Chapter 157 – Episode 156. Your Name Is
“Now that I think about it, it’s a very interesting thing.”
“What are you saying all of a sudden?”
Asti was sitting on a tea chair on the balcony and turned her gaze to Leopold’s sudden words.
Leopold brought his cup of tea, set it down in front of Asti, and slowly sat down in the tea chair across from him.
It was a full summer.
Although it is summer, the city close to the north is just cool, so the weather is good.
A city that is as cool in summer as it becomes severely cold in winter.
The two of them were sitting in a so-called perfect spot overlooking the city.
“Asti, don’t you think so?”
“What are you talking about?”
Asti lifted the car.
Musty smell.
She honestly doesn’t mind having a cup of coffee, but that’s something she absolutely can’t achieve here.
There is no such thing as coffee beans, and there is no way that mixed coffee will pop out just because there are coffee beans.
I tried to drink this tea instead of coffee, saying it was chicken instead of pheasant, but I never got used to the thick smell.
Asti gave up drinking the tea and slowly put the teacup she had lifted into the saucer.
“Isn’t it amazing that your personality changes depending on the name you call it?”
“You have to say that from the beginning to understand… “
“Whoops… It would be impossible if it were not for you to vomit at the prince’s words like that. Isn’t that right, Astrid?”
“Oh.”
Astrid’s mood changes in an instant.
In Asti, a lithe, quiet and docile atmosphere,
In an instant, it changed to Astrid with a sharp atmosphere like a well-forged famous sword.
“Me, Your Highness. What is this?”
“Is it strange? Asti.”
“… Please stop joking around.”
“Yeah, stop it. Astri… Asti.”
“… Please stop it.”
It was only after being glared at – Leopold smiled.
Astrid, Asti.
Whenever Leopold calls his name, his body stays the same, but his mood changes dramatically.
Not only the atmosphere, but even the eyes change.
Even the usual expressions were different.
“Yeah, I mean, this is weird. Why does it change depending on the name you call it? Besides, the fact that only I can… “
He was about to say, “I’m really proud of you,” But Leopold swallowed the words.
Suddenly, a few days ago, the memory of that night comes back.
Astrid, who couldn’t disobey me.
Astrid, who couldn’t bear to disobey his words with a face that seemed to explode with embarrassment.
As he was told to do, as he was told to move, as he was touched, as Leopold wanted.
Leave everything to Leopold,
It’s my body, but I’ve given all control over my body to Leopold—
‘… Let’s calm down. It’s not night yet.’
Leopold looked at Asti as he managed to calm down his rampant desire.
“Asti.”
“… Please speak.”
Asti felt that something was wrong and her face was red.
Just by looking at Leopold’s eyes, it was because he sensed what he was thinking—to be exact, he was full of lust.
“Why do you come out when you are called Astira by a nickname? According to what you said, it should have a different name.”
Didn’t you say that Asti wasn’t originally the personality of this body?
If he had only listened to it, he would not have believed it.
Anyone who believes that is obviously an idiot.
But Leopold had already witnessed it.
The world Asti lived in, a world that is incomparably different from Eindhafen today.
Asti, who lived in that world, clearly had the appearance of a stranger.
“Name… “
Name.
After repeating the words several times, Asti couldn’t answer.
“Asti, why is that?”
“That is.”
Asti was perplexed.
Name, name. As Leopold said, there must be a name.
It must have a name.
Her original name couldn’t have been Asti, so she should have had her own name.
I did—
She couldn’t remember
She couldn’t remember her original name, or her name when she was him.
Was she ever called by name in a dream last time?
In her vague memories of whether or not she seemed to exist, Asti was perplexed by the fact that she couldn’t remember her name.
“Is there a name you can’t tell me?”
At Leopold’s words, Asti faced him with her bewildered expression.
A look of bewilderment was evident in her large, mint-colored eyes.
“What’s going on, Asti?”
Leopold himself was taken aback by her expression.
She only asked for her name, but Asti’s reaction is strange.
She was perplexed, as if she was asking something she couldn’t tell.
