I Became the Tutor of the Royal Twins - Chapter 236
Chapter 236
Translator: Yonnee
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“But, what’s the favor you mentioned earlier, Your Majesty?”
So, Sera playfully pouted her lips out and asked why she had been summoned to the study.
As promised, Helios stopped by the Star Palace again in the evening.
Once Rosé and Ferre had fallen asleep, he told Sera, ‘There’s something I need to discuss with Miss Popo’, and naturally brought her to the study.
“The favor was just an excuse—what we actually need to do is sort out the way we address each other.”
“Sort out?”
Helios gently nodded, smiling.
“You can’t keep calling me ‘Your Majesty’ forever.”
Sera’s eyes widened in response to Helios’s words.
Seeing Sera’s completely unanticipated reaction, Helios displayed a disappointed expression.
“You didn’t think you were going to call me that forever, did you?”
Sera’s eyes went wide. Ultimately, she couldn’t lie and nodded with a hesitant voice.
“No…”
“It’s a shame…”
Helios let out a light sigh, not hiding his disappointment.
Sera, seeing his candid expression, couldn’t help but look at him as if she had done something wrong.
Was she being too much? She briefly considered it, but due to her lack of dating experience, Sera couldn’t come to a conclusion.
“At least in private, I’d like to call you something else, not ‘Your Majesty’. I’m your lover, and yet…”
Helios’s strategy, with a blurred ending, was quite effective.
After contemplating, Sera accepted Helios’s proposal.
“Ah… Alright, Your Majesty. Then just when it’s only the two of us.”
Helios beamed with satisfaction, smiling widely. With a bright smile, he gently asked for the nickname he wanted, as if he had been waiting for it.
“Do you have a nickname you’d like to be called by?”
Were nicknames that important? While Sera was pondering, Helios, just like the last time, called her name.
“Sera.”
Ba-thump. Helios had always just called her formally as ‘Miss Popo’, so hearing him call her by her first name made her heart race.
It was just a name, but her heart raced for no apparent reason.
“Are you also going to call me by my name?”
Helios asked, clearly enjoying the moment.
Sera tried not to show excessive giddiness.
“If you don’t like it, I can change it. Maybe something like ‘Darling Skyark,’ is that a better nickname?”
“Whaaat?”
D…Darling Skylark?
Sera blinked, wondering if she had heard that nickname correctly. It was an overwhelmingly cringe-worthy nickname, causing an uncomfortable sensation that went beyond mere embarrassment.
“T-That, um… Does anyone actually use such a… um, n-nickname?”
Unlike Sera, who felt embarrassed just listening to it, Helios had a nonchalant expression. He shrugged his shoulders and casually replied.
“My parents used to call each other that. ‘Darling Skylark’ and ‘My Cute Wolf’.”
Goodness.
Sera covered her mouth with both hands. She knew that the departed imperial couple had sweet nicknames for each other, but she never expected them to be like this.
The nickname was still something she couldn’t get used to, but she started by apologizing.
“I… I’m sorry, Your Majesty. I didn’t know those were your parents’ nicknames for each other.”
“It’s okay. I’ve known since I was a child that their nicknames for each other weren’t ordinary. I realized it as I saw the astonished expressions on people’s faces when my father called my mother by her nickname in an official setting.”
Sera felt a sense of relief in a corner of her heart.
If Helios was partial to those nicknames… Darling skylark and cute wolf… She suddenly felt dizzy.
“It’s fine, Your Majesty. Please call me by my name. I like hearing it.”
At Sera’s request, Helios nodded with a smiling face.
He looked at Sera affectionately and called her by her name.
“Sera.”
Even now, getting used to being called by her name was still a challenge.
Not ‘Miss Sera’ or anything else, just ‘Sera’!
Sera felt her neck and face flush.
She cautiously removed her lips while avoiding the violet eyes that were gazing directly at her.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Shouldn’t you decide how you want to call me, Sera?”
Helios urged her to quickly decide how she should address him.
Sera thought for a moment and gently conveyed her opinion to him.
“I think… your name would be nice.”
Helios nodded with satisfaction, moving his head up and down.
“Is it all decided now?”
“No, Sera. You haven’t called my name yet.”
“Could we do that another time? It’s a bit challenging to do it suddenly.”
However, Helios insisted that they needed to practice, emphasizing that he wanted her to call him something other than ‘Your Majesty’ at least once.
“That’s why we need to practice. Call me by my name. If we don’t do it now, you might never do it at all, Sera.”
Realizing that there was no way out, Sera took a deep breath.
To dare to call the name of Emperor Helios.
“H…. Hel… um… Your Majesty H…Helios.”
Almost there, but Helios still tilted his head slightly.
“Try it again, without the title this time please.”
Sera took another deep breath.
“Hel…ios?”
“Isn’t that still too formal?”
Perfect, she thought. But once again, Helios shook his head.
“Still too distant, don’t you think?”
Considering that Rosé and Ferre called him ‘Heli Oppa’ and ‘Heli Hyung’ every day, Sera knew how he was called by the people close to him.
Sera carefully opened her lips and called his nickname.
“Heli…”
Feeling embarrassed, awkward, and overwhelmed, Sera turned her head to avoid his gaze.
Finally, a satisfied and joyful laugh emanated from Helios.
He had her practice calling his name repeatedly until Sera left.
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