42. A sweet moment (2)
Elijah held out the meat fork to me.
“Now, open your mouth. Oh~”
I’d rather run away, but it’s impossible.
First of all, Elijah is a wizard capable of ultra-long distance apnea teleport.
I can’t physically run away.
I had no choice but to close my eyes and open my mouth.
“Ah….”
Something comes into my mouth.
Warm and greasy.
This is the meat I cut.
“You have to chew thoroughly.”
I chewed the meat slowly.
The warm juice flows out and fills your mouth before you know it.
Butter and meat flavor spread.
“Is it delicious?”
Elijah asked, stroking my back.
“Yes….”
There is no sin in food.
It’s delicious.
The highest quality meat, expensive spices are properly set, and the degree of cooking is just right.
The guilt lies with me.
‘Die… ! Just die!’
It shouldn’t be like this, but it’s not bad.
I feel like I know why Elijah is begging me to feed him.
I want to die holding my breath for about 10 minutes because I feel so embarrassed about having someone feed me and take care of me, but it feels good….
“Ah~”
Elijah opened her mouth again.
I couldn’t bear to make eye contact and put the food in.
Eat omnyom well.
I glanced at Lia.
I was wondering if it might be glaring at me like before, but it’s not.
The gentle smile on his face seemed to be pleased at first glance.
‘What…. I guess you should have recognized me…. Or did you have a change of heart….’
I quietly looked away.
One of Elijah’s words comes to mind.
“Is it not a person, but a pet…? .”
… Ah.
I tried to think to myself, but it came out of her mouth.
Elijah spoke lightly beside her.
“The metaphor is like that.”
“If it is not a metaphor…. How are you?”
Guard knights and nobles.
Master and servant. Or a pet.
Excluding metaphors, how can we define our relationship?
I inadvertently asked.
And Elijah, she did not answer.
I don’t think so.
Looking back, her face was flushed red.
She couldn’t chew the food she put in her mouth and it hardened as it was.
They make eye contact with me and hurriedly avoid it.
I also hurriedly turned my head.
Her face is hot.
‘Ah, asshole! Why did you ask that… !’
Until the meal was over, we said nothing.
There was only awkward silence.
However, the act of feeding each other did not stop.
*
“Don’t get hurt.”
Elijah said as he hugged me.
We decided to act as if there was no mutual shame like a disaster that came during mealtime.
We didn’t say it out loud, but we tacitly agreed.
“Yes. Do not worry.”
And I’m on my way to training.
I hug you like this every time before you leave.
A few days after reunion.
Elijah always follows me wherever I go.
As her role, she takes me everywhere she goes.
However, this is not the case under any circumstances.
The time I personally train is freely guaranteed.
‘… In fact, there are no moments apart from training.’
Even when you sleep….
Ah. No.
Let’s not think about useless things before training time.
The blood flow is lost.
There is a training center in a corner of the site of Elijah’s mansion.
Most knights train here.
The accommodation is also close.
The SS had already come out and warmed up in the playground.
“Oh. Over there, Duke Elijah’s wife is coming.”
Richard saw me and made fun of me.
“Please stop spreading strange rumors.”
“I didn’t spread it? Has it spread already?”
“… ….”
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“Don’t insult the master with nonsense.”
Dylan bruised Richard from the side.
“What is an insult? The duke would like it too. When the two of us are together, just seeing the honey dripping from our eyes makes the two of us just love each other to death.”
I watched Richard quietly.
While thinking about how to pay back during the bare-handed sparring.
“Ugh, looking at that, should I say that this is frustrating, huh? I don’t know if I should say that I feel refreshed now that I’ve improved more than before….”
Richard stopped talking and looked at me.
I’ve had this happen several times before.
Experiences of excitement and confusion during training.
Richard called me with enthusiasm.
“Hey. Judah!”
“Yes. Senior Richard.”
“Look at me just once!”
“No.”
“Is that so?”
