Chapter 32: Epilogue
“Lisette-sama, I love you.”
“Yeah.”
“I really love you. A lot.”
“I know.”
Ralph had a very happy smile on his face as he gently combed through my hair with his fingers while sitting next to me. His complexion was so good that it was hard to believe that he had been almost dead just two weeks before.
He had recovered safely and was just discharged from the hospital yesterday. And ever since then, he had been following me around like a baby bird.
After using magic on him, I apparently collapsed on the spot because I had exhausted my strength. At that time, Ralph’s impurities were already gone. Saint-sama was also very surprised and couldn’t believe it.
[You must have been really special.]
That’s why that monster had been obsessed with me, she said.
A few days later, when Ralph woke up, he couldn’t believe that he was alive. With trembling hands, he slowly reached out and touched my cheek.
[We’re both alive, Ralph and I. Thank you very much.]
As I said that, Ralph pulled my arm and hugged me tightly.
Since then, he started expressing even more affection towards me. At first, I would flutter with excitement, but now I have become completely accustomed to it. It was part of his speech pattern.
I was tired of reacting every time as his benefactor, and I had returned to how I was a few months ago.
“. . .Are you angry with me for being so selfish? Have you come to dislike me?”
Ralph, as expected, started to worry and said such things. If I denied it immediately, he smiled in relief. His face was still more handsome than anyone else’s.
Somehow, I felt like I was being swallowed up by his pace. That’s why, for some reason, I wanted to break that pattern.
“I’m happy to be with Lisette-sama like this.”
“Yeah.”
“I really, really love you.”
“I love you too.”
Casually saying that, he froze like a statue.
A few minutes later, his well-shaped eyes widened. His face showed disbelief.
It seemed that he hadn’t noticed my feelings at all. A smile naturally overflowed from me at his silly expression that didn’t suit his beautiful face.
“I love Ralph too.”
“. . .Really?”
“Yeah, really, really.”
As I nodded deeply, a single tear trickled down from his amethyst-like eyes. He hurriedly wiped it away, but it kept overflowing and falling.
“I’m sorry. . .”
“No, it’s okay.”
“I feel like all of my past has been rewarded. . .”
My vision shook at those words.
I was happy, overjoyed, that we could meet again like this, that we could live together from now on. And it was because he had never given up, even when he was on the verge of losing consciousness.
“. . .Will you really stay with me forever?”
“Of course.”
“I love you, Lisette-sama. I love you.”
“I already know, really.”
My heart throbbed with excitement for the first future that would continue, for the future where I would live with him, who loved me too much.
