Getting Married Without My Badge

“Sensha, how many divorces will this be for your aunt?”

“Wait a minute…”

Lily, who counted with her fingers folded, nodded her head.

“The fourth was before we graduated from kindergarten.”

“That’s right. At that time, my older sister and Ash also talked about it a lot.”

“When I grow up, I will live like my aunt!”

“Hey, wonderful!”

“Sensha can do it!”

Clare and Lily cheered.

“Teacher, they are talking again.”

“…”

The boy with glasses told the teacher.

“Ah…”

The young teacher, who was the first to arrive at Marai School, was sweating profusely at the high-level conversations of the children.

“Now is the time to read a book, so shall we be quiet for a bit?”

“Yes!”

Clare and her friends picked up the books again.

The teacher glanced around the quiet library again and belatedly wiped her forehead.

“…That’s why they’re countrymen.”

Then, a nervous voice was heard.

He was the son of Sir Delat.

The teacher called him. However, he pretended not to hear and shook his head.

But he glanced at Clare with his eyes.

Clare frowned as their eyes met.

At this, young master Delat smiled and made a triumphant expression. He shrugged his shoulders too.

“…Hey, what did he do?”

Finally, Clare snorted.

“I guess he likes me…!”

“Oh no!”

Young master Delat jumped to his feet. The children who were reading were startled and looked around the place where the sound was coming from.

Young master Delat was facing her with a blush in his face. He was so angry that sweat began to form on his forehead. Read only at pm tl.

“Me, why would I like you!”

But Clare didn’t seem to listen. Rather, it made the crying louder.

“Do not cry…”

“Clare, are you upset?”

The girls around gathered one by one and comforted Clare.

“It was like that with my sister and Ash.”

Clare wiped her eyes with a handkerchief.

“Immediate and childish boys bully the girl they like…”

“I, I hate people like you the most!”

“Just agree, you idiot.”

“Because I don’t!”

An excited young master Delat pointed at Clare and shouted.

“Someone like you…!”

Then he looked around his classmates and said in a vicious voice.

“You lowly commoners, my father will chastise you!”

“I am a noble”

The boy with the glasses retorted fiercely.

“…That, so what!”

After a moment’s pause, Delat shouted again.

“Once my father finishes his work, the south will be ruined!”

“No.”

The boy with short hair, who was still silent, opened his mouth.

The cluttered library became quiet.

“The Navy…”

The boy spoke in a gentle voice, but firmly.

“The Navy will protect the South.”

~*~

“…Was his name Serene?”

That evening.

Clare talked about what happened at school during the meal.

Ami, who was invited to dinner, said while putting aside the fish bones.

“A child with short hair. A gentle, unspoken boy.”

“He is a calm and serious child for his age.”

“I felt it when I saw him before, but he is smart.”

“What?”

“No, why do you like him so much…”

The more she praised Serene, the more Ash rejoiced.

“Serene is my best friend!”

Clare pumped her chest.

Then Ami snorted at her.

“There is no friendship between a man and a woman. There is only love-hate.”

“Aren’t you teaching my sister strange things?”

Noah transferred the fish bones that Ami had collected while diligently picking out the bones on Clare’s plate.

Ami, who had her plate taken away, tried to stare at Noah, but she had to keep her mouth shut because of Clare.

“But sister.”

Claret, who was munching on the fish, asked.

“What is love-hate?”

“It’s an adult word. You are not at that level.”

“…”

Clare, who had been treated like a child, pursed her lips. Then she quickly turned her head to find Ash.

“Ash, what is love-hate?”

“It’s a word used by someone like the master.”

“You mean my brother? Then it’s an insult!”

Clare, startled, shouted to Ami.

“You can’t say anything bad! Because Ami is a soldier, use pretty words!”

“…Sorry.”

Ami nodded her head and apologized.

After the meal, Clare went to her room with Ash.

It was to check the notices distributed by the school.

And Noah and Ami put away what they ate and washed the dishes.

“Have you heard from him yet?”

“My grandmother was very angry. He won’t be able to come in easily this time.”

“It’s not that he’s immature, but maybe he doesn’t have a brain.”

“So when grandma comes back, she’s going to split his hair.”

“Puwhaha!”

Ami laughed until her belly hurted.

In fact, Noah was on the verge of a headache at the thought of her brother who had left the house.

“Why are all the men around me like this…”

“Is the lieutenant general there too?”

Ami took off her rubber gloves and slumped into a chair near her.

Her slightly wet apron was loosely untied and placed on her table.

