Chapter 43
Translator: Missme
Editor: Aru
“I don’t have anything else to say, so you may leave.”
“You want me to go?”
In response to the crown prince’s comments, I inquired.
I expected him to at least tell me what it was.
“Why are you reacting like that?”
“Wasn’t the item that touched my hand before a holy relic?”
“… You have a good memory.”
Isn’t it more impossible not to remember an object that looks like that?
“How come you handed me the holy relic?”
“I just confirmed it for a second. Whether or not God’s blessing stays with you. Such things can be recognized by holy relics.”
The crown prince stated this while wearing a holy relic around his neck.
But what exactly did he mean by “God’s blessing”?
When I inquired, the crown prince added.
“I’m referring to your eyes, which change colour when exposed to light. I’m aware that this is more likely to happen to someone who has received God’s blessing. Although I didn’t know the exact details because it’s not common.”
Is it God’s blessing? This? I rubbed my eyes for no apparent reason.
However, I don’t recall getting God’s blessing.
Don’t tell me it’s God’s blessing that I’ve become Lena.
While I was confused, the crown prince added.
“Anyway, now that I’ve exposed it, I’ll just tell you everything. Don’t tell anyone about your eyes in the future. And cut some of your hair and give it to me.”
“What’s wrong with my hair?”
“I’m thinking of crafting a ring out of your hair and the Izaka with a magical engraving. If you wear it, the colour of your eyes will not change. I’ll send it to you through the Count shortly, so always wear it.”
Is there such a ring?
I blinked in awe, and a question popped into my head.
“But why do I have to cover my eyes? So far, I haven’t experienced any difficulties.”
“I suppose so. Because you would not have had the opportunity to witness the palace’s divine users.”
I tilted my head. What have I got to do with divine users?
The crown prince proceeded as if he understood my query.
“As you may be aware, rather than becoming a priest like the majority of the divine users, some divine users are researching the skills of processing holystones or creating items with divine powers. That much, they enjoy studying and desire to study in some way whenever they come across something fascinating.”
“Do you mean my eyes are…”
“Yes. Personally, I’m surprised you’ve remained safe all this time.”
The crown prince added a somewhat sluggish tone to the conversation.
“Perhaps high-ranking officials will try to apprehend you. Since you’ve received God’s blessing, if the temple finds out, they may imprison you and force you to appear only at certain events. Only the coffin, as far as I know, is aware that the blessing has appeared.”
I couldn’t keep my face straight. Because I believed that if my eyes were truly God’s blessing, it would happen to me. Even if the priests are intrigued, they will not be so extreme if you have a piece of Izaka. If you don’t wish to conceal your eyes, you can turn down my offer.”
“I-I just need to cut my hair a little, right?”
* * * * *
Enosh looked at a handful of hair that Elena had cut and left.
As he looked at Elena’s purple hair, which was almost black, he remembered her.
‘I simply want to double-check it after I get Selvinne’s report, but I didn’t expect her eye colour to change significantly.’
Of course, he had seen Elena before.
However, he didn’t have time at the moment to notice such changes, and he didn’t look closely at the colour of her eyes.
As a result, Selvinne’s report came as a surprise.
Also, when he saw it, her eyes became gold while they were exposed to light, and light grey when they were not.
And it was this trait that piqued Enosh’s curiosity.
As he had previously told Elena, changing the colour of the eyes was God’s blessing.
However, in general, when receiving God’s blessing, the colour of the eyes turned silver not gold like Elena’s eyes. Elena, on the other hand, is not a priest.
Enosh had one assumption in mind in this respect.
Perhaps she developed ‘Karrie,’ the Duke of Adele’s holy relic.
He tried to arrange a place to meet Elena and confirm it through Selvinne, but Selvinne had the stuff to do in another region, so he had been delaying the meeting.
And he just happened to run into Elena today.
He also placed Izaka, the sacred relic, on her hand just in case.
