Chapter 81 – 081. The Reversed Relationship (3)
“Why did you make that choice for me?”
Erin asked Eunhyeon while walking down the street at sunset.
Why did Eun-hyeon give herself the option of treating Marva’s father, Viscount Berman?
He didn’t even have the ability to save him, and more than anything else, he was afraid that he would decide the life and death of others himself.
That’s not all.
There was one thing that Erin was afraid of besides that.
A female student named Marva Berman was one of the students who bullied her the most because she was isolated in Aither.
Not only is she, but she is also one of those who insulted her brother, Alvin.
Seeing Jee and Eunhyeon come to ask for help from me was ridiculous, cunning, and ugly, and I wanted to cry and get angry, asking them to think about what you had done to me.
But even so, she had the idea that what Erin didn’t do was that she had said to Marva, ‘Her life is precious,’ but she had her own ugly true heart that she didn’t want to be found out.
If, by chance, she really does follow her own feelings and refuses Marva’s request, yielding to her own impulses, and she gets angry at the attitude of asking Jeewa herself.
‘Would Hyun-i be disappointed in me?’
It was because he was afraid that Eun-hyeon would be disappointed and despise him when he saw him express his emotions like that.
Erin was hiding her true feelings, and she told Eun-hyeon to treat Viscount Berman.
As much as that, now Erin is overly dependent on Eunhyun and wants to be recognized, and she doesn’t want to be hated.
She had a strong tendency to crave affection.
“Someday there will come a moment when you too will have to make a choice. It’s similar to now, but the moment when you have to make a crueler choice than this.”
“Select?”
Not understanding what she is talking about, Erin tilts her head.
“From now on, many people around you will be full of people who want to approach you and make connections with you. Now that he has returned to the status of an aristocrat who has been given back the title of baronet.”
“Ah…”
“Perhaps nobles who covet your achievements to expand their power may have someone who wants to make you marry someone from their own power, or ask them to come under their command under the pretext of helping you grow, or There will be a lot of people who come up with suggestions with intentions.”
“Eww… I hate that…”
Erin frowned, revealing her rejection openly.
Even though she was given back the title of baronet, it was a story that didn’t quite make sense to Erin.
At the trial, Queen Diane’s declaration that the title of the Hersha family had been restored had passed only a few days later, and her surroundings in Erinn hadn’t changed that much.
To put it bluntly, the biggest change was the drastic change in the way the students and teachers around her treated Erin within her child Ther.
The sudden change in their attitude was too much for Erin, and she was of no help.
Besides, it’s a marriage.
It was terribly disgusting.
For Erin, men were mostly men who looked at her lustfully.
As she grew up, her father looked at her with an abnormal gaze as she became more like her mother.
In Aether, her insults against herself included many such greedy insults, and their low gazes that ensnared Erin were well known.
Until she met Eun-hyeon, Erin’s self-esteem diminished and her weak attitude of protecting herself by crouching down was usually caused by their low stares and harassment.
From the moment it met Eun-hyeon, his phobia-like sensation was being cured a little.
Starting with Eunhyun, other than Alvin, such as Alex and Riod, men who thought of and respected him were created.
Erin thought it was all thanks to her Eun Hyun.
‘But if it’s Hyeon…’
It is not unreasonable for a sensitive 17-year-old girl to imagine the marriage of herself and Eun-hyeon as an adult after she naturally graduated from Aether.
‘My, what am I thinking!’
She shook her head in amazement at the sudden imagination, trying to erase the fantasy of her that had come into her head.
‘Tum, Hyuni has Illyana-sama…’
It was a question that she couldn’t find an answer to, even if she thought about it, and since it was something she couldn’t ask, Erin decided to focus on her original conversation again.
“Because you are still young.”
Even if her baronetcy was reinstated, now Erin is a 17-year-old girl, a minor whose reasoning is not quite right.
“Perhaps with those various intentions there are good intentions and bad intentions, and you will face countless problems and choices. I don’t want to choose either, but there comes a moment when I must choose.”
Life is always a series of choices.
Erin looked at Eun-hyeon, who spoke with a very serious and bitter expression on her face. She didn’t say anything, she just listened to him.
This is because I thought that this might be sincere advice from her experience of Eun-hyeon.
“I really don’t want to. My feelings don’t Nevertheless, those choices that are close to being forced to make because it is the right choice.”
