Chapter 218 – French Marigold (Complete)
Saddam with the elder did not come to an end until noon.
As Linea accompanied her maids out of her mansion, the soldiers waiting outside her knelt one after another. A deep respect glowed in the eyes of the soldiers wearing graves.
About 100 elite soldiers were showing respect, but Linea couldn’t feel any inspiration.
The sunlight shining brightly on everything and the scenery of the hometown covered with greenery seemed insipid to Linea now.
“Daejangnim. Would you like to go straight to the temple?”
There is no place I really want to hear. Nodding his head quietly, Linea steps down the stairs.
The soldiers got up and opened the way, and Linea and her maids walked between them as expected.
The soldiers, who were scattered in perfect order, began escorting Linea at a slight distance. The ranks of soldiers keeping their distance by matching their steps somehow feel like a moving prison.
‘Now…….’
If you enter the temple like this, you will never see Theorad again. He should have left only memories of everything that happened with him.
It was frightening and frightening, but Linea did not stop his steps her. He had better end his life here than go back to the mansion and bring trouble to Theo Rad.
Because unfulfilled love only met a miserable end in the end. If he lived on Theo Rad’s sympathy, he would surely be bad-tempered.
So, this choice will be a satisfactory ending for everyone. Haven’t you learned over a long period of time that it’s right to leave before you get hurt?
‘Nevertheless…….’
Her choking chest makes her breath sink. Her gait her is getting weaker and weaker, and her mind her is so empty that she can’t hear the chattering maid next to her.
“Great servant!”
“Please take a look here!”
The elves passing by her street recognized the Grand Master and shouted, but Linea showed no response.
Her noisy surroundings are not noticed. As if she was walking in a space separated from reality, everything seemed worthless.
“Great servant-!”
At that time, an elf blocked Linea’s way.
When Linea stopped her steps her, her soldiers her also stopped in unison.
“It’s rude!”
“What are you doing!”
Her soldiers tried to drag her elf away, but Linea raised her hand to restrain them. It was because she judged that if she stood in the way of the Grand Master, she would have something to say urgently.
Her soldiers had no choice but to clear her way her, and the elf, thanking Linea for her consideration her, drew near and knelt down on her knees.
“Thank you for allowing me to give you her mantra. I’m from the Ybela clan-“
“Tell me why.”
I don’t care who you are. Tell me why you blocked the way ahead. The elf, tense in his sharp tone her, lowered her head and said.
“Yes. Actually, I’m being rude like this because I have something to tell you about the slave hunters who roam the outskirts of the Great Grove. You can even call me a slave hunter, but…… Anyway, the man told me to deliver the message to the Grand Master.”
“A slave hunter?”
Are you saying that he blocked the Grand Master’s path just to convey the slave hunter’s words? As she frowned at her incomprehension her, the lady-in-waiting next to her added an explanation.
“Daejangnim. The slave hunters the author is talking about are probably an outlier that is rumored to be strange in the world.”
“A different species.”
“Yes. It is said that they roam the outskirts of the Great Forest in groups with many armed people, but strangely, they do not harm the clans that escaped the Great Forest’s barrier. Rather, I heard that they give them food and clothes and send them back to the Great Forest.”
Outwardly, he seems like a slave hunter, but he doesn’t harm the elves. The ironic information makes you tilt your head. Her curiosity and subtle interest aroused at the same time, so Linea decided to listen to the elf in front of her a little more.
“Therefore.”
“Yes?”
“So he asked me to tell him something.”
His cool voice His is intimidating, befitting his position His as Grand Master. The elf hurriedly replied as he lowered his eyes.
“When I go back to the great forest, I asked the great master to tell me that I am looking for an elf slave. The man added that the slave he was looking for was very fond of pudding. If you tell Grand Master, you will know who he is…….”
Linea’s lips parted softly. Her eyes her, which had been emotionless, became lively, and her heart her began to beat involuntarily.
It is because the only man who was naturally pictured in my head was raising the hope that had sunk at the bottom to the surface.
‘However…….’
I didn’t have the confidence to face Theorard and talk like usual. She had no face in seeing Theo Rad since she had left the mansion on her own.
Contrary to what I thought, her body was leaning at an angle. When she thought of Theo Rad, who was still looking for her somewhere nearby, he could n’t contain his desire her to see him.
“Theorard…… !”
Finally, Linea turned around and ran out with her back to the temple. Panicking, she pushed the soldiers in her way and left behind concerned passers-by as she continued to run.
Because I wanted to meet the man who taught me the feeling of love for the first and last time, a man I couldn’t forget even if I wanted to forget it.
*
“Uh? It’s snowing.”
Hearing Bainen’s blunt words, Theorad as well as the knights roaming around raised their heads and looked up at the sky.
As Bainen said, snow was falling from the dry sky. Thanks to the gentle wind, the snowflakes swaying quietly were quite beautiful to see.
In the serene landscape, Theo Rad raises and spreads his hand. The snowflakes that were falling through the sky touched Theorad’s hand and melted away.
“Young master.”
Beinan, who had come to her side of her, asked with a worried look on her face of her.
“It’s early, but since the first snow has fallen, I think we’ll have to withdraw.”
Theo Rad let out a chilled breath and clenched his fists. In my heart, I wanted to observe the progress a little longer, but Theorard had no choice.
