Four Ikemen Extra 3.2

A Picnic with Everyone! Last Part (Part 2)

 

The tent has been built by the time the sky was dyed madder red. Ragna returned from hunting, held in his hand were impressive freshwater fishes.

 

[I’m back. Go on, Rei, please use these for dinner.]

[Wow, you caught so much. Thank you, Ragna!]

[Rei, instead of words, it would be great if you put it into action instead.]

 

As Ragna was pointing at his own lips upon saying that, I stood on my tiptoes, but I still couldn’t reach him so I pulled Ragna’s neck and kissed him.

 

I only planned to give him a light peck, but Ragna held my chin and inserted his tongue in.

 

[Mー!! Mmu!]

 

No!! When I strongly protested, Ragna reluctantly released my lips.

 

[Why are you being reluctant?]

[We’re camping outside today so things like that are forbidden!!]

[If Rei wishes, I can fly us home with these wings, you know? I can instantly carry you to a warm bed instead of lying on the hard soil.]

[I’m good! I want to have a camp today!!]

[Aah, I see, I see. So, that will be……  for tomorrow then.]

 

Ragna’s indifferent laughter contains no ill-feeling at all. I was also not mad and didn’t scold him any more than that as I accepted the fishes and cooked them. 

 

 

The fishes are fresh and it would be delicious even simply grilling them. Pairing it up with the yellow mushrooms that Ciel found on the mountain, I also poured Dy some milk while eating with everyone.

 

[Hey, it’s about time, right?]

[Let me see. Just a little bit more. Since it’s more wrecked than I expected, it took some time.]

 

The day was soon sinking. The cold wind mixed with the presence of the evening gently brushes Dy’s refreshing and beautiful profile.

 

After preparing the bonfire so the fire doesn’t die once we finished eating our meal, we gathered beside the purple rock.

 

[It’s gotten darker, maybe it was just right that it took some time instead…. Well then, shall we start?]

 

When Dy finished pouring his magic power and let go of the device, the top of the magic formation shone.

 

That light stretches towards the heavens. The light flickered, and a scene could be seen through it.

 

[Oh! Could this be…. From Zohana Lake’s?]

[Yes. It’s the distant view of the once Daebuldoir’s capital.]

 

Within the light, there was a floating city above the water. Amazing, it’s like a 3D Projector that doesn’t need a wall, a very vivid animation.

So ancient magic can also do something like this.

 

[This is beautiful….]

[I can’t believe that you managed to reach this level of technology more than 250 years ago. As I thought, Daebuldoir is really interesting.]

[The quality of the image shown is good, but  I see that the Capital itself was also elaborately made.]

 

The Capital was being projected from a distance for a while, but it eventually zoomed in and began to show the situation within the city.

There were also people waving their hands like they were posing for the camera.

 

The visual point gradually advanced towards the heart of the city. A refined palace was standing upon climbing the stairs past the fountain plaza.

 

The people gathering in front of the palace similarly closed their eyes while facing the balcony. Then, the clip suddenly ended by the time 2 shadows appeared.

 

[Huh, is it over with this?]

 

Just when I thought that it was cut right before something happened, a  note started to resound.

 

Within the rising whitish light, a stately and warm ambient music flowed out. Dy closed his eyes to listen attentively, and Alf cleared up his hearing with a sigh.

 

[This music is…]

[Alf, do you know it?]

[I’ve heard about it back when I was at the Royal Capital. If I’m not mistaken, the Stream Songstress was called to the banquet as a court musician, I must have certainly  heard it then.]

[Akkun, do you know this song!? I’m glad, so a fellow Demonized brethren had spread it. If you know it then let’s sing it together.]

 

As Dy opened his closed eyelids wide and innocently smiled, he started singing with a sweet tenor voice.

 

Alf was shocked at Dy’s sudden invitation, simply watching the black-haired Demon sing.

 

[Alf, if you can sing it then I really hope that you will. I like your singing voice.]

 

The humming I heard before sounded extremely nice, and I’ve always wanted to hear how it would sound like if he sang.

 

Aleph watched Dy for a while and seemed hesitant, but he joined in to harmonize in the end.

 

Each of their distinctive and pleasant voices reverberates along with the hymn-like music.

 

Dy chuckles and winks at Alf. Alf was a little confused, but he responded with a smile instead, without stopping singing.

 

Suddenly, I heard what sounded to be wood hitting against each other. When I looked at where the sound came from, Ragna was holding a stick in each hand and hitting it with the rhythm.

 

[That sounds fun, let me join, too.]

 

Ragna’s improvised wooden drums were quite nice, and the way it hit the pebbles, fallen trees, and the ground near him was wonderful.

 

[Maybe I’ll join in, too.]

 

Ciel rolls up a small piece of leaf, puts it on his mouth, and blows it.

It makes quite a nice sound. It sounds like a flute with a bit of dry sound to it.

 

[Wow! Everyone is so good!!]

 

I’m also unable to sit still so I start clapping my hands to the rhythm.

 

The recital that started with an impromptu continued until the accompaniment music stopped playing, we were very excited.

 

The white light which was gentle to the eyes slowly illuminated the place, watching over our excited state.

 

 

 

After night dawns, it’s morning. I woke up with the birds chirping. I stretch my slightly stiff body to loosen up and go out of the tent.

 

The scenery under the cliff was a magnificent view with the contrast of long shadows and dazzling light, probably because the morning light finally came out of the horizon.

 

Woah, even by just seeing this view, it was worth staying overnight.

 

I was thinking of letting everyone see this but when I was about to return from the edge of the cliff, Dy creeped out from my elongated shadow.

 

[Dy, good morning. The great scenery here is so nice.]

[Isn’t it? It was our, the Royal Family’s, favorite place after all.]

 

Dy smiled, but that smile soon disappeared.

 

[Rei, I’m sorry. The truth is that I wanted to show you the whole video, but Rio’s figure, no matter what…. Rio’s appearance as he smiled with purity next to me, as I am currently, I couldn’t bear to watch it after all.]

 

The sudden disappearance of the video yesterday wasn’t because of the device malfunction. It looks like Dy is still hurt from his twin brother’s loss.

 

I went near Dy and tightly hugged him.

 

[It doesn’t bother me at all. We can just rewatch it once Dy wants to see it again. It can be played back many times, can’t it?]

[Yes… yes, you’re right. At that time, will we climb the mountain together again?] 

 

Dy let go of my body and entwined our hands together. That’s all he did but there’s something strangely sexy about it, I wonder why?

I made an effort not to be conscious of Dy’s hand and replied.

 

[What do you mean ‘climb together’, weren’t it just the 4 of us who mostly did the climbing? You were just idle.]

[Now that you mention it, you have a point. Well then, let’s climb together next time?]

[Yeah, let’s go up again next year.]

 

Dy made a surprised face at the words ‘next year’, and then he smiled brightly.

 

[…… Yes, again next year.]

 

I also showed a smile and tightly gripped Dy’s hand once before letting go.

Then, I rushed towards the tent to show this beautiful scenery to the other three.

 

A/N:

The number of words has increased at the end, and allocating them was hard…..

After this, even as they push forward towards each of their goals, all five of them will gather and spend time together like this.

Thank you very much for reading until the end!!

 

TN:

And we’re done! Sorry I kept on procrastinating aside from being busy and it took me this long to finish this novel. I also want to thank everyone for reading until the end. TT–TT

 

Stay safe everyone~.