Chapter 107 – Episode 106. The Way to You (6)
“Can’t you go a little faster?”
As soon as Leopold spoke, an attendant sitting in the corner opened the partition.
As soon as I opened the partition leading to the coachman and the carriage, as soon as the attendant said something, I heard a heated sound of a whip and a powerful neighing of a horse.
“I will try to get there as quickly as possible, Your Highness.”
“Okay. My heart is in a hurry, so please understand.”
“You say everything, Your Highness!”
As the attendant bowed his head in dismay, Leopold glanced at the attendant and then looked out the carriage window.
Now I could see snow-capped mountain peaks in the distance.
To somehow save time, even meals were eaten in a running wagon.
The escorts put messages in advance in the castles they pass through, and when they arrive, they are replaced without delay, and now most of the personnel are replaced when departing.
“You seem excited, Your Highness.”
Sigmund, who served as the captain of the guards, spoke to Leopold with a smile.
Sigmund, who joined right after leaving the academy at the first castle he passed by, was a knight of some age, but also a comrade who had been on the battlefield together since Wolfgang and Kreuz’s unification war.
He was as close to Leopold as he was, and that’s why he can talk to Leopold casually like this now.
“That’s right, Sir Zigmund. How can I not be thrilled when I go to meet my wife-to-be?”
“Is that so. Haona… “
Sigmund touched his chin as he was about to speak.
The cross-shaped wound on his chin is sharp and shows off the existence of the wound.
“I’m sorry to inform you, I understand that the princess-to-be was not on good terms with Lady Astrid von Mitterien.”
“It certainly was.”
I’m sad and I’m sleeping and there’s nothing to do.
It was no secret that Leopold and Astrid were not on good terms, rather it was a well-known fact among the nobles.
Moreover, 10 years ago, Astrid slapped Leopold on the cheek – not slapped, but slapped – Leopold flew off and landed on the ground and passed out for three days.
It is well known that after that incident, Astrid and Leopold growled at each other whenever they met and became impatient with each other.
“But people do change. Lady Mitterien and the girl who seemed like she would never change have changed.”
Yes, very amazing
She has changed beyond recognition.
Leopold stroked the nape of his neck again.
The face, which was always cold as ice and the cold wind blew, turned red like a sweet flower from a cup of alcohol.
That mouth that always said the same words like a cold and heartless dagger, lips as thick as cherries let out a sweet breath.
The gaze that always glared at people and shot them with the momentum to crush the other person changed into such a smooth and soft gaze.
“It has changed a lot. To the point where I regret that I should have said it a little earlier.”
“You should have told me earlier? What do you mean?”
Zigmund had an interesting expression, as if he was curious.
Sigmund is very interested in what happened to this prince, who always growled with his fiancée as if they were going to eat each other when they met.
“That’s it—”
Leopold laughed awkwardly and opened his mouth.
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‘… How do I get hold of that?’
Paris looked at the burn and grumbled.
A mid-level succubus, it has been a while since she came down to the human world after receiving a call from her master and superior, Grand Duchess Beraya.
Even in her demon realm, Vera Ya, who planted her self-sustaining tower, self-sustaining tower, told her that even in the depths, only the dignitaries who reside there have it.
– For now, protect this tower here. I also cast penetration magic, so my actual location won’t be revealed. Follow up instructions from this man here, Astain.
– Since he’s my contractor, this man’s words are the same as mine. Okay?
What kind of safety would dislike it?
I had no choice but to nod my head to Paris, but no matter how much I thought about how to hold that monstrous woman in this tower, who had endured for so long against the monster spores sprouting around this self-sustaining tower, I couldn’t come up with an answer.
It’s already been three days.
That silver-haired woman seemed to treat the inside of this tower as if it were her own home.
No matter how much he wandered around the inside of the tower, he seemed to realize that the only place he could go was the Great Cavity on the 1st floor of the tower. I tried to beat it up, but then I took a break again.
Repeating that.
There was a strict order not to kill that woman, so if she secretly feeds me a meal, she accepts it and eats it well.
In a word, there is no such thing as tension.
Even now, Astrid seemed to be living very comfortably, as if the Great Common on the first floor could be her master bedroom.
【To Paris.】
Suddenly a voice was heard.
