I Refuse to Be Your Enemy! Volume 5 by Kanata Satsuki

Author:Kanata Satsuki [SATSUKI, KANATA]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: A Thorny Future

It was soon after Felix’s burns had healed. As I was cutting across the courtyard of the fort—though technically, there was nothing to be found there but bare soil—I noticed a commotion near the gates.

“Is it an enemy attack, you think?” I asked Cain. Of course, considering he’d been accompanying me the whole day, there was no way for him to know any better than I did.

“Let’s go take a look,” Cain suggested, holding out a hand for me.

I grabbed hold of his sleeve, which had been the intent behind the gesture. Wandering around outside still made me uneasy. If it were Gina or Emmeline with me, I would have clung to them like a barnacle. I couldn’t do that with Cain, though, and the two girls were currently busy with other things.

After much internal debate, I had started out by grabbing hold of Cain’s cape, much to his consternation. He had then suggested we hold hands, but I had to turn him down on that one. It was one thing to do that when I was being carted around like luggage or dragged somewhere, but now that I’d realized I was in love with someone else, holding hands with a guy who liked me just because I was afraid of everyone else seemed pretty tacky. Thus, we’d found a compromise in letting me grab his sleeve instead.

Although this wasn’t a particularly big fort, it still took a decent chunk of time to get around. As I padded along toward the source of the bustle, Cain suddenly muttered, “This brings back memories.”

“Hm?”

“My brother used to walk around holding on to my sleeve, too.” Cain bore a more serene countenance than he usually did when he spoke of his family. “Perhaps I ought to make His Highness do the same at some point.”

The part he’d tacked on at the end was vaguely concerning. Uh, where did this urge to baby Reggie come from? Don’t tell me this is a new form of bullying. Did something happen between those two?

As I kept walking, my head tilted in puzzlement, I eventually saw Alan and his knight Chester talking with a group of soldiers near the gates. They spotted us before Cain could call out to them.

“Are you playing the father to her baby duckling, Wentworth?” Chester teased.

There’s a very good reason for this! I wanted to protest, but even that was too embarrassing to say. I kept my mouth shut instead.

“Never mind that. Did our scouting operation turn something up?” Cain asked, ignoring his comment entirely.

“Oh, you’re no fun. We didn’t find any enemies, no. His Highness said he was stepping out for a bit, that’s all.”

“What for? There’s no need for him to go out on patrol.”

Chester beckoned us closer, leading us away from everyone else. Once we’d followed him over, he leaned in and whispered something into Cain’s ear. I overheard something about “thorn” and something about “here.”

That was all I needed to get the gist of what was going on.

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