Young Master, Please Put Some Pants On! - Chapter 96

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Chapter 96

It was a precarious distance where their noses could almost touch. His low whisper seemed to make her mind grow distant.

Her heart began to beat violently, derailing from its normal rhythm. Mellis desperately hoped that the sound of her heartbeat wouldn’t reach him. Her scattered mind could no longer make rational judgments.

“….”

Kermanomon carefully kissed her, and she couldn’t refuse him. Taking it as a sign of permission, he drew his body a little closer, overlapping with hers.

At this moment, what filled her mind wasn’t any thought at all, but only ecstatic pleasure. Like that, their lips didn’t part for quite some time.

How much time had passed? In the quiet room, the sound of lips briefly touching and parting echoed. With his eyes lazily lowered, he caressed her hair. His rough breathing flickered near her ear.

Embracing her head, he let out a trembling breath. As if enduring a great many things, he barely squeezed out his voice to speak.

“If you don’t like me, you should have pushed me away.”

That was also the last chance he was giving her. Mellis felt like tears were about to burst forth. At this moment, the only thought entering her mind was the feeling of loving him. She hated herself for not being able to fully accept that love. Yet she also resented her own greed for being unable to reject him.

“Mellis is human, isn’t she? No matter how much she changes her appearance and lives with them, she doesn’t become a beastman.”

At that moment, Arsian’s voice flashed through her brain.

Under the intense impulse to let everything go, she barely grasped onto her reason and moved away from him.

“I’m sorry. It’s all because of me.”

“Why?”

“What do you mean why….”

It felt like fog had settled in her mind. A single tear fell tenderly from her large eyes.

“I thought you liked Duke Ferzen. So I tried to sort out my feelings….”

He thought that wishing for Mellis’s happiness was the only thing he could do. The reason he spent time in the capital using work as an excuse was also to sort out his troubled heart. But no matter how hard he tried, far from his heart becoming clearer, it only made his thirst for her grow stronger.

The moment he finally kissed her, he felt all his thirst being quenched. And he instinctively realized that Mellis was thinking the same thing as him.

Kermanomon slowly rubbed his cheek against her hand as he spoke.

“You love me. Don’t you?”

She could neither acknowledge nor deny it. No, she couldn’t even shake off that hand. She could only have her vision blur again and again at his sweet whispers.

Mellis realized she had completely fallen into his flow. She was afraid that her desire would be revealed through her hands that were burning hot as if scorched by fire.

“You’re mistaking something because of the alcohol right now. You’re very drunk.”

At Mellis’s words, his brow furrowed slightly. He shook his head as if he couldn’t believe it and placed her hand on his chest.

“A mistake? Does this look like a mistake to your eyes?”

Thump, thump, thump—the hot body temperature and massive heartbeat were transmitted to her completely. Only then could Mellis look directly into his eyes.

What she saw beyond his gaze wasn’t light desire or burning obsession, but pitiful anxiety. She couldn’t feel even a trace of composure from him, and at that moment Mellis felt a distant fear.

She didn’t want to ruin the days and nights she had spent with him with this one moment’s choice.

“I’m sorry…. This is wrong.”

Mellis pushed him away with a trembling voice. Then she got up from her seat and hurriedly escaped from that place. Even until her retreating figure grew distant and the door closed firmly, Kermanomon didn’t try to hold her back.

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It was the last day of the journey that had felt so long. Getting up from her seat, Mellis blinked her eyes and stared into space.

Mellis’s gaze turned toward the round window. The quiet blue sea was maintaining its position in the same appearance as yesterday. She blankly watched the sunlight pouring over the sea. It was a beautiful sight that made her eyes sting.

However, despite the magnificent view before her eyes, her heart was utterly gloomy. Her eyes were swollen from crying all night. All the events of last night felt like a midday dream.

“Haah….”

Mellis pulled her knees to her chest under the blanket with a deep sigh. She still couldn’t believe the fact that Kermanomon also liked her.

“…Did I really not know?”

Mellis bit her lips deeply. Honestly, it would be a lie to say she had never imagined such a thing even once since becoming aware of her own feelings. It was the sweetest of all the scenes she had ever pictured.

Though she had always acted composed, her heart would flutter whenever he spoke playfully, and whenever he said something with unclear meaning, she would try to dismiss it lightly, telling herself she was having pointless thoughts.

But imagination was only imagination after all. Reality was different from children’s storybooks. She was no longer an innocent child who could simply rush toward empty fantasies.

Not being able to leave the ducal residence all this time was already selfish enough. So how could she dare to desire love with him? She had thought it would be enough happiness just to watch over him from beside him.

“It’s all over….”

Mellis rubbed her face with both hands and muttered in a cracked voice. She couldn’t even guess how she should face him from now on.

She regretted what happened last night, and blamed herself for having no choice but to regret it.

“There’s no right answer. Mellis, you can do whatever you want. Everything is your choice.”

Suddenly, the conversation she had with Vivian came to mind. As he said, in the end, all of this was her choice. Choosing to stay here, not being able to refuse him in that moment, harboring such excessive feelings for him.

So she couldn’t blame anyone. Having resigned herself to everything, Mellis got up and tidied her room. She looked at the two neatly organized luggage bags. At the same time, another luggage bag placed in a corner of her room at the ducal residence came to mind.

“….”

Finally making her decision, Mellis picked up the luggage bag.

As the ship entered the port with the sound of a massive ship horn, carriages that had been prepared in advance welcomed the people. Mellis glanced at Kermanomon in the distance, conversing with other people.

‘He tied his hair….’

His hair, tied low in a single bundle, fluttered in the sea breeze. She suddenly recalled the sensation of that hair slipping softly between her fingers and bit her lips hard.

Throughout the journey here, Kermanomon neither spoke to her nor gave her a glance. Though it was natural, accepting his changed attitude overnight was much more painful than she had thought.

But she tried to accept that emotion calmly. Pain was something that became familiar with time.

That was also something she had learned living through the past years. Now it was time to wake up from the sweet dream.

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When they returned to the ducal residence, it was already late at night. Mellis, who had spent all day forcing smiles while dealing with people, returned to her room and collapsed onto the bed.

“….”

It had been a particularly difficult day to endure. Though tears seemed about to well up for no reason, she didn’t want to pity herself at this point. Mellis pressed both eyes firmly with her palms, trying to compose her emotions.

“It’s okay. I was prepared for all of this anyway.”

Knock knock, then a low knocking sound echoed in the room. It was too late for a visitor. Mellis, who had sniffled quietly, tilted her head and got up from her seat.

Mellis, who had opened the door without thinking, froze in place right there. The person standing in front of the door was none other than Kermanomon.

“What brings the Grand Duke here….”

“You said my liking you was wrong. So I came to receive discipline.”

A gentler smile than ever before lingered at the corners of his mouth.

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