In the castle on the Heaven Vein Dragon's back, Agusheed sat alone in the study, leaning back against the bookshelf.
The Spell book of Sage Ewig was covering his face, making it impossible to tell his current state.
—The third day of rest.
Agusheed sat here alone like this for the entire morning.
Even when the noon sunlight stread in through the stained glass windows, illuminating the spell book's cover,
Agusheed made no movent.
He just sat quietly by himself.
Not listening to anything.
Not doing anything.
Trying to use absolute silence to stop his restless thoughts.
But he couldn't do it.
Because even at this very mont—
Flam's final words from that day still echoed in Agusheed's ears.
"Agusheed, it's simply because..."
"I love you."
'I love you'...
'Love'...
Regarding this word, Agusheed had contemplated here for two days and two nights.
Yet he still couldn't derive an answer about the word 'love' from his thoughts.
He didn't know what Flam's final words were trying to express.
But according to Agusheed's judgnt, Flam should have been happy when she said those words.
Because after saying them, she had leaned forward and kissed him.
Rather than crying for three days and nights like when she was sad before.
However...
What was Flam happy about—
When she said those words, why did she look at him that way?
...
Agusheed still couldn't understand.
—His demon nature was like an inescapable curse,
Forever preventing him from touching emotions that were within reach for humans.
"Regaining emotions... when will I truly be able to accomplish this?"
Agusheed's wish was beyond words, and no one could give him a definite answer.
So he just sat alone.
Alone, slowly contemplating as ti passed.
Until the door was gently pushed open, until a hand moved that spell book away.
Until after two days—
That all-too-familiar light red appeared before his eyes.
"You're still spacing out after all..."
Flam's gentle face wore that smile as always.
She looked down at Agusheed, who was staring blankly with open eyes, and bent down slightly.
Then she softly asked her husband, who had erged from his contemplation:
"What's wrong, Agusheed? Still thinking about what I said that day?"
"..."
Agusheed predictably fell silent for a while.
He lowered his brow, shifting his gaze slightly away from Flam's face.
Then it settled on those few strands of hair touching his left cheek.
"Sorry, Flam..."
After brewing for a long ti,
Agusheed, whose face still maintained that rigid and expressionless deanor, slowly opened his mouth.
Then he apologized to Flam, who had interrupted his thoughts:
"I thought for a long ti, but I still don't understand what you ant by those final words that day."
"Even now, I can't understand your feelings then or the answer you wanted to convey to ."
Flam, who was counting her husband's long eyelashes one by one, wasn't surprised at all by this answer.
"Isn't that perfectly natural?"
She straightened up and sat on the desk in front of Agusheed.
Flam shook her head at Agusheed, who raised his head following her movent.
Then she swung her bare feet and chuckled softly:
"This isn't your fault, Agusheed."
"Because in the end, those were just words I blurted out in a mont of willfulness..."
"Understanding sothing like 'love' is still a very distant thing for you."
Looking at Flam, who seed happy for so unknown reason, Agusheed lifted his shoulders from the bookshelf.
Accompanying the straightening of his waist, he sat in the chair as usual.
"Flam, aren't you disappointed?"
Catching Flam's mischievously extended foot, Agusheed gently rubbed her ankle as he asked.
"Disappointed about what?"
Flam, who stretched out her other foot to rest on Agusheed's other leg, propped up her head.
Her face wore a smile blooming with joy.
"Agusheed, we traveled for ten years before without much progress."
"Now we've had such a big breakthrough—I should be completely happy, right?"
Unable to refute Flam's words, Agusheed could only look at her with confusion.
"Is that so?"
"That's right."
Since they weren't far apart anyway, and both her legs were positioned on either side of Agusheed,
Flam naturally slid forward after speaking and sat on Agusheed's lap.
And Agusheed naturally cooperated by embracing Flam's waist at the right mont,
Preventing her from falling due to any sudden accident.
With no distance between them, the two faced each other while embracing,
Falling into silence at the sa mont.
Agusheed because he didn't know what to say.
Flam because holding her husband like this was too reassuring,
So she couldn't help but nuzzle against Agusheed's cheek.
"Don't act like a child, Flam..."
Although Agusheed didn't refuse his wife's inexplicable affection,
He still sighed lightly and reminded her.
Because of Agusheed's sigh, Flam quickly stopped her movents.
She sat on Agusheed, looking at her husband with curved eyes.
"How many more days do you plan to stay here?"
Flam brought up another topic.
"The original plan was five days. Today is the third day. Not counting today, there are two days left."
Agusheed answered quite calmly.
"That's so long..."
Flam murmured softly near her husband's ear.
"Is it long?"
In Agusheed's impression, two days was just a blink of an eye for humans too.
"It's long for ."
The wife who wanted her husband to stay by her side every mont said this.
"But I don't want to move right now."
Agusheed held Flam in his arms and said quite wearily.
"Mm... I see..."
Flam buried her head in Agusheed's neck and answered softly:
"Then I'll stay here and keep you company."
Stay here...
Frankly speaking, Agusheed didn't mind Flam staying by his side.
But if that happened, no one would take care of that white-haired elf below.
"If you stay here, what about Frieren?"
"If we let her go hungry, she'll cry for three days and nights, won't she?"
Feeling his wife's light kisses, Agusheed asked back in a low voice.
"Frieren... just have her co up here herself..."
At first, Agusheed didn't fully understand what Flam ant.
He thought Flam was going to go down and bring Frieren up too.
But after seeing no movent from his wife in his arms for a long ti,
Agusheed had an absurd speculation.
No...
Impossible...
Although the Heaven Vein Dragon had lowered its altitude now, it was still at least a hundred ters.
Frieren, she...
—Whoosh whoosh
Light wind-cutting sounds ca from outside the window, interrupting Agusheed's thoughts.
And when he turned his gaze—
What ca into view was being carried along by two white propellers,
Slowly flying toward the castle from the distance...
Frieren...
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