Ch 5 NWS

A servant also approached her to clear the fallen bread and moved in a hurry. He also naturally reorganized the tablecloth. It was like a person who was annoyed that the tablecloth was crumpled from the beginning.

It was an action born out of spontaneity after taking care of Roselyn for a few days.

Edelweiss internally comments on what she saw just now: ‘Is it really real? Are you joking with me?’ she blinked quickly. But no matter how bad it looked, her daughter really must have picked the bread up off the floor and ate it. As if it were very delicious.

“…Rose?”

Roselyn chewed and swallowed the bread she had picked up, and wiped her mouth with a napkin.

And with a pretty wild look replied, “Yes.”

She answered. It was a hundred out of 100 points for etiquette.

* * *

Calyx explained the situation, by borrowing words from the maid and Alter, that his sister had become less intelligent and her hair had become a little cuter. Edelweiss looked increasingly unsure of the whole thing.

“I don’t know more and more,” Edelweiss said.

“A little bit…… she had to be less intelligent…… she was a little less intelligent.…and her hair became a little cuter…but, even with those reasons, will you pick up the food you dropped on the floor?”

“Are you going to pick up food that has been dropped?”

Of course it wasn’t. Calyx picked and chose as many words as he could to ease his mother’s shock and only leaked some information. He told her that there was an injury to the head and Roselyn wouldn’t be the same.

The doctor said she’ll be back soon. Edelweiss tearfully embraced Rose.

“Our poor Rose… I was relieved that she was a smart child, even if she wasn’t a beauty… now she has a no face and her head…”

“…No, not so… mother…”

All of Edelweiss’s plans to go ahead with the engagement while Roselyn was at home resting was scrapped.

She swallowed her tears and ordered her servant to return the engagement stone that had been received from the count. She couldn’t marry a child who ate food off the floor.

Edelweiss thought Roselyn was sick, so it caused her heartbreak, but the situation was even more unthinkable in reality.

“Does your father know?”

“He knows… that she hurt her head a little bit.”

“Our Rose is a little…that…”

Edelweiss looked at her daughter who kept eating and chose the most succint words.

“A little less intelligent…”

They were skirting around truth of the matter, that Rose could be called “crazy” or “insufficient”.

Calyx quietly shook his head. Edelweiss swept her forehead with a dry hand. She went up to her room saying she would rest now. She was looking confused, gibbering to herself as usual.

Edelweiss and Calyx barely ate, but many dishes seemed to be almost empty. It was thanks to Roselyn’s vigorous appetite. She finished the cake neatly for dessert. The countess’s cook looked at the scene in the distance.

He looked like a grandfather watching his grandson’s tricks. Calyx breathed out. The long, draining meal time is over. After a hectic luncheon, Calyx, who was diligently pushing out his chair from the antique wooden table, was handed a pile of paper from Alter. The amount of data was incomplete.

When Calyx gave a look of surprise, Alter snorted.

“What do you think this is?” (Alter)

“…The data I asked you to get?” (Calyx)

“My blood, sweat, tears.” (Alter)

Calix ignored the sound of his bullshit. Alter went wild. Anyway, this is what he said is the best.

If you order Alter to look into it, he’ll know even what was the colour of underwear the subject had thrown away three years ago. His skill was unparalleled.

This meant that the information was difficult to find and relatively unknown. The look on Alter’s face was really worth seeing. It was not surprising that the Young Master was investigating terrible stories that could have come directly from a child’s mouth.

It may have been because of his request that it should not be done through the hands or feet of the information guild. But anyway, it was the destiny of a subordinate to reveal the truth.

And Alter learned this from collecting information: the ridiculous command was not given simply to piss himself off. There was an eerie feeling that penetrated him from the tips of his toes to his head.

His Young Master was clearly weighing the truth without seeing these documents. Calyx read the material from Alter one by one, until everything was completely understood. In 10 minutes, he spent a long time perusing the short volume of data collected. Alter looked at Calyx’s changing expression.

His eyebrows raised as he rubbed his chin. As the last chapter was closed, Calyx held his forehead and exhaled.

The material began with a famous tale of mystery: [When you enter the deep forest, you will be eaten by the shadows.]

