episode_0049

“Wow… the head.”

I stood up, pressing my temples against my pounding head.

Is it because the fermentation method is still poor?

Isekai beer seemed to give me a worse hangover than modern beer.

by the way.

“The blanket… whose is it?”

It must not have been covered by old man Rendler, who was spread out like semi-dried squid on the back of the sofa.

I think Rachel, who wasn’t here, probably brought it to me, but I didn’t know because I couldn’t remember yesterday.

First, I stood up.

I covered old Rendler, who was asleep again despite coughing, with a blanket.

Click.

I left the reception room.

I cautiously asked the guard guarding the front.

“Did something happen last night?”

I have no memory.

It seems like nothing special happened under the circumstances, but I was worried that Elden’s drinking habits from the original might have come out.

He went on a rampage, called the maids and raped them, etc.

“What are you talking about?”

“Well… I guess it was noisy all night long.”

“Nothing happened.”

“I see. Thank goodness.”

Phew.

After sighing in relief, I asked again.

“Then I saw that it was covered with a blanket. Who brought it to me?”

“This is Sir Rachel.”

“… Really?”

Was it Rachel after all?

I guess the gruff master was worried that his disciple, who had lost his taste, would get sick.

He seemed indifferent and indifferent to everything, but he was surprisingly a kind-hearted character.

Or was it a favor done by the teacher, who was having fun with the training, in case his student would not be able to enjoy it due to his cold?

anyway.

If I hadn’t covered myself with a blanket, I probably would have suffered from the cold of the floor.

I walked forward thinking that I should say thank you to my teacher.

I needed a hangover to soothe my sore stomach.

I’ve seen it in the Monster Cookbook.

‘Minotaur Seonjiguk’, which is said to be very good for hangover.

At this moment, I desperately need that dish, but unfortunately, there is no chef or ingredients to make it.

First of all, I had to drink something that didn’t contain alcohol.

With that, I headed towards the refreshment room with a hostile pace.

“Huh?”

I could see Rachel in the refreshment room, stirring a cup of tea with a teaspoon.

Rachel, too, must have just woken up, and was wearing a pure white silk dress and slippers.

For some reason, I was afraid to say hello.

Because I don’t know what happened while the film was cut off.

A drunken hand might have been rude, and a drunken snout might have said something.

Fortunately.

“Oh, you woke up early.”

When Rachel saw me, she greeted me in a calm voice, as she always did.

If there is no sign of anything special, it means that nothing special happened.

I sighed in relief and entered the refreshment room.

Of course, there was a need to completely resolve any remaining anxiety.

“Yesterday… Nothing much happened, right?”

Standing next to Rachel, he asked calmly and picked up a glass of water.

For some reason, I feel like my stomach is burning.

I wanted to quickly extinguish it with cold water, but suddenly something was handed to me.

It was a teacup being stirred with a teaspoon, and Rachel had pushed it in front of me.

And then, instead of answering, Rachel poured water again into a new teacup and talked about what she had given her.

“This is what my father used to drink the day after he drank too much.”

“Huh?”

“It’s honey water. It is made by mixing acacia honey with water and adding a small amount of lemon juice. Please eat it as it will help with the hangover.”

With the unexpected appearance of honey water, is your father also a possessor from modern times? A nonsense word almost came out.

Honey water is simple yet effective in relieving hangovers.

Rachel’s father seems to be an expert at relieving hangovers.

“… Thank you.”

I picked up a teacup.

I was a bit dazed.

Because I never expected that I would be receiving honey from a blunt female knight named Rachel, rather than Old Man Rendler.

Did something of some sort happen last night?

Rachel was clearly a strict escort who never showed warm favor to her employer named Elden.

sniffling.

I took a sip of honey water.

It had a great taste, combining the sweet taste of honey with the freshness of lemon, and it seemed to not only relieve hangovers, but even recover from fatigue.

“… How are you?”

Rachel asks carefully.

Seeing her like that, I gave her a thumbs up.

“I think the hangover will go away after just one sip?”

And only then did a faint smile appear on Rachel’s stiff face.

It was my first time seeing a smile.

Even in the original Elden’s memories, Rachel’s face was always blunt.

Of course, it was a faint smile that was difficult to detect.

I thought I had forgotten how to smile, but luckily the purple knight seemed to know how to smile.

Rachel held up her teacup filled with honey water.

Then he looked at me and said with a happy face.

“Your wound has healed completely.”

“Huh?”

“Then I will go get ready.”

That was the end.

Rachel left the refreshment room, holding a steaming teacup.

I stared blankly at the back, then turned my head and looked at my cheek reflected in the mirror of the cupboard.

Just as Rachel said, it was healed without a single minor scar.

It was as clean as if there were no injuries.

Whoa.

‘There was a reason for applying it sparingly?’

After rubbing the area where the wound would have been, I drank honey water.

I don’t know if it was because someone else was riding it, but it was really sweet.

**

“But, young lady, don’t you have any intention of getting married?”

Early moning.

The maid who poured winter flower tea asked Ariel, who was reading while eating breakfast.

Ariel looks up from her book and looks at the maid suspiciously.

Because it was the first time I heard this question.

“Huh? Me?”

“Yes. I suddenly became curious. Please don’t say anything weird about being married to a book.”

“Hmm.”

Ariel sighed after taking a sip of winter flower tea.

It’s marriage.

I’ve never really thought about it.

What’s the point of getting married when you’ve never been in love before?

For Ariel, who had been immersed in novels for almost her entire life, marriage was not something she was interested in.

“I don’t have it?”

“Why?”

“I just don’t have it?”

“… Then you will really die alone. They say that women who have met men meet well. I heard you have to meet diligently before it’s too late?”

“People who have read books read well.”

“… … .”

