Episode 3
“Oh my God, Lucerne de Callas, General!”
Elisha wiped her tears with the back of her hand. Her freckles whispered. They were now hiding among the trees near the single road and spying on the wagon.
“An angel face, so handsome. It is beyond imagination.”
Said the girl. Even from a distance, the man's face was not normal.
“Then take it slow.”
Elisha muttered.
“Yes? How can I see it?”
On the other side of Lucerne's carriage another carriage was galloping.
Doo doo doo, the sound of the ground rumbling echoed in Elisha's head. Lucerne's carriage came to a halt just before carriage and carriage collided.
The carriage came to a rough stop, splashing muddy water on Elisha's dress, who was hiding in the shade of a tree. Elisha quietly frowned.
Woah woah!
Cried the coachman.
Sigh, the carriage door opened.
* * *
The carriage that blocked Lucerne's carriage was pure white. It was a carriage papered with the pattern of the Duke of Cartier.
Her freckles opened her eyes wide and looked at Elisha.
'What? Did you know that the carriage would stop?'
It looked like he was asking.
“I must be crazy, if I had stopped a little later, the two wagons would have collided and turned to dust.”
Freckles whispered. In Lucerne, the carriage door was firmly closed.
Jump,
Instead, the door opened to the white carriage.
“Oh! Captain! This Carola, I was so surprised. We'll meet in a place like this. Wasn't it that you didn't often come to your parents' house?”
What she got off the carriage was a woman wearing a white dress with gorgeous lace decorations. Her upholstered brown hair. A soft, slender body like a bird, and innocent eyes. Girlish face. However, perhaps thanks to her large breasts, she was a woman with a strange charm.
“…….”
Elisha looked at her and cupped her hand. The woman who will ruin Elisha's face in the future. She was Jacob's wife, Carola.
On her chest was a lace that Elisha had carefully sewn a few days ago. She said that maids are her most important clothes, and she had polished Elisha. Looking at it now, it seemed that she was making new clothes to wear in front of Lucerne.
Only then did the door of Lucerne's carriage slowly open.
“Carola was always curious about how the General was doing.”
Carola, she said, sticking herself inside her carriage like her child and pampering her.
“I want you to get off my wagon.”
Soon a voice came from inside the carriage. It was a dark, low, low, impressive voice.
“Yes?”
Caroline's voice was distorted.
“You're blocking my carriage door right now, so get out of the way. If that's not the case, do you mean you want to hang on to the door and go inside?”
From Elisha's position, the back of Carola's neck was visible. Her throat reddened. Carola stood aside.
Finally he got off the carriage. The moment she saw him, a light shock penetrated Elisha's body.
The man's hair was jet black, and the eyes inside were very dark. At first glance, it was reddish-brown, but as sunlight streams through your eyes, anyone will know. That the man's eyes are intense red.
The man was tall and broad-shouldered enough to have to stoop down from a large carriage. On the other hand, his waist revealed under his cloak was thin, and his thighs were firm. And he was wearing a military uniform that tightly wrapped around his body.
Even from a distance, the hot energy seems to hit. He was an overwhelming male.
You've never seen a man with freckles like this in your life. Elisha saw her hands tremble slightly. There was joy in her eyes.
“Oh my gosh. He's the real one He is he…….”
Lucerne looked at Carola and clicked her tongue. It was the expression of a man endowed with natural arrogance and the temperament of a ruler.
“I would have told you not to come out to meet such unpleasant people.”
Carola blinked her eyelashes undeterred.
“Carola said she was out of town, and when she saw a carriage she was glad to see, she asked her to stop. I guess the coachman needs to be re-educated. What caused the wagon to stop suddenly? She surprised even Carol a lot.”
Said Carola, twisting her body.
Lucerne just stared at Carola with her dark eyes. He immediately looked away as if he had lost interest.
Suddenly, Lucerne's gaze turned to the shade where Elisha was standing. Elisha was startled.
“Who is there, come out.”
Elisha hesitated, then took a step out of the shadows. Her freckles also stood out.
Freckles was shocked to see Elisha. I didn't know because I was excited to see Lucerne, but Elisha's face was unusual.
“How come…….”
From Elisha's bare breasts to her skirt, muddy water was dotted. Lucerne's carriage stopped in a hurry and showered Elisha's body with muddy water.
“…….”
Besides, Elisha's eyes were still red, and her tears were still flowing. In her arms, she held her messy laundry tightly.
* * *
Lucerne's gaze slowly scanned Elisha. It was a look that looked all over her body.
In front of Elisha, she felt like she was going off her feet. At the same time, she felt like she was going back to her previous life, Elisha, with her face burned.
He was a man with a gaze that could make anyone feel that way. A man who makes you look back on yourself, a man who is perfect and even hurts others.
At the same time, the memory of the day before his return came to mind.
* * *
It was the day before his death.
That day too, Elisha was standing in front of a picture of a snake. Suddenly, someone came close to her.
Elisha caught her breath and caught her breath. Jacob's nemesis. It was Lucerne.
'Hey. Goverment.'
'…….'
'Jacob asked why I, an illegitimate child, covet the family.'
'…….'
