127 – Princess’ request
Waiting for Edgar to wake up was the room at Loveheim Castle where he was staying.
In other words, he had been asleep for at least a few days before returning here.
‘I must have worried a lot.’
Edgar, who understood Ariel’s feelings in his arms, patted her on the back with a bitter smile.
Wouldn’t it be better if he had gone and never returned? How much suffering would have been suffered if the person who returned alive was barely breathing and never woke up.
“… I’m sorry, Ariel. I almost couldn’t keep my promise.”
“It’s not that I almost couldn’t keep it, it was that I couldn’t keep it. you idiot… … !”
Ariel let out a voice full of resentment at Edgar’s empty words and clenched both hands tightly before slowly relaxing them.
I wanted to punch him in the chest or face, but I couldn’t because he was a patient in name and reality.
Just looking at the bandages wrapped around his body right away clearly showed how bloody he had come back.
“You told me that you would come back, so you stay alone and take your time? Who would have asked for that!?”
“… You can’t let your father die. That was for the best.”
“Who is the best for you! I’ve never hoped for such a sacrificial spirit!”
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Knowing that this shouldn’t be the case, Ariel got up from her seat and let out a roar.
Of course, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t feel grateful to him for saving her father.
Rather, it would be enough to get down on your knees right now and bow down to express your gratitude a hundred times.
However, the sadness and futility of having almost lost him outweighed her gratitude for that, so she reacted this way.
Even though he knew it was forced, he hated him for not thinking even a little more about a way for everyone to come back alive.
“You really are a bad guy… ! me, how much am i… … !”
Ariel, who had been screaming loudly, eventually collapsed in her seat and began to shed tears when the emotions she had accumulated so far exploded.
reassurance that he is alive.
The guilt of sacrificing him to save his father.
The joy that an irreplaceable being has returned to the world.
As all of them were dissolved and created, the intersecting emotions were indescribable.
rattle.
“My lady, is there anything… … !?”
As Ariel shed tears like chicken droppings and Edgar silently comforted her, the door to the room suddenly opened and Shuri came in with a towel and warm water and stopped in her seat.
“Broken… sir?”
She even pinched her cheek to see if she had seen it wrong, but when she realized that it was real, a low voice came out of her mouth.
Edgar met his gaze with a wry smile at this and humbly greeted him.
“You went through a lot because of me and Ariel, Shuri.”
Ariel must have suffered a lot, but Edgar, who expected that Shuri, who had been aiding her, would not be able to handle it, spoke congratulations.
Shuri, who blinked her eyes at this, finally began to look at him with both hands shaking at the incredible reality.
“I-I really… Are you a young boy? Eh, it’s not magic or fantasy, it’s real… … ?”
“If you’re curious about it, come here and hold my hand.”
Her arms twitched a little, but not so much that she couldn’t move her hands, so Edgar trembled and raised his left hand and held it out in front of her.
At this, Shuri could not bear to hold his hand, and poked his arm with her index finger as if examining an insect she had never seen before.
Then, I opened my eyes wide at the feel of the skin on my fingertips.
He was indeed alive.
Upon realizing this fact, Shuri’s bright eyes gradually began to water.
“I’m a fool… ! hi! Well, I really only thought that the young master died… … !”
Shuri, like Ariel, burst into tears and cried out loud when the feelings she had accumulated so far rose to the surface.
When it was time for Ariel to stop crying, the order was taken over.
But Edgar couldn’t tell her not to cry, so he had no choice but to accept her feelings and comfort her just like Ariel.
The good thing is that he didn’t curse at him like Ariel did.
“… Shuri, stop crying for now and bring the others.”
“Heb! yes, lady.”
Ariel, who had regained her composure belatedly, gave the order, and Shuri quietly left the room, wiping her messy face with a handkerchief.
After she disappeared, silence came again, and in that uncomfortable silence, Ariel saw Edgar’s smiling face and expressed his discomfort.
“… What are you laughing at?”
If he knew how anxious this side was, he would never make such an expression.
A sharp voice jumped out in an instant because he was embarrassed by that, but Edgar didn’t mind it and replied deftly.
“It’s good to see you again. Aren’t you?”
“Good. It’s to the point where I want to kill him right now.”
As sad murder swirled around him, Edgar shivered in the air, even more bloody than when he faced Kellag.
I was even more frightened because it didn’t sound like a joke.
At this point, I wondered if coming back alive would be counterproductive.
“… Is that something you would say to someone who came back alive?”
“It’s good to be back alive. But you didn’t mean to do that in the first place, so that’s just annoying.”
“Mmm.”
That’s not wrong.
Because Edgar chose to sacrifice himself on the spot in the first place to save the rest of the people.
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Lastly, even right before I lost consciousness, I thought it was the end, and I had no regrets about life.
That must be the part that Ariel disapproves of.
It doesn’t mean that I hate him for coming back alive, it means that I hate him for giving up on his life.
That he had no intention of keeping the promise he had sworn with her.
“You dare to leave me alone? Who allowed that?”
“Well, I guess that was an unavoidable situation… I guess it was different from my true intentions… … .”
At Ariel’s sharp blow, Edgar shook his raised hand and spat out an excuse.
