The Abandoned Baroness is one of the Black Knight’s favorites

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Gilbert surrounded the table with Sofia, Elvin and Christina and returned to his room.When my parents are around, it's hard to talk to Sofia.Gilbert was worried about Sofia when she came home the other day.

Recently, she seems to be sleeping better than usual and is feeling much better.Did something happen?It may be overprotective, but I was worried.

At the office, where he had finished eating and moved, Gilbert looked at the ruling documents and saw Hans, who was standing by.If anything had happened to Sofia, it would have been Hans or Carina.

"Hans, what happened to Sofia today?"

Hans smiled bitterly at the question.Confirmed by his attitude, Gilbert wrinkles between his eyebrows.

Hans, who seemed to have noticed that Gilbert had distracted him, shook his head small.

"It's not like something happened to your wife.Rest assured. "

"Then what....."

Hans turned his embarrassing soft expression to Gilbert, who was anxious to push ahead.

And the words spoken were different from any Gilbert imagined.

"Your wife is very kind."

Hans?

Calling his name to blame, Hans continued his conversation with a calm face.

"What your wife thinks is about your husband.─ ─ I'll talk to you later, so please don't visit me directly.From me... my wife was just trying to remember your roster. "

"... I see."

It's a huge amount of magic I'm using now, but I've never neglected it once or twice.I have been worried, depressed, or closed.I hurt others with magic and hurt my own heart.Even the parents didn't resent their own existence.

And because I was a family that I had been involved with since I was a child, there were a number of incidents.

Knowing that Hans was looking at the roster and studying meant that Sofia would have looked at the roster and asked Hans something.And Hans taught it, and Sofia broke her heart.

Gilbert threw the papers at the desk and covered his face with both hands.

"Sofia, what happened today?"

Always repeating questions in a single room.

On the table is a sleepy herbal tea.

"Today, I was walking around the garden a little bit.Cosmos is so beautiful... I almost forgot it's in the middle of King's Landing. "

Sofia always tells me first and foremost what was good that day.When did Gilbert realize that?It's too naughty and adorable to know.

His hands laying gently on the seat of the sofa were calm.

Gilbert nodded small.

"I see. They'll keep blooming till banquet day."

Yes, that's right.

Sofia smiles modestly.But that smile tends to cloud somewhere.

Because I started laughing much more cheerfully than I had just met, I became concerned about these expressions.That is certainly a good thing, but it is unlikely to please me.

"─ ─ I'm not feeling well, but what happened?"

"Ah...."

When Gilbert asked, Sofia woke up.

Was there, after all?

"No. Um... do you think so..."

Gilbert distanced himself from the sophisticated Sofia and gave him a small mouth on his cheek.Sophia looked Gilbert in the eye, apparently surprised.The dark green without clouds was dazzling.

To be honest, there is not one or two things that Sofia may be heartbreaking about Gilbert's time since he was a child.

A lonely childhood without a close friend.

Several incidents caused by magic runaways.

Days of research in the room.

It is no exaggeration to say that most of the competencies and knowledge required for our current position are by-products of these.

Gilbert himself has already broken many of them, but, as Hans puts it, gentle Sofia will surely be heartbroken by that irrationality.

I wanted to talk to Gilbert and keep quiet if I didn't have to talk to him.

"If you have any concerns, please talk to me.I don't know unless you tell me. "

That's why I wanted to know exactly what Sofia heard.

Gilbert grabbed Sofia's hand.The skin that was just layered touches each other strongly.Sofia gently shifted her gaze to escape.

"Today, I was checking the roster.So I heard about Countess Gere..... "

"Ah... I see."

Gilbert nodded with a small exhalation.

This time, I hear that the Viscount and his wife will be staying at the Marquis.It is the first time since the incident that Lilia, the former Vicomte de la Vice, has visited.

Master Gilbert?

"No, I don't mind.It was a long time ago.─ ─ Did Hans tell you that? "

Gilbert didn't tell anyone what he saw in the incident at the time.

Because it was a clear malice and sin that I touched for the first time, young Gilbert was wounded, not in the end.

The parents silenced the clan, but the effect was unfavorable.Gilbert's magical strength and danger quickly spread to the social world, as it was an incident that occurred while the family was gathering.

Gilbert, who was the next leader of the nobility at the time, seems to have been jealous of many.The fact that he was supposed to distance himself from children of his age until he was able to freely deal with enormous magic was also very appealing.

Gilbert, who was a 'special child' back then, feared 'special' more than anyone else.