Countess Cianella’s Male Slave

27. From now on

After leaving Sione’s room, I went straight to Dioria.

I knocked on her door.

Smart.

“Lady Dioria, I have come to tell you something.”

“…Let them come in.”

I cautiously opened the door and entered.

In her room, Dioria could be seen with her hair undone, which was always tied in a ponytail.

She held up her fountain pen, stared at her paper with a disapproving expression, then turned her head towards me.

Her brown hair, down to her chest, swayed as she moved her head.

Contrary to her usual sharp-edged knight appearance, the relaxed Dioria looked more like a simple noblewoman rather than an expert knight.

“What brought you here?”

However, unlike the softer atmosphere, Dioria’s tone was as stiff as usual.

Well, it was like that every day.

I relayed what I heard in Shione’s room.

“Shione wants to visit the Marquis of Peiosha tomorrow. I will ask for an escort tomorrow as well.”

“Tomorrow. I’ll let you know that.”

“Then let’s go.”

After bowing her head to Dioria for a moment, she turned around.

Then, Dioria called me with a sigh from behind.

“Wait.”

At Dioria’s call, let’s look at her again.

She was staring at me with her chin resting.

Seeing that his eyebrows are a bit crumpled unlike usual, he must be unhappy with something…….

Why the hell are you looking at me and making that face?

Now that I was more afraid of the knight named Dioria than the one I became close to, I was naturally nervous.

“Come to think of it, shouldn’t we talk about what to do about Shione-nim’s breakup?”

“Ah…”

“I’d like to talk to you about this in a minute. Do you have enough time?”

I nodded.

“Of course.”

Shione is sleeping in my room, so now it’s my free time.

I, the attendant, also had a room assigned to me, so I was going to take a break….

After all, it wouldn’t be bad to kiss Dioria and her from the troublesome things Shione made.

I gave up on her nap and turned to face Dioria again.

“Haa… After all, you can’t stop the marriage breakup, can you?”

I have already drifted from Baby Giraffe to Impatiens, but is there any way I can prevent the breakup?

I shook my head quietly.

“Since not only Sione-nim, but Evan Feiosha also said that Marquis Yulia had allowed her to break off their engagement…”

At my words, Dioria’s expression contorted.

“As expected, it seems impossible to prevent the breakup.”

“Write it…”

Dioria pressed her temples to see if her head was starting to hurt.

“The Marquis of Feiosha will also send a letter to Cianella. Shouldn’t we also inform the head of the family about the situation?”

Dioria tapped the paper with the tip of her fountain pen.

As if the words weren’t written down well, a corner of the paper was filled with dots marked with her worries.

Talk. Tok. Tok.

Dioria stared at the paper for a while, repeatedly putting her fountain pen on and off the paper.

She let out another sigh of relief from the ground.

“However, it is not appropriate to write a letter and send it.”

Well, how should I write a story that started with a friendly baby giraffe flower and ended with a balsam flower?

I approached her alone, clutching her head, thinking of her story of Sione and Evan just before her.

“Let me help you.”

Trembling.

Without hesitation, I walked up to Dioria’s nose before I knew it.

I leaned over and looked at the stationery on the table.

As expected, she couldn’t write anything special, and she had only written a formal message, ‘Dear Nelcia Nella, my lord’s child’.

If I leave it like this, I’ll just make dots on paper all day long and won’t be able to write anything.

Somehow, I thought it would be better for me to write for them.

I need something to write… You’d better borrow Dioria’s fountain pen.

It’s not polite to ask for a fountain pen while looking at the letter.

I only turned her head to face Dioria.

“Lady Dioria.”

“Wow!”

Maybe it was because she suddenly turned her head and looked at her.

Dioria seemed quite surprised by my unexpected behavior.

Why are people who would be indifferent to an assassin even when they pop out?

Is it because the distance is close?

Drruck.

Dioria pulled back her chair and opened up the distance.

Then I wondered if I was ashamed of my appearance from a while ago.

She pretended not to care and tucked her hair behind her ear.

“…Why is that?”

“Could you lend me a fountain pen?”

“A fountain pen?”

“Yes, I’ll fill in the letter once.”

Dioria asked, passing the fountain pen to me.

“Do you know how to write?”

“I’ve been trained separately… But it’s not perfect, so Dioria-sama will have to correct any mistakes.”

“Let’s do that.”

After receiving the fountain pen, I started writing.

The nib moved and began to draw on the paper.

It was quite difficult to write in the common language of the continent rather than the familiar Korean language.

As I struggled to write, Dioria looked at me side by side and at the stationery and said.

“Sit in a chair and write.”

“…Thank you.”

I stopped writing the letter, bowed her head once to Dioria, and continued writing while sitting in her chair.

