Gourmet Emperor : Building A Nation

"Then you can look at to your heart content"

What? Is she not angry? Moreover, she let me see it to my heart content? This can't be real!

So I look at her with unbelief eyes. She just blushing while nodded, as a sign that she means with what she said. Seeing me still look at her with unbelief expression, she said again,

"If you not satisfied with just looking, you can touch it too"

What? Am I not mishearing? Did she say it's alright for me to touch her private area? Unconsciously my hand put her leg down while staring her with bewilderment look.

"Ikki? You don't like my body?"

"It's…It's not like that. Give me time to think"

I take some distance while walking up and fro thinking about what happened. Still, after thinking a while, I can't come with an answer. So I ask her directly

"Silvie, what do you mean by I can touch it?"

"Um…this body is yours", she said it timidly.

"Eh? How come? Since when your body is mine?"

"Because…..because I love you Ikki"…she said that while lowering her head.

Although I already know that, this confession still surprises me.

"But don't we just know each other for a couple days?"

"Is it need a long time to love someone?" she tried to rebuke me

Ah, she got a point. There's also the term 'Love at the first sight' to describe not taking much time to fall in love since the first meet.

"No, you're right. But why you love me? I'm a stranger in here. I don't have anything with me now"

"Ikki, is that mean I can't love you, or do you not love me? If I can't love you and you don't love then please take as whatever you like. I'm also willing to be your slave if you want to"

Eh, why these become so complicated as this? Your father will surely make me into the minced meat if he knows her daughter become my slave. Besides, I'm not intending to have any slaves at all.

"your father will kill me if I made you my slave"

"My father can't prevent me fulfill my vows"

Eh? What's that? Vows? What vows?

"Silvie, calm down. Why don't you tell me from the beginning? I'm a little bit confused"

She nodded and patted the stone part besides her. Did she want me to sit beside her? Since she will tell her story I'd better sit and listen to her well, so I sit at the stone beside her.

"Ikki, do you remember the first time we meet?" she opens her story with a question.

"Yes, that's when you almost killed by a wolf"

She takes a breath before continuing her story. I nodded to confirm her story. There's indeed something like an earthquake when I leave the cave that must be what she means by earth moves.

"But before I arrived there, a wolf suddenly attacks me. I try to defend myself with everything available there. I scream at my lungs for help for some time but nobody comes to help. In the desperate time, when the wolf claw already injured me in some places, I made a vow. If anyone comes and saves me there, I will dedicate my life to that person. And when I already have no hope to live, you come and save me. That's why I decide to dedicate my life to you Ikki, not just my life, but I also want to dedicate my heart to you. If I'm not worthy to be someone you loved, then you can take me as your slave, as long as I can use my life for you"