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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Oh my god, is this a room or a junkyard?”
“Th-that’s why I told you beforehand that it would be messy!”
As soon as we opened the door and entered, we were greeted by the sight of clothes that had been roughly thrown off, piles of papers that looked like military documents, and miscellaneous items scattered messily.
Lassiel, who was next to me, blushed and yelled loudly at my unfiltered honest remark.
No, no matter how much she says she cleans her own room directly due to privacy…
“We have already made a social agreement to call this not a room, but a pigsty…”
“I just forgot to clean up! Don’t get the wrong idea!”
Lassiel protested with a very red face, but honestly, to me, it just sounded like an excuse of ‘yeah, yeah, whatever you say.’
Well, if I put myself in her shoes, I would have been embarrassed too if my room looked like this, but still, it felt like I caught her red-handed and was teasing her.
I’m also the type who finds it bothersome to clean my room and does it all at once, but I’m not the type to postpone cleaning my room to this extent and then do it all at once.
My god, there are even underwear just lying around on the bed over there.
Not even in the laundry basket, but on the bed.
Oh, how unladylike.
As soon as I shook my head in disbelief, Lassiel muttered as if making an excuse,
“…No, I would have definitely cleaned up normally. But this time, I hurried up to the capital and forgot to clean before leaving.”
“I see.”
“It’s true! Rudrick, when someone says something, believe them a little!”
“I never said I don’t believe you?”
“Ah, really… I’m so upset, I feel like I could just fall into the sea and sink…”
Lassiel, who muttered while covering her face, collapsed onto the bed.
From the door to her bed, and then to the desk, she had intentionally cleared a path as if pushing the trash aside.
It was even more irritating in a strange way.
No, if I say it’s irritating, it sounds a bit strange and mean, right?
Anyway, it may be because I’m small, but seeing her acting like a child despite being larger than me, it was strangely cute, should I say?
It felt like hitting a punching bag with a good impact.
A punching bag that gave a very satisfying impact with every one-two punch.
“You’ll clean it up soon anyway. Let’s clean together.”
“…We do need to clean. But I can’t clean right now.”
“That’s why military secrets are rolling around on the floor like this. At this rate, you’ll end up using these secret documents as scrap paper.”
“…Who in the world would be that stupid? That’s just torture.”
“There are people like that, you know.”
Lassiel, who was sprawled out on the bed like her own clothes, mumbled, but the teasing ends here for now.
Since I suggested coming here, I should at least pretend to help clean.
“If you don’t get up, I’ll randomly gather these secret documents and organize them on the desk.”
“…I don’t care.”
“Then should I collect all the underwear and put them outside for laundry?”
“That’s not allowed!”
Lassiel, who had been lying still as if she had lost all her energy, not caring about my words, suddenly sat up as soon as my ultimatum ended.
It was a strange world in many ways.
The sight of such large-sized bra’s lying around, making me think, ‘Is it that big…?’ wasn’t a very embarrassing thing, but if I, a man, were to touch and clean it up, it would make her panic.
And it had already been twenty years since I had roughly adapted and lived in this strange world.
“Wh-what do you mean, you’ll take the underwear and put it away…!”
“Then what about these military documents? It says 2nd-level classified. It’s the latest well-organized intelligence on nearby pirates.”
“Ah, that doesn’t really matter.”
“…?”
It seemed that there were still many things in this world that I couldn’t understand.
But somehow the situation was settled.
After joining forces and cleaning the room with much effort, the situation was somewhat resolved.
The room wasn’t really filled with trash as one might commonly imagine when talking about cleaning a room.
It was just that things weren’t properly organized and were scattered around.
Lassiel stubbornly gathered all her clothes and put them in a basket to be laundered, not letting me touch them.
The documents that were messily strewn about were all organized and placed on the desk, and after throwing away or putting away all the miscellaneous items in their proper places, it was finally done.
“Thinking about it, I feel kind of sorry.”
“For what?”
“For bringing you here and making you clean the room.”
“What are you talking about? You’ll pay me back later with interest.”
“Then should I help you clean your room too?”
“I don’t live in a mess like someone else, you know.”
As soon as we finished cleaning, we sat down on the bed without saying who should go first, and a short banter ensued.
Now that I heard what Lassiel said, it did seem that way.
It’s not like I’m a girlfriend cleaning up a boyfriend’s studio apartment.
Come to think of it, it was a bit unfair.
