Chapter 139
8-10 minutes 11.06.2023
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A few hours later, Meldon entered the waiting room where Dalia was left alone.
He appeared with his black hair neatly brushed back. Appearing in a suit with nice tanned skin, he was, frankly, honestly…….
‘He looks like someone who would approach a rich madam for money.’
Dalia struggled to suppress her inner voice.
Anyway, he looks really handsome today too.
But as soon as Meldon saw Dalia’s expression, he read her thoughts.
“Is this hair not good?”
He touched his hair sullenly. Dalia shook her head. But she must have been caught already.
“I prepared it because I was excited at the thought of escorting Miss…….”
“That’s…….”
“Well, I’m just joking.”
Meldon approached with a grin and held out his hand. Dalia also put her hand on his with a mischievous smile.
“Honestly, the image has changed a bit.”
Meldon’s expression stiffened slightly.
She said it because she thought that he didn’t care since he was playing around, but it actually seemed to bother him. Dalia was very apologetic.
Walking down the corridor with Meldon, Dalia listened to the news he told her. Then she looked at him in surprise.
“They didn’t do anything yesterday?”
“Yes. That’s right. As expected, he’s just like me……”
“Mr. Meldon is no longer a swindler. Don’t say that.”
Meldon grinned as Dalia seriously refuted.
“Anyway, contrary to the Duke Blueport’s expectations, Aceras did not move. Is he a liar by any chance?”
Dalia shook her head without much thought.
“That’s not true. He must have really returned back in time as he claimed.”
“Well, there are too many things that cannot be explained otherwise.”
Meldon grumbled and tilted his head.
“In fact, we’re happy that he doesn’t do anything, but…….it’s unfortunate that things don’t go as expected. We don’t know what to do either.”
After thinking about it for a while, he changed his stance and pretended to cry playfully when he saw Dalia, as he was being too serious before.
“Beautiful Miss Dalia. We must protect Miss.”
She could feel his sincere feelings in the joke. Dalia smiled.
“Thank you.”
“Ah, there are times when you really have nothing to say.”
He sighed playfully. She also smiled lightly.
‘Mr. Lewayne said before that the future was likely to change since I had replaced Adrisha’s position.’
The change has already begun.
Dalia was nervous for nothing.
“Oh, I had one more thing to tell you, I almost forgot.”
Meldon said immediately. Dalia looked up at him.
“What is it?”
“It’s nothing much, but have you heard who’s going to Mount Gatran?”
Dalia shook her head.
Darby-Gatran Treaty.
The Darby Sea is protected by the Frederic Empire, while Mount Gatran is protected by the Holy Empire.
Even though he did not hand over sonar technology, Aceras tried to destroy this Empire, and eventually one transcendent went to Mount Gatran.
It’s something to prepare for this winter, so it’s not that urgent, but no one knows exactly when the monster wave will start.
‘I heard that there was a meeting to decide who to send, but has it been decided?’
“That’s……”
Meldon whispered in Dalia’s ear. Soon after, her eyes gradually widened.
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At 3 in the evening.
There was plenty of time until the meeting.
The ballroom was still quiet.
Dalia looked around, but only a few people she knew. Everyone seemed to be unable to come until Aceras arrived.
According to Lewayne, everything will end at this treaty meeting and the ball. Everyone must be busy directing their people and checking the final plan.
This ball was one of the most splendid in Empire history, but Dalia had no time to pay attention to the ballroom.
Upon arrival, she met someone who would go to Mount Gatran in advance in preparation for the breach of the treaty.
In disbelief, Dalia blankly stared at that person.
“What? Any complaint, little Pesteros?”
“L, L, Lady Beolde.”
“Yes, it is me.”
Beolde bluntly replied.
She showed up today with half her bangs over, and it suited her so well that all the young ladies glanced at her at least once.
She’s only getting more handsome as she gets older. Maybe it’s because she has no worries at all.
