I Became the Childhood Friend of the Northern Duchess - Chapter 152



152 – The Man’s True Intentions

The next morning was filled with silence.

Of course, Sylvia and Hagel, who did not know the details of the situation, were just standing there blankly, but the other two were the problem. Especially Ariel.

“Good morning, Joe.”

Feeling that she needed to say something, Ariel said good morning only after about 30 minutes had passed since we met.

Edgar, who was watching next to her, expressed his sorrow by tapping her forehead, but no one saw it.

“Good morning, Ariel. But why is your face like that?”

“My, what am I? “Nothing’s wrong?”

Although she did not easily reveal her true feelings even among nobles whose wit she was unrivaled, she was not very good at managing her facial expressions at times like this.

That’s because even the practical skills and various academic studies I learned since childhood did not explain how to deal with such situations.

“Okay… ? My face looked red for some reason. Do you feel like you have a cold?”

“Your face is definitely red, just like Sylvia said.”

“Are you okay? Well, it might just look that way because of the morning sunlight.”

It wasn’t some kind of sunset, and there was no reason for their faces to look red when exposed to the white morning sunlight, but because they protested so strongly, the two had no choice but to meekly back down.

“Anyway, Shuri, I’ll ask for a villa. “I’ll come back after eating, so you can rest today too.”

“Yes, please be careful.”

As Shuri bowed gracefully and saw off her companions who boarded her carriage, Ariel lightly waved her hand and started her carriage.

‘Now that I think about it, this will be her first time walking around Hill Deck on her own two feet.’

Ariel watched the changing scenery outside her window, recalling memories of her past.

Although she has often admired the cityscape from the window on her way to and from Hill Deck, today will be the first time she has seen it for the sole purpose of sightseeing.

Normally, I just watched indifferently, thinking that there was no point in looking at it anyway, but today, thinking that I would soon be walking around, I felt a special appreciation.

Glancing.

“Why?”

“Oh, no. Nothing…”

“… ?”

However, beyond that scene, the stark sounds of yesterday seemed to come to mind, and for no reason, Ariel’s eyes turned to Edgar, who was sitting next to her.

She tried to erase her memory of her, but the more she tried, the more it stuck in her mind and showed no sign of going away.

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‘Why are you like this?’

Ariel, who had stopped herself by saying that she was not an obscene woman, eventually gave up and started talking to the others in her carriage.

I thought that if I focused on even a trivial conversation, this memory would somehow disappear.

However, her effect was not that dramatic. Because the more one forgets, the more one remembers.

Fortunately, she arrived at her destination not long after, so Ariel was relieved of her worries.

If she had stayed like that for a few more minutes, her head would probably have exploded from overload.

*

Edgar smiled bitterly at the situation that went as expected.

She thought that she wouldn’t be able to see Sylvia and Hagel’s faces today since she was Ariel and had no immunity in that respect.

The problem is that I can’t even see his face her properly.

‘Was it too stimulating?’

As Edgar remembers, Ariel’s knowledge about her castles was quite shallow.

She was probably managed by the Loveheim family from a young age in order to avoid attracting strict attention, but it is safe to say that the current situation was achieved thanks to that.

If you were to ask how I knew this, I would have to go back to Edgar’s memories of three days after he killed the assassin who broke into the castle.

That day too, Edgar was recuperating on a bed in the room allocated for treatment.

I felt so bored seeing only the same scenery and meeting people passing by, so I started complaining to Ariel, who she always visited.

-Can I take a look outside? I’m so bored.

-No. If you’re really bored, should I read you a book?

– What book?

– When you were young, you often read books to me. That’s the reward.

Edgar was dumbfounded.

The reason he read her books to Ariel was because she was still bad at reading, and most importantly, she had difficulty falling asleep without him doing so.

Moreover, since Edgar’s mental age she was older, she just did it with the sense that she was reading to her younger sister who was much older than her.

If I reversed the situation and thought about what he was going through now, I felt like his face would turn red with shame.

The problem was that even if he refused, it seemed unlikely that Ariel would let him go.

Above all, when the memory of her suffering as a child came to mind, Edgar thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get some compensation for her debt, so he angrily told her to read it.

However, there was a condition…

– I don’t like children’s books.

