Ending Maker Episode 431
Chapter 15 – The Maid and the Knight #2
“It really wasn’t a joke back then.”
At least Cordelia returned safely.
There were no injuries, and there were no traces of anything unpleasant, just as he shouted after jumping off the cliff, “Prince Yude is a gentleman, so it’s okay!”
“but!”
However, it was by no means a problem that could be quietly passed over.
Despite Cordelia’s persistent pleas to keep it a secret, Dahlia firmly cut her off and wrote a report containing only the truth without any exaggeration.
“You wrote a report?”
“Oh, that’s how it is with Count Chase. Should I just leave a document behind for everything? Isn’t that how it is with Count Bayer?”
“Yeah, maybe other noble families are like that too?”
“Me, really?”
“huh.”
When Maya nodded again, Dahlia looked momentarily shocked.
Dahlia, who only knew the Countess of Chase, seemed quite taken aback by the fact that what was common sense to her was not common sense to anyone else.
“Well, if that’s what Maia is saying, then that must be it.”
Maia chuckled at Dahlia’s reaction and asked while lying on her side and looking at Dahlia’s face.
“So what happened?”
Dahlia’s face became painful again as she looked at the slightly teasing gaze.
“Count Chase, who received the report, summoned me… … and we had a face-to-face report.”
Report on your one-on-one meeting with Count Chase.
Maia made a rather complicated expression as she recalled the moment when Yuder visited Count Chase’s house and had a private meeting with him.
At that time, not only I, but even Yuder, remembered how tense I was.
“Are you in a lot of trouble?”
“I got a three-month pay cut. But actually, more than that… … should I say I was confused?”
“What kind?”
“I had to reenact it in front of the Count.”
“Reenactment?”
“Oh, what did Miss Cordelia shout, what did she do… … Ugh, I’m embarrassed all over again.”
Dahlia, whose face was really red, covered her face with both hands, and Maia thought of Dahlia pretending to jump off the cliff while holding Yuder alone, and Dahlia shouting that it was okay because Prince Yuder was a gentleman.
“Maya, are you smiling now?”
Instead of denying Dahlia’s slightly raspy voice, Maia chuckled.
The dahlia in my imagination was a dahlia, but the dahlia that was now like this was also cute.
Then Dahlia pouted her lips and said, seeming even more annoyed.
“I say this now, but at the time, really… … Think about it. In front of Count Chase, who was sitting with a serious expression, I said something like, ‘You, Prince Youder is a gentleman, so it’s okay!’ … … Oh, my lady, why did you say that? Yes?”
“But Dahlia, as I said back then, Master Yuder is truly a gentleman, isn’t he?”
“Are you trying to tease me right now?”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
At the playful answer, Dahlia pinched Maia’s cheek as if she found it annoying.
“Is everyone really being fooled? What about the Ice Queen?”
He’s so playful, so charming, and so cute.
But still, Maia was Maia.
Even though Dahlia herself gave one cheek to him, she looked so elegant and pitiful.
“Anyway, the part where the Count hugs me and jumps down was really hard because he asked me several times.”
“Hmm… … I think I can imagine it a little.”
What was the hugging posture like, what was the angle of the arms, etc.
In fact, the small monologue, ‘Cordelia hugged Uther? Uther didn’t hug Cordelia?’ added to the strange feeling, but Dahlia didn’t say anything out of respect for Count Chase’s honor.
“Anyway, that’s how it was on this side. What about you?”
“On our side… … the Count was out of town. So was the eldest young master. So… … I arbitrarily decided to ban the eldest young master from going out, and I got scolded by the head of the house.”
Dahlia narrowed her eyebrows as if she was not pleased with Maia’s calm words.
Then Maia made a very pitiful expression and spoke in a pitiful voice.
“Why? Are you sad that you didn’t get scolded much? Do you think Dahlia would want me to get scolded a lot and cry?”
“Oh, no, why are you saying that?”
When Dahlia was embarrassed, Maia chuckled again.
Like a little devil.
“I had forgotten for a moment… …who Master Yuder grew up under.”
“I’m fine, but don’t speak ill of the young master. Even Dahlia wouldn’t forgive me.”
At the stinging, glaring gaze, Dahlia responded with an expression that said she had both hands and feet raised.
Dahlia herself cares a lot for Cordelia, but in this regard, Maia feels a bit stronger.
Should we say that it is not a difference in affection, but a difference in the way affection is given?
“Anyway… … Now that I think about it, that was the first time.”
“What kind?”
“The two of us had a long conversation?”
Of course, we knew of each other’s existence even before that.
They were the closest associates of the young master and young lady who cherished each other.
But it was the first time we had a direct conversation before and after the weekly escape incident.
