Chapter 298 – Knights and Wizards

Before leaving, Rike shares a sticky kiss with Roman.

Next, he sneaked up on Alice over Roman, who was in love with Chloe.

“Sister. Even if my brother asks us to go somewhere, never! Never! You can’t go!”

“Don’t worry. I’ll water the flower beds, so have a good trip.”

“Then I’ll go.”

“I’ll ask Lily’s sister for her regards too!”

-Shhh!

Today, Roman’s schedule for the day is to stay with Alice at the mansion and eat lunch prepared by Rike.

Practically, the time when Ricke and Chloe are away from home is not expected to be long either.

So, it was only after reminding Alice once again that she should not go over even if Roman tried to seduce her, that Rike left the mansion with Chloe.

The two arrived in front of the church first and waited for Eclair to come.

At lunchtime, Eclair in a neat uniform came to the church.

“Unnie, this is today’s lunch! It’s for two people.”

“Thank you every time.”

With Eclair at the head of the lunch box that Rike had prepared for Lilline to eat, they headed inside the church together.

…

Knock. Knock. Knock.

– Yes! Come on in!

When Seria’s energetic voice came through the door, the three of them turned the doorknob while smiling happily at the same time.

When I opened the door, green eyes embracing green vitality greeted the guest.

“Oh! Hello!!”

Seria bent down to show her courtesy to Eclair standing in front of her.

She signaled with her eyes to Ricke and Chloe, who were standing behind her and waving to her.

“Would you mind if I excuse you?”

“Of course!”

Eclair approaches to confront Lilyne in bed.

Seria moved quickly and joined the two standing behind Eclair.

“Knight…! Thank you so much for coming here.”

“The Goddess must be watching, but if you overdo it, it will be difficult. I feel relieved that you are comfortable.”

Éclair, who restrained Lilyne from getting out of bed, put her lunchbox on the table.

Meanwhile, Lilyne greeted the girls who had entered after her.

“Thank you for coming to Ricke and Chloe.”

“Is your body okay?”

“Thanks, I’m fine. I’ll probably be able to go home in a few days.”

The moment the two met.

Lilyne had a mountain of things she wanted to ask about Roman.

It was impossible to open her mouth right now, so only her toes, hidden under her blanket, twitched.

“Did you have dinner?”

“Seria said she was hungry too, so she was just about to do it.”

“Then let’s talk briefly—”

As Eclair met Roman and recovered her relationship with Chloe, her social skills improved dramatically compared to the past.

Seeing that she makes a place with her Lilyne naturally, Rike and Chloe catch Seria in a daze.

“Seria. Should we move away?”

“Let’s go eat something delicious!”

Like a criminal who deserves to be arrested, Seria was held up arm in arm by Rike and Chloe.

She looked at Lilyne with a puzzled look on her face.

“Uhh… Everything, it’s okay if she goes…?”

“Huh- eat something delicious.”

Seeing the gratifying relationship, Lilyne smiled and shook her hand.

Let the trio disappear from the hospital room.

Only the knight and wizard were left looking at each other and laughing awkwardly.

*****

“I think the first thing in recovery is rest, and the second thing is to eat well.”

Since the day Lilyne received her treatment, her symptoms of narcolepsy-like sudden collapse and nightmares have disappeared.

Now that she was able to get out of bed, she sat across from Eclair at the table in the hospital room.

A neat meal prepared by the famous 5 knights.

Lily’s heart began to fill with pressure and tension.

“It’s such a great honor for a knight to come, but I don’t know how to thank you for being treated like this…”

“There’s no need to think of it as such a burden. It’s the food Rike prepared for me, so I’m in the position to get it.”

“Ah···!”

Somehow, the barrel itself with the food seemed familiar to me.

When Eclair smiled at the words, Lilyne felt her burden lifted and her heart lightened.

It has no nutritional value, but rather good chat and congratulations on your recovery.

Without a single heavy topic, the two of them emptied the lunchbox that was just right so they wouldn’t overeat.

Afterwards, Lilyne started preparing her tea, saying that she would serve it to Eclair.

In the meantime, she continued the conversation on a topic that came to mind.

“Knight-sama…You seem to care about her younger sister properly. If I send Seria away, I think I should also take care of the people around her.”

From Lily’s point of view, the only women involved with Roman are aware of the relationships between Rike, Chloe, and Alice.

All I could think was that Eclair was paying attention to where Chloe was.

