Chapter 118 – Episode 117. Come Back, My Dear by My Side
The narrow room felt quite full just by the two of them sitting face to face.
In addition, Leopold’s eyes looking at Astrid are burning, so the feeling of heat is added.
“I heard the story from Veracian. She heard that two souls coexisted in Astrid’s body. Want to know in detail What happened, how did it happen.”
I can explain what’s going on.
But I can’t explain how it happened.
Even Astrid herself couldn’t explain something she didn’t know well.
“… In the past, Astrid was very sick.”
“Yes, I know.”
I know.
Yes, you know
Upon hearing that answer, Astrid suddenly felt bad.
Do you know
Did you know this?
“… But you didn’t even come to visit me.”
“That, that.”
Leopold visibly flinched.
Astrid’s eyes were on Leopold.
The strange resentment in those eyes must have been Leopold’s feeling, but that gaze was oddly painful.
“… The bar was busy. Yeah, i’ve been busy don’t you know To go once, it takes a week to go to Mitterien Mansion… “
“Is the week important, or am I important?”
‘Now that I’m saying this, this looks like a really normal, normal girl.’
Even though she thinks so herself, Astrid finds it interesting.
“… Anyway, at that time. It was then that I woke up, and since then I have been active as Astrid von Mitterien.”
“Then, at that time, the real Astrid also had an hour a day… “
“No, not at the time.”
At that time, I couldn’t hear anything other than the real Astrid’s words.
This is the time when she couldn’t even hear her voice, so she couldn’t do anything at all, let alone an hour a day.
“At that time, it was completely… I was all alone. No form of communication with the real Astrid was possible… “
“… Then, then… It wasn’t the real Astrid who made the disparaging remarks about the sword at the meeting between her father and uncle… “
Ah.
That’s it.
“That is my opinion. It’s ridiculous that a man is a swordsman. What kind of sword is this, man?”
Leopold’s face wrinkled at Astrid’s determined words.
It seemed quite shocking to know that the words about what kind of a man was using three swords and three swords were not from the real Astrid, but from this Astrid in front of him.
“… That’s it.”
“Anyway, I am not originally from Einhafen. As you can see, he used to live in a place like this, and for some reason… I woke up in Astrid’s body.”
I decided not to talk about you guys being people in a novel.
Even if he said such a thing, Leopold could not believe it at all.
And plus—
He also decided not to say that he was originally a man.
“… So, I am neither Einhafen nor contemporaneous. So I had to buy some time to go back to the original world. That’s why I said I would go to the academy too… “
“So, did you find any clues?”
Astrid shook her head.
Literally, nothing was touched.
There was no clue, and at least after discussing it head-to-head with the real Astrid, he intended to kill the sorcerer and then tell Leopold to tell him to help him find a way to return.
It didn’t go as planned, but since I was able to inform Leopold of this fact, I guess it’s okay to say that I’ve achieved my goal.
Even as he confided, Astrid wasn’t very comfortable with him.
I’ll go back, I’ll go back, I’m looking for a way back…
Every time he said this, Leopold’s face blurred in real time.
“The clue is… I couldn’t find it. I thought it might be in the imperial library, but since I’m not from the imperial family, I couldn’t enter. I searched all the rest of the library, but I couldn’t find it. Nothing.”
I can’t tell if it came by summoning magic or if it was Advent.
I couldn’t figure out any of it.
I couldn’t even find a clue.
“Asti, do you want to come back to this life?”
At that, Astrid shut his mouth.
That’s also true, I heard that people originally have it and miss it when they lose it.
Astrid was exactly that shape.
The original world, from which there is no going back.
When I think about it like that, everything was fine, and it seems like I was happy, but—
“… No. I do not know.”
In fact, this self-made room that I came back to was not.
It was less than half the size of my room in the grand duke’s mansion in Mitterien, let alone half the size, and the sunlight like paper shreds through the windows about two faces in, the semi-basement filled with moisture because it was damp when it rained.
