65 – Determination as lovers
In the end, because Sylvia caused another commotion, the turmoil showed no signs of subsiding throughout the day.
Afterwards, the three people gathered in Edgar’s room only looked at each other in the strange air.
To be precise, it was Sylvia who noticed, and Ariel was the one who watched her come out with her arms crossed.
Edgar was the one who was sitting between the two women with a wry smile and calmly drinking black tea.
“So, what is the explanation?”
Sylvia trembled slightly at Ariel’s words that broke the silence.
Uncharacteristic of her, she had a very defensive attitude, but she had no words to say because she had committed sins.
Edgar didn’t think he would be able to take Sylvia’s side this time, so he just ate the cookies on the table.
Fortunately, even in the midst of this, the cookie wasn’t too sweet, so it suited his taste well.
“That, that… I thought the candy was right at first, too?”
“I did?”
Ariel’s attitude, as if telling her to continue talking, unless she wants the flames to go out of her hands right away.
In response, Sylvia had no choice but to continue the conversation with her hands trembling like a small animal in front of her enemies.
“But yesterday your condition was a bit strange, so I ate one as a test, but it didn’t work…” … ?”
“No?”
“Yes. So when I checked later, the packaging of the bottle was a little different. I must have brought the wrong plain candy from home.”
To be precise, it must mean that he brought the latter of the two, magic candy that looks just like candy and ordinary candy.
Hearing this, Ariel let out a deep sigh and stared at Wen-su, who was called a friend, with lifelike eyes.
In those eyes, ‘kill this? Don’t you?’ The question was clearly contained, so Sylvia said, ‘Hey!’ With a short scream, he got up from his seat and ran quickly behind Edgar.
He didn’t know that it was an act that only inflamed Ariel’s anger.
“you… Where are you putting your hands now?”
Ariel asks in a cold tone, as if her emotions are dead, rather than the fever of anger soaring at her friend’s hasty action.
“Where are you… ? ah.”
Sylvia, who was at a loss as to why she was even more angry at this, let out a low sigh when she realized later what she had caught.
That’s none other than Edgar’s shoulder and waist.
And in front of her eyes stood a friend full of possessiveness who had become a lover with the man yesterday, glaring at him.
“Hey, this isn’t like that! Ariel! You know my heart!?”
“I think I know how you want to die.”
“Nope! Do I have him too? Why am I paying attention to something like Edgar… … .”
“what? Edgar ‘same thing’?”
I’m going crazy, really!
Sylvia screamed inwardly at the deplorable reality that even if she answered this way, she would be blocked like that, and even if she answered that way, she would be blocked this way.
Even in such a hopeless situation, the only thing that could be known for sure was that Ariel had been quite firmly attached to Edgar.
“Now, Sylvia, go back to your seat. Ariel, you should calm down at this point.”
“Are you taking the girl’s side now?”
“I-that girl… … .”
Sylvia was about to burst into tears at the cold attitude of her friend who didn’t even call her name anymore.
Fuck!
“Huh!?”
On the other hand, this side was shedding tears in an unexpected night.
“It’s not that woman, it’s your friend, and it’s also my friend? Stop and take a seat.”
“Chi, what’s the point if you treat me kindly!?”
“If you treat me kindly, you climb. Well, I’m a little sorry, so come here.”
Ariel pouted her lips at Edgar’s nasty attitude, but obediently approached him and stood up.
Then, Edgar stretched out his wide hand and gently stroked her hair and playfully pinched her cheek.
‘Are you very angry?’ In response to the soft voice asking, Ariel looked away and said, ‘Not really.’ he replied.
Meanwhile, Sylvia was burning in awe of Edgar as she watched this scene.
‘As expected, childhood friends are different.’
Sylvia had been close to Ariel for quite some time, but since they couldn’t see each other very often due to each other’s circumstances, they couldn’t compare to Edgar.
In other words, Edgar’s way of dealing with Ariel is several times better.
‘It’s essentially different.’
If Sylvia is more like trying to alleviate Ariel’s anger, Edgar is more like trying to calm her down first and then solve the case by arguing rightly and wrongly.
An action that would be impossible without the premise that Ariel could be perfectly persuaded in the first place.
Shall we call it a homme fatal aspect that shook the heart of the Grand Duchess since they were childhood friends?
Sylvia felt like a halo shone behind him.
“Ah, I know. I won’t be angry.”
“Really? And then you won’t keep your promise today?”
“Chit, it’s too much to say that after you’ve already promised.”
He said he would stay with me all day, but he would hold it hostage.
Even if he was right in front of me, I felt inadequate, but I couldn’t leave it like that.
In the end, Ariel nodded her head slightly, as if she had no choice but to agree to the negotiations.
“It won’t happen if you don’t get angry. Instead, I’m sorry, so I’ll hug you one more time.”
“… Instead, hug me a little longer this time.”
“then.”
With that said, Edgar carefully hugged Ariel with feelings he cherished a little more this time, not wanting Ariel’s fragile body to break.
‘Somehow it feels a little different.’
Ariel suddenly felt that the emotions passing through his body were a little more affectionate than before.
Even when we were friends, he would hug me from time to time, so hugging wasn’t particularly new.
Just because the relationship has changed a little, it was amazing that various emotions were conveyed through his warm embrace.
“Anyway, that’s amazing.”
“… what?”
While I was enjoying the warmth in his arms, a soft voice suddenly reached my ears.
At that, Ariel removed the face from Edgar’s chest and asked back.
Then, what I saw there was Edgar’s face looking down at her with a mischievous smile on his face.
A cold feeling of foreboding passed down Ariel’s back.
