The Demon Lord's Bride (BL)
Chapter 229: Having a clingy fiancé is better than having an ignorant one, right?

Chapter 229: Having a clingy fiancé is better than having an ignorant one, right?

"When is the trial?"

I asked while Natha finally got his breakfast. We were still in the office, because to show that life would still go on, the Lord should still be working. But Natha didn’t let me go back to the quarters or visit Izzi in the research tower.

He wanted me there, with him, period.

"New Year," Natha replied dryly.

"What, on the New Year?!" Arta yelled in flabbergastion. "Are they crazy?!"

Natha shook his head and swallowed the food in his mouth before replying. "The last day of the festival."

"Festival?" I took a grape from Natha’s fruit bowl and popped it in my mouth. There would be another festival? I tried to remember the realm’s calendar. "Ah...the blessing?"

It wasn’t exactly a festival in the sense that there would be loud noises and colorful decorations and parties and all that merriment we had in the summer. It was more solemn, where everyone would offer a prayer to the Demon God and receive His blessing in the Temples. It would be followed by a community banquet where they ate together with the neighbors and everyone. The citizens used this time to go back to their homeland because it was a three-day national holiday.

Natha nodded and pushed the fruit bowl in front of me because I kept stealing his fruit. "It’ll be on the third day, after I put off the beacon in the main Temple."

"Okay, that’s good," I nodded and continued to snack on Natha’s fruit. Jade also came jumping on the table to peck on some small berries that made its beak colorful too.

"Why is that good?" Arta tilted her head, looking at me with a mix of confusion and annoyance.

"Well...I might already get completely healed by that time, so it’s good," I shrugged. "I mean...I don’t know how effective it will be, but isn’t it better to face a trial in peak condition?"

Natha caressed my head and finally, finally, I could see his smile. I guess having his stomach warmed by food made him calmer and think more logically than emotionally.

As expected, food is the best.

"Eruha, I’m going to write a letter to Teacher," Natha said.

Eruha looked up from the paperwork he had moved to the desk. "Okay," he replied with a nod.

"Why your teacher?" I turned to Natha again. The fruit was gone so I picked on his meat this time.

Natha laughed and pushed the meat plate to me before replying in a more solemn tone. "If something happens to you in that trial, she might be the only one who knows how to fix it."

He said it while cleaning his desk and taking out a writing kit. I asked if I should move the plate I was eating so he could write it easier and...you know...so I didn’t accidentally spill something on that nice, luxurious-looking parchment he used. But he just stared me down so I continued to eat my second breakfast in front of his desk.

"But...why didn’t you come to her when I was unconscious for that three days?"

"I would, eventually, if things didn’t work out," he paused his hand in the air to let the ink drip down from the fountain pen. "If you remember, there is no means of communication in her abode, so to reach her, I could only use a letter or go there in person," he explained. "Letter would take a long time since Eruha wasn’t there, and I couldn’t teleport to her abode because it is protected by an anti-magic field."

Whoa...so her place was like a mini fortress? Or could even be a mini-realm separated in another dimension?

"At that time, I need something immediate, and asking the druid seems to be the fastest route," he continued. "If things weren’t worked out, I would have walked over and climbed her mountain again so she could look at your condition."

"But you didn’t need to," I nodded in understanding. "Yaay?"

He bonked me lightly with the back of his fountain pen and finally got back to his writing. As expected, he did it in archaic language, so I couldn’t read it at all. Apparently, it wasn’t even an archaic demonese; it was an archaic common tongue that was used by all races in the past, before they were all getting divided. It was all cursive and beautiful and looked almost like a spell.

Just looking at him writing the letter already put me in a daze. But seeing how it got sent? Mindblowing.

As soon as Natha finished writing the letter and sealed it with black wax and his signature double wings mark, Eruha came to take the letter. I watched the vampire bite into his finger, and then make some kind of mark into the envelope with the smearing of his blood.

And the letter burst into flame.

