Chapter 356: Lover? Edelweiss!
"…"
"I mean… at least give me some kind of reaction."
"Eh? Ah! …Mm."
"…"
Luke looked somewhat helplessly at Edelweiss beside him.
At this moment, the two of them had already left the dining table and were sitting together on the sofa on the other side.
And ever since just now, Edelweiss had remained in this state.
It was as though her entire person had gone blank.
However, the hand he had already taken showed no sign of struggling or pulling away.
Still, they could not go on like this forever.
At the very least, Luke still had not heard Edelweiss's answer from her own mouth.
…Although from the looks of it, he could more or less guess already.
"You don't need to think too complicatedly. We'll just try dating first."
As Luke spoke, he shifted a little closer toward Edelweiss.
Perhaps startled by his movement, Edelweiss quickly scooted in the opposite direction.
However, she finally came back to her senses and answered in a small voice.
"B-But… isn't this a little too sudden? This is only… only the third time we've met."
"But aren't you troubled about this kind of thing?"
Luke smiled.
As long as she reacted, things were easy.
What Luke feared most was the other party giving no response.
As long as she was willing to talk, there was no problem that could not be solved.
Shifting a little closer again, Luke continued,
"You've never dated before. I've never dated before either."
"Rather than worrying about marriage all by yourself, why not try dating first? You can treat it as gaining experience."
"Most people have two or three relationships, don't they? Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it'll still be an important memory."
Listening to Luke's words, although Edelweiss felt embarrassed, she unconsciously agreed with him a little in her heart.
After all, she really had never dated even once.
If this continued, forget marriage, she would not even see the slightest hope.
If she experienced one relationship, she would probably grow in this aspect too, right?
When that thought flashed through her mind, Edelweiss immediately felt her heart pounding.
She secretly glanced at Luke, then shyly shifted a little farther to the side.
"B-But… I'm much older than you. You… you won't mind?"
Hearing Edelweiss mention age, Luke actually felt rather subtle.
If they truly calculated it, after spending a full nine years in the previous world, Luke's current age was also around his twenties.
Even if Edelweiss was older than him, it would not be by too much.
The two of them should actually be considered from the same generation.
However, his appearance had been fixed in his teenage years, and his background identity was also that of a genuine new-generation youth.
In this world, compared to Edelweiss, Luke was indeed far too young.
There might be a difference of more than ten years between them.
After understanding the cause and effect and realizing what Edelweiss was worried about, Luke immediately put on a serious expression and looked at her.
"I don't mind!"
"And you know this too. For people at our level, although we can't call it immortality, living several decades or even a hundred years longer isn't a problem."
"Ten years isn't something we need to care about that much."
What Luke said was the truth, and he had already phrased it quite conservatively.
Putting aside Luke, who was an agent of the Main God Space, Edelweiss alone was not merely someone who could live a few decades longer.
Once one stepped into the Desperado realm, it meant they were completely different from ordinary mortals.
As someone who controlled the power of fate, and an outstanding one among them, Edelweiss's lifespan far exceeded ordinary people's imagination.
Otherwise, she would not still look like a young girl in her twenties.
"So you don't need to worry about age at all."
Luke smiled and answered Edelweiss's question.
At the same time, his body once again moved closer.
Looking at Luke approaching again, Edelweiss's heartbeat immediately sped up with him, and her delicate face grew redder and redder.
However, when she shyly tried to keep shifting in the opposite direction, she suddenly discovered that she had already unknowingly moved to the edge of the sofa.
Immediately, Edelweiss fell into a dilemma.
And with Luke getting closer and closer, she became even more embarrassed.
Her voice had already dropped so low it was almost inaudible, but Edelweiss still made one last struggle.
"B-But…"
"No more buts!"
This time, Luke interrupted her without mercy.
Luke, who had moved beside Edelweiss, lifted the hand they had been holding this entire time and placed it before her eyes, then asked with a smile,
"Or do you not want to date me?"
Edelweiss looked somewhat dazedly at the two hands clasped together before her.
Her heart, unbelievably, calmed down.
Feeling the warmth transmitted through their hands, and feeling her heart beating violently because Luke had leaned closer, Edelweiss smiled softly.
She stretched out her right hand and covered the two tightly clasped hands before her, holding Luke's hand between both of hers.
Then Edelweiss took a deep breath as though encouraging herself.
After that, she looked at Luke very seriously and said,
"Please let me date you!"
…
"…"
"…"
Sitting on the sofa, Luke and Edelweiss quietly leaned against each other.
Neither of them said anything.
They simply sat together on the sofa.
It was extremely quiet, yet it also seemed so harmonious.
The warm atmosphere continued like that.
Until…
"U-Um… after becoming lovers, what… what should we do?"
With her small face red, Edelweiss asked Luke beside her somewhat embarrassedly.
She truly knew absolutely nothing about this aspect.
As someone who had never even held a boy's hand before, she had no idea what happened after becoming lovers.
She did not even understand what exactly changed after gaining the status of lovers.
So, although she was very embarrassed, she still asked Luke beside her.
No matter what, he was now her boyfriend.
Naturally, Edelweiss did not need to be too reserved.
In her view, as a young person of the current era, Luke should understand these things better.
She only needed to listen to him.
Actually, Edelweiss was not wrong to think that.
Luke definitely knew more than her…
But only by a limited amount.
He was also dating for the first time.
To be honest, Luke did not know what they should do either.
And so he turned his head to look at Edelweiss and answered very honestly,
"I don't know."
"…"
"…"
The two looked at each other, and for a moment, the atmosphere returned to awkwardness.
After a long while—
"Pfft—!"
Edelweiss suddenly laughed.
Luke also followed with a helpless smile.
There was no helping it.
Who asked both of them to have no experience in this area?
"In any case, let's finish the desserts first."
Saying this, Edelweiss pulled Luke up from the sofa and returned to the dining table.
This time, the two were no longer sitting opposite each other.
Edelweiss moved her chair beside Luke.
The expression on her face was still that same happy one.
However, compared to the beginning, there seemed to be something a little different mixed in.
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