Chapter 8

Ilyin jumped back, and the blue cloth fell to the ground. She only remembered his crystal blue eyes; the man had already disappeared.

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While the knights cleaning up was efficient, they paid little attention to Ilyin. They only took her back to the carriage.

“Wait here, please.”

They seemed to know who she was, yet she was left alone for a long time, but thought that this was far better than being met with hostility.

“Welcome!” said a man wearing a strange outfit. The old man covered himself with a wide cloth while wearing a formal outfit underneath it and Ilyin noticed that it was different from her blue one.

“How can you make her stand like this!” He yelled at a maid, and the blue tassels on his uniform shook along with his voice.

“Please, come this way.” The maid, who wore a red accessory in her black hair, spoke softly and then led Ilyin.

The old man had followed Ilyin to the room and bowed low, “You will rest here for a week.”

“What happens then?” she questioned.

“Has nothing been explained to you yet?”

The horseman hadn’t mentioned anything to her, and then she’d been ambushed by monsters on her arrival and no one else had said anything to her either. “I’ve been told nothing,” she replied. The old man mumbled something as he shook his head. She heard that he was cursing some people named the Delroses under his breath. Who were they? she wondered.

“I apologize for not introducing myself earlier. I am Lidan of the Blue North.” He said in a friendly tone.

“Blue North?” Even though Ilyin could not use a sword, she could distinguish those who trained and those who did not. Lidan was not muscular and he did not have a sword.

“I heard that you had a mishap outside the castle. I will arrange for my people to explain to you all about Biflten.” Lidan, despite his friendliness, was cautious with his words, revealing little to her.