Young Master, Please Put Some Pants On! - Chapter 84

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Chapter 84

“I took that photograph.”

“You did, Grand Duke?”

“Garulus was born much earlier than expected. It was snowing heavily that day, so I went down to the village myself to bring the midwife. Well, by the time I returned, Garulus had already been born.”

The memory of that day was still vivid before his eyes. When he had just arrived at the cabin after battling through the storm-like blizzard, what greeted him was the vigorous crying of a newborn baby.

As he breathed heavily trying to grasp the situation, Bermin showed him the baby’s face. At the unbelievably small sight, he found himself unconsciously reaching out his hand toward the baby.

At that moment, the baby reached out and grasped his finger. Though his entire body was frozen solid from the blizzard, he felt an indescribable strange emotion at that unfamiliar yet warm sensation.

“I can’t believe that little bean-sized child has grown this much.”

Kermanomon, reminiscing about the past, became completely absorbed in looking through Garulus’s photo album for quite a while, and Mellis, who was watching him from the side, felt her mood lift as well.

“You really seem to love children, Grand Duke.”

“I didn’t know it myself, but it seems that way. Where would you find someone who dislikes children?”

At his unconscious murmur, Mellis found herself unconsciously picturing the future of the Ducal Residence in her mind.

‘Ah…’

Children who looked exactly like Kermanomon and an unknown Grand Duchess watching over them. Just imagining that scene made her heart sting and ache strangely.

Mellis bit her lip hard, trying to erase those thoughts from her mind.

“What’s this? Did Garulus draw this too?”

At that moment, Mellis’s face turned pale white as she unconsciously looked up at his question. Kermanomon was holding Garulus’s sketchbook in his hands.

‘Don’t tell me that’s!’

“G-Garulus, how could he draw something like this!”

In that diary was a drawing of Mellis, who was human. She had left it alone thinking complacently that no one would recognize it, but if the person looking at the drawing was Kermanomon, that was a different story.

He was a man with dangerously sharp instincts. She couldn’t show him even the slightest opening.

Why on earth was that diary mixed in here! But Mellis didn’t have time to worry about such things as she jumped up from her seat and frantically reached toward Kermanomon.

“Grand Duke! Wait, you can’t look at that!”

“What? Why are you acting like this?”

“P-please give it here!”

However, Mellis’s strange reaction only fueled his curiosity instead. Kermanomon smiled mischievously and stretched out his arm to avoid her.

“What’s in here that’s making you act like this?”

“Young Master told me to absolutely never show it to anyone!”

“Well, I wouldn’t be just anyone.”

“Stop joking around!”

When he leaned back and pretended to flip through the sketchbook, a horrified Mellis lunged forward to snatch it away. Her only thought was that she had to take the drawing away from him by any means necessary.

“Got it!”

The moment Mellis stretched out her entire body and grasped the sketchbook, both their bodies tilted helplessly.

“Ah…”

Thud, before she knew it, she was in the arms of Kermanomon who had fallen to the floor. Mellis blinked, unable to immediately grasp the situation.

His solid build that she could feel with her entire body, the dizzying scent that penetrated her nose. Even the body heat transmitted through the thin fabric between them. All of it made Mellis’s heart pound as if it would burst.

Mellis’s vision turned white as she momentarily forgot even to breathe. She was lost in him with a dazed expression for just a moment.

“G-Grand Duke. This is!”

Mellis, who was extremely startled, belatedly scrambled to get up in a fluster. Her face, red as a ripe tomato, represented her bewilderment.

“….”

Kermanomon, covering his eyes with his clenched fist, still lay sprawled on the floor without saying a word. After watching him carefully for a while, she cautiously spoke up.

“Are you alright?”

At that voice filled with concern, Kermanomon bit his lips hard. As if he didn’t want to say anything at all.

Soon, a low voice burst out from his slightly parted lips.

“…Why do you keep making me test my patience. Without even knowing that I’m holding back.”

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That single sentence that burst out uncontrollably was enough to make her heart sink. Mellis’s gaze turned toward his tightly closed lips.

Thump, thump, thump. Only the rough sound of her heartbeat echoed in her ears through the quiet silence. It felt as slow as if time had stopped. At that moment, she couldn’t do anything and was captivated as she took in his appearance.

Just as she was about to unconsciously reach her hand toward him, Mellis suddenly came to her senses.

“S-sorry! I just remembered something urgent!”

She got up from her spot as if fleeing and ran forward blindly. Mellis, who barely made it to a deserted corridor, leaned against the wall with labored breathing and collapsed as if falling.

What had just happened? Her heart was still pounding so violently that she couldn’t control it, and her face, red as if about to burst, showed no signs of calming down easily.

That atmosphere from just before was so dizzying that it couldn’t be described in any words. Was it her imagination that she felt dangerous desire from him?

She tried not to recall his words again. It felt like she shouldn’t be curious about what they meant. Even having such thoughts at this moment felt like guilt.

Kermanomon wasn’t an ordinary man. And neither was Mellis herself. Weren’t the two of them beings who could never reach each other, and shouldn’t reach each other?

Mellis, covering her mouth with her clenched fist, muttered absentmindedly.

“Get a grip, Mellis….”

It had been a dangerous situation. If she hadn’t left that place, she felt like she would have definitely been swept away by emotions and made an irrational decision.

After a brief moment passed, Mellis was finally able to calm her excitement only after taking several deep breaths.

“Haah….”

As she tilted her head back with a sigh, she finally noticed the sketchbook in her arms. It was the very object that was the cause of all this trouble and had nearly put Mellis in danger. She felt proud of herself for protecting it even while frantically running away.

“If I had known this would happen, I would have taken action right then.”

She felt sorry for Garulus, but she couldn’t leave those drawings any longer. As Mellis roughly flipped through the sketchbook, she slightly furrowed her brow. The drawing that contained her image had disappeared without a trace.

“Huh?”

Feeling puzzled, she checked the sketchbook again. There were traces left as if paper had been torn out from the middle.

Her mouth fell open in shock as she was left speechless. Mellis hurriedly returned to the room and carefully looked around inside. Fortunately, Kermanomon was nowhere to be seen.

Mellis rummaged through the pile of drawings with a pale face, but she couldn’t find the individual drawing there either.

“Calm down, let’s calm down. Mellis….”

But contrary to her words, bad thoughts kept bubbling up in her head. What if someone had seen the drawing? If they had taken it after noticing something strange….

Not satisfied with completely going through the pile of drawings, Mellis searched every corner of the room and finally found two neatly folded papers under the bed, letting out a cheer.

“Found them!”

The drawings still showed herself wearing a wedding dress and Vivian making various potions.

Having gotten the drawings in her hands, she let out a sigh of relief. As Mellis tucked the papers into her arms, she felt puzzled and tilted her head.

“But why were these lying here?”

It seemed like Garulus had hidden the drawings separately for her sake. Just like with the ant army incident before, Garulus often used under the bed as his secret space.

Remembering that fact, her tension eased and she felt relieved. Mellis lightly dismissed it, thinking she should ask Garulus about this later.

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