Became the Escort Knight of the Villain in the Romance Novel

50 – Under the Flowing Stars (5)

Spring was indeed a delicate season.

Sometimes, a flower blooms with envy and brings a cold that is colder than winter.

Sometimes, isn’t it the season that delivers more pleasant warmth than any other season?

Just like that spring, the atmosphere here right now felt just like that.

At dawn when the moon rose, a strange heat enveloped the surroundings even in the middle of a cool wind blowing.

The magic-like illusion created by the siren,

So, until I handed over the gift, I believed everything was going the way I thought.

Took,

My eyes narrowed as I still felt the touch on my cheek.

The wind tickling my cheek felt like the hand that touched me earlier, so I smiled bitterly and slowly looked away.

The lake where the moonlight sits down, the corners of her mouth twitch when she sees the necklace hanging around Irene’s neck as she gazes blankly at the lake.

How much did you worry about giving that gift? It seemed like they spent quite a bit of time preparing the presents.

After I bought Lopena’s birthday present, I saved up my monthly salary, borrowed a little from Sir Chris…

I thought it would be okay to buy her necklace,

The day I first met her, it was great that she reminded me of the accessory shop she had been looking at.

She stared at the sapphire necklace she saw there, and said,

Because it left a pretty impressive memory in my head.

I prepared a necklace that Pania made, and it was fortunate that he seemed to like it quite a bit.

If you don’t like it or show signs of disappointment,

I wouldn’t have known if I was alone in my room a little while later.

For some reason, seeing him smiling even faintly like that made me feel better.

The sapphire glittered in the reflection of the moonlight caught my eye,

Rather, it went well with Irene’s plain black dress.

The important thing is the clothes hanger, and I thought that maybe because she was wearing Irene, she might look good on her.

However, it is already well past midnight, and I cannot continue to be here,

When I quietly called her Irene, she heard Irene turn her gaze towards me.

“You have to go back soon. She didn’t tell the duke that I would be out for so long.”

“…That’s how it should be. I feel like I want to stay more.”

“Aren’t you tired anyway? You couldn’t even sleep well.”

“It’s okay.”

After saying that, Irene looked at me and smiled lightly.

“Because I got so many birthday presents from her, I couldn’t sleep.”

“…I don’t have much to offer.”

“You play well. Did she, by any chance, practice the piano before becoming a knight?”

“Well…that’s right.”

That was not wrong. Because before she became Evan Fried, she was a pianist.

When I answered that, Irene shook her head and quietly approached me and opened her mouth.

“I think it’s better not to play in front of other people.”

“Was the performance that bad?”

Unlike before, a little cold gaze,

Don’t play in front of other people. Could it be that the performance I played was not good?

Unlike the competition, I thought it might be a little crude with mixed feelings, but

Even so, I thought it was a pretty satisfying performance.

When I asked, Irene, who heard me, shook her head and answered.

“It’s not like that. The playing was great.”

“Then what the hell-”

“Shh.”

Cook.

Instead of Irene answering my question, she poked her finger in my chest and quietly brought it to her mouth.

As if to ask no more, she removed her finger from her mouth and turned her back with a swish.

“Let’s go back now. As for why I said that, think about it slowly.”

Think about it slowly. She looked at Irene, who started walking alone without giving any answer, with her resentful eyes,

She didn’t say anything more and just walked on.

I liked the performance, but I was told not to play in front of other people…

However, the thought did not last long.

Because her Irene, who had gone quite far from her before she knew it, went without looking back, she had to quickly chase after her.

What the hell are you thinking going away alone at dawn?

She let out a faint sigh, then immediately started running after her.

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“Lord Soga has returned!”

It was midnight, but the gate of the duke’s residence was still open.

Of course it’s because Irene was out like this.

A look of tiredness was evident on the faces of the knights lined up, holding torches one by one.

If it was the same as before, I would have returned before sunset. Feeling sorry for them, let’s laugh a little,

Sir Chris, who was in the middle, twisted his face.

