came around, so the schedule wasn’t that tight.

It took about a week to cross the borders of the Religious States and reach its headquarters, the Cathedral of Lumineria. Considering the fact that we had to come and go two weeks round trip, we didn’t have much time to spare.

As much as Adele knew for sure that the base of the Assassination Brigade, where Scorpio would be, she decided to spend about three days in the system. Assuming she’s headed to the Church after that, she’s at least until the 3rd of August, if she aims to return to the Isvant estate…

Excluding the total number of days of 17, the free period comes out to about 18 to 19 days, which is a little less than about 3 weeks.

As it is an overly tight schedule, we are considering the option of canceling my birthday banquet altogether this year and postponing the announcement of our engagement to Adele’s birthday, depending on how things turn out in the church.

“By the way, did you say that Scorpio serves as a liaison among the apostles?”

“Ehh?… Yes, that’s right. But why is that…?”

After arriving at the island, we rented a carriage on the way to the mansion owned by the Rude Meyer family to take a break for a while.

And inside, Adele, who was lying on my lap and had her eyes closed, listened to my question. They said that if she was a well-trained knight, it would be easy for her to stay up all night for a day or two, but she was a little puzzled because she noticed that Adele, who had reached a higher level than them, did not.

Not only is she especially weak in the morning, but maybe she just likes to sleep.

“Then, from the moment we deal with Scorpio, the apostles will have no means of contacting each other at all?”

“Probably it will happen for a while… But there’s no way you haven’t prepared a countermeasure for such a situation, so it’s better not to expect too much.”

Adele, who satisfied my curiosity, squinted her eyes, put a finger to my lips and said, “Okay, okay? Then I’m going to close my eyes now, so stop shhh,” She said, giving her a stern expression before she closed her eyes again.

Seeing her like that, she reminds me of one thing in common between Adele and me. Me or she, the fact that I can’t use all four of her limbs when I see her cute.

Adele has a habit of saying that she looks cute when she sees me when I say something. In the past, when we didn’t know we liked each other, we’d tried to pretend to hide it, but now that we’ve become virtually betrothed, none of that is gone.

But Adele wasn’t the only one who was obsessed with cute things. I couldn’t resist the fatal cuteness of Adele lying on her side with her body on my knee and her hands folded in front of her face.

My hand, which moves naturally over Adele’s head, touches her bangs, playing her pranks on her against my will.

But this is actually something she does with Adele’s permission.

Originally, isn’t the lap pillow an act that is in line with allowing the other person to touch my head? So this situation where I am playing with Adele’s bangs, it is safe to say that she had her permission from the moment she laid her head on my lap.

And this is evidenced by the fact that Adele does not resist my touch at all, without her complaining.

“By the way, there is one thing I was curious about earlier.”

“Ugh…!”

Carefully removing her rhymes, Adele turns her head and looks up at me with her disgruntled eyes. It’s just that her subtle twitching of the corners of her mouth reveals that it’s all acting, so it just looks cute.

“What kind of person was Adele in the first playthrough? Compared to now.”

“Uh, uh uh? All of a sudden, what… Ah. Could she be because of what she heard from her older brother?”

Adele, who looked flustered at the sudden, completely unexpected question, regained her composure in an instant, and she asked me back.

“Yes. What did Shien-hyung say… She’s hot-tempered and stubborn? I kind of wanted to know if it was real or if he was just playing a prank on me.”

“Ummm… I have a condition instead of telling you.”

“What are the conditions?”

“Actually, I don’t know.”

“…?”

She didn’t know how to react to Adele’s teasing, so she just stared at her. Then she exaggeratedly puffed out her cheeks and exhaled, and Adele moved her hand.

“Evil…?!”

He pinches my side.

“Why are you pinching all of a sudden?!”

Whether you force it or not, it hurts the same when someone pinches your flesh. However, without knowing why, she suddenly pinched her flesh, and the feeling was twice as painful.

“Is this a prank you played on me?”

“…Ah.”

Come to think of it, she seems to have been like that once when she was drunk. And when I think about what happened then, I feel like the dark history I accumulated that day is unfolding in front of my eyes.

It’s crazy. Sell the dog…

“Okay, I’ll tell you…”

As he spoke, Adele grabbed my hand, pulled it, and put it on her cheek before he finished talking.

“You can laugh after hearing it or not…? It’s really embarrassing…”

Seeing the slight heat radiating from Adele’s cheeks touching the back of her hand, it seems that embarrassing isn’t just a word.

“I promise. I won’t laugh, I won’t tease you. OK?”

Adele, who averted her eyes and turned her gaze to another place, glanced at me from the side of her eye and nodded her head before opening the door.

“I could have been a little bit hot-tempered, really…”

I wondered if Adele’s hands were intermittently straining when she said that, maybe it was because she didn’t want to admit it.

“Stubbornness… No, well… That’s still the case.”

Is that so? I don’t think I’ve ever felt that Adele was particularly stubborn. Did he notice my puzzled gaze? For some reason she sees Adele raising her hand and covering her eyes. After that

“Just for you… Because it’s you, I’m just losing everything…”

Adele muttered very quietly, in a voice so inaudible that I had to listen to her to hear her properly.

…What inhuman cuteness!

“Adele.”

“…Why?”

“Can I kiss you?”

“…Okay.”

Unfortunately, we were forced off halfway by the coachman’s words that we had arrived at the mansion in less than a few minutes.

It was truly fortunate that the soundproofing was ensured using magic.