Because the holy relics sensed the divine force inherent in each other, and when the power was unleashed, each holy relic emitted a unique light.
True enough.
On top of the holy relic, a golden pattern resembling Elena’s eyes appeared.
There is no assurance that it is Karrie, but when he saw it, he thought it might be correct.
Of course, it’s possible that it isn’t…
‘However, there is always the possibility.’
Even if it wasn’t, he opted to be bold because there was no risk.
Enosh then directed his servants to bring him the items he needed for his writing.
Shortly thereafter, the servant commanded stationery, quills, and wax, and he wrote down the letters in elegant handwriting.
Then, along with the letter, Elena’s hair was put and enclosed together.
Afterwards, Enosh melted the wax and pressed the tensile ring on it, and sent a letter to his servant.
“Send this fast without letting my father and mother know.”
“I’ll do that. But where should I send it?”
“To the Dukedom of Adele.”
Enosh’s eyes twinkled with the word in his mouth.
Like someone who expects something.
* * * * *
I raised my head while reading in front of the bay window, grabbed the hair that tickled my cheek, and tucked it behind my ears.
However, as soon as I took my hand off, the hair flowed down.
I put it back behind my ears, but it was the same.
After several repetitions of the act, I gave up and simply set it aside.
I regretted it at the same time.
If I had known this was going to happen, I would have cut the back of my hair rather than the side hair.
I remembered cutting my hair for the crown prince a few days ago.
I had cut off the side of my hair at the time, so only one side was shortened, and the appearance was bothersome, so I asked the maid to trim the other side.
As a result, my side hairs were unintentionally formed on both sides.
Of course, this style was not bad either.
It’s just that if the wind blows or I lower my head slightly, my hair will cover or tickle my face.
It’s a pain to flip it over whenever that happens.
Meanwhile, I frowned and smoothed my flowing hair as I gazed out the window at Count Van Der’s carriage.
When I noticed this, I jumped out of my chair.
Count Van Der had already entered the mansion when I arrived downstairs.
Similarly, she who found me smiled faintly.
“It’s been a long time, Miss Lena.”
“Welcome. Did you have a good trip?”
“Thank you very much. On my way back, I picked up a present for Miss Lena.”
The Count threw a glance behind him at the servant.
The servant was carrying something in his arms, but it was covered by a white cloth, so I couldn’t see what it was.
‘I thought she was referring to the ring that the Crown Prince had told me he would give me as a gift through her, didn’t she?’
I was perplexed, but I escorted her to the parlour room.
The servant also left the items on the table.
“Open it.”
At Count Van Der’s words, I carefully lifted up the cloth to reveal a rectangular cage containing a pair of familiar birds and a booklet with a ragged cover that made the title difficult to recognize.
“What is all of this?”
“I would’ve said it was a gift. Since everyone thinks I’m Miss Lena’s guardian, so I at least do this much. This is a script, and these are letter birds.”
“A script? Is it okay if I take a look?”
“Of course.”
I lifted the booklet and opened it in response to Count Van Der’s words.
My eyes widened at the same time.
“This is…!”
I quickly returned to the booklet’s first page and reviewed the contents.
Unlike the cover, on the very first page, the title and theatre were written in detail in clearly recognizable letters.
The title itself was unfamiliar to me, but that was unimportant.
It is only necessary that the name of the theatre be written with a name other than the Chloe theatre.
It wasn’t a mistake.
“This is a script from another theatre company, right? How did you get it? Each theatre has a long monopoly period, so getting this easily is hard.”
“I purchased it because I happened to see it while walking around. The merchant stated that it is a script that has recently ended its monopoly and is the most well-known script that has recently arrived.”
“I really appreciate it. It must be hard to find scripts in rural areas.”
I said, clutching the script tightly.
The Chloe Theater’s scripts were easily accessible thanks to the actors, but the problem was other theatre companies’ scripts.
This is because the script monopoly was too long, and even if the monopoly was lifted, it took a long time to get to the capital because all theatres were in the local provinces.