“The lieutenant general…”

After shutting off the water tap and wiping the sink clean with a dry cloth, Noah opened her mouth.

“…To be honest, I don’t know yet.”

The dishcloth, which was slightly nervously thrown, fell into the sink.

“…You don’t know your heart?”

When Ami asked, Noah shook her head.

“I’m sure I like him. I definitely love that nerd.”

“Then you can go out with him again…”

“I got proposed to.”

“…Huh?”

Ami, who had her mouth wide open as her words were interrupted along the way, belatedly rubbed her jaw joint.

But her attention remained focused on Noah.

“That, then, that, the, bet?”

Wasn’t that just a joke?

On that day, all members of the Special Forces were present, and everyone regarded the incident as nothing more than a prank.

Because there was no sincerity anywhere.

But Noah, who was the party that day, shook her head.

“It was real.”

“…”

“He wants to marry me.”

“Wow…”

Ami, who had been contemplating, shook her body finely.

“…So, did you accept?”

Noah shrugged her shoulders. As Ami, who became frustrated, tried to argue further, Noah spoke first.

“I refused.”

“Well done! You are still young, what kind of marriage are you…”

“But I said I love you.”

“…Hey.”

Her body, which was attached to the chair, shook. Ami didn’t know what to do with her eyes, which fluttered wildly, and closed them tightly.

Then she suddenly remembered something strange.

‘You said that?’

‘But you rejected the proposal?’

Her words didn’t match at all.

Ami couldn’t hide her curiosity.

Noah, noticing her friend’s intentions, grinned and looked through the window in the kitchen wall.

A faint garden light could be seen outside the window, which was shrouded in darkness.

“I don’t have the confidence.”

“What? With yourself?”

“This and that.”

“…Did the lieutenant general have any weaknesses?”

Amy asked quite seriously.

But Noah didn’t know why that crazy dog was so lovely and precious.

‘How is that a stupid condition?’

Noah had to get the sword that Leto had taken.

However, on the condition that Leto, who said he would give her a sword if she married him, would confess that he loves her and tell her the reason for hindering her promotion.

She was making things more difficult for herself.

And Leto was struggling with those two easy conditions.

She wasn’t overly embarrassed, but Noah knew enough.

There was still a wall between them.

A frightened figure behind it.

“…I feel like I am getting it.”

The series of events that had taken place over the past few days was in the process of showing a little bit of Leto’s inner feelings.

“Therefore.”

At her friend, who was fussing about her needlessly, she asked with a look of boredom.

“After all, what are you not confident about?”

“I’m confident I won’t beat that bastard.”

“…”

“Putting aside the heart of love, I think I will feel relieved once he loses one.”

Amy nodded her head.

~*~

It has been a week since the Royal Knights arrived in the South.

The scheduled exchange schedule was one month, so the knights had now spent only a quarter of their time here.

“…What’s going on?”

As soon as the passing navy saw the knights they asked.

“It’s like they’ve been trapped for six months already.”

“I mean…”

In just a week, the knights became old and ugly like a private soldier for six months at sea.

No, rather the navy got stronger during that time, and they got weaker.

“That’s…”

A non-commissioned officer passing by just in time explained the situation.

“Everyone participating in the special training.”

At that, the soldiers were terrified.

“Special training? Why?”

“No, why choose to do crazy things! Did they leave their brains in the capital?”

“Probably.”

One of the soldiers clicked his tongue saying it was understandable.

“I think they wanted a private ship.”

Not only those knights, but any navy member was greedy for private ships and longing for special features.

The specialty was the new prestige of the navy. They had a good reputation among the southerners for their dazzling performances, and the treatment was special.

The most typical example was the exception of naval missions.

And a salary that is two steps higher than this rank.

So it was the seniors’ pleasure to see their successors running away with tears, runny noses, and vomit after trying without knowing it.

“…The special feature is that the training is very intense.”

The special treatment given to the special was not ‘special’ for nothing.

As they deal with dangerous weapons called “private ships,” the Special Forces members perform the most difficult and arduous training in the Navy.

It was so difficult that, on the days when special features and joint training were held, the members of the unit even had a practice of writing a will and putting it in a locker box.

“…I’d rather not.”

“I know.”

“Let’s go. Aren’t we busy too?”

The sailors left their seats with unsympathetic sympathy.

And the faces of the knights who were all listening grew darker.

“…Sir, Sir Perata.”

One of the knights asked in a tired voice.

“I feel like I’m going to die from this…”