The Bride Of The Sacred Forest God
Chapter 38. Let Me Love You in Silence

Aragaki has arrived at his room. He did not sit as usual, but instead stood staring at the cherry blossoms across the room.

“Some time ago, you guys seemed to be hinting at something. Do I still worry you guys?”

Aragaki walked past the outer engawa to get around his residence. That place is so big. Even if you go to the other side, there is a pool and a place to relax that is rarely visited by him.

For the afternoon of the day, the forest ruler Higashi no Mori decided to take a walk freeing the saturation of his mind.

After almost heading to a place of relaxation, he heard a voice from the direction of the garden. Aragaki recognized the voice. It was the voice of the little fox and the girl he thought was dirty.

Turning his goal, he walked towards the other side of engawa who could see directly his private garden.

He walked quietly and crept out from behind the wall of the shoji door.

“That dirty girl...” her eyes turned very sharp and her expression was full of hatred.

But, the thing that surprised him was after this. He saw something so foreign to him. More precisely, the thing he had ignored ever since the village girl had come.

His little fox was plucking the carrot that was in the garden with the village girl beside him.

“Reda-sama, Ryuunosuke almost got his carrot. This one is big.uum, it's hard to unplug.”.

“Be careful, Ryuunosuke. I'm the one who did–”

“Hiyaaa!!” the little fox shouted

It seemed that the plant he was trying to pull was successfully obtained.

“Reda-sama, Ryuunosuke managed~” the little fox looked delighted with his wagging tail and ears

The girl laughed looking at the face of the little fox that was full of land.

“Ahahaha, here. Let me clean up first.”

Reda cleaned Ryuunosuke's face with her own clothes and rubbed his head.

“Ryuunosuke great. If Nushi-sama finds out, she will definitely praise you as well.”

“Ehehe~later Ryuunosuke will tell on Aragaki-sama!”

“Iya. Let's take another one. Nushi-sama must be happy with the harvest. Spirit!”

“Spirit!”

Aragaki saw her little fox so close that it even stuck like that to the village girl who was considered dirty by her. He was still standing watching them from a distance.

The little fox looked so happy every time he got praise and elusan in his head.

The girl also hugged and cleaned the dirty little fox outfits with her own clothes.

“Completed. Potatoes and cucumbers are not so much, but carrots and vegetables cabbage can be a lot. It's good, isn't it?” said the girl

“We have also finished watering the plants. Now we wash first, Reda-sama. Then we take it to the kitchen. Ryuunosuke will spruce up the dining room.”

Reda smiled. They both went to the well behind. When the two went to the well, who would have thought that Aragaki would follow him as well.

It is beyond his habit.

There, Aragaki also saw what the village girl was doing firsthand. He cleaned all his vegetables carefully.

“Huwaa~be clean! Reda-sama washed it like this huh.”

“True. This way it's gonna get clean fast, right? Later if Ryuunosuke cleans it too, do it like this huh.”

Aragaki was quite surprised.

“He taught my little fox to do something?”

Finish it, they're in the kitchen. Aragaki decided to leave first so that neither of them would know.

As soon as they reached the kitchen, the two were surprised to see the four Aragaki servants bringing all the dishes from the dining room.

“Eh?! Why are you guys carrying the plates?!” Ryuunosuke is surprised to see Nagi and Hakuren coming along with his dirty dishes

“We help your work. You should be happy, little fox!” nagi

“Ryuunosuke surprise. I thought you guys wouldn't tidy it up.” The little fox was still unable to believe it, but it did not seem that it was taken seriously by Nagi and the others.

Finished delivering the dirty dishes, Hakuren approached Reda who had just stored the vegetables.

“Reda-sama, I'm really sorry about that.”

“It's okay, Hakuren-sama. I'm glad Nushi-sama didn't take it seriously. I became relieved that I was still able to make Nushi-sama happy with the food that I cooked.”

“Reda-sama..”Hakuren felt a little relieved

Ginko whispered something into Reda's ear.

“Sore this, Nushi-sama will be gone for a while until night. I think Reda-sama can do everything freely. We will keep an eye on Nushi-sama coming back. Don't worry, we'll help you secretly.”