In any case, she couldn’t be the lady who leaves me speechless and whose every topic of conversation begins and ends with books… The maid thought, “Tak!” I sat down on the chair across from Ariel with my butt down.

Then he looks at Ariel with a dissatisfied expression.

“… What’s wrong?”

“Isn’t it a waste?”

“What?”

“Now is the time to shine the most. It is the time when aritaum is at its peak, and it is time to show off your radiant beauty and fall in love with a wonderful man.”

“… love? Ugh. I don’t know that.”

Ariel was horrified, as if she had seen something she couldn’t see.

She had read a romance novel because she was curious about love, but she had never read the complete novel because she didn’t understand why it was consuming her emotions and wasting time when she should have read even one more chapter of the novel.

“… Are you sure you’ve never been in a relationship?”

In response to the maid’s question, Ariel nodded her head confidently, as if asking why she was asking such an obvious question.

“Yes.”

“Huh… .”

The maid sighs.

I couldn’t understand and couldn’t believe that the girl who had such a beautiful face and such a sweet heart had never been in a relationship.

If I had that face, I would seduce all the men I like.

“That’s such a big deal. What about you? Have you tried it?”

“Of course. Don’t you know how many love flowers bloom and fall between servants?”

“Huh? really? Do you have romantic relationships with your servants? I’ve never seen it before?”

“… It’s like that because you always read novels.”

“Aha. I see.”

“No. Can’t you take it a little more seriously? The young lady’s beauty is such a waste.”

“What is beauty? There are so many people prettier than me. It’s because you haven’t been able to see the 3rd Grand Duchess. If you meet me, I’ll probably look like a normal face, right?”

“… … .”

Not even a sigh comes out.

There will be no stuff like this.

It won’t work.

The maid asked with a determined look on her face, feeling that if things continued like this, my beloved young lady would become an old man living alone.

“Lady.”

“Huh?”

“What book did you enjoy reading the most?”

“Hmm… It’s difficult because there are so many.”

Ariel opens 10 fingers and folds them one by one, muttering the title of the book.

Then one thing came to mind.

There was a novel that I stayed up all night reading to the point that my nose was bleeding, a novel that I felt so sad to skip page by page, a novel that left me so heartbroken that I couldn’t put it into words after reading the epilogue, and a novel that made me happier than anyone else in the world at the moment I read it. .

“Afterword from the hero Alperion?”

“You were very happy when you read it, right?”

Ariel, who couldn’t help but smile just thinking about it, nodded, and this time the maid spread out 10 fingers.

“When you fall in love. It makes me 10 times happier than that.”

Ariel looked surprised at the metaphor, which was truly at the eye level of a bookworm.

“… … 10 times?”

Are you 10 times happier than those moments when you were so happy that you even screamed?

“A. It’s a gross exaggeration.”

“Is it true? That’s because you haven’t tried it. The world is filled with the person you love, and you are anxiously waiting for the moment you meet that person. When you do, you feel so excited that you feel like you could die. It’s truly something that can’t be replaced with anything in the world.”

“… … Is it that much?”

“Of course!”

hmm.

Is it okay to die?

All you think about is him?

It would be nice to be that happy, but… … .

“How do you feel? Do you have any idea now?”

The maid asked the young lady who seemed to have her eyes open for some reason with an expectant expression.

Of course, those expectations cooled down in an instant.

“… But then you can’t read the book.”

“Huh.”

Sighs that would not be surprising even if the world collapsed were flowing from early morning.

**

‘… ‘Why are you saying I’m in love this morning?’

After finishing breakfast, Ariel was heading to the Great Siege Library with her guards.

I knew that there was a lot of talk about love among the maids, perhaps because the end of the Battle of Marriage was approaching.

So I guess so.

Well, I did occasionally urge him to stop reading books and look at men.

by the way.

‘Could I be 10 times happier?’

I was so happy that even if I was stuck on a deserted island, I felt like I could have fun for the rest of my life if I had this novel, but how could I be 10 times happier than that?

‘Nonsense.’

It must have been a bluff done to persuade.

Ariel, who dismissed it, arrived at the library 10 minutes before it opened and looked around.

Perhaps Elden will arrive early… It was because of the desire to do so.

In addition, there was also a feeling of regret about not being able to fully share the appreciation of reading due to my usual late arrival.

I was a little disappointed that it seemed like training was more important than reading.

Of course, Ariel thought that was her desire.

‘Are you coming late today too?’

Hmph.

In fact, they said that the declaration of abstention was approved, so I wish you would come early today… I looked around, but the only people cutting through the early morning air were the workers doing the cleaning.

Tsk.

Ariel, who had lost her appetite out of disappointment, looked at the entrance to the library, which was just one minute away from opening.

And the moment the door opens.

Tuk-tuk.

Someone hit me twice on the shoulder from behind.

‘huh?’

Ariel, startled by the sudden presence, hurriedly turned around and immediately opened her eyes wide.

A small wish has come true.

“Hmm, I was planning to wait for you today, but you’re not late after all? Ariel?”

“What, what?! Eldon!”

Ariel did not yet know that her wide-open eyes contained joy, her raised eyebrows contained joy, and her red lips with a wide smile contained greater happiness than ever before.

It was just Ariel who was jumping up and down in her seat, and for some reason, Ariel seemed to be happy today.

The smell of alcohol wafted through Ariel’s nose.

“Huh? But did you drink yesterday?”

“Ah, I drank a lot of celebratory wine with Rachel and Old Man Rendler.”

“Really?”

Ariel saw Rachel standing diagonally behind Elden’s right.

It was the same place he sat when he was a student at the academy.

“..I know how to drink too.”

Right after that.

The pointless squeal that came out of Ariel’s mouth, which was exhaling joy, was like a small complaint made by a mind that did not know yet.