Chapter 63 – Episode 63 the First Vacation Is in the Castle of Demons (11)
“Hey, Lena de Peron, are you really taking sleeping pills to sleep?”
“….”
A line that I couldn’t pass by like this came into my ears.
My curiosity aroused, and I quietly listened to the conversation.
“Surely Berryus said so.”
“Oh, that idiot?”
I asked Armonia.
‘Who is Verius?’
[This is the name of the prince I saw yesterday.]
‘Aha.’
I remember hearing about it, but I forgot because I wasn’t interested in it.
The guy who used the word gongtong was the guy who said he was the successor of the Marquis.
To talk about the prince of one’s own country in such a way was to say that the prince was really an asshole.
When I first saw it, it seemed like I couldn’t tell the difference.
“Where do I get that?”
“I don’t know exactly.”
“But won’t you lock the door and sleep even if you take sleeping pills? Is there someone here who can open the door?”
“What do you see us as…. Do you think you learned such an insignificant skill?”
What, bullshit? What you’re already trying to do is something you don’t even want to be a scumbag, right?
“Verius says he has the key, wake him up if something urgent happens.”
“Ah, then you can take the key.”
“But they say that sleeping pills are weak and can wake you up, so you need some rope and cloth.”
“She is an ignorant woman who fell in the war, but it will be difficult not to tie her up.”
“So when are you going to do it?”
“Let’s go back to the guys who came here to play.”
I carefully opened the back door and left the warehouse.
‘Let’s go.’
[Don’t you want to hear more?]
‘Done.’
I didn’t want to listen to it anymore because it was absurd.
Understanding goes.
Because the gongnyeo is fucking pretty.
And if I said I did it after I left, it would be meaningless.
I left the shed and carefully returned to the garden to avoid being spotted by the colossus.
Upon arriving at the garden, the princess had already brought a cart with food.
“… Did you go looking for your companions?”
“No, I stopped by somewhere for a while.”
I sat in a chair at the ornate dining table in the gazebo.
The quick-witted princess immediately started putting food on the table.
It was just one person.
There was still one more serving left in the cart.
“If the rest of the party comes….”
“No, no one is coming. Raise that too”
“… ?”
I said while looking at the princess with a questioning expression.
“Sit down, let’s eat.”
***
“… Where is it?”
When Lena opened her eyes, what she saw was a corridor illuminated by the dusky sunset.
“Right, I was on my way to my room after work.”
I muttered involuntarily and started walking down the hallway.
As I walked down the hallway, a group of people were having a conversation in the middle.
They were men about the same age as Lena.
“….”
I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but they were immersed in the conversation completely oblivious to me.
“Lena de Peron, you must be a virgin, right?”
“Isn’t it? I must have picked it up a few times in the war.”
“I must have been fucking with the soldiers after going to war.”
Lena frowned at their lowly conversation. She was at a loss as to how the hell to deal with this.
Their conversation showed no sign of stopping.
“Are you going to take responsibility for this?”
“Okay, let’s stab it.”
“Fuck, she got us into this shape, shouldn’t we do something?”
Lena nearly collapsed as her legs gave out in her moment.
A conversation between men who secretly entrust the work to themselves while giving encouragement and support in front of them.
Tears welled up at their conversation, but I managed to hold on to my chest and barely support myself.
The men had already disappeared.
“Okay… It’s because of me.”
I groaned and started walking again.
But this time, a group of female aristocrats appeared.
They didn’t notice Lena and started talking to her.
“Do you know that men are trying to do strange things to Lena de Peron?”
Lena unknowingly crouched down, hiding behind her pillar beside her.
“Shouldn’t I tell you this?”
Lena smiled involuntarily.
‘You’re on my side.’
The thought that she was not alone started to flood her mind.
Female aristocrats were always busy blaming themselves when they made a mistake.
That’s how I was interrogated, flogged, and starved instead of my fault.
Even though they are like that, Rena was infinitely grateful to them for thinking of her as much as she is at this moment.
But her mind, which had risen like that, plummeted to the floor in an instant.
“If she’s wrong, there’s no one to blame!”
“Sure, stupid men, how useful she is.”
“Ah! Annoying! Rather, if the demons saw a woman’s face, they could sell her and return to the country!”
Lena, who had been hiding behind her pillars, could no longer hear the women’s words in her ears.
She could only see her tears dripping down her own sleeve.
Lena cried silently for a long time, then trembled and pulled her body up.
“Go… Gotta go Sleep… Everything is solved….”
If only she could sleep, she could forget all this even for a moment.
Even if hell unfolds the next day, I could be happy for that moment.
As Lena staggered down the hallway, a young man came running.
“Princess!”
“Ha… Ha….”
The kid who ran out with a serious expression was Berryus.
Lena asked, calming herself down so as not to instill her anxiety in him, wiping away her cold sweat.
“What are you doing? Berryus.”
“That is….”
What Berryus was doing now was what he did when he had done something.
Facing the hesitant Berryus, Lena held back and asked again.
“… What happened?”
“They tell me to clean out the warehouse! I am the Prince of Vettel!”
“Ah….”
Lena started to feel dizzy.
In this way, when Berryus caused trouble, he meant that all responsibility would be shifted to him.
At first, I felt sorry for the young Berryus, so I tried to take care of everything until he got used to it.
However, his immature behavior showed no signs of improving.
And when he caused trouble in this way, he got only one punishment.
It was to walk around the castle without sleeping and replace the mana stone that had reached the end of its lifespan.
She began to feel her exhaustion, which she hadn’t felt even when she fought without sleeping for three days and nights on the battlefield.
Suddenly, Verius grinned and said.
