The Gurud lady, who governs the Howard family's territory, also came to visit her father for a moment.
As a matter of fact, when I first met her in front of the gate, she was treated by a young lady as her youngest because of Eugene's standing behavior. And then I found out that Eugene was going to draw the Lord's blood, and the lady changed her attitude and snuck up on me.
(What, this woman? Ugh)
I just thought so. The butler admired raising the lady's stock every time there was an affair, but he had no idea what was good for Eugene, even if there was nothing to treat him like a younger man.
Isn't it just the dress you're wearing? The inside is completely different. I can't compare you to a gentle, caring Cecil.
I guess she was on her face and attitude as it was, and the lady said with a bright red face, "I don't want this stuff!," he threw at the ring he was wearing.
"Don't even think about me being distracted by this stuff! You can only give it to me through the butler!
I don't know what that means.
It resembled the ring I was about to give Cecil, but the part of the ring was gold and had darker blue stones on it.
Just say, "They don't want it. I don't want one, either," I gave it to the butler.
"... thank you," it was the first time I had seen a deacon who would have a complicated face while receiving it.
I exchanged several letters with Cecil.
But when I try to go see him, I get a letter of no, as I expected. I'm busy with my landlord's aunt's niece having a twin baby to help take care of her. So I'd like to see myself, but I was wondering if you could do it again. That was the content.
(You have no choice...)
Cecil is a character who tries to help people even if they're slightly impotent when they ask him to. That's the preferred and worrying part, but if Cecil can't do that, she really can't.
Deacon explained the history of the Howard family in detail. I thought it might be none of my business not being a heir, but I couldn't say anything when I was gently told, "I thought it was within my pay range," and I heard reluctantly.
Sixty days have passed since Cecil and I left, and here comes the jeweler again.
I had no idea what the "To Cecil" engraved ring I had been given was different from what I had seen before, but I could have bought it for now. To Eugene, who rejoiced, the merchant quickly left the mansion in a manner that also frightened him there.
"I want to give Cecil the ring, so I'm going home once."
When I told the butler, Cecil once again wrote to me, "I'm too busy to see you right now". Something's wrong. I had doubts and packed my bags to ignore the contents of the letter.
Then the letter arrived again. Shockingly, it said, "I'll marry someone else."
I thought the world would turn upside down. I think it's a joke. I read it over and over, but you're right. And it's definitely Cecil's handwriting that I'm used to seeing. Eugene also left her luggage and jumped out of the mansion.
The room I live in with Cecil was vacant. I'm out of luggage and everything, and of course I don't see Cecil. What, what happened? My head gummed.
Anyway, I looked for Cecil. Somehow I wanted to talk to you in person.
The landlord's aunt, who lives downstairs where Cecil was close, was away, and the hurried Eugene knocked on the door to all the rooms in the collective home. But the answer was all, "I think I got married to another man and left."
Some residents had no relationship with each other more than they had been before, but others were close there. But everyone shut the door so that they could not close their eyes.
What. What is it? I ran to Cecil's place of work without knowing why. It is a further subcontracted workshop of the tailor, the noblemen "Kisarakusa". It was the same reaction there. "I heard you married someone and moved away"
And then, awkwardly, I just try to cut the story off. There were even those who fled and got angry when they tried to hear more.
I also went to a woman's house where Cecil met and became a friend at a neighborhood bakery, and said to the neighbor, "I think I moved out in a hurry. I don't know where I'm going. He said he was leaving King's Landing."
Of course I didn't know the bakery clerks.
Originally there was no Cecil, no family, no close family. Eugene was on his way.
I can't believe Cecil just married another man, betrayed Eugene. I know very well that Cecil is not such a flirtatious woman.
Still, wouldn't it be true if everyone were to keep their mouths shut and say so much... Dark feelings slowly crept into my mind, and Eugene hurried to get rid of it and shook her neck hard, left and right. I couldn't admit it.
When I dragged my mind and exhausted body down to the bottom and back into the room, I had an aunt the landlord. It's the last line of business. Eugene drifted.
