Incompatible Interspecies Wives

78 – Old Friend (4)

“…….Who is he?”

“…”

Arwin, who had already met Berg, could not pretend not to hear.

In the first place, I didn’t want to pretend I didn’t know.

It’s oddly heartbreaking to pass it over naturally.

Heavy atmosphere.

Berg tried to block Flint’s mouth when he appeared.

A topic that was brought up only after the two of them were left alone.

A being that can be referred to without being called by name.

Whoever it was, it was probably someone who had been by Berg’s side for a while.

“…Is that him?”

Arwin asked and approached Flint.

Flint looked back in amazement.

Berg averted his eyes for a moment with a firm expression.

“Ah, Mr. Arwin. Even if you left something…”

“…I came back to ask Berg.”

Berg asks the question back.

“What is it?”

“…”

Arwin suppressed his curiosity for a moment and asked Berg.

“…My friend, I want to know where to rest. They said the inn was full…”

Flint waved his hand at the question.

“Oh, you don’t have to worry about me. I’ve already decided to stay at an acquaintance’s house.”

“…”

Arwin nodded his head at that.

Today’s sleep seemed to be with Berg.

However, even though the goal of coming here was achieved, Arwin’s feet did not fall.

You could also call it persimmon.

Something was unclear.

“…”

Suddenly, I wonder why I am worried about this.

There is no need to pay so much attention to Berg.

Rather than worrying about getting a headache, it was the right choice to go back and rest.

Then, she felt the touch of the ring on her ring finger.

– Tup.

The next moment, Arwin was already sitting by Berg’s side again.

“Who were you talking about?”

Then she asked with a light expression.

Berg finally opened his mouth.

“Besides Flint, I have another friend.”

Flint jumps on that horse too.

“My name is Max. Berg wanted to know Max’s whereabouts.”

“…”

Arwin looked at Flint as he said that.

It seemed that Flint was lying.

Continuing, Arwin looked at Berg.

…Berg wanted to believe again.

“…”

So she decided to skip the obscure subject.

She

She Instead, she sits down, she decides to join the conversation.

“Coming to think of it, I wonder if she will sit a little longer. Curious about Berg-”

-Tak.

But Berg’s hand touched her back first.

“Arwin.”

“…”

“…Go back and rest.”

“…”

In a way, those words sounded like coercion.

Arwin said that without realizing it, she felt sorry for her.

She was even embarrassed that it was humiliating to feel this way.

Why do I feel this way when I am told to go back and rest?

“…”

Arwin didn’t dispute his words and stood up.

Then, after clearing my confused mind, I moved on to return to my lodgings.

****

“…You look pissed off.”

Flint murmured as Arwin returned.

I laughed at his words.

I’m upset.

It’s been a while.

“I’m sorry, Berg. No wonder I…”

I shook my head.

“…I have nothing to be sorry about.”

Even if Arwyn was offended, it would be okay to let him go.

I couldn’t tell exactly where I was offended, though.

The part where I hid Shien?

Or, in the part that forced you to go back and rest?

Maybe he didn’t like hearing orders from commoners.

But she was the one who said she would go to rest first.

…Well, the reason was something we would find out later.

At that, Flint sighed.

I nodded and bumped into the glass.

Then, turning her head and looking around, she asked again.

“…So what happened to him?”

“…”

“We couldn’t live without each other… Why did we separate? Why are you becoming a mercenary again?”

This is a question I would not have answered if others had asked it.

But Flint watched my relationship with Shien for years.

I could understand his curiosity.

Perhaps there are parts that need to be answered.

“…”

But when I opened my mouth, nothing came out again.

It was not easy to bring back those memories that were buried deep in the heart.

So instead of answering, I just drank.

“…Dead?”

Flint asked anxiously.

At that, I shook my head.

“No.”

That was absolutely not the case.

“Where did you hide it? Living in two houses or…”

“Is that so?”

“…Berg, what the hell-“

“-We just broke up.”

