Chapter 584 – 584. New Choice (2)
“…”
Sylvia quietly waited for Eunhyun’s answer.
If accepted, she would be extremely grateful and happy, but she knows very well that it is just her own selfishness.
So even if Eunhyeon didn’t accept it, he had no intention of resenting him.
“… Sister.”
Soon, Eunhyun called out to Sylvia in a hesitant voice.
“Huh.”
A tremble came out of Eunhyun’s voice, who finally answered and called her name.
Sylvia had already confirmed his feelings from that voice.
“I am… I can’t make a contract with my sister.”
Just as expected.
She already guessed.
However, when I heard it directly, one side of my chest hurt.
The homunculus artificial body that Sylvia’s spiritual body has settled in reproduces the five senses she felt during her lifetime, but ironically, it seems to reproduce her emotional pain as it is.
Although she had promised in advance that if she was rejected, she would back off cleanly, but Sylvia did not.
“Uh… Why?”
Eun-hyeon answered her question by clasping her hands on the table.
“Because making a contract with my sister is not purely a contract between a spirit and a human.”
Eunhyun was aware of Sylvia’s feelings.
What she wants through this spirit contract.
However, Eun-hyeon could not answer Sylvia’s feelings.
“Unfortunately, I have a lot of wives now. There are four of us.”
In fact, if you include the existence of the goddess, it would be five, but Belldandy was an exception.
Many wives care for them, care for them, and support them.
Right now, Eun-hyeon is overwhelmed with just answering her heart to her wives who are so devoted to her.
Wouldn’t it be disrespectful to her other wives, including her Illyana, to accept her Sylvia here?
She accepted Illyana, then Eleanor, then Lillie Erin, and although she said she herself, she honestly didn’t have the confidence to return all the affection she received.
“That… I see.”
When Sylvia heard Eunhyun’s words, her voice trembled.
Even though she was aware that it was just her request, which oozes her own selfishness and childishness, the bitterness in her heart did not go away easily.
“Sorry… Sun. I was too pushy.”
200 years have passed since she died.
She realizes that she was wrong in thinking about the premise that Eun-hyeon now had the same mind as her.
Due to her own choices, Eun-hyeon was able to heal her painful memories of her experiences and with the help of others, she has come so far.
There was no room for Sylvia in her place.
“Thank you for telling me right away.”
Sylvia lowered her head and rose from her seat.
If she raises her head, she faces Eun-hyeon’s face and she can’t lift it because she doesn’t know what expression to make.
She feels most lonely that there is no place for her to be in the house where she and Eun-hyeon originally lived together.
“…”
Eun-hyeon deliberately turned away from Sylvia, who hurriedly ran away from her table and moved her steps towards the door.
His feelings must have been similar to those of Sylvia.
What can she say when she sees her subjects who have turned her heart down.
But Sylvia couldn’t leave the house.
Thud!
Erin, who had been waiting outside, slammed the door open and entered the house.
“Strange!”
“…”
With an expression full of dissatisfaction, he intrudes into the conversation between the two and asks Eun-hyeon questioningly.
“Why are you being so ruthless!?”
“Erin. What is this doing? Come out right now.”
Elvin, who followed Erin into her house, narrowed her eyebrows, grabbed her again, and tried to pull her out of her, but Erin shook her of Elvin’s arm.
“No! Brother! Brother, do you understand this situation?”
“… It’s a matter for the two of you to decide whether or not it’s acceptable. It’s not something we can get involved in.”
Elvin, like Erin, knew what had happened between Eunhyeon and Sylvia, but she had no intention of intervening in the matter.
It is a decision to be made only when the minds of the two parties are in agreement, and it is presumptuous for an outsider to force it on the other side when one side does not have the heart to do so.
Even Erwin had already signed a contract with Eunhyeon as a master/servant’s oath, so he was thorough.
No matter what choice Eunhyeon made, she was going to respect it, but Erin denied his heart.
“Hyunah. Are you really saying no because of us?”
“…”
Eunhyeon didn’t answer Erin’s question and kept her silence.
“What do you want Hyun-i to do?”
After giving up on Erin’s persistent question, Eunhyun let out a small sigh and opened her mouth.
“… Embarrassed.”
The sudden appearance of Sylvia, her proposal, and the completely unexpected situation itself are very disconcerting.
Erin shook off Elvin’s hand to dissuade her and approached her table, her eyes shining.
“Then you don’t hate it?”
“That…”
It’s not like that.
When she was reunited with Sylvia, the emotions she heard were surprise and joy.
Even if there were still feelings of regret and sadness as to why he had made that choice, they were feelings he had because Eun-hyeon also thought of Sylvia as a special member of the opposite sex.
If she didn’t like her in the first place, she wouldn’t have traveled with her, and she wouldn’t have lived with them in the elven village.
But that and the current situation are completely different.
Unlike when he was single at the time, Eun-hyeon now has four or five wives to whom he is responsible.
“Hyunah. Actually me too… We didn’t become the relationship we have now through our hearts.”
It hurt Erin’s pride and hated admitting this to herself, but Erin had no choice but to admit it.
She unilaterally harbored her feelings for Eun-hyeon, and after long efforts, she was able to achieve the relationship she has now.
It was Iliana, Eleanor, and Lily who helped a lot.
So are Eleanor and Lily.
Perhaps, if neither Verdandy nor Illyana had accepted Eleanor and Lily, she would not have been able to enjoy the loving and happy life she is now.
“At least… I hope Sylvia-sama has a chance like me.”
