Chapter 81 – Leichhart Street
“Oppa… He’s a real oppa…”
When I saw Rania for the first time in a long time, I saw that her height and body had grown significantly compared to when I saw her before.
Her hair, which used to be short, has now changed to long hair, and her eyes have also become quite sharp like her mother’s.
It’s like if her mother was younger, she probably would have looked like this.
“Rania, it’s been a while.”
“Oppa… You’re really oppa… Oppa, oppa…”
I thought she would say she was happy to see me and welcome me, but instead of welcoming me, Rania kept whispering my name and staring into space.
What is it?
After watching Rania’s strange reaction, I took the apple she had been cutting earlier and put it in her mouth.
-Wow.
‘Hmm… It’s sweet… Does this mean that the fruits in the capital are special?’
It’s been a while since I’ve tasted an apple. It had a sweet yet crunchy texture.
“Rania? But why are you here?”
“Oppa… Huh? Ah!? Well, that’s it… Mom told me to make sure her brother was okay…”
“I heard your mother worries too much.”
“Hehe, I like this too, but what…”
As before, I started peeling the apples again.
“But why am I here? “I definitely remember my mother knocking me unconscious.”
“Hmm? “My mom told me to stop being a driver now?”
“Push…!”
The sudden sentence made me spit out the apple I was eating.
I was so surprised that I swallowed the wrong thing and grabbed the blanket tightly.
“Ah, it’s a shame… That’s not it, brother, are you okay?”
“Cough… You suddenly quit? “This is different from a promise.”
“I heard it suddenly, so I’m not sure.”
I don’t know.
For some reason, I didn’t understand why I was in Raihart’s home, but I understood it in an instant.
Where did the promise to her mother go in the first place that she would let me become a knight if I dressed up as a woman?
With a frown on her face, she trudged out of the room and headed to her office, where her mother always stayed to do her estate business.
Naturally, the butlers and maids who work here are surprised to see me heading to the office with a frown on their faces.
Of course, he must have realized that it wasn’t normal for me to run away from home dressed as a woman and say I wanted to become a knight, and turn to my mother with a frown on my face.
“Master Ranel.”
“Roxy? What are you doing there? Get out of the way quickly.”
“Lennon said not to let anyone in for the time being.”
“Including me?”
“Yes…”
The maid, Roxy, blocked my path.
She was my teacher when I was young and receiving grooming training, and she was like a nanny who always looked after me.
“Roxy… Get out of the way.”
“It’s not possible. “Master.”
Because she was an elf like Erina, she still had the appearance of a beautiful woman, no different from the way she looked when she was young.
However, unlike Erina, she had blonde hair instead of green, and she was quite tall, so I had to look up.
“Roxy!”
“Master, please come back for a moment just to see me.”
No, I can’t go back now.
Why are you telling me to stop writing articles?
And why did they kidnap me like this?
“Then I’ll pass with my skills.”
“Ha… I can’t help it… How can I overcome you, Master? Just go in.”
“Haha, thank you, Roxy.”
As expected, Roxy got out of the way as if she had no choice because I was being unreasonable.
Well, I might get scolded later, but for now, talking to my mother was more important.
What was the problem?
-Rattle.
I held the golden handle and slowly opened it.
As soon as I entered her room, my mother maintained her elegant appearance, organizing her papers with an expressionless face and occasionally pouring tea into her mouth.
He turns his eyes briefly to see that I have entered the room and greets me with a slight smile.
“Son? What’s going on?”
“Mom… What on earth do you mean, quit being an engineer?”
“It’s literally true.”
“Why on earth…”
I don’t understand.
I had to hear why I should quit my job and why they kidnapped me.
“Now I have to stop dreaming and come back to reality.”
“Why on earth… It’s not that I have no talent at all.”
“That’s why. On the contrary, I don’t think I’ll be able to return to a normal life because I’m so talented.”
You can’t return to normality?
What on earth?
