Became the Escort Knight of the Villain in the Romance Novel

112 – Smoothly (2)

“You seem to be in a good mood these days.”

“Ah, I got along with His Highness the Crown Prince. I was surprised when I first met him, but he seems like a nicer person than I thought.”

“Thank God. To say that you became good friends with him, the Viscount must like it quite a bit.”

“We decided to meet again today and go to the library together.”

Seeing Scarlett smiling brightly, the old butler smiled heartily along.

I have said that the crown prince is an important person, but I never thought he would do his job well.

It seemed like a feeling called worthwhile was welling up in her heart for no reason, and she naturally smiled.

Scarlett looked like a girl in her prime.

She was reading a book, but she suddenly stomped her feet, holding her book to her chest. She

She even walked around her garden for a while blushing alone.

She was interested in her dress or accessory, which she had never even touched, saying that it was expensive in the past, because she already knew the feeling of love.

The old butler laughed heartily at the fact that the target was Crown Prince Kaisel.

“I haven’t seen much, but I’m glad you two seem to get along quite well.”

“Does it look like that? Really?”

“Yes, I heard rumors from time to time. It seems that some people say that Her Highness, the Crown Prince, seems to have finally found his mate.”

At the words of the old butler, Scarlett’s expression began to brighten.

When she lives alone in the country estate, do you think what she only thought of as her dream will become a reality?

In her Scarlett’s head, she seemed to see her own image, already her crown princess.

In fact, we were only at the level of getting to know each other a little bit, but what’s wrong with delusion?

The butler unexpectedly thought that there was a high possibility that Scarlett and the prince would do well.

Anyway, there were times when I had a deep relationship with a woman I had once embraced.

Perhaps, this incident could strengthen the relationship between Scarlett and the prince.

The next three months until the beginning of the red moon, total lunar eclipse.

Since she has advanced the overall plan, she thinks it needs to be done…

At this rate, wouldn’t it be okay to start everything earlier on the day of the total lunar eclipse?

As the old butler bowed her head towards Scarlett, who was still smiling brightly in the sun,

Scarlett waved her hand and saw the old butler off.

“…Thank God.”

Muttered the old butler, whose expression was quite different from when he was dealing with Scarlett.

An expression devoid of emotion, the old butler, who was staring at the wall covered in dark shadows, drew a pentagram in the air.

Magic drawn with runes. Soon after, a crackling sound came from the magic circle,

The old butler looked around and quietly opened his mouth.

“…I don’t see a need to dispose of it before the moon rises.”

[Is the possibility high?]

Hearing the voice, which was difficult to tell whether it was a man or a woman, the butler nodded his chin for a moment and pondered, then moved his lips and continued his words.

“It’s hard to see that it’s high, but it’s worth walking. If it goes well, we can start everything as soon as the moon rises.”

Chijik-

For a while, no voice could be heard from beyond the magic circle,

The old butler erased his pentagram and looked in the direction where Scarlett was again.

If it goes well…The word has many meanings, but he believed that the plan would succeed.

What will everything look like in the next three months and the next year?

The old butler’s eyes turned purple for a moment.

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“Did you say you were thinking of retiring?”

“Yeah, what. Aren’t you there now?”

Evan opened his mouth slightly at the words he heard as soon as he returned from the imperial palace.

I expected to retire one day, but isn’t it too soon?

In the original story, a knight named Chris did not appear, but his existence was already very much in Evan’s mind.

Wouldn’t it be possible to call him a ‘teacher’ in his own way? When I first settled in the strange body of Evan Fried,

The biggest help in adapting to this world was an old knight named Chris.

“Let’s reconsider. You haven’t corrected it yet.”

“Correction? Ha, jokes are good too. Can’t you see this hair?”

Chris patted his white hair and laughed.

He was worried that if I told him he was retiring, he would let me go, saying that it was great.

He didn’t feel too bad seeing him hold on like this.

To be honest, he thought it was too early to retire.

His armor didn’t feel heavy yet, and his body didn’t creak when he raised his sword.

If you take good care of it, it could last for another 10 years.

If he lived like that, retired, went down to the countryside, farmed, and lived like that… It would be fine.

“I just want to rest for now.”

However, bigger than that feeling was the desire to rest.

He wanted to put everything down and take care of his slowly aging body and look around.

