Chapter 38

Chapter 38

TL-Mechatronic

“I’ve been with you for years.” I didn’t raise you up as a fool who couldn’t even loosen your shoelace alone.

At Jean’s words, Nina just gave him a glance that said, “You didn’t raise me,” grunted but just drooped down her shoulder.

“Even though the Young Master is strong, will he be okay? If they want to find the Sage Steel, they’ll have to go deep inside the forest, and something else might pop out. It takes a long time to get there.”

“And he left you here, right?”

“That’s right! That’s it! How could he leave me behind?”

“But you’re also good at leaving the young master behind either.”

“That’s different. Young Master is Young Master, and I’m me.”

“Yes, that’s why His Highness went to do his job.”

You’re nice, aren’t you? Nina laughed because Jean spoke in an adult tone. He is the one to pacify her every time she fought with Adrian and was sulking.

Like a big brother in the middle of the fight between younger siblings.

“What do I do? Because I like Jean this much?”

“Yes, yes. You like me a lot. I know. That’s why you always hit me with a stick during training.”

“That’s a sign of affection.”

“Of course it is. Yes, yes.”

Jean said so, reaching out to pet her head but slipped down and patted her back. That’s what he said, but his green eyes were also worried. Nina pulled the wrist of his patting hand and leaned her cheek against his arm.

“Jean.”

“What?”

“Thank you for being alive.”

He bit his lips slightly and opened his mouth.

“You, too.”

“If Jean had died, I would have cried so hard. I would have cried my eyes out.”

“Thanks for that.”

“It’s true.”

“I’m serious, too.” Nina looked up at him and Jean was smiling softly Knowing that his words were sincere, she blinked her eyes.

“But don’t cry until your eyes swell out.”

“If Jean says that, it can’t be helped.”

Nina rubbed her cheek on his arm and sighed.

“It feels like yesterday when Jean told me, ‘Get lost,” and now you are thanking me for living, I’m amazed at how much things have changed.”

His face turned red.

“No, why are you revealing other people’s shameful past?”

“Do you have any sense of shame?”

“There is. Totally. It was my fault then. Really. How many times have I apologized to you already?”

“It’s okay to do it several times. I’m going to hear it until I die.”

Jean swept down his face with one hand. When he first met Nina, he was disappointed with both his own life and with humans, so he wasn’t glad every time she took care of him.

He would only grumble at Nina, “Get lost,” and pushed her roughly, knocking her over. At that time she was only a 13-year-old skinny girl.

“No, I thought then that she was a boy!”

That was his closing argument. If he had known that she was a girl, he would have not said such harsh things and acted so roughly. How surprised he was to find out later that she was a girl.

Jerks like him won’t be able to tell the difference just by looking once or twice at a person’s face. At those times, Jean couldn’t even sleep well without alcohol, He said, sweeping his hair roughly. “I was really sorry then. It’s because I was out of my mind.”

Nina smiled bashfully when he apologized again

“I know. I know.”

She let him go and came down from the desk. Nina said while holding the shoes she threw away by herself.

“I don’t think I can sleep well today, but I’ll have to go to bed early. An important guest is coming tomorrow.”

Jean snorted.

“Important guests, my ass.”

“It’s an important guest. A sage is coming from BlueStone Island after all.”

“He’s not going to bring a bunch of people with him, is he? That would be annoying.”

“No, he says he’s coming along.”

“It’s unusual. Is he crazy?”

Thinking he’s dissatisfied with anything the sage does, Nina laughed. It seems that the welcoming of the sage won’t be very good.

Nina turned her eyes to the window, and Jean covered her eyes with his palm.

“You can’t fly away in the middle of the night.”

When Nina looked at Jean with a face that said, ‘How does he know?’ then Jean said again.

“Don’t do that. You will have to come back after being scolded.”

“Oh, my. I can’t believe Jean’s right.”

Nina grumbled and looked down. He asked with a grin.

“Do you want me to sleep with you?”

“It’s okay.”

Nina waved her hand.

“I’m going to go wash up and sleep. I’m tired.” “Yes, yes.”

I’ll just go straight to bed.

After Nina gathered up some paperwork for the Knight’s Commander on the top of her desk, she moved to her room.

Today she was acting on behalf of Adrian and Louis, so her work was still on the desk. Nina returned to her room and looked at the shining seed crystal

It is still shining brightly.

It’s good because it could save the price of candles and didn’t smell like oil from the cheap products. It’s a pity that people who use expensive wax candles do not know of this.

‘The light is also bright.’

If you change all the candles with this seed, words will come out among the servants. The extra income from selling melted candles and candles is salty.

“The amount of seed is not that much anyway.’

However, it was very beautiful in itself.

Seeing the golden wick fluttering inside and the rainbow-colored surface glistening, she felt like she wouldn’t get tired of looking at it all day long.

‘The seller will think of a good sales pitch.’

Nina thought so and moved the seed onto the document.

“Oh, it’s also much more comfortable because there’s no shadow from the lamp.”

Nina relied on the bright lights to process the business documents. Given that knights are usually illiterate and have difficulty in simple arithmetic, the Dark Knights were a great elite group.

All the three remaining Elites are talented people who can do civilian related work.

‘It’s really peculiar.

Nina wrote down the budget and put down the pen. Tomorrow is the day to meet the male protagonist.

‘Let’s go to bed early.’

I couldn’t put out the light, so I had to cover the shining crystal with a cover. Covering the crystal, Nina slipped into the bed

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“Hey, Nina. Wake up. Nina La Dell.” Shaking her body, Nina opened her eyes.

“What is it……?” “You’re so completely stretched out that you can’t even hear me knocking on the door, you can’t even hear me calling. Do I really have to shake you just to wake you up? Are you out of your mind?”

Nina was irritated by Jean’s grumbling voice, but the next moment, fear burst into her.

“What? Did something happen to the young master?”, Jean shook his head in Nina’s big round eyes.

“No, the Sage is here.”

“What? What time is it now? Wait, argh, we didn’t even open the gate yet.”

“Yeah, but he’s here.”

Now that she could see Jean’s face clearer, he looked annoyed and his hair was also messy.

“The butler couldn’t wake you up, so he came to me.”

“Oh, my God.”

Nina scratched her head and crawled down from the bed. Still, she was so surprised that she hadn’t woken up immediately. After coming down from the bed, she twirled her fingers and Jean turned around.

Nina changed into the same clothes she took off yesterday. She roughly dipped water on her face, combed her hair with her hands, and tied it in two pigtails. “What do you think?”

“It’s like someone who has just woken up.”

“I can’t help it because it’s true. Let’s go. It’s not good to keep him waiting.”

Nina wore only a jacket and went downstairs. As she entered the guest parlor, the man who was sitting rose from the chair.

“Forgive me for being late.”

When Nina apologized, the man smiled and shook his hand.

“No. I had just forgotten that even though everyone’s already awake at this time on the Blue Stone Island, aristocrats usually don’t wake up at this time.”

Haha, he said with a smile. “Thank you for your understanding.”

Nina reached out her hand.

“I’m Nina La Dell. Commander of the Dark Knights, and currently acting as the Duke’s proxy.”

“Oh. So you’re the one who sent me the letter. There are so many things I want to tell you.”

He said as soon as their hands shook with each other and Nina asked a little dumbfounded.

“The letter I sent to you….?”

When she asked, he apologized for belatedly introducing himself and said, “BlueStone Island Grand Sage, Randell. Member of the Seven Great Sages. Pleased to meet you, Nina La Dell.”