Chapter 24 of the side story. I’m proposing marriage
2022.11.05.
I woke up and found a strange ring on my hand.
“…?”
I don’t think it’s a dream.
Was I stealing…?
Not fully awake yet, I looked down at the ring in a daze. The jewels reflected in the morning sun, dazzling my eyes.
The ring on the ring finger of her left hand didn’t even feel like she was wearing it.
As if it was custom made just for me.
‘Excessive self-consciousness is prohibited.’
I don’t know why an unfamiliar ring was on my hand, but it was when I grabbed the ring with my other hand to take it off.
Suddenly, a thick shadow appeared in front of me, and a large hand overlapped my hand. When I raised my head, I saw Aidan’s figure.
“Uh Aidan.”
As I was about to say hello because I was happy to see my face after a week, Aidan asked in a firm voice.
“Are you going to remove it?”
“what?”
“ring.”
ah. I looked down at my left hand, still covered by Aidan’s.
“Did Aidan wear it?”
nod Aidan nodded briefly and stared at me.
At first glance, the expression of anticipation made me feel like a puppy looking for praise.
“thank you. But this… why all of a sudden?”
Is it a gift you bought while on vacation?
Hearing my question, Aidan put on a puzzled expression. At the same time, I was bewildered.
I murmured while fiddling with the ring Aidan had put on my hand.
“I said I could give you a ring.”
What are you talking about? All of the sleep that remained from Aidan’s absurd behavior ran away.
“Who told you to give me a ring?”
“…”
Aidan fell into deep thought instead of answering. The thoughtful face was quite serious, so I looked up at it.
‘What happened on vacation?’
As far as I am concerned, I have no idea where Aidan has been or what he has been doing.
I’ve been hanging out with strangers a lot lately, and I’m worried that maybe they’ve gotten into bad water.
Thoughts bit their tails, and soon I even had extreme imaginations.
‘Did I buy the ring because I was tricked by the bad guys? Too expensive?’
It was then.
“ah.”
Aidan suddenly exclaimed as if he had remembered something.
Then he suddenly got down on one knee.
I was startled and backed away.
“Aidan?!”
“I forgot to kneel.”
“Why are you on your knees all of a sudden!”
Doesn’t he put the ring on when I’m sleeping? Now he’s down on his knees.
Why are you doing this in the morning!
Aidan’s sudden action made my thinking unable to keep up.
Unlike me, who was absurd, Aidan was calm throughout.
Soon after, Aidan opened his mouth even more seriously. in a low, serious voice.
“I want to propose.”
At those words, my mind, which had been roaming around, turned white in an instant.
“uh?”
“I am going to propose.”
I didn’t hear it wrong. Indeed, Aidan proposed to me.
‘It’s a proposal.’
It wasn’t that I hadn’t thought about marriage.
It wasn’t too long ago that the servants said they had to get married, and Emily asked why they weren’t getting married.
‘I didn’t think Aidan would propose.’
As I stared at Aidan with a blank expression, Aidan squeezed my hand tightly with a nervous expression.
“Please marry me.”
“…”
“Please.”
Is it my imagination that the added words sound like pleading?
I asked blankly, feeling unrealistic.
“Did you take your vacation to prepare for a marriage proposal?”
“yes.”
The vacation, which was kept secret even from me, was actually a vacation for a marriage proposal.
When did Aidan start preparing for marriage proposal?
But I couldn’t give Aidan’s marriage proposal the answer I wanted.
“Marriage doesn’t mean anything to Aidan.”
Even without marriage, our relationship was stable. There was a torch around us, but other than that, the two of us were peaceful.
Tranquil daily stable location and precious time shared every day.
Getting married won’t change much in this everyday life.
Above all, Aidan was a god.
Aidan understood the meaning of my question and gave a low answer.
“But since you are human, that alone is meaningful.”
It was a declaration of submission.
A declaration that if it were for my sake, I would be willing to enter the frame of customs set by humans.
It was a humiliating choice for newcomer Aidan, but he didn’t care at all.
“Do you know what that means?”
My voice trembled as I asked. Aidan lowered his head and placed his forehead on the back of my hand.
I could feel Aidan’s warmth.
“Someone did. When you get married, you become closer than anyone else.”
“huh.”
“I want to be closer than anyone else.”
Aidan murmured in a low, barely audible voice.
“…than the situation system.”
Laughter came out inappropriately for the situation.
‘Actually, isn’t that the purpose?’
Aidan said he wanted to be closer to me than anyone else, as if it were his own greed, but that was also my greed.
It was also my sincerity that Aidan couldn’t believe no matter how many times I told him.
“Mabel.”
“huh.”
Aidan confessed.
“i love you.”
Saying I love you, not saying I like you as always.
“I don’t care if your feelings for me are sympathy. I have no intention of ever letting go.”
Aidan let out a shallow sigh. He seemed nervous.
Aidan is nervous. It felt really strange.
I slowly let go of Aidan’s hand. I don’t know how he interpreted that action, but Aidan raised his head with a big startle.
“What the hell are you talking about, Aidan?”
Aidan’s eyes widened slightly.
‘I bet he didn’t understand by refusing, right?’
I cupped Aidan’s cheeks with both hands.
“There’s no way I wouldn’t love you.”
Looking at Aidan’s surprised face, he smiled wide.
My own god who brought me here from my previous life, which was like a pit.
From the moment we first encountered the wandering red-eyed child who had lost his memory, the fate surrounding us unexpectedly flowed.
Until I save you and love you like this.
It wasn’t like sympathy.
“And Aidan. Marriage proposals are originally made by putting on a ring. It’s not just starting out.”
