ALL NOVEL chapter 7
7 – Tea party (2)
“Tea party.”
The touch of her hair was soft.
It’s probably just a place to drink tea and eat snacks. How do I have to wear such a cumbersome outfit?
Suddenly, I felt uncomfortable with the accessories peeking through my hair, and I frowned.
I have a mountain of things to do right now, but is it really right to do such useless activities?
That social church is like playing with dolls, where you guess the parables of lesser young girls and laugh at boring jokes.
A light sigh leaked out as I felt tired just imagining it.
“Your expression is not good.”
“Because I don’t want to go.”
I couldn’t understand why I had to go there.
It would be much more rewarding to wield a sword and sweat than to have an unanswered conversation with the ladies.
Everyone said that it was good to build a relationship with them since they would lead the empire together in the future, but were those fools really interested in politics?
I’m sure they’re more interested in the passionate love story of the vassals next door than the policies the emperor creates right away.
As the blue eyes subsided again, the movements of the court ladies around them became urgent.
Since the owner’s heart has become uncomfortable, he must move on his own.
However, it didn’t make me feel too bad, so when I lightly waved my hand, the turbulent movement stopped for a moment.
Isn’t it really comfortable, the position of being a duke’s princess?
Ironically, being in that position, he was on the verge of going crazy from the pressure that always tightened his pores.
The anticipation sent to me was something I could easily feel even if I didn’t show it.
“Lopena.”
“Yes, lady.”
After lightly teasing her hand again, Lopena began biting her handmaids around her.
The man who complained that he still had something to decorate, met his eyes.
Isn’t the complexion that turns white in an instant, a rare sight whenever you see it?
Eventually, her ladies-in-waiting, except for Pena, leave the room, and talk about the existence that suddenly came to mind.
“Evan.”
Evan Fried, the escort knight, who had been a knight candidate in his family for some time.
However, there was nothing known about him except that he was called a genius and became an escort knight.
‘It’s annoying.’
From the first time I met him, I didn’t like him because he went against my heart.
To be precise, I was hoping that it would quickly disappear from sight.
For some reason, if you think about it, there is no such thing as a big mistake in what he did to himself.
Rather, in terms of skills, he could be said to be the best among those I have ever met.
That night, the skills of the killers I encountered were by no means low.
The ability to easily subdue such people could certainly be said to have exceeded the level of an expert.
“Sir Chris has gone to call, so he should be back soon.”
“I see.”
When I think of those warm green eyes looking at me, I feel like my heart is sinking for some reason.
I naturally frowned at that unusual sensation. How come you don’t complain once?
He seemed to be treating him more sharply than usual, obviously.
‘Don’t you think I’m negligent?’
He was diligent. Rather, he did his job well enough to be praised for being sincere.
He woke up at dawn to train with Sir Chris and read books in his free time.
After the training was over, I thought that I would spread out and run away from the busy knights.
However, the fact that he treated him harshly is one word that comes to mind whenever I see him.
It was because he destroyed the mask he was wearing.
-Are you okay?
That calm tone lingers in my ears. It didn’t disappear, and no matter how hard I tried to block my ears, I couldn’t forget those words in the end.
Because what he could see in his blue-green eyes was pity, worry, and sympathy towards himself.
I was well aware of the emotions contained in the grave tone.
How can he look at someone he has never met with such eyes?
I’ve never had anyone look at me like that.
All the emotions contained in the eyes looking at him were fear, respect, and longing.
Those eyes that tremble whenever you look at me, I couldn’t easily forget them.
My closed eyes trembled lightly before I knew it. When I open my eyes to the wind blowing through my fluttering eyelashes, I realize that the window in front of me is open.
Even the color of the garden seen through the window was green, which somehow made my heart suffocate.
“…Ha ha.”
When was the last time you sang, why the hell hasn’t it come yet?
Attributing the sudden irritation to Evan Fried, who is not here, is soon erased by the sound of knocking.
Smart-
When the door opened, the corners of his mouth were drawn horizontally again.
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“It’s late.”
What the hell did you see and say you were late? I let out a breath involuntarily at the cold stare that was shooting at me.
I wanted to ask a question, but I couldn’t, and I just bowed my head and said I was sorry.
There was definitely a chill in that feminine voice, so I quickly realized that unlike usual, she wasn’t in a good mood.
I don’t know what made her feel bad, but maybe it was better for her to be careful now.
“I heard you are going to a tea party.”
“Unfortunately, indeed.”
A tea party, what made Irene’s mood so messed up.
Come to think of it, even in the future, she did not easily appear in social churches.
People were surprised to see Irene Uris appearing at the same place where she fought her mistress.
But it wouldn’t be bad for her to show up like this once in a while.
She knows that too, so she probably attends four churches like this.
If she’s that clever, she’ll know that no matter how much she hates it, she must do it if there is a need for it.
When my eyes suddenly focused on the dress she was wearing, I looked at her attire with spontaneous admiration.
