Chapter 11 – 011. The Ghost of the Divine Tree (4)
I frowned at the dazzling sunlight and recognized that it was morning.
Eun-hyeon automatically got up and got out of bed and started getting ready right away.
After washing his hair, washing his face and brushing his teeth, he changes his clothes and goes out to the living room to prepare breakfast.
He heats the iron plate with a magic tool, melts a piece of butter, and then puts slices of bread on top of each other and puts an egg on top.
Season it simply with a little salt and pepper and when the bottom of the bread is golden brown.
Turn over, top with grilled ham and cheese, and simply cook with single-digit fire magic to melt the cheese.
After that, I moved it to a bowl, cut it into bite-sized pieces with a knife, put a salad on it, and prepared a cup of milk warmed to the right temperature next to it and set it on the table.
Eventually, Illyana, still in her nightgown, yawned and came out of the room.
“Did you sleep well?”
“No.”
Even as she yawned with her eyes wide open as if she hadn’t woken up, at her own morning greetings, Illyana flatly refused her with her somewhat pouty expression.
She’s still angry that she doesn’t know that yesterday’s self was teased a little.
She was about to laugh at her attitude, but she held it back.
Eunhyun pulled out a chair for her and invited her to sit down.
The steam and scent rising from the food set on the table reached her face and stimulated Illyana’s appetite, who had just woken up.
“Do you think that this will make me angry?”
Maybe it’s because this morning looks more elaborate than usual.
She snorted at Illyana as she looked at her Eun Hyun, which she thought was a sign of her apology for upsetting her last night.
She doesn’t even know what she did wrong.
It was to the extent that I felt rather disgusted with her mindset to relieve her own anger by bringing and offering such delicious-looking dishes.
Illyana did not put her hand on her fork, and said that she had no intention of letting go of her anger yet, and quietly crossed her arms.
“No way. I know you.”
“Joy.”
Illyana snorts her once more and eventually picks it up on her fork and starts eating.
“I’ll see the solution tomorrow. Help me too.”
Illyana was still sullen, but reluctantly nodded her head.
It was not in her temper to prioritize her private feelings over her public affairs.
It was a bonus that she couldn’t help but nod her head.
“Today I will go to Riod.”
“Didn’t you go yesterday?”
“Time was time.”
She could, in fact, go if she wanted to, but because she spent hours chatting with Erin.
It was already dawn for her, so she couldn’t go to Rio de Mansion.
“I need to ask for some help over there. At least you won’t reject it mercilessly, will you?”
“Hmph, that bastard rejects you? You can never do that. If you ask, I would even cut the head of the king of this country.”
“Hey, don’t talk like that outside. My throat was cut for contempt of the royal family.”
After having breakfast with Illyana, Eunhyeon finished cleaning up and was about to leave the house and head for Riod’s mansion.
“Hello.”
As soon as she stepped out of the mansion, she was greeted by a blonde-haired girl who was waiting at the gate.
“Ara? Why are you waiting at the entrance this morning?”
“I contacted you yesterday that you were visiting, but you didn’t come, so my father personally sent me.”
Eunhyeon swallowed the question of whether she had to go that far and smiled bitterly.
Last night, when Eun-hyeon left the library, she said Illyana had contacted her that Eun-hyeon would go there, but she didn’t go.
Even so she did this early in the morning and she let her daughter do this while doing it herself.
She thought it was too much.
“I didn’t know you would come in person. She almost thought that Illyana would have passed on her news.”
In fact, the authority to investigate this case has been entrusted to ‘Riod Olivion’, the leader of Artia, the most powerful knights in the kingdom.
As a result of the meeting of court nobility, Artia was ordered to find out the details of the incident and recover the embezzled budget.
In such a situation, all the suspects disappeared in the form of execution, flight, or disappearance of the family of the baron Renion Hersha, who was at the center of the embezzlement case.
Eunhyeon thought that even that Riod might be in a rather frustrating situation right now.
“If… Is Eunhyun-nim stepping in like this because of her father’s request?”
“This was Illyana’s request. So she didn’t even ask whose request it was. It must be someone related to the royal family anyway.”
“Ah! The Black Witch’s…”
Eira had a slightly surprised expression, but she nodded her head as if she understood.
“Besides, I can’t imagine that stubborn lion asking me for a favor, no matter how big the case.”
Eunhyeon actually imagined it in her head, recalled an expression with a wrinkled expression as if her pride had been hurt, and smiled.
Eyra smiled bitterly at the slight gossip she had about her own father.
“I’ll give you a little help, though.”
Eun-hyeon smiled softly and he responded with a smile as if he was happy.
He climbed into the prepared carriage and it did not take long before he arrived at the Marquis’s mansion.
As her leading lady Eira entered her mansion greeted by her attendants, Eunhyeon also followed her into the house.
“Welcome.”
The Marquis, who had already come out to greet him.
Theresia Olivion was greeting Eunhyun.
Eunhyun received her greeting and she replied with a smile as well.
“Sorry for coming to you while you are quite busy.”
“No. Her hard work is because her husband is doing it. She couldn’t be of any help to him, so she just waited for her pity.”
Theresia smiled and accepted Eunhyun’s apology.
Even as she said that, Theresia slightly looked at Eun-hyeon, and she was carefully choosing what to say.
‘It doesn’t have to be too hard, she said, but…’
Eunhyun thought that it was not easy.
Her long, golden hair that comes down to her waist is partly braided in the center, and her long, flowing hairstyle is impressive.
