Siena Dating Agency - Chapter 34
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34.
At the same time, all the men bowed at the waist.
“Thank you, young lady.”
“Thanks to you, we’re saved.”
Siena’s narrowed eyes returned to their original size.
‘…They’re saved thanks to me?’
What on earth does that mean?
She stared blankly at the men and asked back in a small voice.
“Eh, yes…? What do you mean by that…?”
The Director gestured to Butterfly.
“This hawk that you’ve taken care of, young lady, is one of the fifty hawks we manage. According to its registration number, it’s number 38, so that’s what we call it.”
“…”
“But this fellow disappeared without a trace some time ago…, and we’ve been searching for it desperately.”
“…”
“Because the hawks are strictly the property of the Imperial Family.”
The Director, who had been drooping his eyebrows, soon curved his eyes.
A gentle expression, different from his fierce first impression, was etched on his face.
“However, the merciful young lady took care of 38 and even brought it all the way to our base.”
“…”
“We’re truly grateful. We don’t know how to repay this kindness.”
The Director bowed his head once more.
Siena stared blankly at his graying crown.
‘Then, these people were just hawk caretakers?’
They weren’t organization members who had infiltrated the Imperial Palace…?
Unfortunately, her suspicions weren’t completely resolved yet.
Soon the Director raised his eyebrows.
It seemed he had (finally) noticed that Siena was afraid of them.
“Ah, young lady. Please don’t be nervous.”
The Director placed his hand on his chest and offered a greeting.
“I apologize for the late introduction. We are knights belonging to the Imperial Palace Knights.”
“The Knights…?”
Siena’s eyes widened like a rabbit’s.
The Director affirmed.
“Yes, that’s correct.”
“If you wish, we can show you our identification badges.”
Another knight beside him added.
The others nodded their heads as if asking her to believe them.
The Director continued speaking.
“We’re not wearing uniforms that would prove our identity, so it seems we’ve caused you unnecessary alarm, young lady.”
“…”
“We are knights, but we belong to the Falcon Management Department. So we’re different from the typical knights you might know, young lady.”
Suddenly the Director put his hand to his mouth and whispered.
“Actually… we were demoted due to our age. The Falcon Management Department doesn’t participate in knight training, you see. Haha!”
Then he laughed heartily.
Siena looked at the Director as if bewildered.
“So we always stay only here at the rear of the Imperial Palace. Therefore, we rarely encounter outsiders.”
“…”
“That’s why there’s no need for us to wear uniforms.”
Siena finally relaxed.
‘So they were knights, not organization members.’
That’s why they were suspiciously muscular and had scars on their faces.
She had worried whether she’d be able to return home safely today, but fortunately it was an unnecessary concern.
‘Of course.’
There’s no way life-threatening ruffians would exist in this plot-hole-ridden world…
But she didn’t say anything out loud.
Because of this, the knights thought she was still scared.
“What should we do? She’s still frightened.”
“Indeed. We’ve never spoken with a noble young lady before…”
“Hmm, since she’s a guest who came all the way to this remote place, wouldn’t it be better if we offered her some hospitality?”
“That’s a good idea. But what should we offer the young lady…?”
“What do young ladies drink?”
After holding a strategy meeting with their heads together for a while, the knights finally rummaged through the cupboard and found some cocoa powder.
The man who had brought Siena here offered her a mug.
“We apologize, young lady. This is all we have to offer.”
“Ah…, it’s, it’s fine. Thank you.”
The mug that had looked small in the knight’s hands was incredibly large for Siena.
And the amount of cocoa in the cup was enormous.
‘Wait, is this a mug or a washbasin?’
Do I look starved…?
Soon she began drinking the cocoa.
Meanwhile, the knights were observing Siena.
No, to be more precise, it was closer to ‘watching’ her.
“Young lady, is it to your taste?”
“Yes, of course.”
“How does it taste?”
“Huh? Uh…, it’s, it’s delicious.”
“Phew…”
Only then did the knights seem to breathe a sigh of relief.
‘How should I put it…’
I feel like I’m being kept as a pet.
‘It’s like they see me as a chick that would crumble if they hit me once.’
Though she wasn’t a chick, her bones would indeed shatter if the knights actually hit her.
‘And warm cocoa in this summer weather.’
The knights had clearly been trapped in this remote place for a long time without contact with outsiders.
That’s why they offered cocoa without knowing the season and looked at strangers with the curiosity of seeing aliens.
‘Turns out they were pitiful and innocent people.’
She felt sorry for being scared just by looking at their appearance at first.
‘I’m sorry for mistaking you for an organ trafficking organization…’
For a while, Siena silently drank her cocoa.
The knights talked about the hawk.
“What a relief. Since 38 returned safely without any injuries, we can report it first thing tomorrow.”
“Exactly. I was wondering what we’d do if we couldn’t find 38…”
“But you know.”
Suddenly the Director changed the topic.
“That 38 invaded the young lady’s residence… that’s quite unexpected.”
The man who had brought Siena agreed.
“It certainly is. That’s why I initially…”
He whispered something to the Director.
Glancing at Siena intermittently as he spoke.
‘What is it?’
The man’s gaze was scanning over Siena’s hair.
‘Is there some problem with my hair…?’
She casually touched her own hair.
It was the same unchanged ash-gray color as always.
Eventually, she opened her mouth.
“Um…”
“Yes, young lady.”
“If you don’t mind me asking… could I know what this is about? I also have Butterfly…”
“…”
“Oh, no, I mean I want to know why the falcon numbered 38 suddenly barged into our house.”
The Director, who had been blinking for a moment, replied.
“That… is something we find puzzling as well.”
“…”
“The hawks we manage only move with a specific purpose. They’ve been trained to focus solely on completing their missions and not to act independently.”
“…”
“Especially 38 is smarter than other specimens. That’s why it has never acted independently before, and we thought it absolutely never would.”
“…”
“Yet that hawk infiltrated your residence, young lady. Why on earth it did that…”
Siena, who had been thinking, slowly asked a question.
“Hmm… didn’t it see something at our house?”
“We speculated that, but judged it impossible.”
“…”
“38’s purpose is solely to find that person…”
The Director, who had been rambling monotonously, suddenly stopped speaking.
The knights’ expressions hardened instantly.
Siena’s head tilted.
‘That person?’
The Director, who had been rolling his eyes around, added after a moment.
“In any case… this is something we need to resolve.”
“…”
“Please rest comfortably, young lady.”
Siena just nodded her head.
For some reason, she felt like she shouldn’t ask any more questions.
“38’s purpose is solely to find that person…”
What could it be.
‘The Director seemed to say that Butterfly’s purpose is to ‘find that person.”
In any case, from the circumstances, Butterfly and the other hawks had been trained to find someone.
However, the more she thought about it, the stranger it seemed.
“Never let this hawk go.”
“…Pardon?”
“No matter what happens.”
Lian had warned her like this as soon as he saw Butterfly.
As if there was some problem with Butterfly.
‘I didn’t know anything then so I just let it pass, but now that I’ve heard the Director’s story, that’s not it at all.’
Butterfly is simply a hawk that searches for people.
‘What on earth…’
Siena fell into deep thought, forgetting even to drink her cocoa.
Then suddenly she parted her lips.
“…Huh?”
Because she had realized why Lian had reacted so sensitively upon seeing the hawk.
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