Only with Your Heart

The next day and the next day, life was almost as usual in the castle, except for a guest named Lone staying.

Sometimes the knights brought in by Lone are guarding their husbands in a casual manner, and sometimes they are mixed up with the knights of Luklov to train jointly.

Chizuru was no different than usual, and during the day, when he was free, he took care of the children. And at night...... we loved each other over and over as passionately as if trying to fill the groove of time we didn't see each other.

Sometimes even at times still in the sun, Ruklov began to show his face to Chizuru. He shows up in the middle of taking care of the kids and chatting with Alde in the courtyard to see how Chizuru is doing. After a while, you feel safe or satisfied, leaving a light kiss to go back to work and training.

"You want to make sure that Chizuru is on the right side (here)."

And, Alde was analyzing.

Maybe the two of us aren't what we can call perfect yet.

Still, I think he's made great strides for Lucroff, who has gone through fourteen long years of divergence and several miseries and tragedies. Even if it isn't, he's a cautious man and doesn't open his heart to others so easily.

So now it's time to stay like this... slowly... and build trust, Chizuru decided to think.

And two days after the feast, at noon, Chizuru and I were chatting as we walked through the garden in the castle. I'm taking a step back and coming with Alde, but are you reluctant or hardly mixed up in the conversation, I'm just quietly accompanying you.

Lone had a funny funny conversation about his wife and his two children to make him listen, and he entertained Thousand Cranes with a mix of memorabilia and more.

Lone and his wife said they met each other in a so-called political marriage decided by their parents. Lone told me with a rare illumination that he hated each other so much that he didn't even want to see his face at first, but at some point we had to be each other's precious beings.

And more importantly, the presence of the children made the bond between the two even stronger.

"Regardless of Chizl, Ruklov is old enough. Why don't you just start making kids? Because of this, there are territories and titles. That stubborn head would stop saying hard things if he could have a baby"

"A loan!

Chizuru looked around, hastily paying attention to the red-haired knight. But Alde seemed to listen closely, laughing silently and not much, and the loan just shrugs his shoulders a little. Fortunately, though there was no other human figure.

"I mean it. I never meant it any more."

When I reached the courtyard, I saw a kazla-style plant blooming white flowers on a mossy castle wall legend. Lone stopped for a walk there and looked down at Thousand Cranes with a serious face.

"That idiot hasn't said anything yet, has he?

"Yeah...... but it's okay, Lone. If I could stay by his side now, so be it."

"Damn it, Chizuru, watching you two makes my whole body itch. Ooh, itch!

Lone complained that way, pretending to scratch her arm.

Chizuru had to laugh.

"You know, words aren't that important. Even if Ruklov starts telling me that he loves me every day, that doesn't mean things are going to change so much more than they do now. I think it's a really good relationship right now... and I don't think we need to change it in a hurry."

To Chizuru's words, the loan was going to be difficult for a while.

The statement is somewhat understandable, but I can't agree, but it's a hard look.

"... but I think I should speak up and declare it right."

Ultimately, Lone affirmed so and did not touch on this topic any further.

Thousand cranes felt a little restless, but that's why I didn't know what to do. Shake Luklov's shoulder with all your might, and now can we just threaten to confess our sincerity now? I don't think so.

Anyway, now, we have to wait.

Since that evening, Chizuru had been dragged into the room by severe abdominal pain and did not leave for the dining room.

I refused to need it because I didn't even know much about my appetite, but Alde brought me some light bread and soup to my room before I went down. I'm also sorry to leave her unfavorable, and Chizuru managed to eat only the soup before diving into bed and lying down when she changed into her sleeping clothes.

It was then that I felt strange in my lower abdomen.

Even when it comes to anomaly, it's not a pain you know nothing about. A nasty feeling that squeezes my stomach and a mild headache...... I wake up feeling damp at the base of my leg. When I looked it up, it was still just the beginning of the moon thing.

(What to do... menstrual supplies...)

Plus, it stopped for a while after I came back into this world, because it was something I hadn't been here for a long time, or it seemed like a lot of bleeding. I'm totally getting my bed dirty.

Chizuru managed to get away from the sheets of the bed that had gotten wet and probed into the cosmetics.

Of course there are no convenient things like disposable menstrual products in this world, but there is a white cotton cloth in the shape of a hand-tufted one that folds and substitutes for it. The last time I came, I should have seen it available in the cosmetics in this room.

(There was, there was...)

The object was quickly found, and Chizuru quickly replaced it with a new one when he took off his dirty sleeping clothes and underwear.

Alde is a carefree veteran lady, so there won't be as much noise as the dirt on the moon stuff of the lady husband she's serving. I felt like calling her back for something like this, which would have already returned to her family, and Chizuru, for now, folded her sleeping clothes and underwear and put them on the floor so that the dirt wouldn't move to the other parts. Tomorrow morning, I'll explain the circumstances and have them put out for laundry.

The problem is with the sheets on the bed.

Because he was dressed and folding clothes in a mess, Chizuru had no idea that Ruklov's footsteps were approaching the room.

When the door called Gi started to sound dry, I felt the signs of people and looked back at the entrance to the room.