Richard nodded his head as if he couldn’t help it, looked up at the sky, and grinned.
“It’s ruined.”
*
“Bad bastard, mean bastard, ungrateful with no up or down….”
Richard muttered as he fell to the floor.
I poured cold water over it.
“Ahh!”
“Are you cool?”
Richard sat up and wiped his face with cold water.
He glared at me and then smiled.
“Yes man. It’s cool to be behind.”
I sat next to him too.
The training just ended.
During the last bare-handed sparring practice, he even gave away Richard’s soul.
“It seems like a lie that we were at war just a few days ago.”
Richard looked up at the sky and said suddenly.
That’s right.
Now this place is too peaceful.
In fact, the war is not yet over.
It’s like a kind of tacit truce.
Even so, there is no tension.
A gut feeling that everything will work out.
And, believe in the power of Elijah.
I have never seen Elijah’s magic like that.
Even before I came to this world, I wasn’t that strong.
The multiple suns shown when fighting Balak.
And then an explosion.
Even from a distance, the firepower was not normal.
If I put my mind to it, I think I could face the Empire alone.
I don’t know if it will actually happen.
I can’t figure out what the Empire’s plot is now.
So many things have changed from the future I know.
After the training, the SS gathered next to each other.
We all sit down and rest together.
Some people were injured during the war, but no one was seriously injured or killed.
How fortunate.
We talked about anything while resting.
“Oh right. Judas, who did you say you met in Jericho?”
“Leo and Cooper. And Brown and Connor.”
“Ah, that’s right, that’s right. It was.”
“How are they doing?”
“I managed to settle in well, and I was doing my part.”
“If you tie them up two by two, they would fight you and break it. Long ago.”
“Hey…. That was already five years ago.”
It’s always like this when we get together.
Nearby gossip.
Then, memories of the training camp for 5 years.
‘There were so many things.’
I asked Richard.
“How is your sister-in-law?”
“Uh. The war is milder than I thought, so I’m getting along without any problems.”
Busy because of the war, Richard communicated only through letters.
And talking about a few people around me.
A family story. Stuff like that.
Dylan doesn’t like to talk about things like this.
To be precise, he tends not to talk about himself.
I don’t know the details, but I know the inside story to some extent.
There is no family.
Even close friends outside the SS.
I slipped into a seat next to him.
“Senior Dylan. Thank you for your hard work. It must have been hard to lead and command this accident-prone SS.”
Dylan chuckled as he sipped his water.
“It wasn’t normal. Especially since you’re not there.”
“Um…. Sorry.”
“I didn’t mean to apologize. No, rather sorry on my part.”
“Yes?”
“I told you to take good care of my lady, but I don’t think you did very well.”
“… ….”
“Anyway, it seems that only you can do that.”
Dylan grinned at me.
A reassuring smile that keeps you centered and guides you since the training camp.
He tapped me on the shoulder.
“Nice to see you back again, and thank you again.”
“… It was nothing.”
I was embarrassed for nothing, so I drank some water.
I looked around the noisy SS.
Yes.
This was where I belonged and where I would return.
It’s a bit late, but I realize.
Elijah told me.
She wished to remain a place she would return to.
Before that, Elijah was already the person to whom I would return.
‘… The second tragedy, I wonder if it will be okay.’
*
Dine with Elijah for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
After that, she always visits Yuel and takes care of him.
After I left for a while and returned, Yuel welcomed me even more fiercely.
Before you even open the door, you hear a sound, notice it, and scratch the door.
If you open the door, it will jump out and attack you.
“Oh, yes yes. That’s right, it’s me. I’m here. Oops, yes.”
When she was about to leave Yuel, she still remembers the sound of crying behind her.
It stays deep in my heart and makes me uncomfortable every time I think about it.
On the day the Bebel family virtually perished, I was so excited when I came to see Yuel as soon as I returned.
I even started crying.
“Oh, nice to meet you. Yeah yeah, uh, I’m sorry. I’m not going anywhere again…. Uh….”
