Chapter 182: Eira (4)

“….”

Chris could now see Eira’s condition. If this wasn’t definitive proof, at least he felt that Eira wasn’t entirely lying.

Chris couldn’t believe that what Leyla had told him would happen had actually happened. He thought about the possibility of things like Stockholm syndrome, but he knew that Eira didn’t have a mindset that would make her susceptible to something like that.

Eira would not create positive feelings from a negative event. She was so tenacious that he was sure that, if it had not happened as Leyla said, she would still try to resist or look for a way to escape, even at this point she would try somehow to kill him, not for nothing that finguishing his death was the only viable option if she failed.

This led him to a curious conclusion. Leyla, though she had no logical basis to support her prediction, had been right.

Chris swore to himself not to categorize people as fictional characters, but he was going to make an exception here. From that day forward, he would assign Leyla the attribute of “animopotent mother,” similar to those fictional mothers who always know what their children want, even when they don’t know it themselves.

Chris thought that such parents did not exist in reality. In his past life, when he went through difficult times and felt depressed, his parents saw his problems as insignificant, things not even worth mentioning.

To them, it seemed like he was simply drowning in a glass of water and they were just excuses from someone who didn’t understand how difficult life was, and now that he thinks about it, maybe they were right, but it doesn’t change the fact that them hardly understood how he felt.

Not to mention that Even in this life, being Seraphina, though he had more parents who loved him, none were perceptive enough to notice that he had possessed Seraphina’s body. They loved her, yes, but none noticed this change, no matter how much love they gave her.

Well, it was partly Seraphina’s fault, too, for having such an unpredictable and erratic personality. It was hard for even the best parent to know what was going on with her.

This, however, proved convenient, for, although this change should arouse the doubts of others, no one questioned it. In fact, her behavior had improved, and no one wanted to ruin that.

Now leaving his parents of two lives and the ones he had known so far. For his part, although he had only known Eira for a few months, he thought he could more or less understand her. Adding this life and the inherited memories, to some extent I could say that I knew her.

For Chris, if Eira liked someone, she had to act like a tsundere, more or less. And if she hated someone, she had to act like she did towards he .

Although as he thought before, the perception of her alternative self could be biased with prejudices and her way of seeing things, it does not change that in general she should act more or less like that.

He had not seen her personally in love since it seems that she still does not like Willian , she behaved towards him, exactly as she did with her alternative self, She had pure hatred and raw annoyance for him, even worse and more persistent.

So while I wouldn’t say he was dense, because being dense would be too much, you could say that he wasn’t insightful enough either, to understand this Eira thing, but the thing is, it didn’t seem that simple and Leyla was the anomaly.

He never thought that everything would really change as Leyla had said, who seemed almost certain that it would turn out that way.

So Chris decided not to doubt her anymore and to give her the adjective “animopotent mother,”“. Not even the gods could come to that conclusion by studying Eira’s mind and memories.

Chris thought so because, even with resonance, which in a way allowed him to sense many things about people, he failed to get any clues.

He wasn’t dense; in fact, density was something he swore to destroy. But Eira didn’t even know what was going on, what she felt, and Chris, much less so. For Chris, this worked without any rationale to back it up beyond ’maternal instincts’.

Which, at first glance, Leyla didn’t even seem to have at all, but it proved that appearances can be deceiving. That’s why Leyla seemed so amazing to him.

Thinking this far, Chris, out of instinct to follow, sat up holding Eira without separating. They both remained in a lotus position as he took in the situation. Then, Eira returned a question at his earlier comment.

“haaa~…no, wait what did that old hag tell you…? , don’t tell me she told you that I…am going to murder her!”

“Hey! You should stop saying that you’re going to kill people, let alone your mother, besides she’s was right!”.

“What the fuck! You’re taking her side.”

“Sure, Lily’s my girlfriend.”

“Damn it! You still dare to blatantly mention it? Haaa, fuck, whatever. You have to be on my side too I’m in your fucking harem now too. You’ve got the whole family already, are you happy?”

