35. At the founding festival (2)
I was waiting for Elijah in the mansion hall.
There are only cleaning servants and mansion guards.
There was no one else besides him.
I wonder if the other nobles also have schedules?
I was bored of waiting so I tried a necklace.
I was curious about the ability to summon armor.
‘When I send a signal to Elijah… What should I do differently?’
I’m not sure, but I tried it once.
When I wanted Elijah, I thought of Elijah.
Since what we need now is armor, shouldn’t we use it while thinking about it?
“Oh?”
The front plate of the breastplate fell with a jolt right in front of it.
‘Is this real?’
I checked the breastplate out of curiosity.
My armor is really right.
Unseen pictures were drawn on the inside of the armor.
At first glance, it’s a complicated magic circle.
‘That’s the one I enchanted this time.’
I can’t even see it.
I checked and tried to send it back, but there were readable characters in the corner of the magic circle.
It’s a person’s name.
‘Eliyah, Elijah?’
Elijah also participated in the enchantment work.
Did you leave it as proof?
‘It’s one of my own works, so there’s nothing I can’t do.’
As soon as I returned the armor, the front door opened.
A noble woman rushed in.
The atmosphere is like they came back with a tea time among themselves.
Actually, Elijah has no interest in such social gatherings.
Is that okay….
‘I’m sure I’ll do well on my own.’
As I was about to climb the stairs, one of the nobles looked at me.
“Oh my God. Wasn’t she a mansion guard?”
“… ?”
“Huh? Ah, Lady Elijah’s escort knight? Right?”
“Yes, but….”
“Lily is also true. Are you confused about where such a handsome guard is?”
“I thought it was because he was so quiet. Her name was Judas, right?”
I feel like these days, quite a few people know my name.
Did I become famous because Elijah was famous?
“What are you doing here alone?”
“We are waiting for you, Master.”
“Where did you leave such a precious person alone? What if someone picks it up?”
“… ….”
“Looks like you haven’t received the handkerchief yet? Did you decide to get it later? Or is she, by any chance, someone else?”
“No, not really….”
“Then what about me?”
“Hey, Katherine. How dare you intervene first so unethically?”
“Still, there is Lady Elijah….”
“Where’s the law that says you can’t do that?”
… Sucked up
I’m dizzy.
I want to run away, but I can’t.
The back is a wall, and the front is enclosed in a hemispherical shape.
Still, they are noble nobles, so you can’t just push them away.
I don’t know where you’re from.
‘Elijah…. Help me….’
You’re not saying anything bad about me, so I can’t say anything.
No, I don’t even have time to say anything in the first place.
They ask, they answer again, and they laugh and chat among themselves.
They were laughing and talking until the topic of conversation shifted to something only they knew.
‘I’m going crazy, really.’
I was tied to the spot, unable to do anything.
“By the way, is that story true?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Lady Elijah….”
“Me?”
A voice that freezes the hall.
Among the people who had just been talking, it was not the voice of anyone.
A little low, calm.
Sharply stab and break the atmosphere.
I don’t know when the hell it came, Elijah was standing behind the noble women.
“Lady Elijah, what next?”
I ask in a low-pitched voice.
It’s cool as if a knife is pointed at the listener’s throat.
Although scared, she was honestly glad. Really.
The moment Elijah came, all the women became quiet.
Ttogak. Elijah took a step.
Then the women, in an expression of apologetic expression to the aristocrat, scurried aside like bugs.
Only the woman who had just mentioned the name of Elijah stiffened and stayed in her place.
“The third daughter of the Earl of Cutrie.”
Elijah approached, revealing her true identity.
“Lady Elijah, why don’t you tell me what to do next?”
“Ah, ah, ahahahaha, that, that….”
Elijah, who had come right in front of her, looked down at her as if to crush her.
The crazy fire-activated eyes stare at the woman.
She tilts her head slightly.
You seem to be asking why not.
I cross her arms in displeasure.
Above it…. I threw away the blasphemous gaze.
“Eh, Lady Elijah is, ah, very beautiful! Sure… ! That, right?”
She looked around her as if asking for her consent.
Every time our eyes met, the women looked into the distance and pretended not to know.
Elijah sighed and shook her head.
As if ignoring her, she passes by and comes in front of me.
Looks up at me with dissatisfied eyes.
“Uh, um. Are you done with your business?”
“… Huh.”
Elijah muttered, rubbing her eyes.
“What should I do with you….”
“Yes? What did you say?”
“No. Let’s go for now.”
Elijah took my hand and led me.
I obediently followed her.
He looked uncomfortable, so I asked cautiously.
“Were you not satisfied with your conversation with the Emperor?”
“… ….”
Elijah did not answer.
He suddenly stops and looks up at me.
Large staring eyes.
Slightly distorts the forehead.
Observing and analyzing eyes.
Within a second, Elijah tilted her head and took the lead again.
“Not really. Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied. But we figured out something important.”
A word spoken without any weight.
“The emperor studied dark magic through the Imperial Magicians. He teamed up with Balak, the Cult of the Moon, and tried to kill me. Other than that, I came out after confirming that my reasoning was pretty much correct.”