In the end, it’s just that simple.

“…”

Flint was speechless in response.

If someone said goodbye, it would be an issue that would naturally be passed on… But Flint saw Shien and me.

It was an expression that he couldn’t understand at all when he said that we had broken up.

…Actually, it was a breakup that even I couldn’t understand.

Until now.

“…Already in the past.”

But the days of feeling resentment are over.

“…I’m forgetting.”

“…”

“I should be good to my current wives.”

“…The reason you said you would wash your hands from dangerous work and became a mercenary was because of that breakup?”

“…”

No matter how long we’ve met, we can’t hide something from him.

I didn’t answer.

“…We broke up sooner than I thought.”

Flint clicks his tongue in pity.

“…Let’s have a drink.”

We clinked glasses again.

He said with a relaxed expression.

“…Still, you have to think that everything worked out. As a result, you became the vice-captain of a famous mercenary corps…Because you have two beautiful aristocratic wives.”

His words reminded me of Ner and Arwin.

With a light smile, he affirmed Flint’s words.

“…That’s right.”

****

After the long drinking party, I went back to the inn.

I didn’t hate the feeling that someone was waiting for me.

“…”

Suddenly curious, I take out the leaves of Arwin’s world tree hanging from my neck.

I don’t know if it’s because of my mood, but unlike when I came back from the sea, I looked a little withered.

“…”

As Flint said, did he really get angry?

No matter what happened, I had no worries.

I was carrying a present from the merchant Flint to relieve my anger.

Entering the house of the chief, a door opens.

-Kikik…

“…Ner.”

Ner poked her head out of her room.

“…Are you back, Berg?”

“Yes.”

“…Huh? What is that?”

“A gift from Flint.”

“I see. Did you have fun with your friends?”

“Yes.”

“…Thank God.”

“You weren’t sleeping?”

“…I can’t sleep. Go to bed now.”

Did she wait for me?

I smiled lightly.

The biggest change that happened to her was that she strangely kept checking my location.

Ner spoke awkwardly.

“…I’m going to bed now. Rest, Berg.”

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“Yes.”

Soon her visit will be closed.

I entered the room where Arwin was resting.

– Kung.

“…”

Arwin was lying on the bed with his back turned.

I approached her with her gift to bring to her by her side.

– Took.

Actually, it doesn’t really matter why she’s pouting.

It is always impossible to understand the other person.

Maybe the way I pushed her away wasn’t to her liking.

“Arwin.”

“…”

Arwin’s long ears quivered up and down her.

“…Are you upset?”

Arwin answered as it was.

“…Why me?”

She seemed to be waiting for me.

She wasn’t sleeping.

Actually, she had seen her once or twice from Shien.

“Did you feel bad when I told you to go and rest?”

“…No. I was bad for trying to interrupt the good times of old friends.”

“If you’re not sprained, would you like to look and tell me?”

“…”

Arwin did not turn her body.

It’s no wonder that such a complaint looks cute.

Arwin, who was silent for a long time, asked.

“…Berg, am I bothering you?”

“Huh?”

“I’m going to continue acting for you… I thought you pushed me away too easily.”

“…I didn’t do it because it was annoying. You know that.”

“…”

In this conversation, I was focusing on the changes that happened to Arwin.

She’s the kind of woman who wouldn’t have cared about any of these things if she hadn’t given me a little bit.

Perhaps the fact that I was so disappointed could mean the progress of our relationship.

“Arwin, look this way.”

I got her attention.

Arwin, who had been standing still, slowly turned her head.

She had heard somewhere that an elf’s stubbornness could not be broken, but Arwyn seemed to be easily defeated.

“…What is that?”

Arwin’s eyes briefly return her attention.

I showed her one of her bows.

“Didn’t we talk a few days ago?”

“…”

“I will tell you things that will help me even after I die and disappear.”

“…”

Arwin doesn’t seem to remember, so I reminded him.

“Why, the day you had a nightmare.”

