Chapter 284
Chapter 284: Mr. Evans Is Back!
Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion
Lucien did not know what to say. He just wanted to play a joke, but the joke poked the softest and the most painful part of Natasha’s heart. He wanted to comfort Natasha, but he did not know how.
Seeing Lucien’s embarrassed look, Natasha bit her lips lightly and said, “It’s okay, Lucien. No matter what happened, it’s a part of me. I always try to appreciate it and learn my lesson out of it. That’s my attitude. Don’t worry, Lucien. I’ll never blame you for saying something you never really mean to say.”
“Well… If so, let me be honest, Natasha,” said Lucien in a pretended serious way. “The only thing that I learn from memory and history is that… we can learn nothing.”
Natasha first paused a second and then burst out laughing with Lucien. She was laughing so hard that she even could not keep her back straight like a knight, like a flourishing violet.
“Maybe what you said is true. Next time when I meet my love, I’ll still give her all I have,” said Natasha in a bit coarse voice from the good laugh. “I learn nothing.”
“Good luck, Your Majesty. Hope you can meet a great lady and have a really good relationship soon,” said Lucien sincerely.
“Soon?” Natasha lifted her good-looking brows and said, “Am I that kind of person who can just quickly forget her love and past? Come on… I’m not!”
Although she looked angry, Lucien could tell that Natasha now felt much better by letting out the sorrow that she could not share with other people.
“Umm… You’re not that kind of person. Then, can I say you do not have much relationship experience yourself? You’ve been telling me that you can teach me, but now I highly doubt it.” Lucien grinned.
“Better than yours.” Natasha quickly talked back, “Also, let me remind you, if you didn’t notice—I’m also a lady, and at least I’ve experienced a complete relationship. In front of you, I’m still qualified as a teacher to tell you how to pursue a girl. You haven’t even touched a girl’s hand!”
Lucien shrugged his shoulders, “Don’t keep mentioning this…”
“Okay, another topic then. Your first kiss is still there, right?” Natasha put on a sneaky smile, “What a pity… Girls’ lips are…”
“Hey… Don’t act like a pervert, ok?” Lucien rolled his eyes.
Natasha clapped her hands and laughed, “Just admit it, Lucien, you innocent little boy. Admit that I’ve got enough to teach you about these things!”
“Okay, okay… You win.” Lucien put up both of his hands.
The princess smirked, like a flower. Then she looked at Lucien and said in a gentle tone, “Thank you, Lucien.”
“I’m your friend.” Lucien nodded to Natasha, smiling.
“Good laugh always reminds me of the fact that losing love doesn’t mean the end of my life,” said Natasha. “I still have my father, my relatives, aunt Camil, and you, my friend. I can overcome this,” said Natasha. “And then I’ll introduce you to a good lady.”
“Let me handle this on my own…” Lucien shook his head and smiled.
Natasha now got a bit more serious and started to tell Lucien how his family was doing, “After awakening his Blessing, John has become a knight and given the title as a Lord. Like his teacher, Venn, John serves my family, the Violet. Now he has his own land and a garden villa.”
Lucien grinned. He truly felt happy for his friend.
“You uncle and aunt Alisa have been learning noble manners in these years to help John around and reach out to other nobles.” Natasha continued, “Although they were often looked down upon by other nobles, for their son, they finally did it. Now your uncle Joel, known as ‘the Eight-fingered Harpist’, has gained some reputation among nobles. But I guess that, among the nobles, your uncle could only feel really happy when he plays music…”
“Good for them!” There was nothing better than seeing that all his relatives and friends were also striving for their better life like Lucien himself.
“As for Iven, he’s grown quite a bit and he’s a young man now. Iven’s still under tough knight training. Felicia just held her very first concert in her life, and it was not bad. She’s ready to start her career as a musician. Elena, after working hard on studying music for three years and fighting against her arranged marriage, now has been hired by a big band. So now she has her own career and does not need to rely on a man anymore…” Natasha smiled. “Pierre, after being quite depressed for two years, finally overcame the barrier and started to study the fingerings that were first developed by you. By combining the skills with the fingering of Harpsichord, he has found his own playing style. Your student, Grace, has been working hard all the time and is spoken highly by several musicians. Both Lott and Herodotus have also become good master instrumentalists…”
Lucien felt really touched in his mind, because he heard the news of his friends and family, and also because of the fact that, as a princess and the future Grand Duchess, Natasha kept collecting these nobodies’ information just for Lucien.
