79 – Bride
After talking with the Magician, he quickly went back to Shael. Lest she be suspicious, she had bought the ingredients for the dessert.
As soon as she entered the dorm, she heard Shael’s words. It was a word that felt like it had been waiting for me for a long time.
“It’s late. Is it true that you only bought food materials?”
A sharp suspicion for Sael. It gives me goosebumps without knowing why.
“I did meet the owner of the mage tower.”
For now, I told the truth. Even though I couldn’t tell you the contents of the conversation with the lord of the Mage Tower, she didn’t want to cheat on even the smallest things.
“⋯Yes.”
Shael nodded her head in response.
‘⋯Aren’t you asking what happened?’
It was unexpected. If it was Shael, it wouldn’t be strange for her to ask questions about what happened with the owner of the Mage Tower.
I erased my thoughts. Because she had Shael holding out her hand.
“Please come here.”
The state of her hand reaching out for the bag she bought the dessert from.
I handed the envelope to Shael. She thought she had been handed her envelope to see what she had bought, but Shael didn’t even look at her envelope.
“⋯What is it?”
“Follow me.”
As expected, Shael headed to the kitchen attached to the dorm. She must have never tried on her apron like a duke’s daughter, but she puts on her apron like a proficient one.
However, contrary to his skillful behavior, the apron was turned inside out.
She even pulls her hair, which was tied in two pigtails, to one side. Shael said, with solemn preparations.
“Cut your vegetables.”
“Are you putting off dessert?”
Shael nodded her head. Unexpected answer. But she felt Shael’s firmness, so she took out her vegetables without question.
By the way…
Aren’t the roles reversed?
Originally, I would have cooked, and Shael would have done most of her grooming. Because Shael was not good at cooking.
Of course, Sael’s behavior was admirable, so she didn’t bother talking about it.
Cooking will be a good experience for Shael as well.
I hurriedly trimmed the vegetables and handed them over to Shael. Then, vegetables plopped into the stew that Shael had been focusing on.
I can feel the spicy scent little by little. Spicy spices were placed all over Shael’s side.
‘I don’t think Shael put the spices in properly.’
As I was thinking about it, Shael, who had been glancing at me, handed me her stew with a spoon in it.
“Try it.”
If it was Sael’s usual behavior, she would feel ashamed. The current Shael was also blushing.
Nevertheless, it was unexpected that she offered me a tasting without feeling embarrassed.
“⋯⋯Ah.”
Shael made a cute noise as if telling her to open her mouth. I unknowingly took it and ate it.
“How are you?”
“I think I added too much spicy.”
She thought her cooking was the best and would ignore my opinion. However, Shael immediately added water to her stew.
She had no choice but to welcome Sael’s changed behavior with wide open eyes. Even after that, Shael asked me for her opinion.
A few questions and a few answers. As it was repeated, Shael’s cooking gradually came to an end.
It wasn’t long before the unknown stew was completed.
To be honest, it doesn’t look appetizing. It was the same when tasting.
“Try it.”
“I understand.”
I ate a spicy-looking stew. It was obvious that it would be tasteless, so I was going to swallow it as soon as I put it in my mouth.
But it didn’t. Because it was a stew with a better taste than I thought.
After taking a bite of the stew, I looked at Shael.
“⋯⋯.”
Shael is frozen and silent. The figure of Shael, who seems so fragile that she is worried about what is going on.
She’s about to ask if the food is good, but she looks down at the stew as if she’s not confident.
She was not like Sael. At the same time, it was also hard for me to keep an eye on.
So I said.
“Very tasty.”
“⋯⋯Really?”
She immediately nodded. It was for Sael’s mood, but also because the food was really delicious.
“To the extent that I want to eat it for the rest of my life.”
It was such a compliment that Sael blushed. But even with that compliment, Shael didn’t blush.
He just looked at me as if he was lost in thought.
‘What’s wrong?’
I don’t know. They even complimented me on how delicious it was.
I tried to think differently. Is the praise the problem?
That’s also true, because Sael had a unique way of thinking.
“It seems tasteless.”
It was a word I spat out without much thought. At the same time, when she saw Shael, she could only speak in a hurry.
