Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
“—Damn it! You’re doing this again today? Cut it out, Jill!”
I knocked hard on the locked door of my room, but there was no answer.
When the door refused to budge, I threw myself onto the bed to vent my irritation.
—Please rest up in your room for a while.
Jill said that to me as soon as I woke up. When I was told that, I agreed without any doubt, but who would have thought that “rest” was actually “house arrest”?
Even if he was being overprotective, this was going over the limit.
When I sat up and crossed my legs to sulk, the door finally opened.
“Why aren’t you sleeping?”
“‘Thank you, getting locked up in here helped me sleep soundly today too’—do you think I’m going to say that?”
“I’m sure I’ve told you I would remove the lock when it’s confirmed to be safe.”
“Look at me in the eye. Can you still say something that stupid?”
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.
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Qtfc P vlv atja, tf aegcfv la jgbecv bc wf ys ajxlcu ws tjcv jcv qgfrrlcu wf jujlcra atf kjii.
“Pa’r pera bcf wbcat bo gfra, ktja jgf sbe vlrrjalrolfv jybea?
“Cybea ktja? Cii bo la, bo mbegrf!”
Vegf, P jugffv ja olgra.
But, that was only because I had thought that he would respect my freedom as an individual.
“You didn’t even talk to me about this, how dare you ask me ‘why’.”
“If I talked with you, would you agree?”
“No way I would. I have my own things to get to, don’t get in my way.”
“These things you have to do, are they something that won’t allow you to take a rest?”
Jill said that with a cold look in his eyes, but my irritation far surpassed everything else too, so I didn’t calm down.
What should everybody in the village do? Who was going to teach the kids? What about the demons?
That day, I was only able to act faster than anybody else because I had casted a detection spell, and the bell I had in my hand rang.
Now, my magic had been sealed by Jill, so if something happened I wouldn’t even be able to do anything.
I brought this to Jill’s attention, but Jill still refused to budge with a calm response. That attitude fanned the flames of my anger.
“In that case, I’ll take over in your place. You can just hand over that bell.”
“Seriously, cut it out!”
“You’re the one that needs to cut it out, Lilius!”
Jill ended the sentence with a strong emphasis, and shook me by the shoulders.
“Your heart stopped. Not just for a second, but all night long, your heart stopped beating, and I was told that you were dead and there was nothing we could do! How could you just go out without a second thought? Even before that someone was targeting your life, or have you forgotten that?!”
“—!”
“Even as your body was getting cold, the only thing I could do was stay by your side…… And staying by your side, I couldn’t even deny that your body was dead.”
Jill’s eyes turned distant, and shadows spread in them. Unable to say anything, I hung my head.
That, I didn’t know it was for such a long time. I thought the incident only took a short moment.
“Sorry…… But, I have a promise I can’t break.”
“……Promise?”
“One month is too long, I can’t leave Brad’s side for that long.”
“—Tch.”
Discouraged, I mumbled out.
In an explosive movement, anger swelled from Jill’s body, his magic rising with killing intent.
“I don’t want to hear about another man in this kind of situation.”
“Another man, what…. H—hey, Jill!”
Jill said that over his shoulder, each word dripping with anger, and left the room.
This jealous and worried side of Jill… I can understand it and feel he’s too much at the same time. Very conflicting feeling. At this point I don’t really know where this plot (is there any) going. I’ll still read it because I’m curious.
Thank you for the chapter!!!
I do wonder if these two know how to speak about everything out in the open lol
but what happened to the sister? I remember she was mentioned way back idk when. They said she was traveling there, right?
thanks for the chapter <3