Chapter 251 – Chapter 251 ― Until One Hit (1)
Episode 251 ― Until One Hit (1)
Roan looked at Count Bertellia.
Beside her head, the affinity rating +65 flickered quietly and then disappeared.
There are several situations in which demons who value names reveal their names.
High and low are clearly divided by power or position,
There is a strong emotional bond, like a romantic relationship, or a lifesaver.
The Earl is the only 4 great lords in this country.
She was one of the few who could not reveal her name even to the king, but she renounced that right herself.
“If you call me by name… I hope.”
“Is that your request?”
“… Umm… That’s right.”
Her cat ears drooped slightly from side to side.
“I get it.”
… The ears, which were like that, went up.
“Bertellia.”
The Count, who had heard his name through Roan’s mouth, looked at him with round eyes, as if he hadn’t expected it to happen like this.
“When there are two of you, call me like this, then.”
The cold devil’s eyes drew a gentle curve. The Count quietly raised his hand and pressed it against my chest.
“… I hope you come back safely.”
The count’s voice trembled slightly.
Her hand pressed against her chest as if trying to catch her emotions, but in the end it seemed to be a failure.
Roan took a step closer to the Count.
The Count involuntarily tried to step back again, but flinched and held on. He consciously stopped walking.
The Count looked up at Roan, who was one head taller than me.
“Okay.”
“Also a bit… That’s strange.”
It’s far enough to hear breathing.
Roan could feel the Count’s heart beating fast.
The fact that it was far from her usual calm.
“… I don’t know why I’m reacting this way. Even though what Your Majesty says is a simple thing that any noble can say, it makes me so happy…”
She continued her words without averting Roan’s eyes with a bewitched, dazed expression.
When Roan’s smile got a little thicker,
The Count, who had been silent for a moment, exhaled only a few breaths.
Roan looked down at her in silence.
Certainly, it is difficult between the master and the species.
After a fairly long silence, the count opened his mouth as if he couldn’t stand the weight of it.
“Observation or experimentation… Maybe I should take it.”
“Hmm? Ah.”
Roan noticed what the Count was saying.
At first, when I started researching the crystal, I threw it like bait to attract the earl.
The right to experiment and observe the emperor.
It is the title that Grünent eventually obtained and handed over to the Count, but what were the conditions?
“Isn’t that your reward, Bertellia? Don’t worry, I’ll make time for you.”
“For me…”
For an instant, Bertellia’s eyebrows twitched and moved.
The behavior of the beastmen is nimble.
And Roan was just staring blankly at her quick action.
Bertellia reached out with both of her hands and rudely squeezed the Emperor’s shoulders.
The moment the thought of what are you trying to do crossed Roan’s head, Bertellia’s lips lightly touched Roan’s cheek and then fell.
“… !”
“I wrote it once! Poetry, the results of the experiment… I’ll observe later! I’m leaving!”
And Bertellia straightened her upper body. As if you’ve done something great. But already her cheeks were red like carrots.
Before Roan could say anything, she turned around in a stiff motion and creaked out of her office.
**
“Urtellia.”
“Yes?”
Urtellia spent the day in the guest room of the imperial castle with Count Bertellia.
“Isn’t the count strange?”
“… Ah.”
Urtellia smiled strangely.
“Because I don’t know much about her ex-sister yet. I don’t know what kind of person my older sister is… It was definitely unusual, yesterday.”
“She seems to have a lot in common with you.”
“You look more like a child than me? Falling in love.”
Hearing her answer from Yurtellia, Roan looked at her blankly and smiled lightly. Urtellia can read people’s emotions better than the Count. Because she spends a lot of time rolling outside.
“Well, there will be plenty of time in the future, so I can finish this job and learn more about the Count.”
“Will her sister go back to Dos?”
Urtellia knows that her count has her heart set on Roan, but she doesn’t know what kind of person she really is. She is a strong person
Roan looked at Urtellia and said.
“She is the great lord of Northern Baekryung. She’s the one who’s responsible for my work. Jim has no doubts about her abilities.”
This time, Urtellia looked as if she had been hit by Roan. She quietly blinked her eyes, then nodded and smiled.
This smile is a bit different from the mischievous smile from before. It was a laugh in which she could feel her love and pride for her reclaimed blood kin.
“Your majesty. Please go up.”
The carriage had just pulled in front of Roan.
A wagon prepared to go to the ruins.
Grünent and Helen, who were wearing active clothes for the first time, were about to climb into the carriage, when Eleanor’s voice was heard.
“You are leaving now.”
“Majesty.”
“Your Highness the Empress.”
The women all bowed their heads towards Erenia. Early moning. It was a time when Erenia, who had a lot of sleep in the morning, didn’t wake up.
“Why did you come all the way here? Eleanor.”
“I would like to send you off in the hope that the matter will go well for you.”
Roan lightly kissed Erenia’s forehead. At his greeting, Erenia smiled softly, then her eyes fixed on one point.
It was Urtellia, dressed in plain, loose robes.
“Are you a wizard with us on this occasion?”
“This is Urtellia. She did mercenary work in Merde.”
“Hmm.”
For a short time, Elenia observed Urtellia. However, Yurtellia just hangs her head in silence with an expressionless face. Ernear, who took her gaze away from her, turned to Roan.
“It wasted my time. Come on, Your Majesty.”