A dress whose light shines brightly in the air as if the stars in the night sky were moved as they are.
My lips parted a little at the scene where the threads of gold, silver, and copper were connected to each other, like a painting.
Her pure white hair soon falls on the hem of her dress and her graceful appearance, which even covers the accessories that shine around it, shines brightly.
If Lopena hadn’t paid attention to me as I blankly watched the scene, I would have approached Irene without even realizing it.
“…Really.”
Her heart ached as if stabbed by a dagger when she looked at me pitifully.
Why is it wrong to look at the beautiful?
She lowered her head for a moment, and Irene, who clicked her tongue once, moved her steps.
When she turned her head, all I could see was the pitying look Pena was looking at me, so I just smiled bitterly.
After walking for such a long time, I saw a garden with flowers in full bloom here and there.
The duke’s residence I couldn’t look around because I was so wide, but my eyes widened once more that a place like this existed.
All the flowers that bloom in summer are gathered in one place.
From the other side of the blue-green garden, which seems to have captured the summer of this world as it is, I heard the chattering voices of women.
Probably the voices of the young ladies invited to this tea party.
The high-rise sunflower sends an unknown affection towards the rising sun in the distance.
In the meantime, sparsely bloomed phloxes were showing off their purple appearance among the green blades of grass.
The sight of the colorful roses giving off their fragrance, forgetting even the thorns that were on me.
I even doubted that this weed I was stepping on was an unknown flower.
Lo Pena jumps to the picturesque scenery with her eyes twinkling and dodo-do.
Irene nodded her head coolly to Lo Pena, who constantly looked around her like a fish in water.
“Can I make you a lady too?”
“No, I am done.”
A smile was drawn on his lips as he looked like a child.
Even though she is the same age as I and Irene, she has the innocence of a child, and she was a person who showed the viewer what joy is.
Turning her gaze to Irene for a moment, she let out a hollow laugh at the thick disgust in her eyes.
I could easily guess why she hated social churches like this because the place where her eyes were directed was not at Roh Pena but beyond her garden.
Perhaps the young ladies over there are the reason.
It was understandable. It was because most of the young girls in this world could be said to be completely opposite to the Irene Yuris I knew.
Unlike social gatherings where adults are still like children and fiercely fighting, this tea party will be filled with only things that girls of that age can talk about.
For Irene, who is far from that, it would be just a boring tea time.
Maybe I think it’s better to just swing the sword.
The worry that suddenly came to my mind was whether Irene would be alienated from this social scene.
Since she truly hated even tea parties like this, she probably wouldn’t have easily appeared at other parties.
She must have already created her own faction. Of course, in that faction, there must be no name called Irene Uris.
“…Ha ha.”
It is probably because of this that the foundation she has built in her novels is small. She
She’s never really interested in socializing, so she couldn’t have built up a group of people who would be truly loyal to her.
As she was cornered by her crown prince in the end, her powers, who had only been superficially loyal to her, left in an instant, leaving her alone.
What she will experience in her future must have happened because of that situation.
She frowned at her sudden surge of concern. Is she aware of her own worries about her?
I wanted to give her some advice, but it was hard to talk to her because she didn’t even acknowledge me as an escort driver.
Is that a test of her true self, or is it her ulterior motive to want me to hate her, just to get her away from herself.
It was a truth that we would soon find out as time passed.
So for now, I just silently watch from the side.
“You must start slowly now.”
“…I see.”
When I said quietly to Irene, who was watching Lopena plucking her wild flowers, she nodded her head and called Lopena over.
Irene’s steps as she avoided the flowers that bloomed over the greenery in the garden were quite graceful.
No, maybe it looked like her flowers were getting out of the way for her.
Just like a miracle caused by her Moses, the way she walked without harming the greenery in the slightest made her look like a natural-born aristocrat.
Shortly after admiring it, as she left her garden, a long white table caught her eye.
Above it is a white tunnel with rose vines wrapped around it. Those gathered under it were young ladies enjoying tea time with great pleasure.
“Oh, was it? I still didn’t know that such a thing had happened.”
“It could be. By the way, I heard there’s been a commotion in the county lately. Has anyone been hurt?”
“Thank you for your concern. Fortunately, all of my family members are unscathed.”
Irene’s eyes grew cold at the sight of them making a noise like sparrows chirping.
A chill that makes the viewer goosebumps. Even a young child would know that she hated this position.
Jerbug.
The sound of cold footsteps across the noisy garden instantly brings silence.
As if their space had been frozen solid, the expressions of the young girls who had just covered their mouths with the back of their hands while laughing soon hardened, as if they were looking at a statue.
“…Oh, the princess is here.”
“Greetings to the next shield.”
Soon after, the head bowed and the greeting continued, but the impression I felt was quite different from that raucous greeting.
I felt that the attitude of her young ladies towards Irene was like a wall.
A wall so strong that Irene won’t be allowed into that sticky thing they created together.
When I saw Irene’s face, which was still insensitive despite knowing that, all she could do was let out a laugh.