Dana Verbeia (1)

The feeling of love is truly complicated.

Humans are creatures ruled by hormonal responses. I don't know whether people from another world are the same, but at least I am, as a person from Earth.

To think even these tender feelings and heart-fluttering emotions are all caused by hormones released by the brain! Even in a world of mana and magic, where science had lost its meaning, I was still being ruled by my own brain.

“Hah…… Hff……”

I pushed Dana against the wall and pressed my lips to hers.

Our tongues didn't meet. I placed one hand behind her neck and wrapped the other around her waist so she couldn't escape.

I'd made up my mind before coming here.

That was why I'd left the final choice to Dana, but if you thought about it, this ending was inevitable. Now that Dana had become aware of her feelings, there was no way she could reject me.

The fact that I was a married man wouldn't be a problem for someone from another world──especially Dana, who came from a collateral branch of Ulster.

But Dana hadn't dared to wedge herself between Fran and me. Now I understood why. Dana loved me, but she hadn't thought I could ever love her back...