Erenier took a step back, and the wagon carrying Roan started.
Erenea has the same smile as usual, but what is inside her? Fortunately, she doesn’t feel a strong rejection reaction to ‘detection’.
Everyone who was nervous about Eleanor’s appearance started chattering again as they arrived at the ruins.
As Grünent accompanied them, Helen seemed to recall the old days, and she said that she had been to Aina and Merde before, but the capital Sprouse was the first time.
After leading the wagon to the soldier guarding the ruins, move to Spross.
Seeing her remains, Aina’s face turned pale. Also for a while after she got to Sprouse she was vomiting.
“… I think I will live for a while now.”
Aina came to her senses only after Helen used the magic to restore her body.
“Isn’t this ruin a bit strange? It’s been too long.”
“… No way Other than that, we’re fine.”
When she was put in the hero’s party in the game, she said that her movements were subtly sluggish when using waypoints, but it must have been because of Aina’s motion sickness.
Roan smiled lightly and headed for the secret door in the castle wall.
It’s easier to get in and out than last time.
It was because there was Roan’s ‘detection’, and also because Urtellia and Aina reduced their presence with magic and even used invisibility.
Thanks to that, even though there were only five of them, they confidently passed through the wall and headed to the orphanage run by Sermo.
“I didn’t expect to be able to walk on Sprouse like this!”
Grunent, now more familiar with Basel than Sprouse, looked around. In Basel, he was only one of the ‘humans’, but here he was a person who had a hard time even walking down the street on his own.
“Stop looking around, Miss Grünent. People keep staring…”
“That goes for you too, Helen. I wish I had worn a hood like that.”
“Isn’t that hood more suspicious, Miss Aina?”
“I want you to go quietly.”
Urtellia, who wore her wizard’s hat deeply pressed down, threw out a word like a sigh. I didn’t even think of these side effects.
I chose to walk only on the streets with few people,
There are two rare beauties.
And one wizard who stands out at a glance,
The other is a woman with a hood covering her face, but she is tall and has a nice body.
And the man stuck there is me.
What the heck is that guy I feel like I’m really glad I used the transformation tool.
“… Aren’t they too flashy? Your majesty.”
It was the evaluation of Sermo, who had been outside the orphanage beforehand. Grünent and Helen looked on incomprehensible faces, and Urtellia sighed again.
“I was surprised when he said he would use his own hands, but I didn’t know that Mr. Grünent would come. What are you going to do?”
He had said that he would save the count, but he did not mention any specific plans.
The closer to the crime in earnest, the better Sermo didn’t know. With the fact that he has already helped the Liberation Corps, Sermo can be dangerous enough.
“Please prepare a separate room in advance.”
“Is it a room… All right.”
Sermo lowered his head.
It looks like you’re calling someone to talk to.
Sermo thought so.
Without even dreaming that the method of summoning that person would be quite radical.
“Then Grunent, Aina. Wait here.”
“Yes. Come on, Your Majesty.”
Aina and Grünent wait at the orphanage. It is difficult to improvise when Grunent or Aina, a forest fairy who is not familiar with the movements of people outside the palace, is required, and above all, Helen’s skill is needed for this plan.
Helen and Urtellia followed Roan to the palace.
“It would be better to have some horses.”
Since a carriage could not be called for such an illegal matter, the three of them had to walk for about 30 minutes to the palace. It is absurd that an orphanage has a carriage, a luxury item. If you have a horse, you can respond quickly even in an emergency.
“Good idea. When you get back, talk to Sermo.”
“If I rescue Count Hilfe, would you give me one or two as a gift? He is a benefactor.”
I found her sister, but she doesn’t change Yurtellia’s attitude of trying to save as much as possible. Roan smiled lightly and moved on.
The royal palace, located on a hill in the distance, began to be seen. Compared to the Imperial Castle in Basel, the high wall is the same, but it is a brighter color, and the number of towers is small, but it is a structure with a wide spread feeling.
The most distinctive feature is the dome-shaped curtain that can be seen from a distance. That was the defense shield using the magic stone of the dragon Wiltz.
“Can you feel the magic?”
Urtellia asked.
Roan nodded.
Like the feeling of moisture flowing through the mist, I could feel the faint magical energy from the palace.
“That’s why it’s difficult to use magic from close to the capital. Only those registered separately are allowed to use magic in the castle.”
“With this level of magic, it would be dangerous to use magic hastily.”
“Yes. The repulsion and side effects are tremendous.”
The palace was getting closer.
And as a result, Roan’s talkativeness gradually decreased.
Soon he, along with Helen and Urtellia, stopped following Roan.
The front gate of the palace, the entrance of the nobles’ wagons, was a distance that could be seen far away.
“Master.”
Helen looked at Roan with a dark face. Roan’s complexion didn’t look good either.
“Here… Why is this? It’s weird, it feels bad…”
“So do i. Urtellia. It wasn’t like this before. It doesn’t seem to be a matter of drainage or cleaning.”
“… What the heck is this… What kind of smell is this It didn’t smell like this until last week…”
The two women are speechless at the unpleasant smell they smell for the first time, but Roan knows what it is.
The smell of ‘greed’ wafting from the castle contains a bit of sweetness, but most of it smells like something rotting.
Roan’s head throbbed at the hint of a gap so thick.
