The Peaceful Life Of A Maid Who Hides Her Power And Enjoys It - Chapter 92

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Chapter 92

Deshero spread open my hand that he had been gripping tightly.

“Your hands are soft, Miss Daisy.”

“….”

“Though there are some calluses, they’re not a swordsman’s calluses. They could be considered traces from household work. Yet you used sword energy. You even skillfully used modified sword energy to completely burn Duke Medeis’s head. Did you think I wouldn’t notice something like that?”

“….”

“How can someone with a body unskilled with swords use sword energy? There’s only one answer. Because the soul’s caliber is high. Your soul is that of an excellent swordsman. That’s why.”

From what point had it been?

“You would have the same oath mark in the same location as Andert Pager.”

I was half giving up.

It wasn’t just giving up. I was concentrating on every word Deshero spoke.

To find grounds for rebuttal? Well.

I was just curious.

At what point Deshero had thought of me. Why he was certain it was me.

“I’ll ask once more. Are you Andert Pager?”

Why must he look at me with such sad eyes?

I let out the sigh I had been holding back.

I was standing at a crossroads now. There were two paths.

Should I obediently admit my identity? Or should I get angry and tell him to stop talking nonsense, even if it meant being unreasonably stubborn?

If it had been me from a few days ago, I would have chosen the latter without hesitation. After all, that’s how I had decided to leave Quin Island. Never to get entangled with them again.

But now it’s different.

“Heartless Andert. You heartless bastard. When our war ends, let’s come back to this place. Together, definitely. We can do that, right? Right….”

Natasha’s expression.

“Looking at you, you seem like someone desperate to die on the battlefield.”

Raphael’s voice.

“He had the right to enjoy peace. He had the right to look up at skies where the clouds of war had receded. He had the duty to live the rest of his life being treated as a hero and receiving praise.”

And Deshero, your passion.

‘You keep making me think unnecessary thoughts.’

Yes, you make me think that maybe it would be okay.

So the only thing I could be certain of in this situation was one thing.

That I couldn’t answer this confusion as I am now.

“…How unfortunate, Sir Deshero. You’re still so clever.”

So there’s no need to worry anymore.

Crack.

I drew the pearl sword.

A light whirlwind swirled as the pure white canopy and curtains fluttered. I glared at his wide black eyes and warned fiercely.

“It would have been better if you had continued pretending not to know. If you insist on hearing my answer, then it can’t be helped. Blame your own perceptiveness.”

Last words weren’t necessary. I swung the sword down as it was.

“…just kidding.”

Sigh.

‘How did it come to this?’

I glared at Deshero, who was half-dazed despite being a swordsman, then shoved the pearl sword back into my earring.

When I irritably shook my hair, the disheveled strands that stuck out between the hairpins wrapped around my fingers.

It was awkward but natural.

Right now I had a maid’s neatly tied hair, not the short hair from my Andert days.

“This….”

This utterly useless spy Deshero.

I scolded Deshero with a voice full of resentment.

“Are you a pervert? What were you searching for so diligently? I wondered what you were thinking following me all the way to the Northern Continent….”

Suddenly warm heat enveloped me.

“You were alive.”

The owner of the warmth was Deshero.

Embracing my shoulders tightly, his body heat wrapped around me from head to toe.

Even though it wasn’t a force I couldn’t struggle against, I couldn’t move.

“You really were alive. I had hoped, but even seeing it with my own eyes, I couldn’t believe it, but really….”

His words trailed off, becoming blurred with emotion.

‘Now I can’t even get angry anymore.’

I awkwardly patted his weakened back.

Deshero, who had been hugging me tightly like a parent who found their runaway child, finally released the embrace after a long while.

“Andert.”

Then he shook me with a ridiculous expression mixed with excitement, joy, confusion, and relief.

“Say something. How are you alive? Where have you been all this time? What’s with this appearance? Is this why Raphael couldn’t recognize you either? Why have you become a woman?”

Well, since my identity has been discovered, there’s no need to hide anymore.

“I didn’t become a woman.”

“….”

“I was originally a woman.”

A heavy silence fell as if the world had stopped.

