5. Preparing for a duel – 08

Erekaya Del Pendragon has no one close to her.

What she learned from birth was how to stand above and command others, not how to be with them and be friends with them.

Erekaya del Pendragon has no one to trust.

The people who approached her from a young age always had a certain purpose, and she wasn’t someone she could trust at all.

But it’s okay.

It was because she was born into a family that could be said to be the most prestigious in the empire.

He was born with great talent that everyone would envy and envy, was born into a great family that everyone would envy, and was born with an appearance that everyone could look up to.

In all the world, it would be hard to find anyone born with more than Erekaya del Pendragon.

So it’s okay.

Even if there isn’t a single person she can trust, even if there isn’t a single close person she can complain to when she’s tired and struggling, even if there aren’t any friends who come to her without any calculations–

She was fine, really. Because I’m used to it all now.

But sometimes, there were times when she couldn’t stand it either. No matter how accustomed she was to being alone, there were often times when she was hungry for affection and wanted someone by her side.

Her father was kind but too busy as the head of the duchy, and her mother was kind but often failed to pay attention to her.

Knowing that well, she didn’t complain either. He just quietly buries his childish foolishness deep inside his heart.

But sometimes, very occasionally, there were times when I was envious.

When she sees the close and friendly siblings, there were many times when she also looked at them in awe without realizing it.

A younger brother who cherishes and follows his older sister and brother. And an older brother who treats his brother with respect.

The one and only family you can trust unconditionally, follow, trust, and sometimes lean on quietly in their arms… How much did she long for?

In fact, he was well aware of the absurdity of sentimentalism.

… However, Erekaya was deeply fascinated by the foolishness.

For her, such a relationship in which each cared for the other without any profit, without any calculation, without any calculation seemed so dazzling to her.

“…..”

When she came to her senses, she was sitting in her room in the dormitory, not in the magic practice field.

Look out the window. The time is late, and I can see the sun slowly rising on the other side of the east.

It seemed that it was all wrong to sleep, but to her now, that fact was not important at all.

As an Aura user in the first place, there was no way she would feel tired just because she had lost a good night’s sleep.

“… jin.”

Erekaya quietly recited the man’s name.

what the heck is that man What kind of existence is that man?

What is the identity of that man, so he is related to the Duke of Pendragon, and he is learning a new ‘dragon dance’ that is far more advanced than the ‘dragon dance’ she knows.

It’s not enough that he has the synesthesia that only Pendragon’s blood relatives should have, so what is the reason for resonating with her?

“…..”

There is only one hypothesis that can explain all this situation most clearly, that her father, Duke Pendragon, had an affair without her mother’s knowledge.

Of course, the father she knew, Duke Pendragon, was never such a person.

Because of the duke’s personality, who always devoted himself to his family, loved his wife, and cared for his one and only daughter, there was no way he would have an affair with another woman while leaving his wife alone.

Yes. This was a fact that Erekaya, his daughter and family, knew better than anyone else in the world.

… But, but, in case you don’t know, isn’t it?

It is said that even if you know the inside of the well that will open in ancient times, you do not know the inside of the people of Hangil.

Even a father who seems so kind and does his best for the family on the outside might have committed an indecent thing by falling in love with another woman.

However, there was one fatal flaw in this hypothesis.

‘For inheriting my father’s blood, my appearance is young… .’

The Duke of Pendragon had a reputation as the strongest military family in the Empire, but at the same time, it was also rumored as a family with the most beautiful appearance in the Empire.

The legacy they inherited from their ancestors was not only synesthesia, but also a beautiful appearance that reached the limit of human beings.

In addition, those who decisively inherit the lineage of Pendragon are born with purple hair.

However, his hair is black, reminiscent of jet black.

Judging from his looks and looks, it was really hard to think of him as a descendant of the Pendragon family.

The most reasonable and plausible explanation would be the hypothesis that he was born with the paranormal ability of synesthesia by accident, and that someone from Pendragon’s bloodline, who saw through his ability, took him in as a disciple.

However, in this case, there is no explanation as to why his synesthesia resonates with her.

