The Grand Duke's Maid Writes a Consultation Log Today - Chapter 33

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Grand Duke’s Maid Writes a Counseling Log Today as Well – Chapter 033
The sudden proximity made it impossible to breathe.
She could not even tell if she was breathing properly. It felt as though she had momentarily forgotten how to breathe.
How many times had she ever been this close to this man’s eyes?
Looking into Yulias’s eyes brought to mind a landscape just before the sun hid behind the hills.
Deep orange eyes that seemed to capture the burning sunset itself.
Those two eyes stared at her intently, as if they were about to swallow her whole this very moment.
Elysia was the first to tightly shut her eyes.
It happened at that exact moment.
She felt a sensation as the bangs covering her forehead were lightly lifted.
“Fortunately, there is no wound.”
“……Pardon?”
Elysia snapped her eyes open.
“Your forehead.”
Yulias said, tapping her forehead with his index finger.
Then, taking a step back, he naturally distanced himself.
Belatedly touching her own forehead, Elysia opened and closed her mouth repeatedly.
Yulias watched her with a look that found her behavior strange.
“Are you in pain?”
“Y-……No?”
“Your answer is odd. ……So is your expression.”
He then scanned her up and down with a suspicious gaze.
“Should I call the Doctor? I need to check if the wound from last time has fully healed too…….”
When a man who would usually only be blunt showered her with worry and attention, she could not adapt to it at all.
Elysia leapt up from her seat and shouted.
“Just a moment!”
Despite her sudden outburst, Yulias showed no sign of surprise and merely lifted his head to look up at her while remaining seated.
Elysia rolled her eyes around with nowhere to place them, and finally came up with a plausible excuse.
“I will be right back from the bathroom!”
“……Take your time.”
“Yes!”
Answering in a firm voice, she left the office without even looking back.
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The office fell as silent as if a roaring clap of thunder had struck and left a stillness in its wake.
Left alone, Yulias stared at the closed door and muttered.
“……Are a person’s foreheads originally that soft?”
He rubbed his index finger.
It was an action completely meant to check her wound, but the distance had narrowed more than he had anticipated.
Though it was a moment brief enough to be short, moving his index finger had been subconscious.
The hesitation just before touching and the sensation when they momentarily made contact were vivid in his mind.
That moment when he looked very closely into her eyes, which he had always only faced from a distance.
Yulias belatedly remembered the fact that he had swallowed hard without realizing it.
A man with absolutely zero dating experience, who was even full of anxiety regarding his relationship with his sister—that was none other than Yulias himself.
Despite having never properly dealt with a woman, the thought that flashed the moment he met those eyes kept blooming in his mind like a cumulus cloud.
What if he had touched her cheek instead of her forehead?
Would it have been a bit softer?
“……I must be crazy, acting no better than a beast.”
Yulias washed his face with his dry hands, rebuking himself with low-grade words.
The opponent was none other than Elysia.
Moreover, she was the helper bridging the gap between him and his sister.
It was disgraceful to the point of embarrassment that he had harbored dark motives, even for a fleeting moment, toward such a person.
Yulias let out a deep sigh of relief for the first time in the office where he remained alone.
Of course, completely without knowing that his ears had turned as red as Elysia’s hair.
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Only after she was far away from the office could Elysia finally squeeze out a single sentence.
“Am I crazy?”
The first thing that burst out was self-reproach.
She could hardly catch her breath from how fast she had walked out.
Why did she close her eyes back then?
What on earth was she expecting?
Elysia tried hard to adapt to her thumping heart, which was pounding because she had walked at a breathless pace.
As she turned her head while smoothing down her chest, the window was the first thing to catch her eye.
As if time was already rushing toward early evening, the sunset was gradually dipping below the horizon.
Yulias’s eyes were that color too.
The moment she unconsciously thought of him, Elysia slapped both of her cheeks with a loud smack.
“Stop thinking about it! Just stop!”
