"Before,...... oh. Please don't tell Kuro about this. It's really a violation of manners to tell a lover a backstory about a man."
You know, urging, Jude turns slightly to Alicia. As he snorted slightly, he returned his gaze to the night view.
"Kuro-kun, but only once, I was badly drunk on booze. It's a regular report or something from the Chamber of Commerce, when he visits our mansion alone. Just after Alicia's 16th birthday."
That means it's only been a year since recent events. But it is the first ear that Clovis was "badly drunk" at Jude's mansion. In the first place, he only speaks to the extent of his liquor appetite, and even if he did, Clovis is resistant to liquor, even if not as much as Robert.
Well, according to Jude, I asked him out to drink with me at night, as usual, and Clovis was unusual that day, and he mouthed Swiss and whiskey. He has never had so much to drink before, so when the Marquis is happy and opens a new bottle, I knew he would drink with Swiss.
That's why Jude, who had totally enjoyed it, poured it into the glass one after the other, so by the time he realized it, Clovis seemed totally drunk.
"Wait. Calm down. What are you doing?"
"Wow. Excuse me. I'm sorry, too, but I didn't think that Krok-kun would keep drinking until he exceeded his limits!
If Alicia glances at him with her mouth shut, Jude hastily opens her mouth. However, as he does say, this is the first time Clovis has had such a drink, so Alicia decides to put up a spear as well.
Let's get back to it. Jude noticed Clovis' strangeness and rushed him to drink a lot of water. Still, I lay him on the couch because he couldn't flutter, and Clovis said he had a consciousness that he had softened himself, hiding his face with his arms and moaning small.
As a landlord, he couldn't leave his drunk guests alone back in the room, and when he licked his whiskey and left him beside him for a while, eventually, Clovis started talking to Pompous.
"Kuro-kun told me about Alicia's birthday party the other day."
"Mine?
"Yeah. I hear that was your debut in the social world."
Honestly Alicia nodded, Jude dampened her mouth with a glass before opening her mouth again.
The feast to celebrate Alicia's sixteenth birthday was also a milestone year in which she made her social debut, so it was always more and more often executed. It was for the first time that the blue roses of Ireland were greeted by gentlemen and ladies, the royalties of nations, and such glorious worlds, called the so-called Hua of the social world.
"Kuro-kun said the sight burned on his eyelid and he couldn't leave."
The tone of the brass instrument echoes in the great hall.
The vermilion door opens and reveals a tangled hand in the king's arm.
Her hair, slowly stepping out of her feet, flowed back and brilliant -.
"When I heard that, I thought, For Kuro-kun, you were a 'little girl to protect'. But you don't look like a little girl at the border anymore."
Happily, painfully.
Be happy, follow me.
Clovis, who was talking absurdly, said how long he'd been asleep.
"Then again, it was hard. As you know, it's fine during the day, but the talking room at night is cold. So I don't care if you manage to take up Kuro-kun and carry him to his room..."
You started it yourself, and Jude blocks his story.
That's how he smiled so calmly.
"The point is, what do you want to say, but please, I want you guys to be happy. I also have an identity. I also have a position. I have a lot of annoying marks. But I had the courage to reach out. I can't let you go easily!
To Jude's words, Alicia leaned down unexpectedly. Because that was the problem that kept Alicia timid for a long time and lost her with the last rusty sesame seeds.
It's not like there's no stray even now. However, after taking all the anxiety, Clovis came over the wall for me. He told me to get over it with him.
Knowing or not the insides of such Alicia, Jude had been watching the shivers and the younger princess for some time. And when Alicia took up the glass in her hand on the pretend, she pressed Alicia's back "eh do it".
"Hey, hey!?"
"Jump in first! That's your eighteenth, isn't it?
If you took two or three steps, and then Alicia looked back surprised, Jude was about to go back inside the hall, too. He laughed and said, waving his back hand flickering at Alicia, who makes his eyes black and white.
"Run! A lovely evening has just begun."
Finally, the figure of the Marquis Rosen vanished amidst the dancing people.
It was Alicia who had been stunned for a while, but I just lost sight of Jude, and she returned it to me all the time. Then he took one step hesitantly and then another. From the third step, it was running, and there was already no stray in its footsteps.
Alicia was running, like a ceremony held on a distant day.
Gentlemen and ladies shake their bodies to waltz. Fluffy dress hem spreads like colorful flowers. In the meantime, Alicia runs in a light water coloured dress.
Over and over again, that's how Alicia has reached out.
Over and over again, he reached out to me again, too.
Beyond the different people, slim lengths are visible.
My favorite smile, my favorite voice, my favorite hand, there it is.
"Clovis!!"
Clovis looks back at the sounding voice. Purple clear eyes capture Alicia and stain her with surprise. Just as one day the girl glanced at the aide's right hand, - and ran out.
"- Oh! Oh, Dear Alicia!?"
"Come!" Alicia exclaimed. "Come with me, with me!
Alicia looks back as she sews and runs among the people. Clovis, who looked over his shoulder, opened his mouth with a terribly surprised look, - and blew it small, laughing fundamentally at him with an unadorned smile.
"I'll be there," Clovis replied between laughs. "If it's you, it's everywhere"
Colors, dazzling brilliance, and glamorous examination all turn away behind.
