Jambavan exclaid with the biggest gasp of his millennia-old life, vibrating all the nearby trees. Ruru's antlers glowed with a deep oceanic blue like never before—either from excitent or shock. To my surprise, the person I thought would overreact the most, Vyaghra, imdiately accepted it and bowed his head first to U, then to , as he shouted, "Congratulations on the marriage!"
Yeah, this idiot had already assud that we were married. Why? Because he believed that if his Queen wished it, then how could it not be fulfilled?
"Moron, at least take my opinion on the matter," I snapped.
Among all these reactions, there was one that still outperford them all. Yeah, Nyria el Snowbane, who had been processing U's announcent in her brain a hundred tis over the past fifteen seconds, finally comprehended what it ant as she shouted,
"WHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????????????????????????????????????????"
It didn't end with just a scream. She unknowingly erupted a sea of ice outward in all directions, engulfing more than fifty poor innocent trees within it.
Everyone there, including , knew there was a freak who would protect U with his life, so we all ran toward her, the mont Nyria blasted.
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"Pr-pretty lady, calm down for a mont," I pleaded from U's arms in a princess carry.
Jambavan and Ruru were standing behind U, taking cover, while the freak, Vyaghra, took the fall as he stood in front of us, completely frozen, protecting his Queen as her royal knight.
Nyria gasped, realizing what she had done. "Oh no, please forgive . Is everyone alright?"
"Yeah, thanks to my buddy here—sniff... sniff—who protected with his life," I said, wiping a fake tear from my eye.
"This kid is really shaless," Jambavan clicked his tongue, while Ruru nodded along with him.
"Look who's talking," I snapped. "At least co out from behind her before accusing of being shaless."
"Raj, I don't have much experience in these things, but shouldn't it be a man who carries his woman, not the other way around?" U asked. "However, I'm fine with it as long as you're happy."
Her lodious voice, combined with her ethereal beauty from such a close distance, turned my face into a rosebud. For a mont, I actually wondered if we were really getting married, but that ridiculous thought soon ca to an end as I sensed Death Energy looming over , coming directly from Nyria's stares.
"Raj, why don't you co down from there," Nyria ordered as her aura fluctuated again.
I wrapped my arms around U's neck even tighter as I blurted, "N-not until you calm down."
Her glare intensified again, but then Jambavan grabbed by the pants and threw toward Nyria.
"Don't endanger our damn life, ya brat."
"You monstrous bastard! How could you betray ?" I shouted mid-air before landing at Nyria's feet.
I gulped as I looked up at the unstable Nyria. "Let's talk calmly, we are all civilised people here, right?"
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"I feel embarrassed about how I acted. Please forgive that mont," Nyria apologized.
"It's alright, sister. Any woman would react the sa way if she learned her man was marrying soone else," U replied from across the bonfire where we all sat surrounding it.
"Huh? H-he is not my man!"
"Then why did you react that way, sister?" U countered. "You don't need to worry. I won't snatch him from you. Didn't I already accept you as my sister?"
"So that's why you offered to call you sister?" Nyria gasped. "But you're misunderstanding sothing. Raj and I are not in that kind of relationship," she denied with a puffed face.
"But you two were so intimate with each other in the pond," U said, but then seeing the denying look on Nyria's face, sighed before clapping her hands as she spoke further, "That ans you don't have any problem with our marriage."
"Th-that... I... still..." Nyria mumbled.
"U, do you like ?" I asked straightforwardly joining in the conversation.
"H-how c...c-could you a-ask Her M-Majesty s-such an e..e-embarrassing question?" Vyaghra chattered through his teeth, still feeling the aftereffects of Nyria's attack. He could easily stabilize his body temperature with his Soulforce but decided not to, as he wanted to train his physical body.
"No, I don't," U replied plainly, sending a wave of gasps through the group.
"As I thought," I said. "Nobody falls in love with a person that quickly to the point of wanting to marry them."
"But does that really matter? Love will co on its own once we are married."
"Why do you want to marry , U?"
"Are you really asking that after what you did that night?" she murmured, sending another, stronger wave of gasps through the group.
"Oy, brat! Ya told us ya did nothin'!" Jambavan shouted. "Ya got guts, kid, eyin' our Queen."
"Raj, I hope you didn't do anything worthy of dying," Vyaghra muttered, glaring at .
"It-it was an accident," I explained. "Pretty lady, why don't you tell them?"
"Raj, if I have to be honest, what I witnessed when I woke up didn't look like an accident at all," Nyria said.
"H-how could you—" I mumbled in disbelief before getting struck by another verbal attack.
"Is that what you ant, Ruru, when you said n will always run away when it cos to taking responsibility?" U said in a low voice, hugging Ruru.
"Ruru, at least you believe , right?" I pleaded.
What I got in response was a cold "hmph" from her as she aggressively turned her face away.
"Ruru... you too..."
"It's fine. I understand that it was a mistake on my part that I unconsciously embraced you in fox form while healing," U stated.
"Yeah, right, right," I exclaid. "I wasn't completely at fault."
"However..." she spoke again.
"Why is her 'However' giving goosebumps?" I gulped.
"Y-you also grabbed both my ears," she whispered, her face blushing in embarrassnt.
"Oh, that? I did grab your fluffy ears—"
"YOU DID WHAT!!!!??????" Both Jambavan and Vyaghra shouted, their eyes ready to pop out in dumbfoundnt.
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