110 – Interlude – How he treats the lady-in-waiting
Even though it had been a week since Elyne started working for Edgar, he still felt a little awkward about the lady-in-waiting.
It wasn’t because Eline wasn’t good at things or because it was hard to deal with him, but it was because of one of the things he was concerned about when he had a lady-in-waiting.
“Master, the clothes… … .”
Edgar was about to change his clothes after washing himself clean when Eline suddenly approached him.
Then, with the vest open, I asked him to put his arm in, and his expression changed subtly.
“Clothes are fine.”
“Ha, but… … .”
Despite Edgar’s dissuade, Eline couldn’t back down easily and looked back and forth between the owner and the clothes with a hesitant look.
As a lady-in-waiting, it was her duty to help her master groom herself. She was instilled in that when she learned lessons from Sheppy.
However, the problem was that among the contents, it was not specified what to do in case the owner refuses to do so.
Of course, it is very natural common sense for those who have seeds to pamper their subordinates.
It’s because they actually treat the seeds like their own limbs rather than thinking of them as manipulating people.
But Edgar was different.
Basically, he tends to do what he can on his own, and he doesn’t really prefer to borrow someone else’s hands.
“Rather than that, could you send me a message to see if Ariel is in the room? It’s time to wake up soon, but just in case.”
“Yes… ! All right.”
In the end, Edgar, unable to see the embarrassing Eline, looked at her, asking for something else.
Soon after, Eline quietly closes the door and leaves, and Edgar starts to change clothes with a short sigh.
I know that asking for a change of clothes is convenient for her and for me, but it didn’t come as easily as I thought.
‘Is it because they still have different values?’
Although I have been living here for nearly 20 years, the old ideas do not disappear at all.
In addition, his family, the Bilhark family, belonged to a lesser family, so the number of servants was small, so he had never had many subordinates.
At least it happened after I came to Hespania, but since I had been in a somewhat ambiguous place for a long time, I couldn’t say it was that many.
Perhaps because of that, it’s because it’s still more comfortable for him to do his own work on his own, but there were more cases where he did it himself even though he wanted to entrust it to Eline.
‘It shouldn’t be like this.’
Edgar thought he had to do something about it, so he quickly buttoned up the shirt he was changing into, sat down on the bed for a while, put his hand on his chin, and pondered.
He had often helped Shuri with her work in the past, but I was well aware that this was a separate issue.
‘It’s only inconvenient for each other like this.’
First of all, Elyne came to be his exclusive lady-in-waiting in name and reality, and there was a job she had to do.
Sometimes as a master, you can relieve it a little bit, but not doing it forever wasn’t a good direction for her or for him.
If that happened, Eline might somehow forget her position, and confusion might arise in the process.
Above all, not doing what you have to do doesn’t always make you feel comfortable.
‘Should I ask Ariel?’
While Edgar was wondering if there was a proper way to do something, his eyes lit up when he realized that there was someone nearby who had been in the position of ruler for twenty years.
Of course, I didn’t think that she, who had been a servant since birth, would understand Edgar’s worries, which were different from her values.
I just want to ask what you think about the current situation.
If I could get some advice, that would be even better.
smart.
“Oh, come in.”
Just as Edgar, who thought that going to Ariel was an urgent matter, began to quickly change his clothes again, Eline knocked on the door and came inside.
“Master, the lady says she is in her room.”
“yes? Then I should go right away.”
While listening to the good news, Edgar stood up from his seat with a bright face.
Then, Eline, who had been looking hesitantly at the owner’s profile as he slowly approached the door, cautiously opened his mouth.
“Is it okay if I follow you too?”
“… Pooh.”
‘I will accompany you.’ Not even ‘Is it okay if I follow you?’ rani.
Thinking that there must be some aftermath of being rejected just a moment ago, Edgar nodded after enduring a momentary burst of laughter.
“It’s a lady-in-waiting, so it’s okay. Let’s go.”
“Yes, yes… … !”
