Chapter 40 – A High Elf’s First Love (2)
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After that day,
The number of times Ardena visited Bria Academy in person increased dramatically.
Yushin may run into the Trident Company’s instructors again. If you are the owner of that freewheeling personality, you will remain like that.
“Are you working?”
“I have finished all my work. You are mistaken I’m here to see Alone.”
“Yes, you will.”
“What are you dissatisfied with?”
Yushin’s attitude did not change from before.
What was the meaning of the kiss on the back of the hand the next morning? Ardena wanted to ask Yushin about it, but she didn’t have the courage.
That i’m scared
Ardena had doubts about her passive attitude toward human men. She felt infinitely smaller in front of this human, as she was, especially when it came to the relationship between the sexes.
“Wherever I go, my eyes are drawn.”
“The sight of human slaves walking around in Bria Academy will be amazing no matter how many times you see it.”
“No, not me.”
The intense eyes of the academy students focused on Ardena.
The boys felt her unrequited love for Ardena for her noble beauty, and her girls felt her respect and awe for her peers. Some dangerous schoolgirls even targeted her lilies, blushing at her ardena.
“What about Alone?”
“Classroom now. Perhaps classical literature. You must be pouring out all kinds of complaints in the classroom by now. Because I hate classic literature.”
Yushin smiled and said.
At those words, Ardena made a surprised look.
A story I didn’t know.
Did her sister hate classical literature?
She was so busy with her work that she couldn’t pay attention to what kind of life Alone was having at the academy. It was to the point that Yushin knew more about Alone than she did. Ardena was ashamed of that.
“What would you like to drink?”
“Coffee.”
“Okay.”
Yushin arrives at her academy’s cafe with Ardena.
She was mostly only faculty members.
Occasionally, Trident instructors were also seen. She seemed to be taking a break after sending her students to class.
“Ah, Miss Ardena…!”
“May I ask for your autograph?”
As the girls from the academy squealed, Ardena came to the table where she was.
Cute schoolgirls
The high elf female students with lively charms smelled good.
Ardena was deeply offended by Yoo-shin’s attitude of showing interest in the female students who came to her table. She thought she wanted to poke her eyes out with a straw stuck in her coffee.
“I didn’t know elves could enjoy drinking coffee.”
“Is it? I like coffee.”
“I thought I couldn’t drink because it was too bitter.”
Yushin said so, and she added a lot of sugar and milk to her coffee.
It’s the taste of a child who can’t eat bitter things.
Ardena smiled at Yushin’s appearance of adding sugar and milk to coffee.
“I thought elves were a race that only lived on vegetarian diets. The more I know you elves, the more I feel that I didn’t know anything.”
“Vegetarian? If you don’t eat meat, you won’t be able to generate energy. It is a serious mistake for us elves to only eat vegetarian food. I heard that even herbivores sometimes eat meat to gain strength.”
“So my knowledge was short. There’s no way the elves who fight intruders through the forest only eat vegetarian food.”
Elves are only vegetarian.
He loves the forest and does not carelessly injure the plants.
That was all a mistake Elves were no different from humans. There were elves who enjoyed eating meat, and there were also elves who cut down trees to obtain resources. I don’t know what the elves were like in the past, but the present elves had a lifestyle very similar to that of humans.
“So what did you come for? The faculty is nervous since you came to the academy.”
“You are persistent. This is the academy my sister attends. You don’t have to come for a reason. And I am a graduate of this academy.”
“Know. Where was it… Ah, on the wall across from the main entrance, there was a portrait hanging with the grand name of Proud Graduate.”
Ardena’s face turned red at Yushin’s words.
As an alumnus of the academy, this is something I am proud of. But I was also ashamed.
More than 300 years have passed since I graduated from the academy. In the meantime, many graduates must have been born. There is no reason for his portrait to hang for 300 years. After that, many talented people were born at the academy.
“It’s a story that even those many graduates couldn’t break the stronghold of Ardena or Valencia in the end.”
“Keuheum, you, you’re too high…”
“Because taking care of the master’s heart is also the role of a slave.”
Yushin laughed and took a sip of coffee. His face naturally contorted as if the bitterness was still there.
“Which school did you go to?”
Ardena asked.
Yushin’s shoulders trembled slightly.
In the past, during her school days, she had lived a close-knit life with Alone, so she had no choice but to be stabbed by Ardena’s question.
Iljins did a bread shuttle.
Can’t you be so honest?
“A normal school that you go to just by giving your name. There was nothing special about it. It wasn’t pouring money like this academy, and it wasn’t a prestigious school that received support from various organizations. It was just a delinquent school full of bullies.”
“I see, surprisingly. I thought that the academy that fostered you must be a prestigious school.”
Yushin’s eyebrows curled at Ardena’s words.
This high elf wife,
They rate me too highly.
In Korea, I was just a mass-produced high school student. I was pushed by the Iljins, so I usually sat in the front seat. And he was nothing more than a herbivore who was afraid of being photographed by the Iljins while paying tribute money.
“I was similar to Alone. So I know a lot about Alone. There is a saying that people with the same disease get along well.”
“Is it…?”
Ardena responded that it was difficult to understand Yushin’s words.
Similar to Alone?
