Alicia was running for a small run. The hand holds a sentence that is rounded and tied with red strings.
A letter was received from Liddy Sutherland. Alicia, who was rewarded by Nigel during a dance lesson packed tightly in the morning, was unable to stay or pass, and quickly rushed to the king's office. And he received a writ from King James. No, he flew out of the office.
"Clovis is here!?"
The door of the auxiliary room opens with momentum, and the auxiliaries, who were on their desks, look up in surprise at the same time. They turned their eyes more and more round when they realized it was Princess Alicia who stood at the entrance.
But Alicia's quest for a princess aide is not in it. Alicia asked an aide who was closest to the door, still more ashamed of jumping into the auxiliary room like she was at a young age.
"I'm sorry. I wanted to talk to Clovis."
"I'm sorry, Master Alicia. Mr. Clovis was told by Lady Nigel that he's resting now."
"Huh?"
To Alicia leaning her neck, the young aide lowered her brow butt in a sorry manner. It was a veteran aide named Ryan who succeeded him.
"The one from Clovis, I've been packing my work here lately, not sleeping much at night. Master Nigel spotted that. I sent him back to his room once because he couldn't have fallen during the ceremony."
"No... I didn't know."
In front of Alicia, the face of an aide who was in government affairs with a cool face glistened behind her eyelids. I didn't know that I lay so much impossibility when I said I looked at each other almost every day.
But if you think about it, it's natural. The auxiliary room becomes particularly hasty before the Founding Ceremony. As soon as we return from our visit to neighbouring Aardar, we find ourselves in that businessness, and besides, Alicia's affairs are as supportive as ever. I should have imagined how much Clovis looked fine on the surface and how tired he was.
To Alicia in shock, Ryan turned a comforting eye.
"It's not Master Alicia's fault. He's just so clever, he's bad at doing everything himself. Clovis would never throw up a weak sound in front of you anyway, would he?
"Yes, but..."
"Besides, if Alicia says she needs immediate help, it's not a story. Please, wait in your room. I'll tell Clovis to come that way."
"Oh, no! You don't have to go that far."
Alicia shook her head in a panic. Because I was showing Liddy around, I followed him with the joy of getting the safe news, but it's just a status report from what I've been looking through.
Besides dance lessons today, there are plans such as matching dresses tailored at the strong recommendation of the chief woman, who rarely plans to face Clovis. If you didn't even plan to meet him originally and call him here, it just adds to the burden on Clovis.
"Really, it wasn't a rush. Thanks for everything, Ryan."
"No. I'm sorry I let you step on it for nothing"
Later, I'll let the young guy see how Clovis is doing. Even more worrying about Alicia, Ryan promised me that.
Alicia, who had left the auxiliary room, was walking down the hallway.
Clovis and I met each other yesterday. At that time, I had an argument with Jude about the partnership between the Merriculius Chamber of Commerce and the Ist Chamber of Commerce, but there was nothing unusual about him, a competent aide.
"Clovis would never throw up a weak voice in front of you anyway, would he?"
Ryan's casual words came back to life, hurting Alicia's chest thoroughly.
Clovis is sweet. And I look at Alicia better than anyone else. Because that's him, he's always one step ahead, and he doesn't miss out on Alicia's trivial changes.
And yet, what if I were you? Even though I am an important squire, - even though I am a lover, I cannot realise for myself that I am not allowed to appear weak.
Is our relationship really something we can call lovers in the first place? Even though we have surrounding eyes, we can't help but let our minds go through that closed carriage one last time.
Not as a subordinate relationship, but as lovers.
As two equal people, not children and adults.
Behind Alicia's desire to have this, all the differences come to life.
(Oh, no more! I don't think about anything extra!
Alicia, walking down the hallway alone, shook her head with momentum.
Anyway, let's get back to the dance hall. After seeing how Alicia was when she heard the news from Nigel, the chief lady also stopped practicing immediately, but when she got back, she should be back and back soon.
Even though I think so, Alicia's legs are not a dance hall, but head elsewhere. Through several corridors, once out of the castle, walking on the lawn, unlike the knights. That's how we got there was a civilian quarters built on the castle grounds.
There's no sign of people in the dormitory for daytime. Sneaking inside, Alicia made her way through the hallway early enough, relying on information previously heard during the conversation.
Thus, Alicia, standing in front of a certain room, stared at the door with a tense face.
If there is no mistake in my memory, behind the door in front of me, there must be a room where Clovis lives. At an early age, Alicia was scolded by the sheriff for showing her face everywhere in the castle, but this is just the first time she's been here.
(This is where I came from...)
Later, I'll make people do it to see how it goes. Yes, Ryan was talking, but still, Alicia was concerned about Clovis.
I might be totally asleep. Even if I go, maybe I'm just in the way. Such an idea plundered my head many times. But if there's anything Alicia can do... if she can see him at all, she's gone.
Breathe small, exhale. Fearful, raise your right hand.
Knock sounded modest. Hold your breath and wait, but no reply. Could it have gone somewhere for a change of mood? When I thought so and grabbed the door knob to try it, the door opened unexpectedly.
