Hakushaku to Yousei Vol 3 Chapter 7

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The fairy world was not hot nor cold, and quiet. 

Since the fairy realm and the human realm went at different speeds of time, for Lydia, it may seem like night as even passed yet but most likely more time must have passed on the other side.

The fruits in the fairy world were very ripe and released a sweet aroma. If one were to happen to take a bite out of one, then it was sure to be so delicious that you never had tasted before. 

In the first place, since she decided to come and live with Kelpie, she needed to cut her ties with the human world, but since this was so sudden, she wasn’t mentally prepared. 

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He set down the pile of grass that he carried on his back onto the ground. He sat down Lydia onto the soft grass with its nice smell that was spread out like a blanket and grinned in satisfaction.

“All right, thank you.”

“Hey, Lydia, couldn’t you take away the promise of the moon already?”

She made a promise with Kelpie that she would stay by his side when she accepted his blood that cured poison. That didn’t connect to the promise of marriage, but since she was going to be with him for now-on, then there was no point in refusing the marriage, that’s why he was saying that he wanted her to take away the promise of the moon.

“Okay. Well, to you, it may not be that easy to adjust your feelings in order to cut off from the human world.”

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When she lifted up her head, she saw that Kelpie had his eyes fixed onto her. 

Then, he suddenly grabbed ahold of her shoulder and Lydia was pressed down atop of the grass.

“Mating.”

Oh, right, he had the instincts of an animal, that’s why he has such a practical turn of mind. 

“Ow…., what, I heard that humans don’t struggle that wildly like female kelpies.”

He tsked under his breath as he mumbled, damn, still not good and leaned away from Lydia. 

Kelpie seemed to be troubled by it as he stood up. At least for now, the area near the shore and river surroundings was the territory of Kelpie. Water horses hated intruders especially underwater. 

After he went and disappeared into the water, Lydia let out a deep sigh. 

“Lydia.”

“Lydia, hurry, let’s escape while we can.”

When Lydia finally lifted her head at the sound of grass rustling right near her, she saw that Edgar was smiling happily at her.

“I’m here to take you back home.”

“How horrible for you to leave as you please.”

Nico was beckoning for them with his hand from the shadows of the grass.

“Wait, I can’t run off like this. I promised with Kelpie….”

“Yo-you were watching-?”

So it looked like they were trying to get away from Kelpie’s territory as Edgar hurried her through the forest at a fast pace. The reason he didn’t loosen his grip on Lydia’s arm was because he might have been frightened that she might say that she wanted to return to Kelpie’s side. 

That wasn’t a problem at this point.

“This is the fairy world. This isn’t a world where you can use your lies and bluffs. You can’t break the promise that you made.”

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“And besides, you said that you would try to fall in love with me, so that itself is breaking a promise.”

“Then I don’t want you to just disappear without thinking about it.”

More than that, she gazed up at the side of his face wondering how on earth he was able to come into the fairy realm. 

Not only did he come onto this side, but he must have not quite grasped the idea that his knowledge and experience was no match with this world as he kept on running with his usual confident expression.

Edgar pulled Lydia into his arms like he was cradling her and hid themselves behind a tree.

They were calling out Edgar’s name.

Quiet, whispered Edgar as he put a finger to his lips. 

“Well, those girls might be under the misunderstanding of something like that.”

 “Yup, this.”

Even though he accepted the ring and was guided into the fairy world, he escaped from the eyes of those two female fairies and used Nico as his guide and searched for Lydia.

In this situation, it wasn’t going to settle all the problems with just her calming Kelpie down and sending Edgar back to the human realm. 

“Hey, Lydia, you’ll make us be found out.”

“How stupid of you, if you accepted this, then you’re only left with the option of marrying the Queen. There’s nothing that even I can do.”

“Is there someone there?”asked one of them.

“Oh, no…., hey, Nico, isn’t there another way?”

“Oh, no Lydia, there’s something you can do to save me,” said Edgar in an especially confident way.

“What?"

He held Lydia’s hands in his and said it in a serious tone, but there was no possibility that this act of his was serious. 

If it was a courting approach from Kelpie, then she would be able to drive him away with one punch but for some odd reason, she wasn’t able to smartly evade it when it was Edgar.

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The thing that popped out of her mouth was something that was meaningless in a situation like this.

“Anyways, don’t say something so stupid.”

“Yes, if it’s the real moon.”

“Eh, ah, yeah….”

He held out the moonstone that was the cause of their problems.

“It’s the moon. As long as you accept it as it.”

“The Blue Knight Earl from the past didn’t say ‘if you would give me the moon’ but said the promise will be fulfilled with they‘exchanged an oath with the moon.’ That’s why, you don’t just accept it but need to put it on and consider it as the symbol of your oath. But, it happens to be, that Lydia, I haven’t wore this ring on my finger even once.”

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If Lydia were to accept Edgar’s proposal and wore the moonstone on her finger, then could that mean that instead of accepting the ‘moon’ from the earl, she had exchanged an oath of marriage?

At the same time, that would mean that Lydia wouldn’t be able to marry Kelpie who she still had the ‘moon’promise she made with.

“My lord, oh, so there you were!” cried out one of the female fairies.

The field fairies came floating over to them.

Edgar tried to hurry her.

Lydia finally was able to understand the meaning why Edgar suddenly brought up this marriage.

Then, she couldn’t accept it all the more.

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If it was Edgar, then it was possible. But, she would never be able to accept such a marriage.

“Is what I say that unbelievable for you?”

And yet, as she was appalled, Lydia was unable to nod her head in response.

On the other hand, she had no idea what was going on in Edgar’s heart.

