Where there is love?
A visit without appointment was the beginning of a stifling match...
“I’m truly sorry for the sudden intrusion.”
“No. To be able to see Simon-sama’s face since early morning makes me happy~”
Receiving an unexpected visit, I turned a scream into a smile and invited Simon-sama in.
Today too, my fiancé-sama is beautiful. The white uniform of the Imperial Guards truly suits him really well. This efficiency, austerness, and splendid outfit... All of it looks really cool on him. The saber on his waist and the cold glint of his spectacles are unbearable. Even when he smiles there was sharpness hidden somewhere in his light blue pupils, almost like the edge of an ice sword. Aah, my ideal type is breathing and walking right now. And one more thing, with just one more thing, he would’ve been perfect!
“You were coming here before going to work, right? Is there something urgent you needed to say to me?”
To the me who asked that, Simon-sama smiled sweetly and came closer. Waa…..in that black-bellied smile, it's so fantastic that I am going ha~aha~a.
“Last night, we received information about suspicious transactions being carried out, and I rushed to the place.”
“Well. What kind of transaction? Poisoning? Or maybe nation classified informations?”
“I came here to ask you about it. What did you trade?”
With one move, Simon-sama cutted in and completely put aside my tactic. Cutting through my dumb acting in an instant meant that he won’t overlook it? So the me who was thinking over that gave up over his gaze. Not a chance ne…..This, I can’t deceive him anyway.
“......Just some little handmade thing”
“While especially establishing a secret place? While going as far as meticulously preparing your path of retreat to the extent of succeeding in splendidly shaking off our pursuit?”
To this me who was going to make an excuse, the vice-captain mercilessly pressed me for an answer.
“I say, exactly how did you manage to escape? Even though I had my subordinate standby outside”
“I just took off my veil. Since my dress closely resembled the uniform of a low class court lady, everyone inadvertently failed to notice me.”
“.......Just how little of a presence you have……”
Simon-sama dropped his shoulders with a grave face. Hohoho, please don’t look lightly on my scenery adaptation ability. The person whom even if they walk in front of you was inconspicuous to the point you wouldn't notice is me!
…....No, well, to tell the truth I used a secret passage. Inside the Royal Palace there are a lot of interesting mechanism you know.
It’s an absolutely secret information that only the Royalty themselves know of. Something such as by connecting the rumors I gathered I arrived at the solution, and just for testing it I checked it up and ended up inadvertently discovering it, I can’t say it even if it's Simon-sama. I definitely can’t say ‘I found a loophole in a more dangerous place’. Between a man and a woman, secrets are an indispensable part.
“But how did you understood that I participated in that? The fellow participator too, they tried to not grasp each others’ face and names.”
To the me who tilted her head, while sighing, Simon-sama took out a book and showed it to me. It was a thin book, with a handwritten manuscript binded and the front cover attached.
“This dropped on the venue. It seem to be one of the things traded. You wrote it, right?”
His eyes were set under his glasses. You have read it ne…...Well, if you, yourself, and your master appeared in a story with your real names in a love relationship, you wouldn’t find it funny, right? Moreover, with a setting where you’re being in the public office with a somewhat sadistic lover, it would be hard for a normal man to accept it. Un, I understand.
“I did refuse, however it’s not like I wrote it for hobby. I did it to reply a demand.”
“Since you wrote so far then, you can’t complain even if you’ll be imprisoned for lésé majesté! Why with the real names――at least, couldn’t you do it with a fictional setting!?”
“Then that would've been meaningless. I was demanded to have the raw living delicacy to face each other”
“Ra, raw living……”
Simon-sama doesn’t have knowledge of this but, in the world there are people with that kind of hobby.
“You…... treating me like a toy this way, don't you feel guilty?”
With him showing an angry and hurt face at the same time, my heart feels pained.
“I’m sorry, it was a bitter decision. No matter what, there was a thing that I wanted in my hands. The conditions for the exchange was that story.”
“You sold me for the sake of that!?”
“I sold you, but I bought you!”
In a flash I spread a picture to let him see. It's the spoils of war that I desperately secured while escaping. It was a realistically drawn paint of Simon-sama’s figure.
“No matter what, no matter what, I really wanted this picture! My artistic talent isn't that good, so I can only obtain it by bartering!”
“…………”
Simon-sama stared at the picture as if he could eat it, pointed at one spot with a disheartened face.
“What you were obsessed over was…...this?”
In the picture, the Simon-sama who haughtily sat while crossing his legs in my hands was with the unstoppable aesthetics drawn with a gadget I longed for.
“Yes, Simon-sama that holds a whip! No matter what, I wanted to give shape and have the diabolic black bellied officer portrayed on hands! Where there is love!”
“.......Why did I fall for her…...I seriously can’t understand myself...”
Simon-sama covered his face with both hands and sighed. I’m sorry, to be such a fiancé. But it's the truth that I love you. Where there is love, isn’t it?
――After that, the book was disposed by incineration though. And, with the condition of absolutely not showing it to other people, I was permitted to treasure the picture.
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Tn:Naoriel
Ed:Ally-el & exRiel
A bit short but still cute lol xD
If someone can provide me the raw of vol 2 on google doc then I will translate it! But if not, then, sadly, this novel will end with 3 more extra T.T