episode_0290

‘It’s not easy to send letters regularly when you don’t even get a proper reply.’

Do you know how difficult it is to have a one-sided relationship between people?

Nevertheless, Yul persevered and sent a letter to his sponsor.

How could he have said that he felt sorry for Erintina and suggested sending at least a cursory reply?

Additionally, the contents of the letter are very detailed.

‘I thought if I ignored this, I would become the trash of the world.’

It wasn’t long ago that I finally gave in to Erintina’s words and the content of Yul’s salty letter and started sending a light reply.

‘I haven’t been able to reply since I was in the imperial palace for a while, but it’s already piled up like this again.’

Once a letter came, it was a short reply of only 1 page compared to Yul’s standard 2-3 page reply, but it is said that Yul was very satisfied with that alone.

‘I shouldn’t have replied.’

And when I thought about the letters I exchanged with her, I felt uncomfortable.

When I reveal my identity, Yul will also remember the letters we exchanged.

To be honest, the content written there contains a lot of content that could be said to be a dark story for Yul rather than for me.

“I’m going to be disappointed if I find out the identity of the long-legged man, but I’m not sure if it’ll be okay.”

Perhaps Yul thinks of his imaginary sponsor as a gray-haired grandfather.

‘Even though she wasn’t my granddaughter, I treated her like a niece.’

But what if the sponsor turns out to be the owner of a general store that I often met?

‘Useup…’ .’

It’s tough.

As expected, I wasn’t replying after listening to Erintina’s words.

Feeling late regret, I sighed and continued reading the piled up letters.

It’s unfortunate that it’s time to reveal his identity, but the good news that the experiment was successful doesn’t mean he’ll feel better.

There was a lot of work to be done through Yul in the future.

“If this continues, Erintina will have too much to do… .”

I wondered if there was any need to leave this all to Erintina alone.

“It wouldn’t be a bad idea to take this opportunity to introduce Princess Mona to Yul.”

Since I was planning on making these two friends anyway, I thought now would be the perfect opportunity.

Of course, to do that, it was necessary to talk to Princess Mona.

To introduce him to the goose that lays the golden egg and allow him to come under her protection.

but.

‘I don’t know when Princess Mona will return.’

Currently, Princess Mona will be busy sorting out her dealings with ethnic minorities.

A successful deal was concluded with the minority group, but that was not the end of the matter.

It was unknown what results exchanges with the North would produce.

Even if the results come out, the compensation Princess Mona will receive will vary depending on how the emperor accepts it.

It was not easy to make an appointment with Princess Mona while walking on such thin ice.

Although it wasn’t enough to split the time into minutes, it was clear that there was a line of people clamoring to give her time.

‘Even if I’m impatient, it would be better to just sit here and wait than to run to the imperial palace and ask for time.’

Perhaps the nobles who are currently holding Princess Mona in the imperial palace will soon get wind of it.

‘No problem, there’s a museum here.’

Princess Mona’s favorite museum is here, but there was no way she would have been held in the imperial palace for long.

Moreover, there was no way the princess would stand by and watch her waste her time on nobles who were not worth worrying about.

So, waiting quietly here and making an appointment is faster than going back to the imperial palace and making an appointment with Princess Mona.

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“I was surprised when he suddenly said he would invite me to his house. But why is there so much food? “Is it your boss’s birthday?”

I knew he was concentrating on his research, but he still had important work to do to reveal Yul’s identity, so he asked her to take some time for him.

Yul was confused when I suddenly called him, but he obediently gave me his time.

“That’s not true, but it’s true that we were called to celebrate. “You must be busy with research, but thank you for your time.”

“The boss called me, not anyone else, so I have to come.”

This event was a celebration of Yul’s research success.

Yul was keeping his promise to me, his sponsor.

This is a promise not to talk about research-related topics carelessly.

So, the only person who knew that Yul’s research was on the verge of success was me, the sponsor.

“But what is there to celebrate? Because I haven’t heard anything about it. “If it had been a celebration, I would have bought you a gift.”

Yul was glancing at the dishes placed on the table.

They seem to have no idea that their name will come up in something to celebrate.

I said, shaking my head.

“No, it’s Yulsin who should be congratulated, so why am I being congratulated?”

“yes? Me? Am I being celebrated? why?”

“Well, there is something to celebrate, right?”

“???”

First, I congratulated Yul, who had no idea.

“Congratulations, Yul.”

“Are you making fun of me?”

“no. “I’m being serious.”

