By Zephyria 
It was around the time he was finishing his studies that shadows slowly began to fall on the life of Noah Hamilton, who had received God’s love.
The boy, who had only one year left until he came of age, had an atmosphere that was still youthful but desperately trying to grow up, which was more than enough to catch the eyes of many people. Even his appearance, which was just cute and lovely like a baby angel in a painting, had changed little by little. Limbs that stretched out smoothly like ash tree branches, a chin that became quite pointed, full eyelashes, and a straight nose carved under them. When the red lips, which made the hearts of those who saw them dizzy, smiled slightly, even those who knew that he had not yet manifested as an Omega often blankly lost their minds without realizing it.
Noah himself knew better than anyone that Noah Hamilton was living in an extremely blessed environment, receiving the love of more people than anyone else.
“Young Master, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has sent a letter.”
“……”
“Young Master, Young Master!”
Even after hearing Nicole’s voice, Noah did not turn his head. He just stared out the window gloomily. It was a bleak day with raindrops falling. As if it were reflecting his state of mind.
Yesterday was Noah’s sixteenth birthday. He would be celebrating the Day of Blessing on his birthday next year, so it was also his last birthday as a minor.
Adrian, who had been on a personal campaign at the border to fight in place of the Emperor since about half a year ago, could not spend this birthday together. Instead, he had been sending gifts non-stop since a month ago, and the Crown Prince’s letter that Nicole mentioned was probably also congratulating him on his birthday.
“Oh, come on, I know you’re upset, but please cheer up. His Royal Highness will be upset too. After all, this is the first time the two of you have spent Young Master’s birthday apart. Next year is more important, right? You can be together twice or three times as much next year!”
“Ah……”
He realized now. Come to think of it, he had already received the Divine Mandate as the Crown Prince’s partner while he was in his mother’s womb, so Adrian was outside the delivery room on the day Noah Hamilton was born. So really… this was the first birthday he was spending without Adrian.
Somehow, his brothers and parents didn’t try to comfort him, who was strangely depressed and drooping, and seemed to take a step back and watch him, but it seemed that they thought he was feeling a sense of loss due to Adrian’s absence. Noah Hamilton laughed at that fact. He himself had only just realized that this was the first birthday he was spending apart from Adrian. Well, it didn’t matter since he was feeling a sense of loss due to someone’s absence.
“Look at this, wow! They sent coffee beans that have just started to be produced in the tropics. They say that one scoop of this is worth a lump of gold.”
Nicole, as if trying to cheer up her master, who seemed to have lost his energy, dared to tear open the Crown Prince’s handwritten letter without permission and even checked the contents. It was not an unusual act in this Count’s residence as a servant who served Noah in the closest place. The Crown Prince would have been pleased if Nicole tore it open first and his message reached Noah even a second earlier, so he was not the kind of person who would be upset.
“As expected, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the only one who thinks about his fiancé.”
Nicole chattered cheerfully. Noah still fixed his gaze on the outside where the rain was drizzling and let those words flow through him.
It had been a little less than a year since he had directly confessed the existence of his secret love that he had cherished for a long time to Adrian. However, Noah Hamilton was still the prospective Crown Princess and Adrian Pearson’s official fiancé.
To Noah Hamilton, Adrian was an old friend who was no different from a brother. If he and he didn’t fall in love with anyone else, they would have a Royal Wedding as soon as they came of age and become a couple, but that was how Noah felt. Of course, he knew that Adrian loved him.
However, Noah had no shame in dealing with Adrian. Because Noah himself also thought that he loved Adrian equally in the way that Adrian loved Noah. As a feeling of respecting a brother and being happy with a friend. It was a very naive thought, but it was also Adrian who had personally controlled Noah’s upbringing environment and made a human grow up so foolishly, so he was not in a position to blame anyone else.
If Noah had grown up like other ordinary noble children, he would have realized how absurdly special His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was treating him, and how strange it was for a large palm to stroke his head, rather than simply adoring his younger brother. But in the world where Noah Hamilton grew up, Adrian Pearson’s favor was already too natural. It felt no different from his mother and father indulging him, or Andrew and Frederick adoring their younger brother without reservation.
The day he first confessed his trait. Adrian smiled as usual and gave Noah a Blessing. That was what I expected. Noah was already willing to sincerely Bless the future Crown Princess that Adrian would choose, so he gladly accepted his Blessing.
‘Noah, if you’re okay with it…’
However, Adrian asked one thing. He proposed that since the Crown Prince’s lack of legitimacy, who was not born from the Empress’s womb, was being supplemented by a marriage with someone who had received a Divine Mandate, could he maintain the engagement only until he had completely brought the nobles to their knees and seized power?
Noah said he would. It didn’t matter since he wouldn’t be marrying another ‘human’ other than Adrian. One question was whether the Crown Prince’s position had not already been solidified to the point where he would be fine without him, which had been the case for several years, but since he said so, he said he understood for now.
“…I guess he’s not coming this year.”
Noah muttered like a sigh. Whether Nicole heard that small murmur or not, he seemed to be making a fuss again, defending the Crown Prince, but Noah looked at the sky gloomily. Perhaps the reason that made him so depressed was there.
That being first appeared before Noah when he was about ten years old. The fountain of water that Adrian had gifted him shone in iridescent colors in the sunlight, and one day, like a gift, someone who shone even more brightly than that stream of water suddenly appeared before him.
The being who appeared in an instant and captured all of his young attention like an accident appeared from time to time thereafter. He realized around the third time they met that the being who appeared and disappeared at will, avoiding the gazes of others, was not human. The cycle of appearances was erratic. Sometimes he would disappear as if he would never see him again, only to reappear in less than an hour, and other times he would say he would see him soon, only to remain silent for over a year.
He didn’t even tell Noah his name. From the first time he met him, Noah’s world became overwhelmingly filled with him. He didn’t call himself God, but at some point, he naturally realized it. That being was God. Was it because he had been praised for receiving God’s love all to himself? Noah soon easily realized that he loved him, and even earlier, he noticed that he had fallen into the throes of first love.
Immediately after opening his eyes to clumsy emotions, he felt elated and happy all day long. Every night before going to sleep, he prayed that he could see him tomorrow. Most of the time, the prayer was not answered.
Noah gave the callous God, who didn’t even tell him his name, a human name that could be his own, and so God willingly became Noah’s ‘Allen’.
God told him that his destiny was Noah, and that Noah’s destiny was also God. The name of destiny, which had effectively stolen the heart of a God who had lived for thousands of years, was more than enough to steal the heart of a young human who had lived for only a little over ten years.
Whenever Noah experienced the various miracles and mysterious things that the God who visited occasionally showed him, he felt as if he had become the most special person in the world. Since God was also talented at reading human minds, he would add that what you think is right when Noah thought so.
‘Isn’t it obvious?’
‘….’
‘My precious Young-won. My only rest.’
‘Allen.’
‘That’s you. Literally, you have no choice but to be the most special and precious in the world.’
When God sweetly whispered so with a beautiful face that should be loved by humans, Noah Hamilton could only melt away, there was no other way.
However, one thing that was unsettling was that God’s love…
‘You’re going to break off the engagement? With Adrian Pearson?’
‘Actually, I was just talking about you today. I’m sure you already know… For now, I’ve decided to maintain the engagement for the time being because Adrian needs it, but someday in the future.’
‘Is there a need to do that? You don’t hate that child, do you? It’s the most precious position as a human that I have prepared for you. If you don’t particularly dislike it, you should marry him.’
‘Yes?’
…was very different from the form of emotion called love from a human perspective.