This was also his favourite tale from his childhood. It was a kind of detterent to prevent naughty children from climbing the mountain fearlessly. Calyx thought so too. But..

[Many people used it to warn children about the mountains. It is assumed that the danger of the ferocious Masuna Mountain itself was expressed in a shadow]

[The story has a slightly different form depending on location.]

[If you enter the deep forest, you will be eaten by the shadows. The shadow of the forest moves when a person is not looking. There is a shadow that mimics people in the deep forest. The shadow of the forest speaks.]

[What the stories have in common was the specificity of a place called the ‘deep forest,’ the saying ‘out of reach of people,’ and the confirmation of the existence known as the ‘shadow’.]

And on the papers gathered, there were people who had witnessed the ‘shadow’.

[Aldes Pater, (66) a herb expert. Twenty-three years ago, a group of herbalists gathered to collect herbs growing on the cliffs deep in the Lanschev Mountains.]

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“I passed out without realizing it. It was definitely lunch, but when I woke up, the sun was rising in the morning. I was just lying down because I had no energy and I looked out, into the dense forest… It was at that time, when ‘it’ showed up.”

“?”

“The Shadow. The shadow I heard from my seniors. I thought it was made up, meant to scare me, but I didn’t expect it to actually be true… it’s different from seeing a hungry predator. My hands and feet were trembling and I was chilled to the bone.”

“?”

“At first I thought it was just the shadow of a normal tree. The inside of the dense forest was as dark as the deep sea… And I was just watching, but there was something moving in the dark. Very slow, very slow, slower than an old man who was 100 years old, as slow as a snail… and it came through the dawn, morning mist. It was a very frightening and gruesome scene, but it was also a lucky sight.”

“?”

“Well, I’ve never heard of this before. It’s a famous story among herbalists. There’s a shadow that smells like death. ‘It’ told me there was a death nearby. So I looked around recklessly and found that I was the only one closest to death. It smelled me. It came.”

“….”

“When I saw it standing tall by my bedside and looking down, I thought it was waiting for me to die. So I ate those precious herbs, chewed them, applied them, and did all kinds of things to survive. Fortunately, my bleeding stopped after two or three days.

“The swelling of my leg in the splint had also subsided a little. Oh, I thought I was going to live now, and the being who kept looking down at me slowly disappeared back towards the forest!”

“….”

“Really! It was exactly 23 years ago! I remember it as vividly as if it had happened yesterday!”

“?”

“Well, I’m scared to think about it now. Oh, and now I’ve thought of it! Also, why do they call it a shadow? I thought it was because its whole body was black…….”

“?”

“The first time it approached me, it looked like a cluster of black smoke.”

“?”

“But after a few days, it started to look like a human being. I didn’t have any features, like eyes, but it was the same shape as me, I believe it’s really my sadow.”

“……!”

* * *

The Red Wheel county had many guests. It was because the current Count had gained great confidence from the emperor of Illavenia for his outstanding military performance. Furthermore, the territory itself was wide and abundant, attracting many merchants.

The hot popularity of the County didn’t cool down at night, so it was very troublesome. The Count, who had served as commander-in-chief during the Great War, also had a big say in military meetings. Night guests were very curious about what was written in the correspondence between the Count of Red Wheel and his son.

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There were three or four people coming in a day, and they were trying to sneak in as employees to take the letter out. But there was nothing really special about the content of the correspondence they were sending. It was because it was written in consideration of what spies from other lands or other countries would see in the first place. [Are you doing well? I like venison these days. The Duke of Blue Lanterns’ parrot is weak and crying. He said it was learned from a street cat, aren’t you curious?] It was just really useless information.

It didn’t matter to anyone, but it couldn’t be sent into the hands of spies. When Calyx appeared on the balcony, a driver on patrol signalled that a man had entered the office. Calyx picked up his sword and moved cautiously. As soon as he opened the door, he drew a sword and pointed it at the neck of the person in front of him. An open window for someone not invited. The wind blowing through the gap pushed the curtains out of the way allowing light into the dark room.

“!”

A silhouette of a woman with waist-long black hair was revealed in front of the window. The sight in front of Calyx shook his gaze. It was the familiar face of his sister who was walking in the garden during the day, as she called her own name. She just blinked, as if the threats and actions that Calyx had done were no big deal; as if nothing was wrong.