I Was Confessed to by the Golden Sun

70 – 70. Too Cute Kum Taeyang

Lucia’s eyes widened as she tried to speak with her mouth covered.

I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw her struggling while vigorously moving her tongue.

“W-what…?”

Unable to withstand the back-and-forth gaze, Lucia finally released her lips first and turned her head.

It was rather unusual considering her usually headstrong behavior, but given the state of her self-esteem about her appearance, it made sense.

“I mean, she’s already so beautiful. I wonder how much prettier she’d be with makeup…” I suppressed such thoughts and gently held her chin, turning it towards me.

She responded with a pouty expression, avoiding eye contact. “I told you, Lucia is the most beautiful in the world.”

“You’re lying. You’re just being too nice and taking my side for no reason.”

“I’m sure you’ve heard a lot of compliments about your beauty from people around you, haven’t you?” Lucia, at her level, might not know, but she probably received a lot of compliments from those around her.

At first, even without the label “Golden Sun,” I might have fallen for my ideal type.

But, to my surprise, Lucia pushed her lips forward and answered.

“…I’ve heard such comments a lot, and they say I look a bit feisty.”

“With this cuteness, who says that?”

“Ee-ssi… don’t tease me.”

Judging solely by the first impression, she seemed like a cat with raised eyebrows.

With her blonde, tanned, delinquent-like appearance, she might come off as a bit fierce.

However, despite that, Lucia was undeniably beautiful.

Moreover, even though she appeared fierce on the outside, she seemed cuter and softer on the inside than anyone else, especially at this moment.

“It’s probably because of the coNT*Rast between appearance and behavior that makes her more attractive.”

Lucia’s actions embodied an adorable cuteness that Golden Sun would probably never engage in.

How can you call actions like rubbing your face against your chest or playfully petting your head “Golden Sun-like”?

“Of course, I hope she refrains from touching my body without permission or grabbing my buttocks…”

Perhaps it was due to her blushing cheeks, but I didn’t find those actions too embarrassing.

If this trend continued, I thought Lucia might even embrace me without hesitation.

“Hmm… uhem!”

As if calling me for such thoughts, Lucia cleared her throat a few times and stretched her arms out to the sides.

It felt like she was pretending to soar into the sky, just like when you see a baby bird that can’t fly.

Unable to move due to her cuteness, I chuckled, and Lucia soon inflated her cheeks roundly.

“hehehe…”

As I laughed and hugged her, she let out an adorable sound while exhaling the air from her cheeks.

If cuteness were a crime, Lucia would probably be serving a life sentence.

Thinking that, I hugged her and gently stroked her soft neck.

“Uh, can you stop now?”

Dylan, who had been watching us, spoke uncomfortably.

And next to him, the Crown Prince, standing there with a Buddha-like smile…

No, why is that guy so intimidating? Seriously.

“Really… I might just devour you soon.”

In the midst of this confusing situation, an even more bewildering statement reached my ears, and I was startled, lowering my head.

As if Lucia had been waiting for me to turn my head, she lightly kissed my lips.

With one eye squinted and sticking out her tongue, she made a sound, “Bleh!”

Honestly, it was more cute than anything else, but I just smiled without mentioning it.

“…What, not even a reaction to this?”

She poked my belly, grumbling in a teasing manner.

“You’re such a fool who can’t even eat properly. What will you do in the future with such clumsiness? Hmph!”

As if that wasn’t enough, she playfully teased me and grabbed my arm, preventing me from talking and pulling me closer to her.

Thanks to that, Lucía became the one hugging me again.

I slowly looked directly into her eyes, which were avoiding mine, and scratched her cheek before speaking.

“Get ready for later; I won’t let you speak so boldly then.”

“Huh?”

Lucía, who had wanted to tease me to her heart’s content, was now at a loss for words.

I found her cute but annoying in that state, so I whispered quietly in her ear.

“After we finish this, I’ll make a hotel reservation for us to have fun. Look forward to it.”

“Uh… huh…”

I looked at Lucía, wondering if I had gone too far, but she just laughed with her mouth wide open.

Well, aside from her slightly ominous expression, it seemed fine.

In that state, I turned my gaze to Dylan and the Crown Prince, and the Crown Prince began to explain as if he had read my mind.

“There were facilities that seemed like they were trying to create something, but everything has been destroyed. It is presumed that they were used to create these piles of scrap metal. Apart from that…”

The Crown Prince said that and then kicked the three broken Humonculus on the ground.

