Silence flowed between him and me.
He looked very, verrry dumbfounded.
His face, which seemed like it normally never sees warmth, was very twisted.
With his lips slightly parted and his eyebrows raised, he rolled his eyes and looked back and forth between me and the rattle.
Eventually, a small “Ha” fake laugh flowed out.
“You’re a crazy demon?”
“You must be the crazy one. But before that, demon, what demon? I’m a normal human being.”
“That can’t be. Such strong magical power is flowing out.”
He threw his sword in the air and crossed his arms.
The sword was floating in the air, aloofly showing off its blade.
As the blade sparkled and shined, Axion’s cries gradually subsided.
“Wow!”
Axion reached towards the sword with red-tinged under-eyes.
He seemed to like it.
Hmm. It seems the rattle isn’t necessary anymore.
I quickly put the rattle I had thrust in front of him into my arms and raised the tip of my chin.
“Your sword does the work instead of the rattle. Then, I’ll leave.”
“One moment.”
The body that had turned around with great vigor was blocked by the man’s large hand.
“Where are you going?”
“What do you mean where am I going? Going home. Let go. Even rudeness has levels, you don’t threaten someone you’ve met for the first time. You don’t make a child cry. Why don’t you live properly?”
I shoved the man’s hand that had come onto my shoulder and sauntered away.
……But.
Isn’t the man following behind me at a leisurely pace?
I embraced Axion tightly and turned my head to glare at him.
“Why do you keep following me?”
Then the man shrugged his shoulders.
“Just by looking at you, you seem younger than me, shouldn’t you speak respectfully?”
“What’s he saying?”
The man’s face twisted again, as I had a face that said I had no idea what he was talking about.
Still, he consistently followed behind me.
The man who followed me to where the carriage was stopped observed until, with the coachman’s help, I deposited the stroller into the back of the carriage and seated Axion inside first.
To be precise, he was gazing at the seal of the Viscount Evanror engraved on the carriage.
“I guess you are Viscount Evanror’s person?”
“No, I’m not.”
The man extended his long forefinger and pointed at the carriage’s seal.
“But the seal for of Viscount Evanror is drawn here.”
“I said I’m not? How can a person be persistent like this? Here. The pattern here is minutely different.”
I pointed to the seal with slightly peeling paint.
It is fortunate that we are a lowly and poor viscounty. That the carriage’s seal has been peeled off like this.
Then the man smirked.
“She’s a mind-boggling woman.”
“You are more mind-boggling. Why don’t you step away now.”
The man nodded his head lightly.
“Okay. Let me just confirm one thing.”
“What confirma…. Ah!”
The man passed by me and approached the carriage.
In the blink of an eye, Axion was dangling from his hand.
“!”
“Woo woo…. Waaa…..”
While lightly lifting Axion’s clothes, the man stared at the child who was brought to tears.
“I think it was coming from here? That magical power from before. Did you know too?”
“This- this……!”
How could you dangerously hoist up a newborn child with one hand?!
I can’t stand this anymore. I put a lot of power into my toes and gave his shin a hard kick.
“Ow! What power…..!”
Cast iron legs trained through farming work on men too!
The man was disheveled.
I hurriedly caught the falling Axion and tightly held the child in my arms.
Axion began to weep.
“Ugh, what’s in that guy’s heart?’
I answered casually without a hint of surprise:
“Dragon Heart.”
“……What?”
“Why. Is this the first child you’re seeing with a Dragon Heart in their chest? Doesn’t everyone live with one?”
“What the-”
The man had a dumbfounded expression.
The man’s hand, which rested on the carriage, lost strength.
It was an opportunity. I pushed him with all of my strength and climbed into the carriage.
Arms trained through farming had the power to push even that strong man in an instant!
I slammed the door and shouted:
“Depart!”
Hehe. There was the sound of a horse neighing, and the coachman began to drive the carriage.
Meanwhile, I locked the carriage door and slightly moved my head toward the window. I saw a man in black standing in the distance, looking this way.
It didn’t seem like he planned to chase.
After sticking out my tongue towards him, I pulled my head back in.
“Hm. What an eyesore.”
