Dear My Knight

3. Chersha Kalua & Ashera Glade (32)

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In the warehouse inside the mercenary guild in the city of Glaad.

“Please check it slowly.”

At the warehouse manager’s words, Ed gave a small nod and began slowly checking the condition of the by-products in the boxes on one side of the warehouse.

Chuck.

He touches the skin of the beast, checks the quality, and checks the items to be checked one by one on the side of the document he is holding.

As for the quality itself, there was nothing to complain about compared to before.

After that, ogres tendons, drakes molars, etc.

I opened the boxes myself and checked the quality of the items inside.

The demonic beasts pouring down from the northern mountain range were definitely threatening, but if you ask if that’s necessarily bad, it’s not like that again.

Various types of by-products, among them the by-products of demon beasts, which are particularly durable, are knights’ armor, weapons, and even materials used to reinforce walls. It was used in many ways, so it was one of the essentials for a knight’s family.

Moreover, since knight families were in charge of certain parts of the fortress of the city of Glia, it was virtually indispensable.

Ed came to check some items that the Mercenary Guild Guild in the city was supplying to the Gleard family.

`It’s been a while.`

Since waking up, she confined her work to the mansion and tried not to let her go outside, so looking back, it was already about ten days after she left the mansion like this.

As he had been out for a long time, he had to have no flaws in handling his work.

And the Mercenary Guild’s warehouse manager silently watched Ed’s hard work.

The warehouse manager, who had been through the blonde boy’s work several times, waited for the next word to come, knowing that the boy did not carelessly work.

“The quality check has been completed and there is nothing wrong.”

After examining the box several times, Ed finally opened his heavy mouth and said that it was okay.

The warehouse manager nodded slightly at the word that the check was finished.

There was also a name of credit called Guild Association, and since the supplying family was Glaead, the quality of the delivered items had already been checked several times by the guild itself, so I felt it was a natural result.

“… Then we will seal it again.”

Click.

The warehouse manager, who was resealing the boxes that had been opened for inspection, glanced at Ed and opened his mouth naturally.

“I heard that you were seriously injured about 10 days ago. Are you feeling better?”

“…It’s okay now.”

Ed opened his mouth with a bitter smile.

As most of the people who had had a one-sided relationship with him after a long absence from the Gleaard Mansion asked about the same questions, he certainly felt grateful for those words of concern for him on the one hand.

On the other hand, he didn’t like being known to people who knew he had been defeated by someone.

Even if the opponent is a special mercenary. Because defeat was defeat.

While thinking that way, Ed finished checking the finish with Glead’s seal on the document he was holding and returned it to the warehouse manager.

“There will be a cool drink at the entrance to the guild, so take it with you on your way home.”

“…Thank you.”

With a small thank you, Ed turned away from the guild’s warehouse.

“Ed!!”

One of the guild’s receptionists was waiting for her to come out, so she smiled and handed her a drink, and she naturally accepted it.

“….”

At that moment, Ed smiled lightly at the subtle touch of his hand and left the guild without a word.

Just a while ago, there were times when I was taken aback by the receptionist’s subtle hand gestures, but now I just accept it because I know it’s just a little prank by the receptionist.

“Chit.”

Hearing the voice of the receptionist complaining in the back, Ed stepped out of the guild like that.

……

“Apples from Allen Gorge are in season~! Brother passing by, how about buying it as a gift?”

“Billienga handmade desserts are on special sale!”

“It’s the time when the beasts are slowly coming in the fall~~ Mercenary over there! It looks like you need more sturdy armor!”

After 10 days, the city looked lively as usual.

Glead, which is called the city of mercenaries, is a city, and since the mercenaries, the main consumer, are relatively spendthrift, the people of Glaad are richer than expected.

And wealth naturally brought a kind of leisure to the people of the city.

“……”

As Ed slowly drank the drink he received from the guild and strolled through the city, he captured each and every one of those people. He thought that it wouldn’t matter much if he had a moment’s leisure, as he had just finished checking the goods and what he had to do today.

Looking at it from now on, having finished thinking that he was going to succeed Glaade, it seemed that even his own memories and the scenery of the city, which had nothing to do with it, looked slightly different for some reason.

Instead of going back to Gleaard Mansion, Ed’s footsteps, which were walking around the city, suddenly stopped at some point.

A side of the city that Ed’s eyes are headed towards.

The eyes of the people of Glia were also concentrated there. It’s as if there is someone who draws people’s attention from the beginning.

Ed’s first impression of her was that they were wizards.

Looks like a wizard to anyone. He is walking around wearing a stylish black uniform and a cap.

It was as if they were looking around the city, and they seemed to naturally draw people’s attention because they were all outstanding.

