-Break-

Walking outside the hut, I say, “It seems the sun has fallen, I should go and check up on everyone before I head to bed myself.”

“That sounds like everything has gone alright then,” I hear a voice to the left of me say.

Turning to my left, I see Mariana who is standing with a smile. “Better than I had expected. Charles really is much more mature than I give him credit for.”

“But considering how long it took you it must have been a long conversation?”

“No really, the actual talking part took a very small amount of time, what made it go on for so long was Charles crying. I had to stay there until he fell asleep.”

With a confused, Mariana says, “Ehh, isn’t that incredibly childish.”

Erratic, I say, “No it was mainly crying! You just wouldn’t understand.”

“Well I am fine with some secrets being forever unknown to me, now it is time for me to go to sleep.”

As Mariana walks past Nero, he start to become jittery like he is about to do something but keeps stopping himself. But then he reaches his arm out and grabs Mariana.

Surprised, she says, “Nero what are you doing.”

With a red face, he looks towards Mariana and says, “We need to talk.”

After a second her face turns red as well, and then she says, “REALLY!”

-Break-

As they both sit in front of the hut, Nero keeps taking glances at Mariana beside him and then keeps opening and closing his mouth repeatedly.

Mariana on the other hand has a face of annoyance and is tapping her feet every other second. Grabbing me by my shoulder, she says, “IT HAS BEEN ONE HOUR SPEAK!”

“I am not ready yet!”

“Then when will you be ready.”

“I don’t know.”

“Then I will leave!” She says walking away.

“Wait!” I say as she walks away.

Turning around, she says, “Are you finally ready to say something.”

I continue to struggle as I try to open and close my mouth, but then after a few moments, I say, “I want to tell you a funny story about Claudia that time.”

Mariana walks up to me, and kicks me in the shin, then says, “Die!” While looking down on me as if I am trash.

On the floor, while I roll around in pain Mariana walks off. What the hell is wrong with me, why am I acting like this? Right now I am acting like Claudia.

Wait, why did Claudia even act like this around me all the time? After a few seconds of thinking, I said, “Claudia liked me.”

In that moment all of Claudia’s behaviour starts to make sense, even up to the moment she decided to save me from being killed. “You fool.”

Standing up, I shout, “MARIANA ÁNGELA GIRASOL RAMOS I LOVE YOU!”

Mariana stops in her tracks and then turns around with her face red.

“I LOVE YOU SO MUCH THAT I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE, ALL MY SENSE AND LOGIC HAVE GONE OUT THE WINDOW.”

“Hey Nero, you’re being very loud.”

“FROM TODAY UNTIL I DIE, I PROMISE THAT NO MATTER THE FORM I WILL ALWAYS HAVE LOVE DIRECTED TOWARDS YOU.”

Embarrassed she moves towards me, and says, “Nero please quiet down.”

“I WILL GIVE YOU MY HEART SO IN RETURN I ASK FOR YOUR HEART BACK. BECAUSE I LOVE YOU.”

Mariana grabs me and then says, “Please say this just a little bit quieter.”

Grabbing her back, I say, “PLEASE MARRY ME!”

She pauses for a second, then says, “Huh!!!!!!?”

“I know a girl who lost love by waiting to love, and I know a boy who because of his love was willing to give up someone he loved. Following those two’s examples I have decided to be fast, and strong. Mariana I love you, in this life of mine you are the most wonderful woman I know, so if you still love me after all my nonsense please marry me!”

She turns red then looks away, then stares right into my eyes and says, “I love you two Nero, so please marry me.”

“Hey, this is my proposal!”

Closing her eyes, she says, “Not anymore, I have claimed it as my own.”

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“Hey, it took a lot of courage to do this.”

“Just shut up and say yes.”

“No way, this is my super romantic confession!”

She turns vermillion, then says, “If we don’t do it this, and I have to say the words my heart will explode and I will die on the spot!”

“Ok, I see.” I put my head against her, which causes her to open her eyes, and as she does, I say, “NO chance. You are definitely going to say it first.”

“But I will die!”

“You’ve been having your fun mocking me lately, so think of this as my revenge, either you say it or I am finished here.”

She looks around as if she is trying to find some kind of solution, but then she closes her eyes and puffs up her face. “You can use your cuteness all you want but I won’t budge.”

She starts to get erratic then puts her head into my chest, and says, “FINE THEN. Nero, I love you so YESSSSS!”

I hug her, and say, “Yes, now and until the day I die.”

“CONGRATULATIONS!” We hear a group of voices say.

Looking around, we see that a group of people from the campsite are everywhere around us.

Confused, I say, “What are you all doing here?”

Edward says, “You were shouting so loud that all of us heard and came to congratulate you guys.”

Looking at me, Mariana says, “See I told you that you were being too loud.”

I smile, then I start to show Mariana off and say, “LOOK AT MY beautiful bride.”

Looking at me with shock, she says, “Don’t you have any shame?”

“Not when it comes to you, Mariana!”

Blood starts to flow from Mariana’s nose, and then she looks at me and says, “I told you if you kept this up my head would explode!”

Hugging her, I say, “Sorry, sorry. But we shouldn’t let that blood hit your clothes because of the wedding.”

“Huh, what do you mean?”