“… But Erin. This case is different. It’s also a matter of hearing what Illyana, Eleanor, and Lily think if I accept it alone.”
“Actually, I just delivered this news to Eleanor.”
“What… ?”
Eunhyun asked Erin with a surprised expression.
“… How?”
“I have a communication orb. We keep it a secret from Hyun-i, and we use it as an emergency contact network.”
“…”
It is absurd that she is forming a strange unity among her wives, excluding herself.
And proudly revealing the secret.
No way did she ever get in touch with her and tell her other wives the news of Sylvia.
This was something she hadn’t even imagined as Eunhyun.
Once again, I realized Erin’s overflowing acting ability.
Judging from her current attitude, the news of Sylvia must have reached Illyana’s ears already.
“That… Illyana-sama asked me to deliver it.”
Unsurprisingly, Erin’s gaze was not on Eunhyun, but on Sylvia.
It means that Illyana’s message was not directed to Eun-hyeon, but to Sylvia.
“… Yes?”
It was natural for Sylvia to put on her puzzled expression when she realized that the message was not addressed to her husband, Eun-hyeon, but to herself.
What is she trying to say to herself who doesn’t even have a one-sided conversation let alone a proper conversation with her?
Perhaps she was sending her warning to stay away from her husband.
Even though the homunculus artificial body that Sylvia is settling in doesn’t even have organs like sweat glands set up, it feels like she’s breaking out in a cold sweat, and she’s nervous.
“That… You say you want to see her face in person sooner or later?”
“… Yes?”
However, Illyana’s message heard through Erinn’s lips was not a warning.
I don’t know if she’s friendly or not, but the fact that she wasn’t hostile was enough to make Sylvia bewildered.
And, of course, it was not only Sylvia who was perplexed.
“Erin! What the hell does that mean?”
Eun-hyeon asked why the story was going on without her party.
“Why? She said she didn’t hate Sylvia-sama?”
Rather, she responded with a puzzled response, as if asking why she was asking something obvious.
“Then, isn’t it a problem that can be solved if we talk about it and accept it?”
“You… No. Is everyone okay with that?”
“If it wasn’t okay, I couldn’t even be with Hyun anymore. Therefore…”
Erin gently held Eunhyun’s hand tightly.
“Illyana-sama said that there is absolutely no need to escape because of us. We finally got to meet again.”
Rather, upon hearing the news of Sylvia, Illyana laughed.
As much as she heard the sad story of her past with Eun-hyeon, she conveyed her feelings to Erin, hoping that she would not make the wrong choice this time.
-Because he always overflows with responsibility in strange places. They obviously won’t accept it because they care about us. So please tell me well.
Eunhyun let out a small sigh and looked at Sylvia again.
Seeing his determined expression on his face, Sylvia became nervous again.
It was because she was looking forward to the idea that maybe her abandoned car might be given another chance.
“Sister. I am… You probably won’t be the first to think of your older sister.”
“… Are you okay.”
Sylvia smiled bitterly and nodded her head.
When she ended her life as an elf, before reincarnating as her spirit, Sylvia chose the future of the elf race and the world tree over her future with Eun-hyeon.
How could she say that she asked me to think of herself first?
Sylvia, who was born as a spirit and not an elf, couldn’t make a child of hers with her body made from the branches of the World Tree.
All she wanted was for her to be with Eun-hyeon.
After hearing Sylvia’s affirmative answer without a moment’s hesitation, Eunhyeon nodded her head heavily.
“Later… I will bring all my wives here. The answer is… Can you wait until then?”
“Of course.”
Sylvia readily nodded her head.
It took 200 years for her to end her life as an elf and be reborn as her spirit.
She was confident that she would wait even longer if he promised to visit her without forgetting her.
“Thank you so much. Really…”
Sylvia trembled slightly and lowered her head.
Even though she can’t immediately sign her spirit contract, she feels grateful that she was able to arrange the next meeting, and that she wasn’t rejected.
Despite her inability to shed her tears, it wasn’t hard to see that she couldn’t contain her feelings of joy and gratitude as her shoulders quivered and sobbed.
“… Let’s go.”
When the story was over, Elvin invited Sylvia to return.
Although she was created based on her own homunculus body, her homunculus body, created by Regina and her elder elves, was still unfinished.
There is a limit to the amount of her magical power that can be absorbed by itself, and the maximum amount that can be stored in her body itself or the amount consumed varies greatly.
Simply put, her gas mileage wasn’t that great.
Even now, the elder elves are concentrating on research with their eyes open to recreate Elvin’s homunculus body developed by Eunhyeon and Illyana.
Sylvia, who had risen from her table following Elvin, stood in front of her door, paused briefly, and looked back.
“Thank you. For convincing Hyun.”
“No!”
Erin smiled brightly and waved her hand.
Seeing her proud smile at the end of her story, Sylvia also felt her great grace and carved her heart into her heart to repay her someday.
“Next time… I would like to see it in a more complete state.”
“When Illyana’s baby is born… We will all come here together.”
“Huh.”
Promising the next time, Sylvia left her house with Elvin.
With only the two of them left in the house, Erin was proud that Eunhyeon and Sylvia had finished her story in a way she was satisfied with.
“Hi-Hi. Really good. Right?”
“… Erin.”
But unlike Erin, who seems to be in a good mood, Eunhyun’s voice is very heavy.
“Huh?”
“That emergency contact. When the hell did you make it?”
At the words of Eun-Hyeon, who fiercely questioned the existence of her emergency contact network that her wives had made, Erin flinched as if she had been taken by surprise.
“Oh, I won’t tell you!”