When Edgar leaves the room first, Elene quickly chases after him.
From the back, a dog chasing after its owner appeared overlaid.
* * * * * * *
“Did you sleep well?” No, ‘I don’t know how to treat a maid.’ rani.
Ariel felt a pain in her bones and looked at the lover sitting next to her with a puzzled look.
“What commoner are you?”
“I’ve been without a lady-in-waiting for a year, so that might be the case.”
“It’s stupid. That’s how I managed to get along comfortably with Shuri.”
The two maids had been ordered to leave, so there was no problem even if they talked loudly.
In the first place, Ariel didn’t have the personality to change the nuance of words, even if there were two of them.
“If you need something, you can order it, otherwise you can just leave it alone. Is that difficult?”
“So, are you asking the lady-in-waiting to change her clothes and give her a bath?”
“yes. Why?”
“… ah.”
Seeing Ariel ask what the problem was, Edgar let out a low sigh when he realized his mistake.
There are so many times that I act like immature, so I forgot that the existence in front of me was a person at the top of the ruling class who had never folded a single piece of clothing on their own.
For her, such little attention was just one of the things she deserved.
It was a difference in values.
“You don’t know what a servant’s duty is in the first place? It exists to relieve the hassle while the owner does his duty.”
“Well, it’s not like that. But even if I knew it in my head, it wasn’t easy in my heart.”
“Me too. Amman lived without seeds, but you are also very special.”
At first, Ariel wanted to ask some kind of floating question from the morning, but seeing Edgar’s expression, he belatedly realized that the matter was quite serious.
“Don’t do that then.”
“I wondered if that would be the case, but if I did, wouldn’t it make her uncomfortable? Other people usually don’t.”
“That’s stupid. Why are you worrying about that?”
Only then did Ariel realize what the source of Edgar’s troubles was.
In short, he probably thinks that if a servant has something to do for the master, then the master must also have a sense of duty for the servant.
Of course, that fact is true, but there was also a point where there was a big misunderstanding because of it.
“Anyway, wouldn’t that be the first time you’ve ever worked for someone? Then we should get used to each other.”
“Get used to it… … .”
“Even though it’s only been a week since you and he finally met.”
“… That’s right. Time doesn’t matter.”
Edgar showed an agreement, saying he hadn’t thought of that.
Certainly, Ariel’s words had a point, and a big factor was that he thought his relationship with Eline was too complicated.
Even in a master-servant relationship, there are laws that each other must obey, but that doesn’t mean you have to follow others as they are.
Edgar just had to act as Edgar had done until now, and Elinene would have to get used to that kind of normal Edgar.
It’s just a matter of getting used to each other’s existence a little more, but the reason was that I thought it complicated too early.
“You did that to me too. I guess you just have to get used to it. There is no need to think in haste. But why are you here now?”
“So it is. But thanks to you, I get all the help.”
Edgar never dreamed that the day would come when he would receive advice from Ariel because of his relationship with a person.
Could this be the composure that comes from the experience of being a ruler?
As expected, he laughed at the thought that each person had their own special field.
“Since she’s younger than me, I’ll think of her as a younger sister and treat her comfortably.”
It was Edgar’s idea that even if it wasn’t a rigid master-servant relationship, it might be a good thing if each other did what they had to do.
After all, he didn’t look like a child who would climb up at random just because Eline treated him comfortably.
Meanwhile, Ariel’s eyebrows twitched slightly at Edgar’s remarks, showing a strangely uncomfortable expression.
“But don’t get too close.”
“Why? Are you afraid you will be jealous again?”
“… Imagine it. Idiot. Because I don’t want to speak with my own mouth.”
After poking at the ignorant lover who playfully questioned him, Ariel swallowed back his words and took a sip of the cooled tea.
After that, Edgar stayed by Ariel’s side all day long, saying that it was a reward for listening to her concerns, and did not go anywhere else.
Thanks to that, Ariel was able to spend the day with a smile on her face at a very good equivalent exchange.