After that, about a week passed.
It was our once-a-month homeroom. There, sat an openly flirting couple. A tall woman was sitting on a man's lap, and they were flirting away.
"It's easy to remember how to create the melded magic phenomena. Even if you can't use two magic, you can use things that occur in nature to achieve the same effect."
"As expected of Cliff; you're so knowledgeable."
"It's not a big deal."
Both of them were people I know; they were Cliff and Elinalise. I slowly approached them and my head tilted a little.
"Mn? Rudeus! Thanks for the other day!"
Cliff made to stand up and thank me, but because there was a woman sitting on his lap, he sat in place and bowed.
"You're welcome... Elinalise-san, what's going on?"
Sitting on his lap, Elinalise smiled gently.
"We're going out now."
Huuuuuh? Why? Seriously, why? [5] Isn't this different to what she said?
"Umm, isn't this different to what you said?"
"Rudeus, in the face of such a manly proposal, even my heart would skip a beat, you know."
Propose? No matter what the case is, isn't that too fast?
"Stop it, it's embarrassing."
"『I'll definitely save you from your curse, so please marry me!』"
"O-, oi!"
"And then at the inn, Cliff's innocent... aahh! I feel like I'm going to 'come' just from remembering it."
"S-, stop it I said. There are people here."
Cliff's face was bright red. Though he said to stop it, he didn't seem that unhappy. First of all, congratulations on your graduation. I'm not really annoyed about this; is it because I've already thrown 'that' away as well? Or could it be that it's because I know what Elinalise is really like?
Still... It seems he's heard about the curse. It doesn't seem like Elinalise plans on stopping her numerous liaisons with random men, after all. Her reason for not being able to date just a single person is also valid. It's the truth after all. So why? Cliff heard about it. Eh? Propose?
"From now on, I'm going to try my best to endure for Cliff."
"I-, I said you didn't really need to. It's a curse, so there's no helping it, so a-, as long as your heart belongs just to me, then..."
"Cliff... Of course. For everyone else it's just body... but with you I'll give both my body and my heart."
Cliff gently brushes the hair of the enraptured Elinalise. Their gazes meet. Because she's sitting on his lap, their faces are close.
"Elinalise..."
"Cliff..."
Then it leads to a kiss.
After that, they begin to flirt as though I'm not there. Boldly flirting, and flirting out in the open. Is that okay, Cliff? Is that really okay? Though this woman may be saying some admirable things, you'll be treated like a doormat you know? Aren't you just being blinded by love?
"..."
As I'm about to say that, I firmly endure it. We'd agreed that after I introduced them, there'd be no complaints no matter the outcome. I feel that it'll be weird if I'm the one who says something.
I look towards the back of the classroom. The three of them didn't seem to care. Pursena is chewing on dried meat, and Zanoba is talking to Julie about a doll he spotted in the markets the other day. Julie's eyes are full of seriousness and doesn't register the idiot lovebirds.
Only Rinia was sulking, like she'd say "urgh" at any moment.
"Boss, what's up with that woman nya? When I say something sarcastic she replies pretty intensely nya."
"I don't really get it either."
It's weird. While thinking that, I sort things out in my head.
The other day when I left them, she said was going to completely reject him. Then after that, the talk should have gone in that direction as well. So as to avoid future troubles, she probably tried to get him to give up by telling him all about the curse and the like, as well as the fact that the rumours were the truth.
However, it seems she was proposed to. 'I'll cure you, so please marry me'. It seems that she gave in after being told something like that. I have absolutely no idea how after hearing all that, Cliff ended up at such a thought.
However, I consider it for a bit. If I were in Elinalise's position, how would things have gone? 'I'll definitely cure you of your illness, so please marry me'; if I were told that straight to my face, then...
I might fall in love. Violently so.
Though I wouldn’t know if they'd be able to heal the thing that I've been worried about, they'd earnestly give it their all. I don't know just how much Elinalise is troubled by this curse. No matter how much she likes doing those things, there's probably no way that she isn't worried about it at all. She might... fall in love?
No, I shouldn't just talk about Elinalise. Cliff tried his best. He showed his manliness and softened Elinalise.
"Boss, I've thought of a good idea nya."
"What is it?"
"Let's go out and get them back, nya."
So Rinia suggested. At any rate, it's probably a temporary arrangement. Still, I want to experiment now.
"Rinia-senpai. I don't mind going out, but I'm actually impotent. Will you give it your all to heal me if we go out?"
"Eh?"
At those words, everyone besides Elinalise suddenly muttered "Eh?". Their gazes gather on me. It's like they're wondering 'Just what is this guy saying?' or something like that. What, is it that weird if Rinia and I go out together?
Or so I was wondering, when Rinia became flustered.
"Bo-, Bo-, Boss, c-, could it be that you heard what we said the other day nya?"
"The other day?"
"That although you had confined the super attractive us, and you touched and stripped us, you didn't mate with us, so you might be floppy dicked... the stuff we were saying at lunchtime nya."
The hell? This is the first time I'm hearing this. When I was thinking this, I looked at Pursena and she quickly averted her eyes.
"T-, that's wrong nano. We weren't speaking badly of you. Like, it's just that on that day when you touched me your scent was weak, so like, I was wondering if perhaps that was the case, that's all nano..."
At Pursena's words, all of the gazes on me turned to some like pity. They were gazes of sympathy.
Still, it wasn't the dating stuff that they were shocked about, but the impotence huh? Though I had hidden it, was it really that strange?
"Like, we weren't spreading rumours about you or anything nano. The only one who used the words 'floppy dicked' was Rinia nano. She's totally, like, fakku nano."
"But Pursena was the one who said that you were harmless since you touched us but didn't attack us nya."
"I was like, praising him nano."
"Nya!?"
Giving a sidelong glance at the two who began a Manzai routine, I sat down.
"Well, it's fine anyway. It's not something that'll trouble me if known, after all."
"R-, right nya. It's not like we'll be prejudiced against Boss because you're impotent or anything, nya."
"That's right. Like, whether it's an impotent Boss, or a normal Boss, Boss is Boss nano."
Impotent, impotent, stop freaking repeating it. It hurts, you know. Should I have kept it hidden after all?
"Shishou, do not worry about it. Let us live for dolls."
Zanoba said that and patted me on the shoulder. Julie tilts her head.
"Master, what is 'impotence'?"
"Mmm, it's when you cannot fulfill your duties as a man... Should I put it like that...? Even so, it's basically something unrelated to doll making."
"Hmmm.