“Come to think of it, that was the first time I saw a book like that.”
‘I Want to Love Passionately Even if It’s a Political Marriage’, a romance novel recommended by Maia.
“Really… … should I call it a culture shock? I never imagined there would be a book like that.”
“Yeah, I remember. It was worth it to preach.”
As a smile spread across Maya’s face, Dahlia also chuckled.
At that time, Maia wasn’t the type to show all her expressions like she does now.
Dahlia, who held out a romance novel to me with a blank expression and a slightly hazy? misty look in her eyes, said, “This is a book that will help you understand.” … … It’s too late to say this, but I remember being flustered and thinking, “What the heck is he talking about?”
“Anyway, it was fun. The book you lent me afterward was also fun.”
“Because it was a book that was carefully selected with Dahlia’s tastes in mind for missionary work. I even lent her only the first volume of the two-volume series.”
“Wait, you said that was on purpose?”
“Yeah, especially the book I lent you back then, the first volume was cut off at a part that I was really curious about. That’s why it actually became a success, right? Dahlia even came to the Count’s house alone to ask if there was a second volume.”
As Maia spoke with a dark smile, Dahlia could not help but understand once again who had raised Uther.
“Evil! Come to think of it, was that on purpose? It’s the end of Volume 2, but you didn’t tell me when you lent it to me.”
The situation was heading towards a dead end, and there weren’t many pages left, so I became even more focused and wondered, ‘How on earth is this going to end?’
In volume 2, the phrase “to be continued” made me vomit without even realizing it.
But that was all planned?
Instead of answering Dahlia’s question that wasn’t really a question, Maia responded with another sinister smile, and Dahlia pulled back to put some distance between herself and Maia.
“The devil. The real devil.”
“Hoo hoo hoo.”
Maia smiled elegantly yet wickedly, as if she was rather pleased with Dahlia’s accusation, and Dahlia, although very angry, had no choice but to admit once again that Maia was indeed pretty. She really was like a queen from a novel.
So Dahlia pinched Maia’s cheek again for no reason.
My cheeks turned red because Maia was sending me gentle glances even while my cheeks were being pinched, but I could also feel a strange sense of satisfaction at the same time.
It was because I felt that no one else but Maia could do this, and that Dahlia was the only one who could see Maia with such an expression and attitude.
“Dahlia, why are you suddenly so smug?”
“Yes, there is something like that.”
Dahlia, feeling embarrassed by her own thoughts, cleared her throat again and turned her gaze to the night sky.
“A lot of things happened after that, right?”
“Yes, there was a social gathering… … and the young master and young lady suddenly ran away from the Hresvelg County.”
It’s all in the past now, so I’m saying this, but at the time, my heart sank.
“Dahlia came back injured too.”
Dahlia, injured in a battle with demon followers, was forced to return to Count Chase’s household instead of following him to Hresvelg County.
That’s why Maia, as well as Dahlia, had no choice but to hear from afar the news that Judah and Cordelia had run away from the Hresvelg County and gone on a honeymoon trip.
“I was really embarrassed.”
They were engaged in the womb and everyone around them was supporting them, so why did they suddenly go on a honeymoon trip in such a hurry?
Dahlia clutched her lower abdomen as if her stomach was hurting again, and Maia placed her hand on her chest.
Because my heart started pounding when I thought about that day.
“And after that, you just kept causing accidents.”
When Maia heard the story of crossing the border into the wild land, she fainted for a moment.
That’s no wonder, because for Maia, the Northern Wild Lands were a hellish place teeming with savages and monsters.
“I’m so glad you came back safely.”
As Maia closed her eyes and spoke, Dahlia nodded as well.
Unlike Maia, Dahlia was a knight with actual combat experience, and so she was able to understand the specialty that Uther and Cordelia had established more clearly.
Hero of the Holy Cross.
Savior of the wild lands.
Although they were nice titles to hear, Dahlia felt more fear than pride.
The fact that Cordelia had earned that title meant that she had experienced some truly dangerous things.
If something had gone wrong even once, and Cordelia had been seriously injured or killed.
Just imagining it made her eyes dark, so Dahlia shook her head to shake the thoughts off.
All of this was in the past, and had already been resolved.
So instead of thinking of scary and fearful thoughts, Dahlia tried to think of happy things.
“Come to think of it, that was when we really became close.”
“Yes, because we met every other day worrying about the young master and the young lady.”
They were two people who met every day to see if there was any new news or if they had heard anything.
“It’s late to say this, but it was truly comforting.”
“Yeah, me too… … .”
Just having someone who had the same concerns and someone to talk to helped me feel more at ease.
“Do you remember when you went to the royal capital?”
