NOVEL NEXT chapter 206
206 – 207. Red Tulips.
Center of the wedding stage.
Place a nearby table and place your cell phone on it.
[Groom’s entrance]
I pressed the play button at the right time.
A wedding ceremony that unfolds after some time.
It felt like it was put together well even under circumstances that weren’t at this level.
“It’s okay.”
There are also bouquets
There is also a ceremony hall
In a wedding dress
There is even a YouTube teacher who will take charge of the proceedings.
“Whoa…Haa.”
Hestia, who was sitting on the chair across from him, exhaled lightly.
Looks a little nervous. She probably didn’t have anything to be nervous about, but Hestia couldn’t control her restless body as she endlessly looked into the mirror and played with her collar.
“Why are you so anxious?”
“Huh?! Yes, uhm…”
Hestia was started and placed both her hands on her chest.
Hestia blinked her eyes and pursed her lips several times.
She seemed to be trying to speak, as if it was difficult to speak.
After trying so many times, she finally gave up and Hestia shook her head.
“You won’t believe me if I say it’s nothing, right?”
“I will believe it.”
“…”
“It’s my sister’s life, not mine, right?”
“…If we’re strictly speaking, wouldn’t I be a newbie?”
That’s too much, Chrono.
I thought you would sympathize with me a little.
Hestia smiled bitterly and stood up, holding her chair with her hand.
‘I don’t pity you.’
I don’t know what exactly I should sympathize with.
There was no room for sympathy in the first place.
This is a mutual transaction.
There was absolutely no reason for the housemaster to enter into such a transaction.
“Am I also hated?”
“I don’t particularly hate it.”
I understood and was convinced.
Then there was no reason to hate.
In the end, it was just a difference of opinion. Talking about it any more was just a headache.
“Yeah…I see…”
“…?”
Hestia’s complexion became a little darker.
I feel like my once bright and light smile is fading a little.
How can you make such an expression when you say, “I don’t hate you?”
Hestia took her steps and came out of the stage.
“It would have been better if I had hated it, it would have been better if I had hated it.”
To hate
What I hate is
In other words, it means that my heart has not left at all.
Because my heart doesn’t leave
Because I can’t let go of my heart
That’s why I hate it, that’s why I hate it,
Therefore, there must be a ‘relationship’ that can be approached again.
‘Really, the look in your eyes is as if nothing is wrong.’
What if she had continued the way she did when we first met?
At that time, Chrono felt like he was pushing himself away, but at least he wasn’t completely emotionless.
If enough time had been spent, I think it could have developed a little differently than it does now.
“…Haa.”
No, no.
These are all regrets and an irreversible past.
It is a past that will disappear due to regression, but between Chrono and I, it was a ‘history’ that could never be forgotten.
He is right.
I reached out to simply do
He came to the end of the regression.
The relationship between the two began as a ‘trade’.
But now, when I see it like this…
“I, too, am the undisputed god of Greece.”
“?”
Chrono didn’t understand.
Following the sudden coming out, he even called himself a god.
When I looked at Hestia, wondering what she was asking for, she stuck out her tongue.
‘…It looks okay.’
Even if it’s not okay, it doesn’t matter.
This is, after all, a transaction and a contract.
It doesn’t seem like I’m repaying Hestia’s kindness for helping me…
Anyway, if you received something, it’s right to return it.
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“────”
Hestia looked at her ceiling in silence.
I couldn’t really see the sky or anything.
Because it’s a love hotel.
Because it’s in the hotel.
But beyond that, I gazed at the ‘sky’ above.
‘If I do it, is it okay?’
Anxiety that suddenly arises.
But I force it to be put to rest.
It is something that should not be done.
As a main deity and a virgin deity, this is absolutely unacceptable behavior.
But despite that, she didn’t stop.
I couldn’t stop.
Because I already realized it.
[Groom enters.]
“!,…Ah…”
Chrono, who was sitting next to him, stands up.
Slowly walk to the center of the stage.
Since it is placed inside a love hotel, it moves forward as slowly as possible, but with moderation.
If you think about it, yes.
Hermes once said this.
‘You can see your personality by looking at your steps.’
He was a child who could say things that made sense in strange ways, as if he were the god of thieves.
Footfall. Action. The personality that comes from that.
‘Chrono…Yeah.’
The street where you always go to the playground.
Even though Chrono seemed to be taller in terms of stride length, he walked at his own pace.
