Became the Escort Knight of the Villain in the Romance Novel

10 – Tea Party (5)

After sending Evan away like that, his thoughts were about Evan Fried.

I suddenly thought it was funny. As usual, he should treat him businesslikely.

Not giving affection, not giving heart. It would have been most comfortable to treat him only as an escort knight.

The moment I first met him, it might have been so easy.

If it’s when someone who lacks common sense, who hasn’t been formally appointed yet, calls me a young lady, at least before meeting an assassin.

I didn’t know it might be possible.

I realize that my eyes are trembling.

As he touches his trembling eyes, he realizes that he is agitated.

A very small stone thrown on the shore of a calm lake was causing a huge ripple in his heart.

“…Ha ha.”

My chest felt stuffy. As if something was blocking it, I frowned at something that was tightening my breathing hole.

As expected, I shouldn’t have entered the infirmary that day.

How could I have expected that I would be so swayed by a single word I heard back then?

I pick up the cooled teacup, put it down, close my eyes for a moment, and inhale.

As the fresh air flowing from the green garden entered my lungs, my stuffy chest seemed to clear up for a moment.

However, for a very short time, he barely let out a heavy breath in his chest, which became stuffy again.

Because it bothers me, because it bothers me. He didn’t even know why, but the green eyes that kept running through his head were interfering with his composure.

The serious voice that escaped from those lips seemed to be heard mixed with the wind.

Did he use some kind of magic? However, he was only a knight, not a wizard.

I could only guess that this was probably because I was disturbed.

Since it was boring to sit alone at this boring tea time, I thought I should get up soon.

Wouldn’t this stuffiness go away if I took a walk instead?

I didn’t want to know about this unknown feeling yet.

He just wanted to erase this suffocation, even if it was just for a moment.

Drreuk-

As I carefully stood up, the young ladies’ eyes focused on me.

Did he care about himself while he was talking so loudly?

If you really cared, I wish you hadn’t talked about the escort driver.

The corner of his mouth twists, and after erasing the ridicule built on his face, he lowers his head slightly.

Just tell me what you’re talking about, I’ll get out of here.

Their faces turned white for a while, and soon the words that came out of their mouths started to get louder and louder.

Is it that his existence was so uncomfortable?

If it’s uncomfortable, I’d rather not invite you. How could you call yourself to a place like this?

For etiquette, there was a saying. It didn’t matter at all about such vulgarity.

If you really want to like yourself, you’d better use another method.

I left the place without any regrets in case the eyes looking at them would become even colder.

Come to think of it, Lopena, she remembered her thoughts for a moment about her exclusive lady-in-waiting, and then she realized that she had sent her, and swallowed her saliva.

She must have forgotten this in her thoughts, and she needed to calm down a bit.

She must have given her cookies? Lopena, who always had her cookie in her mouth, was always limp when she didn’t have her snack.

That’s why she personally asked the chef to bake cookies, which she didn’t even like.

I thought about Lopena for a while, and when I thought about my escort knight who had been sent far away like her, my eyebrows naturally furrowed.

I’d rather stop thinking about it.

As she cleared her mind of the cluttering thoughts, her expression relaxed as the feeling of stuffiness that had covered her heart seemed to dissipate, albeit a little.

Clearing her thoughts, she focused on the scenery she could see.

The sky dyed red as the sun slowly sets, the trees look dark under the sky with their shadows,

A slowly withering sunflower, a green garden dyed red by the sunset.

Then a voice in my ear breaks my thoughts.

The corners of her eyes, drawn horizontally, began to twist slowly.

This voice must be quite familiar, isn’t it?

“But, I thought I would see you for a long time. I might be cut off now?”

What she could see through the grass was Lopena and her own knight. However, the words that came out of the knight’s mouth made her face frown.

That she might get fired, could it be that her father put pressure on her without her knowledge.

I should have made it clear that no matter how much he is his father, even if he is the duke of Julis, he will not tolerate treating his own people carelessly.

At that moment, the emotion of anger almost bloomed in my heart, but

Fortunately, her heart began to calm down again at the sight of the knight shrugging her shoulders as if it were nothing more than a guess.

If it wasn’t what his father did, what would he be bringing up this story?

When Lo Pena said something, the knight opened her mouth again. Her own face contorted again.

This time, neither anger nor doubt. I was just frowning at the absurdity.

I hate him? I’ve never had such feelings before.

No, to be precise, he has avoided thinking about him deep enough to harbor any feelings.

However, I could definitely deny the speculation that I didn’t like it.

He was doing his job well, and everything that had been harsh with him so far had been his own confused feelings.

For that matter, I thought I would apologize later.

The fact that her own escort knight was thinking this came as quite a shock.

Was I being harsh enough for him to think he hated him? He didn’t hate him Rather, my feelings toward him were more on the positive side.

However, whenever he looked at himself, he just thought that his green eyes, which seemed to deepen, were burdensome. I did.

I grabbed the hem of his dress, then released his hand, letting out a long breath.

As the conversation between Lopena and Evan continued, the shadow cast over her face seemed to continue to grow.

“He is a good man.”

Isn’t it too good to evaluate people who think they hate themselves?

He was a sweet man, and in comparison, he himself was really funny.

Even if you have a certain kind of mind, wouldn’t the feeling that the person who feels it be the most accurate?

Tick-

Again, the mask was about to break.

As I pushed my teeth into my mouth, I acted out a calm expression again.

Casually, as if he was just interested in this conversation. But I couldn’t forget what I had to tell him.

