Chapter 411: Lux’s Resolve
After holding each other for a while, Felisiana-sama and I eventually let go, putting a little distance between us.
“Until now, whenever you held me, Lux-kun, I felt a happiness beyond anything else… but being embraced while carrying both my feelings as Felisiana, who loves you and wants to protect you, and my feelings as Siana, who wants to serve and support you… it’s overwhelmingly blissful.”
“Felisiana-sama… now that I know you are Siana, the one who has always supported me… until now, I could only be with Siana as my maid… but being able to hold you knowing it doesn’t have to be that way anymore makes me very happy.”
“Lux-kun…”
We gazed at each other for a moment.
But then, Felisiana-sama averted her eyes.
“Th-this won’t do… at this rate, I’ll want to hold you again and again. Until you reach your answer, Lux-kun, I’ll try to restrain myself.”
“…!”
My answer…
The answer to who I would choose to become engaged to among those who have told me they love me.
“…”
I had just settled things with the King, and for a brief moment I wondered if now was the right time.
But rather, precisely because it’s a moment like this, I need to properly face what I must face.
“Felisiana-sama… earlier, when you were speaking with the King, you said that Elizalina-sama, Rezamiliana-sama, and Florence-san were holding back the soldiers in the castle… are they all still here?”
When I asked, Felisiana-sama met my gaze again and nodded.
“Yes, they should be.”
“Then… if possible, could you gather everyone here now?”
“I can, but for what…? Could it be…”
“Yes… speaking with the King earlier helped me realize my true feelings… the answer I need to give all of you.”
“…!”
The answer I hadn’t been able to reach for months.
When I told her I had found it, Felisiana-sama’s eyes widened in surprise.
“If you’ve found your answer… then that means you’ve decided who you will love and spend your life with, Lux-kun?”
“Yes.”
I don’t know if everyone will accept this answer.
But it’s not something I arrived at lightly.
It’s an answer I reached after facing both their feelings and my own for months, struggling with it.
My honest, unvarnished wish.
“I see… understood. Then we’ll all go to the throne room together, including me… so could you head there first, Lux-kun?”
“Understood.”
As Felisiana-sama said, I left the guest room ahead of the others.
Steeling my resolve, I made my way to the throne room… and then.
Standing with the throne behind me, facing the doors, I quietly waited for everyone to arrive.
Before long, the doors opened, and through them I saw Felisiana-sama, whom I had just been speaking with, along with Elizalina-sama, Rezamiliana-sama, and Florence-san.
For these past several months,
I had been troubled by this, endlessly.
Now was the time to give my answer.
As I thought that while looking at Felisiana-sama and the others,
They came to stand right before me, and I spoke clearly.
“Thank you all for coming… now, I’d like to give you my answer to your feelings.”