18 – Emily vs. Cecil (2)
-Knock knock
Early in the morning when the morning air felt a little cold, Julius picked up Cecil, who was dozing off with her eyes closed and half-asleep, from the bed, carried her to the dining table, and made her sit down. He looked through the front door when a sound broke the silence of the quiet mansion. I turned it slightly.
-Excuse me. Is Julius there?
The owner of an elegant and dignified voice is
It was the voice of Emily, a silver-haired, dark-eyed priestess who was like a mother to Julius.
Hearing that voice that made him feel at ease just by hearing it, Julius grabbed Cecil’s shoulder as she was sleeping with her nose on the table and gently sat her down on a chair, then quickly ran to the front door and opened it.
“Is there something happening early in the morning? “Priest Emily.”
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“What kind of priest are you? Just call me Emily like before.”
No, you can’t do that.
She placed her fist on the chest of Julius, who was smiling bitterly, then lifted her head and looked around the inside of her mansion, scratching her head.
“Mila, after her grandfather passed away, I did my own cleaning and repairs, but do you have any inconveniences in your life?”
“On the contrary, it is so comfortable that it is almost too much. And when I sit quietly in the living room, it reminds me of the times when I used to sneak in and play with Thalia and Kryle.”
Of course, now it’s not the bad guys, but the devil sneaking into the room.
He forced himself to stop talking and smiled and pointed his hand toward his table.
“Since you came this morning, let’s have a meal together. I’m sure Cecil will be happy too.”
“No, no woman likes her mother-in-law barging in on her in the morning… But please excuse me!”
She waved her hand as if to decline, and at the end let out a loud cry as if for someone to hear her and entered the mansion.
“Oh, good morning, mother.”
Cecile, who had been dozing off with a half-asleep look until just now, was now putting on her apron and boiling something in her kitchen.
The scent of her delicious food, which did not suit her, spread throughout her house, and Julius, with her eyes wide open, approached Cecil and looked around her kitchen.
“What is this smell all of a sudden?”
“Because it’s morning, I’m making a simple potato stew.”
She lifted her tiptoes and placed her mouth in her husband’s ear and whispered softly.
Julius looked down at Cecil with an even more confused expression.
“Is there any way that the dish you made could smell this good? Confess it the right way.”
“… Chit, magic, magic. “If I did it, it wouldn’t work out right anyway, so I got a little help.”
I don’t want to be accused of being a wife who can’t cook.
After saying that, Cecil turned her body around and went into her kitchen. Emily, who was sitting at her table, saw this and rested her chin lightly and she smiled softly at him.
“They seem to be getting along really well. From what I heard, they also have a daughter?”
“… Yes, that happened.”
“… Did you have a daughter after you became a devil?”
“When I gave birth to my daughter, she was human. “After she closed her eyes five years ago… it wasn’t long before the devil took over her body.”
“Hmm, I see. So where is your daughter now?”
“I heard that Kryle is bringing him here. “You’re probably enjoying your trip right now.”
As Julius said that, he smiled self-mockingly, lowered his head, and let out a light sigh.
Seeing his guilty expression, Emily held her hand gently without saying a word, and she shared her warmth until Cecil brought her food, and she just stayed by her side.
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“Enjoy your meal everyone. “I tried my best this morning.”
Cecil put her hands on her waist with a confident look on her face and held up her arrogant nose.
Emily, who had seen the shortcomings of his cooking skills, and Julius, who had been consistently harassed for 10 years, clicked their tongues at the sight.
“… Please try it quickly. “Don’t look at me with those strange eyes.”
The momentum from earlier seemed to have gone, so she slumped her shoulders and began to nibble on the stew in front of her.
Surprisingly, the stew made with magic was quite delicious, and the unexpected breakfast with Emily seemed to pass peacefully.
Until she said those words to Cecil.
“By the way, didn’t you say that Miss Cecil is also a high-ranking devil?”
“Yes, but now I am Cecil, Julius’s wife.”
She gently placed her hand around the shoulder of Julius, who was sitting next to her, and leaned against her.
Emily, who was looking at her like that, nodded her head and took a bite of her stew, spitting out her words in passing.
