Chapter 125 – SHALL WE DANCE(1)

“You want to learn to dance?”

Xie Li nodded her head. Standing in front of her was the South’s most famous dance teacher. Before Lucius came, Erina was a person specially prepared for Sieri. As the number one social dance in the southern region, she entered and won the Gakdong dance competition, and was also a great coach who made many noble ladies the main characters of the ball.

Cieri wiggled her fingers and said.

“Because the lord is a noble… I thought I shouldn’t make mistakes.”

In fact, Sieri was very surprised by this situation itself. Her poetry was because, on her part, she never thought the day would come when she would really dance her own way. Now, the dance teacher who came up to Sieri’s room was looking at Sieri with a very interesting expression. She said.

“The prom is about a week away, and I can’t guarantee success. Is it your first time at a prom itself?”

“…Yes.”

Sieri nodded her head as if to confess her shame. Sieri had never been interested in the stories of the nobility, such as balls and social events. For her Sieri, it was just her business.

Aristocrats dancing under colorful chandeliers and smooth whiskey glasses with the lights reflecting off them. Laughter can be heard over the clinking of glasses, and in the middle of the ball people gather in a circle and hold out their hands to each other. Among the people dancing facing each other, Lucius smiles and extends his hand.

To Sieri, all of this was just a happy imagination. When she was working as a nun at the Fat Lord’s estate, she had an impossible family. Neither the dance teacher in front of her right now nor the reality that she was going to a prom could touch Sieri as reality.

She and the fact that she was dancing with Lucius felt surreal.

“Then, would you like to dance for a moment?”

The dance teacher said, raising her round glasses slightly over her wrinkled face. Sieri felt like she was taking her own test. She rose from her chair and carefully put her foot forward.

“Uh, how can I dance?”

“Please dance the dance you are most confident in. You need to understand the basic flexibility, dance line, and sense of beat so that you know where to start. You just need to dance the most confident dance.”

The dance teacher finished her speech and picked up the violin that had been placed beside her. She then began to play her violin, stamping her feet on the floor. The melody of her violin began to follow, with a unique beat that she could feel as her feet thumped the floor. Sieri began her dance, gently waving her hands to and fro to her music.

“It… Eight…”

If Lucius had seen Sieri now, wouldn’t she have thought it was a speed quiz and immediately exclaimed “Jellyfish!”? Sieri was wriggling her body as best she could, but her figure was more like avant-garde performance art or depiction of animals than dance. The only good thing about Sieri was that her dance teacher had seen many of the ladies of her body so far, so she didn’t laugh at her.

After her strumming tune, Sieri wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked at her dance teacher with a satisfied expression.

“Uh, how are you?”

“…It’s not too bad. I don’t know if I can learn a little bit.”

The dance teacher gave her evaluation of Sieri with a professional manner of living. Hearing that, Sieri must have been quite satisfied with her, so he twisted her body around her and was embarrassed.

“Ah, that, that’s about it…”

“Then, before proceeding with the simple class, first of all, since this class is a ballroom dance, we need a male role. ?”

“Oh, do you really need that… Man?”

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman, but you can’t tell your wife to hold on to the air and learn a ballroom dance. And dancing with the choreographer at my school may lead to negative comments, so if possible, dance with your spouse. I am recommending it.”

“Well, but, it’s a bit embarrassing to tell the lord…”

“Is that so? But we want you to find a partner if possible. Today, I also have to make a lesson plan, so I’ll go back here.”

“Ah, yes. I see.”

The dance teacher took her violin and left her mansion. Sieri sat down in her chair and let out a sigh of relief. She wanted to keep the fact that she couldn’t dance a secret. Because she was shy. It seemed that if Lucius found out, she would make fun of her again with this fact, and if she danced with Lucius face to face with him, her heart her might explode.

So, the dance teacher also called without Lucius knowing. Since he had taken care of the accounting expenses himself and had been given permission while Erina was acting as her assistant of hers, he could n’t know that Lucius had called a dance teacher. Besides, now Lucius, as the head priest of the Archangel Church, went to church every day to deal with the overdue agenda.

“What do we do…”

So Sieri wanted to hide it from Lucius all the more. Lucius was sure to be surprised if he led Lucius on the day of the ball, showing off his flamboyant dancing skills his. He wanted to tease as much as he loved, and loved as much as he wanted to be teased.

But to do that, he had to find a practice partner. Sieri began to ponder. First of all, it was impossible because Selu had no legs. Eve is in a position to concede the prom to herself, but she was a bit like asking to be a dance practice helper. Soya had trouble with her legs, and asking the knights for help was something she shouldn’t have done.

The only possible ones were Aira and Elsie, but Aira had an image of being quiet for some reason. It was n’t that she did n’t trust Aira at all, but she was playful too, so she was likely teasing or pranking her by the fact that Sieri secretly practiced her dance her.

