Chapter 202 – Chapter 202 ― Close (3)
Episode 202 ― Closer (3)
Looking at the Count’s amber eyes, Roan bit the ladies-in-waiting.
He did not dare to express his dissatisfaction, but Roan turned his sulking shoulder as the ladies-in-waiting left the dressing room.
“Whether it was your intention or not, it gave me a chance to catch my breath.”
“Umm, that’s very fortunate, aha☆”
The count, whose orange hair was carefully combed into a ponytail, smiled cheerfully, unlike the expression conveyed by his magic.
Because there were no trustworthy young men around — the West Blood Lord and the Eastern Hwang Lord were quite old. Much more than Roan could have imagined. — In the end, the Countess, a woman, became the bridesmaid.
Seeing her smiling while standing in her best man outfit, Roan also laughed at her.
“Yeah, I haven’t seen you in a while. I also had something to say. If you talk too long, the ladies-in-waiting will collapse from anxiety, so tell me about your business.”
Then the smile disappeared from the Count’s face.
“I’m sorry to tell this story to someone who is about to get married, but I have to tell you something unpleasant.”
A shadow fell on Roan’s expression, who was wearing all white clothes.
The Count did not avoid his purple eyes.
“Speak.”
“Do you know what the Grand Duke of the South was most passionate about when he stayed on the front?”
It was a sudden rush.
Was the embarrassing story related to the empress’s family?
“Go on.”
“It was a walk.”
Roan’s brow was defeated.
“Walk? Didn’t you say it was a story on the front line?”
“Yes. It’s an unlikely combination. But if you walk slowly through an empty space after a battle to avoid being disturbed by anyone, and then repeat the action periodically, wouldn’t that be a walk?”
“Hmm.”
It’s a word that makes sense in its own way.
But I can’t say that I’m so insensitive.
The Count’s main point must be different.
“You probably didn’t bite people to say that.”
“Ahaha, yes! Yes, the walk itself was fine, but what was going on behind it was always a problem.”
As he met the emperor’s cold eyes demanding an answer, the count’s black pupils narrowed vertically.
“There was always nothing in the place he went, and the Grand Duke who returned was full of magic.”
“Nothing.”
Front lines near the battlefield.
Isn’t it obvious that if there is no battle, there is no one?
But the count’s eyes shone strangely.
“Really, nothing. There was none.”
“… Hmm?”
Only then did Roan realize what the Count was about to say, and his face twisted even more.
“When a battle is over, death and pain remain. It leaves blood, wounded and corpses. Strangely, however, when the Grand Duke went for a walk, there was nothing there. As if nothing had happened.”
The hair on the nape of his neck stood up.
Even if the corpse is burned, it is not determined and burned with high heat, but only by gathering a bonfire and lighting it moderately. There will be nothing left.
The Grand Duke did something with the corpse.
“There was no such report.”
Roan’s voice became heavy.
“No matter how much the grand duke filled my side around me, could he even get his hands on the report?”
“It wouldn’t have been necessary.”
The Count’s cat ears moved nervously.
“No one wants to return to the battlefield after collecting loot and capturing prisoners, Your Majesty.”
The Count shrugged his shoulders.
“Rather than that the report was intercepted, it is because there is no reason to report it.”
“Then how did you know that?”
Then the Count’s expression changed.
I always smile and smile,
Although he lays down his ears when he is in a bad mood, the emotion has disappeared from the face of the count, who used to express his emotions with a slight frown.
A face as if all expressions had been bleached.
Roan had seen this expression once before.
And now that I have met the count several times, I know what this expression means.
This is the expression she makes when she’s so displeased.
“I feel bad.”
“… What?”
Roan’s expression distorted as if he had received the Count’s emotions.
“When the Grand Duke went out and came back, I always felt the presence of unpleasant magic. It’s not strong, but it lingers around for a while… It’s like a stench.”
Receiving Roan’s sharp eyes,
The count muttered with an emotionless face.
“I wasn’t strong at first. But as the days went on, it got thicker. By the time the war ended, it was difficult to see the Grand Duke.”
“It was so bad, didn’t the other wizards know?”
“The sign of magical power can be known only when there is more than enough magical power. Besides, it was temporary, and the distance must be close. The aides, of course, would have kept their mouths shut. How many powerful wizards like me would there be in the first place? If it’s not like that, it’s hard to notice the Archduke’s presence.”
The Count shrugged his shoulders with an impudent face, but
At those words, Roan thought of Eleanor.
Eleanor is
Did you know
Besides, the Count did not dare to tell this story.
Why do you do it right before the wedding?
“By the way, this story must be told now, right?”
And the Count’s answer sent a chill down Roan’s spine.
“The presence, the smell comes from the castle. Your majesty.”
For a while, Roan didn’t say anything.
The clenched fists and pale face only gave you an idea of his feelings.
“It has been two weeks since I came back to the castle. It wasn’t like this before.”
The count’s eyes flashed like never before.
What is contained in the eyes is vigilance.
“It’s not strong. It’s the kind of power that I felt at first glance in the early days of the war, whether it was an illusion or not. Even so, Your Majesty.”
Roan’s purple eyes met the count’s.
“Be careful.”
“Can you find it?”
“It is difficult.”
The Count, one of the most powerful wizards in the country, shook his head.
