Chapter 3 - Volume 1 (2/2)

Honestly, I felt my heart throb.

How much did it throb? Well, it was so much that I momentarily forgot the existence of the yandere – I mean, my fiancé, next to him.

Father, who stood behind me, cleared his throat, and I finally recalled the purpose of this visit.

I sent a sidelong glance to the young boy next to Prime Minister-sama.

「I’m terrible sorry. Lycoris, let me introduce you to my son」

Prime Minister-sama’s big hands guided the ten-year old, Wolfgang Eisenhut to stand forward; the boy gave the barest of greeting,「Best regards」with his eyes on the floor.

With a「Same here」returned to him, our conversation was cut off.

The atmosphere in the room grew dead silent, causing the two adults to grow anxious.

「Our conversation will be complicated」

「Lycoris, why don’t you take my son to the gardens?」

With a sudden『Go take a stroll…』, the two ten-year old children were thrown out to the gardens.

This wasn’t what you’d expect from a scheme made by an appointed minister who supports a country – Honestly, this was a poor plan.

First of all, the two adults should’ve soften it up by bringing up a topic, the right thing to do would be give one or two common topics for the two of us to talk about. But as I began thinking, I felt like I was playing the role of a woman who did a lot of matchmaking in a drama. Even if a man could work for a living, he might be weak at playing as a matchmaker.

… realizing I went off track, I shook my head.

The young boy, who continued to walk together to with me to the garden, was a slender good-looking youth.

Whether it was unexpected or not, or maybe it was due to our age, but between the two of us who were in the same age, he was comparatively shorter.

His black hair and violet eyes were astounding.

And even though the outline of his cheeks were of a young boy, he had plenty of intellectual features. His form had a steady movement as he walked smoothly; although, it might be because he is aware that a lot of people pay close attention to him that he developed this gift.

Though the game characters had an outlined image color associated to each of them, for him, that color was just black. During work, he would only wear black clothes. Even now, he was wearing an expensive outfit with silver embroidery that was certainly black.

When the rose arch of the garden was nearly visible, that beautiful young boy blocked my path as we were about to arrive and said.

「You – do you understand what it means to be decided as my fiancée?(3)」

Because it happened too fast, my reaction was delayed and all I could do was nod my head.

That beautiful young boy, with his astounding violet eyes, quickly glared at me.

「Yup. I don’t like you. Your face is okay, but to begin with an overall gloomy person is not my type. Not only that, you’re way too big. –But, your linage balances it off. I’ll compromise. Don’t you dare misunderstand your position as my fiancée and think of telling anyone about my behavior」

Ah… That’s right.

He had this kind of character.

While thinking that in the corner of my head, in truth, my feelings were filled relief.

My worst fears didn’t happen.

I mean that at the moment I met Wolfgang Eisenhut, I didn’t change.

Without understanding my heart’s working, wasn’t I unable to control my feelings and nearly grew to like him? Although I knew about my destruction before hand, didn’t his dazzling eyes almost pierced the passion of my heart. It was most frightening.

Yeah. It’s good. It is….『Not』.

That’s because I’m not masochistic.

I want to hit this cheeky brat on the head.

But I’m already an adult from my previous life. It would be impossible not to have obstacles as a life experience.

I pulled my own eyes down, enjoying the fact that I could laugh at him under my nose.

「If you prefer a smaller body, then yours would be suitable」

Ah, it slipped.

(1) A bit ironic since she’s being sent to her room by her daddy…

(2) Really, I’ll stick to this translation until someone gives me a better one. Because god damn, that little lady has the hots for that gentleman…

(3) In here, he uses the pronoun (ore). It will be a detail later mentioned in chapter 4