– Then, should I bring the book from my mother’s study? It looks like there are a lot of interesting things there.

-Not bad. But can I bring it as I please?

– It’ll probably be okay.

In the end, it meant that they would not even give permission.

In fact, Edgar didn’t think that Helen would make a fuss about reading the books in her library, so he didn’t really stop her.

Ariel returned shortly after leaving the room and was holding a fairly small book in her hands.

The cover gave a rather sophisticated impression, and Edgar expected it to be a novel with quite noble content.

-How about this? It looked fun so I brought it.

-Anything wouldn’t be bad. But do you really want to read it?

– Huh. Since you’re lying down because of me, you have to do at least this much.

It was okay for Ed to just throw the book to her, but Ariel sat down on the chair next to her bed, insisting that he read it to her.

The story that started like that was about a loving love story between a man and a woman, but this is where the problem arose.

Isn’t the end of a romance novel always a scene where the relationship comes to fruition?

However, there are times when the expression is just a metaphor, and there are times when it is expressed to the point of being somewhat explicit, and the novel that Ariel read fell into the latter category.

-Anne pressed her lips to Medius’s mouth. Eventually, as their heated eyes met each other, Medius pushed Anne down onto the bed…

– Hey, wait a minute. Stop.

Edgar, sensing that what she was saying was unusual, stretched out his hand to stop her from continuing to read her sentence, but she paused for a moment because her body was not listening to her yet.

And Ariel, who took advantage of that brief moment to bury her face her in her her book her her her, began to read silently alone.

Of course, the sentences that followed included those explicit descriptions.

– Eh, Ed. This, this… ?

Fortunately, Ariel stopped halfway and put down her book, and Edgar took it away and scolded her with an embarrassed expression.

– I told you not to read that.

– Ha, but I don’t think it would be like that… This is it, right?

It wasn’t that Ariel had no knowledge at all, but she was embarrassed because it was her first time seeing a picture or phrase that specifically described this.

Soon her face turned bright red, covering her face with both hands, not knowing what to do with her body, and then she got up from her seat.

– I brought this book without knowing it was such an obscene book! You know!?

– Uh, uh… You know.

Just by looking at Ariel’s reaction, you could tell that she didn’t bring that book intentionally.

Moreover, she had a strange and conservative side, and even though she was her close friend, she would never have dreamed of reading such a novel in front of her husband.

Complaining about her unfairness of her, Ariel still seemed to be still angry and jumped up and down in her place despite her, blowing out steam in all directions through her reddened face her her her her.

-Why is there such an item in her mother’s study in the first place? ! Ugh, I should have checked the contents… !

The phrase ‘things like that’ made Edgar realize how her concept of Ariel’s s*xual knowledge was structured.

To be honest, for a grown adult to read, it is just an ordinary romance novel with only explicit descriptions, but for a girl who is vulnerable in that area, it could seem somewhat inappropriate.

In other words, it meant that Ariel had insufficient knowledge and had a somewhat conservative view in these areas.

‘You talk about such topics well in front of other people.’

When I come back to the present and think back, there are parts of Ariel’s behavior that I don’t understand, but this is what Edgar thought.

Perhaps, in her conception of her, universal acts such as kissing and more intense acts of affection occupy separate positions.

As his thoughts about her gradually deepened, his eyes naturally focused on Ariel.

Ariel, who got off her carriage and was walking quietly, noticed her gaze and glanced up at Edgar and asked.

“… What are you looking at so intently? “Is there something on my face?”

“Hmm? Not really. “I thought you looked cute today.”

“Well, what are you saying? That’s it, just look ahead and walk.”

Ariel, who was more embarrassed by being called cute than by being called pretty, hid behind his back

In response, Edgar reached out his hand her and playfully pressed her her head her her her, then walked down her street with his hand wrapped around Ariel’s her shoulder her her her her.

At first, Ariel flinched at the touch, but then Edgar gently touched the back of his hand that touched her shoulder and glanced at her.

Then, when her eyes met, she was surprised and turned her head.

‘There is no need to rush.’

Everyone has a fear of unknown territory, so Edgar thought that Ariel would be similar and tried not to think too quickly.

There is a long way to go anyway and there is still plenty of time left.

Now, I can feel a sense of satisfaction just by walking down the road together like this.