Chapter 192: 192
As I walked down the road towards Lilia-san’s mansion, which was beginning to get dimmer as night falls, I saw a familiar figure at the end of the road .
Her short, platinum hair, which is longer in her sidelocks, reflecting my image in her silver eyes which don’t hold any quivering at all…… A woman stands as if a portrait of her was placed right at the end of the road .
[……Ein-san?]
[I’ve been waiting for you . Kaito-sama . ]
When I called out to her, a little confused, Ein-san gracefully curtsied and gives a beautiful bow .
Why is Ein-san in this place? She said she was waiting, so I guess she must have some sort of business with me……
Seeing me tilting my head, with her usual coolness, Ein-san spoke .
[……I should have visited earlier, but I was hesitating . No, to be precise, I’m still hesitating at this moment . ]
[……Hesitating?]
[……Yes, as Kaito-sama may have conjectured already, I’m not very good at expressing my emotions . ]
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I certainly always had the impression that Ein-san is a cool woman who is very good at her job, but to my knowledge, I haven’t seen her expression and her tone of voice change much .
However, what did she mean when she mentioned she’s hesitating? She mentioned how she was supposed to have visited earlier, so I guess that’s related to me?
Seeing me tilting my head, Ein-san quietly continued speaking .
[……I was hesitating as to which way I could show you the gratitude within my heart……]
[Eh?]
[It’s not enough to say a hundred words, nor would it be enough even after a thousand actions…… I have no way of expressing the emotions I have in my heart right now . ]
[……Errr . ]
As she told me this, Ein-san slowly approached me .
The small-statured Ein-san is just a head smaller than I am, and as she gets closer, her face is at my chest area .
And then, coming in front of me, Ein-san slowly…… reached out her trembling hand and lightly grasped my clothing around the center of my chest .
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[……Thank…… you…… very much . For saving Kuromu-sama……]
[……Ein-san . Errr, it’s not like I……]
[I know . I know that Kaito-sama doesn’t take such action as some sort of achievement . ]
Ein-san’s words, which seemed to see right through my heart, were exactly right .
It’s not that I was thinking of saving Kuro or fulfilling the wishes of the Six Kings or Ein-san or anything of such magnitude .
I only confessed my feelings to Kuro because I was in love with her, wanting to tell her how I felt about her and asking her to be my lover…… Everything I did was just for me . It just so happened that such an act would lead me to saving Kuro .
[However, I can’t thank you enough . I don’t think I’ve ever seen Kuromu-sama so happy . ]
[……Ein-san . ]
[……I was the first baby bird that Kuromu-sama raised…… Kuromu-sama reached out to me back when I was a little girl, alone and shivering with nowhere to go, and asked me to go with her . She led me to the place where I could call home . ]
[……………… . ]
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While holding unto my clothes, Ein-san tells me with her face down and her small shoulders trembling…… I just continued quietly listening to her story, trying not to interrupt her as much as I could .
[It may be selfish of me, but I consider Kuromu-sama…… as my mother . I am the person I am today because of the love and nurturing that Kuromu-sama gave me . That’s why I became her maid, to use this life that Kuromu-sama picked up for the sake of Kuromu-sama’s will for the rest of my life…… to serve Kuromu-sama until the end of my life . ]
[……………… . . ]
[……It’s ironic, isn’t it? I was so drunk with the happiness of serving and being by Kuromu-sama’s side…… that it was late in realizing the wish in Kuromu-sama’s heart . I wished to live for Kuromu-sama…… but I was also the first one to drift away from Kuromu-sama’s wish . ]
Ein-san, raised by Kuro, became a maid devoted to Kuro .
But now that I know about Kuro’s wish, I can understand her regret…… Ein-san’s choice was to stand behind Kuro, instead of Kuro’s wish of standing next to her .
And just when she realized that she was drifting apart from Kuro’s wish……
[……That’s something I couldn’t do anymore . I already clearly see Kuromu-sama as my lord . I had formed a self that was proud to serve Kuromu-sama . I couldn’t change the way things were anymore . ]
[…………… . . ]
[I felt really pathetic… Even though I knew more than anyone else about Kuromu-sama’s suffering, her wishes, and yet, I couldn’t do anything about it…… So……]
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Ending her words there, Ein-san looks up .
Her silver eyes that shed some tears stared at me, and after a few moments of silence, she spoke .
[……Kaito-sama, I will remember this favor… . . for the rest of my life . Even if you don’t think of yourself as such, for me, I still think that you’re our saviour . ]
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