35. At the foundation festival (5)
“Will you marry me?”
Out of the blue, he was proposed to by the Emperor’s youngest daughter, Princess Hagar.
“Keah-!”
As I was drinking the water, I was taken by surprise.
“Keuk! Ouch, uh….”
Even though I knew it was not polite in front of the princess, I couldn’t stand it.
“Oops. Sorry. Did I talk too much about the point?”
Hagar smiled lightly and handed her a handkerchief.
Maybe it was on purpose, but the playfulness oozes out.
I was still choking, so instead of answering, I only shook my head.
I was about to get a handkerchief, but Elijah grabbed my hand and put it down.
Her eyes were staring down at her Hagar.
It was a rather rude gaze.
Elijah, still looking at Hagar, lifted her handkerchief.
Red handkerchief.
I got it from Elijah earlier.
It wipes my mouth as it is.
“Thank you…. Town….”
My hands are quite rough, probably because I wiped it without looking at it.
Elijah and I looked at each other with her eyes, saying that Hagar was amazing.
“My lady, that’s enough….”
Then Elijah lowered her hand.
The gaze was fixed on Hagar and did not fall.
As I glanced at her, Elijah opened her mouth first.
“I don’t know why you are doing this.”
“It’s my fault…. I don’t have any special intentions enough to say it’s mine.”
“Then why?”
“By the way, why is the young lady curious about that? How are the two of you?”
“That doesn’t matter now.”
“… Do you really think so?”
Hagar crossed her arms and tilted her head.
I, too, sometimes wondered a little bit.
Are we really just a simple escort driver and owner? Something like that
Meanwhile, Elijah didn’t seem to have any interest in the question, but she was staring straight at Hagar.
Hagar shrugged her shoulders and sighed lightly.
“I want to be a person who is difficult to understand…. I don’t really have any great intentions. If you have to, do you want me to protect you?”
“… ….”
Elijah’s eyes were already stained with mad fire.
Unlike me, who was very nervous, Hagar smiled as if she was having fun.
“As you know, the situation on the continent is dire these days, isn’t it?”
The central reason was right next to it.
Elijah.
A quiet and strange war of nerves between John, Balak and Elijah.
People who might know have already noticed and are avoiding it.
And the princess Hagar is a person worthy of knowing, and she is also a person to be cared for.
To her children except Elijah, Balak seems to be a relatively moderate and caring father.
On the other hand, Emperor John is not kind or kind to any of his children.
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He acts as if he is the only one who will reign in that position for a long time.
‘It’s kind of suspicious.’
Anyway, Hagar is a person who cannot blindly rely on John.
Still, it’s strange.
You want me to protect you?
Hagar is a person who has the strength and foundation to defend herself and her power in the three-way war.
Even though she is the youngest daughter, a princess is a princess anyway.
Hagar grinned, probably recognizing my question.
“If possible, I need a more secure defense.”
“Am I that safe haven?”
“You can say that. Aren’t you a knight who has outstanding personal skills and is favored by Lady Elijah above all else?”
As I heard, it was an extremely political reason.
Through me, he was trying to get an ally named Elijah.
“For some reason, I think it will be safe for me to stick with the young lady in the long run.”
Emperor, Balak, Elijah.
Hagar seemed to believe in the possibility of Elijah among the three.
“So, how is it?”
Hagar asked my doctor.
Still Elijah didn’t look at me.
I don’t know what I’m thinking, but I just stare at Hagar with eyes burning with mad fire.
It’s like a person whose time has stopped.
It’s to the point where I doubt if he’s hiding.
I answered Hagar’s question without hesitation.
“I will decline.”
Unexpectedly, Hagar smiled and nodded.
“I just expected it, but it’s kind of surprising to actually hear it. Can i hear the reason? You don’t think I’m bad as a bridesmaid, do you?”
It’s a bit unlucky, but it’s just the right words.
The princess must be a wonderful woman in many ways and objectively.
