episode_0054

“So… the leader of the succubus has been wearing this suit for a long time…”

Abel glanced at the sleeve of my clothes again. No matter how I looked at it, it was something that only a noble groom would wear to a wedding.

Thud, thud.

As I walked along, I saw the grass rustling on the ground, and I realized that a flower that I would never forget was blooming there. No, that might be the wrong word.

Rather than the front, it was an artificial sunflower field made by cutting a path on both sides. It didn’t feel bad at all. In the first place, when I first met Leah, it was a place with this kind of feeling.

There are some thoughts that cannot be avoided.

At the end of this road, I met Noah. With a field of sunflowers as the scenery.

If Noah had never met me, he would have lived a comfortable and wealthy life.

It is entirely my fault that she has come this far.

When I first met Leah on that topic, I thought… maybe it was too late. Just receiving affection for a little while made me shine so brightly and smile.

Abel closed his eyes.

I love Leah.

Leah loves me.

But, how can a sinner like me dare to ask her to marry me? I, who directly and indirectly contributed to ruining two lives.

Abel opened the case in his suit pants pocket with his thumb.

An infinity ring, just like the one Leah had chosen, with diamonds densely packed in it. She began counting the diamonds on her fingers.

‘Do, don’t. Do, don’t. Do, don’t. Do, don’t, do…”

I was standing there, still spinning the ring on my finger, when suddenly I realized something.

Infinity ring.

Counting diamonds will never end, so the decision is mine.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

Of course, I can’t live without Leah.

When I meet Leah, I’ll propose when the time is right. That’s what I did as I stepped forward. I kept my eyes tightly shut as if I was determined not to change this decision.

Thud, thud.

As he thought that it was time to reach the end of the road, questions about the reason for calling began to slowly bloom in Abel’s mind.

The voice that dispelled those foggy questions was Leah’s, a voice that could not be heard here.

“Abel!”

As her clear voice calling me rang in my ears, the wind rose and made a clear sound.

I didn’t really want to describe her voice. I wanted to keep her voice for myself.

Only after hearing the voice, feeling the cold wind hitting my cheek, and fully enjoying it all as if those few seconds had stretched out for an eternity.

When I opened my eyes with my eyelids wide open, the first thing that greeted me was the light of the world, her sunflower-colored hair, and her beautiful figure in a wedding dress that made me think she looked more angelic than an angel.

The most beautiful smile you give me is that of your eyes.

The sunflower fields swaying in the wind as a background, the fresh green of nature, the yellow that reminded me of her hair, the clear sky, and the warm sunlight, it was all so dreamily beautiful and reminded me of the day we first met.

Take one step at a time.

The grass seems to be catching my foot. Cicadas are chirping, she’s still laughing, and I take a heavy step.

Take two steps.

She spreads her arms and tells me to come here. I take one step, two steps, twice in total.

Three steps, four steps, don’t count anymore.

I run towards her. She hugs me. We had a lot to say to each other. But those words are that we love each other.

So we didn’t say anything to each other.

Instead of using vain words, we held each other for how long we didn’t know, and her cool skin, cooled by the wind in the grass, and my heat, which I had been contemplating all day, became exactly the same temperature, lukewarm, and the cool wind passed us by again.

It was something that could be understood without needing to be said.

Still, there is something that is better told in words. It is about the ring that is now shining quietly in the square case in my suit pocket.

The words we spoke were also exactly the same. We loved each other so much that we might have been able to read each other.

“”Marry me.””

How can the content of each and every word of the words spoken, the moment of speaking and the pause in between, and even the moment of speaking each and every word, be the same?

We now looked at each other’s faces and laughed for a moment.

The rings were still in each other’s pockets, still in place even though it was just past the time they would have been on each other’s fingers.

I was going to live today as if we were the only two people in the world, so I didn’t have to follow the world’s ways. No matter what anyone said, that was their way.

We took out the cases at the same time and put the rings on each other’s fourth fingers of the left hand. I liked how it looked like a couple’s ring, so I stared at it for a while.

“Come to think of it.”

Leah spoke up.

“We bought the same ring.”

“No matter what anyone says, they’re lovers… No, aren’t they a married couple now?”

This time, Abel took the ring out of his pocket before Leah.

Leah also secretly held out her left hand and watched as Abel carefully opened the ring case and put the ring on her fourth finger of her left hand.

