My Childhood Friend the Demon Knight Hates Me - Episode 47: Final Edit
47 Final Edit
Translator: Lioness
Editor: Arya
“Reiss…”
Calling his name with sweetness, he slowly turned around. The red eyes caught me against the backdrop of the golden rain of light.
Once again, when my lips moved unconsciously as I said “Reiss,” Reiss said “Suria”, my name, in response, with a slight embarrassment.
Again, as if to confirm.
“Reiss.”
“… Suria.”
The corners of his eyes relaxed slightly.
A little awkward, but calm, with a clear look at me, Reiss called me.
At that moment, I could feel my face contorting.
Reiss and I, were both alive.
Alive, thus exchanging words like this again.
As I felt it in my body, all the fatigue I had forgotten came rushing back to me. Tears slipped down my cheeks, and I couldn’t wipe them away with my tattered sleeves, and my body slumped.
The spiritual power within me was close to zero. In fact, I could barely stand.
As if I was being sucked in by some gravitational force, Uur shouted in surprise, “Whoa!”
“Suu! Suu!”
But before touching the ground, Reiss caught my limbs.
With a clang, the jeweled sword was thrown from his hand and struck the dry ground.
Reiss then held me in a side hug, folded his knees, and gently looked into my eyes. He held me with such politeness as if he was holding a fragile object… It felt a little itchy.
The ruddy eyes that met up close were swayed in a confused way. Apparently Reiss was deeply wondering what words to speak to me.
“Blackhead! Let go of Suu!”
Uur, who had fallen to my arm, bit Reiss, who still seemed to recognize him as an ‘enemy’, but Fei held Uur’s back as he rampaged, saying, “Don’t disturb me.” The queen disappeared before I knew it.
It seemed that we had returned to the space where we were alone before the battle with the demon began.
In the midst of the twinkling grains of light that fell and melted in the air. In the center of the forest where silence spread, it was just me and Reiss breathing.
The only difference was that I was standing in the opposite position from when I was leaning on Reiss’s lap, and when he held me it was kind of funny.
“… Injury hurts, huh?”
Reiss opened his mouth slightly and asked me so that I could finally squeeze the answer out.
Since the consciousness that had been hijacked by the devil had just returned, it seemed that the situation had not been accurately grasped. Even so, he took a treasure sword and helped me in my crisis, so what should I say … Far from really hating Reiss, I really loved him.
Thinking about that again, and with this close-knit situation, I felt a little embarrassed.
… Oh, but.
I’m not sure if it was the same for me who risked my life for the Reiss.
“Originally, I wasn’t seriously injured. The small wounds were healed by the spirits of the earth.”
With my hair in disarray, I rested my face on Reiss’s chest and shook my head loosely.
It could be said that the body was currently intact.
So I thought I was okay, but Reiss’s face wasn’t clear.
The hand that supported me was also somewhat reserved, as if he was careful not to touch me too much. Maybe he still didn’t feel that he had been freed from the long curse.
No matter how much Reiss touched me, he won’t hurt me anymore.
“And of course, you don’t need to be sorry about hurting me. I don’t remember pointing my sword at ‘Reiss’.”
“But … my clothes and hair …”
“That’s nothing. I was prepared to some extent.”
The long fingers combing through my golden brown hair were still a little awkward.
I would have to apologize to Roa-kun, but I looked at the torn white clothes. The only thing I cared about was the cost of repairing the dress.
No, I’m sure this needed to be remade.
The only thing I was worried about was how much it would cost to dress a spirit princess.
“Reiss?”
There was a pause in the conversation.
Reiss raised his beautiful eyebrows and closed his lips after stammering to say something.
I don’t think it would be appropriate for this occasion to apologize to me like ‘I’m sorry’ for the dangerous thing that occurred earlier, or to say ‘Thank you’ for saving me. Because Reiss felt that way, I’m sure he had a lot of thoughts to convey to me right now, but he was probably suffering without being able to use the proper words.
I feel the same way.
I want to talk to Reiss a lot, but I couldn’t get my feelings up to my throat.
In particular, Reiss, who had been prevented by the devil from speaking his true feelings, might be hesitant to say the words out loud.
With the golden rain, silence piled up between us.
I wondered how much time had passed in this way.
It was not uncomfortable for both of us to remain silent, but … I finally remembered something I needed to tell him that I hadn’t told him yet.
Looking up at Reiss’s well-organized face from below, I called out with a faint smile.
“… Hey, Reiss. Did you know that?”
“Know what …?”
“I’m— you’re actually my first love.”
As if he had been caught off guard, Reiss’s slit-like eyes widened.
Behind Reiss that covered me, particles of light were scattered like stardust in the blue sky, shining brightly, and the eyes that still had a film of tears were slightly dazzling.
… Yes.
Even though Reiss had confessed to me quite passionately that he loved me enough to kill me, I still hadn’t shared my feelings with him directly.
I had to give him that answer now.
Reiss would never know the slightest bit about my feelings from my childhood.
I moved my heavy head and rubbed my cheek against his chest.
He was so strong that he was nicknamed as ‘Demon Knight’, but he was also stubborn and clumsy.
He was my beloved childhood friend who loved me so much that he would sacrifice his own feelings and life to protect me until the end.
“My first love is you, Reiss. I’ve always loved you. I’ve been in love with you for a long time. … and I’m stupid, I still can’t give up my first love. ”
“I love you, Reiss.”
I whispered as I exhaled, trying not to worry about the warm breeze caressing my skin and the burning sensation in my body, and Reiss cleared his throat and looked like he was about to cry.
Then, after a pause of a beat.
With a low-pitched voice that quivered the eardrum directly, he said, “Me too.”
He muttered. He caressed my cheeks with his hand. It was a hand that never wasn’t cold, that didn’t exist in the body such as the devil, and had a certain human-like temperature.
The distance became closer as Reiss’s face became big enough to fill my perspective of view.
I noticed that the overlapping lips would be … forever warm.
“I love you too, Suria”
“… I know.”
When I laughed, “We’re stupid to each other,” Reiss red eyes reflected my face, he smiled beautifully enough to be fascinated, and then gently hugged me.
(TN: This chapter made me feel single =_= >.<)