“…….”
After a moment of silence following Noah’s words, Delina reached out her hand to Noah.
“Give me my pocket.”
Delina’s pocket was still with Noah. Without saying a word, Noah handed the pocket to Delina. Taking it, Delina rummaged through the pocket. Soon, Delina took out a handkerchief from the pocket. Noah seemed to recognize it.
“That’s the one that was wrapping the ring earlier.”
“Yeah, it’s a handkerchief.”
“A handkerchief?”
Surprised, Noah’s eyebrows went up.
“I thought it was a disguise cloth to hide the ring… And it turns out to be a handkerchief?”
“……Yeah. Well, it’s in quite a pathetic state, to the point where it might be misunderstood that way.”
Noah commented as Delina explained. Originally, if she were a noble young lady, she would have learned embroidery as part of her education, but Belion, Delina’s guardian, didn’t pay much attention to such things. Delina also didn’t learn it because she didn’t seem to need it immediately. However, she regretted not learning it this time when she sewed.
“I couldn’t help it with the shape. It’s my first time, and time was short… Anyway, this is the best I can do… But still, if you’re okay with it, would you take it?”
Delina gently handed the handkerchief to Noah. Noah’s expression, looking at the handkerchief, was peculiar.
“What does this ragged cloth have to do with the answer to the confession?”
“Oh, I didn’t tell that story. This is a Hunting Guild handkerchief.”
Realizing it belatedly, Delina added an explanation, and Noah’s expression changed. The meaning of giving a handkerchief from the Hunting Guild was something all Helium Empire nobles knew. Delina’s words continued slowly.
“I’ve been focusing only on what I have to do until now. I didn’t have much leisure.”
The tragedy of the empire’s downfall and losing all loved ones. Crushed by the heavy responsibility of preventing it alone, her top priority was always the security and peace of the empire. That’s why Delina didn’t even have time to think about who her heart was directed towards.
“So, I was late to realize my feelings. Besides… I never thought that the person would be you.”
Even liking someone felt like a luxury. Moreover, Delina met the children with the goal of preventing the downfall of the empire. It was unexpected enough to get close to them, and she truly never imagined that she would come to like someone among them.
When was the first time Delina became conscious of Noah? Perhaps it was during the coming-of-age ceremony. She involuntarily glanced at his grown-up appearance, and the time they spent dancing together felt unusually short. Even when Noah naturally suggested talking or taking a step away from the crowd, Delina was aware of it. However, she pretended not to notice and danced the next dance with him.
She was tense even when Noah and Celine first faced each other at Rose Lip Marquis. It was entirely different from when other children faced Celine. Noah, who liked Celine, didn’t even want to imagine her dying.
“So when you gave me the ring, it felt really strange. Of course, not in a bad way. It was rather on the good side.”
It felt like a dream. Even though the ring was sparkling in front of her, she felt like it would disappear when she opened her eyes tomorrow. Delina, who had worn the ring, even looked at it continuously as if she lacked a sense of reality. Strangely, when she looked at the ring, other complex thoughts and emotions seemed to disappear. Then, Delina suddenly realized. What that feeling was.
“So, after the hunting festival, I really wanted to meet you, and I did…”
[Since we need to hear the answer about the ring, you’re not going anywhere until then.]‘He smiled so confidently in that moment of crisis, saying he would definitely hear my answer.’
Now, it felt like that incident would scatter like a dream, and she was scared. Delina’s hand, holding the handkerchief, trembled. Noah slowly spoke.
“It’s certainly a handkerchief that you can’t easily buy with money anywhere.”
“… Yeah, I can’t sew.”
Even in such a situation, he made a joke. Truly Noah-like, it was a Noah-like action. Delina glanced at him with a slight smile.
“Well, anyway, your answer is fine, right?”
“…”
“I know that when you receive a hunting festival handkerchief, you respond to those feelings by tying it around your wrist.”
Noah shrugged.
“Wrist. Should I or shouldn’t I?”
“… It’s okay. You don’t have to give me your wrist.”
Knowing that the handkerchief was in a pathetic state, she didn’t particularly want him to wear it around his wrist. Moreover, now that Noah wasn’t the Noah she knew, she didn’t have much expectation.
“Anyway, you’re not going to keep it. So it’s fine.”
Just as Delina was about to put the handkerchief back in her pocket, Noah’s hand suddenly reached out.
“…?”
With astonishing speed, Delina widened her eyes and looked up at Noah. He had a somewhat desperate expression.
“… Why?”
“…”
“… Uh… Maybe, you want it to be different?”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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