episode_0115

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The first thing Emma did when she quickly returned to the mansion was to go to the room where her master was sleeping.

She hurried up the stairs, as if she had been holding her breath for a long time.

squeak, squeak, squeak

Emma stood in front of the room, leaving behind the sound of the old wooden stairs.

“Hmm, hmm. Wow.”

Fearing that she might appear superficially disheveled, Emma adjusted her clothes.

smart

After knocking on the door softly enough not to wake the owner, Emma opened the door carefully.

There were two reasons why her master should not wake up.

One is for the health of the owner who has no energy.

The other was to see the face of the owner sleeping soundly.

All of the morning’s work is finished, and there is still time left to prepare dinner.

Emma planned to use the three to four hours of free time she was given to look at the face of her beloved master.

This was her break.

Squeak

Emma opened the door and entered the room, muffled by her footsteps.

And when he saw the bed, he stopped abruptly.

“Lord, Innim?”

The owner’s figure, which should be protruding from the blanket, is not visible.

Emma looked around the bed quickly to see if it had fallen on the side of the bed, but there was no sign of the owner.

“Lord, master!”

She removed the blanket just in case, but there were only marks where someone had been pressed, and of course there was no one she was looking for.

Emma, who had let her guard down due to her owner’s seemingly fine appearance recently, blamed herself.

“Oh, no.”

If Emma couldn’t find the owner due to her own carelessness, she wouldn’t be able to forgive herself.

“I have to find it.”

Emma walked around the entire second floor and checked the rooms.

The room where the user stays, the guest room, the study, and the dressing room.

She mechanically opened the door, looked into the room, closed the door, and left.

bang! bang!

The sound of slamming doors rang regularly in the house, and it made Emma even more impatient.

After looking around the second floor, she went down to the first floor.

The neatly trimmed clothes for the owner became a mess in a short period of time.

Squeak! Squeak!

Emma hurried down the stairs, and a small rattling sound was heard in her heightened senses.

“Master?”

The place where the sound came was the kitchen.

As Emma entered the kitchen, she saw her master raising a water bottle to his mouth and gulping it down.

“Master… Phew….”

She was able to relax her tense body for a moment.

If he had gone out of the house, it would have been difficult to find him. She stroked her chest.

I don’t know how I drank the water, but the kitchen floor was a sea of water.

There are already four empty water bottles around him.

Emma was worried about her owner, who was drinking his fifth bottle of water, so she approached him cautiously.

He is already a mentally unstable person. If you forcibly take away his water bottle, he will definitely get agitated.

It was common sense to Emma, who had assisted him for a long time.

Emma’s appearance had already caused the old man who was drinking water to stop moving.

“Oh, that’s because I’m thirsty.”

Does he not remember himself?

Seeing the owner speaking respectfully, Emma lost her composure.

It was clearly the owner who called his name, smiled, and patted his head until just a moment ago.

Emma looked a little on the verge of tears, but soon smiled brightly.

“It’s okay. Do you want to drink water?”

“Ah… yes.”

“I’ll pour it into a cup for you. Please sit here.”

Emma kindly pushed the chair back, and the old man sat down in it.

Emma adjusted the position of the chair so that the old man would not be uncomfortable, then took a cup from the cupboard and poured it.

“You must be very thirsty.”

With a squeak, the water from the water bottle splashed into the cup.

“Sorry.”

When the old man bowed with an apologetic look on his face, Emma shook her head.

“No. Anyway, this house belongs to the owner. Who says anything about drinking water?”

“Master?”

“Yes! You are the owner of this mansion.”

“Me?”

“Yes.”

Emma said with a wide smile, and the old man touched his glass in disbelief.

“That’s what it was.”

The old man muttered as he looked at the calm surface created in the glass of water.

“Then, who are you?”

When the old man asked, Emma bit her lip slightly.

“My name is Emma. I am the master’s faithful maid.”

“Emma. Emma…”

The old man repeated Emma’s name several times, as if trying to remember his own name.

“By any chance, master… do you remember your name?”

Emma asked, wiping the water from the table and floor, and the old man nodded slightly.

“Kang In-ho…?”

When the name came out of the old man’s mouth, Emma’s movements stopped.

“Ah….”

Emma jumped up and looked at her master’s face.

“Ah…”

Emma could not form any sentences and just repeated meaningless sounds like a newborn.

“???”

The old man tilted his head and widened his eyes.

And then, Emma carefully hugged the old man from behind.

“You remembered…. master. Don’t forget about me too.”

Inho thought as he saw Emma sobbing.

‘What, why is he like this? scared.’