(EP-314.1) Afterstory of the South #4
314 – Afterstory of the South Wall #4
“Theo-kun, you haven’t told Mirna-yang the most important thing. That you and I are in love.”
Stella spoke in an unbelievably cheerful tone.
My hair stood on end.
It felt like the entire flow of this conversation I had been carefully planning just scattered like torn pieces of paper in the wind!
Mirna seed just as taken aback.
“Wh-what? What are you saying!?”
Her reddening expression seed to say, “Explain this imdiately!” This was why I had been ticulously laying the foundation for the story.
I underestimated Stella.
There was a simple common sense.
People wouldn’t just live recklessly. It was natural for them to do things that were rational and predictable based on their own principles.
For instance, I believed ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ Mirna’s action was based on a sense of responsibility, faith, and adherence to rules or law. She maintained strict self-discipline. It was fair to say she would be hard on herself.
Because of this, I could sowhat predict how Mirna might react in certain situations. Not perfectly, of course, but still.
With that in mind, Stella was sowhat of an enigma. She disliked being constrained, and was direct to the point of seeming headstrong. And as an elf, she had a strong desire to show off...
No, it was too late to think about this now now.
“Lady Mirna, what happened is....”
“I slept with Theo-kun.”
“.......”
“.......”
Both Mirna and I were speechless. But Stella, for so reason, seed to be enjoying herself, as if bragging about so grand experience from her childhood.
“Of course, when I say ‘we slept together,’ I’m referring to the physical relationship between a man and a woman. S£x. Otherwise known as intercourse, mating, things like that.”
Now that I thought about it.
I could recall that even when Stella was still a virgin with no experience, she enjoyed talking about these kinds of things.
When she’d never even kissed anyone, she talked as if she was s£xually liberated and experienced.
For elves, that was a way of saying, “See how attractive I am!”
Now that she actually had sothing to boast about, she was itching to spill such beans.
“Aah—”
Stagger.
Mirna swayed, as if the world was spinning before her eyes. If Yingying hadn’t supported her imdiately by being at her side, she probably would have collapsed onto the mat.
“I... I had a vague suspicion, but really, I want to say sothing... yet I don’t know where to begin or how to approach this... honestly...”
“Was it too much for you, Mirna-yang? I thought it was better to tell the truth. I hate putting on an act, lying, and all that.”
A brief silence followed, and in that pause, the noise from the imps nearby rushed in like a wave.
━It’s so relaxing...!
━Comrade Marmar, lying on the grass will dirty your clothes...!
━Professor Balan, this ti, please massage Purpur’s back...!
The imps playing over there seed less chaotic than the scene here under the parasol. Realizing I couldn’t just get swept up in the atmosphere, I used Calm Thinking.
I’d always turned crises into opportunities.
This ti, too, there should be a way to climb out of such a hole. Maybe it was even a good thing. It was better to get it over with sooner rather than later, just like the saying went.
Dragging it out any longer would only make things worse.
Thinking like such was the only way to keep things moving!
“Ahem.”
I cleared my throat.
Mirna, who’d been staring blankly, turned her gaze toward . Stella, who looked like she was going to say sothing, also looked my way.
Taking advantage of the mont when both of their attentions were on , I spoke up.
“Let’s eat first.”
People tended to get more sensitive when they were hungry. Once we’d eaten, with full bellies, we would have a bit more tolerance. I thought it was a convincing strategy.
「You have calmly judged the situation!
You have gained experience points through the talent 《Calm Thinking》.
All job experience 5」
* * *
Lunch consisted of simple sandwiches, fruit juices made by squeezing fruit into milk, and a few sliced vegetables.
Although it seed modest, it was sothing Marmar made herself for today’s park picnic.
Marmar was a good cook, so even the simple sandwiches tasted delicious. It was a feast compared to when we filled our stomachs with dried at and boiled water over the wall.
“There’s loads of pork cutlets packed between the bread! I made a lot, so everyone eat as much as you like! Here’s a salad made with pork cutlet, and this is a rice bowl topped with pork cutlet....”
So it went. A delightfully uniform nu.
Thanks to this, we finished a satisfying al.
“I feel sleepy after eating....”
“Let’s all huddle together and sleep like we used to when we were holess....”
“Gar....”
The imps who had been playing all morning started curling up one by one under the shade of a tree, using each other as pillows as they drifted into an afternoon nap.
Professor Balan, who’d broken a sweat playing with them, also let out a yawn before lying down beside the imps and falling asleep.
“An imp pillow... T-This is rare. The dark and ominous energy is recharging....”
“If you keep mumbling, no one can sleep...!”
Play when they wanted, sleep when they wanted, eat when they wanted. How carefree their lives must be. Just as I was thinking that, Mirna spoke up.
“So, Professor Stella, what do you plan to do from now on? This doesn’t seem like the kind of relationship that’ll end as a one-night fling.”
Wiping her lips with a handkerchief, Stella replied.
“It wasn’t just one night. From the first night, every night we....”
“Ahem! I’m not interested in hearing about that!”
Mirna shouted.
Because of that, the imps curled up in the shade nearby twitched. Noticing this, Mirna lowered her voice and asked quietly this ti.
“What I’m asking is about the future. Professor Stella, do you plan to marry Sir Theo? Don’t you think about that? Surely you’re not planning to live without a plan, are you?”
‘I see.’
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