Chapter 174 – Crossed Minds (7)
It’s raining.
In the living room, Esily, who had been watching the water droplets streak across the window, quietly raised her teacup.
The warm steam rising from the black tea tickled the tip of his nose her, but he frowned without even moving. Because she couldn’t understand what was going on.
The accumulated experience of living so far was to the point of ringing the emergency bell.
– She is smart and sharp.
It could be said that it was a simple proposition that could abbreviate the character of Esily. It was because her father her, Earl Leoberg, had a habit of saying that she was ‘young but brilliant’.
Leo Berg was n’t saying that simply out of affection for her daughter her. She is actually a woman who has been interested in politics since she was a child and has excellent business skills.
On days when there was a deal with the family her, she followed her father her closely, not wanting to be separated from her father her, and closely observed her dealings her, noticing the advantages they brought.
Over her shoulder her, she slowly built up her knowledge her, and she grew up to the point where she did not spare her advice and advice to her father her, Leo Berg.
At first, she thought it was her daughter’s joke of her, and it was Leo Berg who laughed at her and listened through her ears of her, but at some point she realized that Esily’s advice of her was quite helpful.
─ The Spaniards do not have the ability to keep their promises. You know it’s a promise they can’t keep. However, promising repayment in the next year is to impose unreasonable conditions on the people in order to extinguish the fire in front of their eyes because there is a famine in the territory right now.
─ Judging from the fact that you have been given these conditions from the beginning, it seems that you have visited this place for the last time after being rejected by other great families. So have mercy Father. By providing food without interest, you are earning the favor of the Spaniards.
─If you do that, I will separately go to the Spanan family estate and acquire the distribution rights for the textile business. You can’t easily refuse in a position where you are receiving help. I’ll pay for it, so if you tell the Pelgarin family to supply about half of the fabric production, the Spaeran family won’t be able to do anything either.
Leo Berg defrauded her and did as Esily told her, and that year, Esily actually succeeded in obtaining the right to distribute the textiles of the Spaniard family.
Afterwards, after bargaining with the drafting magnate, Esily won the contract without losing money, leaving a good margin.
He grew up as Geum Ok-Yeop (金枝玉葉), but unlike other ladies of the Great Family, he continued his progressive steps. In the process, Esily met many people and forged alliances.
Essilly’s informants spread throughout the empire are proof of that. To Esily, who had accumulated such insight, the recent elves were certainly strange.
‘Something has changed….’
Today is the ninth day since the elf woke up from the night of quarantine. Even though two days had passed since Roylen’s ‘usual week’, the elf was still exhibiting infantile regressive behavior.
I wondered about that and asked Roilen for an explanation, but Roilen sweated profusely and said that she didn’t know what was going on, and she only answered around the corner.
Roylen added that it might take a little longer to come to her senses her as it was literally ‘normal’, but Esily thought it was a hasty conclusion.
‘If it took less, it would take less, it could take more…….’
Elves are beings with so much magical power that their unconsciousness appears as a manifestation of magic.
It was difficult to realistically accept that a being born with the divine energy used by dragons that were said to be extinct on the ground could not overcome mana exhaustion even nine days later.
Moreover, four days ago, the elf’s behavior began to feel strangely different.
When she first took a nursing shift with Theo Rad and went into her hospital room, the elf would follow her warmly, spitting out the word ‘Sister Esley’ with her bright face her.
It was quite a burdensome word and action, but Essilie soon adapted. She was not an elf, but she was a child, so I just had to take care of her.
‘But four days ago…….’
She took her shift with Theo Rad and went into her hospital room, but the elf didn’t show much reaction. She deliberately looked away, just staring out her window.
Even when asked about something, she answered indifferently, and when fruit was peeled, she ate it or dried it. Plus she seemed reluctant to see her face to face.
At that time, her feelings of her on the elf’s face of her were close to her guilt of her. She did n’t make any mistakes, but why the hell did she just have a guilty conscience.
“Hmm…….”
She is suspicious no matter how you think about it. In fact, she came back to her senses her, but for some reason she did n’t reveal that fact, and her reasoning her was becoming more and more like a theory.
Still, she shouldn’t blindly trust speculation.
‘Today, I need to find out what the plan is.’
Essili, narrowing her eyes, quietly inhaled the tea. She goes over with the moderately cooled black tea passing her soft throat her.
Esily, savoring her taste and scent of her, she put her teacup down and grabbed her scroll beside it. It was a piece of parchment tied to her little string. It was a document that Essilly had ordered her attendant to retrieve it the other day.
‘I made this just in case….’
She has something to write about, and she is at a loss as to whether she should like it or not.
Eshili sighed and got up from her seat and walked towards the hospital room where the elf was. As shift time was running out, he was supposed to be waiting in advance.
