Marielle Clarac’s Engagement

On New Year's Eve evenings, thoughtful friends gather together to celebrate and make noise in a lively way. Every year your father, mother and brother go out to their respective friends' homes.

The child is, of course, leaving a message. I can fall asleep babysitting looking forward to tomorrow's treats and special treats. When I turned fifteen and made my social debut, my years were much the same as my childhood.

There's hardly a friend of mine who would spend the new year's Eve with me. Though I made my debut, my presence was hardly recognised in the aristocratic society due to the fact that I have been assimilating into the landscape in a much less conspicuous and sneaky way. Although Julienne, who is also a relative, is the only best friend in the aristocracy, unfortunately she is sleeping with a cold this year. Of course I felt most sorry for Julienne as she coughed up the new year because of it, and I plugged in a book she seemed to like so she could enjoy it in her bedroom.

They have a New Year's feast in Turantur. The goddesses don't have time to deal with me because it's the day when so many customers come. Promise me you'll go hang out with me when you calm down, and we'll be apart tonight.

That's why I was a lonely old man.

"I wish you were with Simeon."

Natalie, a small-timer, said to me, who was early sleeping because she had nothing to do with it. Unlike last year, when I had nothing but Julienne, this year I have a fiancée. If I could have celebrated the New Year with Master Simeon, it would have been really nice.

"Master Simeon is in the royal palace. I am taking part in the feast of His Royal Highness the King."

"Well, then I wish you could bring the lady. I know His Royal Highness the King, so you don't have to be a loser."

Natalie gets outraged when it's a flimsy story. I shook my head, thanking her for her kindness.

"That's what it's all about. They say it's the norm every year to make a casual noise between men."

It's forbidden for women only tonight, he apologized with regret. Because there will be stories you can't do without a woman. I don't have a choice.

"I'm going to bed now, so don't worry about it. Go downstairs. Just keep the door tight, please."

"Yes, thank you"

Servants gather among servants to enjoy the New Year's Eve. A treat should be ready by now. I just got into the futon so Natalie could join me early. Remove the glasses and place them on the side table.

"Good night"

The lights are off and Natalie leaves the room. Becoming alone in the darkness, I closed my eyes.

It's snowing out the window. All the noise is sucked into the snow and the silence dominates the night. Only the laughter downstairs in the house was faintly heard.

After a while there was a light vibration in the futon. Oh, if I thought you'd come, something cold tickles my cheek, as expected. And I lifted up the futon, because of the cat that swept the tip of his nose, and urged him.

The cat that came in the mess sticks to me and circles. If you give him a soft body, he's still cold. But it gets warmer soon, and it makes for a good portrait. It is the routine of winter to lean in with one person and sleep muddy. Now that I was happy enough, I smiled softly in the dark.

I'm sure by tomorrow, we'll have a New Year's celebration. Cards from a handful of friends, but my grandmother will surely receive handmade treats. What will Simeon give you?

In the midst of an eye-catching morning, I shall fall asleep in abundance. When I almost sank into the sea of dreams already, I was reluctantly pulled back by the sound of opening the door.

"Lady...... are you still awake?

I hear Natalie's suppressed voice. I answered as I resisted drowsiness.

"What...?

"I'm sorry I'm having a good night. In fact, Master Simeon is here."

"Who is it...? What are you doing on such a night..."

"No, so, Master Simeon..."

"Dear Simeon...? …………………………………………… YES!?"

Finally my head understood, and as soon as I did, my drowsiness blew up. I rose up in momentum. The cat also wakes up surprised and looks annoyed from the futon.

"Ah, I'm sorry! You can sleep, good boy. Good boy."

I put the futon back on before, and I slid down from my bedside. Natalie's already got me a gown. I weaved more shawls over them and hurried my hair to get it done with my hands.

"I hope you're okay. Unfortunately?"

"The lady doesn't have any hair, so you'll be fine."

