Chapter 258 – Chapter 258 ― Summer Day, Day Before the Storm (4)
Episode 258 ― Summer day, day before the storm (4)
“Count Bertellia.”
“Oh… Yes!”
The Count, who was called by name, had a puzzled expression for a moment, but then he replied courageously as if nothing had happened.
“It’s about the last test ticket.”
“… !”
Her ears and tail hair stood up all over. As much as possible so as not to frighten her, Roan continued to speak calmly.
“When I asked Grünent, he said that the number of uses and bestowal are at the emperor’s discretion. So, the last one is invalid…”
“Why why… , Mu, is it invalid?”
His heart was pounding, but the count stuttered his words in pretending that nothing was wrong.
But the Count did not care that he was stuttering, as he was concentrating all his energy on verbalizing the thoughts in his head. If he had been able to pay attention to it in the first place, he would have known that it would be even more disrespectful to interrupt the emperor.
“What is the purpose of the experiment you wish?
“You mean the purpose?”
The hesitant attitude disappeared, and the orange cat’s eyes sparkled.
“As expected, finding out His Majesty’s singularity! Why, out of countless demons, only His Majesty had divine power, and how is His Majesty’s divine power different from that of humans! How can His Majesty’s strength grow like that!”
“Then, can you say that the last experiment was enough?”
“… Uh uh uh…”
The count’s excited words were reduced again to the word experiment. It’s because I remembered what ‘last time’ was.
“It was a simple contact, and it was a short time. Isn’t it difficult to say that your experiments have been sufficient?”
“Um… That, that’s right, but…”
“Then, how about at least a proper experiment and observation? If the small meeting finds out, it might jump out, but I’ll secretly allow it.”
“… !”
The count’s eyes widened.
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In fact, there was subtle pressure from Urtellia for Roan to react to the Count’s last kiss.
“Your Majesty, do you already know? Her older sister is in love with Her Majesty.”
In order to complete the ‘Memories of Urtellia’ that had not been properly completed before, Roan had spent time with Urtellia in the bedroom.
At what Urtellia said then, Roan only nodded. He looks like a shame. He can’t know
“Then why are you not responding?”
When Roan starts to react just because she has a crush on him, the number of women he has to harbor is endless.
“Isn’t it important whether Bertellia wants it?”
Roan said so, but Yurtellia clung to Roan as if she was doing her charms.
“Unnie knows a lot, but I don’t think she really knows things between people.”
That’s right.
She ran out of breath.
To become an outstanding wizard and a high-ranking nobleman.
Anyway, it was worth it because he found her brother.
But that much she was emotionless.
When she first saw her count, her first impression was that of an impersonal mage, and even after that, she tended not to distinguish too much between her objects and living things unless they were something she liked.
“Because even the Count has gone through a rough road.”
“I see… I will.”
Urutellia’s expression darkened slightly.
It was because they remembered the times they had gone through after each other and the things they had to deal with.
Sensing her heavy thoughts, Roan lightly tousled Urtellia’s hair.
“Still, if possible, I would like her Majesty to lead that hand just once.”
Urtellia blinked her eyes as she rested her head lightly on her Roan’s chest.
“She knows it’s presumptuous, but she knows that her majesty is just as merciful. I want to lean on it.”
“Cunning.”
“It’s something clever.”
Yurtelia, who smiled at her and waggled her tail gently. When Roan touched Yurtellia’s furry ears, her cat’s ears quivered.
“Compared to common sense in Merde, of course, Your Majesty will take many wonderful women as wives, but isn’t the Count of the Great Lords a good wife for her?”
“The conditions are excellent, no doubt. But…”
I still don’t know all about the empress.
It sounded like a grumble, so Roan shut his mouth.
The Count kissed and ran away, saying he would use the right to experiment. The likability level is honest, and there are no lies in the feelings conveyed by the skill.
The Count seemed confused by the first ‘affection’ he was experiencing. According to the Count’s personality, he might have observed the change in my emotional state following the contact, so if you think of it as an experiment, you might be able to see it as an experiment.
But she wants it too, and Roan doesn’t hate Bertellia either. Then, at least, I want to let her do the ‘observation’ or ‘experiment’ she wants.
At that level, it could end with Eleanor holding back a little.
“… Okay, let’s try to get a little more intimate. Whether or not to become a bride is a matter for the count to decide, but as you said, I will at least extend my hand to Count Bertellia, who doesn’t know what to do with human relations.”
With a little bit of selfishness.
I have to give my body as a test subject, but it’s okay to be greedy… ?
“… Are you really here?”
Hearing the earl’s voice, Roan suddenly woke up from his thoughts.
“Why? Isn’t it a great place for experiments?”
“Hmm…”
Count Bertellia touched her chin and seemed lost in her thoughts.
The place where Roan and the Count stood was the Count’s laboratory prepared on one side of the imperial castle. It is a place made by renovating one of the remaining halls in the imperial castle.
In the past, it was cluttered with various machines for measuring magic attribute, the count’s cat tower, and flower beds, but now that the experiments have been completed to some extent, the place is much cleaner.
The production of astor powder still has to go through the hands of the count, and the count still conducts related experiments in the imperial castle.
In the meantime, Eleanor, who became the hostess of the imperial castle, respected the Count as a magician, so she did not touch this laboratory.
