"I don't need to say anything, Nina."
Kafka broke the silence with a victorious look on his face, like he had just won a great war that had been going on for years. He then looked up at Nina's frustrated face and said in a haughty manner,
"Someone else has already said whatever needs to be said and declared to me how her love for me is one a billion in this world, so I really don't think I need to do anything else to that beautiful proposal, which speaks for itself."
"S-Shut up, Kafka! That's not a proposal!...T-That's simply how I'm feeling right now, which you've somehow managed to pry out of my mouth by putting me in an inescapable corner!"
Nina vehemently refused to accept what she referred to as a proposal while pulling on Kafka's hair in protest. She then declared to Kafka, who was still smiling at her like he wasn't taking any of what she was saying in, by saying,
"A-And don't think that just because I've fallen for you hard, l-like really, really, really hard to the extent that I'm probably going to see you in my dreams from now on, that you have a chance of breaking up my marriage."
"My love for you and the bond of marriage I have with my husband are two entirely different matters that simply can't coincide because of how complicated my relationship with my husband is."
"...So even though I may admit that I feel the happiest with you and want to spend the rest of my life with no one other than you, there's no way I'm going to be a selfish person who breaks off her marriage with her husband after all he's done for her, just because she found someone else she likes."
Nina declared, saying that even though Kafka may have stolen her heart, mind, and soul, he will never be able to break the vow of matrimony she had with her husband, as if the very thought of it went against her life principles.
"I know that you're someone who would freak out even if I were to get a single splinter, so to say that you would actually force me to do something that would genuinely go against my principles is laughable."
Nina chuckled, as if she were telling him to tell better lies next time.
"You also have to know that this feeling of devotion only comes when a woman trusts with all her life that her partner would never do anything to actually harm her, so such threats are useless against someone like me who has already placed all my life's bets on you."
Nina scoffed and looked down at Kafka like he was a little too young to be messing around with her, which made Kafka roll his eyes in irritation that he had lost this batte.
"Then if you trust me so much, why did you think that I was going to try and sell off your property, Nina?" Kafka spoke in a dissatisfied tone. "Do you think that I'm someone who's greedy for a little piece of land?"
"That's because this little piece of land you're talking about is one of the most valuable estates in this entire town, Kafka, because of how famous of an attraction it's recently become." Nina revealed how valuable of a treasure this property was.
"I also value this property more than my own life since my mother passed it on to me, so the first thing that came to mind when I thought about how you could take advantage of me using the power you hold on me was embarrassingly you stealing this place away from me."
Nina blushed and sent an apologetic gaze towards Kafka for doubting him for a second.
She also thought that she couldn't be blamed since, as much as she trusted Kafka, he really gave off the image of a merciless villain, which she couldn't really shake off.