“Well, obviously we're getting married tomorrow.”

“TOMORROW!”

Confused, I say, “Of course, why wait? Let’s just do it tomorrow.”

“I don’t know about that. This is all too fast, we need to sit down and talk, what about my hair, my dress, what about my pigs? I can’t get married without them. I also need flowers, it is not a proper marriage on my island unless I am where flowers and given flowers!”

Φ With all of the noise outside Charles who was lying asleep in the hut wakes himself up and goes outside to see everyone in celebration.

Walking up to Sandra, he asks, “What’s going on?”

“Mariana and Nero are going to get married.”

Charles, pauses for a moment, then says, “So Mariana is going to be my dad?”

“Huh?”

“Nero said he is like my mother, so Mariana becomes like my dad. Does that also mean that Nero will get to sleep with me and Mariana?”

Sandra says, “You know once they get married, they will sleep together, so you will not be allowed to sleep with them anymore. You might even need to move to a different hut.”

A face of bone-chilling shock appears on Charles's face, and then he says, “That can’t be,” While shaking.

Sandra looking at his state hands him Jupio and says, “Here you go she has healing powers.”

Holding Jupio Charles calms down and says, “Very cute,” Tastelessly.

Looking back at Nero and Mariana, Sandra says, “Though it is a shame.”

“Why?”

“Oh, I mean that even if these two had a wedding it wouldn’t have been a nice one. I was fine with having a small one, but I would really be nice if those kids could have one as well.”

“I see.”

-Break-

Location: Beastkin dorms

Φ Walking into a room with a bunch of beaten beastkin, Dónal drops a bottle of alcohol, and says, “Drink.”

One of the injured, Ryan says, “Have you punished those humans for what they did to us?”

“Not at all, but that isn’t any of your business so just shut up and drink.”

“Hey, how dare you let those humans get away with the insult they raised against us.”

“Blah, bablah, bablah, is all I hear coming out of your mouth so just shut up and follow instructions.”

Ryan grabbing the bottle sits back down by his friends and says, “You dirty human sympathiser.”

I giggle, then say, “What’s worse being a human sympathiser, or getting defeated in combat by a human child.”

“How dare you!” Ryan says as he starts to approach me, but after a few moments, he stops.

“Oh, did you finally find sense? You see my proclivities are treated as a perversion, a special bonus I get from being a noble. But your failure would be grounds for execution if anyone found out. But I am the nice kind of gentleman who has given you all a special room so no other beastkin find out about your failures, but don’t worry I won’t ask for anything else in return.”

Walking close to him, I put my hands on his shoulder, then say, “Because where friends are we.” Then I walk out of the room.

After getting a fair distance away from the room, I run towards my office, and upon entering I throw up. “I did it again, I put on an amazing performance!”

Dancing around the room towards the balcony, I say, “I did it, I did it, I did it."

But beside me, I hear, “I did it, I did it, I did it.”

Taking a look at my surroundings, I see Charles I dancing around me. So I jump back, and scream, “Charles what are you doing here?”

“I snuck in.”

“How did you get past the Merarks.”

“Where friends so they just let me get past.”

“But why would you sneak here, what if another beastkin saw you.”

Charles pauses for a moment, then says, “That would be bad.” But then he walks up close to me and says, “But still I am happy to see you.”

Seeing his saddened face, I say, “What’s wrong did that bastard Nero do something to you.”

“I just missed you so much.”

I hug him and squeeze saying, “I miss you as well.”

But he hits me on my head, and says, “I have something to say so calm down.”

“I am sorry, but what is it?”

Charles then tells me something completely outrageous. “Charles you do realize how impossible that would be.”

“But it is for Nero’s marriage.”

“HE’S Getting married.”

“Yes.”

Wait isn’t this amazing? Won't this mean I will get Charles all to myself, maybe I should do his request. No, I can’t it is simply too risky, I don’t need anyone knowing of my relationship with Charles.

“Please Dónal, I need to do this to make sure Nero and Mariana’s marriage is fun.”

As he says the name, Mariana, the name of the woman whose body I disposed of comes back to my mine. I sigh, then say, “Ok then let’s do this.”

-Break-

Location: Campsite

Φ Sitting with my legs crossed inside my hut, I start to panic. “I was completely under the influence of love yesterday, so I didn’t realize this but I am about to be married in just a few moments. THIS IS BIG!”

I start to breathe in and out and move around the room. “I need some fresh air.”

Getting up I get out of my hut, but looking around I see no one. “What the hell is going on, everyone should be setting things up out here for the wedding.”

I run from hut to hut to see if I can find anyone but I can’t. “Where is my bride!”

“I know,” I hear Charles's voice say.

Turning around, I ask, “Where is Mariana? Where is everyone?”

“I have moved them to the venue.”

“What! Where? How!?”

Grabbing my hand, Charles says, “Let’s go.”

He drags me out of the campsite and runs towards what I believe are the beast pens.

As he does I say, “Charles slow down, I need to take things slow or I am going to die.”

Looking back at me, he says, “What do you even have to worry about, aren’t you going to marry Mariana today? Shouldn’t you be happy?”

His words were posed as a question, but they were the answer I needed.

I smile, then say, “I guess you’re right what do I need to worry about.”