“W-well, I’m not going to deny it. Besides, don’t say it like that; it sounds like you also have the marquis included.”

’although I heard he had two more wives, that would be… no!, let’s not think about that, outside of my intrusive thoughts of fetishes I definitely don’t have (NTR).’

“How the hell…haaa, Yeah well, even if you don’t like it, I’m in now and you can’t do anything. You already used me and did with me what you wanted…. or do you still refuse, you fucker?”

“No… well, obviously not. I’m not going to deny someone as pretty and cute as you being here. Besides, it’s not that I don’t like you, but there were circumstances… and I thought you hated me.”

“Th-th-that means you like me, right?”

“Well, in a way, you could say yes, in a way. After all, I approached you at the time because I thought you were so cute, and leaving a lot of things still aside….I guess I do I love you.”

“E-eh, t-that’s… yeah, like that. G-good… you’d better get that straight, dummy!”

Eira, was trying to keep her tough attitude, but she couldn’t help blushing when she heard that he liked her . Feeling a sudden happiness, she moved closer to Chris, burying her face in his chest to hide the embarrassment she felt.

On the other hand, Chris watched the scene with a complicated face. He wondered if, like Eira, deep down he liked her in some way, liked her more than he wanted to admit.

After all, if he really hated her, it wouldn’t matter how pretty she was; he would have resisted doing anything with her, right?….. . Well, Chris being Chris as he is, he most likely would not have resisted, and would have taken advantage of the situation thinking it was for the greater good.

But anyway now that Eira’s attitude took a 180° turn somehow all the bitterness and stuff went away easily as if it had never existed, even though the two of them were always fighting, whether over nothing or everything and a sworn enemy relationship is how Chris would describe it, exaggerating a little. but it didn’t seem to be as simple as that.

This could be seen by how he could get along with her, with her true identity, it was a bit complicated even for him to understand how he truly felt.

But now it was definitely not as negative as he thought and in fact the fact that he easily came out with a “I love you” that he was always reserved for his girls said a lot about his honest feelings.

’I can’t really blame her but it seems I was the same way too’.

Chris thought as he realized that he might be in the same situation as Eira, and he had hidden that interest, somewhere because he thought it would never work out anyway, it was all complicated to understand about Eira’s change and his own.

’haaah, whatever it is, I can’t do anything anyway’.

In the end Chris gave up, the affairs of the heart were incomprehensible, as incomprehensible as Eira’s current abrupt changes were, and since he had only recently accepted that he was love throughout his two lives, it was useless to think about it any longer.

Watching her act rough, while her ears and tail showed her honesty, gave him a sweet taste.

Eira’s ears and tail, which always seemed to be in line with her fighting attitude, were now behaving in the opposite way as usual. Chris, who had closely studied Selene’s reactions for some time, understood what this movement meant, at that moment, Eira was very happy.

It was shocking and complicated, as, somehow, that made him feel extremely happy as well. He didn’t want to act like a tsundere, but he felt that, somehow, he still didn’t understand until now completely her feelings towards Eira.

For some reason, the image of an annoying Eira was fading, replaced by a softer, more vulnerable side he hadn’t noticed before. Her alternate self hadn’t called her a tsundere for nothing—her facade was finally cracking in his eyes.

Now, with what he considered a growing acceptance of his feelings, that hidden side of her was becoming clearer and harder to ignore

In fact, Chris had noticed that, when something bad happened and Eira noticed it, his aggression would retrosediate and he would emit sincere concern although they were rare, the more he thought about it Eira always had her good sides only that they were overshadowed by their constant cycle of hatred that they had, although of course he noticed them clearly when he was seraphina.

With a new warmth rising in his heart, he hugged Eira tighter. Eira, who was in his arms, felt it, and her heart began to beat faster. She lifted her face, intensely flushed, as her heart pounded. both began to slowly approach the face of the other and…

Mmmmua-chu-mua

and they began to kiss, forgetting everything that surrounded them and entering their own world.

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