Chapter 29
6. The gate didn’t open in the first month of marriage – 04
The next day, not forgetting my promise to the Grand Duchess, I stood in front of the office, barely calming my pounding heart.
“… Mmm.”
If you just open this door and enter, you are immediately in the office of the Grand Duchess. In other words, the Grand Duchess is currently waiting for me in the back of that room, and the only thing blocking her and me right now is her small door.
However, I had no choice but to wander in front of the door without being able to perform the simple action of opening the door and entering the office of the Grand Duchess for 10 minutes.
The reason was simple. It was because the words the Grand Duchess had told me yesterday were constantly replaying in her head.
‘Can you be a real couple with me from now on?’
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I have a strange feeling as if the world is turning round and round. What was the intention of the Grand Duchess when she said, ‘Can you become a real couple with me?’
A reaction of reconciliation in the way of the Grand Duchess, who wants to be close like family from now on? Even though I am the official pillar of the grand duke’s family, I feel very bad for myself to play and eat without doing anything. A political message to take care of myself?
‘But if it was really said in that sense, wouldn’t there be no reason to show off shyness at me?’
In the end, if we put together the situation at the time and the remarks of her grand duchess, we can only come to the conclusion that the words she uttered yesterday were literal intentions.
Then, what did the Grand Duchess mean when she asked if she could become a ‘real couple’ with him?
“…..”
In an instant, countless audio-visual materials that I had studied in Hitomi in my youth flashed through my mind. Even though there was no place to use it, it was because I was like a model student who never neglected preparations.
When making a reasonable judgment based on the information accumulated through audio-visual data, the Grand Duchess’s remarks mean that we should also try to evolve into a merger, just as War Greymon and Metal Garurumon combine to become Omegamon. Can only be interpreted as
‘I see, I wonder if that was the meaning.’
If two Digimon combine and evolve together, the result is one, but if two Digimon evolve together, the final result is three. If you’re lucky, it might be four or five.
‘I can’t believe it was a statement meant to raise the birth rate of the Archduchess even a little by setting an example for the Grand Duke and his wife.’
Well, the news that the low birthrate issue has recently emerged as a serious social issue in our society was a fact that could be known just by watching the 9 o’clock news.
It is called noblesse oblige, and at times like this, isn’t it natural that people in high positions who should be exemplary to others should show a strong will to solve the social problem of the birth rate problem?
‘If it was said with such a noble intention, I’d have no choice but to burn this body to help.’
My heart starts to ache as if tearing at the thought that my clean body and mind, which I have kept for over 20 years, may lose something precious.
‘But I have to endure it.’
Since ancient times, human beings experience pain as they experience loss, and through the process of overcoming that pain, they gain the courage to take a step forward.
Aren’t the good-looking insiders already experiencing this loss in middle school or high school and taking a step forward as B-29 bombers at clubs?
For your information, I want to make it clear that at the time when the insiders were playing so sloppily and lasciviously at such a young age, I was having boyfriend relationships with high school girls all over the country.
‘Hey, over there your boyfriend is passing by.’
‘Do you want to die? Is it because you really want to be beaten?’
The bitter memory of dating around 50 high school girls across the country just because there was a girls’ high school 5 minutes away from home runs through my heart.
But the long period of humiliation and persecution ends with this. As I think that I can also rise to the ranks of the dignified insider in a few minutes, my heart starts pounding for some reason.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t stay in front of the door forever. Now is the time to gather courage like a man and solidify your “Resolve”.
‘Oldly said that “Resolve” Means opening a path to advance in the pitch-black wilderness.’
With that in mind, I opened the door that was blocking my way wide open, and a few minutes later I realized that the situation was not what I had expected and that something strange was going on.
“… What the hell are you talking about?”
“Yes?”
“I just said that in the sense that the two of us should at least train ourselves to treat each other in order to look like a reasonable married couple.”
“…..”
At the moment, the pulse becomes thick and loose. Someone had come all the way here with great determination, but at least they called me to play house.
“Why the hell did you want to practice something like that? In my opinion, there seems to be no one in the Empire who does not know that we are related by contract marriage.”
No one believes that the Grand Duchess and I got married only through pure love, no matter how much we are human beings whose heads are full of flower gardens.
In modern times, it was like setting up a civil servant who had studied at a gosiwon for about 10 years with the only daughter of the chairman of a conglomerate, and said he would get married. In other words, it was something that could never happen in real life.