"But with this, with a sleeping outfit without makeup... or was there really a Simeon? How come again?"

Come on, Natalie said with a troubled face.

"The table had already dropped the lights, so I came all the way around to the back door. We were surprised, too, that if the lady was still awake, you said you just wanted to see her a little bit."

"Yes..."

If you want to meet Master Simeon, I want to leave dressed properly. But I'm sorry you bothered to visit me on such a cold night, and I'm sorry to keep you waiting. It could be a rush. After a moment of reflection, I eventually decided to go down to the first floor.

When Simeon asked where he was, he said, "How dare you wait outside without going inside?" He refused to go outside, even if it was cold and there was no fire when he came to the reception room, and if he recommended waiting at least in the room where the servants were gathered. I can't keep pushing it in the middle of the night without courtesy - what a Simeon-like seriousness.

Hurry to the back, the butler was holding back in front of the door.

"I'm sorry. I've asked you to come in again and again."

"It's okay. Simeon decided to wait outside."

Master Simeon is very stubborn at that time, so don't ask me where I said it. I told the butler and Natalie to go back. Master Simeon must also be sorry to interrupt their enjoyment. So I opened the door myself, telling him to go back.

"Dear Simeon"

As soon as I step outside, I'm surrounded by cold outside air. If I looked into the world at night clouding my exhale white, the hindsight I was looking up at something looked back.

"... you woke me up. Sorry, so late."

Look at my outfit. Lady Simeon apologizes. I hurriedly walked up to him.

"What's wrong? Anything at the Royal Palace?

It's just time for a change of date. By now, the feast of His Royal Highness Prince Wang would be in the middle of something. The man who was supposed to be at the heart of the feast with His Highness became more anxious than wondering why he suddenly appeared before me.

There's not going to be a case... coming to me, is there? So, did you even talk to your friend?

My worries seemed to be on my face, and Mr. Simeon's expression was so soft.

"Nothing. It's the usual fuss."

"Really? If so, why..."

If I snap my neck, I'll be distracted. Simeon-like glasses float coldly in the snowlight, giving the impression that they look terrible. But I disagree with this vibe. I can see that. This is awkward, isn't it?

"Master Simeon?

"... why, I don't know"

When asked on top of each other, Lady Simeon opened her mouth in such a way that it was difficult to say.

"I found the feast, which I was supposed to enjoy every year, oddly boring. No, not boring, not enough, is it?"

"Not enough?

"Yes."

Simeon's exhaling breath does not cloud white. He came from the royal palace to us in the cold, waited outside until I came out, and his body was already completely cold.

I leaned against Lady Simeon, stretching out my hands and pinching his cheeks. Keep pinching my fever so it can spread to my icy skin. When I thought that Simeon had tasted the fever, I leaned my neck slightly and shoved my cheek down my hand.

Big body is delicious and adorable. I want to envelop you in me like an egg and warm you up. But my tiny body is not enough at all, and this is full of refinement. He stretched his back and brought his face closer so that all the heat he could convey could be transmitted.

Simeon's arm also turns to my back, and he is held strong. I wonder from which you pressed your lips. Only exhalation is hot and sweetly intertwined.

After a long mouthful, Simeon, who let go of his lips, said.

"This, the trickle tree, was deliberately?

If they both look up at the same time, they're decorated with trees overhead. Speaking of which, the servants seemed to have a lot of fun decorating the garden trees.

"It's the back door, it's someone from the servant who wanted to talk to me here."

"Right."

Hissing and laughing at each other, overlapping their lips again. I'm sorry about someone decorating this tree, but we let them use it first. Tomorrow, he'll be wondering how to invite someone he wants to go outside. The footprints we put on should have vanished beautifully in the morning with the snow that keeps falling.

So give it to us tonight. We mouth each other so many times that we don't know which fever it is anymore. My chest hits the early bell and my cheeks are flashing. My back was cold, though warm before I was snuggling in perfectly. The snow that keeps falling without stopping is actually cool and bothering me. My hair and glasses are getting wetter and heavier.