“Really me? uh? what?”

Yul blinked as if he still couldn’t figure it out.

I decided to tease him at this point and let him know why I’m celebrating.

“You succeeded in your research.”

“!!!!!”

At my words, Yul’s pupils grew as big as half his face and started shaking wildly.

“Well, how does the boss know that? “Did I tell you?!”

“ha ha ha!”

“It’s not? uh? I really was careful with my mouth, right? “I told you not to tell anyone!”

Yul became tearful, perhaps because he thought his straightforward speech had made a mistake.

“This is written in the contract, so you shouldn’t talk about it carelessly. Why can’t I remember… ? Did I even talk in my sleep? Did you hear that? No, this doesn’t make sense either.”

We haven’t been able to see each other much lately because we’ve both been busy, so there’s no way we can hear each other talking in our sleep, right?

Besides, Yul never talked carelessly.

“Don’t be surprised. “Because it wasn’t Mr. Yul’s fault.”

“You really didn’t know because I told you, right?”

“yes.”

It was true that I found out because Yul told me, so I didn’t bother to answer.

“Then how did you know? I never told anyone that the research was successful… ah! Sponsor!”

match!

Have you finally noticed?

Yul clapped his hands together and his eyes sparkled as if he realized something.

She pointed at me with her eyes still wide in surprise.

“You heard it from your sponsor! I didn’t know the owner knew the sponsor! “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

“… … .”

I didn’t expect this kind of reaction.

I guess it never occurred to me that I was a sponsor.

‘I guess you’re really sure it’s your grandfather.’

I was worried that the impact on Yul would be greater than I thought.

Still, I made a lot of food and called him, so I couldn’t reveal my identity.

“I prepared it to celebrate, so let’s eat it first. “It was all made for Mr. Yul.”

“There are so many, I don’t know what to eat first.”

“It doesn’t matter if you just taste one bite at a time, so eat comfortably.”

“I should have called Sasha too.”

Calling Sasha was a plan I had thought about before.

Wouldn’t Sasha be able to comfort the shocked Yul?

But in the end, Yul was the only one who called.

This is because it seemed like a wrong move to carelessly insert a third party into the problem between the two of us.

“Wow, it’s so delicious.”

“What kind of drink would you like?”

“Water is enough. thank you. “I don’t know if I can deserve this kind of undeserved congratulations.”

“I’m only 18, no, I’ll be 19 soon, but it’s amazing that I’ve already achieved success in research. “I am honored to have the future Great Alchemist sitting in front of me.”

“Ahh! no. “I was able to achieve results because my sponsor pushed me hard.”

Throughout the meal, Yul asked questions about what kind of person the ‘sponsor’ was.

There seemed to be great curiosity about him.

“It’s so surprising how you two know each other.”

“Don’t you think it’s strange?”

“I think it can be done. Originally, nobles thought that personal connections were very important. ah! “Are you sure it was you who connected the sponsor to me?”

I thought it was strange that I suddenly had a sponsor, but some people asked me some pretty sharp questions about whether that was the case.

I passed through her words in a vague manner.

Yul didn’t seem to care what answer I gave, so he didn’t stop chatting.

‘Now that I think about it, he actually talks a lot… .’

Since I was away from Yul for a while, I had forgotten that she talks a lot.

It wasn’t until my ears started to tingle that I was able to get used to Yul’s chatter, and it soon became necessary to get to the point that created today’s meeting.

“In particular, the pot lent by the sponsor is really special. If that child had gone to another alchemist, he might have been able to research something even greater than me. “I kept feeling like I was being treated undeservedly.”

“I didn’t know you were thinking like that. But in my opinion, Mr. Yul is a genius. So, I hope you have confidence.”

“Hehe, I think the success of this research is quite remarkable. But there is still a long way to go. “It was made to fit the theory, and there were good results in animal testing, but clinical testing is a different story.”

That is correct.

It would be unplanned for a side effect that she did not expect to occur and for it to receive more attention than the original effect of the drug.

Without missing the moment of silence, I took out what I had in my arms and handed it to Yul.

“What’s this?”

I handed over the item out of the blue, so he received it, but he didn’t seem to notice.

“Take a look. “It must be something familiar.”

“uh… uh?? letter… uh?”

After checking what I handed over, Yul kept asking, “Huh?” uh? I can’t come to my senses and scream.

I didn’t seem to understand why this was coming out of my pocket.

It feels like something is broken, so I’m getting anxious just looking at it.