For there to be such a wonderful person in this world, and on top of that to be able to stay close to her .. is this a paradise on earth?
Is what I am often talking about with my older twin sister.
I, as well as my sister Anjiu, have completely become Ririinsama’s captives.
In a certain meaning, if there was such a thing as a Ririina faith I have absolute confidence I would belive in it.
But recently it seems there are times when my and Anjiu’s opinions don’t fully overlap anymore.
The recent me has, from time to time, times when .. well .. I think of Ririinsama as c-cute.
When I tell this to Anjiu she looks at me with a meaningful gaze and says ‘Even Aren has at last decided to partic.i.p.ate in the battle, huh~’.
What battle, she wouldn’t say.
I wonder whether even I can become a man capable of standing at Ririinsama’s side.
Right now, the one who stood closest to Ririinsama, though vexing to admit, must have been Christopher-sama, I suppose.
He had the social standing, was older, and he probably had the open-mindedness to indulge Ririinsama as well.
However, I, too, can’t just stand by and watch.
Speaking of points that I can appeal with to Ririinsama .. it’d be this first!
Ririinsama held interest in my bare-handed style.
The point she had an interest in was a bit strange, but that’s unmistakably like Ririinsama.
I often accompany Ririinsama when she goes monster hunting.
Or rather, pretty much every time.
The other day as well we went out to hunt down an outbreak of slime-type monsters.
They weren’t strong, but their numbers and difficulty to kill them were problematic.
The weakness of a slime was the core floating inside it’s body, that’s what made it move.
That is why when defeating them speed was the main demand. In a way it was most suitable to me and Ririinsama.
At that time, in the end me and Ririinsama ended up defeating most of them.
Ririinsama was a great sword wielder as expected.
That Ririinsama was closely observing me as I was fighting the slimes.
I was of course fighting them barehanded.
I incessantly quickly made sure of the cores in their bodies and launched my fists.
The slimes that got their cores damaged couldn’t maintain there form and collapsed on the spot.
“As expected! The techniques Aren-sama can draw out from that fist!”
Ririinsama happily touched my fist with both her hands.
“To bring out that skill from this hand!”
She said as she fondled my fist.
Perhaps because the males she had gotten close to so far were people like Leon and her Brother Ricardo, she had no sense of danger towards guys it seemed.
Isn’t it bad to so easily grasp the hand of a guy and pat it like that?
What’s more, if Ririinsama who I carry favour for, does such a thing ..
However, I won’t do a stupid thing like shaking her off out of embara.s.sment here.
After all, this is a valuable moment where she comes into contact with me of her own.
I would want to feel this happiness for even a bit longer, right?
I had Ririinsama touch my hands until she was satisfied.
“.. ah.”
Ririinsama finally realised the fact that she was holding my hand.
It seemed she got embara.s.sed that she had held onto it for so long.
“A, ano, Aren-sama .. how to say it, I’m sorry for touching you like that!”
Are?
Is she perhaps being a bit conscious of me?
She apologized to me with slightly red cheeks.
“Not at all, I am glad that Ririinsama would have an interest in it. Also, this has been on my mind for a while now, you can call me Aren. Appending -sama to me isn’t necessary.”
“Eh, but ..”
“Right now I am someone who one sidedly asked of Ririinsama, and is taken care of in this territory by you. If you appended such a honorific to me despite that I would be embara.s.sed for it.”
I purposefully showed her a troubled face.
To which Ririinsama resolved herself and called my name.
“I, I understand. Then Aren. This is fine, isn’t it?”
Ririinsama is calling my name without honorifics in an unused manner.
Uwah~ I’m even happier than I thought.
“Yes, thank you very much! Also, you don’t need to use formal language with me either, so I’ll request that the next time, alright.”
Ririinsama made a troubled face in response.
That face is cute as well~ though thinking that has to be proof that have completely fallen for her, I guess.
Or more like, how the heck did that Leon ever manage to treat this lovely Ririinsama with an att.i.tude like that.
I’m sure gynophobia is something difficult for outsiders to understand, but couldn’t he have managed something for her sake.
I do feel bad for Leon for saying this, but if it was me I could accomplish anything for her!
I respect her to that extend, and right now there are feelings sprouting within me that go even beyond that.
Honestly I think there are many rivals, but I have no intention to lose.
But, nothing has changed about the fact that Ririinsama’s happiness is the most important to me, which is why I wish that if possible I will be the one to make her happy.
— around that time
Anjiu and Sana, who had gotten close to each other, were in the middle of talking in the mansion of the territory.
” .. and with that Aren has finally entered the battlefield as well, you see~.”
“Ara, Aren-sama decided so only now? I had the impression he had done so quite a bit ago, but ..”
“Well, the person in question probably wasn’t aware and unconsciously doing so.”
“In that case, since Chris-sama as well has returned to his country, now would be his chance, wouldn’t it?”
“That’s right~ He absolutely has to give it his best! If, in the case that Aren ends up marrying Ririinsama, … Ririinsama as my sister-in-law .. fufu, I might end up dying out of happiness~~!!”
“Anjiu-sama is liable to running wild, as well. .. As for me, as long as it is someone who can make Ririinsama happy, they would be fine. I hope someone like that appears soon.”