In fact, it’s not wrong to say it, but wouldn’t you want to come back alive because of that?
In that situation, after weighing his own life with Yulken and the other three, he made a choice because it made more sense.
Fortunately, though, Ariel had regained her cool, so she didn’t try to attack Edgar any more, even though it was a fairly flimsy excuse.
“… well, that’s okay There’s no point in talking about it any more anyway.”
She pursed her lips in displeasure and touched her reddened eyelids.
I shed so many tears that it made my surroundings bitter.
“Are you going to forgive me?”
“In my heart, I want to lose everything, but I can’t even beat the benefactor who saved my father.”
Edgar asked with admiration, and she lightly shook her hand, still glaring at him with sharp eyes.
Putting aside her personal wrath, he was unmistakably the number one contributor who was willing to sacrifice his life to save Yulken.
If you give a punishment rather than a reward for feeling sorry for such a person, it would be like dishonoring the name of the Loveheim family.
It was something she couldn’t do as she was in a position to inherit the family head soon.
Of course, even if this happened, later on, I could get angry and slap him on the back, but I had to keep quiet for now.
“Aren’t you hated for this?”
Edgar asked in a smirking tone as she tried to stand up because people would come soon.
How did it look like this after 30 minutes of waking up?
As for Ariel, I wanted to feed her with flames instead of fists right away, but seeing her safe and sound made my heart melt.
“… I hate you, you fool.”
Even so, she still has a resentful heart, so she can’t bear to say anything good. She throws out a word containing all kinds of emotions and then turns her head away.
Through that scene, Edgar was finally able to realize that he had really returned to life.
* * * * * * *
When Shuri returned to pick up the people, the room quickly became a sea of people and there was no place to set foot.
It was because Yulken and Helen, as well as the vassals who participated in the mission, came out to express their gratitude.
“Hey, are you really okay?”
“Yes, fortunately my body is in good shape. Majesty.”
“I’m glad that’s the case. Maybe if you hadn’t woken up… No, even if I woke up, if I wasn’t feeling well, I would have felt like I was living a life of sinning against my daughter.”
In fact, Yulken couldn’t even face Ariel while Edgar lay unconscious.
It was because I felt even heavier than before, as if I had gone back to before the relationship was restored.
“Thanks to my purchase, Your Highness is relieved of the burden on his heart. That alone is fortunate.”
“Thank you for thinking so. Anyway, recuperation will be inevitable for the time being, so don’t worry about the outside and focus on taking care of yourself. If there’s something lacking, don’t worry and tell it to me through the lady-in-waiting.”
When Eline, who happened to be in the seat next to her, caught Yulken’s gaze, she trembled slightly and took a step back.
For her, it was a burden to even keep her head up as she was the most distant being.
“I don’t know if I need more because the hospitality I received before was generous… Hopefully I will.”
In fact, Edgar wanted to get out of bed as soon as possible and listen to the details of what had happened in Whitewood, rather than lie down with first-class credit.
Of course, he had a story to tell.
But for now, Ariel has noticed, and he decided to accept the favor, anticipating that the people around him would not feel comfortable just because he woke up right away.
In the first place, he thought it would be realistically difficult to move right away.
After the conversation with Yulken ended, Helen and her retainers continued to express their gratitude.
In particular, Helen shed tears and tried to kneel down, which made Edgar uncomfortable.
On the one hand, seeing the scene, Edgar felt mixed feelings when he realized that he had done a great job.
Still, I couldn’t be happier to think that everyone could laugh like this because the choice of saving Yulken wasn’t wrong.
“Ed.”
“hahahaha… uh?”
Afterwards, Edgar, who had been laughing and conversing with some of his retainers, expressed his doubts about Ariel’s sudden call.
In response, she stared at him with a resolute expression, as if she had made up her mind about something, and after a moment of pursed lips, she quietly brought up the main topic.
“remember? We decided to sign a contract of subordination.”
“Of course I remember.”
In the first place, right before the contract of subordination was concluded, this Satan had been expelled, so it was all the more strange that he did not remember.
“If you sign a contract of subordination, the master and the servant can ask each other what they want, one by one. Of course, it’s possible with the other person’s permission… … .”
“Uh, uh… … .”
Edgar was dumbfounded, wondering why he was bringing up such a story all of a sudden.
I was curious to see if there was something I wanted to ask for through the oath of subordination.
As Edgar tilted his head in puzzlement, Ariel, who was looking at him, squeezed his hand tightly and spoke out the resolution that had been solidified by this incident.
“If that time comes, will you promise me? I will never leave Hespania.”
“… what?”
Don’t leave Hespania.
In a good way, that word meant to stay by his side, but in practical meaning, it also meant not to leave Hespania, that is, this castle of Loveeheim.
“If something like this happens next time, you will give your life again. Rather than that, I want to make sure you don’t get hurt in a place I don’t know about.”
“… … .”
Edgar opened his mouth at the unexpected request.
She must have made such an extreme request when she, who was already possessive, was worried that she might lose him because of this.
“Stay by my side, Ed. please.”
So, the princess handed a sincere request to her newly awakened lover and squeezed her hands together so that he would not disappear from her eyes.
The grief of losing a loved one is so great.
It was something that was not included in any of the studies she had ever learned.