Master Simeon, who has always been outside, is more snowy than I am. I knew you had to go inside. I am also too cold outdoors at night in this outfit, and more importantly my feet are cold. I just wore shoes for indoor use on my bare feet, so I couldn't wait to get wet in the snow and my nail tips hurt. It's time for the peeling hands to hurt too.

No matter how sweet there are moments, there are things you can't win.

"Master Simeon, please come inside. Have them share hot drinks."

If I pulled the arm that was spinning around his neck by teasing him into Master Simeon's arm, he looked at me the first time he noticed the cold.

"Sorry, I was just going to say hi and go home"

Instead of walking out, he quickly removed the front button of his coat. I wonder what I'm going to do, I'm going to take it all off and open the front. A familiar white uniform appeared in the night scene.

Instead of undressing, he wraps me around the open body and pulls me back together. I was snuggled closer than earlier to be given his plush.

"You'll excuse me here tonight. I'm going to give you a cold. I'm really sorry I'm late."

"No, I was delighted to have had the last and first moments of the year with Master Simeon. Truth be told, I was a little bit alone. But are you sure? We'll all wake up late and make a scene anyway, so I don't mind if you come up a little bit, okay?

I will say it again to Simeon, who will take me to the door. He still shook his head.

"Because of this, I won't let you. Because I feel very bad if I don't turn back here."

"Bad?"

"I think I need to chill my head."

It's already cold, but I think you're still going to chill it. Master Simeon will catch a cold. It's tough if you get pneumonia instead of a cold.

"Well, you have a choice to get hot, don't you?

"Are you..."

Simeon's beautiful face is all the rage. That's a precursor to the novel.

"You don't understand, you do that!

"Oh, don't be stupid. I'm still a romantic novelist. I know a lot of things."

"If you really knew, you wouldn't talk like that."

Without responding to my protest, Lady Simeon walks around and opens the back door. A disciplined Natalie was holding back inside, suddenly a slight face on the open door.

"Then tell me, Master Simeon."

"So do that!

"It's my fiancée, isn't it strange?

"It's weird at the engagement stage! That's what we talk about since we got married!

"Mmm... damn serious"

And he cast me out of his coat, saying, I am like Simeon. I wonder where the sweet air just went. I hastened to hold him back, trying to turn his back.

"Please wait, I will take your gift for the New Year. I was going to have it delivered in the morning, but because of that, I'm going to give it to you now."

Turn around and turn your back without waiting for a reply. If you say this and leave, Master Simeon will not return until you return. I asked Natalie about Simeon and ran upstairs.

I take what I was prepared to send out in the morning and go downstairs again. I ran back to him out of breath.

"Ma'am, I can't wait to be run"

Natalie fixes my messy hair and clothes in advance. I breathed, and now I lay down the wrap in my arms upon Simeon with my face.

"Please, take it"

"... thank you"

He takes it lightly. Soft and large wrappers would have roughly guessed the contents, hold them normally. That's how I looked at another elongated, slightly heavier wrap.

"What about this one?

"I knitted your wrap on my knee… honestly, it's not so well done, so I thought of another decent one. Based on Simeon's impression, I had it made to order. I'd love for you to use it."

Speaking in a bit of light, Master Simeon seemed to be illuminating, but he smiled happily.

"Thank you. We'll take care of both of them."

Take care of the two gifts and say. I hesitated to be stunned by the dressed braids, but if I saw this face, I'd be glad to give it to you. I was also happy and nodded with a big smile.

"I can't give you my gift right now because I left it for you to deliver tomorrow..."

"I look forward to the morning. Can't wait, I might not be able to sleep tonight"

"Keep warm and easy to catch cold"

Gently, Master Simeon turns back his heel. If I had unfortunately missed the hindsight disappearing into the snow, Natalie, who made me cut my numbness, would have shut the door. They pull me straight next to the kitchen and warm my legs ginning with the bucket of hot water the housekeeper had prepared for me. I was given a wine that I had made hot, and my reddened fingers warmed up as well.

