215 – Claire’s Conjecture
The operation was successful.
The Night Crow unit perfectly carried out Ed’s orders and blocked the castle gate.
Ed and his party were able to find stability by communicating with all the demonic cultists rampaging within the castle.
As a result, the goal was achieved, including preventing the devil’s invasion and saving the Kingdom of Sardinia.
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“······.”
But Isabella and Enya’s expressions were not so bright.
Ed always cared about them first.
Throughout this operation, Ed’s eyes were almost entirely focused on Lucas.
Why is Ed trying to take care of Lucas like that?
‘···Now they take care of me openly.’
However, Claire of the Bernhard family had already noticed the change in Ed.
As her family specializes in ‘buffs and auras’, she is good at recognizing detailed emotional changes in others.
Moreover, Claire was secretly fond of Lucas.
While Enya and Isabella were in love with Ed, she was secretly interested in Lucas, so she had already noticed subtle changes in Ed and Lucas.
‘Exploration of the World Tree…’
So, Claire knew exactly when the change in the relationship began.
Exploring the World Tree in the Elven Kingdom.
After seeing the ‘past life’ thing there, Edgar’s attitude toward Lucas changed a little.
Didn’t Isabella and Enya become closer to Ed after what happened?
He said all sorts of cringe-inducing things to himself, saying that they were fateful lovers and that they were destined to end up together anyway.
‘···Anyway, the conclusion is.’
Anyway, putting all these facts together, it is clear that Ed and Lucas had some kind of relationship in a past life.
As a result of Ed looking into her past life, he found out that she had a certain connection with Lucas.
‘···They won’t tell you anyway even if you ask. ‘Because he’s like a snarky snake.’
This is Edgar Fix, who made the prickly and eccentric Isabella go crazy.
Claire knows that she is not his match.
She also knew that if she asked him, she wouldn’t get the answer she wanted.
In the end, in order to find out the relationship between Ed and Lucas, he had no choice but to trust his observation and insight and keep a close watch.
‘I will definitely find out!’
Claire nodded slightly and clenched his fist.
***
Two weeks have passed.
Meanwhile, Isabella and Enya were almost going crazy.
Ed’s attitude, which I thought was unfounded at first, has now almost certainly hardened.
Ed was clearly more concerned about Lucas than about them.
On the outside, it looks like a friend is taking care of his friend, but his facial expressions and body language are different. And the unique atmosphere was one of kindness.
A third party who has never been in love with Ed saw Ed’s unique ‘expression of affection’ in his relationship with Lucas, which cannot be recognized.
-Queeeng…
Dark circles appeared in Isabella and Enya’s eyes.
The two of them had been thinking together for a while, but they couldn’t figure out why Ed was paying so much attention to Lucas.
“Ha… It’s not easy.”
I was happy when I found out that she had been a lover in her past life.
Now, without worrying about her, she was Isabella and Enya, who only dreamed of having a sweet relationship with him and being happy.
‘But…!’
But Ed was a womanizer.
She had a woman she loved other than herself.
A typical example is Isabella for Enya.
Enya to Isabella.
In addition, although Ed did not say anything, Grand Wizard Elena was also suspicious.
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Isn’t there a subtle feeling in her eyes as she looks at Ed that goes beyond that of her teacher and student?
In addition, Eve Fix, who recently appeared with her younger cousin Saarap, was also making a fuss.
Ed is already busy saving the world.
With so many damn b*tches around Ed, he has no time to date.
I want to do a lot of things with Ed!
“Are you drinking in broad daylight?”
At that time, the door of the bar opened and someone’s voice was heard.
Isabella and Enya looked back at the same time with wide eyes.
It was Claire.
“What is it, is it you…?”
“We are distraught. “Talk to you later.”
Enya greets Claire heartily and gulps down beer.
Claire smiled and sat down next to her.
I opened my mouth, looking at Enya and Isabella in turn, both of whom had dark circles.
“You two fight all the time, but you still stick together in the end. “Were you two lovers in a past life?”
“···Huh? What?”
“Me with him? “What nonsense!”
“Puhup. I’m kidding. “It’s so annoying.”
Claire smiled and leaned diagonally on the table.
He supported his chin with one hand and looked at Isabella and Enya.
Enya is excited! She smiled and crossed her arms.
“We just… Have something to discuss. “I just have no choice but to stick with it.”
“···Can I say that it is a riddle that cannot be solved? Anyway, there is such a problem.”
Isabella chewed her dry snack while saying that.
She had been in a state of denial for the past few weeks, but just looking at her face now, it seemed like she was back to being the ‘witch’ Isabella she used to be.
