Nine o'clock at night.
Master Haru, who had spent the afternoon busy with his Russian female boss, finally returned to his familiar and warm home.
"Hehe, Elysia must be getting impatient..."
Standing at the villa entrance, Haru smiled as he took out his keys, mentally preparing for Elysia to suddenly pop out from behind the door to greet him.
Unfortunately, Haru's prediction fell short this time.
Although the lights were on at home, even after he changed his shoes in the entryway, he still didn't see the girl appear.
"Could she be taking a bath?"
Haru scratched his head in confusion and slowly walked into the living room.
Under the dim yellow light, the pink-haired girl's eyes were slightly closed, her graceful body curled up on the sofa like a cat, her peaceful sleeping face seeming to have a pure, sacred quality.
Rather than a dreamy fairy...
At this moment, the girl was more like Sleeping Beauty from a fairy tale, waiting for a prince to awaken her.
This thought arose in Haru's mind, then his lips curved up slightly, his dark eyes revealing strong confidence.
Although he didn't have a dashing white horse, and had lost the Hyperion battleship he once commanded, this didn't prevent him from becoming the prince that Elysia favored.
"Let me kiss the sleeping princess awake!"
Haru bent down, approaching the girl's clear face bit by bit, until he could feel the girl's steady, long breaths.
At such close distance...
He only needed to lower his head gently to kiss Elysia's lips, as tempting as red apples.
However, at this moment, the girl's delicate nose twitched, then her brows furrowed slightly, and her pink-blue eyes opened a crack.
"Haa... Haru, you're back..."
Elysia yawned, looking at the close-at-hand Haru in a daze. Her body instinctively reached out with both hands, cupped his cheeks and gave him a smack.
Wait, what about the prince kissing Sleeping Beauty awake? How did he get forcibly kissed by Sleeping Beauty before he could even kiss her?
Haru's expression was somewhat bewildered.
But Elysia didn't care about that. After the kiss, she showed a satisfied silly smile, then flopped back on the sofa, arching her slender waist like a cat and stretching adorably.
"Mmm, Miss Fairy feels like she dozed off for a while..."
After stretching, Elysia's little brain finally completed its startup, though her expression still retained some lazy drowsiness.
"Eh? Haru, your expression looks a bit strange?"
The now-awake Elysia noticed that her fiancé's expression seemed somewhat awkward.
Connecting this to what happened when she first opened her eyes, the girl immediately understood something.
"I see, you wanted to steal a kiss while I was sleeping..."
"Hmph, nice plan, but the alcohol smell on you ruined it, waking Miss Fairy up early, and she even got to kiss you back."
Elysia put her hands on her hips, looking as proud as if she'd won a battle.
Understanding the reason for his failure, Haru could only sniff his own scent and shake his head helplessly.
The oolong tea Bronya ordered was too strong, causing Haru to be tainted with a pungent alcohol smell after drinking it, which woke up the lightly sleeping Elysia.
Alcohol ruined me. Should I quit drinking starting today?
Haru thought to himself, then accepted the cup of hot water Elysia poured for him.
"Here, drink more hot water after alcohol - it's better for your body."
"Thanks, but it feels weird having a girl tell me to drink more hot water."
Haru's mouth twitched as he held the water cup, taking small sips.
Although he wasn't drunk, Haru didn't want to refuse Elysia's kind intentions.
Besides, his current body wasn't as strong as it was in the loops. For the sake of his health, it was necessary to pay attention to wellness.
"By the way, Haru, you said in your text that Bronya treated you to dinner? How did you end up drinking?"
Elysia smelled the heavy alcohol scent on Haru, feeling somewhat curious.
If she remembered correctly, this classmate of Hua's was also a girl. Even if treating subordinates to dinner, she shouldn't order alcohol.
"Well, because Bronya is from Siberia..."
Haru shrugged, explaining concisely.
Elysia immediately understood, feeling everything made sense.
Having traveled the world in her youth, she had naturally been to Siberia and knew that people there, regardless of gender, liked to drink due to climate reasons - they would even drink antifreeze when out of alcohol.
Speaking of which.
Although she could understand, thinking about Haru drinking with a girl he just met still made Elysia feel somewhat uncomfortable.
Pursing her lips, Elysia looked at Haru who was drinking hot water. Just as she was about to say something, she caught sight of a suspicious mark on Haru from the corner of her eye.
"Hmm! Did you really just drink and eat dinner tonight?!"
The girl suddenly said mysteriously.
Haru looked up somewhat stunned, finding Elysia's cheeks puffed up angrily like an agitated cat, her beautiful eyes staring fixedly at his chest area.
This tone wasn't right. Had he done something wrong somewhere?
With his rich romantic experience, Haru sensed the girl was jealous, but couldn't understand where Elysia's jealousy came from. He could only follow the girl's gaze and look down.
On his shirt's chest area, a faint lipstick mark was extremely conspicuous!
Holy crap, when did this—
Haru was shocked for a moment, then his memory frantically rewound, freezing on the moment when Bronya fell into his arms.
"Elysia, let me explain. This was an accident."
Having figured out the whole story, Haru's expression also calmed down, quite composed with the confidence of having nothing to hide.
"Bronya was a bit unsteady walking after drinking. She accidentally bumped into me midway, and the lipstick mark probably got on my clothes then."
"I-Is that so..."
Meeting Haru's frank gaze, the jealousy in Elysia's heart disappeared without a trace.
She actually never doubted her fiancé from the beginning.
Because Elysia knew Haru loved her very much and would never fool around with other women or do anything to betray her.
It's just that as the saying goes, love makes people blind and impulsive.
Even though Elysia completely trusted Haru, when she saw the lipstick mark on his clothes, she still felt wronged and hurt, with an impulse to question him that she couldn't suppress.
If Elysia were as experienced as Haru, she probably could ignore this impulse, but Elysia's disadvantage was that she really was in love for the first time.
In matters of the heart, Miss Pink Fairy was just an ordinary girl who had fallen in love for the first time!
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