May this promise last a lifetime

Throughout most of this chapter, Wriothesley is too busy with his inner gay panic to speak. Please give him some slack.

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Neuvillette's POV

 "So let me get this straight. You want me to tell my boss that the reason I took a day off was to seduce Neuvillette into revealing your location?" Wriothesley asked baffled.

 "Yeah."

 "Are you insane?"

 "I don't see a problem with it." Arlecchino shrugged her shoulders.

 Hmm...

 I knew that she was planning on revealing her location so she could go out and about with the kids in peace, but to do it like this...

 "I was not out and about trying to seduce Neuvillette into bringing me here. Actually, I would have preferred not seeing you at all." Wriothesley shot back.

 "The feeling is mutual about that last bit, but it's not as if what I'm saying is a lie. Neuvillette has been seduced by you and here you are, knowing my location after that lovestruck fool brought you over." Arlecchino rolled her eyes.

 While she isn't exactly wrong, I would not consider myself a lovestruck fool by any means.

 I brought him here after some careful consideration, okay?

 "There is no need to force it, Arlecchino." I cut in.

 "There is a need for your little boyfriend over here to find a reason for being on a date with you though. If not, his coworkers are sure to chew him out when he gets back to work for mingling with the enemy." 

 Oh...

 That...

 Arlecchino just said date, right? If even she noticed that that was the goal of this outing then my intentions should have been clear enough even without saying it like that, right?

 "It's clear that Wriothesley did a very quick 180 about his feelings towards you, but I'm pretty sure his whole team still considers you public enemy number 1. So if you don't want for him to have a very awkward experience at work when someone inevitably realizes that he was being all lovey-dovey with you all day, I suggest you come up with a good excuse." Arlecchino continued.

 Well...

 While I don't want to admit it, she does have a point. 

 On the one hand, I don't want to lie about what I was doing with Wriothesley, but at the same time, I wouldn't want him to have a bad time at work because of me either.

 "You two figure things out. I'm gonna go scold the kids for messing with the security cameras again. I'm more and more thankful to Sedene for making sure I get a notification when they are messing with them. She even made sure that the sound turns off in such cases." Arlecchino sighed.

 Sedene is a smart and wonderful child after all. It's much like her to be so considerate.

 "This wouldn't be a problem in the first place if it wasn't for her though."

 "Hmm?"

 I couldn't help but look at Arlecchino confused.

 How would the children messing with the cameras be Sedene's fault?

 "Arlecchino, please don't throw blame around like that. Sedene is a very thoughtful child. It is more likely that one of your colleagues would teach the kids something bad."