'Go and answer your master. I swore to myself when I was seven. I'll tear everything I can't get my hands on. Especially when it comes to stimulating my desire, I want to do that. So, after getting my hands on the Duke of Cartier, who will never be mine, I will display the broken things to the whole world, and take only what I want from that family.'
'…….'
'I am not a lunatic. Just.'
At Lucerne's last words, Elisha suppressed her overflowing fear and held back. Her whole body was trembling.
'Beggar Katie.'
'…….'
'So decide. Either it will break or not.'
'…….'
'Otherwise.'
Elisha felt her stomach rumble. She lowered her eyes.
“Why is that kid?”
Carola's gaze followed Lucerne. She looked as if she had found a dog or a cat.
“Isn't this area Jacob's territory?”
Lucerne muttered quietly.
“Why is that woman hiding and crying?”
Carola was crying. It was upsetting that Lucerne was paying attention to her erratic things.
“That is……. These are the maids who work here. These are the children of a house whose family is lazy and selfish, so they have built up a lot of debt and sent her daughter away instead. It's pitiful, so I'm giving them easy and simple tasks like doing the laundry and letting them work. Carola is a place you don't even want to know about.”
At that, even her freckles turned her face white. Carola chattered away, not caring about her.
“…… Maybe what I don't know if I was crying because I was afraid of ghosts. Do you know? Someone committed suicide in this annex. Rumor has it that there are ghosts after that. She doesn't know much about Carola. Are lowly things brainy, who knows what she will think.”
There was disgust in her Lucerne eyes as she looked at her Caroline. As it was, Lucerne turned her gaze back to Elisha.
“Yes, maid.”
“…….”
“She's a maid who's good at crying.”
Elisha doubted her ears. Lucerne's carriage almost collided with Carola's carriage. Carola's teasing Lucerne about her affair.
Elisha, who is in the shade, is unlucky to peek at the situation and gets baptized with muddy water. It all happened in a previous life.
However, there was just one other thing. Elisha took a step out of the shadows, eager to observe her Lucerne closely. Is that why? Lucerne had discovered her presence.
'Originally, the day would end with her being whipped side by side with her freckles later by Carola for peeping at this.'
But now it was subtly different from her memories.
Carola gave out a shrill voice.
“Luzerne is a fickle person. What is the importance of that child?”
“I never gave her name to you.”
Lucerne just cut it. Carola pursed her lips like her own child, and she turned to Elisha.
“Come and see!”
As Elisha approaches, she says Carola.
“My apologies to the general right now, do you think Carola has to teach me that?”
Elisha looked at Carola with an expressionless face. As if the sight of her maid not being intimidated in the slightest in front of her mistress was foreign, Lucerne's men also glanced at Elisha.
“What do you mean apologizing for?”
Elisha said calmly.
“The Daejanggun is an honored guest, but he was in a messy appearance in front of him. If you misunderstand that Carola doesn't take good care of her maids, she'll be sad. Isn't it because you're not enough, so you appeared in front of the general with a spoiled look?”
She pretended to be clumsy, she was Carola, who spoke like a baby and then her voice became strangely clear the moment she attacked someone. Still she was the tired type.
Elisha said in a polite tone.
“Would you rather take off your clothes?”
“What?”
Carola looked at Elisha the way she sees a madman.
“It was an accident that I soiled my clothes. However, if I say it was an accident, then someone is responsible for it, and the sin is not mine, but my clothes. So, if you feel uncomfortable, I will take off my clothes. But I can't apologize for the mistakes I didn't make.”
Elisha said softly.
Lucerne was quicker to understand her meaning than Carola. The corner of her Lucerne mouth went up as if it were barely visible. Look at this. She even had that look.
If clothes get dirty as an accident, the cause of the accident is that the wagon stopped and the muddy water was poured out. So either Carola or Lucerne's carriage must be blamed.
So she couldn't point that out, Elisha said back.
“Ah, the lower ones these days are really good. That's so mean! What kind of insolence is this in front of the general?”
Carola, who had been hit, looked at Lucerne while grinding her teeth. Lucerne ignored her carola. Then she asked Elisha.
“Why are you crying, I think I asked.”
Elisha wiped her eyes with one hand. Even the back of her hand was stained with muddy water. She bent her knees slowly.
“I apologize for delaying your progress. I just cried because I was sad that I ruined my laundry today.”
Lucerne nodded his head.
“Yeah, that's enough to upset me.”
Lucerne beckoned Elisha to come closer. Her freckles took on Elisha's hurried washing. Elisha cautiously approached Lucerne.
“You cried in front of me, so I have to make amends.”
The adjutant, receiving Lucerne's wink, took out his money bag from his bosom.
“How much do you want as compensation?”
“Money is fine.”
“Then what should I give you?”
“All it takes is mercy to let go of my steps.”
“Okay? It's commendable.”
He said without changing his expression. His emotionless eyes were even eerie.
“But. What a lady needs is not money.”
Lucerne undid his cloak from his shoulders. The long crimson cloak with golden decorations on his shoulders was clearly of high quality. He slung the cloak over Elisha's shoulders. His eyes rested on Elisha's muddy breastbone.
“Cover well, so no one will stare at you.”
He whispered.
“Especially after you said you would take it off.”
