TN: Thank Nepper for the chapter. He’s actually insane.
To be honest, it would be a lie to say I didn’t dream of a harem when I was transported to a fantasy world and possessed soone.
It made sense, as it was a world where polygamy was legally possible. At the sa ti, as a transmigrator, I thought anything was possible.
It’s nonsensical for an ordinary man not to dream of a harem.
But it wasn’t realistically possible. Even for nobles, polygamy wasn’t an easy thing.
There were high barriers in reality, and things didn’t flow like in novels.
Of course, the idea of a harem was just a silly joke, and I thought it would be fine if there was just one person who understood .
It wouldn’t be bad as a man if a harem happened, but there was no reason to be disappointed if it didn’t.
“… Can you move away a bit?”
“What…?! I-I’m not clinging to you!”
“From what I see, it looks like you are.”
“What do you know to talk…!!”
I took a deep breath and watched the three won arguing beside .
Sylvia, Helena, Pala–watching these three won who were close yet oddly growling at each other, I couldn’t help but shudder as I took a step back.
I felt an inexplicable chill.
“No, you just seed too close, that’s all…”
“I-I was just the sa as usual! It’s just your imagination!”
Pala flared up at Sylvia’s pointed remark, and Helena blinked her eyes and shared her thoughts at Pala’s flaring up.
Even though that was all, it felt chilly. They say when three won gather, dishes break, but why did I feel like winter had co?
As I involuntarily shuddered, the three won arguing in front of suddenly turned their heads and glared at .
“…Why?”
“You…! W-what do you think…?”
“About what?”
Surprised by the arrow suddenly turning to , I took another step back, and the three won stared at intently and took a step closer.
Sylvia and Pala looked at with sunken eyes, while Helena just smiled slightly as if she found this situation amusing.
“Do you th-think I’m clinging to you too much?”
“Huh…?”
Finally understanding what they were talking about, I blinked slowly and answered carefully.
“Huh? No? I don’t think you are?”
I had noticed that Pala had beco noticeably closer than before. Still, I didn’t feel like she was approaching in a burdenso way.
I felt like we had just beco a bit friendlier, so it wasn’t bad, you could say.
When I honestly shared that thought, Sylvia’s expression darkened for so reason, while Pala’s expression seed to brighten.
“See! I told you!”
“W-well… if Felix says so…”
“Puhah…!! So this is how it feels to watch from the side?”
Sylvia beca gloomy, and Pala beca triumphant. And Helena, who had been watching everything from the side, burst into laughter while clutching her stomach.
As I blinked slowly, not understanding the whole situation, Helena burst into even louder laughter seeing my expression.
“What…? Am I the only one who doesn’t understand?”
“You, you don’t need to know… Puhahah!!”
Sohow, it felt like I was being left out.
Setting aside the harem, just walking around with won was tiring. I was curious how the male protagonists who form them endure it.
“Phew, I’m exhausted.”
At my unconsciously muttered words, the won who had been arguing each in their own way turned to look at all at once.
“Are you uncomfortable being with us?”
“Fe… Felix, have I beco annoying…?”
“What, what…? Suddenly?”
Faced with their suddenly chilly gazes, I took a couple of steps back, swallowed hard, and had no choice but to flee from that spot.
“Wh-where are you going?!”
Leaving behind Sylvia’s bewildered voice, I ran away from that place and kept running for a while.
Having run for so long, I was breathing heavily.
“Phew, why is this so hard?”
I don’t think I ever felt this exhausted when facing other nobles, eting Leonhardt, or dealing with Siegfried.
As I was wiping away my sweat while thinking that, I sensed soone approaching and lifted my head.
“…Oh?”
“It’s been a while.”
There stood Ashillya, smiling at as usual.
***
“When did you arrive?”
Sitting with Ashillya on the academy bench, she grinned in her usual way at my question.
“I arrived but a mont ago.”
“You must be tired.”
“Hmm…”
If she had just arrived, she must be very tired. I was worried that I might be holding her up unnecessarily.
But knowing better than anyone how hard Ashillya had worked, I couldn’t help but say those words to her first.
Ashillya seed strangely pleased to hear my words, but it appeared that wasn’t what she had wanted to hear.
I couldn’t help but tilt my head at Ashillya’s strange expression.
“I ca to see thee as soon as I arrived, yet it seems thou art not glad to see .”
“I’m talking to you like this because I’m very glad to see you…?”
“I see. Then all is well.”
Seeing Ashillya smile brightly at my words that I was glad to see her, I couldn’t help but feel even happier to see her after so long.
But as I stared at Ashillya’s face montarily, I noticed sothing different and couldn’t help but frown.
And when I felt her turn her face away to avoid my gaze, I grabbed her shoulder and turned her face back towards .
“Why… why dost thou do this?”
“Your face looks much thinner. Are you really alright?”
“… It’s not… not that bad.”
Even though the imperial affairs were busy, I couldn’t help but click my tongue and take a deep breath at Ashillya’s noticeably haggard appearance.
“Shouldn’t you rest a bit?”
“I plan to rest after finishing my eting with thee.”
“… You’re not going now?”
“Hmm… I feel a bit hurt.”
I had said it out of concern for Ashillya, but she expressed disappointnt at my words.
As she looked at with sad eyes, puffing her cheeks slightly, unlike her usual self, I could only look back at her with bewildered eyes.
“Why are you suddenly acting like this?”
“I clearly said I ca to see thee as soon as I arrived at the academy.”
“…Yes, you did?”
“Why dost thou think I ca to see thee?”
I was puzzled by Ashillya suddenly posing a quiz, but I obediently gave an answer to that question.
“Um, do you have sothing to tell ?”
“That’s not wrong.”
“…”
“However, ’tis not the correct answer.”
Not the correct answer?
As I blinked, she t my gaze, smiled slightly as if my dazed appearance was amusing, and stared intently into my eyes.
Her red eyes traced a long arc. I felt my face heating up for so reason at her smiling eyes.
Ashillya’s red lips slowly began to open.
“I wanted to see thee.”
“…Pardon?”
“I know not how to speak in roundabout ways. More precisely, I do not wish to do so before thee.”
Ashillya’s words felt like a strong blow to my head.
No, more accurately, it felt like soone had punched hard in the vicinity of my heart, precisely in my heart.
Even though I couldn’t see my face right now, I felt I knew what it looked like. My face was surely bright red right now.
“So I shall say it just once more.”
“Ah, um… Yes.”
The bench we were sitting on wasn’t very wide, and the distance between Ashillya and wasn’t very far either.
But Ashillya leaned her face even closer to as if even that was too far.
Thanks to that, Ashillya’s beautiful white face ca closer to my eyes. At the sa ti, the very strong fragrance emanating from her penetrated my nose.
“I rushed here in such haste because I wanted to see thee.”
Smiling.
Ashillya said that with a smile.
Unlike people’s assessnt that Ashillya’s smiles were very rare, I had seen her smile many tis.
She tended to smile often, at least when she was with . However, even I, who had frequently seen her smiles, could only stare at this smile blankly, as if enchanted.
I instinctively had to distance myself from her.
Ashillya’s voice, fragrance, and appearance had co in suddenly.
They were intensely imprinted in my mind, and I couldn’t easily shake them off.
Seeing distance myself, Ashillya smiled again. That smile was sohow full of satisfaction.
My face feels hot.
As I turned my gaze away to hide my flushed face, she laughed softly.
“Indeed, seeing thee makes feel good.”
To this continuous attack, I couldn’t regain my composure.
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