The Archmage’s Restaurant

# 49

Chapter.12 Hidden Face and Dessert

I patted Rurin’s head vigorously once again and then took her away from my arms. And then I started walking again. Rurin follows me, holding the hem of my clothes tightly.

First of all, the person I was looking for was the deacon. When I came downstairs, I was immediately able to meet the butler.

“Where is the little lady now?”

“He went to see his master and just returned.”

“That’s good. Since your wife personally asked me to come, would you please give me a message?”

“Oh, I see. All right.”

The butler nodded and took the lead in front of us. The butler arrives in front of the wife’s room and carefully knocks on the door.

“smart.”

But there is no answer. The butler tilted his head and opened his mouth.

“You just came in… .”

I knock on the door again. But it was still quiet. The butler looked at me. I also looked at the butler. This is definitely strange. If the person who just entered does not respond, there is a problem.

It is normal to at least be told to go away.

A bad feeling suddenly passed through my mind. The Countess is in a position where she can assume the worst possible situation.

I urgently shouted to the butler.

“Could you please bring the Baron to me right away? It’s urgent. “Explanation later!”

The deacon, who knew full well that the Gray boy was honoring me by calling me teacher, hesitated slightly, but soon began to walk at a brisk pace.

After the butler left, I forcibly opened the Countess’s room and shut it.

Just by looking at a fragment of conversation, you can clearly see how stuck she is in a dead end. How many options are there for her to choose from?

I may have made the worst choice out of all of them.

I entered the room, looked around, and immediately noticed something strange.

A knot in the rope hanging from the ceiling of her room. And there is one person caught in that knot.

A thin, thin woman was hanging silently from a rope in the ceiling.

I quickly cut the rope and grabbed her. Your face is pale.

“Chokkolokkolok.”

Fortunately, the color returned to her face. Coughing roughly means that you are safe. The butler had said. I just got in.

If so, it would have been dangerous even if it were just a little late.

Even if it’s a little late.

There is always a difference between life and living. Fortunately, she didn’t seem destined to die here. Because I came to you as soon as you hanged yourself.

“Are you okay? Can you see me?”

“Chokkolokkolok.”

The moment she coughed violently, the Gray boy entered the room. The butler was standing behind him. I immediately gave instructions to the butler.

In times like these, strange rumors should not spread.

“Hurry and close the door. “This matter must never be made public.”

At my words, the butler seemed to quickly grasp the situation and quickly closed the door, and the Gray boy ran to the countess with a startled face and shouted.

“Now, little mother? “Little mother!”

The Gray boy held the arm of the countess who was breathing heavily. The boy immediately looked up at me next to him.

“Master… What kind of uncle… why… ?”

“He hanged himself. I can’t disobey Count Dedran, and I can’t touch the Baron either… . “I feel like I made the worst choice.”

“No way! Even for one moment, no, two moments… Three moments! “Why on earth is a guy like me who endlessly doubted my uncle alive?”

The Gray boy asked with his hands shaking, but that’s something I can’t answer.

The Countess, who must have come to her senses a little after hearing the boy’s cry, stared at the Gray boy with red marks remaining on his neck.

“Are you Dieran? me… “You couldn’t die?”

“Little mother!”

“Let me die. I am a person who does not have the decency to look at you. I am… I am… . The Count and… And you… A woman who would treat me so kindly… Because no… .”

“Don’t say that!”

She grabbed the Gray boy’s cheek and stroked it. Tears started pouring out of my eyes.

“I don’t know how long it’s been since I stroked your cheek. I was saved by your laughter when I was young… . I must die because my existence is ruining you. That’s the way for you. Dearan… .”

“Where is that sound? I still have vivid memories of always being in my uncle’s arms when I was young… . Do you think I don’t know the memories of my uncle who stayed with me all night because she was worried about me getting hurt while playing? I’ve been doubting that kind of little mother endlessly lately! eternally! But I heard it. Count Dedran told me to give him medicine! And everything has nothing to do with my uncle!”

“That… how?”

The Countess looked very surprised at the boy’s words and started shaking her hands.

“I got it all. Everything, including my uncle’s refusal to do it. So it’s all Count Dedran’s fault. “I’m not my uncle.”

“The Count always asked for it. It’s okay if you don’t love yourself. But I want you to be taken care of until the end. So I… .”

“Stop talking nonsense!”

The Gray boy also continued to shake his hands. Their hands tremble like aspen trees. And their conversation continues to wander back to the starting point. The time has come to intervene.

“Both of you, calm down. No one needs to die.”

The lady and the Gray boy turned their gazes to me at the same time. Even the butler who was quietly listening in the background.

“that’s right! Clearly, Master said there is a way. So it’s okay. It’ll be okay. “Little mother!”

The Gray boy jumped up from his seat and knelt down towards me. At some point, the boy was polite and called me teacher, but since he was still a nobleman, he never bowed down to me.

Now is the first moment.