After dividing it roughly like this, only Elsie was left. When she thinks about it, she was the best partner for dancing practice. She was a woman, and because of her height she was also suitable for playing male roles, and she had a heavy mouth and did not play well with her pranks her. As soon as Sieri had her conclusion, she went downstairs and she knocked on Elsie’s door.

Sierra knocked on her door, and Elsie opened the door. Elsie, who was awake mostly at night, spent most of her time sleeping from morning to day. She yawned and waggled her tail. Siri said.

“Oh, were you sleeping, Elsie?”

“Sister. Tell me what’s going on.”

“Ah, that… It’s a bit long to talk about here, but would you like to come to my room?”

“I get it.”

At Sieri’s call, Elsie obediently went up to her room. Sieri’s room was clean like a nun’s. In the middle of her room her, like Lucius, there was an altar of the Great Heavenly Church, and her closet her was full of nuns’ clothes. The bed was made of a hard material with no hint of softness or pleasure from sex, and no ornaments.

The only brightly colored light in her room was Sieri herself. Elsie said, frowning at the sight of her bleak room her.

“Nun. The room is too boring.”

“It’s the nun’s room. More than that… Elsie. I have a favor to ask of you.”

“What is it? Tell me. She’s a good nun. She does it.”

Sieri couldn’t hide her anxiety as she spoke. Does she know that Elsie is really a dance? Sieri was a very exemplary and sincere nun in the Archangel Church, but as a person of this world, she had no choice but to be prejudiced against prisoners.

The universal perception of beastmen on this continent was that they were savages who had nothing in common with humans in civilization other than roasting and eating them. Even as Sieri, who knows that Elsie is not like that, she has never seen her dance or hum a song, so she can’t help but feel a bit uneasy about this part.

“Elsie. Has she ever danced?”

“Dancing? I’ve danced before.”

For a moment, Sieri drew strange stripes across her face her in her mind her, and thought of a savage running naked over her campfire. Seeing the savage and Elsie overlapping, Sieri shook her head again and repeated to herself. I’m not a racist, and putting that image on Elsie now is to disgrace Lucius, disgrace herself, and insult Elsie for accepting her as her friend.

“Hey, what kind of dance have you tried?”

“No matter what dance you say, it’s the same as humans. We sing and dance when we’re happy. Is dancing different?”

“No. Elsie, you are right.”

Sieri agreed with Elsie, grimacing at her guilt that she had thought rudely. Elsie had no way of knowing what was going on when Lee brought her to Sierra, laughed, then frowned, then forced her to smile again. Elsie asked, tilting her head.

“Why are you curious about dancing? If you want to see my dance, ask and I will show it to you.”

“Oh, no. I don’t want to see that Elsie dance.”

“I don’t like it when other people ask, but the people in the mansion are all kind. They show me a dance.”

Sieri once again took time to reflect on the wicked and lowly prejudices he had. Elsie treated herself with her pure heart like this, but Sieri herself had a wrong prejudice against Elsie.

“Well, actually, I have to practice dancing.”

“Dancing?”

“Yes. Humans do what’s called a ballroom dance at that ball, and I have to practice that dance.”

“Isn’t it okay to call a priest for dance practice? Everyone knows that a priest and a nun are mating.”

Surprised by Elsie’s naked remarks of her, Sieri shouted, stuttering even her words of her.

“Ah, no, that, that’s why! It’s not mating… That…”

“That?”

“…Please say a couple…”

“Okay. But I don’t know why you’re asking me instead of with a priest who is a married couple.”

“That is…”

Sieri blew the story she had told the dance teacher again, and the story she wanted to keep secret from Lucius. Elsie, who was seriously listening to the contents, nodded her head and said.

“Okay. I’ll do my best to help.”

“Thank you, Elsie.”

It was a day when a ray of light penetrated Sieri’s heart her.

*****

“Youngju-nim, don’t you practice dancing?”

Ira asked me. In my hand was the document for the dance lesson that Erina stamped and Sieri paid for. It seemed that he wanted to keep it a secret in his own way, but there are no secrets in advance. I acknowledged that Erina was good at her job her, but it was because she could n’t trust her.

Maybe she was playing some tricks with my budget because I ate A.A. In the meantime, I felt sorry for accidentally finding out Sieri’s secret her, but I couldn’t help it.

“Why practice when you don’t have to dance anyway?”

“But your wife has been practicing dancing lately. Then…”

In fact, what Xie Li was doing now was rather pointless. It was mainly unmarried men and women who danced at the ballroom, and married people gathered in groups of twos and threes in a corner of the party hall to chat or eat and build friendships of their own. It was a place where you could go back without dancing if you wanted to.

“It’s okay. Let it be. Let’s keep it a secret.”

“Is that okay?”

But if that’s the case, why doesn’t Sieri stop practicing dancing?

“It’s cute.”

I wonder how much Sieri would like while teaching me how to dance.