Chapter 278 – Seria Panic -2-

The first thing that came to Seria’s mind was her parents in the manor.

Even if she persecuted her older sister to death from a family that was ridiculous even if it was a nobleman and made her run away.

If you really exist as a parent and regret the day her sister left her.

How can I help the news that the eldest daughter is in crisis right now?

‘Still, the time…’

I thought about going to Electra Mansion and asking for help, but there is no direct route to the gate and it is too far.

Maybe it’s the moment when the results change in one minute and one second?

For now, we need to find another way possible in this capital.

“Whoa…!”

I took a deep breath and ran regardless of who saw it.

The first place Seria went to, forgetting the pain she felt on the soles of her bare feet, was the lodging where Lark was staying.

The only place among my sister’s party members that knows her location.

The first day I came to the capital.

Something happened, she told me to head here if she was alone.

I climbed the stairs of the dorm and knocked on the door without hesitation.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

“Mister! I’m Seria!”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Uncle Lark!!”

The door rattled at the hand gesture, which was a bit violent to knock, but there was no response.

‘Isn’t it…? I said the request was cancelled, but why…?’

Even if I put her ear close to the door and concentrate, I can’t feel her presence.

As she knocked on her door to the point of knocking it off, she wondered what was going on.

‘Now uh, where are we going?’

Even if she dreams of becoming an adventurer, it is unexpected for Seria, who is still in her cadet status.

Until the whereabouts of Lark and Chambers going to meet the requester at the guild to explain the problem with the cancellation of the request.

Seria, who has only scratched the surface about adventurers through rumors and books, has no way to predict or know.

Standing in the center of the capital, Seria couldn’t help but move her gaze.

‘Like… Chloe…’

Talking about money that could cause her friends to fall apart, she really, really, didn’t want to die.

But when she thinks of her older sister, she overcomes even that hesitation.

She’s already mentally prepared to hit her head, but her biggest problem remains.

She wants to ask a favor, but she doesn’t know where she has moved.

‘Let’s go to Eclair-sama’s mansion!’

Even if the picture of a humble cadet going in search of the 5th knight was ridiculous, she was not in a situation to argue about that.

A plan to go and inquire about Chloe’s whereabouts.

The girl repeated it over and over again.

She is intimidated that she has to tell someone an awkward story and she says don’t hesitate.

Doesn’t the tingling, swollen cheeks tell us that all of that can be the worst cause?

Ran

A huge mansion that has been coming for a long time since the previous invitation.

Fortunately, the servant guarding the entrance remembered his face.

I was surprised to see her girl’s appearance, and said that I had some leftover shoes, and gave her a pair of shoes that were slightly larger for Seria’s feet.

After receiving it and saying hello, I hope the employee will answer the questions I asked.

“Lady, I’m sorry, but Eclair Dritna-sama isn’t around right now… She’s been busy with work lately, so she rarely comes back to the mansion.”

It has to be because of the location.

In order to hold on to her faint hope, Seria asked the servant again.

“Isn’t Chloe in the mansion…?”

The servant looked around her with a puzzled expression and lowered his voice by lowering his head.

“Chloe Dritna-sama isn’t currently at the mansion either… Although she visits the study occasionally, we can’t ask where she is or get involved…”

It’s obviously not a lie.

Even if the servant doesn’t know, Seria knows the answer, so the only way to get out of there.

“Thank you. Let’s go.”

Hearing that he would leave a message, he first expressed his kindness and stepped into an empty alleyway as if he were being chased.

“Whoa…”

As soon as I put my back against the cold wall, my legs gave out and my body slipped.

“Sister… Older sister…”

The girl who sat down in her seat was cornered with just a few attempts.

Blood dripped from her fingers as she bit her teeth to clear her mind.

‘Let’s go. Go. I have to go.’

With the thought that when thoughts stop, even actions shouldn’t stop, she moved her feet back to the podium.

Walk and walk

Cross a road that feels exceptionally far.

She stepped down the lonely hallway of the church.

“Ah, brother!”

The nun who had been guarding the bed next to Lilyne stepped aside from her.