The jewels on the ring sparkled endlessly in the sunlight,

Leah smiled brightly and took out the ring from the case hidden inside her dress, and put the same ring on Abel’s hand.

On the ring fingers of their left hands, rings symbolizing eternity twinkled.

“…Leah. When everything is over, let’s get married.”

“What a coincidence, I was going to say that too.”

And then the two of them looked at each other for a long time as if they liked the rings on each other’s hands, unable to hide their smiles.

The two will live.

Love each other without breaking, as long as the world does not end.

Even the sunlight was shining brightly and blessing them, and again a cool breeze blew.

And under that curtain of sunlight, the two kissed each other.

*****

“Wind! Wind!”

“No, isn’t it time for the sun to shine now?”

On a hill slightly away from where Leah and Abel proposed to each other, everyone involved in the construction was watching them with bated breath.

The leader of the Pavé and the Succubus each grabbed the hem of Galvein’s robe from the left and right and shook it.

The reason for this is that most of the natural phenomena that have occurred up until now were the result of Galvein’s magic.

“Let go of both of them. I’m so dizzy I don’t think I can use magic. Do you think it’s easy to use magic without being affected by the Demon King?”

“? What does that have to do with anything?”

“You know Richie isn’t an intelligent life form – Ugh, Ugh…”

“You two, please lower your voices a little. Lady Leah may not hear you, but the Demon King might.”

The argument finally ended when Han shut the two men’s mouths.

By the way, Galvein ended up writing both.

“Well, still… Okay, okay, I guess it turned out well…”

It certainly was. Now, Leah and Abel were getting so close that it seemed as if they were one body, and they were starting to stir the rice cakes. And there was no one there with eyesight that couldn’t see it.

However, except for the couple of Faber and Mino, there was no one there who was spared from the salting.

Of course, Galvein and Hira almost went bankrupt because Galvein was ignorant, but they managed to get back to square one.

As a loyal tool to the Demon King, his image has changed to that of an ascetic, and his last contact with women was with his younger sister, whom he killed directly.

The leader of the succubi, whose mission is mainly to seduce the elements, making romance impossible due to emotional issues.

All four of them felt their insides twisting and turning in real time.

“Hmm… Big. In my opinion, I think it’s probably best to leave now…”

Since no one wanted to see the two of them being pickled any longer, they all unanimously rode Mino, who had transformed into a giant bat, back to the Demon King’s Castle.

“Ah.”

“Why, why…?”

“…If I think about it, now is the only time I can rest during this hectic work…?”

It was too late when the leader of the succubi realized one thing.

Mino was already flying to the Demon King’s Castle and that document hell.

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“Whoaaam…bye…”

Leah greeted Hira in a listless voice. If you listened closely, you could tell that her voice was quite tired.

“Wh, what happened…? What should I say, uh, you look a little… tired…?”

In fact, it wasn’t something Hira had thought about before saying. Hira himself was exhausted from yesterday’s work.

“…Tea, a lot…?”

Leah felt embarrassed and pulled down the hem of my shirt.

“Ah.”

“Ahh… Ahh…”

“Phooo! Kellogg, yuck!”

In order, it was Hira, Mino, and Lucy spitting out coffee.

“Uh… um… uh… congratulations?”

Oh, that included the earthquake in my pupil.

“What, did you see? Were you born of a virgin?”

The four stood there transfixed until Abel came and lifted Leah up in both hands and carried her away.

“…”

“Phew… We didn’t see anything.”

After a while (perhaps an hour or so, or maybe more), Lucy opened her mouth, pretending to be calm.

Everyone could tell that she was acting calm because Lucy drank the lukewarm coffee with trembling hands, then returned it to her mouth and drank it with an actual absorption rate of about 1%.

‘Your mind is broken.’

‘You seem to be quite mentally broken.’

Suddenly, Abel stuck his face in from the end of the hallway and said something.

“Oh, by the way, Leah used the power in her heart to grow her body to the level of an adult, and her mind is over 30 if you combine her past and present life? If you say something weird-”

“I didn’t ask!!”

The empty coffee cup that Lucy threw flew in a parabolic arc, making several beautiful 180-degree turns, and hit Abel’s head exactly.

The lord’s head was hit directly, but no one stopped Lucy.

“Rain, get out of the way…”

No, rather, Hira himself joined in by filling the cup with warm coffee and throwing it.

Whether it was because of Hira’s own body type or not was something only he knew.

maybe.