It was dark when I woke up. My room, given to me, was large enough in this world with little or no indoor entertainment.
The light that shoots in through the window is fine, oh, it's almost January from the "budding and crescent dinner party," so it's around the crescent moon... that's dark at night.
"You're hungry..."
"... then I'll have something for you."
"Really? Thanks --"
Confirming the person's appearance in the dark, I raised my pity. [M]
"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lady!?"
"What are you so surprised about? I am the Lord and you are the escort. It's natural to be around, isn't it?
"Ah..."
I noticed that under the young lady's eyes, she was perfectly fine. [M] I don't have to use [Mori Luo Vientiane], but I can tell that the lady was at my bedside looking after me —— watching over me.
My clothes are in bedtime, and someone must have let me change. He must have wiped the dirt off me because my body is refreshed. By the way, bandages are also wrapped around places that could not be recovered by [restorative magic].
"The bandage here on my left wrist, the lady wrapped it for me, didn't she?
"How do you know!? Oh, you think it's a shitty way to roll it!
"What about the deacons and maids?
"I let you down. You're the only escort."
It is the job of the escort to keep his body up. At least that's what I think, and it would be my task to "do anything" to protect your daughter's life.
This is work. I am well compensated.
But on the other hand, I know how the lady feels. I, too, would do everything in my power to see someone who was escorting me if he sustained a huge injury for me - just because the feeling was common.
It's still unusual for a Count's maid to hang in there for an escort.
No... I guess that means the lady's emotions are fine and gentle.
"Lady... you seem to be in control of the magic"
"Yes... your father gave me a gifted pearl of [magic manipulation]. The award ceremony will be postponed again in this situation. If any nobleman complains about this, I'll punish him."
"Ha..."
Since when did the Count behave differently at the award ceremony —— I thought so. The Count's behavior at that time feels like he was reading ahead with both two and three hands.
"I wonder what happened to Master Louis."
The lady asked me how terrified I was. Well, the lady came back to the Count's mansion without asking about the upside of it.
"Dead."
She was a lady who shook her body, but then closed her eyes quietly.
"... yes, it is"
"Yes."
"After seeing my" Encouragement Eye, "Master Louis acted strangely."
Right, you know what? Does the lady think that Louis' death is her fault?
You don't have to worry about it, or it's not your fault, but I didn't. I didn't think it would make sense to just say those words to the lady, and more importantly, I didn't even know what was going on there.
By the time I arrived...
"Reggie......?
…………
Louis boy was already dead.
I look at my palm. The number of lives I can take is limited, and there are limits to what I can do.
16 years of my previous life and 4 years after my memory came back, though I was going to have a lot of life experience-- not enough at all. My heart gets heavy like a pickled stone, and it crushes me to pieces.
But I'm sure.
"Lady."
The young lady is 12 years old and she feels the same way about me.
"The lady must be able to use her eyes."
"Encouragement Eye" runs wild if you can't control it, but it's extremely useful if you can control it.
Speakers before speeches can also be encouraged, for example. We can erase the anxiety of the performers in front of the big stage, for example. I can push the back of a lover thinking of a proposal, for example.
Of course... I can even use it for war.
"I... you used it wrong"
"No, sir."
"No, I'm sure you do. Otherwise, Master Louis--"
"Master Louis would never say it was Miss Eva's fault, no matter what. That's what I won't tell you when I'm dead."
I was sure. I don't know what that Louis boy would do because of a girl who looks good, is waggy -- who likes very mundane boys.
"But... without these eyes"
"Ma'am, that's not true. Those eyes must be what you were born with, right? A man cannot deny his birth. But I can choose the way to live."
I let my forehead go. [M] Light the fire with a small [fire magic] and you can just see the base of your hair.
There —— so much so that I think it's time to use a hair dye, black.
"My hair is black. Because of that, I was abhorred and abandoned by my parents."
————!!
The lady opens her eyes and gives a sad look.
No, ma'am. I didn't want your sympathy.
"But now I'm having fun every day. That's because I chose to be hired by Count Sullies myself (...) and decided to spend time with the lady."
"... with me?
"Yes. So, it's all coming up. It's what we're going to do. If you can't even use it the wrong way, you can be of much more use to many people than The Eye of Hearing."
"... more than your father?
"Yes. The Count is --"
Though I never said so, that man was treasured by the Holy King because of his "magical eyes of hearing," but was to be hated by many - he must have resented that once or twice.
More than he can spot a lie. Because it must be boring to make friends that you can forgive.
"... your father is amazing."
On the shoulders of the lady, who said she was pompous, lay the burden of having to succeed the Count as the head of the Sullies family.
A hand resting on his knees restlessly opens or closes.
"Then will you stop it?"
"--Huh?"
"You just have to lose the Count family. Originally a nobleman with no territory, so if you give enough money to those who work here and return the title, the lady is free. You can study again and aspire to be an official, you can do business in the city, you can live gracefully and live a long afterlife, and on the other hand, you can be an adventurer if you want danger. Because you have a choice. What do you want to do? If the lady wants, I'll take you from this country."