Chapter 30 – 030. Rescue Request (1)
“Ah~ the shoulders and back are so comfortable.”
Illyana stretched her body wide, feeling refreshed that the aching sensation in her shoulders and back that she had been feeling so far had completely disappeared.
“Can’t we do this every day?”
“You can’t feel like today just because you do it every day. I will do it once a week.”
“Hmm.”
Perhaps Eun-hyun liked the massage she gave her last night, but she looks a bit disappointed.
“And it’s best not to stick together or get stuck in the first place. In the future, pay attention to correcting your posture.”
“But have you already gotten used to it?”
“Then you have to change that habit.”
From now on, while doing paperwork, it is better to refrain from leaning your body on one side of the chair or crossing your legs.
“… It just keeps nagging me.”
After hearing Eunhyun’s words, Illyana resumed her library work while grunting in such a low voice.
Smart
“Come in.”
“Excuse me. Illyana-sama has a guest.”
“Customer? Hmm, let me in.”
Illyana and Eunhyeon, who were about to have lunch, looked at the guests who entered the room after being guided by the secretary.
“Hello.”
“… What kind of combination is this?”
“Princess Eleanor? And…”
Eun-hyeon stared at another person while frowning at the fact that the daughter of the ducal family, who had been greatly involved in the Renion Hersha embezzlement case, came to the Mervis library shortly after the case was over.
Eleanor’s companion covers her face with the hood of a robe made of luxurious fabric.
As soon as her gaze turned to her companion, her companion pulled back the hood that was hiding her face, revealing herself.
“… I don’t think you came here for good business.”
She was certain that this woman had never come here for good.
“Princess. You broke your promise.”
“Eww…”
Eleanor flinched at Eunhyun’s words as if she was disappointed.
“Don’t blame Eleanor. It’s because I forced myself to come here.”
Hiding Eleanor, who shrank at Eun-hyeon’s words, behind her, another woman stepped forward and faced Eun-hyeon.
“I’m really sorry for being so rude. So, the witch’s assistant… Did you say?”
“It’s like my job title that other people call me. Please call me ‘Eunhyeon’ or ‘Hyeon’. Your Highness Hubie.”
“You know me. But since I don’t know you, let me introduce myself again. My name is Helena Fernias, Queen of the Kingdom of Fernias.”
The head of this kingdom, the second wife of the owner, the king, Helena Fernias, held out her hand to her eunhyeon and asked her to shake her hand.
“Please, I have something I want to tell you, so I came here with a request from the princess.”
Eunhyun didn’t hold Helena Hubei’s hand right away and looked at it carefully.
“You mean a favor from me, not from our witch?”
Eventually, she narrowed her eyebrows and cast her gaze at Princess Eleanor. Eleanor turned her head away from Eun-hyeon’s gaze and put her excuse into her mouth.
“I couldn’t help it.”
“It couldn’t be helped?”
“It’s a message from my older brother.”
The only ones Eleanor refers to as older brothers are Ashton or Alex.
There was no way that the proud little duke with a strong sense of inferiority sent a message directly to Eleanor.
Eleanor cautiously stepped forward and took out a piece of paper containing Alex’s words from her arms to Eun-hyeon.
– If I don’t come back in 3 days, ask that person for help right away.
“How can you be sure that ‘that person’ written on this piece of paper is me?”
“The matter was the matter. You were the first thing that came to my mind as someone I could turn to for help when I had a problem. I was sure my older brother thought the same as I did.”
Looking at Eleanor speaking with a confident voice, Eunhyun smiled.
“What is funny?”
“Isn’t the princess also dumbfounded? Excluding the royal family in this country, the fact that the duke’s family, which has the highest status, is not being asked for help, but is in a position to ask for help, and I am neither another noble nor a citizen of the kingdom.”
‘You want to reveal your circumstances to someone like me and ask for help?’
Eunhyun thought it was a very absurd contradiction.
He has an unclear identity, and he does not know his true identity or purpose.
He has no intention of threatening the kingdom, but neither is he being benevolent.
He’s not on his side, but he’s considered an enemy, and he’s a dangerous man to threaten.
That was Eleanor’s impression of Eun-hyeon.
But even so, he could not deny that he was the first person to come to mind.
“…”
Eleanor bit her lip, unable to respond to her mockery mixed with her smirk.
“Really… I couldn’t help it… All I could think of was you.”
“Let me explain myself.”
“No.”
“…”
Helena Hobby’s eyes narrowed.
At the same time, Eleanor’s complexion turned pale.
No one who has set foot on this land could treat the owner of this land, the mother of the kingdom, in this way.
Eun-hyun’s rude behavior, which she refused even before explaining the circumstances, was a crime close to summary execution, considering that the opponent was a member of the royal family.
However, the fact that this place where Eunhyeon and Helena Hubei are currently located is not the royal palace, and even Illyana, the owner of this house, seemed to have no intention of scolding Eunhyeon for her rude behavior.
It was neither a position nor a situation that Helena Hubei could do anything about because Eun-hyeon appeared so recklessly.
