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"Miss Lord God, thank you for your help."

Shang Yang prayed to the Lady God in his heart.

[…Yiling⒎ba4奇思物琉>袂> really can't do anything about the doctor.]

The main goddess in Shang Yang's consciousness also complained helplessly.

Then, the crimson ruby ​​pendant hanging around the young man's neck once again emitted fiery red light spots. Some light spots flew up out of thin air and attached themselves to the doors, windows and surroundings of the palace. This was a barrier to block outsiders. Once anyone approached, it would be known by the Cause and Effect Ceremony and the Lady of the Lord God, and the Lady of the Lord God would decide how to deal with it.

Other fiery red spots attached to the young man's clothes on the side, gradually covering him. When the light faded away, a plain quilt covered the young man's body.

After lying on his side, the young man used his free right hand to hold the girl's white hands, which were as smooth as cream and as soft as boneless, which were holding his left hand.

The two people's hands were now completely entangled together.

As expected, the black-haired girl's other hand seemed to naturally exude coolness even though it was covered under the quilt.

"Besides the physical problems, there is a saying in folklore."

Gently holding Miss Ai's soft hands, Shang Yang talked to Miss Lord God in his heart.

"No one cares about girls with cold hands and feet."

...No one cares about girls with cold hands and feet. I don’t even have hands or feet.

The main goddess, who was accidentally caught off guard by the young man's words, immediately became angry and complained in a cold tone.

[What? Doctor, you still want to touch Miss Ai's feet and see if they're cold too?]

...I didn't mean that. I was just expressing my feelings. And Miss Lord God, did you have to use such an ambiguous word like 'touch'? (Tucao)

The young man suppressed the urge to complain back. Although he didn't quite understand what was wrong with Miss Lord God, he could feel that Miss Lord God was a little unhappy.

The young man wisely kept his mouth shut, carefully holding the cold hands of the sleeping black-haired girl in his own hands, using his hands to transfer some warmth to the girl's cold hands, while quietly closing his eyes.

"Good night, you should get some rest too, Miss Lord God."

The Lady Lord naturally ignored him.

The small palace became quiet, and the only sound that could be heard was the howling of the cold wind outside.

Silent all night.

the next day.

The winter sun shone on the snow-covered ground inside Fujiwara no Miyabi. The lower-ranking servants living in Fujiwara no Miyabi's office were driven out by the servant head and the clan warriors guarding the palace gates to clear the snow from the palace floor.

In the southern corner of the inner palace, there is an unnamed palace that few people ever visit.

The sunlight shone on the snow-covered ground and refracted into the interior of the palace through the doors and windows, making the palace a little brighter.

The girl with long black hair as soft and shiny as silk slowly opened her eyes.

The vision in my eyes that had just opened was a little blurry.

The girl, who had low blood pressure when she got up, was dazed for a while. After her vision became clear, she subconsciously looked forward.

What comes into view is the young man's clean and handsome face.

The girl was stunned again.

"……ah!!!"

The earth-shattering screams echoed throughout most of the room.

"What happened?!" "It's in the south!" "Send someone to inform Lord Saemon! Lord Saemon, please be on guard! The other warriors, follow me!"

The girl's screams alarmed some patrolling warriors and servants on the south side of the inner palace. The samurai leader marching outside the palace wall immediately sent someone to report to the Emon Mansion, and then led the remaining dozen or so warriors through the palace gate and rushed towards the small palace where the girl lived.

Boom!

The cypress door of the small palace was opened, and four maids knelt outside the door, asking anxiously.

"Your Highness, what are your orders?"

Although she is not valued in the inner palace, Miss Ai still has several maids to serve her. However, these maids do not stay near the palace all the time, but stay in the office house not far away. Miss Ai will only call them over when she needs them to do something.

"Ah?! No, I..."

After subconsciously screaming, Ai sat up and panicked. If the maids and warriors discovered the young man, it would cause big trouble. At this time, seeing the maids kneeling outside the door, Ai frantically thought of an excuse while subconsciously reaching out to grab her quilt to cover the young man sleeping on his side next to her.