Excluding the story of Shione’s balsam and breakup drift, Evan Peiosha has been thinking about breaking up with Shione from before.

Sione also wrote a letter saying that she did not want this engagement and the two amicably agreed to break the engagement.

“Please read it.”

“…Not bad. I just need to work on it a bit more.”

“I’m glad you liked it.”

Since I roughly wrote the first draft, I should be able to finish it relatively easily.

If Shione didn’t uselessly write down the nonsense over there, Ainel would somehow be able to understand it.

I set the fountain pen down on the desk.

“Then I’ll be on my way.”

“Good job.”

“Then see you tomorrow.”

After coming out of Dioria’s room like that, I felt relieved that I could finally rest.

* *

Today, as Shione said, I came out of the mansion to look around the marquis’ estate.

Dioria is also with us this time, so it’s okay to go around in a servant’s uniform with Cianella written on it without much armament.

The quest hasn’t popped up, and I’m only going to places where there are a lot of people anyway, so I don’t have to worry about it.

The day after the breakup, I looked at Sione, who came out to play like this.

She was poking the hairpin I bought her before.

Since she was cheap, I thought that she would break quickly or not use it much, but contrary to my thoughts, Shione used hairpins well.

She turned her head around and looked around her. She must have felt my gaze.

She tilted her head at me.

“Did you put anything on my face?”

“Nothing.”

“Don’t make people curious. Come on.”

“Sione-sama’s hairpin, I thought it was fortunate that she seemed to be wearing it often.”

“Ah, you mean a hairpin.”

At my words, Shione stroked my hairpin for a while.

“Thanks to you, I’m using it comfortably. Thank you.”

I nodded with a light smile.

How could I be thankful for something like this?

Anyway, I bought it with Sione’s money, so I don’t have to thank you.

I thought that if I was going to use hairpins like this often, wouldn’t it be better to use something prettier than those ordinary hairpins?

But Shione is a princess of a count family.

It would be better to buy something expensive and decorate it.

“Why don’t you take this opportunity to buy a new hairpin?”

Shione shook her head with a faint smile at my words.

“Okay. I have enough of this.”

With that, she grabbed me by the sleeve and started leading me.

“Anyway, it looks like they’re selling something to eat over there. Let’s go quickly.”

I was able to see the city while following Shione and eating street food.

Fortunately, unlike the cookies I put in my mouth the other day, Shione even took care of Dioria’s.

Thanks to that, Diolia didn’t feel sorry for Shione like yesterday.

How many times have you looked around the city like that?

Around the time when the sun that had risen in the middle of the sky began to decline.

While I was sitting on a bench in front of the fountain, resting my tired legs for a while, I saw Sione and Dioria talking about something from the other side.

“Sir Dioria, could you step back for a moment?”

“What’s up?”

“I have something else to say to Ray. When the story is over, I will give you a separate signal, so ask him.”

“Um…we’ll do that.”

No matter what kind of conversation they had, Dioria briefly distanced herself from Shione’s words and moved away.

As I watched them, Shione slowly walked towards me.

Shione’s expression was a little stiff as if she was nervous for some reason.

Why is he acting like that all of a sudden?

Yesterday, when I suddenly confessed to breaking up my marriage, I felt exactly the same way.

Contrary to her bright appearance all day, seeing Shione now made me nervous.

As a slave and attendant, my master is coming to see me, but I cannot sit down and greet him.

I got up from the bench and greeted Sione.

“Ray.”

“…Why do you do that?”

… Why are you suddenly in such a mood?

All I could do in a situation that was so burdensome was to listen to Sione.

“That’s it…”

After hesitating for a moment, Shione held on to her trembling pupils and faced me straight.

“I was happy that you gave me faith when everything was crumbling… I was grateful that you gave me new hope when I had given up on everything.”

“That, and… The thing that protected me that day…”

She must have been ashamed of what she had said. Shione even turned her ears red.

Shione lowered her head, avoiding my gaze, and muttered incessantly.

I relaxed and laughed at Shione’s appearance.

Meanwhile, Sione approached me.

“Huh?”

He grabbed my sleeve and pulled it hard.

I was helplessly drawn in by Shione’s sudden action and ended up being hugged by Shione.

Shione said while holding me with a red face for a while.

“…Ray, please take good care of me in the future.”

After those words, Sione hurried away from me and called Dioria.

I looked at Shione like that in silence, and then shed a blank laugh.

The day after the marriage was broken with Prince Peo-Xia, the attendant hugged in front of the fountain inside the estate of the Marquis of Peo-Xia.

What would happen if this fact reached the ears of the people of the Feiosha family?

I thought that I would seduce Shione and broke off her marriage, and that she would be decapitated as a reproach.

I just caressed my neck endlessly.