‘See you later.’

“…hahahaha.”

Anyway, you don’t seem to be in a good mood, but I frowned at the thought that our eyes met for no reason.

I thought about going back to my room and closing my eyes right after I came in, but how could I ever fall asleep after going through something like this today?

“Where the hell have you been?”

“I went to Siren for a while. To take a walk.”

“Did you take a walk until past midnight?”

Hearing that answer, the guard commander sighed for a while,

Soon after, the knights lined up retreated and smiled bitterly.

She felt a little sorry, but she couldn’t help it.

As I slightly turned my head away from the sharp gaze directed at me, the guard captain opened his mouth.

“I will hear from Evan in the morning about the details. You must be tired, so go inside.”

Just as I was about to follow Irene to her mansion,

Soon, a familiar voice in my ear caught my steps.

This ghastly voice is heavy and makes your heart thump when you hear it.

I turned my head creaking at that voice,

I soon realized that Sir Chris was staring at me with a sullen look on the other side.

“Evan, you have a lot to talk to me about.”

“…Sir Chris, I’m pretty tired today. My mind and body are tired from going around with the lady all the time-“

“Are you tired?”

However, Sir Chris, who was listening to me, snorted once and looked at me blankly.

He hardened his face for a moment at the look in his eyes, as if asking if he was really tired, whether he was really tired of his mind and body.

He then grinned and scratched his cheek.

“What’s hard about it, I guess I gave the gift well to the one with the wide mouth corners?”

“…Well done. If it wasn’t for Sir Chris, I would have been in real trouble.”

If Sir Chris hadn’t told me about the Siren, he was afraid to imagine what he might be doing by now.

It made me feel a little depressed, but it also helped me to shake off my lingering feelings.

Sincerely, I lowered my head slightly, and Sir Chris, who smiled, patted me on the shoulder and opened his mouth.

“Well, I thought that if I went to Siren, she would come late. So, did the lady like the present?”

“Yes, you liked it. The money I borrowed…”

“All right. I had no intention of getting my money back. By the way, what did you see on the sirens? Your expression looks a little brighter.”

When asked what I saw, I just smiled.

What I saw there was my past that I couldn’t bear to get out of.

Isn’t it the past that only I know, and the past that I have shaken off my lingering feelings now?

“It just helped to alleviate some of my worries.”

“…If so.”

Seeing my expression, Sir Chris thought it would be awkward to ask any more,

He scratched his head once and sighed.

Unlike before, when I tilted my head with a worried face,

Looking at me with a slightly stiff gaze, he slowly opened his mouth.

“Evan, if you had met the Duke, I think you would have heard about it to some extent.”

“…If it’s the Duke.”

“I must have told you what I asked you to do. For example, to take good care of the young lady.”

Garot Julis, I recalled the memory of meeting him in a dark room before, and at the same time I remembered the words he said to me.

Did Irene ask you to become someone you can open up to? Am I really doing it well?

Several questions came to my mind, but somehow the only thing that came to my mind was Irene’s smiling face, not the answer to those questions.

I nodded her head, sweeping her face as the heat began to spread slightly.

“If you say take good care of the lady, I have heard it too. I heard a little bit about Sir Chris.”

“…I don’t know if it’s my imagination, but I think the time she seems most comfortable is when she’s with you. He doesn’t feel uncomfortable when I’m with Lofena, but he laughs a lot when he’s with you.”

“Is that so?”

“It’s not like that, but you know the best. Don’t pretend you don’t know, listen carefully.”

After a moment of catching his breath, Sir Chris looked at me again and continued his speech.

“It is highly likely that Roman was involved with the Warlock.”

“… Roman? Roman of the five generations I know?”

“Yes. Right now, it’s just speculation, so I can’t officially announce it, but the Duke is paying the most attention to Roman. I think it will probably take him a few years to get the right certificate.”

Suddenly, Adele’s purple eyes flashed through her mind.

