Chapter 132 – Declaration of War
Lily opened his eyes wide and looked around.
Seojun and Monica were nowhere to be seen. I’m sure the sword and shield were standing next to the table…
She cautiously approached Ian and asked.
“Ian…? Where did you two go?”
“Ah, Lily. I’m here? I went to the bathroom for a minute.”
“Both?”
“Huh-.”
Lily swallowed her saliva and carefully tried to sit in her chair.
But all of a sudden, Ian jumped up, she pulled out her chair for her to sit on, and politely bowed her head, she said.
“Sit here, Lady.”
“Huh···?”
Ah-, it was a prank I used to play often.
As a child, Ian assumed the role of a knight, and Lily assumed the role of her noblewoman. Everyone was like that when she was her age.
That’s how the two of us used to play house.
The dirt floor overgrown with bushes—in the minds of the two of them, it was a palace framed with gold and a garden full of flowers.
Ian took her wooden stick from her waistband and held it out to Lily-begging for a knighthood just for you-.
Lily smiled timidly like a noblewoman of her own, took the stick from him—or rather, her gorgeous golden sword—and tapped Ian on the shoulder and then on the head, as she had appointed him her knight.
At his little prank -. Lily seemed to smell the gilded palaces and flower fields of the day.
Seeing Ian smiling at her as she looked at her, Lily burst into laughter as well.
She bowed her head in gratitude, with sloppy aristocratic manners, as she did back then, and she sat down discreetly.
In the past, we used to play pranks on each other like this from time to time, like a play. It was so simple that it felt a little awkward.
Lily sat down and looked around.
Seo-joon and Monica were still nowhere to be seen, and the inn was in an uproar.
Even though the sun hadn’t set, drunkards with beer foam on their lips were already sitting around – each with a glass of beer in front of them, drinking and talking about various things.
Some of them were stories I had heard a few times before. It was about fortune tellers.
“The fortune teller.”
“Ah, that blue face looks like fish scales?”
“Yes, he said that I was destined to be great in ten or so years.”
“Oh dear-. Do you believe in that?”
“Hi-go, you stuffy bastard—don’t you know how famous that fortune teller is? He’s the one who can even guess how many hairs are on your ass!”
“Don’t be silly, have a drink. Ruler-.”
While they were chatting nonstop, Lily and Ian – the two of them couldn’t say anything because they were looking at each other.
How long has it been since there were just the two of you?
She wished they could say something before the two of them arrived. And so did Ian.
However, we didn’t know what to say to each other, so we chose our words for a long time. In the end, it was Ian who spoke first.
“Ugh-. Ooh, it’s been a long time since we’re alone. Right···!”
“Uh···? That, that’s right!”
She answered in a slightly awkward tone, but it was true. How much alone time is this? It was the first time since the night Monica gave her seat on the way to Seoul the other day.
Lily glanced over Ian’s body.
Her face, which was like an immaculate baby’s skin, had a healthy brown color from sunburn, and her forearms and thighs became much thicker as she practiced with Seo-jun. Her pupils, which had only been glazed, added depth.
Probably because of the experience of killing people before.
Just as she shot an arrow and killed a man for her Ian, so Ian killed a woman for the villagers.
As much as Ian had a softer heart than hers, she was probably shocked by her.
If Lily could, she wanted to listen to all Ian had to say and comfort him.
If you hadn’t killed them, the villagers might have been in danger-. It’s all thanks to you.
But there was hardly any time to talk about it. It was because of Monica who was always by Ian’s side.
As a result, time passed helplessly, and now I feel a little awkward.
We became cautious about bringing out the stories that were inside each other. There were no trivial and useless conversations that would normally have been exchanged easily.
“Hey-.”
However, the daughter of the inn owner, Kubo, Molly, the maid, trotted up and called the two.
The two people, who were busy looking at each other, raised their heads in surprise.
“What, do you have anything to do?”
When she, with drooping eyes and a cute expression like her gentle puppy, asked, Ian quickly nodded her head and answered.
