"Are you alright?" Eren asked Estelia, who was still applying the dicine on his hand as the carriage travelled back.
"Why won't I be alright?" Estelia replied, finishing the application of the dicine.
"You just fought with your best friend. I know it must be hard for you. So tell , are you really fine?" Eren repeated the sa question again, his voice filled with compassion as he placed his other hand on Estelia's hand.
Estelia didn't react to the fact that he had held her hand. She was more imrsed in the question that was asked by him. Was she really fine? Even she couldn't be sure.
"I don't know. We have been friends for such a long ti, and we never had a fight until today. For so reason, she had been acting so strange today. That wasn't the person that I rembered," she answered, looking out the window as the scenery outside kept moving fast at lightning speed, becoming nothing more than a blur.
"I can understand. I went through a similar thing in the past." Eren let out a tired sigh, as he tossed his head back, seemingly rembering an uncomfortable past. Even then, his hand remained on top of Estelia's gentle hand.
"Sothing similar?" Estelia gazed at him, feeling a subtle sadness in his voice.
"I also had a best friend. Or at least I thought he was my friend. We grew up playing together. I thought I knew everything about him, until I was stabbed in the back by him," he mumbled, his voice barely audible. However, for soone like Estelia, these words were as clear as they could be.
"Sotis, we only see the things that we want to see, in people that we cherish. We ignore all their negative points, and don't even register these things until it becos too obvious. Then the utopia that we cherish, cos down like a house of cards."
He gazed back at Estelia, looking straight in her eyes. "We have a saying for that on earth."
"What saying?" Estelia's brows rose, as she beca more serious, which made her look even cuter.
"Don't trust what you see... Don't trust what you feel... Don't trust anything, even your own blood," he told her vaguely. His words carried a hint about himself, but he knew that she couldn't comprehend it. Still he said it out loud in the form of a saying.
Estelia was in a daze as these words echoed in her ears. She kept looking at Eren for quite so ti. Most people asked her to trust them, but this was the first ti she had heard soone tell her to not trust anyone.
"Do you an I shouldn't trust you either?" she asked Eren, breaking a long period of silence.
Eren slowly opened his lips, and Estelia eagerly waited for his answer.
"You-"
The carriage suddenly ca to a stop. Estelia could never know what Eren wanted to say initially, as he swiftly changed his answer when the carriage stopped.
"We are back where we started. Your father must be waiting for you." He said, as he grabbed her hand and led her out of the carriage like a gentleman.
"Ha... Haa... Haaaaa?!" Standing in the balcony, Lysander's jaws almost dropped in pleasant surprise, watching his daughter stepping out of the carriage while holding the young man's hand.
If he didn't know better, he would've thought that the two of them were already married for years. What made him even happier was that the girl he was worried about was nowhere to be found.
"He is truly miraculous." He said, trying his hardest to control his urge to laugh out loud in pride at his selection of a son-in-law.
"Who is miraculous?" A beautiful voice ca from inside the room.
A sweet fragrance arrived, accompanying a woman dressed in royal attire. Her long gown wrapped tightly around her curvaceous body, highlighting all her curves and her mature charm. She stopped next to Lysander, and wrapped his arms around his arms, looking where he was looking.
"Hoh? Is that really our stubborn daughter, holding the hands of a man?" She couldn't hide her surprise as she looked at Lysander. "Are you using an illusion to ss with again? You know I don't like these tricks."
"Hahaha, I'm not using any illusions. This is as real as it can be!" Lysander puffed his chest like a proud husband on earth telling his wife that he had finished repairing the roof in record ti.
"Look at that man carefully. I had complete faith. He will be our precious son-in-law. It's only a matter of ti."
The woman didn't know how to react. She still found it hard to believe, as she was worried that her hopes might be crushed again if this dream didn't beco a reality.
"Our daughter... is really interested in a man!" Tears of happiness appeared in her eyes as she suddenly jumped off the balcony, yelling, "Son-in-law!"
"Hey, stop! You will ruin the entire plan!" Lysander jumped after his overly emotional wife. If there was anyone more eager to have their daughter settle down and find a loved one, it was his wife. Even if she wasn't from earth, she was more traditional than him.
"Son-in-law!" She called out, running towards Eren and her daughter.
"Hah? Mother?" Estelia looked at his mother, running towards her, leaving a cloud of dust and lightning in her trail.
"That is your mother?" Eren's lips twitched, as he looked at the woman, her status screen appearing before him. It only made him go pale, as almost all her stats had a question mark before them, sothing that didn't happen even for Lysander.
Even her level was a question mark, and nothing more. All that the status screen could properly show was her na.
"Why can't I hear her?" Estelia frowned, clearly seeing that her mother seed to be yelling sothing, but she couldn't hear a single word. It was as if so kind of isolation magic was cast on her.
Unfortunately, no isolation magic was enough to stop that woman when she reached her daughter.
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