Geas
Having survived the various hurdles,
you manage to complete your original delivery task
S'cuse the intrusion!
The vice-commander of NIGHTMARE
Christina Morgan would like your attention.
News has it that a certain someone
dwells in this Salendia Nursery.
I would like to meet him.
May someone provide assistance?
Mn? No one's here?
How careless.
What if a thief were to sneak his way in?
Oi!
Is anyone here?!
Will torching this house help smoke you out?
Mm?
Mm? Oh!
There you are.
A pleasure to see you again.
Ahaha,
Ahaha, by the look on your face
you've just woken up.
It's past dawn, you know?
You should live in normal hours.
Otherwise regretting it later won't do you good.
But with that said
I need to have a word with you,
if I may.
Ah,
Ah, you can loosen up a little.
I come with good intentions.
This nursery is managed by Salen, correct?
I know better than to stir that beast
I intent to enter and exit peacefully,
so,
so, do let me in.
You've been acquitted of all crimes already
I haven't told anyone from the castle about yesterday,
and I told my lackeys to forget about you too.
A clean record,
A clean record, as if you were never there.
As promised.
Hmh-hm
So this makes me a guest of this house.
Be a dear and fetch me a cup of tea.
Yes, many thanks.
A nameless tea brand...
Salen hasn't changed at all.
Shunning the luxuries away,
living the life of a peasant.
Hm?
Oh,
I know of her from my 'line of work'.
But anyway,
she's not what we're here to discuss about.
I'm here for...
you and I, actually.
Take a seat,
be at ease.
I promise this'll be over by the bottom of my teacup.
Yes,
Yes, ok.
Yes, ok. Let's start
Where to begin...
Well...
This is actually very hard for me to say...
but...
Hey,
will you marry me?
Are you there?
Are you there? Well, it's only natural.
We'd only just met so marriage may be a step too fast.
Wait,
Wait, you said you had lost your memories, right?
Do you understand "marriage?"
Becoming lovers,
Becoming lovers, living as family
making a promise to live one's life forever with the other.
By the way,
I don't intend to drag you to your decision selfishly.
It would be quite problematic in the long run,
It would be quite problematic in the long run, so I'll also explain:
In the land I live in,
In the land I live in, one can only ever choose one lover.
Marriage...
can be considered the most major decision
can be considered the most major decision in one's life.
And I have come
to make that offer to you.
You seem compelled.
Well, that makes the both of us.
I'm not so promiscuous
I'm not so promiscuous as to let any man into my life
However, I have to.
My family is bound by our "geas", an oath
that we each much obey every year.
Breaking this geas is considered a huge offense,
with perpetrators chased, captured and severely punished.
Sounds stupid, doesn't it?
I'm with you there.
But it's an old tradition
that's hard to break.
That's why even my commander
That's why even my commander chooses to live her life in an armor.
That aside,
When I was a young and beautiful girl
I made a silly geas
I would marry the man who would touch my breasts.
You see, I'm from a fairly profound family lineage.
Once one reaches the age of maturity,
Once one reaches the age of maturity, chatter of arranging marriage soon follows.
A typical political strategy
for an aristocratic family.
At that time, I was still young
At that time, I was still young and simply wanted to live my youth
But those desperate crooks kept coming
almost begging for me.
So I pledged the geis I told you about to them
and stuck it up at them
"If you want me,
"If you want me, all you need to do is fondle my breasts"
I was the strongest woman in the land
so I just kicked away all those who came at me.
Seeing all the desperate "gentlemen" pouncing
at a single woman's breasts was quite a sight.
It put me to tears.
Once everyone knew how strong I was,
they stopped trying.
It got to the point I had forgotten about my geis
But,
But, that all changed yesterday
when I arrived back in my room and remembered.
You may be a magnet for miracles,
but you definitely touched my breast.
Even if it was I who comforted your fall with them,
What happened, happened.
In line with my geas pledge
I must take you to be my lover.
Got it?
Or do you have something to say?
A. But are you OK with this? B. If that was your geis it can't be helped.
A. But are you OK with this?
Well, in fact, no.
I told you, right?
I'm compelled to.
Above all,
Above all, my geas is something that MUST be adhered to.
In such an uncertain world,
if even my geas cannot be certain
I'll lose the only thing I can trust in
and that's....
unlike me to say this but...
scary.
My family prides itself on our geas
My family prides itself on our geas and protecting our oath.
If I were to break that it would ruin us,
and I want anything but that.
I've caused enough problems already as a child
Anyhow,
I'll have you know I will DEFINITELY devote to my geas.
Even if you don't like it
we will be wedded couple.
However,
though I do kind of like it forceful
I'd also like to hear your thoughts.
If there's something you don't like about me, do tell.
I'll do what I can to change.
But if you tell me you're concerned about our age gap,
there's not much I can do there.
By the end if this year, I'll be 27.
You'll probably be somewhere in the high teens?
You'd probably not consider someone like me normally.
But, well...
I'm sure you'd understand
even I can't change my age.
Not even magic can change that.
I won't be able to change the time bound in me.
And also...
It might not help much but,
it's not unusual to see a couple from a rich family
you could mistake for father and daughter.
For one's lineage, for prosperity
if their ages are close they're instantly married in.
I hated it,
I hated it, and once my adolescence hit
I created the geas I thought would never come true.
Well then,
I know this is too sudden for you
and you would prefer some time to think it over
I won't wait for too long,
but for today I'll leave it here and head back.
Come tomorrow...
You can bet I'll be making preparations
You can bet I'll be making preparations to arrange for our marriage to happen.
Consider it done.
I will NOT go back on my oath.
I'll be coming to marry you
best you be prepared too.
Haha...
Good grief,
I couldn't have made it any less romantic the way I did...
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