“How is your sister?”

“That, it doesn’t look like there’s any improvement…”

She doesn’t know the cause so she didn’t even treat it. Since we are looking at her condition, it means that there are no signs that it will be resolved with time.

Is it because of the feeling there?

The cold sweat running down Lily’s face made her condition look even worse than before they left.

“Sister… My sister seems to be having nightmares. Should I force her to wake up?”

“The priest said that she had better not intervene, just in case…”

“…”

“I understand how you feel, but…! I heard that in most cases like now where the cause cannot be found, it is better to wait for the person to wake up by their own will…”

No one is certain that any choice is good in this place right now.

Should I forcefully wake her sister, who shudders in agony, by pouring her cold water on her or slapping her on the cheek?

In Seria’s short life, there was not a day when she repeatedly stood at the crossroads of such painful choices.

“Ohhhhh…”

She shuddered as if in a fit, and a pained moan escaped from her sister’s lips.

Intervals of increasingly shortened grunts.

It felt like that gap was strangling Seria.

“…”

Now what?

Waiting while sucking her finger until we meet Rike and Chloe tomorrow?

Is that really the best I can do right now?

‘No.’

Seria bowed her head to ask her nun once again and immediately left her church and ran to the academy dormitory.

Jingle. Jingle.

She emptied all her pockets of a penny or two she had accumulated since her childhood.

I grabbed a longsword from her sister’s house and headed for her gate.

…
…

Although it is the first time she goes back alone without her companion.

There was no problem knowing the way and the way.

“I’m leaving.”

The door of the wagon closed and a tremor began across the mountain road.

Sitting in a wagon that rocks to and fro as it runs.

Sharak-

Seria opened the paper she received from her church once more.

‘···.’

She doesn’t care much about the date, so she doesn’t know exactly how long it will be before she goes back to the manor.

Even if she wears a gate and rides the fastest carriage, she will arrive at dawn after the sun has completely set in the sky.

‘I shouldn’t be nervous…’

Her father never got a reply from her even though she kept sending her letters.

Her mother avoided her mention of her older sister and intentionally left them out, although they occasionally exchanged hellos for replying to her.

She is the eldest of 3 boys and 3 girls, the older sister and herself the youngest. She is not a concubine, but a sister from the same boat.

Her parents reacted vehemently to the story of her older sister, who became self-reliant and established herself as an adventurer.

Seria can’t help but be nervous.

Growl-

As I was moving around without eating anything, I heard a sound from my stomach.

Even so, her mouth had a bitter taste that never ended, as if she had chewed weed, and her appetite did not come up.

“···Ha.”

Embracing her sword sheath, which her sister had kept at her house for her protection, Seria closed her eyes and slept as thin as a piece of paper until the carriage stopped.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

“Lady, we have arrived.”

The green light returned as her carriage stopped and the girl’s eyes popped open at the dull vibration of her driver’s knocking on the door.

She came out and sent her carriage, looked up at the sky, boarded it, saw where the sun had gone and complete darkness.

After letting her impression that it had been a long time pass behind her, she walked down the familiar road she could walk with her eyes closed.

The mansion arrived by stepping on a dirt road that was no different from a village corner.

The guards standing in front of him were still the same, and they were people he knew even by name and face.

“Kalp. Long time no see.”

“Three, Lady Seria?! What are you doing at this time!”

“Give the family head a message. It’s urgent, so hurry up.”

“Please wait a moment···!”

She was startled, and even the speed at which she rushed to her mansion now felt suffocating.

If you go in and face them, they are full of people with low energy, so you have to be polite.

Time, of course.

She couldn’t afford to fight ki, and she couldn’t even afford to laugh at that childish ki fight now.

After waiting, the mansion door opened and a man walked out with his hands behind his back.

“How did this bitch have the guts to come here like this?”

A voice that is not pleasing to hear.

While waiting, it wasn’t my parents who came to visit me.

Gerrits Electra.

Although he was the son of his father’s concubine, he is the eldest of three sons.

In order to push away her older sister, who had no interest in having a male writer in the first place, she tried to promote marriage talks with strange old people.