I felt comfortable going in without the landlord's approval, but when I got here, the woman was brave. Kill as much footsteps as you can. Alicia gently closed the door behind her back as she entered the room.
It was a simple room. Seems like Clovis doesn't like Huawei, and there's nothing wasted on furniture other than conditioning that seems to be provided. Is there another bedroom or is there a door that leads to the next room instead of the bed?
What stands out above all is the number of books arranged tightly on the shelves, which, to an unsatisfactory book, are stacked on a carpeted floor. Especially around the couch in the center of the room was a concentrated pile of books, and it was usually possible for him to sit there and look through the books.
and Alicia noticed something like her legs stretching out of the shadow of the couch pointing her back at this one.
When it was time to sneak up and turn to the front, again, it was Clovis who was there.
On the couch, Clovis was asleep. Robes, jackets, ties, etc. are removed and hung on the back of a couch placed on the other side. The only thing he clumped around his upper body was a white shirt, usually with some open chest that was closed to allow him to relax.
The lightly handed chest moves slightly up and down, each time a regular sleep leaks from the thinly open lips. The unprotected sleeping face makes him look younger than usual, while the eyelashes that edge the closed lid are surprisingly long and colourful without any help.
Alicia felt her face get hot.
At first sight, when I see your face, let's go home. That's what I thought, but Alicia can't turn her heels back. Approaching Clovis, who sleeps instead, he leaned back. Seeing it nearby, her sleeping lover was becoming more and more beautiful and she felt her chest beat.
I want to touch him.
I can't resist the urge to gush, and it's time to reach out.
The hand was grabbed, and Alicia fell over Clovis.
"You're not impressed. You shouldn't inadvertently enter a man's room."
"Clovis!? I was awake!?"
"I was asleep. I just woke up lucky."
I'm surprised. Too, my voice flips. My sleepy purple eyes still stare at Alicia like that.
And, realizing that she remained falling over Clovis, that her own hands were placed on his chest plate, Alicia felt boiling in her head at once. I rushed to retreat from him, but Clovis, who would get her, wouldn't allow it.
"Ha, let go!
"I don't like it. You were the one who tried to touch me first, weren't you?
"Oh, yeah! No, I'm not!
"I don't like it."
Even though Clovis is completely out of touch with Alicia in panic. On the contrary, Clovis turned his hand on Alicia's back and drew it even more to himself.
"Ku, kuro......"
"When I got back to the castle, - no. Since before that, I've put up with touching you. There's no way I can miss such a good opportunity. I've done enough, don't you think?
To Clovis' words, Alicia accidentally stopped moving. Seriously, if you look back at your lover, he looked serious.
Embarrassed, Alicia leaned down. If he's telling the truth. It's not a joke or anything, if you're telling the truth, it's like.
(Clovis didn't seem lonely either...)
Alicia's fingers are stretched and wrinkled on her white shirt. Big hands gently comb Alicia's hair, not facing forward with a delightful and embarrassing one.
"- Close your eyes, please. Closer, I want to feel you"
The word magically struck his ear and tangled his whole body.
As he tells me, Alicia closes her lid.
Warm body temperature touches the neck muscles and attracts them to encourage them.
- At that time, the sound of knocking on the wooden door sounded three times.
As soon as Alicia woke up, she flew off the couch as soon as Clovis stopped.
(Bibibibibibibibibibi surprised!!)
Around my chest, I make a nasty noise with Bakubaku. Seeing such Alicia, Clovis looked at her body half awake from the couch, glancing at the door once and returning to Alicia again.
Then he sighed small and called out to the door, "Go ahead".
Kacha and the door opened, and when Alicia visited the auxiliary room earlier, the first young aide who responded glanced at her.
"Excuse me, Mr. Clovis. How about adding or subtracting... Dear Alicia!?"
When he noticed Alicia's presence, the aide, who came into the room with a silver dish covered in a dome and a watermark in his hand, stopped his leg with his eyes rounded a little. Naturally. No one thinks of visiting a coworker's room, running into a princess there, etc.
With her hips slightly drawn, the young aide looks at Alicia and Clovis alternately. As Alicia tried to mouth excuses, Clovis rose off the couch and put his arms together.
"Someone would have slipped my mouth, saying I was resting, etc. That's why Alicia ran off worried."
"Oh, uh, oh! Is that what happened? What? - Surprised."
The young aide looks relieved to speak plainly of Clovis. As I approached him softly, I lowered my head to Alicia with regret.
"Excuse me, Master Alicia. If I'd known you were going to visit Mr. Clovis, I'd have taken you this far."
"Since I left the auxiliary room, I suddenly came up with... Uh, what's that?
"Oh, this is it, Master Nigel asked the cook to make it. Mr. Clovis, you're asleep and you're not even eating lunch."
"I haven't slept that far... Well, it's true you didn't eat it."
With a subtle face, Clovis receives a silver plate. But the hunger seemed to remember because the bread with vegetables and cheese from inside the dome slightly broke his face when he showed up.
Eventually, after some exchanges, the young aide left. Clovis, too, originally said he didn't intend to take the whole day off, and that he would return to the auxiliary room once he had finished his meal.
In that way, only Alicia and Clovis were left in the room again.