Chapter 21: The Commander's Son Gets a Reward

"Is Arth finished?"

When I returned, Alice happily ran up to me. I smiled at Alice and then turned my gaze to the heroine behind her and asked.

"Was there any particular problem here?"

"No, except for the young lady being surrounded by other young ladies and being asked various questions."

"Maria knew it and didn't help me. It's terrible."

I smiled at the helpless Alice and said.

"It seems like you've gotten along with Maria quite well."

"Arth...Yes!, But the reward you want you can h-have it but only with my permission!"

"What if I attack without Alice-sama's consent?"

When I said that, the heroine reply with a smile.

"If nothing can be done about it I might use magic, the young lady might get worried."

"Hahaha, if you do that, I'll seriously kill you."

"Don't show your bloodlust with a smile. It's just a joke. But it seems that the young lady is really looking forward to when you will demand it. Yesterday, she were talking so passionately about you—Mugu."

"No, no! Maria, you promised to keep it a secret!"

She hurriedly covered the heroine's mouth, but I couldn't quickly forget what I had heard. But I see... Alice has already made up her mind. If that's the case, I'd like to attack her as soon as possible... but it's not a good idea to attack her now and force her to drop out of school, so I'll have to put up with it. Alice fearfully asked while holding the heroine's mouth down.

"Ah, um… Did you hear that?"

"Yeah, I didn't think Alice wanted me that much..."

"Uu... it's embarrassing..."

I said to Alice with a bright red face and a gentle smile.

"But I'm happy. To think that Alice thinks of me that much. To be honest, I'd like to have the first night right now, but... I want to have the first night after we're officially married. So that's it. Can you hold out until?"

"I-I'm not interested in that sort of thing..."

"Is that so? If it's with Alice, I want to do it. Conversely, I definitely don't want to do it with someone other than Alice."

I don't think it's possible for me to embrace a woman I don't like as much as I want. The thought of hugging a woman other than Alice sent chills down my spine to the point of nausea. After all, nothing but pure love seems to be impossible for me. Or rather, it would be better if there were some hurdles for that kind of ethics. It's not a sudden 18+, but a casual depiction of 15+. It's not an eroge, it has to be divided with a galge-like feeling. At my words, Alice made a slightly happy expression and then nodded embarrassedly.

"I-I also don't want to do anything like that to other than Arth."

"Yeah, of course. I won't allow Alice to be embraced by a man other than me, so be prepared."

"Eh, you mustn't hug or kiss a woman other than me."

"If you say various things like that is this including etiquette, for example ... approach like this"

After saying that, I approached Alice, took the heroine's hand that wasn't covering her mouth, and lightly kissed the back of her hand before asking.

"Is this bad?"

"~~~! No, no! Absolutely no! Including that"

"I understand. Then Alice is also prohibited from kissing other men than me, even if it's just a greeting kiss."

"Of course! I belong to Arth."

"Then all of me belongs to Alice."

After saying that, we laugh lightly at each other. It makes me very happy when the other party says it honestly in front of me, even though it's nothing to do with monopoly desire. Normally, they would only look like a troublesome couple, but since they love each other for that trouble, they should be safe.

"Come to think of it, I need to get a reward for Alice."

"Reward?"

"If you win that battle, you promised to receive a reward from Alice, right?"

After thinking about those words for a while, Alice quietly nodded and said, whether she remembered or her face turned red.

"Oh, I understand. Please close your eyes."

"Yes yes. I understand."

After slowly closing my eyes, I laugh inside. The reward was a kiss, but I didn't specify where to kiss. In that case, I thought it would be a cute guy with a kiss on the cheek or a kiss on the back of the hand like me earlier, so I thought I'd have some leeway, but that quickly disappeared.

"yeah..."

The warm feeling coming from Alice, who seemed to have stretched out, came from an unexpected place. It's like she's really kissing me - I opened my eyes and saw Alice in front of her, leaning over me and kissing her as hard as she could. In other words, I was really kissed on the lips. Alice said, her eyes moist as her lips parted.

"Fah, it's my first kiss... Please take responsibility."

"Of course I'd be happy to."

I truly felt that my hard work today was worth the unexpected big reward. I feel that Alice's heat still remains on my lips and I don't want to erase it, so I really think I won't be able to forget this for a while today. It goes without saying that since serious Alice followed my words and gave me her first kiss, I vowed to cherish this for the rest of my life.