I Became the Childhood Friend of the Northern Duchess - Chapter 211



211 – An Unexpected Gift

Returning to the present, Edgar left the imperial palace and took her steps somewhere else.

An ordinary family home not far from the imperial palace.

Ariel, who arrived first, was there.

This was the hideout saved for this assassination, and was rented at the request of Edgar, keeping in mind that the Robeheim family’s villa could be targeted by Albrich.

“I’ve been there.”

“… “Hmph.”

A greeting so light that it’s hard to believe that this is someone who just went through the dangerous task of invading the imperial palace.

At this, Ariel snorted and turned her head.

In my heart, I want to hug him for coming back safely, but it still doesn’t look good for him to have done such a dangerous thing.

“Why do you still have horns?”

“I don’t know, you idiot.”

“What the…” “Come here.”

A childish princess who tends to sulk even as time passes… No, Edgar smiled bitterly at the sight of the immature Archduke and spread his arms.

Then Ariel pretended not to be able to resist, but she approached him quietly and fell into his arms.

“Oh, it might smell like sweat.”

She moved around with her entire body covered in black clothes in order to hide in the dark, so there was a lot of heat built up inside that could not be released to the outside.

Edgar, who belatedly realized this, tried to step back, but Ariel hugged her and tied him in place as if asking where he was running away.

“It’s okay. “I don’t even care anyway.”

“Okay? Anyway, I’m glad you got there safely. “He didn’t want to live his whole life chained to a castle.”

Aside from the success or failure of the mission, Edgar was most worried about that.

Now that I was about 20 years old, I didn’t want to spend my youth eating and drinking at the castle.

Above all, it seemed like Ariel would really do that, which made her even more scary.

“That’s not why you got worked up, right?”

“There may be some reason for that… “Ahh!”

“I told you to say one more thing.”

Ariel grumbled, asking what was the problem, saying that he would feed her, put her to sleep, and dress her, but to Edgar, those words were even more threatening.

It’s probably because she realized she wasn’t saying it as a joke.

“Anyway, was anything going on outside?”

“Huh. She was looking, just in case… It was ordinary.”

In fact, the reason Ariel came here today wasn’t just to keep an eye on him, it was because there was an element of help to a certain extent.

The imperial palace is heavily guarded not only inside but also outside, but Ariel put all the guards to sleep, so they were able to enter with great ease.

Moreover, since he was able to monitor the surroundings without appearing outside using magic, he was able to monitor their movements and create a path for Edgar to come out.

However, it is also true that all of this was not something that only Ariel could accomplish.

That’s why Edgar humbly scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly, as if he had both hands and feet up.

“By the way, you are really you too. I never thought they would follow me here because I was told to stay in Hespania…”

In fact, I had originally planned to ask Minette or other people who could use magic to help Ariel, which Ariel had done earlier.

However, there was a bit of a scuffle at first because Ariel, who heard this, tried to follow, saying she could do it too.

Edgar asked her where the head of her family was going to leave, and she was planning to tie it somehow.

However, she was stubborn, and even dismissed it, saying that if she did not accept this offer, she would not be allowed to infiltrate the imperial palace, so in the end, he had to declare defeat.

On the other hand, Ariel, perhaps aware of Edgar’s intentions, smiled confidently and responded as if he wanted to see it.

“What did I say? “I said from now on, whenever you do something dangerous, I will follow you.”

“Really, what kind of dog or cat are you?”

At one point, Edgar was dumbfounded because he was so busy following the topic that he was the owner and what to do.

It makes one wonder whether the position has changed only in this way.

However, Ariel did not give in to his criticism and came out confidently.

“Sometimes he said I looked like a cat. Think of it as a cat you take with you.”

“Is that something the owner of the Robeheim family would say… ? … ?”

“Hmph, why not?”

I don’t even say things like this in front of other people anyway.

Because she knew that the man in front of her was limited, she could easily say it without thinking about her pride.

“Anyway, work is over, so let’s eat in peace.”

“At this time?”

Eventually, Ariel slipped out of Edgar’s arms and headed toward her kitchen, and a question mark appeared over Edgar’s head as she spoke.

That’s because it was already 1 o’clock in the morning.

I thought they had prepared a simple snack as a late-night snack, but since they said it was a meal, it didn’t seem like that was the case.

“It’s easy to get hungry when you’re nervous. So I prepared it.”

“Ready… Meals? Who?”

There are only two people in this family now.

Although we brought in a few people to help out, there is a risk of being noticed if they are gathered in one house, so they are spread out.

What that means is that there is no one to prepare meals.

So, in a way, Edgar’s question was reasonable, but Ariel was just frustrated that he couldn’t understand her true meaning her in her own words her her her.

“You idiot. “Is there anyone else than me who can prepare a meal here?”

“But… “You can’t cook.”

Although taken aback by Ariel’s sharp response her her her, Edgar spoke the truth without malice.

In the first place, when did a high-ranking person who could only eat the dinner prepared by others in the castle learn how to cook?

Of course, if he had a hobby of cooking like Sylvia and had learned it privately, he knew better than anyone else that Ariel had no interest in that area at all.

So then how?

“Follow me. Instead, you won’t be disappointed when you see it, right?”

“Yes, yes.”

Ariel guided him to the kitchen, saying that he would find out when he saw it in person.

Unlike a large castle, it was the size of a typical home, so it took less than 10 seconds to get from the front door to the kitchen, and the two felt a strange sense of disconnect.

As he reached the kitchen, an unbelievable sight unfolded before Edgar’s eyes.

Although it wasn’t a feast so elaborate that it would break one’s legs, there was a neatly prepared table consisting of soup, bread, and some meat and vegetables to go with it.