But she volunteered to go to Mount Gatran? Not anyone else, but her?
Dalia stared blankly at her in disbelief. Naturally, Beolde was annoyed.
“What, why?”
“H, how did Lady Beolde……?”
“I don’t know. They say I’m the only one in my family.”
“…….”
There was only one transcendent in the current Mershain Ducal family.
The current Duke Mershain was a celibate, and of course Beolde never married.
The Empress had two children, but Cedric was clearly a transcendent of the Imperial Family, and Leonard was not a transcendent.
There was no other mention in the original work, but Dalia thought that Aceras might be the transcendent of the Mershain family.
He couldn’t have been a hidden child by the current Duke Mershain, but sometimes there are transcendents among the children of the collateral families.
In any case, Beolde had a belated sense of responsibility as the only transcendent of the Mershain family, and as she said, it really couldn’t have been helped because of the circumstances.
Her ability of ‘nullification’ would not be very helpful in stopping the monster wave, but as her nickname ‘Frederic’s Giant Bear’ would have it, her ability to stand at the vanguard of blocking the monster wave seemed quite plausible.
“And there is one more reason.”
Beolde put her hand on Dalia’s shoulder earnestly.
“Because I thought if I went to Mount Gatran, you would consider it as a good deed, even if you felt sorry.”
“N, no. For what reason…….”
“Then won’t you?”
“You have to give it a shot…….”
Dalia couldn’t pretend not to know, knowing that she would suffer a lot if she went.
Beolde tilted her head and asked.
“How many?”
“Ten?”
“Good. Is it 60 now?”
Beolde clenched her fists.
Then, without permission, she pulled Dalia into her arms.
Because Beolde was tall for a woman and Dalia was small, so despite the difference in height, Dalia fit snugly into her arms.
Beolde fiddled with her back and smiled in satisfaction.
“I have to touch you a lot before I go.”
“……Your remarks are dangerous.”
“I don’t know. I’ll do as I please.”
Dalia sighed deeply.
Beolde, who had put her chin on Dalia’s head at will, which Meldon could not bear to touch, murmured.
“Today will be the last time I see you this year.”
“What?”
“Because I’m leaving today.”
“That soon?”
Dalia’s eyes widened in astonishment. However, Beolde’s expression was unusually serious.
“You didn’t know? The Lord there sent me a report, and he said that the monster’s movement in the mountain range is unusual now.”
“But monster waves are usually in the winter…….”
“If you can subdue evil monsters with holy power, wouldn’t it be possible to excite them with the opposite?”
Beolde said calmly.
Dalia bit her lip.
“I’m not sure, but anyway, I think the Duke Blueport, Lewayne or whoever his name is, what he said is right. They’re about to start a real war. That’s why I’m trying to go to Mount Gatran while the monsters are still sane.”
“…….”
“Why did you come to the ball today, pretending not to care about such a topic? I can’t really play politics.”
Beolde grumbled and let Dalia go.
A servant approached her. She waved her hand insincerely. And she looks at Meldon and Dalia.
“I have to go now.”
“Then, I’ll see you next year?”
“You might never see me.”
Beolde said indifferently.
Then, seeing Dalia’s expression, she shut her mouth.
“……You don’t have to make that face. I’m just joking, see you next year.”
Then she stroked Dalia’s head, turned around and left with the servant.
Dalia held on to her slightly disheveled hair and was about to cry. Of course it wasn’t because of the hair.
Her mind was complicated by the thought that all her precious people were leaving.
Dalia had almost let go of someone dear to her before.
‘Duchess Blueport…….’
It has been quite some time since Lewayne became the Duke of Blueport, but to Dalia, the head of Blueport has always been Mary Blueport.
Suddenly, Dalia missed her.
Translator Note: It’s been a week, but I still can’t move on from Till The End Of The Moon, and I managed to convince my younger brother to watch it hehehe..I don’t want to suffer alone *evil laugh*