Then there stood Luklov, with an indescribably strange face.

Worried or in a hurry? Anger?

He looked blue-white like none of it, or all mixed up, and was just staring at Chizuru.

"Um, Luklov... I'm taking it in a little now... Can you wait outside for a moment?

Chizuru rushed to his place in an attempt to evict Luklov, as the bloody sheets and clothes were still left in full sight. Reach out to him, trying to push him out standing at the entrance to the room.

Then Ruklov grabbed both wrists of Chizuru at a terrible speed.

"Luk......"

"What do you mean? What happened?"

"Ma, wait, uh"

As if there was no such thing as stopping Chizuru, Ruklov reached the front of the bloody sheet with an amazing large strand, and folded on the floor just below it, he also turned his attention to the dirt on his clothes. His gaze immediately returns to Chizuru, left at the entrance to the room, and he sticks still.

The knight's pitch-black eyes were shaking in fear as if he were looking at a ghost.

I know I need to explain this as soon as possible, but woohoo (oh), I don't do that to a man like him who has his eyes pointed at me like this and can speak fluently with a perky person. Thousands of cranes were also stranded and couldn't speak up immediately.

Then, in such a moment as to blink, Luklov returned to Thousand Cranes.

And he lifts her up, his hair, his face, his neck, his body, stroking all of the thousand cranes without a scratch, and makes an uncut voice.

"Did you get hurt somewhere...?

Chizuru finally shook his head to the side.

Ruklov tries to get her right to bed with such prudence and strength that she cannot resist. And as he sat Chizuru to the edge of the bed, Ruklov broke one knee and knelt before it.

A nasty eye with a tight chest is staring at a thousand cranes.

"No, Luklov. That... that... the moon thing just came... I didn't feel well enough to go to the dining room, maybe because of it..."

As he shrunk to shame, Chizuru managed to tell him so.

Either way, it was something I had to teach in anticipation of timing because I wanted to avoid the act of love during my period. It was just embarrassing to be noticed in this way.

Besides, I'm sorry to hear that you made me worry in a strange way.

"Of the moon?"

Ruklov asked back as if he didn't know what it was, explain it to me, but in a tone he said.

Chizuru turned bright red.

"Oh, my God, it's Women's Day. You know what I mean? So even tonight, you know, we can't sleep together, the..."

Essentially, the men of this world - especially the knights who live in the exchange of life - used the female moon itself as an ominous or unclean thing, and they avoided acts of love for that period. I've heard that some couples don't touch even their wives during their periods and keep the room separate.

Ruklov didn't have that cleanliness, but even fourteen years ago, only during his period, he was "oozing" and just leaned in and slept.

"Of the Moon"

And Ruklov snapped again.

Perseverance like this kind of makes me feel like I'm being bullied.

When Chizuru made the most resolute expression possible, he stood fast.

"Let it go, even though it's your period. I'm sorry I contaminated your sheets and clothes. But don't worry, I'll clean it up properly tomorrow. And... hey, for a while, you can't do that, can you? The sheets got dirty, and I can't sleep with you tonight..."

That being said, Ruklov whispered sissy and pressed his index finger against the lips of a thousand cranes.

"You're really just a moon thing, aren't you?

Oh, already.

Chizuru nodded silently with a bright red fluff.

"Are you hurt? What else do you feel bad about?

"It's okay..."

"I hope so."

From Ruklov's expression, the tension disappeared visibly.

"Alde said you looked terribly sick. I don't even come to dinner, and if I came to see what was wrong, when there was blood all over the room. Think about what I thought."

I just think it's exaggerated that it's all over the room, but from Ruklov's side, is that generally what we're going to talk about?

"I'm sorry," Chizuru said, whispering in a small voice.

Ruklov is shaking his head and smiling calmly.

"Why apologize?

"Um... I've got a lot of dirt on me, and I've made a weird misunderstanding... Then some days from tonight, oh, because I can't do that... me"

I don't believe it anymore.

But Luklov was the first to declare why he would put Chizuru here.

─ ─ 'You open your legs to me here just to satisfy my desires'

He said he had no love, no veto. And Chizuru accepted the word, and Luklov had not yet turned it over. I mean, by definition, Chizuru, who can't act at night, means nothing to Luklov.

Of course, now, I don't believe that anymore......

No, I want to believe, though.

"To apologize for the misunderstanding, let's take it. But about everything else...... I don't care. Never mind."

The look Luklov gave me felt like something more than a thousand cranes.

"But"

"Fine...... You don't have to do anything. Come on, just change the sheets and let me sleep with you here."

With a sweet and gentle voice like a superb sugar confection, Ruklov whispered in the ear of a thousand cranes.

When Ruklov moved Chizuru to the chair, he peeled off the dirty sheet with unexpected dexterity and removed the brand new sheet from the box. Chizuru helped me with the task of wearing a new sheet. I almost did, but that seemed to have gotten in the way, and the two laughed out loud as they pulled the sheets together.

All the dirty cloths were kept in the basket at the edge of the room.

That night, they just hugged each other and fell asleep.

And it was at midnight that 'she' showed up.