Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
Jill
—Become stronger. Then surely, that power would become an aid in protecting his loved ones. At times when doubt emerged, this was the scene he recalled.
What he remembered was always beautiful.
Why? Because only the most special ones were selected, and then lined up in that neatly arranged jewelry box.
Thus, always, the memories were gentle and warm.
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“Oi Jill, I heard about it. You quarrelled with your soulmate, eh?”
“……”
“To be fair, unlike your looks, you’re empty inside. It’s probably a pain for the other person too. See, this is why you should have listened to me and learned how to pick up girls. It’s because you’re so stubborn and refused to come with me, there’d even been a time when rumours went around that you couldn’t get it up.”
“Your Majesty, it ain't convincing when you say that while lying on the floor.”
An imposing, sonorous voice.
With a vigour full of majesty, the Empire’s most exalted man, supposedly. How ‘noble’ was he, really?
And how many times had he asked himself this question?
In his innermost thoughts, Jill was puzzled.
“After all— Jill, you told me to repent! Do you know I’m the Emperor? You, do you have any awareness that you’re kicking the Emperor around?”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
“Cj, mfgajlcis.”
“Tbe ralii jgfc’a wbnlcu atja obba bo sbegr, atbeut? Xfaalcu rafqqfv bc ys j yfjealoei kbwjc lr ws qifjregf, yea lo la’r sbe jcs fzmlafwfca lr vfjv, bxjs? Tbe kfgf qgfaas meaf jr j xlv atbeut.”
“……”
Vegf fcbeut, tf kjrc’a jc fzlrafcmf jr ‘fzjiafv’ jr mijlwfv. Cr Llr Zjpfras rtba boo fzmerfr klat j ijhs abcf, Alii ofia ilxf geyylcu tlr afwqifr.
With a small sigh, he lowered the feet used to step on the man.
Finally released, His Majesty wriggled like a caterpillar, crawling far away from Jill.
“What’s going on? Why is His Majesty tied up like a worm?”
That was Seth, who had only recently arrived, asking in an astonished voice.
It was an extremely trivial matter, and not worth the effort of telling the whole story. As soon as he realised Jill wasn’t going to open his mouth, His Majesty jumped at the opportunity to mouth off his explanations.
“It wasn’t anything that bad. I was just in my room, nothing special, just making a little magic platform by the window so I could make a slide, and then Jill came in and tied me up.”
“Ah, so it’s Your Majesty’s fault again. Even though Your Majesty already knows the Commander will get mad, why does Your Majesty always do this?”
“Well, it’s my free time. Should I conquer a country to pass the time?”
“It doesn’t sound like a joke, so please stop.”
“It isn’t a joke, okay? Hey, Jill.”
Jill had quietly distanced himself from the back-and-forth happening in front of him.
He also blocked Seth’s gaze as the latter looked at him.
Seeing Jill, who was unmoving like an icicle, Seth shrunk back three steps. Not because of Jill’s icy stillness, but because he had noticed it.
For the first time in a long while, Jill was not hiding his anger — it was terrifying.
“H, hey~! Did you do something, Commander is gonna snap!”
“HA HA HA!”
“No, if you don’t fess up I’m the one in trouble! Every time your Majesty messes up, I’m the one that has to wipe after your ass.”
“Hmm, that way of talking is putting me in an unpleasant mood.”
“…….Geez, even I’m going to lose my temper.”
It was useless to ask for seriousness when His Majesty wanted to fool around.
It was time for Seth to also learn this. Otherwise, he would try to face him earnestly, and would at most be toyed around and teased like he was now.
For a while, Jiill waited and watched the back-and-forth.
But the ‘play’ kept going on no matter how much time passed, until Jill became fed up and killing intent leaked out.
“……”
“……I get it. Don’t be so angry, Jill. If you lose your temper so easily, you’re going to drive your soulmate up the wall and get thrown away, you know? After all, he’s a human unlike us, his ‘attachment’ to a soulmate isn’t that strong.”
Jill realised he was changing targets to him.
And yet, when it came to Lilius, his control was ineffective. Like a brake was broken, Jill’s heart was abuzz.
Even as a passing shadow of his imagination, the thought of being thrown away by Lilius caused the berserk monster of his attachment to rear its head.
As usual, his expression was unchanged.
However, in sharp relief, the slitted pupils showed Jill’s heart more eloquently than anything else.
“Kekeke. Teasing you is really fun.”
“Good for you.”
“It’s the affection of friendship. With this, I’ll forgive you.”
“……”
The joking smile just now had disappeared.
Magic ropes reduced to ashes, His Majesty seated himself on the throne and crossed his legs elegantly.
Within that splendid stature wrapped in sturdy muscles was a monarch’s composure and majesty.
Combing a hand through his luxurious, dazzlingly glittering golden hair, the corner of his lips quirked up — the figure of this handsome man was a reminder that this was the aloof Lord.
Were he to act this way routinely, there would be nary a complaint.
However, it was a hopeless thing, trying to rectify his true nature, at heart a light-hearted man who hated serious matters.
Since Jill met His Majesty when he was less than ten years old, His Majesty had not changed.
Translator:
Trying to convey the difference in speech patterns of THREE PEOPLE at once so readers can distinguish them because English writing doesn’t incorporate tones/ticks as much….. *wipes sweat*
It’s been a while since I translated Jill’s POV and I don’t know if it’s just this chapter but he’s so wordy and fancy and HARD TO TRANSLATE.
Ah yes Jill’s POV. Definitely looking forward to that. This berserk monster of attachment towards Lilius is very interesting, will it evolve?
Thank you for the chapter!!!
I like the friendship between Jill and the emperor. Who else would get to step on the Emperor and just get teased in return?
Thanks for the chapter <2
thanks for the chapter! ♡
I’ve been stacking the chapters since chapter 87, and seeing that it passed chapter 100, I thought Jill and Lilius had at least being lovey dovey and at most had one more cute baby (I kept checking the tags, and made sure that the mpreg tag is still there). But… (っ◞‸◟c)
I’ll be patiently waiting… (●’▽’●)ゝ
loool sorry man, these two have the emotional maturity of pigtail pulling children. i’ll say that the current arc will have progress though.
this lion should learn from a dragon on how to chase their wife… so weak
thanks for the chapter!