65 – She Came (3)
The sweaty face and neck were shiny and the clothes were dressed so strangely that you wondered why she was dressed like that.
It seems like whatever happened happened.
I’m glad that at least it doesn’t seem like he was committing suicide.
With an awkward smile, Liana looked at me and Keita in turns.
“What’s going on…?”
“No… Nothing. But what were you doing?”
“Huh? What were you doing? You were getting ready for bed, right?”
“Why are you sweating so much?”
Liana smiled, wiping her forehead with the back of her hand.
“I’m working out to lose some weight.”
At the same time, Liana playfully grabbed the skin of her side, and as I moved her gaze towards her, I noticed something strange.
A skirt that sticks to the light material with sweat and clearly reveals the outline of the body.
Among them, her crotch area had darkened.
Hmm… Did I have to pee again like before?
But with Keita also present, she couldn’t ask such a question and lose face as her chamberlain.
“Okay… I understand. Just keep doing what you were doing.”
“Yes, I understand. Good night, lord. Wizard.”
When I turned around, Liana closed the door.
As she walked down the hallway, Keita followed behind her and whispered quietly.
“What is it, my lord…?”
“Well, I don’t know. But I guess it wasn’t what we thought.”
“Then I’m glad… hehehe…!”
Keita glanced behind her and shrugged her shoulders in surprise.
Looking behind her, I saw that Liana’s door, which had been closed earlier, was slightly open and yellow light was leaking through it.
A clear shadow was visible between the long, yellow rectangular lights cast on the wall.
Are you opening the door and eavesdropping on our conversation?
When I tapped his shoulder, Keita nodded his head and quickly walked ahead of me.
As I stood alone in the hallway for a while, the yellow rectangular light gradually narrowed and eventually disappeared completely.
* * * * *
Nothing happened for a few days after that.
Liana must have been briefed on her work at the Changgwan, but she didn’t show it at all.
He is a smart person, so he must have guessed why I sent those women home.
But she treated me in an attitude no different from usual.
Because of what happened that night, Keita became completely afraid of Liana.
So she tried not to be with Liana and, if possible, tried to avoid the situations she encountered.
Liana didn’t seem to care much whether Keita did it or not.
* * * * *
There was a small commotion in the middle of the night when the great lord sat on the window sill and screamed.
I was able to somehow catch him and pull him down, but after that, the great lord’s condition deteriorated rapidly.
Even though he wasn’t mentally sound, he could at least walk around with a cane, but now he was lying in bed.
With a dragon’s intuition, I realized that the great lord’s remaining days would not be long.
So even though I was busy, I took time to visit the great lord.
Although he is not my real father and he did not adopt me because he had a great intention, if it were not for the great lord, it would probably have been impossible for me to come this far.
After the morning meeting, I had some free time and went to the room to find the great lord lying down looking out the window.
“What are you looking at?”
When I asked, the great lord answered while looking outside the window.
“Fire.”
It was an odd answer that an old man with dementia would give, but I felt something different there.
“Fire. Are you saying that a great disaster will come to the territory?”
“Either here or elsewhere.”
“Why do you think that?”
“Be careful of the chamberlain, Erga.”
Another alumni book answer.
“Please tell me.”
“The Chamberlain is fire, Erga. I will use you as firewood to fuel the flames.”
“Is that so? Then why on earth are you trying to make a big fuss by using me?”
“The river has already flowed.”
“Yes…”
I see… The great lord was also looking at Liana from a similar perspective as me…
“Should I let it ride or should I turn it off?”
“Keep the spark alive, but don’t completely extinguish it. Fire is dangerous, but if used well, it helps a lot.”
“Okay. Then, one last thing… Ah.”
Before I knew it, the great lord was looking at me blankly with his cloudy gray eyes.
It was clear that his eyes were on me, but it wasn’t me that the great lord was looking at.
I met his gaze for a moment and then slowly stood up.
I spoke to the employee standing outside the door.
“Wipe the back well and dry it. If the color has changed slightly, it looks like bedsores may occur.”
“I understand, my lord.”
After letting the employee in, I stood in front of the door for a while and then walked away.
It is a burning fire that uses me as firewood…
Fire is dangerous but helpful…
* * * * *
One day, Keita came to me with a very serious face.
“My lord… I’m in big trouble…”
“What is it?”
“As for the Chamberlain… I think he’s in a very bad condition right now…”
Because something happened last time, I didn’t get up right away and asked calmly.
