Dear Eddert - Chapter 58
Chapter 58
Translator: effe
“Would you like some more bread?”
After a pause, Walter asked Hyemi, who was listening to him while holding on to the empty plate.
“… Can I?”
Hyemi’s eyes twinkled. The rye bread was warm as if it had just been baked. It was different from her expectations of soft bread or chewy baguette. The chewy texture was quite good. The thick chestnuts in the middle were sweet, and the butter was fragrant and rich.
“You kept talking, aren’t you hungry?”
“I want to eat something other than bread.”
“What?”
“You.”
… What should she do if he comes at her so suddenly like this? It felt like she was hit with a one-punch without warning. Hyemi didn’t know what to do at Walter’s direct expression, so she just rolled her eyes.
“It was a joke.”
“… Ah, hahaha. Very funny.”
When Hyemi laughed rigidly like a robot, Walter handed his own bread to her plate.
“… Thank you.”
As Hyemi lowered her head, Walter let out a small sigh. Despite Walter’s intentions to ease the tension, Hyemi continued to keep an eye on him.
“Are you going to keep talking like that?”
“What?”
“Are you going to keep talking so respectfully to me?”
“… Do you have any problem?”
Hyemi asked him cautiously as she cut the center of the bread.
“I do have a problem with that.”
Walter spoke stiffly.
“You are a direct descendant of the imperial family, Eden. It’s better to fix the way you speak to me or else it will cause bigger problems later.”
She had no reason to refuse that offer, as she was weighing the timing to speak casually with Walter who was younger than her. Hyemi opened her mouth quietly as she looked at him with his serious expression.
“I will take your word to heart.”
“… Don’t joke around.”
“I will surely keep that in mind?”
“Stop it.”
Pfft. Walter finally burst into a low laugh. Hyemi also laughed at him, her shoulders shook slightly.
“Alright. Then I can really… speak comfortably… ?”
“Just don’t curse.”
Walter tried to hide his excitement when he saw her giggling. He didn’t even feel hungry because just seeing Eden wake up was enough. She doesn’t have her memories, but her behaviors were no different from the past.
“But it’s kind of hard to say these things in person….”
“Just say it.”
“I guess I was a bit dull, was I?”
Putting a generous amount of butter on the bread, Hyemi took a big bite. To be honest, she was so absorbed in Walter’s story that she didn’t even realize she was hungry until someone brought in some food. It was already dawn.
“Why do you think so?”
Even though she hadn’t eaten anything, she couldn’t bear to not hear the story of the past she didn’t know. She could understand the heart of the tyrant who kept Scheherazade alive just like in Arabian Nights, wondering about stories.
“I think it’s 100% sure that Ayla likes Cedric. How could I not notice that while watching from the side… ?”
Knowing her own condition, her throat was choking, so Walter poured out a glass of red fruit wine, and replied in an unchanging tone.
“You didn’t even notice that I liked you for 15 years.”
Walter’s second punch was a little more powerful. She had never heard someone openly confess that she liked her. Besides, the other person’s face was very serious, not joking.
An expression filled with hot affection that makes her feel sorry for even passing it off as a joke.
“Drink it. It’s a drink you like because it warms you up.”
Walter looked at her and spoke gently.
Hyemi was embarrassed to make eye contact with him, so she gulped down the red wine. It’s her first time drinking alcohol, but surprisingly the taste is so familiar. After she emptied the wine glass at once, she tried to change the subject.
“Hmm. So Cedric ended up with Ayla, right?”
Although she had no real dating experience, she held on tight to her theories. The two seemed like a perfect combination. Cedric, who has a sensitive personality like a prickly boy, and Ayla, who blindly follows him. If Eden had been a bit quick-witted before she lost her memory, she might have been able to serve as a stepping stone to their love.
“… He hadn’t had the chance to.”
“Why?”
Hyemi blinked at Walter’s ambiguous answer. From the stories she heard so far, the timing would be perfect if Ayla confessed right away in front of the baking oven. Besides, wasn’t it a romantic day with the first snow falling?
“That night. Ayla disappears.”
“… Disappears?”
Walter’s gaze darkened as he looked at her questioning look.
“Ayla disappeared on the night when Valtri, the lord of the castle, returned with news that no one welcomed.”
News no one welcomed. Hyemi saw Walter’s heavy expression and she could sense what it was.
“… Everyone knew that I belonged to the imperial family.”
“Yes.”
“Could that be…related to my death?”
Her eyes could see the stiffness in Walter’s jaw. Like spitting out bitter pills, he answered briefly.
“That’s right.”
She didn’t want to hear it, but she needed to hear it. Hyemi wet her dry lips with her tongue, feeling a chill for some reason. There was a bitterness at the end of the sweet wine.
***
It was a late winter night when the first snow fell that Valtri returned to Sernotti Castle. Upon returning from a month-long trip, Valtri gathered all twenty elite trainees who had slept, to his tower.
“I was late because I was talking about that in front of the fire with Ayla earlier. Did you think I was cursing at you?”
“Hmm…. That’s why the bread was three short.”
“Hey. Is that more important to you than Ayla finding out about our relationship?”
“It’s something everyone will know anyway. What is the problem?”
“Making an official announcement and getting caught like that is different!”
Eden and Walter lowered their voices as they quarreled when they climbed the spiral staircase that continued in a counterclockwise direction.
“The result is the same anyway.”
“Do you know how ignorant you look every time you do that?”
“Let’s go downstairs and kiss. I want to kiss you all of a sudden.”
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