Kekkon Shoya no Deathloop~Nosuji Reijou wa Nando Shindemo Megemasen~

"What? Love?

I can't accept the meaning of the word, and I keep listening back.

The Duke looked very serious and nodded at my words.

... Huh?

"Oh, you know. There's never been an episode where you fall in love with me. I mean, I met the Duke today for the first time."

……

To my words, the Duke will remain silent.

I'm not wrong, am I? I've looked back on my life for a bit, but there shouldn't have been an event to meet a beautiful young man with silver hair.

In the first place, I have spent most of my life in the territory so far. It should be physically impossible for a duke living near Wangdu to fall in love with me, even though he was drawn to the countryside.

In the Great Hole, I fell in love at first sight during my trip to Wang Du —— I also considered the possibility for once, but it was an idea that came a little too close, so I rejected it at the brain conference.

"You won't remember... I met with you once before when your eldest brother, Lord Maurice, took part in a swordsmanship tournament in Wangdu."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I don't remember at all."

The Duke drew his face all the way, but he immediately shook his head and said sadly, "I guess so too," he said.

I do go and remember the swordsmanship tournament itself, in which Brother Mor took part. But my memory only engraves a bunch of bloody flesh-leaping sword triumphs.

Or...

"I think it was about four or five years ago that Brother Mole took part in the tournament."

"6 years ago"

"... is"

Six years ago. That's when I was 12.

No, that's not the problem. This guy, I mean, six years ago ——

"I've always liked you"

"No, no, no..."

To an unacceptable rapid development, I take three steps back as I shake my head.

Has the one called Time and Space Distortion also distorted the Duke's head? What this guy is saying is too flighty.

"You said something earlier about thinking about divorce, didn't you? What's the matter, suddenly?"

"That's because of the circumstances."

"Circumstances? What circumstance can I ignore, ridicule, or leave my favorite child alone? I don't understand what you're saying about previous behavior because it's too confusing."

"Ku......"

The Duke leaks his voice like an itch. And then he puzzles his gaze like he's looking for words, and he says it's a mochi again.

"First of all, about that, ignore-- I simply don't know how to talk to you... I couldn't look straight at you, and I kept you away."

"I mean, you're ashamed to talk to me, and you're trying to tell me you were avoiding me"

"I have a story for you. It's generally not a mistake."

It would be more embarrassing to admit it.

As I turn my ears red and watch the Duke say things like adolescent boys, it gradually gets hot to my ears.

"So, what were those words at the party? You said something pretty terrible."

"What we were with then was a nobleman of the Knights. They have a strong sense of class and have long been critical of my closeness to Riselle, who is of civilian origin." The Vlages are willing to take all the humble people and soil the aristocratic society with mud, "he said. On top of that, I decided to marry you, and their rebellion became more and more intense.... So I just had to say something like that to convince them"

"If you're in the mood for those people, how much of a fool do you think you made of me and the Baltic family?

"It will be decided!... but this is an important time for the teacher. The inauguration of the teacher's Knights Commander also requires the support of the noblemen. So I make the kind of statement they want..."

……

"I know that won't be a good reason to fool you. I'm so sorry."

……

Shh, the muscles are through.

I go through but I can't even say, "Oh yeah," and I pursue it even further with a trembling voice.

"If everything you say is true... then why are you here?"

Three times so far, including in my earlier conversation, I am face-to-face with the Duke. In any case, the Duke completely pushed me out of my will not to "talk".

Besides, it shouldn't be anything more than a big rejection to soak up errands with the bride on the first night of marriage.

No matter how embarrassing and adorable they say they couldn't talk about it, they can't possibly accept it as a reason for their previous rejection!

"Shh, even if they say they like it or something. I don't trust the words of anyone who doesn't speak to the bride and is drawn to this place!

So, please tell me what you've been saying is a joke.

When I raise my voice with that in mind, the Duke ties his mouth tight and wrinkles between his brows looking terribly spicy for some reason.

And with a squeezing voice, I said blush.

"... I heard you say that."

"Yes?"

