After the Founding Festival, we returned to the Duke’s residence. Since I returned, not a single finger has moved for three days until today.

“Ugh, so tired.”

After a week of dealing with high heels and dresses, everything was annoying. For two days straight, even eating was something I handled in bed.

“Bed is the best, blanket is the best, underfloor heating is the best.”

I loved the essential items of laziness. If my stomach growled a bit, I just needed to stretch my arms out from the bed.

“Just a little more…!”

I was in the midst of reaching for the biscuits on the bedside table.

I tried moving my fingers hard, but it felt like I could touch them, yet not quite. Emma, who couldn’t stand it, opened the curtains wide and said,

“Lady Eileen, you still need to have a meal, though.”

I wish she had said that while handing me the biscuits. Eventually, I got up and bit into what I wanted.

“Emma, until when is your vacation?”

“There’s one more week left. Do you want me to use it all up? Or… are you finding me troublesome?”

“It’s not like that.”

As soon as I raised my head, her fiery gaze disappeared.

“Emma has been a bit scary lately.”

The mild Emma was gone, replaced by a strong and determined lady who seemed capable of uprooting anything.

But well, whether she was like this or like that, Emma was still Emma.

She had brought me a warm latte without me realizing. Blowing on it, I suddenly asked Emma,

“Oh, by the way, when is the Winter Hunt?”

“Hunt? Why are you suddenly asking about that?”

I answered with a milky foam on my lips, showing a face of not understanding English.

Seeing my puzzled expression, Emma asked again with a serious look.

“Of course, Lady Eileen should congratulate the winner, right?”

“Huh, why… Oh, right.”

There was something like that, right. A forgotten memory surfaced little by little.

After the Founding Festival, the Winter Hunt hosted by the imperial family would take place.

It was a competition to catch the elusive silver fox, designated as the prey in a part of the vast Lufah Forest, only during the winter.

“And as the Lady of Lunartier, you’re supposed to award the winner with the Royal Laurel.”

Oh right, I completely forgot.

In this snowy season, in the forest… The idea of ​​going out and getting caught up in a new outing was tiring and cold.

“Ugh, I don’t want to go…”

I sprawled back onto the bed.

The Winter Hunt would take place two weeks from now.

The reason I completely forgot about the Winter Hunt was that I was relying on the original work for future events.

‘Back then, no one could participate in the hunt.’

The day after Elsias became a Lunartier, she was kidnapped by Kashar.

Just as I was trying to recall the days of imprisonment, Emma opened the window wide.

“Ugh, it’s cold!”

“I’m ventilating. You’ve already kept the door closed for three days.”

“But it’s winter.”
“No matter how cold it is. It’s not good for your health to lie down too much. Why don’t you take a walk at least?”

Is it too much to do nothing for three days?

In the end, I changed my clothes. While I was changing very slowly, Emma finished cleaning.

“Well, then, I’ll go do something else.”

“Yeah, go ahead. Emma.”

Judging by Emma’s attitude, it seemed like she was busy with something else and hadn’t done anything for me.

‘I don’t need to be taken care of.’

It was the first time I had done nothing and lay down. On the first day, I was worried if something hurt. It was natural to nag like that.

Chased out of the room like that, I wandered around the corridor and found Eschtra.

“Eschtra, do you know where Louis and Evan are?”

“If it’s those two, they went to the riding field.”

The recently completed riding field was insulated, allowing horse riding even in the middle of winter.

‘Impressive.’

As expected, the stamina of children was different no matter what.

‘Come to think of it, where did Kashar go?’

Whenever I opened my eyes, he was always by my side, as if he was peering into me. But a little while ago, the adjacent seat was empty.

As if reading my mind, Eschtra told me about him.

“The master is at the training grounds.”

“Ah.”

Come to think of it, Kashar briefly disappeared and came back whenever it became morning. From his perspective, who was originally disciplined, it was natural, but I felt embarrassed at the moment when my laziness became evident.

‘Laziness that even Kashar can’t interfere with.’

I needed to reflect on this a bit.

I thanked Emma, who chased me out.

“Thanks for telling me.”

“Don’t mention it.”

Eschtra passed by me. The sky outside the window was blurry and cloudy, as if it were about to snow.

Nevertheless, Eschtra was wearing sunglasses.

Now her sunglasses love was not bound by weather or light.

‘Should I gift her a different design soon?’

With that thought in mind, I moved my body.

Step, step.

It was quite fun stepping on the piled-up snow.

Unconsciously, I arrived at the training grounds.

‘I didn’t mean to come all the way here.’

It seemed like I heard about his whereabouts from Eschtra.