However, when the girl's gaze returned to the young man who was supposed to be sleeping soundly lying on his side, she was stunned.

The young man who was sleeping soundly when I opened my eyes just now had disappeared without a trace, as if no one had ever been there.

The girl rubbed her eyes in disbelief.

However, the result was the same, there was really nothing beside the girl.

"...No, no, it's nothing. I just woke up and saw what looked like a mouse in the corner of the palace, so I got scared."

Without having time to think about the reason, Ai decided to fool the waitresses first, and opened her cherry lips to explain to them.

"Maybe I saw it wrong, but could you please have the palace servants check the surrounding area later?"

When she noticed that behind the maid, some warriors wearing straw cloaks and carrying bows and arrows also came and knelt on one knee in the snow outside the palace, Miss Ai, who could not bear the airs of a princess, added another explanation.

"Please also tell the warriors that there is no problem here and ask them to return to their respective duties."

"Understood, I understand. As you command, Your Highness."

After hearing Ai's explanation, the maids immediately relaxed their nervousness, saluted Ai, closed the door and retreated, taking the warriors who came to protect them with them.

While waiting for the maids and samurai to disperse, Ai, who was also nervous, breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down. She cast her gaze towards the side of the tatami again and began to think about another question that puzzled her.

...Is this a dream?

If everything that happened last night, the young man from Tang State, and all the scenes that happened, were all a long beautiful dream...

Thinking of this possibility, the girl felt extremely depressed.

Even if he opened his eyes in the morning and saw the sleeping young man from Tang, it was just a fantasy from last night's dream that he was too immersed in...

The extremely insecure black-haired girl couldn't help but fall into this extremely disappointing line of thought, and her delicate face looked extremely lonely.

Suddenly, when the girl was sitting alone on the tatami feeling lost, a young man's voice suddenly floated out from the palace.

“…I was almost discovered.”

As the girl stared blankly again, the young man who appeared out of nowhere in the palace wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. After confirming that the maids and warriors had left, the young man also breathed a sigh of relief and turned his gaze back to the black-haired girl who was stunned on the tatami.

"Luckily, Miss Lord God and Miss Ai, you reacted quickly... Miss Ai, what happened to you?"

Seeing the black-haired girl staring at him blankly, the young man asked with some confusion.

“Ah!!!…Hmm?!”

The black-haired girl's mood was like a roller coaster. At the same time, she witnessed with her own eyes the young man's figure strangely appearing from an empty place. This was a scene beyond common sense. The girl screamed subconsciously again.

However, this time, before the girl could scream out loud, the young man rushed forward and covered her mouth with his hand.

PS1: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 will be released in five minutes.

Volume 1: Heian Tales of the Past and Present: Chapter 11: Miss Ai's Morning (Part 2)

The black-haired girl, feeling extremely uncomfortable and having her breath choked, immediately tried desperately to pull out the young man's right hand that was covering her mouth and nose. Her clear eyes, filled with pleading, soon formed big tears.

[Doctor! You're choking Miss Ai!]

The Lady Goddess reminded Shang Yang, who was making subconscious movements, in an anxious voice.

"Ah?! Sorry, sorry..."

At this time, the young man realized that he had subconsciously covered the girl's mouth and nose, so he quickly let go of his hands and gently patted the black-haired girl's back to help her calm down.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

The girl, who was choked and unable to speak, finally shed tears uncontrollably from her clear eyes and coughed non-stop.

The young man felt distressed by the pitiful appearance of the girl. He patted the girl's back gently to help her calm down, rolled up his sleeves, and gently wiped the tears that kept falling from the girl.

The black-haired girl coughed violently for a while and finally recovered her breath. Her eyes, as clear as a spring and still stained with tears, stared at the young man's worried expression and his gentle action of wiping her tears. An inexplicable grievance occupied the black-haired girl's heart.

Under the young man's surprised gaze, the black-haired girl suddenly threw herself into his arms, buried her little head in his chest, grabbed his clothes with her fair hands, and sobbed softly.

What's going on...

Completely confused, Shang Yang rubbed his black hair helplessly and tried to ask the Lady God.