“What’s going on?”
“He’s been muttering strange things to himself since yesterday… I guess he’s really planning on doing something this time.”
This is what Keita said.
In her bedroom and her office, Liana is said to have muttered to herself about Changguan.
This was all for the lord, but the lord was suspicious of me and was secretly spying on me.
I didn’t volunteer until now to be treated like this, but I feel so ashamed and distressed.
Things like it would be better to die than to continue living like this.
“Suddenly, he called his retainers one by one and finished all his work. He then said that he would leave alone this evening, that he would go into the mountains near the city center and hang himself so that no one would find him…”
“Oh my… Tonight?”
“Yes. I think he really meant to do that when he told his personal servant to prepare a strong rope and horse… What should I do…?”
Keita became restless and began bobbing her head wildly from side to side.
“For now, stay quiet. I’ll take care of it. Can you hear anything now?”
“I feel like I’m just in the office right now. There’s no special noise.”
“Okay. Go back.”
Keita said that she was in trouble for a while, and that she should go and comfort her right now. She continued to talk about it, but eventually she went back to her office.
I was left alone, sitting calmly and tapping my fingertips on the desk.
* * * * *
Around dinner, Keita came to the office once again.
When Keita saw me sitting at her desk, she made a fuss and raised her voice.
“My lord! Shouldn’t we really go?!”
“I’m not deaf. Speak quietly.”
“I just heard the Chamberlain leaving the bedroom… It looks like he’s going to die!”
“Okay, okay. I’ll take care of it.”
“My lord… Why are you so relaxed, really…! Are you really planning to get rid of the Chamberlain?”
I tilted my head slightly at Keita’s words.
“What does that mean?”
“It was annoying because the Chamberlain kept trying to move the territory as he wanted, so I thought it was a good thing…”
“No. It’s not like that, Keita. It’s true. So please calm down and go away.”
“My lord…”
Keita, who had been holding his hands together and twisting them, eventually turned his body and took steady steps.
Even after she closed the door and left, I didn’t get up from her chair.
* * * * *
Late at night.
The door to the unlit office slowly opened.
“You are here.”
I was sitting in the dark and raised my head when I heard Liana’s voice.
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“Liana.”
After closing the door, Liana sat on her sofa and looked at me intently.
“My lord, why didn’t you come out and find me?”
“What do you mean?”
“You know that I’m planning to commit suicide by hanging myself in the mountains this evening. So why are you here?”
I silently accepted Liana’s gaze.
Liana said with a smile.
“It seems like you don’t mind if I die. Is that true, Erga?”
“I already knew that you suspected wiretapping magic and said that to lure me in.”
When she heard reports that Liana had been talking to herself about committing suicide, she noticed.
That he did it on purpose to find out whether there was eavesdropping magic or not.
She must have been suspicious when Liana knocked on the door, thinking she was very sick.
“Tell me, why didn’t you stop me?”
“That’s because I know you won’t die.”
Liana is definitely not the type of person to commit suicide right now.
Excessive emotional expression shown when Izano mentioned his desire for revenge.
An abnormal obsession with the Marquis of Aiwar.
Liana is dreaming of revenge.
People who are burning with a strong desire for revenge do not commit suicide before achieving it.
And judging by the way she came here, she seemed to have already foreseen that I knew that Liana had noticed the eavesdropping spell.
“Erga. Why did you cast an eavesdropping spell on my room?”
“Because I doubt you.”
Liana shook her shoulders and laughed lowly.
“As expected, you are blunt. You said the same thing a long time ago when you inherited the territory from the great lord.”
“We all know each other, so is there any need to say it again?”
“That’s right. I guess I saw Erga too easily. She relies on me because she lacks experience in the human world, but her true form is a dragon. Well, it’s Erga’s fault for having such an attractive appearance. That’s right. Sometimes it makes me forget that you’re a dragon.”
Liana crossed her arms under her chest and crossed her legs.
Her short skirt rolled up, revealing her plump white thighs.
“Yes, Erga. Ask. I will answer.”
“Can you be sure that all the answers you are giving right now are true?”
“If you decide to doubt, it will all be lies, and if you decide to believe, it will all be true.”
Looking at Liana, who was still smiling leisurely, she thought about the great lord’s words.
Even though they try to use me as firewood to burn, don’t extinguish the embers and keep them alive.
I quietly looked at Liana and asked.
“Liana. Who are you?”