113 – Sincerity between master and servant
Silence.
That single word alone explained the atmosphere in the office where the three of them were now.
“… It’s a joke? I’m serious?”
“Am I jokingly saying this?”
“but.”
Ariel knew better than anyone that even though he liked to joke around, he wouldn’t play around with things like this.
Of course, there may have been some exaggeration, but it must be true that Shuri is skeptical about her current job.
“… I’ll ask you to clean up the mess for now, Ed. I need to talk to Shuri in a room alone.”
“Do whatever you feel comfortable with. I’ll tell you to bring dinner to your room.”
“Do it.”
I thought that the topic wasn’t going to end in a flash anyway, so when Edgar hit the ball early, Ariel nodded and grabbed Shuri’s hand as she was sitting there.
“Ah, lady… … .”
“You know I hate to say it twice, right? Don’t talk and follow me.”
“… … .”
Shuri got up from her seat and glanced at Edgar, but there was a faint sense of betrayal in her eyes.
I believed that he would keep it a secret and confessed my worries, but why did he reveal this fact?
Feeling resentful of Edgar was the first time Shuri had met him, and it was a shocking phenomenon to herself.
Even so, Edgar sent Shuri away and only nodded with a strange smile as if telling her to come home.
As if he was predicting what would happen next.
again. again.
While going back to Ariel’s room from the office, the two women walked silently without saying a word to each other.
Shuri had never felt that Ariel’s silence was burdensome even if she didn’t say anything, but today, for the first time, she felt that the air was heavy.
In a way, it would be safe to say that the thief was paralyzed.
“come in.”
“Hey, lady. filled… … ?”
Ariel opens the door and gestures as if asking the maid to go in first.
Even in the midst of this, Shuri, realizing that Ariel, who had just entered the office a moment ago, wanted to drink tea, cautiously spoke out, but the answer that came back was very firm.
“I do not need. I don’t even feel like drinking.”
“Yes… … .”
Thanks to Ariel, who didn’t even give her time to catch her breath, Shuri entered the room without moving and stood up where she always stood.
“sit down. It’s going to be a long story, but I don’t want to stand still.”
“Yes, lady.”
It seemed like it would be more comfortable for her to stand like this, but in the end, Shuri, unable to overcome Ariel’s annoyance, sat down across from her and politely put her hands on her lap.
Ariel, who was staring at the figure with her chin resting on her face, spoke first with a short sigh.
I didn’t think that Shuri would be able to reveal it herself anyway.
“Why?”
“For a reason… … .”
“Don’t pretend you don’t know. If you want to quit, there must be a reason you want to quit.”
“Well, actually… … .”
I would rather not know if there are health reasons or other reasonable reasons.
Shuri couldn’t help but feel guilty for having arbitrarily judged the owner’s feelings.
But silence sometimes stimulates people’s imagination.
It was the same for Ariel, and she came to one reasoning while reflecting on the reasons why Shuri might quit.
“Is it because of me?”
“Oh, that can’t be… … !”
It was a brief statement, but the shock it gave to Shuri was great.
Shuri hurriedly waved her hand and denied it, but Ariel smiled bitterly as she penetrated her true heart.
“No. It looks right. Even if you are timid, if you have a good reason, you will definitely reveal it. Not being able to do that would be an inappropriate reason to disclose.”
“… … .”
“And I know that many times I have caused you trouble in one way or another. Even if I knew it, I couldn’t fix it, but I am.”
Ariel picked up what looked like a piece of decoration lying on the table and rolled it between her index fingers as she continued speaking in an awkward tone.
“really… No.”
“yes?”
“You did nothing wrong, my lady… It’s just that I’m having a stupid idea… … .”
Shuri, who couldn’t see such an owner, eventually confessed the truth.
As a servant, what was harder to endure than the mischievous pranks of the master was the master’s weak appearance of putting himself down.
“Actually, after Your Highness headed to Whitewood, I started thinking about that. If this is the future that the young lady and the boy will lead, what role should I play?”
“role?”
“I am a maid. But since the lady got used to the current routine, there were few places where I felt needed. Deep down, I was worried that the young lady would feel that I was a hassle… … .”
What Shuri struggled with the most was not the feeling that she had fewer things to do and fewer places to stand.
