“……” Something seemed to have flashed by just now.
Sirius rubbed the corner of his eyes and entered the room. His gaze very quickly landed on the slippers that were askew on the floor. The corner of his mouth curved upward slightly.
“Nalun.” He seemed to like to call this name very much, even though he didn’t receive a response.
Sitting by the edge of the bed, Sirius tidied his somewhat disheveled clothes and then pulled a small box out of his pocket.
Sirius: “Baobei~, here’s a gift for you. I’ll help you hide it well.”
He placed the box next to the pillow.
Then, he leaned down, lowered his head, and plastered his ear on the chest and abdomen area of the person on the bed.
The rapid heart rate jumped, beat by beat, completely exposing its owner’s nervousness.
After a while, Sirius sat upright and said rather distressed: “I seem to like you more and more, baobei~”
Nalun’s breathing stuttered. Although he had already known that Sirius felt something unusual towards him, this was the first time he heard these words so straightforwardly.
Sirius, exasperated: “What about you? Have you also stopped disliking me as well?”
The Admiral, who did not received a reply, swiped at Nalun’s chin and cursed softly: “Little bastard.”
The little bastard concentrated on holding his breath.
Nevertheless, his heart rate uncontrollably jumped super fast. The Admiral, who had placed a hand astutely on the other’s body, naturally also noticed this change.
“Your heart rate is beating so fast, baobei.”
Nalun: “……”
Instantly, his ears visibly turned bright red. Hidden under the blankets, his hands moved restlessly. Even though he has proficient acting skills, he could never adjust the frequency of his heart rate.
Sirius chuckled softly: “The way you’re right now…… would make me think you’re feigning sleep.”
Nalun’s body stiffened.
–Then he felt his head being petted.
Sirius sighed, mumbling to himself: “You have made me…… become very strange.”
Nalun thought to himself: You also turned me very strange.
Tonight, there was no kissing.
Surprisingly, Sirius was very wordy, and he didn’t even suppress the volume of his voice. This kind of noise would definitely wake up a soundly asleep person, however, he seemed completely fearless, not worried about this issue at all.
Nalun had no choice but to contemplate deeply about a possibility: Perhaps, Sirius had known he was awake for a while now. Perhaps, this time of discovery was far beyond what he had expected.
But then Nalun very quickly rejected this possibility. After all, when he feigned sleep, he could even stop his eyeballs from turning. He was very confident that he didn’t reveal any flaws.
What surprised him was that Sirius left very quickly. Before leaving, he didn’t even kiss Nalun’s forehead or bid farewell to him softly. He only helped tuck Nalun back into the blankets as usual, then opened the door to the room and left.
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Nalun sat up and took out the gift from under the pillow. He opened the box. Inside, a brooch laid quietly. It was embedded with a clear and limpid green gem, which was a meticulously carved piece of craftsmanship.
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Thinking back then, Sirius was even searching for his one night stand with such great fanfare; After discovering that his partner was Duo Ni, he began to fawn over the other, behaving very passionately and enthusiastically. Yet now?
Nalun climbed out of bed and pulled out the communication device belonging to Duo Ni, which had been laying in the dust for many days. He directly called Sirius’s personal comp.
“Sirius, do you still remember me?”
The Admiral, who was just planning to leave by climbing over the wall, stopped what he was doing: “What’s the matter, baobei?”
Nalun: “Do you speak to everyone so frivolously?”
Sirius was startled: “Only you.”
Nalun couldn’t speak anymore. His heart gradually sank to the bottom of the abyss.
In that instant, a thick sense of grief engulfed him. He felt like he was practically a joke– Originally, he thought that Sirius had felt something for ‘Duo Ni’, but for various reasons, allowed this budding affection to fizzle out peacefully, transforming into a hazy, incorporeal melancholy…… which would ultimately be consumed by the passage of time until nothing remained in the end.