Furthermore, there are many cases where the scripts are brought in based on the merchant’s preferences, so I was overjoyed that the Count got the script for me, as I couldn’t handle all of the scripts in the local provinces.
Furthermore, I was overjoyed because it was my first time seeing this script.
“I really appreciate it, Count.”
“Well, this isn’t much. Would you like to see this letter bird as well? It’s also a gift.”
Haha, I was so engrossed in the script…!
When I apologized and laughed, the count said, “Don’t mind because I understand.”
Only then was I able to look at the letter bird.
“Oh, my goodness. They’re so adorable.” ”
“Do you like it?”
“Yes, I really, really like it.”
“That’s reassuring. Can you see the purple tail feathers here? They claimed it was a breed that had succeeded in reproducing and had only recently begun to distribute. Looking at the tail feathers, I remembered Miss Lena, so I especially got it.”
The letter birds’ tails were purple, as Count Van Der stated.
But my hair isn’t that bright…
Hmm, anyway. First and foremost, be thankful.
“Thank you very much. I’ll take care of it. Can I put them in this cage?”
“Then, were you going to raise them separately?”
“Rather than that, I don’t think I’ll be able to handle it if they breed randomly.”
“You don’t have to be concerned about that. Letter birds are incapable of reproducing on their own. Reproduction requires specialized skills. That is why they are so expensive. ”
I see. That was new to me.
“And it is for this reason that I came to see Miss Lena today.”
She took a small box from her arms, opened it, and placed it on the table.
A thin string ring with a jewel-like thing in the centre was present.
“It’s meant to be worn on your ring finger.” If the measurements don’t match, I’ll have to fix it, so let’s put it on right now.”
“Oh, yes.”
On the Count’s advice, I lifted the ring and placed it on my left pinky.
“It’s a perfect fit.”
“That’s reassuring. If it didn’t fit, I planned to resize it and return.” ”
“You saved yourself the trouble of walking.”
In response to me, the Count smiled back.
Later, after confirming that the colour of my eyes did not change, she raised up from her seat asking me not to take off my ring ever.
* * * * *
I left the mansion shortly after Count Van Der returned and boarded a carriage.
The reason was simple. To purchase a cage.
Due to the nature of letterbirds, they had to give them plenty of sunlight, so I put the cage on a sunny terrace and looked around for a while, but I suddenly realized that the current cage seems too cramped for two birds.
I have a lot of money anyway, so should I buy a bigger one?
I was so absurd that I prepared to go out right away and came out looking like this.
I took a hand mirror from my bag and looked into my eyes as soon as I sat in the rented carriage seat.
‘It really doesn’t change.’
Despite the fact that there was a lot of light coming in through the window, the colour of my eyes remained silver grey.
When I removed the ring and looked in the mirror, the part where the light touched turned to gold, but when I put it back on, it remained silver grey.
I was astounded by the transformation, so I wore and removed the ring repeatedly until I arrived at the city’s shopping district.
When I got off the carriages, the first thing I noticed was a familiar clock tower.
‘Well, I remember I saw a cage store around here…’
It was a time when I was visiting the store, reflecting on my old memories.
“Oh my goodness!”
An elderly woman collapsed in front of me, and I instinctively crouched in front of her.
“Grandma, are you all right? I’ll help you……! Oh, blood!”
The old lady’s palm was swollen.
I quickly took a handkerchief from my bag and placed it in the old lady’s hand.
“Wipe it with this.”
“Thank you very much, dear lady. But your towel gets dirty because of me. What am I supposed to do? I’ll buy one and give it to the lady…”
“It’s fine, so don’t be too concerned. It’s not expensive, and it’s only a handkerchief, so buying one more will suffice. More importantly, can you stand up? May I help you?”
“Thank you, but you don’t have to do that. I can wake up on my own, ugh!”
Instead of standing, the elderly lady frowned and sat back down.
