Chapter 45. Meeting (2/2)
The young lady’s unauthorized little trip. It was a severe crime. But since it had happened already, Rin had to take the young lady back to the castle as soon as possible.
That way, she’d at least have some time to figure out how to take care of the aftermath. Rin waited for the man’s response on the ground.
The man who was looking at Rin. The administrator didn’t speak for a while. How much time had passed? The man eventually opened his mouth.
“How amusing. Why should I care about your life?”
“…….”
Rin didn’t know what to say. While she was trying to figure out what to say, the man turned around.
“Go back.”
“Administrator!”
Rin crawled forward, desperately trying to grab onto the administrator’s legs. Then.
Shwit–
Something passed by Rin’s cheeks, and created a small injury. A hot feeling of pain like fire ran through her cheeks.
“You’ll go no further than that. Come closer and I’ll slice off your neck.”
Rin froze from fear. Then, a black shadow suddenly came behind the administrator, and whispered something.
After hearing that, the administrator’s eyes began to turn annoyed. Rin didn’t fail to miss the administrator’s shaking eyes at that moment.
‘Something happened?’
Something troublesome. Rin realized that something like that took place just now.
‘What is it?’
Nothing really happens in the Garden. It was normally very quiet, and didn’t go through much change. In a place like that, something happened.
‘Could it be?’
Rin prayed that this event would be something that might be able be advantageous for her. Did her prayers get answered? The administrator looked at her with annoyance and spoke.
“…….You said you wanted to go inside?”
Rin nodded vigorously.
“Yes. I want to go inside.”
“Follow me. I’ll take you to the young lady.”
The man said that, and went through the door. Rin quickly stood up, and followed the man inside.
“Thank you!”
“…….”
The man didn’t respond. He simply kept walking.
‘Thank god.’
Rin felt relieved. Something might’ve happened inside. But thanks to that, she got a chance like this, which made her infinitely grateful.
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“It’s there.”
The other side of the pond. The young lady was clearly over there. The person who was more precious to Rin than her life. But Rin didn’t move, and froze where she stood.
There was a boy standing in front of the young lady. Rin’s jaw dropped.
“Th, th, that…….”
The administrator observed her actions, nodded, and sent a message.
[I’ll be truthful. Because of the way you handled things, we got into a bit of trouble, too.]
“……..”
Got into trouble? What kind of trouble?
[The young lady meeting with the young lord. That’s what got us in a bit of a tight situation.]
The young lord? Rin’s eyes widened. The administrator had the same power as the Guardians within the church.
But even a person like that addressed the boy like so? Just who was that boy? The administrator, who noticed Rin’s surprised face, sent a message.
[That young lord is the one who will take care of the church in the future.]
“……..!”
Rin’s eyes got even wider, and her lips began to tremble. Taking care of the church in the future. She knew what those words meant.
She looked at the boy some more, and then sent a message with an agitated face.
[He is the heir? That young lord?]
[That’s right.]
The boy. Cho Ryu Hyang was a person who would become the heir of the church in the future. Of course, the boy was being treated like one already, but the official ceremony was yet to take place.
“Who are you?”
Far away, Rin could see the girl with the golden hair open her mouth in front of Cho Ryu Hyand. Rin watched this take place quietly.
The young lady. The girl in the golden hair rarely ever talked to a child of her age. That was because of the unique looks and the high position she possessed.
‘The fact that she is different is enough reason to incite fear.’
Because of that, the young lady had been confined in the castle despite her high position. She was like a bird stuck in a cage.
A foreigner. As the nation didn’t come in contact with foreigners much, it wasn’t strange for foreigners to be called monsters.
‘I hope she doesn’t get hurt…….’
Everyone who saw the young lady previously all had the same reaction. They were all scared of her. Rin thought that Cho Ryu Hyang would obviously have the same reaction.
But that wasn’t the case. The boy calmly opened his mouth without any indication of being surprised.
“Who are you supposed to be, then? Shouldn’t one introduce oneself before asking for someone else’s name?”
When Cho Ryu Hyang said this, the girl blinked. She, too, had never seen a person who acted normally to her like this.
The blonde girl grinned, and spoke.
“Ah, is that how it is? My name is Gongson Ahri (公孫娥異). What about you?”
Gongson Ahri? Cho Ryu Hyang’s eyes shook. When he heard the girl’s name, he thought of someone’s face. Cho Ryu Hyang opened his mouth with a bit of disbelief.
“Gongson Chun Gi…… what’s your relationship with teacher?”
“Ah, he’s my father.”
Cho Ryu Hyang fondled his glasses unconsciously. It was a habit of his that came out whenever he became surprised. Gongson Chun Gi’s daughter?
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What surprised him here wasn’t the fact that his teacher had a daughter. He was surprised by the daughter’s sudden appearance. The administrator, watching that, sent a message to Rin.
[The Pope instructed me to not let the young lord meet anyone for the time being.]
The administrator stopped his message here, and spoke again while throwing an angry gaze at Rin.
[But the young lady isn’t someone we can stop in the first place. Because you did your job poorly, something like this happened.]
Rin lowered her head, and avoided the administrator’s gaze. She didn’t have any excuses to say.
[This whole thing is your fault, so you take care of it.]
Rin nodded. She felt the need to take care of everything at this point, somehow.