I don’t know about others, but yer shouldn’t react like this. How can he be more curious than happy that I ca earlier than scheduled?
I was offended, and for no reason at all, I was being an and sarcastic.
“So, aren’t you happy to see ? Then I’ll go back.”
“No! I’m happy to see you. I’m very happy to see you…”
yer hurriedly waved his hand and denied it. However, while saying so, he could not hide all signs of anxiety.
The shadows on his faintly drooping face were gloomy. He looked like a prisoner who was dreading what the judge would decide.
And I was the judge of the omniscient and omnipotent God who had taken possession of that prisoner’s life.
It was so awkward and strange to have rights that had never been given to before.
I sighed and sat in front of yer.
“After thinking about it, I decided to accept the Commander’s confession positively.”
“Okay… What? Positively?”
yer raised his drooping head. It was as if he hadn’t expected to say that at all.
yer asked back, stunned.
“Really?”
“Why can’t you believe ?”
yer couldn’t speak easily. He stuttered like a person who had lost his language for a mont.
“Then… We….”
A smile that I’ve never seen spread around yer’s mouth. At the mont when his eyes were about to rise with joy, I blocked his words.
“However.”
“… However?”
“I think I’ll hold off on dating for now.”
yer’s face beca dazed as if he had been hit by .
Soone who doesn’t move an eyebrow when he’s actually hit…
Stunned like a child robbed of their candy, he asked back as if he didn’t understand.
“Why?”
“I need to level up and focus on closing dungeons.”
“Can’t you level up and date while closing dungeons?”
yer carefully asked, looking at .
I shook my head with a sigh.
“No. Commander, have you ever dated soone?”
“…”
yer’s mouth was closed tightly. He was a human who had devoted his life to dungeons. Dating experience? Of course, there can’t be.
I continued to speak with equal montum.
“Right? It didn’t seem like it. Then, if you’re 29 now, and have experienced regression, do you think a person who has never been in a relationship for nearly 30 years will be able to focus on dungeons for their first relationship?”
“…”
“You can’t. It’s absolutely impossible. If you could, the Commander wouldn’t like very much.”
“It’s not like that. My love for you is sincere.”
yer, who had been keeping his mouth shut, hurriedly added as an excuse.
I don’t know how long that feeling will last, but I know exactly how I really feel right now. I can’t not know.
It was so bad that “that” yer confessed because he couldn’t endure it ahead of the epic battle of the Demon King.
I grabbed yer’s hand. His body stiffened and he looked at .
I said seriously, holding yer’s hand tightly.
“So let’s date on the premise that we’re dating after defeating the Demon King.”
“… What’s the difference?”
yer asked shakily.
To be honest, I knew well that I said sothing ridiculous like a warm iced Aricano.
I don’t know if it makes sense to have a relationship on the premise of a relationship.
But there’s a subtle and important difference!
‘In this world, it’s pretty natural to have a bed to sleep in when you date…’
If it had been a romance in my original world, I might have nodded graciously.
I’d be okay with holding hands, kissing, that sort of thing.
But a bed…
A bed…!
‘That’s not possible.’
In fact, yer was an excuse.
If I said okay to that, it was clear that my concentration would be ruined, not yer.
Honestly, yer was really my type!
‘I tried so hard not to recognize it…!’
Every ti I conversed with yer, I couldn’t help but gaze at every single thing like the thickness of his lower lip, the veins on the back of his protruding hand, his arms thicker than my thighs, and his thighs even thicker.
So I usually tried my best to pretend I didn’t know about it, blurring and filtering my gaze, but every so often I would appreciate it with a drink…
Even if he has never been in a relationship, yer should have so basic common sense. So he also might have implicitly expected it.
Still, I was too shy to tell him I’m not ready to sleep with him, let alone date him!
In short, not going out with him was a [1]maginot line for .
I cut the contradictory story, and I insisted proudly, hiding my embarrassnt with brazenness.
“We know we like each other, but we’re not in a relationship. We didn’t even announce it to the world.”
yer muttered blankly.
“You like ? Really?”
