Chapter 42

Can’t We Just be Happy? (20) – unedited

He looked at Pierre and Raynon again outside, who were still waiting for Merson, and then slammed the door closed.

“What are you closing?!”

“Let’s continue what we were doing.”

He must be crazy…….

Bang! Bang!

“You must go! Demon King! Please open the door!”

It was me who opened the door again. The silver-haired Raynon was crying and hanging in front of the door. That person is scary too…….

“Go back.”

Flinch

The tone was so coercive that it was hard to believe that it came out of Merson’s mouth. For a moment, I thought that he had returned to his Demon King self. However, I was relieved to know that he was still Merson by the action of holding my hand.

“You must go! If you don’t want to go, even if I have to force you…….”

“Force me?”

His lips twisted. It sounded like a light joke. Raynon, who was babbling, took a quick breath and shut his mouth.

No matter how much his memory was lost, the Demon King is still the Demon King.

No one opens their mouths first in the cold air. In times like this, I have to step forward.

“Give me a few minutes. I’ll talk to him.”

When I said that, my body trembled too. The fear that enveloped my body was fleeting, but then it disappeared.

Astonished, I turned my eyes and looked around, and the purple hair of the demon Pierre swayed and then slowly settled down. The demon’s gaze was directed at me.

Bang.

The door is closed. This time it was Merson again.

“I’m not going.”

I came to my senses and took Merson’s hands together.

“Merson, listen. I’ve told you over and over that I don’t want to let you go either, so you know that.”

He nodded. That’s right.

“And I want to believe that you are strong enough not to be annihilated. I wish it were. But, as the demons say, if you are so strong I doubt you can’t find your memories for two years. It sounds like something worrying. So, let’s assume that you return only for an examination. Just like the village elders get a health check.”

“…….”

“You can come back. Even if they stop you, you can break through it, right?”

Of course, the premise is that you want to come back to me. The selfishness in my heart that I had been hiding resurfaced again.

“… we promised three things. Remember?”

“I will not perish, I must come to see Erina, and I will not hate Erina.”

“Good.”

I grabbed his collar and kissed him on the cheek.

“Merson, we won’t be far apart for long. Just for a moment, for a very short time.”

“I can’t do without Erina even for a day.”

“I know. So, in order for us to have more time, we just need to say ‘I’ll be back.”

“…….”

“I can’t even imagine a place without you. Don’t leave me with the anxiety that you might disappear, Merson. please…….”

The tip of my nose was cold. My heart was pounding and my breathing was unstable, as if I had forgotten how to breathe evenly.

I could see Merson’s eyes trembling. We looked at each other without a word. Short of breath and perilous.

And not knowing who did it first, we kissed deeply. Merson wrapped his arms around my waist and I lifted my heels and wrapped my arms around his neck. I closed my eyes and felt his lips, the scent, and the hot tongue pushing into my mouth.

“Hu-uhp… haa.”

The intense kissing continued, making it difficult to breathe. When I turn my head, his lips relentlessly follow and his tongue slides back in. As tears welled up in my eyes, Merson spoke, lightly touching my lips.

“Erina.”

The sound spreads over my burning lips, and Merson’s luscious lips are irritating.

“I don’t like it that Erina is anxious.”

He lowered his head and followed my neckline and kissed it.

“If I can make Erina’s anxiety disappear just by going there, I will. But…….”

But? Merson paused for a moment as I waited for him to continue.

“Ahk!”

Merson bit my neck painfully. Surprised, I grabbed his arm tightly.

“As Erina said, it’s only for a moment. Don’t push me away anymore. Of course, I will go to the capital with you.”

It was his warning. I whispered softly.

“Yes.”

That’s a lie. No, at least my heart was sincere, but I shouldn’t have said yes, knowing that things wouldn’t go the way Merson said.

If he finds his memory, the feelings he had for me will go up in smoke and disappear, and he will return as the Demon King. Whether I go to the capital or not, with him as the Demon King, it doesn’t matter. Also, I was planning to leave for the capital right away, but there was no way Merson could come out of the Demon King’s castle in one day.

Merson met my eyes. I can see that my face filled those red eyes. So clearly.

“If Erina pushes me away even then. I will be angry, and I will be sad again.”

Instead of answering, I stroked his black hair. As has often been the case.

“I’ll be there soon. For you.”

“… yes.”

The door opened again. The two demons who were arguing about what was going on were startled. Then, as Merson strode out the door, Ranon clapped his hands in joy.

“Are you finally leaving?”

“Yes.”

He looks back at my face as he speaks. I motioned for him to go.

Raynon muttered something in his mouth in a hurry as if afraid Merson would change his mind. It was a language I couldn’t understand, but if I could understand it immediately after reading the novel, I guessed it roughly, thinking that it would be like a spell to cast magic.

There was a circle emitting black light on the floor they stood on. Lights as small as powder gathered and embroidered on the sky as if it was pouring gold rain.

But it was the opposite. Raynon raised his arms and stretched them out over, and lights cascaded from the ground into the sky like a waterfall.