Episode 50: Library

Raymond declared that he would keep slightly longer within the Duchy. His half-brother, in fact, was very displeased, however for some purpose, he didn’t object violently. Reasonably, it was very humorous that he fastidiously noticed him.

Within the meantime, he heard from Daria on the Imperial Palace.

“Phew….”

Raymond sighed closely and put down Daria’s letter. If it had been Daria, there could be no huge drawback to depart her with Chloe, however her eccentric character bothered him.

“However crucial factor is Chloe’s security.”

Nonetheless, there was nobody who may shield Chloe as safely as Daria, so Raymond wrote again to her after a number of deliberations.

Though Chloe mentioned she would discover her personal approach after escaping from the Duchy, it was really very a lot unimaginable. Her lie would quickly be found, and the Grand Duke of Ludwig would by no means let her go.

Kailos Ludwig, in the long run, he was the issue.

“Chloe…… Does he actually like her?”

Raymond was genuinely inquisitive about his half-brother. Each time he got here into contact with Chloe, the gaze that adopted her tenaciously was clearly like a person who had that girl in his coronary heart.

“What’s using that now?”

He was a person who didn’t deserve to like her.

In line with Daria’s investigation, Chloe was introduced up by Grand Duke Ludwig, after she met him on the age of twelve.

She was introduced as much as go well with Raymond’s style from an early age, in order that he may use her each time he wanted it. It was too merciless for Chloe, who beloved Grand Duke Ludwig.

“I gained’t allow you to shake her once more.”

His chilly gaze fell on Grand Duke Ludwig, who handed within the distance by means of the window. An indescribable anger and hostility arose. Raymond circled, coldly capturing the sensation he was about to blow up.

* * *

After bringing Chloe again from the Duchy, Raymond’s day started by waking up within the morning and receiving reviews of Chloe’s day by day life as Daria’s maid.

His night time was solely over after seeing, together with his personal eyes, that the lights had been turned off in her room that had been assigned within the Empress’ Palace.

“After breakfast, she took a stroll within the Imperial Palace grounds with the Empress…….”

“Wait a minute,”

Raymond, who was listening to the chieftain’s report, frowned and lower off his phrases.

“She took a stroll on such a chilly day? Did Daria do it on function to torment Chloe?”

“The Imperial Palace meteorologists have predicted that this week will probably be surprisingly heat and calm in comparison with earlier years. Luckily, the climate was heat this morning as predicted.”

“I’m nonetheless apprehensive. Chloe is admittedly small like a child hen.”

Because the Emperor’s expression grew critical, the chieftain’s face darkened on the identical time.

Girl Garnet was definitely smaller than the Emperor, however she was tall sufficient to be above common in comparison with the heights of aristocratic ladies of her age. As well as, being small and weak had been separate issues.

Nonetheless, mentioning that reality didn’t appear to ease the Emperor’s anxieties, so the chieftain quietly bowed his head.

“Didn’t nation Evran give tiger’s fur on New Yr’s Eve?”

“Sure, Your Majesty,”

“Convey it to Chloe,”

“What? But it surely’s…… I perceive, Your Majesty.”

The chieftain replied, swallowing a skinny sigh. The fur of Evran, which the Emperor had advised him to current to Chloe, was so valuable that it couldn’t be valued with gold cash.

“What’s Chloe’s subsequent schedule?”

“Within the afternoon, she’s going to go to the library with the Empress.”

“Library? Daria goes to the library?”

Raymond requested again with an incredulous frown.

“Is she going to hassle Chloe once more within the library….”

It was pure to have doubts as a result of Daria was a girl who hated libraries.

“So far as I do know Girl Garnet had requested the Empress to go to the library along with her.”

“Chloe…?”

His brows, which had been frowning, instantly returned to their place.

With a face softened just like the spring solar, Raymond imagined Chloe studying a e book whereas sitting by the window for a second.

“Library….”

Raymond smiled, pondering that she could be very cute as she turned the pages.

“I have to hurry up with my work, too.”

Earlier than going again in time, Chloe had by no means mentioned what she wished. Maybe that’s why he was glad to spare a while when she requested him to return along with her to the Duchy previously.

‘You and I had been collectively for over a 12 months, but you by no means mentioned that you just wished to go to the library.  However, you haven’t been with Daria for a month but, however you already opened up your coronary heart to her.’

Having completed his work early, Raymond patted his drained brow and headed to the library.

‘I’m slightly jealous of this.’

Raymond hurried his steps, suppressing his sudden grumblings.

