Young Master, Please Put Some Pants On! - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95

Moreover, the two men who had been sitting there earlier seemed to have already had several drinks. Seeing the brand of the half-empty whiskey bottle, Mellis’s mouth fell wide open.

“This is incredibly expensive alcohol!”

“It’s Noel’s, so don’t worry about it and feel free to drink comfortably.”

Malcolm answered on his behalf while sipping his whiskey glass. Noel also had an indifferent expression as if he didn’t mind. However, it was alcohol that cost as much as her monthly salary to drink comfortably.

Noticing that she was hesitating, Kermanomon raised one eyebrow and asked.

“What’s wrong? Can’t you drink alcohol?”

“Huh? No. That’s not it…”

At the question of whether she couldn’t drink alcohol, Mellis slowly shook her head. She knew how to drink enough to match the atmosphere with others.

Mellis, who had been sitting and looking around, glanced at Kermanomon. Unlike herself who was being overly conscious, Kermanomon wasn’t even giving her a proper look.

It felt exactly like when she first came to the Ducal Residence. The relationship between an employer and employee who meant nothing to each other.

Perhaps they could never return to the same relationship as before.

‘…But this is right.’

When she thought about it, wasn’t this exactly what she had wanted? If time continued to pass like this, her inappropriate feelings toward Kermanomon would gradually subside.

Mellis comforted herself this way and began to tilt her drinking glass.

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About two hours later, Mellis once again recalled the thought that had briefly crossed her mind yesterday afternoon.

‘Am I being bullied…?’

Following the hide-and-seek exclusion, now drinking party harassment. She wondered if she might be suffering from belated hazing.

“Huh? Mellis’s glass is empty again? That won’t do. Drink all of this, quickly!”

“I should stop now…”

“No way! Chug it down. Chug! Get drunk quickly!”

Anna, who was clinging close to her side, not only kept filling her drinking glass without rest, but even watched with burning eyes to make sure she drank it all. Anna, whose eyes were rolled back white, asked in a hazy voice.

“How is it? Do you feel like having a sincere conversation now?”

“No… I only feel like going back to my quarters.”

“Why! Then drink more!”

Anna, whose entire body had turned red from the alcohol, pressed her face close and breathed out hot air mixed with the smell of alcohol. At the warm breath touching her nape, Mellis squeezed her eyes shut.

‘This is burdensome…!’

Moreover, Anna wasn’t the only one tormenting her.

“Miss Mellis. Do you know how much trouble I’m going through because of you? Really, I can’t tell anyone… Why are you making my life so difficult? Didn’t I clearly tell you? I absolutely hate troublesome matters.”

Malcolm, whose eyes were half-glazed, shook the empty whiskey bottle while continuing his incomprehensible laments.

“…”

Noel kept his head deeply bowed while continuously pushing her toward the direction where Kermanomon was sitting. When his thick calf touched her back, the flustered Mellis hastily pushed Noel away.

“St-stop pushing me!”

Then Noel fluttered like a piece of paper and collapsed onto the floor with a thud. It was truly pandemonium. They had only finished six or seven bottles of whiskey, yet what kind of disgraceful behavior was this? At the true faces of the Ducal Residence elites who were famous throughout the Empire, Mellis slowly shook her head.

However, she too was feeling unusually dazed. Looking over the chaotic surroundings, Mellis blew her bangs with her breath and said.

“This won’t do. Let’s stop here for today. Noel, can you get up?”

When she tapped the shoulder of Noel who had collapsed on the floor, he got up from his spot with a dazed expression. After blankly looking around the room for a moment, Noel nodded and stood up. Despite staggering, he naturally hoisted Malcolm and Anna on either side of him.

“Huh? Then what about the Grand Duke?”

“….”

However, Noel only shook his head with an indifferent look and leisurely left the room. Kermanomon had been lying face down on the table without moving for quite some time. Mellis, who was left alone with him unexpectedly, pondered before approaching him. No matter that this was his bedroom, she couldn’t let him sleep without even a blanket on such a cold night.

“Grand Duke.”

At his still unmoving attitude, Mellis finally crouched down beside him and spoke again.

“Grand Duke, you can’t sleep here. You need to go to bed.”

Mellis furrowed her brows as if worried about his motionless state.

“Can you stand up?”

“…Yeah.”

However, contrary to his words, he staggered and sat back down when trying to get up, and Mellis, who was watching, hurriedly supported him.

Mellis barely caught him and regained her balance under the crushing weight, leaning against the sofa with him.

“Are you alright?”

“Mellis.”

“Yes.”

Instead of answering, Kermanomon quietly murmured her name. He slowly lifted his head but said nothing. His hazy gaze lingered on her for a long time.

“Mellis….”

He trailed off as he rested his forehead against her shoulder. Mellis flinched slightly and only then realized how close they were.

Each time he quietly exhaled, his faint breath touched her skin, and his body temperature facing her was burning hot. Her heart began to react on its own again to his refreshing scent mixed with the sharp smell of alcohol.

However, at the words that slipped from his lips, she froze and doubted her own ears.

“It’s all my fault.”

Mellis’s eyes widened in surprise at his sudden apology. However, Kermanomon, who didn’t notice this fact, still murmured in a deeply subdued voice.

“I’m sorry for speaking badly of Duke Ferzen… Whoever you like, that’s not something I can control.”

“Grand Duke…?”

“I won’t be disgustingly jealous anymore. I won’t play mean pranks either. I absolutely won’t do anything you dislike….”

Couldn’t you forgive me just once.

At his guilt-ridden voice, Mellis felt her heart ache sharply. She never dreamed he would be thinking such thoughts. Surely she was the one who should be apologizing.

Wasn’t it all her fault for projecting herself onto Arsian and blocking his way, and for spitting out harsh words at him when the emotions she had been avoiding surged up?

“…I don’t want to be hated by you.”

However, his anxious appearance without any sense of ease tightened her chest.

“I’ve never liked Arsian, nor have I ever hated you, Grand Duke. Rather, I….”

She liked Kermanomon. More than any words could describe. She liked him who always came running first when she was in danger, who comforted her saying there was no need to apologize for everything.

She liked his eyes that curved gently whenever he smiled. She liked his voice that called her name affectionately, and his passion for working day and night to protect precious people.

At some point, she had come to love everything about him.

Was her head fuzzy from the alcohol, or was it because of the guilt stabbing at a corner of her heart? Words that she would normally have swallowed somehow slipped out without her knowing.

“…I like you, Grand Duke.”

How could she not love this man who had created her world? But all the reality she faced crushed that feeling.

At those words, Kermanomon, who had been keeping his head down, slowly met her gaze. His eyes were red and flushed, as if he had been holding back tears.

“Does you liking me mean the same thing as me liking you?”

“That’s….”

Shaken by his direct question, Mellis hesitated and couldn’t answer easily. However, Kermanomon wasn’t foolish enough to miss that hesitation.

His hand carefully cupped her face. As the warm heat from her cheek reached him, his thumb somewhat mischievously pressed against her lips. At that ticklish sensation felt through her lips, Mellis’s entire body heated up intensely.

“If that’s not the case, you can refuse.”

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