72 – Dream of statues
The day Edgar and his party left Ardenum was fast approaching.
It will be difficult to see her face for a while if she leaves now, so Edgar carries her around all day with the thought of focusing on his sister for today.
Beside him, Ariel, who had even less horns than before, was following him without fail.
“Bah-!”
Sonia, who still uttered an incomprehensible sound, grabbed Edgar’s finger, which was hovering in front of her eyes.
It was unbelievable that it was the power of a child who was only a few months old.
“Wow, the little guy is strong. Look at the way you hold my finger.”
“Isn’t it because you look like me? I don’t know if she will grow up to be a heroine later.”
“Does it suit you somehow? I just want everything to grow well.”
“Ugh, I’m already losing my arms.”
A faint smile formed on Ariel’s lips as she shook her head as if she had lost.
It was embarrassing that he was so absorbed in his sister that he didn’t even look at her, but on the other hand, that’s what he thought.
I thought that if I get married and have a child later, I will be a father who gives so much love to the child I will give birth to at that time.
Although now Ariel has cleared up the misunderstanding and has a good relationship with her father, it hasn’t changed the fact that we didn’t spend much time together when we were young.
That’s why, if she gave birth to a child, it was always in her head that she wanted to give as much love as that child.
In the midst of spending the little time left with Sonia, Katria opened the door and burst into the room.
“Ed, are you here?”
“Yes, mother. What are you doing?”
“I came to ask if I had packed everything. How long before departure?”
At his mother’s question, Edgar nodded nonchalantly.
Although I received help from the servants in the mansion, most of my luggage was packed with my own hands.
“It would be nice to stay a little longer, but I’m busy now, so I won’t be able to catch it.”
“hahahaha, you can come again. I will stop by as often as possible whenever possible.”
“… … .”
Ariel, who had been listening to the conversation between the mother and son, shut her mouth feeling guilty for some reason.
She always stayed with her parents, so the only time she had to part with her parents was when her father went to the battlefield, but these two weren’t.
How sad it was to not be able to see her even though she wanted to see her, she felt it every time she couldn’t find Ardenum for the past several years.
It means that I can fully understand that feeling more than anyone else.
She wondered if she might be taking this man away from her good mother, but Edgar had become indispensable to her, so she had no intention of spitting it out again.
So, the only thing he could do was to reassure this woman, who would one day become his father-in-law, and visit this place with Edgar more often.
It was a courtesy to this couple who sent this precious man to their side. Ariel was so sure.
“Thank you, Mother.”
“Thank you? Did I do something?”
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Katria tilted her head, dumbfounded at the sudden thank you.
Ariel smiled softly at him, straightened her back, and recited the things she was grateful for one by one.
“You sent Ed to my side four years ago. And he was willing to allow the relationship between the two of us.”
“… what did you mean It was this child’s choice, so there’s no need to thank me.”
Rather, Catria tried to stop her only son from leaving for Hespania at the time.
Of course, my knowledge has broadened and there must have been a good influence, but I could see that the hardships would be clear.
However, it was his will to give up such dissuade and want to be by his friend’s side.
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Looking back now, it seems that her son did not have feelings for Ariel.
If not, would it have been possible to go that long way with only one friendship?
“Besides, permission… I don’t know if I should say it, but I know very well that you two are no longer children. That’s why I didn’t say anything.”
When the Loveheim family and the Billhark family formed an in-law relationship, it was correct that the Billhark family was most likely to benefit one-sidedly.
However, Katria put aside such complicated matters and just because her child had a relationship with the person she loved, she didn’t think about what to do with this relationship in the first place.
Of course, it was quite embarrassing at first, but that was all.
Now that she’s at an age where she has to take care of herself, she’s no longer in the mood to talk.
More than anything, I didn’t think that these two people would have made this relationship without thinking, relying only on their feelings.
All I can do as a mother is pray quietly from afar.
“I have nothing to say to you, a girl, but I ask you to take good care of our son. Ariel.”
“Do not worry. I’ll make you happy enough that other women won’t even notice.”
