Chapter 119: Valdris [3]
"It's just… maybe something like that shouldn't be decided so hastily..."
"Alex, you do know the choice is mine, right?"
"Pardon?"
"I'm the one who decides. So, you're my husband."
Eleanor said this still with no expression.
'That's strange. Eleanor isn't the type to say something like that.'
But if she really meant it seriously, what was I supposed to…
"…Hehe."
"Hm?"
"Hehe, I'm kidding. Were you surprised?"
Eleanor gave a small smile, and at that smile, my heart began to race.
"Ah… it was a joke?"
"Yeah, a joke. Though, if we talk more later… it might not be one."
"I-I see."
"Let's make some time later and talk, just the two of us. That's fine, right?"
"…That's fine."
At my answer, Eleanor smiled brightly and nodded.
And as I looked at that smile, for the first time since coming to this world — no, for the first time in a very long while, I felt something close to fluttering excitement.
