Taking it Out on the Wrong Person

After that day, a slight change came into Kyle’s daily life.

No, actually, even though I say a change came, his daily routine didn’t change much.

It was just that Silvia’s existence had intervened in that unchanging daily life, like sprinkling a little seasoning on food.

,Huuup…! Haat!

As if to prove this, Kyle was, without fail, swinging his wooden sword and training hard today as well.

Even though his essence was that of a wizard, he hadn’t forgotten his swordsmanship training.

Rather, after his regression, he seemed to want to try again the things he hadn’t achieved in his previous life, showing himself more engrossed in swordsmanship than magic.

Just as he was sweating profusely, a faint presence appeared in the quiet training grounds.

,You’ve worked hard, Layard-gongja-nim. Are you finished with today’s quota?

,…Milady.

Silvia appeared to bring him the towel he had forgotten to bring, and Kyle paused for a moment before letting out a small sigh so she wouldn’t hear.

This was the biggest change that had come into his daily life.

There wasn’t much difference in what he was doing compared to usual, but Silvia would appear from time to time in the midst of that routine.

,You didn’t bring your water and towel. Alp-ssi said he was going, so I came instead.

Kyle couldn’t bear to look at her smiling brightly as she diligently brought even his water bottle, and he turned his head slightly and said a word.

,I hope you’ll have Alp do it next time.

,Tsk, is that all you have to say to someone who went to the trouble of bringing it? There’s something you should say before that.

,…Thank you.

,Hehe, you’re very welcome.

Silvia pretended to snatch the water bottle and towel for a moment, but when he reluctantly offered his thanks, she finally gave them back.

Soon, Kyle wiped his sweat-soaked face with the towel and chugged water like someone who had just crossed the desert for days.

Then, as if to take a rest, he simply sat down on the ground.

Silvia followed suit, gently sitting next to him and staring intently at Kyle’s profile.

,…Is there something you want to say?

,No.

When Kyle cautiously asked, unable to withstand her gaze, Silvia still smiled brightly and shook her head.

Kyle, who used to feel like her smile was just like a flower, now felt it was the scariest thing in the world.

,But why are you staring so intently….

,Does there need to be a reason to look at one’s fiancé?

,Milady, that story….

,Ah, right? Sorry. This story isn’t yet.

She realized she had made a slip of the tongue and made an ,oops, expression, but the way she emphasized the word ,yet, at the end and smiled again seemed deliberately intentional to anyone who saw it.

It was as if she was saying it wouldn’t be long, and Kyle looked confused, wondering what to do about this.

He suddenly even thought that he was more comfortable when he was racking his brains over how to deal with the Eyes of Dawn.

,Come to think of it, Mother asked me to ask you if there’s anything you’d like to eat for lunch.

,…Mother?

Kyle finally emptied the contents of the water bottle and was about to get up to leave, but Kyle’s body and consciousness stopped at the same time at Silvia’s voice that suddenly rang out.

There was nothing strange about the words themselves, but it was because one strange word was mixed in the middle.

Mother, that’s a title that a married woman would use when calling her mother-in-law.

,Yes, Layard-gongja-nim’s mother, Roxanne-buin.

,That’s not what I’m asking. When did you get so close to my mother?

Kyle was so flustered that he unconsciously raised his voice and questioned her.

In the case of his father, Dver, he had already revealed to Kyle that he was quite favorably disposed towards Silvia, so he could understand it to some extent.

On the other hand, there was nothing that could be called a point of contact between his mother, Roxanne, and Silvia.

Of course, Roxanne also seemed to take care of Silvia quite a bit, just like Dver, but he never thought they would have become so close already.

Why?

,Even if you say that…. There wasn’t any special occasion. We were just drinking tea together the other day when she suddenly suggested it.

,My mother said it first?

,Yes.

Oh, God-isiyeo.

Kyle had to call out to God for the second time in his life at the unexpected answer.

At least if Silvia had asked for permission to call her that first, he would have understood, but this was beyond understanding, and he couldn’t even guess how that situation came about.

Frankly speaking, Kyle thought it would be more reasonable to see Silvia using mind control magic to manipulate Roxanne at that moment.

,Now that I’ve won over Father, Mother, and Aju-beonim, it seems like only Layard-gongja-nim is left.

,…Father, I can understand, but did you tell my hyung-nim to call you that too?

That guy wouldn’t do that.

In the first place, Hasel is almost the only person in the castle who doesn’t look at Silvia with particularly unkind eyes.

Nevertheless, when Kyle saw Silvia calling even Hasel by a fairly friendly title and made a ,surely not, expression, she shook her head firmly and added.

,No, I didn’t specifically ask for permission. I just thought Aju-beonim might feel left out if I only called the two of them that.

,You didn’t just call him that to his face out of the blue, did you?

