Chapter 61. No way, Mabel did that guy? 2020.09.01.
“…”
I wondered why he was so angry all of a sudden, and it was like he went on a picnic with Aidan.
“Daddy, if the value picnic comes out later, let’s sleep.”
“Isn’t that the first one?”
Maybe he was sulking, but he kept his mouth shut and avoided my gaze.
‘Eww.’
Father-daughter experience for 5 years. Now I had the ability to let go of things that were so spooky. I put my hand on my hip and looked up at my far-away father.
“Is the first one that important?”
“…of course.”
“If it’s not first, is it Marie who won’t go on a picnic with me?”
“…no, not that.”
Dad hurriedly shook his head. In the meantime, he seemed to want to go on a picnic.
“Dad, do you want to go on a picnic with me?”
“How could that be!”
“Then you did!”
I came to a clear conclusion. Dad looked at me as if he meant something. Anyway, before Dad argued and lifted it, he drove the nail in.
“Let’s go on two picnics!”
“…!”
I could see Dad flinching.
‘He came over.’
I wanted to get over it safely, but it didn’t. Dad, who was making a disapproving expression, slightly raised his gaze.
‘huh??’
It was Aidan who was the target.
‘Why is Aidan suddenly…?’
Scared to be puzzled, Dad opened his mouth.
“Except that guy.”
“Yes?”
“I’m leaving without that guy, picnic.”
I nodded my head at the firm and cold voice. I had no intention of putting Aidan and my father together anyway. As soon as we meet, we keep each other in check with our eyes, but I’m the only one who gets caught in the middle of it. Even so, Dad had an unsatisfied expression on his face. Dad looked down at me with a serious face. I wondered if it was something serious, so I became serious as well.
“Keep your promise, Mabel.”
“What pills?”
“twice.”
“…”
“I have to go twice.”
“Alas.”
After hearing my answer several times, Dad left for the office with Gustav, who had come looking for him as if satisfied. I shook my head.
“Raising a father is hard…”
***
Aidan and I removed the rug and quickly dug out the stones while Lisandro and the maids looked away. Just in case, I didn’t even touch it and Aidan picked it up instead.
“Is that what it is?”
“I feel divine power. a lot.”
“If so, is it a sacred object after all…”
“Shall we try to find out?”
“yes. Butaka.”
Actually, asking the God King was the quickest and most convenient way, but somehow I didn’t want to ask the man. It was because he had experienced a major incident related to the holy relic and hadn’t trusted him yet.
‘Let’s trust the guild ability once.’
In this regard, it would be better to go through people than to ask your animal friends. It was when I was in such serious trouble. The nanny, who was watching us from afar, approached and asked.
“Are you enjoying the picnic?”
“yes. Drink and have fun.”
“Then, shall I prepare dessert for you?”
“yes!!”
I nodded vigorously with my eyes twinkling. I was full from eating a lot of sandwiches, but it didn’t matter.
‘If it’s dessert, you can eat it even if your stomach explodes!’
And Aidan likes dessert, so we can share it. However, Aidan’s expression, looking back, somehow hardened.
“Aidan? where does it hurt?”
“…no.”
“If you feel sick, you have to tell me. Arachi?”
“yes.”
Fortunately, it didn’t appear to be painful. After a while, a sweet dessert was placed in front of us. It was a chocolate cake that looked as if it would melt your tongue just by looking at it. As soon as I saw it, I took a big bite with my fork and ate it, but Aidan instead brought up the story with a serious face.
“I heard from Casey that Duke Javier is planning something.” “Ooh oh
ae ?”
It was hard for me to understand, but Aidan managed to understand.
“I haven’t been able to figure it out until now. I tried to infiltrate the guild members and steal the data, but…”
“Um. that’s right. It’s hard to reveal there.”
Aidan nodded, wiping his mouth with the handkerchief he had handed him. I’ve already asked my animal friends to break into the duke’s mansion several times, but they failed every time. No one, be it an insect or an animal friend, could enter because the magic to block outside invasion was applied in layers.
‘All I can trust is my animal friends.’
The mansions of other nobles were not so heavily guarded. At most, it was enough to scout the surroundings with a private soldier stationed there. On the other hand, the security level of Javier’s mansion was equivalent to that of the imperial castle.
