Chapter 212 – Chapter 212 ― Mist, Swin Lake Mist (1)
Episode 212 ― Fog, Swin Lake Fog (1)
“It hurts my pride to say this, but I thought I was strong enough to hold on. Is it a matter of stamina?”
Erenia made a worried expression.
Roan gave her his gaze and set her tableware down.
“Maybe it is. Why don’t you start doing something light like exercise at this time?”
Then Ernear waved her hand.
“I don’t like moving my body. That’s why she decided to become a magician in the first place. I like being engrossed, but I’m not confident in moving.”
Then Ernear let out a sigh.
“But it seems to be the limit as a tonic. It’s not good to take too many magic pills.”
Roan laughed lightly and watched the servants clearing the dishes.
“Her ladies-in-waiting won’t let you go if you think you can’t stand it. Maybe force them to exercise. Try not to push yourself too hard.”
Then, hearing Roan’s words, Eleanor’s eyes softened.
“Are you worried, Roan?”
And Roan nodded his head with a relaxed expression.
“Isn’t it natural? It’s my wife.”
“Wife… ♡”
Erenia trembled with her body.
The servants around her and Roan were nervous that she might faint like before.
Fortunately, although that did not happen.
“The journey will be long, so I’m worried whether she will be able to endure it.”
“So she didn’t want to go to Swin Lake.”
Instead of answering, Roan gave a faint smile. It means you can’t help it.
“Isn’t custom meant to satisfy others, not us?”
“Huh.”
Erenia, who was staring at Roan’s face, put on her chin with a mischievous expression.
She said, “No matter how much I think about it, she is unfamiliar ♡ It seems like yesterday that she went on a rampage while saying it was custom ♡”
That’s because the content has changed.
However, Roan just looked at Erenier with a smile on his face.
Three days after the wedding.
Erenia is already exhausted from her Empress class.
The place to go with her is Swin Lake, the central city of the Southern Dark Spirit, her hometown of Ereneer. Heading there is because of the unique customs of the demons.
Bondi, meaning the transfer of the bride’s enemy to the groom, is a custom that arose because it is difficult for a bride from a distant land to find her hometown.
Visiting the hard-to-find in-laws after her wedding,
It can be changed in many ways, such as holding a wedding ceremony at the wife’s family, but no matter what, the couple must find the bride’s hometown once.
Even emperors, who should not leave the capital if possible, are not exempt from following this custom.
Because if I don’t do it, the people won’t.
For that reason, Aranya strongly recommended that I visit Swinho.
So, in the end, the decision to visit Swinho immediately after the wedding was decided with the mindset of ‘If you want to be beaten, let’s be beaten first’.
“It’s a gloomy place, so I don’t like it either.”
“Isn’t Southern Dark Spirit still a sunny place? Warm.”
“… Maybe even Roan will understand, if you go.”
Roughly expected.
After all, the Southern Dark Spirit is a vampire, and Ereneer is also a half.
The entire family also had a lot of vampires and undead, so the castle was said to be dark.
“Your Majesty, Your Highness. The preparations are complete.”
It was Shikviena who came to convey the message.
It seems that she came to tell the ladies-in-waiting or the officials directly what to do.
“Good job.”
“You are saying something out of the ordinary. Isn’t it my pleasure to serve Your Majesty?”
She smiled and waited for me and Ernear to finish her meal and saw us off until we left Swin Lake.
He was told to refrain from seeing off in advance so that there would be no disruption to government affairs, but it could not be prevented until the correctional officer Schik Vienna, who prepared this trip, or her concubine, Grunent, came out. In addition, Minoreus, the leader of the knights escorting the carriage, appeared. The front yard has already been cluttered enough.
Grünent bowed to the Emperor and Empress, accompanied by Helen and Aina on his left and right. Roan spoke softly to her.
“I ask for your last name. Perhaps Merde will contact you sooner or later. I would like to ask you to prepare in advance so that you can deal with it at that time. Grünent.”
“There will be no problem, Your Majesty. I hope you have a good trip.”
She greeted the emperor with a confident look and greeted the empress with her meek expression.
“Come to think of it, I heard humans came?”
Eleanor, who climbed into the carriage, asked about Bishop Sermo, whom he sent back yesterday.
“Hmm. Someone who will help bring priests and families of already established humans to the land. Merde is doing the work of the Church.”
“Huh.”
It’s cumbersome, but it’s not that there isn’t a way for Merde’s humans to enter Evirgio.
There is also a way to enter from Dos via Arteala, which has diplomatic relations,
There is also a way to enter through the border area of the fragile mountain range.
Since they are of a different ethnicity, it is only difficult to be noticed even if they secretly enter, but it means that there will be no problem if an agreement is reached with the superiors in the first place.
As if Baron Graves of Arteala had formally entered the capital with wheat.
Erenier didn’t pay much attention to Roan’s human guests.
She tells her that her humans are still more of the category of enemies, but there are plenty of humans within Basel and the Imperial Castle. Humans often came and went around Roan, the emperor. Doesn’t he even have a human concubine?
If you don’t get used to it, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Eleanor put her elbows on her knees and cupped her cheeks, bent over and looked out the window at her.
“I feel like the world has suddenly changed. It’s strange and strange that humans come and go to the imperial castle to do important things like that.”
“There is no need not to use the people of the country right next to you.”
Sermo returned after being asked by Roan.
Sooner or later, probably around early summer, humans who are heading to Evirgio will head to Sprouse. Because there is currently the only Merde waypoint secured by Roan in Sprouse.
