4. Ashera Glaad & Chersha Kalua – (7)
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“Still…?”
“Yes, I understand you are in the drawing room.”
It was late at night. A car that was trying to get out of his office belatedly. Words from Eileen, her own maid.
That Chersha Kalua and Ed are still in the drawing room.
That fact reminded her of what she had heard at a meeting with Ed a few days ago.
ㅡ Do you know each other…?
—-Before coming to Glaade… Chersha and I had a good relationship.
The look of Ed carefully answering her own words with a contemplative look.
In a way, that answer sounded like nothing special, but she had to get a subtle feeling from Ed’s way of answering so slowly.
I felt like there was something unclear about Ed’s answer.
She seems to be hiding something she doesn’t know.
It was just a gut feeling, but it was definitely a strong feeling.
Although she was aware of it, she herself did not ask him about her, Chersha Kahlua again.
Memories from her distant childhood, before coming to Glad.
Eight years ago, it was a story from when I was really young.
No matter how good we were at the time, it was already a long time ago.
Moreover, Ed had already finished all his words to continue Glead.
The immediate situation, the environment, Ed’s own will, and nothing else went against his mind.
The current Ed, he was already a Glad man to the extent that no one could deny it.
Maybe that’s why he didn’t pay much attention.
He thought to himself that if he dared to show the appearance of controlling even the smallest details about him, it would backfire.
That’s why he didn’t say anything to him.
“…Lady Asherah.”
I barely wake up from contemplation at Aileen’s voice and move on.
The light that was illuminating her office, where her darkness had sunk deep, went out, and Asherah left her own office.
……
Not long after Ashera left her office, the door to the drawing room of her mansion, which was on the other side of the street, opened again.
Ashera’s eyes, which had been giving it a thoughtless look, stopped her steps as she left her office, as if her eyes hardened for a moment.
“…”
“…?”
It was Eileen, the maid, who first noticed the change in Ashera.
Eileen was about to open her mouth to Ashera’s change. She couldn’t make any moves.
A strange feeling as if time has stopped.
Within that, Eileen was able to turn her gaze very slowly to the place where Asherah was looking intently at her.
‘…Chersha Kalua.’
The name of a wizard who suddenly and unexpectedly visited Glaad.
The name wasn’t light at all, even in the North.
The Kalua family, famous for their prestigious mage family.
She is the eldest daughter of the Kalua family, and at a young age, she is often talked about as the next Eastern Mage Tower, Calisian’s Mage Tower.
She was highly likely to grow into a major figure in the empire in the future.
He was the one who made the family servants suffer untimely for a day.
It wasn’t enough for the servants to clean even the corners of the Glaade Mansion that no one could reach, so it was to the point where they even renovated the interior decorations of the drawing room one by one.
The office and drawing room were obviously quite far apart, but it was no big deal for a knight who had reached a certain level to see the distant scenery as clearly as he saw it at close range.
From the way the blonde woman came out of the parlor with a smile on her face, Ed’s purpose in visiting him seemed to have been fulfilled.
He was surprised even himself that Ed had a relationship with such a major figure.
Chersha Ed comes out after her.
As for what they were talking about right after, the difficulty of controlling the hearing was clearly raised compared to manipulating the sight.
“……”
That’s why I couldn’t figure out what they were saying to each other.
However, Eileen had no choice but to take care of Asherah more than anything else in the circumstances that followed.
Chersha approaching Ed and slowly cradling him in his arms.
It’s not just a sight that caught my eye.
Even in the eyes of the young lady who had her eyes on it from the beginning…
“……Ha.”
In Asera’s voice, which was muttering in a low voice, Eileen had a strange tone that made even herself chilled.
Jerbug.
Just one step.
The young lady just took a step.
Jerbug.
Should she stop seeing Ashera walking very slowly?
Eileen, who knew how much Ashera always thought of Ed, had unknowingly had creepy thoughts.
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As her foreboding future was pictured, her various thoughts settled in her own head.
At this rate, no matter what happens, it will explode.
But now her own mouth did not come off.
And then Aileen realized that right after she left her office, she couldn’t take a single step.
As if my body had lost control. It didn’t move at all.
