Volume Two, Chapter Eighteen

It's so cold, the bone-chilling feeling spreads all over the body.

Opening his eyes slightly, there is no light in Yiya's sight, and the whole world is filled with despairing darkness.

There is no air, no light, no heat here, only the chill enough to invade the bone marrow.

Yiya felt that his body suddenly became heavier, and under the huge pulling ****, his body began to sink uncontrollably.

It felt like sinking into the icy ocean of the world, falling, falling, until the end of the abyss.

Yiya was deeply trapped in this darkness, unable to extricate herself.

"Iya~?"

This voice is...

"Y-ya-?"

Yiya opened her eyes, and what greeted her was the dazzling sunlight refracted from the window... and Alicia's soft smile?

"Good morning~"

"Ari...Thea?"

Then I am...?

"It's a knee pillow~" Alicia tilted her head slightly, and explained with a sweet smile on the corner of her mouth.

"……Eh!!?"

The smooth touch of the white stockings on the back of the head seemed to tell Yiya the answer. It turned out that he had been resting on Alicia's lap while he was asleep.

As a knight who received formal etiquette training since childhood, this made Yiya blush all of a sudden. He moved his body in a panic, trying to get up from this awkward position.

"Yiya~ Don't move around." Alicia stroked her blond hair, moved her thighs slightly, and an unnatural blush appeared on her face, "Your hair...is a bit thorny."

"But... Alicia... No, Your Royal Highness..." Yiya looked dull and puzzled, "Is it okay like this?"

"Hmm~ no problem~" Alicia's gaze became softer, she gently stroked Yiya's body with her hands, feeling the temperature of the already tired knight's body, "Is Yiya tired already? Alicia knows that Yiya has been secretly guarding me...so, this is the only thing Alicia can do for Yiya."

"Your Highness Princess..." Yiya's eyes gradually became hazy, "I, I had a nightmare."

"Well, what kind of dream will Iya's dream look like?" Alicia pointed her finger at her cherry lips with a cute expression on her face.

Speaking of this, Alicia seemed to think of something again, her eyes lit up, and she asked curiously, "Also, will Alicia appear in Yiya's dream?"

"Yes, Alicia has appeared." Yiya replied.

"Then~ in the dream, will Alicia be Yiya's bride?" Alicia's holy blue eyes turned around nimbly, and she said playfully.

"His Royal Highness..." Yiya looked helpless.

"Hee hee, it's just a joke~" Alicia stuck out her tongue cutely, and explained, "Occasionally, people want to play tricks on a rigid knight like this."

"Your Highness, why am I a rigid knight?" Yiya said dumbfounded.

"Why, would Yiya be dissatisfied?" Alicia pouted and said coquettishly, changing her previous image of being stable and generous. At this moment, in front of Iya, Alicia is like a cat with a stubborn temper and likes to act like a baby.

"And..." Speaking of this, Alicia lowered her head, her golden bangs covered her expression, and said in a mosquito-like voice, "Because Iya's bride, maybe Alicia really Will be happy."

"What's wrong? Alicia."

"Ah, it's nothing." Hearing this, Alicia covered her mouth and responded with a smile, "I was thinking about something just now, and I was in a trance."

"What kind of thing would it be to make Her Royal Highness think of a trance?" Yiya asked curiously.

"Well, it's a very happy and happy thing." Alicia blushed.

Seeing Alicia's somewhat abnormal expression, Yiya, who looked puzzled, wanted to ask in depth, but was only met with Alicia's ruthless rejection, so she had **** but to give up.

"Speaking of which, did Yiya fall down when she met me because she was too tired?" Alicia asked.

"I don't know, I just remember that I had a dream, a terrible nightmare." Speaking of this, Yiya found that his forehead was covered with cold sweat, "I still have lingering fears until now."

"It must be that you worked too hard, overworked to the point of being exhausted." Alicia analyzed, and at the same time smiled lightly on her face, and comforted her, "But it's okay, if Iya wants, you can do it in my Rest on the legs. The maids told me about this position. They said that the boys of the human race like this way of resting. I think the boys of the elves are the same, right?"

"Then..." Yiya blushed, and he turned his head to prevent Alicia from seeing his expression, "Thank you, Your Royal Highness."

"It's okay~" Alicia smiled, brushed the boy's face with her right hand, and whispered softly, "Hey, Iya, are you sleepy?"

"...I'm not sleepy now, I don't feel sleepy."

After all, I just woke up from such a terrible nightmare, who can sleep peacefully at this time?

"Then, Iya, I have to coax you to sleep." Alicia's gaze softened, she lowered her body slightly, with a gentle smile on her face, and at the same time, she took out a stick with her right hand at some point. Long cotton swabs, "Picking ears seems to be effective in helping sleep ~ For this matter, I have practiced with the maids for a long time."

"It turns out that you, princess, planned it!" Yiya realized Alicia's plot at this time. It turned out that she had already prepared cotton swabs, and then used the lines she had practiced to lure Yiya into the trap step by step. Finally playing with Iya's ears.

"Hee hee~ I know. Iya's ears are very sensitive, right?" Alicia showed a mischievous smile, "Don't worry, Alicia will be very gentle~"

'Ghosts believe you! ! ! '

Although Yiya really wanted to roar and say these words, but when she thought that the prankster was the princess, Alicia, the girl who just passed away in her dream, for some reason, there was always an inexplicable emotional shock in her heart holding the heart.

"First of all, use a cotton swab to gently insert it into the ear, and then gently scrape around the contour of the ear ~ how is it, Iya, is it comfortable ~" Alicia asked cautiously, moving very slowly, for fear of Hurt Iya.

"I always feel itchy." Yiya's ears trembled under the stimulation of the cotton swab, and her heart was also itchy.

"Is it itchy? Then~ blow into your ear again." Alicia pressed against Iya's ear, breathing softly, "Huh~how~?"

"Very...comfortable." Yiya's face turned redder, and he couldn't describe his current feelings, because before this, although he and Alicia had a close relationship, they had never done such an outrageous thing .

'It's as if... the distance between the two hearts is getting closer. '

but--

"Then~ I'm going to go deeper."

Ah, that's right.

It was the voice of Alicia who had long since passed away in that incomparably real dream.

Because everything is too real, until now, Yiya feels that everything around her has no sense of reality.

He suspects that all this is a dream, and the world where Alicia was killed by himself before is the reality. Yiya will never forget the temperature in the soul at that moment.

but……

If all this is really a dream, Yiya hopes to never wake up. In this dream, there is no demon god, no ****, no fate, only myself and Alicia. Stop everything, just stay in this moment of talking with Alicia.

Such a world of eternal stagnation would be perfect, wouldn't it?

In this world of eternal stagnation, all of Iya's definitions of happiness are included. He can enjoy every smile, every shy moment, and even every word of Alicia, and be with the one he loves forever, until the end of time.

“……”

"……Eh?"

The expression on Alicia's face was a little dignified. She stretched out her right hand to wipe away the slowly falling tears, and asked in a worried tone, "Yiya, your face..."

"this is……?"

At this time, Yiya also realized the abnormality. He touched the moist traces on his face, his lips trembling slightly.

"Why... am I crying?"