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Chapter 43
Translator: Missme
Editor: Aru
“I don’t have anything else to say, so you may leave.”
“You want me to go?”
In response to the crown prince’s comments, I inquired.
I expected him to at least tell me what it was.
“Why are you reacting like that?”
“Wasn’t the item that touched my hand before a holy relic?”
“… You have a good memory.”
Isn’t it more impossible not to remember an object that looks like that?
“How come you handed me the holy relic?”
“I just confirmed it for a second. Whether or not God’s blessing stays with you. Such things can be recognized by holy relics.”
The crown prince stated this while wearing a holy relic around his neck.
But what exactly did he mean by “God’s blessing”?
When I inquired, the crown prince added.
“I’m referring to your eyes, which change colour when exposed to light. I’m aware that this is more likely to happen to someone who has received God’s blessing. Although I didn’t know the exact details because it’s not common.”
Is it God’s blessing? This? I rubbed my eyes for no apparent reason.
However, I don’t recall getting God’s blessing.
Don’t tell me it’s God’s blessing that I’ve become Lena.
While I was confused, the crown prince added.
“Anyway, now that I’ve exposed it, I’ll just tell you everything. Don’t tell anyone about your eyes in the future. And cut some of your hair and give it to me.”
“What’s wrong with my hair?”
“I’m thinking of crafting a ring out of your hair and the Izaka with a magical engraving. If you wear it, the colour of your eyes will not change. I’ll send it to you through the Count shortly, so always wear it.”
Is there such a ring?
I blinked in awe, and a question popped into my head.
“But why do I have to cover my eyes? So far, I haven’t experienced any difficulties.”
“I suppose so. Because you would not have had the opportunity to witness the palace’s divine users.”
I tilted my head. What have I got to do with divine users?
The crown prince proceeded as if he understood my query.
“As you may be aware, rather than becoming a priest like the majority of the divine users, some divine users are researching the skills of processing holystones or creating items with divine powers. That much, they enjoy studying and desire to study in some way whenever they come across something fascinating.”
“Do you mean my eyes are…”
“Yes. Personally, I’m surprised you’ve remained safe all this time.”
The crown prince added a somewhat sluggish tone to the conversation.
“Perhaps high-ranking officials will try to apprehend you. Since you’ve received God’s blessing, if the temple finds out, they may imprison you and force you to appear only at certain events. Only the coffin, as far as I know, is aware that the blessing has appeared.”
I couldn’t keep my face straight. Because I believed that if my eyes were truly God’s blessing, it would happen to me. Even if the priests are intrigued, they will not be so extreme if you have a piece of Izaka. If you don’t wish to conceal your eyes, you can turn down my offer.”
“I-I just need to cut my hair a little, right?”
* * * * *
Enosh looked at a handful of hair that Elena had cut and left.
As he looked at Elena’s purple hair, which was almost black, he remembered her.
‘I simply want to double-check it after I get Selvinne’s report, but I didn’t expect her eye colour to change significantly.’
Of course, he had seen Elena before.
However, he didn’t have time at the moment to notice such changes, and he didn’t look closely at the colour of her eyes.
As a result, Selvinne’s report came as a surprise.
Also, when he saw it, her eyes became gold while they were exposed to light, and light grey when they were not.
And it was this trait that piqued Enosh’s curiosity.
As he had previously told Elena, changing the colour of the eyes was God’s blessing.
However, in general, when receiving God’s blessing, the colour of the eyes turned silver not gold like Elena’s eyes. Elena, on the other hand, is not a priest.
Enosh had one assumption in mind in this respect.
Perhaps she developed ‘Karrie,’ the Duke of Adele’s holy relic.
He tried to arrange a place to meet Elena and confirm it through Selvinne, but Selvinne had the stuff to do in another region, so he had been delaying the meeting.
And he just happened to run into Elena today.
He also placed Izaka, the sacred relic, on her hand just in case.
