Chapter 873: Ristia Asmodeus ③ (2/2)

[Mother, with all due respect, I have been very proactive with Miyama-sama in the letters I write to him……]

[In any case, you're probably just ”appropriating lines you've heard in romance novels or plays”, aren't you?]

[……T- That may be the case but…… I don't see the problem……]

[With those exaggerated words being obviously straight out of romance novels, then you wrote the rest of the letter in a serious manner, as a result, even though Chris-chan thinks that you're seriously writing to him with such an intent, it looks like she's joking around, right, Kaito?]

[……Eh? ……Is that…… how it is?]

Chris-san looked at me with some kind of shocked expression on her face. A- Arehh? Something unexpected is happening…… Could it be that I had been seeing things wrong from the start?

I thought that Chris-san's sexually suggestive behavior and those shameless flirting lines in the letter were some kind of practical joke, like a big sister teasing someone younger, so I just skimmed through them…… but was Chris-san seriously trying to flirt with me?

[E- Errr, to be honest, I thought the beginning of every letter was your idea of a practical joke.]

[……It was that bad huh…… It really worked in that novel though……]

When I saw Chris-san muttering that with a shocked expression on her face, I felt my impression of her change.

To be honest, I've always been slightly uncomfortable with Chris-san. I thought that she was one of those adult women who was trying to manipulate me for her sake……  and that if I wasn't careful around her, she would make me dance in her palms.

[Chris-chan is incredibly serious and hard-headed, you know? Heck, I bet that there were hardly anything private related in most of her letters, and were just like she's introducing you to sightseeing spots in Archlesia Kingdom, isn't it?]

[……It's not polite to pry into private matters in a letter…… Moreover, I'm not just talking about the country……]

[You're just talking about common topics between you, being your pets, right?]

[……………………Yes.]

Even so, now that she mentioned it, apart from her embarrassing flirting lines, Chris-san's letters are extremely serious and don't have any jokes inserted in them.

Just as Risty-san said, the topics were overwhelmingly about Archlesia Empire, and sometimes about pets. I thought she was just trying to appeal to me about the charms of Archlesia Empire, but could it be that she just didn't have anything else to talk about?

Looking at Chris-san, who had shrunk her shoulders when Risty-san pointed her actions out, I was beginning to get the impression that Chris-san might be quite a cute person.

<Afterword>

Serious-senpai : [Now that I think about it, that event where Kaito ended up walking in while Chris was changing her clothes was a real cliche, isn't it…… When Kaito asked her about how she's a woman while she was changing, she must have thought ”Ahh, I've seen this scene play out in a romance novel!”, and decided to put it into action…… Isn't this girl more useless in love than I thought?]