“Come to think of it, this is also strange.”

Originally, these Humonculus were meant to find a proper use for them.

So, of course, now is not the time for these Humonculus to die.

‘In the original, there was only one Humonculus that was killed when Heidi and her group entered the lab and cornered the Crown Princess, ending the seventh episode.’

Of course, the timing now is far ahead of that, and naturally, they should be alive now.

‘If the Crown Princess had escaped from here, there’s only one possibility.’

For some reason, the Crown Princess had chosen to dispose of everything she could gain from them.

And the reason why it’s worth disposing of the Humonculus…

‘This is getting complicated again.’

“It feels like the deduction is constantly returning to square one.

Since there are no clues, there is no way to figure out the overall development, and it is frustrating.

While pondering the whereabouts of the princess, she suddenly realized something.

“Oh, by the way, there’s something peculiar.”

Dylan looked at us and repeatedly picked up and caught the pearl in his hand.

He grabbed a distinctive red pencil on the desk in the corner of the laboratory and started approaching the wall.

After tapping the white wall in the corner a few times, Dylan put the tip of the pencil there and moved his arm to draw a line.

“..What are you doing? Shouldn’t we stop him?”

“Let’s leave him alone for now. He has a thought behind it.”

Honestly, it seemed like such a random action that I had a slight doubt.

But if it was according to the original, Dylan was not the type to do pointless things, so I just silently watched him.

“But that still seems a bit extreme.”

I tried to think that way, but his actions continued.

It wasn’t just drawing lines with a pencil for a moment, but lines that started from the corner and continued in various places.

Watching him tirelessly roam around the laboratory without a break, I began to feel that his reliability was diminishing.

“Is that really okay? It just seems like doodling out of boredom.”

“It can’t be like that.”

If an interior designer were to see it, how many of those red spatial arrangements that would make them want to step forward and shout ‘Wow!’ have continued?

At that moment, when I was half-distracted, he suddenly waved his hand straight out and connected the ending of the uninterrupted line to where he had first started drawing.

After placing the pencil back on the desk and taking a few steps closer to me.

Turning around in a circle, he looked up at the ceiling and then stretched out his hand.

“Don’t anything come to mind? If you are a person who uses magic, this should be a pattern they have seen a lot.”

“…”

Dylan, who spoke as if he had already spoon-fed everything, gave me a feeling of not quite understanding.

Although I studied hard in the subjects at the Academy, I couldn’t understand what he was saying about drawing and seeing things in reality.

My inclination to use only explosions instead of using many different types of magic probably played a role as well.

“What should we have for dinner tonight? Jack, do you have anything you want to eat?”

Lucia, who wielded a club instead of using magic, was thinking about the dinner menu.

For a moment, I wondered if this was why mages called warriors muscle-brained individuals, but I soon erased that thought from my mind.

If Lucia found out that I had such a thought, she would probably scold me and I didn’t want to see her angry.

“What, you really don’t know?”

When Dylan looked at us like that, the Crown Prince, who had been silently gazing at the ceiling, clapped his hands and said, “The line you drew is a magic circle in itself.”

Upon hearing this, Dylan’s expression brightened at once, and he sighed with relief.

He brought a blackboard from a corner of the laboratory and began his explanation there.

“First, there are a total of 82 layers of magic circles spread throughout this entire laboratory, and the process implements just one magic.”

“Yes?”

And then, I made a dumbfounded expression upon hearing those words.

It’s understandable since the short-distance teleportation magic of several thousand layers is divided into dozens of separate spells, each of which forms its own cogwheel to drive the mechanism.

This is an essential process to prevent overloading during magic circle activation or to regulate the output.

“However, the fact that 82 layers of magic circles implement just one magic.”

The fact that there’s no need to prevent overloading or regulate the output.

In other words, intentionally enhancing the magic’s power. It becomes dangerous and unstable in itself.

“Unless you’re a complete idiot, you wouldn’t implement magic that threatens your own life.”

Naturally, using such an unstable magic comes with all sorts of side effects.

It might fail to implement the magic properly and explode, or it might produce completely different effects.

“But there is a magic that employs such a risky method.”

The only magic that is accepted as a genuine implementation in which one spell leads to the conclusion.

I recalled it in my mind and smiled as if I understood, and after seeing that, Dylan erased all the previous explanations and began drawing metaphysical patterns.

Afterward, he underlined a few times and said, “This is an illusion magic, a very sophisticated one.”

It was the moment when the hidden card played by the Crown Princess was revealed.