The Grand Duke's Maid Writes a Consultation Log Today - Chapter 67

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The Grand Ducal House Maid Writes a Consultation Journal Today – Chapter 067
Elysia unconsciously recalled the conversation she had shared with Edward.
A goodnight kiss.
Elysia rolled her eyes around before lowering her head.
“…….”
Yulias did not say a word.
He didn’t seem to have any intention of rushing her. It felt as though he would simply accept it even if she refused.
Elysia’s mind was in utter turmoil.
She couldn’t tell if he meant a greeting through mere words, or if he intended to do something more than that.
A brief silence ensued.
Elysia raised her head very slowly and gave a small nod.
Yulias did not miss that minute movement, capturing it entirely within his eyes.
He slowly reached out his hand.
Elysia gasped at the fingertips drawing closer before they had even touched her.
Soon, Yulias quietly placed his hand on top of her head.
“Elysia.”
His voice echoed in a low pitch.
Just hearing him call her name gave her the illusion that he sounded gentler than ever before.
The moment she inadvertently raised her head, Yulias leaned down.
-Tap.
Right above their foreheads, their heads came together.
Elysia stared at him with her eyes wide open.
His breath brushed against the bridge of her nose.
“……Good night.”
Yulias pulled his head back.
Then, he gestured with his chin as if telling her to go inside her room now.
Without being able to say a word, Elysia moved her body and walked into the room.
She felt as though the moment she looked back, even for a split second, everything would become irreversible.
What was the meaning of that action just now?
Why, out of so many ways to greet someone, did he choose the method of pressing their heads together?
She wanted to ask it all. It was certain that she would want to hear his answer, even if she had to press him for it.
It might have been less confusing if he had asked straightforwardly like Edward, or if it had been an outright kiss instead.
But it was neither.
Leaning against the door, Elysia slumped straight down.
She felt a wave of heat engulfing not just her ears, but her entire face.
From beyond the room door, she heard the sound of footsteps fading into the distance.
Yulias had returned to his own room as well.
Elysia stared blankly at the window.
The dazzling moonlight was pouring into the room, filling it completely through the windowpane.
“……Why.”
Elysia pressed her fist firmly against her chest at the sound of her pounding heart.
‘Why are you doing this to me?’
The question she couldn’t bring herself to utter out loud lingered at the back of her throat.

* * *
Three days later.
After trying hard not to consciously think about it, Elysia could now look at Yulias’s face while pretending to be somewhat unbothered.
Until just a few days ago, she would awkwardly avoid his gaze or even stutter when answering him.
Seeing that, Hilmaiten had gone so far as to press Yulias, asking, ‘Did you perhaps threaten her?’
However, Yulias merely shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.
And just as expected, Edward visited the residence.
It was time to conduct the lessons in earnest.
In the room prepared for the lesson.
Edward looked at Joshua and Sheila sitting side by side.
The two children were quietly looking up at him.
“I am the teacher who will be instructing you until you return to the Academy.”
Joshua raised his hand briskly with an excited face.
“Then can I call you Master?!”
Edward let out a smirk.
“Do as you please, disciple.”
Sheila did nothing but pout her lips.
Edward conducted the lesson tailored to the eye level of the two children.
Why Sheila couldn’t help but be sick.
What the true identity of the ‘friends’ was—the ones only Joshua could see with his eyes, hear with his ears, and converse with through his heart.
Sitting on a sofa quite a distance behind them, Elysia also listened intently.
She murmured softly.
“……Amazing.”
Usually, the tutors who came to the residence tended to speak of difficult history or teach in a stuffy manner.
Yet, Edward’s teaching style was entirely different.
The content he wrote down using the empty air as a blackboard was also simple.
Mana, Fairy, Contract.
For the parts the two children couldn’t understand, he even drew pictures to explain them.
As if reading a fairy tale book, the two children focused without taking their eyes off him for a single moment.
Joshua raised his hand briskly again.
“Then are fairies only friends with wings and pointed ears?”
Edward rolled his eyes as if deliberately pretending to ponder, then soon fixed his gaze on Sheila.
It was a look that seemed to ask, ‘What do you think?’
Sheila seemed to think deeply for a moment, then slowly shook her head.
Seemingly satisfied, Edward smoothly curled the corners of his lips and nodded.
Snap!
With the sound of a finger snap, an illustration appeared in midair.
A horse of a mystical atmosphere.
A horn was attached to its forehead.
Joshua opened his mouth slightly.
“Wow……! It’s a pretty horse.”
As Edward waved his hand toward the illustration in the air, the drawing scattered like mist and vanished.
Edward looked at the two children with his arms crossed.
“I think this is enough of an answer to your question. How is it, do you like it?”
Joshua nodded his head vigorously.
Watching that scene from behind, Elysia thoughtlessly murmured to herself.
“……I wonder if we can see it in real life.”
Then, Joshua asked a similar question.
“Can we see it in real life?!”
At the bold question, the corners of Edward’s lips twitched upward.
“Well……. I’m not too sure about that either. It might appear before a good child.”
Joshua immediately puffed up his cheeks and grumbled.
“I’m really good, though…….”
Sheila glanced at Joshua and then subtly smirked.
Elysia checked the clock on the wall.
It was about time to head to Yulias’s office.
As she quietly stood up from her seat, Edward gave her a meaningful wink.
He had a face that seemed to be doing her a favor, as if telling her to hurry up and go.
The two children seemed completely engrossed in the lesson and did not notice her movement.
Elysia bowed lightly and quietly slipped out of the room.

* * *
Before heading to Yulias’s office.
Entering her own room, Elysia opened her desk drawer and took out the papers she had kept safely inside.
They were the papers containing the words Sheila had left behind through written communication all this time.
Elysia stacked them neatly and examined them one by one.
[It doesn’t hurt anymore.]
[Sometimes I have nightmares.]
[I hear a voice and it feels unpleasant.]
[It only says words like, ‘You are the only one who can endure me.’]
Elysia let out a small sigh.
The voice.
That must surely be because of the family sword that Yulias possessed.
Was that sword influencing even Sheila’s dreams?
She carefully placed the papers into an envelope. Then, a particularly crumpled piece of paper caught her eye.
[Yulias doesn’t like me.]
[He hugged me back then because Joshua was there. It’s not because he likes me.]
[Yulias treasures Joshua more than me.]
Elysia pondered for a moment with that paper in her hand.
Would it be better to leave this one out?
“……No. I have to practice anyway.”
Elysia carefully smoothed out the crumpled part and placed it into the envelope as well.

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“So, you’re saying I treasure Joshua more.”
Yulias spoke in a low voice, looking down at Sheila’s papers spread all over the desk.
The atmosphere was as serious as a commander deploying his final strategy before heading out to war.
Elysia subtly glanced over toward Hilmaiten.
Hilmaiten rolled his eyes as if he had expected this kind of atmosphere, and then stealthily moved his body.
“……I will go prepare some tea.”
His determination to escape from this desolate atmosphere for the time being was felt very clearly.
As the sound of the office door closing reached her ears, Elysia squeezed her eyes shut.
……Maybe I should have just excluded that piece of paper.
A belated regret washed over her only now.

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