“I remember. I had so much fun back then.”
“Yeah, it was my first time traveling that far. The royal capital is a place I’ve always wanted to visit since I was little.”
What kind of place do the prince and princess live in?
Is it true that there really is a palace as beautiful and pretty as one in a fairy tale?
“Wasn’t it fun dressing up the young lady and the young master?”
“Yeah, it really was the most satisfying job.”
Since both of them are so good at hanging clothes, they really got into decorating.
Maia, who was reminded of Uther and Cordelia in the royal capital, had an ecstatic expression on her face, and Dahlia nodded as if agreeing, then suddenly reached out and touched Maia’s hair.
“why?”
“No, it’s just that. You have really pretty hair.”
Although I took care of it every day with the shampoo and conditioner developed by Yuder, my hair was now like an angel’s, different from when I was born.
As she admired Dahlia’s silver hair that seemed to sparkle in the starlight, Maia stroked the ends of Dahlia’s short hair in return and spoke.
“How about Dahlia growing out her hair?”
“Your head?”
“Yeah, have you ever raised one?”
“There’s nothing else I’ve ever done other than just raise it when I was very young.”
Because Dahlia herself was a knight.
Then suddenly a strange thought occurred to me.
If Dahlia hadn’t met Count Chase that day and become a knight, wouldn’t she have grown her hair out?
“What are you thinking about?”
“If I hadn’t become a knight, I think I would have grown my hair out. Well… … If I had just grown it out, I would have most likely worked as a waiter at a bar or something.”
It wasn’t a very pleasant story, but since it was a bold move, Dahlia thought about herself as a farmer.
I see myself with long hair, wearing revealing clothes, and a decadent expression.
“It doesn’t suit you.”
Maia spoke firmly and continued speaking while gently holding Dahlia’s hand.
“Dahlia is the most suitable as a knight now. And… …if she were, she would have been as lively and bubbly as she is now.”
“I wonder?”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
Maia, who had spoken warmly, laughed again and soon began to laugh out loud.
“Why all of a sudden?”
“No, that… … Since I was thinking about it, I imagined Dahlia wearing sexy clothes.”
“That’s too much. Are you saying that I’m funny in such a sexy outfit?”
“I didn’t say anything like that.”
“Huh, I should imagine that too.”
A picture of Maia dressed in revealing clothes.
And 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds.
“This is unfair.”
Maia smiled elegantly again at Dahlia’s words that contained a lot of meaning.
“Anyway… … I think it would be good to grow out your hair. Do you want to try growing it out?”
“Who would like it?”
“I like it. I’m sure you’ll like it too.”
“… … Let me think about it.”
“Yeah, I’ll find some matching hair ties and decorations in advance.”
“You didn’t say you were going to raise it yet?”
“Yeah, you’re going to raise it? Okay, I got it.”
“You are exactly like the real master.”
“No, Maia is a pure and innocent child.”
“Wait a minute, putting aside the truth of what you said, are you saying that the young master is a total idiot?”
“No, your highness is also pure and innocent.”
“Maya, do you know that your smile is dark?”
“I don’t know much about Maia.”
When Maia started to act cute by clicking her tongue, Dahlia ended up laughing out loud.
Even Master Yuder wouldn’t know about this Maia.
This must be the image of Maia that only Dahlia herself knows in the world.
The two people, sharing a pleasant and elegant laugh, continued their conversation.
The story of the young master and young lady who continued to rot after the incident in the royal capital, the story of watching the wedding of the two, and various incidents that occurred when they became the knight commander and chamberlain in the Holy Kingdom of Eudelia, respectively.
The story that started with Uther and Cordelia continued with just Maia and Dahlia, and ended with Maia’s new apple pie recipe for Dahlia.
Because Maia had been so tired from her busy schedule for the past few days, she fell into a deep sleep.
“Maya, are you okay?”
Dahlia, who had asked very quietly, chuckled when there was no answer and then got up from where she was lying.
It was quite comfortable, but it was still a chair, and the location was a balcony.
Dahlia carefully placed her hands on Maia’s back and thighs, then hugged her in one swift motion.
‘It’s really light.’
As expected, an angel.
No, it’s Maia after all.
Dahlia smiled happily at the sight of Maia, who was beautiful and elegant even when she was sleeping, and kissed Maia on the forehead just like she had done to Cordelia.
“Good night, Maya.”
Dahlia, who whispered very softly, opened the balcony door with her foot and took careful steps forward. Maia, who had slightly woken up when she was picked up, pretended to continue sleeping instead of opening her eyes.
And the next morning.
A young man made a momentous decision while riding in a carriage to the County of Hresvelg, located far northwest of the Holy Kingdom of Judelia.