Because the holy relics sensed the divine force inherent in each other, and when the power was unleashed, each holy relic emitted a unique light.
True enough.
On top of the holy relic, a golden pattern resembling Elena’s eyes appeared.
There is no assurance that it is Karrie, but when he saw it, he thought it might be correct.
Of course, it’s possible that it isn’t…
‘However, there is always the possibility.’
Even if it wasn’t, he opted to be bold because there was no risk.
Enosh then directed his servants to bring him the items he needed for his writing.
Shortly thereafter, the servant commanded stationery, quills, and wax, and he wrote down the letters in elegant handwriting.
Then, along with the letter, Elena’s hair was put and enclosed together.
Afterwards, Enosh melted the wax and pressed the tensile ring on it, and sent a letter to his servant.
“Send this fast without letting my father and mother know.”
“I’ll do that. But where should I send it?”
“To the Dukedom of Adele.”
Enosh’s eyes twinkled with the word in his mouth.
Like someone who expects something.
* * * * *
I raised my head while reading in front of the bay window, grabbed the hair that tickled my cheek, and tucked it behind my ears.
However, as soon as I took my hand off, the hair flowed down.
I put it back behind my ears, but it was the same.
After several repetitions of the act, I gave up and simply set it aside.
I regretted it at the same time.
If I had known this was going to happen, I would have cut the back of my hair rather than the side hair.
I remembered cutting my hair for the crown prince a few days ago.
I had cut off the side of my hair at the time, so only one side was shortened, and the appearance was bothersome, so I asked the maid to trim the other side.
As a result, my side hairs were unintentionally formed on both sides.
Of course, this style was not bad either.
It’s just that if the wind blows or I lower my head slightly, my hair will cover or tickle my face.
It’s a pain to flip it over whenever that happens.
Meanwhile, I frowned and smoothed my flowing hair as I gazed out the window at Count Van Der’s carriage.
When I noticed this, I jumped out of my chair.
Count Van Der had already entered the mansion when I arrived downstairs.
Similarly, she who found me smiled faintly.
“It’s been a long time, Miss Lena.”
“Welcome. Did you have a good trip?”
“Thank you very much. On my way back, I picked up a present for Miss Lena.”
The Count threw a glance behind him at the servant.
The servant was carrying something in his arms, but it was covered by a white cloth, so I couldn’t see what it was.
‘I thought she was referring to the ring that the Crown Prince had told me he would give me as a gift through her, didn’t she?’
I was perplexed, but I escorted her to the parlour room.
The servant also left the items on the table.
“Open it.”
At Count Van Der’s words, I carefully lifted up the cloth to reveal a rectangular cage containing a pair of familiar birds and a booklet with a ragged cover that made the title difficult to recognize.
“What is all of this?”
“I would’ve said it was a gift. Since everyone thinks I’m Miss Lena’s guardian, so I at least do this much. This is a script, and these are letter birds.”
“A script? Is it okay if I take a look?”
“Of course.”
I lifted the booklet and opened it in response to Count Van Der’s words.
My eyes widened at the same time.
“This is…!”
I quickly returned to the booklet’s first page and reviewed the contents.
Unlike the cover, on the very first page, the title and theatre were written in detail in clearly recognizable letters.
The title itself was unfamiliar to me, but that was unimportant.
It is only necessary that the name of the theatre be written with a name other than the Chloe theatre.
It wasn’t a mistake.
“This is a script from another theatre company, right? How did you get it? Each theatre has a long monopoly period, so getting this easily is hard.”
“I purchased it because I happened to see it while walking around. The merchant stated that it is a script that has recently ended its monopoly and is the most well-known script that has recently arrived.”
“I really appreciate it. It must be hard to find scripts in rural areas.”
I said, clutching the script tightly.
The Chloe Theater’s scripts were easily accessible thanks to the actors, but the problem was other theatre companies’ scripts.
This is because the script monopoly was too long, and even if the monopoly was lifted, it took a long time to get to the capital because all theatres were in the local provinces.
