The Tyrant Won’t Let Me Go

There was still a lot of tea left, but Kashuel might not like the tea, so I was the only one who drank tea.

However, while contemplating because it didn’t seem polite to leave it behind, Kashuel opened his mouth first.

“The tea is going to get cold.”

Raising my head to look at Kashuel, he tilted his head pointing towards the tea.

“It doesn’t taste good when it’s cold.”

“Oh, but drinking alone is a bit…”

I’d rather bring the tea if there’s a meeting held at the Knights facility.

Today, I had a meeting with the Marquis in the imperial palace at the wizard’s conference room, so I couldn’t do that.

“It’s okay. You can just drink it.”

“Well… Or would you like some of these cookies?”

I asked, gently pushing the plate containing the cookies toward Kashuel.

Then Kashue smiled and leaned forward.

“Do I still look like a child to you?”

“What? No, it’s not like that…”

“Well, you don’t have to be that flustered. It’s just a joke.” Kashuel added, eating cookies with his long fingers.

“Oh, that’s a relief. I thought you were angry.”

“I’m not a narrow-minded person enough to get angry about that.” Kashuel said.

Well, I don’t know. When we were young, I think he was always angry when I said anything or did something.

‘No. He just didn’t seem to like me.’

As I was thinking of Kashuel’s devilish childhood in that way, Kashuel raised his eyebrows and glanced gently at me.

“What? Why are you looking at me like that?”

“No. It’s nothing.”

I smiled casually, but Kashel continued to look at me suspiciously.

“Ha, did you think that I am a narrow-minded person who can get angry over such trivial things?”

“No, that can’t be true.” Ciel answered.

“I think that’s right.”

He lifted the tea cup and said, squinting at me. “Well, I understand. That’s how I was being temperamental back then, so you’d think so.”

“Did you know that you were madly being harsh on me?”

Startled, the words came out involuntarily from my lips.

Even though we were young at the time, my mental age was already that of an adult, so there was no significant blow to his tyranny, but while I was in the imperial palace, Kashuel was constantly terribly angry at me.

Only Cedric could break the high nose of this ferocious little boy who was chasing me like he was devouring me just because I ignored his offer to be friends.

And at that time, he was not well aware of his bad personality even in front of Cedric.

‘But you knew it yourself…’

[Wow, has he grown taller? Didn’t they say that he came from studying abroad?]

‘Yes.’

After answering Caliberne’s question, I thought to myself.

‘What happened when he went to study abroad to make this naive child like this?’

At that moment, Kashuel burst into laughter.

It was such a cheerful laughter that the awkward air that circulated in the conference room so far was overshadowed.

“Yeah. I knew it. Now that I see it, I must have been a childish kid who had a dirty personality and didn’t even know what he was doing.”

Wow, how could he get my thoughts right without making a single mistake?

Still, I couldn’t say that in front of his face.

“Ah, no…”

“What do you mean no? I can tell from your expression that I’m right.”

My heart was pounding and I couldn’t say anything.

‘He went to the wizards academy. Has Kashuel only learned mind reading there?’

[Mind reading, huh?]

‘Oh, that’s just what I’m saying. Do you think it’s really what I thought it was? Mind reading?’

[Our innocent fool, Ciel, that’s enough. You confused salt and sugar last time, too.]

‘Why are you talking about that here? You really need to raise your awareness of reading the context. At the very least, even Kashuel, who has a bad personality, has learned to notice like that.’

[Hey, have you finished talking?]

I completely ignored Caliberne’s buzzing words, saying, ‘How can I compare myself as a noble sword to the devilish little boy?’

“Come to think of it, you tried to call me ‘Kashuel’ the first time you saw me.” Kashuel squinted and said.

Well, when I saw Kashuel, I inadvertently forgot his title and tried to call him by his first name.

“Oh, that’s… I didn’t mean to.”

Cedric came in the middle and fortunately I didn’t say it to the end.

“Then what were you going to say? Kashuel Alehard? Or Kashuel, that little punk?”

“No!”

Then Kashuel grinned and bit the cookie.

“I’m kidding. You didn’t react much no matter how much I talked to you when we were young, but now it’s quite fun to tease you.”

“Don’t make such a useless hobby.”

“Okay, I’m sorry. I must have teased you too much.”

Kashuel leaned his back against the chair and raised the corners of his lips to smile l.

“Well, I liked that you seemed to call me Kashuel. I couldn’t hear it until the end because of Cedric.”

“Yes?”

‘What is he saying now?’

Didn’t you try to tease me for calling your name earlier?

When you were young, you got mad because I spoke informally, but now you like it?

“I think at least you remembered my name.”

Kashuel smiled softly.

✿

“What?”

The red-blooded eyes staring fiercely at Paul were full of spite.

Seeing the teacup cracking, Paul sighed, thinking that he would need to throw another precious teacup today as well.

“Kashuel and Ciel are drinking tea together?”

Cedric’s eyes glowed gruesomely with burning jealousy.