“please. Master. The other day, my teacher reminded me that it was pathetic to complain and hang on like this. He told me to live like a wild Uba, biting others even while dying. But this pathetic bastard can think of nothing better than to get in Count Dedran’s face and argue with him. As Master said, it would be a problem that has no solution. but… . This is such a big deal. It’s okay to call me a pathetic bastard. Please help me this time because I can say it’s the last time. “Master!”

The Gray boy looked up at me like that with his hands clenched tightly. Although he himself said that he looked pathetic, his eyes still had a strong glow. I liked those eyes.

“wake up. Baron. Kneeling is not something you should do casually. Even if I don’t, I definitely plan to help.”

“If you help me with this, I will repay this favor for the rest of my life. Throughout that Great’s life!”

“You don’t have to return the favor, but keep your word. Afterwards, you should have teeth that can bite your enemies off on your own. Do you understand?”

“yes! Master. I’ll try my best. “I will try and do my best.”

I shouted and lifted up the body of the Gray boy who was about to hit his forehead on the ground.

“The first thing is to take your wife to the bedroom, and the second thing is to listen to her story once she regains her composure. “I will tell you how to deal with the Count later.”

I looked at the butler again.

This means that all of this must be handled in secret.

The count’s butler of 20 years, who understood it at a glance, nodded, quietly looked at the situation outside the room, and then led us into the countess’s bedroom.

The Gray boy picked the Countess up and gave her a moment to calm down. And a little while later, with only the Gray boy, myself, and Lurin left in the room, I opened my mouth to the Countess.

“Madam, are you truly willing to reject your father and help the Baron?”

“I thought you were a chef…” . Were you Dieran’s teacher?”

“Your uncle. “You may have seen me kneeling earlier, but this person is also a chef, a retired wizard, and my teacher.”

“So? I was a little surprised earlier… .”

“yes.”

“Perhaps that’s why you’ve shown a stronger side recently… ?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“I can’t believe you had someone like that. I’m really glad. I’m really glad… !”

The Countess got up from the bed she was lying on and tried to bow her head to me. Perhaps it is because of the meaning that the word teacher brings to the existence of mother.

The Gray boy barely had to stop him from doing so.

“That’s enough. Rather, there is something I must tell you. For the sake of future plans, would you please tell me the whole story related to Count Dedran and his wife? That will be the way to save the Great Count family.”

At my words, the Countess looked back and forth between me and the Gray boy.

“A story about my past?”

“yes.”

The wife seemed a little hesitant. But he looked at the Gray boy again and nodded after a moment.

Telling your own history. Of course, it’s not easy. She continued to hesitate and had a hard time, but fortunately she persevered and told the story to the end.

Of course, it was a very dark story.

***

“Little mother… .”

The Gray boy started crying at some point.

As I listened, I felt sorry for the story of her life as a tool of Count Dedran.

Of course, there are many unhappy people in the world.

Even now, there must be children starving to death on the streets somewhere.

But she was clearly unhappy. She was a woman who seemed to have walked on rails made of misfortune.

From my childhood spent locked in a dark room to the present, my life as a tool.

The happiness I barely gained is shattered, and the disaster that is my father approaches me at every moment. Perhaps it was because of Count Grayke’s kindness that she was able to endure until now.

She didn’t say that much, but it was clear from her words that she truly loved Count Gray.

Perhaps that was what the Gray boy felt too.

And Count Dedran was truly trash. Among the garbage, non-burnable garbage. In other words, it is the worst of evils. Should we say that it is a difficult-to-treat piece of trash that survives even if you try to burn it?

The Gray boy knelt before me again. How long has it been since you said a little while ago that you don’t kneel carelessly?

The Gray boy started to recite his title to me, who was trying to impress me.

“I formally request you, Master, in my capacity as Baron of Great Dierran, Acting Earl of Great Dieran, and Acting Lord of the Great Territory. Can you tell me how to deal with Count Dedran? I will do anything. “Master.”

“Before that, let me ask you one thing. countess… No, Verna. Can you really decide to fight against your father? “In the worst case scenario, my father could die.”

countess. To be honest, she was a woman more suited to being called Mistress Berna than Countess. Well, what does the name matter? What matters is the strength of your resolve.

“that… .”

“Ah, and the fact that my father made Count Gray like that… Do you know?”

“… … .”

Madame Verna blinked violently at me. But he soon bowed his head. You probably thought it was strange yourself.

Then, from the moment I received the medicine bottle, a tremendous fear came over me, and it may have even led to thoughts of taking my life.

“My answer is fixed. I am of the Earl of Gray. My name is Great Verna. I would do anything to protect Dieran from my father. “You can do anything.”

“All right. Then, I will teach you how to deal with Count Dedran. “The first thing to do is for Verna to carry out Count Dedran’s orders.”

“yes?”

“Master?”

The way I said it made the two people look at me as if they were wondering what I was talking about. Of course, it was a natural reaction.

“The Baron said he would do anything if he could deal with Count Dedran, who was his father’s enemy and also the enemy of Great City.”

“Yes you can… !”

“So, all we have to do is let Count Dedran do what he wants.”

The Gray boy and Madame Verna are staring at me blankly.

I shrugged my shoulders and began to explain.