For some reason, the lines seemed to have been reversed, but Edgar, who was watching from a distance, only smiled faintly. Didn’t say anything else.
‘It’s another woman.’
There would be no reason to keep an eye on him, but if he said that day would come, Ariel’s personality would make him blind even if he burned his eyes with fire.
Thinking that it was possible enough, Edgar shuddered briefly and erased his thoughts.
I promise that I will never do anything stupid.
* * * * * * *
Vincent has been struggling with things that are not going his way.
Not once or twice did he frown when a nasty loach flowed into the ocean, not into a pond, and tried to dig through the water somehow.
He was a believer in the belief that people have some sort of rank.
Others describe this as pure blood, but Vincent’s values were a little more firm and low-key than that.
He was an old man who had already passed sixty lines, but what he had accumulated during those years was not such as knowledge or realization of life.
The nature of a human being that is just thicker and more hideous.
In a sense, it can be seen as more greedy than power or material greed.
Rather, he may have been more comfortable than others in coming to this position because what he wanted was not power and wealth.
Even when collusion is made to share a desired purpose with someone, it is easy for him to hand over most of the gains to the other party.
All he wants is to exclude those who simply shouldn’t be where they are.
In that sense, the current head of the household, Yulken, and him could be said to be like water and oil.
Yulken, who has a thorough meritocracy, paid attention to the talent’s potential rather than family or position.
However, Vincent was the opposite.
Of course, he didn’t like the incompetent, but more than that, what he hated was people of humble origins aiming for the top with little ability.
‘Since ancient times, garbage should be stuck in a cesspit.’
Vincent drooled in disapproval.
When I held the wine glass on the table in my hand and rolled it around, observing the traces on the rim, I immediately erased it from my memory because it drew a picture of the tabletop that I did not want to recall.
‘Did Ed say Bill Hark?’
Bondi, he doesn’t even remember the name of the target he doesn’t pay attention to.
However, even if I wanted to erase that name, it was difficult to erase because it remained so intensely in my head.
When I think of the invisible war of nerves I had with Yulken for the past few days because of that bastard, I felt my teeth tremble.
‘Well, I didn’t like Yulken from the beginning either. Trying to take a slut who had to be put into a brothel as the hostess of the grand duke’s family.’
Helen, the current hostess of the grand duke’s family, was also from a less prominent background.
He didn’t know if Vincent would be similar to the man he was having the most trouble with, or in some sense inferior to him.
The reason he couldn’t openly dismiss Edgar’s existence in front of Yulken as being of low birth was because if that happened, it would be a word that would disparage the existence of Helen, the current mistress.
I wanted to do it in my heart, but that didn’t mean I didn’t know the line I had to keep.
To be precise, he was a man who was good enough to save his own life.
Because Neunggureungi’s hair, which grew as he got older, was there to be used at times like this.
‘It’s difficult, it’s difficult.’
At best, it’s just the stroke of a young day.
Vincent thought it was just an accident because he was stuck in the castle and didn’t meet many better and nicer men outside.
But even so, it would be foolish to just watch and pray that things would break up between them.
There is less than a year left before Ariel goes through her coming-of-age ceremony and is ready to marry.
If the time of the year passes without any crisis, Yulken’s personality will try to hasten the wedding ceremony, and then it will be out of hand.
“Also… … .”
Is killing the fastest answer?
Vincent muttered in such a low voice and gently tilted the wine glass he had brought to his lips.
Besides, among the other vassals who coincided with him, there was one who was looking out for his son to succeed Ariel.
From that man’s point of view, Edgar would be more of a thorn in his eye than Vincent.
At that time, if I gently held out my hand, I might think it was right and grab it.
Even if the murderer was caught, if he planned a means to blame him, it could have passed without a big deal unless clear evidence came out.
‘Good.’
As soon as the plan came together, albeit faintly, in his head, Vincent put an empty wine glass on the table with a fishy smile.
First of all, it was important to make contact with him without anyone knowing.
Until then, he should hold his breath as quietly as possible, without having to engage in a war of nerves with Yulken.