Dear Eddert - Chapter 83
Chapter 83
Translator: effe
“Eden, that’s…’
Cedric’s neat eyebrows came together. Hyemi couldn’t understand why they were giving her room for choices when everyone would end up like this anyway.
“Just something I wanted to try. Relax.”
After exhaling sharply, she took a deep breath. The words she had to say to them were decided from the beginning. She had made up her mind, but it was inevitable that she felt nervous.
Clenching her sweaty fist, she opened her lips.
“To me. Cedric told me to recover my memories, but the truth is, I failed. Bringing up Peter’s incident that night, I don’t even know how it happened. Perhaps my head couldn’t bear witnessing Ayla being treated so unjustly. Sometimes, miraculous things happen that even I can’t explain. Cedric, do you understand what I’m saying?”
“I think I do.”
As expected. Smart people are different. Hyemi’s eyes, showing a different reaction from Walter, were shaken by a touch of emotion. However, the feeling of finally meeting someone with whom she could communicate was short-lived. Cedric sharply spoke with his gray eyes flashing threateningly.
“If a knight of Sernotti died unjustly because of you, I would have nailed you to that lake until you’re crushed. It’s a miracle that the instinct to survive dominates the body, Eden.”
“Do you want to die?”
Walter growled low and narrowed his eyes. Warning to stop Walter, who seemed ready to draw a sword against Cedric again, Hyemi raised her voice.
“Hey, both of you, that’s enough!”
Simultaneously feeling the two pairs of eyes on her, Hyemi subtly clenched both fists.
“I’m going to make a very important announcement right now. So please, pay attention.”
She thought he would burst into laughter, but Cedric was surprisingly quiet. Walter, with his characteristic solemn expression, just stared at her. After exhaling a long sigh, Hyemi spoke with a determined face.
“To be honest, I’m really not interested in things like the throne or war. I just want to avoid it if I can. It’s embarrassing to say this as an adult, but I naturally hate things like politics because they give me a headache. But…”
Hyemi paused for a moment. Her pupils narrowed and gleamed.
“But, no matter how I think about it, I can’t stand that Kaplan, whether he’s a red fox or a nine tailed fox. That guy is a real bastard.”
Her voice trembled as she spoke straightforwardly. Hyemi raises her eyes to Walter and Cedric in turn as they look at her. Her eyes burned with fervor as she expressed the determination she had been thinking about while listening to Ayla’s terrible past.
“I… want to kill Kaplan’s leader. No…”
In the glow of the setting sun in the western sky, Hyemi’s resolute expression shone.
“I definitely want to kill him.”
In the name of Sernotti, which Ayla had longed for.
She had called them with this in mind from the beginning.
“So please, help me.”
* * *
Seeing Cedric silent for a moment, Hyemi was a bit embarrassed inside. However, she couldn’t change her resolution.
“…It might be reckless, but…”
“No. It’s a good idea.”
Cedric nodded, cutting off her words.
“What you just said might be the most pleasing thing among all the things you’ve said so far.”
“…Walter, what do you think?”
“That’s what I was hoping for.”
Walter looked at her and exhaled slowly. Feeling somehow reassured, Hyemi let out a sigh of relief.
“Then, is everything said and done?”
Seeing Cedric getting up from his seat, Hyemi straightened her head.
“Where are you going?”
“We can’t just fight without planning, can we? I’m not as simple as everybody else.”
Cedric’s presence was also reassuring. Even his sharp tone of speech seemed familiar to her now and not unpleasant.
“I also need to bring Ayla some medicine.”
“Hey, Cedric.”
Hyemi hesitated for a moment, then spoke as she looked at him.
“I hope you won’t ask Ayla too much about what happened in Kaplan.”
“Don’t worry. Even if you don’t remind me, I’ll handle my things.”
Turning away as if she had said something unnecessary, Cedric suddenly turned his head as if he had remembered something.
“But until when are you planning to use that respectful tone with me? Are you trying to pressure me by addressing me so respectfully?”
“I’m not!”
“Eden is so straightforward that she can’t come up with twisted thoughts like you.”
Hyemi glared at Walter, not sure if he was teasing or provoking, but he just shrugged his shoulders.
“It’s just…. It’s too much to say that Cedric is only a year older…”
“It’s because you look old.”
Choosing an appropriate expression on behalf of her, Walter summed up the situation. Hyemi widened her eyes in embarrassment.
“No, I meant to say that you look mature…..!”
She hurriedly waved her hand, but there was no chance for an excuse. As Cedic’s gray eyebrows seemed to gather in the middle, he turned around silently.
“Goodbye.”
Walter spat out without looking at him, and Cedric disappeared from sight even faster than he had come.
“Aah, I feel like he got annoyed for some reason…”
She shouldn’t have brought up the age talk.
“Don’t worry about it. You’ve always been good at getting under Cedric’s skin from the beginning.”
“Hey, I don’t think I did that….?”
“I just did it for you because you seemed bad at it.”
Walter gave her a faint smile.
His dark desire to be alone with her was deeply hidden. In the future, Eden would get closer and closer to the position of the Emperor.
Today’s decision was the first step, and Cedric knew it well. Just like the sun that is now brilliantly setting behind the red sky, there will be a new sun rising for tomorrow. If it is for the day when she ascends to the most radiant position, it was right for Walter to tidy up his remaining feelings starting from now.
How nice it would be if those feelings could just be moved by reason.
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