The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 221

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Part 2, Chapter 19

 

I couldn’t say anything for a while.

 

Missing.

 

I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them, then shook my head.

 

“…That can’t be.”

 

Verdandi answered with sorrowful eyes.

 

“Unfortunately, it’s an undeniable fact. Kalerpa disappeared four years ago….”

 

“That can’t be. She’s right there coming down perfectly fine, isn’t she?”

 

I pointed with my fingertip at the stairs inside the greenhouse that resembled the entrance to Kalerpa, climbing up the giant flower tree in the depths.

 

There stood a woman.

 

Enchanting silver hair flowing down like a waterfall, a small white face, a gentle smile and elegant gait.

 

Verdandi turned his head to check on the woman and made a deflated expression. It seems a ghost that died from being unable to joke has possessed him.

 

“Verdandi’s words aren’t wrong. I’ve been wandering around in this state for quite some time.”

 

Morian, no, Lu who had arrived right in front of me before I knew it, kissed the back of my hand while giving a welcoming smile.

 

“Hello, Daisy. I’m overjoyed to meet you again after four years. Welcome back.”

 

Perhaps it’s because it feels like we met again after just one day.

 

I didn’t feel deep longing or crazy happiness, but Lu’s existence always brings me complete peace wherever and whenever.

 

Lu, who had been carefully observing my reaction, tilted her head with a puzzled expression.

 

“Strange. What are you pouting about right after waking up?”

 

Rather than being disappointed….

 

‘This should definitely be the timing to express feelings through all sorts of methods and more.’

 

Such a plain greeting. Is there really only one reason?

 

“Just how much power did you use? The balance is broken again, isn’t it?”

 

Lu smiled so deeply that dimples formed and tapped her chin with her neat fingernails.

 

“Hmm. I did use it in multiple places in complex ways. I cast protective barriers on the 6 Northern Kingdom Palaces, layered several around the space where you slept, and went back and forth between Pen Rota and Kalerpa several times as Baron Fedegail’s fiancée….”

 

“….”

 

“Our Daisy won’t remember, but for about two years in between, I lay beside you and rested together. That’s how I could endure it. If you had woken up even one season later… I probably would have taken other measures.”

 

She slept beside me for two whole years. Somehow my nose tingles… no, wait. Wait a minute. That’s not what’s important right now.

 

“Whose fiancée did you just say?”

 

“Baron Fedegail’s fiancée.”

 

Fedegail isn’t Lu’s title but definitely my title, right? Feeling terrible confusion, I looked back at Andert.

 

“I had a fiancée?”

 

His reaction was cold.

 

“How would I know? Don’t look at me.”

 

Lu, who had braided her silver hair, covered her lips and smiled shyly.

 

“Yes, Daisy. You have a fiancée. Andert Pager Baron Fedegail has a delicate and beautiful fiancée who seems like she’d fly away even in a spring breeze. That’s me.”

 

Suddenly, my head became cold and logical judgment became possible.

 

“Don’t be ridiculous, Morian. You have the former Weatherwax Baroness! You married Grey Weatherwax, so whose fiancé are you trying to play now?”

 

Lu dabbed at her eyes with a white handkerchief (from who knows where) and made a pained sound.

 

“Right. But he’s dead. He was my beloved, but sadly….”

 

Dead my ass. I’m perfectly alive, you know?

 

Of course, Grey Weatherwax was a real person from the past.

 

I just borrowed that name to attend the noble council, later became Daisy Weatherwax, the new head of the Weatherwax Family, and yet I’m also Andert who holds the title of Baron Fedegail. How simple is that?

 

“Don’t think about it in a complicated way, Daisy.”

 

“You’re the one making it complicated.”

 

“But Morian became a married woman because of you and became a widow because of you alone, right? If you don’t take responsibility, who will?”

 

That’s valid.

 

‘Damn.’

 

When Morian made a tearful expression with eyes like a clear lake, I really felt like a playboy and my conscience was pricked.

 

Verdandi, who had been watching us with interested eyes, shook his head as if he couldn’t help it.