She woke up from a nightmare two days ago.

No matter how much I tried to comfort her, she refused to comfort me, saying that if I disappeared, she would go back to the past.

I told her that I would teach her some techniques in order to find something in her that would instill courage in her.

“…I remember.”

But as if I was wrong about what she thought she had forgotten, Arwin quietly told me that she remembered.

I continued with her affirmation.

“I heard that elves are talented with bows. Oh, maybe you’ve already learned the bow…”

Arwin shook his head.

“…I never learned.”

I smiled at her answer.

“That’s great. I’ll let you know then So that I can protect my body.”

I flicked the bow lightly.

I knew right away that it was a good bow when I felt a moderate trembling.

Looks like Flint gave you a pretty good bow out of apologetic feelings.

Arwin’s frozen expression gradually loosened.

“…Did you prepare it for me?”

“Yes.”

“…”

She paused for a while and handed me an apology with a guilty expression on her face.

“…Sorry.”

“What?”

“…I suddenly got angry. Actually, I think it’s trivial…”

I grinned.

“Look, you must have been upset. If I hadn’t brought a bow, I would have been in big trouble.”

At that, Arwin smiled lightly.

I told her honestly.

“…Just kidding. It’s okay if you don’t apologize for something insignificant.”

“…”

Arwin nodded her head.

The atmosphere between us becomes softer.

I put down my bow and threw off my jacket.

Start preparing for a good night’s sleep.

At the same time, I looked at the leaves of Arwin’s World Tree hanging from my upper body.

“…Ah.”

Perhaps it’s embarrassing to reveal my feelings, Arwin sighs over my actions.

“Cowardly…!”

She cried quietly. However, unlike the way he spoke, the leaves of the world tree seemed fresher than before.

“You can do it too.”

I said with a smile.

Arwin blinked at the answer.

I then lay down on the bed.

“Ha ha.”

He breathes a sigh of comfort.

Arwin, who was next to me, also followed and lay down next to me.

Like when he entered the room, he didn’t turn his back on me, he lay down looking at me.

“Arwin.”

As she lay down looking at me, I called her.

“Yes?”

“There is something I haven’t heard since Nere got hurt.”

Then I think of our wedding ceremony earlier.

“…What is that?”

Arwin asks with a question.

“…I made a covenant, but you haven’t promised anything yet.”

“…Ah.”

That was half a joke.

I’m going to play a prank on Arwin who won’t love me yet.

It was quite fun to see her puzzled expression.

I didn’t even know it was because I was getting drunk.

“Make a promise to me as quickly as you do.”

“…You said you couldn’t love a short-lived species?”

As if responding to my prank, she also spoke boldly to me with a smile.

“Then, even a promise that lasts only 60 years is fine.”

“……”

It started as a joke, but when I continued to ask, Arwin’s expression gradually hardened into seriousness.

I didn’t know what he was thinking.

Her and her eyes meet for a long time.

The act of looking into each other’s eyes while lying on the same bed in a room with only the two of them created a quite unusual atmosphere.

Even if there was no love… This feeling that would happen.

As if Arwin felt it too, she averted my eyes.

And then he says.

“…Toward…”

Opening Her Mouth Arwin closed her eyes and corrected her words.

“…From now on…”

She opens and closes her mouth again and again.

After thinking about her for a long time, she said with difficulty.

“…Berg.”

“Huh?”

“Could you give me some time?”

“Time?”

“The chances are slim, but…if you have any thoughts.”

“…”

“…I’ll tell you then. No matter what kind of covenant we make now… I think it will feel like empty words.”

I was surprised by her answer.

Contrary to what I thought I would just say and pass it off, I said something quite serious.

At the same time, you can feel that you treat the relationship seriously from that attitude.

To be honest, I can’t think of a better answer than this.

“Yes.”

So I answered with a smile.

I promised to wait until he came to like me anyway.

“Then I’ll wait.”

Arwin nodded her head as she held her hand by her blushing ear.