The Grand Duke's Maid Writes a Consultation Log Today - Chapter 57

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The Grand Ducal House Maid Writes a Counseling Log Today – Chapter 057
Excluding the sleeping Sheila, the four of them, including Elysia, moved.
After arriving at Yulias’s Office.
Joshua hesitantly sat on the sofa, and Elysia sat down next to him, checking her younger brother’s face.
Edward, who was sitting across from them, stared at the siblings with a face full of intrigue.
Yulias was leaning against the Office desk with his arms crossed.
An awkward silence ensued, which felt like it would stretch on for a while.
Unable to watch any longer, Yulias spoke up first.
“Explanation.”
When Yulias glanced at Edward, Edward sighed as if he understood and rose from his seat.
Getting up from his seat, he approached Yulias first.
“First… you take a look.”
Then, abruptly, he covered Yulias’s eyes with one hand.
Snap!
After snapping his fingers with his other hand, he removed his hand, and Yulias blinked his slightly bloodshot eyes.
“…What is this.”
There was a faint moisture around his eyes.
He looked around the Office with a confused gaze.
Elysia watched the two men with a puzzled expression.
Edward tilted his head toward Yulias as if asking if he understood now, then turned around to approach Elysia, hesitating for a moment before parting his lips.
“You have more mana than that guy, so it might hurt a bit more. But look with your own eyes first. Look, and see who your brother’s friends are.”
Friends?
Joshua’s friends…
The only one that came to mind was Sheila, who was in this residence.
Edward slowly covered Elysia’s eyes with his hand.
“Don’t tense up. Open your eyes slowly.”
A low, sinking voice brushed past her ear.
Snap!
The moment the finger snap echoed again.
Zing.
A sensation like electricity piercing through her head was felt.
Elysia slowly opened her tightly closed eyes.
The tears that had gathered in that brief moment spilled over.
“What in the…”
Elysia looked around with wide, bloodshot eyes.
Small cotton balls.
No, things that looked like dust balls were floating around the Office.
White, black, light green, blue…
One of them peeked its head out slightly, and it was a creature with pointy ears on both sides.
“…A fairy?”
Elysia unconsciously blurted out the word she knew.
Fairy.
It was a tiny creature that could only be described as a fairy.
The fairy, fluttering closer, tilted its head in front of Elysia’s eyes.
The fairy turned its body without hesitation.
Sitting plumply on top of Joshua’s crown, the fairy was laughing as if amused.
“…How, how did this happen?”
The fairy chattered as if saying something to Joshua.
Joshua said nothing, deliberately trying to ignore it.
“Ugh! Just a moment…”
Elysia closed her eyes tightly.
It wasn’t just a simple dry feeling. She felt pain just by having her eyes open.
Yulias, likewise seemingly at his limit, was holding his forehead.
Seeing this, Edward snapped his fingers again.
Snap!
As the low, thick sound echoed, the pain vanished instantly without a trace.
“What I just saw…”
“It’s your brother’s mana.”
Edward shrugged his shoulders and plonked himself back into his seat.
Yulias let out a dry laugh and looked at Joshua.
“I didn’t know he had this kind of talent.”
Joshua flinched, then lowered his head like a child reading the room.
Elysia wiped her face, which still had traces of tears, with a confused expression.
“So, Joshua is also… a mana possessor?”
Edward nodded while leaning comfortably against the back of the sofa.
“He’s a bit different from you. Your brother’s mana is concentrated in specific parts of his body.”
He pointed to his own eyes, then slowly moved his hand to his ears.
“His eyes. And his ears.”
Roll.
Joshua’s pale green eyes, which had been darting around, stared at Edward.
“Since when have you been seeing them?”
When Edward asked, Joshua hesitated before slowly opening his mouth.
“…I don’t know. They just, I could just see them.”
An existence that he naturally saw since some point.
To Joshua, the view before his eyes was as natural as the sun and the moon floating in the sky.
Elysia let out a small lamentation.
It wasn’t self-blame or resentment.
She was just surprised to learn a secret of her brother’s that she hadn’t known about.
Edward leaned his upper body forward and continued his questioning.
“It seems you can converse with them too. Not with your mouth, but here.”
Edward’s hand pointed to his own chest.
Joshua nodded at that gesture.
It meant that they could communicate through their hearts even without opening their mouths.
“That… that is possible.”
Elysia blinked her surprised eyes.
Yulias shifted his gaze from Elysia to Joshua.
“…Did you have no intention of telling your sister at all?”
It was a rather cautious voice.
Joshua realized that he was not scolding or lecturing him.
“I thought… my sister could see and hear them too, naturally… But, originally I could only see them, and then at some point I heard them.”
“You couldn’t see and hear them from the very beginning?”
Edward asked back, his eyes turning round.
Joshua nodded his head.
