chapter 86
86 – Habit
The inside of a wooden wagon where only rattling noises can be heard.
In spite of the fact that there were three people, the inside of the carriage was silent.
After the escort of the wagon successfully ended, Lian, Raina, and Elaine rode their wagon to Belgrove, joining the merchants who were just returning from another village.
The carriages of the merchants were wide enough to allow three people to sit comfortably.
The soft seats finished with soft animal skins and the pleasant smell wafting through the room were truly superb.
Lian, who was touching the stretched leather, said with admiration.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a carriage like this in the capital.”
Wagons are usually made of wood, so the inside is also made of wooden boards.
However, the grade of the wagon is determined by the finish and condition of the wooden planks, and the grade of the wagon that Lian and his party are riding was the best among them.
“Unless you are a duke, it will be difficult to see. Even if there were, it would be rare to have a carriage like this.”
“Does the Iisten family have it?”
“There is. I don’t write unless there is something important going on.”
“We are riding in such a carriage.”
Lian, who had been looking at the scene through the window, suddenly stopped her words and looked at Reina.
Raina unknowingly avoided his eyes and said as if nothing had happened.
“Why do you keep staring at me—”
“Elaine hasn’t said anything since a while ago. Is she really sleeping?”
“… She was sleeping earlier.”
She had been staring out her window ever since she got into her carriage.
Because of what happened earlier, I couldn’t look at Lian from inside the carriage.
‘To sit on that man’s lap….’
No matter how much clothes were on the knee of the man he hated so much, it couldn’t completely block the feeling that was transmitted to his lower body.
She didn’t sit down completely, but rather sat down, but she distinctly remembered the moment she sat on that man’s lap.
Unlike the hard and unpleasant wooden plank floor, it is warm and soft…
After thinking that far, Reina shook her head and let her thoughts go.
‘It’s absurd.’
It is true that she has completely changed from the tyrannical days, but that doesn’t mean she will ever see Lian again.
Because it was already over and there was another being next to him.
A girl who fell asleep next to her without the knowledge of the world.
The main character with silky silver hair is Elaine.
At the age of 17, she left the church and chose to live at the academy alone, and was on the verge of being expelled.
She also specializes in healing magic, the only one in her academy.
Since her healing magic can only be mastered by a small percentage even among skilled mages, Reina looked up to Elaine’s future.
Her optimistic personality and her cute looks also helped her establish her place within her class.
If she was not a commoner but a descendant of a decent family, she would have been worthy of seeing the current academy aristocrat.
“Ugh….”
Elaine’s head burrowed into Reina’s side as if she had gotten a little chilly from sleeping.
Reina removed Elaine’s arm from getting in her way so she could sleep comfortably.
She might have been straight if someone else was like that, but she wasn’t cold enough to disturb such a young and cute child’s sleep.
Basically, Reina is an aristocrat and has no sense of authority.
On the contrary, she hated people who were stuck there.
That’s why Reina’s expression crumpled whenever she faced that carefree man.
Even now, whenever I see him, I reflexively make an impression, which is a flaw.
“You sleep peacefully. I moved all the luggage.”
“You don’t know how to use healing magic, so you should at least do that. Because that is your value.”
“Thank you very much. For acknowledging its worth.”
It’s a situation I couldn’t even dream of in the past.
This situation where I am exchanging useless words with Liane Altane in the same space.
Where did that figure that prevented her from even approaching her, let alone in the same space, and now that she gave up on her own knees?
She gave her cheek and cried silently while eating at Altane’s mansion. Unbelievable about her past self and her current self, Reina quietly let out a laugh.
‘What happened? You.’
Maybe I can ask now.
What the hell happened to you during your hiatus?
I wonder if I couldn’t ask for help.
Why didn’t you tell me?
That was the time Reina was carefully trying to float her luck.
“Maybe”
But she couldn’t speak to the end.
“… Ah.”
Because Ryan was staring at him.
