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The next day, after breakfast, I went to Norma's nursery. Eda acted differently because she said she would shop and run errands.
Eda's social reach has expanded dramatically here.
The neighbors' wives adore me very much. I've been called to tea a lot, and it seems to be cooking and stuff.
He also makes more and more acquaintances with stores selling vegetables, fruits and cereals.
They're all outraged to know that Edda is such a young man and an adventurer.
You seem to think of Lecan as a worthless bastard.
That's what Edda was talking about with a laugh.
Lecan thinks it's a pretty good thing we're enjoying hanging out with our neighbors.
Two.
Norma was under examination. Rekan tried to go home, but was told to wait, sipping tea as he looked into the garden in the break room.
Unusual, I've spoken from Zinger's side.
"Mashajane sent me to use it."
"Ho."
"He says the Marquis is dead."
"Right."
The Marquis is Norma's father's brother. However, since Norma's father should have been the six men of the previous Marquis, his brother, the Marquis, would have been quite old.
"That it was a will, which brought me a small amount of compensation. This was meant to be my last use."
This means that the Marquis has been used regularly to keep in touch.
And I guess what I told Lekan about it was that I didn't report Eda to the Marquis.
"I gave back my status as a knight of the Marquis family. Now you're literally the nurse in the nursery."
The eyes looking into the garden enjoying the smell of tea were somewhere lonely and made me feel somewhere relieved and at peace.
The connection between Zinger and the Marquis seems to be broken. That means that from now on, you don't have to worry about Eda being reported.
"Did you teach Norma that the Marquis was dead?
"Yeah. I told you."
"Norma knows you were a watchdog used by the Marquis?
Zinger glanced at Lekan. Funny eyes.
"Well, what do you think? I've never said that face to face, nor has Norma ever asked me that."
"Right."
Zinger's sleigh, which turned toward the garden, also seemed to look somewhere far away, not here.
"I was ordered to escort Norma's mother by the previous Marquis, no. You are already the previous Marquis, the previous Marquis. And your mother said to ask her husband and daughter to greet you when you were going home."
Lekan says nothing and listens to Zinger in silence.
"When I told the Marquis, he said," My brother is going back to the original town, so you can keep up with them and protect them. "
Protect them, the Marquis said. I wonder what that meant.
"That's when you said this, too. Your mission is officially to protect and monitor the norm and report on the birth of a new purification. At the time, there were many people in the Marquis who would expect Norma to express" purification, "and it was essential to take care of that."
Zinger closed his eyes. As if to repent of something.
"But I couldn't fulfill the role entrusted to me by both of you. Norma lost her father."
How much will this man, who would have lived in loyalty, regret the failure of his mission?
"I received a letter from the Marquis, even rarely. I will always take my brother's revenge. You have to protect Norma."
I was a little surprised by this. The former Marquis seemed to have a little something called flesh-parential affection for Norma's father.
"Ten days after that, a wand arrived. That was Norma's mother's vision. When I gave it to you, Norma was crying."
When Zinger put the cup of tea on the table, he put out a handkerchief and lightened his shapely moustache.
Then it was the former Marquis who brought back the sceptre of his mother's sight.
Previously, when I heard this upside down from Norma, I heard that the former Marquis punished those who killed Norma's father with the wrath of being crushed by the face of the Marquis.
Maybe so, but that wasn't all. The former Marquis took revenge on his brother. But it was an inner thought, and only the former Marquis would have told it to someone he trusted so much.
"Since then, I have been with Norma. The former Marquis delivered allowances once or twice a year. I'm done with that too."
"Don't you have a house in the town of Mashajane? You're not going home to Mashajane?
Zinger looked at Lecan with a strange eye that only the elderly could.
"My house is here. Nothing else."
"Right."
Recan thought the mystery had been solved.
When Edda expressed Purification, how could she not know why Zinger had not reported to the Marquis and challenged Lecan to a duel?
If it was Norma who expressed Purification, the story is easy to understand. Because it is believed that the intermittence between the Marquis' orders and their desire to defend Norma made them choose the path of a duel with Lecan. It's called drinking red potion in advance, that was close to suicide.
But in fact, it was Edda who expressed "purification". If Eda's "purification" expression is reported to the Marquis, Norma's safety will be ensured and Zinger will be able to fulfil his mandate. I don't even hope so. It should have been a good time.
So why did you choose the path of dueling with Lecan?
That was the result of a mind-set between trying to keep the Marquis' orders and trying to martyr the thoughts of the former Marquis.
The Marquis' official order was the protection surveillance of Norma and the report when a new "purification" holding was born. But as a former Marquis personally, I hoped that Norma would live quietly and happily ever after. I didn't wish for the birth of a new "purification".
And after the years of peace and security had passed, suddenly, Eda's "purification" expression happened.
If we are to be faithful to the Marquis' orders, we must report on Edda.
But if you do that, the Marquis will take Edda away. Then Norma would have blamed me for knowing that Edda had lost her freedom because of what she had been watching. Then you will be turning away from the thought of the former Marquis, who wished to give Norma a quiet and happy life.
This old knight, who suffered from the crossroads of those two thoughts, chose the path of dying by challenging Lecan.
Nevertheless, Lecan thought how Zinger fit in with that place. Lekan saved Edda. Exactly that's when Zinger was near the Goncourt family. Then he followed the Lecans and challenged them to a duel.
(Wait. There's no way that's a coincidence. That means)
That means Zinger had some way of getting information about the Goncourt family, considering that the Goncourt family might have a lump against Norma. He was securing a merchant in and out, a servant or something, that kind of source. And when he found out that Edda had been taken, he rushed to the Goncourt family. I can only assume so.
But what did you rush for?
Maybe he was going to do Lekan's assistant knife.
There's no way this man would answer that question.
Perhaps it was a farewell ritual to the Marquis family as Zinger that told Lecan about the former Marquis. That's how Lecan thought.