“What a relief. Princess!”
“… Yes?”
Berryus’s last words dealt a decisive blow to himself.
“You said you couldn’t sleep? I’m glad I’m not bored!”
“Ah… Ah… !”
Lena’s vision suddenly began to break and everything about her disappeared.
When she opened her eyes, there was a man handing her a handkerchief, staring at herself in the distance in front of her eyes.
“It’s okay?”
***
“… Sorry.”
The princess corrected her voice and stood up from her seat, even as she shed tears.
I turned my head and wiped away my tears with the towel I gave you.
While looking at such a princess, she heard her communication from Armonia.
[What manipulation did you do this time that makes you cry like that?]
‘… I didn’t.’
[Yes?]
‘I haven’t touched a single one.’
The princess, who refused to sit at the table with me, was forced to sit down and eat together, citing Guardia.
Drowsy after she had finished eating, she slept before putting away her dishes and went into her dream.
This time, I wanted to know more about her, so I secretly followed her without tampering with her dreams.
But it was spectacle.
She was a princess who specialized in war and battle, and tended to hide her presence well, and she was forced to listen to the back stories of the people she stayed with even if she didn’t want to.
The content of the gossip was a conversation that irritated even me.
‘You bastard bastards….’
[Are you angry?]
‘No, it’s just annoying. This woman is stupid too.’
Apparently, she seemed to have known about the men’s plans long ago.
But there was one thing I didn’t understand.
‘Why do you leave the key to the prince?’
She doesn’t think of him as a cat.
Not a rat
I entrusted the fish to the rat.
The most absurd thing was the prince’s baby.
‘They were the culprits who made this mess by following her around, liking the little princess.’
The source of all the evil that made the princess look like this was a child.
Every day, she had troubles and everything was overturned by the princess, which gradually gnawed at her spirit.
‘That bastard changed after he was nearly killed by Guardia the other day.’
[Certainly, the attitude before and after has changed a lot.]
It was strange to her that the guy who growled while hugging the viola was the same guy who shivered at me in the guest room.
However, the guy she saw in the princess’s dream was definitely the same as the guy she first met.
The kid’s last words made her mouth open in fright, even to me.
It was such an absurd line that even I wanted to believe that I fabricated it.
In other words, if she jumps around because she likes her princess, there may be things that she really likes, but there are things that she likes because she is just like her own protective shield.
The princess came to her senses and returned her handkerchief to me.
“I’m really sorry.”
“Well, people can sleep.”
“Then I’ll clean the tableware and come back.”
The princess started loading the tableware from her table into her cart.
I asked because I had a question.
“Oh, I have something to ask you.”
“Yes, which one?”
“Is there anything you like?”
“… There is not.”
It’s just a brat….
I didn’t think you would tell me.
“Okay, drop them and come back. Let’s stay a little longer.”
“… All right.”
After the princess returned her tableware, she quietly looked around her garden without sleeping or waking up.
I don’t know if it’s because of her guilt or her pity for her, but she quietly gave her peace of mind in her garden.
***
“He really likes him.”
“Huh, isn’t it cute?”
“Huh…. Like it’s hard….”
When evening came and they returned to the guest room, Viola was on the bed, hugging her Beatrice.
Seeing this, I wanted to attack both of them.
‘One a succubus, one a ‘slightly’ ignorant of sex. Isn’t it a 3P angle?’
[….]
Seeing the two of them rolling around in bed, he wondered what it would be like to take Beatrice with him as well.
‘How much does Beatrice’s registration cost?’
[35,000 Enel enters.]
‘Is it because my ability is mediocre….’
It wasn’t a bad cost.
In fact, if the princess was recruited, she was going to spend some time in the ship’s hallway.
The living room was Viola’s living room, and it was a bit lacking because it cost 100,000 energy to purchase.
Actually, even if it was a hallway, it was unusually wide and long, so I could sleep if I asked to sleep on a futon.
Still, it’s a much better life than here, so I won’t have any complaints.
“Beatrice.”
“Ugh… Why are you calling me?”
“But why are you here again?”
“… Yes! I want you to stop~”
She suddenly turned away.
As she was afraid of the viola, she came here every day.
‘Is the viola that good? But it seems like she’s still afraid of that.’
[This is my personal opinion.]
‘?’
[I wonder if he is looking for Suho.]
‘Me?’
She questioned the odd sound.
I don’t have any point of contact.
[Same as the reaction when I visited Suho on the first day. From my point of view, I think it may have been influenced by Suho’s pheromone.]
‘… Succubus… Miao people … Does it make sense?’
Beatrice was active from the first time I met her.
I thought it was just a dog cat, but….
The smelly Miao tribe and the obscene succubus.
It makes sense, but I wasn’t sure.
‘I don’t know at all because he’s always friendly at the end of his words.’
[How about asking directly?]
‘Do you like me? Like this?’
[… ? Suho, this is incorrect grammar.]
‘… There’s a place I like.’
Leaving Armonia who didn’t understand the buzzwords of my place, I approached the two people who were lying on the bed.
After paying attention, I could see that Beatrice was paying attention to me.
“Viola, I’m sorry. Can I talk to Beatrice for a minute?”
“Sure! Come on, Vera Verace.”
“Ugh…. Like Beatrice”
What is Vera Vera Che….
I took Beatrice out of the room.
Beatrice, whose tail and ears were messed up, was exhausted and barely looked up at me.
“Ugh…. Like what’s going on.”
I looked down at Beatrice and said arrogantly.
“Hey, do you like me?”
Beatrice said to me, looking up stiffly with surprised eyes.
“… Are you crazy?”