Since Ardena did not know how her sister was living in her academy, it was difficult for her to understand Yushin’s words.
She didn’t know that Alone was bullied by her classmates for ‘insensitive to mana’. Yushin deliberately didn’t tell me. It was clear that if Ardena found out about it, she would definitely question Alone about her facts.
“Alone is also working hard. To catch up with her sister. It’s good to have clear goals. Even if you don’t reach your goal, working hard to reach it is important in itself.”
Ardena nodded her head.
I’m happy to say that as a sister.
She was only proud of her hard-working sister as her goal.
Even when Riana complimented her sister, she was happy, but she was even more happy when Yushin gave her compliments. A feeling of exhilaration flooded her chest. She wanted to stroke Alone’s hair. Because it’s her older sister’s natural role to praise her proud younger sister.
“I’m glad.”
“But I have a question.”
“What?”
I feel good now.
She seemed able to answer any question. Of course, she wouldn’t answer menial questions.
“Because she doesn’t seem to have seen the mistress of the Valencian family. Since I am a slave, should I call you ‘madam’?”
“You mean mother?”
She has lived in Valencia Castle for well over 15 days.
However, Yushin had never seen Wallace’s wife, Ardena, or Alone’s mother.
Could it be that I was rude?
Yushin carefully looked at Ardena. Unsurprisingly, Ardena’s face began to blur.
“For my mother…”
The atmosphere got heavy.
It must have touched a mine.
Yushin felt nervous because he seemed to have touched even a taboo of the Valencian family.
Can’t we make the question non existent even now? No, once a word has been spoken, it is impossible to pick it up and contain it. In the rapidly growing atmosphere, Yushin had many thoughts.
“He is on his mother’s side.”
“…Yes?”
“She went down to her mother’s house after a marital quarrel with her father. I often stop by her mother’s house to see her mother.”
I again
I thought it was going to unfold that I was bereaved when I was young.
At Ardena’s answer, Yushin was able to breathe a sigh of relief.
“It’s a couple fight.”
“It has been five years since her mother went down to her mother’s family. Alone and I often make time to see her mother.”
“Five years?!”
What is it, elves!
My concept of time has been shattered!
Ardena’s words shocked Yushin. If you’ve been fighting for 5 years, I don’t think it would be strange if you just divorced.
‘Why did you fight? If she’s been fighting for five years, she must have a good reason! Damn, I want to ask. I can’t suppress the peculiarity of Koreans who show particular interest in other people’s family affairs!’
Nation of drama.
Especially Koreans who are crazy about dead end scenarios.
Yushin wanted to hear more about the Valencian family’s marital quarrel.
His mouth itched.
What is the cause of marital quarrels? Could it be that the middle-aged Wallace High Elf kept his mistress aside? Perhaps her wife had discovered her sadistic abuse of female slaves. All sorts of delusions began to flood Yushin’s head.
“Her mother’s prized teacup was broken by her father. The culprit was that her drunken father collapsed while being supported by the maids.”
Said Ardena, hardening her face.
At her words, Yushin’s face hardened as well.
However, Yushin’s hardened face was for the exact opposite reason.
She said, ‘You’ve been fighting a couple for five years just because you broke a teacup? Are all elves narrow-minded? You can do that when you see Ardena. She says that the harder a woman is, the harder it is to appease her once she spits out.’
In any case, the inner circumstances of the Valencia family were well known.
It didn’t seem like anything to worry about.
In the future, I decided not to care whether the couple’s fight continued or whether they reconciled.
I feel sorry for the person who will marry Ardena in the future. She’s a 300 year old spinster, who the hell can handle her. Judging from the madam’s stubborn behavior of continuing her five-year marital quarrel because she broke a branded teacup, Ardena could have done more, but never less.
“Bariteon!”
“Hey, what’s going on here…”
The cafe atmosphere started to stir.
The instructors of the Trident Company, who had been drinking tea leisurely, jumped to their feet.
A blond high elf man with a handsome appearance entered.
The appearance of the crows is a spectacle.
He wore black sunglasses over his forehead and was armed with expensive branded items. Shall we say that he looks like the 3rd generation chaebol? It was a fashion that seemed crazy because he wanted to show off his wealth and power. Yushin recalled the princes of Valois who were wrapped in vanity.
“Ardena.”
“…Bariteon.”
A man approached.
Upon his appearance, Ardena showed a blatantly uncomfortable appearance.
“What is going on?”
Ardena asked.
At her question, a high elf male named Bariteon shrugged.
“Oh, I didn’t come to see you. Although we are comrades who have served as warrior commanders for a long time, you are not my type.”
“Shut up.”
At Baritheon’s words, Ardena distorted her face.
Contempt and contempt,
Ardena’s face blatantly radiated ill feelings.
“It’s you, human.”
The reason why Bariteon showed up at Bria Academy was because of Yushin.
A human who defeated the undefeated female knight.
A prisoner of war who used to be the guardian sword of the kingdom of Valois, but has now been reduced to slavery.
Yushin’s strange fate was enough to make Bariteon interested. Not only the Bariteon but also other High Elves were interested in the existence of a human knight who broke the legend of Ardena and Valencia that lasted for 300 years. So Bariteon hurried to come before the other high elves did anything.