“Ah yes. Dinner please. It’s yours.”
“···Yes.”
Molly glanced—looked at the two of them alternately, then lowered her head and went back.
Just by looking at them for a moment, I could feel the warm air between the two of them.
Molly, who had heard that Ian and Monica were married, could hardly understand the situation. What is the relationship between the two of them-, are they looking at each other with such sorrowful eyes-.
But instead of asking, she went into her kitchen.
Molly leaves, and they’re alone again, glancing at each other with slightly awkward eyes.
Lily was madly uncomfortable with this awkward air. Why can’t we talk openly like we used to? She was stuffy and choking.
However, this is just swaying here and there in light wind waves… After the turbulence passes, the roots will go deeper. She had no doubt that.
In a moment of silence, she looked at her Ian, and her Ian also looked at her.
The two exchanged glances without speaking.
The words I couldn’t say, the words I held back, and the words I wanted to say are entangled inside.
My feelings for Ian were entangled here and there, and for a moment it became intense. Then it finally burst out.
“I···!”
“That···!”
Two people who were trying to say something to each other but stopped at the same time.
There was silence for a moment.
And then, no matter who said it first, laughter broke out. We looked at each other for a while and laughed. The tension melted away. The hairs all over his body, which had stood up sharply, sank.
When I looked at his smiling face, it seemed that all my anxiety had been blown away.
Lily said, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.
“You speak first, Ian.”
Then Ian shook her head and said.
“No, Lily. You speak first.”
The two looked at each other for a moment and then smiled again.
It seemed like she couldn’t say anything at all, so Lily finally opened her mouth first.
“Hey, Ian. That is···.”
The words choked at the end of his throat. Her tongue kept twisting in her mouth because there was so much to say.
She was sad, and also hated and hated. Her expectations were betrayed, and her heart was broken again and again.
She was sorry again. Because I’m clumsy, I just can’t satisfy him…
But love was greater than anything else. She was grateful For making me smile again… For still smiling brightly…
But when she just closed her eyes, Monica’s face flickered. The face of that woman with her blonde hair and blue eyes was -.
Monica will always be by Ian’s side.
The two of them were a married couple, and Lily’s words and actions could have ruined the seemingly peaceful relationship between the four.
I was anxious. I was afraid again. Perhaps Ian would react negatively to her words-. Because Ian was a person who was indecisive but broke when it was important-.
Wouldn’t he be the father of a child now-.
I completely closed my eyes.
I’ll put my anxiety aside for a moment.
Monica was not here now. She didn’t even have Seo-joon.
It was just the two of them, Ian and himself.
Saying these things while Monica was away-, she wondered if it was right for her to act like this. Isn’t that cowardly? She wondered if he was betraying her.
However, all that devastation, stuffiness, anxiety and worry couldn’t precede the affection and love for Ian.
I opened my eyes again and looked at Ian’s face.
“I’m fine, Lily. Tell me anything I’ll listen-“
What would she say-Ian’s face, her lips pursed and waiting nervously… Stiff shoulders. Atrophied back. The tails of the eyes are intimidated.
Lily didn’t want to see Ian’s face like that.
It was not enough time to whisper love to each other.
I didn’t know when we’d have time for just the two of us again, or when this time would end abruptly. Monica and Seo-jun could have come back right now.
As dinner approaches, the inn restaurant is getting more and more customers, and some of them are interested in Lily and Ian.
Most of the people looked at Lily’s figure in her thin training suit and her pretty appearance rather than the handsome guy Ian, but-. Lily couldn’t see them at all.
Every time she closed her eyes and opened them, her field of vision narrowed. Everything around was blurred and only the front was visible.
I didn’t see anything else. Only a man sitting in front could be seen.
A blonde haired guy. She is a childhood friend with whom she has shared many memories since childhood. First love, lover. Frail person-. There were many words that could describe him, but now only two letters mattered.
Ian.
Ian I love.
Only Ian-, Ian facing both eyes-. Only this moment with Ian was important.