It may be a bit cumbersome for Roan, but the existence of a waypoint that can transport several humans at once to the middle of Evirgio is literally a cheat key.
Every day, several people leave the gates of Merde’s capital and disappear.
Even in modern countries, there are several missing people a day, and there is no way to find people who disappear like that with today’s civilization.
By the time you find out what the missing people have in common and who cares and helps them, it will be too late.
— The Hilfe family owes me. Get them in debt for me, Bishop.
Grunent said so at a meeting Roan, Grunent, and Helen had with Sermo before he left.
Sermo had the courage to leave the church.
As the Bishop of Beratlyeong, he said that if he did not do so, he would have to return to Berat.
If he resigns as a bishop and goes back to being a regular priest, he will not be able to go against the influence of the church, but the church cannot officially reach out to those who have become ordinary people.
— After all, the Goddess is where her life is. Her Majesty reminded me of that. If you’re where my help is needed, that’s what makes Servant of God worth it.
Sermo will be in charge of taking care of the humans heading to the capital with the help of the Hilfe family and sending them to the ruins. Sermo was also in charge of the priests who wanted to come to Evirgio for the humans.
Seeing a high-ranking member of the church willingly commit what could be called ‘betrayal’ made Roan’s heart complicated.
Of course, we also have good intentions.
However, just how far did the Merde and Laurecia cults betray human faith?
An organization that loses its meaning when it was first created already loses its cohesion. Roan felt that fear through human organization.
— If I were to resign from the church, I would probably feel like I had a tooth removed, even if it was not revealed.
As Bishop Sermo, I guess I just wanted to be around people who needed me. To the humans who need priests, like those who chose Evirgio and abandoned the idea of returning home.
It is a sin for a leader to not be able to recognize those who are committed to the church or organization.
The pope’s eyes are already blinded by power.
By the time he saw the bishop under his command as a stumbling block, a stepping stone to his success, or a cogwheel, he would have lost the trust that could be gained from humans.
“You have a lot of thoughts, Roan too♡”
At Erenir’s words, Roan raised his head.
“Hmm.”
There was no conversation for a while as I was sorting out the various thoughts I had while sending the bishop away.
Roan, who saw Elenir’s smile, suddenly asked.
“Why do you trust me?”
“Huh?”
Embarrassed by the sudden question, Elenir’s smile hardened.
“You are committed to me. But I didn’t want to believe it. Distanced for a long time You could have found a decent husband. But why did you stay with me?”
Just as the bishop abandoned the Order and the Pope,
Bondi people are destined to depart from those who do not believe in themselves. It is natural.
Even if the love affair with the target based on the liking level prevented the fall in liking to some extent, the (former) demon king openly kicked out Elenia. Even now, people in the small meeting often breathe a sigh of relief, saying, “I was really worried because I didn’t know how to get married.”
Did he really endure all the bullying of the (former) demon king just because he had a high affinity? It is more reasonable to think that there is a story there, and it would be natural to think that the (former) demon king did not like it.
Thinking about human affairs naturally led to questions about Erenia’s trust. It was a question that came up in the meantime.
However, Erenia shyly smiled.
“I really didn’t know, Roan.”
What?
Roan’s embarrassment was hidden by his insensitive face.
Because he does not have complete memories of the (former) demon king.
However, Erenia happily brought up her old story.
She is the reason why her affinity has been +100 since they met.
“Roan came to Swin Lake when he was young. I remember?”
“When you were young?”
Roan’s brow furrowed slightly.
Missing memory.
However, Elenior still looked at Roan with an unchanging smile as if he could do that.
“I may not remember. At that time, Roan traveled to a lot of cities.”
Upon hearing her words, what passed through her head was a faded memory.
(Former) Roan muttered after looking into the demon king’s memories.
“Inspection, Emperor’s.”
A welcome light appeared on Erenia’s face.
“Huh. Roan was seven at the time. And he was very adventurous.”
Then Erenia is six years old.
He is too young to even go to school.
“When you were a kid too, do you remember that? Or did you hear it?”
There is a one year age difference between Roan and Eleanor.
The year when Roan turned 20 and Eleanor turned 19. The two got engaged.
“Remember clearly. Since I was born in a castle, I never left the castle until I was 19, so other than that, there weren’t many exciting incidents.”
Roan’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Nineteen? At nineteen, did you mean that you didn’t come out of the castle until right before you got engaged?”
“Huh.”
Girls from aristocratic families appear at a ball for the first time in their early teens. Even if you can’t do it, you will go through the debut stage right after awakening in the middle. By the time she was nineteen, Ernear hadn’t met anyone before, and she was engaged to the (former) demon king.
I think I know the vibe of her trying to shush her.
Because her mother is human.
Evirzio 10 or 20 years ago was obviously different from Basel today. It wasn’t strange that Merde’s humans came to Evirgio, but it’s been a long time since humans and demons hated each other.
Swinho lies far deeper in Evirzio than Basel.
The grand duke might have wanted to hide a child with human blood in a place where it was difficult to see humans all his life.
“And thanks to meeting Roan, I was able to dream of becoming a wizard.”
Erenia looked back at Roan with a gentle smile, then turned her head to the scenery outside her window.
The scenery of the fields gradually becoming greener leading out of the wagon heading to Swin Lake. Visible in the distance to the east are the high peaks of the central mountain range of Evirgio.
The second day of the carriage trip.
They are heading south with the mountain range by their side.
“Is it because you met me?”
“Roan was really my prince♡”
The shadow cast by the sun falling on the other side was cast on Erenia’s face.