As usual, she would have brought her up casually, but today Reina’s lips felt heavy.
For some reason, she felt her heart beating faster and her fever rising.
Reina didn’t understand why she suddenly felt this way.
Because she and he are no longer in a relationship.
Could he have a different opinion?
Or…
Raina’s restless heart soon disappeared after realizing that Lian’s expression was not directed at her.
Rihanna wasn’t looking at her Raina, but at her Elaine, who was sleeping against her.
That too, with a worldly warm smile she had never shown her.
“You’re saying that when you grow up, several men will cry.”
Lian, who gave off a friendly smile, realized that Raina was staring at her, and soon she withdrew that good expression.
Raina suddenly felt a twist in her stomach.
Why?
She didn’t realize that her uniform was crumpling.
It is also that the power enters her own hands inadvertently.
What is the emotion in the heart that is twisting?
*
After completing all remaining assignments and unloading our luggage at the inn, we were now waiting for the carriage to return to the academy.
“Thank you very much. There was a shortage of workers, but it was a big help.”
“Thank you for making us feel comfortable in many ways. Thanks to that, I was able to live comfortably.”
“hahahaha, I’m so glad you did. How was our town?”
“It’s a really nice town. It is a quiet and warm town.”
Since it is located in a remote area, there are few people, so the village is always quiet.
At the same time, in the evening, the villagers gather at the tavern and discuss the events of the day with alcohol.
From the outside, it looked like any other countryside, but once you enter, it is a very charming village.
‘A village like this almost could have disappeared.’
The appearance of Goetia, an unexpected demon, and the relationship between the blood fossil he was experimenting with and the monster.
It’s fortunate that he backed off. This village could have been ruined.
The village chief came to the carriage stop to see him off like this because he knew this.
“Next time, please come not for class, but for sightseeing. At that time, you will be able to eat the food that our village is proud of.”
“Looks forward to that!”
“Because I couldn’t properly look around the town this time.”
“hahahaha, let’s wait for that time.”
As soon as I got on the carriage that came just in time after greeting the village chief, I started to fall asleep as if I had waited one by one.
It seemed that she was tired from carrying out assignments in succession since the morning.
“Bae, Count, are you sleeping?”
I was also closing my eyes, but an unexpected guest who suddenly came did not leave me alone.
“… What is it, Elaine?”
Elaine’s eyes, who had slept soundly in the carriage earlier, were puffy.
She said she slept like that, so there’s no way she can’t sleep now.
When I opened her eyes, Elaine, who was seated next to me, straightened her body, which had been shrinking.
Why does he look pitiful every time I talk to him?
Although she is 17 years old, her height and body are no different from those of an adult, yet mysteriously Elaine has the effect of making her look like a child.
“Now, the seat is inconvenient… do.”
Said Elaine, stroking her own thighs.
“Be patient with me. Still, I think it’s better than the carriage from before.”
“Boo, it’s uncomfortable…” .”
Elaine talks back while rubbing her thighs.
‘It feels like she has been assertive since some time ago.’
It would be something she would welcome with open arms that her timid Elaine little by little speak her own opinion, but now in this situation her behavior was like a herd.
She can’t get out of a running carriage just because she’s uncomfortable, and that doesn’t mean she can’t make a soft seat for you–
‘A seat?’
Then, a sudden thought occurred to me and I looked at Elaine and asked.
“The seat is uncomfortable?”
“Nue, Neue….”
All the seats in the wagon are made of wooden planks.
You know that, but you dare to come to the seat next to me and say these things….
‘You’re not saying you’re going to sit here, are you?’
I looked down at my knees.
I posted this for a while because Elaine was uncomfortable in the carriage in the morning….
“… Right.”
Elaine glanced at me and then lowered her head again.
As expected, the gaze is towards my knee.
No real?
Why?
“You’re not going to sit here?”
I asked just in case, but he nodded as expected.
No this….
Looks like you’ve got a bad habit.