This was the meaning of Eunhyeon handing over the choice of Marva’s request to Erin.
Will you make the choice your emotions tell you to make, or will you make the “Right” Choice conscious of the gazes around you?
There was an alternative to this.
In the midst of numerous moments of choice, Eun-hyeon has always made efficient choices made by reason, not emotion, among irrational alternatives.
So Eun-hyeon knew that someday, as time passed, the moment Erin and she had to make that choice would surely come.
“Actually, I just wanted you to ignore Marva’s request, as your emotions told you to do.”
“Ah…”
Erin stopped her steps and looked at Eunhyun with wavering eyes.
Eunhyeon’s words were so unexpected that he was shaken.
Belatedly, Eunhyeon also stopped her steps, looked back at her, and stared at Erin’s agitated expression.
“You seem to think of me as something of a saint or a very kind person, but I am not that kind of person.”
“But…”
You saved me
Her words almost went down her throat and out of her mouth, but Erin didn’t say them all.
Because Eunhyun’s expression looked so lonely.
“I wanted to be the kind of person who only thinks of you, only thinks of your goals, and only protects your people. Like other selfish people.”
It’s not about breaking the law.
This world is too cruel to live kindly while keeping the minimum conscience as a human being.
It is because this world is urgent to protect and protect yourself and the people around you.
One day, Erin may come to a moment where she has to weigh and choose one of the two over the whole world with someone dear to her, just like Eunhyeon did.
“But the choice you made today is also part of you.”
But Erin is too kind and pure-hearted to make such a choice.
“Huh…”
Erin nodded her head slightly.
“Let’s try a little harder. More so in the future.”
“Okay.”
While respecting her choice, Eun-hyeon vowed to herself that it was her role to support her from falling apart in the future.
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“Hey! You! Are you really going to do this?!”
“Is there a problem?”
Eleanor, who came to the Illyana mansion, grabbed Eunhyun by the collar and shouted ferociously.
In fact, Eun-hyeon knew why Eleanor was so indignant, but she took the attitude of not knowing at all with her usual sly attitude.
“Oh, Miss Eleanor! I don’t know what’s going on, but calm down…”
“Calm? Do I look real now?”
“No.”
Erin, completely unaware of the situation, immediately responded when her expression and behavior showed that she was really very upset.
“You, did I tell you clearly? Don’t use me for the ridiculous purpose of the recovery shuttle! But again!”
“No, then the only thing that comes to mind is the princess, so what should I do?”
“I mean that!”
Eleanor threw her piece of paper, which she was clutching tightly in her hand, to the floor.
Oddly enough, she unfolds her paper that has fallen in front of her and Erin, who checks her contents, feels deja vu because her stationery is a familiar stationery she has seen somewhere.
“Ah! This…”
Previously, wasn’t she a letter written by Eun-hyeon sent from the Viscount Berman’s family to the duke’s family via Marva?
The content was like this.
– I had to use the ‘recovery shuttle’ urgently. Somehow, she was put in a situation where she had to treat Viscount Berman, a victim of the last raid. I got rid of the disease in the body, but it seems that it will take too long for the body to recover and build its own immune system. That’s why, I’m going to visit Viscount Berman tomorrow and pray to the Viscount with divine magic just once. I would like to ask you a favor. Could it be that the ‘Flower of Fernine’ will not leave the poor sick man alone? And we’re in a ‘symbiotic relationship’, right? ^^
‘Hyunah… Anyway, this is a bit… It was bad.’
Erin smiled bitterly inwardly, saying that the look on Eleanor’s face when she saw the perfect help request letter, which even drew the mark of her smile to show her familiarity, was enough to make her angry.
“Even so! You can explain in advance! You should have tipped the Viscount Berman, who is in the position to greet me, not me! Do you know how flustered they were as soon as I visited?!”
“Hmm? She wrote a letter to the daughter of Viscount Berman and had it delivered to her princess. Wasn’t she then aware that the story had come and gone?”
On the contrary, when Eun-hyeon asked a question, Eleanor frowned and answered Eun-hyeon’s question.
“That day, I was away at the mansion and out. It was late at night when I read your letter.”
