Only with Your Heart

When everyone entered the castle, first in the large hall, the loans tired of the long journey behaved like grapes and attentive snacks, and then each was given a room and disappeared to the upper floor.

The main castle knights and servants had come out and repeatedly greeted their guests, so the great hall boiled busily and ended with little chance for Chizuru to speak more intimately with Lone than that.

Today, Lone slowly rested in his room until the evening, and in the evening there would be an intimate dinner party just for Luklov and the two of us...... The welcome feast will begin tomorrow afternoon, he said.

"Phew..."

In the castle, as the rush to welcome guests continued, Chizuru, who had gotten shabby, had returned to his room alone.

It just adds to Alde's work the other way around, even if he wanders around a lot, and neither Ruklov nor Lone has disappeared at any point, and he never said this.

Chizuru sat alone on the edge of the bed, sighed deeply again several times, and after a while he rolled down on the sheet.

A slightly sweet smell comes up when you put your face close to a sheet that is heavily woven and beautifully embroidered. This is the scent of Lucrov...... No, more precisely, the scent of a sign that Lucrov and Chizuru are overlapping their bodies is all over the place and tickles their nasal cavities.

In the end, Luklov didn't change even that loan to introduce Chizuru as a "guest".

I wasn't expecting anything.

Just because a friend of Old Knowledge showed up doesn't mean he suddenly assumed that Lucroff would change his attitude, etc. However, when I saw Luklov's stubborn determination again in this way, Chizuru's heart ached with reluctance.

Every night, every night, he asked for his body, and Chizuru answered it with love.

Sometimes it's not just gentle. Sometimes Chizuru has to beg him to surrender, gasping and crying. Even that doesn't always make it heard, but there were nights when they held me hard until I lost my mind.

Such an evening, stared at with eyes shaded by anguish and grief, and held strong by angry arms.

I wanted to think that one day he would open up to his mind as well as his body again...

Like Alde said, all you two need is time.

By thinking so, Chizuru managed to support his heart, which was sometimes about to break. If they say it's sweet, it was until then, but despite all the determination that has layered over it, the anxiety of being in the invisible maze of the exit cannot be erased for long.

But maybe if I could spend a few days with a nostalgic loan, it would clear my mind a little bit.

With such pale expectations, Chizuru was sometime invited to a deep sleep.

And the door of the room opened, and even when someone came inside, Chizuru didn't immediately notice.

A large shadow slowly approached the bed without sound, and an elongated shadow covered over a sleeping thousand cranes. Chizuru woke up feeling the presence of a person, beginning with the wooden frame of the bed making a crisp and dry noise.

"Mm... al... de"

With his just opened eyes, Chizuru woke up his torso carefree, noticing that at some point his surroundings were starting to dim.

─ ─ Blurry, but I think I was dreaming.

Fourteen years ago dreams. Lucrov smiled happily, whispering a gentle word of love in Chizuru's ear, the two playing each other on the meadow...... such a distant and grumpy dream.

"It's already... dinner time...?

Thousand cranes asked the lady as she rubbed her eyes, but she usually doesn't hear back from me as soon as she should.

Instead, low and irregular breathing delivered air, and Chizuru woke up clearly sensing the anomaly. A large, tall shadow is imminent. Breathe softly and gaze still, there was a contour of Lucroff reflected in a purple sunset leaking through the window.

"Luklov......? What's the matter with you? I'm having a meal with a loan tonight..."

Ruklov did not answer.

Only a rough, low breath, like a wild dog alerting his enemies, can hear a leak through his throat.

Thousand cranes got up, but they didn't run away.

"Luklov......"

Once again, when Chizuru whispered his name, as he signaled it, Ruklov slowly moved one step forward and approached him with one knee on the edge of the bed.

"What's up,"

─ ─ I did.

The continuation of the words was sealed in a soft mouthpiece as it was.

A polite kiss, as if it were the first time that the tips of the lips and the tips of the lips just touch each other. Ruklov took the time to repeat the same light kiss to Chizuru's lips several times for a while.

A large, muscled hand accompanies Chizuru's cheek, and he gently supports his arm with his other hand, even though that is not necessary.

"Ha..., ah"

The body, accustomed to the pleasure given to him, reacts to its mouthfeel, to the touch of the skin, to the boiling masculine fragrance, gradually heating up.

Chizuru also slowly touched Luklov's cheek. And to the evidence that he was ready to accept him, Chizuru returned a slight kiss from her as well.

Then,

"Stop..."

I heard him roar low.

Chizuru solidified and accidentally stared at Luklov's face. Only the remnants of the sunset shoot weakly through the window have a light source, and half of his face is hidden and invisible in the darkness. But even if only half of it, I could quickly see his expression full of bitterness.

"Luk......"

"Stop."

Again, squealing so in a voice like he was forced to squeeze out, Ruklov stepped away from the thousand cranes on the bed.

Then he went back a few steps, where he repeated his unmoderate breath several times before turning his back to Chizuru and turning back to his heel.

"Luklov, wait, um..."

Despite Chizuru's call, Ruklov left to run away when he opened the door as it was, closing the door behind him. The sound of walking away with a big, fast legged strand echoed... and soon, I couldn't hear anything.

Thousands of cranes, left alone in thin darkness and silence, had to sit flashly.

What's that?

From the relationship between the two of us now, to an incredibly gentle kiss, a sudden rejection. What does this mean...?