Chapter 95

What’s a pity is already a pity, and there’s no way there’s a convenience store or a mart on the way to this world, so I decided to just go there.

The second visit to the residence of Grand Duchy Bedmond.

I got off the carriage and looked around in admiration.

“Oh oh! Same as last time I came here.”

The Grand Duchy’s appearance had not changed at all from the last time I had come.

As soon as you pass through the front door, you can smell the unidentified smell of sweat, and the ‘Hap! Hap!’ the apprentice knights shouted.

Also, several shirtless knights circling the training ground with sandbags on.

Above all……

“Our youngest young master, you just got back from kindergarten?”

A familiar knight running with a familiar line.

But today, he is wearing a leather training suit.

What was his name?

Oh, did he say Sir Elox?

“Sir Elox?”

“Beside you is Lady Al… No, it’s Lady Emir! Oh dear! Did you remember my name? This is an honor. Haha.”

The knight, who opened his mouth at the same time as me, soon smiled at me with a happy expression on his face.

“Thank you so much for being the only friend with our harsh young master.”

“What did you just say?”

“Hahaha, that’s a joke.”

Immediately, Cedric groaned, but Elox smirked as if he had not said anything.

Afterwards, he said a few more words to me and Cedric, perhaps it was the road he had been passing in the first place, and left immediately.

And when Elox went far, Cedric, who was a little insulted, corrected the truth as if I had asked him to do so.

“What Elox says is a lie. I have many friends besides you.”

“Yes.”

“It’s real. Keep that in mind.”

I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I don’t think it’s wrong to say that he gets along well with the kindergarten children.

I nodded, and then Cedric’s face returned to normal.

And the two of us headed inside the mansion.

Somehow, today was a little different from the first time I visited.

It must have been quiet last time, only seeing a few passing servants and maids… Huh.

We ran into someone as soon as we entered.

‘I think it’s Cedric’s family. They look alike.’

I tilted my head.

A man was standing in front of us.

From our point of view, he was tall enough for us to bend our head to see the top of his head. His fiery red hair and golden eyes were exactly the same as Cedric’s.

He was wearing the clothes of the Imperial Knights, but he has a little more languid expression than Cedric.

He looked like a young man who looked a little under 20 years old.

As much as I looked up at him, the man was also looking down at me with a curious expression on who I was.

Fortunately, before he could ask who I was, Cedric asked the man first.

“Why are you here at this hour, oldest brother? Isn’t it time to be in the Imperial Palace?”

As expected, the man’s identity was Cedric’s older brother.

I nodded my head slightly.

Then the man answered.

“The training ended early today, so I’m here now. But who is that… little girl next to you?”

The man stammered his words with an expression that couldn’t find a proper title to call me.

Then Cedric shrugged his shoulders.

“This is my friend, Emir Saeron. We go to kindergarten together. Emir, this is my older brother, Ceyden.”

“Hello, my name is Emir from Marquisate Saeron. Cedric’s friend.”

I greeted politely.

Then, after receiving my greetings, I felt Ceyden suddenly startled.

“Friend…?”

“Yes.”

I lifted my head and glanced at Ceyden’s expression.

Unsurprisingly, he had a face like ‘Cedric, that guy has a friend?’ like Sir Elox.

Then, he greeted me with a surprised expression on his face.

“…Nice to meet you. My name is Ceyden of Bedmond and Cedric’s eldest brother. I belong to the Imperial 1st Knights.”

I nodded my head at the kind self-introduction.

“You were a knight after all! Cool!”

Ceyden hesitated again at my praise.

“……thank you. By all means, I hope Lady Saeron has fun.”

Then, after a few seconds, he quickly finished his answer, then turned around and walked away.

‘Are you busy? Or……’

I looked at his back and tilted my head.

He said he belonged to the Imperial Knights, so there’s no doubt that he’ll be busy.

But that reaction of leaving in a hurry, somehow I think I’ve seen it a lot somewhere.

‘It’s like Cedric. They look alike because they are brothers.’

Perhaps the people in this family are not accustomed to compliments.

I just turned around with that thought in mind, but Cedric’s expression was a bit strange.

“……?”

Why is he acting so quietly and huffing and puffing on his own?

Cedric was biting his lip with an angry face, looking at the back of his older brother, who now looked about the size of a fingernail.

‘Did you two fight?’

Well, I had no idea.

So I just stood there saying nothing, and suddenly Cedric turned his head towards me and shot me.

“Why do you compliment everyone?”

“……?”

The twisted corners of his lips clearly showed he didn’t like something.

Eyes full of dissatisfaction.

But the reason for the dissatisfaction was because of me? Is it because of the complement I gave to Ceyden?

“Oh, I’m not doing this to anyone. I only praise people when I really want to do it for them, right?”

I hurriedly made an excuse, but Cedric was still sulking.

“……lies. Last time you told me I was cool, today you told my older brother that he was cool too, and now that I see it, the ‘cool’ you say is no different from a greeting like ‘Good morning, isn’t it?’

Cedric inquired about each and everything.

I had to keep my mouth shut at that sharp insight.