‘A man like a sinister serpent.’
If only the barrier hadn’t been placed in the mansion, he could have already found a weak point and broken the cheeky duke’s nose. There must be many weaknesses in the mansion that no one should see. That’s why the barrier must have been doubled and tripled. My hand, which had been forking in anger, suddenly stopped.
“cellar? That’s why…”
It wasn’t that there was no way to get into Javier’s mansion.
“Why is that?”
“Wow. How about I do some plastic research? I’m not going to use two horses or dogs or animals in it.”
“Are you saying that His Majesty is going to the mansion himself?”
“yes!”
“It’s not possible.”
I was taken aback by the resolute objection. Of course, because Aidan would have said that.
“…why not?”
“It is dangerous.”
“Fine. How many guests are you inviting, noko, just making me do something? I can’t do that unless my head is empty.”
“customer?”
Aidan tilted his head slightly, as if wondering. As expected, he must have thought that I was trying to infiltrate myself. I smiled and nodded my head.
“yes. This is my trump card.”
***
The trump card. It was the tea party invitation that Emily had sent me. Back in the bedroom, I called Oscar, who had just arrived to see me, and wrote a reply. Oscar, who sat me on his lap, scribbled as I called. Of course, you can write it alone, but considering the eyes around you, it was natural to go through Oscar.
‘Sooner or later I’ll have to pretend to learn letters.’
Now that I’m at an age where I’m slowly learning a lot of things, my dad will allow it. While I was lost in my thoughts for a moment, Oscar looked down at me.
“Mabel?”
“Ooh!”
“What shall I write next?”
“Thank you for inviting me. Looking forward to the tea party, Itsukae.”
“good. I wrote everything.”
I looked at Oscar’s reply. I think about it every time, but Oscar’s handwriting was uncharacteristically fluent.
‘Did you just eat and practice calligraphy…?’
Oscar tilted his head as he stared at the coveted handwriting.
“what’s the matter?”
“If I send it like this, I won’t know if I am sending it or not…”
Since it was clearly a ghostwriting reply, I had to print a seal to prove that the sender was me.
“Well, that is also true. hmm. Then Mabel, would you like to sign it yourself?”
“me?”
I was taken aback by the unexpected offer.
“Don’t worry Mabel. I will help you.”
Oscar put a quill in my hand. I accidentally grabbed the quill and broke out in a cold sweat.
‘How can I look clumsy?’
Unknowingly, I skillfully grabbed the quill and got into trouble. Oscar, who was watching me like that, put his hand on top of mine.
“Now, write it like this. Mabel… Gardenia Hermano.”
My hand traced Oscar’s hand in an immature way. Perhaps because of Oscar’s help, it was written much more clearly than my usual handwriting.
‘Boo. Somehow I’m proud of myself…’
As I clenched my other fist and disassembled it, Oscar deftly folded the letter and sealed it.
“Then why did you suddenly decide to go?”
“Ugh, Emily and Chinae-district Cipher…”
“That doesn’t sound like a particularly good idea…”
“yes?”
Somehow, Oscar’s reaction was not to my liking, so I tilted my head back and looked at his face. As soon as Oscar made eye contact with me, he smiled brightly.
“Nothing. Come and have fun.”
“yes.”
“…would you like to go with me?”
I was briefly conflicted with Oscar’s suggestion. If I was simply invited to a tea party and went to play, I would of course go with Oscar, but this visit had a purpose.
‘I’m going to go and sneak up on the duke, but I’ll be uncomfortable with Oscar.’
A glimpse of anticipation flashed in Oscar’s eyes as he looked at me. As expected, Enrique was at the Javier mansion, so he seemed to want to go. I felt bad for nothing, but I couldn’t help it.
“no. Fine. Great if you go with Aidan.”
The smile faded from Oscar’s face.
“That bastard…”
“Old bastard?”
“No…”
I patted Oscar on the shoulder, who looked weak.
‘Did you miss Enrique that much…?’
For the sake of Oscar, who misses his friend, sooner or later we will have to talk about the ban on dad and young children.
***
In front of Mabel’s bedroom. After completing their respective schedules, the rich and the poor accidentally bumped into each other.
“Hello, Father.”
“Yes, Oscar. Are you on your way to see Mabel?”
