The Grand Duke's Maid Writes a Consultation Log Today - Chapter 70

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The Grand Ducal House Maid Writes a Counseling Log Today – Chapter 070
Hilmaiten and Elysia’s eyes met.
What should we do?
What else can we do? ……For now, shouldn’t we open the door?
The eyes of the two naturally turned toward Yulias.
Yulias swallowed his anger and said in a low voice.
“……Elysia, go out and tell Joshua to wait for a moment. And Hilmaiten.”
“Yes, Your Grace.”
“……Clean up the desk a bit.”
For a split second, he narrowly held back from asking, ‘Pardon? What did you say?’
Hilmaiten’s gaze shifted toward Yulias’s desk.
Papers piled up as high as a snowdrift.
Hilmaiten was about to let out a hollow laugh but stopped, having a hunch that if he laughed even inadvertently, his head might actually fly off.
Ultimately, he simply nodded with his mouth shut and headed toward Yulias’s desk.
Yulias sat back down in his chair as if trying to suppress his emotions.
Meanwhile, Elysia quickly approached the Office door and cracked it open.
“Joshua, is your lesson over?”
Joshua looked up at her and smiled brightly.
“Yep! Elysia, is the Grand Duke busy?”
“Um…… I think it might take a little while. Why?”
Elysia knelt down completely to match his eye level.
At the same time, it was a perfect posture to block Joshua’s line of sight from looking inside the Office.
During that time, Hilmaiten was rapidly gathering and organizing the documents scattered across the desk.
Joshua grinned.
“Master said I did great during our first lesson, so he’s buying me something delicious!”
At the word ‘Master’, the corner of Yulias’s mouth twitched.
He muttered softly under his breath.
“What a pathetic display. Forcing him to call him Master instead of just teacher.”
Joshua was too busy chattering away excitedly to notice.
“He told me to go outside the Residence so we could eat something delicious together! He said he’d buy me an incredibly tasty meal and dessert too! He even asked if you wanted to come with us, Elysia!”
In an instant, both Yulias and Hilmaiten froze at the same time.
Elysia laughed awkwardly and stroked Joshua’s hair.
“Wow, really? I’m so grateful……! But I’m working right now, so I think it’ll be hard for me to go out. What should we do?”
Joshua immediately pouted, his lips protruding sullenly.
“Can’t you just go to eat and come back? Let’s ask the Grand Duke. Please? Elysia…….”
Normally, Joshua would have been mature enough to understand, but the situation was different today.
Edward’s first lesson had been incredibly fun, and he had just gotten the chance to go out with his sister.
Of course, this was only possible under the premise that Yulias granted permission.
Just then, Hilmaiten, who had finished tidying up, slipped out the door.
“Joshua, that would be difficult.”
Joshua craned his neck all the way back to look up at Hilmaiten.
Since Hilmaiten, who was practically his role model, was the one speaking, Joshua’s stubbornness seemed to relent a little.
“Is it really not allowed? Mr. Hilmaiten.”
Though he kept his tone as polite as possible, his sparkling eyes were full of desperation.
Inwardly, Hilmaiten cried out, ‘Of course it’s allowed! Go and eat a ton of delicious food!’ but reality was reality.
“Yes, it is not allowed. You know that Elysia is currently on duty, don’t you?”
“……Yes.”
Joshua drooped his shoulders like a dejected puppy.
Standing back up, Elysia smiled and patted Joshua’s head.
Yulias, who had approached slowly, threw the door wide open.
“Joshua.”
At Yulias’s low voice, Joshua snapped his head up.
As if discovering his one last remaining hope, Joshua’s eyes sparkled like stars.
Yulias silently stared down at Joshua, who was looking up at him as submissively as a puppy.
“……Where are the Lady and the Tower Master?”
“Ah! They’re in the room! Not the room where we had the lesson, but Sheila’s room!”
Upon hearing the answer, Yulias glanced sideways at Hilmaiten.
Understanding the meaning at once, Hilmaiten walked away without a word.
His footsteps were heading toward the room where the two children had received their lesson.
Yulias naturally lifted Joshua into his arms.
Then, he gave a light nod of his chin toward Elysia.
“Let us head to Sheila’s room then.”
Elysia blinked her eyes at him before quietly offering a smile.

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Upon reaching the room, Yulias set Joshua down from his arms.
Joshua knocked on the door familiarly.
“Sheila! It’s me!”
However, there was no response.
Yulias narrowed his brows slightly.
She stepped forward and knocked again.
“My Lady, are you with Lord Edward?”
A moment later.
-Screeech.
The door opened cautiously.
Edward was holding the sleeping Sheila in his arms.
It was a natural posture, looking just like a parent holding their child.
Edward looked back and forth between the three of them and said softly.
“……Come in quietly.”
Joshua started to speak but shut his mouth and nodded.
Yulias’s brow furrowed even deeper.
“Why is she asleep in your arms?”
Edward looked down at Sheila in his embrace and said in a low tone.
“……It seems she listened to the lesson very intently. It’s only natural for her to be tired.”
Elysia looked between the two men before carefully approaching Edward.
“……I will escort the Lady to her bed.”
Edward slowly handed Sheila over to her.
However, in her sleep, Sheila grabbed onto his collar and wouldn’t let go.
Edward smiled tenderly as he looked at the child with an amused gaze.
“……Oh dear.”
Only after Elysia gently pried Sheila’s hand away was she finally able to carry her over.
The sight looked exactly like parents who had gone through a ordeal just to put a child to sleep.
Joshua followed closely behind Elysia’s heels.
Sheila, asleep on the bed, was clearly in a deep slumber to anyone’s eyes, and Joshua rested his chin on the edge of the bed, gazing blankly at her face.
Yulias clenched his fists soundlessly.
“……If the lesson is over, leave.”
Edward looked at Yulias, the corners of his lips curling upward.
“Why? I was planning on eating a meal together once she woke up.”
Yulias wanted to grab him by the collar and hurl him out of the room right this instant.
But he couldn’t.
In this room, not only was the sleeping Sheila present, but Elysia and Joshua were there as well.
Yulias took a long stride forward, blocking Edward’s path.
Naturally, it was a position where only his back could be seen from Elysia and Joshua’s side.
He whispered in a voice low enough that only Edward could hear.
“Get lost while I’m still speaking nicely.”
Edward let out a smirk.
“Wow, terrifying.”
Without backing down a single step, he spoke in a languid voice.
“It’s not like I proposed anything bad, it’s just a meal. Can’t you even permit having a single meal together?”
Edward peered slightly over Yulias’s shoulder.
Joshua was continuously whispering to the sleeping Sheila in a small voice, and Elysia was quietly smiling as she watched her younger brother.
The atmosphere suggested they hadn’t noticed the war of nerves between the two men at all.
After staring at that sight for a brief moment, Edward spoke up again.
“Are you…… by any chance, that obsessed even with your younger sister?”
The corner of his mouth twisted upward.
“I guess you’re the type who can’t stand it unless everything moves according to your will?”

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