Earl and Fairy: Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 7] by Mizue Tani

Author:Mizue Tani
Language: eng
Format: epub

Lydia hadn’t expected to sleep as she waited for Edgar’s return, but at some point while she was resting vacantly on the sofa, slumber must have taken her. A bushy tail tickling the end of her nose in the dark woke her, and she sneezed, rubbing her eyes.

“Nico? Oh dear, I must have dozed off.”

“Perhaps so, but Lydia, I know where the princess is!”

“Princess?”

“Betty, wasn’t it? The girl kidnapped by the Blue Knight Earl? She was given to the worm as its bride.”

Lydia sprang off the sofa. “Are you quite certain of that?”

“Apparently, she leaves the worm’s lair once a month. We must hurry, else we shan’t make it!”

“All right, I shall make haste. Oh, but I must return to my room to fetch my coat first.”

The early morning was relatively cold. The room had a fireplace, but even then, she felt chilly after being roused from her nap.

“I’ll be waiting for you in the hall,” Nico said.

Lydia hurried up the stairs and rushed into her room. As she opened the closet, it struck her that the dress she was wearing didn’t lend itself to ease of movement. She was dressed to look like a casual traveler, but seeing as Edgar’s true identity had already been exposed, there was no need for such pretenses anymore. Besides, it would likely get ruined the moment she set foot in the worm’s lair.

Pulling one of her own everyday outfits from her trunk, she threw the frillier garment she had been wearing to one side. Then she removed her crinoline and put her skirt on over her petticoat. As she began to fasten the buttons on her upper garment, there was a noise at the window.

“I shan’t be a moment, Nico!” She lamented her companion’s impatience until she turned and her eyes met those of a grinning water horse.

“Hallo, Lydia. Ye jist up and disappeared on us, so I came lookin’ for ye.”

“Kelpie! You mustn’t enter my room without warning! I’m changing!”

“So? Ah’m no stoppin’ ye, am I?”

“Have you taken leave of your senses, or do you not possess any in the first place?”

“What?”

He was a horse—a fairy-horse, at that—and so his idea of common sense naturally differed from that of a human’s. Lydia decided she ought to finish changing quickly rather than waste time lecturing him. It wasn’t as though he understood the difference between undergarments and outerwear.

“I smell smoke. Somethin’s burnin’.”

Lydia rushed to the window, still partway through doing up her buttons, but it was too dark to see anything. However, she heard the gunshot when it came.

Oh, I wonder whether Edgar and the others are safe... Unfortunately, she could no longer afford to wait for them to come back. She needed to tell someone that she was going to search for Betty. She made to leave.

“Ye complain tae us about comin’ in here when ye’re changin’, but ye’ll walk outside afore ye’re even finished?”

For goodness’ sake. It was at times like this that Lydia felt all too keenly the inconveniences of being a woman.

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