“yes.”
The two entered Mabel’s bedroom together. Of course, I expected that Mabel would greet me with a sullen face, but the bedroom was dark.
“It’s not even eight o’clock yet, but it seems to be sleeping.”
“Because babies sleep a lot.”
Oscar laughed lightly. It was because it reminded me of Mabel, who was exhausted and fell asleep after struggling to overcome her sleep despite being a baby.
‘Why the hell am I fighting so hard with sleep?’
It was a conundrum in Oscar’s life that could not be solved for the rest of his life. Carefully approaching the bed, Mabel was sleeping in a corner of the wide bed, curled up facing the sheep. Perhaps she fell asleep while drawing, there were a lot of papers spread out around her, and oil pastels for toddlers were clutched in her tiny hands. Esteban picked up a piece of paper. Something was messed up.
“This is…”
Esteban couldn’t bear to speak. Oscar, who quietly looked at the paper, was speechless.
Esteban asked his son with a distraught expression.
“What does this look like?”
“I think… It’s an expression of abstract emotion.”
In this way, Mabel’s ‘Javier Mansion Investigation Plan’ became an abstraction. Oscar picked up another picture. It was a picture that Yang Yang had no choice but to paint because he had to draw a torch to draw him as a model.
“What is this?”
At Oscar’s serious question, Esteban stared at the painting. lump of yellow.
‘If it’s yellow.’
Esteban narrowed his brows.
“It’s Enrique Javier. Get rid of it.”
“Yes, Father.”
Oscar threw the painting away without hesitation. Thus, Mabel’s ‘sheep painting’ became a portrait of Enrique and was abandoned. The two men looked down at Mabel with distraught expressions. The face of the child who had fallen asleep without even knowing that a customer had arrived was very gentle.
“The cute Mabel will soon be attending a tea party invited by the daughter of the Javier family.”
“yes.”
“Why didn’t you dry it, Oscar?”
“There was no reason. How can I stop Mabel from dating a friend of her age?”
Esteban sighed lightly and nodded. In any case, it was also important for Mabel to make friends of the same sex.
“Of course I will meet Enrique Javier. Go and keep an eye on him.”
“…I’m not going.”
“what?”
“Mabel said she would take Aidan with her.”
“I can’t…”
Oscar was saddened by the fact he had forgotten, and Esteban was shocked.
“no way.”
Horrible thoughts that he did not want to imagine filled Esteban’s head.
‘Could it be that Mabel is Aidan…?’
Oscar’s face turned white as he thought the same thing. Both of them had one thing in common: they were pushed out of their seats by Aidan. Esteban has his first picnic and Oscar is qualified as a tea party partner.
“Emperor. I don’t think you should watch it like this. We need to keep Mabel away from him.”
The human being Aidan had no regrets. For the past three years, Oscar and Aidan have had a fairly friendly relationship. But when Mabel got caught in the middle, the story was different.
“I am of the same opinion, but it is dangerous to separate Aidan.”
“What do you mean?”
“Before coming to Ermano, Aidan lost his temper and committed slaughter because of Veron Arthur Devlica’s magic.”
This was a top secret that only Lisandro, Gustaf and Esteban knew about, so Oscar had never heard of it.
“I know that I am not the kind of person who would do it on my own accord.”
“okay. But if Veron gives an order, you have no choice but to follow it. Mabel is the only one who can calm such a runaway. They say if you get close or touch it, Veron’s ban will be nullified.”
“Is it because Mabel is the seed of God?”
“Anyway.”
Oscar understood Esteban’s position. Aidan was a being that could not be easily controlled. It’s unsettling to keep them by your side, but it’s impossible to keep them far away. If Aidan ran rampant within the system, enormous damage would follow one after another. Esteban clicked his tongue briefly.
“I was complacent. To think that he would be so intimate with Mabel…”
“…”
The rich man, who had been looking down at Mabel for a long time with mixed emotions, left the bedroom. Click. The sound of the door closing opened Mabel’s eyes. Awakened by the sound of conversation, she heard everything from about halfway through.
‘The reason why Aidan is next to me is because of the ban?’
So, is this being used? Mabel was seriously thinking about-.
“Fucking incest….Because I use Aidan!”
After making a clear conclusion, I went back to sleep.
