"Elise, Eliza. Is he here?
"... Count Teresia? Yes, Master Eliza is here."
Latka replied across the door instead of me, who couldn't react to anything.
The door is quietly opened and the Earl of Teresia, seeping through tiredness, enters the room with Raswiwok for some reason. It also looked like Raswiwok was gently pushing the Earl of Teresia. Because of this, the Count also has a slightly puzzling look on his face.
"… was there anything? Count Teresia"
I didn't like the hard voice. They're still upset. When the Earl of Teresia turned his gaze to me, he hoisted a single eyebrow as soon as possible.
"... no, that's what I want to know. Raswiwok called me here."
"Raswiwok did?
"That's right.... This has happened before. It's about the day of the battle in Yugfena."
Raswiwok at the time is forming in front of the door and sitting there. Then no one can open the door. Do you mean to talk about it? To the three of us who were confused, Raswiwok rang one at a time.
We watched each other for a while. Thus, the Earl of Teresia first raised his voice.
"Just a few moments in front of the door, let me talk to you."
Latka pulls and ties her lips uncomfortably. I feel equally awkward. It was definitely a topic that third parties didn't want to hear about.
"I also think what Elise said might not be a mistake. Eliza, you do lay Camille on Elise."
If the Count had told me, I could no longer insist on being different. I just have to admit. Nodding bitterly, the Count continues his words.
"I haven't seen much of you these days, either, but there are things I can tell. You're afraid to repeat the same thing from Camille's death."
─ ─ I felt a crack in front of me. The Earl of Teresia is trying to say something that he doesn't want to know or even know more about than he did over Ratka and Kamil.
"Same thing?
"Master Left. I couldn't believe people and let them die as a result. You're afraid of it now, but you're forced to put your faith in people. Would it, Eliza?
The old man's eyes are sharp. But it doesn't contain any emotions there. Anger, pity, nothing.
More and more power fell out of my whole body and I fell straight into the bunk I was sitting on. I was afraid to look into Latka's eyes. Cover your eyes with one arm and breathe one deep.
"... Yes. Exactly."
This was something I had to admit if I could poke at it.
"I wasn't even aware of Lord Claudia, so I thought no one would know. Boulder, know me very well, don't you, Count Teresia?"
The Count does not return words.
"Nevertheless, I wasn't sure about that until the Count made it clear to me this way either. You didn't want to know, you didn't want to see."
Unfortunately, my voice was trembling. It was the opposite of ridiculous to talk lightly.
"... what do you mean?
To Latka's voice, her shoulders bounce at will. I can't read the emotions contained there just by listening to my voice.
Now it was my turn to smile at myself.
"Until Camille died, I thought it meant nothing to trust people. No, is it right that I couldn't? Anyway, in a physical sense, it was human disbelief."
Get your body up by gaining momentum with one leg. Latka was looking straight at me. ─ ─ Put the colour of contempt in your eyes.
"As the Count said, 'I let him die,' Camille died because I couldn't trust him. Kamil died sheltering me, bewildered by the voice of the forest baboon (Abilijana).... I didn't mean to let him die, even though I couldn't trust him."
"... so now you think you have to trust people the other way around?
"Oh, yeah"
As I nodded, Latka closed her eyelids. I'm breathing heavily. He's suppressing his emotions to see wrinkles leaning between his eyebrows and clenching his fists.
"Oh, I see."
Try to be squeezed out, just one word. It was a cold voice. It felt like I was looking in the mirror. That motion of freezing emotions makes a cold voice strangely resemble me.
Kuru Latka turns her back. Raswiwok in front of the door retreated to the side. Opening the door where he could pass, Latka left the room quietly.
Count Teresia sighs as he silently watched what happened.
"You look the same, it's a tricky thing."
…………
"I couldn't do anything about it, but I wondered if I could talk about it."
"... no. Raswiwok, excuse me."
All three of them must have stayed out of the room if the Count hadn't told them anyway. You may let me out one day if you keep quiet all the time, but neither I nor the Count are free enough to wait for it.
When Count Teresia leaves the room, only Raswiwok and I are left behind. Raswiwok approached me softly and lay down at his feet. Lie down your ears, let your tail drip, and stare up at me.
"... I'm not mad at you."
When the powerless words leaked, Raswiwok slid his nose to my leg.
"Hey! I told you you would help me if I told you the information!!
The man who was admitted to the confinement room at the base was crying out like that in tears. According to the soldiers, they keep screaming all the time. Until recently, he seemed to knock on the door, but now he's screaming because he can't stand the pain anymore.
"What did he talk about?
First, leave the man alone and ask Gunter and Claudia, who had refrained from doing so in front of the lockdown room. During the transfer, and then shortly after he was put in the lockdown room, the man said he was talking voluntarily about the purpose of the bandits.
"... Apparently the purpose was to meet a woman and cooperate with her"
"A woman?
"Daphelias, they say. The rendezvous point is Au Lane territory. It's the main Nordstelm."