Kiik-
Lily got up from her seat on the table.
It was a kind of announcement. It was a declaration of war that he would no longer remain silent.
Yes, declaration of war-.
It was meant to hit and fight.
As Seo-jun said, he will seduce Ian with his body and bring him back.
Even though the opponent was not here right now, it would be a cowardly surprise attack, but I believed that this would be taken into account.
The reason why she opened her eyes and cut her nose in the first place was because she thought that she was not herself…
“Lily…?”
Even then, Ian didn’t notice Lily’s intentions at all, just looking at her lips to see what she was going to say. Then she jumps up – she looks up at her face still more nervously.
Lily tilted her head and stole Ian’s lips. She then closed her eyes tightly.
Chun-.
Ian, her eyes widen. Her short, light brown hair tickled around her face. Ian closed her eyes too. The two of them savored the moment for a moment. Each other’s touch, each other’s breath, each other’s body temperature -.
The moment that seemed like it would last forever came to an end, and as they separated their lips again, a transparent thread stretched between their lips.
Whoa…
He exhaled a warm breath and slowly opened her eyes to see that Ian’s face was all red. And so did Lily. Because her face was very hot-.
“Whoa whoa whoa whoa-!”
“It’s hot!”
“Damn it, I’m going to die of envy!”
A few mercenaries from the next table clapped and whistled and cheered.
The two of them got a bit more embarrassed and lowered their heads.
Even though I’ve already kissed countless times, my heart trembled like the moment of a first kiss. How long had it been since I felt Ian’s touch and warmth? She thought this must be love. I really love Ian. She realized again.
There was a moment of silence, and then Ian stuttered her mouth open.
“Me, that. Lily…”
“Uh, huh…?”
Ian, who had lowered her eyelids and licked her lips for a moment, closed her eyes tightly and said,
“Thank you-. Entire···. And, I like-.”
“…!”
Hearing that, Lily opened her eyes wide and froze for a moment, but then she laughed as her face softened like a well-cooked steamed bun. It was a relaxed expression that he did not show to anyone else, only to Ian.
Lily also responded.
“Me too, he… Thank you. And-. That, and oh…”
Even though she had said it hundreds and thousands of times in her mind, even though she had already said it several times-. When she tried to spit it out, her throat got stuck, and she couldn’t get any words out.
No, I have to tell you now. You never know when an opportunity like this will come again.
Deciding to close her eyes tightly, she drew in her breath and let out her suppressed words. The words she had been holding back, which had been difficult for her to get out of her mouth ever since Monica got in between them—
“Love you-!”
The voices in the inn restaurant suddenly became quiet.
It seems that everyone was subtly listening to them.
Even if you pretend not to be, everyone is enthusiastic about youth dramas. In particular, the sight of such freshness often warms the heart. They looked at Ian and Lily with a smile on their lips.
The two of them didn’t notice that the entire inn was surrounded by silence. Actually, I didn’t even care.
They just looked at each other and savored the moment just the two of them. With a light smile on his face…
“Come on, Ian.”
“Huh?”
Lily said quietly. What she decided-.
“I can’t yield anymore. No, I won’t.”
“What…?”
“You and Monica. I can’t just watch.
“…”
“And-, and later I’ll make it only for me to see.”
“Lily…”
Her golden eyes shone brighter than ever.
I thought these were the eyes of a woman in love.
But just at that moment, I heard the sound of something falling behind me.
“···What?”
It was Monica.
She appeared out of nowhere, squinting her eyes and glaring at her Lily.
“Fuck, what did you just say…?”
Gulp-.
Only the sound of swallowing, not knowing whose mouth it came from, suddenly rang out in the stillness.
Seo-joon, who came out of the bathroom belatedly, understood the situation and burst into laughter.
He said to take it away with his body- he didn’t know that he would declare war without hesitation.
No matter how many times you look at it, it was a great year.
Well, it was enough for Seo-joon to watch an exorcism and make rice cakes.
