Alexis looked down for a few monts, and when she created courage, she looked into Ayumi's green eyes. "I need to talk about Luke."
"About Luke?" With arched eyebrows, Ayumi asked.
"Yes... he told that you two are engaged."
Ayumi widened her eyes and blushed a little. "So, did he really tell you? Ah~ So this makes shy... I thought he wouldn't tell anyone yet. Do the others already know?" The Matriarch referred to the half-wolf's friends.
"As far as I know, only redith and I know. For the rest of the group, Luke has only told them that you two are dating."
"Well, there's no way to hide that from people so close to us forever. I think it's okay... even Nathalia already knows." Ayumi said, as she sat down in a comfortable armchair. "But I think he will agree with that we should wait for these problems to pass before we can finally start planning the event."
Alexis was quiet for a few seconds, afraid to continue the conversation, but rembering the gentle touch of the half-wolf's warm hands, she dared to continue.
"I am happy for you, Ayumi, for real. But that's not what I'm here to talk about." The Class-S sat down in the armchair across from where the Matriarch was sitting. "I like Luke too, no... actually, I think I love him..."
The blonde Elf was speechless, as she never expected Alexis to feel this way.
Imdiately, Ayumi began to feel like an idiot for never having interpreted as anything romantic the way the half-dragon was always looking at Luke, or calling him to train.
With determination, Alexis looked deeply into the Matriarch's surprised eyes and said:
"You may have been the first woman who was able to penetrate his heart, but I believe I can also make him happy."
Ayumi opened her mouth to try to say sothing, but she was so perplexed that she couldn't form a sentence that could express her confusion. "Since when...?" She asked Alexis after a few seconds of silence.
At that mont, the half-dragon looked down at her own hands. "Since the mont I first saw him. You must have felt the sa thing I did. I looked at him and realized how different he was from any other man I had ever seen in my entire life... His soft ears, deep yellow eyes, way of thinking, and way of acting. I, who have never fallen in love with any man and thought the love was a rely silly thing, slowly beca attached to Luke, his presence, his voice."
With that revelation, so things that previously had no answers, made sense in the Matriarch's mind. "Is that why you didn't leave and continue helping us?"
"Initially? No, that wasn't the reason. Because I didn't even know what I was feeling." Alexis said, wrapping a lock of her hair around the tip of her right index finger as she looked up and thought. "But everything that intertwined Luke with the First Servant intrigued , and it made even more aware of who Luke was, what he was doing... So, I realized I was liking him when I saw him looking at you with love, and, at that mont, I wished to be you."
Ayumi widened her eyes and looked at the half-dragon in front of her. "?"
"Yes... A woman who imposes her own will and can get any man she wants. A powerful woman who is not afraid of anything or anyone, and commands one of the most powerful Families on the continent. Since college, you have been one of my greatest inspirations, and it's because I have learned from you to realize my own worth that I will not let you keep Luke just for yourself."
The young Matriarch was experienced enough to handle any problem and not beco easily irritated. Then, she sighed deeply, massaged her temples, and spoke:
"Alexis, I have known you for a long ti, and I know that you would never joke about things like that. Because we are friends... no, because we are won, I understand how you are feeling, and I understand that you can't suppress this feeling because it's very intense. Therefore, tonight, after our eting about the future, co to my room."
"In your room? Why?"
"You'll have to convince Luke and of what you can really make him happy by my side, because I'm not going to leave him."
*
When Luke arrived at the residence, he imdiately noticed that not only Ayumi and Alexis were acting strange, but also redith. All three exchanged glances and were hardly exchanging any words. He was curious about what had happened, but deduced that maybe it was just tiredness from the trip.
Without a second thought, Luke introduced Nathalia to all his friends who didn't know her yet. The n were amazed by the young lady's beauty, whose red eyes resembled the sparkle of an ancient amber stone or a ruby crystal. Nathalia looked exactly like Ynosuke's descriptions, a young goddess.
After Nathalia's introduction, Luke didn't feel he needed anyone else who wasn't present to begin the serious conversation about the First Servant and the future of the Broteforge Empire.
Succinctly, Luke explained everything, starting with his encounter with Lescar, the mysterious young man. Luke's friends already knew about Lescar, because he told them about the boy during the trip, and Ayumi also knew, because he told them before leaving Oukiwa. The only ones who didn't know about him were Shiro, Nathalia, and Martha, who were surprised and wondered who this boy really was.
"Did he tell you to call him when the world needed him?" asked Nathalia, sitting on the couch next to the other people in the living room.
"Yeah, basically that."
The Elf brought her hand up to her chin and asked, "What would happen if you called him now? Would he co?"
Luke denied it with his head. "I don't think it's so simple... For so reason, I think his hands are tied now. I could feel that he wanted to talk more to , to do sothing more, but for so reason, he couldn't."
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