[Episode 102]
“Director!”
Albion was quietly entering with Hill Rosemont. At my call, both eyes turned to me.
In fact, it wasn’t just the two of them. To be precise, it would be more accurate to say that everyone’s eyes were pouring on me.
‘…I don’t know who it is, but I need to tell my dad after today’s work.’
That nasty man was about to do something.
“…Eirin?”
“What are you doing here, Director?”
“My nephew, whom I mentioned before, asked me to come with him because he was afraid to go alone.”
Hill Rosemont?
‘Are you afraid to go alone?’
What scam did you brazenly commit?
With an absurd expression, he looked at the boy standing next to Albion. Hill Rosemont, in uniform, looked at me, widened her eyes in disgust, then smiled.
“It is so nice to meet you here, lady!”
Hill Rosemont came over with a big smile and took my hand and shook it.
‘It’s nice to meet you…’
But I’m not someone of a business people. I also smiled and held Hill Rosemont’s hand.
“Yes, teacher! Long time no see!”
Looking over Hill Rosemont’s shoulder, I saw that the unpleasant man had disappeared before I knew it.
“What are you looking at?”
Hill Rosemont burst into laughter, thrusting her face right in front of mine.
“no.”
“Why are you alone, Eirin? Who is the guardian?”
Albion frowned and asked. Come to think of it, there were also people here who hated child abuse.
“I was looking around alone because something happened! Director, did you have a good trip to where your daughter is?”
“…yes, I’ve been there. I received a letter…”
Albion’s voice sank heavily.
“The child didn’t resent me.”
Albion’s voice trembled. It was not comfortable to look at the heavy sinking eyes.
“I’m sorry, I should have delivered it a little sooner…”
“If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have known about it for the rest of my life, but it’s something I should be thankful for.”
“I’m sorry though.”
If I had only spoken on time, we could have met a little sooner. It was too late to keep the promise made five years ago.
As I lowered my head in apologetic feeling, I heard Albion’s voice above my head.
“I heard that I met a family member who had fallen and saved a friend who was about to die. I heard that he fell into a long sleep in return. I must have been unconscious for a while when I opened my eyes.”
It’s not your fault.
I was both surprised and grateful that this man of few words was carrying on a long conversation in order to say that one word.
“The child deserves it. You don’t have to be sorry. Because living people are more important than dead people.”
Albion patted my head lightly. It must be his consideration not to mess with his hair for fear of damaging it.
Then Hill Rosemont suddenly intervened.
“Your uncle must be very close with the princess.”
“We only knew each other briefly before.”
“is it so? Because you look closer than me We are family by blood, although of course we didn’t know for a long time.”
“….”
“My parents died and no one helped me, so how hard it was….”
Albion’s eyes trembled slightly at Hill Rosemont’s words.
I glared at Hill Rosemont for his melancholy and guilt-stimulating behavior.
“…If I had an uncle, none of that would have happened.”
“…sorry.”
Albion’s expression darkened. Hill Rosemont laughed invisibly.
‘That ssaksu yellow, dirty thing.’
I knew he had a bad personality, but he’s trying to use even the heroes of the empire.
He should have known who Albion was without difficulty.
‘By the way…’
What the hell is that guy hanging out in the back of Hill Rosemont?
I could see him wiggling his fingers and checking his eyes.
Hill Rosemont must have realized where my gaze had landed, and he pulled the wrist of the child behind him and put him in front of me.
“Lady, I will take this opportunity to introduce you. This is my brother, Phil Rosemont.”
“Ah ah hello… my name is Phil Rosemont.”
Simple, round eyes, light brown hair like Hill Rosemont and light green eyes than Hill Rosemont.
Compared to the clear features, the round impression was that of a deer itself.
“I’m Eirin Etam.”
“Yes, Lady Etam! I’ve heard a lot about Tongue hyung-nim…”
It was difficult to see that not being able to make eye contact was acting.
‘I was wondering where Hill Rosemont made such a silly character…’
Was it a transformation after seeing my younger brother?
“Phil.”
Hill Rosement seemed to be putting a shoulder to Phil Rosement and tapped Phil on the shoulder.
“My brother told me not to drag on. Are you ignoring me?”
“Oh no. older brother.”
He seemed to be muttering a little because he noticed Albion, but I can hear him.
“I told you so, no one likes you.”
He’s gaslighting again.
“Director, what is the sprout time?”
It’s a little hard to say that it’s an orphanage from the outside, so when I said the name, Albion opened his mouth.
“I met my daughter, so I have to go back soon.”
“…going back?”
I was about to answer when Hill Rosemont intercepted me.
“That way, those children will be waiting for me too.”
“…Then what about me and Phil?”
Albion’s mouth fell shut at Hill Rosemont’s words.