The reason why the resonance phenomenon occurs in the first place is that the closer the relationship is, the more similar the image world and the appearance of the soul are, causing confusion in each other’s synesthesia.

Resonance did not occur simply because two people with synesthesia were located in close proximity.

In addition, Erekaya’s instincts and her synesthesia were whispering in her ear.

That man, and the synesthesia he has… It was said that it was so similar to Erekaya’s ability that she wondered if it was her own ability.

And the form of his soul is very similar to that of Erekaya.

It’s like, they’re so similar that it’s absurd to think that their own souls are nesting there.

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My heart is pounding. I feel a strange longing, as if I have finally found my lost half, the existence of which I have not known all my life.

Check it out, check it out. What kind of relationship is he with the man? Why is he bothering himself so much?

… And really, even whether he has a blood relationship with him.

All. all.

****

A few days after that, Claire was making a fuss with Jin in front of her, who was quietly eating a meal inside a restaurant in Nineveh.

“A notice has been posted that the duel evaluation schedule has been finalized. The evaluation is scheduled to take place exactly one month from now.”

“… Oh yeah.”

“By the way, where are you sick? Maybe the aftereffects of the wounds you received last time helped… .”

“It’s not like that. just… I haven’t been able to sleep lately.”

Jin was looking at Claire with a pale face full of dark circles.

It’s because lately, after sneaking into the magic practice range like a rat every night in the middle of the night, he has been spending his hectic days learning the ‘Dragon Dance’ under Erekaya’s guidance.

‘No, but why the hell do you train swordsmanship at dawn instead of leaving it in broad daylight?’

– Hmm, doesn’t it seem more mysterious to practice alone at dawn than during the day?

‘… What?’

– In fact, in the past, I used to go to the magic practice range at dawn and practice swordsmanship alone because I felt so bothered by Altina von Rudel Serias, who was stuck like an earthly spirit at the gymnasium.

‘By the way?’

– When I was training swordsmanship alone at dawn, I thought I would witness you training alone at least once. And isn’t that a really perfect picture of the situation?

After saying that, Erekaya suddenly raised her voice and collected it. It was a clear voice like a narration in a play.

-Women don’t usually like men that much. Because her usual behavior was so sloppy and unattractive, the woman who valued noble etiquette only felt disapproved of the man’s behavior.

– But then, one day, it was a quiet and quiet dawn. Indeed, the woman ‘accidentally’ witnesses a man silently wielding a sword alone, unnoticed by others.

– In the figure of a man who wielded a sword, his usual light-hearted appearance had disappeared. Even the man was brandishing his sword without noticing that the woman had come to him.

– Then the woman realizes. At first glance, the fact that such bloody, sweaty efforts were piled up on the back of the man who seemed like a lazy person.

– That’s how women become conscious of men. On the outside, they are just pretending to be strong without being afraid of the world, but behind the scenes, they share one ‘secret’ that they are making a desperate effort not to be ignored by anyone.

‘There is no such thing as a very cheap drama.’

When Jin said that while enduring the distorted face, Erekaya tutted and kicked her tongue at him.

– Anyway, this is why I don’t have a good conversation with an idiot who doesn’t know a woman’s heart. Wash your ears and listen carefully. Traditionally, the moment when a woman is most conscious of a man is the moment when she witnesses the man’s gap.

‘… gap?’

-Women are emotional creatures. In all cases, women tend to feel sad for the sight of a man who has lived as if he would not depend on other people, but who works tirelessly and exposes his weakness behind him.

‘Affliction? I don’t think the current you would have such cute feelings.’

Did you mean that you didn’t put people to sleep every night to film such an absurd situational drama?

It was just at that moment when Jin sighed and rummaged around among the grass-filled trays for meat.

“But why are you skipping vegetables and only eating meat? They say that eating vegetables also makes the body healthy.”

“Hey, I’ve said it before, but I told you not to keep talking like my mother-”

Jean looked up and looked at Claire, but she was chewing something in her mouth.

I got goosebumps for a moment. If so, where on earth and who said those words just now?

– Stupid, back.

At Erekaya’s words, Jin looked behind him, and then froze.

“Can you see me for a minute?”

Behind him was the figure of Altina, who had a bloody smile on her face.