My heart leapt as if I had committed a great and serious crime.
Who would have known that he would open his eyes so suddenly……?
My voice was heard again in my ears.
“You’re pretty…”
I was embarrassed and flustered, and I could feel my face warming up.
I felt like a pervert who spied on people who were sleeping.
But, since I was caught, I decided to be shameless.
“…It’s fun to look at your sleeping face.”
“What’s the fun?”
……I could see things I couldn’t normally see on your sleeping face, Rixus.
But if I said that, wouldn’t I look like I have deep knowledge of ‘peeping on a sleeping face’? Hence, I replied roughly.
“It’s just fun. Time doesn’t seem to pass.”
After giving a rough answer, I took a bite of the moist egg tart.
It was still warm and fluffy. The egg part was so soft like it would melt, and the crust part was moist and crispy on the outside.
A feeling of great satisfaction and joy slowly rose.
I wondered, was this happiness?
After eating just delicious things in moderation, we sat side by side on the bridge by the lake.
“Wait.”
Rixus took my shoes off by hand.
It was somehow embarrassing to have my feet exposed, so I quickly immersed them in the cool, cold lake water.
“Oh, it’s cold.”
“Is it too cold? Come here.”
Rixus took off his outerwear and tried to cover my feet.
“No, Rixus. It’s good because it’s cool.”
Plop, swish swish— When I played with the water, even my chest cooled down.
Laughing leisurely, I was filled with 100% happiness. It was nice to see the wind blowing softly and ruffling through his black hair.
Rixus looked at the distant forest and spoke comfortably.
“There will be a fireworks festival soon.”
I was just a little stunned that the first event I was using as a gauge came out of his mouth
“…I’m sorry, I can’t participate this year because I’m busy.”
The fireworks festival this time should be held before the wedding.
Even Rixus could guess to this degree.
The exact date of the festival was random, but looking at the data accumulated so far, the ‘timing’ was about there.
“What are you talking about? Of course you should participate.”
“…….”
“It’s your first festival since coming to Aktoum, Berylia.”
Rixus looked me in the eyes and whispered sweetly.
“Meet me at the plaza on the day of the fireworks festival.”
“!”
Rixus then held out a very small package.
When I accepted and opened it, there was a mask in the shape of a butterfly.
Fireworks festival.
On that day, everyone, regardless of status, wore a mask and dressed freely.
And looking for a loved one in the square was an event.
It was a pretty well-liked event, people called it ‘a strong attraction between people who are destined’.
Amidst the bustle of people, swarms of similar masks, distraction and noise…
If there really was such a thing as fate, there would be a gravitational force that pulled them together.
Among those countless pebble-like people… If only one could find the twinkling, shining significant other that he or she loved.
‘It’s true love’, the lovers would say in unison.
“Don’t you want to test our fate?”
“No.”
I shook my head easily.
‘You and I are already destined, Rixius.’
That fate’s gravitational pull cruelly brought us together countless times and made us harm each other.
Thinking about it like that made my heart tingly and anxious.
For me, fate was not something to be tested lightly, it was something I had to fight with all my might at all times.
It was something that made me cry in desperation just thinking about it.
I whispered a little as if I wasn’t confident.
“…How do we find each other in that wide open space? It’ll just make us feel bad.”
“Why are you so worried?”
‘Well, I don’t like it either, but…’
I always had a tendency to imagine the ‘worst’ and fear in advance.
‘Because good luck has always eluded me, Rixus.’
The eyes that quietly looked at me darkened slowly. Holding my hand tightly, he said,
“I’ll definitely find you.”
“….…”
“Even if you are among hundreds or thousands of people, even if you are mixed in some form I don’t know.”
“….…”
“I can find you.”
At that confident tone of his voice, my heart felt like it was on fire.
I wanted to trust him, who didn’t have any doubts.
In the end, I replied with a smile.
“Okay, I’ll trust you, Rixus. See you at the square that day.”
Shortly thereafter would be the fireworks festival.
The big event ahead of my life, the first day.
I was willing to test my fate with Rixus.
‘I look forward to it. What will happen?’
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Already, my heart was throbbing and pounding.
Ame: Take a sip of water every time Berylia says her heart is pounding or a variation of it XD okay, jokes aside. There was a period where I kept peppering the working doc with comments of “cute, but when’s the wedding!?!!!” But now I’m just like “author TT_TT stop making Berylia feel anxious and worried, it makes ME feel the same.”
…I want to tell past me (2021-Dec Ame) that you’re dumb for thinking this was going to be a cotton-candy or flower-garden type of novel.
LET’S GO, FIRST EVENT!!! Nah, the next chapter is everyone’s “favorite” Lady Fallen Angel and Madam Cheating Butterfly…
Dea: Yay my favourite characters are back, time to grab my patience from where I left it last because I’ll be needing it. I wonder what they’ll be up to now, maybe they can make themselves useful and hurry the wedding up haha. I can’t wait for this story to reach the fluffy, ‘we’re so in love’ part, Berylia deserves her happiness!!