“So… that is, after I hurt my ears. After that time…”
While speaking hesitantly, Joshua stole a glance at Elysia.
“Ah…”
That incident where his ears were injured to the point of causing hearing damage.
It was an incident Elysia could never forget.
“…I see.”
Elysia replied softly with a complicated expression.
“But, even so! Even if I can’t hear human voices well. I like it because I can talk to my friends a whole lot. They tell me this and that. Um, for example…”
“Hold on.”
As Joshua hurriedly tried to say something, Edward stopped him.
Edward said, covering his own lips with his index finger.
It meant not to speak.
“If you speak carelessly, your friends might get upset. Because they only told you.”
“Gasp!”
Joshua quickly clamped his hands over his mouth.
At that cute action, Edward smiled softly.
Returning to a nonchalant expression as if by magic, Edward leaned back comfortably against the sofa.
“Existences that aren’t human. You shouldn’t carelessly blab about what existences you can call ‘fairies’—as Elysia put it—say. You never know what kind of disadvantage might come back to you.”
“…A disadvantage?”
Elysia asked cautiously.
“Yes, a disadvantage. I think it’s a good thing that your brother is loved by those existences with his innate mana. Well, to use a metaphor, like friends. However… if you make them displeased, they are existences that can turn their backs at any time. Because they aren’t human.”
Edward’s words spread heavily inside the quiet Office.
Edward glanced back and forth between Yulias and Elysia.
It was a clear warning not to interrogate Joshua any further.
“…Can Sheila see them too?”
Yulias blinked his eyes slowly.
Could his own sister see them too.
Then what did she hear, and what did she say.
He had never once properly guessed that child’s inner thoughts.
If so, did those non-human existences know everything.
Yulias felt as though his heart was slowly sinking.
Seeing this, Joshua tried to say something, but ended up closing his mouth.
Edward nodded to Joshua, with whom he made eye contact, as if telling him he did well.
“Don’t be curious, and don’t try to know either. If they can see and hear? What are you going to do about it. Interrogate them or something?”
Yulias glared at him, then withdrew his gaze.
Nothing Edward said was wrong.
Yulias wiped his face with both hands.
It was then.
Knock, knock.
The sound of a knock on the Office door was heard.
The Grand Ducal House Maid Writes a Counseling Log Today – Chapter 058
Yulias stared blankly at the Office door and said quietly.
“Come in.”
Creak.
The one who showed herself was Sheila.
Sheila closed the Office door and stepped inside.
The child’s complexion was still not good, but there seemed to be no trouble with her walking.
Elysia jumped up and approached Sheila’s side.
“Lady, is it alright for you to be up already?”
Sheila nodded her head slowly.
Edward, rising from his seat, approached slowly.
As an unfamiliar man approached, Sheila reflexively hid behind Elysia.
Yulias merely watched the sight, not stepping forward.
“Hello.”
Edward offered a greeting in a low voice.
It was just a single word of greeting, but Sheila glanced up at him.
“I’m someone who came to check on your condition. I won’t hurt you. I promise. I’m an acquaintance of Elysia, your friend Joshua, and your brother Yulias here too.”
Edward spoke in a gentle, soothing voice.
A man who knew Elysia, Joshua, and Yulias.
Sheila stared blankly at Edward.
He didn’t rush Sheila, but lowered his body.
And tilting his head slightly, he met his eye level with Sheila.
Edward held out his hand so that his palm was visible.
“If it’s alright, may I hold your hand?”
A voice so cautious it bordered on deliberate.
But he did not force a choice. As if the decision was entirely left up to Sheila.
Sheila stared blankly up at him, then stole a glance at Elysia.
She looked at the child without a word, slightly raising the corners of her mouth.
Then, the child hesitantly reached out her hand.
It was a contact so vague it was ambiguous to even say they touched.
“…Thank you.”
Edward whispered warmly in a low voice.
Yulias, who was standing leaning against the Office desk, grit his teeth silently.
A man he was seeing for the first time.
On top of that, an alumnus who had graduated from the Academy with him.
An existence that was neither Elysia nor Joshua.
Seeing Sheila allow contact to a stranger right away made him feel… somehow unable to hide his disappointment.
Lest they might make eye contact, he turned his head away.
Totally unaware that Joshua was watching him.
“…Right. Is your head alright now? Do you feel cold, or conversely, feel like a sudden fever is rising?”
Sheila opened her eyes wide.
She looked surprised by Edward’s questions, which pierced through her condition as if he knew everything.
The child shook her head slightly.
“Good. Then go back and get some good rest again. Once tonight passes, tomorrow will be fine.”
Edward nodded his head and withdrew his hand.
Sheila withdrew her gaze from him and lightly grabbed a handful of Elysia’s clothes.
It meant to go back to the room together.
“Sheila!”
Just then, Joshua, who was sitting on the sofa, leaned his upper body forward and grinned.