Since ancient times, if it was a noble woman who was in the position of the Grand Duchess, she would not be able to handle important family matters such as marriage simply with love.
“Right, of course. I also don’t have the delusion that the Empire is full of such mindless idiots. However, depending on how the two of us behave, it shouldn’t be too difficult to arouse suspicion in them.”
“… Doubt, do you mean?”
“Yes. That’s why I want to leave room for the Empire to wonder if there was some kind of affection between the two of us that led to our marriage. The more we look at us from the other side and count the many possibilities and variables, the wider the options we can choose will become.”
So, to put the words of the Grand Duchess in an easy way, it seems that they have set up a strategy to produce fake news so that the other party cannot easily grasp what the truth is.
Sooner or later, rumors may circulate that there are Dips and reptilians behind me and the Grand Duchess, or that there is a monitoring chip made by the Illuminati embedded in my head.
After listening to her, I acknowledged that the words of her grand duchess were quite plausible, and I tilted her head and opened her mouth to her.
“By the way, what does training to treat each other mean? I think this is enough for us to be used to each other.”
“No, that… I’m not used to it at all. First of all, between the two of us… There was no contact.”
“Contact? What else is that… “
“I mean skinship, skinship!”
The Grand Duchess, with her face dyed red, screams her voice at me.
“When we welcome the envoys sent by the emperor, a party or a ball will be held in the process of welcoming them, but then Reiner and I will inevitably come into contact with each other! For example, holding hands, crossing arms, or even height… Kiss or… “
“… Do I even need to practice that? Can’t we just do it?”
I don’t think even an avid fan who attended an idol handshake event would make such a fuss.
“… Because it is.”
“Yes?”
“For the first time in my life! To have such close contact with a man!”
“…..”
I forgot to take care of my expression because I lost my face for a moment.
What kind of nonsense are you talking about when you and I recently held a wedding ceremony and even kissed while holding each other’s hands?
“That, the situation now is very different from then!”
“… What is the difference between then and now?”
What is that, can I understand it as a question like the extended version DLC of ‘Oppa, did I change anything today?’. From my point of view, it doesn’t seem to have changed at all.
“A wedding is that… It’s one of the most important things in a woman’s life. There is no woman in the world who hasn’t dreamed of something romantic like wearing a white wedding dress, holding hands with the person she loves, exchanging rings and whispering love to each other.”
The Grand Duchess pouting and muttering that.
“There’s no shame in spoiling such a once-in-a-lifetime moment. So at that time, I was patient. And my heart was beating so fast that I even forgot that I was having s*x with another man.”
“…..”
How to say, our Grand Duchess seems to have very girlish thoughts in her heart, unlike her appearance.
“That must have been quite disappointing. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime wedding, and it’s because I have no choice but to spend that time with a man who is in a contractual relationship rather than the person I really love.”
“…..”
For some reason, in order to evoke her strange atmosphere, she made jokes to her grand duchess, but strangely, she did not respond. No, she even looks at me strangely, like someone who found a cockroach cut in half in the rice grass.
“… Fool.”
“Uh… What did you just say? The sound was so low that I couldn’t hear it well… “
“Oh, that’s it! I didn’t mean to hear it anyway!”
What else is wrong with Pinto? The great princess who throws her temper at me for no reason and screams.
“It’s okay, so shut up and practice quickly with me. You don’t know when the Marquis of Illivatus will arrive at the Grand Duchy, so if you delay for no reason, you could face him before you get used to each other.”
Saying that, the Grand Duchess abruptly held out her right hand towards me.
“Give me your hand, please.”
“Yes?”
“Oh, really! Shut up and give it to me! Don’t embarrass me more!”
What is this about? When she hesitated, not being able to reach out her hand due to her unknown anxiety, the grand princess grabbed my right hand firmly and gently put her right hand on top of her own.
“Well then, let’s start with Lesson 1 first.”
“… Lesson 1?”
“Lesson 1. Hands, hold hands. Holding hands. Still, since we’re a married couple, shouldn’t we be able to hold each other’s hands casually?”
The Grand Duchess’ cheeks trembled as she spoke, and her face turned red even more. As if she was forced to endure the shame welling up within her.
“Actually, this should have been said on the wedding day, but a little late, but there is something I’ve wanted to ask you for from a very, very long time ago.”
“…Can you please grant me the right not to let go of your hand?”
But the Grand Duchess, who was actually saying that to me, was holding my hand even tighter than before.
As if he were telling me that he would never let go of this hand twice.