The purple eyes possessed by warlocks, the twilight-like purple eyes possessed by Zangir.

If it is a trait revealed by black magic,

Since when did Roman get involved with black magic?

I was worried about many things, but naturally, Irene came to mind first.

She has a fiancé named Adele Roman. If it turns out that Roman is really involved with the Warlock, the one who will be hurt the most is Irene, except for Roman.

Only then did I understand why Sir Chris had brought these words to me.

Mentioning the conversation with the duke, and reluctantly bringing up the story related to Roman.

She was probably talking about helping Irene, who might be shaken.

“If it’s what the duke said, I haven’t forgotten it yet.”

After I answered that, Sir Chris looked at me blankly and sighed lightly.

“… Come to think of it, was it after meeting you that the young lady’s face became as bright as it is now?”

“No way.”

“It will take a little more time to know for sure… Anyway, please take good care of the young lady in the future. Since the ceremony was held, I will pay more attention to it.”

Of course. Even if Sir Chris didn’t say so, wasn’t it a habit now to care about Irene?

When I smiled, Sir Chris, who looked at me and gave me the same smile, quietly opened his mouth.

“Go now. You’ll be tired, so don’t come out at dawn again and go to sleep.”

“Isn’t Sir Chris going in?”

“…I have something to think about. Go first.”

After saying that, I looked at Sir Chris, who turned his back, for a moment, then turned and headed for my room.

There wasn’t a single cloud in the sky, so the hallway, which was illuminated by the round moonlight, didn’t feel too dark.

How was it when I first walked down this hallway?

Surprised that he had killed a person for the first time, he vomited in vain,

Seeing the wound on his shoulder reminded me of walking down the aisle to bandage it.

Relying on a single candle, slowly like that.

-Are you okay?

-If you’re not surprised, if you don’t mind. I’m glad with that.

‘There were times like that.’

Irene’s cold attitude is unimaginable now.

Now that she was like that, she often shows a smile.

She thought that maybe she was carrying out what the duke had told me.

At the tea party, at the festival, at the Crystal Palace.

Hearing her ask her to stay as her escort for the first time, and the first time she smiled like that, was so vivid in her memory.

The moonlight in the sky will fade someday, but this memory will remain forever.

Kiki-

When I opened the door where I usually sleep, I remembered the first time I woke up here, and a smile escaped me.

At that time, I never thought that I would have such feelings, but isn’t the human mind really amazing?

Now the day is approaching when exactly one year has passed since I came here.

When I think of what I’ve been through in the past year, I feel like I’m still alive.

But now it won’t be as difficult as it was when I first came.

Of course, I can’t guarantee that I will be able to hide this feeling for Irene forever.

Still, I didn’t want to burden her separately until everything was over.

What does she think of me?

Immediately, she raised her head and stared blankly at the window opened in the corner.

In the moonlight-lit sky, flower petals carried by the wind flew in from time to time and decorated the night sky like stars.

Just like the scenery I saw in Siren.

However, what shone more than that scenery was Irene, who was looking at that scene.

The corners of her mouth curled softly as she recalled the image of her flowing white hair.

“Someday.”

Even if not now, if the day comes when everyone can smile happily without any worries.

If the day comes when you can look at the moon floating in the sky and only have the impression that it is completely beautiful.

At that time, wouldn’t I be able to express my feelings?

Today marks one year since becoming an escort knight for the villain in the novel.

I began to paint a happy image little by little in my head.

The future in which Irene is no longer called the villainess,

The day when Lopena and Sir Chris can laugh together,

In a flower-draped garden. The day I can carefully confess my heart.

Thinking that all those days will come someday, I gently closed my eyes with the moonlight in my eyes.

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And time passes.

Flowers fall and bloom again. The blue green is bare and the world is covered with pure white snow over and over again.

Many times, I hope that new memories, those memories will turn into memories and be enshrined in a corner of the memory.

That’s how I greeted my fourth spring in this world.