I Became the Childhood Friend of the Northern Duchess - Chapter 244



244 – Side Story – The Secret He Has Been Hiding (1)

It happened one day.

When Albrich was defeated and his surroundings were being cleaned up little by little, Ariel suddenly called Edgar into the room.

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The moon was particularly bright that day.

Just like when Edgar first secretly looked for Ariel’s room over the balcony.

I thought that was probably why she suddenly remembered her lover’s face.

“Is something going on?”

Edgar suddenly found her room and asked her why she was there.

When Ariel called him secretly, there were usually two reasons.

The first is to have a drink with him and spend a quiet night together.

Second, I want passionate time between a man and a woman.

But in his opinion, neither seemed to apply today.

Because the back of his face was clearly telling as if he had something to say.

“Just. As it gets quieter, there are a lot of things I want to share with you.”

“Just what. Just by looking at it, it looks like there is something important to say.”

Edgar slowly approached Ariel’s side her and placed himself on the balcony railing.

Due to the influence of the symbol of domination, Hespania boasts a milder air than other northern regions, but at night, the cold air blowing in from the distant northern plains always brushes against your cheeks.

As the wind that blew today, without exception, saw through her clothes, Edgar looked at Ariel with concern.

“Aren’t you cold?”

“Yes, I was wearing it because I was afraid this would happen.”

Ariel said proudly, showing off the thin light brown cardigan she wore over her body.

Despite her title as the ruler of the North, she is weak against the cold, so it has become her routine to always carry a thin coat with her in the middle of the night.

Edgar patted her as if she was cute and looked around the balcony.

There were only simple refreshments on the table, which were always there, but no alcohol or snacks.

“I guess you didn’t notice the drinking table.”

“Why? Did you want to have a drink?”

When she asked, ‘Should I ask Shuri for a favor right now?’, Edgar shook his head with a wry smile.

I’m not a drunkard and I have no intention of drinking every day.

Just yesterday, we had been running all night for customers and Yulken from far away, so shouldn’t we take a break today?

The reason why I assumed she was just watching the drinking table was something else.

“Not really. It’s just that you always needed a drink when you had something to say.”

Although Ariel has a fairly honest personality, she is not one to reveal her deepest worries or trivial details.

Instead, under the influence of alcohol, she often says various things to Edgar.

Therefore, Edgar thought that if he had something to talk about today, he would have prepared some alcohol, but his expectations were wrong.

Maybe there is a story I want to share soberly, without the influence of alcohol.

Suddenly a thought occurred to me.

“Yeah, I guess I don’t have to do it today. “For some reason, it feels like foul play.”

“Foul?”

Edgar’s head tilted to the side at the unexpected word.

“Sit down first. “My legs hurt when I stand.”

“Well, how about it? It reminds me of the old days and it’s nice.”

“It used to be… When?”

There are countless enemies that Edgar and Ariel have stood here together.

If one memory comes to mind, it means that it occupies a very important part in his mind.

Ariel was very curious about when that time would be.

“When I first confessed here.”

“What kind of confession is that? I’m thinking of leaving it all to the woman… “Fool.”

Ariel still can’t forget the shocking confession that day.

At first, I was so overwhelmed with love that I couldn’t do this or that, but later on, I was joking around using candy as an excuse.

At least, it was completely different from the confessions she had seen in her heartbreaking novels.

What kind of man in the world says he loves her and then says he doesn’t know and passes the blame on to the woman?

‘Of course, there were things I wasn’t honest about.’

At that time, she was Ariel, who internally poured out childish accusations against Edgar, calling him a fool and an idiot, but also acknowledging her lack of honesty in her past.

With this in mind, people say we have made great progress.

“Anyway, what is the purpose of your call? Madam.”

Like an old-fashioned knight, Edgar bent down at her waist, placed his hand on her belly button, and asked the question again in an exaggerated manner.

At this, Ariel burst out laughing as if it was absurd.

For an instant, it seemed as if a flower garden had bloomed on the balcony bathed in moonlight.

“Puh-huh, I can’t act well.”

“How can I be good at acting when I’ve never studied acting in the first place? Still, I’m a genius.”

Edgar straightened her bent back and protested in response to Ariel’s gentle, unsophisticated murder of her.

“Huh, not at all? Still, since the effort is worthless, I’ll give it 8 points.”

“Oh, is it a perfect score of 10?”

“No way. “It’s a perfect score of 100.”

Looking at her as she asked, ‘Did you expect it?’, Edgar lifted one corner of her mouth helplessly.

She thought she would give her future husband at least some extra points, but she was just cold-hearted in her evaluation.

Kkook.

Ariel, who had criticized Edgar’s acting, quietly hugged her from behind as if to comfort him.

Two hands crossed under my shoulders along with a lumpy feeling on my back.

‘Have you finally felt like talking?’

In the past, whenever he sensed that Ariel had something to say, Edgar always deliberately softened her mood in this way.