And licking her face is still the same.
I can’t really say anything.
But after all, I am a sinner.
He hugged me without saying anything and scratched my neck or chin.
Elijah stared at him.
Every time she comes to take care of Yuel, she is with Elijah.
I started combing again as before.
Unlike when he was young, Elijah grew up, but Yuel grew up.
You still have to use the footrest.
‘But these days, how can I say…. Hmm….’
Every time she communicates with Yuel, Elijah’s gaze is unusual.
It’s a little scary.
Sometimes it purrs like a mad cat.
‘Why… Is that so….’
Every time I ask, he pretends he doesn’t know anything, so he can’t ask any more questions.
‘It’s not that I hate Yuel.’
I was told by Lia.
When I’m gone, Elijah mostly rests in her room or stable, she says.
Even though she was alone, she took care of Yuel with all her heart.
Thinking about it makes me feel sorry again. Hmm….
Anyway, while Elijah calmly combed, I fed him mushrooms, and I pet and touched Yuel.
Time for combing is over.
I scratched Yuel’s neck while Elijah wiped her hands with her handkerchief.
Perhaps it feels good, he stretches out his head and presses his body closer to me.
“Wow, that’s cool. Omg thats cool Alright, very dead.”
After wiping her hands, Elijah suddenly spoke.
“I’m out for a minute.”
It was an order for Leah and Bradley in the stable.
The two of them were taken aback by the sudden banquet order, but went outside.
‘… What?’
As I was wondering, Elijah approached me.
“Try to lower your posture.”
“Yes? Ah, yes.”
He gestured, so I obediently lowered my head.
Elijah wiped my face and neck thoroughly with her handkerchief.
‘… Suddenly?’
I’ve never been like this before.
What is today?
Elijah looks at Yuel and me alternately, then she says while looking at me.
“Judas.”
“Yes. Miss.”
“Do you like me or UL?”
“… Yes?”
What is it?
Why do you doubt my s*xual preference?
I’ve never done anything suspicious.
Apart from my respect for diversity, I am not a s*xually oriented person who desires furry beasts.
Thus, although I like Yuel a lot, it has nothing to do with that desire.
A really pure heart.
Also, I hate to classify, but if I have to classify, it is true that Elijah is better.
Of course, this is a little different from liking Yuel… What such….
“Of course, more young ladies….”
“Then why don’t you pet me?”
I squinted my eyes and looked into the distance.
I wonder if my ears went wrong during the war.
That’s not true.
I heard it right.
“… Yes?”
“Only Yuel scratches and strokes like that every day. It’s never happened to me.”
“That, that….”
Yul has been here since he was a child….
No, Yuel is a beast in the first place, and he likes to be touched like this….
‘Has this been a complaint all along?’
That idea was only half right.
This wasn’t the only complaint.
“Even a hug. I always hug you first and hold your hand first.”
“Um….”
That’s true, but….
‘No matter how hard it is, it’s a little bit of an escort knight to touch his owner first…. Isn’t that right?’
Elijah jerked her head away.
Her lips also pouted out.
In the meantime, it’s cute and crazy.
I understand why you let Leah and Bradley go.
Elijah always sticks by my side, but when she’s around other people, she doesn’t flirt like she does now.
She just sticks with her, but her expression and attitude are cold and stiff.
Although she herself doesn’t seem to think that this is aegyo.
“… Sorry.”
I honestly apologized because it seemed like it was my fault.
Elijah crossed her arms and shook her head.
“That’s not it.”
“Then….”
“Please pet me too.”
“… ….”
Elijah strode towards me.
Elijah raised her chin as if to touch her quickly.
‘Gee, really? Suddenly like this?’
She didn’t know what to do with her hands shaking, but Elijah took a step closer to me.
“Come on.”
I couldn’t go against her this time either.
“Well then…. Hey, can I touch you?”
Elijah nodded her head.
I carefully reached out for her.
