Chapter 40 (1/2)

Slowly, my consciousness surfaces from within the darkness.

The first thing I recognized wasn’t my own warmth. But a firm, large and pleasant warmth.

Somehow, I have a feeling I don’t want to lose it, so I cling on tighter.

Did I put too much strength? The warmth moved with a twitch.

…Huh…? It feels similar to something recently…

With that thought being stuck in the corner of my mind, I tried to perceive the situation with my still unclear head.

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Firm, it seems to be the body of a person.

Slowly, I raise my head.

The person that appeared was…

「Prince Sedrim…」

I look at the sleeping Prince’s face while frowning.

Then, I was clinging onto…?

Lowering my gaze from the Prince’s face, the colour of flesh was in front of me.

It’s the Prince’s arm.

Straight away, I recall the scene from the other day.

And just like that day, I’m presently naked.

Separating from his arm I was clinging onto, I got up, grabbed the blanket and hid my body.

「Ouch!」

A dull pain ran through my abdomen.

「Eh?」

While being wrapped up in the blanket, timidly, I check the situation.

On top of the brand new pure white sheets, there was a dark red stain. And I feel a dull pain in my abdomen.

When I reached down my hand, there was a raw lukewarm feeling.

There was sticky blood on my hand.

I was dumbstruck by this expected event.

Eh? What’s this situation…. Why’s there blood…? No way, no way no way no way…!?

But this pain, it’s what my cla.s.smate had talked about…

Is it, as I feared…?

The moment I thought that, a sense of loss from losing something important welled up.

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「A lie…」

When I touched the warmth drifting down my cheeks, it was tears.

As soon as I was aware of it, my tears overflowed like rain.

「This, can’t be.」

Without being able to hold back my tears, it poured out one after another.

「No way, no waay…」

Because I was crying and didn’t notice,

「What’s wrong…? What happened? Why are you crying…?」

the Prince who had awoken, called out to me as I was crying.

「No way, how cruueel. Doing something like that while I was asleep…. Stuupid Prince.」

Although he’s a good-for-nothing, even though he’s a weird prince, but even then, I believed he wouldn’t do such a thing.

Feeling betrayed, my tears poured out once again.

「What do you mean, suddenly calling me stupid. What happened? Can you tell me the reason without crying? How come you’re crying so much?」

Although with a slightly peevish tone, he talks gently and tries to get information out of me.1

「Sniff, because, Prince, such a thing… sniff, waaaaaaaaaa.」

My tears welled up midway through my words.

「That’s why, if you don’t say it clearly, how can I understand anything?」