◈ 710. [Side Story] Monster Front: I’m Caught in Love (2)
After the waiter’s reason for falling in love was revealed, the surroundings fell into even more chaos.
“What are you saying? “Do you like it because it tastes good?!”
“They say people can become successful for some reason, but they actually get confessed for that reason!”
“hey! Eat well too! “Confess to me too!”
The rumor that people at the bar were screaming and making public confessions quickly spread everywhere.
Heroes and soldiers from the front line rushed to the event in order not to miss this rare attraction.
“We have popcorn! Enjoy the view while chewing popcorn!”
The cafeteria owner began selling hastily roasted popcorn and beer at the store entrance.
“so!”
“What happens!”
“Miss Evangeline! “Please answer passionately!”
Everyone was chewing popcorn and their eyes were shining to see the outcome of this happening.
“Uuuh…”
The waiter trembled, covering his red face with both hands as if he regretted confessing in anger and as if he sensed rejection.
And Evangeline, who had confirmed her refusal in her mind, took a deep breath and at the same time said,
“Don’t be funny!”
Ash and Lucas ran into the cafeteria.
Ash, who was out of breath as he rushed over, pointed his finger at the waiter.
“I will give the next lord of my city to a bastard who doesn’t even know who he is… no, my SR tank… no, my sister… no, is there no more appropriate expression?!”
After a moment of contemplation, Ash pointed his finger and roared.
“Anyway, do you think I’m going to hand over the glutton under my command?”
“Senior, how on earth are you looking at me…”
Evangeline let out a laugh and suddenly made eye contact with Lucas.
The face of this shameless driver who calmly enters the cafeteria, takes a bag of popcorn from the store owner, and opens his mouth wide to scoop up the popcorn.
“….”
Why?
The moment Evangeline saw Lucas’ carefree face, she felt like she was on the mend.
So – I changed the answer I was going to give.
“Mr. Waiter.”
“Yes, yes…”
Evangeline responded to the waiter, whose face almost seemed like he was waiting for a death sentence and tears welling up in his eyes.
“Actually, I don’t know you at all and you don’t know me very well. Yes?”
“Yes… right… I’m sorry. I was completely impulsive too…”
“So, shall we take some time to get to know each other?”
“…yes?”
The surprised waiter raised his wide eyes. Everyone gasped and looked at Evangeline.
Evangeline spoke once more.
“After we get to know each other… let’s decide whether to confess or not, whether to date or not, or even just be friends… how is it?”
Evangeline grinned.
The startled waiter was unable to respond, but instead the heroes and soldiers around him started making unintelligible noises, a mixture of screams and shouts.
In the center of the cafeteria, which quickly became chaotic, Evangeline turned her head and looked at Lucas.
“….”
Lucas was still munching on popcorn with a sullen expression on his face.
Evangeline became even more intoxicated and bit her lip with her fangs, biting the corner of her mouth.
And in the midst of all this chaos-
“This is tempering! “It’s invalid! It’s invalid!”
Ash, who was sitting on the floor, was still sounding like a baseball team leader.
“How did I raise it! oh my! “Rather kill me and take me, you bastard!”
***
After I forcibly dispersed(?) the chaotic dinner party.
Naturally, the five members of our main party returned to the manor house and sat together in the living room.
“Hey Evangeline!”
I pointed at Evangeline, who puffed out her cheeks in front of me.
“If someone you don’t know asks you to come along and buy you something delicious, you should refuse. Why would you even consider that? “Did your senior teach you like that?!”
“When did you teach me that?”
Evangeline let out a sigh as if she was dumbfounded and scratched her chin while making a mmm sound.
“But he was the first person who confessed to me that he liked me. Wouldn’t it be okay if we talked more?”
“What? hey! It was like meeting each other for the first time! But then he approached me right away! It’s all a new type of multi-level fraud and pseudo-propagation method! “It’s all just to trick you!”
Even in the face of my desperate persuasion, Evangeline just snorted.
“Oh my. Senior too! “Are you jealous because I’m becoming popular?”
“What?”
“At the end of this beautiful teenage years! The time has finally come for my youth to bloom! “Don’t be jealous and support us!”
Oh, no. Evangeline is already intoxicated with herself as a ‘popular person who has received confessions.’
Look at that unlucky face… Look at that arrogant expression and raised nose… There’s no turning back now…!
“This is not what we wanted!”
As I was tearing out my hair and despairing, Evangeline laughed, rubbing her index finger under my nose.
“And I, too, will be cautious when it comes to dating. “You don’t have to worry too much.”
“Is that so? Are you going to do it carefully? “Are you sure you won’t fall victim to a pyramid scheme?”
“I won’t suffer, I won’t suffer. I too will soon become an adult. “I’ll take care of the love issues.”
I stopped, startled. what?
“Adult? you?”
“yes. It’s my birthday soon. “So you’re nineteen?”
I gaped.
‘Now that I think about it, it’s definitely! Because I was sixteen at the beginning of the first year….’
It is now the latter half of the third year.
With her birthday coming up soon… Evangeline will turn nineteen. You are legally an adult!
A stupid sound escaped my mouth.
“This doesn’t make sense, it can’t happen in Joseon…”
I always thought he was a 16-year-old kid.