Without leaving first. But without falling behind. A man who always walks in sync with his own steps.
‘…But.’
Today was a little different.
He was always ahead.
He didn’t come around anymore.
Just figure it out yourself.
Do it yourself.
Although it followed suit, it was ultimately the result of a deal and promise.
I know that Chrono himself did not follow because he wanted to.
[Bride’s entrance.]
“…”
I stood up.
Heading towards the wedding hall.
Holding the alt-character in both hands, he heads towards the ceremony hall and approaches Chrono.
“…”
‘Ah…’
He is looking at me.
How am I viewed now?
Will it look pretty?
Maybe it looks ugly somewhere.
Could there be something I made a mistake or did wrong?
Anxiety and nervousness. Emotions that were far from happiness and joy kept rising.
And what lifts them up is none other than…
“…”
“…Ugh…!”
Chrono’s expressionless face.
Indifferent eyes, as if not even interested.
Yes.
This is correct.
I expected it to be like this.
That’s because he betrayed Chrono’s expectations.
Because she deceived him just to beat her virginity and to fall into his arms her her her.
Still, if I had hated it, there would have been room for it——I can’t believe such complete indifference.
‘…I don’t like it…’
I’m starting to want to be more and more powerful.
With the authority of God, it makes you want to own Chrono, even if it has to be stamped from top to bottom.
But you can’t do that. That’s why I’m no different from other immature younger siblings.
“…”
But
Nevertheless
No
No
Still
…Stop.
“Chrono.”
“…Huh?”
Hestia stopped thinking.
I cut off all the random thoughts that came up in her head.
All of her thoughts she were consumed and burned by the burning fire of emotion in her heart.
There is no need for anything else.
The only thing that matters is ‘my sincerity.’
Hestia says while looking at Chrono.
“Eye of Kronos, use it on me.”
“…”
Chrono obediently accepted Hestia’s words.
The power that gathers towards the eyes. The power of ‘time’.
The colorless eyes gradually began to take on a darker gray color.
‘If it’s those eyes’
Wouldn’t it be passed down?
It is the eye that looked into my nature and my ‘time’.
If so, you will definitely be able to see my ‘truth’ as well.
“At first… When I first met Chrono.”
Hestia opened her mouth.
“Like Chrono said, it’s true that we met simply because we wanted to mate.”
Ah, I said it.
I ended up saying it.
Do you want to hate it?
Do you want to hate it?
No, that can’t be true.
Because he already ‘understood’ it.
Because I was ‘convinced’ of the instincts and nature of a woman named Hestia.
That’s why I don’t hate it. I am not reluctant.
They just respond with complete indifference.
“But it’s different now.”
And she hates it
She said it hurt so unbearably
I don’t know if it was me before, but now I can’t turn back
Probably, no definitely.
“I am Hestia—”
I held the bouquet in her hands tightly.
Can I say it? No.
One word that must be said even now.
“──I love Chrono.”
“…!”
Ah
I told you.
I ended up telling you.
“I love you.”
Say.
“I love you.”
I say it again.
“Love… I love you… Yes. I think this ‘feeling’ is clearly ‘love’.”
After speaking once, I somehow felt comfortable.
It feels like I’ve escaped from something.
A feeling of freedom and liberation, like a chick breaking out of its eggshell.
“Huh…?”
On the other hand, Chrono seems embarrassed.
Hestia had no intention of stopping.
“At first, I simply wanted to do it. That was it.”
But
As time goes by.
The more we do together.
“I think it’s probably because of ‘regression’.”
Hestia gained ‘freedom’, albeit in a limited way.
“Because I am a virgin. I would never be forgiven for giving my heart to someone…”
The world returns.
The past disappears after a day.
Memories preserved. Memories that continue.
And one uncertain and opaque feeling that has continued throughout this history, but can never be erased.
“More than I wanted to… I wanted to have Chrono’s baby.”
“…”
The full story of wanting to have a baby.
However, Hestia did not know until this time.
“I thought it was simply because Chrono was by my side and my wish was to become the child’s mother.”
The envy I felt looking at other children all my life.
I thought it was uploaded as is.
“…If it’s not Chrono’s child, I don’t think I’ll like it.”
A mind that gradually becomes concrete.
It was confusing at first, but only now can I convey this feeling.
“So.”
Hestia raised her head and looked at Chrono.
Without wavering. Just with infinitely straight eyes.
“I love you.”
Red tulip bouquet.
The language of flowers is a confession of love.