The Imperial Library, accessible solely to these with permission, was sparsely populated and quiet.  Raymond additionally visited this place for the primary time since his enthronement.

“No, Your Majesty! What brings you right here….”

“Shh.”

When the librarian discovered Raymond, he rushed in shock.

Because the Emperor, if he wants a e book, he can all the time have somebody borrow it. It was uncommon for such an Emperor to personally go to the library.

Raymond, who warned the librarian to be quiet, turned slowly and seemed by means of the library.

“Is there a e book you’re searching for?”

“Nicely, I simply need to go searching……Are there some other folks visiting?”

“Sure, the Empress visited half an hour in the past, apart from her, Lord Bain and Lord Huxley…….”

“Okay, that’s sufficient,”

Having obtained the required data, Raymond smiled and despatched the librarian again to his place.

“‘It means, Chloe is right here now.’

That reality alone made him really feel more than happy with the place known as the library, which he had been away from for a very long time.

Raymond walked slowly, trying to find her hint. Then he discovered her in between the crowded bookshelves.

He slowly stopped and watched her, standing between the bookshelves and quietly studying a e book with a brown leather-based cowl.

The solar was shining down on her by means of a big window that occupied all of 1 wall.

Her silver hair shimmered within the daylight, and her slender fingertips pushed her free hair behind her ear.

The sequence of her extraordinary actions had been breathtakingly enchanting, and Raymond couldn’t take his eyes off her.

I need to be the e book in her arms. I need to be the hair that bothered her. Even being a single speck of mud floating in entrance of her could be tremendous.

“Do you want Chloe that a lot?”

Raymond, startled for a second by the whispering voice in his ear, seemed again. Daria was there him mischievously. Instantly, Raymond, with a grim look on his face, strode away from Daria.

“The place are you going, Ray? Didn’t you come to see Chloe?”

However Daria was so imply that she didn’t depart Raymond alone, she chased and tortured him.

“Be quiet,”

Raymond glared at Daria, suppressing his concern that Chloe may need identified about his go to.

“What ought to I do with you, Raymond? How are you going to hold hovering round her each single day?”

“…….”

“Why don’t you simply assault her?”

At Daria’s playful remarks, Raymond checked out her with contempt.

“What are you pondering of, me like that? I meant that you must confess.”

“…….”

“Chloe stored denying it. Saying there’s no approach you’re going to love her.”

“…….”

Raymond didn’t reply and circled once more.  Grabbing Raymond’s collar as he was about to go exterior, Daria requested.

“Don’t you suppose it’s unhappy? You wander round Chloe daily, however Chloe doesn’t even understand how you’re feeling.”

Figuring out that his lie that he didn’t like her now not labored on Daria, Raymond muttered bitterly as an alternative of denying her phrases.

“Nicely, it’s higher.”

He thought it might be good for everybody that she didn’t perceive his emotions.

Raymond shook his head calmly and mentioned to Daria,

“I’m really grateful to you, Daria.”

Daria hated social actions since she was a princess, even earlier than she grew to become Empress. Raymond knew the explanation why she insisted on getting ready her celebration, it was all for Chloe.

“It was the primary time Chloe had ever laughed with all her coronary heart.”

Raymond, who had by no means spoken kindly to Daria, felt very embarrassed to specific his gratitude to her.

“You sound such as you’ve identified Chloe for a very long time.”

Daria requested sharply, however Raymond scratched his temple awkwardly as an alternative of answering.

“Anyway, I imply it, thanks.”

“It’s not for you, so don’t thank me, Ray. I actually like Chloe. I’d like to stick with her eternally.”

“……!”

Daria’s phrases made Raymond’s eyes tremble.

“Daria, you’re not…… Actually, Chloe……?”

“What a ridiculous misunderstanding!”

Daria shouted, on the suspicious look on his face.

“I don’t have the slightest intention of changing into her lover. In addition to, I’m straight.”

“…….”

Raymond, nonetheless unable to dispel doubts, tapped the desk together with his fingers, feeling uncomfortable.

Chloe is admittedly fairly, so even perhaps Daria, that girl, has already fallen in love. It’s not simply Daria, even perhaps Vesti too. The Duchess, princess of Caroline, who was additionally Daria’s maid, clung intently to Chloe’s facet each time he noticed her.

‘It’s pure…….Even when I had been them, by making the most of the identical gender, I might have in some way…….’

Daria checked out Raymond, who was steadily falling into his personal ideas, with an expression of boredom.