I vowed to collect this debt with ample interest later, and then conveniently accepted a glass of cold water offered by Lassiel and downed it.
“This is an exception for me too! I hurried up to the capital and forgot to clean before leaving, that’s why!”
“I don’t have such exceptions, you know?”
“…Seriously, you just won’t let it go until the end.”
“An admiral shouldn’t act like an amateur.”
“Sigh, it was my fault for giving you an excuse in the first place. I should have somehow prevented you from coming to my house at all costs.”
I giggled at Lassiel’s grumbling, which made her look several years older in a short moment.
So you shouldn’t give an excuse like an amateur.
This Rudrick Weiss is very skilled at teasing others.
It’s just that I’ve been restraining myself recently.
Well, anyway, I’m also in the position of being invited.
If I keep provoking her and cross the line, the mood will definitely turn sour.
So I decided to stop teasing Lassiel here.
I’m satisfied with the fact that I caught her red-handed for now.
“Oh right. Is there a guest room here… Ah, of course there would be. The guest room isn’t messy like this, right?”
“Of course not. There is a guest room in the first place, but I’ve never used it. Since I have no reason to enter it, it will be nicely set up by the servants just as they left it.”
“That’s a relief. I had a bit of an uncomfortable sleep yesterday.”
“Why?”
“There was only one room available at the inn.”
“…What did you say?”
Oops, was this something I shouldn’t have said?
I spoke without much thought and regretted it, closing my mouth, but I couldn’t take back the words I had already uttered.
Lassiel, whose expression instantly turned serious, asked,
“So, you slept in the same room as Her Grace the Grand Duchess?”
“Well, there was only one room, so we had no choice…?”
“…You slept on the bed, right? Rudrick.”
“…”
No matter what, we stubbornly refused to yield to each other and ended up sleeping on the same bed, but I didn’t lack the tact to say that out loud.
However, Lassiel seemed to interpret my sudden exercise of the right to remain silent in a different way, and she immediately narrowed her eyes.
“No, so she made you sleep on the floor? I didn’t expect that person to really-”
“No, I didn’t sleep on the floor.”
“…Right? Her Grace the Nord Grand Duchess slept on the floor, right? Right?”
“Well, it’s a bit ambiguous to say she slept on the floor…”
It was a sudden dilemma.
Even if this world is a strange one with reversed gender roles and men receive consideration, still, I’m a lower-ranking noble and Eileen is a grand duchess.
If I say I made Eileen sleep on the floor, wouldn’t that be a problem in itself?
No, in fact, if we’re going to nitpick, the very fact that I casually call Eileen by her name could be picked on as much as one wants…
As I stuttered, unable to answer properly due to the momentary overload, Lassiel put on a very serious face, grabbed my shoulders, and asked,
“Rudrick, no, boy. What did I tell you? If that person tries to do something weird?”
“…I don’t like it, you can’t, don’t do it.”
“Yes. You remember it well. Did you say that?”
“Well, the kind of thing Lassiel is worried about never happened in the first place…?”
“Haa…”
As soon as I finished answering, Lassiel held her forehead and let out a deep sigh.
It made me feel strange to be treated like a child left by the water.
“I knew this would happen, so I couldn’t help but worry.”
“…For someone who was worried, you left with a very bright face yesterday.”
“Listen carefully, Rudrick.”
Lassiel’s eyes were unprecedentedly serious.
“I know you don’t mean anything by your actions. I know very well that you just do it without much thought. But other people may not take it that way.”
“…I think there’s a bit of a misunderstanding.”
“I’ve watched you for nearly ten years, so how could I not know? But your thoughts and others’ thoughts are different, Rudrick.”
“…”
My lips automatically pouted.
Well, my actions could be interpreted that way, but…
In fact, it was not that I was doing something wrong, but rather that my values were focused on the memories of my previous life rather than this life.
In the first place, from the point where I was reborn, no, at this point, it would be more appropriate to call it a possession-type reincarnation, with the memories of my previous life intact.
Anyway, from that point on, there was bound to be a discrepancy between my thoughts and others’ thoughts.
“…Rudrick, don’t misunderstand and please listen.”
“Yes?”
“To be honest, those actions… I’m not someone who has experienced dating, but unless you’re an idiot, you can only think this way.”
“…What do you think?”
“That you’re flirting.”
…
What did Lassiel just say?
Flirting.
Flirting…
What the fuck?
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