 

“Please stop teasing, Kalerpa. You didn’t attend as Miss Daisy’s fiancée but as a lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty the Queen of Astrosia.”

 

These lying bastards.

 

Lu’s eyes immediately lost their vitality the moment Verdandi revealed the truth.

 

Judging by her reaction, it seems at least half of her talk about being my fiancée was sincere. Really, Lu sometimes obsesses over strange things.

 

“If our Daisy hadn’t shown such a disgusted reaction, I wouldn’t have tried to tease her. As expected, women who have been around and are older lose their charm? Going crazy over young women. No different from other males.”

 

“I think you’re under a great misunderstanding, but I’m a woman.”

 

Lu turned her back with a deflated expression. Then Verdandi poked my ribs and pushed my back with nonsense like “She’s sulking, so cheer her up.”

 

What? If anyone’s going to sulk, it should be me, so why is Lu sulking?

 

I climbed the stairs alone with Lu beside me. Hearing footsteps, she turned her head and revealed her thoughts with an extremely serious face.

 

“Come to think of it, since I gave the Weatherwax Baroness a widower, it would be right to give Baron Fedegail a young woman.”

 

Anyone listening would think she’s arranging animal mating.

 

“Hmm. A young man would be fine too if Daisy wants.”

 

No thanks.

 

I looked suspiciously at Lu’s strangely excited expression and asked.

 

“Lu, is your balance really broken?”

 

The mischievous smile snapped me to attention.

 

You tricked me!

 

“Did you forget already? I’m no longer affected by balance.”

 

Ah… You didn’t trick me, I was just stupid!

 

Right, I was so distracted I completely forgot.

 

‘Lu said she became free from balance when she regained her memories.’

 

Then can Lu be considered a god who evolved one step further?

 

But what does regaining forgotten memories have to do with not being affected by balance?

 

‘I still have so much I don’t know.’

 

Same with blooming. Lost in various thoughts, I couldn’t help but hug Lu.

 

“Thank you for waiting for me, Lu.”

 

Warm warmth spreads in my arms. Just recognizing her existence made me feel like all the world’s worries and concerns were melting away.

 

“You waited for me for so long. If it were me, I would have definitely woken you up at least once because I’d be frustrated and scared.”

 

Following a pure eye-smile filled with sincere joy, Lu pulled my hand and kissed the back of it.

 

“If you’re grateful, you have to pay the price.”

 

“What price?”

 

“Nothing major. Would you look at me with contemptuous eyes?”

 

“….”

 

Contempt… what kind of eyes are contemptuous eyes? No, more than that, why contemptuous eyes?

 

“Is it difficult now? Hmm… That’s disappointing. I don’t know when the next opportunity will come.”

 

That’s real disappointment, not fake disappointment.

 

I don’t know for what reason she’s talking about contempt, but I did my best to glare at Lu.

 

Should I think of her as a demon? But where is there such a pretty demon… Then the young knights who messed with me? Forget it, how dare I compare those bastards to Lu?

 

Creak-

 

The glass greenhouse door opened and fresh summer air spread out.

 

Beyond the rose garden in full bloom, I could see an airship with a familiar appearance. Lu, who had returned to her original form before I knew it, walked leisurely while holding my hand.

 

“Stop making that dazed expression. Shall we go to Pen Rota first, Daisy.”

 

What?

 

“Right now?”

 

Of course, I also feel the need to return to Weatherwax Manor, which I’ve been away from for four years, as soon as possible….

 

“If you remember the request you left me, it wouldn’t hurt to hurry.”

 

Request.

 

At that moment, Rien’s voice, which I had completely forgotten, awakened in my head.

 

“How about it? Aren’t you curious about what your mother would say if she came back to life?”

 

When we arrived in front of the airship, the door opened as if it had been waiting and stairs came down.

 

“The grave is intact.”

 

Lu, who had been watching my expression, squeezed our interlocked hands tighter and whispered.

 

“No, there was nothing inside the coffin to begin with. If there were no problems with Skuld’s investigation… your parents didn’t die, Daisy.”

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