That's how they got out of the social arena.
"What shall we do..."
Despite the night, the streets of Egdiel are full of people. The hall is lined with shops, each with candles and lanterns hanging at the end of the house, so the orange lights don't shake and feel dark.
In the meantime, under a softly worn hood, Alicia was struck. Next to it, Clovis is biting off his laughter.
It should be noted that as soon as they get out of the hall, the two are dressed in each of them before coming to the city. There are also well-known merchants who come to the star festival, so they don't float all over the city, even though they are in some sort of disguise.
Alicia holds her head even more without touching her lover, who is shaking her shoulders forever.
"I'm definitely gonna get mad at you later for getting out like that... Yeah, you'd better just get mad at me. Even if everyone wonders about Clovis."
I was anxious to say it myself, and at last Alicia blues her face. So Clovis finally blew it off. If Alicia glanced at him in protest, he laughed and put his arms together openly.
"Now what do you say? It's okay. First of all, you just have to be grand when this happens. It's about Alicia, so I was wondering if she suddenly came up with something and took out her squire without being there or after. That's how they'll convince you."
"Say such a nasty thing!
"It's no big deal. It is impossible to properly disclose your question."
"... you're a proper aide in such a place"
"I'm an aide. And I'm your lover."
Sooner or later, Clovis attracts Alicia. Looking up at him in his wrapped arms, a white finger stroked his cheek.
"Nevertheless, it's a hassle to be put in an extra cross spear. After we get back to the castle, I'll put out the fire just in case. Now, not yet."
Now, not yet. The meaning of the whispered word is not so dull as to be unclear. So while Alicia accidentally blushed, she grabbed the hand that accompanied her cheek for at least revenge.
"............... lantern flushing, I want to see it nearby. And I want to go around opening stores."
"Delighted," Clovis smiled. "Well, shall we go?"
They walk hand in hand through the streets where the lantern lights illuminate. Occasionally, the town is flooded with colorful colors, even at night, because of the mixing of colored glasses. Star Festival. If you were not ashamed of its name and saw this town from the sky, Alicia thought that the earth might look like a starry sky.
As we approach the Elam River, the crowd grows. Together, the lanterns become more prominent in the hands of the people heading to the river.
Looking at it, he stopped by the store on the way and Clovis asked for a light cage. Handed to me by a good-looking shopkeeper, it's so fantastic with the red fire swinging across a thin cloth.
Hang a lantern and head to the river again. And those that go next door, and those that go next door, they put up lanterns. The streets are joined by one person after another, and we feel as if we have become one big river ourselves, making our feet fluffy and restless.
And I wish I could just melt into people like this, Alicia thinks. I'm not royal or anything, and he's not an aide or anything. We meet, fall in love and love each other as normal men and women everywhere. If it had been for the two of us, of course.
However, Alicia immediately shook her head at the thought.
I have a future to cut through because I am who I am once I have seen the moment when it all ends. Believe that and look back on the path you've taken, there was always Clovis next door for me.
The princess and her aide given a redo raw. The meeting between the two could have been a one-of-a-kind thing. However, after this quaint tour, they have bonded with each other many times.
"Mei's" overlaps the voice. In one word, simultaneously push out the lantern floating in the water.
The lanterns of Alicia and the others swung into the stream. Then, along with the other lanterns sent out in the same way, they are left in a large group of lights illuminating the surface of the water. Finally, when we couldn't tell which one our lantern was, Clovis, standing next to us, exhaled small.
"Can I give you a kiss?
"Huh?"
Unexpectedly, Clovis, smiling softly, and his gaze exchanged.
"They have this saying. On the night of the star festival, the mouths exchanged between thoughtful lovers said they would tie the two together forever"
"That legend, does Clovis believe?
If you tilt your head because it doesn't look like Clovis, you can tell, he shakes his head lightly.
"If it means you think it's effective, the answer is no. Miracles are things that come about on top of a person's will. At first glance, even if it looks like a coincidence, the last thing that attracts it is the 'will to try to exchange'. Just like you held my hand from so many people."
"Then why..."
"As one of my wishes, there's no harm in trying. And if you had an excuse, you, the shy one, would accept that, too, wouldn't you?
Countless lantern lights flowing through the Elam River reflect upon every swinging wave. It's like a fairy of light playing around on the water.
"I didn't have an excuse," Alicia replies, showing the orange on her cheek. "Even I want to touch Clovis for no reason.... kiss, I want you to"
Clovis' eyes, poked at the void, open wide. But Alicia across the street is unable to look directly at her lover. Clovis' hands turned to his hips and held him up as he lowered his brightly dyed face.
Surprised Alicia hurries to turn her hand around Clovis' neck. Taking Clovis' gaze up from the front without escape, he sighed.
"You're in trouble," he said with the kind of voice he gave me on the way. "Suppression will be less advantageous."
"I hope I don't suppress you," Alicia replied. "You're my lover."
Clovis tried to say something, but that mouth swallows the words and closes. The brilliant face looks somewhere remorseful and Alicia, who has always been shown the marginal difference (and thinks herself), feels just a little better at it.
So, Alicia gave herself in slowly - for the first time, she mouthed him from herself.
Brilliantly against the background of the water, a silhouette emerges for two. Both of them, bound together by a strange circle, seemed no different than many of their lovers.