Even though she did not wear any special ornaments or flashy decorations, she had an old-fashioned atmosphere.
Although she was initially subtle because of her very young appearance and personality to be her husband’s close friend.
First of all, a man named Eun-hyeon helped her husband and is a person who will help her husband in the future.
Theresia, who never thought that she could respond at a low level, was thinking about how to treat her young man.
‘How did that blunt lion guy catch a woman like this?’
Although Riod and Theresia were not a married couple who loved each other warmly and directly.
In Eun-hyeon’s eyes, there was no other couple who cared for each other, got along well, and loved each other.
Aren’t they a good couple who care for each other in many ways?
A friend smiles and says he caught a girl well.
“Is the reason you visited the mansion today related to what her husband is currently investigating?”
At Theresia’s question, Eunhyeon came back to her senses and nodded as if she hadn’t thought about anything.
“I will guide him. You are already waiting.”
“Thank you.”
Eunhyun bowed her head in gratitude for Theresia’s kindness.
Arriving at the office guided by the Marquise’s wife, Eun-hyeon knocked and entered the room.
“Here you are.”
A brown-haired man sitting at his desk reading papers welcomed his visit.
One of the great heroes who ended the Great War of the Continental Alliance against the Mirbabilla Empire 20 years ago.
Also, it was Riod Olivion, who was Eunhyun’s colleague.
“You really are a precious person to me.”
“That is correct.”
Instead of greeting, Eun-hyeon, who was joking around, praised Theresia for guiding her to this place with respect.
Lyod affirmed with a wry smile.
The time when I faced the fact that Eun-hyeon, whom I trusted and depended on, had died after the great Arcana War with the Mirvabilla Empire was over.
She is a woman who saved herself from feeling helpless and despondent and pushed her to rise to where she is now.
If it wasn’t for her, would she be able to live like this, earning the title of the strongest knight in the Kingdom of Pernias and having her child?
“Shall we get straight to the point?
“I will.”
Riod said that his son, Elvin, had intercepted the gold coins Renion stole from his knights, and that he was currently tracking down his son who was on the run.
The most unexpected fact was that Renion, who was known to have been executed, was found assassinated in the prison where he was imprisoned.
They were discovered by a guard who was patrolling, and within three hours of being imprisoned, Riod and Artia, who were in charge of the investigation, were in great confusion.
While searching for the whereabouts of the gold coins, the investigation progressed so far was that he had captured the information that Elvin had fled to the north and tracked him down.
“Didn’t I say that the man named Alvin was a wizard?”
“They say you’re a wizard who has been in the second year since joining the Magus, the Court Magician Order.”
“Hmm, for commoners to join that elite group. Was he a pretty skilled wizard?”
“So so. They say he has a talent for seeing through the top digits.”
“Huh, at that age?”
The ‘number of digits’ meant the rank of the wizards.
It is generally divided into 10 grades ranging from one digit to ten digits.
The number of wizards entering the five-digit level is only about 10% of the entire continent’s wizard population.
Alvin had reached the level of crossing that stage at a young age.
“Okay then, I heard everything. That was good information. Now, would you like to ask for one from me?”
“What?”
“I need to catch a big fish. I need bait.”
“Hmm?”
“Your daughter. Can I borrow some?”
“Hmm?”
Lyod listened to Eunhyeon’s request and asked back as if he didn’t know what he was talking about.
But it didn’t take long to understand what he meant.
“Heh, whatever it is.”
On the contrary, Eun-hyeon was surprised by Riod’s reaction, who accepted it more readily than he thought.
What father in the world would put his child in danger?
However, Leo’s thoughts were different.
“Personally, I don’t want my daughter to become a knight. While working with you, I hope you indirectly realize the dangers of being a driver and quit.”
“…”
“Besides, there’s no way you’re really going to hurt that child. I think it will be a good opportunity to know the reality. Teach me a little bit of reality.”
“I am asking you to say this, but you raise your daughter too much like a boy. Anyone can see that she is a neat girl. I am afraid that she will grow into a muscle mass like you.”
“I was against Eira becoming a knight. Still, if you want to join my knights, I just thought it would be good to tell you the reality a little. You’ll be fully prepared anyway, so you won’t have to worry about being in danger, right?”
“Well, by the way…”
Eunhyun immediately nodded.
“She is still my friend’s daughter. I’ll let her go without leaving a scratch on her. She is the daughter of a famous friend, so as her uncle, can you give her some pocket money?”
“Under.”
Two people who don’t seem to have much of an age difference would be known if they were friends or siblings, but who on earth could look at them that way?
Lyod thought to himself and snorted.
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“So where are we going?”
Her father’s permission was readily given, so Eira followed Eun-hyeon at Leo De’s command and left the mansion of the writer after her.
Eira’s mother, Theresia, who heard of her plan, showed disapproval to the end, but did not express her dissatisfaction with her husband, Riod’s decision.
She deliberately puts her child in a dangerous situation, and worries about the way he grows through it.
“Adventurer’s Guild.”
“An adventurer’s guild? Why are you there?”
“Eyra, have you ever tried fishing?”
“No?”
“There is an old saying like this. It is not because of the angler or the fishing rod that the fish are caught. It’s because of the bait attached to the hook.”
“Are you saying that the bait is more important than the angler’s skill or equipment?”
“Yes. We are going to spread the bait now.”
“Eunhyeon-nim called me ‘bait’ to my father earlier…”
“Huh. So, from now on, I will tell you what to do.”
