Chapter 225 – We Built a New Mansion (1)
“Do too much. Really.”
Sieri was flipping through the papers with a sullen expression. She had a rare heartache. Eve knew why she was angry. It was because as soon as Lucius returned from the Eastern Plains, he was drawn to Erina. Eve said.
“I’m sorry. I couldn’t help it because that bitch was yelling at me to go fast. I didn’t know the groom would come back that day either.”
“Still, it’s not that far from the church and the mansion. Please wait…”
“Ah… What should I do? So, I hadn’t even thought of that. Yes?”
She was n’t openly angry, because Sieri had heard her inner story her in her own way, but she still could n’t hide her displeasure her. Eve was a little flustered because she had never had the experience of calming someone so angry. Because of her nature her, when someone was annoyed with her, she would reward them with money or just kill them. However, Sieri was a person who did not fit into either case.
“I’m sure Eve didn’t call Sieri with such a bad idea.”
Eve’s reliever was Ira. She took Aira’s papers with her smile and put them in order. Sieri nodded her head at Aira’s words, but she still looked upset. Accepting it with her head her and accepting it with her heart her were different in understanding. The words ‘It can be done’ lingered in her head, but a sense of sadness raged in her heart. Said Eve, as her expression of Eri’s still unresolved.
“You said you went to the same school as the groom, right?”
“Yes. It was.”
Xie Li nodded her head. She seemed a little relieved as she recalled her old days of her. Eve wanted all of this, so she started asking old stories.
“What did you learn there? What special things do priests learn?”
“I don’t learn anything special, I just learn how to behave as a member of the Daecheonshin Church or the procedures related to ancestral rites. If you fall into the sacrificial dominion here, you become the sacrificial supervising priest, and among the trainees, those with the best character and performance become trainee priests. The rest have to go through a four-year graduation process.”
“Then did our groom just become a trainee priest?”
Xie Li nodded her head. She smiled bashfully as if she was happy when she recalled her days as a student at Daecheon Shinkyo.
“Yes. Yeongju-nim had the best grades among the students at the time, so he was appointed as a trainee priest right away. He then rose through the ranks of priest to the position of chief priest of the South, in recognition of his devout faith and excellent deeds.”
“What. Is your husband very young then? I heard that our groom was raised at the Daecheonsingyo headquarters.”
At Eve’s question, Xie Li nodded her head.
“You must be very young among elves, but not that young. Usually, after graduating from the Daecheonshinkyo school, they become adults and enter the trainees.”
“How did you get in early?”
Eve’s question had no intention. She said she had gone in early, so she was only curious about the circumstances. However, upon receiving that question, Sieri made her puzzled expression and she began to seriously trouble her. Eve was taken aback by the fact that she frowned on her face her for a long time. Eve summoned her Ira and asked in a low voice.
“Did I ask a rude question? Is this a rude question to the members of the Archangel Church?”
Even the child shook his head with a puzzled face.
“Mo, I don’t know. Because I am not a church member.”
While the two unbelievers were arguing over what they did wrong, Sieri raised her head and said,
“I know, right. Why did I go in early? Your parents told you to go home early? I think it is, but I’m not sure.”
“What is that.”
Sieri’s remarks her, which came after much thought, had a lukewarm aftermath than expected. It seemed like a serious concern on her part of her, but it sounded like nothing more than a stern voice to Eve or Aira. Eve shook her head with a look that had lost steam.
“Let’s work. Whether you go early or late, what do you know? Your parents must have sent you as a trainee early because they thought you were a gifted child. Just look at it, right? There is no one better suited to Daecheonsingyo than you. All the priests there are trash.”
“Yeah, there are a lot of people who don’t.”
“I fully understand that you can see it that way, but as for me, about half of the priests are trash. Except for you you are an angel angel. Know?”
“Even if you say so…”
Cieri protested. But to Eve, who watched the corruption of the priests with her own two eyes while going through her life as a slave, it was a voice that did not eat even her seeds of her. She said that the reason she wasn’t sarcastic with Sieri’s words was not because she had a point in what she said, but because she didn’t want to fight Sieri. Sieri twisted her body in praise of her Eve’s sudden rush of her, then barely managed to calm her mind and focus on her papers of her. Ira took the papers that Eve had given her, reviewed them once more, and put them together in her booklet her.
Silence fell in her office as the conversation between Eve and Sieri was interrupted. Eve loved this quiet time very much. Because when she was calm and focused on her work, she felt like she belonged to this estate. When she looked at her desk her in the office, she couldn’t even see her scale legs her.
Knock. Knock.
“Fuck.”
But that good atmosphere was broken with a knock. Eve got up from her seat with a swear word.