Because of her cleverly developed brain, even Seria often took her tricks when she was young.

“Who is the head of the household?”

“Since you were away on business, I, the acting head of the House of Electra, came out.”

Seria moved her eyes and saw Calf behind her, and he nodded her head in the affirmative.

The situation completely ate the mansion while he was away.

It was a picture that was easy to draw because I knew the father’s tendency to prefer his son regardless of his ability in the first place.

“Move away. I need to meet my mother at least.”

Gerrits stood in front of Seria who was trying to enter her.

“Seria Elektra. You’re dumb and you still haven’t understood? The right to decide the current family rests with me, Geritz Electra.”

It was his will to either bring Seria into the mansion or not.

In the end, the management of the funds also requires Gerritz’s permission, separate from his mother.

‘This bastard…’

Now comes the factor that made her older sister run out of her family to ‘find her own life.’ It felt like it wasn’t the only one.

I wanted to break the look of her looking down at herself with her raised nose with a fist.

But what about now?

“Geritz Electra-sama. I need urgent power…”

As Ceria bowed her head, with her satisfied face, he held out her hand.

“Is that the one you have in your hand? Show me where you are.”

“…Here it is.”

Seria bent over and unfolded the paper she handed her with both hands.

“I won’t ask about the obvious use.”

“Then···!”

As if waiting for Seria’s hopeful expression, Gerrits crumpled her paper into a ball and threw it on her floor.

“Anyway, this amount is because even if you talk to the elderly with your body, you won’t be able to pay for it. Do you know?”

“…”

“Go back. You followed that renegade like a foal. You’re looking really good. Haha!!”

Seria hesitated whether to just draw the sword.

Looking at Calf’s nervous face, which had nothing to do with her place, her strength drained all the way.

“Under···.”

Looking back, it was.

Even after she passed the academy, the family talked about money and marriage first, not congratulations.

She had been feeling it ever since her sister solved it.

That my sisters had no place in the Electra family from the moment they were born as women.

Seria still tried to see only the good in her family, but she actually knew this side of her.

‘I was young, I turned away, and I was infinitely dull and stupid.’

“From now on, if you value your life, don’t set foot in the estate. The same goes for letters. I’m getting tired of checking letters full of lies rather than hanging out with nobles with low dignity like you. To be honest, even my wife is annoying. .”

“…”

I don’t even have the energy to get angry at that word.

There was not even firewood left for anger to flare up in her heart.

Blankly.

I just blankly watched the mansion door close.

Seria, who had been standing on the dirt floor for a long time, turned around.

…
…

A humble experience, a thought that seemed foolish to someone even though she did her best, a judgment that suppressed her emotions but she was not sober.

It was the middle of the night after the closing ceremony when they left the Electra estate and returned to the capital.

Maybe even that day was last dawn.

“Ah…”

When she thought that she had to go to the church without any results, she somehow had tears in her eyes.

Seria, who had barely calmed her eyes and nose, moved her feet back to her church.

How she walked around in shoes that weren’t even the right size.

It felt like the soles of her feet were tearing with every step she took.

She couldn’t explain anything to her precious friends.

I set her promise to myself and made her not alone.

I missed the timing of the academy closing ceremony, so it was too late to meet the two for the time being.

In addition, the cost of not being able to stay by her sister’s side and running amok is her empty hands.

The moment you see the church building.

The tears and runny nose she had been barely holding back flowed out from the sorrow for her incompetence and the guilt she felt toward her sister.

“Hey, unni…! My feet hurt… I’m hungry, so why don’t you eat together… Heuh…”

The sadness and desolation that had been suppressed in his heart became letters and echoed.

The anguish that does not stop even when both sleeves are damp.

Tears flowed sadly, and the girl entered the religious order in the capital.

And.

She stopped in front of her hospital room.

The origin of the stillness, as if time had stopped, was not due to negative emotions.

-Seria is…
-··· It’s because…
-Once…They are both in the mansion…

‘…?’

Through the door of the hospital room where my sister is.

I heard voices so familiar and familiar that the tears that had stopped bursting again.