A means of communication that is like a kind of telepathy between demons.
“Go, princess!”
Hearing that voice, Parise jumped up from her seat.
【Yes, bye. How is Astrid?]
Astrid in the picture still looks as comfortable as her master bedroom.
In the middle of the day, I was trying to break the wall and equipment in the great cavity, but it didn’t go well, so I sat down and rested.
It’s not a new look, but Paris doesn’t know if it’s good to tell the truth.
“… I am doing well.”
【What?】
“He-I’m just doing well in the Great Hall.”
【How are you doing?】
It was absurd, but I could hear Beraya laughing quietly from over there.
Will there be scolding behind that laugh, or… Or else, she hesitated for a long time, not knowing what other reaction Parisian could not have foreseen.
Then, barely, after a while, I was able to tell how Astrid was doing in the Great Hollow.
【That’s her answer. Ok, anyway. What… In Paris, aren’t you having fun too?]
As expected, it was a word like Beraya, who was rumored to be an outlier in the Pandemonium.
The criterion for all work is fun.
Do it if it looks like fun.
If it doesn’t look like fun, don’t do it.
“Yes, yes… Well, that… Yes.”
Paris looked at Astrid in the picture and replied hesitantly.
There are only two options, but since you asked me like that, there was only one answer.
【OK got it. Then, let’s make it calmer.]
This self-sustaining tower is said to be managed by Paris, but since the owner is Beraya in the first place, she obeys her will.
【It seems that Leopold is getting close to arriving as well… Anyways ok Then, pretend you don’t know that I contacted you. Understand? And Astrid is… Just follow my words in moderation.]
“Ah, I see! Princess!”
【Thank you~】
Communication was cut off with a clear voice.
In Paris, she looked at Astrid, who was still resting in the burn, and thought she wanted to return to the Demon Realm as soon as possible.
“Is something wrong?”
Astain’s narrowed eyes turned to Veracien.
A sullen-looking face.
Astine’s gaze naturally twisted her head to the outside, and Vera Shien smiled at her.
“Well? You think there’s nothing wrong?”
But she already feels it.
Astrid’s presence in the self-sustaining tower felt as if she could grasp it.
Vera Shien thought she would let Astrid go at the right time.
Astein’s plan, to collect all the blessings of the stars—that plan, that was good up to that point.
The plan to collect all the blessings of that planet and become a god in the human world, even that was good.
However, it is not her business whether she becomes a god or not, but it is not fun at all when the writer who claims to be her god is so timid.
It’s like this now, but what will it be like when she achieves her goal?
More than that, I think it would be rather fun for her to marry Astrid and Leopold and see what she wants from behind.
And on top of that, I wonder how Astain would scream when she saw these situations not going according to my plan—
Even there, Veracien is interested.
“Ugh, do we have to go for more than a week at this rate?”
“She’s already bored with how long it’s been since she left.”
Astain glared at Veracien.
There must be something up.
That faint smile on his face was definitely like that.
Vera Shien, she must have been thinking of stabbing Astain in the back.
‘As expected, I can’t believe that there are demons… ‘
Even though they cooperate with each other, they do not trust each other.
Astrid is sleeping comfortably in the self-sustaining tower.
To her fly that burns her insides while looking at her like that.
Veracian, or Vera, is trying to have fun using Astrid and Leopold.
Astain, who is suspicious of such Veracien, only seeks an opportunity to stab each other in the back.
“Ruler… Let’s start again.”
Astrid took a break and regained her strength.
The Great Cavity was wide, but all around it were walls covered in brown.
It may seem strange to say that there is nothing in the space, but in reality there is nothing in the Great Cavity.
There is no trace of a person, and there is no trace that anyone has been there.
I couldn’t see any devices, including the stairs to go upstairs.
【I think it would be better to change it and break it with all your heart.】
‘You’re not serious yet?’
【Of course. What to do with this.]
‘Okay… Then, should I change it?’
And at that moment, I suddenly felt strange.
My vision is darkened, and I feel like I am being dragged somewhere.
It feels like the scaffolding is collapsing and falling endlessly.
Fake Astrid has felt this way before.
Have ever felt
The day I woke up as Astrid, the unfamiliar feeling I felt that day.
That was it.
