No Longer a Monster | Chenji

Chapter 26:

"I can't believe that we're all in one carriage together."
"That's because we're going to meet the bitch that won't stay away from my husband."
"... Look, stop swearing-"
"For the love of god, you're an adult!"

Haechan complains as the two of them later both get glares from Jisung's eldest brother, Jeno. Mark sighs, massaging his temples as his best friend, Jaemin, shakes his head. Obviously, Chenle wasn't paying attention as he was just staring at the window, getting fascinated at the view of the kingdom's streets.

"This looks great."
"What?"
"... I was saying that the view outside looks great."
"... Oh, it really does..."

Jisung replies, joining Chenle with his sightseeing. After a while, Jisung suddenly sees a bright flash of red light, causing him to feel some sort of mild headache. Jisung tries to massage it away as his face scrunches out of the pain he's been feeling.

"Jisung, are you alright?"
"... My... My head hurts."
"You have a headache?"
"... Y-Yes."

Jisung replies as Chenle tilts his head, trying to figure out how to put Jisung's painful headache away. Chenle then comes up with a pretty simple solution. He looks at Jisung as he pats his lap.

"... What?"
"You have a headache, right? Lie down for a bit, then."
"... What?"

Jisung's eyes widened, blushing from the thought of Chenle allowing him to lay the back of his head down on his lap. Of course, he has already done that before but he never knew Chenle would ask him first. Obviously, it was a bit odd for Chenle to do that but... he could be a bit clingy at times.

"I'm doing that?"
"... Yes?... I mean, it's alright if you just don't do it or something... It's not really that much of a big deal- Oh, there you go."

Jisung still ended up laying his head down on Chenle's lap. Chenle smiles, looking at the window instead because he doesn't want to show Jisung his "blushing smile". Of course, it's quite obvious that Chenle loved the feeling of being able to take care of Jisung even in the slightest ways possible.

"Look at the two lovebirds... Aren't they so adorable?"

Jaemin tells Mark as the king frowns for some "valid" reason.

"Why are you frowning?-"
"You literally had the audacity to call them 'lovebirds' while you call Haechan and I 'nutmegs'?"
"... Look, Mark, nutmegs are my favorite spices so you better shut up and just suck it up."
"No, I'm not sucking anything up. That's Haechan's job-"
"Mark, there literally are CHILDREN... and that's definitely not what I meant!"

Jaemin yells as Haechan joins in their conversation, his patience turning smaller than a peanut. While Mark and Jaemin were talking about the 'nutmeg' nickname issue, they didn't know that the rest were staring at them and listening to their embarrassing conversation.

"Can you two keep it down?-"
"The audacity of the one who keeps on yelling Mark's name every night-"
"NOT THE TIME, JAEMIN."

Haechan was visibly surprised with what Jaemin just told him, feeling a bit exposed in doing something "scandalous". Jeno loudly sighs, being tired of all the pretty fights Haechan and Jaemin kept on having. Obviously, it's not really a great idea to put "witty and snarky" in one room... especially if both of them are witty and snarky at the same time.

"We're near our destination, your highness."

The carriage driver told Mark as the ride stopped, resulting in all of them to come out of the carriage. The five of them looked around while Mark stared at the hotel where Amélie was staying at.

"We'll see the truth, Amélie."

Mark says to himself as the six of them finally entered the hotel. They make their way to the receptionist, wanting to know which dining room Amélie is in. However, all six of them are being equally awkward whenever there's professional talking.