I smiled mischievously and took out the ring Aidan had put on and put it on the tip of his little finger.
“Aidan’s hands are so big that he can’t even fit his little finger.”
“…”
“Come on. Put it back in and propose to me.”
Aidan, who was stiff, lifted the ring that was hanging on just barely and wrapped it around my hand.
The ring that fit perfectly slipped into place.
“Please marry me.”
Aidan’s reddened ears are cute and lovable.
“good!”
I accepted the marriage proposal.
Aidan smiled lightly and cupped my cheek.
“I want to kiss you. Can I still?”
“If you say no, then you won’t?”
“no.”
Aidan’s face drew closer as he answered firmly.
Suddenly, Aidan’s lips landed on mine. I laughed and pulled his neck.
‘Where is this marriage proposal?’
It was an unusual morning proposal.
***
I must have received a marriage proposal. Now all that was left was marriage.
There was a difficulty that faced us like that…
“It’s the opposite.”
It was the father who shouted the opposite and stood up before the story was over.
Dad asked, glaring at Aidan fiercely.
“marriage? Anybody?”
Aidan did not lose and confronted his father.
“My heart.”
“This son of a god…!”
“On the human subject.”
I was caught between two men fiercely confronting each other, eyes wide open.
It was to die for as a member of the crowd because of the intense sparks in his eyes.
‘Of course I expected it to be like this.’
I managed to persuade Aidan to ask why he had to ask Sang-je’s permission, and as expected, my dad opposed it with twin wicks in his eyes.
‘I’m tired. I want to go home…’
I kept having lazy thoughts about procrastinating, but I held on tight. It was a mountain I had to climb someday.
I pushed Aidan back, who only made things worse, and looked at my dad calmly.
“dad.”
“no. Not until dirt gets in my eyes.”
At Dad’s words, Aidan stood up from his seat.
“Soil…”
Aidan turned around, ready to scoop up dirt from the garden. Frightened, I grabbed Aidan’s arm.
“Ouch! Aidan! An idiom, an idiom! It means not until I die!”
“…before death?”
Aidan’s eyes sparkled strangely. At that moment, I saw it. Aidan’s black aura rises.
I stopped Aidan with disgust again.
“Why are your eyes shining again! Keep your spirits up!”
“It’s a shame.”
“What a waste!”
“Isn’t that what you say?”
“It’s an idiom! I can’t. Aidan is out now.”
Fearing that Aidan might accidentally cause an accident, I pushed my back and kicked him out.
My grand plan to get my father’s consent to marry Aidan and I went nowhere.
When Aidan disappeared, the surroundings instantly fell silent.
I sat across from my dad and stared at the handsome face that looked away from me with a hard expression.
“dad.”
“…”
“Dad, Dad?”
My dad, who didn’t want to answer until the end, finally turned his gaze and met my eyes.
“Why is that?”
“I want to marry Aidan.”
“…”
“Can’t you let me?”
Dad, whose lips were twitching as if he was speechless, let out a big sigh and ran his hair through his hair.
“It’s too sudden for me to answer.”
“lie. Even if I gave a notice, I would have objected.”
“hmm.”
“I don’t tell anyone and I’m the first one to tell Dad.”
“Did you mean to say it was an honor?”
“of course!”
Despite my lively voice, my father’s expression was disturbed.
To compare it to, it was a face that looked like the country had been destroyed.
“I’m not going anywhere just because I’m getting married.”
Nothing changed. I was still the emperor of Ermano with ‘Mabel Gardenia Winter Ermano’.
I live here in Hwangseong, of course. It was the same that I could see my dad every day,
but those words didn’t seem to comfort him.
Dad muttered in a heartbroken voice.
“You said you don’t do things like marriage…”
“Everything is like that when you’re young.”
“Strictly speaking, he wasn’t even young. Promises are meant to be kept.”
“…”
Did you point out that this is the second round of your life? Daddy are you like this?
I pursed my lips and asked.
“Why are you against it? Because you hate Aidan?”
“Didn’t this father tell you Mabel? All men are trash.”
“Is your dad a good trash?”
“then. As expected, it is worthwhile to tell them often.”
Even in the midst of this, Dad smiled proudly. The sincerity of those words made me sigh.
“Still, I’m the emperor of the empire, so I have to get married.”
“A successor during the collateral-.”
“We only have Renesmee and Dylan, our collaborators.”
“…”
Dylan, who was already the emperor of Langard, could not be made emperor, and Renesmee, who could not escape Abelardo, could not be mentioned.
“And Aidan is in the mood to announce a national marriage even tomorrow.”
“Aidan Asherad…”
Dad muttered Aidan’s name as if spitting it out.
“Are you sure you won’t let me?”
This time, Dad’s reaction was different from before.
“Can’t you get married without your father’s permission?”
Dad was right. As the emperor of the empire, I have the authority to consent to marriage, so even without the permission of the emperor, I was able to proceed with the national marriage.
The answer that meant that my permission was not necessary also meant that I would never allow it.
“still-.”
I stopped trying to convince myself once more and my dad wiped his face.
“Dad, I just want to rest.”
I was so tired that I had no choice but to get up from the couch.
“Tell me again later.”
In the end, I trudged out without convincing my dad.
‘Couldn’t Daddy be crying?’
I was worried about my father, who was left alone.
Aidan, who was waiting outside, touched my hand as if he had waited.
Aidan seemed to like everything with his father’s permission. He asked out of etiquette.
“How was it?”
“Of course not.”
In the end, I couldn’t get permission from my father, but of course it wasn’t that there was no way.
“hmm.”
I rested my chin on my chin and recalled a trump card I had saved up until now.
Am I forced to write ‘it’?