But, well.
“There is no particular reason.”
Other than this, I couldn’t come up with a good reason.
I glanced at Elijah.
She looked back at me slowly.
A face without expression.
But the eyes that had the mad fire subsided were bright red.
Hagar muttered and rose from her seat.
“I thought he was just a favorite….”
The smile on his face was quite mischievous.
As if leaving an interesting riddle behind.
“This ideal is a secret. It’s no fun if someone else tells you.”
I tried to get up and say hello as a courtesy, but I couldn’t.
Elijah still did not let go of her hand that he had just held.
Her hand was firmly holding me.
“Enough then. See you next time.”
“… Take a look.”
In the end, I had no choice but to sit down and say hello.
Elijah didn’t say a word until the end.
Taking her eyes off me, she stared blankly at the seat where Hagar had just sat.
What the hell are you thinking?
I cautiously called her her.
“I, lady….”
“… ….”
“My lady?”
“I’m tired.”
Elijah rubbed his forehead and stood up.
“I want to go and rest.”
“… All right.”
I escorted her to the front of her room.
Until then, we hadn’t spoken a word.
Fortunately, I swallowed the question that I almost brought up prematurely.
Before entering her room, Elijah said without looking at me.
“… Good night.”
It is still daytime.
It was far from time to sleep.
I wonder if that greeting just meant that I won’t see you until I sleep today.
I just bowed her head.
And indeed, I did not see Elijah until the sun went down.
We didn’t even eat together.
‘I wonder if I’m eating well.’
It was time to go to bed before I knew it, and when I washed up and came out.
Smart.
Someone knocked on the door.
The visitor was an unexpected person.
***
While Elijah and Judas met the princess.
Likewise, Leah, who assisted Elijah, was also alone.
She was cleaning Elijah’s room.
Smart.
Someone knocked on the door.
When she opened it, two familiar faces greeted her.
The son of Balak and Narsisi.
The youngest daughter Sarah.
And the fourth son, Achan.
Lea greeted politely.
“Hello. Two minutes. What are you doing? The lady went to have an audience with the poor princess.”
They didn’t answer right away.
I stealthily look around the room.
Achan asked carefully.
“What about that guy called Judas?”
“The escort driver also went with the young lady.”
Achan let out a sigh of relief.
After the last confrontation, Judas became a trauma to him.
He sometimes has nightmares.
The granite sword that was broken that day flickers in my dream.
“Ria. I need your help.”
“Are you here for my help?”
“Yes. How many times have you helped me? Why do you act like you don’t know?”
“Well…. What can I do to help you two?”
“I want to know where my mother is.”
Achan spoke, and Sarah groaned beside him.
My mother.
Leah rolled the word out of her mouth.
Her sigh tried to come out, but she swallowed it.
She, too, is good at wearing her mask.
Like anyone.
“You know.”
“Help… !”
The troublesome Sara also intervened.
“I can’t keep her mother in that harsh environment any longer… ! That is too cruel!”
“Well….”
Leah tilted her head slightly and smiled.
“It’s not something I can recklessly say.”
“You… ! Why are you doing this all of a sudden! You are still giving information to Cain and Levi!”
“That’s it….”
“Where do you hear my name?”
A voice suddenly interrupted.
The three heads turned at once.
A man walking down the hallway.
A person with curly blonde hair and a sad look.
He smiled kindly and walked with great strides.
“Brother Levi….”
The second son. Levi D. Bebel.
There was no wavering in the smiling face with narrowed eyes.
Sarah ran towards him.
“Brother Levi! Brother, talk to me!”
“What are you talking about?”
Achan and Sara chattered about what they had just exchanged.
Lea just listened quietly.
“Ah, it’s a mother problem. I was thinking about it too.”
Levi smiled at her two younger brothers and looked at Leah.
“Since I came here because I have something to tell you, I will talk to you. You two go and rest.”
Lewi skillfully appeased the two and sent them back.
