BXBX NOVEL Chapter 291: Go-Ahead Sign
While Nina was thinking about how ridiculous the thought of a school kid actually stealing her away was, I continued saying while having a look of disappointment on my face, as if someone had already taken the last slice of pizza I was looking forward to indulging in,
"...But who would\'ve thought that instead of me putting a ring on your finger, someone else had already done it for me and stolen my rightful place as your beloved husband?"
"As if, Kafka!...Don\'t act like you would\'ve even had a chance of marrying me when I\'m not even sure kids your age are legally allowed to marry someone else!"
Nina barked when she heard my unlawful words, as she couldn\'t even imagine a situation where a kid who was young enough to be her son was pulling up her wedding veil.
"But I would\'ve, Nina...I would\'ve definitely made you stand in a chapel right before me...I can even swear on my life that I would\'ve made you mine, since that\'s how confident I was in doing so." I said with absolute conviction and self-belief that it was brimming through my eyes, which intimidated Nina even more since she knew that I wasn\'t someone who joked around and was true to my word.
"But unfortunately..." I let out a sigh of regret. "...I found out that you were already married, which put a full stop on all my advances towards you and made me give you up."
I looked disheartened and downcast at the moment since I had supposedly lost the one I was seeking out in my short tale. Even Nina, who was listening along, looked at me with a pitiful gaze for a second before reverting back to her wary expression after realising that I was still in the wrong since I was going after a married woman.
I then continued speaking while Nina carefully listened to what I said since she knew I was going to talk about why I acted so differently in front of her at first,
"You see, Nina, I\'m not exactly a saint of a person and have my own selfish thoughts and do certain ill-intentioned things for the sake of my happiness just like everyone else does...But that doesn\'t mean I\'m such a horrible person who would try to break up a happy relationship, just because the girl I like is already with someone else and would just back away the moment I knew that the girl I was interested in was already taken."
Even though I sincerely said that I wouldn\'t dare to snatch a woman away from someone else, Nina still looked like she still didn\'t trust me regarding that matter since I looked and sounded exactly like someone who would do such a thing, which made me flinch seeing as how I was caught out in my lie.
"That\'s why, out of respect for your relationship and not doing something as vile as destroying a harmonious relationship, I controlled myself from saying anything that could be taken the wrong way and acted really docile and meek around you." I said, which Nina acknowledged, since I really was acting completely different from how I was before.
"I even tried to distance myself from you so that I didn\'t accidentally let my true thoughts slip out...But you didn\'t even allow me to do that and always pulled me back in every time I tried to escape from you."
"Ohh~...So that\'s why you were always acting as if you were a slippery fish and always tried to get away from my grasp..." Nina\'s eyes widened as she came to a realisation about why I changed the way I acted.
A slightly guilty look also appeared on her face when she thought of how she always dragged me into the situation I didn\'t want to be in the most earlier, when I was actually just trying to keep my distance from her, and she continued saying in a regretful manner, "...I had simply thought that you were just a little shy to talk with someone older than you at that time and pulled you in closer to me no matter how you tried to sleep away, thinking that I was doing you a favour...But who would\'ve thought that you were actually trying to avoid me for both yours and my sake and not because you were embarrassed by spending time with an old lady like me, like I had thought?"
"...I guess I really should\'ve stopped being so nosey and left you all to your own from the very start...Especially since it would\'ve been really hard for you to be talking to someone like me who y-you l-like, but also knew that you can\'t do anything about your feelings towards me at the end of the day." Nina blushed when she admitted to what I felt towards her, which she struggled to say because of how strange it sounded coming from her mouth, and she apologised for her actions.
"...If I put it like that, I\'m also a part of the blame for this whole mess that\'s happening right now by constantly showing something that you can\'t attain right in front of your face, and for that, I owe you an apology, Kafka..."
Nina gave a slight bow to me to show her repentance for doing what she did, which probably came from the traditions of the variant clan to which she belonged, which followed a different culture from normal humans.
She also regretted leading on a kid who was trying to get away from her for his own good, since, in her opinion, it was something unbefitting of an adult like her to bother a child like me.
"Oh no, Nina~...You don\'t have to apologise at all, as it was only through the conversation that you coerced me into having with you did I find out that I actually had the go-ahead sign to steal you away from your husband and didn\'t have to hold back like I first thought." I said like it was not her fault at all and asked her to raise her head while at the same time dropping a massive bomb on top of her head, which made her face change drastically.
"Say what now?..."
Nina immediately lifted her head up to look at me in a baffled manner, as if she were wondering if she had heard wrong.
"...Kafka, did you just say that you wanted to steal me away from my husband?"
"Yep, you heard it right...Why are you looking so surprised when you were the one who greenlit the idea of pursuing you in my head, even though I was so reluctant to do so before?" I said with an innocent smile on my face, which made Nina\'s face twist in absurdity even more.