As I climbed the stairs and walked down the hallway, the door to the hospital room opened just in time. After confirming that Theorard was coming out of there, Esily smiled brightly.
“Sir Theorard.”
Theorard, who found Esily, also responded with a smile. She could leave it to another woman and go back to her hometown her, but it was because she was proud and grateful that she stayed at the villa and looked after the elves.
Theorard, who had moved closer to Essilly, began talking happily.
“Esley. You came out on time.”
“It is a matter of course. We can’t keep Sir Theorard waiting.”
The words full of affection made it impossible to let go of a smile. It feels like her mood her, which has been low due to the gloomy weather, is restored.
“Thank you for thinking so. The condition of the elf today is…….”
Theorard quietly told Essilie about the times he had spent with the elves.
Most of the comments were that he was better at origami than I was now, that he had become more docile because he was less childish, and that he was worried because his smile he had decreased a lot these days.
Theorard must have noticed the changes in the elves to some extent. He didn’t seem to get the idea that elves were fooling people, however.
“Okay. I know.”
Essilie, who took over her hand her with a smile on her face, nodded her head. With nothing more to say, Theorard said a brief goodbye and walked past Esily.
After leaving Theorard, Esily took a deep breath and headed to the elf’s hospital room. When she opened the door and went inside, she saw the elf, as always, perched on the bed and staring out her window.
It had been like this for four days. She hadn’t even thought of closing the windows, even though it was raining now.
“…… I’m here.”
She tried hinting at it, but the elf was silent. At this point, it would be appropriate to deliberately ignore it.
Seeley didn’t like that, so she walked over to the window and she closed it. Thanks to this, the fluttering curtains calmed down, and the elf’s hair, which had been fluttering wildly, calmly settled down.
“Let’s talk.”
Esily muttered as she locked the window, but the elf still remained silent. She exhaled a low breath and Seely turned her around and looked down at her elf her.
The pupils of the elf staring unnaturally forward tremble slightly. Although she is conscious, it is clear that she deliberately pretends not to know.
No matter how much she thought about it, it seemed right that she had come to her senses her. She pondered for a moment, then Sally bent her knees and met her elf’s gaze at her.
“I want to know. Why are you doing this?”
“What are you talking about……?”
“You know better what I mean. I know my mind is back. Believe me that a great mage like you can’t wake up after nine days of mana exhaustion? I don’t know if it’s Theorad, but I can’t fool you.”
An empty silence covers the room. The sound of the wind and rain hitting the window rings intermittently. The elf, unable to come up with an answer, looked away.
“I don’t know what you are talking about…….”
I did it anyway. In words, it was unlikely that the elf would tell the truth. Thanks to that, Ecily’s mind became more complicated. She thought that the reason why the elf was holding out this far was not simple.
‘I don’t think it’s just to get affection from Theorad…….’
There was no point in pretending to be a child for four days to crave her affection for her. An elf wouldn’t place much value on affection obtained by deceiving Theorad. Maybe in a day or two…… There was no way she was enjoying being cheated on for four days.
Then, is there a reason why he had to deceive Theorad? He thought it over, but he couldn’t pinpoint anything.
Of course, even if she had a reason not to tell the elf, she had no intention of ignoring it. Theorad, who judged that the elves had not returned from mana exhaustion, was putting off returning to his hometown.
For Theorad’s sake, he must prove that the spirit of the elves has returned. When she had finished her thoughts, Seely let out a sigh and lifted her body.
“I don’t have time to be idle like this. The clans of the Great Grove found out about your presence and declared war. I mean, he rose up with the intention of starting a war against humans.”
Of course it’s a lie It was nothing more than a stimulating device to bring out the elf’s true heart his.
However, the elves were not fools either. She calmly ignored Essilly’s words, as she was not so soft-tempered that she believed them right away.
He didn’t expect the elf’s reaction. I untied the string on the parchment that Esily had brought with me.
“I don’t think you will believe it, so I brought the Declaration of War issued by the Great Forest.”
Essilly, untying her laces her, unfolded the parchment in front of the elf. It was literally a notice of the beginning of the war with the phrase that the clans of the great forest would wage a war against the humans.
Thanks to this, the elf was taken aback. This is because the expression and style of the writing on the parchment Esili brought was similar to that used in his hometown her.
“Nonsense! I, the Grand Master, did not allow it……?”
The elf stopped talking and shut his mouth. If you look closely, the form is similar, but not the same. The way the writing was written was also full of awkwardness, except for large phrases.
Only then did the elf realize that he had been tricked, but it was too late to reverse it. Esily folded the parchment and looked down at the elf with cold eyes.
“Now stop acting.”
Another long silence follows. The elf, who hesitated to answer with her legs together, licked her lips with difficulty.
“Yes…”
As if he couldn’t take it anymore, a bitter smile appeared on the elf’s lips.