In the first place, what does mediocrity have to do with my sword training?
As the conversation with her mother continues, her mind becomes more confused and dizzy.
“I am ordinary…!”
“No, you will miss your normal life.”
“Well, I…”
“Because I did that.”
When she saw her mother for the first time in a long time, her eyes were filled with regret and guilt.
It’s like the look in the eyes of a sinner who committed a great sin in the past.
It was so different from the eyes of her mother, who had always been upright and strong-willed, that it made her question whether it was really Lennon Reihart.
“Your colleagues were already messing with you, right?”
“Ah… Well, that’s it.”
As soon as the story about my colleagues came up, I was at a loss for words.
Shio, Erina, Aya, and Emil, in that order, were all women who were crazy about sexual desires, so there is no particular excuse.
“I knew it the first time I saw it…”
“How on earth…!”
“Because your body was radiating a feminine scent… A scent that never comes from chaste men.”
When it comes to chastity, even two mouths have nothing to say.
In this world, male chastity is very important, so most children of nobles try desperately to protect their chastity.
I know how important male chastity is because when I was young, I was taught to maintain chastity as much as possible in the sex education section of a groom’s class.
Well, there are cases where a person uses magic to distinguish whether she is a virgin before marriage, and there are even cases where a marriage is annulled because she is not a virgin.
“You didn’t forget your promise to chastity, right?”
“Yes…”
Before I became a knight, there wasn’t just one promise I made to my mother.
The first is to disguise yourself as a woman and hide your identity as much as possible.
The second is to never give up your virginity to a woman.
The promise was literally to always keep one’s body clean and never to give one’s body to a woman.
But… That promise was broken a long time ago, so it was hard to say anything.
“Then you have nothing to say?”
“But… But I, too, will soon reach the level of a sword master…!”
“Sword Master? “You’re a sword master, so you think it’s easy?”
“But there really isn’t much left…!”
It really seemed like we could get there soon.
I had come too far to quit because I was presented with a new path by Adelia, and I had even refined that path and was now able to control it as I wanted.
Even though I wasn’t working as a soloist, I was working as a knight in a warrior party, so it wasn’t a position I could easily quit.
“If only I had at least told the party…”
“Then would you have listened to me and quit?”
“That’s…”
Even now, I was protesting to my mother because I was forced to quit, so I felt like I couldn’t quit on my own.
“Then… Spar with me one last time.”
“Huh?”
“If I lose, I’m really going to give up, so please do it just one last time. Mother.”
“Okay… If you can really give it up, I’ll be satisfied with that.”
I really wanted to stick together just one last time.
I really wanted to prove that my efforts and adventures were not in vain.
***
“Ouch, hey… Just treat it a little more gently.”
“I want to do that too.”
The atmosphere of the mansion became gloomy after a storm.
Everyone who failed to protect Line was blaming themselves, saying it was their own fault.
Among them, Emil, who fought until the end, was trembling as if her wounds were still present even though she received treatment.
Fear of overwhelming power.
And disappointment in oneself due to not being able to keep it.
All of this combined made Emil look back at herself for not training and playing around in the past.
When everyone was unable to speak up easily and were just blaming their own weakness, someone spoke up first.
“Oh really! “What’s wrong with everyone?”
Theo lactea.
As the healer of the warrior party and the saintess of the Port Limpo Church, she did not like this situation.
I hated seeing my colleagues who always talked with a smile looking gloomy.
“No, so you’re not going to go save Rine? Yes?”
“Didn’t your mother take Linegong with you? If we went anyway…”
“That’s the problem! When did we realize something like that and pounce on it? “We’re just trying to headbutt each other with a no-pakgu!”
Shio began to try her best to persuade her colleagues.
“It seems like an idiot to keep quiet like this.”
“So what do you want to do?”
“I have to go!”
Everyone raised their heads and looked at Shio.
“Rine… No, to Ranel’s main house.”
The current Shio is more beautiful than ever.
