Siesta ran up to Saito and clasped his hand.
“S-s…”
With a blush on her cheeks, she hesitatingly tried to say something.
“S?”
“S-snowing, y-you’ll catch cold…”
“Cold? Not really…”
When he said so, Siesta started to weep.
“It’s bad. You will catch a bad cold…”
The passers-by watched the couple with curious expressions. Saito panicked.
“S-Siesta… T-that…”
“Making a girl cry! Lady-killer!”
“What, going after a country girl?”
People on the street started hooting.
Saito was embarrassed.
“Siesta, for now, let’s keep going…”
He began to walk while holding the crying Siesta’s shoulder.
Since they could not return to , because Louise rented the room, nor to the “Charming Fairies” inn, Saito and Siesta had to rent a room at a distant inn instead. In the city that was overflowing with soldiers and merchants, it was very hard to find an empty room, but somehow, in the basement of one tattered tavern, they were able to find a room and entered it.
“Taking one écu for such a shabby room.”
Saito complained while taking a seat on the bed. It was dim because the room was windowless. Though Siesta was still crying badly, she stopped once Saito gently patted her head.
“I'm sorry,”
Siesta said while biting her lower lip.
“What’s wrong?”
Saito asked.
“Poor Saito–san… Though he works hard, he gets such cold words…It is very saddening…”
“It’s all right.”
Saito said, in hopes of lightening up the mood for a moment.
Siesta started to shiver.
The unheated room grew colder. Saito stood up and threw a few pieces of firewood into the fireplace. They were given some when booking the room. Other heating conveniences were not invented in Halkeginia yet. He stared blowing to make the firewood burn more… and was silently hugged by Siesta from behind. Instinctively, he held his breath.
“I’m sorry…” Siesta said in tearful voice.
“Eh? No, it’s okay… I had no use for the money anyway…”
He thought she was grateful about booking the room, but he was wrong.
“Running off to a such place… is troublesome.”
Siesta tightened her hug.
The fire spread upon the firewood… burning brightly. The room was half way underground, so the window still provided some of the light up. Facing towards the street, one could see feet of passers-by.
“Am I a nuisance?”
“Not at all. Feels very good.”
Siesta muttered in a weeping voice again,
“Even so, isn’t this a war? If something happened to Saito-san, I, I… I hated not being able to see you again, so I decided to come. Thus, I came with Jessica and Uncle to Albion…”
While speaking, she gave in to her emotions.
Siesta began to weep raggedly again.
“I wanted to see you so much. And I am happy to see you, yet I cannot express myself. When speaking, I am blathering about various, non-important things. Terrible.”
Siesta pressed her cheek, wet from tears, against his back.
“Well…”
“…I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry for crying.” Siesta muttered over and over again.
Saito turned around, taking off Siesta's hand and patting her head with his left hand and wiping away the tears with the fingers of his right.
“Poor Saito-san. Brought from another world, yet keeps working hard without complaints. Cruel. It is so cruel. M-my important person… used as a tool…”
Saying so, while sobbing, Siesta looked at Saito’s face. Then, suddenly, Siesta tried to bring her lips close to his… but once he noticed what she was attempting to do, he tried to pull away.
But Saito could not pull his hand from her cheek. I do not want to separate, he thought.
Siesta, noticing the hesitation of Saito’s hand, wrapped her arms around Saito’s neck and quickly kissed him.
Being the first time that Siesta kissed him, her lips felt warm. Like everything about Siesta – warm and soft. Just like that bread that she allowed me to eat in the kitchen.
Siesta pulled away for a moment and looked at Saito's face through moistened eyes.
And then, she pressed her lips fiercely again. Using her body weight, Siesta pinned Saito to the floor.
Siesta’s black hair looked slightly red from the fireplace. Her cheeks glowed as well.
She was a gentle girl who was always near.
Siesta, with a determined look in her eyes, pushed back the black hood and tried to remove her robe completely.
He wanted to say, “W-wait,” but was silenced by the kiss.
The kiss was both sweet and fierce at the same time. While blushing, Siesta placed a hand on her breasts. Leaning herself upon him, Siesta traced Saito’s lips with her own over and over again.
Slightly separating their lips, she muttered.
“I love you.”
All lit up by the burning flames, Siesta looked pretty and wild, she was very tempting. Even when they shared a bath together, she did not look as tempting.
Love and kisses must be what made her so tempting.
Capturing like a flame it makes a girl look better.
Siesta herself was not aware of her coquettish charms.
Still, not noticing that Saito stiffened, Siesta puckered up her lips.
“Jessica said – when you meet a boy that you like, you will do everything for him. I think it might be true, as right now I am ready to do everything.”
“T-t-that’s not…”
Saito tried to squeeze words out of his seemingly dry throat.
“So, please touch me.”
Because of the way she was clasping hands, the valley of her breasts peeping out of her black dress was clearly visible, Saito turned his face away. Siesta gave a confused look.
“Do you hate it?”
She asked, Saito shook his head.
“It isn’t so. It isn’t why.”
Saito said in a tensed voice. He was a healthy boy. It was hard to endure. Almost dead-hard. Such a cute Siesta embracing him tightly… he wanted to make her his. But at the same time… he thought that it would be a lie. He would be lying about something important.
Therefore, Saito shook his head.
“... Saying that, it would feel like a lie.”
“A lie?”
“Yes. Because Siesta is an important person to me… That’s why that… I am not saying that…” he started stammering incoherently.
Did it reach her, what he wanted to say?
Siesta thought for a moment… and then smiled.
“Saito-san, remember?”
“…Eh?”
“In Tarbes… some time ago. You promised to take me back to the other world where you came from.”
“…Yes.”
“What you said that time was not a lie, because I still believe it.”
“Siesta.”
“Then I will wait. It will not be a lie when your feelings will grow… Though it might never happen… I’ll wait. Then…I…”
Saying that, Siesta was so lovable that Saito couldn’t help himself and embraced her tightly.
Siesta looked at Saito with puppy eyes and said,
“For only tonight. Hug me tightly…and kiss me. Is it all right? Would it also be a lie?”
“About the k-kiss...”
“Then skip the kiss part.”
Because there was no need to hold himself back now, he embraced her.
Such words of Siesta, should not be said when being rejected. When Siesta reposed herself on the bed, Saito looked down at her. There were no sign of tears on her face. Just a simple melancholy.
Then Saito embraced the girl, who said that she loves him, tightly.
Siesta had a very nice aura around her. Different from Louise, it was tender, it was an aura of a tender girl. Saito, holding her firmly, spoke about everything and nothing.