3. Ashera Glaad & Chersha Kalua (33)
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When I slightly turned my gaze to check the space, I saw luxuriously decorated interior decorations and an interior colored in a soft purple light.
Lady Asherah led her to a luxurious restaurant in the city.
The appearance of the people present inside, the appearance of the employees, and even the interior decoration of the store were all unusual.
It seemed to be a place for receiving mainly nobles or those with high status.
“Come to think of it, Ed, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you drink.”
Calling the waiter with a light gesture, the lady who was ordering several menu items that she was unfamiliar with said with a small smile.
“Because I don’t like alcohol very much.”
A few years ago, she was knighted. It was then that she drank wine for the first time as a celebratory note.
Thinking about it now, I can’t quite remember the quality of the wine I drank back then. The next day, I suffered from a terrible hangover, so I intentionally stopped drinking after that.
“Well, that’s even better. You will change your mind today.”
The image of the young lady with her little corner of her mouth raised probably meant that the wine here was different.
“Come to think of it, did you come down to the city looking for me?”
He thought it was strange that he had run into the girl by chance in the city, so he carefully brought his words out.
“Yes. I needed to speak earlier because I have guests visiting you tomorrow.”
“A guest…?”
I had to ask back at the very unexpected words.
‘Who will visit me?’
It was the first time she had heard that someone had visited the Gleard mansion to meet her for years, even though she had experience of meeting many people in the city of Glea.
“Yes. A very important guest. So I tried to convey the words so that you will not be negligent in welcoming guests.”
“If Lady Asherah would say that…”
My head was complicated by the sudden need to prepare for tomorrow’s guests.
Because he wasn’t used to the manners of treating nobles yet.
Perhaps it was the young lady’s idea to prepare in advance to greet guests later, for herself as the successor to Glaade in the future.
“As for the specifics…we’re going to do it after we’ve quenched our throats, so let’s focus on relaxing each other for now.”
As she said that, her gaze followed as she turned her gaze out of the nearby window.
From the beginning, I was guided to a window seat on the second floor, so I could see the scenery of the city through the wide open window nearby.
Is the sun slowly going down? The overall scenery of the city of Glia is colored reddish.
A lot of people were still walking around the city, showing off their different appearances.
A man in a workshop who catches passing mercenaries and preaches them in order to sell the displayed weapons.
He is a child who solicits guests to the inn where he works.
A merchant leading a cart with various items.
It was a very different view from the one seen from the terrace of the Gleard Mansion.
If only the night view from the terrace could capture the beauty of the city. In this way, the scenery seen from the high-class restaurant located in the center of the city was more about the people in it than the city itself.
“Villitué 4 times the setting sun, 7 times cold snow.”
After a while, a man in a suit approached and introduced the wine in a bottle that was pretty fancy to look at, and the waitress who followed him began to carefully place various foods on the table.
Good.
A man wearing a suit carefully started pouring the wine himself while setting a wine glass with cold ice in front of the lady and himself.
As if pouring wine requires skill, I marveled at her elegant movements.
I have never been very interested in money, but I couldn’t help but feel it clearly from a series of appearances.
The lady came to know that this place is more luxurious than I thought.
“This is a private conversation after that, so please leave.”
Then, the voice of a young lady can be heard even at first glance. Upon hearing that, they bowed slightly and walked away from the table.
“Slowly… Savor.”
As if she knew she was drinking for the first time, she smiled lightly at herself and nodded her head slightly at the woman’s calm voice.
Seeing the young lady gently lifting a wine glass with an elegant gesture, she naturally raised another wine glass herself.
Salty.
The sound of clinking wine glasses echoed softly.
Afterwards, as she watched the young lady gracefully tipping her wine glass, she savored the taste of the wine herself.
The first taste of wine that I felt for the first time was the taste of bitter cherries.
And the bitter feeling that gradually intensified seemed to reach its limit and give some kind of pain.
Then, at some point, a very small sweetness came from the end.
‘…Alternatively.’
Continuing to give trials, but only at the end seems to give a little happiness….
Let’s look back at the wine glass involuntarily at the subtle taste that is hard to describe.
I heard a small laugh right in front of me.
“Put.”
When his eyes met hers, the young lady shook her head slightly and spoke while slowly shaking her wine glass.
“So…I’m sure I told you to savor it slowly.”
The young lady slowly and proudly turned her wine glass, which was still halfway there, looking at herself with a smile on her face.
“It must have felt incredibly bitter, didn’t it?”
“Slowly savoring means sharing… Drinking in moderation.”
She didn’t know what the young lady meant, and she herself drank all the wine in the glass. She somehow thought the wine tasted too strange.
“Well, since this is my first time with Ed…”
As I looked at the blue eyes of the young lady who still spoke with a faint smile as if she understood herself, a small smile leaked out involuntarily.
…Tuk.
Without taking her eyes off the blue eyes that met each other, the girl who had been touching her own glass softly licked her lips.
“Ed, you… you seem to be smiling a lot these days.”
“Is that so?”
“It looks good.”
Is it because of wine?
Feeling the slightest heat rising on the young lady’s pale cheeks, she slowly lifted her wine and filled her own empty glass with her own wine.
“I’m just saying this because you said it earlier… but I also look like a lady like that.”
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I couldn’t tell if the alcohol was high or low, but as if spitting it out in the midst of her drinking, she said that to herself as well.
A girl who smiles lightly at her own words.
I felt like my heart was lightened just by facing that figure.
“…”
“…”
After that, there was no conversation, only the sound of tableware being stirred and the small sound of wine flowing through glasses.
……
“Ed, are you… drunk?”
“I’m still fine, but…”
“Then wait a little longer, then go back.”
A few small dishes on the table were emptied, leaving only the wine. And now Ed looked anxiously at Ashera as he poured the newly ordered wine into a glass.
She now has her white face dyed red to the extent that it is obvious even from the outside. However, her two eyes shone brightly as if embracing starlight, so she did not look drunk until that ceremony.
However, the opposite appearances were subtly attractive, and it attracted the attention of the people inside.
Ashera slowly leaned her face against her wine glass, her blue hair down to her shoulders.
She acted as if she was trying to cool herself down a bit by leaning on a cold wine glass to warm up her own heat. Even such a trivial appearance was enough to shake the hearts of most people inside the restaurant.
“Come to think of it, I told you, Ed, you… Have a guest to visit, right?”
“Yes, there is someone coming to see me tomorrow, so he said he was looking for me to let me know in advance…”
“The Kalua family informed me of their visit.”
“As for the Kalua family…”
Ed muttered blankly while receiving Ashera’s words.
Kalua…
It was a familiar name.
However, for some reason, I couldn’t immediately recall it because I was familiar with it.
Perhaps he was drunk too much without even realizing it, Ed felt that his thoughts were not connecting properly.
Asera, who was just staring at Ed like that, spoke slowly.
“Chersha Kalua. She said she wants to meet Ed… You. It was written that way on the paperwork informing me of the visit.”
“……”
“Do you know each other…?”