But my aunt's reply was heartless.
"Cecil's gone. I married someone else and left the room."
"With who else?!? Please, I want to see you once and talk to you. Tell me where you went!
"I don't know. Because you didn't tell me that you would tell Eugene if you told me.
- But it's okay. I'm guessing you'll be the heir to the nobility. You have nothing to do with the civilian Cecil anymore. "
Was it true? The ring spilled out of Eugene's hand as he knelt on the floor. I guess I figured out it was for Cecil from the color of the stone, the landlord's aunt peeling her eyes off.
"You... didn't mean to be a nobleman? You're going to marry Cecil..."
My aunt gets stuck in words. Various emotions erupt all at once, trembling in the face of being very unspoken. And as he fled, he held his face with both hands as he fled Eugene.
"I don't have Cecil anymore. Please, Eugene. We have to live too...! Forget about Cecil. Give it up already!
And I've given you a letter that Cecil asked me to do with my trembling hands. Letters familiar with familiar postcards. It was Cecil's usual letter.
Eugene opened the letter feeling like praying.
But there's a "don't look for me if you think of yourself. I think it's bad for Eugene, but I caught a new happiness. Please, I don't want you to interrupt. If you think of yourself at all, please give it up".
(You're lying. Cecil……)
Eugene grabbed the letter, circled her body, and cried.
When I returned to the Howard family like a blurry, slit cloth, my father lying in bed told me that the adoption process with my actually remote child Theo had not worked and that I was sorry but for now I had received formal approval to take Eugene as my successor.
(Doesn't matter...)
I hear it in my ear but it doesn't come into my head. You anticipated Eugene like that, and the butler who held back smiled small and continued.
I don't know. Why don't you stay alive as a heir? And why don't you marry the Guldo family warrant? My lover Cecil betrayed me, so to heal that wound...
Eugene was a blur. I guess I thought the butler could round it up somehow because it was full of creativity. So...
"I'm not marrying a woman other than Cecil."
and when Eugene returned it, it became the first vegan face. Whatever they said, the butler, who did not put his surprise on the table, solidified with a stunned look as if he had been struck by lightning for the first time.
"... Cecil betrayed Master Eugene, did he?
"Yes."
My mind was blurry, or even if I couldn't think of anything, it was like the thoughts of an unshakeable soul at its root, so to speak.
For the first time a butler looked away when Eugene, like a rag, laughed powerlessly but said so. As if I knew there was something beyond my power.
On his father's ragged cheek, the colour gleamed with hesitation and regret.
He was also advised to marry again and again, but Eugene did not shake his head vertically as hard as he could.
Adoption with Theo was done by Eugene. On the condition that Theo succeeds the Howard family in the position of guardian until he is old enough to get the seat of the Lord.
I couldn't bear to think that I would hate Cecil if I searched for her, and I snuck off to my hometown, convent, etc. where I was born and raised, but I didn't have a clue.
Then Eugene tried to forget about Cecil. I desperately stopped myself from finding out and asking. Cecil told me not to look. Please, just forget it.
It was Eugene's fault. Because I put Cecil down and went to the Howard family, and I made Cecil anxious... So at least I wanted to make that wish come true. I thought that was about all I could do.
Three years later, his father died. The doctor was also in that condition well, and with a surprising obsession, it was an epic period of suffering.
In the two years leading up to the year when Theo could take the lead, Eugene became the head of the Howard family. The servants who were near their father stopped the mansion as soon as possible. The landlord's aunts, the residents of the collective housing, and the workshop owners at Cecil's work also moved far away or were gone. - It's like Eugene took the lead, and I'm afraid of retaliation for lying about Cecil.
Theo was an honest sweet kid. It felt more like a distant brother of my age than a parent or child, but it connected me well to Eugene. I was intrigued by the ring Eugene held dear.
Then ten years later, Eugene ended that life in his mid-thirties.
Theo crying on the pillow and watching a fully aged butler keep his head down -.