“It’s because of Lucas, right?”
At that time.
Enya and Isabella’s eyes widened at the word ‘Lucas’ that suddenly came out of Claire’s mouth.
When the girls turned to Claire at the same time, Claire raised the corners of her mouth with a grin.
“Aren’t you upset that the relationship between Ed and Lucas has become closer recently? I feel like you guys have been left behind. Are you worried about whether your heart has cooled down or how to ask?”
“”······.””
Isabella and Enya stare at Claire with blank faces.
Claire, who was leisurely looking at Isabella and Enya’s reactions as if they were amused, turned her head to face her and raised her hand.
“Boss! “Here, give me a beer!”
“Yes~”
After ordering a beer, he picked up a peanut and put it in his mouth.
Enya said, grabbing Claire’s arm tightly.
“How did you know? “Do you know something?”
Omul omul omul.
Claire nods while chewing a peanut.
Then Isabella got up, placed her chair on Claire’s left, and sat down.
With Claire in the center, Enya was sitting on the right, and Isabella was sitting on the left.
The two immediately began to barrage questions.
“What is it? What did you find out? “Is there a special reason why Edgar cares about Lucas?”
“Did you hear something from Archduke Elmar? “You are close to Lucas’ mother.”
“Ah! Is it because Lord Adela is Ed’s guardian!? Could you please ask me to take more care of Lucas or something like that?”
“Would Grand Duke Adela make such a request? Anyway, Claire, what is it? What did you find out? “Don’t just sit still and talk!”
Enya and Isabella are desperate to know the answer even for a moment.
In the meantime, the bar owner served beer to Claire.
Finally, after taking a sip of beer, Claire narrowed her eyes and stared straight ahead.
After such a pause, she made a bombshell statement.
“Ed likes Lucas.”
“”······???????????????””
Isabella and Enya express with their facial expressions what kind of bullsh*t that is.
Soon, Claire took a sip of beer and spoke.
“Actually, I like Lucas. So I watched it for a long time.”
“”···??????””
You like Lucas?
Isabella and Enya’s gaze collided with the air.
Like, did you know? Their eyes seem to be asking.
There was no way I knew.
Because Claire has never shown any signs of it.
“You liked Lucas?”
“······Since when?”
“······.”
Claire smiles bitterly and rolls a beer glass.
Soon she said.
“···It’s been a while. “She’s a poor kid.”
Claire was aware of Lucas’ trauma long ago.
She knew that Lucas was afraid of her origins.
Because her father was a mercenary, she knew that she was worried that her existence would be a nuisance to her mother.
“I started cheering without even realizing it. But when I came to my senses, I realized I was liking it.”
For this reason, Claire has been quietly supporting Lucas.
For him to gain her mother’s approval. And because I know very well how hard he worked to break away from the derogatory title of ‘half-nobleman’ and permeate into aristocratic society.
I have been quietly supporting him.
Until that feeling develops into a feeling of liking.
“Lucas, are you pitiful?”
“···Is there any reason to feel sorry for her…?”
But most people did not know.
I just think his talent and character are innate.
Anyone other than myself, who happened to see Lucas crying while visiting Elmar’s territory, is mistaken that he is a born genius and always shows off.
Lucas’s unique exaggerated smile and bravado are ultimately just a means to hide his complex.
“Anyway, I like Lucas. “It’s already been more than two years.”
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Claire quickly came to a conclusion on this topic.
Since people who don’t know Lucas couldn’t understand this anyway, he didn’t bother to try to convince Isabella and Enya.
Isn’t there a more important issue than that?
“Well, now is not the time to talk about that. “In the end, what’s important to you is the relationship between Lucas and Ed.”
The relationship between Lucas and Ed.
When the topic is mentioned, Isabella and Enya focus on Claire with exclamation marks.
Claire said while chewing the peanut.
“Listen carefully. Ed clearly likes Lucas. So it’s not that I like him as a colleague or a friend, it’s that he has feelings for me beyond that.”
“”······.””
Isabella and Enya’s expressions became cold.
It is completely nonsense, but at the same time it also makes sense.
From their perspective, the feelings they had for Edgar Lucas were more than friendship.
“Ha, but why Ed…? “It doesn’t make sense.”
“Yes! Ed and I, and I hate to admit it, but he was also… A special lover! Even if you repeat the same life hundreds of times…! “The lover that Ed always chose!”
After letting out a loud shout, Enya took a deep breath, took a gulp of her beer.
Isabella was glaring at Claire with her dark-circled eyes, as if telling her to refute something.
Finally, Claire nodded and said.
“Yes, I know that because I heard it from you guys. “They both said they had a special relationship with Ed in their past lives.”