I wonder if it was worth it to throw away everything else and come back to this place.
“Asti.”
Leopold strode towards Astrid from his sitting position.
There was the sound of two cups lightly clashing on a tray in the middle.
She looked at Leopold, startled by the warmth of Astrid’s hand.
Leopold’s face was close by.
“… What about you, Astrid?”
I’ve seen this kind of scenery somewhere before.
“Seeing you like this, to be precise, would be the third time.”
At first, the trainees were on a bench at the back of the dormitory.
Second is… Astrid doesn’t remember well, but Leopold remembers her cute injection.
And now is the third.
Astrid’s mint-colored eyes were staring up at Leopold.
Is the young light in those eyes bewildered, or else—
“Me, Your Highness.”
“Be still, Astrid.”
Astrid’s face was close by.
It was so close that Leopold’s own face could be seen through her mint-colored eyes.
Close enough to hear breathing.
A warm breath tickled the tip of Leopold’s nose.
Astrid’s face, which used to be surprised, but now slowly turns red as if she understood the situation, is so beautiful.
It was a beautiful face before, but now it is even more beautiful.
“I asked before. Do you feel your heart pounding when you come this close? Astrid, I don’t know about you, but I… Not anymore. I feel my heart pounding now.”
Astrid didn’t answer.
But now, her face, burning red as if it were about to burn, revealed at least indirectly how she was feeling and how she was feeling.
“Your Highness, I, I… FALSE… It’s fake Astrid… “
Her gaze was lost, and she swayed in disarray.
Her shaky gaze, unable to face Leopold, must be because she knows that she is not the real Astrid, but a fake.
Astrid’s eyelashes quivered thinly at her gaze.
‘… Is it okay?’
Astrid didn’t bother to reject Leopold’s body temperature from her hands and waist.
More precisely, I couldn’t refuse.
Astrid had no intention of going back.
Even if this world is a dream anyway, it’s not a problem because it’s where I originally lived, and although my memories are somewhat mixed, it’s not that big of a problem.
However, when Leopold appeared in front of him, everything was disrupted.
Golden hair shining brightly,
Her blue eyes, now looking straight at her without averting her gaze or gleaming her contempt.
All of this clearly showed how Leopold was looking at her with her feelings.
How can I resolutely beat him who chased him to this world?
I couldn’t.
At this moment, I just couldn’t do it.
“Asti. Come back with me Come back with me to where you belong.”
“… Where I should be is here… “
“No, no.”
Leopold resolutely shut his mouth and shook his head.
Absolutely not, this is not where you should be.
“The place where you belong is the Grand Duke of Mitterien, the Einthofen Empire—”
The words stop for a moment.
Leopold’s eyes looked straight at Astrid.
“Also, next to me.”
At those words, Astrid bit her lip.
It’s not here where you belong, it’s by my side—
Those words are so heavy.
Astrid couldn’t bear to answer.
I don’t know what mood Leopold had when he said it.
Astrid wasn’t stupid enough to not know the meaning of those words.
“But, Your Highness. I’m not real It’s fake, it’s fake.”
The real Astrid is different.
The Astrid here right now is fake.
A fake that can never be real.
“What does that matter? Astrid, look straight at me.”
Leopold, who had been holding Astrid’s hand tightly, lifted her hand up and supported her chin.
Forcibly directing her gaze to Leopold, Astrid looked up at Leopold with a somewhat hazy look, and he also looked straight down at Astrid.
“… Real and fake, both are Astrids. And both are mine Astrid, both women by the name of Astrid von Mitterien, are mine. You must be my companion. Stay by my side come back to me Come back with me.”
I say so far
You say you need this
How can you bluntly reject that?
Astrid was speechless.
I will,
That I will return to you,
I will do that.
From now on, I will live under the name Astrid.
She thought she should answer that, but she couldn’t bear to follow her words.
