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A few days before leaving the ecliptic.
Rey called Luna to her room to have a conversation with Luna.
Rey had prepared a table and two chairs in advance, but Luna entered the room and patted her ass on Rey’s thigh.
Rey, who had to sit on Seria’s thigh every day, got a headache when Luna sat on her thigh.
“Luna, would you like to sit on the other side of the chair?”
Luna slowly shook her head.
“…Rei also sat like this every day.”
“I didn’t sit here because I wanted to sit like this…”
Luna seemed unwilling to keep it.
Rey looked at Luna’s back and smiled.
When she goes out, she almost always wears a robe, so people don’t know about it, but Luna’s blue hair, reminiscent of a flowing waterfall, used to easily catch people’s attention.
Rey braided Luna’s hair and continued speaking.
“Luna, I have a favor to ask you.”
“…?”
“Until you return to the Count of Phillips, no matter what, don’t go out.”
Luna’s eyes, whose expression changes are rare, frowned.
Luna, who was quietly entrusting Rey’s hair, swung her hand behind her back and lightly stroked Rey’s cheek.
slap!
“Ouch.”
Ray, who gave her both cheeks one after another, added an explanation.
“That old man is very quick-witted.”
It would be more correct to express it as a prescient insight rather than a nun.
“I think that inspiration could have known that I was a space sword user… well.”
Rey gave Ernst too many hints.
I didn’t give it because I wanted to give a hint, but it was close to being exposed unilaterally, but anyway, too much was revealed.
His skills were also discovered, and the fact that he was using double swords was also found out.
‘If it’s Ernstra, he’ll have the information related to the first prince…’
Ernst had the foundation and insight to approach the right answer if his thinking was a little flexible.
“Right now, the Swordmaster of the Empire is watching me with a favor to me… but the situation can change at any time.”
In the worst case, he didn’t even know he would have to face the Empire’s Swordmaster head-on.
When such a situation arises, it will be difficult for Rey to survive no matter what he does, but he needed a hidden card to escape the other children.
“Luna, you are wise and strong. You will become even stronger in the future. It’s so unbelievable.”
And the Empire does not know this.
If you prepared a hidden card, it had to be Luna, not Rey.
“So, please don’t step forward. When a situation comes that I can’t solve on my own, be the strength to protect everyone at that time.”
“…”
Luna was angry.
Although angry, Luna’s very unusual brain quickly understood and accepted the reasonableness of Rey’s request.
So I got a little more angry.
Luna still felt that her strength was lacking.
In order to fully protect Rey against the power that rules the world, he had to make at least six rings.
It didn’t take very long, but I didn’t want to see Rey get hurt again in the meantime.
snuggle
Luna sat down with her hips on Rey’s thighs.
Rey, who faced Luna, was silent for a moment before making a sound of pain.
“Luna, isn’t this attitude very manly…?”
Whether or not Rey was aching or not, Luna grabbed Rey’s cheek as she stepped closer to the chair leg.
Luna, who rubbed her cheeks and rubbed her cheeks as Lay usually does, poked each other’s foreheads.
“…there are many precious people.”
“…”
“…but even if you put all those people together, Rey is more precious.”
“…”
Rey sighed and placed her hand on Luna’s head.
It is so wonderful that a child born with a dazzling talent that will never be seen again in the future still remembers and cherishes the grace he gave to him as a child…
“thank you.”
Thank you.
*
Mohammed has returned from his royal schedule.
While Count Phillips’ party had been all together after a long time, Ray asked.
“Is there anything else I need to do in the zodiac?”
“You must stop by the Crawford mansion.”
Mohammed answered.
Rei then remembered the nobleman who had trouble with Karen on the way to the emperor.
“Is your name Sachel… Do I have to stop by?”
“He admitted his mistake first and invited him to the mansion, so if we don’t respond to the invitation without a good reason, we’ll be ignoring the other party. It’s better to light up your face for a while than make enemies for nothing.”
Even considering the position of Count Phillips, Mohammed had a hard time ignoring Satchel’s invitation.
It was not difficult to accept the invitation, so Mohammed, Alesia, and a few people, including Rey, took a moment to stop by the Crawford family’s residence in the zodiac.
When we arrived at the Crawford mansion in a carriage, Satchel came out and welcomed us.
“Thank you for stopping by.”
“No. Thank you for inviting me.”
Mohammed lowered himself than the last time and was greeted.
When Mohammed bowed first and entered, Sachel was satisfied inside and led the party into the mansion.
There was a light party going on inside the mansion.
In the middle of the mansion hall, colorful decorations and food items were on display, and officials from the Crawford family and close family members were participating in the party and chatting here and there.
When Satchel introduced Mohammed to the people at the party, a light applause rang out.
After Mohammed said goodbye, Rey went to Satchel and bowed his back.
“I apologize for my previous rudeness.”
“Um, no.”
Satchel smiled and answered Rey.
Inwardly, I wanted to rebuke a lowly person for being arrogant, but Satchel decided to put her feelings on hold.
Because he knew that the owner of the rumors these days was Ray.
“It was my mistake. Don’t worry too much. Have fun at the party.”
“Thank you for your consideration.”
After finishing the apology in moderation, Ray slowly walked through the mansion hall to watch the party.
Then, the people of noble families, who were completely unaware of them, were quite ignorant.
This is because rumors about Rei have been going up and down in the ecliptic lately.
Most of the nobles who approached Rey had a strong desire to get to know them in case they didn’t know, but there were also those who were interested in Rei in another sense.
“Oh, hello.”