Furthermore, there are many cases where the scripts are brought in based on the merchant’s preferences, so I was overjoyed that the Count got the script for me, as I couldn’t handle all of the scripts in the local provinces.
Furthermore, I was overjoyed because it was my first time seeing this script.
“I really appreciate it, Count.”
“Well, this isn’t much. Would you like to see this letter bird as well? It’s also a gift.”
Haha, I was so engrossed in the script…!
When I apologized and laughed, the count said, “Don’t mind because I understand.”
Only then was I able to look at the letter bird.
“Oh, my goodness. They’re so adorable.” ”
“Do you like it?”
“Yes, I really, really like it.”
“That’s reassuring. Can you see the purple tail feathers here? They claimed it was a breed that had succeeded in reproducing and had only recently begun to distribute. Looking at the tail feathers, I remembered Miss Lena, so I especially got it.”
The letter birds’ tails were purple, as Count Van Der stated.
But my hair isn’t that bright…
Hmm, anyway. First and foremost, be thankful.
“Thank you very much. I’ll take care of it. Can I put them in this cage?”
“Then, were you going to raise them separately?”
“Rather than that, I don’t think I’ll be able to handle it if they breed randomly.”
“You don’t have to be concerned about that. Letter birds are incapable of reproducing on their own. Reproduction requires specialized skills. That is why they are so expensive. ”
I see. That was new to me.
“And it is for this reason that I came to see Miss Lena today.”
She took a small box from her arms, opened it, and placed it on the table.
A thin string ring with a jewel-like thing in the centre was present.
“It’s meant to be worn on your ring finger.” If the measurements don’t match, I’ll have to fix it, so let’s put it on right now.”
“Oh, yes.”
On the Count’s advice, I lifted the ring and placed it on my left pinky.
“It’s a perfect fit.”
“That’s reassuring. If it didn’t fit, I planned to resize it and return.” ”
“You saved yourself the trouble of walking.”
In response to me, the Count smiled back.
Later, after confirming that the colour of my eyes did not change, she raised up from her seat asking me not to take off my ring ever.
* * * * *
I left the mansion shortly after Count Van Der returned and boarded a carriage.
The reason was simple. To purchase a cage.
Due to the nature of letterbirds, they had to give them plenty of sunlight, so I put the cage on a sunny terrace and looked around for a while, but I suddenly realized that the current cage seems too cramped for two birds.
I have a lot of money anyway, so should I buy a bigger one?
I was so absurd that I prepared to go out right away and came out looking like this.
I took a hand mirror from my bag and looked into my eyes as soon as I sat in the rented carriage seat.
‘It really doesn’t change.’
Despite the fact that there was a lot of light coming in through the window, the colour of my eyes remained silver grey.
When I removed the ring and looked in the mirror, the part where the light touched turned to gold, but when I put it back on, it remained silver grey.
I was astounded by the transformation, so I wore and removed the ring repeatedly until I arrived at the city’s shopping district.
When I got off the carriages, the first thing I noticed was a familiar clock tower.
‘Well, I remember I saw a cage store around here…’
It was a time when I was visiting the store, reflecting on my old memories.
“Oh my goodness!”
An elderly woman collapsed in front of me, and I instinctively crouched in front of her.
“Grandma, are you all right? I’ll help you……! Oh, blood!”
The old lady’s palm was swollen.
I quickly took a handkerchief from my bag and placed it in the old lady’s hand.
“Wipe it with this.”
“Thank you very much, dear lady. But your towel gets dirty because of me. What am I supposed to do? I’ll buy one and give it to the lady…”
“It’s fine, so don’t be too concerned. It’s not expensive, and it’s only a handkerchief, so buying one more will suffice. More importantly, can you stand up? May I help you?”
“Thank you, but you don’t have to do that. I can wake up on my own, ugh!”
Instead of standing, the elderly lady frowned and sat back down.
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