Then, little by little, when her reaction came out, she would ask her question again.

This is a useful way to deal with a cute lover who is still often dishonest.

“Ed.”

“Huh?”

At times like this, Edgar’s voice becomes a little softer than usual.

It is one of the processes that allows her to open her heart her her little by little and tell her her story her her her.

“Is there anything you want to tell me?”

“What kind of words?”

“Anything you can say is fine.”

Edgar tilted her head at the quite unexpected question.

Rather than an interrogation aimed at uncovering someone else’s secrets, it felt like a foolish inquiry from a woman who wanted to hear her significant other’s trivial stories.

But she didn’t know what she wanted. Even he who prides himself on knowing the best about Ariel.

Was there something that was so important that she had to tell her in the first place, but she failed to tell her?

Even when she looked back at her memories, nothing came to mind.

‘Is there something Ariel didn’t know about me?’

Even the smallest of her secrets are shared with her.

Although she may have some secrets that she could not tell her parents, there is nothing that she could not tell Ariel.

To put it bluntly, it’s impossible for something like that to happen between people who share even the smallest things, like who they ate and what they ate yesterday.

Still, there must be a reason why Ariel suddenly said this.

That’s why Edgar turned her head again and rewound her past memories.

Even something very small is okay. Whatever story she couldn’t tell.

‘Ah.’

Then, something passed through her mind.

It was like that.

There was only one thing she hadn’t told herself.

A secret that she thought she would have to hide for the rest of her life, until the day she died.

Of course, that’s not a fact I really want to hide.

She just didn’t bother to say it because she wanted to know if she could be trusted just because she said it.

‘How else?’

But if he really noticed it, how did he find out?

The question came to mind quickly, but it sank below the surface again.

It was entirely possible if she remembered someone she had met recently.

‘Is it Albrich?’

Albrich Bertus.

Although he is now a ghost of the past, he is the only person in this world who knows that Edgar is a stranger from another world.

If I had received some kind of tip from him, it wouldn’t be impossible.

Of course, I don’t know the reason.

Why did Albrich take such action?

Was this meant to cause further chaos, or was it a last whim to show favor?

However, what is certain is that Ariel realized that fact.

If so, Edgar thought there was no reason to hide it anymore.

“How much do you know?”

Edgar wondered if he might get excited and asked a question first in a cautious tone.

Then Ariel shook her head slightly, burying her face in his back.

In reality, she knew nothing.

I only know from the message I received from Albrich that there is one secret he is hiding.

In fact, I have no intention of forcing myself to find out.

It’s just that if he feels like saying something, he wants to share it.

“Just… That’s what he said. “On a whim right before I die, I will tell you your secret.”

“What did you say?”

“I said there was no need. Because if it’s not what you want to say, I don’t want to hear it either. Even if I did listen, I thought you would speak to me in a vague way if I were qualified.”

Ariel just calmly conveyed her true feelings, but in contrast, Edgar could feel a calm emotion.

Other people’s secrets are always a double-edged sword. Because curiosity exists in humans.

Therefore, when a person learns that someone has a secret, they naturally have no choice but to try to uncover it.

Even if it was Edgar, it wasn’t much different.

However, Ariel even gave up her natural desires as a human being for Edgar.

If he doesn’t want to, he doesn’t have to say it.

That’s what he’s saying.

Sreuk.

Edgar released Ariel’s arms that were holding him from behind and slowly turned his body to hers.

Ariel stared blankly into his golden eyes as he looked down at her with a halo of moonlight.

Foot.

Unlike his determined her eyes her her her, there was a faint smile on his lips her

This is because I felt somewhat at a loss as to where to start.

“Sorry. I guess I asked for no reason.”

“No. “I didn’t laugh in that sense, so don’t worry.”

Ariel, who thought that Edgar’s laughter was due to her embarrassment, quickly apologized, but Edgar only held her shoulder carefully and looked her straight in the eyes.

“Honestly, I’m not sure if you can believe it or not. “It’s such an absurd story.”

“I will believe it. Because that’s what you’re talking about.”

“Now you speak really well.”

It seems like only yesterday when we were so excited.

Edgar, who felt as if he had raised his own daughter while looking at her lover, quietly led her near the railing and looked up at the night sky together.

“Ariel, are there a lot of stars here?”

“It’s natural that there are many stars.”

Ariel responds as if she is talking about something that is nothing new.

But she was also something new to Edgar.

At least in the world he lived in, it was difficult to see this many stars unless you were in a special place.

“Yes. But the world I lived in was a little different.”

“… What are you talking about? “The world you lived in.”

“I’m going to tell you that now.”

Edgar gently stroked his lover’s head as he looked up at him in a tone that said he still didn’t understand.

I don’t know if it will be a long story or a short story.

However, I wanted to make sure that the world he was in was conveyed to her as clearly as possible.

The book that had been kept closed in one man’s heart was finally opened again today.