Well, from his point of view, he probably thinks it’s better to go to the children of an orphanage who have nothing than the nephew of an aristocrat who went through a coming-of-age ceremony with titles, money, and honor.
But because I feel guilty, I can’t bear to say that.
In fact, it was something he didn’t have to feel guilty about. He must have been abandoned from an aristocratic family, raised as a commoner, revered as a hero, and participated in the war, so he didn’t know.
‘Hill Rosemont… always wanted people.’
He also wanted someone he could trust in [Entry. Yang. Gak].
That’s why I always tested someone, didn’t let my younger brother get out of my grasp, wanted a wyvern with a ‘imprint’ of the heroine, and wanted a heroine who said ‘I believe in you’.
But in fact, Hill Rosemont gained nothing from the novel.
‘There must be a reason why a human who is twisted like this twister is so twisted.’
Albion, who had been silent, let out a short sigh.
“I don’t think that’s what we’re talking about here.”
“Then you two can talk. I’ll at least dance with Rosemont Youngsik here.”
of course it’s bullshit
Because Hill Rosement didn’t give me proper dance lessons.
I grabbed Phil Rosemont’s hand and turned and headed straight for the terrace.
“Hey, lady…”
Phil Rosemont blushed in embarrassment. It’s chasing after me, but it looks like it’s going to cry soon.
‘This kid is really weak…’
Looking at his face that turned bright red, I honestly felt like harassing him a little.
But since Hill Rosemont is always harassing me, I feel a little more sorry.
“Could you please call me Eirin?”
“iced coffee! yes yes. I can be Phil too! Please speak comfortably.”
“Then I won’t hesitate. What did the teacher say about me?”
“Ah… I thought you were stupid, but it was a compliment for being pretty smart!”
isn’t that an insult?
“And you have a talent for fraud…”
That’s an insult.
“Oh, he said he wanted to raise him on a leash!”
It’s not even an insult, it’s an insult.
As I looked at Phil Rosemont with a bewildered look on my face, the deer-like boy had his eyes twinkling.
‘Yes, I must have grown up knowing that was a compliment…’
I guessed who would have said that.
“Are you talking right? You can also speak comfortably.”
“Oh yeah. Words are tongue… It’s a little like that in front of my older brother. I’m afraid of my older brother…”
“Well, why don’t you just leave the house?”
“No… I owe a lot to my brother. You have to pay the price for growing up. My parents died and my older brother was having a hard time.”
All I could feel in the drooping voice was that the deer was being held tightly to Hill Rosemont.
“okay?”
“Yes, my parents were very scary and strict people. I was always in my room until my brother didn’t help me. The fact that I was able to go outside and see the sky is all thanks to my older brother.”
“….”
I kept my mouth shut at those words that sounded like a deep story, and Phil Rosemont took a look at me in surprise, then scratched his cheek and smiled briskly.
“I’m sorry, brother, I didn’t want to talk about this. Can you keep it a secret?”
The naive deer caught by the hunter laughed.
It was a time when I just nodded my head because I didn’t know anything to offer clumsy consolation.
A chilling breath permeated me with the feeling of the wind rushing out from behind me.
“…Finally found.”
At the voice behind me, Phil Rosemont and I simultaneously turned our heads.
In an instant, the blood seemed to drain from his body. It was that unpleasant man who had been following me since yesterday.
Holding a wine glass in one hand, he smiled at me.
Looking closer, the area under the eyes looked even more sunken, and it seemed that the eyes were slightly bloodshot.
It was a time when I was frightened and froze.
“who are you?”
Phil Rosemont hastily cut my way.
“what? So that the blood doesn’t dry on his head, where does a young guy dare to block it? Do you know who I am?”
“I do not know.”
Phil Rosemont answered quite strongly. However, when I looked closely, my fingertips were trembling.
“But I’ve learned from Lady that you shouldn’t let outsiders approach you.”
“her! I am his father! get out of the way right now Are you saying that the father can’t even meet his children?”
“dad?”
asked Phil Rosement.
‘dad?’
Who is it? Did I have another father?
“Is that so, young lady?”
Phil Rosement asked, shaking his hands. I carefully held his hand and shook my head.
“No, I don’t know him.”
I glared at him.
It was clearly a familiar face, but one I had never seen before.
The offended man took a step closer.
‘I have to use the dragon’s ability to escape.’
I was also afraid that I would fall into a long sleep, so I couldn’t use it recklessly, but now wasn’t the time to argue about that.
It was time to take a step back with Phil Rosement, looking for gaps.
Quaang-!
The displeased man’s face hit the terrace floor hard.
“Cheuk!”
The heel of a well-groomed shoe landed ferociously on the back of the miserably prostrate man.
“My toys are quite big… Now they fearlessly target my daughter.”
It was Dad.
