Chapter 2 - EPISODE 2 – PLEIADES (2) (1/2)
“Young master?”
“Miss?”
Maja and Cordelia’s escort, a knight, said almost simultaneously.
That’s because Jude and Cordelia looked at each other out of the blue and said strange things.
Why are they here?
‘Didn’t we come here to meet the visitor?’
‘Isn’t it because we came here to visit?’
At a time when Maja and the female knight were thinking rationally, Jude calmed his astonished self and thought of the girl in front of him. And like himself, Cordelia was full of emotions too, such as embarrassment, surprise, and so on.
‘What? Why is Yellow Storm here?’
The girl in front of him, Cordelia, was so beautiful that the word “great beauty” could be attached.
The 2nd place Yellow Storm had nothing to do with Jude’s own fiancée.
But it was strange.
When their eyes met with each other, the player named Yellow Storm came to his mind.
It was good to say that it was an absolute feeling.
Moreover, it was important that the opponent showed a similar reaction to him.
‘No way.’
Is she really that Yellow Storm?
It was a dizzying story, but it wasn’t impossible.
In the first place, Outboxer009, who was Kang Jin-ho, also became Jude Bayer.
“Hmmm, uh, well. Excuse me for a moment.”
“Uh… Me, me too.”
When Jude mumbled first, Cordelia also mumbled.
However, the way he looked at her side was also unusual.
“First… Please sit down.”
“Uh… yeah.”
Once he sat down…
Maja and the female knight tilted their heads at the awkwardness of the two, but it was only for a short time.
Maja brought out the newly prepared tea, and Jude continued to exchange awkward glances with Cordelia.
‘Let’s test her.’
He didn’t know if only he felt something, but he thought that she would have felt something similar too.
If the opponent really is Yellow Storm like he felt, it would seem like a catastrophe has come, but if it really is, he would likely understand.
“No, no.”
Hi, Yellow Storm.
Jude’s voice trembled because he was embarrassed to say it out of his mouth.
But her reaction was good.
Cordelia flinched for a moment and her eyes opened widely.
“Ah…Aha.”
Hi, Outboxer.
Cordelia also spoke quietly, and at the time when Maja and the female knight tilted their heads again, Jude drove a wedge in.
“Hey…you too?”
“Yeah…me too.”
“Young master?”
“Miss?”
Maja and the female knight’s face now had a rather serious look of concern.
Why are the two suddenly acting like that?
But Jude couldn’t care less about the reaction of those two.
‘Crazy! Are you really Yellow Storm?!’
When he spoke with his eyes, the other returned a similar answer.
Jude took a deep breath for now. He wanted to ask a lot of questions right away, like what happened and when did she became Cordelia, but there was Maja and the female knight here.
Therefore, Jude tried to turn around.
“Coop reset 9:00 3-9.”
One of the contents of Legend of Heroes 2 is the coop mode that resets every night at 12:00 – meaning it was reset at midnight.
9 o’clock refers to the 9 o’clock direction, and 3-9 meant 9 blocks down – that is, 18 meters below the entrance coordinates.
Therefore, the interpretation of Jude’s words was as follows.
‘Let’s meet at midnight in the corner of my garden.’
Honestly, it would be difficult for a normal Legend of Heroes 2 player to understand what he meant, but it would have been understandable if it was the rotten water Yellow Storm.
And indeed, Cordelia nodded and said in a whisper.
“Roger that.”
It was a radio term meaning “understood” and is one of the most distinctive phrases of Yellow Storm.
“Hmmm, I’m glad you’re healthy. It’s already late today, so I’ll see you next time.”
“Hmmm, it was nice to meet you. I look forward to seeing you next time.”
They couldn’t have a proper conversation here.
So, after deciding on when and where to meet, they quickly ended their meeting.
When Cordelia and Jude stood up after talking to each other, it was Maja and the female knight who were confused again.
“Eh, you’re going already?”
“Miss?”
She was so surprised that Maja’s usual expressionless face was now full of surprise.
However, Jude and Cordelia had already reached an agreement and exchanged their greetings.
Jude laughed awkwardly and saw off Yellow Storm – no, Cordelia, who likewise walked out with an awkward smile and a quick walk.
“Young master? This is…”
“Well, that’s it.”
What the hell is going on here?
But one thing was certain.
The appearance of an ally who would be on his side and believe Jude’s words.
Looking at the entrance of the drawing room where Cordelia had left, Jude clenched his fist.
***
Jude Bayer’s father, Count Bayer, was out on a northern expedition with his successor, Gaël Bayer, who is the older brother of Jude.
It was a small-scale expedition, called the Northern Monster Subjugation, which was like an annual event, and the period from departure to return was one month.
In any case, the quiet part of the house was now even quieter. This is because most of the vassals here went on the expedition following his father and brother.
Having finished dinner alone in the room, Jude waited impatiently for midnight to come.
And finally, the deepest of night, midnight, came.
Jude sneaked out of his room and hurried to the garden.
It was still summer in terms of time, but the night air was cold as they were in the northern part of the country.
‘You’ll be able to find me, right?’
Standing under a big tree, the promised place, Jude looked up at the night sky with a worried face.
‘It’s a real Pleiades.’
There were two moons in the sky.
Selene and Helene.
Twin goddesses illuminating the night sky.
In fact, the two moons were even more beautiful and mysterious looking than when they were seen through the monitor screen.