“Even if that’s not the case, I have something to tell you today.”

“Yes?”

Eclair’s behavior, as if she had committed a crime, made Lilyne nervous.

“Do you remember when I said earlier that I wished I had someone to share my secrets with like a trio?”

“…Of course I remember.”

Éclair, who received the teacup, carefully selected his words while looking inside the cup that caused a gentle ripple.

Éclair’s behavior of licking her lips several times.

Lilyne waited quietly for her to say something of her own.

“Originally, I tried to talk more lightly. This was not my intention, but… Simply put, it’s a story about Roman.”

“Ro, Mr. Roman?”

Lillie reacted furiously at the sudden subject that took her breath away.

The urged gaze and restless hands and feet, asking us to talk quickly.

The disturbed breathing and the moving movements of the hips were all caught by the sensitive Eclair.

‘You’re seriously ill.’

When she was first exposed to Rike, she wondered if she did that herself.

Seeing her transparent reaction, Eclair felt desperate that she was glad that she had come and not Riquet.

“Going back quite a bit, as you can see, I’m the less social type, so the first friend I made in my life was Roman.”

“Okay···.”

I saw Lilyne’s hands and feet dancing nervously.

‘Is it more serious than I thought?’

It is clear that the time is not free and it will become more and more difficult to say if you drag it out for a long time.

Filling her lungs with air as she inhaled, Éclair let out all of her hesitation as she exhaled.

“I’ll skip all the details and just tell you the results. Not only Chloe, but I’m also seriously dating Roman.”

“…”

Could it be that time has stopped? Eclair had such a question for a moment.

Lilyne, who had been moving her whole body in a mess, stopped as it was.

The tickling sound of the curtains swaying gently in the wind that came through the window.

It spread throughout the room.

“The reason I came before and showed such vague words was because I didn’t have a single close friend with whom I could share this story.”

Lilyne was still frozen with her lips slightly parted.

Believing that his ears were open, Eclair quenched his thirst with tea.

“Rike and Chloe are friends, Roman’s lover, and they share that with their friend Seria. To be honest, looking at such a relationship from the sidelines, I was just envious.”

Click.

Lilyne blinked once as the eclair’s teacup made a noise.

It was because Eclair’s face flushed like a girl’s cheeks caught my eye.

“It’s embarrassing, but I also wanted to imitate such a relationship. The reason I said that it was a childlike complaint was that I objectified myself and put myself down, but I couldn’t let it go…”

Among wizards, Liline is one of the quickest in thinking and calculating.

Only then did she figure out the situation from start to finish and came up with a result.

This tactless knight wanted to be friends with you from the beginning.

She had a friend close enough to share the secret of being hooked up with Mr. Roman… But today, this was not meant to be, I thought it couldn’t be?

‘···.’

It was a moment when the words the saintess threw her implicitly were certain.

Lilyne trembled in her frozen body and cast her gaze down on her.

“Well, does Roman-san remember…?”

Did Roman’s habit move?

Éclair, scratching her itching chin, resolved to give a definite answer to that question in a roundabout way rather than giving it a direct answer.

“Roman himself thought it was his duty to keep this a secret, and he felt remorse when he told us.”

“…”

“But there is a promise under the mansion. In order to finish it, we eventually had to know… Even so, we, who are no different from outsiders, have to say that we are sorry first.”

Eclair said he was sorry and kept talking behind his back.

From the middle, Lilyne’s hearing was blank and only her tinnitus rang, but she couldn’t contain it.

From the moment she was convinced that what she had done to Roman was real, Lilyne’s head was spinning.

“Huh…”

Can a person’s face become redder than this? The knight facing it was very worried.

“…”

Éclair watched it, got up from the other side, came over to Lilyne’s side, and sat down in her empty seat.

The sensation of her gently holding her hand brought Lilyne back to her senses.

Eclair, who held her hand without saying anything and waited for her emotions to subside, continued her words at a slow tempo.

“At first, Roman tried to come to this hospital room, but honestly, if I was in the same situation as I am now, I would want to run away the moment I ran into Roman… I thought so, so I said I would come.”

“Really, thank you.”

Lilyne nodded her head several times, apparently sympathizing deeply.

“And I’m not here to say no.”

“···Yes?”

I felt Lily’s eyes light up at those words.

‘You must have been aware.’

Because I’ve been through it.

She understands how painful it can be right now and how hopeful these words can feel.

“Roman said he wanted to have a proper conversation.