,Of course I did. I ran into him on the way here, so I thought, ,Now’s my chance.

How did this woman suddenly become the type to just go for it without looking back?

The situation suddenly came to mind, and Kyle asked again in a voice full of anxiety.

,…What was hyung-nim’s reaction?

,He was very unique. It was like he had swallowed a handful of maggots in his mouth?

,…….

Tak.

Somehow, that face came to mind, and Kyle unknowingly covered his forehead.

He never thought he would side with Hasel instead of Silvia, but at least for today, he wanted to tell Hasel that his reaction was right.

He could confidently say that if Hasel brought a woman he had never seen before as his fiancé and she called him ,Doryeon-nim,, he would have made the same expression.

,Haa….

Kyle let out a short sigh at the chaotic situation.

He had a strong desire to grab anyone he could get his hands on today and use them as a tool for venting his anger.

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Squeak…. Clunk.

A carriage came running in front of the quiet Freeg Castle and stopped in front of the castle gate.

A pattern of a golden staff was engraved on the head of the carriage.

Just as the Layard family is called the Three Swords of the Empire, they were allowed to engrave a sword on their family crest to match.

There aren’t many families that can claim to be a prestigious family of magic by drawing a staff.

Moreover, if it is a golden staff, which is considered a symbol of the pinnacle of magic, even more so.

The Drake family is the representative of this.

,We have arrived, Doryeon-nim.

,Okay.

Soon, the door of the carriage opened, and the person who appeared with a gait that was not even slightly disturbed was none other than Vermillion Drake.

If you ask why he suddenly arrived at Freeg Castle, which can be said to be the base of the Layard family, the answer is simple.

It is to personally receive the magic training from Kyle, which he had agreed to receive when he made a contract with Kyle before.

Although Vermillion is affiliated with the Drake family, which has the Eyes of Dawn as its backing, his passion and desire for magical studies have not faded.

If he can explore magic more deeply and gain greater power and achievements, he is a man who can follow anyone, even if it is not his family or the Eyes of Dawn.

That’s why he came here today.

,You’ve come, Vermillion.

While standing blankly in front of the castle gate and looking around, Kyle, who had somehow come outside, gave a welcome that wasn’t exactly a welcome in his unique indifferent tone.

,Yes, how have you been? Ky….

Vermillion paused for a moment as he tried to greet him back.

This was because a person who shouldn’t be next to Kyle was standing there for some reason.

,It’s the first time I’ve seen you again since the duchy. Drake-gongja. Have you been well?

,……?

Why is this woman here?

Vermillion’s consciousness stopped for the first time at the eyes of different colors, and then stopped for the second time when he heard the unique gentle and peaceful voice, and then tried to restart.

It was definitely Silvia Eleanor.

She was the owner of the Evil Eye, and because of that, she was a woman famous as a witch in the world.

But that was quite a while ago, and recently, a big incident happened in the Eleanor family, and she proved her ability by rising to the position of head of the family at once, and she was also a person whose evaluation had become quite generous.

Anyway, that’s not important, why is this woman brazenly in the Layard family’s main castle at this time?

That point was truly questionable for Vermillion.

,Oh, it’s been a while. Eleanor-gongnyeo. But what brings you here…?

,There are several reasons. I will be staying here for the time being and taking bride lessons.

,Bride lessons?

What the hell is this?

Vermillion was one of the few people who knew that Kyle and Silvia’s relationship was false, so he couldn’t help but be even more dumbfounded by those words.

Bride lessons, then could it be?

,…I wondered why you were pushing me to spit out all the information about that gongnyeo, did you fall head over heels in love with her in the meantime?

,…….

He succeeded in roughly putting the puzzle together in his head, approached Kyle, poked him in the side with his elbow, and asked with a lewd expression.

Kyle didn’t answer for a long time, but eventually.

Squeeze.

,Keugh…!?

,Milady, I hope you will go back first. I’ll stop by the training grounds with Vermillion for a while.

He crushed Vermillion’s shoulder as if it would break, and in front of Silvia, he opened his mouth as if he had another prior engagement in a calm tone.

,Training grounds? Drake-gongja must not have recovered from his fatigue yet, why…?

,There’s a good reason. I’ll take a look at his hands for about an hour…. No, I’ll check his skills after a long time and then go back.

,Yes….

He definitely seemed to have hastily corrected his words in the middle, but Vermillion couldn’t bring himself to argue.

Because he was already attached to Kyle, he didn’t even have the leeway to open his mouth to somehow endure the pressure of the magic power overflowing from him.

,You came at the right time. Let’s go in.

On the other hand, Kyle, who was already troubled, sneered at Vermillion, the doll for venting his anger, who had come at just the right time, and dragged him into the training grounds.

According to the servants who were walking around the training grounds immediately after that, screams did not stop there.