The small girl with fresh green hair certainly had a fresh charm, but the girl next to her walked so calmly that she felt elegant with her bright blonde hair hanging down so that her identity could not be guessed. Figure.

Looking somewhere between a girl and a woman, her appearance was so dazzling that it made even passersby look back at her at least once.

Ed, who was attracted by her looks, couldn’t take his eyes off her for another short period of time.

However, unlike the other people’s gazes, which conveyed emotions such as admiration and envy, for some reason, their eyes were filled with deep distrust.

Ed must have felt something strange about the girls who looked like her wizards.

‘It can’t be someone I know….’

The elegant girl’s appearance made me feel as if I had met somewhere… A sense of déjà vu.

She must be a girl you’ve never seen before.

A look that stands out like that would be so memorable that it would be hard to forget.

She continued to stop herself, but Ed naturally kept her eyes on them.

As if we met somewhere.

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I didn’t know the little girl with green hair, but her blonde hair somehow made me feel familiar.

It was the moment when Ed felt the gap between such conflicting emotions.

“…Because it can’t be.”

At the moment he didn’t even realize it, Ed muttered that.

Then, in a daze, the moment when he was conscious of his own words.

“Ed?”

Suddenly, that thought disappeared when he heard a soft voice calling him.

A figure with her blue hair bobbed and her presence in full bloom. She could see the people around her looking at her with her awe and her youthful gaze.

Asera Glade.

Recently, she looked at her as if she was bewitched by the appearance of a young lady who often wore cloth and lace clothes instead of knight’s clothes, and she was confident.

“Miss Ashera…?”

“Are you done with today’s work?”

“Ah… Yes, everything is finished.”

When she thought of herself now, she gave an awkward answer.

I don’t know why the young lady is here now, but I wondered if the sight of her leisurely strolling through the city with a drink in her hand would somehow make it look like she was neglecting her duties.

“Very well then, Ed, talk to me for a second.”

“Yes, then go back to the mansion, I will escort you.”

She knew the young lady’s skills more than anyone else, so in a way, her own words were like empty words without meaning, but there was something about her surroundings.

Ashera, the eldest daughter of the Glead family, was a person who was respected and envied in Glia, so she naturally wanted to serve as her escort.

“No. Me and Ed, you came out at best. For now, let’s just look around the city together.”

Asera said with a smile and naturally pulled Ed’s hand.

Sureuk.

As her young lady’s gentle hand grabbed her own and pulled her own, she became herself as she stood beside her young lady and took her steps.

‘…What are you thinking?’

Ed, who was moving her body as Ashera led her, without being able to refuse her own hand as she took hold of her own, had a sudden thought.

Then, at some point, she met the young lady who was leading her hand, and her eyes met at that moment.

Seeing that beautiful lady’s eyes gently arc and smile naturally, even herself was smiling at some point.

She

She thought she was a flower she shouldn’t look at, and she didn’t even think about it easily.

She didn’t even think to go up to that flower and smell her incense, and she seemed to be lying to herself just a few months ago.

She was confident that she was now naturally positioned near a beautiful blue flower and could even vaguely sense its scent.

‘……’

Asherah to the extent that she could clearly recognize herself now, she was slowly getting into her.

She was fully aware of it now.

Even within the Gleard family’s mansion, she felt uncomfortable with herself. She seemed oblivious to the gaze of her retainers.

From the moment she returned to her mansion ten days ago, the girl’s attitude toward herself had definitely changed.

The moment she couldn’t properly reject such a lady’s appearance from the beginning. Her own figure slowly sinking into the water… Maybe it was her natural result.

“Oops.”

“…Hmm.”

Right now, in the middle of the city outside the Mansion of Gleade, the eyes of the outside world are gradually gathering because she is Lady Ashera, whose face is already well known to the people of Glia.

Nevertheless, Lady Ashera naturally approached herself as if she was not conscious of the gazes of those people.

“Come to think of it… Ed.”

“Yes, lady”

Ashera, who had been leading Ed as if he had a destination, opened her mouth without looking away.

“I was staring blankly at another woman until I called you… Is she someone you know?”

“No. I don’t know. It’s just that the appearance of a wizard, which is rare in this city… I caught my eye.”

“Really… Is that so?”

Ashera, who stopped her abruptly, looked back at Ed with her starry blue eyes.

Aren’t you fascinated by the beauty of the two women who appear to be wizards? Seeing Ashera asking like that… Ed replied with a small smile.

“Really… That’s all.”

Thinking of Asherah looking at herself right now, thinking of herself now who can’t take her eyes off her shining beauty… Can I say that I was smitten with my appearance?