“Hey! No matter how recklessly we came to visit you, you are so rude to the queen of this country… !”
“Rude?”
Illyana cut off her Eleanor and glared at her.
“… Eww.”
At Eun-hyeon’s rude remarks, Eleanor screamed at him in amazement at her, but Eun-hyeon didn’t care.
Rather calmly, she opened her mouth.
“Shall I explain why I cannot fulfill the queen’s request?”
“… Let’s listen.”
Helena Hobby’s face was not one of anger or humiliation.
“First, there is no merit given to me. Even if I fulfilled the queen’s request, there is no benefit to return to me.”
“What do you want? If you want riches, power, or fame, I can do it for you.”
“Doesn’t the princess who introduced me and accompanied me here know what kind of deal I made with the Duke of Armitas?”
Helena understood the meaning of Eunhyun’s words.
Eun-hyeon had already heard from Eleanor that he had delivered the large sum of 600 platinum coins to the ducal family.
Helena tried to present as her bargaining card that this time she would relieve the burden of a large expenditure in exchange for Eun-hyeon’s help, but she thought it was a bad decision.
In the first place, Eun-hyeon presented 600 platinum coins to the duke’s family, but the only request she asked for was ‘protection of Erinn’.
It was too shabby to ask for compared to the price.
Rather, he even felt that he had made an excuse because Eun-hyeon wanted to give 600 platinum coins to the ducal family.
The meaning of this word was an expression of intention, saying, ‘For me, 600 platinum coins are not a burden.’
‘What the hell is this man? ?’
He was simply perceived as a target for help, a talented young man, but the more we talked, the more doubts and mysteries piled up.
“Second, I hate having my name mentioned in kingdom affairs. The previous case of Baronet Hersha was also something I had no choice but to do at the request of Marquis Bernard, but I proceeded with the help of many people and even prepared a fake scenario so that my name would not be mentioned. But it’s a matter to the extent that the royal family directly asks for help… It’s kind of annoying.”
“I will cooperate with you to proceed as secretly as possible. Never mention your name…”
“I can’t believe that promise. The fact that the queen has already visited me is the reason I can’t believe the queen’s promise.”
Saying that, Eunhyeon looked at Eleanor and Eleanor trembled.
The reason why Helena was able to find Eun-hyeon after knowing about Eun-hyeon’s existence means that, of course, Eleanor next to her told her the whole story of the last incident with Baron Hersha Jun.
Eleanor did not think that even if they made the same promise on top of the trust and promise that had already been broken once, it would give Eun-hyeon faith.
I was so desperate that I immediately thought of Eun-hyeon and went to the library to ask for help, so I didn’t pay attention to this.
“Eww…”
As Abros said, Eunhyeon was a man who was far from desires such as fame, wealth, and power.
However, he was far from a righteous or kind person who valued life, corrected wrongs and pursued the right.
I couldn’t figure out what the hell a man named Eunhyeon was doing and what he valued.
His father, Avros, had previously said, ‘a nasty guy you don’t want to make an enemy of.’ It came back to me, and it made a little sense.
I couldn’t understand what he was thinking, and except for his power as an aristocrat, such as brains and brute force, the man named Eun-hyeon was perfect in every part and always showed moves that exceeded their expectations.
He didn’t want to imagine what would happen if Eun-hyeon turned against him and turned his hostility towards the duke’s family.
There was no reason for such a person to be confined to the kingdom and to accept it just because it was a request from one of the highest figures in the kingdom.
If he had been a different person, he would have accepted the request blinded by success and rewards or drunk with a sense of justice, but the man in front of him is different.
‘Now really… Brother… What should I…’
“That’s why I’d like to make a condition at this point.”
“… ?”
Seeing Eun-hyeon’s sudden change of attitude, Helena Hobby and Eleanor frowned and glared at Eun-hyeon.
“Illyana. Can I?”
“Do whatever you feel like.”
Her Eun-hyeon’s attitude in asking her own boss, her witch, or Illyana’s waving her hand, showing no intention of interfering with her Eun-hyeon’s actions, clearly contradicted her boss and her subordinates. I didn’t see it in terms of an employee relationship.
Both Helena and Eleanor feel a strange sense of incongruity in his way of calling the hero’s name so familiarly.
But now, as their minds were focused on matters more important than that, the two women were unable to elaborate on this point.
“I will listen to Her Highness Hubei’s request. However, the reward I want from the royal family and princess will be a bit different.”
[Hey. If you were going to listen anyway, why did you refuse in the first place?]
‘Originally, the basics of negotiations start with bouncing and raising one’s ransom.’
[Ha, I always heard that, but I don’t understand why the child has such a troublesome personality.]
Eunhyun sighed and smiled wryly at Belldandy’s words of concern.
Due to Helena’s status as a member of the ‘royal family’, at the beginning of the story, of course, Helena has no choice but to have the upper hand.
However, she deliberately showed through her rude behavior and words that the authority and pressure of royalty did not work for her.
It didn’t include resentment that Eleanor had broken her promise so that she would come to him with a more troublesome case.
“Now then, shall we hear what Alex-sama was doing?”
