The Male Lead Knelt Before Me

The Division Commander was enraged when he heard what I said.

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He gathered his members and scolded them harshly, saying, ‘I am so disappointed in you!’

But the rebuke didn’t last long.

It was due to the fact that finding Mila’s sister was the top priority.

The Division Commander promised next time there won’t be such a thing and ordered his members to find Mila’s sister first.

How long did we wait?

After a while, a woman in her early to mid-twenties opened the guard station door and ran in.

“Mila!”

“Natalie, onnie…”

“Oh my goodness!”

The woman ran toward us and hugged Mila, who was sitting next to me and eating snacks.

I was overjoyed to see the two sisters reunite.

As much as I was concerned about what would happen if Mila couldn’t find her older sister, I was pleased with the current situation.

“I’m relieved you’re okay.
What happened to you? I’ve been looking for you for quite some time.”

 

“I was picking up the hairpin you had given me… But you weren’t there after that.”

“Don’t act alone from now on.
Call me first if anything unexpected occurs.”

“Okay.”

Mila’s head was stroked by the woman.

“By the way, Mila, how did you get to the guards’ station?”

“Elena eonni took me here.”

Mila pointed at me, and the woman turned to face me.

The woman’s face hardened as soon as she saw me.
Her eyes are trembling.

‘What’s wrong with her?’

Is she familiar with me for a bad reason?

I went through my memories, but this was the first time I saw the woman.

“Did she take you here?”

“Yeah.
And she gave me the fruit juice and told the guards to look for you, eonni.”

Mila described what happened in precise detail.

After hearing Mila, the woman approached me and bowed at a right angle to greet me.

 

“Thank you very much.
I was able to find my younger sister thanks to your help.”

It was a polite and respectful greeting.

I can’t even think of her as someone who looked at me with a rigid face earlier.

Was it because she was so sensitive that she was surprised to see me?

That could be the case.

“I’d like to repay you in some way, so if there’s anything…”

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“It’s all right.
I simply did what needed to be done.
And the guards and Division Commander put in more effort than I did.”

I cast a sidelong glance at the Division Commander.

The Division Commander then cleared his throat and extolled his virtue as if to brag.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

With an uninterested expression, the woman greeted the Division Commander and the guards.

‘Really, Mila’s sister didn’t really like the guards very much, huh?’

But I could understand it because I had come to agree with what I had been through a while ago.

After that, we said our goodbyes.

Mila was disappointed when I broke up with her.

It was the same for me, but I couldn’t do anything about it, so I left the Guards Station, promising to meet again someday.

* * * * *

It was the same day every year.

No, I mistook it for the same day.

Until Lord Vessel made me an offer.

“Do you have any thoughts of going to watch the sparring session?”

“Watching the sparring session?”

My eyes widened in response to unexpected suggestions.

“Aren’t you bored sitting alone in the office every day?”

“I’m bored, but…”

Don’t I have to go to the training field to watch the sparring session?

I blurred the end of my speech.

I still vividly remember the time when I rolled around in the training field and so many eyes and murmurs poured into me.

“I’m just going to stay here.
If I go there, I’m sure they won’t like it.”

“What? Who would do that? ”

What do you mean who?

“The other members of the knights.
”

“What makes you think that way?”

I couldn’t even open my mouth to explain why.

Because I didn’t want to say that everyone would despise me because of my ethnicity.

“Does it have anything to do with the fact that you used to be an actor?”

“How did you know?”

“That’s the only thing I can point out.
As a result, I received a reprimand from the Commander… oops!”

Lord Vessel kept his mouth shut, but I could hear everything he said.

Even when I didn’t say the reason, he was already thinking like that.

And when he confirmed it, I didn’t have the confidence to go any further.

“As expected, it’s better not to go.”

“No, not that, ah.”

Lord Vessel said as he ruffled my hair, his face troubled.

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“This is late but please accept my apology.
But no one thinks that way any longer.
I can assure you that.”

“Is that so?”

I responded, but I didn’t really believe it.

I couldn’t confirm that because not all of the members were like Lord Vessel.

“So let’s go out.
I’ll show you that no one thinks like that anymore.”

“What? You don’t have to do that…”

But rather than me refusing, Lord Vessel said, “Come on! Let’s go!” and push my back.

Being caught up in his pace, I had to get off to the training field.

* * * * *

I could feel the gaze from all sides.

I couldn’t care less about them staring at me openly.

‘How did I…’

I looked resentfully at Lord Vessel, who can be seen as the main culprit of this work.

But he was too engrossed in sparring and didn’t notice my gaze.

‘I should’ve run away in the middle.’

If I go up now and back to the office… I don’t think it would work out.

I’m already here anyway.

I let out a sigh so small that no one could notice it, and I touched my chin with my palm.

It’s a relief that it was a sparring session, not a training session.

Because people would focus on watching the match.

If it was a training session and I was the only one watching, it would have been more embarrassing, like a thorny cushion.

“Excuse me.”

I turned my head in surprise at the woman’s voice right next to me.

Soon I saw a woman wearing a shirt and black wool pants.

“Ah, right, we had a female knight here.’

I knew that there was a woman in the Knights Order.

However, only one of the members was a woman and the rest were men.