I didn’t hate a person named Evan.

“Oh, he was talking about something interesting.”

The eyes looking at him were still cold, but his heart was not at all.

A fishy taste lingered in my mouth.

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It felt like I was suffocating.

How the hell should I explain this? The eyes looking at me seemed like they were trying to crush me even though they weren’t meeting.

“Evan Fried.”

“…Sorry.”

“That’s not what I want. Do you really think I hate you?”

The closed mouth did not open easily.

The voice calling my name was so cold that I felt as if my body froze for a moment.

She was wrong just to tell her story when Irene wasn’t around, but to be caught directly by him like this.

I don’t know where I heard it from, but

My head started to overheat as if it would explode at any moment, thinking about how to fix what I said.

I didn’t think that even if I replied that I was sorry like a parrot, this frustrating situation would end.

Then, would it be better to be honest?

A mercenary, it shouldn’t be bad. Thinking about that, I try again.

If you’re going to get fired anyway, it’d be more comfortable to leave after saying this.

“…To be honest, I thought you hated me.”

“The reason.”

“I have no idea what I did wrong during the week I became an escort driver. However, since you reprimanded me, I can only wonder why.”

My voice as I spoke with my head lowered was calmer than ever.

Maybe it’s because I’ve already given up, and I looked at Irene’s face while suppressing a self-involved laugh.

Since nothing was reflected in her blue eyes, what did she think after hearing what I said?

But if there was one thing she wanted, she didn’t want her to get hurt.

She couldn’t even guess how much damage she must have received from this duke.

The facial expression of a 15-year-old girl is that of a monk who has been freed from everything.

Will I be able to understand even the fragments of her feelings that she must have felt so far?

This is how I interpreted the fact that I, who was reading the novel, became her escort knight.

Stay by her side and prevent her from going through a tragedy. The tragedy that a woman named Irene Uris would suffer was not just the execution of losing her life.

If becoming her escort knight was a mere coincidence, I’d rather it ended neatly.

Working as a mercenary, later looking for a way to return to the original world, that was my job.

I just wished her well and hoped that we would break up.

Looking at the still insensitive face of Irene, he smiled lightly.

When those blue eyes closed once, and those lips sighed, I already felt my fate.

Perhaps the words that follow immediately are to leave this duke’s residence.

However, the words that came out of her mouth were enough to shatter my expression.

“I’m sorry.”

What came out of the most insensitive face was an infinitely warm voice.

I thought it was an expressionless face. I thought that the only thing that shimmered in those blue eyes was coldness.

Her slightly bowing her head When she looked up, she was obviously feeling sorry for herself.

She was feeling guilty and apologizing. As if she was sincerely sorry for making me think that way, a shadow was cast over her face as she let out a weak sigh.

“As for what made me think so, I have nothing to say.”

“……”

“I sincerely apologize to you.”

Her delicate hand touched her breast, and her head bowed gracefully.

But the most surprising thing was that she was apologizing to me.

So, are you saying that everything I thought was just a misunderstanding?

I laughed out loud at the dejected emotions that suddenly soared.

“I thought you… hated me.”

Those eyes that undoubtedly become cold even though the behavior is not much different from usual, and the atmosphere that becomes bleak again when you look at me even though you are in a good mood.

Isn’t that enough to make you think you hate me?

When I asked in puzzlement, Irene let out a light sigh and then slowly opened her mouth.

“…It’s only because my mind is complicated. I promise you that won’t be the case anymore.”

“I don’t know what to say.”

If what I’ve been thinking was a misunderstanding, how would she feel after hearing what I said? She

She wanted to apologize, but her lips moved and she couldn’t say anything easily. She looked at her blankly like that.

“It’s okay, even if you don’t say anything. She’s already heard enough to fill her up.”

It wasn’t long before I had my doubts about her delicate words, and I heard her next words in my ears.

“Don’t take her word for it that it will be cut. Even if my father, Garot Julis, orders you, I am the only one who can decide your treatment.”

“…Yes.”

“If I hadn’t liked it, I could have cut it off right away.”

“……”

“However, you were able to continue to be an escort knight.”

She stared at me for a moment, then withdrew her gaze, and then she looked into the void and pursed her lips.

“Even if I lack common sense, even if I show a foolish side from time to time and I have a habit of talking to myself. Your sincerity, your skills, your kindness. Because I liked it.”

Sure. The light sigh and the words that followed came through my ears and made my expression disintegrate.

Just like the warmth of midsummer, I feel the warmth of the air surrounding this garden.

Her words were warm, and her eyes looking into the air were no longer cold.

“Do you understand now? It’s not that I hate you.”

“…Yes.”

Really, to the bone. Because the momentary warmth she sent was engraved in her heart.

I was finally able to loosen my stiff expression.

With the burden that was weighing down my shoulders gone, my heart felt lighter and I could now breathe comfortably.

With the smell of grass filling her nostrils, I looked at Irene and smiled brightly, as the view was a most beautiful garden.

“Thank you. Because you thought so.”

Irene, who was staring at me like that, turned her back as if she had no regrets.

Did she say everything she had to say? While walking alone in the garden, she paused for a moment and opened her mouth.

“Let’s go, it will get dark soon.”

“…Yes.”

As the saying goes, the sky was dyed black, as if paint had been sprayed.

After looking at Pena for a moment as she giggled at me, she moved her steps toward Irene.

I thought that even the garden soaked in darkness looked very beautiful.