Chapter 38 (1/2)
Chapter 38
“Ever since then, I had developed a deep apprehension for stairs I was alright when going up, but it’s hard whenever I go down the steps I always needed to be close to the railing when descending My eyes would spin and the steps would look like they’re overlapping, so I often needed to stop in place and catch my breath”
Despite how calmly he spoke, the words he said didn’t match his tone Rosetta listened wordlessly as Cassion continued to speak
“If sohtened to the point of death, so I’d eh it’s a lifeline and wait until that person would pass by But…”
Rosetta could guess what his intention was
What he’s doing right noas to console her indirectly
“But now, I can go down the stairs just fine To be honest, I still feel like a newborn fawn needing to hang onto its mother whenever I look down, but at least I don’t need to cling onto the balusters anyh with that”
He ended the story somewhat aardly
‘That’s why you’ll also be able to forget your bad memories of her’
These words were left unsaid
More than that, the story he spoke of was not far frouessed
It wasn’t even because of Katie that Rosetta’s complexion had turned pale
Even so, in spite of this
Rosetta felt a strange war one corner of her heart
The corners of her lips tugged up slightly
The la on her face, but the sense of danger it brought had sos ht about it, he wasn’t suited for the role of a villain
The words that her red lips murmured under her breath were too faint for Cassion to hear
“Huh? What did you say just now?”
Cassion asked back, but Rosetta just shrugged as though she didn’t have an idea
He clearly heard so further, theelse instead
“Then, what brings you here at this hour?”
To be exact, between during the day and theirnohat reason was there for her to visit hio as he recalled, Rosetta went to talk to the Young Duke of Valentine before she had visited Cassion here the first time
Not much time elapsed, so he surht after their conversation
If that’s the case, then was she here to talk about so so, Cassion felt a little nervous
The reason Rosetta had gone with Damian to talk to hiht’
Naturally, it’s clear that she had talked to the Young Duke about Maxwell
Rosetta had been looking at Cassion at this ti in particular for a ently ”
Her tone was so casual that the tension in the air was overshadowed
“What?”
“I forgot for a bit while we talked Right, I forgot, I ca I need to do”
The voice that asked was incredulous, and the voice that answered back was nonchalant
It seehts, pressing one fingernail against another finger Then, she nodded and opened her lips to speak
“Just as was planned, I toldabout our shared past, I asked hiht”
“Then?”
“He gave ht”
“…Truly? He allowed it?”
At Cassion’s question that’s filled with suspicion, Rosetta nodded
“However, there’s a condition attached to it I came to tell you about that condition”
Ah
The h Rather than an expression of dis, ‘I knew it’
“What’s the condition?”
At first glance, it seeh resolution overflowed his eyes that were the color of the night sky
At the satisfactory reaction, Rosetta sht If you’re determined, naturally, you should be like that
That kind of deter shouldn’t be swayed by any kind of condition
“There will be a test—it’s to prove that you’re at least so me
What Damian demanded was ‘proof’
As Rosetta asked, Daht’, but he wouldn’t accept everything about him just like that
First of all, the duty of an ‘escort knight’ was just one thing—to protect theirtheirdown a set of stairs for the ainst any sudden attacks and protect his h to just have the will to protect—a certain degree of ‘coht was someone who didn’t have even the basics of combat, then rather than an escort, he’d just be more like a companion
Of course, Cassion knew that he was coht But even if Da else, he wouldn’t be able to consider Rosetta’s ‘safety’ as so trivial
“You’ll be put to test in two ainst another knight, and of course, you have to win to pass this test”
“A h his lips had gone dry
With one index finger, Cassion rubbed his lower lip
It was decided this action would be one of Maxwell’s habits that he usually did whenever he was nervous, so he constantly practiced this over the past two days
This habit had settled on hi his lower lip purely as an unconscious gesture
Acknowledging this, Rosetta raised her brows eagerly
“Since you’re a co to select an easy opponent for you It’ll be a knight who’s been appointed only two years ago”
That was all she could tell him about this condition
As soon as Rosetta stopped the explanation there, Cassion nodded as though he noticed
The heavy movement seemed stiff as he nodded, but that was all
There was no sign of any coative erievance on his countenance at all—except that he was staring intently at solanced over to the spot where that dark gaze was fixed
But there was nothing there