“”······.””
“But is there any guarantee that Edgar Fix only dated you guys?”
“······Huh?”
“Is there a guarantee that you guys were the only ones dating while she was going through so many timelines?”
“····Ah?”
“… Among the secret techniques of our Bernhard family, there is a special technique that deals with time. So, I am familiar with theories that deal with time, and among them, there is a theory called ‘branching point’, right? “It is a theory that the world line can be split into several due to an event that serves as a reference point.”
Junction point?
Is the world line split into several?
Isabella and Enya looked at Claire with expressions as if they were wondering what that was.
Claire sighed and explained to the two.
“So, to put it simply, it means that the world can be divided into several versions. “It means there could be a world where Lucas is a woman!”
“···Then that means…”
“Yes, if Ed had repeated the world in which Lucas was a woman, the two could have been lovers.”
Isabella and Enya’s expressions became cold.
***
Second rear end.
Ed suddenly felt itchy and picked his ears.
For a moment, the thought ‘Is someone talking behind my back?’ Flashed through my mind, but Ed, who couldn’t believe such a superstition, immediately folded his arms and focused his gaze on the front.
There, Lucas was working hard on her training with her upper body removed.
Ed looked at that and smiled in satisfaction.
‘The growth rate is amazing. What he needed was just a mentor.’
Mentor.
To explain this, it is a mental pillar.
In Ed’s opinion, what Lucas needed was a spiritual support.
A person whom one can fully rely on mentally so that one can develop one’s talents and potential to the fullest.
Because Lucas hated his father, who was a commoner, and placed limits on himself because of his father’s blood.
He was caught in the complex of being a half-nobleman, and he believed that he could only follow others if he worked hard.
‘But you were a talented person.’
But Lucas was full of talent.
In a way, it was natural that his power was mixed in during the process of impregnating Adela.
Of course, he borrowed the body of a man named ‘Jack Dionel’, but he inherited his powers anyway.
‘What I can do for you is help you bring out that talent.’
For this reason, even Ed, who recognized ‘Jack Dionel’ and ‘Edgar Fix’ as separate people, felt a sense of responsibility.
He is not the biological father, but in any case, his mistake played a big role in Adela becoming pregnant and giving birth to Lucas…
It is to help Lucas grow.
‘Isabella was relieved, and Enya’s anxiety was also resolved.’
More than anything, the problem of the two people Ed cares most about has been completely resolved.
After killing Lilith, Graham is freed, and Enya smiles brightly as she realizes that he was her lover in her past life.
So now it was time to pay for the karma of my previous life.
More than anything, even though he recognized that he and Jack Dionel were different people, he couldn’t help but keep looking at Lucas.
“···Lord Fix.”
Meanwhile, Adela was watching the scene with her son and Ed from a distance.
The sight of Lucas training according to Ed’s instructions and Ed praising the results of the training was like watching father and son.
Then, it suddenly occurred to her that it was Adella who looked like her husband and Ed overlapped.
“···I am a dirty woman.”
Since when?
She harbored feelings that she should not have harbored.
She felt her affection for Edgar Fix.
‘I’m sorry, I thought you were my only love… And my eternal love.’
As a result, Adela was suffering from her self-loathing.
Her feelings had never wavered, but as she began to interact with Ed, she became increasingly drawn to him.
Even though my husband and he are clearly different people.
‘They probably think me disgusting.’
More than anything, the age difference was ridiculous.
17 Years difference.
It is not permitted both biologically and socially.
This was almost a level of moral corruption where a female monarch thirsty for s*x lusted after a young man and kept him as her male concubine.
It was an impossible love that he, the grand duke of the Elmar family, could never allow.
‘I should sleep alone and quietly.’
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So Adela decided to think like this.
Let’s quietly extinguish this newly bloomed ember.
It will be a fleeting feeling that will fade over time.
Let’s turn it off quietly without anyone knowing.
Thinking like that, I closed my eyes.
“Um… Master?”
“Higugh!”
At that time, the servant called Adela.
Adella, who had not noticed who was coming next to her because she was so focused on Ed, looked back at the servant with a surprised face.
The servant looked at Adela with a puzzled expression.
“···Master?”
“Keu, keuhm…! “What’s going on?”
“···Ah. Well, we have a guest. “They are Master Lucas’ friends.”
“Lucas’ friend?”
“Yes. It is said that the descendants of the Archduchy have come to see Master Lucas.”
They are the children of the Grand Duchy.
Adela nodded her head.
She hadn’t come to her domain in recent years, so why did she come here in droves?
Adela nodded her head and answered.
“Bring it inside.”