Thanks to this, I had always seen only male members and had gotten used to them.

But it was amazing to see a female knight.

; By the way, she looks familiar… Where did I see her?’

After blinking several times, I soon found out who the woman was.

“We met last time, right? You’re Mila’s sister!”

“Yes, that’s right.”

The woman nodded with a blunt face.

“I’m officially greeting you.
I am Natalie Seria.”

“Dame Seria.”

Later, I thought I could see why she made a hardened face when she first saw me.

It was because she recognized me.

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I just thought it was just my misunderstanding.

“You can call me Natalie.”

It was a tempting remark for a moment, but I shook my head.

“We are in Knight’s quarters.
Thank you for your words, but I think it would be better to call you by your knighthood than your name… Would it hurt your feelings?”

“No way.
You can call me whatever you want.
Can I sit next to you?”

“Of course.”

I nodded gladly.

If someone else asked, I would have hesitated, but there was no reason to hesitate as the opponent was Mila’s sister, Natalie.

Soon Natalie sat next to me.

Somehow, the awkwardness lingered, but it still felt better than when I sat alone.

“Is Mila doing well?”

“Yes, thanks to you.”

“That’s a relief.”

Thinking of the child brought a smile to my lips.

“I heard from Mila that you hit the table and made the guards release their manpower, Lady Oreu.”

I apologized quickly to the memory I had forgotten for a few days.
It wasn’t a good scene for the child to see.

“I’m sorry.
I was out of my mind because I was angered at the time.”

“No, I’m rather grateful.”

Grateful?

“If you didn’t act like that, Lady, there’s no way they would move.
Then if a lost child report came in, the best thing they would do is just to leave the child alone and wait.”

Natalie, who shed a sneer, added.

“Even if you asked them to find the lost child, they would have pretended they didn’t know what to do, saying it wasn’t under their jurisdiction.”

At that moment, I thought unconsciously, ‘Was Natalie at the scene at that time?’

Because Natalie’s point was accurate.

I couldn’t refute it, but I just smiled awkwardly.

“You know very well about the security guards, Dame Seria.”

“I worked for the security guard before.”

“That’s why you’ve experienced it a lot.”

“Yes, most of them pretend to be sincere only when it has to do with their business, neglect their work, and are infinitely indifferent to the weak and only rub against the strong.”

Definitely… I nodded my head in agreement as I recalled what I had been through.

“As a result, my trust in the security guards is close to the bottom.
I usually told Mila not to trust the guards.
Because of that, I didn’t think she would be in the guard station.”

“Did I do something wrong?”

“No way.
Thanks to you, Lady Oreu, I was able to find Mila quickly.
Thank you again.”

“No, it’s nothing.”

I waved my hands.

Of course, I did some things, but technically, it was because of the badge Caleb gave me.

‘If I didn’t have a badge, I would have been constantly harassed by the guards all the time.’

Reminding me of the guy who was betting on me for a dinner date made me feel unpleasant again.

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The only comforting thing is that the Division Commander would have punished the man well.

“Is there anything Mila has done to you…”

“There was no such thing.
She was rather polite.
She’s very cute.”

“I hear that often.”

Natalie’s tone was calm.

However, the tail of her lips was twitching over and over.

A gentleness that could not be hidden came out over the blunt face.

Looking at that, I was able to realize one fact.

‘Dame Seria… She’s an idiot for her sister.’‘
(T/N: 동생 바보 aka dongsaeng pabo means The person who cares so much about a younger sister or younger brother)

It was the moment when Natalie’s impression, who seemed blunt, changed.

When I’m feeling more at ease than at the beginning, Natalie opens her mouth.

“More than that, aren’t you bored?”

“What?”

“Seeing the sparring match.
We’re used to it, but you’re being dragged out by the Vice-Commander and forced to watch it, Lady.”

“Oh, it’s okay.
I’m also used to watching a match.”

“You’re used to it?”

“Yes, I saw it a lot when I learned swordsmanship.
I often participated in competitions, no, I mean sparring matches.”

“Are you saying that you have learned swordsmanship and even tried a sparring match?”

The last question was not from Natalie.

I was surprised by the strange voice that suddenly intervened, and looked sideways.

There was a man in the uniform of the Royal Knights.

“Yes, that’s right.”

“If you’ve seen sparring matches often, why don’t you try to guess how many moves the Vice-Commander is likely to win within the round?”

The man pointed to the sparring match with his hand.

Lord Vessel and an unknown knight are seen facing each other with a sword.

‘Do I have to…?’

I had that thought, but, not only the man next to me but also Natalis looked at me as if they were expecting.

Looking at their expressions, I thought I should just talk.

There’s nothing difficult and there’s no disadvantage even if I’m wrong.

I will, nodding back, I opened my mouth while looking down at the sparring match.

“Within three heaps.”

“You mean within 3 heaps?”

“Yes, oh, the sword hit in the meantime, so it must be within two heaps now.”

While I was finishing my speech, the sword bumped again.

At the same time, Lord Vessel pushed his body forward and hit his opponent’s wrist.

Clank!

Along with the sound of sharp engagement of metals, the sword held by an unknown knight jumped into the air.

It was Lord Vessel’s victory.