“Asti, can you tell me?”
“It’s not like that… “
Asti shook her head.
She can tell you anything like a name.
If you remember
But even if I tried to tell you, I couldn’t because I couldn’t remember.
“Memory… It doesn’t come out.”
The balcony felt chilly despite the cool weather.
An untimely chill flowed between Leopold’s regret for asking a pointless question and Asti, who faced the staggering situation of not remembering his name.
“All along… I can’t remember.”
It hadn’t even been a year.
It is said that less than a year has passed since she woke up in Astrid’s body.
It’s not a short time, but if it’s long enough to forget my name, it’s not.
It doesn’t make sense to even forget my name in the meantime.
No matter how much I’ve lived as Astrid, it’s only been that one year, a very short time compared to the time I’ve lived as a man.
It doesn’t make sense to forget your name just because that year has passed.
“Asti.”
Asti is confused.
Leopold slowly got up from his seat and approached Asti.
Wrapping her shoulders carefully, Leopold whispered in her ear.
“It will be temporary.”
“Temporary… What?”
“Okay. Temporary. It’s temporary, so don’t worry too much. Is that what memory is like? Or a sudden shock. Or something… Yes, although I am not an expert. There must be some other reason, isn’t it? So don’t worry too much, Asti.”
“Is it temporary… “
Could it happen temporarily that you forgot your name?
“Yes, it is temporary. You look so tired. Is it because I torment you so much every night?”
Leopold made a joke and suddenly hugged Asti.
The so-called princess hug, supporting her shoulders from below and supporting her hips with one arm.
“Me, Your Highness?! If you suddenly… !?”
“Be still, Asti. If you struggle, you might get hurt.”
“Ha, Hao, Your Highness.”
“Uh huh, even if you want to stay still.”
Leopold pretended to be stern, but his intentions were completely different.
Asti, who is so confused, has her own cute taste.
Hasn’t it bothered you so much that you can’t sleep well every night for the past few days?
If it started, the love affair would end only when it was dawn, so Asti must have accumulated a lot of fatigue.
“Okay, yes. Be still.”
Leopold took Asti in his arms and headed to the bedroom.
When I put Asti down on the well-made bedding, it dented as much as Asti on the pure white bedding and left a mark.
And Leopold also lay down next to her.
“Take a deep breath, Asti. Maybe it’s because I’m tired Even if you can’t remember, don’t worry, it’s temporary anyway, and it’s not something I need to know right now about your original name.”
“Haona… “
“Anyway, you are Asti now… Is that right That’s it.”
Switching with Astrid was like breaking the atmosphere, so Leopold evaded his words appropriately.
“Come on, Asti. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath and wake up, everything will be fine.”
Leopold pulled the blanket up to Asti’s chest and covered her.
Even though it was summer, there was still a bit of a chilly feeling, so I had to cover myself with a blanket, but it wasn’t too thick.
“… Please don’t touch my chest subtly, Your Highness.”
“You must have noticed.”
Although she was tired, it didn’t take long before Asti let out her quiet, even breath and she fell asleep.
After she confirmed that she was asleep, and even confirmed that she was asleep by shaking her hand in front of her eyes, Leopold cautiously got up and got down from her bed.
The world I saw in my dreams.
In that world, Asti looked so natural.
Buying things, going somewhere, using facilities…
Each and every one of those trivial actions was natural, just like the person living in it.
Looking at those things, I can’t help but believe that Asti is someone different from Astrid.
But incomprehensible.
‘Why didn’t I feel a sense of incongruity while we were together until now?’
The person Leopold knew was Astrid, not Asti.
And in the past half a year when her relationship with her has progressed radically, Astrid has become Asti.
No matter how much it is one body, if there were two souls, she wouldn’t feel awkward somewhere.
Still, there was no discomfort.
It may not be because she is dull, but she didn’t notice anything strange.
It was difficult for Leopold to understand that they felt equally friendly, just with slightly different personalities.
‘… I’d better ask Berathien.’
In many ways, that demon is useful.
