Chapter 56
“First, speak your business from there. I can hear you very well.”
Bristling completely, Idris guarded against her. Irene paid no mind and even gestured urgently with her hand.
“Hurry. It really will only take a moment!”
“Just why out of nowhere…….”
Even while grumbling, Idris eventually approached her obediently. As Irene continuously gestured as if telling him to bow his head, he bent his body. Kneeling on even one knee, he twitched his eyebrow as if telling her to speak quickly. Whether because he was out of his mind or because he was displeased, his attitude was quite poor.
“Please lend your ear a bit.”
Idris’s head tilted toward Irene to the utmost limit. It was close to the point that his short blonde hair brushed against her heavily soaked wheat-colored hair. Irene’s breath brushed against the edge of his ear. At the exact moment when Idris, despite flinching and trembling his body, inclined his ear to listen attentively to the words that would soon follow, a heavily soaked arm tightly embraced his neck.
Splash! Along with a violently splashing water spray, the two figures disappeared beneath the lake.
Ending up entering the water while being embraced by Irene without even a moment to say anything, Idris floundered at the unprovoked misfortune. Being heavily panicked, he soon struggled as if going mad at the feast of flesh color that entered his eyes. Of all things, she embraced his neck, so right before his eyes……!
Squeezing his eyes tightly shut, he resisted with all his strength. Barely escaping from Irene, he kicked off and rose above the water surface. Swallowing a great deal of water, he coughed frantically. The sound of breathing in and exhaling breath was violent. His chest, to which the heavily soaked white shirt clung, expanded and deflated frantically. Beyond the fabric that had become transparent, his pleasantly sculpted muscles were nakedly revealed.
From behind such a him, a highly cheerful giggling laughter was heard. Looking back, Irene was even pointing a finger at him and laughing with the momentum of losing her breath. It was a facial expression of dying from extreme amusement. Surging with emotion, Idris yelled without realizing it himself.
“Just what in the world are you doing……!”
The reprimand that had started valiantly gradually subsided as soon as he directly met Irene’s red eyes.
He could not bear to dare shout loudly. Being like that in the water, she was doubly like a siren, so it was terrifying.
Idris repeatedly wiped away the moisture from his completely bright red face. The shocking scene he had seen for the first time in his life just moments ago would not leave his mind.
Wake up, myself. That is just a siren……. No, an evil demon…….
Seeing that fierce agony, Irene instead burst into laughter once again.
“Ahaha! Mr. Idris, do you by any chance not know how to swim? I am seeing such an expression for the first time!”
Irene could not stop laughing at all. Seeing her wiping away even the teardrops she had squeezed out while endlessly enjoying herself, Idris lost all will to fight in an instant.
Even at a glance, it was a massively excited state. From experience, no words would get through when she was like that. It would only result in being teased even more instead.
He struggled to calm the anger that would be of no help at all.
“……I am not entirely incapable of it.”
“That is a relief. Because you had an expression as if you saw a ghost, I wondered if perhaps you could not swim.”
“I do not believe in things like ghosts.”
He says something disastrous despite being a Holy Knight in name.
“Ah, is that side more important?”
Irene laughed once again as if she found it amusing. It was a face and voice clearly more excited and flushed than usual. She was a woman who was secretly full of mischief originally, but she is exceptionally excessive today.
‘Damn it……. It must undoubtedly be because of that bird, whether a white owl or a white horned owl.’
He should have felt that things were not ordinary when she suddenly linked arms and repeated only the exact same words all day long after seeing that. It seems that an elated mood has been maintained until now. Seeming to have uselessly regressed to a child’s mind, Irene wore a face of dying to tease him again.
Receiving the moonlight reflecting on the lake, her skin shone exceptionally whiter. Because she was still continuing to laugh even now, her slender body heaved, and so the cleavage was continuously visible even in his upwardly raised field of vision. Drained of anger and everything else by that shocking appearance, Idris squeezed his eyes tightly shut and swallowed a sigh.
“Just why are you doing this to me…….”
It felt as though he had aged at least ten years in a brief moment. Irene’s sudden mischief and intimate expression were very, very burdensome.
Putting everything else aside, he did not know where he should place his eyes. Idris rolled his pupils to the side again and glared at the blameless water surface.
“Why, naturally! I did it so we could play together. This lake, even if not as much as the sea, is very wide, so it is fun if you swim.”
“……In this late night, no. In the dead of night?”
“Ey, I know entirely well that your night vision is good. Can you not see well?”
To just say that out like that? No, although it is a fact. Was it not that they had decided to act as entirely ordinary commoners with each other?
Faced with the sight of Irene seeming to have gone slightly crazy beyond merely being very excited, Idris lost his words.
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