Chapter 82 – The Way Back -2-

Éclair Dritna has no idea of ​​being protected and relied on in battle.

He always led from the front, took responsibility for the members, and bore the results of the process.

To such a female knight, the wounds are inseparable from water and fish. Sueojigyo relationship.

“Not at all. He didn’t want to see his friend his get hurt that much.”

Unexpected moments of falling away from a natural and familiar place without preparation.

When I heard that, I got the feeling that my eyes were spinning in front of me. Unintentionally, his voice grew.

“Me, I’m a knight! I’m not afraid of injury!”

“I know… Since I decided on my own without consulting you, of course you must feel bad. I’m sorry.”

Bonnie Roman apologizes for abandoning all of her usual flirtatious playfulness of her. Unknowingly, I thought that my throat was excessive.

Being cared for is not a bad thing. Still, there are cases, but there is no need to sacrifice yourself.

I had sentences and thoughts to put into my mouth, but they were stuck between my lips like glue, so I couldn’t speak properly.

“Oh no…! That-!”

“I didn’t mean to discredit your skills, or to disparage your knightly attitude or beliefs. It’s just… Just my rotten stubbornness.”

“…”

As she closed her mouth, Roman smiled with an embarrassed expression.

Even with Cutler’s flashy sword, he took time to avoid it. Why do you have such embarrassment when I keep my mouth shut?

My hands trembled at the thought that it was not the powerful enemy who would tear the mansion into pieces in one blow, but the feeling that it was because of me.

Is this the thrill of punching a friend who always made fun of me?

Something unknown that I can’t judge even if I have it. He clenched his trembling hand tightly.

Roman, who saw the hand that formed a fist with strength, did not hide his puzzled expression of her.

“Eclair. Don’t be so angry… I can’t use a sword, but I can take a few punches. Just avoid the face.”

“That, I don’t think so. Whoa—”

He exhaled a deep breath and lowered his body. The trembling had subsided, and he stretched out his hands to cover his face her.

I can’t predict the face right now. I didn’t want anyone to see it.

‘I’m just not used to being comforted by others… That’s all…’

Looking at the iron floor of the wagon, where a slight cold air was rising, his broken head began to spin little by little.

Seeing Roman absentmindedly between her fingers her made me feel childishly angry.

“Even at the time of the battle… I wasn’t average.

Hearing my advice, he smiled with his usual expression of embarrassment.

Haha!! If you say hit me, you have to hit me. What should I do?”

“It’s light. It’s fortunate that I’m the only one who heard it. Roman – Even if it’s for psychological warfare, don’t say that Platinum, a member of the Adventurer’s Guild, respects the knights of the Empire.”

Although that method certainly touched Cutler Dewar’s planting. After it was over, it wasn’t a good thing to think about either way.

The adventurers belonging to the guild and the knights of the empire are externally opposites and opposite competitors. Public perception is like oil and water.

Platinum, who is at the top of the adventurer’s guild, respects the 5 knights of the empire. Even if you dismiss it as a joke, only chaos remains.

“Psychological warfare? I don’t know about anything else, but I didn’t say that for the sake of a war of words, right?”

Roman shook his head with an expression of disapproval.

“Such a statement… Will confuse a lot of people.”

“I know. I don’t do it in front of anyone either.”

Knock-!

The carriage rocked once as if it had stepped on an angular stone root. At the same time, the conversation was cut short.

When the shaking stopped, Roman opened his mouth.

“On the way to the mansion, he heard the branch and broke the cutlass… And he was enraged at the evil deeds in the meantime, so he asked if he went first?”

“Yes. I remember.”

“I said I don’t have much good intentions there.”

“Right.”

I can’t forget the conversation we had just before.

“Eclair… On the way to the mansion, you were enraged when you saw the different races and kidnapped women locked in cages, right?”

“…If it’s a knight, it’s natural.”

“It was a knight who did that.”

“·····.”

She knows that saying that they are fallen former knights is just an excuse.

She also knows that there are villains comparable to Cutlass living in the empire with the title of knights.

“In the past, when I saw something like that, I would get angry and take out my anger on the other person. Now, when I see that kind of scene, I think first of all, ‘Okay so’.”

“I think it’s calm and mature. Like Cutler Dewar said, I’m less ripe… I’ll have to look at it that way.”