Remembering that some 50 years had passed since he had been a knight of Yuris, Chris quietly closed his eyes.

He is old, but not ill. He was exhausted, but not to the point where he truly couldn’t get up.

What does he want?

After thinking for a while, Chris smiled and opened his eyes.

He didn’t know what he wanted.

It was a subject he had never thought about in the first place, so maybe it was natural.

It wouldn’t be too bad to struggle to figure it out.

I still have a lot of time given to me anyway, so take it slow…

“Are you going to live with Lopena?”

“…If anyone hears it, they will misunderstand.”

As Chris frowned at her, Evan chuckled and looked at Chris.

Even when we first met, I don’t think his hair was completely white.

Now, the sight of her original hair color not showing at all made her taste bitter.

I wonder if that much time has passed, and if you look at the amount of time that has passed, it seems that not too much has passed so I can understand his feelings a little bit.

It must have been quite difficult. It will probably be difficult for the rest of your life to understand everything about him,

Evan vaguely noticed that when Irene was kidnapped, it was Chris who blamed herself the most.

A knight who was enraged at his own weakness, even though he was only subjected to force majeure.

Maybe that was the reason he wanted to retire, but he didn’t dare to say it out loud.

He said, “I won’t go down right away when I retire. He probably lives around here and stops by often. Could it be that you’re not letting go?”

“I will tell Sir Jeren. If you ever see someone who looks like Sir Chris, don’t let them in…Ugh.”

“This guy, from earlier.”

As Evan grabbed his side, Chris, who had glanced at Evan, laughed and patted Evan on the back.

Well, the reason I stayed here was because of one person at least.

Chris exhaled quietly, thinking of Lopena.

She took care of her, thinking that she was like her granddaughter, a child who relied heavily on herself, but…

She was greedy to see how she would live if she left.

At first, she thought she was pitiful, so she took care of her.

When did it settle down in my heart like this?

Now that I haven’t seen you for a few days, I miss you again.

Chris let out a chuckle at the thought that maybe she’d use Lopena as an excuse to stay around until she died.

“Have you talked to Lopena?”

“No, we’ll talk later.”

“…I’ll pretend I didn’t hear today.”

“Why? Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”

“What would Lopena say if she knew you told me first?”

Maybe he will feel sad. After thinking about it, Chris shook his shoulders.

She had never seen Lopena pout, because the thought of Lopena pouting made her jump and she was terrified.

-Why didn’t you tell me first? I hate you.

“Heo-eok.”

“…Do you understand now? You’d better talk to Lopena first.”

Chris nodded her head, wiping away the cold sweat that was flowing involuntarily.

Imagine that the child she cared for like her daughter would say to herself,

Doesn’t it make her teeth tremble just by imagining her? When Evan smiled at Chris’s appearance, Chris tapped Evan’s side and playfully opened her mouth.

“Funny, who are you worried about now? A guy who loses in bed, he shoots confidently somewhere.”

“The bed…no, why are you talking about that now? And I didn’t lose.”

Evan shouted, and Chris laughed out loud at the words.

What’s wrong with not losing, making such an excuse that you have pride in your subject?

Evan turned her head slightly at the stare staring at him, and Chris burst into laughter again and patted Evan on the back.

“Don’t go anywhere and say master. Because my face turns red when I hear it.”

“…I was just tired. And why are you talking about that? It happened early in the morning, so no one knows!”

“Well…Didn’t you mention Lopena first? It is just revenge.”

At that, Evan opened her mouth slightly.

Perhaps it was time for her to retire, and even her personality had faded.

Evan laughed bitterly when he saw Chris taking revenge on her one by one for that trivial remark.

I wonder if we won’t be able to talk about this a few times now. When Chris retires,

Now, all of the knights he was close to were retiring.

I had a rough relationship with the captain of the guard, Jeren, and I was more friendly with the ladies-in-waiting than with the knights.

Evan looked down at his anger and sighed deeply, looking at his window and taking in the scenery beyond.

Autumn is now completely over. The red leaves hanging from the trees were falling towards the ground one by one.

Did all the embers that I had barely managed through spring, summer, and fall go out?

The world was gradually entering into silence. Now is the time to lose color and fall back into the achromatic season.