Deshero, who had been staring blankly at my face, very slowly, very slowly pulled away.

Then he muttered with a worried expression, “Did she go crazy in the meantime?” and after looking into my eyes for a few more seconds, he spoke.

“Really, what happened?”

Honestly speaking, I was deeply relieved by Deshero’s calm question.

Yes. I was reassured.

‘He’s not resentful?’

Even if he resents me, does he at least intend to listen to my story?

I deceived you all. Is it okay to at least explain the circumstances?

Looking at those serious black eyes made my heart flutter a little. I answered as nonchalantly as possible.

“Andert was my sibling’s name. He died in military service during Mephistopheles’ air raid. I borrowed Andert’s face with magic to avenge him, became Andert himself, and participated in the war… It’s a common story.”

“Common? No! It’s absolutely not a common story. Then the sister that Sir Andert mentioned…?”

“That was me.”

Deshero opened his mouth with a stupid expression. Such an expression from Deshero is rare.

Just as I thought I should get a good look while I could, the hands that had been gripping my shoulders were quickly withdrawn.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t know and grabbed your sleeve without permission….”

Deshero apologized for his behavior, somewhat rambling.

“Sorry for what. Should I roll up the other side too?”

“No! You mustn’t, absolutely don’t do that. You shouldn’t act so playfully like that. Especially not in front of a man like me.”

Looking at his face sternly warning me made my insides… my insides….

“Don’t act like my dad, it’s creepy.”

“What did you say? You’re the same now as you were then….”

He rubbed his brow with an exasperated face and asked me.

“Then Andert, no, Miss Daisy. No, what is your name?”

“I’m just Daisy. I’ll be Daisy from now on too. So call me Daisy.”

Deshero, who had been tapping his forehead for a while, looked at me with strangely hardened eyes.

“Is that really okay?”

“What? Living as Daisy Pager? I appreciate your concern, but it’s fine. There are even some good aspects to it.”

“…I see.”

The hand that had been naturally reaching toward my forearm stopped in mid-air.

He soon lowered his hand as if nothing had happened, but I knew.

That Deshero was trying his best not to touch my body.

I could see him consciously restraining himself from habitually patting my shoulder or lightly touching me.

‘Since he knows I’m a woman and not a man, he’s probably trying to be considerate.’

It was a little bitter.

“There are many things I want to ask you… but there’s one thing I want to say most.”

“Just don’t curse at me.”

“I’m glad you’re alive.”

Despite my playful warning, a sincere voice reached me.

He moved his lips as if savoring his own words and let out a small sigh.

“I’m really glad.”

“…Yeah, it’s fortunate. You were too valuable a talent to die young, weren’t you?”

Did my joke ease his tension?

Deshero chuckled and whispered in a much lighter voice.

“I really have so many questions… Were you hiding all this time? I heard you appeared on Quin Island. Don’t tell me you were enduring on that desolate land?”

No. I was dead.

“It’s complicated to explain. I don’t have complete certainty about anything either. I’m wandering around searching for various information.”

After hesitating slightly, I made a request of him.

“Don’t tell Raphael.”

His mouth closed.

His black eyes, revealing complex emotions, scrutinized my face thoroughly.

Deshero’s lips, which had opened and closed several times as if trying to say something, finally opened after a few seconds.

“Is it because you’re a woman?”

He hit the mark well.

“That’s part of it. I don’t want to stir things up by appearing after 4 years for no reason.”

“But Raphael, no, His Grace wouldn’t be disappointed over such a trivial reason…”

“I know.”

You don’t need to persuade me. I know now too.

Raphael isn’t someone who would be disappointed over something as trivial as gender.

The past I saw in the Westwintery Willow Forest gave me that certainty.

These guys weren’t the type to reproach me for hiding such an important secret.

Rather, they would welcome me back alive. Like Deshero in front of me.

“I know that… I don’t mean to pretend you don’t know at all. How could I do that when I know your relationship with Raphael?”

“Then what?”

“If Raphael asks about me, just casually mention that it seems like it’s not Andert himself but his sister. I’ll handle the rest myself.”

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