“Let’s ask the Grand Duke to give us a piggyback ride! The Grand Duke is super strong, so he can give both of us a piggyback ride!”
It was an out-of-the-blue suggestion.
Sheila blinked her eyes wide, then narrowed them.
A piggyback ride?
Yulias, giving me one?
…It was a look of disbelief.
The shoulder of Yulias, who had his head turned away, flinched minutely.
The ones who noticed that change were Elysia and Edward.
“…Hmm, I’m a bit tired. I want to catch some shut-eye here.”
As if he had never been warm, he lay flat on the sofa just like that.
At that sight, Joshua chuckled and laughed.
Elysia looked back and forth between Sheila and Yulias, then opened her mouth.
“Um… Not to mention a piggyback ride, he’d even be able to hold you both in his arms at the same time, you know?”
She naturally assisted Joshua.
Joshua’s eyes sparkled as they turned toward Yulias.
He finally turned his gaze to face Elysia.
After narrowing his eyes at her with a gaze that wasn’t hateful, he let out a small sigh.
“Yeah. It’s possible. …Do you want to be held?”
Yulias looked at Joshua first with indifferent eyes, then slowly shifted his gaze to look at Sheila.
Sheila pouted her lips and leaned into Elysia’s embrace.
Joshua stomped his feet for no reason, egging them on.
“Mm, His Grace is super strong! Sheila, the Grand Duke could probably even lift our sister right up!”
“Well of course. Since I’ve already been held…”
Elysia replied nonchalantly, then trailed off.
She had already been carried once, held in his arms.
When the Princess visited suddenly and her calf was injured, Yulias had silently lifted her up and moved.
As that memory came to mind, the rims of Elysia’s ears flushed hot.
Edward stole a glance at her, then shifted his gaze to the ceiling.
“…Ahem.”
Yulias forced a dry cough, then lowered his body.
Joshua, who caught the meaning, hopped down from the sofa.
When he ran over quickly and threw himself into Yulias’s arms, he scooped the child up with one arm and held him firmly in his embrace.
And then he slowly approached Sheila.
Sheila, who was stuck right next to Elysia, stared blankly up at him.
“…Lady, how about it?”
Elysia asked softly, supporting the child’s back with her palm.
Yulias slowly lowered his body while holding Joshua in his arms.
“Sheila!”
Joshua reached out his hand boldly.
It meant to go together.
Sheila hesitated for a moment.
Surely, if she were alone, she wouldn’t have been held in Yulias’s arms.
But Joshua was held in his arms.
Her friend.
After pondering for a moment, Sheila slowly stepped out from her shadow.
Yulias, who was waiting for the slowly approaching child, scooped her up into his arms without hesitation as soon as she got close.
At the suddenly elevated view, Sheila drew a breath.
“…You’ve grown a lot.”
Yulias muttered softly.
Sheila, held in his arms, flinched.
The child didn’t show rejection or any other reaction, but simply rested her head against his chest.
Yulias, firmly holding Joshua and Sheila in both arms.
A warm smile spread across Elysia’s face as she watched that sight.
“Elysia.”
Yulias jerked his chin toward the Office door.
She caught his intention and opened the door right away.
“Let’s go together.”
Yulias spoke first, and Joshua added.
“Let’s go together, sister!”
Joshua smiled brightly, and Sheila stared blankly.
Elysia nodded her head without hesitation.
It was then.
“No.”
Edward, who was lying on the sofa with his head propped up on his arm, stared at them.
“Leave Elysia behind.”
At Edward’s firm words, Yulias knitted his brows.
Joshua had a puzzled look, and following him, Sheila also frowned slightly.
“Why? Does my sister have to work?”
Joshua asked Edward in a curious voice, then immediately looked at Elysia.
She rolled her eyes, then realized the intention behind why Edward told her to stay.
The Laptop.
It must surely be because of that.
“I…”
The moment Elysia tried to open her mouth.
Yulias spoke in a chilly voice.
“If anyone heard, they’d think Elysia belongs to you.”
Elysia flinched.
It was like the growl of a beast trying not to have what was theirs taken away.
She slowly shifted her gaze to look at Yulias.
Not only Yulias but also Sheila was looking at Edward with displeased eyes.
At the siblings’ reaction, Edward whistled.
“It’s not like I’m going to do anything, why are you being like this? Are you two dating? Are you in a relationship?”
Edward asked, raising the corners of his mouth as if amused.
Dating, a relationship.
Among those, there was nothing that could be answered positively.
Yulias closed his mouth, and she answered instead.
“It’s not like that. I’m just the Demint House’s exclusive maid, and someone who serves the Lady.”
There was nothing wrong with Elysia’s words.
A person of the Grand Ducal House.
And a maid who had to serve Sheila.
That was all.
Yet, the eyes of Yulias and Sheila sank simultaneously.

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