Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
Closing my eyes, I received several more kisses—so many kisses I lost count. Afterwards, I looked at Jill who was lying next to me and naturally asked him a question.
“Are we mates?”
“Eh?”
“……Others have said I’m very important and Jill’s mate, but I’ve never heard you say it yourself. Lately, I’ve really realized the importance of mates to beastmen.”
“I see.”
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Jill supported his head on one hand, and looked up at the distant skies. His free hand curled my hair around his fingertips, intermittently stroking the strands.
“P’w regf Oliler lr ws wjaf.”
“……Lwww.”
“Tbeg ojmf lr gfv jujlc. Tbe’gf fjrs ab ecvfgrajcv.”
“Vtea eq!”
P ugjyyfv j cfjgys qliibk jcv qgfrrfv la bc tlr ojmf.
P tfjgv j weooifv ijeut atgbeut atf oieoos wjafglji, jcv vfoijafv klat vlrugecaifwfca. P tjv j offilcu atja abvjs’r Alii kjr yflcu wfjcfg atjc ereji. P tjv cb lvfj ktja ab vb — cb wjaafg ktja P rjlv, Alii kbeiv pera ijeut ilxf atja jcv P mbeivc’a vb jcsatlcu.
As I was complaining about this in my mind, Jill suddenly opened his mouth with a serious look on his face.
“But, my idea of ‘mate’ may not be the same as everyone else’s.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s said that mates are souls attracted to each other, isn’t it? But for me, I believe a mate is a way of loving.”
“……A way of loving?”
It was an abstract term, so it felt like I understood it but I didn’t. If it was other things, I would have left it at that, but this topic was important to me.
When I asked him to explain almost snappishly, Jill chuckled again.
“That’s right, to me, a mate is someone whose name is ‘carved into my very soul’. When I make the vow to love that person and only that person no matter what, the vow is entrenched deeply into the memory of my soul. Even if everyone forgets Lilius, even if Lilius disappears from this world, I will only love you until the very moment my life ends.”
Translator:
Update 2/2
Me realizing as i translate that Jill is describing the popular concept of soulmate: they aren’t the same thing? 😮
Also that’s one hell of a flag if I’ve ever seen one.
Wow, this white lion is really something else. I like his definition of mates, faithful untill the very end. 😳
Thank you for the chapter!!! 💖
This flag feels like the opposite will happen. Jill dying and Lily taking care of the kids and watching the estate alone till his last breath