The Youngest Hides a Lot - Chapter 269

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Chapter 269
He had clearly been training outside, for small flower petals clung to his hair. I couldn’t help but chuckle softly at the sight.
The careless vulnerability hidden behind that composed face was simply too endearing.
“Have you eaten?”
Kalid turned around and asked.
Unfortunately, his charm scattered away like those petals. Though admittedly, he remained adorable regardless.
“Yes. What about you?”
“I have too.”
“How does it feel to return to the Knight Order after so long? Still as busy as ever?”
“Well… yes.”
“I see.”
“Where’s Hazel?”
Kalid scanned the interior of the bedroom. I closed the window where the flower-scented breeze drifted in and replied.
“She went to plunder desserts… no, wait. She went to prepare desserts.”
“Ah, I see. But…”
“…”
“Why haven’t you been meeting my eyes since earlier?”
He closed the distance between us in an instant.
“No, it’s just…”
“Your condition hasn’t worsened, has it? Let me see.”
“That’s not it, um…”
It was simply embarrassment.
I was about to insist my body was perfectly fine, but I quickly changed my mind.
“It might be something like that…”
“Take my hand immediately.”
“Yes.”
The moment his large hand grasped mine, a pleasant surge of mana crept gently into me. Kalid shared his mana with me with such meticulous care and devotion.
And…
And.
‘…Hmm.’
That’s all?
That was it.
“Hey, Kalid.”
I called to him carefully.
His flawlessly perfect face gazed down at me quietly.
“You can… do more.”
At that, our joined hands trembled slightly.
“No, I mean… I also find that method easier to accept. Once you’ve experienced something new, you simply can’t go back to the old way… oh.”
My body was pulled forward suddenly. When I came to my senses, I found myself sitting atop the table.
“…You…”
Kalid’s brow furrowed in distress as our eyes met at nearly the same level. He braced his arm against the table, caging my body, and gazed down at me with deliberate intensity.
“You know far too well how to torment me.”
“Ah…”
“You know I cannot refuse you…”
Something soft descended upon my lips as he spoke.
Kalid began with gentle kisses as though testing my response, and the moment he sensed my acceptance, he consumed everything—all of me.
My breath grew ragged almost instantly, my mind beginning to blur and spin.
Sensations I had never known awakened throughout my mouth, the stimulation almost overwhelming. My body instinctively leaned backward, as though fleeing.
Yet each time, the hand at my waist pulled me closer against him—with no gaps, no space between us, as though he wished to become one with me entirely.
Unlike the intensity of his kiss, a faint, tender magic continued to pour into me, soothing and gentle. My heart felt completely full.
‘But what are we, doing things like this…?’
What exactly are we to each other?
Amid sensations that threatened to melt my mind, I found myself thinking.
‘I love Kalid.’
…But what about him?
I admit it—our history is quite complicated.
So after witnessing those memories, I genuinely believed Kalid might feel the same way about me.
But still…
‘I haven’t heard a single word.’
Not that he likes me.
Not that he loves me.
‘I never even heard it in my previous life.’
Yet would someone who doesn’t care kiss you like this? At least, I wouldn’t.
Emboldened by such thoughts, I actually tried to confess to Kalid several times after returning to Zelocks.
But every single time…
“Listen, um. Kalid. I… I actually…”
“Rubian, I’m sorry. Something came up—I need to visit the Mountain Outpost.”
“Suddenly?”
He would simply vanish like that.
“Kalid, um, can we talk? I…”
“Rubian. Obron called for me. Sorry.”
“Suddenly?”
He would only evade and leave.
As a result, I could no longer be certain of anything.
‘Did I grow arrogant, thinking he regressed through time for me?’
I deflated like a punctured balloon.
‘When I think about it… from childhood, Kalid called me Master and followed me around like a devoted puppy…’
Much like a loyal knight serving his lord.
And he would habitually say that his presence at my side was merely to repay the debt of having been saved.