After hearing the circumstances of Esily, Leo Berg lent the knights to Theo Rad, but the deadline was until the first snow fell. He promised to return to the territory when winter began, so now he really has no choice but to withdraw.
‘Rinea…… Doesn’t it come after all?’
Since he couldn’t enter the Great Forest, which was blocked by a strong barrier, Theorad wandered around the Great Forest, helping elves who were lost or injured, and asked the great servant, Linea, to deliver the words.
All of them replied that they knew, but it is not known whether the words were properly conveyed. Even so, I couldn’t stay here forever.
Aside from the promise with the Count, the knights, as well as Bainen, were exhausted. Having spent a long time in remote areas, physical limitations have come.
“I can’t help it.”
It was the moment when Theorard, thinking that he could not cause any further nuisance, was about to give the order to withdraw.
“…… Theorard?”
A familiar voice made her shoulders tremble. I thought it was an auditory hallucination, but the voice that reached my ear was so clear.
In addition, the surprise on the faces of the knights and Bainon instilled confidence that the owner of the voice was Linea. Theorard took a deep breath and slowly looked back.
I see an elf wearing a pure white robe and wearing all sorts of accessories. Although the clothes were different, it was certain that the elf in front of her was Linea.
“Linea…….”
Contrary to Theo Rad’s world of trees with their bare branches exposed, there is a clear contrast between the figure of Linea, who has stopped her steps in the green barrier of the great forest.
She could have escaped the barrier by taking just one step forward, but Linea did not. With confused emotions inside, she just looked at Theo Rad.
An awkward silence falls between the two. Theorard, unsure of what to say, spoke cautiously.
“How have you been? I missed you.”
The words that I missed you touch my heart. But you shouldn’t be embarrassed. Swallowing her dry saliva, Linea, who struggled to manage her expression her, responded as calmly as possible.
“…… I heard she’s looking for elven slaves.”
“It is.”
“Are you insane? If someone other than me had heard this, you could be dead by now!”
The cold cry makes the knights flinch. But Theorard didn’t blink an eye. The smoke is flimsy. He was angry, but his voice trembled like an idiot.
“Okay. As you said, there was a time when I was crazy.”
Low laughter. Theorard, who recalled the past, calmly continued.
“I bought an elf slave as if I was possessed by something. He was such a strict and demanding slave that at times he was confused whether he was the master or the slave. You have no idea how much I regretted buying that slave.”
Linea’s gaze her, consumed by her guilt her, is down. It was because she was prepared to accept it humbly if it came to rebuke her wrongdoing her.
“But.”
Theorard said.
“It is only my will to stand here now. Also, I’m not here to take slaves. Linea Arpolite. I am here to pick you up.”
I came to pick you up, not a slave. Linea raised her head at the sound of her heartfelt words in her. Her red eyes her quivered and her fingertips her trembled.
Joy and sadness mix at the base of her heart her. Even though he was glad that Theorard had come to visit him without accepting the breakup, he was sad to think that it was out of simple sympathy.
A faint smile crumbles away. Anyway, the end of this conversation will be just another farewell. In that case, it would have been better to push Theorad away from this side.
“Theorard. Anyway, you me-“
“I love you.”
Linea’s eyes widen at her unexpected answer to her. I wondered if he was playing a bad prank, but Theorard’s expression was more serious than ever.
“I’ve been thinking a lot since you left the mansion. Exactly what my feelings for you are. I denied it at first, but eventually I had to admit it. Linea. I am loving you. So, please do not formally ask.”
Theorad’s breath lengthened.
As if sorry for the belated confession, Theo Rad cautiously reached out his hand.
“If you don’t mind, will you please marry me?”
Lynea couldn’t answer. It was because her head was turning pure white thanks to hearing her shocking words her one after another.
Love. And get married. The past, which he thought he would never be able to do, collapses like a sand castle swept away by the waves.
The joy of that made Linea deny the reality. If this is a dream, I want to wake up before it hurts more.
So she closed her eyes and opened them, but Theo Rad was still standing in front of her. She waited for Linea’s permission while being greeted by falling snowflakes.
“I, I…… Theorard, this is…….”
The murmur of words is scattered in all directions. She didn’t even know what she wanted to say. Linea, who had been frozen as if out of order, mustered up her courage and took a step forward.
As she crossed the boundary line of the barrier, Linea could feel the cold energy rising from the ground. Thanks to her her, she recognized that this was not her dream her, and Linea continued her steps her.
One step became two steps, two steps became three steps, and three steps became four steps. Steps that gradually speed up eventually turn into running.
Brilliant silver hair flutters beautifully, and the ornaments on the wedding dress sway non-stop.
Theorard, who measured the distance that was slowly closing, opened his arms. Reaching close range to her, Linea jumped into Theo Rad’s arms her.
A body that is in close contact for an instant. The hands holding each other are so warm. Unable to hide her overflowing emotions of her, Linea finally burst into tears and confessed her true feelings of her.
“I like you. I love you so much, Theorard……!”
“Me too.”
Theorard spoke softly and patted Linea on the back of her. Thanks to this, Linea couldn’t continue her words and buried her face in Theo Rad’s chest her.
Comfy. It was such a warm embrace that her painful memories of her had melted away like snow.
In a world of only the two of them, where pure white snowflakes fluttered, Linea, who hugged Theorad even closer, was finally convinced.
The Elf Who Wants to Be Humiliated… Finished
