Chapter 109: Chapter 109. The Future Different From The Past, Part XV
Chapter 109. The Future Different From The Past, Part XV
Translator: Khan
Editor Group: Liber Reverie
It was a subtly sharp tone. This was why there were so many emotions mixed up. There was also a feeling of bla. In an unfriendly response, Asher smiled and approached Aria.
“I don’t know, actually. I haven’t seen you in a long ti. I thought I’d have to et you... Also, I couldn’t hold a eting for so reason.”
“... what?”
Surprised by his overly straightforward way of talking, Aria stepped back. However, the wall touched her back because she had already reached its limit. Asher, approaching her stride, stopped at a distance. It was only because it was Aria’s room.
Aria could not help but blush as she pondered what he had said during the course of the stillness. ‘Is there a woman who won’t be blushed at the man’s remark that he ca to see her?’ Any cold-blooded woman would blush for a mont.
“I was also worried that you would have no trouble eating.”
But a mont later, the words from Asher’s mouth were enough to make Aria’s hot face cold in a flash. ‘Trouble eating? Do you an the thing you gave to Mielle as a present?’ She wondered if he visited her while he gave that sugar as a gift to Mielle.
“... is it not Mielle, who you are worried?”
‘Isn’t it Mielle who received the gift?’ When she asked him why he said that to her, Asher asked with a puzzled look,
“No way, don’t misunderstand.”
“Misunderstanding?”
“The sugar I gave Lady Mielle was just to et you. That way, I can buy ti, like this.”
Perhaps because of the embarrassnt of misunderstanding, Aria’s face turned red again, and Asher’s mouth was going up slowly.
“Did it bother you? Because I sent the sugar to Lady Mielle?”
“That’s...”
It would be a lie to say that it didn’t bother her. His connection with Mielle had started from misunderstanding, but Aria was still concerned about why he still sent Mielle a gift. It was all the more so to think that it was Asher.
“... yeah.”
Aria answered frankly. ‘It seems to be jealous if I deny it, isn’t it?’ But it was also strange to say that it was nerve-wracking. It was over if she thought that there was a reason or that he was no longer interested in Mielle.
But she was nervous. In addition, there was even a slight irritation about Asher. It was like Mielle watching her who had received Oscar’s gift.
‘Why on earth?’ She had t him only a few tis. He had made her experience sothing as strange as today whenever he had t him. ‘But why?’ Unlike Aria, whose shyness reached the limit of her incomprehensible emotions, the corners of Asher’s mouth were drawn good all the ti.
“... Ha-ha, I see.”
The tone of Asher’s speech was very soft. He also looked more friendly than any other expression she had ever seen.
He kept his face for a mont and examined Aria’s complexion. It was as if she was new to his eyes because he had not seen her for a long ti. So, as they spent a quiet ti, Lane’s voice ca from outside the door. It was an urging voice.
“... it seems that ti is up. The next eting will take so ti. Unfortunately, I have a little bit of a problem. It’s hard to get out like this. I’ll contact you as soon as I have a schedule.”
“... I see.”
After finishing his speech, he examined Aria’s face for a while, but when Lane said there was no ti, he left his regret behind and finally disappeared. ‘Did you really miss ? Why did you want to see ? Is it just because you haven’t seen for a long ti?’
While agonizing alone for a long ti, Jessie knocked on the door. When she made an indication, Jessie ca in with a teapot in her hand. It was not her job anymore. Nevertheless, Jessie put it on the table with a very bright face.
“I brought it because I heard sugar ca in. You like sweet tea. They are making a cake now, and I’ll bring it as soon as it’s finished.”
She had to feel bad because Mielle had been given the gift, but it made her feel better, thinking that it had been actually a way to et her. She wondered if she could feel better so easily.
“Oh my, miss! What’s this big box?”
When Jessie noticed the box in the corner, she asked in surprise.
“Uh? Ah. I got a present.”
Co to think of it, she had been embarrassed, so she didn’t even open the gift yet. Jessie unpacked the box, to her discretion.
“Oh, my God...! What are all these?”
When Aria checked inside beside Jessie, who was so frightened that she couldn’t shut up, there were colorful dresses and ornants that she had never seen before. ‘Where the hell am I going to wear this fancy dress?’ She would surely attract the attention of people at once, everywhere she went.
‘And at the sa ti, I’ll be a target with such envy and jealousy.’
Unless she was a mber of the imperial family or was at the pinnacle of power, such a colorful and conspicuous dress would be poisonous.
Nevertheless, laughter ca out. She thought it might be an atonent for discriminating against Mielle. A soft smile hung on Aria’s lips.
The gift from Asher was kept in the dressing room as a box. She didn’t think she’d be able to wear it anywhere else, and she was afraid that it would be ruined when she took it out and kept it exposed. His luxurious gifts were kept so quietly like that.
The evil Mielle baked cakes and cookies with the sugar she had received and handed them out to Aria, as if it was rcy, and said at every al, “I’m glad the food tastes so good.” The count and the countess were delighted to hear her words and answered with an appropriate response,
“By the way, who in the world is Mr. Lane’s master? I can’t believe he got this much sugar.”
“Well... I don’t know, either. At least I don’t think there’s anyone among the people I know.”
If the count had known him, this sugar would have been first handed down to the family of the Duke of Frederick, not to the family of the Count of Roscent. For them, the first priority was the dukes. Although she did not participate in the conversation, Aria also imagined the identity of Asher with them.
“Well, if that’s the case... Is he a close aide of the Crown Prince?”
It was a pretty sharp guess. If he had this much money and connections, he would not be a normal figure, but if the count of the Aristocratic Party did not know, he was more likely to be a close aide of the Crown Prince.
Of course, even so, the broad-footed count would know all the Crown Prince’s close aides, but it was fair to think that he was not a mber of a group with close ties to the count anyway. The count replied in agreent with that,
“I think it’s most likely, but... Maybe not.”
However, because the Roscent family belongs to the Aristocratic Party, there was no way that a close aide to the Crown Prince would continue to send gifts to Mielle.
“Is it so, aren’t I? I guess I’ve had too much speculation.”
In the end, asuring the identity of Asher, as Aria had done, failed. Had it been easy to see, it was clear that Aria who had encountered him several tis would have noticed it first.
‘I must ask who he is the next ti I et him.’
Asher had known her identity in advance and sent a man, but until several tis she had t him, she only didn’t know his identity. Apart from her good feeling to him, she should have grasped his identity. That was what she once thought of as the most, who had experienced the past once. She made herself a promise that the next ti she t him, she would find out who he was, even if she turned over the hourglass or follow him.
* * *
Ti passed quickly, sumr ended, and autumn was in full swing. In a little more ti, severe winter would co. In the anti, luxuries dispensed by the lower aristocrat in Pinonua province were supplied to the market. Other aristocrats were still waiting for customs procedures, so he went on to monopolize.
Because Aria had unleashed sugar only in the Flower Mountain, there was panic buying, on the fear that the goods that had co in might disappear at any ti. Thanks to this, a large number of luxury goods, including sugar, began to be accumulated in the mansions of the majority of the nobility. It was a little different from the past.
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