Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
Jill 28
Lilius, who finally arrived, treated Guy with surprising gentleness.
He had thought Lilius would perform the medical examination more coldly, but instead Lilius was very patient and tolerant, which took him off guard.
Taking advantage of the absence of Lilius’s habitual frown, Guy was behaving like a spoiled child.
“My tooth hurt.”
“I know, and you’ve endured it well. You did great!”
“……Great?”
“It must have been really painful for you. You endured it so you wouldn’t make Jill and others worry, didn’t you? Because Guy is a strong kid.”
“Un.”
Lilius caressed him gently.
Guy nodded docilely, and snuggled up against his palm.
Watching this scene, once again, Jill thought, “I like him.”
Because even though he had said, “I hate kids, I’m no good with them,” his face was gentle.
“From now on, don’t bear with it and make sure to tell people earlier. If you do that, then you’ll be able to get better faster, okay? Now then, here’s a reward for doing so well while I was healing you. Go and play together with Cyril.”
“—! Thank you!”
Taking the toy handed out by Lilius, Guy ran off. When that retreating figure finally disappeared, all at once, the grumpy Lilius was back.
What a pity. He would have liked to watch Lilius’s gentle face for a little while more.
But, this Lilius with a familiar expression was also cute.
—His thoughts had even gone to this point. That was a shock.
Even though he had been saying that it would eventually be forgotten as long as they didn’t meet as much, just one glance had Jill like this.
Pathetically and awkwardly, he ignored Lilius’s gaze.
“I’ll leave the rest to Belus.”
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Tossing it all away, he left the room in a hurry.
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Qbeivc’a la yf gevf ab ojmf Oliler klat jc byilnlber ojmf, ktfc tf tjv tlvvfc wbalnfr lc tlr tfjga?
Ktfc, mbeiv Alii rjs la, jybea ilxlcu tlw?
Lf kjr ja atlr juf, sfa tf kjr ralii oierafgfv ys remt qjatfalm atlcur.
Countless silent arrows with “loser” flags stabbed into the back of the fleeing Jill.
He could get away with this.
Thinking that way, Jill was relieved. But Lilius didn’t let him go.
“Oi, what the heck is up with you since the other day? You’re avoiding me like the plague, have I done something?”
“……No, that’s not it.”
“What a half-baked answer. If you have something to say, just say it.”
Jill, who was caught, let out a sigh.
There was nothing he could say.
It wasn’t like Jill could tell him, “I figured out I’m in love with you, so that was troubling me,” could he?
He couldn’t do that, so Jill decided to stop running away and instead deflect the conversation.
“By the way, sorry about calling you when you must have been busy. I’ll escort you back. You’ve even gotten Guy a gift…… Thank you.”
“It’s fine, it’s nothing special. I usually use sweets, but Guy’s got a bad tooth. It was just a substitute for that.”
“Do you always walk around carrying sweets?”
“Well, yeah. It’s because kids cry too easily.”
Leaving the entrance, we walked in the town’s direction.
In the noon of this quiet town, the leisurely cloud floating in the blue sky was peace itself.
The road to walk while listening to Lilius’s story went by in a flash.
With his clumsy kindness, he showed his love in his hard-to-understand manner.
Lilius had a disgusted face while narrating about the children living in the village. But Jill knew that only his mouth was bad — his eyes were gentle.
When it came to him, the majority of his words and behaviours were just a pretense of evil, which seemed to be the armour to protect his heart.
At first, that discrepancy had made him curious.
Compared to the haughty attitude he adopted, in truth he was reserved and didn’t do things like insulting others. It was a mismatch.
The more Jill knew about Lilius, the more he was curious about what he was thinking.
Even when he was actually happy, he would answer brusquely, not being honest at all.
Why did Lilius hide his real heart to such a point?
If he was more frank, he would be able to get along better with the people around him, so why did it seem like he tried to be disliked?
These things must have been the impetus.
But at some point, he noticed that those were Lilius’s version of expressing his love.
And then by the time he realised it, he had already fallen in love with Lilius.
“……Are you listening to me?”
“Ah, sorry. My mind was away.”
Too submerged in his thoughts, it seemed that he had been staring too intently at Lilius.
His beautiful face turned crimson in shyness.
—I want to touch him.
There, standing before Jill — he wanted to touch Lilius. To hug him.
Desire and reason began to whirl around, chasing after each other. Jill, who was flung about by these feelings, was in total exhaustion.
“I knew it. Something’s up, isn’t it?”
“No.”
“If I’m being a nuisance, you can say so. If you hate me that much, I won’t come to you anymore.”
“Wait, that’s not it.”
Jill grabbed Lilius’s arm as he tried to walk away.
Disregarding Jill, who was struggling with his words, Lilius said:
“It was my bad, before. Even though I was drunk, I’m pretty sure I did something rude. I didn’t know that you would be this angry.”
“…… Do you remember that?”
“Aa. ……That’s why, I wanted to properly apologise. But I couldn’t meet you, and I was being avoided by you. I know you hate me, but if you’re going to act like that, you might as well say it clearly.”
“……No, that’s not it.”
It’s not at all because I hated it.
It wasn’t hate.
Rather, it was—
“Then what is it?”
“…………I,”
—like you.
A slight pause, and then the words spilt out, scattering.
He couldn’t disobey that strong gaze. He should have swallowed them down, yet they leaked out anyway, rising from the back of his throat.
From this point onwards, it would be impossible to keep hiding it. He was yearning for him so much to the point he wanted to monopolise him at any moment, so how could it be possible to do something such as forgetting this?
His guilty conscience had made the words catch in his throat.
However, after making a sound, the words flowed easily.
It terrified him, looking into Lilius’s eyes. Simultaneously, his heart ached at the possibility of being disliked.
He feared that Lilius might regard him with contempt, for approaching him with such intentions.
“Ha? That, what did you just say?”
“I don’t hate you. I like you.”
“…………”
Lilius’s eyes were wide open. In those beautiful black eyes, the sunlight shone, and they glittered brightly, like jewels.
The slightly agape red lips repeatedly opened and shut, but eventually the surprise faded, and Lilius opened his mouth as if the thought plagued him.
In Jill’s mind danced the words once said to him by Seth and His Majesty the Emperor.
“Making light of people’s hearts, one day you’ll be at the other end yourself.”
OMG (ﾉ*>∀<)ﾉ♡ good job, Jill! ٩(๑>∀<๑)۶♡
Thanks for the chapter~ (✿>ω<✿)~♥
Gosh Jill. And Lilius too.
Idk what to do with you two kids. You both like each other, yet always skirting around those feelings… sigh.
Thanks for the chapter <3
Go Jill, Go!! Chase that tsundere!!
Lily should face properly this confession and speak his True thoughts. I hope he won’t take it as a joke.
Thanks for the chapter!
Wow, this is one of the most vicious cliffhangers in this story so far. But, yeah, well done Jill, I bet Lilius didn’t expect this kind of thing.
Thank you for the chapter!!!
Yay~ i catch up ♡
Go jill!
Yay! Papa finally got some courage! Thank you for the update.
thanks for the chapter!