Chapter 269 – 269. Reunion, Return (2)
“Then go first with Eleanor… I’ll go to the mansion to see Mr. In.”
Eunhyeon, who spoke the new title of Eleanor’s father, Abros, said with an awkward expression.
“Huh, got it.”
After hearing Eunhyun’s words with a smile, Alex nodded and accepted Eunhyun’s words.
“If it’s awkward, there’s no need to bother changing the title. Your father has no intention of forcing you to do that.”
“That’s right.”
When Eleanor smiled and conveyed the same thought, Eun-hyeon smiled bitterly and shook her head.
“Still, it’s a title I’ll have to call someday.”
Eleanor, who had a happy expression at Eun-hyeon’s words, leaned on his shoulder and answered his words.
“I’m glad if you think so.”
“I ask my father to deliver the news of me and the soldiers of the dukedom. He also said that he would return immediately after three days after his break.”
“Okay.”
After roughly discussing the future schedule with Alex, Eun-hyeon left the border of Mograf first through Illyana’s teleport.
Alex, who has to take responsibility for the soldiers and adventurers he has led, has not been able to return with his sister, who is reunited after a long time.
Three days after the defense of the fortress ended, Eunhyeon, who entered the dukedom via teleport, spoke to Derekin and Alice.
“I’ll go straight to the nursery school where I left Eris. We also have to inquire about the inn where the two of them will be staying for a while.”
“Oh, I will help you with that. Older brother. There is an inn where I am staying. I’ll reserve a room over there in advance.”
“I think I can guide the nursery school.”
“Alvin? You?”
Eun-hyeon made an unexpected expression at Elvin’s gesture of personally guiding Derkin and Alice.
“… When Eris came to pick me up, she said she really wanted me to come.”
When she came to pick her up, she wanted Elvin to come pick her up, and Elvin, who couldn’t get over the herd of young half-elves, wanted to keep that promise.
“Hey… Why is Eris not me…”
Eris’ words that she was not waiting for herself, but that she was waiting for Elvin, hurt Derkin so much.
“Is it okay if I don’t talk to Erin?”
When Eun-Hyeon pointed out Erin, who was sleeping soundly on her back, and asked Alvin, she frowned as if Alvin had recalled a bad memory of her.
“… We’ve already talked enough. You seem to have a useless competitive spirit towards me, but you have to solve that part. Why do you have to shoot those sparks at me?”
She claimed to be Eunhyeon’s knight and became a faithful spirit who signed the oath of master and servant, but with that, her strange rivalry ignited and her sister’s spark of jealousy toward herself was irrationality itself.
“… ?”
“Whoops.”
The difference in reaction between Eunhyun, who did not know what had happened, and Eleanor, who knew her, was clearly revealed.
“Anyway, it seems like it’s you, not me, that Erin wants to spend time with, so I’ll leave it up to you.”
Alvin didn’t feel the slightest bit of sadness from her sister because the difference between when he met him and when she met Eun-hyeon was quite different.
“Then Eunhyun. Miss Illyana. We’ll see you later, too.”
“You worked hard.”
“Older brother! Thank you for your hard work today! Get some rest!”
After Erwin, Gerard, and the elf couple left, the sleeping Erin, Eun-hyeon carrying Erin, and their two wives were left on the street in the estate.
“Then do we move right away?”
“Huh.”
“Yes.”
Once again, Eun-hyeon and her party, who entered the dungeon house by activating the teleport, inhaled the air of the house that returned home after a year.
“Haa~ It’s been a while since I’ve been home.”
Illyana smiled as she breathed in the fresh air that she couldn’t possibly smell inside the dungeon, finally realizing that her one-year long honeymoon was over.
“Welcome.”
Upon opening the door and entering, a line of dolls dressed in neat maid uniforms stood side by side on both sides, and at the very end of the line, Lily appeared and welcomed the return of the three.
“Has Lily completely become like a maid in the past year?”
“In the meantime, I’ve learned a lot from the chief maid of the duke’s mansion.”
Lily’s attitude, which is consistently responding with her elegant and modest attitude, shows a very professional mindset.
Erin might have smiled bitterly at the discrepancy with the scene where she was irritated while swearing at Gerard, whom she had passionately courted at the nursery school.
“What about Emilia?”
“Ah… Emilia is now… Still working in the underground workshop…”
“Are you in the middle of testing Optimus?”
“Yes.”
“Did anything special happen?”
“Something special…”
“I wasn’t asking about this house, I was asking about what happened in the duchy. Like the situation at the nursery school with your children, for example.”
“Ah…”
Lily gave a slightly surprised expression, as if she had heard the unexpected words.
Since she only built an orphanage and promised a certain amount of support, she hadn’t asked anything in particular, so she thought Eun-hyeon wasn’t interested.
Most of her information has already been reported through Heilangdan, but one of the important opinions is to hear directly from Lily about the work of the nursery school.
“Thanks to you, the kids are doing well too.”
“Then I’m glad.”
“Recently, Erin bought bread with her income from the adventurer’s guild and distributed it to her children.”
“Erin?”
“Yes.”