“But the high-ranking devil is described in the first Bible, so how old is he? Hmm, maybe I’m making a mistake when I should be respectful.”
Emily calmly pours out her harsh words at Cecil and continues her meal.
She, who had been verbally abused since the morning, opened her mouth and froze in the same position she held Julius.
“… Uh, uh. No! Honey, I’m not that old! I’m a year younger than you? Yes, I’m still young.”
Julius, seeing his wife shaking like a broken wind-up doll, hugged her shoulders and patted her.
“… Cecil is definitely younger than me. “Yes, I understand.”
Cecile quickly shook her head as she saw him giving her a pitiful, pitiful look that she had never shown before.
“But he’s also a devil, right? If you combine the age of a demon and a human, wouldn’t it easily be over a thousand years old? “No, you’re not?”
Emily, who saw the devil getting more and more broken, gave a small chuckle and ended up delivering the final blow, and Cecil ended up sticking her nose on the table and did not get up for a long time.
After Emily left her mansion after eating breakfast, she woke up again and acted as if she didn’t remember anything. Julius, seeing this, let out a small sigh.
In the end, after scratching his head and telling his wife not to worry about his age, he got punched squarely in the solar plexus, and had to comfort Cecil, who had been lying in the room all day that day and wouldn’t come out.
***
“Have you found out the location of the high-ranking devil?”
“Yes, I think you would have figured it out by now.”
Cecile, who was eating bread placed on a cutely decorated table in front of Finn’s bakery, tilted her head slightly at the words of the man sitting in front of her.
“… I’m not sure what you’re talking about?”
I tried to pretend not to notice, but the blonde-haired man, Julius, showed no reaction.
She eventually put down the bread she was eating and sat down with her arms crossed and her legs crossed.
“Okay, okay. It was just a joke. “Can you please stop glaring at me so scary?”
“So you found out the location?”
Seeing him asking the same question with the same expression and posture as before, she shivered once and then spat it out with an expression of disgust.
“I think it’s in a city called Aran, a little west of here. “Personally, I recommend not going.”
Cecil turned her head and expressed her dissatisfaction with her whole body, but Julius’ attention was already filled with the nearby city of Aran.
Aran, a tourist city famous for its beautiful canals, is famous in the capital as a clean city without heresy.
Is it possible for a high-ranking devil to be transformed into a human in a place like that?
Hmm?
He was lost in thought while touching his chin, and suddenly he raised his eyes and started glaring at his wife.
“Why Aran?”
“…What are you dissatisfied with? “Is it a crime to let you know as close as possible?”
She was avoiding the gaze of Julius, who was looking at her with suspicion, and soon ended up confessing her plan.
“… Aran is a city that is good for sightseeing and is also a popular honeymoon destination.”
“There will be more.”
“Ugh… Ugh, the demon living there is… the same as me.”
“It’s the same?”
“A child like me who has become completely one with the devil and has become a perfect human. “I just want you to see something positive.”
As Cecile said that, she wiggled her fingers and slowly approached Julius’ side.
Before long, she was sitting gently astride Julius’s legs.
“You look at everything negatively. Of course, it may be because of what I have seen so far, but my goal is to live happily with my husband and my cute daughter, Leila. “I want people to look at the couple living there and think, ‘I can live like that.'”
“Couple? “Are you saying that the devil who lives there lives with my companion?”
“Yes, I sent a familiar to check it out and had a short conversation with the devil living there, and he said the bet there was already over.”
Unlike you, her husband declared defeat in just one day.
She was suddenly hugging Julius’s head and whispering in his ear in an embarrassed manner.
“Ah, Julius! “Is my husband in there? Oh my.”
Rosa, who had come out of the store opposite and called Julius, saw the couple embracing in a strange posture in broad daylight and dropped the clothes he was holding in his hands.
Cecile, who had been seducing her husband without thinking, had no idea that her face would become so red that she would fall against Julius’ upper body without even being able to raise her head.
“… Get away, what the hell are you doing?”
“Can’t I just… just pick her up like this and take her away?”
“… ….”
