Chapter 73
When Elena saw Lexion surrounded by those women, she couldn’t help but squeeze her hand.
‘Lexion must have felt like this before.’
She wanted to fix her expression, but it wasn’t easy.
Just like Lexion’s mood had turned miserable when she’d encountered Leoter Hasnell, Elena’s mood had grown progressively worse.
She strode towards her seat.
But then, Lexion’s heavy voice was heard.
“I am not pleased to see you.”
Elena was a little surprised.
This was the first time she heard this kind of frigidity in Lexion’s voice.
“Ye-Yes?”
It seemed that the young ladies were as dumbfounded as she was.
Lexion rose from his seat.
Then, with a light gesture, he turned around and pointed to Elena with his hand.
Elena’s eyes widened.
“As you can see, I’m on a date with her.”
The two women directed their attention to Elena.
Then Lexion came up to Elena and took her hand.
“So I don’t really want to be disturbed.”
The women’s faces hardened at Lexion’s cold words.
“Ah… I see.”
“Then, see you next time.”
The two left immediately.
The VIP room didn’t have many seats, but there was a partition to every section and it was spacious.
The two young ladies headed to the farthest area, away from where Elena and Lexion were.
Lexion looked at Elena and smiled.
Elena grinned, inwardly applauding Lexion’s formidable iron wall.
“Elena. Please sit down, the play will start soon.”
“Ok.”
As soon as they sat down, the play started.
The content was very clear.
The tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet.
It was a story she knew all too well, so Elena almost fell asleep.
However, she was able to watch the two main characters until the end since their appearance was beautiful.
After the play was over, Elena yawned amid the applause.
“Was it boring?”
Lexion, who didn’t miss the opportunity, asked her.
“Ah… It’s something I already know.”
“Then you didn’t have to watch it.”
“No. It’s a date after all.”
As Elena answered with a bright smile, Lexion took her hand.
“Thank you.”
The way he spoke softly was different from the cold voice she heard before the play started.
Maybe that’s why Elena realized once again that she was really loved.
The sun was setting when they left the theater.
“Elena. Where do you want to have dinner?”
“Hm… I don’t know?”
It didn’t matter if they ate at the Halos estate, since she was going to traverse through Lexion’s office to the Magic Tower anyway
‘Still, since we’re outside, would it be better to eat out?’
While she was thinking.
“Uh-huh, get away!”
“That’s pathetic, really.”
Suddenly, she heard the voices of angry men.
Elena’s gaze turned to the alley behind the capital, which was connected to the slum.
There were two Imperial guards and a girl with dirty clothes.
“Please! Please!”
The girl with golden hair and emerald eyes looked about seven years old.
“Listen. A kid like you can’t go to the tower. You’re not even a wizard!”
“B-but I still have to go to the tower! My daddy is there! Take me, okay?”
The child limped down by the guard’s trousers.
But the guards mercilessly pushed the child away and left.
Abandoned, the child quietly cried as she stared at the backs of the guards.
“Elena?”
At the sudden call of Lexion, Elena realized that she stopped walking.
“What’s wrong?”
“Ah. I’m sorry. Something just bothered me.”
“… Ah.”
Lexion noticed the child Elena had been watching.
“The Imperial Guards were pretty harsh.”
Elena muttered bitterly.
“If it’s okay with Lexion, can I go to that child for a moment?”
“Sure.”
In response to the gracious answer, Elena took a step forward.
Lexion followed behind her.
“Hic…”
The child was crying bitterly.
Elena crouched to the ground and reached out to the crying child.
Then the child looked up at Elena.
“Get up.”
She stood up and reached back as if enchanted by Elena’s friendly smile.
Elena leveled her gaze on the child.
“Why are you crying so miserably? You will ruin your pretty face.”
She smiled and took out a handkerchief from her arms.
And carefully wiped away the child’s tears.
“Ugh, to the tower, hic, I have to go, hic.”
“Shh. Calm down. Let’s talk after you stop crying. Okay?”