“Oddly enough, it is felt throughout the castle. It’s like a mist that surrounds this imperial castle. It is not a force that is felt strongly in one place. If this is magic, I would suspect a magic circle or a barrier, but I couldn’t find it with magic.”
— Your Majesty, with all due respect, I wonder if you can hurry up.
What interrupted the Count’s words were the voices of the maids outside the door.
The Count turned to the door with an emotionless face, and Roan with a cool, twisted face.
“I’m sorry for saying this on a good day. Your majesty.”
The count’s heart when he said that was sincere.
She was really sorry for Roan.
“If it were Bondi, I wouldn’t have told you. What I cannot find with magic in this country is what no one else will find. And it is useless to say such things to others. However, Your Majesty has abilities that I do not have.”
Roan looked straight at the Count.
Concern and trust were contained in her eyes.
Feeling that, Roan’s face softened a little.
“I hear you, Count. Thanks.”
“Hmmmm, well, it’s actually because it’s hard for me to stay in the castle. Ahaha!”
The Count laughed it off, but red concentric circles appeared at her words.
Roan laughed.
Because the Count was really worried about Roan.
“Well, come to think of it, I entrusted you with a quest to search for the person you are looking for.”
“A request?!”
The Count screamed involuntarily, then closed his mouth with a swallowing sound of ‘sum’.
“No way, is it a mercenary guild?”
The second question was very small.
Roan nodded her head.
“I met a cat beastman at the guild, but they were different ages. Next time I go to her, I will ask her if there are any acquaintances of hers around her.”
“Persimmon, thank you! Your majesty!”
Unlike when she talked about her dark story earlier, her complexion is blooming.
The earl’s favorability rating rose to +45.
“So easy…”
– Your majesty. Sorry, time…
Roan laughed bitterly.
Perhaps the ladies-in-waiting outside the door were stomping at her feet, not daring to interrupt the private meeting between the emperor and the great lord.
There was less than an hour left until dinner.
“I get it. Wait.”
When Roan answered, the Count bowed his head to Roan again and again.
“Thank you. Your majesty. Thank you!”
It was strange to see the Count, who always had a stiff head, bowing deeply and bowing several times. Roan lightly patted her on the shoulder, and the Count left the waiting room with wide eyes.
The Count left the room, and the ladies-in-waiting rushed in to finish decorating Roan.
In Roan’s eyes, the makeup was already finished, but the ladies-in-waiting, who had trimmed her hair and decorated it several times, left the waiting room just before the ceremony.
A brief moment right before the Knights of the Central Knights come to meet Roan for the ceremony.
Roan, who was brooding over the Count’s words, went crazy with something.
“Save point.”
What appeared before Roan’s eyes was the message of activating the safe point that Roan had utterly blew away while moving to Merde’s waypoint in the middle of winter.
[Message: Do you want to save the contents so far to slot 2?]
When Roan nodded her head,
[Message: Saving the current point to slot 2 has been completed.]
Message appeared before her eyes and then faded.
Thanks to the Count’s warning, Roan, who had been hesitant about when to use the save point, was finally able to make a decision.
From then on, for several hours, Roan was surrounded by countless people.
Intermittently, I tried to pay attention to the presence that the count had mentioned, but as she said, it seemed that it was something that could not be felt if there was not enough magic power.
“Roan, are you okay?”
Eleanor whispered in the veil.
Roan suddenly came to his senses and stroked Erenia’s hand on his arm.
“Hmm. I am a little tired.”
“Cold is tired. Roan isn’t used to things like this. You’ll just have to be patient for a bit. Actually, the necklace is heavy for me too.”
Eleanor laughed as he spoke.
Come to think of it, I couldn’t see the black stone necklace that Erenea always wore around her neck. What sparkles instead is a gorgeous, heavy necklace adorned with jewels. Roan’s words brought her smile back faintly.
The spring day that finally came to Evirgio,
She looked truly happy as she was greeted by the petals the people scattered all over the world.
The two kissed and became a couple.
Putting on the crown, she became empress.
Roan’s heart became complicated when he saw Eleanor happy with such a bright face.
Her feelings are sincere.
Now she will be with her for the rest of her life.
Like this, she can’t live with her constantly doubting her.
Two weeks since the meeting at the end of March when the Count was away from the castle.
In the meantime, the only newcomers to her castle are Erenea, her servants, the newly chosen servants for her, and the people mobilized to decorate her castle.
It is possible that she has something to do with her, and, according to her count, with her magical powers.
Even if it wasn’t so, Roan’s heart was heavy because of the story about the gap that the goddess said.
‘I have to meet the original owner of this body again.’
You should listen to the story about Elenir, and if there is anything you can do to help.
That way you can decide what to do.
Fortunately, however, the body he left behind is very accustomed to hiding emotions.
The moment when Eleanor’s coronation ends with a complicated mind.
Roan whispered to Eleanor, who was wearing the crown of the empress and standing next to the emperor. He was out of her pity for her situation, not fully trusting her.
“You are beautiful, my rain.”
And Roan’s pupils widened at Erenir’s reaction.
“… Roan.”
Heard at that moment,
Only Roan can hear it.
Cheap sound effects with no chin to match these grand ceremonies and elegant halls.
And message.
[Message: Attack progress— 40%]
[Message: Timeout — 259:22:45:00]
[Message: If you do not complete the quest within the time limit, you will be penalized.]
