An innocent gaze was directed at Violet. Looking into his pale lavender eyes, not unlike her own purple eyes, Violet asked.
“Where did we et?”
“……”
Once Violet asked this, he fell silent, and his expression changed more and more by the second.
He now looked so forlorn that Violet was almost about to apologize for not rembering him.
“No, if you don’t rember, it doesn’t matter.”
“……”
“You seem to be lost, but if you don’t mind, may I escort you?”
“Escort?”
“Ah, I-I an. I’m not a suspicious person.”
The embarrassed knight scrambled to get sothing out of his inner coat pocket. Violet just said that she already knew he was a knight.
Feeling awkward, he coughed briefly. He showed her his identification card, and it said there that his na was ‘Aldin’ and he belonged to the First Imperial Order of the Black Wolf.
Violet wondered where she might have t him before. She rummaged through her mories.
He was tall and had a robust physique, but his face was still young. His dark hair was reflecting the sunset’s red hue, and, sohow, his lavender eyes contained within them the rain[1].
‘I think I can rember him.’
Lavender eyes, not unlike Violet’s purple eyes. Sowhere in her mories, she could rember them vaguely.
However, she couldn’t pull out the exact mory.
“…If it’s alright with you, then please. I’m in your care.”
She knew the look in his eyes.
Those eyes, like serene lakes—horribly subdued.
Not knowing why, Violet suddenly felt awkward about staring at him. Her gaze slipped down.
“Please speak comfortably, Ducal Lady.”
“Do you know ?”
“Everyone knows that the esteed daughter of House Everett has co to the capital.”
“No, I’m asking if you know personally. And I wish to ask as well about what you ant when you asked if I don’t rember you.”
“If you don’t rember, you don’t have to force yourself to rember. It was just a passing encounter.”
Though Violet asked him straightforwardly, Aldin replied boldly as well.
Surely if he was soone who was in Violet’s mories, Aldin’s standing couldn’t be ordinary.
“Sir Aldin, you…”
“……”
“You’re very tall.”
As Violet spoke first, she eventually trailed off and avoided looking at him. It was awkward.
When Violet was silent for a mont, Aldin felt a bit nervous because he didn’t know what she was about to say. But when she finally spoke again, he relaxed for a mont.
‘His is a face that I’d definitely rember.’
Violet was once again left to her own thoughts as they continued walking forward, and she could only wonder if her mory was this bad.
The man seed to be accustod to guarding people. Violet had a hunch that this fellow might have a high position, too.
“……”
“……”
While their surroundings gradually changed as they walked down the streets, the two of them couldn’t easily open their lips to speak again.
Is he just curt? Violet thought. Trying to gauge the man in front of her with narrowed eyes, Violet caught sight of her long-lost escort knights running straight to her. They looked frightened out of their wits.
“You— Who are you!”
Then, they pointed their swords at Aldin.
Violet was rendered speechless by the dumbfounding situation. It’s as if Aldin had saved the escort knights from drowning, but here they were, asking where their lost bags were.
But regardless of her reaction, the confrontation between the escort knights and the imperial knight continued.
“Your na, I asked! And state your affiliation!”
“……”
Was his mouth glued or sothing?
Glancing once at the man who wouldn’t say anything even as several swords were re inches away from his throat.
“He is a knight of the imperial guard and he’s the one who helped when I was in trouble. Even if you don’t have any manners, can you please refrain from being rude?”
It was not until Violet said this that the knights fell back and returned sheathed their swords once again. What a funny turn of events.
It could be said that this was Violet’s fault for going around so freely, but it also made no sense for escort knights to lose track of the person they’re supposed to be guarding.
Regardless of how crowded it had been back then, it was their job to stay by her side no matter what.
And yet, far from admitting their mistakes, it’s laughable to see them pointing their swords at the person who saved their butts.
These knights should undoubtedly be given more rigorous training the mont they’d return to the townhouse.
Still, Violet didn’t want to add more to her notoriety. She would be handing over the task of scolding these knights to Roen.
Anyway, it seed like the knights still hadn’t noticed the mark of the imperial family.
Violet felt troubled by the apparent level of skill of her household’s knights. Well, of course the imperial mark was on the cloak, which was on his back, and they were standing in front of Aldin. They wouldn’t have seen it.
“Ahem, ahem. Pardon . If you don’t mind, may I ask about your affiliation?”
“The Black Wolf.”
“Black Wolf? You an, the first chivalric order?”
¹ I couldn’t quite capture the whole aning of this word right here. Violet used the term 우수, which could an rain(fall), lancholy or excellence. The first aning parallels how Violet’s eyes are compared to lakes, so it sohow makes sense if Aldin’s eyes are compared to the rain.
Still, I’m not sure which one of the three anings Violet wanted to say. Or, perhaps she ant all of them. ↩
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