For a knight of the highest rank to lose control of his body, a phenomenon that is beyond comprehension.
But all of that was actually happening right now.
“……!”
As if continuing to struggle a little. Eileen’s eyes wander here and there.
Only her fingers were trembling slightly, and Eileen couldn’t move her own body as if she was controlled by something.
Jerbug.
Ashera, who was walking through the mansion of Glead, suddenly looked at her.
On one side of her mansion, where the walls are made of huge glass, she caught a glimpse of a figure right below herself, in her garden.
It was a girl in the garden who noticed Ashera’s abnormality for the second time.
A small-sized girl with green hair, as if embracing fresh greenery.
Ashera, who had been giving her attention for a moment as if glancing at Plea, moved her steps as if that was the end.
Jerbug.
At the same time, Pleia collapsed as if she was collapsing.
Something like her bizarre aura began to shimmer in her dark blue light as if to embrace her.
As she walks, her blue hair that reaches her shoulders continues to flutter in small pieces, reflecting the blue light that surrounds her and scattering the light, demonstrating her presence.
Jerbug.
Then, at some point, it seemed to disappear. The blue light surrounding her asera gradually faded and her presence was erased without a trace.
She slowly moves her steps while looking at a distant existence with her usual indifferent eyes, as if she does not contain any special emotions.
Neither fast nor slow.
Ashera was heading slowly, just like her usual walking speed.
Jerbug.
And after that, a little time passed.
Asera finally arrived.
At the end.
……
Looking at Chersha, who was leaning on my arm, I felt Ed’s head, which had just been there, so I took her eyes off her and looked upward.
At the same time, he heard a voice calling him.
“…Ed.”
As usual, calm and beautiful voice.
A beautiful jewel-like face that pretends to be flawless, as if it doesn’t show any gaps to anyone.
A figure wearing a knight’s uniform with a beautiful appearance.
“…Lady?”
Seeing that there was nothing wrong, Ed raised his voice as if he sensed something wrong.
And Chersha was startled by Ed’s voice, and removed herself from his arms.
Woe.
Chersha’s face was so red that anyone could see that she felt embarrassed.
‘Calm down.’
Chersha clasped her own hand, and then she urged herself. Fragmented memories of just that moment with him were still running through my head.
While still unable to believe it, she was intoxicated by the first euphoria in her life.
But obviously, the place where I am now was inside the mansion of another family.
“Should I call you Chersha…?”
Chersha belatedly turned her head at the cold voice coming from behind her.
A female knight in a beautiful knight’s uniform.
The neat appearance of the blue hair that came down to the shoulders was a look that would arouse admiration from the viewer.
The appearance of an ideal female knight.
Even if a famous artist draws it, will it be possible to reproduce the appearance of the female knight we see now?
Chersha stared blankly at Ashera for a moment at the appearance of a female knight so perfect that she could have thought of that for a moment.
And at the encounter, which she must have met for the first time, Chersha felt a slight sense of alarm.
“Let me introduce myself first. It is called Asherah Glade.”
Whenever Ed was in trouble or in danger, the woman who reached out to help Ed was the knight right in front of him.
Chersha’s gaze at Ashera deepened. However, Chersha, who had tidied up her appearance for a while, received Ashera’s words with a tidy voice.
“…My name is Chersha Kalua.”
“Judging from the fact that you left the drawing room, are you done with all your business? The Glead family’s set time to entertain guests ended a long time ago.”
“Ah… Ah, yes. It’s all over.”
“Is that so? Then.”
Eyes that shine blue as if they contain the light of the stars, but the limitless indifference contained within them. Those emotionless eyes, as if she were not showing any gaps in herself, Chersha suddenly felt that way.
“Selua, be careful of Chersha. Let me guide you.”
“Yes. Yes! All right.”
Asera Glade.
As if it was hidden by her overwhelming presence.
Conversely, a woman who did not even know that her presence was so faint then hurriedly approached Chersha and spoke to her.
Chersha was slowly preparing to return while receiving Sellua’s words.
Her gaze went blankly to the figure of Ashera who moved her steps past her for a moment.
“Ed, let’s talk for a minute.”
Ashera spoke in a low-pitched voice and naturally grabbed Ed’s arm and dragged her.