Listening to Sera’s advice, Nainiae, who was sitting right next to her in the drivers’ seats, nodded her head as she said,
“…Got it.”
“…”
Sera, who was driving the carriage, turned her head toward Nainiae and narrowed her eyes.
Spark
Nainiae felt the heat somehow coming from the gaze. She tilted her head to the side as she wondered if she did something wrong. Soon, she realized her mistake and corrected her response.
“Ah, I understand… My apologies.”
It seemed she still didn’t quite become fully aware of the mistakes in her language. Nainiae, with an awkward expression on her face, was fiddling with her fingers.
“That is, my old habits are still there, so…”
In Lower Solia, a place full of people with foul mouths, she had been indebted to that place for quite a while ever since she was abandoned by the Magic Tower.
It appeared that she was so accustomed to Lower Solia’s foul language that she was currently having difficulty adjusting to respectful language.
“Ha…”
Sera, who was driving the carriage, sighed heavily enough to make the ground sink.
In her opinion, actually, with all things considered, Nainiae’s language was in a pretty good shape.
Despite having spent quite a while in Lower Solia, Nainiae was not carrying disturbing and vulgar swears in her mouth. Instead of complaining about Nainiae having problems with adjusting her language, Sera at least found it to be fortunate that Nainiae didn’t swear like that.
‘Although I didn’t want to be understanding of her over something like this.’
Sera knew well about the old habits that Nainiae spoke of earlier.
It was because there was a time when Sera lived in Lower Solia and it also took her quite a while to correct her language afterwards.
Moreover, the foul language she had back then was far rougher than how Nainiae’s language was now.
‘I’m not liking this…’
Although Sera was someone who had experience living in Lower Solia, because of her experience, she didn’t like Lower Solia and people from that place.
The slightly scrunched expression on her face was revealing that fact.
“You need to use respectful…language…”
It appeared Nainiae was at a loss for words. She didn’t know what to say, so instead, she was focusing on fiddling with her fingers.
Her slightly lowered head was showing signs of reflecting upon her mistake from the bottom of her heart.
“…”
Because Sera was sitting right next to Nainiae with almost no distance between them, and because Sera was looking at Nainiae from Nainiae’s left side, the side where she could not see Nainiae’s scars on her right, the expression on Sera’s face looked mesmerized.
‘One side of her face is normal at least.’
Her skin was whiter than milk.
According to Riley, Sera heard that Nainiae was subjected to all sorts of cruel experiments at the Magic Tower.
Right side of Nainiae’s face had scars, but other than that, Nainiae had a spotless, white and smooth skin. It was the kind that Sera, as a woman, could feel jealous about.
“Sera…”
“…”
Nainiae was still fiddling with her fingers while giving a blank stare straight ahead, but she suddenly called Sera’s name.
The look on Sera’s face expressed that she was thinking this was unfair. While pouting, Sera was staring at Nainiae’s face from the side, and she was not able to hear Nainiae’s voice.
“Sera… No. I mean, Lady Sera, in the front…”
Nainiae raised her right hand, which was missing two fingers, and pointed its index finger toward something.
Because of Nainiae’s movement, Sera finally woke up from her useless thoughts and looked where Nainiae was pointing. Surprised, Sera quickly fixed her grip on the rein.
“Ah?!”
Sera had her guard down all this time because she was distracted by Nainiae’s face. Now, Sera’s eyes were open wide.
She had no idea since when the object was there, but there was a large boulder blocking the way.
‘D-Danger!’
Sera pulled the rein with all of her strength to change the carriage’s direction.
Horses turned their heads as they screamed with beastly neighs, but because of the rapid change in direction, the carriage was starting to tilt to the side.
“Uh? Uhuhuh?”
“Sera!”
Inside the carriage, Riley was holding Iris. Sera could hear his voice calling her name.
Ian stuck his face out toward the drivers’ seats and yelled at Sera,
“Uuaaaa!”
If she corrected the tilted carriage, the carriage would collide with the boulder. On the other hand, if she changed the direction to avoid the boulder, the carriage would tilt over to the side.