In other words, it is true that Marva delivered Eun-hyeon’s letter to the duke’s family, but she didn’t get it to Eleanor right away, and there was no conversation between Eleanor and Marva, so Marva’s family, Viscount Berman, was completely unaware of Eleanor’s visit. .
For the viscount, who had to welcome the duke’s daughter into the mansion without any prior preparation, the news was like thunder from heaven.
Eleanor understood and did not mind the fact that the story was not conveyed properly, but if it became known that the viscounts, who belonged to the lower rank of the nobility, treated members of the duke family poorly, they would be the target of ridicule or ridicule. It was an obvious story.
“Ah, that’s getting a little difficult.”
To be honest, considering what he had done to Erin and playing around with the property of the kingdom, he thought that it was cheap, but this time, it was a completely minor mistake on the part of Eun-hyeon that was not clearly communicated.
“Difficulty? Barely troubled?”
In an aristocratic society, such a thing is not easily overlooked, and there are many nobles who use this incident as an excuse to devour the viscount who has become weak due to the head of the family.
“Well, didn’t Viscount Berman, the head of the family, escape from death? Good is good, let’s move on.”
“Under…”
She glared at Eun-hyeon with the gaze that Eleanor was full of energy.
Eun-hyeon always has the temperament of encouraging situations in which she can win behind the scenes and thoroughly preparing for them, but in everyday life aside from work, she shows a missing screw somewhere.
Regarding the problem he had to solve, he showed the ability to act to complete the shape of the ending he was drawing close to perfection, but in other parts, he was showing an extremely individualistic tendency to take an attitude that he could do anything.
Even now, with Eun-hyeon’s attitude to go over it like that, Eleanor thinks of giving him a light blow.
“More than that, what is the business?”
Eunhyeon didn’t think that Eleanor would come to scold her for this incident.
The most likely guess was that he had come because he had a real business, and that he had inadvertently burst into anger when he saw his face.
“Whoa… What good.”
Eleanor sighed heavily and took out from her arms a letter sealed with the seal of the Duke of Armitas.
The number of letters was three in total, and oddly enough, the number of Eunhyeon, Illyana, and Erin currently staying at the mansion was the same.
“Do you have mine?”
Erin asked Eleanor with her eyes wide open, and she gave a small nod in affirmation of her question.
“This time, a banquet will be held at the duke’s mansion hosted by the Duke of Armitas.”
“A banquet?”
It is also a social gathering attended by the majority of those with noble status, including the nobles of this country as well as the nobles of other countries who have ties to the kingdom of Pernias, including the Duke of Armitas.
“I want to invite three people there.”
“Uh… I wonder if I can go to that place…”
“Me too. Why do I go there?”
In the first place, Illyana, who hates being associated with the nobility of this country, would not attend a party where a large number of aristocrats gathered, whether from her own country or from another country.
And Eun-hyeon also hated having her face reflected in this way.
How much effort did she and Helena Hubie have to make in order for her to ask Eun-hyeon for her favor, accompanied by Helena Hubei.
Seeing Illyana’s reaction, her face frowned, she smiled wryly, wondering if it wasn’t possible as expected.
“Great.”
“Also… Yes?”
At her unexpected reaction, Eleanor opened her eyes wide and looked at Eun-hyeon.
“At least Erin has to attend. She follows as a chaperone companion. What about Illyana?”
“Huh… Well, if you go, then I’ll go too.”
It seemed reluctant, but Illyana didn’t seem to hate it at all because of Eunhyun’s recommendation.
“My, why am I going there!”
When Erin, who was taken aback, asked Eun-hyeon a question, she answered Eun-hyeon indifferently.
“I can guess the purpose of hosting this banquet. It’s a ‘small work’ thing, right?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
Eleanor shifted her gaze to Erin and said.
“Erin, the purpose of this banquet is the inauguration of the new duke.”
“New… Little Duke… ?”
“Huh. With my older brother being appointed as the new minor duke this time, he has been officially designated as the successor to the Duke of Armitas.”
“That means…”
It also meant the downfall of Ashton, who had literally kidnapped Erin and cornered her.
“This invitation is also a matter that my brother and I agreed to, but it was my father who first suggested inviting you.”
“The Duke… Yo. This?”
“Huh. My father said he would like to take this opportunity to talk to you. Your father officially invited you to the banquet for the inauguration ceremony of the minor duke.”
“Ah…”
