I Was Confessed to by the Golden Sun

73 – 73. Similar Vitamin

Now Lucia and I were on the carriage again, moving toward the ruins.

At this point, whether she had given up or not, Lucia didn’t say a word. Meanwhile, I was surprised as I used my terminal to contact the people around me.

“I guess I had quite a network.”

After contacting the original male leads and people who could help with this situation, the number of people I had reached was quite large.

Heidi and Raul, who were still trapped on the island, would probably be brought over by Grayson somehow.

The Prince and Dylan would join with the people I requested help from, and with Lucia and Francis…

Wow, it’s quite a lot, really.

“That’s why I can’t relax. What if someone suddenly takes you away because I let my guard down?”

Lucía confidently justified her obsessive affection while looking at me.

“Most of them are men.”

“Oops.”

Most of my contacts were the male leads of the novel, so the only women were probably Heidi and Francis.

Heidi was a childhood friend, so there weren’t any romantic feelings, and wasn’t Francis disguising herself as a man?

Seeing my casual rebuttal, she hesitated, thinking if there was anything else to counter.

“Well… A man could fall for you too!”

In the end, she threw in the towel.

“… “

“I’m sorry, but there’s no need for that.”

Lucia seemed a bit unsure herself as she offered her apology.

Her gesture looked rather cute, and without realizing it, I wrapped my arm around her waist.

Lucia, who had tilted her head towards me with a satisfied expression, as if it were a signal that she wouldn’t leave.

-Thud!

“Ouch!”

The carriage suddenly came to a halt, causing us to tumble to the floor.

I couldn’t help but laugh at the comical sight of us rolling around on the ground like in a cartoon.

“Geez!”

Blushing all the way to the tips of her ears, Lucia quickly got out of the carriage as if escaping.

“Where are you rushing to like that?”

“I don’t know!”

We were supposed to need some kind of magical action to enter the city that lay in ruins, but Lucia was just walking on the debris without any specific destination in mind.

“It’s okay; I think I can handle it… Whoa!”

“Yikes!”

I followed her playfully and tumbled to the ground, too.

Lucia blushed all over her face upon seeing that and tried to say something to me but ended up clearing her throat and averting her gaze as I got up in front of her.

“So cute…”

Based on my previous experiences, I think Lucia, who had always been cute, is at her cutest in moments like these. Even though she usually acts confident and cheeky, when it comes to physical affection, she hesitates.

-Peck!

In response to her expectation, I gently pressed my lips against hers for a moment and then pulled away.

Lucia licked her lips as if unsatisfied but didn’t say anything.

She probably knows that what’s happening right now is more important than anything they’ve experienced together so far. Even so, if it were under normal circumstances, she would have probably couldn’t resist and would have eagerly kissed me. Seeing her restrain herself despite being all tangled up in her body made me feel strangely proud.

“After we finish our business, I’ll give you all the kisses you want until you’re sick of them.”

“Heh…hehehe. Alright, I’ll try to hold back a bit.”

He stroked her head as a form of compensation, implying physical closeness.

Lucia, grinning mischievously, slid her hand under my shirt and began to gently touch my exposed belly.

While concerned that this might only fuel her desire further, thankfully, Lucia stopped herself from exploring more after a brief touch.

Then, as if trying to resist her desire, she spoke with a slightly twisted smile, saying, “When you return, just wait and see, I’ll squeeze out every bit.”

“Uh, what?”

I questioned the slightly suggestive content once more, but she replied, “You say we’ll share a bed, and once you’re back, I doubt you’ll sleep at all.”

Lucia, licking her lips as if it were a matter of course, scanned every inch of my body with greedy eyes.

There was an unmistakable determination in her demeanor, as if she’d pin me down when the opportunity arose.

“Well, that’s…”

Feeling a sense of impending danger from her mischievous expression, I attempted to justify my way out.

“Whatever you say, you’ll be at my mercy when you return.”

Lucia smirked, pulling out candy from her bag and placing it in my mouth.

Taking a piece of wrapping paper from a small box, she shook it lightly.

“Is this a vitamin?”

As I tilted my head at the unfamiliar appearance, Lucia, holding the paper in her mouth, gazed at me wistfully.

“She’s insane.”

Only then did I realize the true identity of the object resembling a vitamin, swiftly snatching it from her mouth.

