3. Ashera Glade – (8)
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Slowly get up from your seat and tidy up your surroundings, including the bed, and take care of yourself.
Will the place after a huge storm be as quiet as it is now? There was a quiet silence in the room that made me think so.
Lady Ashera, who woke up midway, said she needed some time and left. As she left her room, a woman she called was just sitting still in one place in the room, as if watching me.
She talked to the lady several times, saying that she was okay with the way she looked, but she said that she did not know when she would collapse again and gave her orders, so she eventually refused. Couldn’t.
‘….’
The woman she left behind seems to exist and not exist, so I felt her presence very subtly, so I was startled every time I checked her appearance without realizing it.
“Do you care about me that much?”
She was a woman who spoke as if she had no feelings, and even her tone of voice did not seem like that of an ordinary family servant. She didn’t even know that maybe she was one of the maids in charge of the lady. She had been in the Gleard family for a long time, and even herself felt that her face was so unfamiliar.
In particular, those cold, emotionless eyes of hers somehow subtly reminded me of her usual young lady, and I dazed myself every time her eyes met.
“It’s okay.”
Answers carefully, pointing to a chair.
But she doesn’t have to stand still and keep an eye on herself.
A woman nodding her head lightly at me brings her chair and carefully sits on it.
“If you feel uncomfortable or have any abnormalities, please let me know.”
“Yes.”
I also respond with a small nod of the head to the woman’s words repeated almost every hour.
She grabs her towel to enter her washroom, which is nestled inside her room, and then looks back blankly at her.
The courteous emotionless eyes look at oneself as if asking, ‘Are there any problems?’
“I… I’m going to wash now.”
Let’s talk carefully.
“Are you in need of an attendant?”
She shakes her head hastily in amazement at the sight of a woman walking lightly in her luxurious maid outfit and showing off her white arms.
“Oh, no.”
What do you mean by waiting? Though she thinks blankly, she slowly goes into the washroom and takes off her clothes.
She was not an ordinary servant, but a servant called by the young lady. She didn’t mean to, but she didn’t want to treat her badly.
After being given her last name, Gleadra, she tried to give herself the same existence as her family’s servant, but she stubbornly refused it.
To be honest, I didn’t want anyone in my room.
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Before she was given the surname of Glead, she had observed their attitude towards her, but she had no intention of wanting to be served by them.
She was more than comfortable just doing it by herself.
Because I felt uncomfortable being around someone.
-Shaaak.
I don’t know it well, but I blankly wash her body while being bathed in the stream of water warmed by her magical treatment.
“…… Whoa.”
Looking back as she exhaled, she couldn’t shake the feeling that the day had gone by so quickly.
Since she woke up, she must have been quite a while, but she had a strange feeling that she hadn’t done a single thing.
She had never spent a day so blankly, and it made her feel uncomfortable.
I didn’t practice, and I didn’t even see my own work, and I was just stiffening up in my room, so I even thought of going to the gym and warming up right now.
But when I thought of the young lady who had left the room, she wondered if she should just stay in the room.
She was quite surprised when she heard that she had been unconscious for about three days, but there seemed to be no significant difference in her condition internally or herself, as if she had been helped by family servants.
Even now, when she was washing her body in the washroom, she didn’t feel that much resistance. Was she even wiping herself with a towel soaked in water? Rather, it felt clean.
When I lightly clenched my fist, I felt a subtle difference.
It wasn’t as far as the strange feeling she felt when she first came to consciousness, but it was a subtle sensation that her body still felt unfamiliar.
“What is that mysterious dream and pain….”
The content of her dream was almost impossible to recall now, but it continued to haunt her mind.
I was also concerned about the pain in my chest that I felt when I regained consciousness, and it seemed like something had happened to me, but I couldn’t even guess what it was or what caused it.
Dude.
The pouring water stopped and I slowly wiped myself with the towel I brought.
I sigh involuntarily when I see the traces of unsightly scars that have settled here and there.
It was her own body, but it was a body she really did not want to show to anyone.
After changing into light clothes, I slowly open the bathroom door.
“….”
“….”
Looking at yourself, looking for something wrong, that gaze.
I haven’t really gotten used to being stared at by someone in my room, even though it’s been several hours already.
“Please take a seat. You don’t have to refuse a light service.”
I took another chair and sat down, wondering if it was because I kept refusing it.
Then I was able to look at the maid through the one-sided mirror right in front of me.
Soon, he skillfully takes out some tools from among his luggage and caresses his hair.
She felt something like a warm aura in her maid’s hand as she touched her own blond hair.
It’s neither too hot nor too lukewarm, just the right amount of warm caressing her hair. It was a subtle feeling, as if just having her hair brushed against her made her feel infinitely softer.
I look back at her, whom I thought was just her lady’s attendant at the warmth she felt through her own hair.
Most of the moisture that had permeated her hair was gone before she knew it.
Then hold on. A sound came out without me knowing at the touch of her hand.
“… Ah.”
Even though she was not aware of it, a sound like a moan came out of her mouth naturally. She shut her mouth for a moment of embarrassment, wanting to say something.
“Being waited upon… Is this your first time?”
The maid, whose eyes lit up at Ed’s appearance, spoke to her kindly.
“Ah. Yes. So I was a bit surprised.”
