Chapter 299: Absolute
“E-eh!?”
Seeing Elizalina-sama with her hand on the buttons of my noble outfit, I cried out without thinking, but I quickly spoke up.
“U-um! I don’t have a fever, so you don’t need to check or anything like that!”
“Is that so? …Ah, I see.”
Though I was embarrassed, it seemed telling her I was fine worked.
Elizalina-sama let go of the buttons on my noble outfit.
For a moment, I started to feel relieved… but then.
Elizalina-sama took hold of my left wrist.
Then she pulled my left hand closer to her body and said,
“…So, instead of being undressed yourself, you’d rather undress me, Lux!”
“…Huh?”
As I stood there confused by her words, Elizalina-sama continued.
“It’s okay, Lux… if that’s what you want, then I’ll teach you right now how to take off the dress I’m wearing—”
“W-wait a moment, please!”
My mind finally caught up to what she meant, and I hurriedly interrupted her.
I quickly pulled my hand away from Elizalina-sama and said,
“I don’t want you to undress me, and I don’t want to undress you either, Elizalina-sama!”
“Huh, really~? Just kidding! I guess I teased you a little too much~! Well then, since we’re here, why don’t we sit in those chairs over there and talk together?”
“Y-yes.”
Even as I felt a bit drained from such an overwhelming conversation.
I took a deep breath to steady my body and mind.
Then I sat in the chair by the round table so that I was facing Elizalina-sama.
Elizalina-sama then said to me,
“Lux, it looked like you were deep in thought before I came. What were you thinking about?”
“Ah… since you spoke to me about an engagement yesterday, I was trying to sort out my feelings again.”
“From my side, it was something I had already decided long ago, but for you it was completely sudden, huh~”
“…Yes.”
…What I was about to say now was something I couldn’t tell Siana or my father until I reached an answer on my own.
But since Elizalina-sama was one of the people who had said she wanted to be engaged to me.
And she was currently waiting for my reply, I felt that I needed to tell her, so I spoke.
“Actually… besides you, Elizalina-sama, there are two other people who have also spoken to me about an engagement.”
“I see~! As expected of the first boy I ever fell in love with~!”
“N-no, that’s not—!”
I was at a loss for how to respond to her words when Elizalina-sama continued.
“From your point of view, what kind of girls are those two?”
“From my point of view…”
It was something I had been thinking about recently, so I spoke those thoughts as they were.
“One of them is very kind, gentle, and amazing at just about everything. Whenever I’m in trouble, she immediately comes to help me…”
Then I continued.
“The other is also very kind and has an incredible presence. She carries burdens far greater than someone like me, but she says she loves the time she spends with me…!”
As I recalled the two of them, I realized I had gone on at length without meaning to.
So I quickly said,
“I’m sorry! I ended up talking so much by myself!”
“No, I’m the one who asked, so you don’t need to apologize.”
But then she added,
“There’s just one thing I absolutely have to tell you, Lux…”
Elizalina-sama looked straight into my eyes.
“The one who can make you happier than anyone else… is definitely me.”
She said that while giving off an invisible aura of dignity.