I blinked and Jade even flinched inside the fruit bowl. We watched in fascination as the flame ’ate’ the latter and vanished in the air. There was no ash or any other kind of residue left, it was as if the letter had never existed before.

"Thank you," Natha said before cleaning out his writing kit.

Huh...what a fascinating way of sending a letter. Was that a vampire-exclusive communication skill? No wonder Natha said it would take a long time if he had to contact her first for my treatment. I bet an ordinary courier wouldn’t be able to come to her abode either.

This got me even more curious about her, and thinking that I might see her sometime in the future got me excited.

But for today, I had to stay in the office while Natha did his routine, because I was not allowed to get out of his sight. Honestly, it was kind of cute the way he demanded it like a whining brat, but I got to see him in his working mode too, so it was fun. Spectacles, mm. Would it be too raunchy to do it in the office?

Oh, no, Val--how naughty! Stop thinking improper thoughts!

While Natha was working, I continued to study what Eruha told me yesterday; about Natha’s assets. And when Natha wasn’t so busy, I would ask him directly about some of his company.

Again, it was fun.

I just didn’t think it would be a routine, a recurring event. Natha was in his clingy mode, but he also had to work, so it left me being the one who hung out in his office day to day. And not just in his office--if he was making rounds, I had to follow him too. If he was in a meeting, I should be there too.

Literally, I need to be in his sight. Even when I went to the bathroom, the guards would stand outside the door, waiting for me. If I said I wanted to take a walk in the garden, Natha would come with me--which was nice, since it became kind of like a date.

It almost seemed like they were preventing me from running away, and it was so funny. I knew they were just being cautious and protecting me, so I didn’t get annoyed or anything. Natha was like a child on his first day of kindergarten who constantly looked for his parent to make sure they didn’t leave him alone in there.

It was cute and saddening. Because I knew where the caution came from. Now that Natha had sent a confirmation that I would go through with the trial, he said there was a possibility that someone might attack me. Someone who thought I might be able to pass the trial somehow and didn’t like it.

Now, it might just be paranoia, because...why would they go through the bullshit of a trial if they would just going to kill me anyway, but...who am I to talk about what might happen in people’s heads? They all might be cuckoo in the head.

That being said, of course I would get bored at some point after days of being...well, Natha’s shadow, so to speak. So a week before the New Year, after Izzi miraculously managed to finish all of Lesta’s orders, I asked Natha if we could go visit the Lair again.

"Now?"

It was clear from the slightly frowning brows that Natha was rather reluctant to grant me this. And I understood that, but his Lair should be even safer for me, right? There were more layers of defensive formation in that tower than in the entire Castle Lord. Not to mention all the golems that could change from housekeeping to war mode with a clap of Angwi’s hands.

"I just want to tell Zia about the trial," I told him, using myself as a weapon by climbing into his lap.

"This is unfair," he said, but the frown slowly disappeared, and after kissing my forehead, he gave me an okay. "But Panne and the guards will come too."

Well, I didn’t mind that. But Natha also ended up walking me to the portal, looking like someone with separation anxiety. Truly, my days were filled with the sight of his face these days--we even took a bath together these days. And it was only after a rather long kiss that he let me cross the portal.

I couldn’t help but laugh at his cute antics that made Jade annoyed because now the little bird couldn’t find alone time with me. I couldn’t laugh anymore though, when Zia cried so hard as I told her about the trial.

"It’s fine," I patted her hair. "I’m confident about it. I can do it."

She cried even harder then, and it reminded me of the time I was about to move to the Lord Castle. At this point, we might end up having a party and getting drunk with our pajamas on again. But I just laughed and let her hug me while caressing her back. Jade joined us and spread the colorful wings on my and Zia’s cheeks, and even Ignis lightly flicked its tail on my shoulder.

"Can I join the hug too?" Izzi suddenly asked from the side, and with a laugh, I spread my arm and the hugging circle got wider. Even Zia didn’t mind and we just continued to hug for a long time.

Yeah. I definitely can do it.

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