"He said it was impossible to be a couple with me. People like me would have screamed that they couldn't even stand being in the same space"

"... ah. Ahhhh......"

The bottom of my stomach is getting cold and my throat is shaking.

No way. No way. That's...

"Duh, how could you..."

The Duke was in Mr. Risel's room, to begin with. So I would have also heard the noise leaking out of my room.

But my brother, who was so well-eared that he could discern a werewolf female by the howl he heard from the next mountain, said, "I didn't even know what you were talking about". So I bet this guy never had a chance to know what I was fussing about.

"When I left Riselle's room and tried to make my way to the master bedroom... I thought about it. I have not been able to explain to you the reason for my sudden marriage, nor have I been able to convey my thoughts, that I have become a husband and wife. In that condition, I thought it would be fine to head to the stranger's room —— not to the master bedroom, but to your room."

"My... in my room..."

"And I heard you were rejecting me violently."

... out.

It's a complete out.

When was that? The Duke hasn't sounded like him, so what a joy it was to be safe.

Even if it doesn't sound like the room downstairs. Those who stand in front of the room will hear you then......

"I always knew your room was noisy. But when I stood in front of your room and found out that all the noise I'd ever heard was something that rejected me but was ringing because of it —— I was so unwilling to face you."

"Because your brother is always here when he's depressed and when he's messing with you," -- Serenia said to the Duke, who sits in the library.

Yeah. You were right. The Duke was really depressed.

"My father-in-law told me you were very enthusiastic about marriage. So your words were too shocking then"

"Aww..."

It makes it harder for my legs to even stand shaking at my sobriety, which gradually reveals itself.

It was too shocking for me, and many of the conversations I had had with the Duke so far ran over my head like a running lantern.

—— then. I felt that the discomfort I had had had before would be relieved.

The Duke left Mr. Risel's room on the second floor of the west wing and headed to the master bedroom in the central building. But on the way, I remembered an errand and headed to the library room in the central building, where I ran into Mr. Riselle, who was headed to wash his hands, and told him to "head to the library" —— explained in the last loop.

But this is crazy. Petra used to tell me that "the west wing is only connected to the central building on the first or second floor". Yet the Duke, who changed direction along the way from the second floor of the west wing to the master bedroom on the fourth floor of the central wing to the library room in the same central building, (I don't know if that's true) couldn't possibly encounter Mr. Riselle, who was on his way to wash his hands in the west wing.

'Cause if you're going to the master bedroom or the library, you're going to start by moving from the second floor of the west wing to the second floor of the central building. You don't have to bother going back to the west wing to change your destination from there.

But suppose the Duke was actually stopping by my room.

After leaving Mr. Riselle's room on the second floor of the west wing, the Duke heads to my room on the third floor to hear my cry. Then he lost his temper to the master bedroom, and when he went down to the second floor of the west wing and tried to move to the central building, he met Mr. Riselle on the way and told him to "head to the library".

This doesn't make me uncomfortable with the way things are going.

That is. I mean, what the Duke is saying is not a lie or joke--

"I regretted badly that I forcibly proceeded with my marriage without directly confirming your will and that it had resulted in harm to you. I was wondering if I should have decided not to have this marriage itself if you wanted... even that thought was past my mind"

"Ah... Um..."

"Earlier...... I can't stand the thought of you not caring about me -- saying things that would push you away."

"Oh, yeah, what is it..."

"But if... Suppose my words during the day were causing you to get angry... Please, give me another chance. I understand that I cannot easily undo the words I have spoken. Still, I don't want to give you up."

One word at a time, there were no jokes or false sounds.

When the Duke breathes slowly, he slowly kneels down and looks up at me. And clearly, I said it in a powerful voice.

"Katrea, please be my, lifelong companion"

For once, I'm already a wife--.

After this, I could not speak of it, although there was a tremendous response in my mind.

A man as beautiful as a prince in front of me mouths a confession of serious love towards me.

I just had to be stunned by the sight of it as if it were a dream story for a while. But with every passing hour, reality comes after me.

And the moment I was made octopus beaten by the revealed truth, my brain curled and boiled.

I was running off on the spot when I realized it.