He said that he would be content if he always stayed by his master’s side and helped him even if it was weak. As a seed, I sincerely thought so.
However, the most difficult thing for people is that they cannot understand the feelings of others.
And since Shuri couldn’t fully understand her master’s feelings, I wondered if she might consider her existence as an obstacle.
“In other words, rather than hating this job, I thought I would quit because I thought I didn’t need you… is this?”
“Yes.”
“… Sigh.”
Hearing her feelings, Ariel put her hand on her forehead and laughed outrageously.
Even though Shuri was a year older than her in age, I had always thought of her as a very tender-hearted child.
But because of that, it must mean that I ended up thinking that I didn’t even have to do it.
I had to take this opportunity to clearly express my feelings so that this would not happen in the future.
Realizing that Edgar had revealed this fact with the same thoughts, Ariel opened her mouth in a firm tone.
“I understand why. But don’t think like that again.”
“Yes, lady. sorry.”
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Knowing that it was a big mistake to arbitrarily judge the owner’s feelings, Shuri again conveyed a sincere apology, but Ariel just stared at her with a subtle smile.
“Are you apologizing because you know what you did wrong?”
“That’s right, I misunderstood the lady’s thoughts… … .”
“Wrong. To begin with, illusion is, in a way, human freedom. I have no intention of blaming you for anything like that.”
“Yes? then… … ?”
What are you going to apologize for?
Shuri wanted to hear Ariel’s opinion, thinking that she couldn’t fathom Ariel’s feelings with her own lacking brain.
“A similar thing happened at the coming-of-age ceremony not too long ago. Some ignorant woman talked wildly about my friends. You are just like that woman now.”
“I’m sorry, ma’am. I know what you mean… … .”
“… Chit. I don’t want to say it because it’s cheesy, but listen carefully.”
When Shuri looked straight at her master with clear eyes, saying that she would engrave them in her heart, Ariel, without avoiding his gaze, brought out the sincere words she had been keeping in mind.
“As much as I don’t care about other people, I tend to care about my own people. And you are saying that ‘my person’ has been arbitrarily reduced to being useless. understand?”
“ah… … .”
“Besides, don’t you know? I’m not afraid to say anything if there’s someone who really gets in my way. get out of my sight Even if it’s Ed, it’s the same.”
‘Of course, that wouldn’t happen to that guy.’ It was Ariel who added a little bit of an explanation, but rather, it felt like Shuri was sincere.
“Anyway, as long as you caught my eye, stop thinking about disappearing in front of me. Even if it means dying, take permission. okay?”
“… Pooh.”
I wanted to tell her that I cared for her somehow, but today, too, the disingenuous princess still often threw tick-tick words.
At this, Shuri inadvertently felt that it was Ariel’s, and involuntarily burst into a small smile and turned her head away.
Of course, Ariel found out.
“You, are you laughing right now?”
“Oh, no. miss. It doesn’t mean that… Pooh!”
“No, what’s not… ! Climbing up quickly just because I saved a little! Gee, do you really want to quit!?”
Ariel, who is told not to disappear on her own, is now trying to threaten using her location.
However, after realizing that Shuri didn’t mean it, he started teasing her in a playful tone.
“Even if you say so, do you still want me to stay by your side?”
“Edji! That smirk, I must have learned from Ed!”
It’s Ariel, who recently heard from her mother that Yulken is starting to resemble Edgar.
At first, I wondered what that meant, but now that I heard Shuri’s tone, I knew exactly what she was feeling.
Could it be that, following his father, Shuri was also stained. My voice suddenly rose at the deplorable reality.
“Mistress, if you don’t mind, can I tell you what you said to me today?”
“It can’t be, you idiot! If you’re going to do this, hit me right now! I’d rather have a new lady-in-waiting who listens to me while I’m talking!”
“Ehehehe… … .”
“Don’t laugh!”
In the end, the small incident that occurred in the master-servant relationship ended a little blandly like that.
Afterwards, Shuri wanted to remember this as a matter of just the two of them with the owner, so she didn’t tell Edgar, just saying that it was solved well.
Edgar also did not bother to ask deeply about this matter and just finished the story saying that it was good.
Thanks to the stone Edgar threw, Shuri was finally able to truly change her mind with the owner she would serve for the rest of her life.