“It may hurt a little at first.”
It hurts. Her hair is all dry. Isn’t the service over now?
Just when she had such a question, the maid’s hand caressing her neck suddenly gave her goosebumps without even realizing it.
-!
She almost screamed at the moment, but with her superhuman patience, she really managed to hold it back.
It’s like… Doesn’t she seem to be groping herself? The maid’s touch tickled her so much that it gave her goosebumps rather than pain.
“I heard that she had been lying down for a few days, so it seemed that her muscles were tight.”
“Yes? Ah, yes.”
“Because Ed-nim is also a decent knight. Is it okay if I hurt you a little?”
As if the expressionless appearance just now had been a lie, she just blankly nodded at the maid speaking with a bright smile.
Eileen, who confirmed Ed’s appearance, subtly twisted the corners of her mouth and slowly applied force to her hand caressing Ed’s neck.
‘I really feel sorry for you….’
For several days, the lady couldn’t even take a proper rest, and how much trouble she suffered because of you alone….
Isn’t he unaware that no matter how much he is given the surname of Glead, his birth status is distinctly different? The lady showed such a noble sincerity.
To think that she, who was only a maid, was so preoccupied with herself…. I didn’t even like the way it looked right now.
It was obvious at first glance that she was not used to women.
Surprised by her own light gesture, it was like looking at a small animal..
He didn’t even have the slightest desire to retaliate against the young lady for suffering. He needed to feel at least a little of what the girl had been through.
“Huh!?”
Eileen smiles as if it were natural to see Ed lowering her head with red cheeks after letting out a shrill moan.
“You don’t have to be shy. Because Ed is the first….”
Seeing Ed reluctantly nodding her head in agreement, Eileen slowly puts her hand on his armpit and applies force.
“Wow!?”
Seeing herself looking at herself through the mirror with an absurd expression on her face, she smiled as if the current action was nothing strange, and teased her hand again.
***
She boldly shaved her blue hair, which had been down to her waist, to her shoulder line. The more I look in the mirror, the more it catches my eye.
While fighting with the super mercenary Rachel, his long hair bothered him, so he had to change his style after waking up in his mansion.
The feeling of disappearing something familiar just a few days ago didn’t go away as easily as he thought.
He exhaled while fiddling with his hair.
How did it look to Ed?
Looking at myself in the mirror seemed like it suited me or it didn’t.
“Lady Asherah! You look very pretty now!”
As if noticing Ashera’s worries, the maid Selua, who was helping her dress up, whispers softly.
“… Okay?
Kyaa! She groans, she says, calming her excitement by adorning her hair carefully as if treating a cute animal.
“That lady’s appearance now is really… You are too cute to put into words!”
Ashera, listening to Selua’s words, frowns as she looks at her maid through her mirror.
Isn’t cute means looking at something like a small animal in the first place?
She also couldn’t understand the way Selua was saying things she wouldn’t normally say.
“If a real Lady Ashera makes that face… Oh really.”
As if she didn’t know what to do, Selua, who kept repeating to hold her own hand, made a small noise and shook her.
She couldn’t bear to touch her lady’s jade body with her own hands, so she had to be content with just looking at it.
“Enough with the makeup, it’s time for dinner.”
Asera lightly restrains Celua, who continues to caress her own hair, and she quietly rises from her seat. The heavenly cloth goes up along the body of such Asherah.
Sellua, who nodded her head at Ashera’s words and carefully tidied up her surroundings, looked at Ashera with her eyes sparkling.
It was an intense gaze, as if trying to engrave Ashera’s image in her memory.
She was very sorry for the various clothes piled up in the dressing room because she had not attended all kinds of banquets sent to the Gleard family.
Suddenly, the figure of Lady Ashera, dressed in a dress with light lace that only women from aristocratic families would wear, was so beautiful in itself.
She is a lady who usually sticks to her knightly armor, but when she wears cloth like this, everything in itself looks different.
If she used to be a sharp but elegant woman who had the impression of a female knight, now she really looked fresh, like a lady from an aristocratic family going out to an afternoon tea party.
She seemed to have made up her mind, judging by the fact that she was wearing a pretty outfit that she usually wouldn’t wear even for festivals and other events.
‘In the end, spring comes to Lady Ashera too.’
Selua gave a hearty smile without even realizing it.
If there was a great change in the heart of her young lady that would cause her to change her mind, she certainly had it.
Along with the fact that he hasn’t seen Ed for a few days, his body hasn’t been normal for the past few days.
“Selua… Why do you keep looking at me like that?”
Ashera, who was about to leave her room, glanced at Sellua and asked.
Even if that figure seemed strange to her Selua, she seemed to think that way.
‘Really… How can he be so cute?’
The appearance of the normally expressionless young lady wearing cloth clothes with colorful expressions showed a charm that would instantly attract even a man from a noble family.
“Lady Asherah… I’m saying this from the bottom of my heart, but you’re more beautiful than anyone I’ve ever seen… !”
Listening to her Selua’s words, Ashera hurriedly turned her head away with her angry face blushing.
She felt like talking to her for nothing.
She’s her own maid, so of course she says what she likes to hear herself. There is no way I can say that her appearance is not good.
“Selua you… I can’t believe it anymore when you say that.”
After her words, Ashera left her room.