“You did this? What kind of wind is blowing?”

“You were my mother before… No, she said she did it to her mother. Someday, I want to try the food I make…”

“I did, but…”

That was just something I said as a joke.

While talking alone with Helene, she asked Ariel if there was anything she wanted, and she said that although she didn’t have anything in particular, if she had one wish, she would like to eat the food she made at least once.

But it was literally just a joke.

In the first place, it’s not like Ariel can find time to learn how to cook in the midst of her busy schedule, and there are several servants in the castle who can serve her wonderful food her, so there’s no reason to go to the trouble.

But I never thought he would really listen to that.

Edgar was so dazed that he couldn’t speak.

There are many surprising things that Ariel did for him, but if I had to pick the most surprising of them all, it would be these foods.

“I’m sorry for not being able to prepare it on a grand scale. If possible, I wanted to make more things.”

As Edgar just stared at her prepared table without saying anything, Ariel thought she was disappointed because her food was poor, so she offered a brief apology.

As a surprise, I wanted to decorate it better than the dinner prepared by the servants in the castle, but I didn’t have the skills yet.

In response, Edgar hurriedly shook her hand and belatedly expressed his gratitude to her.

In the first place, I knew very well that it was stupid to express dissatisfaction with the table that someone had prepared for me.

“No. “I’m not exaggerating, I’m really happy.”

“Yeah, really? Well, I’m glad.”

She looked away from Ariel out of embarrassment and scratched her cheek.

Edgar took her by the hand and placed her on the chair, so they sat facing each other across the table from her.

Somehow, a strange feeling lingered in my heart.

“Foot.”

“Why are you smiling?”

“No, because I’m doing this, I feel like an ordinary newlywed couple.”

I felt that way more because the place was an ordinary family home, not a castle.

The sight of her husband, who had returned from work somewhere, and his wife, who had been waiting for him until late at night, having a friendly conversation over the warm food they had served. At least, it would have been difficult to achieve if it had stayed only in Hespania.

Perhaps, when the two get married in the future, a very different scene will unfold, but that is why they decided to cherish this day.

The eldest son of the owner of a grand duchy’s family and her mistress, and of a noble family, albeit from a small family.

When will they be able to experience something like this again?

“Hurry up and eat. “Aren’t you hungry?”

“I didn’t think much of it until a little while ago, but now that the food is ready, I feel hungry.”

“You must have been more nervous, so you must have been hungrier. Anyway, I always overdo it.”

Who would have thought of climbing over the walls of the imperial palace just to hear the story of a man who might be her enemy?

Ariel believed that the only great person in the world was the man in front of her.

“I’ll eat well. Now that I think about it, I guess I can get it again later if I get the chance?”

“Because I saw what you were doing.”

“It means you will do it.”

Now, he was able to easily interpret the language Ariel spoke.

From the beginning, she was the type of person to say that if it wasn’t in her heart, she wouldn’t do it at all.

When I said that, I already had the intention to do it, but I was deliberately ticking it off to test the liver.

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“Ha, I said it was because I saw what you were doing. “You idiot.”

“What are you going to do and how are you going to do it?”

“I don’t know! “You better think about it yourself!”

Ariel grumbled and said that she would never do it again because she was embarrassed, so he cut a piece of meat and put it in her mouth.

Edgar, who was watching this carefully, wiped the sauce from the corner of her mouth with a napkin and gently opened her mouth.

“Then, shall we just take a look at the ecliptic before the flag goes up tomorrow?”

“It’s crazy? Do you know what will happen to that man if he gets caught?”

“As long as you don’t get caught. “I came with those two people last time, so let’s have some fun alone this time.”

Nothing will change if you worry about it anyway.

Moreover, even with a little disguise, it would be difficult to find the two people in the imperial capital where so many people come and go.

When she told me to look good, I was thinking of bribing her.

“If I sleep now, it will be difficult to wake up early…”

“I’m not asking you to go far. Let’s go for a walk and date for the first time in a while.”

“Ah okay. Then I guess I should eat and sleep quickly.”

A woman’s heart always gets excited when her lover asks her out first.

I don’t know if it was a period of boredom, but at least it wasn’t a word that fell between the two.

“So the taste is…” ” “How do you feel?”

“Delicious. “It suits my taste better than what I ate at the castle, right?”

“Saying things you don’t even mean to say. Anyway, it gets more and more sly.”

Ariel snorted, saying that flattery doesn’t work, but the twitching of the corner of her mouth showed that she didn’t mean it.

Whatever it was, I couldn’t help but be happy that the food I served to my lover for the first time was well received.

Her effectiveness was so outstanding that even those who had no interest in cooking thought that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to learn more in the future.

“Come on, eat more.”

“I’m fine with this. “What should you do?”

When Ariel, who was smiling happily as she watched him eat well, took more of her portion of meat and offered it to him, Edgar, who was continuing his meal with the intention of putting his face into her bowl, wiggled his eyebrows.

This is because the bowl in front of Ariel was virtually empty.

“I ate it earlier to taste it, so it’s okay.” Besides, you did the hard work.”

“We all did it together. Anyway, I’ll eat well.”

“Yes.”

Normally, Edgar would have returned Ariel’s portion of meat her, but for today, he decided to gratefully accept this favor.

Perhaps this is what she truly wants right now.

Sometimes, it is more satisfying to both parties to gratefully accept consideration rather than to refuse it.

In such an ordinary home that could be found anywhere, a happy time passed between the owner of a grand ducal family and her lover.

The storm will come someday, but they continued their conversation without mentioning anything about what happened today or what would happen after, as if they wanted to enjoy the precious time before that.