Chapter 126: The Sylphide Household

Chapter 126: The Sylphide Household

A road wide enough for two carriages stretched directly through the sea of thick trees that towered over its surrounding.

The road beyond was dotted with various towns and villages, both large and small. This is the Yggurle Kingdom, founded by Elves, the forest people.

「Sophia............」

A beautiful elf woman muttered one word seemingly forlorn.

Her long beautiful golden hair, green eyes, and face resembled Sophia’s so much that one would wonder if they were sisters. That too is only natural as that woman’s name is Freesia von Sylphide, Sophia’s mother.

As it might be expected from a race known as the Elves, her appearance is youthful, and she could pass as Sophia’s sister.

There, a male elf approached and embraced Freesia’s arms.

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「...... Dear, what could Sophia be doing? I want to go meet her with these legs of mine right now.」

「Sorry, I am nothing but disappointing.........」

The man’s name is Dante von Sylphide. Sophia’s father holds Chevalier peerage and governs two small villages.

The Sylphide family are not Chevaliers with administrative or judicial power[1] , but Knights in charge of small territories.

After the war 50 years prior, Dante became a Chevalier with rights to succession, but that conversely bound Dante.

「I heard that Sophia lost her hand and foot. She’s so pitiful, having such a disabled body for 50 years.」

「I heard she lost her magic because of a curse. Ironically, it is fortunate how, because of that, Viscount Hordia lost interest in her, but it’s a complicated feeling.」

「Yeah, welcome back Darphy.」

「Father, Mother, were you thinking of Elder Sister again?」

Darphy was in disbelief, shrugging in dismay.

To the young Darphy, his memory of his sister, Sophia, was faint. 50 years isn’t long for elves. Even so, for Darphy who was but a young child, 50 years was enough time for his faint memory of his sister to fade away.

「I think it’s better for both Father and Mother to forget about Elder Sister now. It’s been 50 years, and if I had become a prisoner of the enemy, I would commit suicide.」

「Darphy!」

「Darphy, the cause for Sophia falling into the enemy’s hands is because of the sealing curse placed on her by the subordinate of the viscount who was supposed to be her ally. It was not Sophia’s fault by any means.」

Freesia exclaimed and Dante defended Sophia, but it didn’t reach Darphy’s heart.

Darphy disliked his sister Sophia who had disappeared 50 years ago. The eldest son of the Chevalier Sylphide family made great efforts by himself. But when he enrolled at the Chivalric Order at the royal capital, there were many that members that would reminisce of his genius sister. In the Chivalric Order of the long-lived elves, many that remained were associates of Sophia during the time she was enrolled. They would talk to Darphy[2] about how brave Sophia was or how much she rescued her allies in the war with Triaria Kingdom.

「(I’m sick of it. It would be better if Nee-san just dies.)」

And later on Darphy also learned from the staff of the viscount that the aforementioned Viscount Hordia coveted his sister, that she was sold to a foreign slavery company as a result of that. When Darphy heard that his sister had fallen to slavery, she was as good as dead to him. She didn’t become the mistress of Viscount Hordia, but the thought of being purchased as a slave of a lowly Human disgusted him.

He was right because she was bought by a human. Her relationship with Takumi is between man and woman, though.

A war that began for selfish reasons had warped the heart of a very young elven child, driving him to detest the sister he loved.

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Footnotes:

I guess these roles will be similar to noblesse de robe and maybe noblesse de militaire / d’épée for the other?Likely typo, raws said Dante, but prolly Darphy.