“If what Sylvia said is true, doesn’t that mean that all of your clinging to me and whining about me yesterday were all your true intentions?”
“… … !”
“Did you like me that much?”
Ariel hurriedly tried to get out of his arms at the behavior of her lover, who kindly reminded her of the fact she had forgotten.
thump
But Edgar was a great man who could easily let go of her.
As she tried to run away, he now sat down on the sofa while hugging her from behind.
“Hey, let go of this… ! you idiot! Whenever you tell me not to get angry… … !”
“I’m not doing this to make you angry, I’m asking out of curiosity. Did you like me that much?”
“How do I know!”
In the first place, as soon as Sylvia told Ariel about the effect of the candy, her consciousness went blurry as if possessed by something.
After that, she remembered all of the times she’d clung to him, rubbing her face against her forearms, and putting her head on his thighs for a lap pillow, but if you asked if she was really sane, she couldn’t tell.
‘No, there must have been a reason. It would have been like that if I hadn’t gone crazy.’
Ariel began to rationalize that she was deceiving herself with lies that would not make her a bad friend, or that the candy was really magic candy, and that there was nothing wrong with herself.
Edgar also felt like her face would explode if he teased her any more, so he decided to stop at this point and untied his arms.
“I can’t believe that you two became lovers yesterday.”
Silvia let out a small exclamation, astonished at the fact that there was no hesitation in physical contact, such as hugging or touching each other’s cheeks or hands.
“yes? It’s no different, isn’t it?”
“at all. Before I dated him, I actively pushed for it, but when we started dating, I couldn’t even hold his hand properly.”
The way she waggled her hands as if nothing had happened at all made her look like a woman over 40.
Facing each other as if unexpectedly, Edgar and Ariel, who blinked their eyes, began digging into Sylvia’s love history in earnest.
“Isn’t that still the case?”
“Yeah, what now… lol.”
Seeing her swallowing her gossip as if it was difficult to say any more, Edgar hurriedly shook his head, trying to stop the stern imagination from coming to mind.
On the other hand, Ariel, who is a young soldier in this field, only tilted her head and looked at the two in turn.
“I was rather active before dating, but since I thought he knew that I liked this guy, I couldn’t touch anything.”
“You are very special too. If you look at his usual personality, he’ll pull on his tie and kiss you.”
“yes?”
Sylvia tilted her head slightly at Edgar’s strangely detailed explanation.
Come to think of it, somehow after this story came out, it felt like Ariel’s words had significantly decreased.
Right now, with my head down, I didn’t know what to do.
Sylvia felt a strange sense of difference at this point.
“… Did Ariel ever kiss you like that?”
“!?”
“ah.”
Unwillingly, when they were about to brag about yesterday’s events, their bodies shuddered and trembled.
Realizing that this was the correct answer, Sylvia’s lips drew a line with dark lines, and she stared at her newly-loved friends slyly, intent on preying on them.
Belatedly, Ariel was busy glaring at Edgar, asking what he was going to do with this situation, and he had no choice but to laugh and cover up the situation as much as possible.
“You really mean that? After all, it’s Ariel.”
I had thought that Sprout was yellow from the time he clung to Edgar on the sofa yesterday, but it seemed that it was more than I had imagined.
When Sylvia pretended to be exaggeratedly surprised and covered her mouth, Ariel’s face, which had barely faded, turned red again.
“Hey, you idiot! If you hadn’t said that, you wouldn’t have been caught! What are you going to do!”
“It’s nothing to be ashamed of, so what? Are you ashamed of kissing me?”
“… … .”
I never thought it would come out that way in this situation.
Ariel stopped in place with her mouth open in a daze at his unexpected response.
I even said that, but even if I insisted on it and said I was ashamed of it, it would only go gold in the middle of the day.
However, when I kept my mouth shut like this, I couldn’t calm down my shame because it seemed like my private parts were exposed.
This is Ariel’s conclusion.
“I want to go see my mother.”
It was to avoid this situation.
Sigh. thud.
“He ran away.”
“Yeah.”
The two stared at the door of the drawing room where she had disappeared and smiled at each other.
He’s so cute that I can’t stop teasing him.
Maybe it’s more because people know that he only looks like the heir to the cold grand duke’s family.
When they thought of the Ariel only they knew, it made them laugh.
And somehow, the moment the two of them simultaneously recognized that the air had become somewhat heavy, Sylvia’s mouth, which had been tightly closed, opened.
“Edgar, I’m asking because Ariel isn’t here… Are you really okay?”
“… It must be hard. I will try to hold on.”
Edgar knew what Sylvia wanted to ask.
It was the part I was most worried about, and it was the most important thing I had in mind when I told Ariel yesterday.
On the surface, the two families are bound by a master-servant relationship.
It would be less noisy if he was the son of a small and medium-sized family with whom he had no connection, but this was very different even if the case was different.
There will be people who try to make trouble by arguing in some way.
In times like this, the enemy inside is the scariest.
“Tell me if you need help. Of course, there is a limit to what I can help with.”
“I don’t even want it. It’s the path I chose, so I have to get through it somehow.”
Edgar, who politely refused with a wry smile, carefully touched the rim of the teacup in his hand.
Perhaps this choice could harm not only Helen, who had taken care of him until now, but also Yulken, the owner of the family, and even the woman he loved.
No, it’s not an assumption, it’s definitely going to be like that.
What he must do then is determined.
It is not to run away like the main character in the story of tragedy, claiming that you are a victim, but to fight together by holding the hand of the person you love.
I’m sure Ariel was hoping for that the most. Edgar thought so.