Roman furrowed his eyebrows as if he didn’t like my words.

“Ha– I don’t really like it when you say embarrassing things when you’re conscious…”

I couldn’t imagine what he was going to say as he licked his mouth and scratched his cheek.

The moment I hear that, I am afraid that I will meet a big inflection point, but there is anticipation.

“Is there anything strange about what I said? It’s okay to point it out. Try it…”

“I’m not pointing this out. But… Even if I think it’s presumptuous, I have nothing to say. I can laugh and listen to this man even if he curses at me for saying such things because he knows what he knows .”

“…What do you mean by sprinkled rice and steamed?”

His time of silence and contemplation was considerable.

“Knight Éclair Dritna… My friend Kitty. It’s not a lie to say that I respect you even if you act foolishly. I… Think of lotus flowers when I see you.”

It was surprising that there was a perception and a sense that he was being treated without a thread.

‘Lotus?’

—-It’s stupid… That lotuses grow in dirty muddy water. I don’t bother looking for muddy water to grow lotuses.

What he said during the battle left an impression on me, so it is engraved in my mind. He tried to recall it, but he immediately remembered it.

I don’t hit the excitement. It wasn’t meant to be praised for appearance.

There was no lotus flower among the flowers that the sons of aristocrats met and mentioned in relation to their appearance. So I was genuinely curious.

“Why… Is it a lotus flower?”

People who saw him often said that when they were associated with it. I am cold and well-forged like an imperial sword or a famous sword.

They were the same human beings, but they admired or feared that if they stretched out their hands, they would cut their fingers.

It was the first time I was involved in the soft and cozy word ‘lotus’ beyond such a weapon.

“I’m not talking about the beauty of a flower, but the characteristics of a lotus flower… No!! Doesn’t that mean that the external value is less?”

Sometimes displaying the temperament of a talker. In a place where you can ignore it and pass by, it felt like a romance.

“Huh – I know you didn’t mean to. Feel free to say it.”

“Before… I didn’t have money in my early days as an adventurer, so I was looking for a plant with a hemostatic effect and learned fragmentary information… In the dictionary, the lotus is another word for ‘a flower that blooms in the mud’.”

“…”

As if not expecting an answer, he unraveled the story as if unraveling a hidden thread.

“It purifies muddy water just by existing – it doesn’t get stained with dirty water in the process. It’s a realistic story that water doesn’t stick to it because lotus leaves are hydrophobic… But it’s not romantic.”

As he was about to speak, he stopped breathing.

“Ah—-!!! Saying these things in front of yourself is really…! But since we started, we should see the end…”

Roman, who had been scratching his head, moved his gaze out of his window without avoiding it. His face is very lightly red, as if he was drunk.

“…I’m already stained. I’ve lost all of my distrust to live my life. I don’t have any emotions to spend on a complete stranger. But my friend is different.”

A very weak sense alerted me.
Close your ears. It should be blocked here.

“Staying at the center of the empire and not being stained like other nobles. Being angry and moving for others without a kinship.

Go further. His words his have reached his heart his and cannot be turned back.

“·····.”

“Hot! Do you think this is a pointless joke again? There’s something I’ve done… It’s good to have karma. I wanted to tell a friend who usually has a lot of self-reproach someday.”

Rather, he had a clear expression, as if his mind was at ease.

“Eclair. For you, it’s like the purification of a lotus flower… I would say it’s good intentions. You have a good influence. If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t have had such a good image as a knight.”

“Is it?”

A feeling I’ve never felt in my life.

When I saw Chloe crying as a child, it was different from when her heart was hacked to pieces.

However, if you ask the wound whether it is a minor or a serious injury, considering the size of something that has arisen in your heart right now? It was serious.

“Yeah. It’s the opposite of ruining the image of an adventurer with my actions. I’m an evil influence in the guild!”

Looking at him giggling, it seemed that malfunctions were occurring in various parts of his body.

He pulled up the cape he was wearing as he felt his face his heat up.

“Sleep. I’m tired…”

“Well, I didn’t sleep at all in Limno. Shall we get some sleep?”

Although I hid behind a thick cape and did not sleep until the carriage stopped.

After a while, he took a deep breath and closed his eyes.