The consecutive days of ‘nightly rendezvous’ deceived Nalun’s eyes, giving him a misperception that Sirius had shifted his affections to his true self. Yet the reality was that……
“En? How come you stopped talking? “ Sirius’s tone couldn’t be more gentle.
The slim man stood on the floor barefooted, thin lips pressed tightly together. A silent and turbulent feeling of sorrow and grief flooded all of his senses and emotions, and in that moment, crushed his extremely strong sense of pride and self-esteem.
Why was he being treated like this?
How can Sirius treat him like this and then flirt with ‘someone else’ right afterwards?
Sirius’s dublicious ‘love’ gave him a painful feeling of ‘being betrayed’.
Rather than enduring the prolonged pain and doubt, why not adopt a more direct and straightforward method.
–It was time to end this farce.
“Nalun?” Sirius called out in confusion: “Did something happen?”
“Don’t call my name!” Engulfed in grief and indignation, the Honored Prince sneered and said furiously: “Perhaps I should bless you and the Mist Bug to have a wonderful, loving romance?”
Sirius: “???”
Nalun took a deep breath and said in an extremely restrained tone: “Don’t come searching for me anymore.”
Sirius furrowed his brow: “Nalun? You……”
The call, however, ended.
He suddenly had a terrible feeling and stared at the contact information on the personal comp for a while– Ever since he realized the true identity of Duo Ni, out of a certain mischievous and indescribable mood, the outwardly cold but deeply passionate Admiral secretly changed the other’s contact name from “Mist Bug” to “Big Baobei Nalun”. After changing the name, it’s been a very long time since he contacted “Duo Ni”. Calls aside, even messages have become very infrequent.
Just now, after seeing the call request coming from the eye-catching words ‘Nalun’, the Admiral, who was intoxicated by love, thought: baobei was finally going to be honest and come clean. Thus he impatiently answered the call and started engaging in verbal flirting.
Changing two different communication numbers, which were essentially the same but had different purposes, into two almost similar names…… was sure to lead to trouble.
Sirius: “……” The conversation just now seemed to have a lot of issues.
The Admiral, who was suspected of having exposed that he ‘already knew the truth a while ago’, felt an intense sense of guilt.
Meanwhile, a certain anguished Honored Prince squeezed his communication device in his hand and slowly, in the aftermath, realized something wasn’t quite right.
He clearly used ‘Duo Ni’’s communication device, but…… what did Sirius call him just now?
It seemed… to be his name. His real name. Nalun.
Nalun: “…….”
He suddenly realized that something worse seemed to have happened. Even more terrible than Sirius peddling two boats.
In the darkness, there was a very long period of quiet and silence. A moment later, Nalun viciously wiped his face with a hand and then started to pace back and forth in agitation. Ultimately, he threw down the communication device harshly.
“What the hell?!” Nalun mumbled to himself angrily: “He called Duo Ni ‘Nalun’?”
He furiously sent the communication device flying with a kick–
“He already knew I was Duo Ni????”
“Fraud!”
“Such a superb performance!”
“What else does he know?!!”
“A malicious scheme! A game of deceit! Shameless and obscene!”
If Sirius already knew his secret a long time ago, then all of those stupid things he’s done using Duo Ni’s disguise, the black history that he had planned to bury forever…… haven’t they all been exposed?! This would also contain…… the origin of all of his misfortunes– The thing that he had racked his brains to deny, almost bearing the name of being a traitor to his nation…… Sirius also knew everything?
“Boom–” A hard to describe, complicated feeling engulfed Nalun.
Leaving and returning, upon entering the door, Sirius immediately saw the Honored Prince flushed bright red, looking like he’s about to faint from embarrassment and indignation.
Sirius coughed and hugged Nalun from behind shamelessly.
“Baobei~?”
The response he got was an extremely lethal glare.
“I……”
Nalun said expressionlessly: “Admiral Sirius, right now it’s late at night. Why would you appear inside the Charvey Estate?”
Sirius: “Nalun, I…….”
Nalun: “At this time, you should fabricate a perfect excuse to fool me and pretend nothing happened.”