“I like you, so I considered the Commander’s confession positively. If it didn’t, I’d just say no.”
When I grumbled and responded, joy spread over yer’s face.
But before his face was completely colored with a smile, he suddenly asked with a straight face.
“…What if you change your mind after putting off dating like that?”
“It won’t change.”
“But… You’re not as desperate as I am. In the anti, if you like another man…”
“I won’t go out with anyone until we defeat the Demon King.”
“After defeating the Demon King, you may find another man you like more than .”
“There are few n better than the Commander.”
“It ans there are a few.”
“No, that’s just the way it sounds… Oh, let’s write a morandum then.”
I replied back annoyedly. It wasn’t until I said it that I realized that this conversation pattern was sowhat familiar to .
In this way, of course…
“Okay, good. morandum. We should write a morandum.”
…I knew this would happen. I feel like I’ve dug my own grave.
yer busily searched the desk and lined up high-quality parchnt, pens, and ink in front of .
“Make sure you write that you’ll go out with . Or at least that you’ll give the first chance.”
“Okay, okay.”
I sighed and grabbed a pen. Then, I wrote down the contents of the morandum with a brushstroke. As there was nothing complicated, the morandum was completed quickly.
yer watched closely as I wrote the morandum. There was a shadow over the morandum because of how close his head was.
He checked the contents of the morandum twice and was relieved when I finished putting my seal on it.
He listened to the morandum I wrote preciously as if it were a white dandelion.
Then he put it in a drawer in a box where he kept important things and felt a small sense of relief.
‘The emperor’s edicts are no more important than mine. Not that he’s the kind of person who cares about imperial edicts in the first place.’
I thought to myself and folded my morandum into thirds.
yer sneakily asked, reading the air.
“Then tell your close acquaintances in advance…”
“I can’t.”
What nonsense is he talking about?
“It’s a big issue for the head and Vice Commander to date. The atmosphere in the expedition will be disturbed.”
“We’re not dating.”
“A dating schedule would be the sa as dating in the eyes of others.”
There’s a serious reason why I can’t go out with yer right now, and it seems that yer was just trying to keep up with what I said, so I just went on to say that…
It was clear to others that it would only be seen as flirting but not dating.
yer muttered in a small, dissatisfied voice.
“You seed to be disturbed even if we weren’t dating.”
“Isn’t that because of the Commander’s lack of leadership?”
“…”
yer’s mouth was shut. He wanted to refute, but he seed to be wary of denying what I said.
Unlike yer’s confusion, I was so refreshed because my complicated mind was organized. I spoke cheerfully.
“Now I’m really going to be stuck in dungeons. I ca out in advance to tell the Commander not to have a hard ti, so the Commander should also go around dungeons and gradually increase your experience and magical proficiency.”
“Okay. Don’t worry. Trust .”
yer nodded proudly with a much better face compared to the beginning.
It looked as if he was a military dog that listened well, and an admiring heart tickled my chest.
I stood up smiling.
It was cute to see him like that in the past, but now that I think he’s my man-to-be, it was much better to see.
That way, yer and I agreed to date after defeating the Demon King.
Although I belatedly recalled that it was like a death flag, such as asking to marry when you ca back from war, the possibility was as slim as Sevi’s height growing the sa as Axion’s.
After getting rid of all the drowsiness, I stord into the room of the special unit where they were resting for a long ti and shouted vigorously.
“We’re going back to the dungeons tomorrow morning, so get ready in advance!”
“Huh? Ehhhhhhh!”
***
The untily thunder made the special forces struggle to enjoy the little rest they had left. August did not refuse the sudden trip to the dungeon but welcod it with open arms.
It was clear that he thought even this was part of his asceticism or a challenge of a chance given by God.
“Now, for the next five months! Let’s turn around in a flash!”
“… Vice Commander, I think you’ve changed.”
“But it’s better than when you were half-willed before.”
“I think it’s ti for our spirit to fly halfway…”
1. (T/N: Maginot line: a defensive barrier or strategy that inspires a false sense of security.)
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