063: No Misunderstanding

November 23, 2020 - 6 minutes read - 1212 words

With the ridiculous statement that Ra-chan just said, I did a complete spit take. She smiles next to me while Shelka and Eric have their mouths hanging open while I try to catch my breath. When did I kiss Ra-chan?

Ra-chan and I are pretty far apart in mental age, even if our ages aren’t that far apart physically. I think it’s unpleasant for a seven-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl to kiss. Additionally, the other party is part of a duke’s family, that’s not going to accepted by society.

When did she think we kissed? I have no idea.

Shelka decided to ask her about it while I was desperately trying to remember anything that may have occurred.

“Hey… is that true? Lana?” Shelka

Shelka is hoping this is a bad joke, from the look she has.

“It’s true!” Ra-chan

Ra-chan answers with the most carefree smile I’ve ever seen.

“No, that’s…” Al

“Ugh, you! How could you do something like that to a young girl?!” Eric

Before I could deny it it, Eric was pointing his finger at me and yelling. His loud voice makes it hard to retort. Damn, the longer this goes on, the more troublesome it will be to clear it up. I have to clear up the misunderstanding now!

“Is it true?! If true, you’re in danger!” Eric

Shelka gets inspired by Eric’s words and jumps right on the crazy train. This is going straight towards a dangerous confusion. I try to respond while Shelka grabs me.

“I haven’t done that! I haven’t done that!” Al

“But Lana said you did!” Shelka

“It’s the words from an excited four-year-old? There must be something wrong.” Al

I’m speaking clearly to get my point across. Shelka relaxes for a second, but then she seems to reconsider.

“In other words, you’re trying to escape with an excuse like that?!” Shelka

“Where did that come from?!” Al

“What a sexual pig! Are you really a moral man? What did I miss about you?” Eric

“Shut it, you’re getting more confused! Ra-chan? We didn’t kiss, right?” Al

I ask Ra-chan with a pleading expression. I get it, you just want to look mature, right? Shelka and Eric also look over at Ra-chan. At which point, she drop another bomb.

“What are you talking about, Al?” Lana

Ra-chan cocks her neck to the side as if she doesn’t figure out what’s being misunderstood.

“Alfred, you-ou-ou!” Eric

Eric was going to rush to conclusions again, so I went to deny it. Shelka prevented me by shaking my shaking me badly enough that I bit my tongue.

“Y-y-you! You really did it?! Really? Hey! Answer me!” Shelka

Shelka is shouting hysterically, but I can’t answer since I bit my tongue.

“Please answer already, oh!” Shelka

“Wait! Wait! If you shake me like that… I can’t respond!” Al

Shelka slowly releases me, maybe my words got through to her.

“Answer, quickly!” Shelka

Shelka’s eyes are telling me she wants my head, like a swordsman. I explain my plan to correct the confusion while straightening my clothes.

“Firstly, I haven’t kissed Ra-chan. If you’ll let me, I’ll ask her some questions to figure out where the misunderstanding lies.” Al

I approach Ra-chan and sit down to have eye contact. Ra-chan ignores or isn’t aware of this matter’s significance, so she smiles happily.

“Ra-chan? Did we kiss the first day we met?” Al

“Yeah! It was fun!” Lana

Ra-chan shakes her twin-tailed hair while she answers with energy.

“Yeah, that day was fun. When exactly did we kiss?” Al

After I asked her that, Ra-chan looked at me with a sad face.

“Huh? Did you forget Al? I did it because Al wanted it…” Lana

Behind me, I can hear people picking up metal knives from the table. I’m worried for my safety, can I just run away at this point? Could I use Transfer magic to run back to the hotel?

I don’t know, I’m not sure what I’ll have to handle later if I run away now. Let’s make sure the misunderstanding is dealt with before I leave. Think quickly, me. If I can’t, I’ll be branded as a weirdo who asked a smaller child for a kiss.

Was there anything I wanted from Ra-chan that day? We met on the south boulevard, at cookies, I got thirsty…

Hmm, could that be the case?

“When I had a sip of your veggie juice?” Al

“Yeah! That’s right!” Lana

Shelka and Eric seem to have missed it, they are still wielding knives and forks.

“What does that mean?” Shelka

“I’ll explain, so set down the knives on the table for now.” Al

“Oh, I was careless” Shelka

She returns the knife and fork to the table, followed by Eric. They’re so playful, can my heart survive around these two? I explain what happened to the two where the misunderstanding came from.

“What… it was an indirect kiss…” Shelka

Shelka holds a hand to her chest to illustrate her relief.

“What? Then say so quickly.” Eric

“The story got confused because you two jumped to conclusions.” Al

“Isn’t an indirect kiss a kiss?” Lana

“Not really, a kiss involves direct contact between lips. An indirect kiss only sounds similar. Indirect kissing is much lighter, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to do, right?” Shelka

“Eric, let’s leave this talk to Shelka and move on.” Al

“Right. If you stick around, you might find yourself in more misunderstandings. By the way, is there really no more mayonnaise?” Eric

I fell into a worrying misunderstanding because of an innocent young girl. The incident ended with Shelka resignedly answering Ra-chan’s questions.

A room of Duke Leingeland’s residence

There’s a number of high-class furnishings placed around the room and a small chandelier illuminates the space. A magic tool is used normally, but the owner prefers the candle-based chandelier.

A girl sits in the center of the room on a luxurious chair, she brushes her lustrous red hair and listens to the report while sipping on some tea.

“The details are expanded on in the documents, please refer to them as necessary. It seems it is the person the young lady expected.” Servant

The servant speaking is wrapped in a black costume, the tightness allows a viewer to see that the servant is a woman. She knelt on the ground to her Lord while making her report.

“Recently, Lazarus Shokai seems to have become active, perhaps something new is coming. We are investigating.” Servant

The girl puts down her cup of tea before replying, carefully, without any noise.

“Yes, thank you for your hard work. Let me know as soon as you’ve discovered something.” Girl

The servant in black nods briefly, before ascending to the ceiling and disappearing. Obviously, there is no noise from the ceiling, so it’s hard to know where she disappeared.

The girl picks up the reports in a practiced way. If she was able to hear the servant depart, the servant’s contract would be terminated. What is the point of a shadowy spy if they can be easily discovered?

“Hyuhyu, I wonder if I should show up at tomorrow’s party. It looks like I could meet some interesting people.” Girl

The chandelier’s light illuminates the girl’s mysterious smile.