“I can’t trust you.”

Since he didn’t show any signs of pain from Lydia’s rejection, then this was indeed just a strategy for him.

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situation.”

“No. I’m saying that if since I don’t have time right now to convince you is all.”

The two fairies were circling around Edgar but he didn’t let go of Lydia.

At that voice, the two female fairies quickly flew away from Edgar as if to escape. 

They were finally found by Kelpie as well.

“My lord, quickly this way!”

As Edgar glared back at Kelpie, he pulled Lydia further into his arms.

“You’re wrong, Lydia is going to marry me.”

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As Edgar backed away with Lydia in his arms, he whispered:

She was dubious about her favor in that.

And she would be able to prevent him from being taken away to the field fairy queen’s land.

“You don’t know how depressed Professor Carlton was after you disappeared.”

I’m sure this is part of his calculation.

For Lydia who thought that marriage was a long ways away from her in the future, it was her honest feelings that she wanted to remain as the daughter of her father for a little while longer.

“All right, Edgar. Please give me the ‘moon’…”

A promise just for this situation. Even if she knew that, Edgar said it in such a serious tone, that it made her heart unexpectedly beat faster.

“Hey, Lydia.”

“I’m sorry, Kelpie. I still have an attachment to the human world.”

At least, he didn’t seem like he was going to attack Edgar or use his strength to do something about this situation.

“I’m sorry, little fairies. Please accept my decision and give up on me.”

“Did you hear, Lydia.”

“I’m going to open the way home,” shouted Nico and jumped up onto Lydia’s shoulder.

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In that small passageway, Lydia heard Kelpie’s voice.

That’s true. From the point of fairies, twenty or thirty years goes by like a blink of an eye.

So then, the peaceful daily life at the Ashenbert house returned.

“Excuse me, Edgar, but what is the meaning of this?”

“Oh, Lydia, hello, I missed you so much.”

“It looks like I have some time that opened up tonight. I was just thinking of inviting you to dinner.”

again?”

“I have no intention of joining their organization.”

“I became its leader.”

Leader? Of a robin hood gang?

Protect themselves? If Edgar intended to head the organization as its leader, then he wouldn’t settle quietly with just protecting himself. 

“Thanks to you, I was able to not lose Paul. He looked at me with the same eyes as before, even though I’ve changed this much. ….Unless you didn’t tell me that Paul had remembered and considered our promise special, then I don’t know if I was able to bet on the option of talking with him.”

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“It isn’t that much of a big deal like discovering talent, or anything like that.”

“Well, yes. At the time, he apparently wanted to become a poet, but when he showed me his work, it was so terrible. His paintings were horrible, but if someone were to buy them and hang them in their house, they would still have the fun of entertaining the guests, right? But with poems, it wouldn’t make any money unless society accepted and praised them.”

“Honestly, I was surprised at this growth.”

However, even though he wasn’t any good, at least he thought of buying the man’s paintings, so that should mean that he has some compassion for the man.

In the end, however Lydia thought about it, it was definite for him to become the leader of the secret organization and exact his revenge on Prince. 

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That was the only part about him that she was definitely sure about.

“Sorry, but Father is coming home early tonight.”

There was no way her father would come just because of the obvious fact that he was invited since Lydia was worried about him. 

Because she witnessed him when he was so weak in bed, she had forgotten that he was this kind of person.

“You’re not going to wear the ring,” he said as he drew his attention towards Lydia’s fingertips like he just remembered. 

And besides, it would be strange for her to always wear it.

“It’s all right, anyways, as long as I have it, it’ll will prevent the fairies from meddling with us.”

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She suddenly felt an awkward sense of uneasiness. Lydia had came marching into here, furious about him becoming a member of a secret organization, but there was no meaning in questioning him.

“So, I’ll be leaving now,”

“Near the end of this week, I was thinking of visiting your family residence, so would you think the Professor would be there?”

“It would be the polite thing to do to properly ask for his permission to marry.”

“What are you talking about? Wa----wasn’t that just to get through that situation?”

“But you had definitely accepted my marriage proposal and accepted the engagement ring.”

“I don’t recall saying something like that.”

Lydia became so furious that it was starting to make her dizzy.

“N-no, you can’t! Don’t you dare come to my house.”

“Please, don’t tell Father!”

He was so overjoyed that his daughter, who had supposedly gone off to the fairy realm but came back, that he nearly lost control of himself.

He was old enough to know better, and on top of that he was an university professor, and yet he was bawling fountains of tears and cried to her to never go off to marry. Lydia had just replied that she wasn’t going to go anywhere.

“We aren’t courting!”

“Then we just don’t have to be in a close relationship!”

Lydia’s counterargument wasn’t being listened to at all.

For a daughter from a proper family, there was no such thing as a courtship that didn’t lead to marriage.

“First of all, I think the start of this all was the problem. You are well aware, that I have no intention of marrying someone like you…..”

“Wouldn’t it be bad if you said that?”

Why in the world is Kelpie here?

Which means, she couldn’t allow herself to speak out loud and claim that this engagement is a sham which will be just as Edgar had planned?

Edgar lifted up Lydia’s chin with his fingertips and grinned at her.

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Is he declaring his flirtatious attacks on her?

And for him to continue to be the Blue Knight Earl who is blessed with the bond with fairies, Lydia was an indispensible person to him.

If it was to keep Lydia by his side, he intended to use any means possible. 

Lydia was only able to escape from that situation, but of course that night, there wasn’t any possible way for her to refuse the invitation to dinner and was going to end up having to listen to his sweet, melting words that he had plenty to say to her.

Chapter end