I tenderly caught Ruina who jumped at me. And stroked her head.
“Geeze, Nagi-chan. We were so sad, thinking Nagi-chan was dead. It wasn’t funny.”
“Sorry.”
“No. It’s alright. I am just happy that Nagi-chan is alive.”
Ruina and I gently separated.
Now that I get a good look at her. Her hair is a mess, and there are traces of crying under her eyes. She has bags underneath her eyes.
Everybody aswell was in a similar condition. Eleanor’s beautiful hair, is a disaster right now.
My heart sank from just seeing their pitiful state.
While I was deeply regretting this painful state. Lucis slowly approached.
And then saluted towards me.
“Nagi-sama, Welcome home. I have been waiting to make amends for my failure from the bottom of my heart.”
I had a bitter smile in response to her stiff and formal response.
“You don’t have to be so formal to me. Just forget about the whole master and servant for now.”
“B,but.”
“Listen up. Look at me. You don’t need to restrain yourself and if you want to jump into my chest do it. . . So do you?”
Lucis showed a brief moment of hesitation. However it quickly dissipated and she ran and finally clinged to me. No longer able to suppress her emotions.
“Nagi-sama, Nagi-sama. Thank you so much for coming back to me. When you died my heart broke. I kept crying and crying, it never stopped. I thought my tears have dried awhile ago. . . But the tears came flooding back right when I saw your figure again. . Uuu, Uuu , Uuuwwaaaaaaaaa!!”
She cried into my chest for awhile after that.
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“You alright now?”
“Yes. Nagi-sama, I apologize deeply for showing such a disgraceful sight.”
“Its alright its alright. I am happy to see you show your emotions. You normally hide them.”
“That so kind. . . “
“In fact here is an order. From now on, Lucis cannot suppress her emotion from me. When you want to cry, you cry. When you are anger, you can be angry. And can be honest about your happiness. Do you understand?”
“. . . . . Yes.”
Lucis seemed to have been taken aback because of my demand.It can’t be helped if you are shocked by that kind of command.
“It’s not as hard as you think. In short, be honest when you’re with me. You don’t have to repress your emotions because you’re in front of your master”(そんなに難しく考えなくていいよ。要するに私の前では素直になれってこと。主人の前だからといって感情を抑えなくていいからね)(TN: Mr.meh helped.)
I pat her head to finish her off. I then face towards Ruina and them.
“Soo, Linde, Iris , Eleanor and harem. Do you guys not have anything to say?”
“Why do you place us altogether!?”Sari interjected. . . Linde was the first person that looked into my eyes.
“To be honest, I cannot believe this. Nagi is certainly dead, her remains were also cremated by Ruina. If you think about it logically, Nagi cannot be alive.”