“What. Come in.”
“Excuse me. This is Knight Edgar.”
A blonde-haired knight opened the door and entered. He saluted Eve and continued.
“I will report you. A man has come from the palace, and he is looking for the lord in a hurry. You said to bring the lord himself, not the lord’s representative. What should I do?”
“What the fuck is it? What the hell are you talking about?”
Eve was furious. It was because she remembered the disaster that had happened before when she said that he did not treat the lord as an assistant manager. The knight looked a bit startled by Eve’s reaction to her, but this was n’t the first time she had a seizure like this. She began explaining the article with a resolute attitude.
“I do not know.”
“… I’ll go.”
At the article’s brief explanation of the situation, Eve calmed down and prepared to leave. Putting on a top coat, she looked out the window of her office and saw a luxurious carriage standing there. The official who got off there had a long mustache and his face his was skinny like an old tree. Just looking at her, she seemed to hate mermaids, so Eve decided not to bring her sword to her. It was because she seemed like she was going to rip open her stomach if she got angry after taking it with her.
The official was tapping his mustache and stamping his foot on the floor. He looked around Youngji with a clear expression of discomfort and clicked his tongue. When the gate opened, his expression brightened for an instant, but as soon as he realized that Eve was the one who came out, he was blatantly disappointed again. Eve said.
“What did you come for?”
It was an aristocratic manner of speaking that she practiced in her own way. The point was to slightly raise the tip of her and maintain a soft tone. The official, a real nobleman of the royal palace, said with a frown on his face, perhaps thinking that Eve’s attitude her was making fun of him.
“Where is Lord Peta Lucius?”
“I am not here now. I was on a business trip for a while…”
“You must have just returned from the Eastern Plains the other day, but you went on a business trip again in one day? Where did you go? Since this is a very urgent and important matter, the lord himself needs to be present…”
The official grumbled, flicking his mustache in embarrassment. Surprisingly, he didn’t seem to care too much about whether Eve was half-mermaid or whatever. Eve said.
“Ahyldern was called due to internal circumstances.”
“There is no room for me to intervene when it comes to the elven kingdom. Then there’s nothing we can do about it, but since the matter is urgent, I’ll pass it on to Mr. Peta Eve, the lord’s deputy. Hey!”
The official pointed and shouted, and two servants jumped out of the carriage. They took out a small box and placed it in the official’s palm of his. Then, standing next to the official, he unfolded a large sheet of parchment and brought it to the official to read. The official said, holding the box in his palm with both hands and holding it out toward Eve.
“Hmm, originally I omitted it, but this is a kind of ceremony formally bestowed by His Majesty, so you have to kneel as a matter of etiquette.”
“Eh, like this?”
Eve bent down on his back as if to get on both knees in front of him. The official shook his head and said to the attendant who followed him.
“Show me an example.”
“Yes!”
The attendant responded in a booming voice, then got down on one knee and showed a seated position. Eve nodded and assumed the same posture as the attendant. The official held the box in the palm of his hand again and began to read the orders from the attendants.
“In the Delmon manor child exploitation case that took place not too long ago, the crimes of Ahriman Mark, the lord of the Delmon manor, were revealed. Ahriman Mark has committed terrible evils, such as secretly exploiting the people in the territory and stealing children from slums who can’t pay taxes and selling them to outsiders.
As a result, the kingdom deprived Ariman Mark, the lord of the Delmon territory, and sentenced all his family members to beheaded, so they searched for a new owner of the Delmon territory.”
Eve was looking up at the official with a puzzled expression. It was because they knew everything, and they had nothing to do with whether or not a new owner came to the Delmon estate. Lucius reacts sensitively. Eve was the lord of the town next to her, so it didn’t matter who came. Unless he’s just a mermaid skin collector.
“However, there was difficulty in selecting a successor as none of the nobles in the palace were reluctant to assume the position of lord of Delmon. As a result, I would like to grant the Delmon estate as a reward for Peta Lucius serving the kingdom in various ways. We inform you that the Delmon Territory will be merged with the Peta Territory, where Lord Peta Lucius has been assigned, and the residents and soldiers belonging to the Delmon Territory will be subordinated to the Peta Territory.”
“Fuck?”
Eve looked at the official with a puzzled face. The official glered at Eve, who spat out profane words in the middle of a sacred ceremony. But now was not the time to care about that. He wondered if he had heard it wrong. Now, the Peta and Delmon estates are being merged? So the size of the manor doubles?
Said the official.
“Then, we will proceed with the process of handing over the territory. Do you know how?”
“…No.”
Thoughts of being fucked passed through both Eve’s and the official’s heads alike.