Luckily, Axion’s eyes turned back to their original color. I tried to calm my pounding heart as we headed home.
* * *
If you go up a well-paved mountain road on the northeast side of the islands, there is a towering castle at the top of the mountain with a cliff behind it.
It was the castle of Shiaster duchy, a famous family that has been working to prevent a “rift” for generations.
This place, which is quite far from the islands, is a place where ‘rifts’ in the demon world were often opened.
It is said that the first Duke Shiaster deliberately built his castle on the top of this dangerous mountain to easily block the ‘rift’ and eliminate the demons who went to the islands to hide.
As expected, the fantasy genre is fantastical.
This world, the original novel’s background, is a place with words like demons and demon dragons, monsters, holy swords, miraculous powers, and transcendental beings.
As for me, I am a normal human being and the daughter of a lowly viscount who lives by farming.
It is said that in the past when the continent was on the verge of destruction due to an attack by monsters, a transcendental being drew the holy sword and saved the world.
More than a few hundred years have passed since then, and those who carry the name transcendental being on their shoulders live with the duty of protecting their respective continent.
The Duke of Shiaster was one of them.
So, that means Duke Shiaster is also a transcendental being. As is my future daughter-in-law, Vanilla.
‘Still, their lifespan is the same as normal humans, right?’
Anyway, I arrived at the Shiaster duchy where that transcendental being is.
“Elston. What type of person is Duke Dazar?”
As I looked at Elston with slightly sparkling eyes, he took a step back.
“Huh? That’s an unexpected question for you to ask. Aren’t you the kind of person who grabs anyone’s neck…. Ahem, no. Duke Dazar is a very strong person.”
“Aha. Not that.”
“It- it doesn’t seem like he’s in a relationship with any….”
“What are you even talking about?”
When I raised my fist in front of him, he chickened out and finally answered properly.
“He is a little bit of a scary person. He gives off a perfect feeling to the point where being next to him is suffocating, I might say. To a prodigal like me, he is an awfully uncomfortable person.”
“Thank goodness.”
“What?”
“That you know that you are a prodigal.”
“…….”
Elston, who was headed to the living room under the guidance of the attendant, slumped his shoulders.
“Anyway, you’ll know when you see him. Although he is sometimes scary, he is a very graceful and polite person.”
A graceful and polite prominent nobleman. That’s what’s scary.
I started to feel a little nervous.
I checked the condition of my clothes as I walked lightly on the shiny marble floor.
Even though I was in a residence, I wore my most expensive dress.
Unlike normally, I thinly twisted and tied my hair into a half bun.
‘When we meet, I’ll explain about rice well and close the deal!’
My goal is to supply the rice I have as foodstuffs and make a lot of money.
‘Axion, mom will make money and come back!’
I clenched my fist and followed the attendant to enter the living room.
As the living room is open concept, there are no doors.
The servant took a step forward and lightly knocked on the wall.
“Your Excellency. Evanror viscounty’s Lady Celia and the Wizardry Tower’s wizard Mr. Elston have come.”
In the living room, there was a sofa and table for meetings, but no one was sitting in it.
Instead, I saw a man with his back turned, looking out the window.
‘That person is Duke Dazar Shiaster.’
Duke Dazar turned his body slowly.
As he turned, the sunlight that penetrated the glass window hit his cheek.
The man’s skin sparkled in the sunlight like scattered sharpened jewels.
His neatly swept-back black hair gave him a somewhat ascetic impression, and the golden eyes were neatly placed underneath.
The man, who at first glance was wearing a clearly custom-made suit was tall, and his body appeared strong.
He had the looks that if anyone saw him, they would call him a perfect gentleman.
“Lady Evanror?”
He muttered quietly and walked towards me.
Even his simple gait was elegant and had constancy.
Duke Dazar, who arrived in front of me in the blink of an eye, looked down at me and slightly raised the corners of his lips.
His dense eyelashes followed his eye smile and fell softly.
I stared blankly at that scene.
It’s definitely not that I was bewitched by that face.
He whispered:
“What a coincidence. Then, that rattle.”
This was the crazy guy I ran into at the cemetery yesterday.
Oh, oh my goodness.