“hehehe, I saw it in a book once, mimicked it, and it seems to work.”

A question about what book she’d read to end up with… that in her mouth almost escaped, but the impending answer seemed unbearable, so I forcibly pushed it back in her mouth.

“Anyway, I’m always prepared, just say the word.”

“Uh, sure.”

As she formed a circle with one finger and drew a line with the other…

Ignoring her rather suggestive hand movements, I turned my head toward Francis.

She arrived in a different carriage than ours, tinkering with something while we engaged in banter.

“I feel strangely sorry for her… Even though Lucia lacks knowledge of magic and I only have theoretical knowledge, it could have undoubtedly provided some assistance.”

So, I tried to approach Francis late to help him, but…

“Really, why are you doing this?”

I couldn’t get close, thanks to Lucia’s flickering eyes as she alternately gazed at me and Francis. To be precise, maybe it’s better to say I didn’t have the courage to overcome that jealousy-tinged gaze.

“hehehe.”

Eventually, after glancing back a few times in my place, I quietly sat down next to Lucia, who seemed to think she did well, and she lightly stroked my head, as if saying I was pretty to death.

That shining gaze, laden with discomfort but also a strange sense of goodness, how long had I been feeling it?

As my eyes slowly closed, and my body relaxed, Francis, who had been working diligently on something resembling a terminal, set it down on the floor and stretched.

“Ugh… finally, it’s over!”

Regaining my senses, I looked at the floor where Francis had been. Several lines that I had been unable to notice as I eNT*Rusted my body to Lucia’s touch were drawn on the floor, as if trying to destroy something that had been assembled with great difficulty.

“Even just looking at this, it seems like you worked really hard…”

Honestly, I felt a pang of guilt that I should have helped even a little. If I had assisted, maybe it would have shaved off at least an hour in making the formation.

“Phew!”

Francis, who had finally finished the formation, had a very proud expression, so I refrained from making any comments. Perhaps he had always been the type to enjoy this sort of thing, or maybe I had never heard of it before.

Seeing Francis happily laughing and exuding a sense of accomplishment, I felt hesitant about apologizing. Lucia, perhaps sensing my subtle guilt, lightly patted my shoulder.

“Hey, it’s okay. He didn’t ask for your help, so there’s nothing wrong on our end!”

“…”

He still had that audacious Golden Sun-like freeloader mentality, but I couldn’t bring myself to say anything. If I said something, he might get jealous again, or maybe he was just too cute, so I didn’t want to say anything at all.

Even with such complex and subtle emotions, I quietly gazed down at Lucia. However…

“Ugh… by any chance, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere? Should I help?”

Soon after her coquettish words, it was as if those gloomy feelings had washed away. When a person is this cute, it’s unfair; how can this even happen?

“Mmm…”

I grabbed Lucia’s cheeks and stretched them like sticky rice cakes.

Francis focused his gaze on the line drawn on the floor.

As I looked at the line that was emitting a faint light in all directions, a strange sensation involuntarily emerged that I couldn’t even properly grasp.

I had the illusion that the brilliance that enveloped me couldn’t be expressed or grasped properly.

“Well, as you can see, this is quite an advanced high-level magic.”

Looking at me who was absorbed in the line, Francis said with a smirk and snapped his fingers.

“Well, now I guess we can go in. Since we’ve coNT*Rolled the surroundings, the only people who can come here are the ones you called.”

“That’s good.”

I had wondered, but it seemed that the follow-up measures had been taken care of as well.

Fortunately, it wouldn’t be pleasant if I, as a civilian, got caught up in this.

“Now, look ahead.”

Thus, silently expressing relief inside, as I looked ahead, the lights that were flickering suddenly gathered in one spot.

And those lights converged to create one circular light source.

-Zzbek

There, Francis approached quietly and pressed the spherical light with his hand.

Without even a common ‘bang’ sound, it spread in all directions and created a large portal.

And behind it, the view of the city that I had only vaguely seen in photos.

“I put too much effort into creating the portal, so it might be dangerous to enter right away. For now, let’s go in together.”

Nodding at Francis’ words, I put aside the slightly apprehensive feeling and stepped into the portal.

At the same time, I felt a sense that I was taking one step closer to the climax.