“By the way, John isn’t in Aalto now. According to the rules, new knights must join Violet Knights and guard the Dark Mountain Range Fortress or the North Fortress for five years, and then he’d be sent to other places according to the duchy’s needs. He’s at the Dark Mountain Range Fortress right now. If you can stay here longer, maybe he could come back during his vacation…”
As she was saying, Natasha stopped and looked at the gentle smile on Lucien’s face, feeling a bit strange, “Lucien, why are you looking like me like this?”
“I really, really appreciate your help,” Lucien said sincerely. “Thank you for collecting all these information for me.”
Natasha grinned, “Of course. I’m the best!”
Their conversation lasted until dawn. When morning light slightly lit up the sky, Natasha stood up in an unwilling way and said, “I’m afraid I gotta go now.”
Then she said to Lucien, “Your uncle and aunt should be out of town right now in John’s manor, so you probably want to visit Mr. Christopher and Mr. Victor in the Musicians’ Association first. Then, hold your concert as soon as possible, so you can say bye to your identity as a musician. Unfortunately, you don’t have any new pieces of symphony of the same level of Fate, or your last concert would be definitely recorded by history, and you’d leave no regrets in your career as a musician. I mean… Moonlight and Storm are good. The concert’s still going to be a great success. Don’t worry.”
“When I was traveling, I did have some thoughts on different styles of music, and I do have a few movements. But I’m not sure if I still have enough time to finish it…” sighed Lucien slightly.
Lucien used music to relax himself. By combining the different styles of music all over the world, Lucien developed quite a few movements on his own based on New World Symphony by Antonín Dvořák. Because Lucien was still far from being a real master musician, the symphony he wrote and New World Symphony were very much alike.
“Wow… Can’t wait to hear it.” Natasha looked excited, and her face was glowing. “Do you have any interests in religious music? I think a piece of music work praising God be good for you when the Church… Never mind, I was being stupid… You’re a sorcerer with no belief.”
Lucien grinned and shook his head. It seemed that Natasha was getting less serious about religion, or at least the Church.
Their conversation lasted a bit longer when it came to music. When the sun was rising, Natasha finally realized the time and said goodbye to Lucien.
When flying in the early morning sky, Camil looked at Natasha’s right hand a bit confusedly and strangely.
“What is it?” asked Natasha. She saw no difference on her right hand.
“Nothing.” Camil shook her head.
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In front of the unique building of the Musicians’ Association, Lucien, after shaving and removing the dyed color on his hair, was staring at it.
It felt a bit weird. This building looked familiar, but also strange. In this building, Lucien even still had his own exclusive lounge.
After Natasha left in the morning, Lucien told Leo that his mission had been finished. However, Leo wished to follow Lucien to Allyn and became his real butler. After carefully considering it, Lucien agreed. But he asked Leo to wait for him in Aalto first until he came back from the Dark Mountain Range. Lucien was not sure whether he could protect himself properly in the mountains, not to mention taking care of Leo.
Some passerby’s laughter woke Lucien up from his thoughts. They were tourists who stayed a bit longer in Aalto after the music festival, hanging around the Musicians’ Association casually to see if they could luckily meet the musicians they liked here.
After adjusting his jacket a bit, Lucien walked to the stairs. There were a few young musicians and instrumentalists standing there.
A guard took a step forward. When he just about to stop the young man, the guard quickly rubbed his eyes and his mouth opened big, “Mr. E… Evans… Good morning, Mr. Evans!”
His voice was loud. Several tourists turned around, and so did the young musicians and instrumentalists on the stairs.
After seeing clearly the face of the young man, the musicians and instrumentalists lowered their heads slightly and said in a respectful and excited manner, “Good morning, Mr. Evans. Welcome back!”