That day, in the village of Kente, the image of a loving wife walking around the streets holding her wife in one hand was seen everywhere, and seeing Julius like that, exercise to strengthen muscles became a sensational trend for a while among the village youth. Dragged.
***
“… Do you find this fun?”
“What is it? Please don’t disturb me, Mr. Rennell.”
Renell, a genius swordsman who is treated like the neighborhood kid, to the point where it would be a shame to be the second child in the neighborhood, was wandering around looking for a training partner when he found a black-haired girl drawing on the ground.
When I lower my head and look at the picture, I see what appears to be a man and a woman holding hands and smiling broadly.
What is this?
“Why are you drawing such an unpleasant picture?”
“… This is Brother Julius and his wife.”
The meaning is even more unclear. What is the reason for crouching down on the street and drawing a picture like this?
Renelle tried desperately to rack her brain, but no thought that could be considered an answer came to mind.
“What do you mean, is this a curse painting?”
“That can’t be possible. “I just drew this.”
Thalia got up from her seat, roughly swept the painting away with her foot, and naturally tried to get away from Renelle.
“Heng, last time you had a wild imagination about having an affair and then gave up?”
“… I never thought about it like that. “There is no way a priest would do something like that.”
“Uncle Manto said you really like that kind of thing?”
“I’m really going to kill that guy someday.”
Talia clenched her fists and headed towards the direction of the bookstore.
Manto, who was reading a book in her own bookstore, felt an inexplicable chill.
“Well, I liked it when I was young anyway, and Julius is making a big fuss with his wife right now, so let’s just give up and train with me.”
“‘Haerong Haerong’! “Such vulgar language… You need to get treatment at our church right now, Mr. Rennell!”
Talia grabs Rennell’s shoulder and begins to shake him.
The two women, who had been struggling for a while, fell down and lay down on the street after a long scuffle.
“Talia, my cute student.”
“Why, Mr. Rennell?”
“Don’t you know? “Julius didn’t even see you as a woman to begin with.”
“… I’m not stupid either. “There’s no way my brother doesn’t know that she thinks of me as her younger sister.”
“Then give up and bury your feelings deep in her heart.”
When there was no response from her, Renelle gently turned her head to Thalia who was lying next to her.
The big eyes of a girl with silky black hair just stare at the sky in the distance.
“For me, it doesn’t matter if it’s the second time.”
“… I think the second one would be too much.”
“Not the second time in that sense. “I’m talking about the second, person to person.”
“What… Do you mean?”
Thalia took a moment to take a deep breath and let it out.
Her breath coming out of her mouth turned pale and then disappeared, and after gathering what she wanted to say for a moment, she continued her speech.
“What in the world? “There are so many people.”
“… ….”
“Someone will win my love, and someone else’s love will cool down and they will look for new love. “If the emotion of love were visible, wouldn’t it be different for each and every person in the world?”
“I guess so.”
“My love and my brother’s love are probably very different in comparison.”
“For me… I don’t care if that love doesn’t come true, or if I have to look back forever. “Because this feeling in itself is good in my heart.”
“So, in my brother’s mind, my beloved family, and then my childhood friend, ‘Ah, Thalia! “I’m satisfied if you just think of me as ‘I’m like a little sister that I care about a lot.'”
“… That’s so sad.”
Renelle stroked her Thalia’s face and lowered her head.
The black-eyed girl shook her head as she looked at her teacher who was crying next to her.
“No. This is my love. “Even if nothing comes back, it’s the kind of love that makes you satisfied just by embracing this feeling, but it’s not your brother.”
That’s right, my brother looks really happy when his wife is next to him.
“It’s different from me. “Probably, my brother… No, he won’t be able to stand it without his wife by his side.”
“… How do you know that?”
In response to the question of her teacher, who was sometimes like a friend and sometimes like her older sister, Thalia placed her hands on her chest and whispered softly.
“This is someone I have looked at my whole life. “You can tell that much at a glance.”
The girl who said that really looked like a beautiful angel,
All Lenel could do was embrace her in his arms and bury her face.
The cloudy sky cleared and a clear, clear sky painted its colors above them.
I held a love in my heart that would not come true that day,
The sky reflected in the girl’s eyes was beautiful.
It was a day in fall.