‘Damn it, I don’t want to be his savior—I want to be his girlfriend!’
Unlike my past life, have we become too comfortable with each other as we grew up together?
Perhaps, having spent so much time together, there were countless opportunities for my feelings to change.
‘I can’t refuse his kisses partly because of the mana, and partly because I still think of him as the master who saved me….’
In truth, transferring mana through the mucous membrane was the most efficient method to treat the core.
The reason I could recover in just three weeks was all because of this….
‘Besides, it’s me who’s always pestering him to kiss!’
Even look at what he just said.
“Knowing that I can’t refuse….”
Isn’t that just saying he wants to refuse but can’t help himself?
‘Ah, wait. This is too depressing. My grand first love is turning into unrequited love.’
Still…. I can’t give up.
I have to cling to him like this, what else can I do?
‘I’ll kiss you using mana as an excuse.’
But slightly annoyed, I gently bit his lip. Kalid’s eyes widened in surprise.
“…Why are you biting?”
“Mana, give, give me more mana.”
At my command, he rushed toward me with an incredibly ragged breath.
Objects on the table fell and rolled everywhere in chaos, but my mind was so hazy I couldn’t hear anything.
Kalid caressed my ear and planted small kisses on my cheeks and jaw. His soft lips naturally brushed against my earlobe, and he bit the flesh lightly in retaliation.
A hand with prominent knuckles slipped beneath the loosely draped cardigan, gently caressing my bare shoulders and forearms.
While my senses were captivated by that touch, his lips moved like flowing water, and before I knew it, he was pressing firmly against the exposed nape of my neck. At the scorching heat against my delicate skin, my toes curled involuntarily.
“Ah. Kalid, Kalid. This is strange….”
That was the moment.
He froze as if struck by lightning.
“What am I doing right now….”
Kalid stared at me, completely disheveled, then suddenly turned away.
“I, I have something urgent to attend to….”
“What.”
Again?
Regardless, he moved like a broken doll and vanished like the wind.
“Wow.”
The moment his mana was fully replenished, he became so cold….
I slid down beneath the table. Checking the clock, approximately 30 minutes had passed since we started kissing.
“Damn it, next time I’m going for 45 minutes….”
Kalid Liork.
‘Even if you don’t like me.’
You can never escape from me!
But unrequited love never flows smoothly like a ship with full sails.
The next day.
I froze rigid at news that struck like a bolt from the blue.
“Huh?”
“Kalid has deployed.”
“Suddenly?”
“Dark magic creatures that were hiding in Eastern Babylon and dormant demonic beasts have appeared, causing severe damage.”
It was currently one of the most intense battlegrounds remaining in Babylon.
From what Father told me, a Subjugation Force was assembled with roughly a year-long campaign in mind.
Of course, the Imperial Palace Knights and the Eastern Marquis Army alone were sufficient, so Kalid didn’t need to step forward.
“But Kalid volunteered?”
Hazel nodded.
“Yes. Yesterday, he came to the Imperial Palace through a portal and pleaded with the Emperor.”
“Yesterday, you say…”
That would be right after Kalid licked my neck like a dog.
Hah, hah…
‘So now he doesn’t even want to share mana with me?’
The past is just the past, after all—was this his way of saying the current situation felt burdensome?
“Miss? Your eyes look rather frightening. Are you all right?”
Ugh. That wretched Kalid.
‘He trained me like this with his body.’
And now he’s running away to war?
For the first time, I thought about confining him.
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Kalid was crossing the sprawling Training Ground.
“Kaaaalid! You’re going to the Eastern Front? Why so suddenly?”
Allen approached from afar.
Kalid glanced at him dismissively and continued walking. He had much to do before departing for the Eastern Region tomorrow.
“Why are you suddenly deploying!”
When Allen asked sharply, Kalid exhaled a helpless sigh.
“To Rubian…”
His voice flowed calmly, barely audible.
“I’ve decided to confess to Rubian.”
“Pfft.”
Allen covered his mouth with both hands.

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