To The Eternal Knight (2 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 18

You’re avoiding me again.

Don’t you realize that dodging me so obviously just makes me want to chase you more?

Alejandro watched her retreating back until she disappeared from view. A sweet smile lingered briefly at the corners of his lips before vanishing. From behind, Johnny approached and gave his shoulder a light tap.

“You didn’t do anything wrong to Lady Nerea, did you…? Wait, why are you looking at me like that?”

“Who do you think you are to call my knight by name so casually?”

His low voice was deadly sharp. Johnny instinctively stammered out an excuse.

“She told me not to call her ‘knight’ or ‘countess,’ but I certainly can’t just call her ‘miss’ either! So what exactly am I supposed to do? Wait—am I not even allowed to say ‘Lady Nerea’?”

“Don’t call her that.”

The viper. His blunt words were fierce.

“So I can’t say ‘countess,’ I can’t say ‘knight,’ and now I can’t even say ‘Lady Nerea’? Good grief, it’s enough to make a servant with no knight around weep with despair.”

Johnny grumbled audibly, as if wanting to be overheard. Although Alejandro paid no attention to his words, one phrase did stick in his ear.

“Anyway, you remind me of our youngest. You know our Lariette, right? Lately, she’s been running away just like that.”

Realizing what he’d implied, Johnny quickly added that he absolutely didn’t mean to suggest the knight had run off.

But Alejandro narrowed his eyes. He understood precisely the context in which Johnny had made that remark.

The knight was slow. And clumsy.

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