[…I don’t know either.]

Miss Lord God was also confused. She could feel some of Shang Yang's emotions in Shang Yang's consciousness, but she could not perceive other people's thoughts at all.

And she couldn't guess.

No one could figure out what was going on between the two of them, so they could only wait silently for Miss Ai to vent her emotions before making any further comments.

Fortunately, Miss Ai's soft sobs only lasted a short time. Seeing the black-haired girl silently wiping her tears with her sleeve and straightening up, both Shang Yang and Miss Lord God breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, the next action of the black-haired girl shocked Shang Yang and Miss Lord God completely.

The black-haired girl stood up, suddenly grabbed the big pillow on the tatami, turned it around and smashed it down on the startled young man.

This action was too unexpected. Looking at the black-haired girl with tears in her eyes and an extremely angry expression on her delicate face, the young man was confused again. He was hit several times by the big pillow swung by the black-haired girl before he reacted. He retreated quickly while talking frantically to the main goddess who was also confused again.

"Miss Lord God! Find a way!"

The confused Miss God, from the young man's perspective, watched in confusion as the black-haired girl with red eyes also stood up, rushed over with bare feet, swung a pillow and chased after the panicked young man and threw it, then sighed and replied to the young man.

[…Take care of yourself.]

"Hey!"

after a while……

"Wait, wait, let me die knowingly!"

After being chased by the black-haired girl for several rounds, the young man felt that this was really no use and gave up the idea of ​​escaping. He sat down on the tatami, looked up at the black-haired girl who had also chased him, standing on the ground with bare feet, looking very tired, and asked the girl to let him die with a clear mind.

Although it was indeed infuriating that Yue Yi accidentally choked her just now, the girl was obviously not angry about that. This made the young man completely confused, and he couldn't figure out what he had done to offend the black-haired girl.

However, the red-eyed black-haired girl was stunned for a moment by the young man's request. Then, after a brief pause, she threw the large pillow in her hand onto the tatami, walked past the young man, walked to the tatami mat far away from him, turned her back to him, and sat down without saying a word.

Seeing the girl's actions, the young man rubbed his hair in confusion again.

A girl's heart is like a needle in the sea. I really can't understand it at all...

According to Shang Yang's own speculation, love may not be anger, but a way to vent some emotions. If you are really angry, you can just ask the people outside to drive you away, instead of doing something like hitting them with a pillow.

...But looking at her expression, she was really angry.

Love is the kind of girl who is usually not angry, but becomes very scary when she is angry.

The young man glanced sideways at the girl with her back to him and her long black hair like a waterfall. He stood up helplessly, patted the dust that had accidentally touched his body when he dodged, turned around and looked at the white snow outside the window, and then looked at the thin white clothes on the girl with her back to him.

The girl's frail body was shivering slightly from the cold.

Shang Yang rubbed his black hair again, took two steps, picked up the quilt beside him, and walked to Miss Ai from the side.

Ai lowered her head, her long bangs covering her face.

The young man unfolded the quilt, half bent down, and carefully wrapped the thin body of the black-haired girl with the quilt.

The young man could clearly feel that the black-haired girl's body stiffened when he wrapped her in the quilt.

After a brief silence, the girl, whose expression was hidden by her bangs, tried hard to keep her voice calm and asked softly.

"...Shang-kun (しょうくん) still won't leave?"

"Um, I said last night that I would come to see Miss Ai this morning, but I don't know what happened and I seem to have made you angry..."

The young man also began to probe the girl's feelings.

"So, it doesn't seem appropriate to leave now?"

"...was I just being unreasonable and ugly?"

The black-haired girl did not respond to the young man's inquiry, but asked a question in return.

"You mentioned that scene where you swung the pillow. Uh, to be honest, I was scared." The young man didn't care about this question. "But it was probably my reaction after I made you angry. It's nothing."

“…I don’t know what’s wrong with me.”

Love's voice is a little confused.

"Seeing you suddenly appear like that, and then covering my mouth and nose, I felt so uncomfortable that I almost choked to death..."