The ginkgo, announcing the end of autumn, faintly poked his nose with its scent, and Evan, who wiped the bottom of his nose, opened his mouth.

“You will be lonely.”

“I know. So you go early. I’m just trying to get used to it.”

A cool wind blows. Leaves brushed by the wind roll on the ground,

Mixed with dark soil, it slowly loses its color. What are those leaves thinking?

When winter came, whatever their original color was, it was the fallen leaves that turned pale brown and crumbled.

Even if they are evergreen leaves, they will turn brown and crumble over time.

Chris thought that the fallen leaves somehow resembled her.

To grow old without knowing what you want or what you live for.

Aren’t they just like those fallen leaves?

With a clunk, Chris removed the sword from his waist and looked at it slowly.

Even though it was a shiny sword when I first received it, it is now worn and dull and even smaller in size.

“You don’t live like me.”

“…That sounds like something I’ve heard many times before.”

“Originally, at this age, everyone would say something similar. You will be like me.”

“Are you cursing me? I’ll be handsome even when I’m old. Just like now.”

As Evan spoke slyly, Chris clicked his tongue and glanced at Evan.

How is he handsome because he looks like a parasitic brother?

Why do women really like a guy like that?

Chris was about to say something about him,

When she remembered that Evan’s lover was the person she served, she bit her mouth shut.

‘It wasn’t like this when I was…’

Thinking that so many things have changed, Chris slowly stood up.

Evan stood up and didn’t catch Chris. How can she return the heart of someone who has already made up her mind?

Just thinking that this was the last time, I just felt a little strange.

Come to think of it, the first person I saw when I first possessed was Sir Chris.

He yelled, and when he was told to get ready because the lady called, didn’t he blankly adjust his clothes?

And then I met Irene, and I met Lopena.

The training he was not familiar with gets used to his body, and now he wakes up every morning and practices the training he taught himself.

How can there be no excitement when someone like that is said to be retiring?

“I’m going.”

“……”

Chris turned his head slightly backwards and opened his mouth,

Evan just stared at Chris and didn’t answer.

Looking at his back with a mysterious expression, I was just estimating the height of Chris, who had grown a little shorter than before.

Hook-

The wind blew through Evan’s hair.

The yellow hair got into her eyes, and by the time she opened her tightly closed eyes, Chris had already disappeared.

What was it that disappeared in a hurry?

Evan stared at the place where Chris disappeared for a moment, then quietly looked into the air.

It was a little colder than before, and the dry wind tickled my cheeks.

As time passed, familiar faces would leave one by one.

You will face so many new faces,

People always tend to cling to the past, so you won’t deviate from that category either.

He always thought that he would remain with him as Irene’s escort knight,

When I heard that I was retiring like this… It was not easy to soothe my bland mind.

Lophena and Irene probably feel the same way as you do.

A leaf clung to Evan’s forehead as he stared blankly into space.

Perhaps it had just fallen from the tree, the dewy leaves were still red, although the color had faded a little.

I touch the veins of the leaves with my fingers, then I think about what this means and send the leaves out the window with the wind again.

Where do leaves carried by the wind go?

Evan rested his chin on the frame of his window and looked out as the leaves were blown away by a sudden gust of wind.

Where the leaves will go… Only the leaves know. It was a ridiculously simple answer.

Even if it falls into the river on the way and gets submerged,

Maybe it would fall to the ground and be buried in the ground, but in the end it was the leaf’s choice.

If I put my mind to it now, nothing will change.

If the wind blows on the contrary, the day will come when we meet the leaves mixed with the wind again.

Evan got rid of his lingering feelings. Sir Chris said he was retiring, but I still had quite a bit of work left to do.

When everything is finished while doing what to do. At that time, it would be a good thing to celebrate Sir Chris’ retirement.

Tak-

The window closed, and Evan turned his back, feeling that the wind was no longer blowing at him.

After looking at the seat where Chris was sitting for a while, I walked down the empty hallway and headed towards Irene.

In an empty hallway, Evan paused for a moment in the faint breeze that crossed the hallway.

After a while, I hurried my steps again.

I fasten the top button of the shirt that was undone, and pull on the uniform top that was roughly covering it up.

I needed to get used to it.

This winter… It will be a bit colder than before.

Even if it wasn’t, it was a bit colder winter for Evan.