Death's Daughter and the Ebony Blade: Volume 5 [Parts 1 to 6] by Maito Ayamine

Author:Maito Ayamine
Language: eng
Format: epub

IV

“What’re you two doing here?”

“I’m sorry. I know it’s late, but I needed to talk to you...” Claudia peered through the crack in the door into the room. “Do you mind if we come in?”

“Sure, I guess...” Olivia replied. Ashton was looking at her searchingly. Bemused, she let the two of them in. As she did so, she noticed that Tabitha was sitting in her chair, just as she’d promised.

Once inside, Claudia cast her gaze over every corner of the room. “This is very spacious,” she said. It seemed to Olivia as though she were on watch for something.

“Who’s the servant in the corridor?”

“Apparently she’s sitting there so if I ring the bell she can come right away.”

“There? All night?” Ashton glared at the patch of wall behind which Tabitha sat.

“I guess. I did tell her she should go back to her own room and sleep...” Olivia looked at the other two. “They didn’t send someone for you?”

Ashton and Claudia both shook their heads in silence. Olivia was the only one receiving this service, then.

“They’ve really thought of everything.”

“Yeah...”

The other two both looked grim as Olivia showed them to the sofa, then sat herself down with the table in between them.

“Want something to drink?” she asked.

“I’d appreciate something warm, if you don’t mind. I’m freezing,” Claudia said, then looked over at the window. Engrossed in her thoughts, Olivia had totally failed to notice that it had started to rain.

“What about you, Ashton?”

“Oh, something warm for me too.”

“Got it.” Olivia promptly rang the bell, there was a knock at the door, and Tabitha appeared. It really was a tough job, Olivia thought.

“Lady Olivia, you called?”

“Can you bring something warm to drink for the three of us?”

“Of course, my lady. Will Mekian leygrantz do?”

“Well, I like it, so it’s fine by me...” Olivia looked over at Claudia and Ashton to confirm. They both nodded their agreement. “I guess that’s fine, then.”

“Very good, my lady. I’ll put a pot on at once.”

Olivia watched Tabitha leave, then turned back to the other two. “Is something wrong?” she asked.

“That,” Claudia replied, “is precisely the question I wanted to ask you. Did Seraph Sofitia say something to you?”

“Huh? How’d you know?” Olivia was taken completely by surprise, for the simple reason that she thought she’d acted completely normal around the others.

“Because we’ve known you long enough by now, Olivia,” Ashton said. “Lieutenant Claudia will tell you I’m not exactly perceptive, but even I can tell when you’re not yourself.”

Ashton looked more serious than Olivia had ever seen him. Claudia smiled drily and nodded. Olivia’s initial surprise was fading, and happiness was bubbling up to take its place. Why, she couldn’t have said. But right now, she felt happy.

“You look pleased about something,” Ashton said dubiously.

“Yep, I am.”

“You’re so weird.”

As Ashton frowned, Claudia cleared her throat and asked, “So just what did the seraph say to you, General?”

“Well...” Olivia got no further.

“Is it something you can’t even tell us?”

For a moment, Olivia wavered on whether she ought to tell them.

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