Translator: Vee
Editor: Derpy
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Chapter 15
“Y-Y-Y-Your Majesty! ‘elcome1!”
I faced him with a stiff smile while coughing violently. Don’t keep showing up with such awkward timing, you! I wiped the corners of my mouth with a sleeve. Su-such bad timing.
“Ughm! Gah!”
Iyuri-san rushed to take out a handkerchief from his pants pocket as he helped me clean up. You look like a parent helping their child — which I am not! — wipe their dirty face. I am grateful, but please stop.
“Please breathe slowly. I am sorry to have frightened you. It has already been three days since ‘that’ happened and I feel so guilty for not visiting you during this time due to some matters. Is your body okay?”
He apologised worriedly while patting my back.
No, no, don’t worry at all. You’re so busy to the point where you probably don’t have any free time to concern yourself about me.
Ah! There’s no time for that! I promptly knelt on the ground.
“For my insolent actions towards Your Exalted Majesty, the Emperor—I have lost all honour. Please kill me now with your own hands but I beg you to do it in one go.”
Iyuri-san suddenly became flustered as he embraced me and made me stand. He also squeezed my hands tightly. Why would you want to hold my hands?
“It is I who has to apologise! Please do not kneel to me ever again! And I would never kill you! You are my fated pair! You are my ‘special person’!”
He pressed my tightly held hands to his forehead while his face flushed deeply. Even if you say it like that, it just makes me troubled. And he was blabbering about fated pairs again.
“No, no, I am kneeling because… I intend to refuse being your ‘fated pair’. It is impossible for me. I have the temperament of a commoner by nature, which is not very suitable for someone like you. Just by imagining myself saying things like ‘oho-ho’ or ‘tee-hee’, I realise how unrefined I am. Please grant the status of your ‘fated pair’ to someone else and think of me as an irrelevant bridal candidate from now on.”
“How could you do this… isn’t that impossible? Do you hate me?”
As he asked me this with abandoned-puppy eyes, his face looked like he just experienced the shock of his life.
To make this kind of shrewd expression with such a big body! Where did he learn this?! Now I think he’s being a bit cute. I can’t understand this person at all!
“It’s not like I hate you, it’s just that we only met recently. And I don’t know anything about you. If I have to describe it, my feelings for you are average. Very average.”
“If so, would you come to like me if you knew me a bit better?”
“Ahh… hmm, probably?”
I didn’t really understand these kinds of love matters.
“No way…!”
Iyuri-san widened his eyes in shock. I almost burst out laughing. Why was he so desperate for me? Because we’re a fated pair? Because we slept together? While I was thinking along those lines, Iyuri-san suddenly clapped his hands. Wait a moment? Did the Emperor just do that ‘I’ve an idea’ gesture?! Are you really the Emperor?! And he looked so happy too.
“I have a good proposal. How about we first start out as friends? I want us to get to know each other better little by little. Would you hate that?”
A direct invitation to be friends from the Emperor himself? Things keep escalating beyond my expectations ever since I came to the Inner Palace. These will become lifelong memories. I’ll take them to my grave as a keepsake. Thank you so much〜 I pressed my palms together before me to express my gratitude.
It’s a bit too late, but this person really worries about me even though he’s the Emperor. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t propose the idea of becoming friends. Even though he has the power to make me the Empress despite my wishes. I thought he would be more arrogant and overbearing, but he’s actually a clumsy and awkward person who switches his expressionless face on and off. A person with a kind heart. Rumours had really taken a life of their own. Iyuri-san was wronged.
“Hmm, I’m not sure…”
I said, and he once again made a shocked face as if he wanted to cry. I couldn’t help but laugh. He’s like a child whose toy was taken away!
“Pff ha ha ha ha! No, no, no! Sorry! I was just teasing you a little. If marriage or being your fated pair does not work out, I will always welcome you as a friend! If it’s alright, please let me be your friend, Your Majesty.”
I grinned, and Iyuri-san also smiled as if relieved from the bottom of his heart. We became friends — problem solved.
Although, said friend is a big fool with a huge body!
“Thank you so much. It is the first time I have ever felt so happy,” he said, and with a halo glowing behind him, he kneeled down and kissed the back of my hand.
Uwaa— Hey, hey, it’s not like you’re proposing to me. Every single one of his gestures are so dramatic. Speaking of which, he’s too happy. He’s practically glowing!
“It’s no big deal. Also, friends don’t kiss each others’ hands!”
“Forgive me, I was just too happy. In that case, where can I kiss you?”
“Haa?! Did you not hear what I just said?!”
“Even friends can kiss each other, right?”
This perverted Emperor had the nerve to say that so nonchalantly.
“Where the hell do you plan to kiss? I don’t kiss my friends!?”
“Is that so? In that case, I will try out a new way of making friends. I want to kiss you. Actually, I really want to kiss your lips, but I will hold back. Ollie-san, where can I kiss you?”
“Ridiculous — don’t ask me such things! Do you understand?! You lecherous old geezer!”
“You are the first person to say that to me. Sure enough, I do not want to let you go.”
His face leaned in close, so I squeezed the cheeks of this weird Emperor without thinking. The handsome guy became an ugly man. However, even while looking like an ugly man he was still so cool. It made me angry.
“Won’t you stop?!”
“Oya, sorry.”
He didn’t look sorry at all. This guy has dual personalities.
In the end, this and that happened. And as if in a two-person comedy act, me and the Emperor became friends. Uwaa— that’s so cool!
Although unthinkable, this strange Emperor sometimes gets his feelings hurt. Anyway, the matter of brides and fated pairs was cleanly forgotten. If I could, I would like to completely erase the black history of my heat period.
To me, being friends was enough.
- Vee: he says ‘rasshase’ instead of regular ‘irrashaimase’ ↩︎
