The Forgotten Name

Explanations

Episode 2: Explanations

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+in the previous chapter+

        I looked straight into the dragon man's eyes with smug on my face because of the fear that I had earlier had crumbled; I waited for him for about 3 minutes long before he began to spoke his next words,

                “You… want me to be by your side forever?” He asked me while slowly put his hand on my cheek.

        He then smiled and it stopped me from breathing and the ability of my senses.            +++++++++++++++++++++

        My body trembled hardly, my mind went white, and I couldn’t breathe for a moment. I felt like I’m going to pass out right at that exact time and place.

                “Hey… are you okay? You don’t look fine,” he asked me with a mischievous smile as I still out of my consciousness.

        He came even closer and caressed my both cheek with his hands as he was trying to making sure that I’m fine. But as he put his hands on my cheek, suddenly I felt some weird electricity-flow runs inside my body wildly which made my heart having trouble keeping up with the fast momentum that it gave to me.

        I tried to inhale the oxygen surrounding us little by little to keep myself alive at least, even if I couldn’t stop the suffocating feeling that sourced from my heart.

        I stabilized more of my breathing as I slowly regained my consciousness and my senses back. I started to use my head and the processing of what was happening between me and him right now.

                ‘Roselyn, keep yourself together! This black-haired dragon man is entering your personal space! Seriously, like an Anime character, he really is brave to do that to a new person he met at their first meeting. But then again, the feeling I got from him is so warm and somewhat nostalgic as if we were in the real world. Well, I guess it’s also the same feeling when I dream about falling from the sky and then hit the ground after.”

        I looked at him more eagerly than before, and then I realized that I fall for him.

                ‘I… think I fall for him, probably because I’m still in the dream which can make me feel at ease without the need to care. Well, the real-life me would think that love is just another factor that could prevent me from seriously work hard for what I want to achieve. Which is the reason why I try my best not to fall in love with anyone that has a real existence in the real world.’

                ‘That’s why I always throw any kind of feeling away from my heart by bury it deeper beneath my soul’s voidness, but this is a dream and I could do anything I want without needing to worry about the future, right? But then again, this can also be the other reason I can’t keep on walking forward in the real world.’

        I sighed and decided to throw away the feeling that I was having inside me that time, use the same way of what I would do in the real life.

        After done solving the main problem, now I needed to think about how I should prevent the feeling I was having through action, the only thing that I was thinking about at that time was,

                ‘Should I push him or should I punch him? Make it a sudden move or slow-swizzle?’

        Before making any decision with few options running in my head, I tried to observe more of the subject that looking at me strongly with an unidentified passion. I made eye contact and I was guessing at what he’s thinking, followed by me looking at him to a certain point of his body.  

                ‘Okay, let’s see at his arm and his leg first because those often being used to attack or defend from something that’s coming right onto you,’ those lines echoed in my thought as I slowed to take a peek to the point that I was aiming for earlier.

                ‘Uh-oh, goodness, he’s VERY RIPPED! WTH, how am I suppose to make a distance between us this way?! I need to make him lose his balance so that I ca-,’

        Right in the middle of my thought, he hugged me out of the blue and speak closer to my ears.

                “Too slow… I need… you… now.” He said that with a husky voice as my face became red as a tomato.

        The pressure that he gave onto my poor heart to choose between to fall or not is too high, which also made me push his face away harder than the way he gave the feeling to me. I pushed him as far as I could even though his arms still hold onto me real tight.

                “What are you doing? Are you trying to shove me away from you?” He asked me,

                “Uuugh! W-what if I am?!” I answered as he chuckled,

                “No, I’m just guessing that you’re actually want to push me away, BUT because you realized how DANGEROUS I am. You didn't get any other choice than to use another way, right? It’s the fastest reaction and solution I ever get from communicating with someone, so I’m kind of shocked by that.”

                “Y-yeah, that’s true! I mean thanks, but could you get away from me, please? I feel kind of awkward in this position,” I answered.

         I slowly reduced my hand's strength to put his face away because I thought he’ll stop clinging to me.

                “No, I refuse to,” he then slowly came near my ear again.

                “Can I just eat you up now and take you back? I just can’t bear it any longer,” he said as he put one of my hands at his beating chest.

         I closed my eyes and hanged my head down to hide my expression away. He then talked about how small my hands are comparing to his without care to read my expression.

                ‘This is not good at all, I know I always being nice to a new person I met to prevent the unwanted event, but this has gone too far! Be assertive!’

          I calmly controlled my breathing and prepared my voice out. Then I look up and look at his flustered face as I shout,

                “ENOUGH!” He flinched a little, slowly took his hands back, and fall on his knees. I used my only chance to interrogate him because I know this won’t happen again.

                “WHO.ARE.YOU?”

                “I’m Marchen, the dragon and The Eternal Guardian of Kratten Wildren. The one that has been trusted to take you back to your right place, Your Highness.”

                “EXPLAIN IT. BRIEFLY!”

                “Your Majesty, you’re the right heiress of the Kratten Wildren. Our kingdom needs your presence.”

                “Kratten Wildren? What is that?”

                “You see, Your Majesty. Kratten Wildren is where your real family lives. They’re the late ruler of the kingdom, they are the ones who send you here to protect you from the enemy’s attack. Your Highness, our kingdom’s situation right now is in the middle of the fall. You need to go back immediately and reclaim your right as the heiress, then the kingdom will be saved.”

                “……….”

                “Your Majesty?” He said to me as slowly looked up after I finish my long laugh.

                “I AM. NOT. THE ONE. YOU’RE LOOKING FOR.” I grinned as I looked straight at his surprised face.

        He stood up in an instant and came closer again with a menacing aura, followed by one word that oozing out from his mouth.

                "YOU!"