Chapter 10
"A-Drei has agreed" L-Elf informed his Prime Minister and Lady-love Shoko Sashinami. "In fact he was quite eager to participate when he heard Akira-chan was involved". "It made me wonder if maybe there was something between then we could've missed".
Shoko giggled to her young suitor "You think?" .
L-Elf knew a question hung in the air. Dare he ask? Could he have been set up by Akira-chan once again? Could she be that good of a war minister? Better than him? He wasn't sure he wanted to know the answer.
"Think we should try setting them up?" Shoko asked with a sly glint in her eye that L-Elf wouldn't quite know how to take.
"I get the feeling, if I said no I'd be in quite a bit of trouble" L-Elf joked "so it's probably best I say yes".
"Good boy" Shoko said with a smirk, leaning in to give him a quick peck on the lips. "He's truly a goner" she thought to herself and smiled.
"We're about done here so let's go to bed".
"Go t-to bed?!" L-Elf stuttered, "could she actually mean" he began to think to himself.
"I meant in our own beds!" Shoko blushed right along with her young man. "There are some things you just don't do without a ring on your finger" she warned him.
L-Elf felt quite relieved at Shoko's outburst. With all her teasing he was beginning to wonder about what was expected of him. He was happy to know despite the wanton woman front she was putting on for him lately she was as old-fashioned as he tended to be himself.
"There's something I've been meaning to ask you Shoko-chan". L-Elf asked shyly. "When did this happen" he thought to himself. He's always been confident in what he's done but when it comes to love he's pure rubbish. "Well here goes" he thought hoping for the best.
"Shoko -chan, Are you my girlfriend now?" he asked with obvious concern on his face.
Shoko put on a serious face despite the fact she was laughing deep inside. "He really is oblivious when it comes to love isn't he?" she thought. She had the perfect question to put things in perspective without scaring him out of his pants. She wanted to answer "no you're my fiancee" but she thought that too cruel and definitely too soon to tip her hand. She would play nice for once.
"Do you want me to be?" she asked putting on a mock shyness for her man.
"Yes please!" L-Elf snapped to attention in an almost military like fashion bowing slightly to his lady.
Shoko walked over to the poor young man, lifted his chin up slightly with her forefinger and followed up by giving him the biggest kiss she'd yet given him.
"Then I guess you're my boyfriend too" she answered with a smile as she watched L-Elf just about faint away. She couldn't resist adding in "until you'd rather me be something more". She kissed him once again.
"I got him!" she thought to herself proudly "and he never even saw me coming".