Book 6: Chapter 4
“Is that so? So you slept at her majesty’s place last night, huh……?”
Nier had her arms folded as she looked at me with extreme displeasure. It looks like she’s very angry about me staying at her majesty’s place last night. To be honest, I didn’t actually sleep so well with mom. Mom was in a really good mood yesterday. She drank and spoke about her experience with managing the empire and finally got drunk. That’s no big deal. If you’re drunk, so be it. But her behaviour turned for the worst when she got drunk. She kept feeling me up with her hands, and she kept throwing herself at me, causing me to wake up in the middle of the night several times winded.
“Uhm… come on, Nier, you don’t need to be angry……”
I smiled helplessly and tried to smooth it over with Nier. She’s my bodyguard and yet she dares to give me looks of anger…… But I’m glad to see Nier show so many expressions now.
Nier gave me an annoyed “hmph” and then stretched her hand out to complain: “Dear, did you not know how worried I was last night? I’m fine with you staying at her majesty’s place, but you need to send someone back to notify me. I stood at the door holding a light waiting for you until dawn but you didn’t come back……”
Nier wore an expression like she was a wronged cat. I felt bad so I reached my hand out to pull her into my embrace. She followed along and hugged me back…… Hugging Nier was completely different to hugging Luna which felt like a lovely and pliant little bird in my arms. Nier is about as tall as I am…… I stroked Nier’s back and softly said: “Sorry. Sorry for making you worry, Nier. I will definitely notify you if I’m not coming back next time.”
“I hope that there will never be a time where you can’t come back……” Nier gently bit my ear and whispered vaguely in my ear, “Now… now… dear… dear… let’s find somewhere… let’s find somewhere… I can’t hold it any longer… in your arms… I can’t hold it any longer……”
Nier quivered gently in my arms like her legs under her dress almost couldn’t hold her up. I tightly hugged and shook Nier who was on the verge of crumbling. Nier’s breathing became erratic. Her hands swam all over my body. She panted by my ear causing me to feel uncomfortably ticklish.
“Nier… hold it in for a while… hold it in for a while… it’s daytime right now! It’s daytime! We still have work to attend to! We still need to head out!