Her face reflected faintly in the window was a mess, even in her own opinion.
Starting from her dumbfounded expression, her face, which had turned red enough to match her hair, was quite a sight.
“……I need to snap out of it. This isn’t the time for this.”
She shook her head vigorously a few times.
As she tidied her hair, which had become messy because of that, her hand that inadvertently reached her bangs faltered.
The texture of that index finger, which had touched her for only a very brief moment, was still unbelievably vivid.
‘Are you in pain.’
‘Your answer is odd. ……So is your expression.’
‘Should I call the Doctor? I need to check if the wound from last time has fully healed too…….’
To be honest, his worry and attention directed solely at her felt pleasing.
But the one Yulias worried about must have purely been the maid exclusive to Sheila.
It was just a coincidence that the maid happened to be her.
Even so…….
“……Don’t get flustered like a fool. Please.”
Elysia muttered as if making a vow and slumped her head deeply.
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When she finally returned to the office, he raised his body, which had been leaning against the desk.
He was looking over work even during that time.
As expected, unlike me…….
As Elysia stood and watched, Yulias gestured with his chin for her to sit back down.
“So, there is no need to call the Doctor?”
“Yes. I am fine. The wound is all healed, and I am robust!”
Elysia put on a smile as if nothing had happened.
Yulias, who was staring intently at that appearance, was the first to avert his gaze.
Did I smile too awkwardly?
In her own way, she was trying her best not to be conscious of it.
“So. What else are you curious about?”
“Ah, uh, that is…….”
Because she was paying attention to her smile, what she actually needed to ask did not readily come to mind.
The relationship with the Princess.
The unavoidable schedule next week.
And…….
A scene she had temporarily forgotten came to mind.
The very moment she first saw Sheila’s back filled her mind completely.
“By any chance, does the Lady have a separate chronic illness?”
“A chronic illness?”
Yulias asked back as if it was an unexpected question.
It would be a relief if there wasn’t one.
Elysia continued speaking without suspicion.
“A short while ago, I helped the Lady with her bath for the first time. She had been refusing it continuously until now. Ah, today the situation was a bit different…….”
She hesitated for a moment on how to bring it up.
If she conveyed the appearance Sheila showed exactly as it was, wouldn’t he be shocked?
However, the question that returned was from a completely different direction.
“What did you see?”
“…….”
An inscrutable silence flowed briefly.
Unlike usual, Elysia could not answer easily.
Was it neither an injured wound nor a simple mole?
“Elysia.”
He merely called her name, yet the air seemed to tighten.
While Elysia could not say anything, he raised his body from his seat.
Belatedly, her gaze hurriedly followed him.
Yulias walked back to his seat after picking up a sheet of paper, then immediately extended it.
“This is…….”
“It is the Official Contract.”
Unlike the existing fixed-term contract, this document did not have an expiration date specified.
She had foolishly forgotten.
That the period of the contract she had signed in advance was coming to an end.
The format was the same, and there was no loophole that would cause a legal issue.
However, there was exactly one difference.
The final clause that had been added.

It was a sentence that looked chilling to anyone who saw it.
Elysia’s gaze slowly fell away from the document and moved toward Yulias.
However, the words that came out of his mouth were unexpected.
“If you want, you do not have to sign it.”
“But I am here for my livelihood-”
“I know.”
He cut her off.
“I intend to let you keep working here. However, in a position that does not involve the family.”
“…….”
“If so, you cannot take charge as Sheila’s exclusive maid.”
She could continue her work.
There was no problem with making a living either.
But…….
“If you make that choice.”
Yulias’s voice sank low.
“You become a person who did not see what you saw. I will not ask any more about it.”
“…….”
“And I will not blame you for making that choice.”
Elysia could tell the moment she saw his face before her.
This was neither appeasement nor a threat.
He was giving her a chance to choose.
Whether to pretend not to know like this and remain in a safe position.
Or.
Whether to step directly into the inside of the Demint Family.

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