"Ma'am, what was in that elongated box?

Natalie asks as she wipes her wet hair and shoulders. It had been beautifully packaged since it was delivered to us, so I was the only one who knew what was in it.

"Wouldn't that be a wand (a stick) if it were that shape? It was about the same length."

"Oh, well."

"Well, that would please you, but I'm sure the lady's hand-knitted knee was enough."

"Love makes any faults look beautiful."

I shrug my shoulders to the servants who laugh reluctantly, and I drink wine. Alone, the sawdust had disappeared somewhere. I think I'm feeling very well asleep tonight. By now the cat would be occupying the middle of the bedroom and stretching out her hands and feet. Slipping softly beside it, I definitely had a nice dream, though I would be getting smaller and sleeping at the end of the futon.

Gifts arrive in the morning. But before that, I received an extraordinarily lovely delight, and my New Year's Eve went even further.

Everyone is tired of staying up late fooling around on the first day of the New Year, usually sleeping and awesome.

And on the second day, at the Royal Palace, a formal feast of celebration was now held.

Your father and mother and brother attend, of course, but I act differently. Master Simeon picks me up, and the two of us are rocked by the carriage. The aquamarine ornament that had just arrived yesterday was shaking in my ear. The neckline is also matched, in fact it's another matching three-piece set. The last point is the fountain pen, so I've taken care of it in my desk drawer.

"Aren't the shopkeepers surprised that the third is a fountain pen?

That would definitely be the special order. Normally, I don't hold all the ornaments and writing equipment together.

Lady Simeon shrugged her shoulders gently and laughed.

"When it comes to what you use most often, that's all you have. And just writing is like a gift for a child, so I made it this way."

"I'm happy for both of you."

I softly swoop in my ear. The platinum table and the water-colored stone are a companion reminiscent of Simeon. Sometimes I can't stop wearing his colors.

Since the fountain pen is also decorated with matching stones, I can still think of Simeon during writing. We have to be careful not to let all heroes become Simeon.

I was in a good mood for a lovely gift in the morning, but seeing Simeon at hand made me feel a little sorry for him.

"You didn't bring what I offered you."

"... I use kneecaps at home. It's very warm and helps just fine when doing clerical work"

"What about (...) over there?

"... where do you want me to take it"

Master Simeon's smile stifles. I complained with a clenching fist.

"Everywhere! Always carry it with you!

"I can't!

"It's an essential element that you have to be in the Livestock and Black Staff! Isn't that an important prop!

"Because it's not livestock or belly-black! You don't need it because you're a regular deputy! Or where did you procure that?"

"You introduced me to a specialty store"

I didn't know where to buy it either, so you talked to the publisher. Then he told me the right store. It was a shop that specializes in special tools that the general public never used.

"It was an interesting store. There were all kinds of tools, such as a Trojan horse for adults, clothes that were made of leather but perfectly aligned with the body, and a large mask. And a lot of whips - I didn't know there was that kind of whip. I ordered something standard for now, but why don't we take a look at the others together next time?

When I said it in memory of a store like a surprise box, Master Simeon held his head. I wonder what you're upset about now. The whip looks great on Master Simeon, I've been saying for a long time that you'd love to have it.

"... imagine a little bit of how I feel about being given a whip early in the New Year"

"You're in the mood, aren't you? I'd love to, uh, keep my people busy. They don't even use masks? Actually, the store people recommended me to do it and I bought one. It's black and cool. I just imagine that Simeon would be so adored and dying."

"What direction do you want me to go!?"

Bring us, who speak amicably, and the carriage will creep through the gates of the royal palace. Beyond the snow-colored gardens, already crawling venues await.

A new year has begun. I'm sure we have a lot of fun ahead of us this year.