“Then what should I do?”
Roan sat down on a bench in the corner, previously buried in piles of papers. The Count was incongruously confused.
“… It’s not like you.”
“Well, to be honest… I really didn’t think this day would come, ahaha!”
The Count smiled shyly.
“The experiments I did with humans… Well, it’s mostly because it’s hard for the subject to survive. For example, to test which area is most sensitive to pain, insert about 100 needles at the same depth, and then stimulate…”
“… Done.”
For a moment, I was startled.
The demon lord’s body, which had been trained to the limit, accepted and handed over such a mental shock, but, anyway, the substance of it is not a human being.
I was a little curious,
Reason calmed his heart.
Even Seohyeolyeongju said it was a cruel experiment that said, ‘There is no need to go that far’.
He really did not intend to do such a thing to the emperor. He said he never thought the day would come when he would experiment with his own mouth.
“If it’s not a type of experiment that inflicts harm like a needle, then what do you usually do when dealing with an unknown subject?”
“Hmm…”
The count, naturally sitting at the end of the cat tower facing the long chair, answered after thinking for a while.
“As expected, the basis of inquiry is observation.”
“Is the last ‘experiment’ for that purpose?”
“Ugh…”
Bertellia flinched.
However, Roan’s words were serious.
At the question without a single smile, the Count gained courage.
“… I wanted to know. Why am I reacting like that?”
So the Count’s answer was also sincere.
“This is the first time I have felt such strong emotions, even physical reactions, while meeting someone else. Ah! Positively, of course. I was confused at first, but…”
Her tail waggled nervously once. Evidence of concentration.
“Her head concluded. The symptoms are the same as when people fall in love.”
The gazes of the emperor and the count met.
The Count declared his condition in a calm voice, as if an outsider were citing the results of his observations.
“After a brief experiment, I was convinced. I have fallen in love with His Majesty the Emperor.”
Just a few minutes ago, he was completely different from the way he looked when he was swept away by uncontrollable emotions and didn’t know what to do.
If you concentrate once, will your mind calm down to the point of being cold? Roan stared at her, amazed at her appearance.
The mage of this world has many similarities with the so-called ‘gongdori’ image of the world Roan was originally in.
There are many people who take pride in their skills and have specialized knowledge, but other than that, they are mediocre. This is because there are many people who do not care about the outside world at all.
Among them, the Count was a person who excluded emotional things to the extreme. That’s because she’s never been of any help in her life. However, when she meets her sister, whom she has been waiting for her whole life, a crack has formed in her attitude towards life.
“How is it?”
“… Yes?”
“The state of being in love.”
Bertellia’s heartbeat began to speed up again. The Count quietly looked down at his chest.
“Cognitive and thinking skills decline. As if the center of the world was shaken, I continued to care about you! It’s kind of amazing. When His Majesty smiles, my heart throbs. People described this as excitement.”
A small smile appeared on Ron’s face.
And Bertellia, who saw that face from the front, swallowed her breath with a small gasp.
There are few women who are not swayed by Roan’s smile. Moreover, if her skills and affinity values are corrected, the effect is doubled.
Bertellia finally pressed her hand against her heart.
“Do you want to suppress it? If you feel those emotions, there must be something you want to do naturally.”
“… Like the last experiment… Do you mean something like that?”
Hearing the Count’s words, Roan’s eyes softened.
“Okay. Something like that.”
Then the Count asked.
“Is this a temptation?”
The emperor, who opened his eyes wide for a moment, responded like a soft sigh.
“If it’s tempting to lead your hand, um. It could be.”
“Why?”
This is an unexpected question.
Roan thought for a moment.
“I do not mind a woman who has affection for me. But it’s hard for her to make up her mind to approach Jim. It just pushes that decision a little. Rather, I am puzzled by the question.”
It’s like asking why you’re doing something out of the ordinary. That was the Count’s question.
So Roan was also puzzled.
“Why? Don’t you want to be with me?”
Then the Count’s smile, the expression that Roan always thought was like a mask, slightly distorted.
The Count, who had been silent, answered.
“Your Majesty, I am different from the other high lords. I have no family.”
Red Tower Anti-aircraft in the west, Dark Anti-aircraft in the south, and Red Anti-aircraft in the east.
The three are aristocrats from birth.
Of course, due to the characteristics of the society of demons, most of the current positions are made with one’s own abilities,
However, it could not be said that he did not receive help from his family at all. They received a good education and were given more opportunities by their families.
However, the count was a wizard who wandered the streets.
She miraculously took her title and became a great lord with only her abilities, but there is still no family to look after her.
“If I ever get close to Your Majesty, I will be checked by the other great lords. Even if they don’t want to, they have to. Even the Grand Duke of Darkness is the guardian of Her Highness.”
The great lords are the ones who manage the lifelines of the entire territories. Even if you get along well with each other, apart from that, there are bound to be many things to fight with limited resources.
In this fight, the Earl is the most disadvantaged of the four great lords, so he is the one to be spared.
“If it turns out that I am a woman by any chance, the Grand Duke of Darkness will risk her life to stop me from becoming a concubine! Wouldn’t anyone then covet the dowry of the high lord that is me?”
And the count shrugged his shoulders.
“As long as rumors do not spread that Your Majesty engages in sodomy.”