“Yes… Hyunah…”
As she looked at Erin, who was sitting on her back, holding her neck with her arms and calling her name, Eunhyeon let out a blank laugh.
“You must be very tired.”
“Don’t even do that. She ran around like that.”
The two wives smiled at the sight of Erin sleeping soundly on Eunhyun’s back.
Illyana’s hand, which neatly arranges and sweeps her hair that flows down from her, contains her admiration and affection for the girl’s growth.
Considering that she ran around without a break even after the battle with her monsters, of course, it was a natural result that her accumulated fatigue rushed in at once.
“I’ll move Erin to her room right away.”
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“Yes…”
Erin, who had been tossing and turning in her soft bed, immediately raised her body and looked around her.
“… Is it home? When did you come?”
She had a dumbfounded expression at waking up on a familiar bed.
The last time she fell asleep was when she had time to catch her breath after caring for the critically injured, until her tension was relieved.
She [She was exhausted and passed out at the end of her stamina.]
“Ah… Did you?”
[Her inexperience in not being able to distribute her own physical strength… Tsk. It’s still far away.]
“Even if I’m worried about you, do you have to say it in such a thorny language to clear your mind?”
[… Did I worry?]
“Huh? No?”
[Under! Who who do I mean you When, how, where, and why should I worry?]
“No, or no, why are you angry again…”
Erin felt dumbfounded by the nine-tailed fox’s desperate denial as her words suddenly sped up.
Since she was just worried, she babbles as if half of her soul would fall off if I advise her to take good care of herself so that she doesn’t fall so carelessly from now on.
“Ah, I’m thirsty…”
Perhaps because even in the fort she had been running around without the time and energy to drink properly, she felt very thirsty as soon as she awoke.
She looks at her watch, it’s past midnight, when everyone should be asleep.
Erin muffled her voice so as not to wake everyone up, and she cautiously left her room and headed for the living room.
Taking a cup from her kitchen and pouring water into it, she gulped it down, quenching the intense thirst that permeated her body.
“Whoa… Huh?”
She exhaled a small breath, poured a glass of water, and took the moment she was about to take it into the room.
“Is the door down to the basement open?”
She was puzzled by the fact that at this dawn the door that should not normally be open was open.
“Who is still awake?”
Come to think of it, even though her Eunhyeon and her two wives had returned, there was no time to properly share the conversations that had accumulated in a year as they were dealing with their own responsibilities at the border fortress.
“Is it Hyun?”
Most of the people who use the workshop installed in the basement are Eunhyeon.
Illyana often comes in and out while helping Eun-hyeon with her work, but she is extremely passive to the point that she won’t move unless Eun-hyeon asks for a favor.
In the case of Eleanor and Lily, they are unfamiliar with the production and workshop of artifacts, so like Erin, they do not approach the underground well.
In the case of Emilia and the dolls, the underground studio is like their own house, and it is out of the question because they are dolls, not people.
“Let’s go down once.”
Curious who might be using the underground facility, Erin shifted her steps and ran down her stairs.
“Hehe, if it’s a string, you have to surprise me.”
As she reunited after a year, she couldn’t control her excitement, and Erin smiled and looked forward to talking to her Eun-hyeon.
Erin, who soon entered the underground studio, put on a puzzled look at her very quiet interior.
“… Is there anyone?”
Could it be that Eun-hyeon stopped by the basement studio and didn’t lock the door?
“Hyeoni is really… Rarely make a mistake like this…”
Forgotten and not locking the door is one of the common mistakes that could have been made, but thinking that it was made by Eun-hyun, who doesn’t usually make mistakes, made me laugh out loud.
When he made up his mind to go back to his room like that.
“Ah!”
“… Huh?”
The sound of her familiar woman’s screams forced Erin to stop her steps back up to her room.
“This… Eleanor-sama’s voice?”
Carefully channeling her five senses, she moved her steps toward the direction she had heard Eleanor’s scream.
The closer we got to the deepest part of the underground workshop, towards the half-open secret room, the clearer the sound became.
“Huh, huh…”
“Good?”
“Good… Great… Whoa!”
Eleanor’s screams grow louder and clearer with each step she takes.
It didn’t take long to realize that the scream was not a struggle in pain, but a chant with a touch of ecstasy.
“This can’t be… ?”
What on earth was Eleanor doing in the secret space prepared in the basement workshop past midnight, so that Eleanor could vomit such a pleasant voice?
Sensing the situation, Erin swallowed the saliva that went down her throat and moved her steps to peek into her room.
[No way…]
The nine-tailed fox also notices the situation happening inside at the same timing as Erin.
[Immature. Just go back.]
“…”
Erin did not respond to the nine-tailed fox.
Despite her repeated persuasion, Erin, distracted by the situation in her room, continued her steps.
She reached the door and Erin knelt on her floor as she peered her face through the crack in the secret half-open door as she surveyed the situation in the room.
“Huh!”
“… Breath!?”
She spyed on the situation inside, but Erin was in great shock.
She is startled and hastily shuts her own mouth trying to let her breath out.
‘Doo-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-du-two… !?’
[This stupid thing… That’s why I told you to listen to me…]