Youngae, the Viscount Cannabier, in a dress with a deep cleavage in her chest, greeted Ray.
After that, Viscount Cannavier Young-ae expressed interest in Ray and secretly made physical contact with her.
He seemed to be interested in the rumors.
Alesia, who was picking up the dessert and eating it, looked at it and chuckled to herself.
Alessia, who wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, approached the Viscount Cannabier and asked.
“Could you lend me your ear for a moment?”
“yes…?”
Young-ae, Viscount Cannabier, couldn’t hide her apathy at Alesia’s sudden request.
However, seeing Alesia’s innocent eyes, he reluctantly lent his ear.
Alessia glanced around and whispered in the ear of Viscount Cannabier’s young Ae, with a bright smile.
“Don’t hit your tail, bitch.”
“?”
Viscount Cannabier Young-ae made a puzzled expression for a moment, then immediately turned her face red and shouted.
“Hey!”
When the Viscount Young-ae’s eyes shot at the angry Cannabi, Alessia ran behind Rey and hid herself.
“That woman is suddenly screaming…”
“…”
Ray, who had closed her eyes tightly and woke up, put chestnuts on Alesia’s forehead and apologized to Viscount Cannabie’s young Ae.
“If my young lady has been rude, I apologize on her behalf.”
“under…!”
When I grew up working here, both of them were dogs.
Viscount Cannabier’s young Ae shook her head and moved away from Rei.
Alessia liked it.
“I have won!”
“Alesia-sama, are you okay?”
Rey once again pointed a finger at Alesia’s forehead to blow a chestnut.
Alessia was startled and ran to the place where the desserts were displayed.
Even after that, Ray received a lot of attention from the people around him, and Ray, who was tired of it, went up to the second floor to explain why he had to go to the bathroom.
“Well…”
Ray, who used the bathroom, looked at the stairs going up to the third floor.
Originally, there was supposed to be a guard standing around here, but now he seems to have been away for a while.
‘Shall we go up?’
The mansion that the noble family had in the imperial capital was a symbol of authority.
Because he never neglected it, even for pride, the hallways were lined with expensive artworks.
Among the artworks on display, there were still many paintings, but the higher you go, the more expensive the artworks were usually placed.
Ray moved to see more expensive art or more than a cumbersome party.
It was just walking down the hallway for a while, so even if they were caught, it would be over with one curse from behind.
“…”
Ray glanced at the picture hanging in the hallway on the second floor and headed to the third floor.
Aftel warned me when I was almost all the way up the stairs.
[This is a barrier.]
“Oh, I see.”
There was no need to break through the barrier and cause problems.
Rey, who was about to turn around with that thought, stopped in place.
“…what type of barrier is this?”
[This is a detection barrier.]
“Do you have a function that distorts your vision?”
[There will be none.]
Ray frowned.
The hallway on the third floor was empty.
The most expensive art should have caught your eye first, but the hallways were mostly empty.
‘Is the art arrangement a bit unusual…?’
I thought about it for a moment, but when I looked closely at the wall, I could see that there were traces of something hanging there.
‘Are you saying you took things away…? At the emperor’s mansion?’
Although the current situation in the empire is unstable, there was no looting of the mansion existing in the imperial capital unless the entire empire was destroyed.
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Nevertheless, the fact that the valuable items were taken out could also be interpreted as meaning that there was no intention of returning to this mansion.
Of course, it could be viewed as an overly jumpy interpretation, but it was equally suspicious.
Ray, who was continuing his thoughts, quickly went down when he felt a sense of popularity around him.
As soon as Rey arrived in front of the bathroom, the original security guard passed Rey and blocked the stairs.
Rey looked at the knight for a moment and then turned around.
*
Two days later, a lockdown order was placed on the Yellow Island.
With the exception of a few authorized visitors, most visitors were forced to leave the ecliptic until the lockdown was over.
There was a riot from all sides.
The problem was not that the lockdown was imposed, but that the emperor had begun to move to determine the succession.
All noble families reacted very sensitively to this situation.
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Numerous noble families brought in their outside forces into the family.
This was also true of the Dukes of Alstein, and Seria and Diorica were also ordered to return to California.
We had to leave immediately, but Seria insisted on Diorica with Ray raised.
“I’ll take you.”
“…”
Diorica shook her head, looking at Ray, who was drooping with her armpits caught.
“no.”
“I’ll take you.”
“No, Auntie.”
There was nothing wrong with formally inviting Rey, but it was an emergency right now.
It meant that it was difficult to exercise flexibility.
Diorica gently comforted Seria.
“Next time, you’ll formally invite Ray. Oh, after this job is over, you’ll have some free time, so it’s okay to go home for a few months on vacation. You’ve worked hard so far, so the headmaster will gladly accept it.”
In any case, that was not the case.
With a look of disappointment, Seria turned and grabbed Rey and pressed her lips to Rey’s face.
After a while, Seria, who had put down Rei, whose face was damp, got into the carriage.
Rey wiped her face with her collar and greeted Diorica.
“Please take care of yourself. Please take good care of my aunt.”
“You too, take care of yourself. It’s a very dangerous time.”
“Does it matter much to a local villager?”
“Now you’re no longer an ordinary local peasant. Keep that in mind, nephew.”
“…I’ll engrave it, Jemjoka-sama.”
Ray and Diorica, who smiled at each other, shook hands.
The Duke of Altstein’s carriage left, and now the Counts of Phillips had to leave the ecliptic as well.
However, before the Count Phillips’ carriage left, a visitor came.
It was Ernst Frieslan .