“...” Reda stunned

Hearing that, he felt like he was going to shed tears.

“So, this is how it feels when accepted by others. God, is this what pleasure is?”

The four demons gave her a smile, a sign that they would really support Reda now. Ryuunosuke was already crying earlier than Reda.

Not wanting to arouse any other suspicions if his master were to come, the four of them immediately went and did the usual thing they did.

Reda hugged her little fox.

“Ryuunosuke, is this good progress?”

“Umm! This must be the will of the heavens, Reda-sama! Ryuunosuke is very happy, Ryuunosuke is very happy!”

The two smiled together.

**

Outside the kitchen, Aragaki is not really interested in seeing what the two people are up to. He decided to go back to the place he wanted to go first.

Arriving there, Aragaki sat down and began to think.

“I already knew it would be like this, but I will only ignore it for 3 months before he dies.”

“But I always wanted to know what the dirty girl liked? I already knew that it was likely that Nagi and the others would side with him someday.”

“For so long, I was the one who hated them the most. Whatever happens, I won't change my view of that dirty girl!”

“...” Aragaki silent

In his heart he said so, but in his mind he recalled the blushing happy expression that his little fox had shown.

“That's the same face as in the past. Happy face when Ryoko is still alive first.” murmured

**

Another loyal servant who fell victim 200 years ago is Ryuunosuke's mother, Ryoko. One of the other fox demon possessed by the Guardian God as well as Aragaki's most loyal servant since long ago who he considered like his own mother.

Aragaki remembers the day Ryoko's fox body was thrown by the Kamakura Village ancestor 200 years ago, citing the purification of a demon that damaged the peace of the human forest.

At that time, his little fox had just turned less than 7 years old.

The little fox had to lose her mother due to the selfishness of humans at that time and caused Aragaki wrath to flatten all humans into the land and his village.

Recalling the incident, he compared Ryuunosuke's facial expression to that of his mother's death with his face when he was with the village girl.

"It was like you forgot how to smile. Even when those filthy girls started getting into this forest, none of them could make you like that.”

“Only because you like so much the dirty girl now, is that how much your emotions change now, little fox?”

Aragaki tau, since the villagers gave ‘hadiah’ in the form of candidates ‘bride’, none of them are right.

The attempted escape, the killing by poison, repelled the little fox by beating and torturing him.

That's what they did in the past, to make Aragaki kill everything by feeding them to the demon Nue.

But, Aragaki must admit that the village girl who is now the candidate of her ‘bride’ managed to make the little fox so happy.

Like being a child again, Ryuunosuke seems to get his own happiness.

“Ryoko, if you are here now..I want to know what you think of your master?”

**

Reda's in the kitchen

intend to water the plants in the garden and mop the engawa floor. He left

the little fox was alone after finishing washing the dishes.

As soon as he arrived at

garden to water the flowers, he saw a figure that he so admired.

“Nushi...-same..”.

Reda hid behind one of the rooms that could see Aragaki's position now by carrying water in her hand.

His eyes widened and his heart skipped a beat. His face flushed every time he noticed the figure of Aragaki sitting in the shade across there.

“God...if I could see him smile at me, I sincerely die without regret afterwards.”

“I may be very presumptuous, but since a long time ago.father and mother told me that the Protective God is very good. Nushi-sama is an awesome figure and I still believe that he is a good person.”

“God, I've loved her since seeing her that night. Although in the end I had to crash because of her hatred, but I still have not given up on making her smile.”

Reda's tears dripped unnoticed by her.

“Let me love him, God. Allow me to be next to her even for just a moment.”

“If one day your soul mate comes for her, make her the luckiest woman to see her smile every time.”

Reda mumbled slowly.

“Nushi-sama, Reda loves you. Let me love you in silence, Nushi-sama. Reda prayed, in the rest of my life which is only 3 months.may your frozen heart can melt little by little.”.

Her beautiful face was adorned with a blushing smile and tears at the same time.

“Dad, mother.your daughter has found her love. Although impossible to have, but Reda will struggle to make her happy.”

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