As Elena rubbed her back, the child nodded.
Watching her from the side, Lexion’s lips lightly rose.
The person he loved the most was still the same as when she was a child.
Delicate and tender, just as she had soothed him when he was a child.
She was kind, even to a dirty child from the slums that people avoided.
She didn’t even care about getting her hands dirty.
Realizing that she was such a person, his younger self opened up to her.
While Lexion was peacefully looking at Elena.
The child stopped crying and told Elena what happened.
“So that’s what Sera was crying about.”
Elena held Sera as her tears welled up again.
There was an urgent reason Sera had begged the Imperial Guards to take her to the Magic Tower.
Sera’s mother was sick.
Sera was a child who had never met or seen her father since she was born.
But she knew that her father was in the tower.
So when her mother got sick, she instinctively searched for her father.
“Hic! We don’t have money at home, hic…”
Sera believed that if she met her father, he would help her mother get better.
Elena wiped Sera’s tears away and combed the child’s hair.
Sera’s situation was tragic.
What drew her attention more was the fact that Sera’s father was in the “Magic Tower.”
Perhaps someone she knew well was the child’s father.
‘… But Sera’s father has abandoned his family.’
Elena bit her lip.
“Sera.”
She called the child with determined eyes.
“Sister will help you.”
“Re-really?”
Hope bloomed in Sera’s eyes.
Elena planned to first meet Sera’s mother and check her condition, then find the child’s father.
Of course, if Sera’s mother agreed.
‘If Sera’s mother’s condition is within the range that I can treat, I will treat her.’
Elena decided and got up.
And approached Lexion.
“Lexion.”
“Are you going to go to this child’s house?”
Lexion, who was quietly listening to the story, asked with a smile.
“… Yes.”
Elena smiled shyly.
“I wanted to have dinner with you, but I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay. You can do whatever you want.”
“Thanks for understanding. Tomorrow, I’ll go to your office.”
As Elena promised with a smile, Lexion’s eyes slightly widened.
“Tomorrow?”
“Isn’t Lexion going to go back first?”
Elena’s eyes also widened.
Then Lexion laughed out loud and shook his head.
“How can I leave you alone?”
“Still, Lexion is busy. I took your time today since I asked you on a date…”
“It is very late. It’s dangerous to go to the slums alone.”
While Elena was comforting Sera, the sun had completely set. It was already evening.
As Lexion said, it was dangerous to wander around the slums alone late at night.
“But I am a wizard.”
Elena said with confidence, but Lexion was stubborn.
He knew well that Elena was strong.
Whenever he was in danger in the previous war, he had noticed at first glance that Elena had incessantly used her magic to aid him.
But no matter how strong she was, he couldn’t leave her alone.
“Elena is mine, so please let me protect you.”
Lexion’s persistence finally won, and Elena raised her hands in surrender.
“Alright. Then let’s go together.”
At that moment, Lexion’s expression brightened.
“Is sister and brother married? Do you have any babies?”
As the two were staring at each other, a cute voice interrupted.
Sera was gazing up at the pair with wide eyes.
Elena smiled warmly at her adorable appearance.
“We are not married, but we are lovers. There are no babies.”
“I see.”
Elena, who watched Sera nodding to her, turned her gaze to Lexion.
Surprisingly, Lexion was blushing.
It was evening, so it was dark around him, but thanks to the magic lamp on the side of the road, she was able to notice the change.
‘Lexion, you look embarrassed.’
Elena smiled a little and pretended not to notice it.
As she thought, Lexion was feeling shy but overjoyed at the same time.
‘I and Elena look like a married couple….’
In fact, Lexion didn’t really like Sera, who interrupted his and Elena’s time.
However, the fact that she asked if he and Elena were a married couple, he eventually started to like her.
So he grabbed Sera with both hands.
“Huh?”
The abrupt change in her view startled her.
But soon the child settled on Lexion’s shoulders.
“A horse.”
Lexion didn’t hold back and made sure the child wasn’t uncomfortable.