The enemy of Elijah has been confirmed.
She had no sense of danger on Elijah’s face, considering that she faced a fairly formidable enemy.
Are you confident? Or maybe she’s just used to a lot of enemies.
Or maybe both.
After I was silent for a while, she asked.
“Are you scared now?”
“No way.”
“Then I’m glad. No matter how scared you are, it’s too late to step out. You are already mine.”
“… ….”
That’s right.
The listener is good at speaking dizzy words with a calm voice.
‘If it were someone else, I would have misunderstood hundreds of times… !’
Of course, Elijah, who did not know what she was thinking, acted as if nothing had happened.
First of all, she headed to the building where her bodyguards were assigned.
Everyone was scattered around, but when Elijah came, she hurriedly got into order and ran out.
Elijah gave a brief command.
“Relax until not instructed otherwise.”
“Yes!”
“If you’re not rude, can I watch the festival?”
Richard asked cautiously, and Elijah nodded happily.
“As you like. Unless you go somewhere and have an accident.”
“Thank you!”
After that, Dylan took the lead and went around in groups of three.
There are only 11 people left, but Richard and Dylan decided to go together.
Of course I followed Elijah.
Elijah was busy visiting various nobles.
Or a nobleman came to Elijah.
The superficial conversation was normal.
A simple hello.
Speaking of business. Situation, etc.
I just picked out the commonalities between them.
‘Anti-Imperial forces.’
People who are not very friendly to the Empire.
And, people who want to invest in her value as Elijah, not the Bebel family.
The emperor or Balak might have been blinded.
Even so, Elijah was unstoppable.
From that appearance, I guessed easily.
That something big is about to happen.
After an uneventful day, on the way back to the mansion.
It was getting dark, but maybe it was during the festival, the street was bright.
People walk around briskly.
Elijah asked as if tossing her.
“Do you want to have fun too?”
“A festival?”
“Yes.”
“Ummm….”
Honestly, I’m curious.
But Elijah comes first.
“It’s okay.”
“It’s okay, I mean I want to enjoy it, but I put up with it.”
“… ….”
I can’t say anything.
Want to notice everyone who speaks.
“Hmm.”
Elijah seemed to be thinking about something, but she said nothing.
She returned to the mansion as if nothing had happened.
Then I suddenly ask.
“Did you like it?”
“… Yes? What?”
“A while ago. When surrounded by women.”
Suddenly?
Are you asking me now about what happened a few hours ago?
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Elijah added, as if she knew that even when she thought about it, she was out of the blue.
“Just. Just curious for no reason. Why is that? I generally like it when I get positive attention from a lot of the opposite s*x. Men, in particular, have several women as their wives.”
Did you suddenly become curious about the marriage system of polygamy?
Anyway, it seems to be a very academic and anthropological reason.
I decided to be honest.
I can’t give you a nutritious answer anyway.
“You were annoying.”
“… Okay?”
“Well, it might be like that in general, but? I’m not so…. Wouldn’t it be annoying if I received untimely attention that I didn’t want in the first place?”
“Unwanted attention…. Is it….”
For some reason, Elijah’s voice sank.
Is she deeply troubled?
“Yes. Anyway, it wasn’t a very good experience. How fortunate I was that the lady came back then….”
She stopped ahead of her.
A sudden stride approaches me.
“Really? You mean that?”
“Yes? What….”
“You mean you like me better than most of them?”
The word ‘good’ covers too broad a meaning.
It also means a special feeling for someone.
Also, when expressing a taste for food, it can be divided into good and bad.
Assuming a specific situation, you can also use the expression ‘good’ when discussing what is better or not.
So, it’s because I’m strange that I keep giving meaning to Elijah’s words.
‘Anyway, there are a lot of omissions in that sentence, but…. As a result, it’s not a completely wrong sentence again.’
I was just bewildered and embarrassed, so I answered while averting my gaze.
“Yeah, you can say that… ?”
“Hmm.”
Satisfied, Elijah snorted and smiled.
‘What is it? Did you confirm my loyalty…. Anyway, it’s okay because it’s cute.’
For some reason Elijah’s steps on the way back seemed lighter than before.
And when she returned, an unexpected guest was waiting for us.
To be precise, he was a guest who came to see Elijah.
A man who was sitting on the terrace on the first floor of the mansion Elijah was assigned approached.
Curly blonde hair and red eyes with a pretty human smile.
But neither I nor Elijah knew the other person’s identity, so I couldn’t greet them well.
Her tall but slightly dwarf physique looks sickly.
She is also a person who is actually sick.
Maybe that’s why the escort knight next to him is big.
The second son of the Bebel family.
Lewi di Bebel is approaching.
“You look busy.”
“Only business.”
Unlike Levi, who tried to say a simple greeting, Elijah coldly uttered it.
Levi shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
“It’s only because you’re so heartless. Okay, anyway, this one is also polite….”
“Short.”
Despite Elijah’s rude attitude, Levi seemed very relaxed.
“At this time of the foundation festival, I want to put my bodyguards together with your bodyguards. At Giudecca.”
He appeared out of nowhere and proposed a confrontation between the SS.