She was shrinking her body as if Shael were a cute little animal.
“It was so delicious that I was speechless.”
“⋯.”
“Really delicious.”
It was only then that Shael freed her body from shrinking. It was a situation where I felt like an idiot from a while ago.
First of all, we gave Shael time while eating.
“⋯⋯.”
Then, Shael looked at me as if she wanted to say something. While opening her mouth, she is looking at me.
“Why is that?”
“Well…”
Shael took a deep breath and continued her story. Her trembling voice was a bonus.
“You are eating.”
“⋯?”
After that, she continues to breathe deeply. She was a Shael who smiled proudly as if she had accomplished something difficult.
You eat well?
‘Is it a compliment?’
Looking at Shael’s blushing face, I was convinced. To eat well. It was a compliment that Shael gave with all her might.
The sly look of Shael. It seems that Shael’s condition has been strange since a while ago. She looked at Shael with her questionable eyes.
Then Shael looked at me too. The corners of her mouth were also raised unnaturally.
It was a familiar situation. The memory of when Shael gave me cookies. Even then, Shael looked at me and raised the corner of her mouth unnaturally.
At that time, Shael was glaring at me, and she must have laughed ⋯⋯.
It was quite different now. It was smiling and looking at me.
I turned my head away without making eye contact with Sael. It was such an awkward situation.
Shael, who was shy, suddenly changed.
She didn’t even have time to think about the reason. Because she was handing me something of her from Shael.
“I’m eating, but what is it all of a sudden?”
“Get ⋯⋯.”
What Sael handed over was money. An amount of money that I could spend by living for a few months.
The amount of money he is carrying is unusual, befitting the golden jade leaves of the wealthy Azbel family.
I needed time to figure out the situation. It’s hard to understand what the situation is.
But Shael didn’t give me time.
“I can even give you pocket money.”
Shael suddenly says that he can give you pocket money.
I’ll manage the money. Does that mean that you should receive pocket money and use it?
“If you just practice cooking, you can make it even more delicious.”
Shael earnestly explains as if persuading.
It’s hard to understand what’s going on, but I listened to Shael in silence.
I realized at least that there was something wrong with Shael now. I think we need to talk after Sael calms down.
The food Shael cooked was gone before I knew it.
Then Shael opened her mouth, pointing at the bowl showing her bottom.
“This is enough…”
Where did that lack of confidence go? Shael stood up proudly with her waist pinned.
Shael continued, pressing her face to me with her hands on her table.
“Wouldn’t that be a great bride?”
⋯⋯ Why is this?
You laugh at the unexpected words. Next, we see her apron that Shael is wearing.
To this day, Shael was still wearing an apron turned inside out. She told that embarrassing fact to Shael, who stood proudly.
“Wear it properly, starting with the overturned apron.”
“⋯Ah.”
Shael hurriedly fixed her upside-down apron. I’m done cooking, but ⋯ can’t think of taking off her apron?
Anyway, I could tell that Shael was nervous. Even the apron she had been refitting was in a state where the strings were strangely tied.
I didn’t point it out. Instead, she got up from her seat. She was there to fix Shael’s apron.
“You can’t even wear an apron properly.”
“⋯.”
She fixed the laces that were not properly tied. Then, Shael erases her proud appearance from just before and blushes.
She thought that her silence would last.
But when she saw the changed expression on Shael’s face, she could tell that the silence would soon be broken.
A wicked woman’s ridicule. I can see the old Shael’s expression when she avenged something of her against me. But something about her was decidedly different.
“⋯⋯ You are too.”
At the same time as Sael said that, she stretched out her hand toward my chest. It was towards the tie I had tied.
I see a messy tie. He moved so quickly that he didn’t even know his tie was messed up.
Shael straightened her tie with her sloppy hands.
Shael, a young noblewoman. Even actions that would be easy for anyone would be difficult for Shael.
Nevertheless, the tie Shael put on and neatly arranged caught my eye.
“This is enough…”
Then speak confidently. Behind the confidence, in the state of containing unknown emotions.
“You are a wonderful wife.”
I don’t know why it’s suddenly like this…
A wonderful bride.
⋯⋯Anyway, I think you’re right.