Isekai: Princess Marquess Becomes Entrepreneur of Tempe

Chapter 23. Chocolate Cake

"Duh, what kind of insect is this?! Huh!"

Arthur said in disgust while repelling the insect that was resting on his shoulder with one hand, while the other hand was holding the branch of the big tree he was treading now. The man looked up at the window in front of him, and an empty room was visible.

"Where is he?" murmured Arthur, when he saw a room that only had furniture but the occupants were away.

At this time, Arthur, with his recklessness, slipped into the neighborhood of Locke's residence in Armelin. The young man climbed up a large tree overlooking a bedroom on the second floor. The sky had shown the afternoon into the night, but Arthur did not care, until his satisfaction was fulfilled.

This was done because the man was agitated, as there was something unusual going on today. Last afternoon, he did not see Elona undergo a running exercise routine on the edge of the lake. Every day Arthur waits in the afternoon when he can see Elona's smile and laughter even if only 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, Arthur had to hold back to see the girl's face again the next afternoon.

But today, the man had been waiting all day and even Elona had not appeared at all. Arthur became impatient, something he had rarely felt before. Arthur is a hunter, patience is the key to his success in preying on game animals. But when it comes to Elona, he always wants to hurry and so often restless. It was so different from his habits all along.

And here he is now the son of the duke who is handsome, wealthy, and valued by many women. Wearing a simple tunic and a cloth headdress as usual, he was perched on a tree branch, trying to peek into a girl's room. There is absolutely no ethics at all. Had Duke Ron Eckart known about this, he would have immediately imprisoned Arthur in a dungeon and removed him from the list of heirs for defaming the family.

But, again, this is Arthur Eckart. Maybe he cares about all that. All this he did so that his satisfaction was fulfilled, namely by looking at the face of someone who had filled his mind lately.

"Where is he?! Couldn't have, didn't make me think for a day!" his grunts while continuing to peek. Actually he was not sure one hundred percent that the room he was peeping in was Elona's. But indeed Elona once said that the view of the lake was visible from his room, so Arthur only guessed by instinct that this large room belonged to Elona.

And the awaited one appeared. Arthur's guess is right. Elona came into the room, wearing a white evening dress, which fit her body better now. The fat on the girl's belly began to go unnoticed again, though Arthur didn't care about any of those things. Simply the existence of Elona in front of him alone had made him unable to calm down all day.

Elona brought a small box-shaped chocolate cake in her hand. The girl smiled happily as she looked at the chocolate cake.

"Finally, after all this time! Cake cokelaaatt!"

Elona smiled very happily. A smile that touched the heart of a young man without Elona noticing was perched in front of his window. Arthur stared fixedly at Elona's happy face, especially as the girl devoured the first bite of the chocolate cake in her hand with a spoon. A red hue adorned the man's face even to the ears, as if all the blood in his body was flowing there.

"Beautiful..."

The sun has set. A gust of wind came crashing down, and a leaf flew towards Arthur's nape.

"Byahh!" spontaneously the man felt amused and rubbed his back neck, trying to get rid of anything that stopped there. But what happened instead he lost his balance and almost fell from the branch where he stood.

"That?!!"

Without Arthur noticing, the two shutters in front of him had opened, and the girl he was peeping at looked out of the window. Unable to give his plausible explanation, Arthur could only smile in embarrassment and say hello.

"Hehe.. hi."

"What are you doing?!" elona asked, then looked down at the bottom of the courtyard, making sure no soldiers were looking. "Come here, hurry!"

Arthur looked at Elona in surprise, "I? Get in your room?"

Elona is currently wearing a night dress, indicating she will sleep after. The evening dress is certainly not as thick as the usual dress, and that is what makes Arthur surprised. How could a girl who was not fully dressed invite a man into her room? Although Elona was still wearing her clothes, but letting the men in and see her in just an evening dress was enough to provoke suspicion.

But the girl didn't seem to care enough. He invited Arthur into his room.

"Quick! If anyone sees you like that, you won't be able to see me again forever!"

"Eh?!!" Arthur's surprised. Ethics is no longer a barrier now. It was better that he would break ethics for a while, rather than lose the chance to meet Elona forever.

Panicked, Arthur walked over the large branch he was sitting on, and deftly jumped into the room where Elona was.

The room was dim with candles as lighting welcomed the man. Elona quickly closed both shutters. Afterwards, the girl turned to Arthur quickly.

"What are you doing??"

"I'm..." Arthur actually wanted to give a reason. But his gaze could not escape the sight before him. The girl who had always filled her mind lately was now standing in front of her, wearing only an evening dress. His brain cannot concentrate. Instead of giving an explanation, Arthur was trying hard to refrain from preying on Elona.

Because he felt he was no longer strong enough to hold back, Arthur moved towards the bed. He picked up the blanket that lay there, and rolled it up from behind Elona, to cover the girl's body.

"Eh, why...?" Elona is confused to see Arthur's actions. The man snorted in annoyance.

"What do you mean?"

Arthur felt upset in his heart, "If only Elona could be like this, would she not be like other men?"

"Don't invite just any man into the room, let alone just wear an evening dress like that!"

"Oh. yes," Elona only complied, although she did not understand enough, but she agreed. Because in his thinking as Tara, the evening dress he wears today is still thicker than the modern clothes on earth there.

"But I don't invite just anyone" Elona said, then looked into Arthur's eyes. "I invite you, whom I know. Aye right?"

Fortunately, the condition of this room was dim, there were only candles and moonlight coming through the window. Otherwise, Elona would have been able to see Arthur's face flushed red like a boiled crab at the moment.

"O-oh. Anyway, don't do this to other men!"

"okay! Then, what do you need to do here?" ask Elona.

"Err, that, I..." Arthur stuttered to give a reason. "You didn't go to the lake this afternoon, so..."

"You looking for me?"

"No!!"

"Then?"

"Me, err..." Arthur was at a loss for words. Usually he always had a thousand and one reasons to reject the woman who tried to approach him. There are many reasons to return her parents' advice. Now, however, he did not even dwell in the presence of a girl who only asked him one simple question.

Elona looked at the man in front of her. But when the girl saw that Arthur could not answer her question, she did not pursue him anymore. For Elona, everyone had their own reasons, and it was possible that the young man before her did not want to tell her that.

"If you have nowhere to go, come here" said Elona, taking a plate of chocolate cake she had placed on the table.

"I can come over here...?" asked Arthur doubtfully. Elona nodded.

"Yes,"

"When?"

"Yes, whenever possible, as long as I'm home." Elona cuts the chocolate cake with her spoon, then thrusts it at Arthur.

"Have you eaten? Want some chocolate cake? It's!"

Quickly, Elona feeds the chocolate cake in her spoon directly into Arthur's mouth without the young man being able to resist it. But even though Arthur doesn't like sweet foods, he can't refuse them. Her heart was too busy pounding at everything Elona did to her that she could not think clearly.

"Enak right? It's my own making!" elona smiled happily.

Arthur is losing control of all the blood flow in his body.

"You again? Aaa..."

Elona prepares to feed him another spoonful of chocolate cake, but Arthur holds the spoon and takes it from the girl's hand.

"Enough! If you keep feeding, I can explode later!"

"Huh? Exploded? Meanin?"

"It's nothing!"

That night, Arthur returns home to his home in the town of Rudiyart with a beating heart and a very chaotic heart. But the mess managed to make him smile all the way. It was not in vain that he did a crazy recklessness that he would not forget for the rest of his life.

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