Sirius: “Ai, baobei, I……”
Nalun: “You can go call someone else that, alright?”
“Not alright. I only call you this.” Sirius had an expression of ‘since everything was exposed, he might as well get it over with’. Body leaning forward, he swiftly leaned forward and kissed Nalun on the lips briefly, one hand even moving extremely proficiently to grasp the back of the other’s slender neck. The taste of the Honored Prince with his eyes opened was extraordinarily delicious, Sirius couldn’t resist kissing him again.
Nalun turned his head and held up a hand to block him: “Talk properly.”
Sirius grabbed his hand, dark deep eyes looking at Nalun single-mindedly, a thick, undisguised emotion flowing within them.
During these last few days, for the sake of a certain person’s exceptional high pride and self-esteem, as well as a certain mental acknowledgement of his own wrongdoing, Sirius surrendered the right to make decisions. He only hoped to do his best to melt the ice, until he could receive a sweet and wonderful response.
But under the current situation, where everything had deviated from expectations– Where the consecutive days of secret rendezvous have been brought to the light without any warning. And Nalun had also, unsurprisingly, flown into fury out of embarrassment. It wasn’t until facing this very moment of difficulty, that Sirius felt, on the contrary, relieved and released.
Sirius: “Okay, I’m listening.”
–The hand pressed against him wasn’t actually firm. The rejecting manner expressed by the owner of the hand wasn’t actually as unyielding as he appeared outwardly.
This was already a special treatment given to him by a certain Honored Prince, who didn’t like physical contact.
Sirius felt like the happiness and delight within his chest was almost overflowing. His entire being was practically overwhelmed by the emotions known as ‘satisfaction’ and ‘joy’. And this kind of mood was about to transform into an even stronger impulse, making him unable to refrain from breathing heavily.
“It’s not me who should be talking.” Nalun narrowed his eyes and said: “Sirius Monte, you better explain clearly.”
Sirius: “…….”
His palm was touching a warm and soft neck. His tongue still had remnants of the other’s taste. This was the first time they were touching intimately ‘while both awake’, Sirius really didn’t want to talk about mood-dampening things.
“Nalun, everything can’t be any clearer.” Sirius hugged Nalun within his arms.
“Oh, how come I don’t understand anything here?” The Honored Prince, who had awoken from the fog of emotions, was very hard to fool.
Even if he dodged it once, was he supposed to dodge it for a lifetime?
Considering the person before him was the lifetime partner that he had picked, Sirius had no choice but to explain everything in detail.
The more Nalun listened, the darker his face became. When he heard ‘I saw that you didn’t refuse, I became so happy that I came every night’, he furiously shoved Sirius away.
–Wtf, he even knew about him feigning sleep?
Can there be any secrets between them?
Felt like he’s practically suffocating!
Sirius happily stroked Nalun’s neck with a smile: “Baobei~, I have no more secrets from you, how about we……” kiss?
Nalun interrupted him: “No, I’m not in the mood.”
Sirius: “That’s why we have to do something to make your mood better.”
Nalun reminded him: “It’s already past midnight.”
Sirius replied: “Then I’ll watch you sleep.”
Nalun: “……”
Right now, he has a heavy mental trauma towards ‘sleep’. Not to mention, when Sirius said these words, his smile was so ambiguous and profound, it was like some kind of secret signal between the two of them.
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Nalun: Σ (ﾟДﾟ;)… (ノﾟДﾟ) I WAS ALREADY EXPOSED ALL THESE TIME! WTF!
Sirius: Baobei, hehehe, let’s not talk about that anymore, okay?? (╯3╰)(╯3╰)
Nalun: NO! NO KISSES. IMMA SLEEP!
Sirius: ヾ(¯∇￣๑)ヾ(¯∇￣๑) Are you hinting something? Hehe
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how is this so sweet? 😭 my mouth has been stuffed by dog food. sirius has finally caught his baobei, congrats!
thanks for the chapter!
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Im not criticizing the translator im just really annoyed at the story