I have grown up so much that I am now an adult!
“Hehehe, just a little more and you will truly be qualified to sit as Margrave!”
Evangeline crossed her arms arrogantly and still let out a mischievous laugh.
“Now that I’m an adult, I’ll date as I want, I’ll spend money as I want, and I’ll change the interior of this mansion to full of flowers and frills! “I’m going to bring three of my husbands too!”
“That’s crazy!”
In the face of a future I couldn’t handle, I screamed and looked around, and for no reason, sparks flew at Lucas, who was standing behind me.
“Why do you have such a calm face, Lucas?”
“yes?”
I pointed at Lucas, who was standing expressionless.
“Are you okay with a girl who’s like a younger sister getting confessed to by a stranger she’s never seen before and making love to him? “Can’t you stop me too?!”
“younger sister…?”
Then Lucas snorted.
“Evangeline? My sister? “That can’t be possible.”
“This guy without blood or tears-!”
“Only in my mind is loyalty to my lord.”
“This dandy with nothing but loyalty and chivalry!”
Evangeline, who tried to enjoy her youth too actively, was a problem, but this fellow knight behind me also had a serious problem in a different direction.
“Now that I think about it, why are you so uninterested in dating? Aside from not being interested in other people’s relationships, you should also pay attention to your own relationships!”
More specifically, pay attention to Hecate! He’s been saying he likes you since the academy! He’s not in a good condition. Do something about it, you stupid legendary bastard!
Then Lucas lowered his eyes.
“I think I can think about my relationship issues a little later. “Right now, there are many things more important than my personal happiness.”
Hey, hey, if you keep putting it on the back burner, saying ‘studying is important now, contests are important, and getting a job is important’, then you’ll end up becoming a sly master like Godeok in the other world, man!
‘Wow! ‘Why am I talking and it hurts me?’
Anyway, while we’re at it, I’d like to ask Lucas more about the Hecate issue.
“Excuse me for being late. “His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.”
With a knock on the door, a woman with short beige hair came into the living room.
“I came because I have one thing to tell you… but.”
They say even tigers will come if you tell them to.
It was Hecate.
There was a quick exchange of glances among the people gathered in the living room.
Lucas’s grave gaze, Junior’s bewildered gaze, and Evangeline’s complex gaze collided with Hecate’s gaze and then dispersed.
“…?”
I couldn’t keep up with this subtle change in the air, so I just blinked, and Damian next to me was just smiling humanly.
What kind of atmosphere is this! Someone please explain! Was it actually me who was a snowbird?!
“…excuse. “Everyone is gathered together.”
Hecate, who gave me a light greeting, came to stand in front of me, stood at attention, and got straight to the point.
“majesty. “I… and all of the Glory Knights are leaving Crossroads.”
I was freaked out.
“what? why not!”
“We, the Glory Knights, who have lost the ability to fight, can no longer be of help to the Crossroads. No, I think just our presence here will have a negative impact.”
Junior’s shoulders were seen shaking.
Hecate nodded without even casting a glance in that direction.
“The people we need here on the front are people who will help us in the great battle being fought here on the front. We are no longer Glory Knights. Therefore, I request you to retire.”
“….”
“I will wait for Yun He, Your Highness. then.”
Hecate simply said what she had to say, showed respect to me, then turned around and left.
“Hey, what should
I do…” I turned around in confusion,
“…”
Lucas Jr. Evangeline… All three of them were lost in their own thoughts in a strangely subdued atmosphere.
I held my breath and whispered to Damien next to me.
“What’s wrong with the atmosphere here? “Is there something strange about the kids today?”
Then Damian smiled brightly and whispered to me.
“That’s because they’re all young!”
“….”
No, you are just as young… Why are you smiling like an old man who has lived his whole life and even seen his grandchildren…
I was rubbing my eyebrows because of the pain in my head, and pressed my elbow against Damian’s side.
“Hey Damian. Then what do you have? “Is there anything interesting happening romantically?”
“lol. My memories with my class are precious to me. “I’m not going to worry about dating for a while.”
Damian then looked towards the temple with distant eyes.
“And right now… there are also precious things to protect.”
“Whoa?!”
A precious thing that needs to be protected?! Who are you?
“Our Podong. Since my child is almost 3 years old, his body has become very weak. “I need care.”
“Oh, that one…?”
Well, it is said that the average lifespan of a hamster is 2-3 years, so I guess I should take good care of it…
Anyway, as I looked at the air that had become complicated and delicate, I let out a small sigh.
“Anyway, there is nothing wrong with the old saying that people who date do so even during wartime.”
“….”
Then everyone in the room looked at me blankly.
I broke into a cold sweat. what? Why are you looking at me like that? huh?
‘Of course, I’m with Serenade… but somehow… it’s like a romantic relationship!’
Huh! Anyway, the monster front is not the place for confrontation! Of course, I am ready to provide full support if it comes to love, marriage, childcare, etc.!
I groaned as I looked at the sticks of my heart that were tangled with each other.
‘I’m in love with the monster battle line….’
As someone who inherited the mysterious Sukmaek Godeok, I can’t even guess what the conclusion will be.
But be happy in the end, guys.
I sincerely hoped.