At some point, only Levi and Leah were left.
Lewi smiled smirkingly at his two younger brothers leaving.
“I am very sorry about my mother. It’s not okay to be so reckless.”
“Don’t you need a duchess, Bocchan?”
“Huh? Uhm, well I want to bring her mother out too, but the atmosphere is young these days. She thought something would happen if she touched Elijah the wrong way. It’s a feeling, but I mean it. How nervous I was when I proposed a friendly match this time.”
Lewi said it as if it were no big deal.
However, the inside was not as comfortable as the facial expression and tone.
After the confrontation, he sold half of his bodyguard to Giudecca on the spot.
I would have killed the other brothers, but Levi did not.
If you sell it, you can make money, so why waste a lot of money?
It’s enough to fill it with more competent people.
The defeat was bitter, but Levi considered it a good thing.
He’d rather have him figured out and corrected before then than realizing he’s weak in real life.
Through that confrontation, Levi judged that fighting with Elijah was something to be done.
There are only rumors about Elijah’s skills, but he has seen her Valak’s power firsthand.
I don’t think Elijah will be able to stand up to the heat that seems to melt the earth.
He thinks that magic isn’t all about talent.
“Is that so….”
Leah observed Levi.
But she got no clue.
Sarah and Agan are foolish.
Jebel tries to pretend to be clever.
It is different from the three.
Lewi is good at hiding his true feelings.
He directs the conversation in the direction he wants, even when he alienates others.
With such a sickly body, he was born with such an intelligence.
A mysterious man.
In the past and now, it is more dangerous than her eldest son, Cain.
In the first place, Cain is far from politics and is a born soldier.
“What business do you have with me?”
“Things to see. It’s something to see…. It’s something to see.”
Levi looked his Liah up and down, lengthening his words.
Looking eyes.
Trembling of the fingertips, shifting of the center of gravity.
A meticulous gaze that snatches and analyzes even the smallest details.
Lea was just upright.
“It’s just that I’ve been curious about something lately.”
“Are you talking about me?”
“Yes. Haven’t you been helping Elijah for a very long time? Since when the child came to her parents’ house?”
“Yes.”
“And from then on, you were my mother’s henchman. To watch over Elijah. After that, she reported the necessary information to her mother, and after her mother was exiled, sadly, she was captured by Elijah, and then secretly gave the information to our brothers one by one….”
Lewi took a step closer.
A shadow fell on Lia’s face because of her tall stature.
Despite the somewhat intimidating atmosphere, Lia did not lose her composure.
Her cold black eyes met Levi directly.
Through her narrow eyes, narrow, red eyes are revealed.
“Looking at that information now, it doesn’t sound very useful?”
“… ….”
“I can be wrong. How can a person be accurate every time? But, well. What is this Twisted very cleverly…. Trickery?”
Lewi took another step back.
A dangerous atmosphere that seems to test people.
“You mean when you report on Elijah, you sometimes leave out one very important thing? The same goes for giving us important information. All of them were important, but none of them benefited us in the end.”
“… ….”
“Representatively, our pure Jezebel. Didn’t they all die by that escort knight named Judas after believing only your words and sending the secret agents?”
“That’s because I didn’t accurately measure Judas’ skills.”
“Yes. There are always good excuses.”
Levi smiled generously and nodded her head.
He puts his hand into her arms and pulls it out abruptly.
The dagger in her hand flashed.
It stretches as if stabbed.
The sharp dagger stopped right in front of Lia’s nape.
“That made me feel like someone who had no intention of helping us. Like someone who worked for Elijah, not for us, from the beginning.”
“… ….”
“It was disappointing to treat her as a maid. How do you feel about being betrayed?”
Levi asked, pushing her knife closer.
Leah didn’t blink an eye.
Actually, knowing that Levi had no intention of killing him right away, she just grinned.
Levi looked down at Lia curiously, and then Lia opened her mouth.
